Section 496 Elephant of Troubled Times
Qian Shouyi has the best face in his life, so the family inconveniently became the first member of Cangzhao to benefit, and the family was tired and painful in the oppression of the government and the torture of ruthless social reality, but he had a good vision and chose the right apprentice and son-in-law. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The two sons-in-law, one surnamed Zhang, had a violent temper, and was mainly responsible for slaughtering and making meat in the hotel. A surname Sun, who is more refined and sleek than Zhang Tu, is in charge of other cuisines and usually comes forward as a shopkeeper to deal with things, and people are used to calling him Sun Cabinet, that is, the one who makes the kitchen knife.
Both of them are orphans in the village around the hotel, and it was Qian Shouyi, who had no son, who adopted them and became apprentices, passing on all his cooking skills to his daughter and son-in-law.
The two sons-in-law are good offspring, strong physique but ingenious, inherited and carried forward Qian Shouyi's cooking skills, especially good character, love his wife, filial piety to his adoptive parents is also his parents-in-law, and the brother-in-law does not fight for property, does not fight for who does how much, each shows his strengths, cooperates tacitly, and shares the outside world side by side, after the death of his father-in-law, the two work together to make the hotel better and strive to realize the old man's wishes as soon as possible.
Live a worry-free life, have goals in mind and see them achievable, and live a life that is extraordinarily solid every day.
But just like the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi, the dreams of the little people are often ridiculous in the last days, and they often become pathetic when they are stirred up by the darkness and cruelty, which most intuitively and coldly reflects that the little people are lucky to survive smoothly. Dreams, that's what only rulers can have.
Just when the two sweet little couples were working hard together, disaster suddenly struck.
A new county magistrate came to this county, and the idle county magistrate fell in love with this country hotel outside the county where business was becoming more and more prosperous. With this kid's identity level and strength, he can also dominate the small business that is not big in the grass, but he has brought the rampantness, greed and power of the yamen into full play.
He greeted people: Ben Gongzi has taken a fancy to your little hotel. Blessed are you lowly grass people who can get their hands on this son. Bid 1,000 taels to take a stake in the hotel, accounting for ninety percent of the shares. The restaurant is still managed by the two of you, but the money and accounts are handled by my people.
How much is the small business prosperity hotel on the roadside in the county and urban areas worth, and there is no asset appraisal this year, so I can't say. But this Yanei's intention sounded good, although he wanted to forcibly enter the master, but at least it was not a trick.
Sun Cabinet and Zhang Tu are naturally unwilling. We are our own bosses, and we are happy to do a good job, so why should we lower our status and listen to you?
What made them even more resentful was that soon the Yanai came with the county capital to catch the master and help the idle in person, and he had to let him not let the shares, the so-called capital contribution of 1,000 taels, but only ten taels of silver, and the other 990 taels were converted into silver by the protection provided by the Yanai to the hotel, soliciting, tax convenience, etc., which was said to be a shareholding with intangible assets in later generations, showing the ingenuity and arrogance of relying on public power.
And that's not all.
The nostrils of the county prince Yanei are fierce, arrogant, and frivolous towards you, the naked contempt and gift eyes that regard you as grass and mud, and the momentum of breaking the law but being justified, then I am smiling helplessly and proudly at the power to take away your hotel......
This kind of bullying is unbearable if you are a bloody person.
The grumpy Zhang Tu was furious when he heard this, and suddenly exploded, and in a fit of anger, he carried a pig-killing knife and chopping bones, and left the slaughterhouse in the courtyard into the hotel lobby to pretend to be thirsty and look for water to drink, but he slaughtered the county magistrate who was wantonly pressuring and forcing Sun Cabinet with his arrogant chin on his back to come forward to negotiate with him, and slaughtered him like a pig.
Zhang Tu broke into a catastrophe. This restaurant can't do it. Livelihoods are broken.
But it is worthy of being a good brother who grew up together, Sun Cabinet didn't care about complaining about his brother, and when he saw that Nadu Tou and a few catchers were stunned, he angrily pulled out his knife and pounced on Zhang Tu, and immediately picked up the chair and slammed his head into a fierce blow and slapped Nadu's head to the ground and put it on the ground.
There was no guy at hand, and Sun Cabinet was not easy to deal with, and the knife also pounced on him.
At this time, the scene of life and death together as a husband and wife appeared.
The Qian sisters, who were hiding in the kitchen and were busy working while caring about the negotiation and eavesdropping, heard the shock, did not hesitate, and both rushed out, one stabbed the two with a pair of sharp knives from behind, and handed over the extra-large kitchen knife that Sun Cabinet was accustomed to practicing martial arts and skills.
