"Craftsmen, I came to you today in the hope that you can take the initiative to open the door to recruit apprentices and then teach them their skills! Now that the imperial court has outsourced the steel mills, those merchants need a large number of craftsmen. At this time, the number of craftsmen affected the fundamentals of the imperial court's steel production, so I hope you can pass on some skills to others, so that more craftsmen can participate in smelting and producing steel, so that our manufacturing speed is faster, what do you say? Chen Fei asked.

Chen Fei invited all the skilled craftsmen near Chang'an, and then asked them to pass on their family skills to others, and then let them get paid. Of course, this salary is high-paying, and Chen Fei can be regarded as a kind of compensation for them.

And immediately someone said vaguely: "Chen Langzhong, our craftsmanship is all passed down from our ancestors, and our ancestors have rules, so we can't pass them on to others!" ”

Then, everyone also said that these crafts were ancestral and could not be taught.

"Didn't I pay you a good salary? Wouldn't it be better for you to get a high profit, and then go into business, or do something, and then the future will be even greater? Chen Fei asked.

And someone immediately said: "Chen Langzhong, what we don't ask for is high, that is, to pass on the craftsmanship to future generations, and then we can all rely on the craftsmanship to eat." If we teach others, our descendants will starve to death. And the high salary you give us is just some floating wealth, and once it is spent, it will be gone. And when the time comes, our descendants will not be able to survive, so it is better not to teach it, so that although it will not be rich, but at least it will be stable! ”

This guy said so much, in fact, it means one thing, the apprentice of the church starves the master. And he said it justifiably, saying that he was thinking about his descendants. In this day and age, there must be a lot of people who think about their own descendants. Up to the emperor, down to the common people. It's all this thought, even future generations have this thought, Chen Fei won't say anything. Therefore, although Chen Fei was very helpless about their behavior, it was impossible to refute it. After all, Chen Fei couldn't force each of them to be a saint, and a saint would always be only a very small number of people.

And Chen Fei is also very helpless about the small peasant thinking of these guys, Chen Fei obviously gave them a high salary, and they can go into business or do bigger things at any time in the future. But their small-scale peasant mentality is at work, making them all a bunch of small rich and peaceful, and they are not willing to use the money to do something greater. Although perhaps they gave up the opportunity to be rich. However, he chose to eat a stable mixed meal from generation to generation, not seeking wealth and wealth.

Chen Fei also suddenly remembered a phenomenon in later generations, the civil service examination in later generations, many people participated in it every year. And the vast majority of them take the civil service examination, not pursuing what can become high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but more fancy the iron rice bowl of civil servants, as well as relatively stable salaries and benefits. In fact, with the talents of many of them, they can get good prospects for starting a business in a company, but they choose a relatively lower salary than the company. But in exchange for a stable income.

This is not the idea of small peasants, small wealth is peace, do not seek big wealth and wealth. Although the ordinary small peasants like this have gradually disappeared in later generations, the idea of small peasants is deeply rooted in the hearts of the whole country and the nation. Thought of this. Chen Fei was also very helpless about this phenomenon. How can you change a problem that has not been solved in the future for thousands of years? Although these craftsmen no longer have anything to do with ordinary farmers, they still have the idea of small farmers in their bones.

"So be it! If each of you teaches a qualified apprentice, I can give you an extra acre of land. What do you think? Chen Fei asked.

And when these craftsmen heard this, many of them had green eyes. There are even those who begin to calculate if they teach ten at a time. Then one year out of the school, that is, you can get ten acres of land. As long as you teach for ten years, you will be able to get a hundred acres of land, which can be said to be a lot of money.

"Chen Langzhong, I am willing to teach!" Someone immediately said.

"Yes! I'm willing to teach! "I do!" "We all do!" ……

I have to say that the status of land in the hearts of the ancient people is very lofty, and they will not let go of the opportunity to obtain land. And now that Chen Fei actually promised them to teach a student, they would also be able to get one acre of land, so of course they would be willing. And after ten years of teaching, I can have a hundred acres of land, so I am a relatively very wealthy family. You must know that the Tang Dynasty now has a uniform land system, and each family only has 100 acres of land. However, only 20 acres of 100 acres of land belong to him, and the others belong to the imperial court. Once you pass away, the eighty acres of land will be taken back to someone else. But Chen Fei's land belongs to these craftsmen forever, and once they die, it will still be given to their descendants, so of course they will earn it.

And Master Liu asked in a low voice: "Chen Langzhong, don't you lose money in this way?" ”

"Ah, in order for the world's craftsmanship to develop, then it doesn't hurt for me to lose money personally!" Chen Fei said.

But Chen Fei secretly thought in his heart: "You know a fart, I'm just wool from a sheep." I'm going to buy one acre of land, and then I'm going to sign an agreement with your students that they'll work hard after they've learned to do that, and then I'll pay back the money I paid for the land in five or six years. It's like I give them a student loan in advance, and then they 'graduate' and work hard to repay the loan for a few years. ”

After all, Chen Fei is a later generation, how could he be stupid to pay for those craftsman apprentices to let them learn. Chen Fei is actually a kind of student loan in disguise, once those apprentice craftsmen become apprentices, they have to work to repay the wealth that Chen Fei helped them buy land. Although this student loan business may not be able to make much money, at least it will not lose money! A loss-making business, Chen Fei won't do it!

Those craftsmen would never have thought that Chen Fei's mind was spinning so fast, and he even thought of the means of this kind of wool coming out of the sheep. Of course, this was established when the Tang Dynasty had just opened the country and the population was relatively small. With a small population, land is naturally cheap, so Chen Fei can afford this money. If the population is large, even after these apprentice craftsmen have learned, they may not be able to afford it. However, now that the country has just been founded, naturally there is no such worry. (To be continued......)