More than 400 miles away from the west of Xiangyang, Fangzhou under Fangshan, known as Fangling in ancient times, is named after thousands of miles of vertical and horizontal, mountains and forests, its solid high tomb, and if there are houses.
The state border is 523 miles from east to west and 369 miles from north to south.
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Ma Jin, the leader of the local barbarian workers, returned to the township with a large group of workers, and there were people working outside the village in Fangshan Village, and they all went to the village early to greet and wait.
"Come back" As soon as the group turned the last bend of the mountain and appeared in front of their relatives in the village, someone couldn't help but shout loudly.
After going out for half a year, I finally came back again.
The old patriarch in the village walked in front with a cane, and he walked like a fly after many years of bad legs and feet.
"Daddy, we're back."
Ma Jin said to the old patriarch.
"Everyone has been brought back, one is not less" The old patriarch's gaze swept over the people of the same village behind his son one by one.
"All back, no less."
The old patriarch was still a little worried, and ordered it a few times in person, and finally confirmed that it was correct, and then smiled, "It's really not less, it's good if it's not less, it's good if it's not less, let's go, go back to the stopper, and kill the pig for the table." ” At this time, the other villagers also found their relatives among the people who returned, and the family stepped forward to help take the heavy baggage and carry it on their shoulders.
The older women even pulled their children and cried as they spoke.
The young men and girls who came back were even more happy, and when they returned to their hometown after a long absence, they felt like birds that had returned to their nests.
"Kill the Pig" The men in the stockade rolled up their sleeves and began to kill pigs and sheep, and take bacon and smoked fish.
Ma Jin is the son of the patriarch of Majiazhai, and in his early years, he went out of Fangshan to do business, taking the fur and herbs in the village, etc., but he exchanged with the Han people for salt and iron tools, etc., so he can speak Chinese and have seen the world.
In the last year, Fangzhou and other Shannan prefectures rebelled, which attracted Li Chao, the prime minister of the imperial court, to lead troops to quell the rebellion.
The chaos started quickly, but it leveled faster, and after the incident, thousands of barbarians were killed and tens of thousands of people were exiled to the frontier.
The other barbarians were all shocked, and none of them dared to make a move.
After that, the imperial court naturalized these barbarians in the mountains, distributed land to them, and so on.
Majiazhai is also a barbarian village, more than 300 families have lived here for generations, which is a big village.
All of them were registered in the official household register, and the Ma Jin family also divided some fields and forests, and the court gave them the mountains and forests that originally belonged to their clan, but in the future, they had to pay taxes to the court, and they had to be called to serve in labor and military service.
However, after returning to his hometown, there is also an advantage, that is, the Han barbarians are not as antagonistic as before.
Caravans were plentiful, roads were being built, and the Han Chinese began to establish market towns on the flat land between their tribal villages, opening shops, buying their produce, and selling them all kinds of goods.
Now they don't have to walk for half a month, they can go down the mountain for a day or two.
Ma Jin was a man who had seen the world, and soon he found a very good business.
Foreman.
Prime Minister Li Chao quelled the barbarian rebellion, and also killed a lot, first suppressed and then appeased, deeply shocked the barbarian departments.
The barbarians are more unruly, they live in the mountains, but they live in small tribes, and often the neighboring barbarian tribes often fight, and even feuds, which is related to their aggressive nature.
But after being taught a lesson by Li Chao, the local barbarians were honest, and they also ate hard rather than soft.
Li Chao opened the closed door of the barbarians, and the officers and soldiers came in, and built military stations and forts one by one.
Merchants also came in, built a market town, their arrival, prosperity and liveliness the previously closed mountains, especially after the road was built, all kinds of fresh things came in more conveniently.
In addition to the way of life that has been passed down from their ancestors, the barbarians discover that there is another world.
Ma Jin had more contact with the Han merchants who came in, and only then did he discover a new way to get rich, and he was originally just selling all kinds of local products for the village.
But later the merchants who traded with him told him that there were actually more profitable ways, and that there were many merchants in the Central Plains, that is, those merchants who produced all kinds of goods, especially some large merchants, who were strong, but they were the worst.
It takes a lot of people to work.
After thinking about it for a long time, Ma Jin finally signed a contract with Li Kee Trading Company, and he was responsible for recruiting 100 young men and women and brutal youths, and then brought them to Li Ji to work in a workshop in Fangzhou.
Ma Jin was responsible for the recruitment and management of these workers, and the workshop paid Ma Jin directly.
Ma Jin took a certain amount of management fees from each of his workers, and then paid the workers wages.
