Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu
Chapter 19: The wise and far-sighted Jia Zhangshi
From 1949 to 1950, although the newly issued RMB had completely replaced the gold yuan and circulated in the market, the RMB had been depreciating due to the war in the south. As a result, labor-capital disputes in Fengze Garden arose again. Because the owner Luan Xuetang was too strong and refused to give in, the fight became fierce.
"Master, do you think this time we will end up in court like the last time?" He Yuzhu asked his master because many people in the restaurant could not work peacefully due to the heated discussion about labor-capital issues.
"Just do your job well and stop worrying about things that you shouldn't. Your master is always there if the sky falls." Wu Baotian glared at He Yuzhu.
"I saw everyone discussing labor-capital issues, so I just asked out of curiosity. I won't ask anymore in the future."
"But there will definitely be a result. Right now, only the south has not been liberated, and the Workers and Peasants Party has not freed up its hands. When the whole country is liberated, the Workers and Peasants Party will not just sit there and do something. There will definitely be an explanation."
When He Yuzhu heard this, he felt that his master Wu Baotian had a very accurate vision. He came from the modern era and knew that after the public-private partnership, the restaurant workers would all become state employees, and the workers would surely win at that time.
As the weather gradually warmed up, the summer of 1950 arrived. As the southern provinces of the mainland were gradually liberated, just as the Workers and Peasants' Party was preparing to focus on liberating Taiwan, the commander-in-chief of America ordered the Seventh Fleet of the America Navy to enter the Minwan Strait in an attempt to prevent the liberation of Taiwan. America's actions aroused the anger of the people across the country.
On the second day after the American Navy's Seventh Fleet entered the Minwan Strait, the Workers and Peasants' Party announced the implementation of the Longguo Land Reform Law. With the implementation of the Land Reform Law, a vigorous land reform movement began across the country.
So everyone in Fengze Garden was discussing whether they should go back to their hometown to divide the land. He Yuzhu came from the modern era and didn't have such a strong obsession with the land, so he didn't care.
A waiter who was usually on good terms with He Yuzhu came over. "Zhuzi, do you want to go to the countryside to get a few acres of land? If you want, you can follow me to our hometown. You don't know that when I went home a few days ago, the landlords in our village had confiscated all the land. They will give the confiscated land to everyone in the village soon. From now on, my family's land will belong to my family, and I can get a few acres of land at that time."
He Yuzhu listened to Zhang Erzhuang happily sharing his story, "Zhuangzi, thank you, I am not from your village, it is not appropriate for me to go and divide the land, and I don't have time to farm."
"If you don't want to grow crops, you can rent them to others to grow crops. If they give you some crops, you can get several liters of crops a year for free."
"If I don't farm and collect rent from others, I will become a landlord. I won't do that. I'd rather be a cook. The harvest from three acres of land is not even enough for my master's monthly salary. When I become a chef, I will marry a wife and have some big fat boys."
"Calculate how much you make as a waiter in a month. It's better than going home to farm, and you don't have to work so hard. Besides, this is the government of the Workers and Peasants Party, the government of our people, and we don't have to worry about being bullied by unreasonable customers."
"You're right. I'd better just stick to my job." After listening to He Yuzhu's words, Zhang Erzhuang felt that what He Yuzhu said made sense.
After Zhang Erzhuang left, He Yuzhu looked at his master Wu Baotian who was resting nearby.
"Master, have you ever thought about going back to the countryside to divide the land?"
"Master, my hometown is in Shandong Province. It's very troublesome to go back. Besides, farming is not that easy. It's OK if the weather is good, otherwise you may go hungry after working hard all year round."
"You're right, I didn't expect that much."
During his afternoon break, He Yuzhu went to his house in Qudeng Hutong and called his six younger brothers together.
"I'm here with you today for no other reason than to remind you of something. You must have heard about the land reform movement recently. Is there anyone in your family who wants to go back and farm the land?"
"Brother Zhuzi, my father wants to go back to his hometown to divide the land and farm it. He doesn't have a stable livelihood in the old city, so it's better for him to go home and farm." Ma Han was the first to speak.
After Ma Han finished speaking, several others followed suit.
"It's natural for your parents to want to go back and farm the land. What about you guys? Do you want to go back and farm?"
"We don't want to go back to farming. Farming is a dead end. It's better to follow Brother Zhuzi and live like you did."
