novelonline Chapter 119 No one dares to answer
Chapter 119 No one dares to answer
Chapter 119 No one dares to answer
When the moon is full, it loses, and when the water is full, it overflows.
Especially in terms of being a human being, being too perfect does not necessarily mean a good thing.
life is alive.
Fame and fortune, the most out of the three.
Although Mr. Mo is not considered an "extreme minister" in Qin State, he basically belongs to the most powerful group of people in Qin State.
The wealth he has accumulated over the years is comparable to wealthy businessmen and rich merchants.
If Mr. Mo doesn't pour some dirty water on his "reputation" now, maybe one day, he will become the next Lu Buwei.
"What happened down there?"
While Mo Jun and the others were chatting, they saw a sudden crowd of workers not far away, and suddenly became noisy.
"The next official will send someone to investigate."
Chen Jing responded, and quickly summoned two officers and soldiers to investigate.
Soon.
The two officers and soldiers returned and reported: "Sir Shengping Jun, a worker passed out just now, but he has woken up now."
Mo Jun frowned slightly and said, "Did you faint? What's going on? Could it be that he didn't eat enough like last time."
If dry heavy physical work is not supplemented with enough food, it is easy to suffer from malnutrition.
But the people in Hanzhong County may be because they are too poor, so now when they make money, the first thing they think of is not to feed themselves, but to save the money and take it home.
When the construction first started, some people were reluctant to spend money to buy food for food because they made money.I insisted on working hard with a hungry stomach, but suddenly passed out halfway through the work.
Since then.
Mo Jun directly issued a ban.
In the future, if someone delays the construction period due to hunger, he will be expelled.
Hearing the words, the officers and soldiers hesitated for a moment, and said, "My lord, it seems that this time it was not because I didn't eat, but because I didn't eat salt for too long, so I passed out."
"No salt?"
Mo Jun's eyelids twitched slightly, then he turned to look at Xiong Da, and said, "Don't you have any salt prepared?"
Xiong Da shook his head and said, "Rice, oil and salt are all ready, but it may be because the price of salt has increased a lot recently, so these workers are not willing to buy too much!"
Hearing this, Mo Jun immediately covered his face, then waved his hands helplessly and said: "Forget it, when you are resting later, you can get some salt to melt and give them some salt water!"
Xiong Da nodded and said, "I understand."
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In the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed.
With Mo Jun investing 15 gold coins in Hanzhong County in one go, the whole Hanzhong was like a pool of stagnant water into which a bomb was thrown, and it suddenly became lively.
The first is the 'four large and eight small' built in various parts of Hanzhong County, a total of twelve reservoirs.
The construction of the reservoir itself does not have much technical content. Except for the need to use cement for reinforcement in the end, most of the project involves digging pits and transporting soil.
So in comparison, the wages of the workers who built the reservoir were a little less, only three dollars a day.
But even so.
There are still a lot of people in various villages and counties in Hanzhong County who want to grab a job.
a time.
All areas of Hanzhong County are busy.
After most civilians got their wages, they immediately wanted to exchange all of them for food. Seeing this situation, many landlords and nobles in various towns in Hanzhong County began to tacitly raise food prices without any discussion.
This kind of situation has almost become the norm at present. Under the policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business", the commercial market of the entire Qin State is like a pool of stagnant water, and effective competition cannot be formed at all.
Without competition, it often means that the pricing power of commodities is completely determined by merchants, and buyers have no choice at all.
Therefore.
Even though Qin's currency has initially begun to form a system, the currency itself still does not have the slightest credibility. Even if most people make money, they will immediately want to exchange it for food and cloth.
Fortunately, Mr. Mo was well prepared for this situation. Not long after Mr. Mo came to Hanzhong County, Xiong Dao had already "passed the letter" and notified the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] scattered all over the place to gather in Hanzhong.
Although it is inconvenient to transport large quantities of goods across the Qinling Mountains, such a long time has passed, and the first batch of people from the [Xiongchumo Chamber of Commerce] has also arrived in Hanzhong.
With this group of people, and the 10,000+ stone grain obtained by copying the "He Clan" before, it is enough for Mo Jun to control the grain price in various parts of Hanzhong County.
Of course.
There will inevitably be some 'little accidents' along the way.
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Mo Jun harvested more than 3 shi of grain by accident.
And some farmers near the Han River are now fishing for river fish in the river almost day and night.
What Mo Jun implements for fishing is not a daily salary system, but a performance system.
Every ten catties of river fish caught from the river (approximately equal to five catties in later generations) can be exchanged for a big coin from the government.
Such an exchange ratio is obviously difficult for many people who do not know how to fish.
However, for many fishermen who originally lived near the Han River and depended on the water for water, it was a huge incentive.
