People throughout Beijing and Tianjin knew that Liu Jin was extremely generous to his subordinates.
Many of the businesses under his command have made money, and not just ordinary money.
Liu Jin was very satisfied, and the other owners were also very satisfied, and they also very much agreed with Liu Jin's management. If you want the horses to run fast, you must feed them well.
So at the end of the year, the year-end bonus is also very generous.
Year-end bonuses for various industries are also being calculated one after another. Everyone has a smile on their face. Even ordinary employees at the lowest level can get year-end bonuses that last for about three months.
The industries under Liu Jin's command have always been the benchmark for emerging capitalists in the entire Beijing-Tianjin region, so everyone has imitated Liu Jin one after another, and everyone knows that Liu Jin has a good management style.
So at the end of the year, the most discussed topic in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area is the year-end bonus.
So-and-so got how much year-end bonus from this company, and how much did so-and-so get from that company.
If you don't get a year-end bonus or something, or if you get too little, the custodian will be looked down upon, which invisibly puts pressure on emerging capitalists and businessmen.
Even if many capitalists like Grandet don't petition, they still have to express it appropriately, unless they don't want to open factories or workshops next year.
In the Ming Dynasty, even servants in the household had to be paid a certain amount of monthly money. This does not mean that the slaves did not need to be paid at all, let alone hired workers and the like.
If you give less or not give, the impact will be great. If your reputation becomes ugly, you will not be able to recruit people in the future, and people will despise you and be unwilling to do business with you.
Reputation is a very important thing, and it is also something that everyone values extremely.
Therefore, even though many employers in the Beijing-Tianjin area are not happy, they have to follow suit. Year-end bonuses must be given out, and it is more or less based on meaning.
What's more, in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, everyone really made money, and everyone made a lot of money.
Whether you are engaged in ocean trading, opening factories, workshops, or opening shops, restaurants, etc., you are making money and your voice is booming.
If you make money, everyone will be happy if you give out some year-end bonuses.
In such an atmosphere, the entire Beijing-Tianjin region began to be immersed in the joy of the festival.
Sun Erniang held her money bag in her waist and walked slowly on the streets of Xicheng outside the capital, preparing to buy some New Year goods for the New Year.
"Rice is here, rice is here, the best in Ming Dynasty is in Suzhou, Jiangnan, and it only costs five cents a pound~"
"It's rice, it's rice. Siamese rice from Siam, South Asia, is delicious and cheap. It only costs four cents a pound~"
The first thing to purchase is naturally food.
In a place where food is sold, all kinds of shouts come and go.
There are many types of rice. The rice from Huguang, Jiangnan, and Guangdong and Guangxi is no longer fresh. Nowadays, there are also a lot of rice from Nanyang. The key is that it is still very cheap.
This reminded Sun Erniang of the time when she first came to the capital a few years ago.
It was also winter at that time, her husband died of illness, and the family could not open the pot. She took her son to the capital for the winter, preparing to go to the capital to beg for food.
The winter that year was very cold. There were so many people coming to the capital to spend the winter that they were not allowed to enter the city. She was a woman with an infant child.
He had no food or drink, was cold and hungry, and was about to starve to death and freeze to death under the walls of the capital.
At that time, she met Mr. Liu Jin, who founded Xishan Coal Industry and gave her a job. He also gave jobs to many refugees, giving everyone hope of survival.
She still remembers that the price of food at that time was very expensive, with a pound of rice costing more than ten yuan. The next year, due to heavy snow, famine occurred in the three northern provinces, and the price of food rose to two hundred yuan at its highest.
A pound of paper is still moldy and rotten.
Thinking about that time and looking back at now, Sun Erniang couldn't help but sigh.
For several years, she has been cooking for everyone here at Xishan Coal Industry, and her salary has increased year by year. Now she can get nearly four taels of silver a month as a woman. It is the Chinese New Year, and she has a year-end bonus.
He even made twelve taels of silver at once.
She is very satisfied with her current life.
I don't have to worry about food and clothing, and my children are already in school, attending a school for children of employees of Xishan Coal Industry, and there are no tuition fees.
"It's better Mr. Liu. Without her, our current life would not be possible."
Sun Erniang chanted Liu Jin and Liu Gongzi again, silently praying for his long life.
"Boss, I have a hundred kilograms of Nanyang Siamese rice, can you deliver it to your home?"
