The rainy season in Muntaya is called the sleeping season by the indigenous people. This means that due to the continuous heavy rain in the rainy season, people basically can't do anything but hide at home and sleep. For many years, people except broadcasting seeds before the rainy season.
Sprinkle some seeds, just stay at home and wait for the seeds to grow and mature on their own. Otherwise, during the season of continuous rain, no matter what kind of work you can do, you will be bitten by poisonous insects that flow along the rainy season.
So, when the rainy season is approaching, the natives of Muntaya have already retreated home, preparing to survive the rainy season according to the habits they have developed over the years.
Habits are hard to change, but this is only one reason for the labor shortage. Another reason is that the indigenous people have saved enough food to survive the rainy season and no longer need to work. Moreover, the indigenous people are not willing to do those jobs.
Jobs where you are paid once a month
Most of the colonial descendants who returned to Montaya and the business owners who came to Montaya for gold mining have never lived in Montaya. A few have lived in Montaya, but that was decades ago. So,
These people know nothing about Montaya's national conditions. They think that if they set a salary standard, people will apply to work for them. In fact, they are wrong.
In the eyes of the indigenous residents of Muntaya, those colorful pieces of paper called wages are of no use at all. They are more accustomed to using physical objects to exchange for real banknotes, and those who actually use paper money are often only a few in a few big cities with certain culture and regularity.
Residents who interact with foreigners
Why does this happen? That's because paper money, a currency in circulation, relies on national credit and coercive power. But if the country has no credit, there is no coercive power. Who would use these currencies that cannot be eaten or drunk?
banknotes? As for whether the banknotes are Montaya dollars, US dollars, or euros, what does it matter? In Montaya, which lacks a complete banking system, the role of banknotes is a useless piece of paper.
The Taya people know that in years of warlord fighting and harsh weather, only grain and wild fruits can save lives, and paper money is nothing!
As a result, some of the indigenous residents who originally rejected the colonial descendants would naturally have no one to work for the colonial descendants. What's more, after working for the past few months, they had already earned a lot of money while working for the Muntaya government.
Once we have enough food rations, the next step is to survive this rainy season as usual.
For the Muntaya government, what the indigenous residents have received for government work in recent times is real food, which is distributed every two or three days. When most of the dry season has passed, these residents have already saved
After buying a lot of food rations for the rainy season, another habit of the Montaya indigenous people is involved - they only work part-time and are not used to receiving any monthly salary.
The reason for the formation of this habit is also very simple. In Muntaya, who is born with frequent wars and epidemics, who can be sure how long he can live? Who can guarantee whether your boss will run away or die suddenly? Since no one can
If you don’t know what will happen next moment, why not just take it one day at a time? If you have food today, you will be full today, so why worry about being hungry tomorrow?
Furthermore, as long as there is no major war in the country of Montaya, it is relatively easy to survive. Every few months after the rainy season begins, various plant fruits grow, including snails, ants, and bee pupae.
Insects like this have also multiplied in large numbers. You can fill your stomach with anything you want. In addition, the temperature in Montaya is above 20 degrees all year round, so you can make a grass nest and live in it.
In the eyes of the indigenous residents, work is just to exchange for food and then have enough to eat. Since food and housing are so easy to satisfy, what else are you pursuing? Pursuing wealth? What is wealth? The indigenous residents have not had it for several lifetimes.
I have done this and thought that instead of exhausting all my efforts to pursue those "meaningless" things, it is better to enjoy the life in front of me. It is for this reason that the living habits of the Montaya people are relatively loose.
Of course no one will be busy working if they are not hungry
The indigenous residents are not in a hurry, but the colonial descendants are starting to worry. They still have a lot of things to do before the rainy season officially starts. Otherwise, when the rainy season starts, their losses will be huge. But seeing that they really can’t hire people now
Who are these colonial descendants and business owners who come to Muntaya to invest, all coming to the Muntaya government?
After hearing this incident, Zhou Jiping was also crying and laughing. He was trying to find a solution. He couldn't really let the building materials purchased by the colonial descendants from overseas soak in the water.
