"Young Master, something bad has happened. The news that we will stop exchanging locusts for food next month has been spread by someone, and the people are blocking our Lu Manor and refusing to leave.。”Li Ergou said in panic.
"If you ask me, Little Friend Lu shouldn't have exchanged food for them.”Li Yuan said in a deep voice.
"I was the one who sent out the news. The purpose was to let them prepare in advance so that they wouldn't have to waste their energy catching locusts next month. They didn't cause any trouble, right?”Lu Xiu said in a deep voice.
"Not really. It's just that many old people are kneeling in front of the gate, begging Young Master to give them more time.”Li Ergou said.
The grain sown by the commoners in the spring had long been eaten up by locusts. This year, most of the people around Chang 'an would have no harvest, so many people hoped to prepare half a year's worth of food.
"Many commoners treat Young Master as an immortal, so how would they dare to offend Young Master?”His young master's magical ability also made Li Er admire him.
Most of the commoners had witnessed this godlike ability with their own eyes, so it spread throughout Anping County.
"Mm, help me tell them that the locust plague is about to end. We can't catch many locusts in a day, so we naturally can't exchange for much food. But next month, Lu Zhuang would recruit several thousand laborers.”
Lu Xiu's reward was 50 catties of food per day, calculated on a daily basis. According to the price of grain in the Great Tang, one jin was worth three thousand a month.
If it was in the modern world, the purchasing power of 3,000 yuan was equivalent to about 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. In the Great Tang, a salary of three thousand was considered very high. Moreover, if the salary was lowered, he could help a few more people.
In order to take care of more people, they took turns every five days and tried to repair Lu Manor by the middle of next month.
Out of the 6,000 strings of strings of coins that Old Man Li's son had given him, he spent 1,000 strings of coins to buy more than ten acres of land around Lu Manor and began to prepare for the expansion of Lu Manor.
He had already chosen a date to propose marriage. It was the middle of the next month, so the re-planning of Lu Zhuang was urgent.
He used a charcoal pen to draw the specific design drawings on white paper.
"Yes."
After Li Ergou went out to inform the commoners, the commoners actually understood better than anyone else. However, in order for their families to have enough to eat, they refused to leave. They hoped that Lu Xiu could help them.
They…
"Fifty catties of food a day?"
The commoners were all attracted by the reward. If they lived frugally, 50 catties of grain could last a family of five for half a month.
As for how to eat 50 catties, most people would choose to cook porridge. One catty of grain could cook several catties of gruel, so it was enough to last for half a month.
If they could work for ten days, they would not have to worry about not having enough food even if they did not harvest anything this year.
One had to know that many of them were tenant farmers who helped the landlord farm. A portion of the annual harvest was paid in taxes, a portion was paid in land rent, and the rest was their own.
Generally speaking, planting one mu of land could yield two to three hundred catties of grain, but they could only get fifty catties.
Therefore, for some tenant farmers, their families helped the landlord to plant more than ten acres of land, which was enough for a family of a few people to eat for a year.
Lu Xiu paid them 50 catties of grain a day. If they could work for ten days, it was almost comparable to their harvest for a year.
"Of course, we only want strong young men. We don't accept the elderly, women, and children. Please go back and consider it.”
Because the Lu Manor had to be completed within fifteen days, it was better to recruit more people in case of any mishaps.
If there were 20,000 people, they would be divided into three batches according to a five-day rotation to ensure that all 20,000 people would receive food. Lu Xiu would be using his ability to contribute to the disaster relief.
As a modern person, he would never experience the famine of having to exchange children for food. Seeing that the commoners were starving, Lu Xiu could not leave them in the lurch.
Of course, his ability was limited. He would try his best to save as many as he could.
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"Little friend Lu is really generous. Hiring a few thousand people at once, I'm afraid they can flatten the mountain behind Lu Manor.”Li Yuan said with a smile.
"Yes, I think a few hundred people are enough.”Cheng Chumo said.
"A few hundred people aren't enough. I plan to dig a canal from Wei River to Lu Village.”Lu Xiu chuckled.
"No way! 'Why did little friend Lu bring Weishui River to our home? If you want to drink water, we have well water. You can just dig some wells.'”Li Yuan was shocked.
"You'll know when the time comes. You won't understand even if I tell you now.”
He planned to dig a swimming pool, which was why he planned to draw the running water from the Wei River to change the water in the swimming pool.
In addition, they needed a large number of marble slabs, so they wanted to prepare more manpower to help the starving people.
According to his plan, the reconstructed Lu Villa not only had to have the style of Tang Dynasty pavilions, but also had to add many elements of modern Western-style villas.
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