Live as the emperor

Chapter 20 Recruitment
Two days later——Chen Guang spent two full days playing gold at home.

Well, it's not that he's worthless, it's just that he wants to see how Comrade Guo Qilin, the sheriff of Xihai County, will deal with this theft case.

And anyway, being bored at home is boring, and there are no girls to play with, so I can only play with gold.

Besides, as a modern person, the yearning and enthusiasm for gold is Zhou Papi level in China, and Grandet level in foreign countries. Therefore, it is understandable to play gold for a few days without a girl.

Unsurprisingly, what Chen Guang expected was that Guo Qilin did not choose to report the case or other things—if such a case was reported in Beijing, how would he answer the question of how the money came from?Greedy?Don't be ridiculous, every minute is like death.

Therefore, despite the heavy losses, Guo Qilin could only swallow his anger.

Besides, Chen Guang, after waiting for two days without any movement, he naturally felt relieved to spend money boldly.Chinese New Year is coming soon, first of all, of course, is to build a house.

Early in the morning, Chen Guang was about to go out to find a place, but unexpectedly met several carriages, and a person came out of the leading sedan chair. It was Yu Chao, Chen Ang's personal eunuch.

Chen Guang greeted him and made a bow, saying, "Eunuch Yu."

Yu Chao returned a salute, and said with a smile: "Morning, Your Highness King Jin, the old minister was sent by the emperor this time, and sent something to His Highness King Jin."

Chen Guang glanced behind him, and sure enough, he saw several carriages parked behind Yu Chao, and he was overjoyed. Is this double happiness?I just got two big boxes of gold, and now the emperor is sending money again?

"Thank you, Father." Chen Guang cupped his hands towards the sky.Then he made a gesture of invitation and said, "Eunuch Yu, come in and have a cup of tea."

Yu Chao laughed and said: "Forget it, forget it, the old minister has to go back quickly. In recent years, many things have been closed. But the emperor can ask the old minister to send a message to His Royal Highness King Jin."

"What?" Chen Guang's expression froze.

"The emperor said that he can see everything His Royal Highness Jin does."

Chen Guang was taken aback for a moment, was the throwing thing discovered?It doesn't make sense, there was no one around at the time.

Traitor?

Thinking of this word, Chen Guang suddenly felt extremely painful.

Why do ancient people like to play Infernal Affairs?

"What's the matter?" he asked subconsciously.

At the same time, someone in the live broadcast room shouted: "My lord went to steal things in the middle of the night and was discovered by the emperor—what a topic. If there were media at that time, it would definitely blow up the headlines."

"Anchor, take the initiative to explain, and strive for leniency."

"No, it's best to renege on debts. If you confess, you'll be lenient. If you're imprisoned, you'll be punished. If you resist, you'll be strict. Go home for the New Year."

"..."

Yu Chao said with a smile: "Of course it's about giving out porridge. Your Highness doesn't know about it. When you give out porridge, it means that you have appeased so many refugees, and the pressure on the emperor has been relieved a lot."

After hearing this, Chen Guang breathed a long sigh of relief. Didn't Nima talk about stealing things?This baby is scared to death, please don't pretend to be mysterious when you speak next time, okay?It's easy to scare people to death.

In the live broadcast room, netizens were also amused by this conversation.

"Happy to hear, anchor, this is called, don't do anything wrong, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door."

"It seems that the ancient people were really thieves when they spoke. Be careful when the anchor speaks. Don't let your mouth leak out, or you will be screwed."

Chen Guang said depressedly: "I almost confessed and got leniency just now."

"Ha ha……"

After Yu Chao conveyed the emperor's encouragement, he asked someone to transport the contents of the carriage into the Prince Jin's mansion. Chen Guang asked him to drink a pot of tea, and gave him a bag of tea leaves from Yufeng Temple.

In the yard, there were several large boxes that Yu Chao had just brought over from the palace. Chen Guang licked his lips and said to Yang Rong beside him, "Guess how much money is in it."

The gold and silver these days are generally in the form of blocks or strips, which are somewhat similar to the investment gold bars sold in modern banks. The styles of ingots probably did not become more common until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

At the same time, in the live broadcast room, Chen Guang also spoke: "Comrades, let's take a guess, is it filled with gold or silver?"

"Absolutely silver, I bet a shark's fin."

"I also think it's silver. After all, according to my observations, silver and copper were the currency in circulation in that era, and gold was just hard currency. I'll make a rocket."

"No one thinks it's gold? Everyone guesses that silver is boring." Chen Guang asked.

"A certain anchor who started the live broadcast has been banned by the government. Please surrender yourself to the Public Security Bureau."

"Upstairs 666"

After interacting for a while, Chen Guang rubbed his hands together and said, "Come on, come on, it's time to see the outcome, and those who lose are not allowed to lie."

When I opened the box, what caught my eye was rice, white rice.

The Emperor Lao Tzu sent several boxes of rice to Chen Guang.

"Pfft... sorry, I tried to hold back my laugh, but I couldn't."

