"Master Wu, don't worry. They are not letting tens of thousands of people in all at once. They are coming in batches. The first batch is already on the way and will arrive here in a few days."
"What, so fast?"
"They are all craftsmen and artisans transferred from various places by my Qiao family, as well as some students from Qingyang College. They did not enter as refugees, so you don't need to worry about their food and drink expenses!"
After Qiao Xin learned about the general situation of Anhua County, she had already started to make plans. The Lou family even blocked the odd jobs she wanted to find, so how could they easily find craftsmen to build houses and repair roads? When she built Laohu Town and Yumancang Commercial Street, she recruited a large number of infrastructure craftsmen.
Now this group of people can be mobilized again!
So what if there are not enough people? Do you think the Qiao family’s job fair is for nothing?
After hearing what the eldest grandson said in the letter, as soon as their family hinted at hiring, the town was crowded with countless people seeking a living and poor people who originally had nothing.
Relying on the trust in the Qiao family, he tried to risk everything and go on an adventure at any time!
Under the escort of the Qiao family guards, some with their families, some alone, all went south together. Now they have entered the sphere of influence of Yuncheng.
County Magistrate Wu wiped the cold sweat from his head and secretly breathed a sigh of relief!
The Qiao family hired their own staff, who were responsible for their own food, drink, and defecation, which was fine! But they were afraid that the people who came were refugees who had nothing and just wanted to eat and drink and make trouble.
With only a few hundred taels of silver in the county government's account books, they cannot afford any more trouble.
The proceeds from Qiao Xin's land purchase had been used by him to settle the unpaid salaries of government officials. He couldn't always ask people to make selfless contributions. Which government official didn't have a family to support?
In the first half of the year, they were only paid rice and cloth. They were always owed money. After finally earning such a large sum of money, everyone said they didn't want to be owed money any more.
Now most of the money has been spent and I really can’t spare any for anything else!
There were not many shops in Anhua County, and most of them were owned by aristocratic families. They openly refused to pay business taxes and flagrantly opposed the government office, making it clear that they did not take him, the county magistrate, seriously.
The noble family has their own private soldiers, so it is easy for them to deal with a county magistrate like me. If I act rashly, I will suffer. The adults sent me here to secretly collect evidence so that I can deal with them when the time comes.
Fortunately, the old lady is here now, and there is hope!
Magistrate Wu was just feeling thankful that Qiao Xin came to Anhua County to help him turn the situation around, but then he heard that Chairman Meng had brought bad news!
"What did you say? In such a huge Anhua County, we can only find a few thousand tea seedlings?" Qiao Xin looked stunned.
"This?" County Magistrate Wu looked at Chairman Meng and was unable to believe it for a moment.
A county government that makes a living by growing and making tea only has a few thousand cultivated tea seedlings, which are not even enough for Mrs. Zhuangzi to produce. Do these people think she is an idiot?
"Except for the 30,000 plants that the Chamber of Commerce helped Madam move, I have searched all over Anhua County and only found these few thousand plants. And they want fifty cents a plant!"
Qiao Xin was so angry that she laughed. What a big mouth!
How much does this show that he thinks highly of her? At fifty cents a plant, why does she think he has to buy it? Why doesn't he just go and rob her?
"Is the Chamber of Commerce also offering this price?"
Chairman Meng shook his head and said, "Normally, each plant costs only ten cents. After discussing it, we decided to give all of them to the old lady. If it weren't for the old lady, the Chamber of Commerce wouldn't have survived until today. These seedlings were originally a backup product for everyone, so it doesn't matter if they are all sold now!"
Qiao Xin waved her hand and said, "I appreciate everyone's kindness. But it's not necessary. It's not easy for everyone. Shunzi will go down and write an IOU to President Meng. If you want the money, you can come to us in a month. If you still want the tea seedlings, you can only wait until this time next year to return it to everyone!"
"Pay it back next year? That's impossible. Is the old lady going to buy the goods from somewhere else?"
It takes at least three or four years to grow a tea seed into a transplantable sapling! One acre of land, a single bed of cultivation, requires 2,500 to 3,000 yuan. If 20,000 acres of land are to be planted, at least tens of millions of tea seedlings will be needed.
No noble family can afford it!
Chairman Meng felt that this was an absolutely impossible task. Even if all the stocks of tea merchants in Dajing were gathered together, there would not be tens of millions of seedlings!
County Magistrate Wu also felt that this was too fantastical. Did the old lady know what tens of millions of seedlings meant?
Qiao Xin raised her eyebrows and smiled confidently, "Nothing is difficult in this world if one sets his mind to it! I can pay you back if I say so! Within three to five years, I will build a tea garden of ten thousand acres here!"
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After seeing off Magistrate Wu and President Meng, Qiao Xin went straight to meet the students from Qingyang Academy!
When Qiao Xin came over, this group of students were making a fuss about leaving.
The dean went to the Lou family and did not return for two days. After they were taken in by the steward Shunzi, except for the servants being seen during meals, no one came to ask them how they were doing at other times.
Even Xu Can and Guan Jianze just showed up and then disappeared!
How could these proud students bear being ignored like this?
Look, some people with poor psychological endurance are planning to leave!
When Qiao Xin came over, He Jinzhuo was trying to persuade a student who was making a fuss about leaving.
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