Chapter 53: Grumbling
The Spring Festival, the most important festival for the Chinese, Nanri Island is naturally not exempt from customs, except for the necessary vigilance cruise, Yu Xiaotian ordered to stop all operations to the sea, of course, excluding the black-headed group sent by him to Taiwan Island to investigate.
According to Yu Xiaotian's requirements, the leaders of the sea wolf tribe arranged the rotation, and they all rested, and they were nervous for most of the year, except for Yu Xiaotian's wedding, they rested for a few days, and now during the festival, the troops are relaxed.
According to the different levels of the subordinates, Yu Xiao Tianming Council Hall gave each of the subordinates red envelopes of different sizes as an additional reward for them in the past six months, and at the same time ordered the council hall to allocate the reserve of wine and meat to the barracks to add meals to the subordinates.
The Seawolf tribe was naturally very satisfied with such benefits, and in addition to these, everyone also received a new set of winter and summer clothes, which allowed them to change into new clothes.
If there are families on the island, every family will also give them some extra oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, salted fish and salted meat, so that the families of the tribe can also have a good year.
In addition, for some of the guards stationed outside, such as the garrison of Nangantang and the defenders of Treasure Island, Yu Xiaotian did not forget them, and sent people to send them over with double the rewards they should give, and at the same time doubled the wine and meat sent, and asked the prostitutes to send a few prostitutes with the ship to "condole" them.
This kind of welfare treatment has never been seen by the Shark Gang before, so the sea wolf tribe from top to bottom is very satisfied with Xiaotian's generosity, and they have invisibly gathered them a lot.
Some of the merchants landed home, including some of their buddies also went back to the land for the holiday, which made the commercial port area seem deserted, but several liquor shops and prostitution houses and casinos opened by the council hall were more lively during the Chinese New Year.
What can the Seawolf tribesmen who have been given the opportunity to take a rotational break, especially those who are homeless, do after receiving salaries and rewards? These people will naturally carry the money they have in their hands and go to casinos, wine shops, and prostitutes to spend money, so that the wine shops and prostitutes are full day and night, and business is overwhelmed.
This can make the prostitutes in the prison very busy, and they hardly have a chance to breathe throughout the day, lying down and standing up and then lying down again, and they are tired and complaining for days.
But this kind of thing is the matter of the prostitute shopkeeper and the old bustard, Yu Xiaotian naturally will not ask about this kind of thing, he abolished the original prostitution, let those public prostitutes choose to stay, those who are willing to be good let them be good, and those who are not willing to be good and want to do this business can go to the prostitution on the island to place an order, and the sea wolf is responsible for protecting their interests and allowing them to earn more silver.
As for the casino opened by the council hall, it is another source of wealth for Yu Xiaotian, since ancient times, there is no casino that does not make money, many gambling addicts, the front foot received the silver, and the back foot rushed into the casino, although some people were lucky, won the silver and came out of the casino happily, but most people still lost a mess, and the blink of an eye returned the money to the council hall.
Moreover, the rules of the Nanri Island casino are that they will never owe debts, never borrow, and they will leave if they lose all of them, and they are not allowed to gamble in the casino again.
Yu Xiaotian had to deal with the congratulatory ministers every day, and at the same time, he was distracted and took Mrs. Lan'er to the island's subordinates, craftsmen, and people to make so-called condolences.
Needless to say, the craftsmen are the root of Yu Xiaotian, and the sea wolf will grow stronger in the future, relying on their craftsmanship, so the people have it, and they also have it, but the amount is a little less, every household also has firewood, rice, oil and salt to send over, so that they have no worries about food and clothing, and each family sends an additional piece of cloth, so that they can make some new clothes, anyway, they have money in their hands, if it is not enough, they can also go to the commercial port area to purchase it themselves, so their life is not bad compared to when they were on land, It also reassured them a lot.
Especially for the new immigrants and former fishermen on the island, Yu Xiaotian specially asked the council hall to prepare some materials and send them as gifts for the festival.
In addition, for the immigrants who have just immigrated and have no security in life, Yu Xiaotian told them that he can't bear to watch these people have a cold and shabby festival, and each family will send more or less rice salt and a small amount of salted fish, at least so that they will not go hungry for the festival.
Such measures made the new immigrants and old residents of the island almost drop their jaws in surprise, this kind of thing was unthinkable for them before, but they didn't expect that after Yu Xiaotian entered Nanri Island, he would treat them so leniently, so that many new and old residents are grateful to Xiaotian, the pirate leader, and people's hearts will naturally stabilize.
