Chapter 43: The Tavern
No matter what kind of social form, there will be an unconscious fear and obedience to the person, person, or other creature who holds his own job.
As for those who are able to withhold and grow their own fodder, this fear and obedience should be exacerbated.
This has proven to be inevitable.
Chu Tianshu didn't insist anymore, just left slowly and went to the tavern again.
In the tavern, he ordered two side dishes on his back, asked for a pot of wine, and drank it slowly and warmly.
When it was time for the workers to get off work, the workers walked out of the factory area tiredly, in twos and threes, or in groups or alone.
Many people come to the nearest tavern and order a drink.
In recent days, beer from abroad has gradually gained popularity at the bottom because of its low price and the taste is not as spicy as that of local drinks.
In the past few days, Chu Tianshu hadn't seen too many people drinking beer in this tavern.
Today there are four or five.
After seeing off a wave of customers, the tavern boy said to the account office at the counter, "Why are there so many beer drinkers these days?" ”
"I've also sung about this thing, and it's quite undrinkable, why do they all say it's delicious and comfortable to drink?"
The tavern bookkeeper laughed: "What do you know?" ”
"Whether it's good or not, it depends on who you compare it with."
"Have you ever drunk?"
"Drunk." The wine boy nodded: "When I entered the store as an apprentice, the master asked me to drink it, it was so unpleasant." ”
Most of the local liquor of the Yun Dynasty is very difficult to drink for people who are not addicted to alcohol.
Many people drink alcohol not for the taste of the wine, but for the feeling of fluttering after drinking.
The taste of the sake itself can only be said to be an incidental product.
"This beer......" The bookkeeper took a spoonful of beer, drank it coldly, squeezed out a short "ha" sound of enjoyment from his throat, and then said: "This beer, the taste is bad." ”
"But it also depends on how it compares."
"Compared to the mash you have, of course it's bad."
"But compared to wine? It tastes too good to be better! ”
It tastes more intimate, is cheaper, and can satisfy people's appetite for alcohol.
"I'm afraid all the people who work will drink this thing in the future." The bookkeeper smacked his lips, drank the scoop of beer again, and went to greet the guests.
The tavern was full of people, and the workers were discussing the events of the Yuan King's Day.
Many people want to get together with their families, and some don't care about that day, they just want to make more money.
Occasionally, there were two noisy ones, and then the wine went down to the stomach, and it was soothed.
Chu Tianshu drank a pot of wine and sat in this tavern for three hours.
Sit quietly and don't communicate with anyone, just listen.
The workers are engaged in heavy manual labor, selling their labor power, supplying themselves to the factory as if they were the carriers of commodities, and then leaving the factories when the service time is over, the supply of commodities is complete.
The quality of the products they manufacture has nothing to do with the workers.
Out of the factory, they have nothing to do with what their own labor has made.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for them to have any initiative and subjective initiative to improve their "skills".
Unless it's sick, or itchy.
This is the same as Chu Tianshu working for Chen Wangfu and Qi Yingzhi and Qi Zhongliu, the two sisters and brothers.
At the specified time, on specific occasions, he will do what the other party asks, and he doesn't care if he is beaten.
But out of that environment, Chu Tianshu couldn't think about how to serve the young master better, and it couldn't be how to complete Miss Six's instructions faster.
Whether it is Chu Tianshu or these workers at work, they are two completely different existences from "Chu Tianshu" himself, or the "workers" themselves.
So, occasionally, when workers talk about what happened in the factory during the day, most of them are resentful.
The people in the factory, the things in the factory, the work in the factory, are not very wonderful meetings for the workers.
When it is mentioned, there will be some resentment in it.
This is normal.
But it is also rare to mention things in the factory.
It's more about looking forward to your own life.
Closer, it's the situation at home.
Some have saved up money and want to make clothes for the whole family.
Some are planning to buy themselves a new pair of shoes.
Some of them plan to bring their families for a good meal.
Chu Tianshu listened to all kinds of words for three hours.
On the whole, the workers do not have a particularly good outlook for tomorrow and the future, but they are still acceptable.
And there's a bit of acceptance.
That is to say.
On the whole, even these workers who do hard labor actually live a generally acceptable life.
Although it is not beautiful, it is true that it can provide for the needs of a family, and there is no great calamity.
This is also a characterization.
One, the market size is expanding, and the lives of industrial workers are becoming better with it.
And, interestingly, the workers did not make a single boastful statement, nor did any one whimsically say how much money he would be able to save in a few years, where and where he would buy a house or a locomotive, marry a beautiful concubine, or buy a white-skinned slave.
This is, most importantly.
Because in the period of expansion and ascent, it is difficult not to have an illusion.
When the market size of an industry is expanding, the relevant personnel are benefited by the expansion of the market, and most of the income shows an upward trend.
Many people's income has increased several times and several times.
Under such stimulation, it is difficult for people to maintain such sanity.
These workers generally have a low level of education, relatively shallow knowledge, and lack entertainment in life.
After drinking, it didn't swell up?
There wasn't much bragging, and there weren't fights because bragging about each other's conflicts.
Not even drunk drunk.
That's simply not right.
Chu Tianshu didn't believe that everyone had such strong self-control.
Before the tavern closed, Chu Tianshu drunkenly put his shoulders on the shoulders of the wine boy who was helping him out, closed his eyes, and snored.
"Old man Zhu, old man Zhu." The wine boy shouted, a little unable to bear Chu Tianshu's weight: "Come here and help, this person is drunk." ”
"Really?" The bookkeeper came out from behind the counter: "Really drunk?" ”
"Isn't this nonsense? It's all snoring, it's all asleep! ”
"Yo, that's not easy."
"This uncle drank a pot, right?"
"You don't care how much he drinks?" The wine boy was dissatisfied: "Come and take a hand, I can't bear it, I'm almost exhausted." ”
"Alright, alright." Zhu Shufang took Chu Tianshu with a smile: "This is indeed drunk, as heavy as a dead pig." ”
"Put him in our inner room?" The wine boy asked.
"Just lock him in the inner room, put some water, bring your urinal in, and then lock the door outside, lock him, and ask him to pay for the wine tomorrow morning, and add more wine money to him by the way, and say that he was drunk and ordered two dishes and a wine."
"That's good." The wine boy clapped his hands: "Let's divide this money equally!" ”
"Go, go, the idea is what I think, I want seven or three points."