Looking at the plan on the paper, Li Chang'an felt that he had a special connection with streetlights.
However, he then thought that in this Ming Dynasty, it was not his turn to be a street lamp.
After all, he didn't make people pay to work, nor did he arbitrarily beat or scold his employees; he was already being very good.
Workers in other places not only often went without pay, but were also subjected to wanton insults, and some were even beaten to death with sticks, and no one dared to resist.
Once you sign the contract, you're no longer considered a human being; you're just a dog kept by the master, subject to their control and constraints.
If they signed a slave status agreement, then they were in even worse shape.
Descendants are all dogs of the master's house, generation after generation with no chance to turn their lives around, destined to be slaves their whole lives.
No one would sell themselves into slavery if they had no other way to survive.
But there's no other way. Beijing has a large population, low labor costs, and few job opportunities. Here, if you give someone a job to support their family, they will be truly grateful.
They will not only thank you, but also build a shrine in your honor.
In this environment, Li Chang'an treated his employees with the same methods as modern cattle and horse domestication guidelines. He couldn't even imagine how hard these people had to work.
Li Chang'an didn't know, but Zhuge Wolong, the person in charge of logistics in the military camp, knew it all.
The working hours in the military are twelve hours per person per day.
Migrant workers can only rest on the day they receive their wages, while soldiers do not get a day off.
Three meals a day: milk powder and eggs in the morning, rice with one meat dish and one vegetable dish at noon, and steamed buns with fried eggs in the evening.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, a large bucket of sweet soup was brought up, and everyone could sit and rest for half an hour. The Marquis said that this was afternoon tea.
"It's past three o'clock, time for tea."
Several soldiers pushed wooden buckets, letting the group of laborers rest for a while before continuing their work.
The rain was pouring down, and everyone was soaked to the bone, complaining that it wouldn't stop.
But no one complained about being tired from work, nor did anyone complain that the Marquis's mansion had to assign them work on rainy days.
When you're exhausted, just take a nap, and the energy will grow back tomorrow.
Wages won't be paid like that.
I slept through the night and my wages were gone.
Two taels of silver a month—that price was enough to make them forget the cold wind and rain.
In addition, the three meals a day provided them with delicious food and drink, which made them fearless.
Even rain or hail couldn't stop them from working.
Only those who have worked in the Marquis's mansion know how joyful it is to work there.
No need to wash your work clothes every day. After showering at night, just throw them together, and you'll have a dry work uniform the next day.
You don't need to boil hot water yourself; it's available anytime you go.
The stove was never turned off at night, and everyone had two new quilts.
Every month, I receive a new quilt.
You won't find any whole grains here; they're used to feed chickens, ducks, pigs, and dogs.
Everyone ate white flour steamed buns and white rice.
If you eat coarse grains, you're not qualified to work with everyone else.
Moreover, the work arranged by the Marquis's mansion was not particularly tiring; every day involved building houses, digging ditches, and moving stones.
Building houses, which is difficult on rainy days, was as easy as eating and drinking under the Marquis's arrangement.
Some bricks were laid on the ground, wooden stakes were driven in, and wooden planks were nailed on with iron nails to form a wooden house.
Inside, they started by applying yellow mud to the bricks and drying them with charcoal fire, and a simple house was built.
Most of the time, people would drive in wooden stakes, build a roof on top with wooden planks, and then build wooden walls around the perimeter.
That way you won't get wet in the rain.
However, a lot of coal was wasted.
Seeing the ever-burning furnace fire, some villagers even felt sorry for it and suggested that the person in charge could put out the fire to save some coal.
Every time Li Chang'an heard such words, he wanted to laugh.
He was so eager to save coal that he would have used it to pave roads, if it weren't for the fact that it would be too shocking.
The roads inside the provincial military camps were all muddy, with several puddles every time.
Liu Yishou is the newest employee.
He joined the army as a farmhand because his family had no food and the price of food was too high.
He originally thought that the Marquis's mansion would assign him some heavy and tiring work to justify such a high wage.
Unexpectedly, my job upon arrival was to chop wood and move logs.
Later, because Liu Yishou had some cooking skills, he became the head chef of the military camp, responsible for cooking for the workers.
Standing next to him was Gu Ming, the worker responsible for making sugar water and milk powder.
The two of them stayed in the kitchen every day, without having to go outside in the rain to work, living a life of busy work followed by rest.
This left them somewhat incredulous.
Is this money really that easy to make?
Aside from the fact that you cannot move around freely during work hours and must abide by the rules of the Marquis's residence, you will not be bothered at other times.
You can rest at night, and even go home.
Many workers would take their evening steamed buns and eggs home to eat together.
Those who live close by will take advantage of the one-hour lunch break to bring their food home and eat with their families.
Many people in Lantian County were tempted when they saw that the Marquis's family had meat, eggs, and white rice in their meals.
One after another, they became long-term workers in the Marquis's mansion.
As the number of participants increased, the rules became increasingly strict.
In each place, managers were elected, and some old workers and new workers naturally developed a sense of superiority.
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