Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 669, Dispatch Workers
This city is regarded as Cao Cao's proud work. After arriving at Crab Island, these wealthy nobles escaped, but when they thought that they would only be trapped on this small Crab Island in the future, their spirits were completely dissipated. , people have also become decadent. The heads of these powerful families and their clansmen occupy their own small life on this crab island, trapping themselves in a small world. It can be said that they are extremely frustrated.
This is something that is unacceptable to Cao Cao. Now his base is composed of members of the noble clan. If they become decadent, his power will definitely decline. If he wants to become decadent, he must at least wait until he has completed the construction of Crab Island. .
But if he wanted to cheer up these people, Cao Cao had no good way. Finally, Xun or thought of a way, which was to gather the power of all the families on the island and build a new city based on the pattern of Luoyang City to show that they The Han Dynasty was not completely destroyed, so as to boost the spirit of the army.
Originally, Cao Cao didn't think that people from the noble families would take this seriously, but he never expected that Xun Yu's proposal would be recognized by all the noble families on the island. For the direct descendants of these noble families, most of their lives would be different. They spend all their time in Luoyang, and Luoyang City is their real home!
Now that Luoyang City in the Central Plains cannot go back, it would be good to build a Luoyang City on Crab Island to leave a lasting memory. So the noble families who fled to the island concentrated all their efforts to build this city, which took several years to build. , now it has three aspects of Luoyang City.
Cao Cao and the others named this city built in imitation of Luoyang City Luojing!
Liu He followed Cao Cao and walked all the way in the land of Luojing. As he looked and recalled, he found that this place was no different from Luoyang back then. You must know that Liu He also studied in Luoyang back then and stayed there for more than ten years. Later, he became an official Ju Shizhong also stayed in Luoyang City. It can be said that he has been in Luoyang for half of his life. His feelings for Luoyang are extremely deep.
It's a pity that the big man's world is over now, and his feelings can only be suppressed in his heart. Today, I saw this city that is almost exactly the same as Luoyang City. Even the mansions of each family are the same, with only a few After replacing it, he said to Cao Cao: "Sure enough, it is somewhat similar to the original Luoyang City, but it is a pity that the prosperity is no longer there!"
Cao Cao showed a wry smile and said, "It's just a thought!"
Then he approached Liu He and whispered: "This can be regarded as leaving a spark to continue the legacy of the Han Dynasty!"
Liu He was speechless. Cao Cao could say such things, but Liu He, as an official of Daqian, could not say such things!
"In this aspect, I am not as good as Xuande. I gave up long ago. Now I just want to build Luojing to support myself in old age. This city is probably the only thing I can do for the rest of my life, but Xuande is still here Work hard for the great man, even if you are trapped in the wilderness!"
Xu Wei was trying to increase the output of steam engines, and Liu Bei did not do anything. After he led his men to escape to Jiaozhou, they were squeezed out by the local powerful in Jiaozhou. There was no way for the big man to be saved. Shixie and others in Jiaozhou did not want to go back. They continued to fight against Daqian. They wanted to make a deal with Jiaozhou and Daqian to retain their family property.
Under such circumstances, they naturally don't want Liu Bei to stay in Jiaozhou. What if Liu Bei lures Lei Gong here? By then, they will have no bargaining chips if they want to trade.
And Liu Bei was not polite to them. Although he only had more than 20,000 remnant soldiers and defeated generals, he had experienced the war after all. Although the Shibian people had more than 50,000 soldiers and private soldiers, they had never fought in a war. Regardless of the opponent who was a veteran of the Central Plains War, Liu Bei did not exert any force, and the Jiaozhou coalition army was defeated by Liu Bei!
The seven counties of Jiaozhou were occupied by Liu Bei in this way. Of course, Liu Bei had a hard time. These wealthy nobles were local snakes. They were no match for Liu Bei in field battles. However, Liu Bei could still rely on the geographical advantages to defend him. The current Jiaozhou can be regarded as a replica of a small group of heroes. The Daqian side is also looking for ways to support the powerful people in Jiaozhou, hoping to wait until they have fought hard before taking over Jiaozhou!
