Chapter 646: In charge, which is more important, money or face?
Is it important for the emperor to come? Of course it's important. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoWhether it's officialdom or the people, it's a shock. Taking the folk as an example, in just a few days, the prices of eggs, poultry, cattle and sheep have doubled.
And with Chen Ming's arrival in Baoji, a resolution that had been discussed in Fengxiang Mansion for more than half a year was successfully passed. Individual key townships and towns in Baoji, a key county, are allowed to increase their public posts, and all public servants in various organs in the county who are willing to support the townships and localities will be upgraded by one level [those who have not been promoted within one year].
Chen Ming didn't know that the fluctuation instigated by his arrival was deeply affecting the fate of some families. He had just received news from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanking that the Ottoman Empire had sent a prince as an envoy to China to meet the emperor, marking a new stage in the relationship between the two countries. After the Ottoman embassy was completed, His Royal Highness would remain in China as an ambassador for a long time.
"In charge, you have to know that the county officials are not as good as the current management."
"Going back to the town will not only give you a promotion, but also a higher position, and it will be convenient."
"Son, going back to town won't delay your future. Upgraded to a level, and can take care of the hotel at home......"
"How good is it to go back to the countryside, how long do you have to stay up in the city to move up to the next level?"
A pair of old parents, a shrewd and capable wife, aimed their fire at the man who was surrounded by them. With a very firm attitude, he let his son, his husband, return to the township from the county seat.
That's a rare thing.
The Chinese people who have always been the queen of the ox rather than the head of the chicken are as many as the sand in the river, and there are countless of them. Especially the people in officialdom! Who wants to go down from high to low? I would rather be the first point of my job than delegate to a local area. The idea of the seven officials in front of the prime minister is still very influential.
This person's name is Li Chunhong, a government official in Baoji City, this person is a person from Xirenbao in Baoji, a native of Jiacun Town, and now a clerk of the Baoji County Government, and Najia Village and Town happen to be one of the key townships in Baoji County.
Li Chunhong is not a veteran, and there is no one in his family who can get involved with military families. Li Chunhong was able to become a government official entirely by his own hard work - he was very good at abacus, and he used to be an apprentice in a money bank in Baoji.
For a countryman, there is suddenly an extra person in the family who eats official food, which is a very glorious thing.
The income of government officials is not very high, especially when the imperial court was paying for land before, and the income is really not low.
Li Chunhong's income alone is enough to support their family, their old father and mother, and a pair of children.
But Li Chunhong has been very unhappy since this year, not because of work, but because of his wife.
His wife didn't know what to think, and suddenly she was going to do a small business, and she couldn't stop it. Baoji is now a big construction site, so many things government agencies are very busy, Li Chunhong sometimes gets busy, and does not go home for three or five days.
How can he have time to control his wife?
Li Chunhong's wife's surname is Zeng, and her daily business is not big, that is, she cooks some tea eggs, tofu skewers, tofu skin, and takes out steamed buns and boiled water, but the business is very good. Baoji is a big construction site, with a large flow of people, and not everyone is willing to eat in the restaurant. Or there are many people who want to eat something and put on a cushion, and they are reluctant to eat tea eggs, so they can sandwich a tofu skewer and tofu skin.
Tsang's business is booming. By the time Li Chunhong found out, the parents in the family had already been pulled into the water.
Li Chunhong is a face-saving person, and letting his wife come out to earn money hurts his face too much.
But Zeng's is not an obedient master, at first he promised to do a good job on the surface, and when Li Chunhong went out, he still came out to do his own small business. But in the end, it was screwed up.
The old couple of the Li family looked at the money to be made, but they also showed hesitation.
Of course, the money earned by the Zeng family from setting up a stall is not as much as what Li Chunhong earns every month, but compared with the income of the Li family in previous years, it is very rich, even for the current Li family, it is not something that can be ignored casually.
The old couple of the Li family wavered on the issue of money and their son's face, and the Zeng family was obsessed with money. Li Chunhong can't divorce because of this. Now Chen Hantianxia has not said such a thing as divorce from his wife, nor has he said such a thing as divorce, it is a divorce. But the whole Baoji has not yet broken out a divorce.
Li Chunhong didn't want to eat crabs for the first time on this.
But a man who wants to save face will not let his wife lose face, and on this day Li Chunhong took the family back to his hometown. Before that, he specially persuaded his father and mother, and used the gimmick of being affected by his promotion to successfully fool his father and mother.
"Yo, Chunhong, you're back!" Zeng Daxing, the small landlord of Xirenbao, greeted Li Chunhong with a smile. This is an official food, just like the former servants, the son-in-law of their Zeng family.
Last year, Zeng Daxing also bought five injured cattle and horses from the north construction site at a price of 150 yuan through Li Chunhong's relationship, none of which were seriously injured, and they were carefully fed and cared for for three or four months, and each one recovered better than the other. Even if you don't keep it for your own use, and then sell it to the construction site, it will be hundreds of dollars in income back and forth.