Sun Erniang pulled her thoughts back and asked her boss.
"Okay, okay, no problem. Just leave your address and I'll ask the guy to deliver it later."
The owner of the grain store has a very good service attitude. He is not the former grain merchant. The former core grain merchants can no longer continue their business.
"Okay, just take it to Building 303, Building 8, Xishan Coal Industry Workers' Dormitory, just in front of the room."
Sun Erniang said with a smile.
"Oh, it turns out you are one of our own, so I will charge you five cents less. My brother also works in Xishan Coal Industry. He is one of our own, so I will charge you less."
When the boss heard this, he immediately offered another five cents discount.
"Thank you very much~"
"It should, it should. My store is all supported by us Xishan people. I can't forget my roots."
"..."
After chatting with the boss for a while and leaving money to buy rice, Sun Erniang continued shopping.
Today's capital is not only the central capital, but extremely large towns have also developed in all directions of the capital.
Among them, the west side is mainly Xicheng, which was built based on the original Xishan Coal Industry.
Well, this Xicheng was also built by the Jingcheng profession under Liu Jin. A large number of houses, shops, communities, blocks, etc. were built in this area. The houses were mainly sold to employees of Xishan Coal Industry and Jingcheng Glass Factory.
So here in Xicheng, many people who open shops and do business are from Xishan Coal and are opened by relatives of employees of the Beijing Glass Factory, and they are all acquaintances.
You can do things with confidence. Once you pay, you don't have to worry about them lacking your goods, substituting them as good ones, etc. You can just go home and wait to receive the goods.
"Meat is for sale, meat is for sale~"
"The best grassland mutton is very cheap, only eight cents a pound~"
"Two feet of fat pork only costs ten cents a pound~"
"There are sea fish, there are fresh sea fish. The sea fish just arrived this morning. There are all kinds of sea fish. They are very cheap. Large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker only cost five cents a catty. Whale meat only costs nine cents a catty. This
Whale meat is similar to beef, so don’t miss it if you pass by.”
"It's beef, it's beef, it's good prairie beef, it only costs ten cents a pound~"
Soon, Sun Erniang came to the meat stall area. There were many kinds of meat, not to mention the common chicken, duck and fish. There were also a lot of beef, mutton, and pork that could not be eaten before, and the prices were reasonable.
Very cheap.
Of course, the cheapest ones are the sea fish shipped from Tianjin. All kinds of sea fish are cheap and the business is very booming.
"Boss, cut up two pounds of mutton and one pound of pork~"
Sun Erniang is also very generous in buying meat. Meat is cheap. Of course, the key is that her income is quite good now. Her son Wen Zhang likes to eat meat, so she sells some meat every day.
Eating meat was really a bit far away for her in the past, but it is different now. She can eat meat every day, even every meal. At least sea fish is affordable, and
There are enough fish in the sea.
After buying these regular food, Sun Erniang also started to look at other things.
There are cement roads between Beijing and Tianjin, which are very convenient. Due to the rise of sea trade in Tianjin, ocean transportation is also extremely developed.
Relying on waterways, the entire Ming Dynasty, and even things from Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, constantly appeared in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The rice from the Nanyang region is delicious and cheap; the cattle, sheep and horses from the grassland are fat and fat, and the horses are cheap and are important transportation capacity.
Korean ginseng, rice, Korean horses, and kimchi from North Korea are cheap and of very good quality, which greatly enriches everyone's dining table. Relying on convenient water transportation, these things are continuously transported back to the Ming Dynasty and come to the people of the Ming Dynasty.
among the stores.
Cane sugar from Ryukyu, fur, ginseng and deer antlers from Liaodong, tea from Jiangnan and Fujian, pepper and bacon from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan...
It can be said that everything in the world has been brought to the Beijing-Tianjin area through the increasingly convenient and developed water transportation, resulting in a great abundance of materials.
This is the most intuitive feeling of people in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area now.
As long as you have money, you can buy things from all over the world in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and even ordinary people can enjoy things that they couldn't buy before.
This is the benefit of developed maritime transportation. Daming also has two great rivers, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, that connect the east and west. Relying on these two great rivers, one can reach almost every province in the interior of Daming.
Throughout the Beijing-Tianjin region, there are too many people like Sun Erniang, who are immersed in a happy life of high income and low prices at this moment.
