In the first few years, all the work of cutting sugar cane was done by the Fengshan people themselves, but this work was really not suitable for people. After working for two years, the Fengshan people found that the hard money earned was not as real as making bamboo weaving.

Yi Niang has no choice. In recent years, these local villagers have followed Liang Chuan in Qingyuan and Fengshan and made a lot more money than in previous years. If they are asked to work hard to make a living, not many of them can do it.

After all, not many people are willing to work so hard.

Many foreigners came to Fengshan to seek life, from Luocheng, from Jiangkou Lianjiang above, and even from Yongtai and Yongzhou Jianzhou. Many people heard that there was a shortage of labor in Xinghua, so they rushed over with some dry food!

Li Chuyi wandered around the mountains for a few days and brought back quite a few people when he came back.

In the past two years, almost all the sugarcane cutting work has been taken over by the mountain people in Xinghua Mountain.

There are really few ways to survive in the mountains. As long as there is an opportunity to make a little extra money and have a prosperous year, the mountain people will never let it pass. They will even fight for a few sugarcane fields and a few sugarcane cutting positions!

This situation completely changed until the arrival of a large number of refugees from northern Shaanxi.

The refugees need opportunities to make money more than the mountain people. They even have very little land. Not to mention a good and humid year, even having enough food is a huge challenge for them!

They don't know how to pick and choose, let alone be lazy and slippery when cutting cane. Once they pick up the hatchet in their hands, they will work until they are tired and fall down.

The key is that the wages these people receive are still 10% or 20% less than the locals!

Laborers from Xinghua cost one hundred cents per acre of land, and they often had to leave three or five sugar cane stalks per acre. The cane heads on the ground were not cut clean, and the cane tails were thrown away very haphazardly. They only had to clean up the cane in the coming year.

Tian will have to waste a lot of effort.

The people in northern Shaanxi were different. They only charged 90 cents, and they deliberately lowered the price just to get the job. They did a beautiful job without compromising on it. They even took back every sugar cane tail!

Sugarcane tails can be used to make fire, and you can eat a few more bites after chopping them. It is because they are poor that these refugees just want to save money! It is not easy to go to the mountains to collect firewood in winter, and firewood also costs money!

Fengshan people will keep prices down, but Yi Niang will not. The number of refugees who work as hired laborers for the Liang family is the largest every year, but not all the sugarcane fields on the north bank belong to the Liang family. The laborers who come late can only go to work for other villagers.

sugarcane.

In previous years, they were all men from the mountains, and most of them were from the Tianxiong Army. This year, the situation is different. All the men in the mountains left agriculture and joined the army. Liang Chuan gave instructions and everyone began to receive military pay, which meant that they officially started training.

Got a job.

In this way, the men of Tianxiong Army could not go down the mountain to cut cane. The men did not come, so it was the women of Tianxiong Army’s family who came to cut cane!

Women can hold up half the sky. These women are willing to follow men all the way to the south to take root. They work hard to seize every opportunity to survive. Cutting sugar cane is like an extremely happy thing to them. In northern Shaanxi, let alone

When cutting sugar cane, the whole family works together!

There were too few opportunities to make money in that era. On the Tea Horse Road, people had to carry hundreds of kilograms of tea leaves and tea bricks for hundreds of miles. Some women even had to nurse their children on the road.

Even when Liang Chuan was a child, he often heard from his grandmother that their neighbors, two father and his son, were porters before liberation. How did they carry the load from Xinghua to Fuzhou?

Or go to Qingyuan, the farthest distance is even picking up goods from Qingyuan to Fuzhou.

Today, let alone carrying it on the shoulders, it would take a day to drive such a long distance in a truck. Many people could not bear the hardship. Back then, it was carried with iron feet and iron shoulders!

They can actually pass on this kind of hard work from generation to generation, and it didn't end until modern times! In their eyes, they don't feel that this kind of hard work is hard and tiring, but they are grateful to those employers. Without such hard work, the family would starve to death!

As soon as the harvest season arrived, a scene that shocked Liang Chuan even more came.

The originally deserted and quiet Fengshan began to turn into a sea of ​​trade and joy. Countless hawker stalls sprouted up like bamboo shoots in the small corridor made of stone slabs in Fengshan overnight.

The shrewd Fengshan people are quick to learn. There are thousands of these outsiders when they arrive, and the thousands of people eating, drinking, and eating have created countless business opportunities! In previous years, the family’s mountain products, local specialties, and small handicraft snacks can be counted on.

Fengshan, a small place less than a hundred miles away, has digested it by itself. Now things can be sold to outsiders, and the sales volume is extremely good. The people are in a very high mood when doing business!

The person setting up the stall even set up the stall next to Shima Bridge and set up a food stall. They just made the simplest rice porridge with a few pieces of sweet potatoes thrown in. Countless outsiders also enjoyed eating it.

There are also selling various snacks, gadgets, and even sweet potato wine, and some go to Qingyuan to buy a lot of medicine. It is extremely normal for people who pass by to get bruises. Even hatchets don’t have eyes, which they often do when cutting cane.

Hurt people.

