Ning Hongwu knocked on the armrest, looked at Liu Shen and said with a smile: "They all eat in the pot of the Qingsha Gang, if you have any opinions, don't hesitate to mention them." ”

"It's just a little bit of a humble opinion..."

Liu Shen got up and arched his hand to the group in the living room, and then asked, "I take the liberty of asking, is the two personal wishes that the helper just said true?" ”

"Nature is serious..."

Ning Hongwu also knew that he grew up under the oppression of the Chishui Gang, and now that he had just integrated into the Qingsha Gang, he didn't understand his temperament and the morality of the Qingsha Gang, so he smiled and said with relief: "Although the Qingsha Gang is reckless, the rules in the gang are very strict, and they have always paid attention to the morality of the rivers and lakes. ”

His voice paused, and then said: "Although I, Ning Hongwu, am not a gentleman, but as the leader of the Qingsha Gang, I can also make a word like white soap!" ”

"Helper Gao Yi!"

Liu Shen's heart was also relieved when he heard this, and then he arched his hand and said: "The two points of personal wishes that the helper just said are easy to solve. ”

"During the Chishui Gang's control of the wharf, they connived at their subordinates to collect all kinds of messy taxes from the wharf shopkeepers, which can be said to be squeezing the shops every once in a while."

"What's more, someone has collected the same tax today, and tomorrow someone else will collect it again, and the shops and merchants who make a living at the dock are miserable."

"This move is called tax collection, but in fact it is no different from grabbing money, it is a method of killing chickens and taking eggs."

"And in the eyes of those dock shopkeepers, our Qingsha Gang and Chishui Gang are both gangs in the rivers and lakes, and there is no essential difference."

"Now that our Qingsha Gang controls the wharf, if the gang leader wants to clean up the atmosphere of the wharf, he only needs to coordinate those shops on the wharf, set an example, set a fixed tax type and tax amount in front of them, restrain his subordinates, and let those wharf shops see the difference between our Qingsha Gang and the Chishui Gang."

"In March or May, I will definitely return to my heart!"

Liu Shen pondered for a while and said, "As for the problem of dock labor, it is simpler. ”

"All they think about is what to eat today? Is there any meat? How much money can I get this month? Can I have a stable New Year when I go home for the Chinese New Year? ”

"I don't mean to look down on anyone, because I myself have been working as porters on the docks for five years, so I know that the laborers under me are dogs, and they are too good to them, and they are lazy; They are too bad, and they complain, and the people are not happy. ”

"The Chishui Gang forced the dock laborers to sign a deed of sale, became a slave, and clearly marked the price of thirty taels of silver to redeem it, now the Chishui Gang no longer exists, those deed of sale are in the hands of our Qingsha Gang, I personally suggest that the gang leader do not return the deed of sale directly to the laborers below."

"Oh?"

Ning Hongwu raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked with a smile: "I can directly return your deed of sale to you, why don't you want me to return the deed of sale directly to other laborers when it is their turn?" ”

"It's not that I'm selfish about it..."

Liu Shen pondered for a while and sighed: "It's just because of human nature." ”

"If a laborer is alone, even if he does not eat or drink, he will have to work at the dock for five or six years before he can redeem himself, and if he has a family, he may not be able to save enough for ten years, twenty years, or even thirty years."

"So for most workers, this deed of sale is already something that is difficult to redeem in this life, and it is dispensable."

"If the helper is kind enough to return those deeds of sale and free them from slavery, those laborers may be happy, or they may not receive this favor."

"After all, no one will cherish what is too easy to obtain, and everyone has returned to their good homeland, and they will not remember how heavy the deed of sale is, nor will they think that the opportunity to return to their good homeland is rare."

"What everyone has is equal to nothing!"

"This is human nature, the inferior nature of human beings!"

“……”

When Ning Hongwu heard his remarks on human nature, his thick eyebrows were already furrowed, and he asked, "According to what you say, our Qingsha Gang has to continue to use the Chishui Gang's method to treat the workers below?" ”

"No, no, no..."

Liu Shen shook his head and said, "I know that the helper is a person who does great things, and I don't want to fall into the mouths of the people because of this, so my suggestion is to lower the price of the redemption funds." ”

"In the Chishui Gang, it costs thirty taels of silver to redeem oneself, and in our Qingsha Gang, it only takes fifteen taels, ten taels, or even five taels of silver to redeem oneself."

