After the priest's evangelism team came to Bengang, Li Tianyang couldn't wait to follow this team every day, and even the development work on the Jilong Harbor side was thrown aside by him.

In this way, Chen Yumo complained that Li Tianyang should not offer such a high salary to this group of green-faced fanged Yangyi, and couldn't help but be glad that the two of them could finally live a good life together for a while.

It's just that lately, she's not happy anymore.

Daeyuan Island has a subtropical climate, and as soon as March begins, it is warm and full of signs of spring flowers, which is the right time for farmers to cultivate and sow seeds. But now outside Bengang Town, a large area of land is still vacant there, and there is no sign of groundbreaking; Of the few peasants, most of them were women, and only a few were strong men.

This is all the sequelae of the Bengang offensive and defensive battle more than half a year ago, even if so much time has passed, Chen Yumo and the others have tried their best, but they can't solve the problem.

At the time of last autumn's harvest, a large number of indigenous warriors brought by Li Tianyang helped them, so that they did not delay their farm work. But this year, the indigenous tribes are also learning to open up the land and grow food, and the patriarchs of their tribes have consciously begun to restrain the tribesmen, not allowing them to come to Bengang for no reason.

Today, among the Bengang, the natives who are still in Bengang are no more than three or four thousand people, and most of them are official members of Bengang who have moved to Bengang to settle down and have their own land.

Even if they were on the Yuegang side, Qi San and they had never stopped helping Li Tianyang recruit villagers, but in the Zhangquan area, all the people who could be recruited had already been collected by them, how could there be so many displaced people! Now they can only go up the coast and go to Shandong and other places hundreds of miles away to recruit people, which is why the new population has been coming these days.

However, although these men arrived in Bengang, they did not stay in Bengang City, but were placed in several satellite villages carved out outside Bengang City. They are busy with all kinds of trivial matters, and it is impossible for them to come to Bengang to help.

Therefore, now there is a shortage of manpower in Bengang Town, and there is news of hiring manpower everywhere, but under the premise of the overall lack of labor, who can recruit manpower?

In the end, the villagers, who were about to delay the farming time, naturally reflected this problem to their respective neighborhood committees.

Compared with the government institutions of the Ming Dynasty, the neighborhood committees of the grassroots institutions in Bengang are much closer to the people, but all kinds of trivial matters among the villagers can go to the neighborhood committee and find those members of the neighborhood committee who are either highly respected or full of prestige to solve them. Because of such a quick and convenient solution that is close to the people, there has been no chaos in Bengang, and no one dared to come out to make trouble when the city was about to be broken.

On the side of the neighborhood committee, dealing with trivial matters is naturally easy to grasp, but they can only catch blind such a big thing as lack of labor. There was no way, when it came, they could only react the problem to the upper echelons, and finally fell into the hands of Yumo.

"What's going on, your interest doesn't seem to be high these days!" Clipping a chopstick dish and putting it in the Yumo food box, Li Tianyang looked at the absent-minded Yumo and couldn't help but ask with concern.

"Hmph, I didn't know until I asked people, I don't have any conscience at all!" This woman wants to lose her temper, but it doesn't make sense at all, in the face of Li Tianyang's concerned greetings, this Yumo complained that he didn't ask her earlier!

"......" Li Tianyang was dumbfounded, but he could also detect that there was something wrong in the town that stumped Yumo: "Tell me, what is the problem that stumps our beautiful Yumo with both charm and wisdom?" ”

Since Li Tianyang handed over the matter to Yumo and them, he rarely took the initiative to pay attention to the matter on Bengang's side, and only hoped that through his own letting go, they could make great progress. And Yumo also knows what Li Tianyang thinks, in order to help his little husband share his worries, unless it is really a last resort, or something important, Yumo will not ask Li Tianyang for help.

It is precisely because of the idea that the two of them have such a tacit understanding that Li Tianyang has been away for so long now, and Yumo has not asked Li Tianyang for help. However, Yumo is indeed a capable person, and Bengang has been on the right track, and Bengang has been on the right track for most of the past six months, under the care of Yumo's words, every step of the way has been extremely solid and steady, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, which has made Yumo, a little girl, establish her prestige among the Ming villagers who generally prefer sons over daughters. The ensuing change is that the female schoolchildren in Bengang School no longer ask for leave or drop out of school for one reason or another, which can be regarded as an unexpected gain.

"Okay, then you can give me a way to come out, this is still a mess you provoked, and it should be solved by you!" Yumo glanced at Li Tianyang, and slowly told him about the problems encountered in Bengang.

"How many ploughing cattle do we have in our hands today?" Li Tianyang is also at a loss in the face of this problem, no matter how he has a way to solve the problem of lack of manpower, he can't pull out hundreds of strong men at once, unless he pulls back the soldiers of the Hongtang patrol team.

But the soldiers of Hongtang Bengang No. 1 were also arranged by Wu Shu to take turns to help Qixintang carry out spring ploughing in this busy farming season, which is also a difficult task in itself, where can they transfer manpower again. If you really give up the patrol income of this farmer for a few months, the price will be thousands of taels, and it will make outsiders think that there is something wrong with Bengang, and they will think about other things.

"You wouldn't be trying to move on this batch of ploughing cattle, would you?" Yumo knew Li Tianyang too well, and as soon as he heard Li Tianyang's inquiry, he raised his eyebrows and looked at him horizontally: "These more than 100 ploughing cattle were brought together with great difficulty, and without them, no one would plant this large piece of land in our Bengang." Now all the villagers who live in Bengang, you have allocated the land to others, but no one is willing to rent our land anymore, and we have to work by ourselves! ”

"Oh, what are you talking about, how can I have any bad ideas! I just thought, why don't we organize the cattle and let these people rent them, so that we can solve some of the manpower problems? Li Tianyang smiled, forced himself to hide the idea of being peeked into his mind by Yumo, and hurriedly changed his words: "It's just that our side is going to work hard for the brothers of Hongtang, let them allocate a group of good ploughers to come out and help these people who rent cattle to plow the land." ”

"But in this way, the spring ploughing on our side will be delayed, and the ploughing cattle may be too tired and have problems!" Yumo said worriedly.

"It's better to delay than the villagers who can't plant the land and ask us for relief when the time comes. After all, our family has a big business, and the loss point is nothing, but the villagers can't afford to lose! Li Tianyang sighed.

"Okay, then I'll arrange it!" Yumo responded.

(End of chapter)