industrial lord

Chapter 232

There were a lot of people skating on the river, so someone naturally came up with their idea.

I don't know when, a car selling skewers appeared on the embankment, and a group of village women with foreign accents set up sheds and curtains.

People who were tired from playing on the ice asked for a shed in groups of three and four. There was a small charcoal stove in the middle of the shed for hot skewers and hot tea. Everyone sat around and chatted while eating.

"Gu... just kill me!"

Bell Burke glared at Frederick viciously, because this guy had agreed before ordering that he would not pay for his food today.

"Sit down first," Frederick said to her, "I want to ask you something."

Bell Burke drew the curtain of the shed facing the river and sat down again, pouted and asked, "What's the matter?"

With a wave of Frederick's hand, the curtain was opened again, and Maria and the others could be seen skating carefully.

He asked Belle Burke, "How much money do you make here?"

Belle Burke pouted and replied, "It's not much, it's just hard money. Now that the construction site is closed, I can only come out to find something to eat."

"We also went to the textile factory, but a group of people rushed out of the factory cafeteria to drive us away and beat us."

"It's better at the smelter. Let us go at night, and we can have some business when they change shifts at night."

"Now we set up a stall here during the day, go to the steel factory at night, and pay taxes twice. How much do you think we can earn?"

After she finished speaking, she left.

Frederick could hear her resentment.

Presumably, Belle Burke entered the catering industry with the idea of ​​making a lot of money, and tried to use this as a springboard to enter the construction industry, but the reality was very skinny.

The reason is simple, the threshold of the catering industry is not high, what she can do, others can do.

She can get a kitchen cart, but they can make do with a modified flat cart, and the cost is lower, and the competition is fierce.

Bell Burke came shortly afterwards with a stream of hot tea, which he placed in the middle of the charcoal grate, and a moment later brought a large plate of grilled sausages, lamb kebabs, fat beef, sliced ​​pork belly, and tofu skins.

Different from other barbecues, she has chili powder from internal channels, which is just right in winter.

"Ask you one more question." Frederick called Bell Burke down again.

Bell Burke pouted after sitting down and asked, "Has the master found his conscience and is willing to pay?"

Frederick asked her: "Is the tax burden high for a stall like yours?"

"It must be big." Bell Burke said, "We collect taxes on a head-by-head basis, just like setting up roadside stalls in the city. The more people here, the more people will be charged."

After hearing this, Frederick nodded and let her go.

Recently, there have been a lot of small vendors in cities directly under the central government of Wessen State, including both foreigners and local migrant workers. How to manage them has become a difficult problem.

Now the Executive Yuan is taxing these people and trying to reduce the scale, but it has no effect and intensifies the contradiction.

The city of Wessenburg is better, because the hawkers have no place to set up their stalls due to digging trenches and buried water pipes everywhere, so the problem is not big.

Frederick was not the only one who came to skate. Many officials in the city also came to play with their families, so Frick, the Minister of State, was called over.

"Eat whatever you want." Frederick said to him with a smile, "Eat as much as you can, because I want you to work overtime."

Frick immediately said nervously: "Your Excellency, please give me your orders."

He is now under one person and above ten thousand people in the administrative system of Wesson State, but he also understands that he can sit in this position not because of his outstanding ability, but because he has followed the pace of the Wesson family since the day he joined the job.

And now there are new regulations. In the future, the position of the high-level executives in Wessen State will be changed every five years. Whether they can stay or not depends on the assessment.

So he became more and more serious about his work, striving for a second term. The next time his grandson happens to be an adult, he can help arrange a good job. Otherwise, no one cares about you.

Frederick knew what these people were thinking, but it didn't matter. Now all the permanent staff in Wessen State have to pass the entrance examination except for his special approval. In the future, the selection of officials will be given priority in this system. Let's talk about passing the exam.

He poured a cup of tea for Frick, picked up a fat roasted beef and ate it, and said, "Nowadays, in many cities, there are beggars setting up stalls like this, and there are a lot of troubles, which are reported in the newspapers." There was an accident in which a carriage transporting a patient could not go because the road was blocked, and the patient almost died in the carriage, so these matters must be handled properly.”

Frick immediately said: "I will arrange to deal with this matter immediately after the Chinese New Year."

Frederick added: "It's not easy for people to live far away, so I have an idea to set up a stall in a suitable area for them, without affecting the traffic, and not to set up outside the area. "

"At the same time, there is no tax, and there is not much money, just charge a sanitation fee according to the stall."

Frick thought for a while, and said a little embarrassedly: "This matter is not easy to handle. I heard from a staff member that the person who sold vegetables in the vegetable market and the person who sold vegetables on the side of the road at his house once fought and injured. many people."

"Because vendors in the vegetable market have to pay stall rent, they are a little more expensive than those on the roadside, and people can't buy in the vegetable market outside."

Frederick frowned after hearing this, but he didn't expect this to happen here too.

The vegetable market is also one of the new regimes in his First Five-Year Plan.

In the past, the place where vegetables were sold was basically an open space, dust and flies flew together, vegetables and meat were all in the same color, which was very unhygienic. Later, a neat and clean vegetable market was built.

"How about it," he said, "the types of items sold in the stall area are mainly to fill in the gaps, and cannot compete with formal stores."

"At the same time, we must pay close attention to vocational training and recruitment, and divert people to factories. This is our foundation."

Frick said that he will arrange it after going to work next year.

At this time, a fast horse ran in the distance, and Helmut personally sent a piece of information from the military.

Frederick looked at it, frowned slightly, and then said, "Don't care about them, just prepare the border defenses in case of emergencies."

After Helmut left, he said to Flick: "Our Franken Principality in the north fought a battle with the Legens Alliance in the east. There were a hundred people. I don't know what to do in the cold weather."

Frick looked around and asked Frederick in a low voice, "My lord, are we going to treat them in the future..."

Frederick shook his head and said, "There's no hurry. We don't have enough troops to defend these two places, and we don't have enough officials to govern. The expansion of the administrative system in the past few years is for future preparations."

Flick understood and didn't ask any more questions.

He saw Maria and the others come back from playing, and slipped away sensibly.

"Humph!"

Maria sat opposite Frederick, but turned her head and ignored him.

The same is true for Susan and Lilu, who talk to themselves and ignore Frederick.

Frederick smiled and handed over the skewers, and they ate as much as they wanted, but they just didn't talk to those who didn't play with them.

"Drink some hot tea." Frederick poured tea for them with a smile.

Everyone agreed to go out skating together, but he thought of work after seeing Bell Burke and the others, so he didn't go skating.

That's good, he found a good excuse to cover up the fact that he can't skate, and save a little bit of face.

(End of this chapter)