Everything was controlled by the people of the Tang Dynasty. Niu Jinda did not come forward personally, but a petty official gave a hint about who should be appointed as what official.
Of course, what he said openly is that matters in Kuching must be handled by Kuching’s own people.
The four petty officials fought so hard that they could only carry the banner and brag about how good they were to the ordinary local people.
Building momentum, because the people of the Tang Dynasty said, this is called voting. Let the locals choose their officials, this is called respecting the people's choices. So, the four of you go canvassing for votes, one vote per household, and let the man who heads the family vote.
Therefore, the four translators, in order to fight for this power position that is almost equivalent to several counties in the lower counties of the Tang Dynasty, can be said to have put in a lot of effort, and each of them is pulling his own faction.
And Niu Jinda went to do something big.
First, he went to the homes of the officials who were beaten to death by the so-called mob, and stopped the people from using violence against the officials' children. Niu Jinda stood there. Due to his status, he would not speak directly to the officials' children.
A clerk came over, sighed softly, and said in half-baked local dialect: "Since this kind of thing has happened, let your new officials here take care of who is right and who is wrong. It's just you people."
If you stay here, I'm afraid the people will make things difficult for you again."
This is true. The children of these officials who were beaten to death were also a little scared.
"I'll give you a few hundred acres of land and find another place to live." The clerk explained what he meant directly.
If you stay here, your family will have no support, and it will be difficult to survive without a man. Changing places may be a way to survive.
"Can I go to Datang?" one of the officials' child, who was less than ten years old, asked.
The clerk shook his head gently: "What can you do if you go to the Tang Dynasty? But you can still go to the Tang Dynasty, but you can't go to the Central Plains."
"It's better than here." The official woman said softly.
"This is natural, it will definitely be better than here."
On that day, or rather at that time, Niu Jinda's subordinates sent these people out. If these people stayed here for one more day, they would feel more uneasy.
Keep it in mind.
Wang Ba can do it, and Zhao Lu, who was newly acquired by the Prince of Qin, can do it.
Of course, if these people dare to cause trouble and have a disobedient heart, it is a different matter.
After cleaning up the tails, the cattle came to the piled goods. Many plates, bowls, and cups were broken in the chaos. Several old people were holding the fragments in a daze, and many women were using soft
Put the straw in the box and carefully put the cup in.
Seeing Niu Jinda appear, several old men and women knelt on the ground.
Niu Jinda stretched out his hand to support him: "Kneeling was not popular in the Tang Dynasty. His Highness the King of Qin once said that you should kneel to heaven and to the ground. You should kneel to your parents at home and to your mentor when going out. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty could only kneel during sacrifices and major ceremonies.
Apart from this, the Tang Dynasty had no reason to require people to kneel down without any reason."
The clerk was not very proficient in the local dialect, so he tried hard to explain clearly and was so anxious that he was sweating all over.
One of the old men suddenly spoke in Chinese: "You understand, I have been to Chang'an once. That was forty years ago. I worked as a boatman and lived in Chang'an for more than a year. At that time, I was on a tribute trip. I understand.
You know, kneel to the gods, kneel to the ancestors, kneel to the elders of the clan, kneel to the mentor, kneel to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, this is what it means!"
"Yes!" Niu Jinda sat down on the ground.
Niu Jinda spoke first: "In fact, this matter was not arranged well by me. I should have made it clear at that time. This mess is not what I want. What I want is sugar. This sugar is refined into snow sugar in Chang'an City.
At this point, Niu Jinda asked again: "Have you ever seen snow?"
"I've seen it snow before in Chang'an City."
"That kind of sugar can be sold for more than ten cents per kilogram in Chang'an. This acre can produce about five or six hundred kilograms. It is transported by sea all the way to Huating, and the cost is not high. From Huating to Chang'an, the loss will be 30%.
When it comes to freight, it’s just like this. How can I transport two hundred catties per acre to Chang’an? This is the profit of two dollars.”
The old man who knew Chinese listened and explained to several other old men.
A local old man asked: "How much money is this?"
"It's quite a lot. It's only five dan in exchange for food. Not counting Chang'an, it's a more remote and poor place. The original harvest for a family in a year was only two or three guan. In Chang'an City, one person can earn two guan per month.
money."
Niu Jinda listened to Li Yuanxing's advice.
What is the most brilliant deception? That is, ninety-nine out of a hundred sentences are true. These ninety-nine truths serve that one lie.
Therefore, Niu Jinda even dared to tell his boss. He was not afraid, because without Datang's nod, no merchant ship could approach Datang. The first island chain of Datang was now not defending enemies, but strictly prohibiting any ships from approaching without permission.
There is no sign, and it has not been registered with the Datang Maritime Safety Administration. Let alone a ship, not even a single plank of wood can get in.
Niu Jinda picked up another broken cup.
"This crystal cup is also a valuable item in Chang'an City. Although it is not as expensive as the price of a few guan or more than ten guan per piece in the past. But a set of four would cost several hundred pence. Plus it is so far away.
