Chapter 112: Serial Set
For these few captured Indians, the past few days were simply the happiest days of their lives, although their chieftain did not come on time to ransom them, turning them into so-called slaves.
But being a slave is not as painful as imagined, although they take on a lot of dirty work in Xinhua City, but its hardship is not much better than what they do in the tribe, not to mention that the people in Xinhua City have taught them to use a lot of tools. It's a lot easier that way.
Moreover, the food in Xinhua City was very good, and they had never eaten before, and these delicacies could not be compared to the salted barbecue.
Also, they stayed in the house at night, covered with quilts, and it happened to rain heavily that night. In the heavy rain, the few of them were actually intact in the house, and let alone the raindrops, they couldn't even feel the wind.
This makes the kind of Indians who have to take shelter outside when it rains lightly outside, moderate rain inside the house, moderate rain outside, heavy rain inside the house, and have to take shelter outside the house when the rain is heavy.
On top of that, they were given something called wages after their work, which Snow told them was the equivalent of gold, which could be saved up and exchanged for gold, or for other things, such as wine.
The skeptical Indians took the money and went to the liquor store, and they bought fine wine, something they had never experienced before. You can still get paid for your work.
In the past, no matter how much work was done in the tribe, the gold always went to the chief, and the things were always distributed equally, and there was no such thing as remuneration.
So when their chief wanted to take them back, there was a hint of hesitation in their hearts, they were afraid of the chief's authority, after all, the chief represented God, but they didn't want to go back very much, because it was so comfortable to live here.
However, it seems that the people of Xinhua City saw the hesitation in their hearts, Snow secretly told them in private before taking them to see the chief, if you don't want to go back, just say it, the city lord of Xinhua City will support you.
Since the lord of the city was also a god-like existence in their hearts, they suddenly had a thousand courages in their hearts, and when they officially met the chief, they decisively said that they did not want to go back, and they wanted to stay here.
"This ...... Why is that? Which of you can explain to me why you don't want to go back? ”
Although Zhao Weiji said that he wanted to support them, but according to the chief's previous Yin Wei, several of them still told the chief the reason why they didn't plan to return to the tribe.
These reasons of theirs sounded simply funny to the chief, how could anyone do such a thing, and give a reward? What's the pay?
However, although the chieftain's reasons for listening to them were somewhat like a fantasy, the people who came with him were different, and some of them were only envious after hearing them.
Just when they were envious, Zhao Weiji poured a handful of oil on the fire. Through Snow's translation, he told the Indians that if they also wanted to come to Xinhua City to earn money to buy wine, they would also be welcome.
This made the other clansmen a little excited, but the chief was a little unhappy, you are digging people in front of me, the chief's face immediately collapsed.
However, Zhao Weiji also expected that the chief would be unhappy, so he asked Snow to secretly pull the chief aside.
Seeing that there was no one around, the chief was decisively furious: "Lord of the city, can you explain to me why you tempted my people in front of me." ”
For this kind of tribe that is still in a primitive tribal society, the tribe is a great wealth, and the tribes poaching each other may cause war.
However, in the face of the chief's frenzy, Zhao Weiji was already ready to speak, "Chief, you are angry, I allow your people to work in my city for your own good." ”
This made the chief a little suspicious, and the person who poached me was still for my good, "What do you say?" ”
"Do you need to buy me salt and wine, or even other things, such as cotton clothes or weapons?"
The chief nodded, which she did not deny.
"Do you need gold to buy these?"
The chief nodded again.
"But it seems like your gold isn't infinite, is it? I don't think you have any new sources of gold right now. ”
The chief who was seen through the predicament by Zhao Weiji looked a little embarrassed, but this was something she couldn't deny, so she could only nod again with difficulty.
"But it will be different if your people work in my city, because I will pay them, that is, money, and money is the equivalent of gold in Xinhua City, and they can exchange it directly in the city for salt or wine, or whatever.
Or they can save up their money to a certain extent and exchange it for gold in the city and then return to the tribe, and then you can come and exchange it for what you need. ”
These words made the chief a little moved, because Zhao Weiji grasped one of the chief's psychology very well, that is, the things of the tribesmen are hers, and the harvest of all the tribesmen must be honored to her first, and then the excess will be distributed by her.