Now the cattle and horses in Baoji are unprecedentedly numerous, and they are also unprecedentedly tense. The government has liberalized the purchase of cattle and horses, and the phenomenon of cattle and horses being cut off has generally occurred among the people.
The injured cattle and horses on the construction site are directly slaughtered if they are seriously injured, and those that are not serious are the targets that the people are eager for.
For example, the two cows and three horses that Zeng Daxing bought, the average price is 30 yuan per horse, which is 3 silver dollars and 2 taels of silver, what is this price? The Mongols sold their cattle and horses to Zhangjiakou at a slightly higher price. γHorseγ
However, Zeng Daxing looked enthusiastic, and Li Chunhong could still see very clearly that Zeng Daxing was in a hurry to go out. It's a bad luck to come by yourself.
Zeng Daxing could also see that Li Chunhong was looking for something for him, so he took the initiative to ask.
"Fifth uncle, I came this time to ask about the production team." At that time, Li Chunhong immediately said straight to the point.
The smile on his face immediately disappeared from Zeng Daxing's face, and Zeng Daxing became nervous, "What's wrong with our production team?" β
"Fifth uncle, don't get me wrong. It's not the government's business, it's what I want to ask. Fifth uncle, isn't the production team you run better, I want to ask if this production team can still join now? Li Chunhong took the initiative to hand Zeng Daxing a cigarette.
Zeng Daxing's face immediately improved, "You kid didn't speak at all, and he frightened the fifth uncle." It's this thing, it's hard. "Zeng Daxing is very happy that the 'name' of the production team led by him has arrived loudly, which is an affirmation.
"Chunhong, don't you work in the government? Why do you ask about this? β
"My father and mother are going back to their hometown, and my mother-in-law is also coming back to farm. Fifth uncle, you also know that my family now has three pieces of land, large and small, almost twelve or thirteen acres. I don't feel at ease with her to let her grow a woman's family with my father and mother. I'm thinking of finding a production team and adding it steadily. β
"This ......" Zeng Daxing listened to Li Chunhong's explanation, and his face showed a very embarrassed look, "Chunhong, it's not that I don't want to help you, but our production team is very tired." In addition to farming, we also do odd jobs and deliver goods to people. That's busy for men and women. I'm afraid my daughter-in-law won't be able to stand it when she comes. Why don't you contact the farm? β
The small landlord's family also had no surplus food. When the opportunity to make money is in front of them, none of the foremen who pull up the production team will push the money out because of their hard work. Although when I got the money, thinking about the hardships I had suffered, many people scolded me for not being worth it. But when the next business came, they forgot about their tiredness again.
The farm is mainly planting, even if it also takes into account the business of tofu mill, oil mill, and mill, it is also pounded in one place, unlike the production team, Zeng Daxing drove the ox cart to send the iron bars to Baocheng when he was farthest, and then one step further south is Hanzhong. Not to mention how much you eat on the road, how tired you are on the road.
Zeng Daxing's words made Li Chunhong grin bitterly, he had indeed contacted the farm, which also included military and civilian companies. However, the Li family is neither a soldier, nor a big landlord, nor a serious official, and the Li family's total acres of land are only twelve or thirteen acres, and they do not match the boundaries of those company farms, so they can't add it even if they want to.
They can use means to 'exchange land' -- land use rights, but for the sake of a small Li Chunhong, for the sake of a mere 123 acres of land, is it worth it? Since it is not worth it, Li Chunhong has no way to ask for help, so he can only turn to find the production team.
Now the countryside has changed so much that Li Chunhong feels incredible. Not only did the factories in the city engage in so-called system management, but discipline was introduced on the construction sites, and so did the farms.
Before coming to find Zeng Daxing, Li Chunhong first went to his relatives to learn about Xirenbao. There are a total of three production teams in his hometown, one surnamed Zeng, one surnamed Li also pulled up, and one is the Wu family, but the leader of the latter is a veteran, or a disabled soldier, and he lost two fingers, and the face is called a big, and the whole production team has entered the construction site of Baoyin Line, and obtained the qualification of the fifth-level construction team last fall.
It is completely different from the production team of the Li family and the Zeng family.
And if you compare the production team of the Li family in detail, they are nameless, and they are reluctant to include the latecomers, but only want to get the land use right. If Li Chunhong goes to 'vote', the production team will definitely be happy, but what is the difference between this and Li Chunhong's family renting out the land in the past?
What Li Chunhong wants now is a 'job' that can stumble over his wife. But this work must not be too tiring, because Li Chunhong still has two elderly people and two children to take care of at home.
It is also in this era that after the establishment of the child's school registration, it is easy to transfer to another school. Xirenbao, as a town station in Baoji, also happens to have a school.
"Mother, doesn't Dad want us anymore?"
At this moment, in the Li family, the Zeng family was busy burning firewood and cooking, and the eight-year-old son ran to his mother's side, timidly, and asked in a low voice.
When he was in school, he heard that someone would send his wife and children back to the countryside, and then find a small one in the county town.
