"Mother-in-law, is the stove empty at home? Can you boil water? ”

"The Yunjian Public Welfare Guangji Association purchased a large amount of boiling water, and a bucket of boiling water was thirty Wen! Money and water at the city gate! ”

"The Cantonese Diet will buy ready-to-wear garments and cotton clothes!"

"Acquire the cover!"

"Collect the gruel!"

"Packed soap horns!"

……

Young men carrying Cantonese Masonic signs shouted loudly in the streets, eager to knock on doors. If it is a solicitation for donations, of course, it will be hated, but placing an order is the most popular thing for the people of Jiangnan.

At this moment, just after lunchtime, every stove is empty, and a bucket of water in the backyard is boiled, and the cost is only three or five pennies of firewood, and it can be ten times the income when it is sent to the city gate.

As for cotton clothes, ready-to-wear garments, and covers, although the price is not explicitly stated, it depends on the specific quality and materials, but the price of a bucket of water is 30 Wen in front, and no one is worried that Guangji will lower the price. Some people even regard this kind of behavior of spreading orders as helping the township, and pondering whether it is necessary to sell the old things of the family and replace them with new ones.

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

Three gongs sounded, and the idler wearing a red hat and a red jacket opened his throat and shouted: "Master Yuan of Renshoutang is benevolent and courageous, donating 3,000 taels of silver to help the victims!" ”

He took two steps and struck the gong again: Bang! Syllable! Syllable!

"Master Yuan of Renshoutang is benevolent and courageous, donating 3,000 taels of silver to help the victims!" He shouted all the way.

Bang bang bang!

"Master Yuan of Renshoutang is benevolent and courageous, donates ......"

……

Yuan Zhengchun stood in the front yard of his home, listening to the sound of the news outside gradually disappearing, and sighed for a long time.

Yuan Wencheng walked behind his father and personally persuaded: "Father, it's cold outside, go in." ”

Yuan Zhengchun pulled the warm robe on his body: "It's cool outside." He spat out a white mist. He also said, "How many of you brothers, have you gone out to help the victims?" ”

Yuan Wencheng was a little embarrassed on his face, and said: "Father, this is just a hypocritical move by Xu Jinglian to invite people to buy people's hearts, what are we involved in." ”

Yuan Zhengchun let out another breath and turned into mist and dissipated into the air. "I used to think that you didn't have the means and the mind to do business," he said. Now I know that you don't know what a businessman is. ”

Yuan Wencheng didn't speak, but he was dissatisfied in his heart: Isn't a businessman just buying low and selling high, and getting rich? Do you still want to serve the country and the people?

Yuan Zhengchun looked at his son's demeanor, and he didn't bother to say anything more. This time Renshoutang held a meeting, Xu Yuanzuo had a sentence that touched him a lot, and even re-examined his life course for decades. This is also the main reason why he took the lead in pledging 3,000 taels - in fact, this time Xu Yuanzuo focused on borrowing people and things, and he really didn't have much need for silver.

-- It is not the imperial court that really determines our life and death. It's those who have a need for us.

Xu Yuanzuo said at the meeting.

For the merchants, the most terrifying story is probably the killing of Shen Wansan by Emperor Taizu. Of course, there are also legends that Shen Wansan followed Zhang Sanfeng's cultivation and ascended. In short, this is all a legend, in fact, Shen Wansan did not donate to build the Nanjing City Wall, nor did he propose to reward the army for Zhu Yuanzhang, it is very likely that he died long before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, this horror story is based on "legends", and naturally cannot be worshiped as the experience of predecessors. However, many people still mistakenly believe that the survival and decline of merchants is determined by the government and the imperial court.

Xu Yuanzuo put forward another idea: businessmen arose from the people, and they were originally people who were willing to endure hardships, have brainpower, strengthen courage, and were willing to work hard. If you follow the principle of "the people are like water." Jun is like a boat", businessmen are naturally also water. Since it's water. It has the ability to overturn boats.

So why fear boats?

Because the merchant is the "skin of water", it is easiest to be scooped up by the people on the boat. Once you leave the rivers, lakes and seas, whether it is used to boil tea, or wash clothes, you have no power to resist. So although the danger comes from the boat, the root cause is the ocean that has left the people.

Only the "skin of water" will be tiled. Become a "water bone" with depth, so that you are not afraid of the imperial court. In order to become the "bones of water", it is necessary to have the other people, the flesh and blood of water, clinging to it.