"Okay, stop joking. Go back and tell your families not to rush back to the countryside to get the land. The world is peaceful now. The country will definitely build many factories in the future. If you go back to the countryside now, you may not be able to catch up with the factories recruiting workers, and you will lose a lot of money. You should read more books and learn to read. You may be given priority when the factories recruit workers. Also, you guys have to be careful in the future when you follow me to trade in grain. You may not be able to do it one day. It is better to find a factory to work in the long run."
"Okay, I called you here today mainly to talk about this matter. You guys should pay more attention to whether there are any changes in the market. You guys go back and ask around to see if there are any courtyard houses for rent. The size doesn't matter, but it must be a single-family house with no other people living in it. Try to find a remote location with few people. After you find it, Zhang Hu, go and negotiate the rent. After the negotiation, we will rent it directly in your name. We won't meet at my house in the future. There are too many people coming and going here. It's not safe to pick up goods here."
"Okay, I'm done. Do you guys have anything to say? If not, go back. I won't keep you here any longer."
"We're fine, Brother Zhuzi. This is the money we made from our sales these days. Take a look." Zhang Hu took out the account book and He Yuzhu began to look at it. Zhang Hu was the oldest of the six people and had the best handwriting. He had a more stable personality and was serious about his work. So He Yuzhu asked him to record the accounts of the six people's sales.
"Then you guys go back first." He Yuzhu said to a few people while looking around.
"Then Brother Zhuzi, we'll leave first." The other five people except Zhang Hu said and left.
He Yuzhu looked at the account book in front of him. This week, he sold a total of 18 hens, 200 kilograms of eggs, and 300 kilograms of corn, with a total income of 166 million yuan. After He Yuzhu calculated that there was no problem, he counted the money handed over by Zhang Hu, checked it and signed the account book.
"After I find a house, if the landlord asks how long the lease will last, what should I say, Brother Zhuzi?"
"After you find a house, you can sign a two-year agreement with the landlord. As for two years later, we'll talk about it then. Zhang Hu, I remember you're almost 2 this year. According to the new marriage law, you can get married. Do you have a girl you like?"
"No, I plan to save some money and get married later." Zhang Hu said with a blush.
"Okay, go back now. Marrying a wife is a major event in life and should be taken seriously. Let me take you out and lock the door. I need to get some sleep."
After He Yuzhu saw Zhang Hu off, he locked the gate in the yard and went back to the house but did not sleep. Instead, he went into the blessed land. He Yuzhu stood on the steps of the Wuji Hall, looking at the endless grassland in the distance.
He Yuzhu was filled with emotion. He had come to this world, which might be a parallel universe, in the winter of 1946. This year was already the fifth year. In the past five years, he had grown from a half-grown child to a 1-meter-tall young man. Although he was only 86 years old, his physical condition was definitely much better than that of his previous life. This was what He Yuzhu was most satisfied with.
He has a very handsome appearance, and looks like a man of jade and a peerless gentleman. He is also versatile, proficient in Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Tan cuisine, and other skills. What makes He Yuzhu proud is that He Yuzhu is over 180cm tall, which is far ahead of other men of this era. His younger brother, He Tiezhu, is also not short. To use the words of modern Lei Jun, he is also very big.
With such a super heavy weapon hidden on his body, I don't know if his wife can bear it in the future. It's really a painful worry. If this happened during the Tang Dynasty when Wu Zetian was the emperor, with his extraordinary talents and good looks, he would have at least started as a seventh-rank official. His damn charm has nowhere to go.
He Yuzhu stopped his dreams and looked at the various animals grazing on the grassland. It was time to pick up chicken and duck eggs. He Yuzhu first put on the backpack he had woven and walked towards the grassland.
After several years of development, except for the sika deer, roe deer, yellow sheep, cattle and donkeys, which did not meet He Yuzhu's expectations, the rest far exceeded He Yuzhu's expectations. There are more than 300 pigs, more than 100 sheep, more than 1000 hens and more than 500 ducks in Fudi Dongtian.
It took He Yuzhu half an hour to finally pick up all the chicken and duck eggs from hundreds of chicken and duck coops. Every time he picked up eggs, He Yuzhu envied those time travelers who had a one-click function to collect them. Others could do it with just one click, while he had to work for a long time. It was really frustrating to compare with others.
