The 10th Cycle –

Chu family compound, living room

"Mingde, Jiang Hong, what problems have you had in the past three days to resettle the displaced people?"

"Have you all summed up the questions? Are all the paperwork ready? ”

Chu Qianqiu appeased the master and the lady, and once again confirmed that there was no problem with the information about the joke.

So he went to the drawing-room, and dealt with the matter that had been delayed for the past three days.

Chu Qianqiu returned to Linghu City from Shangjing, and the big events came one after another, and in just three days, the entire Linghu City seemed to be overturned.

The Dragon and Tiger Chamber of Commerce was investigated by the Yamen, Li Taixuan secretly attacked, and the commander of the bad people in Daxia exposed his true identity, and one major event after another struck, making Li Mingde and Jiang Hong want to get a little first-hand information.

Who would have thought that as soon as Chu Qianqiu summoned them, it was a matter of accountability work, and the knees of the two of them couldn't help but weaken a little.

The lord is really terrible.

It's as if the boss is a senior technical person, and at the same time standing behind you to supervise the work, that kind of mental pressure is instantly filled.

They are under high-intensity work pressure every day, they don't listen to Xiaoqu anymore, they don't drink flower wine anymore, and they know their work every day.

Chu Qianqiu wanted to train the subordinates of these two officers well, so that they could develop efficient work habits and make more contributions to society in the future.

"It's already there, please take a look." Li Mingde hurriedly replied, glanced at Jiang Hong, and both of them let out a sigh.

Fortunately, I stayed up late and wrote it.

"Because of the care along the way, the homeless people are relatively stable and willing to be hired by us."

"We pay a long-term worker two taels of silver a year at the original market price, and the heavy physical work is higher."

"As a result, many local gangs came to the door and wanted to discuss with us, saying that we should not recruit outsiders first, and the price was too high."

"Too high? What's going on? Chu Qianqiu asked with a slight frown.

"Now the price of long-term workers in the market has fallen very sharply, and yesterday it even fell to the level of one or two silver a year."

"We offered two taels of silver to the homeless, and many tooth people came to ask us if we were hiring, and they were willing to contract at a price of 1 tael and 800 yuan, but we couldn't advertise two taels of silver anymore."

Li Mingde hurriedly reported.

The income of two taels of silver is basically the bottom line that long-term workers can maintain the minimum livelihood, which is the result of years of games between long-term workers and landlords in Lingzhou, and has been relatively stable.

Now it has fallen to a tael of silver, which is a dangerous sign.

"What's going on?"

"Why do they think two taels of silver is too high?"

"Tell me more about it."

Although Chu Qianqiu had heard Xiaoxiao mention something similar in the last cycle, he still didn't know the ins and outs of the matter.

When the tooth man comes to contract the work, he will take the initiative to reduce the price, which is new.

"Lord, Senior Brother Jiang knows more about this, so it's better to let Senior Brother Jiang talk about it."

Li Mingde glanced at Jiang Hong and gave up his position.

"Yes."

When did the relationship get better?

Chu Qianqiu nodded, he, like Li Mingde, belonged to the aristocratic background of the Shenwu Dynasty, where can he talk about understanding the suffering of the people.

The most bitter thing in his memory is just that cultivating martial arts is a bit hard, that's all.

Only Jiang Hong, who was born as a beggar, has a better understanding of folk life.

"My lord, do you know who the poorest man in the world is?"

"Nature is the farmer in the field."

"My lord, the farmer in this field is very rich." Jiang Hong said with a smile.

"Oh, what do you mean by that?"

"Although this kind of land has to pay the emperor's grain, pay rent, and pay miscellaneous labor for the yamen, and pay harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes."

"But farming is not an easy job."

"A piece of land takes a year of hard work, but destroying it is simple."

"If the landlord goes too far, some farmers will even destroy the fields and run away."

"As long as those farmers open the cellar in their homes, there will always be rice, noodles, wine, money, etc., and some even have swords and leather armor, and even have the method of spitting the heart!"

"We walked all the way from Yongzhou to Lingzhou, and many of the cottages that were exterminated were pretended to be farmers."

"They farm on weekdays, and if they encounter a caravan of soft persimmons, they will turn into bandits and make a windfall."

"You're right, and then?"

Chu Qianqiu remembered that in his previous life, the farmers on both sides were ruthless, they would build earthen buildings and pillboxes, use artillery, and attack with fire.

The two sides fought, killing and wounding millions, and there was plenty of martial virtue.

Farmers are not stupid fools, they have a unique cunning and shrewdness.

They know that the old man knows martial arts, and they also want to learn it, but they don't have the conditions.

