Transmigration Of Mian [Reluctantly] Becomes His Man [Wife] (穿越之勉为其男)

Chapter 205- 206

Chapter 205- Distribute the Houses and Farmland!

At present, the most important thing was to solve the accommodation problem of nearly 30,000 people. It was impossible to build the houses in such high-grade. Therefore, except for the county government office and the school, the structure of each house was the same — it was a three-large-room house. Despite that, enough space was left behind each house so that after the house was distributed, if the householder had enough financial resources, they could add or renovate the house with their own money. All the houses were sturdy with no cheat in work or cut down on materials.

When all the farmland and houses had been taken care of, the first cultivated land could not be left unattended for at least another three to four months. This season was not suitable for planting wheat. After asking the local farmers, Qin Mian had people buy seeds suitable for planting in that season from other counties, including sweet potato, corn, cucumber, water spinach, wax gourd, celery, tomato, pepper, and so on. The planting was done on a proportional base of 3 mu of corn field, 1 mu of sweet potato field, and 1 mu of vegetable field in every 5 mu of farmland. The mountain is high, the emperor is far away. Having nothing to worry about the imperial court finding any abnormality, he and Lei Tie quietly used some spiritual spring water to improve the soil quality, at least to ensure that all the seeds could grow smoothly.

In the beginning, the civilians had a very bad impression of the new magistrate. After a period of time, they discovered that the new magistrate truly did things for them. They respected him from the bottom of their hearts and worked harder and more willingly.

During the day, the civilians worked together, and at night, they rested in the houses that had been built. Perhaps it was because they had experienced the great disaster together that they got along very well. Even if there were some big or small contradictions, they could quickly let go of their heart knots after being advised by others.

Great things might be done by mass effort. In the middle of the 7th month, the road from the new Kui County to the outside of the mountain was completed; in the middle of the 10th month, all the farmland had opened up for farming and all kinds of crops had been planted. In the first seed-planted fields, vegetables had already been picked several times. By the end of the 12th month, all the houses in the new county had been built.

Standing on the mountainside overlooking the new county, everyone's eyes were full of joy, surprise, and pride. One could see that the large and small blocks of well-planned farmlands were like the squares on a chessboard, surrounded by a wide lake. On the outskirts of the chained farmlands, twenty-four rows of houses formed six "口" shapes of different sizes in a close fitting, parallel to each other and very neat. Among them, there were sixteen rows of brick houses, four rows of wooden houses, and four rows of bamboo houses. On the account that the wooden and bamboo houses were less warm than the brick and tile houses, their area was increased — there were two floors. The design drawing was provided by Qin Mian. It was beautiful in appearance and very likable. In addition, there were four watchtowers in the four corners of the county, which was to better play the role of Kui County in guarding the country. The open area to the east was the military camp.

In short, the new Kui County was more well-liked than the former Kui County.

The next important thing to do was to distribute the farmland and houses. There were some households that only had one person left and some had five to six people. Therefore, Qin Mian carefully considered how to distribute the farmland and houses before he made the final decision.

The farmland would be distributed according to the headcount, whether it was a dying old man or a newborn baby, male or female, everyone could get 1 mu of farmland. As for who got which farmlands, it was decided by drawing lots. Since the first-planted farmland had already yielded and the seeds sown later had not germinated yet, the county government would give the people who drew up the later-sown farmland certain subsidies according to the actual situation, at least to ensure that they could survive until the next spring. After all, there were nearly 30,000 people, so it was impossible to achieve absolute fairness. For example, the farmland close to the lake were more convenient for irrigation.