After being replaced, she changed from a miserable daughter-in-law to a lucky wife

Chapter 483 We are short of money

Aunt Xiao was worried about her being alone: ​​"I'll go with you."

Xia Wanniang washed her face and went to the border with her children.

The tribes outside the Great Wall had already sent over the cattle, sheep and horses as compensation, and Wu Xiao directly gave them to the Northwest.

Xia Wanniang selected injured soldiers from the military camp to be responsible for raising cattle and sheep, and gave them Shi Huai's book and alfalfa seeds.

This is a good thing for these soldiers, as they can still stay in the barracks, which means they still have their pay.

The news that the people who came to settle in the northwest were given land and bricks and tiles to build houses gradually spread.

Xu Li has been having a terrible headache lately. People from the northwest have started going to the government office to ask if they can also get free bricks and fertile farmland.

The county magistrates of the three cities have been in a state of panic recently and can only ask Xu Li for help.

Xu Li could only come to find Xia Wanniang and others to see how to resolve this matter.

When Xia Wanniang arrived, besides the common people, the soldiers who were on leave also came: "Master Xu, why are you here instead of staying in the North City?"

Qingfeng is busy with Banyan now and has no time to solve his problem: "It's a good idea for you to ask Wanniang. I have a lot of things to do here." After saying that, he took Banyan and left.

Xu Li looked at Qing Feng's back and asked, "What happened to this guy today?"

Xiao Zimu and the others followed Qingfeng away, leaving only Xia Wanniang who knew the reason but didn't know why. "Maybe I was too busy."

Xu Li looked at the people queuing up to receive safety helmets and said, "This helmet is quite strange." He walked over, picked one up and walked back.

The helmet Xia Wanniang chose was made of rattan and was very elastic, which could protect the head very well: "This is called a safety helmet."

Xu Li looked through it for a long time but still didn't understand what it was for.

Xia Wanniang put him on the ground and hit him hard with a stone.

Xu Li saw the stone bounce off the hat, but there was nothing inside. He picked it up and looked around: "This is a good thing. It can protect my head."

Xia Wanniang walked to the lounge chair in the shade and sat down: "You came here just to see this hat?"

Xu Li put the helmet aside: "I almost forgot the important matter."

"Something happened in North City?" Xia Wanniang looked at him puzzledly.

Xu Li nodded: "Almost. Now the original Northwest residents know your policy of attracting the people, so they went to the government office to ask why they don't have it."

After hearing what he said, Xia Wanniang felt that she had not considered it carefully: "It is true that I did not consider it carefully enough."

Xu Li was also a little annoyed. There were too many things going on before and he really didn't consider this. Now that people are constantly pouring into the northwest, this problem came up.

"I have an idea and I'd like to hear your opinion."

Xia Wanniang turned to look at him: "Tell me about it."

"If the same is done for the original northwest fields, they may not be able to cultivate them, and they will become wasteland. Some villages are too far away from towns."

Xu Li paused and said, "Just like the people in the village that disappeared before, they are too far away to be managed, and we don't know if something happened."

Xia Wanniang understood what he meant: "You want to concentrate the people near the town as much as possible, so that it is easier to manage?"

Xu Li nodded: "Yes, even if something happens, we will know. Cities will be built in all the planned places in the northwest. I am considering letting them relocate."

Xia Wanniang closed her eyes and thought about it: "The house issue is easy to solve, the key question is how to deal with the good farmland they have now?"

Xu Li took out a booklet from his bosom and said, "Look, these are the numbers of good farmland they have now."

Xia Wanniang took the booklet from his hand and began to look through it. The total amount of fertile land of each household might be only five acres, which was not a lot.

She returned the booklet to Xu Li and asked, "Do you want to buy these good fields and then give them good fields as gifts?"

Xu Li nodded and said, "The price won't be too high. I'm considering five taels per mu. They won't suffer any loss if they move. They will live in a brick and tile house, and each person will get more good farmland than they have now."

Xia Wanniang still felt that something was wrong. What she lacked now was silver, not land: "Master Xu, we are short of money."