Since Yan Liang led the army to conquer Sinhala Island three years ago, the frontier of the Daqian Sea has been extended by thousands of miles. This is a great good thing for all maritime merchants who use the Tianzhu Sea Route. , with the Daqian Navy destroying endless Tianzhu pirates, their safety has become more guaranteed.
And Yan Liang and the others had an unexpected surprise. A soldier thought he had discovered a gem mine on the island. Soon, a large number of maritime merchants heard the news and came to buy gems. Yan Liang and the others also had a huge source of wealth.
After knowing that there were gem mines on the island, the maritime merchants also brought a large amount of materials to Yan Liang and others for trading. With these maritime merchants providing logistical materials, infrastructure construction was carried out on Yan Liang Island, including stone docks and giant lighthouses. With the construction of Wubao roads and other infrastructure and military facilities, Daqian's power in Tianzhu grew rapidly. At the same time, he also changed the name of the island to Gemstone Island!
"Hurry up and dig!" Xiao Lang waved the whip and shouted: "Hurry up!"
The whip is cracking from time to time, warning these Tianzhu miners not to be lazy!
The mining area is the most important place on the entire Gem Island. After Yan Liang discovered the gem mine, he captured a large number of Tianzhu people on the island to mine. Maritime merchants often brought young and strong labor forces from Tianzhu to ensure the development of the gem mine. Yield!
It's just that the people of Tianzhu are too sneaky and sneaky. If there are not enough supervisors to supervise, the production capacity of the gem mine will not increase at all.
However, Yan Liang also knew that his behavior was a bit taboo against Da Gan, so he asked the maritime merchants to find a way to get a group of Da Gan people who wanted to make a fortune to work here as supervisors.
Xiao Lang was originally the son of a common man in Yangzhou. His family had hundreds of acres of land, and he had no worries about food and drink. Moreover, he had attended primary school for several years because of the promotion of compulsory education. However, he was not smart enough and was not admitted to middle school. The family did not have enough money for him to attend middle school at his own expense, so his father wanted him to come back and inherit the family business and become a farmer.
But Xiao Lang, who has gained a little knowledge, does not want to live the same life as his father. He longs for wealth, likes to listen to overseas stories, and wants to stay in a city with better living conditions. However, there are limited jobs in the city. It is difficult to find a job in such a situation.
Originally, he had given up and planned to follow his father's instructions, borrow money from the court to prepare for reclamation, and become a farmer for the rest of his life.
But he didn't expect that there were maritime merchants in the city who wanted to recruit some people to work in Tianzhu. When he heard that he could earn 100,000 yuan a year, he decisively signed a five-year contract, and then he was dragged by the merchants to Gemstone Island to become... Supervised the work.
He is supervising the Tianzhu people in these minerals. These Tianzhu people are extremely lazy. As long as they are not seen for a moment, they will definitely be lazy, so that he has to constantly scan around to supervise the Tianzhu people! And the Tianzhu people can only lose weight under the whip. Use slow motion to be lazy, but don’t dare to stop!
"Brother Xiao, it's time to get off work!" A man younger than Xiao Lang shouted!
Xiao Lang replied: "I know!"
Then a group of people came to take over Xiao Lang's class!
On the way, Xiao Lang approached the young man just now and said: "Xiao Lan, there is a new task above. We want us to train a group of Tianzhu people who can talk and serve as grassroots team leaders! I remember that you seem to have learned the Tianzhu dialect and their There is no barrier to communication, you can give it a try!”
Xiaolan shook his head and said: "I won't do it. I'm already tired enough of supervising the work every day. I have to teach these idiots to speak big words. It's too tiring!"
Xiaolan is the youngest among this group of people. He was only 14 years old when he first arrived here. Through communication, everyone found out that Xiaolan was Han before and was from a noble family. Later, his family was moved to Nanzhong by the government. , the family was also defeated, and then he was deceived by maritime merchants for some reason and boarded a ship to Tianzhu to come to this gem island.
Here in Tianzhu, there is no distinction between Han people and Gan people. Everyone is one of their own. But he is the youngest and has a poor background. Everyone takes good care of him.
Maybe it’s because he’s quick at elementary school, or because he’s highly educated. He quickly learned Tianzhu dialect after coming to Gemstone Island. This is why Xiao Lang told him the news. He also wanted to teach Tianzhu. Man, but he doesn’t speak Tianzhu dialect at all!
Xiao Lang heard that he refused and said angrily: "It is said above that one person can get 1,000 yuan for teaching. If you want to teach 100 Tianzhu people to speak Chinese, it will cost 100,000 yuan. This is almost a year's salary. You know this amount The money in Dahan is enough for a family to work hard for several years!"
But Xiaolan smiled and said: "But on Gemstone Island, it is only a year's salary at most, and it may not even cost a year!"
There are almost no gems on Gemstone Island. Food, cloth, and tools all need to be transported by sea. This makes the prices on Gemstone Island several times more expensive than Daqian, and some are even more than ten times more expensive!
However, he asked curiously: "What does General Yan Liang want to do? What does he want to teach the people of Tianzhu to speak Chinese?"
Xiao Lang said: "It seems that General Yan Liang wants to build a lot of infrastructure on Gemstone Island and needs to increase the number of supervisors." Then he sighed and said: "But the general doesn't want to add too many workers, after all, we are too expensive!"
There are more than 6,000 soldiers and logisticians and Han Chinese on Gemstone Island, and over the past few years, they have spent more than 100 million in salary every month, which is more than 1 billion a year!
Gemstone Island is too remote, and the salary is not high so no one wants to come. The salary originally set by Yan Liang was that everyone could earn 100,000 yuan here. Such a high price attracted people to work here, but the person in charge of logistics could earn 100,000 yuan a year. Earning 100,000 yuan, what do Yan Liang's soldiers think?
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Yan Liang had no choice but to report to the court to increase the subsidy for his men. The Jidu court considered that there were gem mines on the island and the place was indeed remote, so it wanted to improve the treatment of the soldiers.
So he agreed to use the proceeds from gems to subsidize the soldiers. As a result, Yan Liang's 5,000 soldiers became the soldiers with the highest salary in the entire Daqian. Even ordinary soldiers received hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, but with such a high salary, this resulted in Even though Liao Yanliang owns a gem mine, he still has a lot of money to spend. If he wants to carry out infrastructure construction, he has to find a way to get some cheap Tianzhu supervisors!
Then Xiao Lang advised: "If you can make more money, make as much money as possible, and then find a way to return to Daqian. You don't want to carry a wild place like Gemstone Island with you for the rest of your life!"
Although there is a lot of money here, it is still a foreign and wild land for Xiao Lang. He has always had the idea of returning to Daqian. Every day he talks about spending the last month here, but he sees his five-digit income every month. I don’t have enough money to save money, but I can’t bear to take such a high-paying job.
Here he is a noble cadre, a middle-level cadre in charge of more than 100 workers, but back in Dagan he is just a farmer's son, with only a few hundred dollars of income every month, or going to the government office to allocate 100 acres From now on, the land will face the loess and the back to the sky.
When he thought of this, he sighed, and then he became determined. If he wanted to make more money here, it would be best to become a millionaire directly, so that even if he returned to Dagan, he could move directly to the city. Live here and become a city dweller.