Volume 1: Juyiwu Chapter 8 The Three Giants

"Owning the Dock means that the end can be turned upside down, which also shows that one day the end can dominate the base." ———————— Jia luxury

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Until noon, the workshop was very lively, and Zhuge Liang and them got along well during this period. Many women were humming songs while working, chirping and chirping, and the sound of the machine and their singing turned into a pleasant melody.

There were a total of 351 people in Juyiwu, including 102 soldiers and about 40 children. The women who came to work in the workshop accounted for about ninety percent of all the women in Juyiwu, about one hundred and thirty, and about twenty unmarried girls.

The other 80 people are Jia Hao's family, his brother Jia Shu's family, the people of the foreigner's wealthy family, and the family members.

Not to mention anything else, this workshop is indeed the lifeblood of Juyiwu. In order to feed so many people, most of the sources of materials are in the county seat, except for some edible crops and commercial raw material crops that can be planted in the open space outside the dock. This requires a lot of money, and only workshops can produce goods and obtain funds.

The land here is barren, and nothing good can be grown. I heard from the women that they chose this place because it was safe. Facing the Wuxing Mountain in the west, it is not too close nor far from the nearest big county seat, Shangquyang.

Those thieves, especially the Black Mountain Army as a rebel army, although they often operate in the southern end of the Marble Mountains and other places, they rarely come to the central and northern sections. Not to mention that there are no other thieves hiding in this section of the Five Elements Mountain, which has a long winter and a summer of less than two months, and belongs to a rather remote area.

"I'm telling you, this place is the safest place in the world." Zhuge Liang stood next to him, waiting for the woman to weave a piece of cloth and silk, and to carry it to a place on the right side of the workshop door to pile it up, only to see the woman then said very seriously: "For more than ten years, we have been living and working here in peace and contentment, and we don't have to pay the New Year's Fee." There is no need to be bullied by that group of corrupt officials, and even the thieves rarely come to commit crimes, which is all the credit of Jia Gong. ”

"Who is this Jia Gong? Seeing that you revere him so much, I would love to get to know him. ”

Then the woman said eloquently, giving Jia Hao a detailed introduction, in order to highlight Jia Hao's majesty, and by the way, she also pulled out Jia Hao's head - Jia Shu for comparison. And when it came to Jia Devil, the surrounding female workers couldn't bear it, and broke the news and vented their dissatisfaction with Jia Devil.

Jia luxury, the words are endless, the son of the Jia family in Leping County. The Jia family in Zhanxian County is the home of a businessman, but it is not a giant businessman, and after being divided into three rooms, the scale of each family's wealth is even less than before. He was not very rich when he helped Diao Zheng and their group of displaced people, but he resolutely threw away all his resources to help them.

And finally chose to build a Juyi dock here, and with it was his third brother - Jia Yi.

Jia Sao, he never gets tired of words, this person is very greedy and bullying, so the big guys gave him the title "Jia Devil". I also learned from the female workers that Jia Yi was very lascivious and committed several crimes against the women in the dock. If it weren't for Jia Hao's constant suppression, he would have become a soil emperor and a soil tyrant in Juyiwu.

Jia Yi's most shameless thing is that he took public funds without authorization, which was obtained by all the families in Juyiwu, and each household paid 200 yuan every year. Even if Jia Hao restrains him, but Jia is not tired of being greedy. The big guy was saved by the two brothers, although they hated Jia Shui, they didn't dare to turn their faces against him, not to mention that their money came from the Jia family.

The women were paid 7 yuan a day for their work in the workshop, and the men were paid according to the situation, ranging from 60 to 120 yuan for a trip, and their duties were to act as guards and carry them by the way.

In addition to this, the men received an additional 50 yuan a month as payment for their work as a guard. These are all set up by Jia Hao, although the salary is small, but it is good to survive, and the food and everything is distributed by Jia Hao.

In other words, wages are often in arrears.

