Chapter 4: Observations and Experiences (I)

After the mobilization was issued, the entire province of Togi Province was running rapidly, but it was busy but not chaotic, and not a single one of the people, including the rich people living here, was worried, let alone crying.

On the contrary, those who have sons and husbands who are soldiers in the Tiance Army will go to his house to congratulate their neighbors, and this family also holds a feast and entertains their neighbors, as if they were doing a happy event.

In fact, the reason is simple, Tiance Mansion and Li Xian have been constantly promoting in Dugi Province, it is glorious to be a soldier, and it is the greatest glory to fight for the country.

On the other hand, it is indeed safe and beneficial to follow the King of Lanling and the King of Jianning to fight.

The first expedition to the South China Sea, 3,000 people went, it is said that countless countries were destroyed, and the enemy Yingye was killed, but less than 100 Tiance troops were killed in battle; The second time, he drove 5,000 miles to pursue the Tongluo army, and he injured less than 50 people.

The families of these unfortunate soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country have received extremely high pensions and enjoy the highest treatment in Tugi Province.

Choose the best house, don't pay for it, the wages for the work are twice as high as others, and a sign representing the "glorious home" of the military martyrs is hung at the gate, which passes, don't pick a thumbs up!

Of course, it is naturally better to come back safely, these triumphant soldiers, each of them has a reward, when they are on vacation, they wear a medal and walk on the street, not to mention how respected.

It can be said that under the propaganda and promotion of the Cheonce Mansion and the Four Seas Trading Company, although the military families are not the richest in Togi Province, they are the most admired and respected, even if they are families and magnates. You'll have to give them a little bit of courtesy.

It is a great thing to be able to follow the King of Lanling on the expedition. Glorious and beneficial. Congratulations in advance, of course!

On the second day of the mobilization for the battle, 10 squires and elders from Guannai Province and Gyeonggi Province, and 10 representatives of Zhuangding who were selected to go to Nanzhao to march to Nanzhao, took the four-wheeled carriage convoy of goods transported by the Sihai Trading Company and followed Wang Yujue, the person in charge of the Sihai Trading Company in the Lantian Industrial Zone, to Luoyang.

What they saw and heard along the way had already given them too much surprise, and they saw the city full of excitement at this time. All the people were as happy as if they were something, Wang Yujue didn't think anything, these arrested strong representatives and squires were a little dumbfounded, this is also too prosperous, several times better than Chang'an!

Also, why are you so happy? Looking for someone to ask, it turned out that they didn't need to ask for it, the king of Lanling was already ready to ask His Majesty to fight against Nanzhao, and the people of Luoyang City congratulated each other, and then Liang Xiaoshan and the others were even more dumbfounded.

Expedition to Nanzhao. The crying of the family on his side shook the sky, and life and death parted. Why do the people of Luoyang still celebrate each other? Aren't they afraid of the barbarian soldiers that Nanzhao can't kill and the miasma that kills people? What's going on?

Also, it's really nice here, there are countless shops and hotels on both sides of the official road along the way, all of them are delicious and fun, everyone has a smile on their faces, this is only a few hundred miles apart, why is the difference so big?

The leader of this petition group, a 76-year-old man named Zheng Nan, was also very emotional about this, and the three days he spent in Dugi Province had completely subverted his understanding of the world that he had accumulated for 70 years.

First of all, the superior life of the people here gave him too much shock, and he suddenly remembered what he had seen and heard on the road and the second cow who got up at noon today.

In Kannai Province and Gyeonggi Province, everyone except for the wealthy families ate only two meals, the first meal was eaten at the end of the Chen, which was called the morning meal, and then the second meal was not eaten until the Shin time, which was called the morning meal.

But when they arrived in Dugi Province, no matter whether they were rich or poor, everyone had to eat three meals, and on the first day, at noon, they didn't eat it, but when they saw that the people here were eating well, they spent two cents each to buy a steamed bun (steamed bun).

Big meat steamed buns, take a bite and get oily, inside is a big piece of meat filling, half a tael heavy, they say it is pork filling, but there is no fishy smell at all, the thick oil and meat aroma almost made them almost eat their tongues.

Three big meat steamed buns are enough for a middle-aged person to eat well, only six yuan, this is too good and cheap, right? And such a delicious meat steamed bun, even those squires who are used to eating big fish and meat are full of praise, and it is just the general food of the poor here.

More popular is white rice with braised pork, a bowl of oily braised pork, a plate of green vegetables, and a bowl of spiky white rice, which are the most common meals eaten by workers working here, for 20 yuan.

Along the way, I always heard people here say how delicious it is, so at noon today, Zheng Nan didn't let these twenty people eat dry food anymore, and paid for it himself, and invited everyone to eat a meal of braised pork in a big food shop next to the official road, which is indeed supremely delicious, sweet and soft, fat but not greasy, melts in the mouth, and the tempting fragrance can't help but drool when I think about it now!

But Zheng Nan and other squires and elders are more concerned about these workers here, who eat like this every day, where do they get so much money?

They grabbed a talkative worker and asked, and the man named Erniu looked at them like a dumpling, and then struck an account for them: "...... My current salary is four silver coins a month, which is only 2,400 wen, and then counting the overtime salary, to say the least, I can have 3,500 wen, and my mother-in-law has also found something to do, and I also have 2,000 wen a month.

The two children came late and couldn't enter the primary school, the older one ran errands for people in a leisure mountain villa, delivered newspapers, delivered milk, and earned more than his aunt, and the younger one was sent to the nursery with someone to bring it, and it only cost 800 wen a month.

In addition to the expenses of the youngest daughter, our family still has a monthly income of more than 6,700 yuan, and more than 200 yuan a day. Seven meat steamed buns every morning and fourteen Wen; At noon, I eat a portion of braised pork, sometimes I drink some wine, sometimes they eat, sometimes they eat something else, and it is enough to add more than 50 yuan; If you eat at home at night, you don't need 20 yuan, and it will cost less than 90 yuan a day, and you can leave more than 100 yuan for other purposes. How can you eat poor? ”

The elder of Jingzhao Mansion named Zheng Nan calculated, the daily food cost of this family is about forty percent of the income, and it is true that he will not be poor, he thought about it and asked: "You should be considered a good family, there are four people in the family, three of them can make money, and there is no difficulty in life?" For example, a farmer who farms the land, or a woman with a dead husband and how many children? ”

Erniu said: "Old lady, you have asked, our family is indeed a family with a good situation, and there are also people who are in a bad situation."

Even if those tenant farmers rent other people's land to plant, but as long as they pay 3 into 5 for rent, and the remaining 6 percent and 5 percent can't eat it themselves, they can also buy a trading company from all over the world, and the price is absolutely fair, so that the income is also a lot.

But their biggest income is still planting vegetables and doing odd jobs in the slack time, Lanling Wang Xin and Jianning Wang Xinshan bought a lot of land from the landlords of various families to give these people to grow vegetables, only 20% of the rent, plus the small vegetable fields next to the courtyards of each family, just the income from selling vegetables every day, it is about to catch up with our work.

In addition, when the farming is not working, the Sihai Trading Company will also organize road repairs, tree planting, canal repairs and other things for them to do, although the work is harder, but the wages are not old and young, and now we are all tenant farmers in Gi Province, life is not difficult at all, all thanks to the blessing of the King of Lanling and the King of Jianning! (To be continued.) )