Chapter 151: Another Bunch of "Blank Promises"
"Factory father! That cement ...... It's just amazing!
When mixed with water and sand, it solidifies quickly!
Wait two or three days, and it will be as hard as a stone, and you can't break it with a hammer! ”
"Got it!
You're a big man, even though you're full of energy, don't be so excited!
It's so loud that my ears are buzzing! ”
Wang Li didn't raise his head, concentrating on drawing something.
Song Zhe was full of doubts, and looked at it for a long time, but he was still confused.
"Gonggong, what are you drawing...... Cannons, or new warships......"
"Poof......
The tea that Wang Ligang drank squirted out more than a foot away!
I didn't learn to draw, but I was so bad at drawing?
I draw a squatting urinal, how did it become a cannon?
Can you still imagine a warship?
Your brain hole, I'm speechless!
If I could design a new type of warship, I would have ruled the world long ago!
"Who's that...... Get a few masons and potters, we're going to recruit them again!" ”
When it came to recruiting conscription, Song Zhe was very excited!
Every time he recruited, he stood on a high place, raised his arms and shouted, and the people were all grateful!
Almost, you have to compare him with the "9,900-year-old master"!
This posture really feels like a king in the world!
It's much more spirited than the second master of the West Factory!
And Wang Li is still not interested in "reigning in the world"!
The only fun is to make money!
Of course, there are also the eight uniques of Qin Huai that are in my heart!
When the cement was made, Wang Li's first thought was not to build bridges and cities, nor to build palaces, but to make squatting toilets and toilets!
The toilets of this era are really ...... It's hard to put into words!
It's better in winter, but in summer, you can only hehehe!
Just like Chengdu in June, the toilet is really sour!
It stinks!
Maggots are everywhere!
Flies and mosquitoes are flying all over the sky!
Once you go to the toilet, you have to vomit out the overnight meal!
Even though I have a night pot or commode, I always feel like I can't pull it out!
Asking the maid to pour the night pot or commode is a matter of course, but Wang Li can't do it!
I always feel that it is still comfortable to squat!
There is no Internet and mobile phones, and squatting in the pit with a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" also has a sense of ceremony!
Although, the plot and dialogue inside will be memorized a long time ago!
It should be possible to sell cheap squatting toilets and toilets made of cement and high-end squatting toilets and toilets made of clay for different people.
Wei Zhongxian, a few plates are sold overseas, and they can be sold for one or two silver!
If squatting toilets and toilets are sold abroad, won't they be sold for a few hundred taels of silver?
Clay and glazed high-end goods, no one here in Sichuan will do it!
However, under Wang Li's guidance, it only took three days for the mason to make a squatting urinal out of cement!
It's very rough, there is no "backwater bend", and the color is not good-looking, but Wang Li is very content!
At least, there are decent ones!
Dig a strip from the bedroom to drain the water to the latrine, and the inside is hardened with cement and sand, which is very simple!
It's also very simple to cover the squatting toilet and seal the gaps with cement!
In just seven days, a modern "bathroom" is complete!
It would be perfect with a water pipe and flush tank!
Don't worry, take it one step at a time!
"Factory man, how can there be a toilet installed in the bedroom!
Isn't this destroying Feng Shui?
Moreover, toilet in the bedroom...... I always feel ...... Somewhat...... What the ...... is that?"
"Beauty, if it's a cold day, you have to go all the way to the toilet, aren't you cold?
When you go to the toilet on a hot day, doesn't it hurt for mosquitoes to stare at people?
Aren't maggots all over the ground disgusting?
Do you have a night pot or commode in your bedroom, does it smell good?
Geomancy?
Oh, I never believed in Feng Shui!
But ......."
Wang Li looked at Liu Ruyan, seemed to remember something, and pointed to the surroundings of the squatting toilet: "Buy some more green bricks and come back, let's build a wall here, here and here, and install a wooden door!"
That way, you won't be embarrassed! ”
"Factory, you are still thoughtful! Hee-hee......"
"Who's that, hurry up and recruit 20,000 conscripts!
According to the recipe sent by Chen Zuoting, I will continue to produce cement! ”
After that, Wang Li hired another mason and continued to guide them in making toilets and bathtubs.
At the same time, Song Zhe was recruited.
"Factory father, do you really want to build a "model room" in Chengdu City? ”
"Repair! Must be fixed!
Do I have a time when I look away?
The floor of the model house must be smoothed with cement!
The walls of the model house must be made of green bricks, and the inside and outside are plastered with lime to make them snow-white!
The roof of the model house must be paved with glazed tiles!
The position two feet above the ground must be partitioned with wooden planks painted white;
Standing indoors, you can't see a single beam or tile!
The bathroom of the sample room must be in the master bedroom!
The drainage ditch of the latrine must be reinforced with green bricks and cement, and must not be exposed to the surface!
The public toilet of the model room should also be built according to the standard of the master bedroom! ”
Wang Li crackled and said a lot, although Song Zhe wrote it down, he was still full of doubts:
"Factory, if you follow the standard you said, even if you build a hall and four houses, plus a fence, a yard, a kitchen, a pigsty, a chicken coop, or something, it will cost five hundred taels of silver!
This kind of house is not looked down upon by rich people, and ordinary people can't afford it, so what's the use? ”
"Damn! If you want to build, you will build!
I have my own plans for who to sell to!
By the way, all the brick and tile workshops in Shuzhong have been closed for me!
The craftsmen in the brick and tile workshop are all gathered together for me!
Just near Chengdu, build me twenty large brick workshops! ”
"This ...... Not quite right?
A while ago, some people wanted to build their own brick kilns, and the West Factory had agreed, and they also collected taxes......
What we say in the West Factory, we can never take back the ......"