For example, today's disasters and man-made disasters are like flesh and blood being wounded, if the rotten flesh is not stripped away. Cultivate the muscles and make them scab heal, so when they rot to the bones, even if Da Luo Tianxian comes, it will be difficult to sink into the scabies.

This is a big truth, but also a small truth.

The homeless people are not only in the late Ming Dynasty, and there are countless people who look ahead, and there is no need to know Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in advance. Even if you are convinced that the country will not be chaotic when the Ming Iron Fight is made, then what about the Wokou Rebellion? How many large families have been robbed and kidnapped by robbers? If everyone is wealthy and earns money legally, there will not be so many people who are willing to take such risks and destroy their conscience.

"It's better to pull them now than to be pulled off the horse by them later." After Xu Yuanzuo finished speaking, he knew that this meeting did not have much effect. Because all the participants are Jiangnan people, their mental calculations are crackling. They don't want to look at reason, but only look at the last two pieces of silver.

No matter how beautiful Xu Yuanzuo said, in their ears, it finally just converged into one sentence: How much silver do you want?

Xu Yuanzuo didn't have the idea of seeking comrades, although he was a little sad, but his tender face still had some area, he wanted money and money, and he wanted people, but no one was against him. Of course, this is also a blessing for the silver, if the tax package did not make such a big profit last year, who would be willing to buy this account?

Although Yuan Zhengchun listened to it, after all, he was a little far away, and he was old, what he could really do was to take the lead and give people silver.

……

The days are short in winter, and it will get dark after Shen.

There was still a long queue of refugees outside the city.

After Xu Yuanzuo arranged a general policy in the inn, he also went outside the city. This time, there were quite a few "volunteers" mobilized, and the men and slaves of each family added up, nearly 300 people. There were Zhejiang veterans to help maintain order, and at first there were a few who wanted to make trouble, but after being beaten hard, it was too peaceful.

The veterans are all people who have been in battle, and they know what kind of people are going to die and what kind of people can't die. Xu Yuanzuo's temper has never been good, so he brushes his tiger beard at this time. If you really want to be killed, you deserve it.

After solving the thorn head, the others were already half-dead, so it was naturally better managed.

On the contrary, there are some people in Tang Xing's town who are not easy to handle. For example, someone boils water half-boiled, and only slightly heats it up. The one who received it could not do it, but whoever did burn it gave copper coins. Once this kind of cheating and trickery happens. It will spread like a plague, and it will even make people think that not stealing and playing tricks is simply a problem with the mind.

After a few incidents, Jiang Baili reported to Xu Yuanzuo and was deeply ashamed.

After Xu Yuanzuo arrived outside the city, there were several disputes that he saw with his own eyes.

There was an innkeeper who had always been good at talking, but finally he couldn't help but go too far, and stabbed his hand directly into the bucket, and after a while, his palm turned red. shouted loudly: "My hands are frozen red, you told me that this is boiling water?!" ”

Only then did the man retreat in a huff, muttering insults in his mouth: "It's really a dog, and it's not your money......"

The guy could only glare angrily.

Xu Yuanzuo stepped forward and held the guy's hand, and it was really frozen.

The guy was suddenly grabbed by someone's hand, and he was about to pull it out hard, but he saw his store manager Ding Junming squeezing his eyebrows at him. Take a closer look. Frightened: "Zuo Ge'er...... You're coming. He was afraid that Xu Yuanzuo would investigate his "violation" just now, so he didn't dare to say more.

"That man was too much." Xu Yuanzuo helped him warm his hands: "It's almost the same today." Finally get through it. ”

The man's thousand words were blocked in his throat, and he only said one word: "Just listen to Zuo Ge'er's orders." ”

Ding Junming walked to Xu Yuanzuo's side and said, "Brother Zuo, there are eighty-six in the back." As he spoke, two more victims washed their hands and faces, leaving a basin of sewage. Go to the porridge shed and queue up to register, waiting to receive the porridge. "Eighty-four." Ding Junming corrected.

After the victims came, they first lined up to wash their hands and faces, register, and receive porridge, and then they were taken away and resettled after gathering a dozen or twenty people.

Xu Yuanzuo is very satisfied with this process. It seems simple, but it can give full play to its own subjective initiative and integrate daily vocational training into specific affairs. There is no chaotic swarm, which is enough to prove that this son is quite smart and can add to the burden.

"Don't do it." Xu Yuanzuo said to Ding Junming.

