Chapter Seventy-Seven: Labor Bottlenecks
Looking at the new projects that have been opened one after another, Wei Minsheng's labor force is stretched thin again, so he used the walkie-talkie to contact Wang Wushun in Zigui City and asked him to go back to the villa.
After Wang Wushun returned to the villa, Wei Minsheng said to him: "How are you doing to recruit workers in Zigui City?" ”
Wang Wushun was very embarrassed and said: "Master, I also can't figure out why we are not willing to come to the villa to work with such a high salary. So during this time, I also went to inquire, and it turned out that this Zigui City was a garrison city, with a total of only more than 2,000 residents, and more than half of the residents in it were officers and soldiers and their relatives. Of the other more than 1,000 residents, except for the old, weak, sick and disabled, and those children, all those who were able to come out and do things came out. Many of the rest are old and young, so they have to find something to do in the city, but there is really no way to get out. ”
"Then why don't you bring all the old and the young here? Didn't the villa build a guest house, and it only cost two Chinese coins to stay in that pass for a night. Now that there is a serious shortage of people in the villa, even the old and young can do what they can, right? ”
"I've asked this question too, but the guest house is not in the villa, and everyone is uneasy. In a world where war could break out at any time, they still felt safer living in the city, at least with walls to rely on. ”
"Then do you ask clearly, who is the main object of this Zigui City garrison?"
According to him, this Zigui City belongs to a small city in the northwesternmost part of Wu State, located at the junction of Wei, Shu and Wu, and is only seventy miles away from Badong County of Shu. Fortunately, there is the Yangtze River natural danger separation, from Badong to Zigui this section of the waterway, only Zigui City around the suitable ships docking, the next suitable landing place is Yiling County, so this Zigui City is an important garrison on the Yangtze River to defend Yiling, to prevent the soldiers and horses of Badong from threatening Yiling. Near Wei was a hundred thousand mountains, and there were almost no Wei troops, but there were some bandits and robbers in this mountain, who would go to the nearby villages to plunder food and property during the autumn harvest every year. The people of these nearby villages, in order to obtain peace, had to pay a certain amount of money and food to these robbers on a regular basis every year, and they were forced to helpless, and even some young people in the village joined the bandits, so everyone felt unsafe outside the city walls and did not want to go out. ”
"Then why didn't this Zigui County Commander lead his officers and soldiers to suppress bandits?"
"It's difficult, the officers and soldiers don't have our walkie-talkie, and after receiving the distress signal from the village, there will be some delay in the rescue journey. After these robbers and bandits grabbed something, they immediately fled into the 100,000 mountains before the officers and soldiers arrived. ”
Wei Minsheng listened to Wang Wushun's words, and hated it in his heart, Lao Tzu just wants to find a few more people to help me do things, you just don't stop, it seems that you need to clean up these robbers. For nothing, I don't have this word in Wei Minsheng's dictionary.
If you take a closer look at the satellite map, it is really not so easy to find these hundreds of robbers in this vast mountain, and it is best to lure them out and catch turtles in an urn.
So Wei Minsheng asked Wang Wushun again: "How many of these robbers are there?" Is it one or several forces? ”
Wang Wushun said: "I heard that the shopkeeper Li said that there are about four or five hundred of these robbers, and the largest bandit leader is called Long Xiaotian, who used to be a hundred households in this Zigui City, because of drinking and delaying the warplane, this Zigui City was almost broken by the naval army of Shu State, and the county guard of Yiling County was furious and asked the military law to deal with him. But this Long Xiaotian is physically strong, although he does not have the courage to be unstoppable, but it is also very easy to deal with a few ordinary soldiers. When he usually doesn't drink, he treats his subordinates well, and he is also very righteous, and he heard that the county guard is going to behead him, and with the help of a few henchmen, he escaped from Zigui City and fell into the grass in the 100,000 mountains. With the help of a few henchmen, he gradually integrated several small bandits, and became the largest bandit force near Zigui City, with more than 300 robbers under his command, and even the officers and soldiers did not dare to trouble him easily. ”
"Then does this Long Xiaotian have a fixed nest?"
"I heard that Long Xiaotian's lair is more than thirty miles away from our mountain villa, in a place called Longdong Bay."
"Since this Long Xiaotian has a fixed nest, why don't these officers and soldiers go to clean it up?" Wei Minsheng said suspiciously.
"The name of this Longdong Bay is because there is a natural cave there, the internal space is very large, it is not a problem to hide thousands of people, and there are many forks, and it is easy for unfamiliar people to get lost in the cave. Everyone said that this was the cave of the dragon in the past, so this cave was called the Dragon Cave, and this place was called Dragon Cave Bay. This dragon Xiaotian felt that his surname was Long, so he should make a career in this dragon cave, so he chose this cave as his lair. This Long Xiaotian not only plundered the villages around Zigui City, but sometimes went to the territory under the jurisdiction of Yiling County to grab food, and the county guard also had a headache, and sent troops to clear it several times, but finally fell under this dragon cave, and suffered countless casualties, so he had to give up the clearance. ”
"It seems that this dragon Xiaotian still has some ability and knows how to take advantage of the terrain, but now that I'm here, even if you are really a dragon and affect my affairs, you have to lie on my stomach."
"Master, are you going to deal with this dragon roaring sky? There are more than 300 of them, and there are only a few dozen people in our village, and those miscellaneous servants will definitely not go with us to find trouble with Long Xiaotian. The defensive strength of the mountain villa is indeed very strong, even if Long Xiaotian wants to attack our mountain villa, it will definitely not be pleased, but without the protection of this mountain gate, we are definitely not the opponent of Long Xiaotian. ”
"Sometimes, it's useless to have a lot of people, and although we have few people, it's easy for me to deal with two or three hundred robbers. I'm just wondering if I'm going to kill them all, or if I'm going to take them all and work for us. ”
Wang Wushun was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he was also oh, his master was not an ordinary person, just take some strange things, maybe he would clean up this bandit. The weapons recorded in those movies are really terrifying.
Wei Minsheng thought for a while, with the development of the villa, one day it will face this Long Xiaotian, and the people of the villa will definitely not be able to stay alone, so he gathered the villagers of the villa after dinner, leaving only the people on duty at the mountain gate.
First of all, Wei Minsheng asked Wang Wushun to introduce the situation of Long Xiaotian to everyone, and then said to everyone: "Although the development of our villa this year is good, it is impossible to nest in this villa for the rest of our lives. I hope that when our villa becomes stronger, all the people in the villa can walk freely in this great river and mountain. There is no danger in Zigui City now, but now this Long Xiaotian and some other robbers may threaten everyone's safety. So, I want to teach this Long Xiaotian a lesson, I don't know what you think? ”