Chapter 1300: Moving to a New Home

Although it is said that the current employment situation in Huaxia City is not at all easy and every trade is short of people, what is lacking is high-quality talent, not just any random ordinary person.

Even though comprehensive education has been launched in two cities and several towns, there are really not many who can persist until graduation; the proportion is still very low.

The fact that few people can attend Advanced School means there is little high-quality talent; most people can only go farm or be an ordinary Worker, and if you want to be a Carpenter apprentice, you also have to see if you have that talent.

But in the middle of this, there are many young people mixed in who are neither here nor there; if you let them move up, their level is insufficient, but if they go farm, the expenditure spent on cultivating them is wasted.

If there are some places that just happen to need this intermediate level of theirs to provide them with employment and let them make the best use of their abilities, that is also good enough.

That Nursing Home is very suitable; Huaxia must respect parents and practice Filial Mourning toward parents, as this is a need for governing the country and society, and the elderly who have lost their ability to labor cannot be abandoned.

Since them taking care of the elderly would affect work, then Huaxia City will build a Nursing Home to help you raise them, provided you supply the grain.

There is also the Orphanage; currently, orphans in Huaxia are relatively few, and even if you collect them from all over Huaxia, you could only fill one Orphanage. These children are relatively independent, and generally, neighbors or other relatives take them in to raise them, and they can receive the property of the orphan's family.

There are no abandoned orphans; the whole of Huaxia is only so big, and when any family is about to give birth, they must quickly contact a midwife for the delivery, and then Public Security registers it.

Everyone will not abandon a child just because it is a girl; boys and girls are raised the same, and daring to abandon a child is a grave crime.

But because of some uncontrollable factors, such as beasts, or diseases, or accidents, it will lead to the creation of orphans or single-parent families.

If it is the woman who dies, it is not much of a problem, because it is normal for a man to have several wives, and even if one dies, he can remarry; the man will normally raise his own children.

But if the man dies, the child is a trouble; it is difficult for the woman to raise her child to adulthood, and she would rather find a new man to live with.

The previous way of handling such matters was to divide the man's land and property; the woman must take the child with her, and after finding a new man, you can obtain the property the woman brought, but you must also shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the child.

However, "taking care" is too general, and it is hard to stipulate what counts as taking care of a child; education, fatherly love, and such are all nonsense. They might not even be able to do that for their own children, let alone someone else's child; as long as they can let the child eat their fill and stay warm, that is enough, without asking for anything more.

Therefore, priority is generally given to the man's brothers, as this can better take care of them, at least with a bit of kinship to maintain it.

Welfare institutions like the Orphanage are something Huaxia must establish, but it cannot be said to be placed under any government department right now; it is best to list it separately and manage it separately.

And such an institution must naturally have people to manage it, and those Landlords with grain are naturally Baifeng's first choice.

They have grain and need social status, and social status is given by Baifeng; selling it directly to them seems not quite appropriate, so letting them invest wealth in medical care, education, and such welfare institutions can result in everyone being happy.

This time, the Slaves brought over from the Suiren tribe were given to Changle, but this means they were given to Baifeng; they are all one family, after all. After training and selection, Baifeng will definitely sell all those Slaves, and the Landlords will also be able to get some Slaves this time, though the price will definitely be very high.

Liuye and the others arrived at the new home and left the Slaves outside; the Slaves were extremely shocked to see such a vast and wealthy courtyard. Although they already had a clear understanding of their future and knew they definitely would not have a good life, being a Slave in such a place was still better than being a Slave at the Suiren tribe; after all, they did not have to worry about being snatched away by beasts at night.

Chengqie was on leave today and was discussing with people from the Ministry of Works what else would be good to add to his home; his siblings all had their own rooms and were each incredibly happy.

Baoxi's courtyard was huge; there were ten toilets alone, though several were in a row, meaning there was only one house that could shelter from wind and rain, and inside were squatting pits, row upon row, without even a partition, and everyone was sitting next to each other in a sweet "double platoon" formation.

However, no one cared, because in the wild, they still had to squat back-to-back to watch for beasts, or just solve it right next to the crowd, without considering so much. Now that there was a place that would not freeze their buttocks in Winter, why bother with so much? Shy? No one would be shy; it was just that they had built separate toilets for men and women to distinguish them.

Furthermore, there was a distinction for those used by Slaves and those used by outsiders; the ones used by the master's family could not be entered by others.

There were also two toilets that were separate, specifically for Baoxi and Chengqie to use; as the master and the future heir, they naturally had to have privileges.

Moreover, Chengqie also had a small courtyard in this large compound, which was relatively quiet and had privacy.

The courtyards in Huaxia now are not like before, where it was just a row of houses in one courtyard; that is all history. Now they are all two-tier or three-tier courtyards, one inside another.

Although most just added a wall, the privacy was greatly increased, and the places where servants and masters lived could be separated.

In Baoxi's home, there was also a small courtyard, which was the place for Liuye and these guards to live; although it was not big, it was enough for them to live in. One room per person was no problem, and even bringing a woman was no problem; they no longer had to squeeze into a large communal bunk.

Although Huaxia's houses are better, more spacious, safer, and warmer, for leaders like Liuye, there was one bad point: the space belonging to them was too small, and a group of men living together was inconvenient and uncomfortable. Now that they had moved to a new home, these troubles were solved.

There were also two suite courtyards, slightly larger, for Baoxi's son and daughter to live in; although no special division was made, the Ministry of Works had roughly explained how to arrange the living quarters when handing over to Chengqie, and now it completely depended on Chengqie.