Chapter 165: Li Ke harms others and is not good for himself
The measures in this, if you change people, will die! But Li Ke's words can only be said that the eldest grandson Wuji doesn't know Li Ke's heaviness!
Looking at the information in his hand, Li Ke sneered, he wanted to play, right? You want to stone me to death with money, right?
The gate valve family is rich, but they don't have as much money as Li Ke has now! Paying people money and raising wages, right? I want you to know what it means to be heavy!
In terms of grain, Li Ke is not worried at all, Li Ke has been back for many years, Yuelai Commercial Bank has a large amount of grain in stock every year, and every year the new grain comes down and sells the old grain for storage, these grains are stored in various parts of Datang and have never been interrupted, so he is not short of grain at all.
At the beginning of this year, Li Ke asked Tian Meng to start stockpiling grain before he was ready to implement the plan, and now the grain stored in Shuwangzhuang outside the city is enough for Li Ke to carry out his follow-up plan.
And the eldest grandson Wuji didn't dare to toss the price of grain at will, didn't they jump back and forth on Li Shimin's head against the wind? Don't die fast enough?
As for the wages of the workers! Li Ke sneered, three times as much, right?
Li Ke quickly made a decision, he wanted to play, right? I'll play with you, but he thought about it for a while, he can't raise his salary at the beginning, if he is promoted before the gate valve family, then what if they don't follow directly? Isn't that Li Ke a loss alone? So you have to let them raise their salaries first, and then they will raise them themselves!
And Li Ke still has to promote a wave for them, hehe, do you want to play? In the past, the Datang Weekly was in your hands, and you didn't know how to play, but today I want to let you know what it means to ride a tiger.
As for the salary increase, Li Ke doesn't care at all, you are three times, Li Ke is ready to open five times the salary! It's nothing to earn some money for the people, and it's good to earn for the people! Because now the pig iron production under Li Ke's name has been greatly increased! He must have made a modernly designed curved plough and sold it! Not just other curved ploughs, but other iron tools.
The cost of these iron tools Li Ke is so low that the eldest grandson Wuji dare not imagine it, it is good to raise the money! After the salary was raised, the people were rich, and if they had money, they could afford to buy the iron tools produced in Li Ke's hands, and when they bought them back, Li Ke made a lot of profits, and the people also had iron tools in their hands to use.
With iron tools, their productivity will definitely increase, whether it is a hoe, a pickaxe, a sickle, etc., it is conducive to increasing productivity, and increasing productivity The people will be more profitable and rich, and Li Ke has won a lot of fame.
When they make money and become rich, they will definitely buy things from His Royal Highness the King of Shu's store, and Li Ke will make another profit. In the end, fame and fortune are gained, this is a win-win situation!
If they don't raise the wages of the people, when will they be able to afford the iron tools in Li Ke's hands? Doesn't this affect the speed at which Li Ke makes money!!
After receiving the news, Li Ke immediately asked Tian Meng to pay attention to the salaries of these brick factories and various shops around Chang'an City.
In addition, Li Ke prepared two more articles for the printing house of Datang Weekly, and asked them to prepare two printed editions, ready to be printed at any time depending on the situation.
Time passed little by little, and the surroundings of Chang'an City have always been the main intelligence gathering place of Yuelai Commercial Bank, so the summary speed of the news is very fast, and in two days, Tian Meng has summarized the surrounding news.
There is news from many recruitment locations in the surrounding Chang'an City, and all the craftsmen and coolies in the brick factories and quarries have been tripled in their salaries! At present, the salary standard for coolies is 300 wen a month!
Hearing this news, Li Ke couldn't help but laugh, there are also technical jobs in Datang, for example, craftsmen and masters belong to technical jobs, but coolies are the main work that most of the people do temporarily, because the people can't do technical jobs, they can only act as a coolie under the command of craftsmen.
For example, some coolies who have been working in brick factories and other places for a long time can also be called craftsmen, and their original salary is 100 wen a month, but they can't buy a stone of brown rice. The price of brown rice in Chang'an City stabilized at 120 wen one stone, about 120 catties. And a strong laborer is 100 wen a month, feeding at least 3 to 4 people on average, and 100 catties of brown rice a month, which is really a stable life.
A household is only a strong laborer, and the family can also do some other work to subsidize the family, so they can maintain a stable life and have a little surplus. In ancient times, it was a good life to be able to live smoothly.
In such a situation, all of a sudden, the salaries of the main coolies around me were tripled! It instantly caused a huge sensation among the people! Naturally, the salary increase is to first improve the craftsmen and coolies in the original workshop, and then expand it.
After these craftsmen returned, the news expanded, and as soon as the recruitment was announced, a large number of people would inevitably come!
How will Li Ke play then? The eldest grandson Wuji, they all want to see Li Ke's jokes! Of course, the reason why they can complete it so quickly is also because these places are actually controlled by various gate valve families, and they can be determined by mutual consultation, and they don't even need to buy them.
For the people, this kind of closely related thing is naturally the most concerned, and it is also the easiest to spread, in just two days, the news spread all over the entire Chang'an City, although everyone does not know what happened, but the money is real!
Now that they can suddenly get so much money, some people who were not ready to work are moved! Li Ke deliberately postponed the release of the Datang Weekly for one day, giving the news a chance to fully spread, the eldest grandson Wuji didn't know, but in fact, Li Ke secretly let the local snakes in various Fang cities secretly promote a wave of this salary.
Then, the second issue of the Tang Weekly, which returned to His Royal Highness the King of Shu, was released!
The headline article of the entire Datang Weekly is about the renovation of Chang'an City, which mainly explains the benefits of renovating Chang'an City, such as faster logistics traffic, and the drainage system no longer accumulates rainwater, which does not accumulate and naturally does not rot with those leaves and other debris, breeding diseases.
Many people in later generations know that the medieval and ancient capitals of Europe are really full of "incense". This is why many castles of kings and nobles in Europe were built on airy places at the height of the hill.
One is for better defense, and the other is to avoid these "fragrant" smells.
At the same time, why there was no such phenomenon in ancient China, at least it could not be seen on all the main streets in the whole city, mainly because of several measures, one is that large capitals such as Chang'an and Luoyang have complete sewer systems.
For example, the sewer system built in Chang'an with pottery pipes has been completely preserved for more than 1,000 years, and the underground drainage system has various processes such as diversion and carding, so it can be said that the drainage system of all modern sewers is completed by borrowing from the drainage system of ancient China.
Including foreign countries are also borrowed from domestic! As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, underground culverts such as pottery pipes were used in the capital.
In addition to the appropriate drainage and sewage system, it is also related to the farming talent in the bones of the Chinese, since ancient times, the population of China has been large, and the people have done everything in order to increase food production, and manure manure is a tradition since ancient times.
In Datang, there is a profession called "foot tilter", to put it bluntly, it is the workers who transport manure, they collect manure in the large and small alleys of Chang'an City, and then transport this manure out of Chang'an City, and then sell it to the people who farm around Chang'an City, and the people make fertilizer.