"Developing dependency?"

"Self-sufficient?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately frowned, not understanding the meaning of Liu Jin's words.

"Yes, people are dependent, and once they develop a dependence, they will lose their ability to be independent and independent."

"In terms of disaster relief, if someone gives them food every day so that they can sustain themselves, they will naturally not find a way to do things, find a way to help themselves, and will only wait for you to distribute food to them every day."

"Once such a habit is formed, these disaster victims will have nothing to do, and even cause trouble, and it is not a waste of manpower to put so much labor into good use?"

There was no way, Liu Jin also explained to Zhu Houzhao again the method of work-for-relief, and also let him understand this novel disaster relief method.

"You mean we're going to expand our recruitment and bring in all these victims?"

"But in that case, we simply won't have enough food, and now the price of food is rising too fast, and it's hard to buy food if you have money."

After listening to the explanation of cash-for-work, Zhu Houzhao immediately understood the core of cash-for-work, and said after thinking about it.

"No, we don't need more manpower anymore, and if we recruit any more, we will really not have enough food, unless five other ships come back from North Korea with food."

Liu Jin shook his head and said: "Our regular employees are all full of three meals a day, and we don't dare to be so extravagant when we are in disaster relief, this food is too expensive now." ”

"We can set up several big projects, such as building a road from Tianjin to Beijing, and then building Tianjin Port, etc., and we will recruit these victims on a large scale, and we can give them ten yuan a day's wages for these victims, or a little more."

"We keep the ten cents in the account, and we don't send them money directly, and then, they can use the ten cents to buy our sea fish, and our sea fish are sold for a penny and a catty, so that as long as there is a young strong force to do things for us, if we can buy ten catties of fish and meat a day, it is almost enough to feed a family."

"Of course, now is a special period, just eating fish and meat is definitely not enough, and when the other five ships come back from North Korea and bring back more grain, we can also put rice in it, and this rice will also cost a penny a pound, and then limit the purchase."

"In this way, we can not only achieve the purpose of disaster relief, but also develop a good habit of self-reliance for the victims, and more importantly, we can also build large projects."

Liu Jin slowly told his plan, in fact, Zhu Houzhao didn't come to Liu Jin, Liu Jin had already taken a fancy to more and more victims in Tianjin, these are the cheapest laborers, as long as they are stuttering, they are willing to give you the labor force that works hard.

If it weren't for the famine, where would Liu Jin find such cheap labor?

The construction of Tianjin Port, the construction of the Maritime College, the construction of the cement factory, and the cement road between Tianjin and Beijing that Liu Jin wanted to build, etc., without cheap and huge labor, these projects can only be completed in the Year of the Monkey.

"You can also eat the fish caught in the sea, otherwise you can't eat all the fish caught at one time, and these fish will rot if you put them for another day."

Zhu Houzhao's small eyes flashed at this time, and while listening, he nodded while the chicken ate rice, and after listening to Liu Jin's words, he also added.

"Haha, that's one too."

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately nodded with a smile and said.

There are too many fish caught here, in this era of long-term sea ban, the fish resources in the ocean are simply to the point of flooding, and a few boats casually go to the Bohai Sea to catch more than 100,000 catties of fish.

If there were a few fishing boats dedicated to fishing, there would be even more fish, and then you would really have to worry about the endless fish.

After discussing the details with Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin also asked people to start preparing, recruiting tens of thousands of people at one time, involving a lot of things, but fortunately, Liu Jin brought enough stewards from Xishan, and during this period of time, Tianjin has also cultivated a group of newcomers, and they have all been able to use them, and this matter will be arranged one by one.

Tianjin City.

With the passage of time, because the weather was too cold last winter, coupled with the heavy snowfall, the cold was extremely cold, so the winter wheat harvest in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces was not harvested or failed.

The further north you go, the more serious the disaster becomes, and the areas to the north such as Tianjin, Beijing, and Yongping Mansion in the north are the most serious, and they are basically all out of harvest.

The winter wheat harvest was out of order, the food supply was not available, and the maliciously hoarding of grain and driving up the price of grain led to the spread of famine, and as the edible grain was slowly eaten up, the famine began to break out on a large scale.

Tianjin City is also an important town in the north, because it is the gateway to the capital and the transit point of Caoyun, so the number of displaced people gathered in Tianjin is extremely large, second only to the gathering in the capital.

At this time, there were nearly 50,000 famines gathered outside the city of Tianjin, and these hungry people were better than the displaced people last winter, at least now that the weather has warmed up, there is no need to worry about the problem of freezing.

And many of the victims actually have some family background, just because there is no food, there is still a little copper plate in their hands, but this food is too expensive, and they are reluctant to take the copper plate in their hands to buy food.

The hunger has been spreading, so much so that all the trees outside Tianjin City have been stripped of their bark, and the young grass that has just grown has been eaten up.

Tens of thousands of victims around Tianjin City formed a large and small gathering point, these gathering points are formed by the same township, the same village and the like, the victims of the disaster are lying weakly, looking forward to the government side can open a warehouse to release grain, after all, it has been the case in the past, the famine has occurred, the government will definitely provide disaster relief, which is why everyone will gather here.

Although the victims outside are starving to death, there are a lot of grain in the city of Tianjin, and there is a lot of grain in the granary of the government, and there is a lot of grain in the hands of the grain merchants.

"Bell~Bell~"

"Tianjin Port has recruited people to work, Tianjin Port has recruited people to work!"

In the gathering areas of the disaster victims, a group of people came to the disaster victims with gongs and drums, and said loudly while knocking.

"Tianjin Port is recruiting?"

"I heard that where do they have three meals a day!"

As soon as they heard that Tianjin Port was recruiting, the victims were excited, and they all came to their senses one by one, and they surrounded them in an instant.

"Ladies and gentlemen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is sympathetic to the people's feelings and is preparing to build Tianjin Port, which requires a large number of people, and has come to recruit workers, with no limit on the number of people, men and women, as long as it is a labor force, they can come to work."

"Isn't it like the people in the shipyard, three meals a day?"

Hearing this, someone hurriedly asked anxiously.

"Of course not, that's the treatment only available to regular workers, you are considered temporary workers this time, but as long as you work hard and perform well, you can be transferred to a regular job later."

"What about the treatment of temporary workers?"

"Temporary workers can have ten pounds a day of work, but one dollar can buy a pound of sea fish, and one pound of sea fish and meat can be bought a day of work!"

Originally, when everyone heard that it was only ten yuan a day, they were immediately deflated, but when they heard the second half of the sentence, this money can buy a pound of sea fish, and when they can buy ten pounds of sea fish and meat a day, these victims suddenly opened their eyes one by one, and sea fish meat is also meat, as long as it can fill their stomachs.

Suddenly, the whole scene began to become popular, and they all rushed to be the first, for fear that they would not be able to recruit them.