It costs a lot to transport it here. There is a lot of output from the land, allowing your family to earn twenty or thirty thousand dollars a year. Lao Niu thinks this is fair."
"It's fair, but some people don't want to see poor people eating meat!"
After hearing what these old men said, Niu Jinda realized that it was not the first day that he had resentment. It was just that King Qin Li Yuanxing took an opportunity to ignite this resentment.
The old man said: "Last month, a total of sixty-three households took care of the land in Dongqili Slope. They gave birth to one fat pig, four sheep, and eight thousand kilograms of fine grain. You are a big shot. You can do these little things.
I’m afraid I don’t know.”
Niu Jinda really didn't know, so he looked sideways at the clerk beside him.
The clerk quickly said: "General, it was distributed. It was distributed to three places in total. Dongqili was all old fields, so a lot of goods were shipped, so I added a reward. That batch was shipped to Huating, a total of five
More than a hundred tons of high-quality syrup, two ships set out together. This ship has not returned yet. Thirteen days ago, two more ships left, one for the field in Dongshili and one for the sugar mill.
Rewards, I need to go back and check the account books for detailed figures."
As long as this is the case.
Niu Jinda continued to listen to the old man.
"You are really a big shot. You don't care about so many things being sent to you, and you must not take them seriously. But in our eyes, these things are beyond our dreams. Who would have thought that they would actually fall into our hands?
There are only some rotten meat, offal, and some old sour rice."
"Do you know this?" Niu Jinda asked the clerk beside him.
The clerk shook his head.
"Of course he didn't know. The things were given to us. When we were carrying them back to the village, the idiot led someone to snatch them away. At that time, several young men were knocked down. They wanted to go to the manager Tanaka to complain, but we
But I am afraid. This time, everyone knows that this is a reward from the noble man to everyone here, but he did not even send a piece of meat to the poor people here. When something like this happened, the noble man
If the big shots are angry, just chop off the heads of us old guys!"
Niu Jinda did not practice this part beforehand.
Niu Jinda was caught off guard by the sudden attitude of the locals.
However, he remembered that the King of Qin had confessed that he really didn't know what to say, so he just said something familiar and friendly to the people.
Niu Jinda thought for a while and said, "You must have seen the fat man in the red robe with purple trim. He is the one standing on the right side of His Majesty King Qin."
"Must be a big shot too."
"But he is a very big shot." Niu Jinda chuckled: "That is the brother of our Queen of the Tang Dynasty. He has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty. He is also a top big shot in Chang'an City."
"Ah!" Several locals were shocked when they heard the old man who knew Chinese explain.
Niu Jinda smiled: "Actually, our nobles of the Tang Dynasty are nobles. If their status is higher, they are higher. Scholars, farmers, workers, merchants, maids, servants, tenants, slaves. This is an iron law, and every status
It is also divided into nine levels. Each level has strict status differences. For example, in the last court, when Lao Niu and I saw the fat man Zhang Sun, I had to step back half a step to let him go first, because he was a first-level scholar, and Lao Niu was only
Fourth level scholar."
There were rules in the Tang Dynasty, and the old man who knew Chinese continued to explain them to the people next to him.
"However, the fat man Changsun made way for an ordinary citizen who was almost eighty years old and of the sixth level of Shang in a restaurant in Chang'an City. This is another set of rules in the Tang Dynasty, which is called respecting the elderly and protecting the young. This
Just follow the path of benevolence and righteousness.”
"Benevolence and righteousness!" Several old men learned a sentence after hearing the explanation.
"Why don't I invite a few disciples of sages in Chang'an to come over and give lectures, learn a few words, or learn a craft. In the future, let alone great wealth, I will earn at least thirty or fifty thousand dollars a year, but I will still fall behind."
A family can have enough food and clothing." When Niu Jinda finished speaking, his tone changed: "Let's put it at the beginning, I am not stingy, you must also grow sugar cane for me. I will ensure that you people have refined grains and
If you eat the meat, you can also give the women in your family a piece of silk every year."
Lao Niu is not the kind of person to be tempted.
Sometimes what he says does mean the truth.
The truth is touching, Lao Niu speaks truthfully, and is easily trusted by these people.
It's one thing to be in charge, but don't underestimate these old men in each village. Their combined influence is definitely much stronger than those four translators.
In this era, Li Yuanxing dared to use such tactics to gain ground and people's hearts. One of the most important reasons is that people in this era don't have many concepts of country and nation in their hearts.
Even in the Tang Dynasty, the strong nationalist spirit had not really taken root in people's hearts compared to the Song Dynasty.
"In that case, you work harder. Plant the eight thousand acres of sugar cane in the west. I will bring ten pigs here tonight, old cow, and let you villages have fun. Let some unpleasant things go by and life will be the same.
You have to live." Niu Jinda said and laughed, and several local elderly people also laughed. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)