Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 169 Ten cents a day, but meat only costs one penny a catty

"Cultivate dependence?"

"Self-supporting?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard it, he immediately frowned, not understanding the meaning of Liu Jin's words.

"Yes, people are dependent. Once a kind of dependence is developed, he will lose the ability to be independent."

"In the case of disaster relief, if someone distributes food to them every day so that they can survive, they will naturally not think of ways to do things and find ways to save themselves. They will just wait for you to distribute food to them every day."

"Once such a habit is formed, these victims will have nothing to do, and even cause troubles. And if so much labor is not properly utilized, isn't it a waste of manpower?"

There is no way, Liu Jin also explained the method of work-for-relief to Zhu Houzhao again, and also let him understand this novel method of disaster relief.

"You mean that we expand recruitment to recruit all these disaster victims?"

"But in that case, we will not have enough food at all. Now the price of food has risen too fast, and it is difficult to buy food even if you have money."

After listening to the explanation of work-for-relief, Zhu Houzhao immediately understood the core of this work-for-relief, and said after thinking about it.

"No, we don't need more manpower anymore, and if we recruit more people, we will really not have enough food, unless the other five ships come back with food from North Korea, we can continue to recruit people."

Liu Jin shook his head and said, "Our full-time employees are provided with three meals a day. During disaster relief, we dare not be so extravagant. Food is too expensive now."

"We can set up several large projects, such as building the road from Tianjin to Beijing, and building Tianjin Port, etc. We will recruit these victims on a large scale for these projects, and we can give them ten cents a day wages, or a little more."

"We keep the ten cents in the account, not send them money directly, and then they can use the ten cents to buy our sea fish, and our sea fish sells for one penny per catty. In this way , as long as there is a young and strong man to do things for us, if we can buy ten catties of fish a day, it is almost enough to feed a family."

"Of course, now is a special period. It is definitely not enough to just eat fish. After the other five ships come back from North Korea and bring back more food, we can also put rice in it. The rice is also a penny. Jin, and then limit the purchase."

"In this way, we can not only achieve the purpose of disaster relief, but also help the victims develop a good habit of self-reliance, and more importantly, we can also complete the construction of large projects."

Liu Jin slowly revealed his plan. In fact, Zhu Houzhao did not come to find Liu Jin. Liu Jin had already taken a fancy to the increasing number of victims in Tianjin. These are the cheapest labor. Those who stutter are willing to give you the labor of hard work.

If there was no famine, where would Liu Jin find such cheap labor?

The construction of the Tianjin Port, the construction of the Maritime Academy, the construction of the cement plant, and the cement road between Tianjin and the capital that Liu Jin wants to build, etc., do not have cheap and huge labor, and these projects do not know that they can be completed in the year of the monkey. Woolen cloth.

"You can also eat the sea fish caught in the sea. Otherwise, if you catch so many fish at one time, you won't be able to eat them all. If you leave them for another day, the fish will rot."

At this time, Zhu Houzhao's small eyes were shining, and he nodded while listening to the chicken eating rice. After listening to Liu Jin's words, he also added.

"Haha, this can be regarded as one."

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately nodded with a smile and said.

There are really too many fish caught. In this era of long-term sea ban, the fish resources in the ocean are almost overflowing. A few boats just went around the Bohai Sea and caught more than [-] catties of fish.

If there are a few fishing boats dedicated to fishing, there will be more fish caught, and then I will really worry about the endless fish.

After discussing the details with Zhu Houzhao, Liu Jin also asked people to start preparing, recruiting tens of thousands of people at one time, which involved a lot of things, but fortunately Liu Jin brought enough stewards from Xishan, After adding this period of time, Tianjin has also cultivated a group of newcomers, and they are already able to use them. This matter will be arranged one by one.

Tianjin City.

As time went by, last winter's weather was too cold, coupled with the blizzard, and it was extremely cold. As a result, the winter wheat harvests in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces failed or failed.

The further north you go, the more serious the disaster is. Tianjin, Beijing, Yongping Prefecture in Beizhili, etc. are the most severe disasters in the north, and basically all of them have no harvest.

The harvest of winter wheat is out of order, the supply of food is not enough, coupled with malicious hoarding of food, driving up the price of food, the famine began to spread continuously, and as the edible food was slowly eaten up, the famine began to erupt on a large scale .

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, so the number of refugees gathered in Tianjin is extremely large, second only to the capital.

At this time, outside the city of Tianjin, there were nearly [-] hungry people gathered. These hungry people were better than last winter's refugees. At least now that the weather has warmed up, there is no need to worry about the problem of freezing.

In addition, many victims of the disaster still have a little bit of wealth, just because there is no food, they still have some copper coins in their hands, but the food is too expensive, and they are reluctant to use the copper coins in their hands to buy food.

The hunger has been spreading, so that all the trees outside Tianjin City have been stripped of their bark, and the young grass that has just grown has been eaten up.

Tens of thousands of disaster victims formed large and small gathering places around Tianjin City. These gathering places were all formed by people from the same township and village. The victims lay down weakly, hoping that the government would open a warehouse to release food. After all, it has been like this in the past. When a famine occurs, the government will definitely provide relief, which is why everyone gathers here.

Although the disaster victims outside are dying of hunger, there are a lot of food in the city of Tianjin. The government's granary and the grain merchants have a lot of food in their hands. As long as the government provides disaster relief, everyone will have food. Grain is eaten, and the grain merchant will gradually lower the price of grain at that time.

"Clang~clang~"

"Tianjin Port is hiring people to work, Tianjin Port is hiring people to work!"

In one place where the victims gathered, teams of people came to the crowd of victims beating gongs and drums, talking loudly while beating.

"Has the port of Tianjin recruited workers?"

"I heard that they can't afford to eat three meals a day!"

As soon as they heard that Tianjin Port was recruiting workers, the victims were all excited, and all of them immediately became energetic and surrounded them in an instant.

"Everyone, everyone, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sympathizes with the people and is planning to build Tianjin Port, which requires a lot of manpower. We are here to recruit workers. There is no limit to the number of people, regardless of gender. Anyone who is a labor force can come to work."

"Is it the same as the people at the shipyard, eating three meals a day?"

Upon hearing this, someone hurriedly asked.

"Of course not. That's the salary only for regular workers. You are considered temporary workers this time, but as long as you work hard and perform well, you can transfer to regular workers later."

"How about temporary workers?"

"Temporary workers can earn ten pennies a day, but one penny can buy a catty of sea fish, and one day of work can have ten catties of sea fish!"

Originally, when everyone heard that it was only ten pennies a day, they were immediately discouraged, but when they heard the second half of the sentence, when they heard that this penny can buy a catty of sea fish, and ten catties of sea fish meat a day, all of these victims suddenly became nervous. My eyes are bright, sea fish is also meat, as long as it can fill my stomach.

Immediately, the whole scene became hot, and everyone was scrambling to be the first, for fear that they would not be able to recruit.

　If you only eat meat, you should still be hungry, right?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)