Chapter 126: Breakup and Land Division
Dajin was a patriarchal society. If there were men in the family, outsiders would mostly talk to the men.
So even though Wu is the one in charge of the Shen family now, outsiders still ask the oldest male member of the Shen family when they have questions.
Shen Jun didn't reply immediately, but waved to Shen Qingqian behind him, "Sixth sister, come here and tell everyone what you think."
In the morning, Mrs. Wu mentioned that Shen Qingqian had come to the field to take a look yesterday, and Mr. Shen also wanted to hear what Shen Qingqian would say.
But some people were immediately unhappy when they saw that the Shen family actually let a little girl decide such an important matter.
"I'm wondering what's wrong with you. She's just a little girl, how could she understand these things?"
"That's right. She came to see me yesterday and said she had a way to clean up this piece of land. But I see it's all rocks and sand, and there's not even a few grasses on the ground. What can she do?"
"You don't understand this, do you? There aren't many men in the Shen family. All those who came to open up the wasteland are women, either old or young. How can they drive? They just want to drag us along."
"Now that you put it that way, it seems to be true."
There are only three males in the Shen family. The younger males from other families were assigned to the mines, but the older ones were also arranged to open up wasteland.
Some families have more men, and those with small minds will inevitably want to take advantage of the Shen family.
At this time, they had long forgotten the care the Shen family had shown them during their exile. It could only be said that only after they settled down did the thoughts of each family really begin to emerge.
Shen Qingqian frowned when she heard this, feeling very uncomfortable.
She always believed that unity is strength, so she never thought about who would take advantage of whom. She even thought at the beginning that after getting the tools, everyone would work together to open up the valley. Then they would not be punished, and if they did a good job, they might even get a reward.
But these people's ideas are too dirty, who wants to take advantage of them?
Wu and Shen Jun also looked unhappy. They looked at each other and Shen Jun nodded slightly.
Then he quickly walked a few steps and stood on a slope, looking down at everyone and said, "Since everyone has concerns, let's divide the areas that each family is responsible for reclaiming. From now on, each family will be responsible for their own land, and no one will take advantage of anyone else."
Shen Qingqian didn't expect Shen Jun to say this. Is this a complete breakup and division of land?
The person who said the unpleasant words at the beginning was just saying it casually, but he didn't expect that it would resonate with several families. In the end, the Shen family themselves proposed the division scope, and those with more labor force in the family naturally would not object.
But another part of the family, where there are only the elderly, the weak, women and children, are unwilling to do so and have expressed that they do not want to be separated.
Shen Jun raised his hand to suppress it, and said loudly: "How about this, those who want to open up the wasteland with our family stand on the left, and those who don't want to stand on the right."
There was a commotion below, and soon the group split into two groups.
There were only a few people standing on the left side. Only the Chen family and the other two families were all women who came to open up the wasteland. Most people stood on the right side.
Shen Jun nodded and said, "In that case, let's divide this valley into parts according to the number of people participating in the land reclamation, calculate the size of each person's responsibility, and then divide each family together. Those who are willing to work with our family can live next to ours. It will be convenient for us to work together in the future if we connect them together. What do you think?"
After a moment of silence, someone on the right said, "Okay, if you guys go together, we'll go together too. We won't interfere with each other from now on."
The people on the right responded, "Yes, yes, that's right!"
The people on the left had no objection, so people on both sides circled the valley and began measuring the area.
The ancients had their own method of calculating land area. After measuring on both sides with steps, they took the middle value and then began to distribute it to individual people.
They all came from the upper class circles of the capital, and had learned some of the six arts of a gentleman: rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics, so calculation was not a problem for them. It didn't take long for them to figure out how much each person should get.
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