Chapter 188 Alliance

Su Qingmei walked around the village for three days and finally got a clear picture of the situation. She also got the personnel files of Baijia Village. She created a file for the population of Baijia Village.

Then she sent people to Renzhou and nearby counties and villages such as Gongxi to collect some grain and various seeds.

She patrolled the village during the day and formulated various rules and regulations at night.

After the people she sent out to deliver letters to the village owners came back one after another, the seeds were also bought back.

She asked the village owner Zhong to arrange for the distribution to each family. Pick some cold-resistant vegetables and plant them.

She also ordered the women in the village to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, collect all the vegetables that can be harvested in the fields, make dried vegetables, and prepare for winter needs.

In previous years, the village had some ways to survive the winter, and each family had their own experience in storing grain. For example, making dried vegetables, bacon, and smoked meat. There is a shortage of food and vegetables in the mountains, but there is no shortage of meat. Meat strips are hung under the eaves of every house.

Su Qing'an felt that there was a bit of surplus.

The children in the village had no food or snacks to eat, and Su Qing'an often saw the children holding meat strips as snacks. They ate dried meat while walking. For the farmers outside who didn't see meat for a month, it was a bit of a luxury.

And the people in the village never thought of exchanging meat for other things.

Su Qing'an had some ideas when she saw it. She planned to take some meat outside to exchange for other food.

As for those houses that were not occupied, Su Qing'an stayed there. For those that could no longer be lived in, Su Qing'an planned to turn them into greenhouses and grow some vegetables.

There were also many caves in the mountains. I wonder if I could carry some soil over and grow vegetables in the caves.

Su Qing'an planned to give it a try.

Uncle Zhong was stunned when he heard her order.

Greenhouse? Growing vegetables in the house? It seemed to make some sense. Just growing vegetables in the caves? Is this feasible?

"We will know if it works after we try it. In previous years, the village had prepared food and vegetables for the winter, but now they have been eaten up by hundreds of bandits. If we don't think of a solution, we will have nothing to eat in the winter."

Zhaizhu Zhong was skeptical. He had never tried it. Is it really possible to grow vegetables in the house or in the cave?

Su Qingmei didn't know if it would work.

She didn't know how cold the winter in the mountains was, and whether the vegetables could survive. But how could we know if it would work without trying it?

So, all the men and women in the village started to move, busier than planting in spring and autumn. It was a lively scene.

The 27 village leaders who came as scheduled were amazed.

After they asked the villagers about the situation, they gathered in front of Su Qingmei.

"That won't do, Madam Su. You can't treat Baijia Village differently just because you live in Baijia Village and ignore our other villages. There's no food in our village either."

"Yes, yes, we are the same."

"Madam Su, when will you come to our village?"

The noise made Su Qing'an's head buzz.

"Don't worry, haven't I invited you all? Since everyone is here, please go to the meeting hall to discuss matters."

So the twenty-eight village leaders gathered in the meeting hall.

Su Qing'an had asked the carpenters in the village to make enough chairs to ensure that everyone could sit down. She sat in the first seat, and Ma Siyuan and Ma Siyuan took notes beside her.

She intended to bring Xiu'er with her and arrange an assistant role, but Xiu'er didn't know many words and couldn't do clerical work. She could only bring her with her and let her learn to do other small jobs first, such as passing messages and listening to instructions.

She needed a right-hand man, an assistant, and clerks. Twenty-eight villages cannot be managed by her alone, she will go crazy.

Su Qing'an had asked these village chiefs to count the population and conduct detailed management of personnel files and cards before.

This time, these village chiefs brought the personnel files of each village.

Su Qing'an flipped through them first, and seeing that they all did a good job, she nodded in approval. She also listened to the village chiefs talk about the personnel and situation of their own villages one by one.

After understanding the population problem, they began to discuss major matters.

Since the twenty-eight villages have been voted under Ma Mingwen, everyone is united, with the same interests, and it is a big alliance, no longer a situation of each doing their own business and being a mess.

Su Qing'an proposed the idea of ​​the alliance, and everyone agreed. So, the twenty-eight village alliance was established today.

Since there is such an organization, there must be corresponding systems and regulations. Today, everyone is called together to discuss this.

Su Qingmei called everyone together this time, firstly to look at the personnel files of each village, and secondly to discuss the formation of this alliance, its rules and regulations, and subsequent development.

"Regarding this alliance, its purpose is to unite the 28 villages, keep the villages safe, and promote the economic development of the villages. Do you agree with this purpose?"

Although everyone was still a little confused for a while, Su Qingmei's words were simple and easy to understand, and everyone understood.

Everyone agreed.

Originally, everyone submitted a letter of surrender to Ma Mingwen for this purpose. It's just that they wanted peace, and Su Qingmei added a promotion of economic development.

She can't do thankless things. And things without benefits can't bring all parties together.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Su Qingmei said again: "In the future, I will be the president of this alliance, and everyone present is a director. In the future, if there are major events in the alliance, everyone will discuss and decide together. It can be implemented if more than half of them pass."

Everyone agreed.

"In addition, the village chief used to have the final say in the village, which I think is not conducive to management. Now the village chief may have to attend meetings in the alliance from time to time to participate in decision-making, so when the village chief is not there, the village cannot be left unattended. So I propose that each village chief promote two more candidates as his deputies. One is to share the work, and the other is to prevent the village from running smoothly when the village chief is not there, so that there will be no one to find when something happens."

This time, everyone did not express their opinions so quickly.

The village chiefs gathered together to discuss.

Some people thought that the president was afraid that they would be the only one in power, so they found someone to divide him. Some thought it was good to have someone share his work.

After all, sometimes they were not in the village, and there were indeed many things that could not be handled. Sometimes they went into the mountains for several days. Sometimes they would go for ten days.

Su Qingmei was not in a hurry and waited quietly.

In the end, everyone agreed to promote two people from the village to work together. After all, it is not to avoid relatives when promoting talents. The president did not say that he could not use his own people.

The village chiefs thought about the candidates in their minds and nodded in agreement.

This matter was settled.

Su Qingmei glanced down and said, "Next time you come to the alliance meeting, bring the list of deputies."

"Yes." The village chiefs agreed one after another.