The girl in the store looked at Qu Ruyun through the door, and at the people pointing outside the door, she choked up and said, "I want to be as strong as her."

Sold into a brothel by her parents for three years, she has never lived like a human being.

Anyone can abuse her and humiliate her. Even her parents thought she was dirty and even knew she had left the brothel and refused to acknowledge her and not let her in.

These men didn't let her go, and they didn't want her to be treated as a human being.

"Okay, after the shop closes, I will go back to the Yamen to learn how to read and how to kill people and fight." Yuan Jin nodded and looked at the other two girls, "What about you?"

The pastries made by this pastry shop are not only unique in this city, but the taste is definitely better than most pastry shops.

She wrote the recipes and methods and taught them.

She has tasted the finished product, and it is indeed better than what is sold outside, and it is in line with the tastes of the people here. There is no other reason why the business is not getting better, just because they all come from brothels, and they are considered dirty.

"We also want to become stronger." The two girls hiding behind the counter came out with their shoulders hunched, not daring to raise their heads. "We want to be upright and upright people."

"Raise your head and speak." Yuan Jin encouraged him with a soft voice, "Their opinions are not important. You did not enter the brothel voluntarily, and it is not you who are wrong."

The two girls slowly raised their heads to look at her, tears streaming down their faces.

"There's no point in crying. If you want to avoid being bullied, you'll have a strong fist and a brain." Yuan Jin raised his hand and pointed at the man who was stepped on the ground by Qu Ruyun, and said in an understatement, "Do you dare to go out and beat him or scold him?"

They will always experience such criticism and slander. If they don't fight for themselves, no one will stand up for them.

Suddenly they don't have to sell their bodies in a brothel, so it's understandable that they can't adapt.

She is here and they don't dare to come forward to defend themselves, which means that they are not suitable for high-profile jobs, and they will be replaced with others later.

"I dare." The girl who was teased by the man gritted her teeth and walked out first.

There was a large circle of people outside the shop watching the fun. When they saw someone coming out, they couldn't help but point and point.

"Why do you have the nerve to open a pastry shop when it's so dirty? I don't dare to buy it. Who knows if there are any dirty things?"

"I don't dare to buy it. Even after leaving the brothel, I am still a prostitute. I don't know how many men have passed by this place today, just to see these lowly hooves."

"If it had been me, I would have been killed earlier. It would be embarrassing."

"Disgraceful?" The girl who came out of the shop looked at the aunt who spoke, with a sneer on her face, "Did I enter the brothel by myself? No! I was sold by my parents, and I was sold with a death contract for two taels of silver! I

Don’t you want to be a good person? My parents didn’t give me a chance!”

"Auntie, you should indeed be killed." Qu Ruyun sneered and interjected, "Your little daughter was sold to a brothel for thirty taels of silver. Later, she was beaten to death by the brothel turtle. You thought she was dirty and were not even willing to collect her body. You

Why didn't she feel dirty when she spent the money from selling her body?"

The crowd fell silent.

The aunt who was named was ashamed and angry. It took her a long time to say, "She is just dirty. She has been slept with by so many men. How can you say she is clean?"

"Isn't it because you couldn't afford to raise her that you sold her?" Qu Ruyun was furious, "She is a human being and your biological daughter. She was sold by you and you didn't say a word, so you still

Human?"

"There are six people in the family, and we only have a handful of rice mixed with wheat bran, and we can only eat one meal a day. My younger brother fell ill and had no money to get medicine, so my parents sold me to a brothel. I wanted to live a hard life with them.

I can be a human being like you, but my parents won't let me." The girl puffed up her chest and wiped the tears from her face, "I finally got out of that fire pit, and you still don't let me be a human being. Why do you think so?"

No one made a sound around.

Those who stayed in the city were mostly poor people who could not afford to eat or raise their children. It was common for children and women to be sold.

"We also want to be human beings, but the world forces us not to be human beings. Now that the brothel is gone, you are forcing us not to be human beings. Why are you? Living with money from selling your sons and daughters, how can you be considered human beings?

People!" The two girls in the room went out together and stood together with the girl from before, hugging each other.

"You guys are nothing. As men, you don't know how to pity the weak. You have to mend people's wounds." Qu Ruyun increased the strength on his feet and said loudly, "Who doesn't want to have enough to eat?

Eat, live in peace and harmony as a family? If they are dirty, none of you who add insult to injury will be clean."

The man who fell to the ground was in so much pain that he couldn't speak. He looked at Yuan Jin walking out of the house and closed his eyes in shame.

The men who were making trouble with him quietly retreated to the back of the crowd, looking at Yuan Jin with fear and disdain in their eyes.

"There is no joke in the previous announcement." Yuan Jin looked around casually and said indifferently, "In my jurisdiction, there are no ordinary people. If you really feel that you are of noble birth, you can stay or leave as you please.

The girl who came out is not sick. Whether you believe it or not, I have studied medicine and believe in my medical skills."

She has personally examined all the girls, arranged the sick ones to other places, and is trying to find ways to treat them.

Only those who are not sick are arranged to work.

"Lord City Lord, in our family of five, can everyone be assigned a field?" someone asked in a low voice.

"Everyone can share the land. After the year, the Land Department will notify you in batches to allocate the fields. After the land is allocated to you, it will be your own property, but it cannot be bought or sold or transferred. When the grain is harvested, the public grain will be handed over to the Yamen in proportion.

