"No need to be polite!" Yang Qingyuan lifted the two of them up with a slight flick of his right hand.
"I came here mainly because I have something to discuss with you!"
Wang Jiudi realized that it was rude for him to let the guests stand outside the house, and immediately asked everyone to sit inside the house, but Yang Qingyuan refused, pointing to the side of the willow tree, "Let's talk here!"
Yang Qingyuan and Wang Jiudi sat down under the tree.
"I came here this time just for the water transportation matter. Now that the case has been solved, Shendu will also reopen water transportation as soon as possible, and I am organizing the reconstruction of the water gang."
When he heard about the reconstruction of Caobang, Wang Jiudi was a little overwhelmed because he didn't want Caobang to exist from the bottom of his heart.
Yang Qingyuan also knew that Wang Jiudi and other Cao workers hated the Cao Gang deeply, so he slowly explained the matter to him.
After hearing these words, Wang Jiudi was stunned for a while, "In the future, the membership fee will be changed to thirty cents per month? The Caobang only takes 10% from us, so we don't need to pay taxes anymore!?!"
"It's not that you don't need to pay taxes, but your taxes will be 10% of what you pay, and Caobang will pay them on your behalf."
Yang Qingyuan slightly corrected Wang Jiudi. Paying taxes is the obligation of every citizen of the Zhou Dynasty. You don't dare to evade taxes!
Wang Jiudi didn't care how the taxes were paid, but he could tell from Yang Qingyuan's words that the new Caogang was much better than the original one.
"Furthermore, your work model will also be changed. From now on, you will be regarded as members of the Cao Gang. The 30 cash you pay is your help fee. After that, your minimum salary will be 20 cash a day, depending on the goods. Volume counts growth.”
Wang Jiudi sounded very excited, but then he reacted.
"But those businessmen won't agree!"
"You don't need to worry about this. Caobang will help you collect the payment. In the future, all the wages paid by merchants will be paid to Caobang. Then Caobang will take 10% of your workload and distribute the wages. The more you work, the more you pay." have to!"
Wang Jiudi thought about it carefully, "So, from now on we will also be members of the Cao Gang!"
"Yes, you are members of the Cao Gang. If someone dares to bully you, the Cao Gang will stand up for you. In the future, the Cao Gang will not have hall masters or incense masters. It will only be divided into general rudders and sub-rudders. The personnel are divided into workers like you, warriors who protect the Cao Gang, and administrators responsible for running it."
Yang Qingyuan patiently explained to Wang Jiudi that he needed Wang Jiudi to mobilize the water transportation workers in the capital.
"Your wages will be paid to you this month at the rate of twenty cents per day, which is regarded as a subsidy. Starting from next month, your wages for this month will be paid once a month!"
Speaking of this, Wang Jiudi was a little hesitant. This month they had both subsidy and salary, which was equivalent to getting double. Of course it was a good thing, but the monthly payment made them hesitant.
Yang Qingyuan knew Wang Jiudi's concerns, but once a month could greatly reduce the ineffective work of the Caogang, it was a necessary procedure to improve efficiency, so he comforted Wang Jiudi.
"You can rest assured that in the first month, Caogang will give you a subsidy of 600 yuan. At that time, people from Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be stationed in Caogang. If anyone dares to embezzle your wages, you can directly File a complaint, and if they don't care, come directly to Dali Temple to find me, and I will make the decision for you!"
Yang Qingyuan stopped mid-sentence and asked Wang Jiudi to call all the prestigious porters and boatmen together. He simply held a thought meeting for them under the willow tree and answered their questions uniformly.
Nearly a hundred people came and sat under the willow tree, listening to Yang Qingyuan preach the policies of the New Cao Gang.
In order to win over the people, Yang Qingyuan even told the truth about the plague at the water transport terminal. In Yang Qingyuan's mouth, it turned into a story about severely punishing corrupt officials and evil businessmen.
Such stories remain in the hearts of these people for a long time.
In such an environment, punishing evil is more convincing to the people than promoting good. They don't understand the new policies of the court, but they know that there is one person who avenged the death of hundreds of colleagues. Among the porters who died were their brothers, children, Uncle and nephew.
This story of punishing evil made Yang Qingyuan's words fully trusted by the villagers.
An upright official who makes decisions for the people will probably not lie to them.
This lecture lasted for an hour. Finally, towards the evening, the conference on the new thoughts on water transport came to an end.
Representatives of the porters and boatmen also went home happily.
"Sir, why don't you have dinner before you go! I asked my mother-in-law to cook our Qishan noodles."
Just when Yang Qingyuan was about to take people away, Wang Jiudi stopped Yang Qingyuan. Just now, Wang Jiudi asked his mother-in-law to borrow vegetables and meat from neighboring houses, took out the last bit of white flour at home, and made a meal of steamed noodles.
Yang Qingyuan wanted to refuse, but the earnestness in Wang Jiudi and his wife's eyes prevented him from doing so.
"Then let's try Madam's craftsmanship!"
Seeing that Yang Qingyuan stayed, Wang Jiudi and his wife could not restrain their joy and kept smiling.
Yang Qingyuan and his party of six were afraid of disturbing the hut of Wang Jiudi and his wife, so they ate the noodles directly under the willow tree.
To be honest, the noodles were very average, but Yang Qingyuan enjoyed them very much.
After eating, Yang Qingyuan sent a message to Ji Yaohua, who also nodded slightly.
Seeing that it was getting late, Yang Qingyuan also stood up to say goodbye. Ji Yaohua, who was on the side, took advantage of Yang Wang's ninth brother and his wife to say goodbye to Yang Qingyuan, and used Qinggong to sneak into the thatched hut, leaving five taels of silver inside.