Therefore, the people in the dock, regardless of men, women and children, revere Jia Hao and call him "Jia Gong".

In addition, there is another outsider - Cai Fu, who joined two years after the construction of Juyiwu. He and Jia Yi are sworn brothers, and it is said that Jia Yi ran a businessman and met when he passed through Gaoyi of Zhao State.

The usual capital injection of the entire Juyiwu is made by Jia Hao, Jia Shu, and Cai Fu, among which Jia Hao is the most, and the image in people's hearts is also the best.

However, the annual commodity output of Juyiwu is very large, whether it is Jia Luxury, Jia Yi or wealth, they have also benefited a lot. And the excellent business acumen and the business experience accumulated since childhood have long made Jia Hao clear which business routes are more profitable.

In the early days, it would have been nice to be able to feed so many people, but at that time there was a lot of chaos and war. It was also at this time that Jia Hao found that there was war money to be made, and by the way, he also made a lot of goods sold to the army.

In recent years, the situation here has been much better, and although the princes are hateful, they have done a very good job of exterminating and co-opting the thieves.

For example, although the Montenegrin Army was a rebel army, they also looted and plundered later, and more importantly, it affected the commercial sales of Juyiwu, which could be said to be the natural enemy of Juyiwu at that time, and the bandits everywhere could still deal with it. However, the intrusion of the Montenegrin army into various parts of the north caused the sales of Juyiwu to drop a lot, and the war between them and Yuan Shao made Juyiwu only able to make a profit on a part of the goods that met the market demand after the destruction of the war, but the overall fiscal deficit.

As a result, the dock had to be frugal, and the number of caravans that went out to run merchants also dropped a lot, after all, it was not safe.

Later, it was the duel between Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao, and now these two are still fighting, but the impact on Juyiwu is not as good as the previous battle between Yuan Shao and the Montenegrin army.

Now, Jia Hao has become a big businessman, and Jia Yi is greedy, I am afraid that it is even more than that. Caifu, an outsider, a speculator, has also been rich.

Feeding these three hundred and fifty-one people was not a problem for any of the three of them, and it was only before that the three of them needed to work together. That is, sometimes the storage of grain depends on the repurchase of goods sold by the caravan, and when it is a bad year in various places, the dock still has to save money.

After listening to what the female workers said so much, and a long time has passed, Zhuge Liang feels a little hungry. Halfway through noon, more than a dozen women walked into the workshop carrying buckets of snacks and called everyone to stop eating something to make up for it.

The women who had just left were ready to eat, but did they have food in the workshop?

Zhuge Liang asked casually, only to learn that it was because most of the men went to the county seat to buy goods, and the rest of the people would gather here to eat something this afternoon. No, the group of naughty Zhang Dan'er came running over with the smell of the fragrant aroma.

After a morning of work, Zhuge Liang was almost hungry, so after a little rest, he went to eat with the female workers.

Situations like this are relatively rare in Juyiwu, about once a year, but Yiwu is not short of food, but it is just basic common sense to save money and use it.

At this time, the men who came one after another, and the men who stayed in the dock began to make jokes about him.

There were even a few who laughed so hard that they got carried away, but all of these men were blown away by the women. Who let them laugh at the handsome guys, and they don't pee and look in the mirror, this handsome guy who helped them all morning and feasted their eyes!

Naughty and unbehaved, seeing these men laughing at Zhuge Liang, they also took the lead in ridiculing his big brother. It is helpless to make Zhuge Liang cry and laugh, but this is different from the life of the past, it is really good, and it makes people yearn for it.

Moreover, Juyiwu is far away from Sili, and it is like an independent small village. In just a few days, Zhuge Liang deeply felt that the style here was different from any place he had been before, and there was not so much separation between men and women. Men can laugh with women, women can also blow them away, and the relationship between families is like a good family. Although there are objective factors behind the emergence of these phenomena that are different from other places, they are really a paradise in troubled times.