There are less than ten servants brought by Zhou Hexuan from Tianjin, and the rest are recruited locally in Chongqing. These servants are contacted by an agency company, and each has two or more good people as guarantees. In terms of credibility and
Loyalty is much higher than in later workplaces.
This has been the case in China since ancient times, and even sometimes you need a guarantor to become an apprentice. When Zhou Hexuan was renting a house when he first crossed over, he was asked by the landlord to provide a guarantor. You can do without a guarantor, but you must pay a certain amount of deposit.
Kong Yaohua is 52 years old. He is from Dazhu County, Sichuan. When he was a child, his family owned more than ten acres of thin farmland. When he was 28 years old, he was hit by a military disaster. A deflected artillery shell fell into his home. His parents, wife, children, brother and sister-in-law were all killed in the explosion.
.Kong Yaohua happened to be out at that time and had not returned, so he survived.
The days that followed were very difficult, and there were countless exorbitant levies and miscellaneous taxes. He was unable to cultivate more than ten acres of land by himself, and he had no money to hire long-term and short-term laborers for help. In addition, he contracted a serious illness, and finally had to sell his property and beg for food.
Kong Yaohua served as a soldier, a beggar, and a day laborer. In the past two years, he finally settled down in Chongqing and was hired by a landlord in Jiangbei to work as a long-term laborer.
Unexpectedly, the landowner died of illness soon, and the young men were all prodigal sons. The old lady tried her best to hold on and refused to separate the family, and the sons had a hard time eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, and one of them actually stole the deed of the family's land to pay back the family.
Gambling debts.
The prominent and wealthy local gentry family fell apart in this way. Kong Yaohua also lost his long-term labor job and had no choice but to come to Chongqing to work as a day laborer to make a living.
Last year I heard that the great businessman Zhang Mouzhi had built a mansion for his son-in-law on the bank of the Yangtze River and was recruiting honest servants. Kong Yaohua immediately spent all his savings and sent money to a matchmaker (intermediary) to help with the operation, and he got his wish.
The gardener of Zhou Mansion.
The work Kong Yaohua is responsible for every day is to water the flowers, plants and trees, and prune and take care of the branches every now and then. He feels that this kind of life is so happy. Although it is also very tiring, it is much easier than working as a long-term and short-term worker before, and the owner is kind-hearted.
, not only are they given a salary of three yuan a month, but they also provide food and accommodation, and occasionally eat meat.
Kong Yaohua has been blaming himself recently. More than a dozen of the trees newly planted by Zhou Mansion last year died in his hands. Although he irrigates them with water from the Yangtze River every day, the summer sun is too strong, and these small trees were burned to death.
Kong Yaohua felt that he had done a big mistake. His master was so kind to him, so why did he kill the little tree? He was simply ungrateful!
early morning.
Kong Yaohua got up early and prepared to go to the river to fetch water. He smelled the fragrance coming from the kitchen, couldn't help but turn his head and sniff a few times, and his heart suddenly felt happy: Today he is making pancakes again, and it's Bashi!
There are two kitchens in the Zhou Mansion, one for the master and one for the servants.
Normally, the servants' breakfast consists of porridge and pickles, but every weekend they can eat fried cakes or noodles. In Kong Yaohua's view, this is an extremely luxurious treatment. The Zhou family's fried cakes are heavily oiled, and there are some in the noodles.
Minced meat is simply the best delicacy in the world.
"Good morning, Old Kong!" the concierge, Old Man He, said hello.
Kong Yaohua quickly greeted: "Good morning, Master!"
There are also two concierges in the Zhou Mansion, one facing the mountain and one facing the river. The concierge in front of him came from Tianjin with his master and was considered a "senior" among the servants. Kong Yaohua would never dare to offend him.
After exiting the big iron gate, Kong Yaohua carried a wooden bucket to the riverside, where he saw several fishing boats docked at the pier.
Because the owner of the Zhou family is generous and kind, people from nearby often come to sell local products, and fishermen often come to sell their catch.
Those catches are also divided into two categories, the most delicious saury, yellow catfish and other categories, which are specially provided to the master, wife and young master. The Zhou family is also willing to spend money to buy some of the remaining small fish and shrimps sold by the fishermen and treat them as
Feed the servants meat and fish.
Kong Yaohua was already very familiar with those fishermen, and he joked while fetching water: "Mei Laokan, if you don't go fishing and casting nets, why do you come to Zhoujia Pier to set up an empty gantry array?"
"Don't worry, we are discussing business." Mei Laokan said angrily.
"What's the business?" Kong Yaohua asked casually.
A fisherman nicknamed Windmill Che said: "The end of the Red Sun is coming, and everyone in the world will die. Only by joining the 'Confucius and Mencius' can we be safe. We brothers are discussing one day to join the 'Confucius and Mencius'."
