Chapter Sixty-Seven: Two Little Leather Bags
Of course, rammed earth for the city is also helpless, in China, where do you go to find so many big stones? I wonder why the West can't build a city, and it takes more than ten years or even decades to build a castle, while China's city is countless times larger than the castle in the West, but it only takes a year to build it, or a few years to finish, or even if it is not sparing the cost, even a few months can build a city that is countless times larger than the Western castle.
That is, because Westerners do not have the means of ramming earth, the soil they ram out is only mud at best, and the Chinese rammed up the city wall, there is no means of ramming earth, so the construction has to use good stones and bricks, the cost has increased many times, so some castles have not even been built for more than a hundred years, and later let people demolish a few.
Watching O'Neill teach the black big men to use gantry cranes, this is something that the fat man brought over from modern times, a simple lifting tool, in order to put heavy objects that cannot be moved by manpower, such as large stones used to build walls, each piece is more than 1,000 catties, if there is no such a large number of gantry cranes, even if there are so many black big men to help work like now, it is impossible to build such a long section of the city wall as now.
But looking at O'Neill's still unfamiliar movements, the fat man slapped his head fiercely, he hadn't learned much yet! I went to teach the students, and it was strange that the students who taught it could be good.
But speaking of students, the fat man then remembered Nina, he looked in the other direction, Nina was there, as a student of the fat man, she also learned the use of the gantry crane, and was also teaching the big black guys, she was much smarter than O'Neill, after all, she was a child, learning things is learning fast, so she taught more black big guys than O'Neal taught, and the big black guys worked a lot faster, which made O'Neill very hit.
The fat man felt the lack of talent at this time, and was sighing, Nina is coming.
She gave the fat man a teacher salute from afar, which was taught to her by the fat man, as a student of the fat man, the first thing to learn is nothing else, but etiquette, righteousness and shame.
The fat man beckoned, called little Nina over, and praised her twice, little Nina's little face immediately turned red with excitement, and suddenly, little Nina asked: "Teacher, Nina asks, can these black uncles who work here live here after the city is built?" ”
The fat man's eyes narrowed: "Little Nina, tell the teacher, is this sentence what you want to ask, or is it what others want you to ask?" ”
Little Nina didn't doubt it, and said directly: "It was Chief Bubu Allah who asked Nina to ask." ”
"Oh!" The fat man nodded to indicate that he had heard it, and now he suddenly remembered that although it was said that a city had been built here, there seemed to be few people of his own!
Sailors, it's just that he recruited them with money, in case something happens, not to mention whether to fight or not, just spend some money, then you can also buy off all the sailors under the fat man, who can you rely on when the time comes? On your own? Or is it Katarina, who has just established a relationship with him? Or O'Neill? Arthur?
Even if it's all iron, how many nails can you make?
Therefore, the current sailors are very important to themselves, so in this case, they have to envelop the sailors, so now, what is better to use to win people's hearts?
The fat man thought about all the cases that attracted people's hearts in ancient and modern China and abroad, and generally divided them into several types, such as money to open the way, to put his heart in his heart, to be loyal to him, to control his family, and so on.
Like the sailors now, they follow the fat man out to make money, make a lot of money, this fat man satisfies them, but now it is not suitable to take out a lot of money to reward them regularly, the so-called once for the pleasure of the second time for the joy of the three times for the habit, and then you suddenly do not appreciate, that is your mistake, feel that you owe them.
This is the truth of Shengmien's fight against Mimi.
The fat man understood this very well, because he often read a little story: a young man came downstairs, and when he saw a beggar, he gave him ten dollars, and the beggar thanked him a thousand times.
The next day the young man saw the beggar again, and gave ten more pieces, and the beggar was still so grateful, but not so excited.
As the days passed, the young man would give the beggar ten dollars a day, and the beggar was accustomed to the young man giving him ten dollars a day.
A year later, the young man returned downstairs again, and when he saw the beggar, he went over and gave him five dollars.
The beggar stopped the young man: "You used to give me ten pieces every time, why are you only giving me five pieces now?" ”
The young man said: "I haven't been married before, but now I'm married, and my wife just gave birth to a daughter for me yesterday, and I'm going to save money to buy milk powder in the future, so I gave you five yuan less." ”
When the beggar heard this, he slapped him and passed: "Why do you take Lao Tzu's money to support your wife and children?" ”
Of course, it's a story, so Nina is listening to the story.