"Haha, I didn't hold back either. The emperor is too stingy to send so much rice."

"I must have known that the anchor has no rice to cook, so I sent it here specially. Hey, my father's love is like a mountain."

Chen Guang was also very depressed. Even if it wasn't gold, silver would be fine. Even if it wasn't silver, you could give me a few boxes of copper coins. What does it mean to give me a few boxes of rice?It's really like I have no rice to cook, right?

Then, in order to vent his anger, he yelled in the live broadcast room: "Come on, come on, you rocket shark fins, those who guessed gold and silver, give me all of them, you didn't guess right."

"Why don't Mao guess everything correctly? It's unscientific."

"What's unscientific, brother is the anchor! Brother sits in the manor and kills you! Don't accept it?"

"Hold the grass, I will take it."

This rice is top-notch tribute rice, so naturally it will not be used for disaster relief. He ordered people to send these large boxes to the warehouse, and Chen Guang set off again to go outside the city to find a suitable place.

Because it snowed again last night, the grass on the hillside outside the city was covered with thick snow. Chen Guang searched all the way, and soon came to a small river.Found a large flat open space, looked at it, immediately rejoiced, said: "This is it."

"There is a river here, so cooking is not a problem, and it is easy to dig a well to get water. The terrain is flat and you can build a big house. Not bad, not bad."

Chen Guang chose the place right away, and said to Yang Rong: "This is it, go and talk to the third brother, we want to recruit workers to build a house."

Yang Rong said: "Your Highness, there are so many refugees, just let them build their own houses, why bother to recruit?"

Chen Guang patted his forehead and said, "Why the hell didn't I think of it? Okay, it's such a happy decision."

Turning around and going back to the porridge stand, I happened to meet Chen Jun. Chen Guang pulled Chen Jun aside and said, "I found a place to build houses for refugees. You can find out. If there are carpenters and masons, let them go." They register and start working on another day."

Chen Jun asked in surprise, "Where did you get the money?"

"Haha, don't worry about this, it's all right if you have money, but don't make a fuss, I'm very low-key."

"is it?"

"of course."

Chen Guang took paper and a pen, wrote a notice, and pasted it on the pillar of the soup kitchen.As soon as it was posted, it immediately attracted a large group of people.

"Do you want to be a carpenter? Fifty yuan a day? And wages? But the wage earners can't come to pick up the porridge?"

"It's okay if you don't get the porridge. If I can work as a carpenter, I'll go too. For fifty Wen, I can go to a small restaurant in the city."

"It's okay for those who don't know carpentry, and do chores for [-] yuan a day."

"Then what are you waiting for? Sign up and earn tens of pennies. Even if you don't go to restaurants, it's good to buy a few white flour steamed buns."

There was a lot of discussion among the crowd.Chen Guang sat next to them, listening to them talk.This trick is called work-for-relief. The reason why it is stipulated that those who receive wages cannot enjoy the preferential treatment of porridge is because rice is becoming more and more difficult to buy and the price is getting higher and higher. It is also very good to save some of it. of.Besides, now Chen Guang is not short of money at all!

Why do refugees become refugees?Because they have no land to farm. As an agricultural empire, if you don’t farm the land and are not an official, you can only wander around. Let alone business or workers. Talking about industry in an agricultural society is a very painful thing. As for business?In the city of agriculture, industry and commerce, merchants have the lowest status, and many people are unwilling to be merchants even if they starve to death.In this way, without land, we can only wander.

What Chen Guang wants to do is to change this concept. If a country wants to develop, it cannot do without industry. Agriculture depends on the weather. Once a natural disaster occurs, the people will be displaced—such as now.After the industry develops, business will rise, because at least you have to produce more products than you need before you can trade them with others.

This is a long process. Fortunately, Chen Guang is from the future, and he already knows all the processes of this long process.

At first, Chen Guang thought that these refugees built houses for themselves, so there was no reason to pay wages at all, but after thinking about it, he still wanted to save food, so he gave a little money, one tael of silver and one hundred Wen, One tael of gold can be exchanged for 100 taels of silver, that is to say, one tael of gold gets [-] copper coins. After this calculation, paying wages seems to be much more cost-effective than giving out porridge all day.The more important thing is to buy rice noodles and firewood, which requires additional work, which is even more cumbersome in terms of conversion.

At the registration office, Chen Jun was holding a big notebook and a brush in his hand, and asked a person, "What's your name?"

"Chen Ergou."

"what will you do?"

"I'm a carpenter."

Chen Jun wrote it, and then shouted: "Next."

There is a steady stream of applicants. Chen Guang stated in the recruitment notice that he needs 1000 people. Judging from this posture, it may only take one morning to complete this goal.

Chen Guang ordered Yang Rong to take someone to see the place he was looking for, and plan the location of the house.

In the East Palace, Chen Yong hadn't received any information about Chen Guang for two or three days, so he sent someone to check again, and was very angry when he learned that the person he sent had been killed by Chen Guang.Later, something that made him even more angry happened. His second brother actually wanted to build a house for refugees on the site he wanted!
(End of this chapter)