Dominate the Country

Chapter 690 The life of ordinary people

Happy Lantern Festival everyone!

In February of the sixth year of Chengtian, in the spring of 1780 in the Western calendar, China was a time of gongs and drums, firecrackers, and extreme joy among officials and civilians.

February 12th is a memorable day in the long history of China, a milestone day. On this day, Korea was officially incorporated into China's territory. The Nanjing Cabinet used the Han River as the boundary to divide the two provinces, Lelang and Andong, respectively.

Lelang is the name of the former land of the Western Han Dynasty. It was one of the four Han counties established on the Korean Peninsula after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed Wei's Korea in the second year of Yuanfeng. Andong was one of the six major protectorates in the Tang Dynasty. It was an institution established by the Tang Dynasty and Silla's coalition forces to manage the former lands of Goguryeo and Baekje after the destruction of Goguryeo and Baekje. It was the first time that China officially established a prefecture and state south of the Han River, and it also had a history.

Using these two names to rename Korea is to make it easier for Koreans to forget the names of Silla, Goryeo and Korea.

The capital of Lelang Province is Pyongyang, and the capital of Andong Province is Seoul. Jeju Island was incorporated into Andong, but the number of Han troops stationed in North Korea increased instead of decreasing.

The two reorganized divisions that the Northeast Military Region had prepared long ago will enter North Korea immediately. At the same time, some people will be selected from the existing military forces in North Korea to form two garrison brigades, and the others will be changed into police and construction forces. The soldiers of North Korea cannot be disbanded on the spot. No matter how weak these people are in combat effectiveness, they have experienced military training. If they are put in the local area and instigated by others, it will be a disaster.

This day is a day that is written about in Chinese history. It marks the first step and a big step forward in the process of the great unification of the East Asian continent. The Korean Peninsula was "recovered" by China in history, which opened a good start for the future of Annan.

It is a historical turning point recognized by scholars of world history in the East and the West in the future.

It is believed that China's complete annexation of North Korea has greatly stimulated the appetite of the Chinese. In the future, the greedy and domineering hunting of food by this giant China in the world jungle may not be a stimulation for the loneliness of North Korea.

In the long run, it was China's strong attack on the world that made Europeans lose the world crown that they had held in their hands for hundreds of years since the opening of the great voyage. The powerful Ottoman Empire failed to knock the crown from the hands of Europeans, but the Chinese posed a fatal threat to European interests. They plundered the hard work of Europeans for hundreds of years with a strong attitude in a short time.

It was also the Chinese who put the world crown that fell from the hands of Europeans on their heads.

The long river of world history has changed from the dominance of white people in the West to the revival of the yellow race. To a certain extent, the world is a confrontation between the two races of yellow and white. Only the blacks in Africa and the brown people who left South America still maintain their original world status.

This news was published in the "Zhongyuan Daily" and spread throughout the country at the fastest speed, which immediately caused a sensation and cheers across the country.

The Chinese today are not the Chinese of the past. They are looking at the interests in their eyes and are very clear about the wealth and interests contained in North Korea. Moreover, North Korea's submission has made countless Chinese people feel a sense of pride from the bottom of their hearts.

The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Chaos, this is the real Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Chaos! Let the small countries around it cry and beg to join.

At the same time, the excitement of opening up new territory is also mixed in.

As for the Koreans in China, countless people cried and got drunk on this day, drunk and cried again. They don't need to drink, as long as they taste the humiliation they have suffered over the years, as long as they taste that they have become Chinese now, they are all drunk.

On February 16, the news of North Korea's surrender had been heard for three or four days, and the atmosphere in Shanghai not only did not drop. Instead, it became more and more intense.

The streets and alleys were decorated with lights and colorful lights, and goods and food from all over the country and the world filled the market.

Zuo Fengsheng looked at the rich materials on the market in surprise, and looked at the merchants who clamored for big discounts, big promotions, and big returns. The good news of North Korea's surrender seemed to have become the reason for these merchants to make money.

If you don't know this atmosphere, you would think it's the New Year, when you buy New Year's goods.

Zuo Fengsheng looked at the bustling streets. The red bacon was his family's favorite. The Zuo family, who were born in Hunan, certainly liked to eat bacon rice. Wash the rice, add appropriate amount of water, a few sections of ginger, and a small spoonful of oil, and put it in the pot to cook. Cut the bacon into thin slices. When the rice is almost steamed, pour the bacon slices into the rice. No need to add any other dishes, just the bacon rice is enough. Every time he made bacon rice, his children could eat three bowls of rice.

And the bright red and green cotton cloth. It's spring, and the weather in the south of the Yangtze River is warm. It's time to buy some cloth to make spring clothes. The bright colors of the cloth make people unable to take their eyes away. He really wants to buy a few feet for his wife and children. There are also dark wool and silk cotton. His parents are over 60 years old and have never worn decent clothes.