"Well...... It's simple: just like the silk weaving workshops in Suzhou and Hangzhou, give them a little silver and buy them all! ”
"That'...... According to the meaning of the factory, I'll try it! ”
Song Zhe took the order, and Wang Li shook his head disdainfully.
Scold!
Who said that my "model house" was repaired and sold?
Is it good for my model house to sell squatting toilets, toilets, bathtubs and cement?
If you want to transform a rich family into a clean and convenient "bathroom", you have to buy a squatting toilet and a toilet, right?
You have to buy bricks and cement!
These things are all produced by the West Factory!
It's hard not to make money!
However, this model house is not impossible to sell!
Yes!
About half of the people in Sichuan have no land and have basically become "wage workers"!
How much silver is their broken thatched hut worth?
That kind of broken house can marry a wife, it's just unreasonable!
That's right!
Can guide the people to buy high-priced silk satin, can't it lead them to buy "model houses"?
In fact, the model house is simpler, and the people's families can still afford to buy more than ten years of silver!
Even if you can't afford it for a while, you can provide a "mortgage"!
Our West Factory, some are silver!
Buried on the island and won't give birth!
If you can make money, it's the best!
It is indeed a good way to make money by letting people spend decades and use the efforts of two or three generations to buy a house!
But......
People in this era, whether officials or ordinary people, like to "save money and save food", and there is no concept of advanced consumption!
Let them overdraft their income for decades to buy a house, and they have to think of a way!
Thereupon......
At the gates of the yamen of various states and prefectures, countless people were talking again.
"Where in the West Factory...... Ordinary people who have served without interruption for 20 years can receive a "pension" of one or two pieces of silver for free every month? ”
"Oh my god! Can you get a tael of silver a month? It's ...... More reliable than raising five sons! How is this possible? ”
"That's right! How can it be?
Serving in the West Factory, there is an income of one or two silver per month, and the family does not have to worry about eating and drinking!
After serving 20 years of conscription, can you really receive a tael of silver for free every month? ”
"Huh! If it is a notice issued by the county magistrate, maybe it is fake!
However, this is the notice of the West Factory!
Xichang has spoken, when is there a fake? ”
"There is no falsehood in the message! But how many people can do it if they want to serve 20 years of conscription "without interruption"?
Twenty years!
Can't stop!
How do you plant your family's fields?
How do you repair a house when it collapses?
Who can serve twenty years? ”
"Damn! Your baby's name is "Zhang Guaer", what a melon!
In the West Factory, there is an income of one or two silver every month!
Since you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, you still have a woolen field?
Your two shabby huts are worth half a tael of silver?
Do you spend a few months renovating your hut, or do you live in a tent in the West Factory and continue to serve as a conscriptor for money? ”
"Damn! You're a melon!
I'm on conscription, and I can live in a tent!
But, what should the mother of the family do?
What about the wife and children at home?
When the house collapses, where do they live? ”
"Well...... A problem indeed!
Zhang Guaer, you are still very smart, thoughtful! ”
……
At the gates of the yamen in various places, the people's discussions reached Wang Li's ears, and they were naturally overjoyed!
For the plan of "receiving a pension" in 20 years, the people are still looking forward to it!
They still believe the notice presented by the West Factory!
As long as the people have no worries and want to do "real estate" business in Sichuan in this era, there is still a drama!
The most worrying thing for the people is that during the period of "uninterrupted servitude", no one cultivates the fields at home, and they are afraid of being fined for abandoning the wasteland!
At the same time, I am also afraid that the thatched hut at home will collapse and my family will have no house to live in!
In fact, the launch of "pension" is just a prelude to "real estate"!
At this time, the "pension" promised to the people is nothing more than a yellow mouth and white teeth, a blank check!
Twenty years, what are you kidding?
Twelve years later, when Li Zicheng or Huang Taiji arrived in Sichuan, I would have already rolled up and left!
Your "pension", find Li Zicheng or Huang Taiji to go!
However, the people's worries are precisely the purpose of the "blank check" - so that the people have no houses to live in, even thatched huts!
At the same time, let the people have no land to plant!
Not even wasteland!
In this way, they can only be attached to the West Factory!
For a set of "model houses" and "pensions" in the future, I can only do coolies for the West Factory for more than ten years - until Huang Taiji invades Sichuan!
So, it didn't take long for a few more "heart-warming" notices to be posted at the door of the yamen.
"From now on, all the people who serve in the West Factory will be temporarily transferred to the West Factory at a price of two taels of silver per mu;
At any time, you can redeem your land for three taels of silver; ”
"From now on, those who have served two years in the West Factory will be provided with a temporary dormitory;
Those who have completed five years of conscription service will be provided with two temporary dormitories;
No matter how long they have served in the conscription, they can rent a temporary dormitory for 500 dollars a month;
However, the number of temporary dormitories to rent should not exceed two! ”
The notice also specifically mentions that the "temporary dormitory" is clean and hygienic, with doors and windows, which can be ventilated and does not leak rain!
There is also a West Factory Jinyi guard to patrol at any time, free maintenance at any time, very safe!
As soon as the proclamation came out, the people of all states and governments were all boiling!
The idea of the people is very simple!
As long as there is one person serving in the West Factory, not only will he have a monthly income, but also a house to live in!
If there are two people in the family serving in the West Factory, it is two dormitories!
The whole family can live in it!
If you have too many family members, you can still rent it!
There can be up to four dormitories, which is more than enough!
Such a dormitory also has free maintenance from the West Factory, which is much stronger than its own thatched hut!
The most important thing is to temporarily transfer the land in your hand to the hands of the West Factory, and there will be no worries!
I am no longer afraid that the "twenty years of conscription" will be interrupted!
Twenty years later, you will be able to receive a monthly pension!
Xichang is really the food and clothing parents of the people of Sichuan!