"Dou Mien, Shi Mi Qiu. Give them a bite to eat today, and they are grateful. What if you don't give them tomorrow? Some people will be resentful and think that you have deprived them of their food. This truth is said a lot in "Zengguang Xianwen". Xu Yuanzuo's tone changed, and he became high-pitched in vain: "However, if we can find a way to make their lives better, but also make money for us, wouldn't it be convenient for both sides?" ”

Xu Yuanchun bowed slightly: "My father also did this work-for-relief thing in Jiajing, and now in the area of Nanzhi Zhejiang, there is relief every winter, which is also the source of this." ”

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Yes." However, a short period of cash-for-work can only alleviate the urgency for a while. If you want to be long-lasting, you have to provide a stable job. For example, the two brothers know about the hard work done under the bridge and on the docks, right? They are also able to provide for their families, but they are unstable. For example, if they don't get a job for several days, or they don't come to the boat for several days, then their livelihood is not guaranteed. Maybe in order to let the child eat rice cereal, he has to take risks and become a traitor. ”

The people of the time also regarded this kind of short-term work as a thief and did not trust it. However, bankrupt yeoman farmers can still be tenant farmers, but outright bankrupt tenant farmers can only do this kind of short-term work.

"If you can give them a job that they have every day, will they cherish it more? Are you still willing to go back to the precarious days? In such a situation, can he not obey you and me? Xu Yuanzuo explained in simple terms and spoke thoroughly.

Kang Pengzu nodded his chin slightly: "The truth is so, but where can this kind of work be said to exist?" ”

"I divide the livelihood of all people in the world into three classes." Xu Yuanzuo said: "The first level is to make a living if you want to survive. The most common is crops, but there are also plantations and animal husbandry. This is a productive industry that provides the means of production. ”

The two nodded slightly.

"The second class is a livelihood that needs to be made in order to live a better and more comfortable life. For example, we have to take a car when we go out, so someone has to build a car for us; It takes stone to build a house, so someone needs to mine it; It is inevitable that pig iron and wrought iron will be used in various industries. So smelting is the same. This is an industry that processes the means of production.

"The third class is to have a living in order to live comfortably. For example, Mochiyue Tower, such as Taibai Building, such as our Xia Wei New Garden. Basically, it is better to have it, and it is okay to have nothing. That is, the service industry. Xu Yuanzuo said: "Of these three, the first class needs land; The second class requires skills and information; The third class is the easiest to cultivate, and it requires the most manpower. ”

Xu Yuanchun had already touched Xu Yuanzuo's thinking vein: "Are you planning to make a living in this third-class business?" ”

"Exactly." Xu Yuanzuo said: "As long as we control the more employees, the more manpower." The greater our influence in the county town, and even in the whole of Songjiang! This reason is actually the same as the county lord wants to buy the face of the gentry in various places, because the gentry control a large amount of land, which directly affects the completion of summer tax and autumn grain. ”

Kang Pengzu raised his hand lightly, frowned, and said, "Yuan Zuo, wait a minute, I didn't keep up: if it's just some hired workers, how can we expand our private rights?" That's what you call influence......"

"If someone gets in the way of our business, the wages and bonuses of the hired workers will be reduced. Are they willing? If the government were to ban our business, the workers would lose their jobs, would they be happy? All in all, there is power in numbers. Xu Yuanzuo chuckled.

Kang Pengzu slapped his palm suddenly: "Sure enough! Sure enough, you can blackmail the government! ”

Xu Yuanchun said again: "Yuan Zuo, then why don't you start with the first and second categories?" I don't have a lot of trouble. ”

"The eldest brother also said, 'No land is uneasy'. In other words, as long as the people have land, they will be safe. So why should they cling to us? Isn't changing owners the same farming and paying the same grain? The second category involves some key skills, and the craftsman is also self-assured. So these two types of industries. None of them will have a great attachment to us like the third category. Xu Yuanzuo said: "In short: without us, they can't live!" ”

Xu Yuanchun suddenly realized: as long as farmers have land, they can naturally live. It doesn't matter to them who the owner is; The craftsman has a skill, where can he not eat a mouthful of food? But those who serve others have nothing, so they naturally have to obediently cling to their own homes.

Xu Yuanzuo took a sip of tea: "For example, more than a thousand weavers of our Xu family." If we don't give them a loom one day, what will they eat? ”

"Then we won't get enough cloth." Xu Yuanchun said with a smile.

"yes, but we can't starve." Xu Yuanzuo said: "They are likely to starve to death." This is to cause people and not to others. ”

Kang Pengzu and Xu Yuanchun bowed slightly. invariably said: "Yuan Zuo comprehends the way of business and chases Tao Zhu!" ”

"There is only one Taoist, and all things are connected." Xu Yuanzuo was not ashamed, and said: "If the eldest brother has no accident, he is not in this department." is in the lower course, and it must be in high school. This is our power in public power. When our business is rolled out, there is a voice in private rights, which echoes each other from afar, and the inside and outside are combined! ”

Kang Pengzu straightened his waist: "Sure enough, it originally looked like a distant thing, but it was so simple to say it in such detail!" So what are you waiting for? Zhenheng will go to the Jinshi exam as always, and Yuan Zuo and I will spread out this last business, and it won't take a few years to be a Zhengguo! ”

In any era, scholars are worried about the country and the people.

Although in Xu Yuanzuo's eyes: the Ming Dynasty in Longqing Wanli is the pinnacle, and it can even be said to be the pinnacle of feudal society, but in the eyes of Xu Yuanchun and Kang Pengzu, the current situation is internal and external troubles, and the state affairs are in danger.

Isn't it? Altan Khan entered the army year after year; The pirates have not yet been completely quelled; Su Song bears the heavy endowment of the world, and the people are not allowed to be rich; Yunnan Tusi made chaos one after another; There is also a Burmese Tusi Mangrui body, which is almost a rebellion! In this case, if you want to say "Longwan Shengshi", it is estimated that the Ming scholars will blush.

Think about the later generations while ceding territory and singing about the peaceful and prosperous times, what is this trouble in the Ming Dynasty? It's just a mediocrity!

However, Xu Yuanzuo also formed his first net thanks to Xu Yuanchun and Kang Pengzu's sense of crisis. If everyone is immersed in the dream of a peaceful and prosperous world, who will work hard with him for his ideals.

Xu Yuanchun thought for a while and said, "I am bound to become a leader." If it is convenient for the two virtuous brothers, it is best to go to the next level. After all, there are many inconveniences for students. ”

"That's nature." Kang Pengzu said: "I will take two more subjects, if I don't take it, I will donate a prisoner." Yuan Zuo is still young, and it is too late to go to the township after the weak crown. ”

"Actually, I'm thinking about ......" Xu Yuanzuo said tentatively: "Why doesn't Brother Chang Sheng accept the martial arts?" (To be continued......)

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