Chapter 168, Ten cents a day, but only one cent a pound of meat (repair)
“Nurture dependence?”
"Reliance on your own?"
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately frowned, not understanding the meaning of Liu Jin's words.
"Yes, everyone is dependent. Once he develops a dependence, he will lose his ability to be independent."
"Taking relief to the victims as an example, if someone gives them food every day so that they can survive, they will naturally not think of ways to do things or save themselves. They will just wait for you to give them food every day."
"Once such a habit is developed, these disaster victims will have nothing to do, and may even cause trouble. And if so much labor is not put to good use, wouldn't it be a waste of manpower?"
There was no other way, so Liu Jin once again explained the work-for-relief method to Zhu Houzhao, letting him know about this novel disaster relief method.
"You mean we expand our recruitment and recruit all these victims?"
"But in that case, we won't have enough food at all. Now food prices have risen so fast that it's difficult to buy food even if you have money."
After Zhu Houzhao heard the explanation of the work-for-relief program, he immediately understood the core of the work-for-relief program, and after thinking about it, he said.
"No, we don't need more manpower, and if we recruit more people, we will really have insufficient food. Unless five other ships come back with food from North Korea, we can continue to recruit people."
Liu Jin shook his head and said: "Our regular employees have three meals a day. During disaster relief, we don't dare to be so extravagant. This food is too expensive now."
"We can set up several big projects, such as building the road from Tianjin to the capital, building Tianjin Port, etc. For these projects, we will recruit these victims on a large scale. For these victims, we can give them ten cents a day.
wages, or a little more."
"We keep these ten cents in our account, we don't pay them directly. Then, they can use these ten cents to buy our marine fish. Our marine fish sells for one penny per catty. In this way,
, as long as a young man comes to work for us and can buy ten kilograms of fish a day, it is almost enough to feed a family."
"Of course, now is a special period. Just eating fish and meat is definitely not enough. After the other five ships come back from North Korea and bring back more food, we can also put rice in it. This rice is also worth a penny.
Jin, and then limit the purchase.”
"In this way, we can not only achieve the purpose of disaster relief, but also cultivate the good habit of self-reliance among the victims. More importantly, we can also complete the construction of large projects."
Liu Jin slowly told his plan. In fact, if Zhu Houzhao didn't come to Liu Jin, Liu Jin would have already taken a liking to the more and more disaster victims in Tianjin. These are the cheapest labor force. As long as they are given
Those who stutter are willing to give you the labor force to work hard.
If there had not been a famine, where would Liu Jin have found such cheap labor?
The construction of the Tianjin port, the construction of the Maritime Academy, the construction of the cement factory, and the cement road between Tianjin and the capital that Liu Jin wants to build, etc. Without cheap and large labor force, these projects cannot be completed in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
Woolen cloth.
"You can also eat the fish caught in the sea. Otherwise, if you catch so many fish at once, you won't be able to eat them all. If you leave them for another day, they will rot."
Zhu Houzhao's little eyes were shining at this time, and he nodded like a chicken while listening. After listening to Liu Jin's words, he also added.
"Haha, this can be considered one."
When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately smiled and nodded.
There were so many fish caught. In this era of long-term sea bans, the fish resources in the ocean have almost overflowed. A few ships just took a trip to the Bohai Sea and caught more than 100,000 kilograms of fish.
If there were several fishing boats specially used for fishing, more fish would be caught, and then we would really have to worry about the endless fish.
After discussing the details with Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin also asked people to start preparing to recruit tens of thousands of people at once, which involved a lot of things. Fortunately, Liu Jin brought enough managers from Xishan.
In addition to this period of time, Tianjin has also trained a group of new people, and they are all able to use them. This matter is being arranged one by one.
Tianjin City.
As time went by, because last winter the weather was too cold, coupled with the heavy snowfall and extreme cold, the winter wheat harvest in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces resulted in failure and failure.
The farther north you go, the more serious the disaster is. The disasters are the most serious in the northern areas such as Tianjin, Beijing, Yongping Prefecture in Beizhili, etc., and basically there is no harvest.
The winter wheat harvest has failed, and the food supply is insufficient. Coupled with the malicious hoarding of food and driving up food prices, famine has begun to spread, and as the edible food is slowly eaten up, famine has begun to break out on a large scale.
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Tianjin City is also considered an important town in the north, because it is the gateway to the capital and a transit point for water transportation. Therefore, the number of refugees gathered in Tianjin is extremely large, second only to the people gathered in the capital.
At this time, nearly 50,000 hungry people gathered outside the city of Tianjin. These hungry people were better off than the refugees last winter. At least the weather had warmed up now, so they didn't have to worry about getting cold.
Moreover, many victims of the disaster actually had some wealth, but because they had no food, they still had some copper coins in their hands. However, the food was too expensive, and they were reluctant to use the coins in their hands to buy food.
Hunger has been spreading so much that all the trees outside Tianjin have been stripped of their bark, and all the young grass that has just grown has been eaten.
Tens of thousands of victims formed various large and small gathering points around Tianjin City. These gathering points were all formed by fellow townsmen and villages. The victims lay helplessly, hoping that the government would open warehouses to release grain.
, after all, it has been like this in the past. When a famine occurs, the government will definitely provide disaster relief, which is why everyone gathers here.
Although the victims outside are starving to death, there are a lot of food in the city of Tianjin. The government granaries and grain merchants have a lot of food in their hands. As long as the government provides disaster relief, everyone will have it.
If you eat grain, the grain dealer will slowly lower the price of grain when the time comes.
"Dang~dang~"
"Tianjin Port is recruiting people to work, Tianjin Port is recruiting people to work!"
In each area where victims gathered, groups of people came to the victims beating gongs and drums, and shouted loudly while beating.
"Tianjin Port is recruiting workers?"
"I heard that they have three meals a day!"
As soon as they heard that Tianjin Port was recruiting workers, the victims were all excited. They all became energetic and immediately surrounded them.
"Everyone, everyone, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is considerate of the people's sentiments and is preparing to build Tianjin Port, which requires a large number of manpower. He is here to recruit workers. There is no limit on the number of men and women. Anyone who is a labor force can come to work."
"Are they like the people at the shipyard, who have three meals a day?"
Upon hearing this, someone asked anxiously.
"Of course not. Those are the benefits that only regular workers can get. You are considered temporary workers this time, but as long as you work hard and perform well, you can become regular workers later."
"How about the treatment of temporary workers?"
"A temporary worker can earn ten cents for a day's work, but one penny can buy a pound of sea fish, and one day's work can earn ten catties of sea fish meat!"
Originally, when everyone heard that it was only ten cents a day, they were immediately discouraged. But when they heard the second half of the sentence, that this cent could buy a pound of sea fish, and ten pounds of sea fish meat a day, all of the victims suddenly became excited.
My eyes are shining brightly. Sea fish is also meat, as long as it can fill my stomach.
Immediately, the whole scene became heated, and everyone was scrambling for fear that they would not be able to recruit.
