3453 Soldiers' Hard-working Money
The ideals of the lower class people are actually very simple. You can have food and spend change. Don’t owe it!
Don’t underestimate this. The monthly salary of a silver dollar is actually not much, but it’s just such a simple little money, but many forces can’t give it.
Xiao Letian was mainly responsible for business negotiations in his previous life. He also received a lot of systematic training in his spare time. I remember that an expert who gave a lecture came up with a pyramid chart.
This is the very famous Malos pyramid diagram!
The training experts made some adaptive modifications to the Malos pyramid chart, but the lowest level of the pyramid, which is the most basic needs of employees, are actually not high.
Just paying on time!
What a humble ideal sound. At that time, Xiao Letian didn’t understand why this need could be put on the table and explained specifically?
However, after the explanation of the training experts, he realized that although Xiao Letian in his previous life was not a well-known figure, he was also a good person among the white-collar workers in the imperial capital and was in the stage of promotion to the junior gold-collar workers.
The treatment of the middle class gave him a little dislocation of why not eat meat!
Of course, he will not encounter any wage arrears at his level, but in the middle and lower classes of society, it is already very rare for ordinary people to find a job that they will not be arrears.
A large number of companies in society owed employees’ wages, and some even maliciously owed them. Every year, there were too many conflicts and they were lazy to broadcast the news.
It was from then on that, Xiao Letian understood a truth that for most ordinary people, instead of painting big cakes for them in a false way, it is better to tell them the truth steadily.
Getting the actual benefits in your hands is far more convincing than verbal promises!
Emperor Tongzhi took out one million pounds. What is the pound? How much silver is one million worth? How much rice and flour can you buy? These are all unconceptual things in the minds of ordinary soldiers.
The emperor talked with the officials in tears, but it was difficult for the soldiers to empathize with them!
Until Zaichun discovered this, he immediately said that he would make up the soldiers' wages at dawn, and that each person would receive ten silver dollars as a gift!
This is what ordinary soldiers want, and the sound of long live has never stopped. Even the people in the surrounding villages kept chanting Amitabha Buddha when they heard it!
At the end of the 19th century, Fujian had just opened its own port. Looking at the entire Qing Dynasty, this place was not a surplus area. The mountain people were too poor, and some people had never touched silver in their entire lives.
Many villages in the Wuyi Mountains are still bartering!
Ten silver dollars were put into the hands of these mountain citizens, and the supplies received were enough for a family to survive a whole famine year. With these ten silver dollars, the soldiers were relieved!
They knew that the reward was given to their parents, and with these silver dollars as life-saving money, they could feel at ease to go north to fight with the emperor.
The family has always been poor and has become accustomed to it. The people have ten thousand ways to survive the famine... If the ten silver dollars are added to the salary of three months, the soldiers will have a clear idea.
More than ten silver dollars are pressed at home, so that the family will not starve to death for at least three years. They can fight the emperor for three years with peace of mind!
During these three years of service, the emperor must have rewards. If a family gives away such an imperial food, the entire family will be saved!
If our ancestors bless you, those who are not sick or disaster will be able to buy some world and even buy some industries and other things!
Not to mention anything else, if you find a carpenter and a blacksmith to create some tools for grinding tofu, and the guys who press oil, you can do a small family workshop!
"Long live the emperor! I really met the Holy Lord!"
The soldiers were so excited that they wiped their tears. At that moment, they really had the determination to die for the emperor!
"Terror! I didn't say anything, it's worth it to spend my life with my parents and sisters!"
After sleepless all night, Zaichun watched the morale of 30,000 tigers inspired by him, and an unprecedented sense of accomplishment arises naturally!
"Master! I only really understand your mood today. Tens of thousands of tigers surge with your mood is such a wonderful feeling!"
"Good men should do this! Do this..."
Zai Chun was in a good mood and even drank a few more bowls of rice wine. He was so dizzy that he lay on the camp bed in the big tent and fell asleep!
Outside the tent was the sleepless night of 30,000 tigers. The laughter, chatting, and praise of the soldiers... together, it was like the sound of the sea tides I had used to listening to on the way back to China, surrounded Emperor Tongzhi.
"Long live... wake up... wake up!"
Zai Chun was leading the army from Deshengmen to Beijing in the dream, when suddenly the annoying voice of Dasixi sounded, disturbing the emperor's dream.
"What time is it? Have I overslept?" Zai Chun opened his eyes and saw that his mouth was swollen, and he was nervous.
"Your Majesty, don't worry... It's just half past four in the foreign clock, and it's not dawn..."
"Oh...so early..." Zai Chun yawned a big yawn.
The senior four were so anxious that they almost cried, "Long live, please calm down. Lord Shen has been kneeling outside the tent for a quarter of an hour... He said he must wake up His Majesty, there is something urgent..."
Zai Chun's sleepiness was gone, and he jumped up from the bed with a whistle, "Bring in, hurry up..."
It was around 4 o'clock in the morning that it was the darkest time. Although many of the soldiers in the army were so excited that they didn't sleep, their voices became much smaller.
As soon as Shen Baozhen made a fortune, he brought in a fresh air in the mountains and forests, which made Zai Chun shudder!
With a thud, Shen Baozhen knelt in front of Emperor Tongzhi, "Long live the emperor... I am incompetent... I beg Long live the emperor to punish him!"
Zaichun felt a thrill in his heart, "What's wrong? Stop kowtowing, hurry up..."
"Long live the emperor... I am incompetent and have not made cash silver... Fuzhou City really cannot exchange cash silver!"
"What?" Zai Chun was anxious at the time. "Bastard! What I gave you is the promissory note from the Bank of England, it's really money! You can't even handle the one million silver dollars?"
"What's the use of me wanting you?" Emperor Tongzhi angrily slammed Shen Baozhen in the head with a slight slap in the official document on the table.
Shen Baozhen didn't hide, but knelt there and said with his back straight, "Long live the emperor, I'm incompetent, I'll exchange for 400,000 in half a day... Those ticket numbers... and the wealthy businessmen... don't know the promissory notes of the British!"
"No... don't know?" Zai Chun was so angry that he almost fainted. He never calculated the closed nature of Chinese merchants in the late Qing Dynasty. He even overestimated the vision of merchants here in Fuzhou.
If you don’t recognize a word, you can’t even say a word from Emperor Tongzhi!
Chapter completed!