At Xiakou, the governor's convoy was moving towards the prefecture yamen. Zhou Fashang sat in the car and fell into deep thought. The first batch of people moved from the Chang'an area of ​​Guanzhong have been successfully resettled, but this is just the beginning, and there are many things to be done one after another.

In just over a month, I have to repair the house and resettle the people. The only one who can respond to the emergency is the wooden house. Now people live in it, but fire prevention is a big problem.

The wooden houses are lined up in a very neat row, which looks pleasing to the eye, but once you walk away one day, it will cause a tragedy. In just a moment, these settlements that have settled the people will be burned away by the fire.

If there is a adobe house, it is safer to live in it. However, the time to build adobe house is tight, not to mention that it is too late to hurry. Once it rains heavily in summer, the adobe house built in hasty will easily collapse.

At that time, the whole family will die, which is not much better than being buried in a fire. Therefore, Zhou Fashang knew that currently arranging people to live in wooden houses is just a temporary measure, and houses will have to be built and relocated in the future.

Building adobe houses depends on the weather. It is natural to build houses when it rains in summer. There is still nearly half a year after the autumn harvest. During this period, fire prevention in settlements is still a big problem.

Not to mention that there will be people coming in the future. According to Yuwen Wen, there are nearly 10,000 households in total. When Zhou Fashang thinks of this number, he feels headache and is also excited.

Farming and fighting are inseparable from people. Ezhou has experienced wars and sparse populations, and there are few people in Xiakou City, so the grain output cannot be increased, and too many troops cannot be supported. Military rations have to be transported by other places.

There are few troops, and they are short of fighting. There are few households. On weekdays, there are shortages of manpower in newly built water conservancy facilities and no water conservancy facilities. It is a delusion to open up land and farming. If you want to make a difference, you don’t have to think about it.

A total of nearly 15,000 households moved to Xiakou, Ezhou. As long as you survive the first year, you will build water conservancy facilities to reclaim wasteland, the situation in Ezhou will be opened after the harvest, so Zhou Fashang decided to hold on anyway.

He was unable to participate in the battle against the Sui Dynasty. In the future, if he wanted to make a fortune, he had to participate in the battle against the Chen Dynasty. He only spent two or three years cultivating and nourishing food and grass in Ezhou. Then when the court launched troops against the Chen State, he would show his skills.

However, the problem that needs to be solved is how to resettle the next group of people who are about to move south.

While thinking, the car had arrived at the prefecture yard. After Zhou Fashang got off the car, he went straight to the conference hall, where someone had been waiting for a long time.

There were officials dressed in official uniforms and soap clothes, and there were also ordinary clothes in common clothes. They were arranged to discuss matters here. The host was naturally the governor Zhou Fashang. Now the main leader appeared, and the talks began after everyone saluted.

"This time, the state yamen has relied on the strong support of the people in Guanzhong. The people have settled successfully. I am deeply pleased."

Having said that, Zhou Fashang turned to the topic: "Four thousand households are just the beginning. Everyone knows that there will be people moving in the future. Just now, the official has received the exact news, and the total number of households is over 10,000. Are you ready?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people present had different expressions. Most of the officials were surprised, while the common people all showed joy. They were all shopkeepers of Huangzhou workshops. Now there is a huge business opportunity right in front of you. How can people not be moved?

"Ten thousand households, less than 50,000 people, will arrive in Ezhou in a few months, mainly to settle in Xiakou. Most of the costs required need to be solved by the government. According to the previous story, I naturally have to ask..."

Zhou Fashang looked around everyone present and then spoke solemnly: "Resettlement of the people is of great importance. Do you have the ability to follow up?"

"Don't worry, we will do our best!"

"What's going on now when the matter discussed before?"

Facing Zhou Fashang's question, an official stepped forward and replied: "Eunuch, we have carefully concluded the relevant details with the shopkeepers. Please read it..."

He led Zhou Fashang to a desk with a long wooden box next to it. This was something made to efficiently place the people: the placement box.

The resettlement box, as the name suggests, is used to place people, and contains related items. The official opened the box and asked someone to take out the things in the box one by one on the table, and explained it to Zhou Fashang at the same time.

It is necessary to resettle people to settle down, clothing, food, housing and transportation. The resettlement box is based on "households" and the things contained can meet the basic needs of a household after settling down.

