Zhou Lang was going to go back to Qili Village the next day. He had already signed a contract with the Tang County Magistrate. He needed a lot of wheat. He had to go back early and go to the villages to buy it. Otherwise, they would sell all the wheat seeds or eat them.

Yes, where can he find so many wheat seeds for him?

So he got up from bed early in the morning, put a leg of lamb that he had wrapped last night in the car, wrapped some buns and snacks from the kitchen, and left.

Manbao and the others also got up, and they took it for granted. They waved goodbye to Zhoulang, "Fourth brother, have a safe journey."

Zhou Lang also waved to them.

As soon as Zhou Lang left, Zhou Lijun was free. Man Bao invited her very warmly, "Lijun, come with me to see a doctor outside the city."

Zhou Lijun thought for a while and realized that she had nothing to do today, so she nodded and agreed, "Okay, I'll help my sister-in-law."

Bai Shan and Bai Erlang still have to go to school, and Mr. Zhuang and his aunt and nephew Manbao are heading out of the city together.

When they arrived at the place, Magistrate Tang was already there, directing people to lead the crowds of refugees to line up in front of each medical shed.

Seeing Mr. Zhuang coming, he hurriedly greeted him and saluted, "I was really busy yesterday, Mr. Zhuang. I was supposed to come yesterday, but something delayed me."

Mr. Zhuang said it was okay.

Yesterday, he heard the secretary complain that there was something wrong with the medicinal materials donated by various families. Magistrate Tang became very angry and hurriedly went to deal with it.

Seeing that Magistrate Tang looked good today, the matter must have been settled. Mr. Zhuang also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master Tang, if you have the urge, just give the orders."

"How dare you, how dare you, ask Sir to take charge of the medicinal materials department," County Magistrate Tang said, "Sir, just watch and leave the rest to Director Ding."

He added: "In addition to the gentleman, the county has also invited two highly respected old gentlemen to supervise. Today there are many people coming to see the doctor and get medicine, but there are always some who want to fish in troubled waters. This requires the sharp eyes of these gentlemen.

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Mr. Zhuang expressed his understanding.

After Mr. Zhuang and others were arranged, Magistrate Tang looked at Manbao's aunt and nephew and said with a smile: "You guys came early. I asked someone to select some women among the refugees. Do you want to go and take a look first?"

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Man Bao nodded.

There were not many women queuing up to see a doctor among the refugees, and the only women among them were mostly children and the elderly, with almost no young women and girls.

When County Magistrate Tang came to see him early in the morning, he sent two strong maids to find those women in the queue, pull them all to line up in front of Manbao's medical shed, and then insert all the men in the queue in front of the medical shed.

Go to another team.

He decided that during this free clinic, Manbao would treat all women.

In order not to make people think that she was young and could be bullied, Magistrate Tang also placed two strong maids in front of her medical shed, both of whom were transferred from his family.

Man Bao walked around his medical shed, feeling very satisfied, and then took a look at the long queue in front of the medical shed.

Standing at the front of the team was an old woman with disheveled hair. It was still cold in the morning, maybe she was too cold. She was looking at Man Bao with a pair of cloudy eyes.

Man Bao glanced at her face and hands, turned to the maid and said, "Go get some hot water."

"yes."

Nowadays, the most indispensable thing in this wilderness is people who are waiting for orders. They are all recruited from the refugees, and the reward is three meals a day.

Magistrate Tang didn't know whether they would be used, and looked at the busy and chaotic crowd with some sadness.

Chief Ding couldn't help but said: "Sir, these refugees are not very good at what they do, and they always disobey orders. Some of them just don't understand. Why not recruit some people from the county?"

Magistrate Tang said sadly: "I have no money."

Chief Secretary Ding: "...Sir, didn't the county just collect a tax?"

Magistrate Tang glanced at him and said, "The county has other uses for that money."

He paused and then said: "The governor's office is nearby, do you dare to misappropriate these funds?"

Master Ding responded, bowed and stepped back.

Magistrate Tang sighed.

Yang Heshu taught him this method of using refugees as substitute workers, but there are many more refugees in Yizhou City than in Luojiang County. If one of them is not used properly, trouble will arise.

The other doctors from the free clinic hadn't arrived yet, so Man Bao didn't wait for them. He washed his hands directly, then took out the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and pulse pillow from the basket. Zhou Lijun polished the ink for her, and Man Bao sat in his seat.

He came down, waved to the old woman at the front and said with a smile: "Come up."

The old woman opened her mouth wide. It took a while before she came back to her senses and asked, "Where's the doctor?"

Zhou Lijun said: "My sister-in-law is the doctor."

Not only the old woman, but also the people queuing up to see a doctor behind her looked at Man Bao with suspicion. Even the refugees queuing up in the medical shed next door looked at him with wide eyes, their faces filled with disbelief.

Man Bao coughed lightly and said seriously: "Come up quickly, I'm very pressed for time."

Zhou Lijun immediately said with a straight face: "My sister-in-law is from Jishitang. Even Dr. Ji praised her for being so good. Do you want to see it? If not, please change to the next one. Don't waste your time."

After the aunt and nephew said this, the old woman didn't want to leave. She glanced at the other people standing in front of the medical shed and could no longer see their heads.

She has to be rescheduled, and I'm afraid she won't be able to get her turn for two days.

And the reason why she was able to stand at the front was because she was the first to be found by the two maids, and they saw that she was older, so they ranked her at the front.

The old woman gritted her teeth and stepped forward with her own book.

This is a household registration issued temporarily by the county government to record your identity.

What is a refugee?

They are unregistered people who have given up their household registration and moved around in order not to pay taxes. Once registered, they have to pay taxes and perform labor every year.

There have always been a lot of refugees in Yizhou City. This was originally their hometown, but because of the floods, they fled to other places. After the floods, they came back one after another.

But when they come back, their home is gone and their fields are gone. Even if they go to the government office with their household registration and want to return to their previous fields, they will be told that the fields have long been treated as wasteland.

They will also be registered and required to pay taxes and perform labor service every year.

Without land, it was difficult for them to support themselves, let alone pay taxes and perform labor services.

Therefore, most of the people who have fled back will not go to the yamen to register for naturalization, and will even avoid inspections by Lizheng and the yamen, preferring to be refugees rather than naturalize.

This time, the magistrate of Tang County widely announced that registered refugees would be given two acres of land and exempted from taxes for two years, so they went to register.

This book is temporary and will be replaced with a formal one after they settle down, allocate fields, and confirm their residence. Now this temporary book is for medical treatment.

Every registered refugee has two opportunities to see a doctor within these five days.

After every doctor saw it and confirmed that it could be opened, he signed his name on it, which was regarded as a chance to use it.
Chapter completed!