Soon, several people had arrived at a tea stall on the side of the street.

A few people sat down, and Li Si looked at Tang Tingbai with joy: "Childe, just ask whatever you want to ask, as long as the villain knows, the villain must know everything and say everything." ”

Tang Tingbai nodded and took a sip of cheap tea.

"Brother, that's the case, I just saw that you were in a hurry, do you need to be in such a hurry to work?"

"Besides, look at your sunken eye sockets, yellow muscles and thin muscles, you look malnourished and haven't rested well, can you go to work in this state?"

Listening to Tang Tingbai's words, Li Si smiled bitterly, and there was no longer the joy he had just now.

"Hey, don't tell the boy, the place where I go to work is a ceramic workshop, opened by a child of a family."

"We have very good sales there, so we workers have to work overtime, I don't hide from my son, twelve hours a day, I have to work at least seven hours or more, sometimes it is common to work all night and all night, and I have to stay up for another day the next day."

What?

Seven hours a day? That's fourteen hours.

That's a lot of work.

What shocked Tang Tingbai was that with such a strong workload, it was only a salary of 300 wen per month, you must know that with the development of the economy, prices in Dayan have begun to become expensive.

In the past, pork might have risen to 15 copper coins a catty, but now it has risen to 15 copper coins a catty.

Next, Li Si and Tang Tingbai talked a lot.

These low-level people go out to work, but in fact, their wages are very low.

In addition, there are too many people in Dayan, and you are not satisfied with the working hours and wages, you can not do it, some people are rushing to do it, and some people would even rather earn two hundred copper coins a month.

And Li Si's 300 copper coins per month can only be left with 50 wen.

Now, the workshops opened by those families are all over Dayan, and it can be said that they are making a lot of money.

Of course, they all make money from other countries.

But they have earned so much, but they are still unwilling to improve the welfare of employees, and even use the cheapest labor, which makes Tang Tingbai very dissatisfied.

To put it bluntly, they eat meat every day, but they are reluctant to let employees smell even the slightest smell of meat.

Tang Tingbai sneered, he thought of what Su Zhen said to him yesterday, the current family is honest and duty, and takes the development of Dayan and the improvement of people's livelihood as the top priority, and they are determined to be people's entrepreneurs.

People's entrepreneurs?

Hehe, now it seems, these words are so glaring, so sarcastic, and so bastard.

Tang Tingbai took a deep breath, calmed down his somewhat complicated feelings, and continued to listen to Li Si's words.

Their family of four only eats every day, even if they only eat cornmeal and pickle gnocchi, it costs a lot of money a day.

What's more, the people of Huiyang Street still have to pay a protection fee every month, five cents per person, although it is not much, but it is also the living expenses of the Li Si family for several days.

After all, five yuan for one person, and twenty yuan for four people.

If you dare not to pay it, those ruffians will dare to set fire to your house in the middle of the night.

After listening to Li Si's words, Tang Tingbai's face was not good-looking, and he was a little curious.

"Brother, since there are ruffians and hooligans who have disturbed your normal life, then you should report to the official, and now the Kyoto Yamen should take care of such a thing, right?"

Li Si smiled bitterly, and he nodded.

"Of course, the Kyoto Yamen is in charge, but our Huiyang Street is too poor, and we have reported to the officials several times, and the officials don't even want to come in our street."

"They just found those ruffians and preached for a while, and it would be fine, after all, in the law of Dayan, this is not a big deal."

"However, after those servants leave, those ruffians will retaliate against us even more unscrupulously, and even cripple several of them, but we are just a group of untouchables, a group of small people, who will care about us?"

Speaking of this, Li Si laughed self-deprecatingly: "It's not a secret, in fact, the villain is also a black household, not even a household registration, people like me, there are too many in Dayan, not to mention anything else, it's just that there are tens of thousands of people in this Huiyang street, and there are only a few thousand people with household registration, and the rest are all black households, hey, we are also forced to do it, the little money we earn every month, we can only barely fill our stomachs, we used to avoid paying taxes, but now the emperor has ordered tax exemption for three years, and we now want to change the identity of this black household back again, It's hard to climb. ”

Tang Tingbai nodded.

Indeed, now as Dayan is getting stronger and stronger, the household registration system is also becoming more and more strict.

At this moment, Tang Tingbai's face was not good-looking.

If you want to see the disadvantages of a country, you can't see it when you go to those prosperous places, and only by going to these poor places can you see the most real scenes.

How do you say that?

The hemp rope is broken in a small place.

Tang Tingbai was just about to speak, but at this moment, five young people walked over, led by a bearded and shirtless man.

The bearded man walked up to Li Si with a wicked smile on his face, and said in a weird manner: "Hey, isn't this Li Si, the fourth master?" You haven't paid the protection fee this month, and you still have money to drink tea here, it seems that you have made a fortune. ”

Seeing a few people, Li Si was a little nervous, and hurriedly smiled with a smile on his face: "No, no, this month's protection fee, I will pay it, I will pay it!" ”

As he spoke, Li Si hurriedly took out twenty copper plates from his pocket and put them on the table, with a very humble attitude.

The bearded man smiled with satisfaction, and slapped his big hand Li Si's face a few times, making a crisp sound.

"Yo he, the fourth master is very good at doing things today, and I will go to your house to collect protection money in the future, hurry up, you know?" The bearded man's face was full of disdain.

"Okay, okay, no problem." Li Si nodded hurriedly.

Although he was nodding, Li Si's eyes were full of disbelief and anger, and he had even clenched his fists, but Li Si did not make a move immediately.

He dared to do it, but he had to think about his family.

The bearded man looked at Tang Tingbai who was sitting on the side with disdain, although he looked at this person and was not an ordinary person, but the bearded man was not afraid at all, since he came to Huiyang Street, even if it was a mouse, he had to leave something.

The bearded man sat in front of Tang Tingbai with a big grin, with a hint of threat in his voice: "Boy, where is your protection fee?" ”

Oh?

Hearing this, Tang Tingbai looked at the bearded man curiously: "I don't live here, I shouldn't need to pay money, right?" ”

The bearded man slammed the table.

"Lao Tzu doesn't care if you live here or not, Lao Tzu is the king of Huiyang Street, Lao Tzu asks you to pay, you have to pay, dare not pay, hum, you can try."

Tang Tingbai smiled, not taking the beard to heart at all.

Even, in Tang Tingbai's heart, the bearded man in front of him was already a dead man.

Even the prefect of Kyoto is already a dead man.

Kyoto is under his rule, and there are still ruffians in Kyoto, damn it.

If you don't make decisions for the people, you deserve to die.

Tang Tingbai's eyes narrowed slightly, and his voice became cold.

"I really don't have any money, what are you going to do if I don't pay it?"

Don't pay?

The bearded man's face was full of cruelty, he pulled out a pig-killing knife from his back waist and slapped it on the table: "Boy, you have to pay it today, you have to pay it if you don't pay it, not only do you have to pay money, but it is still many times that of these untouchables, you have to give me twenty taels of silver, otherwise Lao Tzu will cut off one of your claws, not to mention that you are a rich boy, even if the emperor Lao Tzu comes, you have to pay money!" ”

Tang Tingbai smiled, he grabbed the pig-killing knife on the table, and stabbed the bearded man in the shoulder without hesitation......