The ideals of the people at the bottom are actually very simple. Just have food to eat, pocket money to spend, and don’t default on your arrears!
Don't underestimate the importance of not defaulting on arrears. The monthly salary of one silver dollar is actually not much, but for such a simple small amount, many forces cannot actually give it.
In his previous life, Xiao Letian was mainly responsible for business negotiations, and he also received a lot of systematic training in his spare time. I remember that the expert who gave a lecture once came up with a pyramid diagram.
This is the very famous Pyramid of Malos!
The training experts made some adaptive modifications to the Marlows pyramid diagram. As a result, the lowest level of the pyramid, which is the most basic needs of employees, is actually not high.
It’s just about being able to pay your salary on time!
It sounds like such a humble ideal. At that time, Xiao Letian was a little confused as to why this kind of demand could be put on the table and explained specifically?
However, after the training expert's explanation, it became clear that although Xiao Letian in his previous life was not a well-known big shot, he was still a good person in the white-collar class of the imperial capital and was in the stage of promotion to the junior gold-collar class.
The middle-class treatment gave him a misplaced feeling that why not eat minced meat!
Of course, at his level, he will not encounter salary arrears, but in the middle and lower classes of society, it is already very rare for ordinary people to find a secure job that will not be in arrears.
A large number of companies in society have defaulted on wages to their employees, and some even defaulted on malicious intent. There are so many conflicts that occur every year that the news is too lazy to report them.
From then on, Xiao Letian understood a truth. For most ordinary people, it is better to tell them the real situation instead of giving them false pictures.
The actual benefits in hand are far more convincing than verbal promises!
Emperor Tongzhi took out one million pounds. What was the pound? How much silver is one million worth? How much rice and noodles can I buy? These are things that ordinary soldiers have no concept of.
The emperor and the officials talked with tears in their eyes, but it was difficult for the soldiers to empathize with him!
Until Zai Chun discovered this, he immediately said that he would pay the soldiers the arrears at dawn, and he would be rewarded with ten shiny silver dollars per person!
This is what ordinary soldiers want. The shouts of "Long Live Long Live" never stopped. Even the people in the surrounding villages kept chanting Amitabha after hearing it!
At the end of the 19th century, Fujian had just opened its port. Looking at the entire Qing Dynasty, this place was not a prosperous area. The mountain people were so poor that some people had never touched silver in their lives.
Many villages in the Wuyi Mountains still barter!
Ten silver dollars were put into the hands of these mountain people, and the supplies in exchange were enough for a family to survive an entire year of famine. With these ten silver dollars, the soldiers felt at ease!
They knew that the silver reward was in the hands of their parents. With these silver coins as life-saving money, they could go north to fight with the emperor with peace of mind.
The family has always been poor, and they are used to it. The people have ten thousand ways to survive the famine... If they still have three months of unpaid wages with these ten silver dollars, the soldiers will have peace of mind.
With more than ten silver dollars at home, it is guaranteed that no one will starve to death for at least three years, and they can work for the emperor and fight for three years with peace of mind!
And during these three years of service, the emperor must still have rewards. If a family has such a person who eats the emperor's food, the whole family can be saved!
If the ancestors bless you and there is no illness or disaster, you can buy some heaven and earth and even buy some property with the silver coins you save!
If nothing else, just find a carpenter or blacksmith to make some tools for grinding tofu and pressing oil, and you can start a small family workshop!
"Long live the Emperor! This is truly a meeting with the Holy King!"
The soldiers were so excited that they shed tears. At that moment, they were really determined to die for the emperor!
"Work hard! What I didn't say, it's worth it to trade my life for the survival of my parents and sisters!"
After a sleepless night, Zai Chun looked at the high morale of the 30,000 tiger soldiers inspired by him, and an unprecedented sense of accomplishment arose spontaneously!
"Master! I really understand your mood today. It's such a wonderful feeling to have tens of thousands of tigers surging with your mood!"
"This is how a good man should be! This is how he should be..."
Zai Chun was in such a good mood that he actually drank a few more bowls of rice wine. Feeling dizzy, he lay on the camp bed in the tent and fell asleep!
Outside the tent was the excitement and sleepless night of 30,000 tigers. The laughter, chatter, and praise of the soldiers... together were like the sound of the ocean tide they were used to hearing on the way back home, surrounding Emperor Tongzhi.
"Long live Lord... wake up... Long live Lord... wake up!"
In the dream, Zai Chun was leading the army into Beijing from Desheng Gate. Suddenly Da Sixi's annoying voice rang out, disturbing the emperor's dream.
"What time is it? Did I oversleep?" Zai Chun opened his eyes and saw that his mouth was swollen, with a nervous look on his face.
"Your Majesty, don't worry...it's only half past four on the foreign clock, and it's not yet dawn..."
"Ouch...it's so early..." Zai Chun yawned widely.
Da Sixi was so anxious that she almost cried, "Long live Lord, please calm down. Lord Shen has been kneeling outside the tent for a quarter of an hour... He said that His Majesty must be woken up. It's urgent..."
Zai Chun's sleepiness was gone, and he jumped up from the bed with a sound, "Bring him in, hurry up..."
It was around four o'clock in the morning when it was darkest. Although many of the soldiers in the army were too excited to sleep, their voices were also much lower.
As soon as Shen Baozhen entered the account, he brought in a burst of fresh air from the mountains and forests, which gave Zai Chun a thrill!
With a pop, Shen Baozhen knelt down in front of Emperor Tongzhi and said, "Long live Lord... I... I am incompetent... Please punish me!"
Zai Chun's heart skipped a beat, "What's going on? Stop kowtowing and tell me quickly..."
"Long live my Lord... I am incompetent and did not get any cash... Fuzhou City really can't exchange it for cash!"
"What?" Zai Chun became anxious at that time. "Asshole! What I gave you was a cashier's check from the Bank of England. It's real money! You can't even cash it out for one million silver dollars?"
"What do I need you for?" Emperor Tongzhi angrily slammed the official document on the table and hit Shen Baozhen on the head.
Shen Baozhen didn't hide. He knelt there and straightened his back and replied, "Long live my Lord, I am incompetent. I exchanged 400,000 in half a day... Those ticket numbers... and the wealthy businessmen... all... don't know the nature of the British." Tickets!”
"No... don't you know him?" Zai Chun was so angry that he almost fainted. He never calculated the closed nature of Chinese businessmen in the late Qing Dynasty, and even overestimated the vision of businessmen here in Fuzhou.
Not knowing a word of it, Emperor Tongzhi was speechless and could not speak a word!