Sun Cabinet got the guy who took advantage of it, showing the heroism of the chef and the divine power of the combination of knife skills, and fought side by side with his brothers.
The two families of four are cooks, and they are used to killing pigs and sheep, and they have experienced bloodshed, and at this moment, no one dares to kill people because of anger, hatred and the situation. Sun Cabinet and Zhang Tu's kitchen knives and bone chopping knives are playing well. The Qian sisters' sharp knives are also murderous.
The seven or eight guys and relatives who have been with each other for a long time were also unambiguous at the critical moment, blocking the way and copying the guys one after another to help the war......
In a moment, the county commander brought the son to cheer for the quick gang to kill the idle, and none of them had a chance to escape and call the police.
Taking advantage of the opportunity that outsiders were not allowed to be present and there were no guests in the store, they quickly looted the corpse's property, packed up the important soft goods, changed their bloody clothes, collected the weapons to catch the fast, and decisively abandoned the Xinglong Hotel, which had been operating for many years, locked the door of the store to prevent outsiders from easily discovering the bloody case very early, and planted things on the mule cart that usually pulls wine and vegetables and collects pigs, and quickly fled the scene quietly and quickly to the aunt's and relative's house in the mountain village.
Uncle is the middle-aged man in front of Zhao Yue, named Shi Gu Gong, is a mountain village blacksmith, has an only son Shi Yingde with this industry, because of his skill, known as the master craftsman Shi father and son, very famous, in Beijing Daimyo's Mansion is also well known, good at making sophisticated weapons, but also good at making chain armor, today and Zhao Yue a battle, several people used weapons and armor is Shi Gu Gong father and son carefully made.
Shi Gugong's wife is the sister of the Qian sisters' mother. Although the two sides are not in the same industry, they have a very good relationship, Qian Shouyi's two sisters and brother-in-law have also passed away, and the two children are working in the Shi family and the hotel respectively.
Sun Cabinet and Zhang slaughtered people, although they were not panicked, but they had no idea where to go in the future, so they naturally took refuge in the elder Shi Gugong in a hurry, and Shi Gugong took the idea.
I don't want to, when they didn't rush to the mountain village, they met Shi Gugong halfway, and it was a big escape from the village.
It turned out that the mountain village where the historian was located was a famous blacksmith village. Due to the extraordinary quality iron ore in the mountains around the mountain village, and the high-quality small coal mine nearby, with this natural convenience, the blacksmith industry has developed and has become the main industry and economic pillar of the mountain village.
In the period when Emperor Zhao Ji was still relatively clear, the life of a blacksmith in a mountain village had no advantage over ordinary people, nothing more than ordinary iron tools such as hoes and kitchen knives, and durable goods, so he didn't live much, how much money could he make? No matter how clever the craftsmanship is, it is useless.
At that time, Shi Gu's family was also having a hard time, and he had no money to help Qian Shouyi, the brother-in-law who loved face and started a business independently as a shopkeeper, so he could only contribute.
However, as the rule of the Northern Song Dynasty became increasingly corrupt and the society became increasingly unstable, the government's control over civilian weapons gradually spiraled out of control. The weapons barracks gradually became an empty phrase. It is inevitable that civilian weapons will be rampant. The era of the prosperity of the blacksmith trade in the mountain village has quietly arrived.
The trend of the times has a huge impact on the lives of small people. Shi Gugong has superb craftsmanship, and he has benefited from the benefits of the times, and naturally benefits the most.
In the past ten years, many Jianghu guests and other people who play with knives to eat or need self-defense have come to Shi Gugong to make weapons that are satisfactory.
Shi Gugong is a proud person, he will come to things, the product quality is excellent to satisfy customers, not to mention, and he does not care about wages. You are a big man, bullish, generous, he thanks, and he laughs politely. You are desperate and have a tight hand, and he will take the weapon at your expense.
When parting, Shi Gugong and his son will always say to the customer: You can say hello again if you have something. Xiao Ke must do his best.
This kind of bold style not only allowed the Shi family to avoid being murdered by the robber customers, but also won friendship and reputation, and therefore, his father and son, as well as Zhang Tusun cabinet and other relatives also learned from the guests who were embarrassed to take advantage of the Shi family and compensated them with martial arts.
Of course, this is not a systematic practice of martial arts, learning is miscellaneous, and the guests will not teach the self-defense tricks, and their martial arts are also disorganized, because they see that this world is not good and seems to be chaotic.
The increasing prosperity of the arms trade and the convenience of making weapons in the mountain village not only made the whole village change to blacksmithing as the main business under the leadership of Shi Jiagongzi, and practiced the craftsmanship, forming an industrial scale, condensing the morale and hope of the people, but also attracting blacksmiths from other places to join in the news.
