Hu Changan turned around and saw a charming girl standing at the door.
The girl is about eighteen years old, about the same age as a flower, with almost transparent white skin, a delicate oval face with rich features, and a good appearance.
Hu Changan couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
Although the ban on women in the early Ming Dynasty was not as strict as in the late Ming Dynasty, there were only a few women who were willing to show their faces, and even fewer were able to take charge of the family business.
Hu Changan stood up quickly, cupped his hands and said, "Yes, my name is Hu Changan, and this is the land I want to buy from you."
The girl bowed her head and bowed, and then sat down opposite Hu Changan in an elegant manner. She elegantly took a sip of the tea brought by the servant and said, "My name is Haitang. The land you are interested in is at our house."
under the name."
"But let me remind you in advance that not only is that place remote, but it is also the only way for refugees to enter Beijing. It is not a good place."
"Originally, our family bought the land with the intention of planting fruit trees, but unfortunately the refugees kept coming to steal things, so we had to give up."
"This refugee is hard to beat and hard to persuade. It's really annoying."
"We once tried to give them porridge at the door, but these refugees were not only ungrateful, but also injured the porridge cook."
"We really had no other choice, so we decided to transfer this land."
"If you really want to buy it, I can give it to you cheaper, just seven taels of silver."
After hearing this, the boy on the side suddenly lowered his head with guilt.
In order to sell the land smoothly, the boy did deliberately conceal the affairs of the refugees.
Hu Changan was not surprised.
After all, for such a large piece of land, even if it is located in a remote location, the price will not be so low. There must be something fishy about it.
But after knowing the problem, Hu Changan breathed a sigh of relief.
The refugees are fine, not a big problem.
Hu Changan nodded lightly, indicating that he understood.
Seeing Hu Changan's confident look, Haitang couldn't help but cast a curious look.
Haitang had wanted to sell this piece of land for a long time.
However, every time Haitang mentioned the issue of refugees to buyers, everyone would say to think about it, and then nothing more happened.
Even the most experienced old shopkeeper in Yingtian City couldn't do anything with that piece of wasteland.
This young man is only in his early twenties, but he looks confident. Should we say he is young and frivolous, or a hero emerges from his youth.
Haitang couldn't help but become interested in this calm young man, and asked Hu Chang'an with a smile: "I wonder what your master's advice is on resettling these refugees?"
Hu Changan smiled lightly and said, "Why do you think those honest and responsible farmers became refugees?"
Haitang sighed slightly and said helplessly: "What else could it be because of not having enough to eat?"
"Although His Majesty is cracking down hard on the powerful landlords, now that the country has just been established, it is inevitable that there will be insufficient manpower and inadequate supervision."
"In those remote towns and villages beyond the control of the central government, the powerful landlords of the previous dynasty were still the local emperors, arbitrarily squeezing the people and charging high rents."
"Once there is a famine, farmers who cannot pay their rent will naturally have no choice but to leave their homeland and become refugees."
After hearing this, Hu Changan couldn't help but look highly at the girl in front of him.
Unexpectedly, Haitang was not only beautiful, but also smart. He could also understand the truth of the imperial power not going to the countryside without any teacher.
Indeed, in the feudal dynasty, due to inconvenient transportation and high management costs, the government was often unable to directly control the grassroots people in towns and villages, and could only rely on local clan forces to manage the people.
Even sometimes when the clan deals with clan members, the government has no right to intervene.
This back and forth, of course, gave the powerful landlords room to be unbridled.
Hu Changan couldn't help but look at Haitang with a smile, and sincerely praised her: "Girl, you are so talented. I am afraid that some men are not as knowledgeable as you."
After Lan Haitang heard this, a warm current suddenly surged in his heart.
After traveling for several years and managing the family's huge property, Haitang had met a lot of people.
Most of them had their eyes set high above their heads. When they saw that Haitang was a woman, they looked down upon her in every possible way and refused to even listen to what Haitang had to say.
A small part of them are just because of their appearance and softer tone of voice.
Everyone only thinks that Haitang is a canary with no thoughts and no appearance.
However, Hu Changan is different.
Only Hu Changan was willing to talk to Haitang as an equal individual and sincerely praised Haitang's insights.
Neither did she look down upon Haitang because she was a woman, nor did she flatter her blindly because of her appearance.
Haitang grinned, showing her first sincere smile today, and said: "My little girl is not talented, I just heard a few words from my father. But Mr. Hu hasn't finished speaking yet. The formation of this refugee group has to do with how to interact with the refugees."
Is it linked to the disposition?”
"Since this farmer has chosen to become a refugee out of desperation, there is no turning back."
"We ordinary wealthy families are not government officials, so we cannot make the decision to resettle the refugees, nor can we educate and persuade them. What should we do?"
Hu Changan responded with a mysterious smile and said: "As the saying goes, people who have enough food in the warehouse know etiquette. Those refugees don't have enough to eat, so what education can they talk about?"
"But it's not okay to just give out porridge to people like a girl."
"Although the girl did this out of good intentions, from the perspective of the refugees, since they can have food without having to work, who would do the hard work of farming? If things go on like this, this will only encourage the laziness of the refugees.
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"And as the saying goes, people's hearts are not as good as snakes swallowing elephants. If you give charity once in a while, everyone will be grateful. But if you do it every day, everyone will take it for granted."
"Not only will they not be grateful to the girl, they will also complain about why the girl only gives them one bowl of rice at a time. As time goes on, public resentment will naturally accumulate. It is not surprising that there are injuries and thefts to the soup givers."
"Ah!" After hearing this, Haitang shouted and covered her red lips in surprise.
I didn't expect that there are so many ways in here.
This Hu Changan has such a profound understanding of the refugees, he is almost as good as his own father!
Sure enough, heroes come from young.
However, Hu Changan's words not only failed to resolve Haitang's doubts, but made Haitang even more confused.
Since resettlement is not enough, education is not enough, and charity is not enough, what should we do?
Haitang couldn't help but express her doubts directly.
After hearing this, Hu Changan just smiled slightly, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, and then slowly said: "In that case, how about working for relief and finding something for them to do?"
"Relief through work?" A series of question marks appeared on Haitang's forehead. She repeated Hu Changan's words again, chewing on this unfamiliar word carefully.