And Cao Cao knew that after Liu Bei was defeated for thousands of miles, he was still in awe of how he could unite his army to fight!
The two of them walked all the way to Luo Jing's mansion. After the host and guest were divided, Liu He was followed by two colleagues, and Cao Cao also came to sit with Xun You and Guo Jia!
Liu He solemnly said to Cao Cao: "We have agreed to your proposal and we plan to recruit 10,000 civilian workers to be dispatched to Crab Island to solve the problem of labor shortage in Youzhou! You can recruit people now and will go to Youzhou in June. Quanzhou County Wharf, and then join the summer harvest, and the recruitment time is tentatively set for one year!"
Cao Cao and Guo Jia had smiles on their faces after hearing this. They didn't expect that this matter would be so easy.
Xun You said: "I wonder what the months are for these dispatch workers?"
Liu He said: "Based on the efficiency of the barbarians over there in Daqian, your dispatch workers are temporarily priced at 500 yuan a month!"
Guo Jia frowned and said: "It's too low! According to Jia's understanding, workers who carry bags at your Daqian terminal can earn more than 1,000 yuan a month, but our dispatch workers here only have half that. Isn't this price too high?" Low?"
"This is high enough. It's not like we have never found savages to do work. According to the experience in Yizhou, savages are lax, lazy, and often make mistakes. The things that three people can do are not as good as one big man. They do it efficiently, and they can only do some simple physical work. To put it bluntly, the efficiency of the savages you got is not even as good as some big animals. 500 yuan a month is already considered high." said Cao, the Foreign Affairs Department. Official Chen Aihua said firmly
Xun or immediately explained: "There are no savages here on Crab Island. They disappeared as early as five years ago. Some are ordinary people. These people have been trained by us for many years and have mastered various farming skills. They also know how to do some simple carpentry, I can guarantee that the efficiency of these people will not be lower than that of a Han commoner."
They have all been reduced to selling their labor force. Of course Cao Cao and the others wanted to sell it at a good price. 500 yuan a month was okay before the Han Dynasty, but for the large cadres who are now short of labor, the minimum wage standard Already in the thousands, this price is really too low.
Of course, Cao Cao and the others can earn 500 yuan, which is 5 million yuan in a month and 60 million yuan in a year. Such a huge amount of foreign exchange is enough to solve most of the problems of Crab Island. At least they have money to buy big guns. With the machine, tens of thousands of cows can be purchased. Cows are more efficient than people. Their labor force here is not reduced but increased!
But if they can get more, why don't they fight for it? If they get 10 more dollars now, they will earn 100,000 more dollars. In the future, when the number of dispatched workers is expanded to 100,000, they will have an extra million dollars. This is a number that can do a lot of things.
"You don't have the final say on this matter. Now it's a buyer's market. It's us who have the final say," said Li Aimin, a clerk in the Foreign Affairs Department.
These words made Cao Cao and the others look ugly. Thinking that they were all-powerful figures back then, but now they were belittled by a small official with a few hundred dan. Cao Cao even wanted to walk away, but he thought about it and held it back.
Li Aimin continued: "This is not that we are bullying you, but we are stating the facts. If there are other choices, we will not want you dispatch workers, because you have no idea what bizarre things they will do and what they will do." No matter what kind of mistakes they make, this kind of thing happens too often in our workplace, and we have to spend a lot of money to train them!"
Guo Jia said: "We have already trained them. Even the dispatch workers here can speak some simple Chinese. They are completely different from the savages you captured!"
Liu He said: "Brother Meng De, even if you train these people and let them understand some common sense, the people here are only a little over five feet. My twelve or thirteen-year-old children are only as tall as this. Height, brother Meng De, you said that their work efficiency is the same as that of my wealthy people, do you think this is possible?"
Although Liu He was born as a scholar, he was an eight-foot-tall Hebei man. When he just walked through Luojing, he looked like a giant traveling with ordinary people who were five or six-feet tall.
Cao Cao looked embarrassed when he said this. Cao Cao was already relatively short among the Han people, but when he came to Crab Island, he was still considered a little giant. From here, you can see that the people of Crab Island are very short!