For these outsiders who come to compete for business, the people of this village have no knowledge, no foresight, and only focus on immediate profits, so they are naturally extremely repulsed.
The two sides form contradictions, sometimes fight, brewing danger, once the contradiction intensifies, I am afraid that it will be a bloody fight.
But at this time, Qian Shouyi, who loves face the most, summed up his experience from the hotel's small business experience with his own family. He knew that with his humble identity and strength, it was impossible to make the hotel industry bigger and stronger in this dim world. The shopkeeper has been stared at by those dirty officials, trying to extort and take cards. It's really big, and it's become a big fat meat, I'm afraid that it will fall into the eyes of corrupt officials, how can there be a good one?
It's best to do it so small but thriving.
The hotel can't make a big deal. But the brother-in-law's career is not something that anyone can do by force, and it may not be impossible.
Qian Shouyi was limited to the times, and he couldn't think of these things as chain stores, but he pointed out an idea to Shi Gugong: to accept and treat foreign blacksmiths well, to unify the newcomers to the village, to expand the number of employees, and to communicate with each other, learn from each other, further improve the manufacturing technology and manufacturing strength of the mountain village, create a reputation, and naturally further prosper this business. In this world, there is no need to worry about the lack of customers who want weapons, and I am afraid that you will not have the strength to eat more and more large orders. It can also enhance the village's self-protection strength.
As soon as Shi Gugong heard it, he got the inspiration and thought it was true, so he did it, and followed Qian Shouyi's suggestion to integrate the whole village's manufacturing, and show their abilities. Live small can not be divided. If it's okay, you can also make iron and prepare raw materials first, so you don't have to worry about making money.
As a result, after more than ten years of development, the poor mountain village that was short of land and oil and water in the past has gradually grown to five or six hundred households today. Business is also booming. The villagers have money, and the ties of interest are also extraordinarily united, and they face the exploitation of corrupt officials together.
But in the era of non-democracy and legal system, the people became rich, and they were fat sheep to be slaughtered in the eyes of the government. No, no matter, that's not the time.
For grass people, people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. What's more, it is still illegal to buy and sell.
The mountain village iron industry is so large-scale and so powerful, and it is known by the Daimyo Mansion Liang Zhongshu.
This guy immediately became greedy, and after his wife, Cai Jing's daughter, he pulled out a vicious idea.
Somehow, the number of skilled craftsmen in the Tokyo official workshop is decreasing day by day, and when the imperial court finds that the manufacturing capacity and process level of the official workshop are extremely unbearable, the yield rate is low, the output is low, and the quality is getting worse and worse, and the conventional weapons and armor alone are increasingly unable to meet the equipment requirements of the army. Strictly investigate this matter, but after a long time, the management personnel have changed, the management is negligent and chaotic, and it is no longer clear when and why those skilled craftsmen and potential craftsmen are missing, and there are no people who have disappeared in the Great Song Dynasty. It may really be a variety of reasons that led to the murder or death, the craftsmanship is lost, so that there is no successor to the official workshop, and the process is faulty.
The lack of small and lowly craftsmen affected the army's battles, and now it has finally become a militaristic event.
The bigwigs had to pay attention to it, and they came up with a high salary and a list of official vows, but unexpectedly they couldn't recruit smart craftsmen, and there were very few smart applicants.
When did the lowly craftsmen, who were most keen to change their identities and social status by their craft, become less enthusiastic about the official positions of the imperial court?
The courtiers were puzzled and helpless.
Liang Zhongshu's vicious idea was to deceive the craftsmen of this iron industry mountain village into sending labor on the pretext of repairing weapons in the army. (Under the Great Song Dynasty, except for the Western Army, which was under special circumstances and had a long distance, the localities were not allowed to manufacture their own weapons and equip the army, and all of them were manufactured and allocated by Tokyo.) So Liang Zhongshu can only be repaired in the name of repair) and then the army controlled the blacksmiths, looted the money of the mountain village, organized the whole village into the artisan household, covered the face with a blue seal like a criminal to fill the army, and forcibly moved to Tokyo to make up for the official workshop.
In this way, the wealth accumulated by the village over the years was fully pocketed, punishing this group of bold and reckless villagers who ignored the laws of the imperial court and dared to violate the ban on weapons, eliminated the root cause of the proliferation of civil weapons, cut off the weapons of the civilian gangsters, eradicated the social scourge, and solved the great problem of the extreme shortage of skilled blacksmiths in Tokyo, the most important thing was to solve the troubles of the court bigwigs including his father-in-law Cai Jing, and to win the favor of the emperor and important ministers, the biggest and most important political interests naturally came.
It's a good idea to count in one fell swoop. (To be continued.) )