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"I just don't believe in the nonsense of Confucius and Mencius," said another fisherman with the nickname Fake Experience. "Liu Shenxian is just a melon. I only joined his religion after my brain was broken."
Fengchaoche immediately retorted: "Yes, Liu Shenxian is a melon, and you are the smart one by pretending to be sophisticated. Nowadays, many people want to join the religion, but if you pretend to be sophisticated, I won't be able to kill you when the Hongyang Tribulation comes!"
Mei Laokan suddenly asked Kong Yaohua: "Old Kong, has Mr. Zhou become a religious believer?"
"What kind of religion do you want to join? I've never heard of it." Kong Yaohua said with a smile.
Fengchaoche Le said: "Mr. Zhou is also a god. I heard that he is Liu Shenxian's uncle. He doesn't need to join the religion at all."
Kong Yaohua became more and more curious and asked in detail: "What on earth are you talking about? I can't even understand it."
The fishermen immediately began to tell each other one by one, and soon told everything about the situation.
It turns out that since Liu Congyun returned to Chongqing, a saying has quickly spread in the city: from birth to destruction, the universe has experienced three tribulations: Qing Yang, Red Sun and White Yang. The troubled times of the Republic of China were at the end of the Red Sun tribulation, that is, "
The "End Catastrophe of the Second Period" is the biggest disaster in human history. At that time, except for the believers of "Confucius and Mencius", all other mortals will be destroyed along with the old world. The successive years of wars and famines in Sichuan, as well as this year's severe drought, are all
The manifestation of the "Red Sun Tribulation" is that if there is no expert intervention, the drought will last at least a hundred years, and the affected areas will spread from Sichuan to the whole of China and even the world.
Typical cult eschatology!
This is the trick played by Liu Congyun. Since he fell out with Liu Xiang, many of his branches in Sichuan have collapsed, and believers have gone their separate ways and it is difficult to reunite. In order to make a comeback, Liu Congyun borrowed the theory of a certain sect in North China.
He vigorously promoted eschatology and intimidated and lured the people of Sichuan into converting to Christianity.
Anyone who wants to join the religion should contribute money according to their own situation. If you really don't have money, if you have a skill, such as being able to fight, write, steal, etc., you can also use it according to your ability.
Luo Zezhou, the polished warlord, was the first to respond, donating millions of his family property in a high-profile manner, and asked Liu Congyun for a "life-preserving talisman". It was said that this talisman could protect the lives of his family, including the servants, and they could survive the Red Sun Tribulation safely.
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Luo Zezhou regards wealth as his life, so it is naturally impossible for him to donate so much money. This is what he and Liu Congyun have discussed. To paraphrase a line in "Let the Bullets Fly": "The money of the wealthy gentry will be returned in full, and the money of the common people will be divided into 30 to 70 shares!"
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Through intimidation and deception through eschatology, Liu Congyun was able to not only amass money, but also quickly restore the strength of his sect.
The more troubled the times, the more superstitious people become and the less able they are to withstand being frightened.
When Liu Xiang's army had Liu Shenxian, Liu Wenhui invited a Wan Shenxian. The two warlords fought fiercely, and the fighting skills of the two gods were also very exciting.
A warlord like Yang Sen who was not afraid of ghosts and gods, because he was forced to kowtow to Liu Congyun, bluntly said that he had suffered unprecedented humiliation in his life. But the actual situation was that because of a boy's joke, Yang Sen sent people to kill all the dogs in his territory. Yang Senzi
Zihui, also known as Yang Zihui, originally liked raising dogs.
Sheep are called sheep in Sichuan dialect. One day he heard a child pointing to the sheep being chased by dogs and saying: "The sheep will (Yang Zihui) be bitten to death by dogs." Yang Sen felt that it was very unlucky and vaguely uneasy, so
This started the great business of dog slaughter.
This is true for all warlords, let alone the common people?
At this moment, after listening to the fishermen's eschatology, Kong Yaohua was frightened and said to himself: "They say Mr. Zhou is also a god. Can he protect me when the end comes?"
"Of course you can," Fengchenche said enviously, "Mr. Zhou is a master, and you servants will enjoy the blessings. If Sichuan dies, you will not die."
"That's good, that's good." Kong Yaohua still had lingering fear.
Mei Laokan suddenly had a new idea. He said: "Mr. Zhou is very powerful, even more fierce than Liu Shenxian. Why don't we go to him and ask for a life-saving charm?"
"Yes, I have to use this method," Fengchaoche was immediately overjoyed, "Mr. Zhou is kind-hearted, and his life-preserving talisman must be free of charge. Come on, come on, let's go find Mr. Zhou together."
Early in the morning, Zhou Hexuan, who had just woken up, looked confused when facing the fishermen who came to seek talismans.