Boss Mi's words moved everyone on the street. Many wealthy businessmen with similar wealth levels to him are now feeling regretful.
Everyone in the world knows that good deeds and good deeds will be rewarded, but how many people will do it if they know it? Or do you really have no regrets?
It’s not that Shopkeeper Wang and the others have never done good deeds before, nor have they funded the military or helped the people. They just didn’t do it as thoroughly as Boss Mi.
Boss Mi really has good karma! On the night when Xiao Letian first came to Ryukyu and led 100,000 Chinese to revolt, the lives of Boss Mi and his family were saved by the Prime Minister.
At that time, the Japanese ronin had already caught up with their whole family, their wife and daughter were about to be humiliated, and their son was about to lose his life. At that moment, Xiao Letian's bloody flag suddenly appeared on the street, and a bright long knife chopped it down. Killed those evil ghosts and rogues.
The Mi family's life was saved by Xiao Letian. From that moment on, Boss Mi made up his mind to repay the Prime Minister's life-saving grace for the rest of his life!
The French Expeditionary Force came over, and the rice boss opened a warehouse to store grain. The new army was short of military supplies for the war, and he broke his family to supply it! For everything Mi Fu did, practicing good deeds and accumulating virtue was only one of the reasons. The more important reason was to repay his kindness.
As for other giant businessmen, their mentality is not so pure when they do good deeds. People like Shopkeeper Xiang Wang did give away a lot of money, but their hearts were much smaller.
On the one hand, it is to accumulate some virtue for oneself, but on the other hand, it is also the unspoken rule of survival of Asian businessmen for thousands of years, spending money to avoid disasters, especially to avoid disasters in Gongmen.
Asia has been deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, especially the idea of suppressing business. The division between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce is really not a joke. Although businessmen are rich, in the eyes of the highest-level scholars, they are just a bunch of people. Fat sheep.
In ancient times, the county magistrate was already Bai Lihou, the county magistrate who broke the family, and the lingyin who exterminated the family. These ancient sayings revealed the strong smell of blood, which was quite serious for the common people, especially the wealthy businessmen. horrifying.
Scholars, peasants, and merchants, in fact, the official class has always oppressed the peasants, workers, and merchants below. However, due to various reasons, it is not the poor peasants and workers who feel the sense of crisis the most, but the giant businessmen.
The reason is very simple! The businessman is so rich. One bite can make him fat for a year. But how much do the poor farmers and craftsmen have to eat to be able to match the weight of the businessman? Besides, there are a lot of poor people, and occasionally you have to rely on them to improve your reputation.
Therefore, in the past dynasties of China, it was never considered a serious crime for local officials to bully businessmen. Even if the trouble was violent, the superiors would just give them a warning. On the contrary, the court took the local officials' abuse of ordinary people very seriously.
Even in history, when some honest officials encountered a lawsuit, they would first see who was rich, the plaintiff or the defendant. In a lawsuit, the poorer party would always win. It seems like a joke to us now, but in ancient times this kind of behavior was indeed pursued and praised by many people.
When businessmen survive in this environment, they naturally develop good skills in adapting to the environment. Especially wealthy businessmen, they all know that it is hard to give up good money, and spending money can sometimes avoid disasters.
Therefore, Shopkeeper Wang and a group of businessmen also took the initiative to participate in various charity activities. They also expressed their utmost respect for the various policies of the Prime Minister's Office and applauded them.
But for old bureaucrats, this kind of hypocritical spending can be seen through at a glance.
But seeing through does not tell the truth, this is the basic quality of mature officials. Xiao Letian finally chose to slap them with the Six Lords and Eighteen Ranks, instead of taking private revenge like the Qing bureaucrats did.
Today, when Shopkeeper Wang and others saw with their own eyes the courage of the Prime Minister and the glory of Boss Mi and Shopkeeper Niu who were sincerely doing good deeds, they really felt regretful.
If I had known today, why would I have to do it in the first place? If I had known that I had such a hand, why would I have to passively wait for others to persuade people to donate instead of initiating it? If they had known that a title of nobility was waiting behind them, they would still have the courage to raise money and finances without breaking the bank.
It was not until this moment that they truly understood that the sky had changed. It really had changed. The old experiences in the past were completely useless. A new era was finally coming.
It was not just these businessmen who had an epiphany, but also countless foreigners. In the area where Japanese immigrants gathered, there was a place called Banshanshan. It had always been a place where Japanese small businessmen gathered. Later, after a large number of Japanese immigrants, After expansion, it has become the commercial street with the largest concentration of Japanese in Ryukyu.
There is a small alley connected to the main street on the busiest street on the hillside. Compared with the neat main street, it is dark and narrow, and people feel very uncomfortable walking in it.
There is a dilapidated tavern deep in the alley, maintained by a boss with only one hand and two guys with bad legs and feet. Maybe because they are too serious about words, the tavern's business has not been very good.
Compared with the lively atmosphere on the main street, the alley is very cold. Only the occasional footsteps of children running past prove that this path is still connected to the human world.
It was past six o'clock, and the sky in the east was turning white. Unfortunately, the earliest ray of sunlight was blocked by the shops in front. There was only hazy light in the tavern, and candles were still lit in the corners.
The neighbors were surprised to find that there were two Marines standing guard at the door of the tavern, which usually had few customers. They had a tough temperament but were slightly short in stature, and they also had a long samurai sword around their waists. This already explains the identity of the two people.
They are the core members of the hand-to-hand assault team of the Marine Corps, the Fuso Battery Team!
"Hiss..." The neighbors took a breath of air. "Are there soldiers standing guard? It seems that there are officers drinking inside... But how could the officers like such a small tavern? Shouldn't they go to the mountains and the sea? Want to go have a drink at the food court? The scenery there is so beautiful!”
The neighbors didn't know what happened, so they whispered to each other.
There were indeed distinguished guests in the tavern. Under the dim candlelight, a general wearing a general's uniform was sitting cross-legged on the tatami. The best wine and food in the tavern were placed on the low table in front of him.
The one-handed boss and the two men knelt in front of the general without saying a word.
The general held the sake jug in his hand. The hand that could cut off hundreds of heads without trembling started to tremble slightly at this moment. The level of the wine that was originally biting the wine cup was suddenly destroyed by the vibration, and the wine flowed along. The wine cup flowed down.
A glass of low-quality sake that was not worth a few bucks made the general suddenly collapse emotionally. Tears rolled down like a fountain, followed by a cry like a wolf, which shocked people's hearts.
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