Chapter 123: What Do You Want to Fight Me?
As a modern person, Zhao Hengyi has an extremely clear understanding of the extent to which industrialization absorbs labor.
Especially in this embryonic state of industrialization, the thirst for labor is unparalleled!
There is a shortage of people in the textile workshop, there is a shortage of people for digging foundations, there is a shortage of people for building houses, there is a shortage of people in the kiln factory, there is a shortage of people in the smelting workshop that has just been built, and even the chicken farms that have mastered the artificial incubation technology are short of people!
In the villages adjacent to Elm Bay, all the labourers who can work, men and women, young and old, have been absorbed by Elm Bay.
The old village chief and a group of stewards were in a hurry because they didn't have enough labor, and they couldn't make money with the white flowers!
Nowadays, the young people of the hunting team only train for half a day, and the remaining half day is pulled by the stewards of various workshops and construction sites to help.
The only one who can still stay out of production is the only one left by Zhao Hengyi's unrelenting escorts.
In this situation, Zhao Hengyi, who had just returned to Yushuwan from Gangneung City, reacted quickly.
Previously, the women of Zhoujia Village were only pulled by the stewards of each workshop to work, and their food and wages were the same as everyone else's.
But as soon as Zhao Hengyi returned, he gathered the women together and told them that their husbands and sons were detained in the kiln, and they were prisoners, and they were working as day laborers, and the kiln was only in charge of food, and there was no wage to be earned.
However, if these women are willing to pay a ransom to the young people of Zhoujia Village, then those young men will be able to get their daily wages just like other strong laborers!
The women looked at each other, and no one could take out the ransom of two taels of silver!
Therefore, Zhao Hengyi proposed a method, that is, the ransom can be deducted on credit, and it will be deducted from everyone's future wages, and the deduction is not much, and only ten copper plates need to be repaid every month, with no interest......
Even if it is not depreciated, according to the amount of exchange by the government, two taels of silver is equal to two thousand copper plates!
Ten or two thousand copper plates a month, even if a family of two people work in Elm Bay, it will take more than eight years!
However, the proprietor is benevolent, in addition to the ten copper plates that need to be repaid, how much wages should be paid for the work, and not a penny will be deducted!
According to the wages of Elm Bay, working here, not only can you eat three full meals a day, but you can also accumulate 100 yuan of wages every month!
What's more, there is no interest on the two taels of silver that need to be repaid, and there will never be a matter of paying more and more debts!
Moreover, as long as those young and strong family members in Zhoujia Village are detained, as long as they are willing to work in Yushu Bay, they can help pay off their debts, and each person will pay ten copper plates per month!
Zhao Dongjia, be merciful!
Where is this to make people pay off their debts, this is clearly giving people a way to live!
The villagers of Zhoujia Village, who have been poor for 18 lifetimes, could never have imagined that there was such a good thing in this world!
Now whoever wants to say that Zhao Hengyi is a god in the sky who came down to earth to save the suffering, these people will also be convinced!
The so-called debt repayment contract is completely a means for Zhao Hengyi to absorb the labor of Zhoujia Village into the industrial system of Yushuwan, and Zhao Hengyi does not care how many years it will be repaid.
Because Zhao Hengyi believes that once these people in Zhoujia Village understand what it means to work in Yushuwan, I am afraid they will not be able to get rid of it!
As for the forgiveness of the debt of two taels of silver, it is absolutely impossible.
After all, everyone sees that if these young people in Zhoujiacun who come to make trouble do not suffer a little punishment, I am afraid that other people will be dissatisfied in their hearts, and sooner or later they will cause other incidents.
As for signing the document contract, it was a big gift specially prepared by Zhao Hengyi for Mrs. Zhou!
As the saying goes, come and don't be rude, if the old lady Zhou and the Zhou family don't come forward to stop the people in the village from coming to Elm Bay to work, once they are blocked, this paper contract can come in handy!
It's just that Zhao Hengyi didn't expect that the Zhou family's reaction would be so rapid, and the Zhou family intercepted those young people who were working in the kiln, and less than half of their families moved in.
The guards followed Zhao Hengyi and rode towards Zhoujia Village, and all the only thirty or so horses rode out.
Even if the number is not enough, the walking guards will never be allowed to follow, and the emphasis is on such a style!
The short time he has been in Dayan Country has made Zhao Hengyi understand how to deal with a rich man like Old Lady Zhou.
If such a person is an enemy, he must be intimidated at one time!
Otherwise, it is inevitable that they will secretly think about revenge in the future.
As for the small number of guards who followed him to Zhoujia Village, Zhao Hengyi was not worried at all.
More than 30 guards armed to the teeth, everyone rode fast horses, not to mention a small Zhoujia Village, even if it was the county seat of Dangyang County, Zhao Hengyi had the confidence to kill three in and three out!
People and human strength cannot be measured by quantity alone.
The members of the escort team can not only eat enough every day in Yushu Bay, but even have meat every day, and their nutrition can keep up, and they keep boiling themselves, compared with those villagers in Zhoujia Village who can't eat enough, their physical fitness alone is several times stronger!
All these guards are out of production, and all they need to do every day is how to practice, how to improve their skills, how to cooperate with their companions, and how to destroy the enemy more efficiently!
Even the guards raised by Jiangmen Wuxun's family are nothing more than that.
And all of this is piled up with money.
Zhao Hengyi's confidence comes from this, he has money and is willing to spend money, so his people can win more with less, and they can crush Zhoujia Village!
In addition to being physically strong and skilled in killing enemies, the guards were each equipped with a crossbow, a long knife, a dagger, and many other blades that they were good at or liked.
With these pieces of equipment alone, the cost of each guard is no less than a hundred taels of silver!
These more than 30 guards, even if you don't count the horses under your crotch, are more than 3,000 taels of silver that can move!
Old lady Zhou, something like a dog, his own son, and the eldest son of the eldest house who will inherit the family business in the future are reluctant to spend two hundred taels of silver to redeem it, why should he fight with Zhao Heng!
The rumbling sound of horses' hooves broke the backwater pool that had lasted for many years in Zhoujia Village, and under the horrified gaze of countless people, they ran straight towards the middle of the village, the largest and most beautiful house!
Last night, Ergou's family was arrested into the ancestral hall, Ergou's daughter-in-law and Ergou's mother, and the crying of the two children made everyone in Zhoujia Village tremble, until dawn, the villagers still maintained a strange quiet.
But when Zhao Hengyi and the guards appeared on horseback, the expressions of these people who looked like wood and stones finally changed.
The subordinates of the Zhou family panicked and wanted to stop the horse team and ask what these knights who suddenly broke into the village wanted to do, but they were knocked to the ground by a merciless whip!
"Who is in charge of the Zhou family? Come out and talk back! Where is the second dog daughter-in-law? That woman owes us money to the owner, is it hidden by you dog thieves? ”