From Chief to Ball

Chen Jian listened to the discussion among the people for a while, and asked, "Which one would lose more if you gave them winter clothes or if they didn't work for 20 days?"

"What's the point? It's definitely not working. It's going to snow soon, and many things haven't been done. Now that the 20 days are delayed, we have to wait until April next year. This is not a matter of 20 days, The Department of Statistics and Planning has already made a plan for each day, and all of a sudden it's all messed up."

Everyone also supported this view, Chen Jian said with a smile: "Then tell me, do workshop workers work faster than slaves?"

"That must be."

"Our goal has always been to give them the least amount of work and let them do the most work. It is the same from the beginning to the end. If we used to give one to them three, now we give two to them to do five, which one is worthwhile?"

"Of course it is two thousand five, but that's not the way it is said. If you give them two today, they will ask for three tomorrow. How can people be satisfied? The same is true for us. Of course, we hope they will do more and ask for more. And less."

Chen Jian nodded with a smile and said: "It seems that you are very clear-headed. But you haven't figured out the most fundamental reason why they can ask us now. Let me tell you, because they are few, we need everyone."

"If the Yucheng workshop makes one hundred things a day, and each person makes three things a day, then 33 people are needed. When they make five things a day, only twenty people are needed."

"They have nothing and can only work hard for food. Let's give them two and not three. I don't believe that all 33 people will quit? Once twenty accept two, then we don't have to think about the remaining thirteen. The requirement is three, maybe there will be people begging us to give them one, so that they can take away the position of the person who asked for two."

"Assuming that there are [-] workshop workers in Yucheng, what are we afraid of? If you don't do it, some people will do it. So in the end it is people! More workshop workers, more workshop workers who have nothing but slaves!"

"Why? Let these workshop workers get more things, so as to attract more people to flee here. They have nothing, but I heard that Yucheng can be a human being, and they give a lot of things, which is much better than when they were slaves. By the way, you said that there will be [-] workshop workers at that time, and we will only use [-], so don’t we knead those people casually?”

"Long line, catch big fish! So my opinion is... Talk to them, agree to some of their conditions. Then wait for Shi Qi to come back, make a drama about this matter, perform it around, and lure the lowest-level Chinese slaves in other cities Escape to us."

What Chen Jian said sounds good, and the people below think it makes sense, but they don't know the terrible benefits. Today's monopoly workshops must be profitable. There are [-] workshop workers who can run a [-] workshop, at least in Before the expansion of Yucheng, there would never be a surplus of workshop workers.

But by that time, the balance has been achieved, and the workshop workers have learned to stick together to survive. At that time, it is a done deal, and if they want to return, there is no medicine to regret.

Everyone thought about it for a while, and supported Chen Jian's opinion, but everyone asked Chen Jian to talk to those people by himself. The reason was: I don't know how to talk, what should be agreed and what should not be agreed. Then let the people here learn from it, and also know what to do when encountering similar things in the future.

Chen Jian naturally agreed, and he was not in a hurry. He just asked everyone to tell the workshop workers that the demands of so many people were too chaotic, and asked them to choose three representatives to summarize their opinions and talk to him.And I promised not to retaliate against those three people afterwards.

I am still very reputable, at least so far I haven't said anything in front of the workshop workers, but the news that came back in the afternoon made Chen Jian dumbfounded.

In view of Chen Jian's delay last time, this time the workshop worker asked Chen Jian to engrave on the clay board the words that he would not take revenge on the three people, that is, unless the three people violated the previous rules of Xiacheng, they would not be expelled.At the same time, a statute is formed, and the representatives elected after that are also applicable.

At the same time, in order to prevent Chen Jian from playing with the rules, this time Chen Jian is required to swear an oath to his ancestors, and the oath cannot be sworn in his own name, but in the name of the leader of the Xiacheng Council, as the same as those clay tablets with rules written in Xiacheng. The specifications are higher than the Yucheng workshop regulations written on the wood - when there is a conflict between the wooden regulations and the clay board regulations, the clay board shall prevail.

The 20-day strike limit can't be too many demands. Chen Jian is very curious about whether those people understand the exchange of benefits, and whether they will propose some conditions that are completely impossible to agree to.

But this condition is obviously within the acceptable range. After making an oath in front of everyone, three people selected by the workshop workers came to the room of the Planning and Statistics Department that night.

Chen Jian recognized all three of them, and they were all the leading figures in Onozawa back then, so naturally they were among them.

The three of them did not sit still and raised the price, and directly stated four requirements.

"Everyone will be given a winter coat."

"Send people from the medical department to take care of those who are sick and are carried away, and ask to build a brick and tile house there as a quarantine area. If there is no one in the medical department, the workshop workers can draw three women to take care of them."

"Children under the age of ten do half-time work every day and go to school for half a day. Eight people can be selected from the workshop workers to attend classes, and then these eight people will be responsible for teaching the children of the workshop workers. The eight people do not need Xiacheng to pay. Collect money for their off-the-job studies."

"It is required to reduce the daily quota, set an additional piece-rate wage unchanged, and increase the treatment of workshop workers in disguise."

The three of them repeatedly reiterated that they would never resume work if these four requirements were not met.

Chen Jian secretly scolded the three of them for being stupid, how could they say the bottom line in the first place?But I am also very happy with their request. The third thing is that he wants to do something that the old Chinese people may not agree to. It happened to be proposed by them, and these four conditions are not high. It is completely under the loss of the 20-day strike. According to absolutely rational thinking, I might accept it.

