The Blessed Beauty Returns with a Dimension-Chapter 964 - 940: Household Registration

Li Tieniu and Jiang Xiaoxiao also discussed, and in the past days, both of them observed these 400 people and found that these 80 families were indeed very well chosen.

Every household consists of diligent, honest, and hardworking people.

Especially in their eagerness and progressiveness at work, there was no holding back, and certainly no laziness.

Clearly, these people are quite envious of the people in the Li Family Village, especially those strong men who they watch train every day.

The workers, tired from their labor, during their breaks would unconsciously run to the outside of their training ground to follow their ways of training, running and jumping, even if they didn’t understand what it was for.

But it could be seen that the strong men from the Li Family Village were different. When they wielded sticks without spearheads in opposing attacks and training, it was evident in their fierce demeanor, more intimidating than the government soldiers.

These refugees are not fools; they naturally understand the importance of erecting this wall.

This village, small as it is, effectively forms a small city.

No matter whether it’s bandits or marauding foreigners, breaking through this wall is quite difficult, much more so than in a village with no defenses at all; living here is certainly much safer.

They also wish to live normal lives.

Of course, Jiang Xiaoxiao and the others also hope these people can stay, after all, it’s about four hundred people.

Though inevitably there are many elderly and children, the able-bodied men among them total more than a hundred. If all of them could be trained, the overall strength of the Li Family Village would undoubtedly increase by more than one level.

Even if there were to be a large group of bandits, they wouldn’t be afraid.

In the past, they wanted to ally with the Lin Family Village precisely because the Lin Family Village had many strong men.

Without the ability for the two villages to strongly join forces, in facing enemy attacks like bandits, it would be hard to avoid being overwhelmed.

After all, there are too few strong men in the village, and too many people to protect.

But now in front of them, these 400 people are clearly manpower.

In ancient times, there was nothing more scarce than people; because of displacement and war, many people had died.

The population drastically decreased, so what was most lacking was people.

Representatives of the eight families found Jiang Xiaoxiao and Li Tieniu, expressing their desire to stay in the village.

Li Tieniu looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao, feeling somewhat helpless, having already become accustomed to taking Mr. Jiang as the core leader; whatever Mr. Jiang said was how it was. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Of course, Mr. Jiang indeed possessed abilities, having a way to earn tens of thousands of taels of Silver in one go was naturally better than himself.

He is a learned man who can read, smart, with high-level martial skills; not learning from such a person or listening to them is foolish, considering how much Mr. Jiang has done for their village.

He was willing to take out his Silver to help villagers build walls to protect the entire village; just for this, they all had to listen to Mr. Jiang.

Never mind that Mr. Jiang is a girl, she is stronger than all the men in the village combined.

Li Tieniu may not be very intelligent, but he was certain of one thing: whatever Mr. Jiang said was worth listening to, and he always followed it without error.

The eight families understood immediately that Mr. Jiang was the decision-maker here.

Jiang Xiaoxiao surely agreed, but made sure to speak plainly upfront.

"We understand your desire to stay, but if you wish to stay, you must realize our Li Family Village is small, with limited land; the village’s land isn’t enough to support this many people.

If you wish to stay, you’ll need to venture into the hills to open up new lands. Certainly, there’s plenty of wasteland nearby. If you plan to stay long-term, then we can all become like one family, sharing both fortune and difficulty together.

Our village naturally has its own ways to become prosperous; in the future, we’ll widen the walls to enclose those farmlands within, making it so bandits or foreigners won’t dare trouble us again.

In recent days, you must have noticed the village’s strong men have fighting capabilities; let me tell you, the strong men of our village secretly sell untaxed salt. These men are trained and have seen blood.

Our best moment was when we faced 200 bandits. 50 men against over 200 bandits, nearly a ratio of one against four, still they defeated them. I’m not saying this to intimidate you, but hoping you’ll consider carefully.

Coming here means accepting a fresh start from zero. More importantly, everyone unites as one, tightly moving forward, and following orders."

The eight people nodded, understanding clearly that this was in their best interest; the only requirement was to follow orders.

Where could they escape from following others’ orders?

In the village, orders came from the village elders; outside the village, they followed orders from officials and even, on the road, needed to heed the orders of bandits.

Since that’s so, as long as they have food to eat, can lead a good life, keep their families alive, whose orders they follow doesn’t matter.

"Mr. Jiang, we will listen to you from now on. Whatever you say, we’ll do. We’re not afraid; as long as we can fill our bellies, whatever work in this world needs doing, we’ll do it."

The leader, Li Dahu, quickly responded. When life was toughest on the road, he considered becoming a bandit.

But truly, his parents had fallen into the hands of bandits, otherwise he would have become one.

He couldn’t just watch his family starve to death, but now there’s no need to become a bandit, just follow orders.

Work hard!

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded; this made things easier.

Li Tieniu immediately took the people with him, heading to the government office to arrange household registration.

After all, with so many refugees arriving at the Li Family Village, they naturally needed to assist the government in setting up the household registration.

The Government Official, upon hearing of this, considered it a good thing; if 400 refugees were in the prefectural city, it could have caused unrest. Since they wish to be settled in surrounding villages and these villages are willing to accept them, it was cause for rejoice, and they wouldn’t block it, helping with the procedures promptly.

After all, they weren’t providing their own grain.

The 80 families didn’t even need to relocate; whoever’s house they stayed in before, they still stayed in now.

Those homes had been vacant for long enough, now they considered them their homes.

Suddenly having a home brought peace of mind.

Everyone couldn’t help but feel joyful.

Furthermore, Li Tieniu announced the drafting of the 80 families’ able-bodied men into the Li Family Village’s training team of 18 men.

They were divided into three squads, each with about 50 people.

Each squad had a squad leader, of course, selected by the village’s strong men, known as the class leader.

The Li Family Village had a bountiful harvest this autumn.