Chapter 15 The Poor Depend on Profit
Of course, there are also people in the Yang family who feel some ominousness. The second son of the Yang family said bluntly: "The world is bustling, all for profit, all for profit." Why would they be so careless about money? Are you willing to pay a hundred dollars a day to hire someone just to listen to your own mission? I suspect they have a bad idea: if they have enough followers here, they might turn against us. Even if it's not: they have taken away too many tenants, where will there be people in the future... When he said this, the second child of the Yang family also seemed to feel that something was wrong.
"Alas, today, there is no idle land in the four seas. Three-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged living people are. And I look at the situation of individual people in neighboring villages: there are fewer people in this kind of land, and it is not necessarily all bad, just like the old Li family in Lincun: like the military field, the rent that can be received that year is more than twice as high as our current private land... ”
"Yes, a hundred taels a day, six taels of silver per person in a month, and twenty taels in a few months. In a place like ours, can a generation from a poor man hang out twenty taels of silver? Whether it's a good thing or not, let's collect the money first... ”
Because Zhang Lixin and others gave the "deposit" first, it seemed to be very frank, and many people in Yang's family were moved.
Of course, the head of the Yang family was still a little cautious in the end: "I told them: there are still some rules: I can't let my Yang family's relatives join the church: I can't let more than 30% of the people in the whole village join the church." You can't use these people to do things that are roosters and dogs, thieves, or things that violate the laws and regulations of the imperial court. Although the money is good, the safety of my Yang family still comes first... ”
Many people were either relieved or shook their heads when they heard this. But what most people didn't expect was that the "giants" who came here actually agreed to this condition...
On the first day of Zhang Lixin's temporary establishment of the "Yishe Lecture Hall" in Shengxian Village, he used silver money to open the way, although some of Zhang Lixin's subordinates went door-to-door to spread the word in the local dialect. There weren't many people in the entire Sage Village who came on time at night.
"If you go to the Farm Shrine at night, and sit under the makeshift shed under the big tree outside the village and listen to people's chatter for two hours, you will have a reward of 20 yuan that you can get at the moment? Where is that good thing ... ”
"Yes, I heard that there was a lot of trouble in Shandong a few years ago. Many parishioners have been expelled from the village! ”
"If that were the case, it would be fine! I'm afraid that I'm afraid of running into traffickers who kidnap men, and I will be arrested and sent to the mine to do hard labor... ”
On the first night when Zhang Lixin established the "Farm Cooperatives Righteous Hall" outside the village, although a bonfire was lit, many people were secretly talking in the distance.
The only thing that makes Zhang Lixin somewhat relieved is that there is a "second-rate son" who is very bold, and there is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old wild child whose father is dead and his mother often can't control it. As for the others? Born in the mundane world of the late dynasty, at least not too far from the plains of Baoding Mansion, no one from ordinary good families believed in anything like "pie in the sky".
"No one else dares to come, why are you here? Dare to be your surname? What is the name" Zhang Lixin led this team from the Weiyuan Camp back then, and after some exercise, his ability to speak and preach in private occasions was somewhat exercised, so he did not put on a score for poor people, and asked with an approachable smile.
"My name is Zheng Sanfazi, what am I afraid of? One person is fed, and the whole family is not hungry! If I have twenty yuan, at least I don't have to look at the faces of those people for a few days, and if I come every day in the future, then I will send it? Hearing someone use the title of "dare to ask your surname", which is only used to greet rich and noble families, Zheng Sanfa felt a little nostalgic in his heart.
"Then, why don't you give the big families a long job?" Zhang Lixin feels that there is a door: at least this so-called "second-rate son in the village" has some simple atmosphere, and is not a slippery, cunning or fierce person.
"This... It's impossible to work part-time... Zheng San's mouth and mind are not very bright, but he feels that it is absolutely impossible for people like him to endure the long work in those big families in the village, but if you want to say why you don't work, it really can't be said, others gossip behind your back all day long, it seems that it is indeed because people like themselves are naturally lazy.
