Of course, if you ignore the shore, the tens of thousands of slender men are struggling to drag the boats, shouting slogans.

The heavy hemp rope made long marks on their shoulders, and over the years even the shoulders had become darker than ordinary people, sweating profusely, dressed in shabby clothes, and selling manual labor on the river bank step by step, slowly pulling the huge boat to the river bank.

Then this is indeed a quiet appearance.

"The eldest prince, once these two ships of goods are transported back to the Dachang Empire, they will be sold at least tenfold, and the above is here to congratulate the eldest prince, this time you can make a lot of money, I believe that even the head of your family will definitely appreciate the eldest prince, and your position in the family is unshakable."

On the side, tens of thousands of slender men were struggling to pull the big boat, but a few personable rich children on the bow of the boat were talking, and there were red-sleeved maids and servants beside them.

This scene is like two worlds, one heaven and one earth.

"Haha, Shopkeeper Zhou, this time I can make a lot of money, I can buy so many goods, thanks to the help of Shopkeeper Zhou, you can rest assured, when I return to the family, the business with Shopkeeper Zhou will definitely be on the agenda, I believe there should be no problems, and I will ask Shopkeeper Zhou to take care of you in the future"

Wang Gongzi talked eloquently and laughed.

As the young head of the Wang family, he has always been in charge of the family's business on the western coastline, and even so, he has not been too relaxed.

After all, there are not many other things in the big family, but there are a lot of intrigues, and they all want to compete for the position of the head of the family.

For Wang Gongzi, although he has the identity of a descendant, if there is no way to suppress the side branches, then he will naturally lose power.

Don't think that in the big family, everyone is amiable, in fact, within the big family, there are no fewer things to fight each other and fight with each other than in other places.

After all, where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, and where there are people, there will be grievances.

And there are only two ways to convince the whole family.

Either he becomes an official in the imperial examination, as long as he can become an official, then naturally there is no problem.

With the rebirth of an official position, it is enough to protect the entire family, which is absolutely no problem,

In addition, it is to show business talent and earn enough money and benefits for the family, only in this way can the family be happy and convinced.

To put it bluntly, it either brings power, or it brings money

As the eldest son of the Wang family, he originally wanted to study for the imperial examination, but now the people of the Dachang Empire are struggling and extremely corrupt, and it is not a simple matter to step into the official road, and it is even more dangerous. And he wasn't suitable for studying, so he thought of another way, which was to make money for the family. A lot of money.

In order to help his son consolidate his position, his father arranged a very good route for him, which was about the Haishang trade in Haishang City.

Don't underestimate this Haishang trade, although not the entire family went to the whole family, but for Haishang City, after their things were transported to the Dachangchang Dynasty, they naturally needed to sell them

And the Wang family was able to eat this cup of soup, which is quite a remarkable thing.

As long as he can buy a large number of goods directly, he will sell them when the time comes. If nothing else, it's definitely priceless, and it's something that doesn't have any problems at all

Of course, it is precisely because of this that there are many businessmen who have taken a fancy to this businessman.

Like this, you can make money after changing hands can be said to be a sure deal, who can master this line is equivalent to mastering a cornucopia, the young master of the Wang family took over this business by virtue of his father's relationship, it can be said that he made a lot of money.

This time, he bought the cargo of three ships, and the cargo of these three ships was enough to make him make a lot of money, and even make the entire family shut up

After all, being able to bring money to the family is the real one, and everything else is fake.

It is not easy to maintain it within the big family, otherwise where can you raise so many maids and so many slaves. Family. Where there is money, you can put money in the year of the disaster, or buy the fields of ordinary people.

Do you really think that all the money is blown down from the wind?

Shopkeeper Zhou laughed, lowered his eyebrows and hurriedly spoke

"That's of course, that's of course, I will ask the eldest young master of the Wang family for more help in the future"

Shopkeeper Zhou knew that his ability was not very strong, so he climbed to the Wang family, this time it was money, effort, and a lot of things. In order to be able to catch this line

As long as they take this line, even if these goods of the Wang family slip out of a little bit, it is enough for the Zhou family to enjoy it. Drink spicy, it can be said that no one is stupid"

This is especially true in the mall.

Soon the two big boats were slowly pulled to the shore, and the many slender men breathed a long sigh of relief, and fell directly to the ground, panting vigorously.

They do some hard work.

Young Master Wang and Shopkeeper Zhou got off the boat, and someone had already run over, covering the ground with planks and other things.

After all, the banks of the river are full of mud, for these nobles. It's a muddy place, and it's not worth it to get your clothes dirty

Many servants carefully led Young Master Wang and Shopkeeper Zhou directly to the side, there was already a special courtyard for them to rest, and some slender men on the side wiped the sweat on their foreheads and watched these dignitaries walk by, and hurriedly and carefully avoided them.

People still have to be self-aware, if such a dignitary is offended, I am afraid that their entire family will be ruined, which will be cruel to say, but in fact it is true.

Although under normal circumstances, these dignitaries and nobles will not care about these ordinary slender men, to put it bluntly, they are not eye-catching.

But it is undeniable that if anyone is arrogant or in a bad mood, if you offend them by any of them, you will be in trouble."

Like these dignitaries, they won't tell you anything about benevolence, righteousness and morality at all, and as for praying for the help of the government, it is even more impossible

There have been since ancient times. The yamen is open to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are grievances, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Because Bohai City has a port next to the canal, there are many people who rely on the port to eat

And it is not easy for many slender men to beg for a bite to eat, and they have formed guilds.

