Chapter 48 Recruitment of Boatmen
The person who came was Wei Huisheng, the chief of Qianting Town, and when he saw Cao San saluting him, he waved his hand in response, and also stood in the waiting line. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Cao San leaned up and said to Daddy Wei: "Daddy Wei, are you also here to eat this flowing water feast?" ”
Wei Zongjia nodded and said, "The boss of the Li family has made the boat, and I will also come to be lively!" ”
Cao San smiled and said mysteriously: "Daddy Wei, do you know how many people are in charge of this ship?" ”
Father Wei said: "I'm afraid there are at least twenty or thirty people!" ”
Cao San slapped his face and said, "Twenty or thirty people can go to sea?" Those who are in charge of sails, needles, stars, rudders, and soldiers and horses, at least 40 people must be gathered before they can go to sea! ”
Father Wei nodded and said, "You actually took care of so many people? ”
Cao San said: "That's not yet. And these people are all strong men, accustomed to going in and out of the sea, and when they go ashore, they say that it is called tough, and they are not good to hear that it is called rampant, and they are all like bandits... ”
Seeing that Wei Huisheng, the chief officer, was coming, Li Tu also greeted him, and said, "Hello Daddy Wei!" Daddy Wei will have a place after a while! ”
Wei Huisheng affectionately took Li Tu's arm and said with a smile: "Boss of the Li family, you are out of luck now!" I made the ship right. I grew up watching you, you were different from ordinary people since you were a child, and I already knew that you would get ahead! ”
Li Tu slandered for a while, and secretly said that I have been different from ordinary people since I was a child, and you all treat me as a fool. His face was impassive, and he said with a smile: "Daddy Wei Miao praised!" ”
Wei Huisheng said affectionately: "Last time Huang Kaichou asked you to repay the money, you paid back the forty taels, we all said that you are very capable!" Now, I'm even more capable! I did the whole boat! ”
Li Tu arched his hand again and said, "Where, where!" ”
The two were talking there, but Cao San suddenly took a step to the side and said loudly: "Master Cui is also here!" ”
Li Tu and Wei Huisheng turned their heads to look, and sure enough, they saw Cui Guangzhi pacing in a shirt and walking towards this side.
Wei Huisheng greeted him and said, "Cui Xianggong also came to eat this flowing water banquet?" ”
Cui Guangzhi arched his hand and smiled: "I smell the aroma of wine and meat from afar, where can I not give up?" ”
Everyone laughed and said, "Master Cui said that he laughed, Master Cui's family drinks and meat every day, where will he come to Li's house to eat for these wine and meat." ”
Father Wei took Cui Guangzhi's hand and said with a smile: "Cui Xianggong, I envy you, you have such a fast son-in-law!" ”
Cui He and Li Tu's intimacy is seen by everyone, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are many discussions. In the past, others said that the Li family was poor and unworthy of Cui He. Now that Li Tu has made a boat, people who are watching the excitement have already regarded Li Tu and Cui He as a couple.
Cui Guangzhi said with a straight face: "Daddy Wei, don't laugh at me, my family Cui He can't get married so far!" Spreading his hands, Cui Guangzhi said helplessly: "Others haven't come to propose marriage yet!" ”
When Wei Huisheng heard this, he turned his head to Li Tu and said, "Little Brother Li, this is your mistake. You and Cui He's childhood sweetheart have no guesses, everyone is looking at them, why haven't you gone to Cui's house to propose marriage so far. ”
Li Tu hurriedly apologized: "Li Tu will go to Master Cui's house in the next few days!" ”
Wei Huisheng pulled Li Tu and said, "This is good!" ”
When Cui Guangzhi heard this, his face was also happy, and he touched his beard and stopped talking.
In the middle of the ring, a table was empty, and Li Tu hurriedly asked Cui Guangzhi and Wei Huisheng to sit down at the table. Cao San got this vacancy, and hurriedly sat next to Cui Xiucai and Wei Zongjia, laughing and laughing with the two, looking like he was a person with status.
Li Tu said a few more words with him, and then hurried to the kitchen to urge the food to be served.
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Li Tong knew many people, and within a few days, the news that Li Tu was going to recruit sailors spread throughout Qianting Town.
I heard that Li Tu was going to recruit boatmen, and the entire Qianting Town was fried. Curious people crowded outside the courtyard of the Li family, staring at Li Tu who was sitting in the courtyard recruiting people, as if they wanted to see Li Tu who was flying like a rocket clearly and carefully.
"This boss of the Li family is really good, and now he has to recruit his subordinates!"
"So many people are recruiting!"
"One person gives twenty taels of silver a year, how many people do you say want to go?"
Zhangzhou is narrow and has many people, and many people have no land to plant, so they can only be put into slavery under the big households. Or if you are lucky, you can farm a pitiful landlord's land with a large tenant, and you can't eat enough after paying the land rent every year. Because of this, Zhangzhou has always had a saying that the sea is the field, and going to sea has been a recognized way out.
Tenants cultivate the landlord's fields, and they can't eat enough all year round. When you go to sea with the ship, you can not only eat enough, but also earn 20 taels of silver a year. What is the concept of twenty taels of silver? It is equivalent to the consumption of a middle-class family for two or three years, and in a few years, you can return to your hometown to buy land.
Even if it is risky to go to sea, these poor people who are struggling to make ends meet. Hearing that Li Tu was going to recruit boatmen, there was an endless stream of applicants.
Li Tu asked the people waiting for the interview to wait in line like later generations, and the line went all the way to the courtyard gate.
Seeing the Li family's courtyard so lively, the onlookers in Qianting Town were dumbfounded:
"This team of nerds who are going to defect to the Li family is all lined up outside the door!"
"This Li family has really burned high incense, and has produced such a capable offspring!"
"I was stupid last year, but this year it has become so powerful!"
"I look at the look in the eyes of the boss of the Li family, what is that, right! That pampered and unfazed look is not an ordinary person! ”
Ignoring the discussion of the people outside the door, Li Tu only ******** interview the applicants.
The principle of recruiting people is to recruit only people with a spirit of cooperation.
The sea is stormy and strong, and strong people are infested, and they have to risk their lives and even fight for their lives at every turn, and the spirit of helping each other in the same boat is most needed. If you recruit a treacherous villain, who does not save him when he sees death or has a different heart, it is going to harm the other crew members and a boatload of people. Only those who know how to cooperate can protect the flanks and backs of their comrades under the threat of death.
As long as you have the spirit of cooperation, you can learn the technical fighting skills of the boat. But if there is no spirit of cooperation, the skills learned are the skills of selfishness and harm.
Li Tu patiently talked to each applicant, asked some questions, and observed the other party's answers, so as to judge the other person's character.
In the queue waiting for the interview, a strong man was waiting anxiously and wanted to cut the line. Taking advantage of the gap between the advance of the front team, he plunged into the middle of two thin young men. Seeing this man's fierce appearance, the two thin young men didn't dare to make a noise, but only pinched their noses and recognized it.
But this scene was seen by Li Tu. Without hesitation, Li Tu called Xu San over and said, "Let that man go back, we won't recruit such people!" ”
Xu San walked over and invited the man out in full view of everyone. The man was still unconvinced, rushed to Li Tu and said: "The ship is confused, and the ship wants a strong boatman like me!" ”
Li Tu replied lightly: "I don't know if your strength is used against the enemy or against other boatmen. ”
As soon as Li Tu waved his hand, Xu San drove the strong man out of the courtyard.