Ding Junming's heart was overjoyed, and he still had a reserved smile on his face: "It's all up to Zuo Ge'er's daily teaching, I just used it." He paused and said, "And if it weren't for the help of the home nursing home to maintain order, these victims would not have lined up." ”

People have fallen into the situation of fleeing, and they have reached the limit of sorrow, even if they were a person who paid attention to order in the past, they are easy to lose their minds. Negative emotions can permeate refugees, and doubts, worries, fears, and anger will breed, erasing the traces of civilization.

Lu Dayou trotted to find Xu Yuanzuo, with hot air on his head, as if he was a martial arts master.

"Brother Zuo, the warehouse has been implemented, these people will definitely be able to live." Lu Dayou said excitedly.

Xu Yuanzuo sought the help of the shareholders of Renshoutang and divided some houses from the goods inn and inn for the refugees to live in. It's the off-season, and there isn't much inventory, so there's a lot of space. Anyway, there is no need to add any costs, and everyone is happy to do this favor. If you wait for the guests and goods to come, you will definitely not hesitate to drive the refugees out.

Xu Yuanzuo asked, "You can't freeze to death, right?" ”

Lu Dayou said: "I have seen everywhere, and they are all good houses with tight roofs and intact walls. It's just that there is some moisture on the ground, the straw is slightly insufficient, and the spread is a little thin. "Although the winter in Jiangnan is also cold, as long as you are in the house, it is not easy to freeze to death. Xu Yuanzuo nodded, and said: "In order to avoid accidents, ten people will send a charcoal basin and burn as much as one night." ”

Lu Dayou felt a pang in his heart and said, "How much silver does that get!" ”

Xu Yuanzuo glared at him.

Lu Dayou had no choice but to change his words: "Just ask the store and you'll know!" ”

"How many victims are there?" Xu Yuanzuo asked.

"If you count them." Lu Dayou pointed to the ones that had not yet been registered, and said, "There are five hundred and seventy-eight people in total." ”

Xu Yuanzuo briefly estimated the time spent per capita, and he was quite satisfied. He has done management work, and many times the problems that are enough for one person to solve in one minute will pop up when they are really implemented.

To be able to house 578 people in one day is a shame for future generations of volunteers, but it is not easy for people with almost zero education. Many of them waste a lot of time trying to remember how old they are.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "Can you estimate how many people will come tomorrow?" ”

- Who can say for sure?

Lu Dayou shook his head and said, "Let me ask, when these victims first came out of Xuhuai, there were about hundreds of thousands. ”

Xu Yuanzuo raised his eyebrows and did not express an opinion. He knew that Lu Dayou had also heard the news from the mouths of the victims, but the victims themselves did not have the ability to investigate, and it was even more common for them to have no concept of numbers. The so-called tens of thousands of people are boundless, and people who have never seen the world want to intuitively judge whether tens of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of people, the basic function depends on guessing.

"There are not only those who go south, but also those who go north. There are more waves going south, but they have already dispersed when they reach Taizhou and Nanjing. Changzhou and Suzhou are richer, and there are more people left. Lu Dayou said: "Anyone who thinks about going home, most of them don't want to run too far, and they stop when they have something to eat." Many of the people who came here wanted to find a job to do, and many said that as long as they had work to do and land to plant, they would not go home. ”

Xu Yuanzuo breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, the most difficult part of the resettlement of these victims will be solved by focusing on solving the problem. The next step is the step-by-step work distribution, which is probably more annoying than placement in later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, which has no concept of human rights, finding a catcher wearing a public uniform can make them obedient.

Xu Yuanzuo and his team are already very experienced in this.

The key is what they do.

Manpower is the most difficult resource to quantify, and it is also a dangerous commodity. If it is not handled well, it may lead to dangerous events such as strikes, riots, chaos, and wars.

With only five or six hundred people in Tangxing, of course, it is difficult to produce such serious consequences. However, the ancient wisdom of Dou Mi Enshi Mi Qiu tells people that the way to work for relief is to enable them to support themselves and be self-sufficient.

"Dayou," Xu Yuanzuo said, "first find out the craftsmen in the disaster victims, especially those who have worked as carpenters and blacksmiths, and take them to various workshops early tomorrow morning to meet the workers." ”

"Will anyone take it?" Lu Dayou said worriedly.

"Tonight, I'll call Lao Jiang to place an order." Xu Yuanzuo's thinking is still very clear.

In order to receive orders, it is necessary to take in an equal proportion of the victims as hired laborers. Although the increase in labor costs, but the order to bring greater profits, I believe that the smart Jiangnan handicraft owners will definitely be able to make a rational choice.

As for the products that need to be ordered, Xu Yuanzuo has also formed a list in his mind, and the most worrying question now is: whether Songjiang can provide enough raw materials.

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