Chapter 33 Kunshan Infrastructure Construction
The tea guests interrupted, "And I heard that Hai Gong was going to inspect Suzhou before, so the gentry here planned for a while and also retired all the fields that occupied the year."
"Oh?" Hairy asked strangely, "There are also squires who took the initiative to retreat? This is really new."
"We have more new things in Kunshan, so where are we going?" The tea lovers smiled and said, "Anyway, after our master comes, the people have more ways to live. Who would be willing to work for the landlords in the wind and rain for a year, and in the end they can't even eat?"
"The landlord's family thinks farming is boring..." The tea boss refilled Hai Rui and said, "Our big families of the same tribe are discussing that they will rent the land at home to Kunkaisi for a long time so that they can concentrate on doing business."
"Oh?" Hai Rui became more and more fresher and asked Peng Qianhu to take out more than a dozen coins of copper coins to invite tea guests to have tea. Then he asked: "Isn't Suzhou in a recession recently? Some time ago, there was a troubles due to the unemployment of weavers. Why did Kunshan have more ways to survive?"
Although Hai Gong is a god, he still has no idea about the magic of large infrastructure.
"Didn't you say it? Because we master!" Although the tea shops don't know much about infrastructure, they can clearly feel the changes in the past six months.
"Since we started to build the embankment, we have been able to finish the work in our county!"
"Don't you have no wages to repair the embankment?" When Hai Rui built the Xin'an River embankment in Chun'an County, he asked the people to bring their own dry food.
"That's all the old calendar. When our county is working on the first phase, we will be able to eat a full meal." The tea shoppers said: "In the second phase, Kunkaisi will pay for the start-up."
"Ah?" Hai Rui couldn't help but feel ashamed. He really had to die compared to others, and he had to throw away the goods. He was so sorry for the villagers when he did in Chun'an. "How much does it cost to see the moon?"
"It's hard to say, there are subsidies and rewards. If you pay for everything from the moon, rice, flour, oil and salt, it will cost more than one or two silver dollars." The old men said enviously: "And they are in charge of food as before, that's a net profit. When the years are good, they can't find such a job."
"Many families have three or five people in the battle," a tea chef pointed at the tea boss and smiled: "It's like their three sons, two daughters-in-law, and wife are also cooking for food on the construction site. Don't be too happy to make money."
"It's all hard money." The tea boss smiled and said, "Do work hard for the winter and get a wife for the third child next year."
Hai Rui understood that this was exactly what the boy said when he quarreled with Zhao Hao... crossed out and changed to "date" and the "law of decreasing marginal utility".
Zhao Hao said that when people are extremely thirsty, drinking the first glass of water is the most useful and most useful. But when you drink the margin of "not thirsty at all", it will be useless to continue drinking, and you will feel more and more discomfort. This is the decrease in the marginal effect of water.
The same is true in the allocation of social wealth. Money has many uses, and according to its importance, it can be roughly divided into four levels: survival purpose, daily purpose, spiritual purpose, and squander purpose.
As people increase the amount of money they receive, they will gradually use it for unimportant purposes. This is also a manifestation of the decreasing marginal utility.
Obviously, when social resources are relatively limited and the gap between the rich and the poor is too large, appropriately tilting resources towards the lower class is of the greatest benefit to the entire society.
This is exactly what I said, "The way of heaven can reduce the excess and make up for the shortcomings."
Hai Rui once again clearly felt that Zhao Hao's words, "Whether a society is stable or not depends on the efficiency of social resource allocation," are indeed very reasonable.
Kunkaisi can clearly use the people of Kunshan to monopolize all the benefits, but can give some of the profits to the people, so that wealth can be allocated more efficiently throughout the county and play a higher marginal effect, which really makes people admire it.
Unfortunately, everyone understands the principle of raising fish with water, but everyone still wants to eat alone. How many people are willing to give in to the profits?
I'm afraid that if Zhao Shouzheng had not had the relationship, Kunkaisi or Jiangnan Company would not have been so generous, right?
At this time, Mr. Zhao, who had not yet got off the boat, sneezed a big sneeze. In fact, this master is a noble person, a pure person, and a person who has no less interesting things...
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Seeing that no one was taking care of the business, Hai Rui simply stopped acting and sat next to a few tea guests and spoke.
He asked again: "I heard that the third phase project will be over this month as soon as possible. Will there be good things here next year? It won't last long."
"Don't worry about it all by the old man. The master has already said that the county will build roads and bridges and dig canals and dredges next year. When these work is finished, Kunkaiser still has 200,000 to 300,000 acres of land, waiting for people to grow."
The tea shoppers were not worried, "If mulberry cotton is planted on the ground, they will have to raise silkworms and pick cotton in the future, right? Do you need manpower? Kunkais promised that if they work for them, they will only earn more than they are now, and will not be less than they are now."
"Besides, Kunkaisi also took over the work from Chongming. If you want to earn more, you should go to repair the seawall. I heard that those who go there are all calculated by craftsmen, starting from two taels a month." The tea shoppers laughed and said, "Kunkaisi still has to worry about not being able to receive the project. If we take over the project, we can't take over our people to do it?"
"It seems that the people of Kunshan will not only not have to beg for food, but will also be better than others." Hai Rui nodded and exclaimed.
"Of course." The tea guests were very proud. "Look at who has the face to scold us beggars again!"
"Okay, okay." Hai Rui nodded and asked slowly, "But you all went to work for Kunkaisi, so who will farm for the big families? Can the gentry agree?"
"Hey, don't worry about them." The tea shoppers laughed and said, "They are always the cheapest. They don't make too happy with Kunkaisi. They have long since lost their minds to pay attention to that little."
"How do you say this?" Hai Rui became more and more curious and had completely forgotten the original intention of this trip.
"For such a large project, there are more than 100,000 workers. Eating, drinking, defecation and urination are all business that can make money!" said the tea boss: "There are also auxiliary materials for repairing dikes, such as wheelbarrows, shoulder poles, raincoats, gloves, shovels... dozens or hundreds of items, none of which are worth nothing, but once you put them in, you will be all money."
"Well." Hai Rui nodded and said, "Aren't these all the Jiangnan company responsible?"
"Hey, do you understand very much?" The tea lovers suddenly became alert. "It was the Xu family who sent me to inquire about the news, right?"
"Puff..." Hai Rui almost squirted tea, and waved his hand with a wry smile: "How could that happen? I have a little friend who is in Jiangnan Company."
This is not a lie, as a child Zhao Hao.
"Oh, look at the old man's integrity, it's not like the bad people in the Xu family." The tea shoppers let him go, and it's no secret. So they told him that since the second phase of the project, Jiangnan Company gradually withdrew from these logistics supply work and replaced it with Kunkaiser's own bidding and outsourcing.
Chapter completed!