Chapter 103: Decline

On this night, most of the merchants and people in the prosperous areas of the capital were plagued by the chaos, and their houses were destroyed and people died, and they suffered great losses. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And because of the timely preventive measures taken by the Yu brothers and sons, and the ability to sacrifice their lives to resist the rebellion, coupled with the timely rescue of the Huiyou Dart Bureau, only Dashilar and Jewelry City, the two richest commercial streets in the Qianmen area, miraculously survived the catastrophe safely.

After this battle, the friends of the dart bureau showed their faces in the capital. Not only were the merchants on the two streets grateful and praised the Yu brothers, but even the employers thought that the money they had paid for the protection of the members was not in vain.

These merchants had a lot of money, and soon after the discussion, they beat gongs and drums, and sent two plaques with the words "Yingwu" and "Anmin" and a thousand oceans to the members, claiming that they would increase the honorarium and ask the members to send more dart masters to strengthen the protective force. And they also put forward an additional request, that is, as soon as Yu Ye recovers from his injury, he must ask him to stay in Dashilar, and don't send him to go to darts again.

As for Fourth Master Sun, in addition to his admiration and gratitude to the brothers and sons of the Yu family, he also has a little bad feeling in his heart. Because the brothers and sons of the Yu family have been in the dart bureau for less than a year, and the dart masters in the bureau have eaten up the warmth and coldness of the people just because they are good at fighting the camp and don't know the rules of darts. But when it came to the critical moment, it was the two brothers who came forward to support the situation and stood up for the dart game. Well, now that the dart game has gained in reputation and business, and the merchants on both streets are safe, but Yuwei has put his life into it. What's going on here?

The board has always had a rule on the bereavement allowance for dart masters who have died in the line of duty or become disabled due to injuries. So after Sun Siye buried Yu Wei, in addition to buying more than a dozen acres of land for Yu Wei's widow and only son in the suburbs of Beijing according to the rules, he sent a cart and two livestock. I personally went out of the fifty oceans, and the fifty oceans that I got together with the other dart masters were handed over to the two mothers and sons. And also left a message that if Yu Wei's son Yu Hong grows up and has no livelihood, he can be willing to eat the food of the dart board, even if it is not the material of the dart master, he can also do chores on the counter.

In addition, for the surviving Jade Master, Sun Siye also has special care. On behalf of the dart bureau, he not only bore all the medical expenses, but also gave Yu Ye eighty yuan as a bounty from the additional honorariums from the merchants. At the same time, Yuye's treatment was also raised to the top. Since then, Yuye's monthly silver has been increased to 30 yuan, and he only "sits on the street" and does not "patrol the street". And at the beginning, half of the "human resources shares" of the two of them were not reduced, and the whole share was allocated to Yuye. According to the current business situation of the Huiyou Dart Bureau, Yu Ye can have a small income of 800 per year. This is definitely a high-income person among those who eat on their arms.

At this moment, Yu Ye, who was recuperating at home, was in the pain of losing his brother, but he also had to seriously consider the future of himself and his brother's family.

After staying in Huiyou for so long, Yu Ye is already half a qualified dart master, and he knows very well that the profits of the dart bureau all depend on selling manpower, walking darts, nursing homes, sitting in shops, and sitting at night, which are all a radish and a pit, and people need to do it in a real way. And adding people will increase expenses, so there is no capital contribution in this industry at all, and shareholders who are waiting for year-end dividends will not make much profit like other transactions. From this point of view, it is interesting enough for the dart game to give this number to the two of them. It can be seen that Fourth Master Sun has always looked down on their brothers and sons, and he can be regarded as a good shopkeeper who is solid to people.

Moreover, now that his only brother has passed away, he must not sit idly by for the future livelihood of his widowed sister-in-law and nephew. Although the dart bureau has given a few acres of land, this is only enough for the mother and son to maintain food and clothing. In order to be worthy of his brother and give his nephew a good future, he not only had to teach Yuhong ancestral wrestling skills, but also let Yuhong go to a good school to study.