There were also people selling clothes and jewelry. Suddenly, Liang Chuan thought that the time for buying new year’s goods during the Spring Festival had been advanced!

As if overnight, the previously deserted north bank of Fengshan suddenly turned into a sea of ​​joyful crowds. The cane cutters were also happy, and the local people were even happier!

The arrival of people means that the labor force is here. Some people are helping people from several villages on the north bank to do farm work. These people even tidy up the empty rooms in their homes. Many outsiders are willing to rent even a cowshed!

The journey back and forth is not a short one. Even if they go up and down the mountain, these mountain people cannot turn back every day. With this time, they can't cut down more than two acres of sugar cane!

Not to mention that a cowshed is crowded with cows, and there are not many families raising cows in Fengshan. A shelter from wind and rain is better than anything else!

This piece of land on the north bank of Fengshan is now extremely jealous of outsiders!

The current houses on the North Shore are all good ones! If you take a quick look, you can see that there are only a few houses made of lumps of mud. They are all large brick houses. In their hometown, such houses can only be afforded by the local wealthy households.

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If they can't afford such a big house in Fengshan, it means they have no eyesight. Instead of living with the Liang family of He Lu, which family followed Liang Chuan and didn't turn over. I heard that the baby has books to read, and the old man has grown up.

In this house, foreigners are vying to marry their daughters over!

Even the Longshui Temple on Shima Bridge has become the most popular place at this time. Just put your bedding inside the temple and you can have a good sleep at night. Just take care of the bedding, otherwise the place will be unavailable the next day.

Even if you take possession of it, your bedding will be taken away by others!

When Liang Chuan returned to Fengshan and saw the Longshui Temple for the first time, he felt strange. Why was this small temple so clean now? It was because this was a place for travelers to sit. Not only did the Lord Helong live there, but also the people there.

You want to live in it. People who have lived here will naturally clean it up and put it on the table.

I also need to put some fruits on the table to show my filial piety to the Dragon King!

The people are finally here!

Li Chuyi led a large group of women down the path of Hulu Mountain. Most of these people carried a hatchet in their waist, a whetstone in their bag, and carried clothes and bags behind their backs.

Bedding and carrying a bag of dry food.

From beginning to end, there were almost two to three thousand people in the group...

Liang Chuan and He Baozheng looked at this group of people. None of them were any thinner than the men in Fengshan. Women from northern Shaanxi were just like men. In wars, the whole family would go out.

If it weren't for the fact that they were all women, carrying bedding and even pots and pans, they would have thought that the Lin brothers brought people down the mountain again five years ago, but there were still many traps behind the mountain...

This group of women did not go directly to the ground, but consciously gathered in front of Wangxiang's old house, sitting next to each other without making any noise, waiting for Yiniang's arrangements!

Seeing that Liang Chuan appeared first, they all asked Liang Chuan: "Hello, boss!"

The sound was so bright that it spread toward the distant mountains, and the echoes were so loud!

Who would call Liang Chuan's boss? Naturally, they are the group of people who followed Liang Chuan to earn their lives!

"You are..."

"My man is the vice-captain of the Tianxiong Army's third team..."

"My man is also in the Tianxiong Army..."

Liang Chuan's eyes were filled with tears. He suddenly felt that what he had done was too bad. These brothers who had followed him through life and death actually asked their wives and daughters to go down the mountain to cut sugar cane.

The brothers put their lives in their own hands, but I couldn't even provide them with food and clothing.

In fact, since Liang Chuan asked Song Youcai to gather the team together and start paying full wages according to the adult management team, this group of people no longer live as tightly as in previous years, but they are afraid of those who don't have enough to eat.

As time goes by, if you keep a little more money in your pocket, you can guard against some disasters in the future.

For thousands of years, the life of the common people has been like this. They live one day at a time, and they still have to keep their future members, just for fear that one day they will run out of food! There is no danger of having food. Later generations will eat too much because of too many peaceful days.

I always pay attention to the freshest food. I forget most about the days of starvation, and I don’t have the habit of preparing for shortages.

Yi Niang went out and started registering the number of people. Shen Yuzhen and Zheng Ruoying stood beside her to help. They held the account book and wrote down the names of the people one by one with the pens in their hands.

These mountain people come here to register during the day, and then come back to collect their money after carrying sugar cane. The sugar cane is measured by the pound, and the wages in one day can be more than 100 yuan. Ten days is the same amount of money. Looking at the entire Xinghua, no, the entire Fujian Road,

I heard that apart from Qingyuan Port where you can make regular money by doing business in ten days, where else can such a good thing be found?

A bushel of fragrant rice only costs tens of cents. If you chop sugar cane here for a few days, you can bring back dozens of kilograms of fragrant rice for your family to have a good year. Not to mention cutting sugar cane, but also going into the mountains to chop big insects. I’m afraid many people will know how to do it.

No hesitation!

The women began to line up consciously, and the registration was on a first-come, first-served basis. Everyone was very polite, but the people at the back were very nervous. Those who had registered seemed to have won the lottery, and they still had to talk to Zheng Ruoying and Shen Yuzhen.

Thank you!
Chapter completed!