"First, for those who want to redeem themselves, the redemption of five taels of silver and ten taels of silver is a threshold that can be touched by gritting their teeth and saving for a year or two, although it is only three or four times worse than the thirty taels of redemption of the Chishui Gang, it is already a difference between cloud and mud, and they have to remember this situation clearly."

"Second, for those who have nothing to do with redemption, although they don't care whether they redeem themselves or not, they still understand the difference between five taels of silver, ten taels of silver, and thirty taels of silver..."

"In this way, whether those laborers want to redeem themselves, or those who have no desire for redemption, they will subconsciously compare our Qingsha Gang with the Chishui Gang, and once many things are compared, the taste will change, which is also human nature."

“……”

Ning Hongwu listened to his 'theory of human nature' and was silent for a long time, and after coming back to his senses, he high-fived and praised: "What a Liu Shen!" What a human theory!! ”

The other people in the living room also looked at Liu Shen with different eyes, as if they had seen something else in this 'wine Mengzi' and 'reckless man'...

"The helper has won the prize..."

Liu Shen politely arched his hand and said: "It's just some personal humble opinions, I can't get on the table, and how to choose has to be decided by the helper." ”

"About the dock shop, you said what I thought."

Ning Hongwu was speechless: "As for the matter of dock labor, your opinion is more comprehensive and more appropriate than I thought. ”

He paused in his voice, then asked with a smile, "Do you have any other opinions or suggestions?" As long as it is beneficial to our Qingsha Gang, you can say it bluntly. ”

"This ......"

Liu Shen's eyes moved slightly when he heard this, thinking of the survival mode of the gangs in the rivers and lakes now, but he didn't know whether to say it or not.

Ning Hongwu saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, and asked, "But what is unspeakable?" ”

"There's nothing hard to say."

Liu Shen pondered for a while and said: "There are a few points that I can't figure out, since our Qingsha Gang has fully controlled the docks in Heyang County, then we have the ability to affect many prices in Heyang County to a certain extent." ”

"We have this ability, why do we only think about fighting and killing and fighting for territory, and looting those low-level mud legs, instead of learning to do business?"

"Those rich merchant ships come and go, and they make a lot of money after a trip, how much money can we collect just by collecting wharf taxes?"

"Take our Qingsha Gang as an example, there are two or three hundred people in the gang, and they are guarding those halls, what kind of reputation can they guard?"

“……”

As soon as these words came out, the living room was quiet...

Ning Hongwu sighed and said, "Why don't I know that I can make more money in business? ”

"It's hard to say, most of these brothers in the gang are rough people who don't know a few words, how can they do business?"

"When I wake up every day, all I think about is helping hundreds of brothers wait for dinner, and if those hundreds of brothers have a family and a room, they have to take care of their families, which can't save expenses."

"And doing business is about losses and profits, we don't know how to do business, so we rush in, in case the business is lost, then how to maintain the operation of the Qingsha Gang? If the gang can't open the pot, how can those brothers still follow us if they run out of food? ”

"As for the brothers in the gang guarding the hall, that's because we collect security taxes from other people's brothels, gambling stalls, shops, etc., and we are responsible for the safety of others."

“……”

Liu Shen was also a little helpless when he heard this, and said: "It doesn't matter if we don't do business, others will." ”

Ning Hongwu was slightly stunned and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"It's simple..."

Liu Shen explained: "After those gentry have accumulated a certain amount of family funds, most of them will train their shopkeepers, and they are only responsible for paying for them, and then retreat to the background as the owner, and hand over the business to those shopkeepers to take care of, as long as they can proofread the accounts, everything is worry-free." ”

"If you want to do business, you can completely copy this model, our Qingsha Gang has the convenience of the dock, and even play some tricks on this basis."

"For example, the helper can completely coordinate those stores to invest in shares, or enlist some local wealthy businessmen and gentry to cooperate, unite into a chamber of commerce, and take advantage of the wharf to integrate the price short market, buy at the bottom and sell high, and tie them to the same boat with interests."

"The simple thing is that we contribute money and efforts, but we don't interfere with other people's business, and when someone's business is profitable, we will take our share of dividends."

“……”

Ning Hongwu blinked blankly...