He Yuzhu first put two baskets of eggs in his west wing, and put the rest in the cave for temporary storage. It seems that he will have to increase the sales of eggs in the future, otherwise they will go bad and it will be a pity to waste them.
The tea oil trees planted on the mountain finally started to bloom this year, and I can eat camellia oil when the time comes. I will finally see the benefits of planting so many. The huanghuali trees have just grown to one meter high, so it’s nothing to rush. It’s just that the bamboos are growing a little slowly. They have been planted since 47, and it has been almost 4 years this year. It was only last year that bamboo shoots began to grow on a large scale. So far, there are only more than 1000 bamboos. It seems that I need to transplant some of them myself so that bamboos can cover the entire mountain soon.
He Yuzhu ate a braised roast chicken to fill his stomach. He Yuzhu thought about how much roast chicken he had eaten over the years. With his martial arts training and his own growth, He Yuzhu had to eat three roast chickens in Fudi Dongtian every day to ensure that he would not be hungry. If He Yuzhu had not eaten too much, he would have raised thousands of chickens.
In a blink of an eye, it was time for He Yuzhu to rest again. He Yuzhu returned to his home in Nanluoguxiang as usual. Before he reached the central courtyard, he heard Jia Zhang's voice.
"You guys are so unlucky that you can't even catch up with good things like land distribution. Unlike me, when I heard that the government was going to distribute land to the people, I moved my household registration back to my mother's family. As a result, I really got 5 mu of land. I gave the land to my brothers from my mother's family to farm. My brothers give me 400 kilograms of grain every year, which solves my food ration for the year. Now that the land has been distributed, there is no chance to go back. In the future, I have to find a wife from the countryside. At least I won't have to worry about food rations in the future."
He Yuzhu patiently listened to Jia Zhang's wise foresight and the smug tone in her voice. He felt amused. It seemed that Jia Zhang had taken advantage now. After a few years when urban household registration and food rations were linked and food coupons were implemented, she would regret it. I just didn't know whether she, Jia Zhang, would be as wise and brave as she is today. I remembered when I was reading the novel, I was wondering why Jia Zhang, who had lived in Beijing for more than ten years before it was liberated, didn't get a city household registration after the establishment of Longguo. It turned out that the reason was here.
According to this logic, it can explain why Jia Dongxu married Qin Huairu, who had a rural household registration. Although Qin Huairu was good-looking, Jia Dongxu was well-off. His family could buy a sewing machine in 1951, so how could their financial situation be so poor? It was probably because Jia Zhang despised city girls for not having jobs, so she chose to marry a girl from the countryside instead. At least rural girls could own a few acres of land and get hundreds of kilograms of food for free every year.
Thinking of this, He Yuzhu had to say that Jia Zhang was indeed good at calculating. If it weren't for the policy changes later, Jia Zhang would have been able to take advantage of it. It's a pity that no matter how good one's calculations are, if they go against the general trend of the country, then he is a complete fool. Jia Zhang's current behavior is basically comparable to the several major tragedies mentioned by later generations. First, he castrated himself to become a eunuch in 1911, joined the Skinheads in 1949, learned to repair BB machines in 2000, and bought Evergrande's pre-sale houses in 2021. They are all promising futures.
He Yuzhu looked at Jia Zhang, who was sitting smugly in the crowd, and after silently mourning for her in his heart, he walked towards his home.
Jia Zhang looked at He Yuzhu who walked away without even saying hello. Looking at He Yuzhu's tall and handsome appearance, she couldn't help but mutter in her heart, "He has grown so tall for nothing, but he didn't even say hello. After all, we have lived together as neighbors for decades, but he has no manners at all. It will probably be difficult for him to find a wife in the future, and his family will be extinct by then."
As soon as He Yuzhu returned home and walked into the door, He Yushui ran over and said, "Brother, you're back. I missed you so much that I cried when you were not at home."
He Yuzhu squatted down and hugged He Yushui in his arms. He took out a piece of candy from his pocket and put it into Yushui's mouth.
"Brother, I miss Yu Shui too. When you are not at home, is Yu Shui well behaved and does she listen to daddy?"
He Yushui held the candy that He Yuzhu fed her in her mouth, and her eyes narrowed with happiness, "Yushui is so good, I can get dressed and get up by myself now."
"The rain is so heavy. I'll bring you some candy next time I come back." He Yuzhu hugged He Yushui and gave her a kiss.
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