"These people of Chu live so unreasonably. They say we are unkind and unjust when they don't give them benefits. They are suspicious of us when they give benefits."
"I'll see if I can catch them in a batch and give them a try."
As he said that, he turned around and was about to leave, but was called back by Yang Duanhe.
Li Yan's method is quite simple. If the Qin army really wants to catch up, of course it can be done. After all, the Qin army is an occupying force at this time.
The problem is that these Chu people were already worried, but if Li Yan drove away like this again, they were still scared to death, so they believed that this was a trap set by the Qin army.
So sometimes this is not a good thing as an occupying force, and it is also difficult to do both.
Yang Duanhe said to Shen Bing:
"Don't be violent in this matter, otherwise this farmland..."
Shen Bing nodded in agreement.
Farming requires the willingness of the people. If they have resentment in their hearts, even if they dare not resist openly, they will do all kinds of tricks during farming.
For example, deliberately destroying tools, planting seeds deeper and denser, being particularly sparse in some places, or even stepping on them... These are all difficult for the Qin army to discover.
Shen Bing thought about it and came up with an idea and said:
"Don't worry, General, my subordinates will make arrangements for you."
In fact, once you know where the problem lies, it is not difficult to solve it.
Just kidding, Shen Bing is a modern man. He has never seen any big storms. How can such a trivial thing defeat him?
First, Shen Bing asked these craftsmen to contact some Chu people.
The reason why the craftsmen were asked to contact them was because they were not rejected by the Chu people like the soldiers. On the other hand, craftsmen also had the habit of sticking together, no matter which country they were from.
On the one hand, because we are all craftsmen, we have more common topics.
On the other hand, the status of craftsmen in this era is very low...the lower the status, the more people tend to stick together to keep warm. There is also a sense of self-pity for the same people who have fallen from the world.
Among them, Fatzitun was also a businessman. As he had business experience, he naturally had acquaintances in the capital city of Shouchun, so he secretly contacted these acquaintances.
It is said that these craftsmen and "acquaintances" of the Chu State are eager to climb up to the high branches of Hui and his party.
There is no need to say more about the reason.
You must know that they are the Qin army, not only the Qin army but also the Qin people, not only the Qin people but also the Shenwu army...
There is a difference between the Qin people who are "rooted and prosperous" in the Qin army and those who join the Qin army after surrendering to other countries.
Although everyone in the Shenwu Army is treated equally on the surface, Qin people are always more trusted and more likely to be promoted.
But this doesn't seem strange. After all, it's the surrender of another country's troops. Even if you "employ people without suspicion", there is no way for everyone to be treated equally.
Therefore, no one dared to look down upon them even though they were craftsmen in the Shenwu Army.
At this time, the people of Chu in Shouchun were all worried that the Qin army would be detrimental to them, especially the businessmen with some family backgrounds... The businessmen had the lowest status, and they usually preyed on the common people. If they were captured by the Qin army, I'm afraid I won't be able to stir up a splash even if I get home.
But at this moment, real acquaintances of the Qin army in Hui and Fatty Tun came to their heads. How could they not be overjoyed and treat them as honored guests.
Especially Fatty Tun.
Someone got the information from somewhere and found out that Fatty Tun was Shen Bing's apprentice...
Is this good enough?
The apprentice who defeated Shen Bing, the deputy general of Xiang Yan’s Shenwu Army?
So immediately I offered Fatty Tuen delicious food and drinks just like my ancestors, and even gave this and that before leaving, fearing that Fatty Tun would not be satisfied.
In fact, it was very simple for Shen Bing to ask them to contact these Chu people, just to let them act as "entrustees".
Human psychology is like this. When there are doubts, no one dares to take the lead and just wait and see.
However, if someone dares to eat crabs and is fine, that is, they have become experimental products and even benefited, then everyone will flock to it.
Isn’t this what modern home buying is like?
You grab it, I grab it, everyone grabs it, so I just had a look at it, but I made up my mind as soon as my head got hot.
Using this set of marketing methods to torment these ancients who have never seen anything in the world... Why don't you just have fun with them?
This is of course just a trivial matter for those Chu people who want to hug the Qin army, and they also promised not to tell the truth... Shen Bingliang and the others dare not tell the truth, otherwise the head will not be on their shoulders.
After this arrangement was completed, Shen Bing began to change the notice.
Originally there was no fee, but now we have to pay according to the amount.
It was very cheap at the beginning, with one draw per hundred, which meant that you had to pay one pound of grain for pounding one hundred pounds.
This is to dispel the doubts in Chu people's minds.
As mentioned before, the benefits are so great that the people of Chu will think that there is such a thing as pie in the sky? So they start to think about all kinds of things.
Chu Min felt relieved that he had to pay this time:
"It turns out that the Qin army wanted to use this method to earn some military rations."
"You only need to pay one pound of grain to pound a hundred pounds of grain... This is not expensive."
"What's more, other conditions remain unchanged. After the grain is pounded, there will still be fields to farm."
"Why hesitate about such a good thing?"
This is just the first step for Shen Bing, and after that... the price will increase.
For example, if you pound 100 kilograms the next day, you will have to pay one kilogram and two taels of grain, and the next day you will have to pay one kilogram and three taels...
When the people saw it, they thought this was not possible!
If you go to pound grain today, you only need one catty, and tomorrow you will need one catty and two taels. So wouldn’t it mean that you will lose two taels tomorrow?
Wouldn't it be a loss if it were pounded later?
So if you can't wait any longer, let's pound all the grains at home as early as possible. The earlier the grain is pounded, the more cost-effective it will be.
This is the psychology of buying up and not buying down.
If the fees are falling every day, then Chu people’s thoughts will be:
What's the rush?
It might be cheaper in two days, just wait and see!
Therefore, even if this house is just sitting there, I don’t dare to sell it at a lower price. If the price is lowered, the problem may be that it will not be sold... unless it is really unsustainable.
Needless to say what happened next.
Within a few days, the queues in front of the waterwheels to pound grains were full. There were long queues in front of thousands of waterwheels, and even torches were lit at night to pound grains.
Fortunately, this water tanker uses water power and can work day and night, otherwise it would not be able to withstand such intensity.
Then those who have finished pounding the rice only need to register, and then allocate a piece of land, hand over the grain seeds to them, and then go to farm right away...
Most of them are women and have little farming experience.
But women in this era were not pampered. What they usually did at home was the physical labor of pounding rice, and they were very hardworking... In this era of extremely low productivity, even the maids and concubines in the palace had to pick mulberry leaves and bear a certain amount of labor. Amount of labor.
So, all they need is a few experienced people to teach them how to do it.
Farming is not a technical job, it can basically be learned once taught, and the performance is no worse than labor.