Chapter 99: A passionate speech
Cheng Si was also in the crowd, and when he heard Qian Yu gather everyone, he also came.
As the initiator of this incident, Cheng Si believes that he has done nothing wrong, he just relies on a reasonable way to let him and the neighbors he grew up with more compensation, which is the most normal in Datong, and he has a clear conscience.
As for the old village chief's principle of knowing and repaying kindness, it has long been outdated. People die for money, birds die for food, the villagers are busy, the wealth created is certain, and they want to share more, so they can only grab it from someone.
No, Cheng Si still felt uneasy, because he heard that Qian Yu went to visit Li Hu yesterday.
Cheng Si hates Li Hu the most, this guy has been like this since he was a child, he can't do anything well, he always has some strange ideas, and he is very bold, if he doesn't pay attention to it, he will follow his own ideas.
Li Hu's ideas are wrong most of the time, so he can always make a lot of mess.
At the beginning, he and Li Hu went out together to find a way to live, but when Li Hu washed dishes for a restaurant, in order to pursue efficiency, he had to work with both hands at the same time, and as a result, he knocked down the bamboo basket that held the plates......
The owner didn't say a word, and directly beat him away, and he also suffered a lot of beatings.
Later, he put aside Li Hu and went it alone, and heard that some time ago, this goods burned out the charcoal kiln of the main family, and accompanied the main family for half a lifetime of savings, and then came back in disgrace.
thought that after this incident, Li Hu would be able to restrain himself, but he made some cement. The rooster immediately dispatched people to build a cement kiln, and the output of red bricks plummeted.
He deceived his superiors and subordinates to pick out some red bricks to sell, and he could have made a lot of extra money, which was good, and his financial route was cut off. That's why he was angry and intercepted Li Hu's bonus and drove him home.
It's not that he has any deep hatred with Li Hu, on the contrary, the two are still good brothers who grew up wearing open crotch pants. But no matter how good a brother is, as long as he gets in the way of everyone's money, he has to kick you out.
What is the purpose of Qian Yu's visit to Li Hu? You don't want this person to take care of the brick kiln, right? This is too pitiful, with his temperament, don't think about making another half brick!
Soon Cheng Si was happy again, and he would soon leave the group and go it alone. What Li Hu does has nothing to do with him, maybe he burns bricks and burns them, and he can sell more!
In this way, in the battle between heaven and man, Qian Yu walked slowly with a slow pace.
Standing calmly on the simple high platform, Qian Yu looked emotional. Some time ago, this was this place, he was almost roasted into a suckling pig by the fire, but he didn't expect that in just a month, his status changed and he became the highest talker in this land.
"Hello everyone, there may be villagers who have just returned from other places and don't know me yet. Let me introduce myself, my name is Qian Yu, and I am the legal representative of this salt well! ”
Although they didn't understand what the legal representative meant, the villagers looked at the salt well that had been dug into a big pit, and their eyes were full of loneliness. For whatever reason, they could no longer see the moss-covered well that had grown with them.
Qian Yu naturally didn't know the mood of the villagers, he continued: "Some time ago, the old village chief gave me the salt well and asked me to give everyone a bite to eat. As it turned out, I did. Especially recently, a lot of red bricks have been burned, and they have also made a profit, in addition to everyone's food expenses, there are still some surpluses. Next, I would like to ask Hesui to announce the income and expenditure of the village these days. ”
After drinking the prescription prescribed by Qian Yu, Hesui's condition has been greatly alleviated, although she is still weak, but seeing her skillfully fiddling with those accounts, she knows that it is no longer a big problem.
He Sui walked up to the high platform and met the eyes of the villagers, with a look of shyness and calmness.
"Hello everyone, since yesterday evening, all the expenses in the village, including but not limited to food expenses, tool purchases, wages and bonuses for brick-burning workers, etc., have cost a total of 13625 yuan of silver, the total income from selling bricks is 16928 yuan, and the remaining accounts are 3323 yuan."
The audience suddenly made an uproar, thirty-three taels and three coins, which were exchanged for more than 30,000 copper coins. It's only been a few days, has the big guy made so much money? It seems that brick burning is really a good business.
Qian Yu shook his head, you must know that there are nearly 1,000 people in Yunxi, and nearly 600 people participate in labor, although most of them are women, but these people work all year round, and their strength is greater than him.
Qian Yu calculated that in terms of a strong laborer, the value created by burning bricks a day should be between one hundred and two hundred, and there are fewer women, and there are more than fifty yuan. Today, more than half of the people here are digging salt wells and building salt works, and later some people are building cement kilns. There is only input and no output in this area, otherwise the income will never exceed this number.
He coughed lightly: "Everyone has also seen that we have begun to make profits, and we will definitely make more money after a while." So here's the problem, you must be very unhappy to make so much money and I just have to provide food to everyone, right? Well, whoever wants to be dissatisfied can say it in front of everyone! ”
Everyone was silent, including Cheng Si, who made the most trouble.
People are so strange, when they are not allowed to speak, one is more energetic than the other, and they let them speak freely, but they don't say a word.
Qian Yu began to name him: "There is a person named Cheng Si, I heard that he is very dissatisfied with the current situation, I don't know if he is here?" ”
Everyone looked at Cheng Si, and Cheng Si saw that he couldn't hide, so he simply stubbornly said: "It's me, I'm just not convinced, what can you do?" ”
Qian Yu was not angry: "Not convinced? Tell me, what's wrong with you? ”
Cheng Si gritted his teeth: "I burn bricks for a day, I can earn more than 100 yuan, you only take care of three meals a day, although I increased the salary of ten yuan and two bonuses, but if you can get a bonus, you can't even get a CD, how can you be convinced?" ”
Qian Yu ignored Cheng Si, but looked at the crowd: "Who else is not convinced?" They all stood up and said it. It's okay, they're all folks, and it doesn't matter if it's wrong! ”
Still no one spoke.
Qian Yu shook his head: "It seems that only Cheng Si dares to say it?" I know that if you don't say it, it doesn't mean that you don't have an opinion, but everyone is embarrassed.
Let me speak for you! In addition to the small salary, what you are not satisfied with is that I have allocated a large number of people to dig salt wells, build salt works, and burn cement, right?
These people haven't earned a penny until now, and if they have this energy, if they are replaced by burning bricks, I am afraid that they will not earn thirty taels now, but three hundred taels. Right, right, or not? ”
A sentence can be said in the hearts of everyone, looking at the expressions of these people, how can Qian Yu not understand what they mean?
He smiled and said: "Maybe you don't believe it, the salt works you are building now, the cement you burn, is definitely more profitable than burning bricks." I asked everyone to burn bricks, not to borrow this to make a profit, its purpose is to relieve the shortage of funds.
Although red bricks are widely used, there are many people who can burn bricks, especially in the brick kiln village, we burn bricks in large quantities, presumably the other party has received the rumors, and will take a series of measures, and the red brick business is estimated that we will not be able to do it for long.
The purpose of saying this is not for anything else, but to tell you that what I am doing now is planned, not done blindly. ”