After marrying the sister next door

It took more than 20 days to repair the embankment in the village, and it was completed at the end of July. On this day, all the villagers at home came to the river to celebrate the completion of the embankment. The village chief even set off two strings of firecrackers as a good omen.

Anji and his daughter-in-law stood in the crowd and watched. During the dam repair period, she would give away a bucket of mung bean soup every day, adding some sugar to it for a better taste. This behavior was well received by the villagers, which invisibly improved her status in the village.

I don’t want to talk about Anji and Baicha before. After all, no one in this village can give villagers mung bean soup for free for more than 20 consecutive days. No one who builds embankments by the river suffers from heat stroke, but works in the fields. Two of them fainted due to heatstroke. This comparison shows Anji's good intentions in delivering mung bean soup. It's so bad, if there is no mung bean soup, how many people will fall down.

Baicha was talking softly to Liu Ziyan. Ever since Anji's custom-made moxibustion pot was brought back by Dafu, Anji taught her how to use it, and gave her the daily moxibustion for Liu Ziyan, and Anji focused on it. Put it on herbal medicine, she said that if you can gather more herbs, you can gather more, and you will lose all you want to pick when it is cold, so in the past few months, you have to reserve all that you can use in winter, and make it for Liu Ziyan every day After moxibustion and mung bean soup, she will follow her into the mountains to collect herbs.

Liu Ziyan's phoenix eyes are full of smiles. After more than a month of treatment, her stomach pain is not so bad when she comes to Kuishui now, and because she is dragged to the yard by Donger every day for exercise, she can obviously feel that her body is stronger now. She used to be strong enough to walk a long distance without panting, but now she takes Dong'er around the village every day. All these changes made her very happy.

Dafu Ergui has made a lot of money in the past 20 days. He said yesterday that he wanted to build a house ahead of schedule. Since Anji and Bai Chajue are not short of money, let’s build it. They promised to ask Wang Baozhang today to see if he can take the job. Anping's house built two rooms in more than ten days, and it shouldn't take long for Bai's house to build three rooms.

She has picked a lot of herbs recently, and plans to save them for the villagers to treat diseases. As a result, the small house where the medicine is placed is almost full. She is thinking that when the Bai family builds a house, they will also build two on the west side of the courtyard wall. In the adobe room, one will be converted into a consultation room and a special cabinet for medicine will be custom-made, just like a drug store, where various medicinal materials will be stored in categories, and the other will be used as a warehouse for medicinal materials, specially for storing untreated medicinal materials.

After watching the excitement, Anji asked her daughter-in-law and Liu Ziyan to go home first. She went to Wang Baochang's house, but she was stopped by the village chief's third son on the way.

Ankang looked at Anji and said with a smile: "I was going to find you, my father asked you to go to my house." After Ankang finished speaking, he ran to find other people.

Anji frowned slightly, wondering what the village chief could do with her. When he went to the village chief's house, he entered the main room to see that besides the village chief, there were Wang Baochang and several respected old people in the village. The elder of the royal family.

Anji said hello one by one, seeing that all the people sitting here were her elders, and An Yuan, who was sitting by the door, was of the same generation as her, so after saying hello, she sat in the vacant seat opposite An Yuan, and then several more came one after another The wealthy households in the village are also the most populous households.

An Shengcai waited for people to come, looked at the crowd and said: "I invite you to come today and I have two things to tell you. The first thing is that I want to promote our Dahe Village to a hundred-household village. By doing so, it can be merged into A small village with less than ten households nearby."

After being merged into the small villages, the land connected to those small villages and their villages will be under the management of Dahe Village, so that there will be a lot of wasteland between Dahe Village and those small villages, and these wastelands can be reclaimed by villagers. There are three years of tax exemption for reclaiming wasteland Moreover, this acre of land only needs one tael of silver, and it can be handed over to the county government within three years, which can alleviate the tension in the village's fields.