Income from business is not taxed in the first year." Yuan Jin raised his eyes and said, "The girls in the brothel have no choice whether they were born or not, and they have no choice if they are sold. In my eyes, they are human beings just like you."

The publicity work was not done well, which led to the people still being skeptical about the policies they formulated. It should be better after the spring equinox and the fields.

That means a publicity team needs to be formed.

She couldn't remember what she had done in other worlds before. Taking care of tens of thousands of people and finding food and money for them didn't seem to be a problem?

"Everyone has it, so our family won't have to worry about going hungry. Six of the eight members of our family can go to the fields."

"We have a small family, but we can still have children. Will the newborn children be given land?"

"It depends on the situation of the newborn child." Yuan Jin didn't finish his sentence.

"That's good, that's good."

The people watching gradually dispersed. Qu Ruyun took back his feet and scolded in a low voice, "Get out! You can't even beat a woman, so you have the nerve to go out and pretend to be a man."

The man was so ashamed and angry that he hurriedly got up from the ground and ran away in confusion.

"After the shop closes, go back to the Yamen to take literacy classes, and then follow Ruyun to learn how to protect yourself. Reading and becoming stronger are not just for men. You can do it too." Yuan Jin walked to the three girls and encouraged, "I believe

You can do it well."

Several girls nodded with red eyes.

Seeing that nothing happened, Yuan Jin took Qu Ruyun and continued shopping for new year's goods.

After all, it had just experienced a war, and the people's livelihood in the city had only recovered less than 70%, and it still looked desolate.

After shopping, Yuan Jin returned to the county office. After taking inventory, he found that there was no meat and he couldn't help but have a headache.

It would be too miserable to have no meat to eat during the Chinese New Year.

"Sister, don't worry. Sister Lianxin has arranged for a few sisters to bring us New Year's goods. We just walked in." Seeing her embarrassed look, Qu Ruyun covered her mouth and giggled, "It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice, and I also have a headache."

when."

There is nothing in Dengcheng County Government, so it is really difficult.

There is money in the cottage, and even though those gangsters are lavish, they have saved a lot of money and hid it in the basement in the past two years. The shop they opened in Xingcheng has also begun to make money, and life is better than here.

"It will be fine next year. If you endure it, the hard days will be over soon." Yuan Jin raised his hand and knocked on her forehead, "Go and clean up a few rooms and come out. Father and others must drink when they come, so don't be in a hurry."

Qu Ruyun smiled and stepped back.

Yuan Jin sat down at the desk and started writing the recruitment announcement.

First, decide on the names of a few major departments and hire people to do their work. Once the rest of the Nine Cities are under your control, you will then come up with an examination system and civil servant promotion system that is in line with this world.

Counting Dengcheng, there are a total of ten counties and one prefecture, and the total population is not large enough for a modern prefecture-level city to manage.

It's just that her wallet is extremely deflated.

The silver I received from my original grandmother has accounted for the gold and silver jewelry stolen from the village, and now I have spent seven or eighty-eight percent of it.

The part obtained from the war has not yet been divided with Zhao Yingwu, so there should be quite a lot.

Yuan Jin stopped writing, picked up the account book on the table and flipped through it. When he saw Song Yunce giving out New Year's money to the soldiers, the corners of his lips curved.

The little zombie is pretty reliable at what he does.

Putting the account book back, she completed the recruitment announcement. Remembering that the county government had a basement and a dungeon, she suddenly had an idea and called a few soldiers, "Follow me to the dungeon."

The temperature in the city was at least minus 20 degrees. She could save the ice and wait for next year to make things and sell them for money. By the way, she informed Lian Xin to do the same.

"Sister, the dungeon of this county government office is dirty and smelly. If you go there, you will be covered in fumes." The soldier frowned and muttered, "The basement is very clean. You can just load your things into the basement."

"Then let's go to the basement and take a look." Yuan Jin's lips raised slightly, "I really want to pack something, let's go see how much can be packed."

It is said that the original county magistrate of Dengcheng was a corrupt official, and there were many treasures stored in the basement. Song Yunce went to organize and register these things, but she did not ask anything about them, nor did she go to the basement to see them.

"That basement can hide six hundred people, it's very big." The soldier was stunned, "This is the first time I have seen such a big basement."

It was really big. Yuan Jin had an idea in his mind, and at the same time he had a new idea of ​​building a new barracks and how to store food.

After looking around in the basement, she returned to her room and took out the drawings of the barracks to make adjustments.

The next day, Yuan Jin took Qu Ruyun to visit the inside and outside of the city again, and added two new villages to be built on the planning map.

Back at the yamen gate, the man who was injured by Qu Ruyun yesterday, together with hundreds of wealthy households, landlords and servants from the city, blocked the yamen gate and demanded that she return the land deed.

"They probably forgot who's fist is stronger." Qu Ruyun suddenly twisted his nose in anger when he saw this situation.

"We really need to teach them what true feudal rule is." Yuan Jin called the soldiers from the Lengjian camp, and after taking down all the people, he ordered again, "Arrange people to guard them, and the others will follow me to ransack their homes."

When the wealthy landlords who were tied up heard this, they were all so frightened that their legs weakened.
To be continued...