The emperor looked at Huo Jingchen with a diligent look on his face and laughed a little gloatingly: "Look at him, he doesn't even take me seriously on weekdays, just joke around. As a result, it's fine now, others come to do it.
He was joking."
Jiang Hexi smiled and said, "This is something that can be defeated by one thing. I don't know if he can do it in one day."
The emperor tilted his head, looked at Huo Jingchen in the distance, and smiled and said, "Haha, I can't stand it. I bet he will not be able to do it soon."
Jiang Hexi smiled from behind and said, "That's right, Your Majesty has a pair of golden eyes, so you can't see through it. If you say he can't do it, then he must not do it."
As he said that, he pulled the emperor carefully to the contractor, handed over a piece of betel nut like a local and smiled: "Membersman, where is the project contract? What about the work here?"
The contractor looked up at the emperor and smiled and said, "What do you think? As long as you want to do, all work is easy to do. But you have nothing to do. No matter how good the work is, it is not easy to do for you! You said
Right?"
The contractor looked at the emperor, then turned his head to see Jiang Hexi: "You just brought him here to contract the project, right? Yours will be the benefit in the future."
As he said that, he took the emperor to the construction site for a walk.
Everyone on the construction site was busy, and some people simply took off their clothes and sat under the sun with their shirtlessness.
The emperor pointed to the men who were not wearing clothes and asked, "Are they afraid of their skin cracking in this way? And those tools won't stab their muscles?"
The contractor looked at the emperor and smiled and said, "I think you are so tender and tender. It must be the rich young master who came out to have fun, right? Tell you, their skin is thick, no matter what happens, they are not so easy to get hurt.
of."
After saying that, they were taken to the dam.
The emperor seemed to feel a sense of loss in his heart. After all, it was his people, and his people were in the hands of others and they had to do such a chore. And they were even looked down upon by others, and they felt a tingling pain in their hearts.
However, thinking that he was not the emperor who was worried about the country and the people, but a small contractor who was profit-oriented, so he gritted his teeth and made his heart even more cruel.
Jiang Hexi followed the contractor next to him and said with a smile: "Master, you won't introduce us to how much money can this construction site make?"
The contractor smiled and said, "How much can you earn? If you do things honestly, you will naturally earn less money, about less than one tael of silver a day. If you know how to deduct their wages, then what should you ask.
If the people above add materials, there will be a lot of them."
"So, aren't you the so-called agents? You are so nice to say. What kind of contractors are just to carry them down and do them for others." The emperor looked at the contractor and smiled coldly.
"This master is really a wise man. If you know, I won't hide it from you. As an official in our industry, we want to be a good person. The more you squeeze, the more you are above you
The less you give, the more money you will have. Li Keng, the county magistrate in the city, do you know? He is the most successful example!"
The emperor frowned and sneered: "I'm going to go back to Li Kun, I don't know when he has stepped down."
Because of the sudden use, and the Yellow River embankment is far away from the county town, no one spreads news.
The contractor said in a panic: "What, you said Lord Li is promoted now? Then, isn't the protection fee I handed him down? Wouldn't I have to be very strict in doing things? Oh, you guys are busy
Let’s take a look at this project, I won’t do it anymore!”
Suddenly, he ran a stone and hit Jiang Hexi. Jiang Hexi looked up and found that it was Huo Jingchen, so he smiled and said, "Why are you walking so fast? Are you rushing to pay your salary?"
When Huo Jingchen saw that it was Jiang Hexi, he asked, "Hare you contracted the river engineering project? You must remember to pay us a salary at that time."
Jiang Hexi sneered: "Do you still want to pay your salary? Let me tell you the truth. Your foreman has already run away from the river and now there is nothing."
Huo Jingchen whispered: "It's not true, right? Why do you just leave?"
Jiang Hexi pointed at the emperor and whispered: "It's all your master. He said that Li Kun has stepped down. That person probably has some relationship with Li Kun, so he ran away from the river."
Huo Jingchen sighed and said, "I didn't expect this to happen again."
Jiang Hexi looked at the emperor and whispered: "What did I say just now? Let you be careful and keep calm and don't let them know the truth. As a result, you will tell their Lord Li directly."
The emperor frowned, curled his lips, looked at Jiang Hexi with a helpless look, and said, "Oh, I didn't mean it either. Please keep me calm and don't be angry. Didn't I laugh? As a result, he listened
When it comes to Li Kun’s affairs, you don’t have to be angry and leave by yourself.”
Huo Jingchen saw that it had not started yet, and then he had an internal strife and quickly said, "I think you don't argue anymore. Since Li Kun is gone, we are the leaders of this river craftsman. We must keep them steady and don't let Hongfeng arrive.
, it really broke the dam.”
Huo Jingchen continued to carry his own stone and walked upstream of the river. While walking, he looked at the stones on it and said to Jiang Hexi: "How to comfort the river workers' hearts depends on your performance. I am just a transporter.
Worker, I'll move my stuff."
The emperor looked at Huo Jingchen and complained to Jiang Hexi: "Okay, now he is the version of Yugong, so he doesn't have to worry about anything. As a result, we will find a way ourselves."
Jiang Hexi smiled slightly, looked at the emperor and said, "I don't think there is anything wrong with this. Isn't it just a few taels of silver? We can deal with it."
As he said that, he followed the emperor to the place where the supervisor had sat before.
Because the contractor ran away from the river, the supervisor also walked away. Jiang Hexi and the emperor walked to the table where the supervisor was sitting, looked at the name on it, and counted it quickly, and there were about one hundred people. Many of them said that there was no
Payment, wages arrears.
Jiang Hexi demonstrated to the emperor: "Look, Your Majesty, this is their job. One or two, who owe money, slowly put it on for a long time, will become their own."
The emperor frowned and smiled, "I'm afraid I'm going to take it out and collect interest!"
Jiang Hexi complained, "Isn't that true? If you don't come out, you really don't know where the money and food are used. Let's take a look and prepare all the wages they need in the afternoon."