In fact, to put it bluntly, they are the major gangs. The people of these major gangs would negotiate with the officials in the port and then distribute their shares. Today you can tow a boat, tomorrow they can tow a boat

There is a way that the rain and dew are evenly wet, but it is also maintained

But again, there is no such thing as a free lunch, since it is these gangs who talk to each other. The old nature of the gang will have to eat and drink to their heart's content, and everything that is left will be given to these slender men

To put it bluntly, what these slender men do is a manual job, and it is very cheap money

.What did you say?

I think it's unfair, it's okay if you don't want to do it, if you don't do it, you can leave, you must know that you don't do it, there are capable people in these years, and there are a lot of people who want to make this money, p

To put it bluntly, there are no job skills and no job positions.

If you want to survive, if you want to support your family, you can only do it, even if the price is low.

The port of Bohai City is now monopolized by three major gangs, each of which monopolizes the main cargo pulling work in the port of Bohai City

They are the Iron Tiger Gang, the Jiao Snake Gang, and the Coolie Gang!

Among them, the Iron Tiger Gang is composed of local gangsters, and with the advantage of the local snakes, they occupy a share

The Jiao Snake Gang is a gang formed by the backing of government officials. It is the highest status in it, and it eats the most and has the most oil and water.

The coolie gang is composed of some coolies who do not rely on either side, and these coolies dare to fight and kill by virtue of their large numbers, and finally snatched a piece of meat in Bohai City

Of course, it was only a piece of meat, a piece of the smallest meat, but even then it was enough for them to eat and wear, at least not to starve to death.

These three gangs monopolized the work of the porters in the canal port of Bohai City.

Originally, it was just that, after all, everyone is doing some hard work, being able to mix and be full, and being able to have a bite to eat, but I forgot one point, that is, people's hearts are greedy, and people's hearts are selfish.

For the three major gangs, since they have rights that can be distributed, they want to do this job. There are many people who want to be slender men, and they will naturally squeeze them

Whether it is the Iron Tiger State or the negotiation, the gang's treatment of the slender men can be said to be harsh, as long as they can starve to death

Other. If you want to take more, it's a matter of death, it's not realistic at all

, In contrast, coolies, the help is slightly better, after all, they are all from bitter families, and they can give the slender man a little better treatment, but with the passage of time, this so-called good has also begun to gradually deteriorate.

There is a saying that once a person has power, once he has disposable interests, no one will dislike having more money.

Zhao Zhi was dragging the rope hard, but after only a few days of work, his shoulder had been completely torn apart, and he grinned in pain every night, but he had no choice but to pounce on it with simple herbs, so as to prevent the pain

Hauling a boat is indeed a hard job, but it is not something that ordinary people can do.

"It hurts, it hurts a little lighter, it's really painful, I didn't expect it to be so tiring to carry the goods, it's really thanks to you being able to do it"

Zhao Zhi grinned. The people around me put the medicine on them

"This is the simplest herb. Haha, it hurts, it's okay, you're hurting because you're not used to it now, wait for you to work for a while longer, if you can persevere, then naturally there will be no problem, and your shoulder won't hurt at that time."

"I think it was the same for me back then, but it took me a long time to get used to it. After all, there is really no way for ordinary people to be able to do this job."

It was a man who spoke, he was smiling, the five big and three places had become dark due to the perennial rope, and he looked like a simple and direct man!

"It turned out to be Brother Tree Root, thank you so much, I didn't expect it to be so hard to be a slender man"

Zhao Zhi said hehehe, took some plasters from the hands of the five big and three rough men in front of him, and put them on his shoulder, and felt a little more comfortable.

"You're a newcomer, of course you're not used to it, and you'll know it after a long time."

Zhao Shugen laughed, the one in front of him was Zhao Zhi who came to him a few days ago.

At that time, he was bullied, and Zhao Zhi rushed out to save himself, so the two of them became friends.

Hearing that he didn't have a job, he took it to the coolie and followed him to do coolie pulling

To be honest, this is not a good job, but it is better than nothing, and there are nearly 10,000 slender men in the whole city doing these hard jobs, so it can be said that although the money is not much, at least there is food and clothing.

"Brother Root, I've got my wages back"

The door was pushed open, and several men walked in

They are all relatively young, but they are also dark-skinned, and some of them are still skinny

Obviously, even if you do physical work, you can't grow muscles, because you can't eat well and dress warmly

"Have you already been paid? Great, today our Zhao Zhi is the first day of work. It's a bit hard, let's buy some delicious food for him to make up. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in front of him shook his head and said

"I'm afraid the big brother won't be able to do it"

"What's wrong?"

"Wages seem to have fallen another level this time"

"Wouldn't it? Our wages are not much, and now we are going to fall down, what the hell is going on? If we continue like this, we won't be able to make any money at all, and we won't even be able to afford food."

"It's like, what happened, didn't we say that we could get paid for doing things, but now it's less, so we might as well go to the Jiao Snake Gang and the Iron Wolf Gang, maybe it's better over there."

"Alright. Okay, don't you know? The Iron Tiger Gang heard that the wage price was lowered by 20%, and the Jiao Snake Gang also pressed it by 20%, compared to us, it is only 10% lower here, which is already much better. ”

"Hell, why is this happening? If this continues, this life will not go on at all."

"I can't help it, I seem to have heard that there is a war and chaos now, and there are wars everywhere. A lot of big ships don't get in at all. Naturally, the money collected is small, but the money of the dignitaries and nobles above cannot be less, where does this lack of money come from, and it can only come from our side? ”

It was a young man who seemed to have read a book for a few days, and she sat aside with a wry smile.

As the saying goes, when the country prospers, the people suffer, and when the country dies, the people suffer, although there are some biases, but in fact it is true

Zhao Zhi didn't speak, but looked directly at everyone, and then said cautiously

"If the money is so small, why don't we do it ourselves? If you do it yourself, won't all the wages belong to us, so you don't have to hand it over to the top."