It may not be easy to want a group of people to obey orders, but there is always a way, as long as you can give enough benefits; And if you want people to work hard, it is a very difficult and difficult thing, for everyone, life is always so precious.

"Uncle Hong, how was your life in your hometown before you came to Yuegang?" After dinner, every night, as long as Li Tianyang would gather these displaced people who had been recruited close to the team, and teach them to read and write, he hoped that there would be no illiterate people in his team as much as possible, so as not to find anyone who knew how to read and write when there was any need in the future.

Of course, older people, compared to those young people and children, are still quite difficult to learn, people can usually learn half an article a night, but those of them in their thirties need two or three nights. But fortunately, although these honest farmers are a little hesitant and don't know what the use of learning these things is when they are old, they are still studying very seriously in the face of Li Tianyang, the generous proprietor.

The person who was questioned was called Hong Chengwu, one of the first batch of displaced people, in addition to him, there was also an eldest brother who was one year older than him, and there were also four children under his knees, the eldest was already eighteen years old, and the younger one was less than 9 years old.

Hong Chengwu hesitated for a moment, but finally stood up, and said resignedly: "Return, return to the words of the little master, no, it's not good!" ”

"Why?" Li Tianyang's face was calm, showing interest.

Now is the time for the after-school break, with Li Tianyang by his side, these men are a little uncomfortable, and they dare not make any big moves, so as not to provoke Li Tianyang. In order to let everyone communicate with each other more and understand each other more, Li Tianyang found some topics to chat.

"Hey!!" Hong Chengwu sighed, thought for a long time, looked at Li Tianyang's eyes, and finally said helplessly: "In my hometown, most of the land belongs to our Wang landlord and his family, like our family, there are only three acres of land in total, and I have to share the land with my eldest brother's family, I want to feed the family, where is enough!" ”

"There's no way, then I can only rent other people's land to plant, my brother and I each rented fifteen acres of land from the landlord's family, which is barely enough to maintain the life of the family!" Hong Chengwu recalled the original days and sighed infinitely.

"Fifteen acres of land, plus your family's land, how can you just barely make ends meet?" Li Tianyang asked knowingly.

"Hey, you have to pay the rent, and thirty percent of the grain in the field will be handed over to the king and the landlord and their family; There is also the government to collect taxes, since the tax of this government has been changed to this whip, when the tax is collected, every household has to sell grain, the price of grain is low to death, and every time you have to sell a lot of grain to deduct taxes! ”

"That's it!!"

"Everyone is the same!!"

These words probably went to everyone's hearts, and everyone suddenly talked about it.

"Lao Hong, you are good, the landlord only collects 30% of the rent, do you know how high our rent is? The minimum harvest is forty percent, how can this make people live, planted all year round, all of them are planted for white for others!! ”

"When selling grain, the price is so low, and when there is no food, if you want to buy grain, the price can be several times higher than when you sell grain, and people who have no money can only dig wild vegetables everywhere to live, and even the grain left over in spring can only be used to feed their families."

"Hey!! In this world, why is it so unfair!! ”

In the end, everyone's grievances were aroused, and they all opened their chatterboxes to complain about their bitterness, and it was only at this time that Li Tianyang saw a little bit of the blood and vitality of men from them.

"Think about it, why is life so sad?" Li Tianyang suddenly interjected a sentence and interrupted everyone's complaining meeting: "Are those landlords born to be landlords?" Why do those businessmen always seize everyone's embarrassment and buy low and sell high? ”

There was a sudden silence at the bottom, silent for a long time, these days of learning, although everyone's words have not been fully recognized, but more or less still learned something, plus the food of these decades is not in vain, a lot of truth is not that they don't understand, it's just that they haven't thought about it.

"The landlord knows how to be careful in his calculations, don't you also know how to be diligent and thrifty; Merchants want to buy your things and sell them to you, but you don't have to be willing, and they don't force you, right? Li Tianyang was afraid that everyone would not think enough, so he further picked up the blank paper in front of everyone: "The problem is that everyone only knows how to grow grain to support their families, but they have never thought of planting other things on the land, and then buying a year's grain for their families when the price of grain is low, so that not only do you not have to sell your own grain to pay taxes, but you can also save some silver to buy land and expand your own property!" ”

"For example, in recent years, it has been much more cost-effective to switch to cotton and mulberry fields in the south than to simply grow grain, but have you ever thought about it?"

"Aren't we in the north, then? What is there to compare with the South? Someone muttered a few words from below.

"Hehe, what this uncle said is wrong, that is, in the north, there must be the same situation as in the south, everyone just didn't find out." Li Tianyang smiled at the place where he spoke, and then continued: "If people can be developed, they must have their own reasons, have you ever thought that one day there will be a talent in your family?" ”

"I want to!! How could you not want to!! ”

"Yes!!"

Everyone unanimously answered Li Tianyang's question.

"If you want to gain, then you have to pay!! In the world, there has never been a free lunch, and there is no pie in the sky. Li Tianyang looked at the group of people who were aroused at the bottom and said earnestly.

"What should I do, little master, you are so smart, give us big bosses a trick!" The people below looked at Li Tianyang talking there, and couldn't help but beg.

"Am I smart? Why don't I think so!! Li Tianyang replied very modestly, and then everyone nodded. Although Li Tianyang is now everyone's leader, and there are many things that everyone dare not caress him, but at this moment, everyone is a fact that everyone admits convincingly.