The average population of a household is five. In order to ensure redundancy, the resettlement box is prepared based on the base of six people in a household (two olds, two bigs and two smalls). The first item of preparation is related to "food".

The people of Guanzhong came to Xiakou, Jiangnan, and it was unlikely that they would carry tableware and cooking utensils with them. The corresponding items were prepared in the storage box: six wooden bowls, wooden plates, bamboo cups, and wooden spoons, six pairs of bamboo chopsticks, and a pair of cauldrons and steamers for cooking.

These things can meet basic needs for cooking, eating and drinking.

Next is "clothing", four sets of adult clothes and two sets of children's clothes. Of course, the size is larger and it is impossible to fit. It needs to be cut by yourself. The clothes are made of cheap and good-quality Huangzhou cloth.

There are six cloth scarves, so please do whatever you want to use. After all, poor families are not as particular as rich families.

Then there is "living", two straw mats and six bedding, sewn according to adult sizes. It is impossible to say how warm it is, but the quality is reasonable; two wooden basins, wooden barrels and scoops are each, and one meter of hemp rope as thick as a little finger.

There is a sewing bag with six iron needles and six coils of twine. These are considered daily necessities. As for "恒", there are six pairs of straw sandals.

Everything can be packed into long wooden boxes, and two adults can move it to meet the needs of a family who have come from afar, so that settled people can have time to slowly buy other supplies.

This novel "packaging" method will provide great help to the resettlement work. As many households settle down, prepare as many "resettlement boxes".

The government sets the number of required resettlement boxes, and all items are packed in a unified manner according to the list. The government will send someone to supervise it. It is confirmed that the seal is posted without errors and transported to the settlement to wait for distribution.

When a family settles, they will be given a resettlement box to ensure basic daily needs. As for food, they will be distributed separately, which will save a lot of trouble.

It saves trouble but not money. The government paid for so many resettlement boxes. It looked like a net loss on the books, but it was a very profitable thing after careful calculation: the population is a priceless treasure.

Nearly 15,000 households. If the population grows naturally, Ezhou's population will increase by 15,000 households. It will take about decades during the peace season. It is even more cost-effective to spend this little money to stabilize the population of 15,000 households.

Zhou Fashang was very satisfied with the "creative" of the resettlement box, and what he was even more satisfied was that the shopkeepers in Huangzhou were about to make a contract with the prefecture government to prepare 10,000 resettlement boxes on time and in quantity. If there is any delay, ten times the compensation will be paid.

In black and white, no one dares to breach the contract, and no one dares to breach the contract. Not to mention that this matter is of great importance, just for this large order, the workshop owners in Huangzhou must work day and night.

After picking up a wooden bowl, Zhou Fashang looked at it carefully. A set of six wooden bowls could be stacked tightly together. After being separated, the size of each bowl was almost the same. Not only the wooden bowl, but also the wooden plate and wooden spoon.

There are many numbers, but the size is exactly the same, which is not something that humans can do. Zhou Fashang knows that there is a unique skill in the wooden workshop in Huangzhou, which is the "lathe" driven by hydraulic power.

A hydraulic lathe can make dozens of identical wooden bowls, wooden dishes and wooden spoons in one day.

Not only that, a hydraulically driven sawing machine can easily saw wood into wood chips of the same size. These wood chips are used to sling wooden barrels or sling tubs, and long bamboos are also sawed open to make bamboo cups and bamboo chopsticks.

Not to mention the production of wooden crates, even the construction of wooden houses is very easy to do. The wood from Dabie Mountain is transported to Xiyangcheng by Bashui to slice it, and then loaded it with the iron nails made by Huangzhoujian to Xiakou, which is very convenient to use.

The iron sand selected by Bashui River sand and the application of hydraulic wire drawing machines provide convenience for Huangzhou Supervisor to produce cheap iron nails in large quantities. Thanks to the perfect water conservancy facilities, various workshops in Xiyang, Huangzhou use hydraulic power to produce many products in batches, which is a capability that is not available elsewhere.

Ten thousand placement boxes, the items needed can be made, packed in Xiyang City, Huangzhou, and then shipped to Xiakou for later use. Zhou Fashang felt the "power of the workshop" that Yuwen Wen said for the first time.

In order to resettle immigrants, you can prepare a sufficient number of resettlement boxes in just over a month. In other words, preparing "military supply boxes" for tens of thousands of troops is nothing for Huangzhou, right?
Chapter completed!