Therefore, under the coordination of the government, the chiefs and elders of various tribal settlements were mobilized. In places where there were no chiefs and elders, some highly respected people were invited to come forward. They were responsible for mobilizing ordinary residents to participate in the work. As for the method of payment of wages, it was decided by the original method.
The monthly balance was changed to a weekly balance. Moreover, the currency paid by the workers was handed over to the government, and the government paid an equal amount of food to the residents. In this way, the Muntaya government became the middleman between employers and workers, and things were settled.
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In fact, by this time, Montaya's domestic problems had begun to come to the fore. However, neither Zhou Jiping nor Mountbatten realized the seriousness of the problem, let alone knew that a huge conspiracy had gradually been laid out.
Include the whole of Montaya
The rainy season has begun. Just in time for the rainy season to begin, the urgently needed work has been completed. But when he saw the depressed appearance of the residents of Muntaya, Zhou Jiping felt uncomfortable in his heart.
The people of this country are too passive. Hundreds of years of being colonized and enslaved have made them numb. Decades of continuous civil war have made them lose the courage to fight against their fate. The bad weather has given them a passive lifestyle of resignation.
No, something must be done to change the backward life attitudes and lifestyles developed by the people of this country. But what to do?
Coincidentally, while Zhou Jiping was thinking about this, a long-distance runner from Kenya came to Muntaya. It turned out that this long-distance runner named Nwali was an authentic Muntaya native, and he was from Yi.
Aboriginal descendants of the Mara Prairie
Starting around his grandfather's generation, his ancestors had become slaves of white people. Later, when the white people left Muntaya, they took him and his father abroad. Later, Nwali, who lived in Kenya, happened to practice
The results of middle and long distance running were revealed, and the genes of his ancestors chasing wild beasts on the grassland came into play. Nwali became unstoppable and gradually became a world-renowned long-distance runner.
It's just that the older Nwali's condition has declined a bit in recent years, so besides practicing running, Nwali has been trying to invest in doing something. In addition to some simple businesses, the most outstanding thing about Nwali is
He invested in a long-distance running club in Kenya. Some poor children were recruited by him into the club. After his training and selection, they began to move towards the path of professional athletes. As for Nwali himself, he was their coach, guardian and manager.
Long-distance running is probably the most economical sport in the world. When many children join the long-distance running club in Nwali, they are just ordinary barefoot children. They cannot afford to go to school or buy shoes. What they can do is follow the rules of Nwali.
Run, run, run as Wali demands... Until they are spotted by Nwali, their parents will get a contract. From then on, the child will receive Nwali and support, eat and live in Nwali's club while
For the families of these children, their children have embarked on this road, which is equivalent to embarking on a road full of hope. Not only will they not have to worry about food and drink from now on, they can even wear a pair of enviable clothes, which ordinary children can
It’s impossible to wear, a pair of sneakers from China
It was when Nwali was buying sneakers that he learned that Chinese sports shoes were sold in Muntaya, and he also learned that Muntaya was undergoing economic reconstruction. For Nwali, he still had feelings for Muntaya.
In his emotional memory, there are many stories about how his grandfather ran on the grassland and killed wild beasts as quickly as a leopard.
In addition, his long-distance running club is not only a business that helps poor children become successful, but also an industry that can bring him profits. Every time he trains an outstanding long-distance runner, the income generated will be tens of thousands of times.
And Nwali believed that the place where his ancestors came from must be a place where good long-distance runners were born. With this in mind, Nwali came to Muntaya at the beginning of the rainy season.
This is a good opportunity! Zhou Jiping immediately discovered the positive aspects of long-distance running. This kind of sports that everyone can do and can participate in is a good way to boost people's morale.
Soon, Nwali's long-distance running club was established on the outskirts of Sanga City, the capital of Montaya. At the same time, the Montaya government issued a call to the country, hoping that all children of appropriate age could participate in the long-distance running trials.
After passing the assessment, these young athletes will receive dual funding from Nwali himself and the Muntaya government.
The government's call was quickly implemented. In various parts of Montaya, some young and thin figures began to run through the muddy water leached from the first rain of the rainy season. However, due to the passive attitude of the indigenous people in the north of Montaya,
Living habits, most of these children who start junior long-distance running training are from the Imara grassland, or are reserve forces in the army.