"That's because everyone doesn't know what kind of person I used to be, and I can have such ability now, in fact, I learned it from a gentleman!" Li Tianyang's ability to talk nonsense with his eyes open is getting bigger and bigger, and when he said this sentence, he didn't even blink his eyes: "Do you want to know which gentleman taught me?" ”

"I want to !!"

"Actually, this gentleman, I have already introduced it to everyone." Li Tianyang sold a pass.

"Let's look at the books in our hands, this is the gentleman I invited to everyone, as long as you learn the above truths, it is possible for everyone to have anything!" Li Tianyang smiled and gave the answer, which disappointed the people who were aroused at the bottom.

"We're all so old, it's too hard to learn these things, we really have to gain something, then it's not a matter of the Year of the Monkey!" This is the lament of the backward elements who are struggling to study and dragging everyone back.

"But don't forget, besides you, you have descendants, do you want your sons and grandsons to be like you, soak in the mud all day and beg for food?"

"But we all have no money, it takes a lot of money to read and write, although you are taking care of everyone now, so that the children can go to school and know how to read. But you also count this cost on our heads, and we all have to do a lot of work for you every day to offset these expenses. I'm not afraid of your jokes, this day is really a little harder than in my hometown, I don't know how long I can last!! "Now that we are talking about this, everyone has also talked about the discomfort of these days.

In fact, to put it bluntly, everyone has some complaints about Li Tianyang's 100 days of letting everyone practice and work, and at night they have to gather together to learn to read and write.

"Do you want your children to have a good future?" Where would Li Tianyang not understand everyone's careful thoughts.

"I think about it, but we are also human!"

"If you suffer hardship, you will become a superior person, this is the truth that the ancients told us." Farmers are always like this, they only see the gains and losses in front of them, but they don't see the harvest in the future: "I'm going to ask you one thing today, do you want to make a lot of money!" ”

"I want to !!" A categorical voice sounded, and no one in their right mind would be unwilling to answer this question.

"But what if this opportunity to make money requires everyone to shed blood and work hard, are you still willing?"

“…… Willing. "This ......"

There are those who hesitate, those who nod, and those who look at the crowd around them to answer, and those who echo their voices, anyway, no one is as neat as just now, and everyone has different ideas.

Seeing this, Li Tianyang did not lose heart, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and it is a fantasy to dispel the doubts of this group of honest farmers who have been honest all their lives with a single conversation.

"Okay, it's not too early, let's go back and rest!" At the end of today's conversation, Li Tianyang looked at the sky, waved his hand to everyone, and let everyone go back to rest.

It seems that after today's chat, Li Tianyang does not look like he has gained anything, but he does not look like a person who has gained nothing, and the whole person is still very satisfied with his conversation today. At least, when we talked today, everyone was no longer insensitive, and there was a little more yearning for a better future in their eyes, which was what Li Tianyang needed to see.

Man is a very strange animal, when he has not thought or thought about it, he can live willingly and with all his heart set in stone; But as long as he has ideas and prospects, his heart is no longer willing to be lonely, and he can't help but fantasize about the future in his mind and figure out all kinds of methods.

Li Tianyang worked so hard to let this group of coarse people who didn't know a single big character, and who had long passed the best learning age to learn words and learn the truth, to put it bluntly, he didn't want to create a dream for all of them, a dream that could arouse the blood in their hearts!!

is this kind of conversation, Li Tianyang is also as long as he has time during the day or night, he will chat with everyone, anyway, as long as he can arouse everyone's desire, he will chat. Over time, this group of men who were submissive and did not have a little passion at the beginning, whether in their studies or in their daily training, they have become a little more competitive and positive.

It took Li Tianyang a lot of effort to come up with this method, and in the end, he drew on the propaganda and agitation work of our Republic of China period, so that we could achieve such results. Of course, he doesn't have the ability of others, and he directly brainwashes people, and the only thing he can do is to arouse the desires hidden in people's hearts.

After solving the team's ideological work, Li Tianyang and them will be busy next.

The harvest of the first batch of grain not only brought a large amount of grain to the camp, but also allowed the indigenous people to taste a lot of sweetness from the land. Think about it, in a group of Zhuluo Mountain Society, which is not even slash-and-burn farming, hunting for a living, suddenly one day, those young people who came down to Bengang to beg for a living, packed a large amount of food and materials from Bengang one by one, how can this not make the old and young masters in the cottage envious, jealous, and hate!!

As mentioned earlier, the natives who have worked for a long time and performed well have been given a few acres of land by Li Tiannutrient, although they don't care about it, but they are not lazy. When it was harvest season, although the yield of sweet potatoes per acre of land was not as high as in Tanmen, it was not bad compared to other grains, and it was generally harvested for nearly two stones. Isn't it like a dream that the natives, who used to be hungry, have ever seen that as long as they dig in the ground with a hoe and dig in the ground, they can harvest a year's worth of food for their families?

For the first time, the indigenous people became very interested in farming. And the change that came with it is that more and more indigenous people have come down from Zhuluo Mountain to Li Tianyang to learn how to farm. Just from the beginning of the harvest of the first batch of grain, it took more than half a month, and the natives who came to Bengang to beg for a living have surged from less than 300 people to 6 or 700 people, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the population of Zhuluo Mountain Society.

Four thousand words, two chapters together, too lazy to score chapters

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