Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

As soon as Li Xin finished speaking, the audience fell silent. After a while, the old man Zhang said in a trembling voice: "Two cooked meals a day, and I will give you five Wen back? Isn't the prince joking?"

Wang Gui frowned, and was about to say something, but Li Xin stretched out his hand to stop him.

Li Xin shook his head slightly to signal to Wang Gui, but he smiled and said to old man Zhang: "Of course it's true. Why should I lie to everyone about this kind of thing?"

The old man Zhang squeezed out a smile and said, "My lord, forgive me! It's not that I doubt the lord, it's just that we have never encountered such a thing before."

Li Xin's expression didn't change at all, he was still smiling gently. Of course, he could understand how unbelievable the simple peasants in front of him would feel when they faced the conditions he offered. Although the package of two meals and salary is not really a favorable condition in the eyes of later generations, but in the Tang Dynasty, this was already an excellent treatment.

Suddenly another person asked loudly: "Is it really dry rice? Can it really make us full?"

Li Xin turned to the dark people in the audience, and said seriously: "I guarantee it in the name of King Chu, this is true. Only when you are full can you help me work and make money, why not Why? You are too hungry to work, and it will do me no good."

People began to discuss and whisper, and many people's eyes began to light up with excitement and anticipation.

At this time, old man Zhang suddenly said: "No!"

Li Xin and the others were stunned. Wang Gui's brows that had already been stretched were frowned again.

"Then add some wages." Li Xin said. He thought that the reason why the old man Zhang refused the job was that the salary was too low and unreasonable. He doesn't mind a little extra wages, as long as it's not excessive. He wouldn't care about such a trivial matter.

"Add more?" The old man Zhang said with a look of panic, "No no no! My lord, five cents a day is really too high." After speaking, he turned to the folks in the audience and said, "Think about it, everyone. Drought, every family has a bad harvest, so they can barely survive starvation. Now that you can have a full meal by working for the prince, we still get the prince's wages, is this appropriate?"

He said in a deep voice: "People live for this meal. We are the household of the prince, and it is only right and proper to help with the work. Now the prince is willing to give us two meals a day. I really have no way to ask the prince again against my conscience." wages. Can you feel at ease?"

The people below were disturbed for a while, and someone shouted: "Yes, five cents is too much! We don't want money, as long as we have something to eat!"

Soon, the voice became more and more intense. Everyone agrees that Li Xin is too benevolent, there is no need to pay meals and wages at all.

These simple and lovely people!

Wang Gui's brows and eyes softened, like a benevolent Maitreya. He secretly glanced at Li Xin beside him, his eyes were a little moist.

Li Xin was also greatly moved. He just did something that he thought was normal, but he didn't expect to be so grateful to this group of simple people who almost never felt cared for.

"No, if you help me with the work, I will definitely have to pay you, or else I will let you do your work for nothing? Just five cents, don't be polite to me." Li Xin said seriously.

He knew that the group of people in front of him was the most hardworking group of people in China, and they were the ultimate big ship that truly carried the Chinese civilization forward. Every time he saw them, he would feel a touch. He feels that they are like the most common and toughest weeds, they can take root and grow no matter where they are, even if there is a little sunshine and rain, they can be used to the extreme until they become a lush pasture.

To such a group of pure and simple people, Li Xin really couldn't show any malice, and even hoped to do his best to make their lives better.

However, the old man Zhang and the villagers could not accept such a salary of five renminbi a day. After talking about it, Li Xin had no choice but to accept the offer from the villagers: one penny a day. Of course, two meals a day are indispensable.

Li Xin was a little dumbfounded.

He originally played the idea of ​​a capitalist, a bit like Roosevelt's work-for-work plan during the Great Depression in the United States: he hired these people to build wineries and create value for him. A part of the value is used as a reward for these villagers, whether it is food or wages, it is just a form.

In this way, he made money, and the life of the villagers was also improved. They didn't need to eat porridge every day to survive the winter by starving, and they could even live a good year.

But he really didn't expect that one day he would really meet a group of people who would think their wages were too high.

If the disgusting capitalists of later generations come here, they will wake up laughing even from their dreams, right? Isn't this a group of simple laborers sent to your door to be squeezed?

It has to be said that the moral values ​​of people in the Tang Dynasty were really strong. Although sometimes it seems a little silly, but it is really touching. As long as the main family treats the people below a little bit better, they will repay a thousand times with their loyalty and hands. What a simple idea.

Li Xin sighed and said, "All right, all right, then do as you said."

The villagers cheered, as if they had won some great victory. After all, Li Xin couldn't figure out whether they were happy because they had food and money, or they were happy because they defeated Li Xin's "excessive idea" of giving them five cents a day.

Li Xin shook his head and said, "Let me add one more thing."

People quieted down and looked at Li Xin expectantly, not knowing what he was going to say.

"As for those of you who work for me, you can eat two meals a day. If you are not full, you must tell Wang Gui, and he will help. He will definitely make you full! If you have wives For the children, you can come to the construction site to receive meals per person every day, and each person has two bowls per day." Li Xin raised two fingers.

No way, the villagers refused to accept wages no matter what, and he could only give up part of the benefits in this form. Although the price of rice this year is higher than in previous years, in general, thanks to the measures to stabilize grain prices due to the opening of official warehouses, the increase is not too large. It's just a little more rice every day, which is not too much compared to the saved wages.

People can say "no" to wages, but they can't say no to feeding their wives and children anyway.

Some villagers even cried. They couldn't believe that there was such a sympathetic master in the world.