Yang Qingyuan, accompanied by Wang Jiudi, walked out of the village along the road and met the children playing before.
At this moment, the little girl named Wu Jin was giving some candy to her friends.
Children from such poor families may not taste sweetness a few times throughout the year. Sweetness is also a luxury for them.
But even so, Wu Jin still distributed a small bag of candy to his friends. Although there was not much candy, everyone could get it.
Although they are in the shadows, the childlike innocence of these children is still pure and kind. Yang Qingyuan never doubts that there is great evil in the world, but he believes that people are inherently good in nature.
"Wang Jiudi, I will let Caobang open a school when the time comes. Anyone in Caobang who has children of school age can attend the school. It only costs 30 yuan a month and two meals a day, breakfast and lunch. Although it can't teach much about university knowledge. , but they can also be taught to read.”
Wang Jiudi was stunned again when he heard this. Regardless of others, the breakfast and lunch alone were far more than thirty yuan. Caoyun Village was going to have a hard time.
"They are the hope of your Caoyun Village. Reading can help you understand your reasoning. Even if you don't go to school or take exams in the future, you can broaden your horizons."
Although Wang Jiudi has no children, he can feel the benefits of this school.
The school has not been put on the agenda yet, and Yang Qingyuan did not say much, otherwise it would be like talking nonsense.
Just when the group of people reached the entrance of the village, Yang Qingyuan realized that something was wrong.
Under the dim sky, a large group of people stood at the entrance of the village, and the three policemen behind them immediately became alert.
When Yang Qingyuan approached, the leading old man suddenly knelt down, and the crowd behind him also knelt down like a wave.
Yang Qingyuan spat out his true energy from his palm and stopped the leading old man, but could not stop the people behind him.
Yang Qingyuan felt the old man's determination, smiled bitterly, and had no choice but to withdraw his true energy.
"Everyone in Caoyun Village, please thank Master Qingtian for your kindness in redressing the injustice! This has enabled hundreds of wronged souls in Caoyun Village to rest in peace!"
This kneeling is not only to thank Yang Qingyuan for reorganizing the canal transportation and improving life, but also to kneel down to Yang Qingyuan to avenge the grievances of the dead canal workers.
When everyone focused their attention on the stolen grain, almost no one remembered the hundreds of porters who died innocently at the water transport terminal, including Yang Qingyuan.
Hundreds of lives seem to be worthless in the face of the snow disaster in Jizhou.
But these people remember that it was the Qingtian Lord in front of them who found out the truth about the dock plague and allowed hundreds of innocent souls to rest in peace.
They want to live, but they are more afraid of dying inexplicably.
Yang Qingyuan never thought that a story he told in order to gain the trust of the water transportation workers would actually make these people from the water transportation village wait here, supporting the elderly and the young.
Although this story is true, Yang Qingyuan still has mixed feelings.
Stepping forward quickly, Yang Qingyuan wanted to help the old man up, "Old man, please get up, the ground is cold in this twelfth lunar month."
"Everyone, get up!" Yang Qingyuan's voice carried true energy to the back.
Looking at the people who had not stood up, Yang Qingyuan once again shouted with his true energy, "Dear fellow villagers, according to the Holy Instructions of Taizu, all our soldiers and civilians in the Great Zhou Dynasty must not kneel down and bow to the Emperor unless they are in court to see the Emperor!"
"As long as you are not in court, you don't need to kneel down even when you meet an official! Therefore, everyone is not allowed to kneel anymore and stand up!"
No one stood up until after three kowtows, the crowd moved from front to back again and stood up again like a tide.
"Everyone in Caoyun Village is grateful to Mr. Yang for his great kindness and will never forget it in this life!"
The leader of the old man wanted to kneel again, but was supported by Yang Qingyuan's true energy.
"My husband, you don't have to be like this! It's my duty at Dali Temple to bring justice to the people! It's really hard for me to be like this. It's getting late and the wind is strong at night, so I'd better tell everyone to disperse quickly!"
The leader of the old man did not agree, but said, "I will disperse on my own after I see you off!"
Seeing that the old man was so stubborn, Yang Qingyuan had no choice but to leave first.
As Yang Qingyuan and others left, the crowd spontaneously gave way to a road, and everyone watched Yang Qingyuan and his party leave on both sides of the road.
It wasn't until Yang Qingyuan and his party were out of sight that they slowly dispersed.
Returning to the study room of Dali Temple, everyone accompanying him was also deeply moved. Among them, Di Zhiyuan was the most profound. Although he had served as a state magistrate, he had also been in charge of a county. "My lord, this move has won the hearts of the people! "
Yang Qingyuan was a little silent, but then returned to normal, "The most important thing now is the reconstruction of Caobang. Tomorrow, the water transportation will reopen, and all the heavy tasks will follow."
"Don't worry, sir. We have recruited twenty clerks and fifteen martial arts warriors. This number will slowly increase in the future. In the near future, there will be agents from Dali Temple and Six Gates working together to maintain order at the water transport terminal!"
Yang Qingyuan nodded, "As for Dali Temple, let the patrol commander Li Gang be responsible for the affairs of the water transport terminal!"
Di Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Li Gang is a careful and resourceful person, but the Cao Gang still needs a person in charge! Does your Excellency have someone to choose from!?"
Yang Qingyuan took out a scroll from the drawer on the side.
"I have already considered the candidate, and Situ Xianyi, the former leader of the Cao Gang, is the best candidate!"