After listening to the story, Nina thought for a moment, then looked up and said, "The teacher is asking me to pay attention to my attitude towards the black uncles?" ”
The fat man nodded: "You are good to them, the teacher has no objection, but you must be measured, you can't think about everything for them, so that they will feel that this is owed to them, in case one day they don't think so thoughtfully, then they will feel that they have been greatly wronged." ”
Little Nina nodded: "Hmm! Nina will pay attention in the future, then I will go back to Chief Bubala. ”
"It's not!" The fat man shook his head, Nina was still too young to understand the meaning of what he said: "Nina, I mean to treat everyone equally, what does it mean to treat everyone equally, that is, as long as they contribute to us, then he can live in the city just like those sailor uncles, and when the time comes, I will divide some areas and let them live, and I will also let them get on the ship in the future and be my sailor, by the way, you teach them, my language, I found that you are a language genius, I was able to learn my language and the language of the big black guys in a short period of time. ”
Nina smiled and saluted, and went with a little smugness.
This time the fat man was lucky, and when he calculated that there were five days in this world, and the real world was almost dawn and needed to go back, Arthur returned.
Arthur brought back two palm-sized leather bags of diamonds, the fat man opened the bag, looked at the bag full of diamonds, and there were only three words in his heart: "Get rich!" ”
For Arthur and the sailors who went out with Arthur, the fat man would not be stingy, but he couldn't do anything about what Arthur wanted, so he specially asked Arthur to talk about it:
"If you really want a knighthood, then you go back and ask your father, your father Lord William is a wise man, I think he will give you a good advice, and I have a batch of goods, a batch of high-quality perfumes, if they are shipped to Europe, they will definitely get more than a million gold coins, so if you run for me this time, I will bring you a third of this shipment, and then you tell those captains and nobles in Europe that these perfumes will only be sold in this city, Dingyuan City in Cape Storm, Let them bring gold coins and things I am interested in if they want, and come to Dingyuan City! ”
"Your title, when you go back, get your father's consent, let you leave Spain and join my Daming Kingdom, then I will grant you the title, and when you come back, Dingyuan City should be repaired, and at that time, I will knight you and O'Neill and Caterina together."
Arthur was excited, the light of hope for the nobility was ahead, his father, Lord William's knighthood was not hereditary at all, but there was a knighthood, and then there was a fief, which was his dream since childhood, and he was willing to work for it.
Actually, if it is according to his meaning, the one who makes the decision makes his own decision, but what he doesn't understand is that this viscount, who likes to say that he is fat, attaches great importance to the thoughts of his family.
He doesn't understand the fat man's traditional oriental concept, leaving his own country and joining another country, in the fat man's concept, it is not a person's business, it is the whole family's business, in case you are considered treason by this country because you have left this country, and eventually harm your family, the fat man thinks that this kind of person cannot stay under his hands.
A man who doesn't even value his family, will he value his boss?
If he said yes, no one would believe it, whether you believe it or not, the fat man didn't believe it anyway, so he asked Arthur to go back and ask his father.
"Moreover, you go and ask, are there any sailors who are willing to move their families to Dingyuan City, this is Dingyuan City at the Cape of Storms, this is my fat man's place, and it is also their home, as long as it is for me to work, then I have to take care of their lives." The fat man said.
Why did so many big people follow those big names in ancient China, go to the soup and go to the fire, and follow to the death, isn't it that those big people gave their families good treatment, so that they could have no worries about food and clothing, and be superior to others, so they would work hard for these.
There is a good saying, to win a person's heart, it is nothing more than pushing clothes and food.
This is the essence, the essence of this world to want to be the head of the people, is just food and clothing, you let your subordinates have food and clothing, then your subordinates will work hard for you, because if you don't have it, the food and clothing of his family will be gone.
There is another kind, that is, Xiao Yiyi, it is a bit early to say this, but it should not be too long to think about it, because the fat man has two leather bags of diamonds in his hands, although there are only two palm-sized leather bags, but the diamonds in these two leather bags, with the diamonds in the few rough diamonds that are about the same size as the thumb of the foot, and actually the two largest colored diamonds, the fat man believes that with these rough diamonds, it is easy to go back to a small island.
This is South Africa before the Portuguese came! You don't have to dig deep into the ground, you can pick up diamonds on the ground.
The fat man wants to say that he loves this era.
Arthur was gone, bringing with him a thousand bottles of perfume, and a boatload of sailors who were going back to Casablanca to bring their families, and the fat man promised them that as long as they brought their families, then their future might be captains or nobles.
The fat man dared to say such a promise.
Seeing Arthur away, the fat man swept the two leather bags full of rough diamonds in his hand and returned to modern times.