At least during the Spring Festival on Nanri Island, no one on the island has been out of cooking, let alone starving to death, for civilians, their minds are very simple, who is good to them, who is bad to them, they naturally have a rod and scale in their hearts, Yu Xiaotian treats them so leniently, they will naturally gradually follow Yu Xiaotian, not to mention that they will rely on Yu Xiaotian to survive in the future, so now if someone wants to replace Yu Xiaotian, it is estimated that the ordinary people on these islands will not agree.
Some people are not very happy about Yu Xiaotian's "extravagance and waste", such as Ma Feng and a few other people, who think that the money that Yu Xiaotian has spent at the moment is something they have worked hard to earn back, and they should be given more to them, but now they are being scattered by Yu Xiaotian to those useless civilians, and they are simply using their money to buy people's hearts.
But this kind of person didn't dare to vent this emotion easily, so he could only complain in private, and during the festival, Ma Feng found Wang Hong and Fang An to drink, and mentioned it.
"I said the third brother, the fifth brother, you also talk about it, we are working hard, we are tired like dogs every day, and it is not easy to make some money, but now the big boss is not using this money for money, and he is going to do some useless things!
Tell me that now that we are on the island, he will get so many ordinary people to come here, and he will take care of them to eat and drink, and it is better to share the money with the big guys, why bother to do these useless things? Isn't this a lot of money to burn when you're full? ”
After Ma Feng drank a few bowls of wine, he began to complain to Wang Hong and Fang An.
Wang Hong glanced at Ma Feng, glared and said, "I said Lao Wu, can't you be idle for a while?" Who is the big boss? What can he do? Do you have to get your consent first?
Besides, you can see for yourself how our brothers are doing now that the big boss has come here. Who still makes us angry every day? Let's just eat and do things, those chores and bad things that we used to take care of, now the big bosses have taken over, how are we doing this day?
You kid just don't be satisfied, you always feel that this is not that or that, and you always feel that people are sorry for you! Tell me, how much silver did the big boss give you for the Chinese New Year? In the past, when we followed Zhang Hu, who cared about us during the New Year's holidays? At most, it's just a good meal together!
You kid save it! I can see that our big boss is not a mortal, follow him, I, Wang Hong, always feel that there is a rush, is it possible that you still want to change to a bastard like Zhang Hu to take us to do things? ”
Ma Feng was reprimanded by Wang Hong, very unhappy, bowed his head and drank sullenly and stopped talking.
Fang An stopped Wang Hong and didn't let Wang Hong continue to count Ma Feng, and then said to Ma Feng: "Old eight! You're going a bit too far!
I have been watching this person for so long, he is very knowledgeable about how to advance and retreat, and he can basically make a bowl of water flat for the brothers, never deduct and treat the brothers badly, and give everything that should be given to the brothers!
Although you can't get used to seeing the big boss spend so much money, but you don't think about it more, the big boss does it with great meaning! What do we seawolves lack now? It's not a lack of money, it's a lack of people!
Now we can walk sideways in the area here, but the big boss is right, we can't just look at the present, we must be prepared for danger in times of peace.
At the moment, we can go to the land to procure something, but what if the government turns against us in the future, what if we are short of food?
Therefore, the big boss thought of this and brought so many immigrants over, just to open up the island for farming, and at least meet some of our needs!
In addition, there are more people on the island, who do they live on? Isn't it up to us? The big bosses are good to them, they will naturally be grateful to us, if someone wants to get along with us in the future, who will the people on the island look to?
And the fishermen of those fishing villages, you can also look at it, I used to see us like mice and cats, hiding and walking! And now? Seeing that we were talking and laughing, they went out to sea to fish, and when they saw that there was any wind and grass, the fish were not fighting, and they all ran back to report to us!
Why is that? You also think about it, isn't it because the big boss is good to them? In the past, we were always afraid that people would attack us, and we had to arrange a lot of sentinel ships to keep an eye on us every day, but now? It is enough to send up to four sentinel boats a day, and the fishermen on the island are keeping an eye on us, what are you afraid of?
You have also seen what kind of person the big boss is, after he came, he repaired the ship, built artillery, blacksmith shop, carpentry workshop, garment workshop, and opened a salt drying factory......
Who of us has thought about this before? Now you see, we can cast cannons by ourselves, and what we cast from the beginning was the Hongyi cannon, isn't this the big boss doing it? Who of us dared to think about this before?
The heart of the big boss is very big, far bigger than our heart, with such a person, we have a head, I dare not say that we can follow him in the future to worship the prime minister and get ahead, at least we will have more face than before in the future!
Eighth brother, it's not the third brother who told me about you, your temper really has to change! Don't always feel sorry for you, do a good job! ”
After Ma Feng heard Fang An's words, he had to roll his eyes, nodded and agreed, put aside the topic, and then drank with Wang Hong and Fang An.
(Last night was good, I didn't have another fever, keep it updated today!) In addition, thank you for the tip! )