Under this model, the workshop gets the workers it needs, and it doesn't have to directly manage this group of barbarians who are not easy to manage, especially these barbarians are often illiterate, have never seen the world, and do not know Chinese, it is difficult to manage directly, rather than the workshop directly to hire these barbarians to do management, it is better to directly adopt this foreman system, and find Ma Jin, a person who has seen the world and has some prestige in the village, to be the foreman.
Let them manage their own people.
After signing the contract, Li Ji Workshop first gave Ma Jin a recruitment fee and also gave an introduction fee.
With this money, Ma Jin first bought a lot of Han goods, iron pot cloth, and so on in the shops of the Han merchants in the town.
He took these things back to the village, discussed with his father for a long time, and finally distributed the things he bought to the villagers.
With the support of his patriarch's father, and under Ma Jin's clever words, many young villagers were finally moved, they saw a broader, freer and more beautiful world, and they wanted to leave the mountains and go outside.
And the parents of those young people, although they were not very relieved, were also very happy to see the exquisite goods that Ma Jin brought back to them.
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Makin told them that these things were expensive, but only for the people in the stockade now.
If their sons and daughters go out to work, they will be paid a lot of money every month, and they can buy many of these things with the money they earn in a year.
So at the beginning of the year, Ma Jin took a hundred people from the village down the mountain with their luggage on their backs, and went to work in a workshop in Li Ji, Fangzhou, more than 100 miles away from the village.
The work in the workshop is actually quite easy, working in the workshop, it can't be drenched on rainy days, the sun can't shine, as long as you work for six hours a day, two shifts a day in the morning and afternoon, and the rest of the time is rest.
The workshop covered their board and lodging, and they had three meals a day, and the accommodation was not bad.
The workers in Li Kee's workshop are almost all brutal, managed by the foremen one by one.
The female workers were in the same Li Kee, but in a nearby workshop, which was full of female workers.
The work is not tiring, for the barbarian youth, it is a bit boring, the operation of the assembly line, one person and one process, repeating day after day.
Another thing they don't like is that the management of the workshop is very strict, and they have to wear work clothes and badges to work, and they have to punch in and register.
Even if you get off work, you can't leave the factory at will, and you must go back to the factory before dark at night.
Miners who arrive late and leave early will also be fined for their wages.
The barbarians are enthusiastic by nature, but the young people who come out will soon be infected with the bad habit of drinking and gambling, and drinking and playing cards have become a way for them to relieve their boring time after work.
They often get together for drinks and often fight over trivial matters.
Although most of the workshops were made up of barbarians, they were divided into small groups.
The same people who came out of the same village were all under the same foreman, and they became a small collective.
Sometimes, people from a village will form some larger circles with the young workers in the villages near their original homes.
If there is a fight, they will go together, and they are very united.
At this time, although there are security guards in the workshop, they will not come forward directly, but notify their foreman.
Let them come forward to solve the problem, the barbarian youths are usually very resistant to the Han people and refuse to cooperate.
But he respects and obeys his foreman.
If the foreman can't solve the problem, the workshop will come forward in person, but if the workshop comes forward in person, the workers who fight and make trouble will generally be fired directly, and both sides of the fight will be fired together, and even the wages will be deducted in serious cases.
Slowly, those who like to drink and fight and still disobey the discipline were sent away one by one, some changed factories and readjusted, and some were sent home directly.
The factory where Ma Jin and his people live is a medicinal herb processing factory, where medicinal materials collected from Wudang Mountain and Fangshan are preliminarily processed and packaged.
The contract signed by Ma Jin and Li Ji was 500 yuan a month for male workers, including room and board.
He draws 100 yuan for each worker, and when the worker is full in January, there will be full attendance and performance awards, and a good month can have seven or eight hundred, or even more than a thousand dollars.
And Ma Jin's management fee is more than 10,000 yuan a month, and if you add the management fee and introduction fee given to him by the factory, as well as bonuses, there are also a lot.
At the same time, he also continued to buy and sell medicinal materials from the mountains, and on the whole, Ma Jin's current situation was good.
Thousands of dollars a month, this money is a lot of money for the barbarians in the mountains.
But for the brute youths who stayed outside, the money didn't seem to be very useful.
They also learned to drink and play cards, and even dress up, with more than 1,000 yuan a month, which seems to be only enough to maintain daily expenses.
Many people don't make much money, but they have learned to spend lavishly.
Often, after less than ten days of salary, it was used up, and I went to the restaurant to buy clothes, play cards and drink.
When they have money in their hands, they don't even go to eat the free meals in the canteen, and when the money is spent, they can only go back to the canteen to eat honestly.
There is still more than half a month before the next payment, and at this time, they can only ask the foreman to advance some wages, or directly pay credit to the Han shop next to the workshop. t1706231537: