The sky is clear and cloudless, winter is coming in Lingao, and the weather that has always been hot has become much cooler. The autumn harvest is coming to an end, and people who have been busy all autumn are beginning to have some leisure time.
The population of Bairentan has increased, and the normally empty Suggestion Highway has attracted many people to walk on it because of its convenience.
The commercial activities in Dongmen City have greatly enhanced the connection between travelers and local people. In addition to salt, the rice produced by the rice mill is clean and beautiful, and the rice mill is very honest. How much rice, bran, and grain are produced?
The shells are all clear and have not been invaded or leaked. They are many times better than the workshops in the countryside. The best thing is that the payment methods are flexible and diverse. Of course, you can use money, but you can also use rice, rice, rice bran and even straw.
Processing fees. This has attracted many nearby grain farmers to mill rice. Outsourcing processing accounts for 60% of the workload of the rice mill. The processing fees alone can earn more than ten tons of rice every day. There are also many grains.
Shells. Because processing here is convenient, the roads are easy to travel, and no one collects taxes, Dongmen City vaguely means the county’s grain processing and wholesale market. Dongmen Chuiyu discovered during a routine inspection that there are also people from neighboring counties.
Grain farmers come here to buy and sell processed grains. It seems that profit can really make people risk their lives.
Some land along Dongmen Street has been bought by others, and several shops are under construction. Most of these shops are opened by large households in the county. In addition to business opportunities in Dongmen City, they also rely on this to attract short-haired people.
The shopkeeper can negotiate directly with the short-haired people if something happens. Bricks, tiles, and wood are all ready-made. Building materials such as old bricks, tiles, wooden beams, and columns are continuously transported from the Goujiazhuang demolition site in Damei Village.
, except for some travelers who use them for their own use, most of them are sold at low prices to shopkeepers who buy land and build houses.
Lin Quan'an, the first small vendor to do business with shorthair, has become the largest local non-staple food wholesaler. After the Goujiazhuang investigation mission, he received a reward of twenty taels of silver. After a large number of people migrated to Bairen City, his non-staple food
The scale of supply doubled again. He built a shop in Dongmen City, hired a bookkeeper, and hired four or five assistants. He pushed his cart to the countryside every day to buy live pigs, chickens, ducks, eggs, and vegetables.
Lin Quanan had already planned to return to Fujian to pick up his wife in a few days, or to build a house for his wife in his hometown, marry a little wife and live in Lingao... Such a bright life prospect made him feel excited.
What makes him a little unhappy is that the food for the long-term workers is so good. What makes him sad is not that he feels sorry for the money of the short-haired people - in theory, if the long-term workers eat well, he can make more money - but
This has set a bad example: several of his employees have quit their jobs and gone to short-term jobs. Although Lin Quan'an has made a lot of money, his capitalist nature still makes him insist on not improving employee benefits - there are always people who are willing to work anyway.
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However, the situation has changed recently. Originally, the busy farming season was coming to an end, and there was no wheat cultivation in Lingao. Most of the farmers went out to do odd jobs after harvesting rice. In the past, part-time workers during the slack season did not need to be paid at all, and they only needed to be fed every day. But recently, the shortage
Mao recruited a large number of workers in Dongmen City. These short-term workers in the off-season were recruited by them. Many mainland farmers who crossed the sea to Lingao to make a living became short-term long-term workers. As a result, the domestic labor market was unprecedentedly tight, and in
Under the benchmarking effect of shorthairs, prices in the entire labor market have risen a lot.
After the increase in wages, the activity of the market has also increased a lot. Even merchants from Linxian County are attracted here to buy and sell goods. In addition to merchants, locals, as long as they are not worried about three meals a day, come to Bairentan with their wives and children.
They can't go to the peep show in the city, so it's nice to walk around the trenches and barbed wire fences and see them from a distance: short clothes with round buttons, weird rattan helmets, long blunderbuss with short swords, the beach head
Houses built on top, huge pipes installed below... Those who are more interested will go to Bobu Port along the simple road to see the legendary steel giant ship.
The common people are less afraid of short-haired people. Dongmen Chuiyu discovered that the business awareness of the Chinese people is really strong. Not only are there various vendors in Dongmen City, but there are also stalls selling tea on the highway.
There are tea stalls under the three turrets. The soldiers of the military group stationed in the turrets are often harassed by vendors. In addition to people trying to sell vegetables, chickens and ducks to them, they also have to drive away women who are showing off to them -
―It’s not that their revolutionary will is strong, it’s just that they feel that they can’t bear it.
The ensuing security issues also began to become prominent. Lively places always attract people from all walks of life. In addition to overt or covert prostitutes, there are also gambling stalls, and then there are pickpockets and thieves.
Then there are beggars again. All kinds of martial arts are showing up here one after another.
