1346th: Cultivate a Daughter (2)

The fighting outside was in full swing, and the people in the rear were generally not affected much.

In order to increase employment opportunities and reduce the damage to law and order caused by the homeless, Jiang Pengji spent money to build more than a dozen official roads after careful research. Workers are provided with two meals a day free of charge, and a certain amount of copper coins is given as a subsidy according to the amount of labor, and a piece of linen is subsidized throughout the year. If the workers can complete the entire project ahead of schedule, the participating workers can also receive an additional ten days of rewards.

These official channels not only facilitate the deployment of troops during wartime, but also benefit the common people during peacetime. For example, the common people can transport surplus local fruits and vegetables to other places for sale and increase extra income. In the past, it would have taken ten days and a half months just to walk the mountain road. By the time the farmers brought the fruits and vegetables to the destination, the goods would have been rotten. Now it only takes one day to arrive, and the fruits and vegetables are all fresh.

Jiang Pengji also encouraged women to go out to work and support their families. In addition to physical work such as road construction, they would also provide other jobs that were more suitable for women. Improving women's social status cannot be achieved in a short while, it will take a long time to reverse the inherent impression.

For example, she knows that some women earn more for embroidery and weaving at home than their husbands who work outside, but the income of these women can only be called "subsidizing the family" rather than "supporting the family". They all feel that they are not the one who supports the family, but the husband who supports the whole family. Actively putting yourself in a vulnerable position has become the norm.

However, with Jiang Pengji's strong rise, this natural atmosphere is being completely reversed, which is a good sign after all.

There were occasional ups and downs along the way, but everything was moving in the direction she expected.

When the convoy escorting Huang Song and others crossed the border of Maruzhou, everyone felt that the chill atmosphere in the air gradually faded, replaced by a calm and peaceful atmosphere, and Huang Song's anxious heart gradually calmed down, and he began to observe carefully Scenery along the road.

Huang Song was sitting in the carriage with his head bowed and reading a book, when he heard the mooing of an old cow, and a strange smell wafted in.

He frowned slightly, opened the curtain of the car and looked outside, and saw a couple following an old cow on the left and right. On the back of the old cow was a girl in blue and white clothes, with a slanted bag on her shoulder. . Huang Song thought it was his parents and daughter, but after listening carefully, he realized that he was wrong.

This man was an Orion from a certain village in Marushu. His childhood was conscripted into the army, and he died in battle two years ago.

The young wife became a widow. It was hard for a widow to live in the village with her little daughter under the age of four, so the man would often help them out. The man also regarded Faxiao's daughter as his own flesh and blood. A while ago, he received news that Faxiao's orphan had been selected to study at Jinlin Academy. The man was so happy that he couldn't sleep for several days.

No, the couple are preparing to send their daughter to the academy.

Even though she is a girl, those who have the opportunity to study in this era are talented people, no matter how bad it is, it is better than selling physical labor.

Others said that he was lucky, and raised this adopted daughter with all his heart, so he still worried that she would not provide for him in the future?

He thinks so too, when he has his own child in the future, his own child can also learn a few words from his sister's book.

Outsiders don't have this benefit.

Huang Song has also heard about Jinlin Academy, but he hasn't paid much attention to it these years. He only knows that it is an enlightened private school.

Looking at it now, he felt that he was wrong.

Huang Song lifted the curtain of the car and asked the man with a smile, "Brother, are you going to the market?"

When the man heard someone calling him, he turned his head and searched for a long time. When he saw Huang Song's motorcade was heavily guarded, his face turned pale with fright.

He said tremblingly, "No, send the baby to study."

Huang Song asked them to get closer and said, this couple are ordinary people, how dare they be disobedient?

"Send the child to study?" Huang Song glanced at the girl riding on the back of the ox. She was nervously buttoning the bag of the messenger bag, with bright black eyes, she was not cute, but she had a child's unique Vigorous,

"It's not easy to go to school these days, and it costs a lot."

The man tried to relax himself, and the guards guarding the carriage automatically gave up a little space for the man to approach.

"Our state is raising it, and it won't cost a lot of money—" the man shook his head and said, "Send it to school, and eat well."

The official in charge of selecting the children said that the children are free to eat, drink, live and live in the academy, and they also make clothes for free throughout the year.

Huang Song pretended to be surprised, "Is there really such a good thing in the world?"

The man said, "Of course, the girl from the family at the head of our village has been studying for three years."

Huang Song asked a few more questions in detail, and the man also answered enthusiastically, some answers were clear, and some answers were vague.

After all, he was a rural hunter who could not read a single word, so it would be nice if he could simply express what he knew.

Huang Song changed the subject and asked a question that caught people off guard.

"...Hearing what the big brother said, wouldn't someone have a dark heart and deliberately let their own children replace the places in school?"

It is not impossible for this kind of thing to happen. Some parents are very likely to rob relatives of their relatives for their children.

The man was stunned for a moment, and said angrily, "Which black-hearted person would dare to do this?"

Huang Song smiled and said, "Is everything possible? For this problem, the state pastor has no preventive measures?"

Since it is a gift of pension, then these benefits should really be implemented to the orphans of martyrs, otherwise it will be ugly when it comes out.

The man quickly waved his hands and said, "This won't happen, who would dare to do this, not afraid of being haunted by ghosts?"

Huang Song had doubts in his heart, but unfortunately the man in front of him didn't know much, so he couldn't explain his doubts.

He didn't know that Jiang Pengji had never seen people's hearts as good. When formulating these pensions and benefits, she had considered everything that could be considered. Special personnel from the military camp will visit each family regularly. If there are signs of child abuse in the family adopting orphans, not only will the family be severely punished, but the abused children will also be sent to a special place to be raised.

Every child has a record, which is convenient for Jinlin Academy to select children of the right age, and there is no way for outsiders to make fakes.

Although the project was huge, Jiang Pengji felt that these things were necessary.

The sun was rising at noon, and the group finally arrived in Xiangyang County.

As soon as they entered the city, the couple took the old cow to ask the way. When the people saw the clothes worn by the child on the cow's back, they immediately gave directions enthusiastically.

The uncle who was in charge of escorting the farewell said, "Do you want to go home directly?"

There were only three escorts this time, one was Huang Song, the other was Cheng Jing, and the other was Feng Jue, who happened to be packed and shipped to Maruzhou.

The identities of the three are a bit embarrassing, they cannot be regarded as prisoners, but they cannot be regarded as good citizens, and they cannot be given freedom. How to deal with them is a bit troublesome.