Chapter 387: Cheap Labor
Hundreds of ragged men carried logs and came from a distance, two people carried one, the mouth of the bowl was thick, and the logs two or three feet long bent everyone's waists.
A pair of people carrying wood happened to walk next to Gu Zhenhua, and the young man who walked in front looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, his body was swaying, and beads of sweat were constantly dripping from his forehead. Suddenly, my feet slipped, my body slipped, and the heavy wood fell down, and if I let the wood fall on my body, I would inevitably break my tendons and fracture.
"Ahh
Just when all the people around him were screaming, a big hand stretched out, and Gu Zhenhua decisively clamped the wood with the crook of his arm to stop the momentum of falling. As soon as the young man who fell to the ground looked up, the log was less than a foot away from his head, and if it wasn't for the person in front of him who saved him, the consequences would be unimaginable!
"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"
The young man struggled to get up and kowtow, and at this time, the plainclothes guards behind hurriedly came over and took the log in Gu Zhenhua's hand.
Gu Zhenhua helped the young man up and asked, "How is it, you didn't fall and get hurt, right?" ”
"No, it's okay, sir, the little one still has to move wood, if it's late, the owner will be punished again!"
As he spoke, the young man got up in a panic, limped to the front of the log, and when he lowered his head, his body suddenly leaned forward, and he fell to the ground again.
"It's all like this, what else are you doing, hurry up and send it to the doctor!"
Wu Kaijie hurriedly approached, hugged the young man in his arms, and started unexpectedly light, it seemed to be only sixty or seventy pounds at most, all of them were craggy bones. When he fell, the cushion on his shoulder also fell, revealing a large bruise, the flesh was red and swollen, and blood was oozing out.
"Hey, what a kid this is, it's just a sin!"
Wu Wu Shouye also came to the front and stretched out his hand to take the young man. said: "I'll send him to my house first, and let the doctor treat him quickly." ”
Just as he was about to turn around to leave, a group of young men who were moving wood suddenly stopped Wu Kaijie.
"You wait first, the little one has something to say."
"What do you say?"
"A few masters, moving wood is a group of two, and if you take him away, there will be only a small one. I can't move over, the owner blames me, but it will kill me! You can't save one, you can't kill one! ”
Wu Kaijie frowned and said, "You don't have long eyes, people are going to die, and you still want to work?" ”
"It's not bad to die. A few days ago, his father broke his leg when he was moving wood, and the so-called repayment of father's debts and son's debts is a rule set by Master Shen, and we can't help it! ”
"Nonsense!" Wu Kaijie said: "The regulations of the King of Zhongshan are clear, it is the spare labor that belongs to the businessman, looking at the situation of this child, I am afraid that he has not yet become a child." Why let him work! ”
The man was also anxious when he was asked, "How do I know what regulations that bullshit prince has set, Lao Tzu knows that it is because of him that we have all become slaves of the Shen family." I am tired and tired every day, and if I knew this, I might as well shave my head and follow the tartar. Maybe it could be even better! ”
"You dare to talk nonsense, see if I don't ......" Wu Kaijie raised his fist and was about to fight.
Gu Zhenhua stretched out his hand and grabbed him, and smiled at the man: "You're right, help people to the end, how about I follow you to move wood?" ”
When this man saw that Gu Zhenhua was a head taller than him, strong and powerful, he laughed dryly: "That dare is good." Just looking at your dress, I'm afraid I won't be able to endure hardship! ”
Gu Zhenhua didn't pay attention to him, but casually rolled up the leather robe and put it on his shoulders. He stretched out his hand and lifted the wood up.
Wu Kaijie hurriedly said: "Boss, leave it to me, you can't do this job!" ”
Gu Zhenhua waved his hand, "Don't even think about running, go find wood to carry, and work your muscles and bones, so as not to have a vegetarian meal in the corpse!" ”
"Hey!"
Wu Kaijie, Fang Jianming, and Wu Shouye looked at each other, and they didn't dare to refute, as long as they grabbed a piece of wood from the other people's hands and trotted behind.
These Liba are also interesting to look at, these masters are better dressed than the other, and they are fighting to find guilt, don't they burn their heads?
Gu Zhenhua didn't care about the strangeness of these people, and his heart was churning. Speaking of which, in his previous life, he was also an entrepreneur and knew the madness of capital. It's just that Gu Zhenhua always thinks that the short-term problem will not be so big, even if it is released for more than ten years, it is not impossible to create enough wealth to drive the Manchu Qing away and go back to restrain it.
It's only now that Gu Zhenhua has come to his senses, no matter what time the beast arrives, it will eat meat!
If you don't want to find a way to control zhì, the young man just now is not the first, let alone the last, and even generations will have to pay a painful price.
The logs on the shoulders are heavy, but what is heavier is how to complete the primitive accumulation, let the people pay less, and minimize the smell of blood!
I followed the people all the way to the Shen family's carpentry workshop, and the people here obviously didn't know that the Shen family had changed a lot, and they still conscientiously accepted the wood sent.
