The measures here, if it were someone else, they would be dead! But what Li Ke can say is that Changsun Wuji doesn’t know how serious Li Ke is!
Looking at the information in his hand, Li Ke sneered. You want to play, right? You want to kill me with money, right?
The wealthy family is rich, but they definitely don't have as much money as Li Ke has now! Give money to the people and raise wages, right? I want you to know what heaviness is!
Li Ke is not worried about food at all. In the years since Li Ke came back, Yuelai Trading Company has stored a large amount of grain every year, and every year new grain comes out and the old grain is sold for reserve. These grains are stored all over the Tang Dynasty without interruption, so He was not short of food at all.
At the beginning of this year, Li Ke asked Tian Meng to start collecting grain before he was ready to implement the plan. Now the grain stored in Shuwangzhuang outside the city is enough for Li Ke to launch his follow-up plan.
Moreover, Changsun Wuji and the others did not dare to mess with the price of food at will. Isn't this jumping back and forth on Li Shimin's head against the wind? Don't think you can die soon enough?
As for workers’ wages! Li Ke sneered, three times, right?
Li Ke made a decision quickly. He wanted to play, right? I'll play with you, but after he thought about it, he couldn't raise his salary from the beginning. If he was promoted before the powerful family, what if they just refused to follow? Isn’t that Li Ke’s loss alone? So you have to let them increase their salary first, and then increase it yourself!
And Li Ke still has to do some publicity for them. Hey, do you want to play? In the past, when Datang Weekly was in your hands, you didn't know how to play it. Today I'm going to let you know what it means to ride a tiger and be unable to dismount.
As for the salary increase, Li Ke doesn't care at all. If you triple it, Li Ke is prepared to offer five times the salary! It’s okay to make some money for the people, and it’s good to make money for the people! Because now the pig iron production under Li Ke's name has greatly increased! He must be making modern designed curved shaft plows and then selling them! Not just other curved shaft plows, but also other iron tools.
The cost of these ironware Li Ke was so low that Changsun Wuji and others could not even imagine it. It would be great if the money increased! Only when the salary increased, the common people had money, and with money they could afford the ironware produced by Li Ke. When they bought it back, Li Ke made a large profit, and the people also had ironware that they could use. .
With iron tools, their productivity will definitely increase. Whether it is hoes, picks, sickles, etc., they will all help increase productivity. With increased productivity, people will make more money and become richer. Li Ke won a lot of fame.
When they make money and become rich, they will definitely look for His Highness the King of Shu's store to buy things. Li Ke will make another fortune. In the end, you gain both fame and fortune, it’s a win-win situation!
Without a wage increase for the people, when will they be able to afford the ironware in Li Ke's hands? Doesn’t this affect the speed at which Li Ke makes money? ! !
After receiving the news, Li Ke immediately asked Tian Meng to pay attention to the wages of workers in the brick factories and various shops around Chang'an City.
In addition, Li Ke prepared two more articles for the printing house of Datang Weekly and asked them to prepare two printing versions and be ready to print them at any time depending on the situation.
Time passed little by little, and the area around Chang'an City had always been the main intelligence gathering place for Yuelai Trading Company, so the information was compiled very quickly. In two days, Tian Meng summarized the surrounding information.
There is news about many recruitment sites in the surrounding Chang'an City. The wages of craftsmen and coolies in all brick factories, quarries, etc. have been increased by three times! The current salary standard for coolies is 300 yuan a month!
Hearing the news, Li Ke couldn't help but laugh. There are also types of technical jobs in the Tang Dynasty. For example, craftsmen are all technical types, but coolies are the main job for most people to do temporary work, because the people also Unable to do technical work, he could only act as a coolie under the command of craftsmen.
For example, some coolies who have worked in brick factories and other places for a long time can also be called craftsmen. Their original salary was 100 wen a month, which could not buy a stone of brown rice. The price of brown rice in Chang'an City is stable at 120 Wen per stone, which is about 120 kilograms. A strong laborer can earn 100 wen a month, which can feed at least 3 to 4 people on average, and 100 kilograms of brown rice a month, which is really a stable life.
There is only one strong labor force per household, and the family members can also do other jobs to supplement the household income, so they can maintain a stable living with a little surplus. In ancient times, a stable life was considered a good life.
Under such circumstances, the salaries of the main coolies all around suddenly tripled! It instantly caused a huge sensation among the people! Naturally, to increase wages, we must first improve the craftsmen and coolies in the original workshops, and then expand.
After these general craftsmen return, the news will expand. Once the recruitment is announced, a large number of people will inevitably come!
How will Li Ke play then? Changsun Wuji and the others all wanted to see Li Ke’s joke! Of course, the reason why they were able to complete it so quickly was because these places were originally controlled by various wealthy families. They could discuss and confirm with each other without even purchasing.
For the people, this kind of closely related matter is naturally the most concerned about, and it is also the easiest to spread. In just two days, the news spread throughout Chang'an City. Although no one knew what happened, Money is the real deal!
Now that they can suddenly get so much money, some people who were not prepared to work are excited! Li Ke deliberately postponed the publication of Datang Weekly for one day to give the news a chance to fully spread. Changsun Wuji and the others did not know it, but in fact Li Ke secretly let local snakes in various cities secretly promote the salary.
Then, the second issue of Datang Weekly, which returned to His Highness the King of Shu, was released!
The headline article in Datang Weekly is about the renovation of Chang'an City. It mainly explains the benefits of renovating Chang'an City, such as faster logistics speed and no accumulation of rainwater in the drainage system. If rainwater does not accumulate, it will naturally not follow. Those leaves and other debris rot together and breed diseases.
Many people in later generations will know that the medieval and ancient capitals of Europe are really full of "fragrance". This is why many European kings and nobles' castles were built in high and ventilated places such as hills.
One is for better defense, and the other is to avoid these "fragrant" smells.
Why did this phenomenon not exist in ancient China at the same time? At least it could not be seen on all the main streets in the entire city. It was mainly because of several measures. One was that large capitals such as Chang'an and Luoyang had complete buildings. of the sewer system.
For example, Chang'an's sewer system built with ceramic pipes has even been completely preserved for more than a thousand years. The underground drainage system has various processes such as diversion and sorting. It can be said that all modern sewer drainage systems The systems are all based on ancient Chinese drainage systems.
Including foreign countries, we can also learn from domestic ones! As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, earthenware pipes and other underground culverts were used in the capital for drainage.
In addition to a suitable drainage and sewage system, it is also related to the farming talent in the Chinese people. Since ancient times, China has a large population. In order to increase food production, people have done everything they can. Fertilizing excrement has been a tradition since ancient times.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a profession called "Qingji workers". To put it bluntly, they were workers who transported excrement. They collected excrement in the alleys of Chang'an City, then transported the excrement out of Chang'an City, and then sold it to Chang'an. The people who farmed around the city were fertilized by the people.