In addition to supervising and directing the construction of dams these days, he spends the rest of his time thinking about how to bring the villagers to become rich. Upgrading to a large village with a hundred households is the first step. Now that the imperial court has such a policy, it would be a pity if it is not caught. His recent thoughts The change is due to the broadening of the horizons by reading books. Alas, if there was such a policy in the past, I would not have thought about it. This shows how important reading is.

This decision is a good thing for the benefit of the village and the people. Everyone present felt very good after hearing it, and at the same time understood what the village chief meant. How did this increase from a medium-sized village with more than 40 households to a large village with [-] households? I did it, but I don't want to let them split their households. The big family can still live together. Once the households are separated, wouldn't life be worse than before.

Moreover, according to the previous statute, each family can get one mu of wasteland, and no one would divide households just to reclaim one mu of wasteland.

An Sheng looked at the people present with a frown, and could understand why they were unwilling to divide their households, so he said something full of temptation: "For those who have divided households, five acres of wasteland can be reclaimed first." This sentence caught everyone's eyes. Yiliang, with only two years of hard work like this, wouldn't it be possible for each household to have five acres of fertile land?

Anji praised the village chief in her heart. She found that the village chief was getting more and more enlightened, and he knew how to grasp the policy to benefit the village.

The price of an acre of dry land here is about six taels of silver. To reclaim wasteland, as long as the village head takes it to the county government for registration, and then pays one tael of silver to the county government within three years, the land will belong to you, and you will be exempted from paying taxes for three years. It can be said that as long as you work hard for three years, you can own five acres of dry land. Tsk tsk, who will not settle this account, this money is picked up for nothing. In the face of huge benefits, how many people are willing to abide by those old family concepts? I have to say that the village chief's move is powerful.

An Sheng saw that everyone's thoughts were active, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised and continued: "Separation of households should also be based on the actual situation of the family. The sons with a large family are all married to their wives. As long as you can ensure that the children have a house to live in, then they can be divided. , if anyone wants to build a house, they can come to me and ask for a homestead, but they must be built after the agreement is made. Whoever applies for the homestead to the east of the village first gets first."

"Separate households to ensure the stability of the family, try to straighten your heart, treat each son fairly, don't make trouble for me, and don't play tricks and cheat, our village has so many households separated at once, the county government must Someone will come to verify, and if you are found out and taken away, no one will be able to save you." The words of kindness and majesty made everyone quiet.

"Give everyone three days. After three days, those who want to separate the households will come to my house to register with the separation documents. The two security chiefs and Anji will be responsible for conveying this matter to the family in charge of you."

Anji raised her head and rolled her eyes when she heard the words. Not to mention that one of the households she was in charge of was missing, and none of the two or three members of the family met the requirements. Dafu and Ergui are now working together for a living, and they will definitely not want to separate.

But having said that, if the two of them were divided, they would have ten acres of land. Even if they were given to their father-in-law, it would be their brother's filial piety. Let's talk to Dafu and Ergui at night, and they will decide how to choose.

An Sheng waited for everyone to calm down before continuing: "The second thing is that I decided to build a brewery in Qiuhou Village. This brewery adopts a shareholding system. Silver, one tael of silver per share, and after that, dividends will be distributed at the end of each year according to the number of shares each family gets. Of course, once the winery loses money and closes down, everyone has to bear the risk here, so buying shares in the winery is voluntary. Your family has idle money and wants to fight for it. Just buy shares, the winery will sell a total of [-] shares on a first-come, first-served basis, so those who want to buy shares will go back and discuss it, and if they want to buy shares, come to my house to register."

500 taels is enough from the establishment of the winery to the hiring of people to collect grain and make wine. The reason why this matter is put in after the autumn is that the household division is completed and the crops are harvested. Couldn't they still earn a little more wages, and during this period of time, he could also work out a detailed charter.

An Sheng was worried that everyone would not understand and gave an example: "For example, the winery in the village earns 100 taels of silver in a year divided by [-] shares, then the average share can be divided into [-] yuan, and your family owns five shares of the winery. I got a tael of silver."

