Chapter 61 Puzhou Society
Being timid about being close to home, Zhang Dalang didn't dare to knock on the door when he came to his house.
The book boy next to him did not have such thoughts as Zhang Dalang. He stepped forward, opened the door and walked in. Soon there was a movement in the house.
An old man walked out on crutches, met Zhang Dalang and said, "My son."
Zhang Dalang knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes: "Father, the child is unfilial and you are shocked."
Father and son reunited and reminisced about the past. Needless to say.
Zhang Dalang told his father what he had experienced in the past few years. Finally, he said excitedly: "Father, this is the biggest opportunity in my life, sir. It is also an opportunity for my Zhang family."
Father Zhang said: "My son, what are you going to do?"
Zhang Dalang said: "Please father, please send a message to the famous people in Puzhou City. Invite them to come and talk. We can summon as many people as we can in Puzhou."
Father Zhang was silent for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said, "My Zhang family has moved here for three generations from the previous dynasty. I have some respect for it. If my Zhang family guarantees it, the villagers will naturally believe it." But my son, there is one thing that you have thought about."
"This thing is done. There is no need to say anything. But once something goes wrong, my Zhang family will no longer want to live in Puzhou."
In ancient times, nostalgia was the most important thing. If you offended everyone in your hometown, It's not as simple as just not hanging around in Puzhou, it's simply social death.
Zhang Dalang said: "Father, I will never encounter this opportunity again in my life."
Father Zhang said: "Okay."
Father Zhang did whatever he wanted, and invited all the wealthy people in Puzhou to come over. As soon as Zhang Dalang explained the situation, there was a lot of discussion. The people below said so. Some believe it and some don't.
These people all watched Zhang Dalang grow up. I feel that Zhang Dalang would not come all the way to deceive the folks. And these same people were also familiar with the government corvee system. After all, the corvee system was the fundamental system of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the north, where the corvee was very heavy and everyone had served in it.
Zhang Dalang couldn't convince everyone even if he slapped the official newspaper on the table.
However, Zhang Dalang soon discovered that there was no need to convince everyone. Because reality convinces.
Money is something everyone needs.
Especially in this day and age in the countryside. The self-sufficient rural economy seems pastoral, but not to mention the risks of the agricultural economy, the lack of hard currency alone is a big problem. No matter how self-sufficient it is, it is impossible not to have any needs from the outside world.
The simplest thing is to get sick, and it's impossible that you don't need outside treatment even if you're sick.
People always have to ask for things from the outside world.
The small-scale peasant economy does not produce hard currency that can be exchanged with the outside world. Food and cloth are all available. But after the supply itself is used up, there isn’t much left.
It’s okay if nothing happens. Once something happens. The common people don't have a penny.
This is why the people at the bottom trade food, not money.
But where will the money come from?
If you could make money by selling your strength, many people in the world would be willing to do it. And there are people there who have been forced into desperate situations.
Therefore, Zhang Dalang did not convince everyone. But many people still came to him. Is it true that he took people to Beijing to make money?
Less than half a month. Hundreds of people came to find him.
These hundreds of people found someone close to them. Compared with being away from home, having someone close to you is another kind of care. So there was a team of more than five hundred people. Each one carries dry food. Then Zhang Dalang went out and went to the government office. Take out He Xi’s famous thorn. Everything that goes smoothly has a guide.
Then we went all the way north to Beijing.
It is already autumn now.
The city of Beijing is no longer just a geographical term.
Excavation of the foundation has begun.
The movements in the army are relatively fast. Four surrounding guard posts were abolished. In addition, there are people in the surrounding garrison who are unwilling to serve as soldiers. There were more than 30,000 people in total, all under He Xi's command. He Xi set up three major construction societies with ten thousand people as a society.
They are the No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 architectural societies in Beijing.
Recruit some veterans to serve as presidents. In the eyes of many people, it is simply unnecessary. Because the whole thing is militarized. From military pay, it became wages. From a soldier to a worker, except for these changes in name, nothing else seems to have changed.
Nothing changes.