Well, cotton clothes can only be regarded as ordinary clothes. I don't know when the grade of decent clothes has risen to silk and wool. All the common people naturally agreed with this view.

Many families with better financial conditions would buy a set of satin casual clothes for the elderly on their birthdays, and a set of thick wool casual clothes for the elderly in winter, but Zuo Fengsheng's family didn't have the conditions.

After touching the money in his pocket, Zuo Fengsheng moved his feet. Even though the items on both sides of the street attracted his eyes and feet like a magnet, Zuo Fengsheng didn't go up to ask.

Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative! The goods there are the cheapest.

He worked as a clerk in the Jiangnan Shipyard and could buy things worth ten yuan in the supply and marketing cooperative every month. His son also worked as a clerk in the factory and had six yuan in invoices every month. During the Chinese New Year, he saved three months of invoices and spent them all in the supply and marketing cooperative, but there was a sum of money left, which was enough to at least reduce the family's mortgage by one brick.

At that time, Zuo Fengsheng followed the Hunan militia minister Gong Zhaolin to aid Hubei. As a result, he and his fellow villager Zeng Yansheng of Changsha Prefecture, as well as Tao Xiaoxin, Hu Duoji and many others, were captured by the Fu Han Army in Wuchang City. At that time, the Fu Han Army still recruited "virtuous people". Zuo Fengsheng, Zeng Yansheng, Tao Xiaoxin and Hu Duoji had meritorious service [scholars] and were all wooed by the Fu Han Army. But at that time, Zeng, Zuo, Tao, Hu and others were very backboned, and they were all sternly argued, and then they were all thrown into the Funiu Mountain Mine.

After working in the mine for two years, they went to Nanyang to build roads, and then came to Shanghai to build artillery forts. Because several people could read and write, they were promoted to clerks in the labor camp. When they were released, they were recommended for jobs because they were honest and conscientious. Zuo Fengsheng was recommended to work as a clerk in Jiangnan Shipyard.

With a formal job, a relatively low salary, and cheap housing to buy, Zuo Fengsheng had already brought his parents, wife and children to Shanghai. In this strange city, the Zuo family did not have an easy life. Although Zuo Fengsheng's income was not low, and although Zuo Fengsheng's son Zuo Renjin also entered the Jiangnan Shipyard and quickly became a formal employee from an intern, becoming a clerk like Zuo Fengsheng, the eldest grandson Zuo Guanlan was already two years old.

Zuo Fengsheng gave his grandson a very grand name, which must be used to support his grandson's education in the future. The education level in Shanghai is obviously better than that in his hometown of Xiangyin, Hunan, especially in the choice of middle and high schools, which is far superior. Therefore, for the sake of their grandchildren and the future of the Zuo family, the Zuo family must survive in Shanghai.

The biggest difficulty now is housing.

Now the four generations of the Zuo family, including the eldest family, are squeezed into one residential house, so it is necessary to buy another house. The Jiangnan Shipyard is very profitable, and it has been building family buildings every year. Zuo Renjin will be eligible to buy a residential house next year. He needs to sell a large house, preferably a two-story duplex structure, which can accommodate a large family. In addition to a son, Zuo Renjin's wife just gave birth to a daughter. In addition to paying off the mortgage, the Zuo family is saving money for Zuo Renjin's house down payment, and saving tuition for grandchildren, and accumulating capital for the Zuo family's future survival in Shanghai.

The factory is profitable, and provides preferential and convenient living conditions for weavers. There are not many companies in China that are qualified to do this, and ordinary real estate companies are even less likely to have such preferential treatment.

As Zuo Fengsheng walked, he imagined that his son would buy a new house in the future. How happy everyone would be during the Chinese New Year.

When his grandson grows up to five or six years old and is about to go to elementary school, the factory-run school in the factory will probably have been built for two years by then. He would send his precious grandson to the school if it has a good reputation. He would send him to the school from childhood to college. When he graduates from college, whether he becomes an official or does something else, it will be the same as passing the imperial examination in the past. He will not have to worry about his future.

In the past, there were only poor scholars, not poor imperial examination candidates. Now, there are only poor high school students, not poor college students.

Times have changed, and the world has changed.

This college entrance examination is just like the imperial examination in the past. After the little kid goes to school, he will take exams all the way. He still has to take exams.

There is a branch of the Bank of China next to the supply and marketing cooperative on Huangzhong Road. Zuo Fengsheng, still wearing work clothes, walked to Huang Zhaojun's counter with ease. This man's name is Ajun. Zuo Fengsheng has dealt with him more than once or twice, and he also calls him Ajun. In the past few years, all the "deposits" he used to buy a house for his son Zuo Renjin were stored by Huang Zhaojun. Huang Zhaojun had recommended bank financial management to him before, and introduced him to several bonds that the bank was waiting to sell. He always bought them at Huang Zhaojun's counter. Although Huang Zhaojun didn't know why, he was familiar with Zuo Fengsheng, who would come every month at a fixed time - the 16th, the day after the monthly salary was paid.