Building a wine shop to make wine is what he found to be more suitable for Dahe Village. Their village has river water and there is mountain spring water in Anling Mountain. According to the book, it has the conditions for wine making. This wine can be stored for a long time, and it will last for years The more it is, the more valuable it is, so even if there is no good market for a while, the wine will not go bad, and they will have time to find a way to sell the wine. The most important thing is that the winemaking process is easier to learn than papermaking and ceramics.

After hearing this, everyone began to whisper to each other. If this is done, the families will be able to turn around, but if they fail to achieve the wealth they have accumulated over the years, they will be in vain. No one dares to do it alone. Go home and discuss with your family to make a decision.

Anji's eyelids were a little heavy, so she lowered her head and fell asleep, listening to the words of the village chief, and still analyzing in her heart. The village chief's decision is actually a good one. Although she doesn't know how to make wine, she can make a lot of medicinal wine, and she can donate it at that time Several recipes for medicinal wine, so she can add more of this stock.

Several well-to-do families in the village asked the village head who managed the winery. Since the village head took the lead in this matter, the few of them must follow, and that was the question of how much to invest.

An Shengcai frowned and said, "I don't have a charter for who will manage this. You can talk about whatever you have in mind." He can't take care of it. After a long time, everyone will have to criticize him for embezzling all the money.

An Sheng waited for a while and saw that no one could say anything useful. He turned his head to see An Ji hanging his head there. He seriously doubted whether the girl was asleep, so he couldn't help pointing at her and said loudly: "An Ji, come here. Let's talk about the rules."

Anji raised her head in a daze when she heard the words, and she didn't understand how it was related to her. She was a little sleepy just now and wanted to take a nap. Now she and her daughter-in-law have to bake 250 cakes every morning to sell them, so they get up early It was still too late to be busy, and Liu Ziyan would come to do moxibustion soon after cleaning up. She and Baicha are catching up on sleep in the afternoon. Today, she didn't go back to the cage to watch the excitement by the river, so she was a little sleepy.

Seeing that everyone was looking at her, Anji twitched the corners of her mouth, searched her mind for what she had just said, opened her mouth after thinking about it, and said, "Who will manage it, whoever has the ability will manage it, if you can't do it well, go down and implement it." Accountability system, every income and expenditure of the distillery must be recorded in detail, and the account books must be disclosed to all villagers who hold shares in the distillery every month. Since the distillery is led by the village head, the village cadres have supervision Quan, I suggest that the village can own [-] shares of the distillery. After all, the distillery uses the land of the village, and should pay silver. The village can use this money to build schools and roads, and support the villagers in need. How to spend the money is up to you The village head and the head of the village jointly decide how to use it. Of course, each expenditure must be recorded in detail, and the detailed details are posted at the entrance of the ancestral hall every three months, and are disclosed to all villagers in Dahe Village, so that the villagers can jointly supervise them. Behaviors shall be sent to the government for legal action.”

The original intention of the village chief's proposal to build a wine shop was to lead the villagers to become rich, but the actual situation must be that poor people are still poor. After all, there is no spare money to invest in shares if they can't eat enough, not to mention the risk of accompanying them, so they finally invested in the wine shop There are still a small number of people, and it will only be a small number of people when they get rich, so what should I do about those poor people? Of course not, so she suggested that the village keep [-] shares in the wine shop, so that the money for the construction of the village will be available, and the needy households will be supported. I also have the money, and it is not impossible to develop slowly in the future to provide the old, weak, sick and disabled with low-income households in the village.

An Sheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he regretted why he didn't ask this girl earlier, so he couldn't help applauding. This is a good idea, and many possible disadvantages will be solved in this way.

The people present were stunned for a moment when they heard Anji say these words easily, and they came back to their senses after hearing the village head's applause, and they also applauded. For the first time, everyone realized that Anji was more capable than they imagined. Even when they were exhausted, they couldn't think of building a school, building roads, etc. How could they dare to think about it. Only then did everyone know why Anji was able to sit here.