The men brought the wood inside and piled it on the ground. A steward with a goatee counted the numbers, then nodded in satisfaction.
"Listen to me, in the next year, there are more people who buy furniture, and more shipments are made, you have to send it three times a day, if anyone can't do it, just wait to go to jail!"
When an elderly man heard this, he simply sat down on the ground.
"If you have the ability, you can send Lao Tzu to prison, eating a bite of prison food is better than being tired to death!"
"Old fellow, put away your rogue style, I sue you, this is the rule set by Master Shen. The coal mine works eight hours a day, and if you don't want to move wood, go to the mine. Don't think that Lao Tzu didn't remind you, it's eating in the sun and doing work in the underworld! Whether your old boy can survive or not depends on creation! ”
The steward said, walked through the crowd, and sneered: "Don't complain, send it twice now, it's just one more time, can you still die?" If you want to be as strong as this one, I don't think it's a problem to move four times a day! ”
The steward walked in front of Gu Zhenhua, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "This friend, don't you look like Liba?" ”
"It's not like you said it, don't I also carry wood!"
The steward laughed: "A little tempered, I think you are good, otherwise this way, I will appoint you to be the head of these people, take care of them, whoever dares to be lazy, who can't move wood three times, will beat me hard, to death!" ”
Gu Zhenhua raised his eyebrows and said, "Then what if I die?" ”
"Hahaha, at first glance, you are a layman, these Liba are good to say, but not good, they are a group of two-legged animals. When our Lord Shen contracted the Grange from the imperial court, they became the slaves of Master Shen, and they were driven by it, do they dare to disobey? The yamen has to listen to the Senior Administration, and if you make trouble, you have to be safe, don't forget that you are eating our old man's military salary, can you not do something for us! ”
The steward swayed, looking up to the sky and sighing: "King Zhongshan is really wise and wise, in the past, these mud legs guarded the fields, and our workshop couldn't recruit people, but now it's different, they all have to listen to us, the power of life and death, who dares to disobey ......"
"Shut up!"
At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the door of the workshop, Shen Degong, who was over seventy years old, had crossed the limit of human beings, spread his two old legs, and sprinted to the front of the steward with a hundred-meter sprint, picked up the crutches in his hand, and smashed them down.
"Brute, you want the old man to destroy the nine clans, and the old man will kill you!"
Two or three crutches in a row, all of them smashed on this guy's front door, the bridge of his nose was smashed, his front teeth were also knocked off, and his face was covered with blood.
"Master, you, have you lost your mind and gone crazy? What are you doing with the villain, the little one is for you! ”
Shen Degong's strength was also exhausted, and he suddenly fell to the ground softly, prostrate in front of Gu Zhenhua.
"Lord Wang, all the mistakes are the fault of the old decay, please open the net, just punish the old decay, and leave a way for the Shen family to live!"
Rajah!
Hearing these two words, all the people present were so frightened that they hurriedly plucked out their ears, for fear that they had heard it wrong, this tall young man was the King of Zhongshan!
The man who was carrying the wood with Gu Zhenhua just now had the biggest eyes, what did I just say!
He suddenly slapped his own mouth hard.
"Let you talk too much, let you find death, let you fart ......"
Gu Zhenhua didn't bother to look at Shen Degong, but snorted coldly inside his nose, and at this time, Yan Yingyuan also hurried from outside.
"Lord Wang, the humble position has ordered the seizure of all the properties of the Shen family, and all their family wealth will be used to compensate for the loss of the people, and Lu Baishun will also investigate immediately, and no one involved can let go!"
Gu Zhenhua let out a sigh of relief and said, "Mr. Yan, you all come with this king. ”
When they arrived at a clean house, they sat in a group with very gloomy faces.
Wu Kaijie said first: "Lord Wang, Shen Degong has done these bad things, lost his conscience, especially the unforgivable crime, he still dares to put the blame on your head, he thinks that he must be severely punished, not killing is not enough to make the people angry, not enough to maintain the reputation of the prince!" ”
Gu Zhenhua was surprisingly calm, and after a while, he suddenly smiled: "Wu Kaijie, when it comes to killing corrupt officials, the most ferocious person is the Taizu of this dynasty!" However, the first county ordered to peel the daylily, and the latter immediately followed up, killing the second one, and the third one was still the same. In the end, even his old man doubted himself, this corrupt official can't be killed, can the profiteer be killed? ”
Yan Yingyuan frowned: "What the prince said is true, but you can't kill it, you can't ignore it." Most of the tax revenue of An** depends on these workshops and these large taxpayers, which is really a dilemma! ”
Gu Zhenhua said: "We should be strict with the law and discipline, King Shen Degong will not let it go, but the workshop cannot be reduced, and the tax cannot be reduced!" ”
Sure enough, it's a dilemma!
"This ......" Wu Kaijie's eyes suddenly rolled, and said: "Lord Wang, I have an idea, just now the news came from the 6th General Soldier of Dongjiang Town, she captured a group of Korean prisoners, you see ......"
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