Zeng's haha, "Your father dares to have such a heart, he has no face for three days after I slapped him." What do you care about your little kids? Go read a book. β
Of course, Zeng knew what her husband was going to do in his hometown this time, but Li Chunhong persuaded the children's transfer and the old people, and everything was done, and she could only go home.
However, Zeng has been scolding Li Chunhong in his heart, there are many women who set up stalls in Baoji City, why can't she put it on? When a government official talks about it, it is very face-saving, and it was really high when the court was not changed before. However, the change of the imperial court is already a certainty, and in the future, without the increase in the price of the field, it is not much more than the money she earns by selling tea and eggs every day.
Li Chunhong failed to make a landing, so she had to go back to work in the city. And he didn't know that it was only half a month later, after convincing the old couple of the Li family on the grounds that it would cost a lot of money for the children to grow up and go to school, the Zeng family set off from Xirenbao with the burden and went to a construction site more than ten miles away.
Zeng's work is still her old job in the county, with two burdens in front and back, one carrying steamed buns, the other carrying coal from the stove and a pot of eggs and tofu.
Zeng only collected some eggs from relatives, and according to previous experience, eggs were far less sold than tofu.
But later I found out that the people on the construction site really didn't seem to be short of money, and her tea eggs were in short supply. Then she didn't pick steamed buns, and specially laid eggs, tofu skins, and tofu cubes. There are canteens on the construction site, and steamed buns are not attractive at all.
There are four or five hundred migrant workers on the opposite construction site, and if each person has an egg a day, the Zeng family will not be able to keep them busy. Of course, this is just her beautiful wishful thinking.
However, this tea egg is easy to sell, and competitors also appeared immediately. Soon Zeng's found that a little daughter-in-law appeared opposite his stall, and she also began to sell tea eggs, and immediately robbed her of half of her business.
Hateful!
Originally, the Zeng family was full of hope that they could rely on monopoly management and sell tea eggs to make a lot of money. Tea eggs for five cents are too cheap, and they should be sold for a dime. But now that the little daughter-in-law has come out, the dream is shattered in an instant!
Just when Zeng was thinking about whether to discuss with the little daughter-in-law opposite, the two joined forces to raise the price. Not to mention one in a corner, it's six or seven points! But she found that there were too many smart people -- in less than a month, there were several tea eggs selling around the construction site.
No one came to the construction site to buy food before, because Baoji people knew that the canteen at the construction site was well fed. But no one thinks about it carefully, some people want to eat better after eating well, especially after these people have money in their hands.
In this era, it doesn't mean that you can eat and drink spicy food on the construction site every day if you have silver in your hand.
Not to mention meat, eggs are in the army, and it is impossible to guarantee that every soldier will eat one a day.
The only companies in China that have this guarantee are a ladder formation of the boy boy camp and a few key colleges and universities such as Chengjun Public School, and the state subsidizes students with one egg a day and one piece of salted fish and meat a day.
Don't look at the vigorous production of canned food industry and dried seafood in the coastal areas, and the output is constantly increasing, but if these quantities go deep into the inland for thousands of miles, put them on the basic figure of 20,000, and see how much is the average amount?
Originally, it was only a construction site with four or five hundred people, and two or three tea eggs still made money, so it can be said that five or six seven or eight would be bad.
Zeng is not an unambitious person, she noticed the fact that the workers were greedy when she was selling tea eggs, and she turned around boldly not to sell eggs, and it became more and more difficult to collect eggs in her village. Because in the past month or two, not only small traders have appeared on the edge of this construction site, but also the entire extension construction site of Baoji has this kind of small stalls.
Supply and demand immediately became tight.
Zeng's carried out industrial upgrading, and people changed to sell Tianshui chowder.
Baoji and Tianshui folk ties are still very close, and Tianshui's food is just as loud in Baoji. The authentic Tianshui chowder is to mix the egg whites and egg yolks well and spread them into pancakes. Take the fresh pork belly and chop it, add salt, flour and peppercorns, mix well, add it to the middle of two thin egg cakes and flatten it, steam it in the basket, cut it into strips, and make it into splint meat. It is mainly splint meat, with ringing leather strips and meatballs, poured chicken broth, sprinkled with chopped green onions, coriander, fungus, etc., put into the soup pot, the amount of soup is enough, the meat and vegetables are matched, and it is eaten while drinking, it is not greasy or greasy, and the taste is delicious.
Zeng's didn't have that way to ask for fresh pork belly every day, it was the intestines and stomach, and everything was used. There are ingredients that can be had, and those that are not are replaced by others, and I also got a special car to pull this cooking car to the construction site every day. The service is enthusiastic, the customer is first, and the business is immediately bigger.
When the Zeng family upgraded their cooking car again and ran a hotel on the official road of Xirenbao, and it was no longer just Li Chunhong's family, but also the relatives and friends of the Li family, the call for Li Chunhong to go home became higher and higher. What is even more coincidental is that the government also has a policy to further increase the number of units and institutions in individual key townships and towns......
However, it is not easy to let the county officials take the initiative to return to the township and township. (To be continued.) )