Traveling back to ancient times begins with the use of stone tools

Grandpa Wang also sold the land and house in Wangjia Village. The price is lower, so there will always be someone who wants it.

He went to Lengjia Village and bought a residential plot and land.

The craftsmen learned to use cement instead of mud. Although they didn't trust this cement too much, they would use it anyway if the owner asked them to.

One hundred craftsmen built simple huts and began to lay the foundation and repair the walls.

By the time the villagers who came to the mountain to build a road discovered that there were people in the villa, the gate of the villa had already been erected.

Two days later, the road on the county side was repaired first.

Leng Ruoxue put down piles of cement at night and arranged for craftsmen to repair the cement road and the cement walls on both sides of the road.

It took more than a dozen craftsmen two days to pave the cement for this section of road.

After the road on this side was paved and the road on the other side was repaired, the villagers and soldiers were hired by Leng Ruoxue to reclaim the wasteland. More than a hundred acres of wasteland were reclaimed in just a few days.

The cement road has dried and is ready for use.

Leng Ruoxue blocked the road and did not give way to traffic.

The villagers were not left idle either, and they and the soldiers began planting fruit trees again.

First, we taught everyone how to make quick compost, which had already been tested in the space. Fruit trees were planted only after the composting was successful.

Leng Ruoxue plans to use most of the one hundred acres of wasteland to plant fruit trees.

The fruit trees in the space are pruned, and three months is equivalent to one year, so the fruit seedlings that are moved out are one year old.

After planting the land, Leng Ruoxue went to find the village chief again.

Let’s settle the wages first.

"Grandpa Village Chief, let me discuss something with you."

"Haha, you just can't bear to see the villagers idle away, and you even don't let your father's soldiers go. Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Two things. First, I want to buy all the vacant residential plots in the village."

"Why did you buy so many residential plots? Not enough houses?"

The village chief was puzzled.

"No, I'm afraid it will be bought by someone from another village."

"You mean Liu Datong and the Wang family? Their household registration is in the village."

"Not them, the second thing"

Leng Ruoxue thought that it would be better to do both things together.

"I want to set up a cooperative in the village, that is, all the fields in the village will be planted in a unified way. The villagers will hand over the land to me for three years. I will guarantee the harvest of everyone's land. Any excess will be counted as the village's, and I will make up for the shortfall."

"This is the agreement, Grandpa Village Chief, please take a look at it."

The village chief was puzzled. It would have been much easier to just rent out the villagers' land, but they had to do this.

"The houses of the villagers who join the cooperative are built by the cooperative... The villagers buy shares according to the land and receive dividends from the cooperative every year... The housing construction costs are paid in advance by the cooperative and deducted from the dividends later..."

The village chief was more and more surprised the more he looked.

"You are going to help the villagers repair their houses and farm the land, so that even if there is not enough labor at home, you can just wait for the dividends?"

“That’s probably what it means.”

Leng Ruoxue wants to help the villagers become rich together, but doesn't want to make things too troublesome, so this is the best way.

“I don’t know if the village chief can accept this model.”

The village chief stroked his beard and said, "I have no problem with that. But won't those families with sufficient labor force suffer a loss?"

"It's not a loss. The cooperative's land needs to be cultivated, houses need to be built, and roads need to be repaired. I pay them for all of these."

"How about this, I'll talk to the people in the village first. If everyone is willing, you can decide whether to buy the homestead or not?"

The village chief felt that Leng Ruoxue should not suffer too much.

"Grandpa, I must buy this homestead. It would be great if the cooperative can be established. But if it can't, I have no objection."

Leng Ruoxue didn't believe that the villagers would reject such generous conditions as hers.

"Okay, let me see how many residential plots are left in the village."

After the final calculation, there were not many vacant residential plots in the village, only about 200 acres, and 5 taels of silver per acre, which was more than taels.

Leng Ruoxue immediately took out the banknote and said, "Grandpa, I'll ask Uncle Datong to take you to the county town."

“Isn’t this a little late?”

He also persuaded Leng Ruoxue and she insisted on buying it. The village chief was very happy to have such good results.

"No, I just hope Grandpa doesn't regret selling me so much residential land."

"Okay, I'll pack up and you go get Datong to harness the carriage."

Leng Ruoxue told Liu Datong to take a new path.

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"Datong, you're taking the wrong road. I want to go to the county town, not the mountain."

The village chief reminded Liu Datong.

"Village Chief, Ruoxue said to take this road, you just watch."

The carriage was running very fast on the cement road, and there were no people or cars on the road, so Liu Datong let the horse run freely.

When they arrived at the county town, the village chief was still in shock. "How could it be so close? How could it be so close?"

"It used to take 12 hours by oxcart and 3 hours by horsecart to get from the village to the county town. Now that the road has been repaired, it only takes less than an hour by horsecart to get to the county town."

Liu Datong roughly estimated the time and came to a conclusion.

"If this official road was also a cement road, I estimate that I could get there in half an hour."

"Wouldn't that take a bullock cart three hours?"

The village chief was still a little uncertain.

"I don't think it will take more than two hours."

Liu Datong was a little uncertain.

"This is my first time driving this route. I will try using a bullock cart when I have the chance."

The village chief's mind was in a mess.

After arriving at the county government office and getting the land deed, I finally realized what was going on.

Why did Leng Ruoxue buy all the residential plots in the village?

When I passed the cement road on my way back, I pounded the ground hard and said, "It's so hard!"

Liu Datong looked at the village chief's red hands and fell silent.

He also tried hammering it, but he did so with his hands. He didn't dare use a stone or anything like that, for fear of breaking it.

Later, the people who built the villa wanted to change something, and they used a hammer and an axe to hammer it down with great effort.

After seeing this road, the village chief became more confident about the cooperative.

When I got home and saw that it was still early, I informed everyone that we would have a meeting after dinner.

Pay everyone’s wages first.

Those who received the wages felt regretful because there would be no such jobs in the future.

Regardless of how much the wages are, as long as you work, you will be provided with meals. Just for this reason, there are people who work without getting paid.

There is still one meat dish and one vegetable dish, and the vegetable dish also uses oil residue.

The meal is enough to fill you up.

Everyone's wages were calculated, and the village chief's grandson also recorded it in great detail, and it was quickly distributed to each family.

Then the village chief started talking about the cooperative.

No one understood what a cooperative was, but it could build houses for them first, and they could get a harvest even without farming. This was a good thing, and no one disagreed.

The village chief was very satisfied with everyone's support, and was going to find Leng Ruoxue with a beaming face.

Tell everyone to come and sign the contract tomorrow night.

"You can sign it today, why tomorrow?"

The anxious villagers were afraid that the situation would change tomorrow.

"There are more than a hundred copies. My grandson would need to spend an entire night to copy them."

The village chief scolded with a smile.

"Your child can also write, right? Why don't you ask him to copy together? Why don't you let the village head's family do all the work?"

"Yes, you have some at home too, call them over!"

Several unfortunate children were forced by their parents to copy the contract.