"Old man, get up quickly, everyone, get up quickly too!"
Jin Feng really didn't expect such a thing to happen, so he quickly jumped off the roadbed and pulled an old man up.
"Sir, please go to the headquarters as soon as possible. There are too many people and we won't be able to finish them even after dark."
The escort company commander persuaded while leading people to guard around Jin Feng.
He had been following Jin Feng in Xichuan City before and knew very well what Jin Feng had done.
After killing so many dignitaries, if someone sneaks in among the common people and strikes when Jin Feng is close, it will be over.
Zhang Liang will definitely skin him.
"Sir, it's really too messy here. Let's go."
Chihiro Kita, who never spoke much, also took Jin Feng's arm.
"good!"
Jin Feng also understood that the concerns of the company commander and Bei Qianxun were correct, so he did not object and returned to the road under the protection of his escort.
Looking back at the people kneeling on the ground, I felt filled with emotion.
In raising food for disaster relief this time, apart from not being able to bear to see people dying of cold and starvation, they also had selfish motives.
Jin Feng wants to take advantage of this opportunity to build the reputation of Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce and Jinchuan Bank.
Once you have a reputation, business will be easier to do in the future.
So far, his plan seems to be very successful.
Not only did the people know about Jinchuan Bank, they were also very grateful to the bank.
Nowadays, girls and boys working in banks have become popular, and people ask them every day whether they are married.
The staff of the bank were basically bought by Zhu Linglong from the dental shop, and almost all of them were unmarried.
When the common people learned about this situation, they came to matchmakers every day, and the normal work of the bank was no longer possible.
In desperation, Zhu Linglong also wanted to learn from Guan Xiaorou's method. She found Qing Xinyao through the back door and registered all the girls as Jin Feng's concubines, and all the male clerks became domestic slaves.
This time Jin Feng happened to be in Xichuan and he quickly stopped him when he learned about this incident.
"Sir, money touches people's hearts. The bank deals with money and food every day. It must be in the hands of its own people. From now on, everyone will become a family with you, so no one will be interested."
Zhu Linglong advised Jin Feng at that time: "Anyway, you won't really do anything to the girls, and you won't delay their normal work. If you want to get married in the future, can you just apply for divorce?"
In fact, the Ninth Princess and Qing Xinyao also felt that what Zhu Linglong said was reasonable, but Jin Feng did not agree in the end.
Zhu Linglong had no choice but to have someone put up a sign at the bank's grain borrowing station, which read, "If you try to be a matchmaker again, it will affect the normal workers of the bank and your qualification for borrowing grain will be cancelled!"
The people now rely on borrowing food from banks. After this sign was put up, no one came to talk to matchmakers anymore.
Although this incident was not serious, it made Jin Feng feel the sincerity of the people.
There is no machinery in Dakang, so digging canals and transporting soil all depends on manpower. Everyone is already very tired from work. If they are not truly grateful, who will bother to talk about matchmaking?
What happened today touched Jin Feng even more.
Regardless of the people who built roads and bridges for him or the people who built canals for the Ninth Princess, they actually had no wages.
He only takes care of three meals a day, and then gives some food as wages.
It's not that Jin Feng is greedy and doesn't want to pay more to the people, but he has limited money and the price of food in Jiangnan is rising. He can only do this to save more people.
In his previous life, Jin Feng worked as a temporary worker at a construction site during the summer vacation in order to earn more money.
Because I don’t have any skills, I can only do small jobs like pushing cement.
Although it is very tiring, it earns 180 wages a day.
That was his salary when he was in college, but later he heard that the price had increased again.
If you have some skills, you can earn three to four hundred, four to five hundred a day by doing technical work such as steel work and carpentry. If you do the work yourself, you can earn more.
In Jin Feng's opinion, the work done by the people is too heavy now, and the remuneration he has set is too little.
Before coming to the construction site, I was still a little nervous, fearing that the people would scold him.
Who knew that instead of scolding him, the people kowtowed to him and even said that he was very compassionate.
This made Jin Feng feel very uncomfortable.
When they got back to the road, they didn't leave immediately. Instead, they took out the tin trumpet from Liu's horse bag.
When Wei Datong held meetings with the people recently, he always used a tin trumpet to speak, so when they saw Jin Feng's appearance, everyone knew that he had something to say, and they all fell silent involuntarily.
"Folks, let's all get up!"
Jin Feng raised a loudspeaker and shouted: "I am just a young man. If you do this, won't you shorten my life?"
"Mr. Jin, if it weren't for you, I don't know where this old man would have died. This is a life-saving grace. It's appropriate to kowtow!"
The old man whom Jin Feng helped up before said wiping his tears.
"The old man is serious. It is natural for you to get paid for work. If you work, you should be paid. There is no need for this. Moreover, the food for digging canals was allocated by Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess, and the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce only distributed it on your behalf."
Jin Feng said: "I feel ashamed to say that your Highness and I have limited abilities. You do such heavy work, but you only pay this small amount of wages. Your Highness and I can't help you!"
"Sir, please don't say that."
The old man waved his hands repeatedly: "In the past, building roads, building bridges, and digging canals were all done as corvees. Not only did they not get paid, but they also had to bring their own dry food and take care of the people. You not only take care of the food, but also give the old man food so that he can feed his grandchildren. The old man is alive."
This is really the first time in my entire life that I have seen such kind people like you and Your Highness the Ninth Princess!"
"Yes, sir, if you and Princess Ninth hadn't come to us to work, our whole family would have starved to death!"
"Now my mother-in-law and I are working on the construction site. We can eat ourselves and earn food to support my mother and our children."
Other people also spoke in agreement.
"Sir, please leave quickly. If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!"
The company commander of the escort said anxiously as he saw more and more people coming around.
"Let's go!"
Jin Feng waved to the people around him and left under the protection of his bodyguards.
The Ninth Princess followed behind, looking at Jin Feng's back with complicated eyes.
The last time I saw this kind of scene where all the people came together to worship, she went to sacrifice with the emperor. In order to please the emperor, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household organized over 10,000 people to participate together, euphemistically calling it "all the people praying for blessings".
The Ninth Princess knew very well that the people's prayers that time were actually similar to a corvee. The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Revenue forced the people to go.
Maybe the people would criticize the emperor afterwards.
But this time it's different.
The people knelt down and worshiped Jin Feng out of gratitude from the bottom of their hearts.
Which one is more important and which one is less important is clear at a glance.
What is the aspiration of the people?
This is what the people want!
If she were not the princess, if the emperor was not her father, the Ninth Princess would definitely have persuaded Jin Feng to rebel!
In fact, if she hadn't stopped him this time, Jin Feng would have killed the county magistrate in rebellion.
This time she arrived in time, but what about next time?
There is only one way to completely stop Jin Feng from thinking about rebellion!
Make Jin Feng your own!
Thinking of this, Princess Ninth's eyes suddenly became firm.