At this time, she was worried about not being able to find a new source of gold, and since her people could earn gold in the city, she had no need to worry about it anymore.
And since there is everything in Xinhua City, then the clansmen no longer need to hunt or farm, as long as they can earn money, they can buy what they want.
So Zhao Weiji's proposal is simply fantastic for the chief.
But what the chief didn't know was that Zhao Weiji's words seemed to be for her sake, but they were actually cheating on her. Zhao Weiji's action is full of huge conspiracies.
The first is that the chieftain did not know how strong the learning ability of human beings was, and once these Indians were placed in a high-level civilization environment like Xinhua City for a long time, they would definitely be easily affected.
In Zhao Weiji's imagination, the most qualitative impact on these Indians is private ownership, and the current Indians, a primitive tribe, should still live a primitive public ownership life, except for the chieftain who has the absolute right to control all the harvest, the other tribes should still follow the primitive public ownership system, and distribute the harvest equally.
However, once these people come into contact with this kind of private ownership life in Xinhua City, it is easy for them to undergo qualitative changes, and selfishness is the nature of human beings.
If these Indians were able to give them enough at their disposal, the selfish nature of mankind would inevitably prevail over the primitive communal system.
If a man is selfish, it is probably impossible for him to give what he deserves to the chief who exploits him.
The second point is that Zhao Weiji had already guessed that the chief would think that as long as the clansmen could earn money and buy what they needed in Xinhua City, they would not have to produce it themselves.
Yes, if you can buy it, of course, you don't have to do it yourself, this is an idea that many people in later generations will have in their minds, because in later generations the materials have been too abundant, and the things that used to need to be produced by hand at home can be bought after reaching the 21st century.
Isn't there a very classic saying in later generations, that is, everything that can be solved with money is not a thing.
The same can be put on this chief, because after walking around Xinhua City, the chief has an illusion, that is, any thing that their own tribe needs in Xinhua City seems to be available in the city, and it seems that they can also buy it.
Since you can buy it, if you have the money, you can use the money to buy these things, so why bother getting them yourself.
Because the chieftain at this time was still very shallow about money, she did not know how to calculate something called cost at all.
However, because of her shallowness, Zhao Weiji's plan was fulfilled, because once all the living materials of the Indian tribe will be supplied by Xinhua City, then this is equivalent to Xinhua City has mastered the lifeblood of this tribe.
The lifeblood is mastered, so it is only a matter of time before surrender.
Of course, he couldn't think that the chief who had so many things readily agreed to Zhao Weiji's request.
So in the following period, more and more Indians suddenly appeared in Xinhua City.
Like those migrant workers who had just entered the city in later generations, they endured hardships and stood hard work, and they demanded very low wages and salaries.
So they naturally have a fairly good market, and if there are Indians looking for work, they will basically be hired very quickly, and these bosses in the city, who need a lot of heavy manual labor, will use them to rob them.
The arrival of these laborers made Yang Hua, as the representative of these bosses, praise Zhao Weiji constantly in the routine meeting, and it can even be described as singing praises of virtue.
"Okay, Zhongding, you can listen to your sycophants first, and you can be happy in the future.
Dawn, is Snow ready? ”
"Ready, lord."
The thing that Snow asked him to prepare here was to let him open a class in the academy to teach these Indians Chinese, after all, only Snow could communicate with the Indians now, but Snow could not go to every place where Indians were hired to be translators, so it was necessary for them to learn Chinese by themselves.
And this is also part of the sinicization plan.,If you can't even speak Chinese, how can you talk about sinicization.。
However, Snow's language class is not simply teaching Chinese, Zhao Weiji asked Snow to teach Chinese at the same time, and by the way, some concepts of private ownership are mixed in it.
He wanted the Indians to understand in a short time that everything they did was for themselves, that the money they were paid for their work should be at their own disposal, and that the money should be given to the chieftain, and not given all to the chief, who would then distribute it.
Zhao Weiji wanted to make these Indians understand that if they don't work, they can't eat, as long as they understand this, the rule of the chieftain will naturally collapse easily.