"Just fill Brother Zheng's words! Han'er is not a slave, and the twenty yuan will be given to his brother to buy wine first! Zhang Lixin didn't say much, and took out the twenty yuan as soon as possible. Zhang Lixin, who has had some empathy in the lower strata of this era, certainly understands that people who endure poverty all the year round are often troubled by some immediate difficulties for a long time because of anxiety and attention, and their mentality and thoughts are difficult for some people who have not experienced poverty to understand. If you don't give money, don't give benefits, and directly serve all kinds of chicken soup that 'struggle is promising' and 'God rewards hard work', you can only fool some people who have been used to living in the ivory tower of worry-free food and clothing since childhood.
In fact, Zheng Sanfa really worked as a part-time worker. In Zheng Sanfa's impression, if you want to earn money from others, it is really difficult to eat, such as Zhang Lixin is not much nonsense, he directly gives benefits, and he is more respectful of people and is not like a person who is simply giving alms, and his heart is suddenly somewhat grateful.
"This big brother, this me... Zheng Sanfa was a little embarrassed.
As Guiguzi said back then: If a person is not at ease with all the money when he is poor, and he also has some basic reasonable mentality, then even if such a person will not come out in the future, he is also a person who can be used or trusted, so Zhang Lixin is somewhat secretly happy.
"Some people in this world always say that some people who are unwilling to be angry and unwilling to be honest cows and horses are idle lazy people. In fact, you people who don't like to work for others are the most respectable people in the world. If there is such a thing in the world, there is no need to intrigue to live without being insulted or derogated or looked at differently. There are three days off in ten days, and there are only three hours of work a day when there is no rest. Even if the income is only marginal enough to make ends meet, like a medium-sized peasant with an average of five acres of land who does not pay rent and has no other exploitation, how many ordinary people will avoid this kind of labor, except for a few people who are too stubborn? Zhang Lixin actually had a lesson and a detour in Weiyuan Camp at the beginning, so he knew that among the poor people in this world, the least they heard was flattery with a little truth, even if these remarks were reasonable, they may not be comprehensive.
"Is there such a good thing in the world? No rent, no taxes, and no other burdens? Zheng Sanfa smiled a little curiously, but he also laughed for a moment. The wild child in the village next to him reminded: "There are really such people, so isn't Yang Erniang's family?" ”
Who is Yang Erniang, Zheng Sanfa still knows, it is a good friend of the young master of the Yang family, and he is still involved in the county government, so he does not have to pay taxes, not to mention that no one else dares to mess with his own land. Although he was not very rich, that kind of life was definitely the envy of many people in the village.
"But... How do people like me compare with Yang Erniang's family? Zheng San sighed
At this time, Zhang Lixin said solemnly: "I believe that there will be one day in this world. Each peasant household has his own land, and each person is given an appropriate amount of land without food, and no grain is paid to each of them, whether it is to large households or to the government. Grain is bought and sold freely and affordably. No one can force the people to work unless he wills... ”
At this time, outside the shed outside the village, there was a young scholar who was secretly listening and sneered a few times, at this time he seemed to see the purpose of Zhang Lixin and others, and at this time stood in the place where the bonfire fire could shine, and said openly: "Juntian is free of grain, if the peasants do not pay grain and do not pay taxes, do not say anything else: where will the money for the construction of the river embankment come from?" What do the soldiers at the border eat and drink? You, the demon, also encourage the peasants to stop working like the famous lazy man in the village. If this is the case, do you know how much the harvest in a year will be reduced if the crops are not carefully fertilized and intensively cultivated? ”
At this time, Zhang Lixin was secretly happy in his heart: he walked around with me, a number of famous masters on the Internet in his previous life, or could he only discuss this kind of issue with his people left and right? Then you're lucky.,You're going to be educated by the widow.。。。