"The most fundamental reason for this is that farming is hard work, and it is not easy to serve a field, but it is very simple to destroy it." Jiang Hong talked eloquently, he was also the son of a landless farmer, so he could only go to the city to beg for a living, and ended up being a beggar.

"Nor are the landlords willing to abandon stable tenants and drive them to a dead end."

"Therefore, the farmers in Lingzhou have accumulated grain for the year, and the family cellar often hides the rations for one to two years."

"The reason why farmers in Fengzhou have abandoned their fields is because the drought has been so long."

Jiang Hong said with some sadness.

Now that there has been a severe drought in Fengzhou for more than two years, even if the farmers are prepared to accept a year's famine based on their past experience, they really can't survive it. (Note: Chapter 499)

A normal farmer will prepare a year's worth of grain, and a prudent farmer will prepare two years' worth of grain.

As for three years' worth of food, it is beyond their means, and they cannot accumulate it.

The continuous drought eventually crushed the farmers' savings, and even the seeds for reproduction were eaten.

So the whole Windy State began to collapse.

"Lingzhou has suffered less disasters in recent years, and the farmer's family is relatively wealthy."

"So compared to the farmers in the fields, the long-term workers are the poorest group."

"Some of them work for a day, get a day's wages, and have no permanent production, they come when they call, and they leave when they linger."

"The dream of many long-term workers is to work for the landlord's old wealth, and then return to their hometown to buy land."

"I'm not afraid of the lord's jokes, when I was a beggar, I wanted to make money and then go home and buy a piece of land."

Jiang Hong said with some embarrassment, he may never have dreamed that he would become the young master of the Sixth Expo, and even by chance, the young marshal who followed the Shenwei Army would have the opportunity to become a big man in charge.

"What's this?"

"I used to just want to buy a manor and live a comfortable life."

Chu Qianqiu said with a smile, and then motioned for Jiang Hong to continue.

"My lord, so the long-term workers are the hardest, they are the most sensitive to recruitment, and they are also attached to some martial arts halls and tooth people, crowding out people from other places."

"Yes, you've done a lot of homework, and I'm satisfied." Chu Qianqiu praised it, which moved the two of them, if he knew that Chu Qianqiu would wait for a cycle, he would become a master of this knowledge, I am afraid that he would regret it.

"But the senior brother thinks it's very strange, the speed of the long-term workers' crowding out is too fast, as if there is some pusher behind the scenes." Jiang Hong said this, and decided to stop at the point and give the opportunity to perform to the senior brother, in order to express the friendship of the same senior brother.

After the last time they worked together, the two have quickly reached a settlement.

As the saying goes, it is better to settle grievances than to settle them, and under Chu Qianqiu's extreme pressure, they really didn't have the energy to engage in infighting, so they turned hostility into friendship.

"What did you find?"

"My lord, that's right." Li Mingde hurriedly stood up.

"We found some tooth people, who were deliberately spreading rumors that the landlords in Lingzhou were willing to maintain the price of two taels of silver to hire long-term laborers."

"But the displaced people in Fengzhou have fled and are willing to accept lower prices in order to grab their jobs."

"So the price on the market now is 1 tael and 500 wen yuan for locals, while 1 tael of silver for the displaced people in Fengzhou."

"Now the landlords in the entire Lingzhou are at this price."

"It took a lot of work for my subordinates to know that it was the Wang family master of Baixiang Town who was promoting this matter."

"Other landlords thought it was profitable, so they only looked forward to the head of the Wang family, hoping to bring down the price of long-term labor."

"Some landlords and old fortunes also said that the son-in-law of the Wang family is also working as a personal guard with the lord, and everyone is their own people." Li Mingde said cautiously.

It's hard for the two of them to decide on this matter.

I see, this Wang Rong is quite easy to play.

Only then did Chu Qianqiu understand the ins and outs of the matter.

On the one hand, Wang Rong told the long-term workers in Lingzhou that your salary must be higher than that of the displaced people in Fengzhou, and on the other hand, he said that the displaced people from Fengzhou took away their jobs, and they were willing to bear lower prices, so they had to reduce their salaries with tears.

The long-term workers in Lingzhou have suffered a painful loss, and their salaries have dropped by almost a quarter, so they will naturally target their hatred at the homeless people in Fengzhou.

"This old bastard is causing me a mess."

Chu Qianqiu scolded first, but Wang Rong's method is very clever, you can't punish him openly.

Even if it is placed in the previous life, it is a commonly used wrist in major countries, and you need to talk to him about it.

If you can't talk about the law, talk to him about the iron fist.

"You call me all the masters of the royal family."

"I'm going to make a rule for him."

"Let him know that he can't make any money."

"Yes, my lord."

(End of chapter)