Chapter 1 Seventeen Deception

People with purely rational thinking do not exist, and what the workshop workers put forward seems to be in line with rational interest analysis, but it is impossible for Chen Jian to agree directly without discussing with the old Chinese.

Asking prices all over the place and repaying the money on the spot, but time is equally precious to both parties, Chen Jian did not cut their conditions any further, and asked directly: "The reason why you make such a request is because you feel that you are also a part of Yucheng?" ,Is it right?"

"Ji Xia means, aren't we from Yucheng?"

"Forget it, of course, you are not slaves. Since you think you are from Yucheng, if one day Yucheng is attacked by the enemy, what will you do? Although you live a hard life, but look at the world, don't be slaves but be human Yes, this is the only one. Once Yucheng is breached, you may not be able to work as workshop workers, let alone your children go to schools...then the schools will be gone, who will teach you?"

"Let's put it this way, although you are workshop workers, you are better than slaves in other cities, at least you are human. The reason why you are better than slaves in other cities is because the goods sold in these workshops are exchanged for Back to food and clothing. You are the lowest in Yucheng, but in fact you are still secretly exploiting slaves in other cities. Am I right?"

"You used to be runaway slaves, but now you are actually not much different from those slave owners. It's just that they carry whips and you don't. Thinking about it this way, you are still connected to Yucheng, Without the stability of Yucheng, there would be no life for you today."

"So, you make troubles, but I hope that one day when the enemy comes, you don't say that the quality of Yucheng has nothing to do with you. In the future, it will be too late when you know that you are wrong. Unless one day there are people everywhere in the world. Speaking the same words and writing the same characters, there is only the difference between the workshop worker and the workshop owner, not the urban ethnic group or ancestors."

"Besides, I regard you as human beings because you have the same ancestors as us. This is my bottom line. You can ask the people of Xiacheng how I treat those grassland ethnic groups in Xiacheng."

It is quite effective to deal with this group of workshop workers with a rather modified rhetoric of social citizens. Now no one has seen what it will look like in many years, at least it is reasonable to listen to what Chen Jian said at this time.

After reacting for a while, he asked, "Ji Xia is right, but what exactly do you want us to do?"

"If you want to eat a bear's paw, you have to risk being bitten by a bear. If you want to maintain your current life, and even continue to maintain the possibility that you can fight for improvement, you must also regard yourself as a part of Yucheng, fulfill the and summer the same obligation as city dwellers.”

"If Yucheng is attacked by the enemy, you have the obligation to take up arms and go to the battlefield, otherwise I will not grant your right to request."

He snorted and said, "I heard Jixia's lectures about obligations and rights. I want to ask, if you go to war abroad, who will get the spoils and slaves?"

"It belongs to the public property of Xiacheng."

"That means it is not ours, because we are human beings, but not from Xiacheng."

"Correct."

"Then we can only promise that if someone attacks Yucheng, we will take up arms to defend Yucheng; but if we go to war abroad, we will not go out unless you give us the identity of Xiacheng people, so that the public property of Xiacheng is ours. We have the obligation to fight because of the public property.”

"I can't give it, the council can't agree, you haven't proved that you are qualified to be Xiacheng people."

"for example?"

"War. You are brave and not afraid of death, but ten people will definitely not be able to defeat ten Xiacheng people who took up arms and lined up. Do you believe it?"

He recalled the situation when he was arrested when changing the salt, and nodded helplessly. This is a fact, and there is no need to argue for the so-called dignity.

Chen Jian pretended to think about the words for a while, and agreed for a long time: "Since this is the case, it is not impossible. You must first understand that defending Yucheng is to protect yourself, and then you must swear that you will abide by this agreement. Once Yucheng is captured Attacking you will take up arms."

"But you are not qualified soldiers now, so you need training. From now on, you will do nine days every ten days, set aside one day to practice spears and line up the formation, and you will have to train for three days at the end of each month, otherwise your oath will be in vain. significance."

Chen Jian glanced at him, and said with a half-smile: "You are very good at talking, and the workshop workers can understand what you said, so you should tell all the workshop workers what I just said, and tell them They, to protect Yucheng is to protect themselves. This is not deceit, this is the truth."

He was taken aback, and knew in his heart that Chen Jian might have guessed that the words circulating among the workshop workers were spoken by himself, but his face was still shocked, and he asked: "Only relying on a set of winter clothes, a sick Let us fight for you in your own house? During training...do you eat your own food or the public property?"

Chen Jian asked back in amazement: "Of course you eat your own. As I said, this is for yourselves, not for us to fight. If you are allowed to eat public property, then you are the soldiers of Xiacheng. The soldiers of Xiacheng want Follow the will of the leader, I will let you attack Dongyi Grassland now, will you go? If you go, I will let you eat the public property."

He clenched his fists and shouted: "We have to work for nine days in a ten-day period, and there is not much left except for food. Now you let us work for nothing, what is this?"

Chen Jian pressed his fist with both hands, and said with a smile: "Don't worry. You can still discuss it. How about this, if you can train when you can line up and listen to the drums, you can understand the advance and retreat, and you can stand upright. If the spear advances twenty steps and the formation is not chaotic, I can promise you some more conditions."

"What conditions?"

"Your children can study five days out of production every ten days, and part of the meals will be provided by the public property. The eight special study people you have selected can also be funded by the public property to study and teach those children."