The most serious problem is of course theft. Every day, a few unlucky people have their money and goods stolen. In the end, even Li Mei’s Welfare Club store had some things stolen. The "Dongmen City Comprehensive Management Law Enforcement Team" managed by Dugu Proposal
"Although he is busy catching thieves every day, he is not a professional after all. The people of Ming Dynasty all look similar to them, and they do not understand the language. Basically, they work in vain. It is rare to catch a few people and kneel on the ground.
, chattering in dialects that they couldn’t understand, and some people cried and yelled all the way, rolling on the floor when they entered the office, and finally let them go. Then, there was another quarrel over gambling.
Fighting incident.
Soon after, the first murder occurred, which aroused the vigilance of the time-travelers: a scene occurred in the market that was familiar to the time-travelers in the past: a street fight.
Group fights in the 17th century were no different from those in the 21st century, except they looked more sinister. There were no watermelon knives, but there were grilled bamboo knives, sharpened wooden sticks, and of course bricks and the like.
For a time, the lively and bustling market was in chaos, with cries and shouts. Soon, a bamboo stall not far from Dongmen Street burst into flames. The law enforcement team waiting for Dugu to propose put on full equipment.
When the military team arrived after hearing the news, the crowd had dispersed, leaving behind seven corpses and devastation - more than a dozen stalls had been burned down.
Dugu was so angry that he proposed, and other executive committee members who came over were also shocked by this scene. Since the establishment of Dongmen City, there has always been positive news: the number of vendors continues to increase, and the number of people coming to buy and sell things is increasing.
The more people there are, the more people are willing to buy land and open shops... Generally speaking, this is the best example of the harmonious coexistence between traversers and aborigines.
Now that the specimen has become like this, although the loss is not big, a fight and death in the market will damage the market and their reputation anyway. And the most embarrassing thing is that Dugu Proposal spent a long time investigating, let alone the murderer.
The cause and effect were still unclear. As a last resort, he approached the executive committee and asked to train the police.
"It's not a problem to rely on our law enforcement team!" Dugu proposed and finally realized the crux of the problem, "We don't understand the language with the locals, so we can't understand the situation below."
"Can the security team send some people over to maintain the situation?" Xiao Zishan is not very interested in training local police. He feels that he cannot trust these locals yet.
"How can the security team take care of us?" Dugu proposed clearly. He had been to the security team several times. The seven or eight people were too busy just to interrogate prisoners, identify people, and organize files. How could they have time to help him maintain security?
, and when they go, the problem of language barrier still exists.
"We are really overwhelmed. Now the security team is like an internal security team." Ran Yao said helplessly, "I think it is perfectly possible to train police officers. Now that the population under control is large, we need such law enforcement agencies to maintain social order."
The first police agency of the time traveler: "Dongmen City Police Station" was established in this way. Dugu proposed and served as the director of the police station, and Mu Min served as the instructor of the police station. As the name suggests, she was to guide the work of the police station. After all, she had worked in public security, and
The main problem in Dongmen City is public security.
The police station is under the leadership of the public security group, and the funds are paid by the local management department. In other words, the Dongmen City Industrial and Commercial Office is responsible for it.
"Well, how can I have money?" Dugu proposed to Xiao Zishan, who was in charge of civil affairs, crying, "The house in this police station is the office building of our industrial and commercial office. Now Dongmen City does not collect taxes, so we can't spend money.
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"Then let's charge some security fees. Now the police station can also charge it from industrial and commercial households."
"How can this work? Isn't it an arbitrary charge? Besides, this is a critical moment for attracting investment -"
"Hmph, you should stop crying about being poor." Xiao Zishan snorted, "What about the money for the land sold by your industrial and commercial businesses? The land for those shop owners is not given to you for free, right?"
Dugu was at a loss for words when he proposed. The small treasury of the Industrial and Commercial Office did contain more than one hundred taels of silver from leasing the land. The executive committee had not issued a land ownership policy, so this type of land sales were in the name of renting land, and the price was relatively low.
In theory, this money should be turned over, but due to unclear policies, the financial department was unable to record it, so it has always been stored in the Dongmen City Industrial and Commercial Office.
"But this is embezzlement of public funds. Besides, there is no explanation for the land policy, and it is difficult to reimburse the money spent."
Cheng Dong thought for a while and then said: "In this way, your industrial and commercial office first fills out a payment form and clearly states the source of income. I will make an extraordinary income. Then I will return it to you in full as Dongmen City's office expenses.
You don’t have to bring the money with you.”
"Okay, that's good, let's do it this way." Dugu proposed, seeing that the problem was solved, and left happily.
"You really have a way." Xiao Zishan said.
Cheng Dong shook his head repeatedly: "Our financial system also needs to be reformed."