And with He Xi's order, the three major construction companies started construction.
They were assigned to undertake water conservancy repairs outside the city. Along with the foundations in the city, there are also buildings such as factories in Zunhua Industrial Zone.
In short, the construction of Beijing City has begun.
However, 30,000 people is still a little less than that.
Even though these 30,000 people are more like an engineering team than a construction company. Or engineers. He Xi has provided many new technologies and methods, but they are still exploring them now. It's just that they don't seem to have much interest in these new methods.
There is no pursuit of work efficiency.
After all, you are eating from the public family. Worker. It's also normal.
If He Xi wanted them to hurry up, he could give them death orders. Naturally, it can speed up the progress. But it is difficult for them to maintain an attitude of active learning and dedicated study and improvement. Sure enough, the most difficult thing in the world is to first learn by yourself, and secondly to let others learn. Well, if you are a top student, it may be the other way around.
When Zhang Dalang came to Beijing, there was a big construction site.
It's just that Zhang Dalang has no intention of looking at the construction site at the moment. He is exhausted both physically and mentally. Without him, he took five hundred people from Puzhou to Beijing. Zhang Dalang was very troubled. It could even be said that he had never thought that walking would be so difficult.
The famous card in his hand is enough to solve all the troubles on the road.
The problem is, these five hundred people are a big problem in themselves.
Five hundred people represented five hundred different opinions. It was hard for him to imagine that there would be so much trouble. This is when everyone comes out without any intention of causing trouble. Fortunately, along the way, Zhang Dalang also organized these people according to villages and townships. At least the internal management has been straightened out.
This is much easier to handle.
As soon as Zhang Dalang arrived here, he went to find He Xi. However, He Xi was not something he could see just because he wanted to. But he saw the housekeeper of He Mansion receiving him.
The housekeeper of He Mansion is none other than Yang Zhen.
As soon as the Beijing City project started, you can imagine how busy He Xi was. Naturally, there was no time to receive Zhang Dalang, and Yang Zhen happened to be in Beijing. So Yang Zhen received him.
Yang Zhen listened to all Zhang Dalang's experiences and also saw the people Zhang Dalang brought. Suddenly he said: "Brother Zhang. I don't know your surname yet."
Zhang Dalang said: "A nickname is not worth mentioning, Zhang Youzhi."
Yang Zhen said: "You will lose money on this trip, right?"
Zhang Dalang said: "It doesn't matter, as long as you are satisfied. Whatever you want will do."
With that famous card, Zhang Dalang has already made too much money. His family was a small salt merchant, and the salt policy during the Hongwu period was still very strict. The salt merchants earned their hard-earned money by transporting grain to the border and then receiving salt to resell it.
The business scale is small. But with a famous thorn in his side, no one will dare to make things difficult for him when doing business in the future. His family's financial resources are not strong. But with this famous name, he believed that he would definitely make a fortune. Of course, it would be even better if he could get into Mr. He's lap.
Yang Zhen said: "Sir, you are the most kind. If you let people do things, you will never let them suffer. So, let me give you a job. I will make sure you make money."
Zhang Dalang said: "What kind of work?"
Yang Zhen said: "Follow me."
So, Yang Zhen took Zhang Youzhi to a very simple courtyard next door, with the Ming Dynasty Beijing Planning Department hanging above it. First, he took him to register in a department. Zhang Youzhi registered a lot of things in a daze.
Finally, let me choose a name. Zhang Youzhi didn't know what to name him.
Yang Zhen knew that he was from Puzhou, Shanxi. It was registered as Puzhou Society.
Under Yang Zhen's guarantee, the green light was almost given. Then, Yang Zhen went to another department and found an old man. I just heard Yang Zhen call him "Kuai Da Gong." Zhang Youzhi didn't know what "Kuai Dagong" meant. Is it possible that the work is too slow to be completed?
But I saw Yang Zhen saying a few words beside Kuai Dagong. But he saw Kuai Dagong take out a drawing that was larger than a human and looked at it carefully.
Some people died, but not completely...