In addition, he has his own family to support. Not to mention that there are two milk dolls waiting to be fed at home, and his wife has become a medicine jar when she has "postpartum deficiency". Moreover, there was the famine owed by his family when he ate the "hardcore crops", and he had always been upright in his life, but he couldn't do anything that he didn't admit it. And all these things need to be solved by Dayang, so he can't break the entry for a moment at present.

In this way, three months later, Yuye, who had recovered from his body, did not say goodbye and leave as originally planned. But in order to make ends meet, he returned to Dashilar to sit with a knife and sit all night.

However, he was a little relieved that not only did his colleagues become very affectionate towards him, but they really regarded him as their own. Even the shopkeepers and men of the various merchants treated him with respect and courtesy, and regarded him as a hero that everyone on these two streets should look up to and worship.

In particular, the proprietors of two or three well-known businesses are particularly benevolent and righteous, not only instructing the guys not to slack off on Yu Ye on weekdays, and to treat Yu Ye as warmly as possible, but even privately prepared a lot of "heart" and sent Yu Ye and Yu Wei's wives and children to their homes to relieve their livelihood suffering.

All this makes Yu Ye recall the night when he escaped from death, and he has a little satisfaction and relief, although this trace of satisfaction and relief is far from catching up with the sadness and melancholy of losing his brother, but after all, it is much stronger than the days when he was doing nothing all day long and being ignored by others.

Yu Ye felt that he had found the right place to go, so he stayed in peace in Dashilar. And for quite a long time, he did have a good life.

Relying on the monthly salary and dividends of the dart game, it is enough for him to support his wife and children, and provide for his nephew Yuhong to study in the foreign school. When he had nothing to do, he drank with several dart masters who were friends in the dart game, exchanged wrestling skills, and never forgot to continue to improve his wrestling skills. It's just that his comfortable days, as the overall industry of the dart game declines, began to become shaky again.

In fact, the decline of the dart industry is inevitable and has already begun. If we look closely, there are two main decisive factors for its rapid decline.

The first is the development of modern science and technology. Whether it's the ticket number, or the rise of the railroad. As a result, the number of businesses escorting goods by land has plummeted.

The second is that the social situation has become chaotic. After the death of Yuan Shikai, the warlords in various places were divided, and there were many emperors, and the dart carts were "requisitioned" more and more frequently on the way, and in this helplessness, there was only one way to stop running.

Therefore, since the Xinhai Revolution, the business of the dart board has rapidly changed from a prosperous period to a declining period, and gradually the only job left for the dart master is to protect the homes of the wealthy merchants, so the eight major dart bureaus in the capital have been closed one after another. In the end, only one member of the Friends Dart Bureau remained.

The reason why the friends can survive alone is that there are more semicolons and can also contract some business in other cities, and secondly, thanks to the good relationship with the business community in Beijing, they can also rely on Yu Ye and other dart masters to "sit at night" in Dashilar to obtain a relatively large income.

However, the mutiny caused by Zhang Xun's restoration in 1916 was the last glory of the Huiyou Dart Bureau.

Because although the members of the church were once again closed, the pigtailed soldiers were still kept out, and the safety of the merchants on the two streets was once again maintained, and it won unanimous praise from the business community. However, the submission submitted jointly by the Huiyou Dart Bureau and the business community to form a merchant group for armed self-defense was rejected by Wu Bingxiang, the then chief of the Beijing Police, on the grounds that he had violated the rights of the police. This also made the Huiyou Dart Bureau lose its attempt to complete the business transformation with the help of the business community in the capital after losing the two former backers of foreign compradors and feudal bureaucrats.

Since then, the business of the club has deteriorated, and some of its business has gradually been replaced by patrol police, and gradually even their relationship with the business community has become difficult to maintain.

In the end, it was hard to endure until the autumn of 1922, and the largest dart game in the capital, and it was also the longest in the history of the capital.

Since then, the traditional game of darts has completely collapsed, and the group of dart masters no longer exists. And Yu Ye and his colleagues also had to go their separate ways.