After all, for many fishermen living by the water, the most difficult part is not that they cannot catch fish, but that they have nowhere to sell the fish.
So when Mo Jun issued this order.
Nowadays, even at night, there are at least a hundred fishermen floating on the Han River.And the number of people during the day can exceed a thousand people.
The fishing skills of the Warring States Period were indeed not superb.
But it is also because of this that the catch resources in Hanshui are far more abundant than those of later generations.
Some experienced fishermen can now catch two to three hundred catties of river fish every day, and can earn twenty or thirty dollars a day.
Among them is "Uncle Tiezi", an old farmer in Tieshi Village, Heishi County.
The old farmer "Uncle Tiezi" originally went to "Huaihuishan" to apply for the job with other people, but at that time many people from the same village were selected, but he was rejected by the recruiting foreman because he was too old.
The old farmer was naturally a little sad about this, but just after he returned to Tieshi Village, someone happened to come to Tieshi Village to publicize the notice of 'fishing and paying back'.
Tieshi Village is actually not that close to the Han River, but the old farmer lived on the water for a while when he was young, so after hearing this notice, he wanted to try his luck on the water.
In the end, he didn't expect that his luck was quite good. On the first day, he caught a 'King Fish' weighing [-] catties, and directly made [-] big bucks.
Such a speed of making money.
When the old farmer returned to Tieshi Village that day, the eyes of many envious people turned red.
But by comparison.
The busiest place in Hanzhong County is undoubtedly Gunshan County.
Because with the arrival of the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] in Hanzhong, the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce and the breeding farm have to start to be built. In order to speed up, Xiongda directly expanded the number of recruits to more than 2000 people.
To know.
Hanzhong County is not a big place, and its population is not large. The total population of the whole county is about 10,000+, which is less than 20.
Excluding the old, young, women and children, the real labor force in the prime of life is only about 8 to [-] people.
This is because Mr. Mo invented the 'Great Qin Sword and Creation Medicine', which reduced the number of battle losses of the veterans of the Qin Army by more than half, so now the Qin State no longer needs to recruit too many people for military service.
Otherwise, the labor force of the [-] to [-] adults may be reduced by [-] to [-].
But even if the 1 to [-] middle-aged laborers are distributed to various counties, each county will only have more than [-] middle-aged laborers.
But now Mo Jun recruited more than 2000 people, close to 3000 people.
Can be imagined.
What kind of shock will this cause at the moment.
Less than a month.
Hanzhong County, which was originally oppressed by various landlords and old nobles, quickly entered the era of great construction with the arrival of Mo Jun.
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And just when Mo Jun was busy like a raging fire.
the other side.
The five big ones who once successfully completed a big deal with Mo Jun in the county guard's mansion... oh no, now they should be the patriarchs of the four old nobles, gathered together again.
And behind these four people, there are about a dozen people, as representatives of small landlords and nobles from various other places, who came here to discuss important matters with the four old nobles.
As for what is the big deal?
obviously.
In the entire Hanzhong County at present, there is only one person who deserves so many of them to gather together to deal with it.
Bang!
One of the four old nobles, the patriarch of the Sun clan "Sun Zuo" slapped the table angrily and said, "That guy's hands and feet are getting longer and longer recently."
One of the four old nobles, the patriarch of the Jing clan 'Jing Cheng' also had an uneasy expression, and said in a low voice, "It seems that we underestimated him too much."
One of the four old nobles, Yan Bosun, the patriarch of the Yan family, squeezed his teacup and said, "I once asked my family's descendants to file a complaint against this person, but before the memorial was issued, they were already knocked down halfway. . five times in a row with the same result."
"It's the same on our side."
At this moment, I heard a representative of a small landlord and aristocratic force below say: "We have all contacted our respective backgrounds in Xianyang, but now every important institution in the court has the eyeliner of that person."
"But no one dares to accept any memorial that wants to sue that person."
"And several of them even explicitly told us to give up the idea of dealing with that person."
Having said that, there were a few representatives of the small landlord and noble forces below, with a hint of fear clearly showing on their faces.
Originally, they thought that Mr. Mo had not been in power for a long time, so it was impossible for him to have a deep background, and at most he would just be rampant in Hanzhong County.
In the current world, who can become a landlord and wealthy businessman without any official background.
In the end, the reality gave them a ruthless big bully.
Once in Hanzhong.
They have always used their power to bully others, but now facing the oppression from Mo Jun, they experienced the feeling of being bullied for the first time.
This kind of terrifying power that no one dared to accept even the newspaper officials made these landlords and nobles in Hanzhong County feel for the first time what it means to have "no way to go to heaven and no way to go down to earth".
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(End of this chapter)