The next morning, a farmer soldier posted a notice on a wall at the entrance of the market in Wuyuan County.
Seeing this, many people in the city surrounded him.
"Hey, what's written on this? Which one of you can read? Read it for everyone.”
At this moment, a man dressed in green who looked like a scholar squeezed to the front and shook his head as he read,""The yamen is recruiting. We are in urgent need of a large number of people to cultivate the fields for the Yang Residence. Each person who completes the mission according to the regulations will receive two catties of food per day.”
"If you exceed the quota, you can also receive extra food according to your work.”
"If there are any applicants, please go to the yamen to register!”
The scholar shook his head and finished reading. The people at Caishikou immediately boiled over.
"Two catties of grain for Lord Yang's farming? There was such a good thing? Two catties of food is enough for our family of three to eat for a day!”
"How is that possible? Food for labor? Stop dreaming. Officials like them only know how to talk empty talk!”
"In my opinion, if we really let them farm for a day, they will have other reasons to lie to us at night. Anyway, they will definitely not give us food!”
"How can you say that? Lord Yang is not that kind of person. Have you forgotten how many people were saved by Lord Yang's porridge stall last year? Eh, why do I remember that you ate a lot of Lord Yang's porridge last year?!”
"Don't, don't, don't say that nonsense. I don't believe it!”
"Believe it or not, I believe in Lord Yang's character. If it weren't for Lord Yang, our family would have starved to death long ago.”
"You're right! Lord Yang is not that kind of person!"
"I'll go too!"
"We'll go too!"
With the help of the peasant soldiers and the citizens, the news of Yang Jing hiring people to farm quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of Wuyuan County.
Many commoners who believed in Yang Jing's character went to the yamen to register. Those who had been scammed by the imperial court chose to watch from the sidelines at home, waiting to see those who believed in Yang Jing's promise make a fool of themselves.
Even so, there were still many people who believed in Yang Jing. His publicity had attracted half of the farmers in Wuyuan County.
The reason why he didn't use the ready-made peasant soldiers under him was that he went far away to recruit people who didn't particularly trust him to work for him.
The main reason was that the war was imminent. His peasant soldiers had to seize all the time to train. They had to grow into a relatively regular army at the fastest speed!
The secondary reason was that most of the people in the city had been suffering from hunger for a long time. Yang Jing's actions could not only let them eat their fill, but also make the best use of everything to satisfy their own needs. At the same time, he could also gain the hearts of the people. It was killing three birds with one stone!
He ordered the peasant soldiers to register the people who came to the yamen to register, and then sent them to the farms that were taken over from the gentry.
First, he experimented with the largest farm, which had more than 3,000 mu of land.
Every three farmers were responsible for one mu of land, so there were more than ten thousand people in total.
In less than a day, the 3,000 mu of land had been reclaimed.
That night, Yang Jing distributed food to the 10,000 people as promised. He distributed a total of 25,000 catties of food. Among them, more than 2,000 people received more food because they had exceeded their quota.
The next day, the people who had been watching from the sidelines saw that they could really get paid by working for Yang Jing, so they all went to the yamen to sign up for the job.
Yang Jing sent most of the people to reclaim new farms, while the rest ordered them to make bricks and tiles, preparing to start building residential houses, shops, warehouses, iron shops, and weapons manufacturing factories.
Meanwhile, the farmers from before began to transplant the seedlings.
That night, Yang Jing paid these people a total of 100,000 catties of food.
On the third day, the people who had been slaves and long-term laborers for the big landowners and gentry finally let go of their wariness towards Yang Jing. They also rushed to the yamen to register, wanting a job to make a living.
Yang Jing ordered most of them to open up new farms, while the rest of them went to repair the roads in preparation for paving the city with green brick roads.
The rest of them did their own jobs.
That night, Yang Jing distributed another 200,000 catties of grain.
On the fourth day, the news that one would be paid for working for Yang Jing gradually spread to all the villages and towns in Wuyuan County.
Many farmers from villages and towns went to the county government office to ask if there was a suitable job.
Many people in the village had not eaten a full meal for months.
Yang Jing ordered the peasant soldiers to register them and then ordered them to form groups of three to go to their villages to reclaim wasteland and plant rice.
He also assigned two peasant soldiers to each village as supervisors. After all, if there was no supervision, these lazy farmers might only take food and not work.
Yang Jing was the founder of a new city, but he was not a philanthropist.
He would not use the resources in his hands to feed these people.
As the saying went, it was better to teach people to fish than to give them fish. Rather than giving them free porridge and food to feed these people and raising ingrates, it was better to guide them to work from the beginning and provide them with an opportunity to work in exchange for remuneration.
He wanted them to understand that only those who worked hard could live a good life in his city.
As long as the two sides cooperated well, Yang Jing and the commoners could quickly achieve their goals.
A week passed quickly, and Yang Jing had almost used up all the food he had looted from the gentry.
Finally, it was the exciting moment of the bumper harvest!
During this period, he used the Grain Acceleration Card on the ten largest farms under his command, and the effect was remarkable!
In just a week, millions of tons of grain were piled up in warehouses of all sizes in the city.
All the citizens in the city were in an uproar!
Everyone gathered around Yang Jing's granary to witness this unbelievable scene.
An old man knelt at the entrance of the warehouse, clutching the food in the bag in front of him and sobbing.
"This is unbelievable! In just a few days, not only did the paddy field have a bumper harvest, but it also produced so much food!”
"The yield of one mu of land can actually reach two thousand jin!”
"This old man has lived to this age, but I never thought that I would see so much food one day!”
As he cried, he looked up at the sky and shouted with a trembling voice.
"The heavens have eyes!"
"He sent Lord Yang, a god, to descend to save us poor people!”
"Lord Yang must be a god who has descended to the mortal world!”
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