"Mr. Zuo, are you here to buy bonds again?"

"Three hundred, the old rules!" This is the money his family can save every month. Almost all of his and his son's wages.

Zuo Fengsheng's current salary is one hundred and sixty-seven a month, including overtime pay, he can get two hundred yuan a month. This is definitely a high income level for the working class in China. Although this amount of money may not be enough to support a family in the UK if converted into pounds, in prosperous Shanghai, China, even though the prices here are the highest in the country, 200 yuan can allow Zuo Fengsheng's family to live comfortably.

But Zuo Fengsheng's neighbors all know that this family lives a very simple and even stingy life.

In the big city of Shanghai, Zuo Fengsheng has a family of eight, two elderly people, two children, and four laborers. He and his son work together at the Jiangnan Shipyard. His son's salary is not as high as his, so every day I can get a little more than 100 yuan a month. His parents, wife, and daughter-in-law can earn dozens of yuan a month by making matchboxes and cigarette cases at home, weaving and embroidering, and the total income can reach a small 400 yuan, but the total monthly expenses do not exceed 1 yuan. One hundred yuan, plus a monthly mortgage payment of 20 yuan. In Zuo's family, you can only eat meat during the last few days of the month, and most of it is cheap sea fish. But Zuo Fengsheng deposits 300 yuan in savings or buys bonds every month in China Bank.

The entire Zuo family is working hard to save money to buy a big house and pay off the mortgage, as well as to save school fees for the next generation. For daily meal expenses, their wives have to make cardboard boxes at home.

Pasting cigarette boxes or matchboxes, and buying yarn on the street, knitting handkerchiefs, embroidering flowers and selling them to shops for money, this is almost the source of the Zuo family's current source of funds for eating, drinking and having sex.

Zuo Fengsheng took out a notebook from his arms. This is his family's household registration book. It is a required document for purchasing North American war bonds. There is a booklet in the household registration book, which is similar to a passbook used for bank storage. This is also a kind of Alternative passbook. Every war bond spending has something to leave behind on both sides.

The booklet contains five Chinese yuan with a face value of 50 yuan, and five Chinese yuan with a face value of 10 yuan.

Huang Zhaojun did not take it, but pushed the household registration book back from the window. "Mr. Zuo, don't buy North American War Bonds. Didn't you read the news in the newspaper? The Spanish mobilized the navy and army to prepare for a big fight with the imperial expeditionary force in North America. There are already North American War Bonds on the stock exchange. It fell slightly. I think you should just buy government bonds and sell your North American bonds quickly.”

Huang Zhaojun was not a mean-spirited person, and Zuo Fengsheng in front of him had known him for several years. To be fair, Huang Zhaojun never deceived Zuo Fengsheng into going down the dark road of losing money, and the bonds recommended to him were all very reliable.

Otherwise, he would feel uneasy.

Zuo Fengsheng has been coming here every month to save money or buy bonds over the years. The amount has increased from 100 yuan at the beginning to 300 yuan now. Logically speaking, this kind of income is not low in Shanghai. In the past, three hundred Chinese dollars would have been thirty oceans, or twenty taels of silver. But Zuo Fengsheng obviously does not come from a wealthy family. He wears shipyard work clothes all year round, and his shoes are always in tatters no matter whether it is winter or summer. Smoking is always the cheapest in Shanghai, and the price is only a dime.

But the savings he has accumulated over the past few years are not a small amount.

Huang Zhaojun didn't have much external communication with Zuo Fengsheng. He didn't know Zuo Fengsheng's purpose of saving money, but he could roughly estimate what Zuo Fengsheng wanted to do. It's not his place to save money so hard. Buying a house means getting a wife for your son. Huang Zhaojun's intuition told him that the big brother in front of him who was much older than himself was such a father.

Huang Zhaojun's father is also such a person. He does everything for his children and the family. It's just that God did not go with people's wishes, and Huang Zhaojun and his father did not wait until the good days came. So Huang Zhaojun especially would not hurt such a person.

Huang Zhaojun respects such people very much.

Zuo Fengsheng walked out of the bank in a daze. The street lights were already on outside, and the cold wind blew on his face. Zuo Fengsheng's dazed mind suddenly became clear. I was really dizzy. The work at the shipyard had suddenly increased in the past few days, and the amount of overtime work at night had greatly increased, which confused my mind. Zuo Fengsheng walked into the bank again and said, "Arjun, just buy me North American bonds. Can little Spain compete with me? What is the temper of the current emperor? Who dares to compete with him on the battlefield? The emperor will definitely kill him. "Maybe this is an opportunity to make a little more money.

Zuo Fengsheng took the notebook and left. Huang Zhaojun's head became dizzy. He suddenly patted his head, and his head was really dizzy.

Just read the newspaper.

You can't disbelieve what's in the newspaper, but you can't believe it all. You really should read more comprehensive newspapers, not just economic newspapers.

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