Chapter 161: Datang Good Welfare "Okay, good, everybody's okay, it's really good."
Li Zhen was also very excited, everyone was safe and sound, which in Li Zhen's view, was the biggest good thing.
Speaking of Wang Dewei, they are still the old people next to Li Zhen, except for Fang Yiai, Xue Rengui and Du He, the twenty of them were the first to take refuge in Li Zhen, even if Xi Jun bought it, it was a little later than them.
Originally, Li Zhen incorporated them into the guards around him, and let them help train the guards while recuperating for the rest of their lives, and did not mean to let them get involved in dangerous places, because they were all very old, the youngest was in their thirties, and the least number of years in the army was more than ten years, and they were already old people in ancient times.
But later, because the construction of the Vladivostok shipyard needed Li Zhen's henchmen to watch over to watch, after soliciting their intentions from the side, Wang Dewei and them were sent over and stationed there as Li Zhen's representatives - don't look at Wang Dewei They are just big soldiers of the five big and three thick, but don't forget, these people were all veterans in the army before they took refuge in Li Zhen, and they all held some small official positions in their respective battalions, especially Wang Dewei, who has achieved the position of long history, With quite good management experience, managing a shipyard is no problem at all.
Now, we haven't seen each other for more than ten years, but despite this, everyone who meets again still doesn't feel a little rusty, but has a deeper relationship.
What made Li Zhen even happier was that there were twenty people when they went, and now that they are back, they are still twenty people, and there is no one less - for both sides, this is undoubtedly a good thing.
"Everybody, get up."
Seeing that everyone knelt down with Wang Dewei, Li Zhen hurriedly helped people up: "Everyone has made great contributions to Datang and has played a great role in promoting the future development of Datang. ” "Yes, my subordinates listen to Your Highness."
Wang Dewei wiped the corners of his eyes and got up from the ground: "Your Highness's thousand merchant ships of all sizes are here, and I ask Your Highness to accept them." ” "We'll talk about the acceptance later."
Li Zhen shook her head, took Wang Dewei's hand and said, "Uncle Wang, you have worked hard all the way, I have already set up a banquet in the palace, let's go back quickly." ” "Your Highness, don't worry, we still have some guests you haven't seen."
Wang Dewei hurriedly gave Li Zhen a look: "My subordinates think it's good for Your Highness to meet them." ” "yes, I forgot about it."
Li Zhen suddenly, he was very excited when he saw Wang Dewei and others just now, but he forgot that some people in the fleet also needed to be appeased - after all, although they were all slave craftsmen, they had not resisted Li Zhen's enslavement over the years, and no one had escaped (of course, in a place like Siberia, even if it was useless to escape, there were ice and snow jungles within a radius of hundreds of miles, and escaping was a dead end), and now so many ships have been built for Li Zhen, which has made a great contribution to the Tang Dynasty.
In public and private, Li Zhen wants to appease them, not only to appease, but also to reward certain people.
"You have all worked hard......
Li Zhen hurriedly adjusted her mood and changed her smiling face: "You have made indelible contributions to the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and this palace is inscribed with five internal ......"
"Your Highness has worked hard......
Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward......"
After some red tape, Li Zhen finally appeased everyone, not only made a big blank check, but also abolished slavery for some people with greater credit on the spot, pardoned their slave status, and changed their status to the people of the Tang Dynasty.
This made all the shipwrights excited, pardoning slavery was nothing, Li Zhen had made such a promise to them when he sent them to Vladivostok - as long as they stayed in the shipyard for fifteen years or during this period of great merit for the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court would exempt them from slavery and let them live like normal people.
And before that, there were indeed many people who were pardoned for slavery because of their great achievements, so this is not attractive to those shipwrights who have been in the shipyard for more than ten years, especially the first batch of shipwrights, because the fifteen-year period is almost coming, as long as there are three or two more years, they will become normal people again, so although they look forward to it, they are not envious.
What really makes them envious is the identity of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Although Vladivostok is located in the Siberian wilderness, the environment is harsh, and the transportation and communication conditions are extremely backward, and it is usually not possible to see a living person here for several months, but because of Li Zhen's special care, every few months, Li Zhen's Chamber of Commerce will send a caravan to Vladivostok to transport weapons, salt, cotton clothes and quilts and other supplies for them, and at the same time there is a lot of information about the Tang Dynasty - so although Vladivostok is equivalent to an isolated island, their understanding of the Central Plains is not backward.
Therefore, the people of Vladivostok Shipyard know very well how powerful Datang is now, and naturally they also want to become the people of Datang, but it is not so simple to become a citizen of Datang - although the identity of Datang is not as difficult to obtain as the green card of my Datian Dynasty in later generations, it is not something that can be obtained by an individual.
Because of Li Zhen's promotion, now Datang is carrying out household registration reform, and every citizen has a corresponding 'ID card', only by virtue of such a 'ID card', can you enjoy the corresponding benefits issued by the imperial court, if you don't have this 'ID card', then you are a black household, even if there is a disaster in the future, you don't want to get a mouthful of relief food.
However, the people who have the 'ID card' of Datang residents can enjoy the endless glory of Datang and the benefits that are as high as the scum - Datang's welfare is very high today, although the agricultural tax is still being collected, it is so low that it is almost negligible, and this alone makes countless foreigners willing to join Datang.
What's more, in addition, there are policies such as helping the old and the young, helping the needy, free medical care, nine-year compulsory education and other policies have begun, and even Li Zhen's current Wentian Shuyuan and the Youth Army itself are counted as one of the many benefits of Datang - although at present, the Youth Army and Wentian Shuyuan are only for orphans, and have not yet been oriented to the whole society, but now there are very few orphans in Datang, and it is a matter of time before the whole society expands enrollment.
This is even more remarkable, because everyone knows that whether they graduate from Wentian Shuyuan or come out of the Junior Army, they are all first-class talents, although the elimination rate is terrifying, but compared with the people's own education methods, the success rate is still much higher.
What's more, even those who are unqualified and eliminated, as long as they do not die in training, they also have a skill, and they belong to the talents who are robbed madly wherever they go.