As for the children of Dagan, although most people cannot drink milk and eat beef every day, they can still taste it occasionally, and thanks to the low price of food in Dagan, few children have gone hungry these years. Now that I can eat well, my child's height and weight have continued to grow over the years like blowing up a balloon.
The later a child is born in Daqian, the taller he will be. Many children are already taller than their fathers. So Liu He said that 13-year-old children in Daqian are taller than ordinary people here. This is not true. Nonsense.
Cao Cao thought for a while and said: "How about we look at the actual results. If this group of people cannot meet your requirements, we will calculate it at 500 yuan a month or even reduce their salary. But if it exceeds your requirements, I will I won’t change the salary. I just ask you to give me some bonuses. I believe you will keep your word.”
Liu He, Li Aimin and Chen Aihua nodded to each other and agreed!
At this time Xun You said: "I want to use the first month's salary of these dispatched workers to buy some cattle and sheep, iron farm tools and your new steam engine. If possible, I would also like to buy one."
Li Aimin frowned and said: "We can't do the things you want to do. We explain fair trade and those dispatch workers help us do things. The monthly salary we pay is to them, not to you.
One more thing I want to explain to you is that there are no slaves in our Dagann. Even the savages we bought or captured are not slaves, but ordinary people. We will still know how to do things they do. Paid."
Li Aimin's words greatly disappointed Cao Cao and the others. They sent 10,000 people to work in Daqing because they wanted to earn foreign exchange, not to make these 10,000 people rich. If they couldn't make money, then he would rather not send them. These 10,000 people were sent out.
At this time, Guo Jia immediately said: "We also agree with this, your monthly salary can be paid to them personally!"
After there were no problems, Cao Cao signed an agreement with them to dispatch workers. The job was completed, and Liu and the others left.
At this time, only Cao Cao, Xunor and Guo Jia were left in the hall.
Cao Cao said a little angrily: "Fengxiao, why do you agree to the request of the Dagan people? If we can't get Gan from the dispatched workers, we won't be giving them labor in vain."
Guo Jia smiled and said: "Lord, as long as they can make money, we won't have much trouble collecting them. We can find ways to collect some fees. After all, we are the ones who decide who to send to work. We are the ones who decide who to send to work." For the owners of dispatched workers, half of their monthly salary is not too much. We can sell the rest of our land on Crab Island to them. As long as their families are in our hands, we can always get the money from their hands. Came here.
Cao Cao suddenly realized that except for a few cultivated areas, most of the land in Crab was abandoned. If he sold it to dispatch workers, he could really get a lot of money back.
Xun Yue worried: "It's fair to take out food over there in Daqian, but here we are trying to find ways to get the money they earn. If things go on like this, my subordinates are worried that the hearts of these dispatch workers will be on the other side of Daqian, and they will stay in Daqian directly." , we have lost both talents!”
Cao Cao said firmly: "That's right, Wen Ruo, when you send them, you have to find a way to send people whose families are here. You must not send those who are single, as long as their families are here. I don't believe they still have the guts to escape.
Guo Jia thought for a while and said: "Wen Ruo reminded me, Lei Gong always loves the people. We can't do it so nakedly. At least we can't use such a blatant method to take away the money from the people. After all, it's a big evil. We can no longer work as dispatch workers.
We have to find a way to keep the money from the dispatched workers on Crab Island. The lord can be more generous. If we want 10,000 cattle, we don’t necessarily have to buy them ourselves! The same goes for our people’s purchases. They can only use them on Crab Island. On our crab island.”
"We also need to arrange officials to manage these dispatched workers and guide them to buy the things we need on Crab Island. As long as these things are on the island, if they have a piece of land on the island, do they also need to buy cattle farming tools, etc. If they buy these things, they must give them to their families to cultivate the land, so doesn’t it mean that we own them ourselves!”
Cao Cao frowned. According to his inner thoughts, these are his serfs. They are lucky to be able to feed them. Now they are allowed to have their own land and property. This makes Cao Cao feel that he has suffered a big loss. But when doing business with Da Gan, it’s hard to set the bottom line too low!
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