People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 553: If you understand, there is no point in pretending to understand!

After listening to Wang Dahai's explanation, everyone finally understood why the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were willing to share their unique skills.

Even if it was me, I would not hesitate to donate it because it is so profitable.

Who can resist the temptation of making money just by lying down?

Besides, as Wang Dahai said, there is no such thing as getting your technology for free. Instead, we will apply for a patent for you based on your technology, and then owning this patent is equivalent to having a long-term meal ticket.

Then every time the court or other places use your technology, you will be given some technical subsidies immediately.

This technology subsidy may not make you rich all at once, but it will be a long-term benefit.

You will be given five or six taels of silver each time. If your skill is very good, like what others say is first-class skill, then you can use it many times within a year. In a year, that would be dozens or even hundreds of taels of silver.

You know how much that is?
An ordinary craftsman would never be able to earn a hundred taels of silver in his entire life.

That's how much they can earn in a year.

What if it lasts ten or twenty years? Doesn't that mean that just by relying on this technology, you and your family can enjoy these benefits for a long time?

Thinking of this, the craftsmen below began to get excited.

What they want most is long-term security, because the biggest uncertainty in the job of a craftsman is uncertainty.

There is no way to make it fixed. It's not like working in a government office where you get a fixed salary every month.

It is not like being a hired farmhand in a landlord's house, where a certain percentage of the tax paid every year is yours.

But craftsmen rely on God for their livelihood. They really rely on God for their livelihood.

If God doesn't give you food to eat, you will starve to death. There is no other option.

After all, craftsmen such as goldsmiths, blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, bamboo craftsmen, etc. all need a relatively good environment to survive for a long time.

If there is war or disaster, how can we survive?
Those who have land to farm can still survive a little.

But for the craftsmen, they can only work in various places day after day year after year.

Sometimes we can’t even pay attention to the fields and land at home.

It is because of this that they are often referred to as idlers.

If my family really couldn't make ends meet, I wouldn't do this job.

However, someone now tells them that if they become craftsmen in the future, they can also contribute their technology to the court as a long-term meal ticket, just like the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, and let the court apply for a patent for them.

Every time the court uses it, you will be given a subsidy.

When I thought of this, I suddenly felt that the future was extremely bright.

This is what craftsmen should pursue.

This is what craftsmen pursue all their lives.

How important it is to have a stable job that can bring you long-term benefits.

It not only feeds the family, but also changes one's current living environment.

How many people laugh at these craftsmen because they do the most tiring and dirty work but earn the least.

How many people discriminate against them for this reason.

How many people think that they should be lowly all their lives for this reason?

In fact, isn't it because of this reason that they feel that they are lowly?

Yes!

In fact, I also felt that I worked so hard, but in the end I could only get such a little money. I felt that my career was so incompetent and lowly, and I even felt that someone like me did not deserve to live in this world.

I heard that the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty were so skilled that they received so much salary every month, and some even earned more than many officials.

Just now, Wang Dahai and Liu Baihu also said that in fact, many times these craftsmen get much more in the engineering college than many officials and businessmen.

And if converted to their Mandala City, it would be an astronomical figure. Who could have imagined that a small craftsman could get so much money.

You have to know that these people are all craftsmen. Many of them have never seen so much money in their lives. Many times even many officials or landlords may not be able to get so much money in a month. What kind of country can treat craftsmen like this.

When I thought of this, I suddenly felt that if I could go to that kind of place in this life, then this life would be truly worth it.

The craftsmen below were stunned for a long time after hearing this, and then someone slowly said:
"Are there really such highly paid craftsmen in this world?"

"Yeah, is that true?"

When they asked this question, their eyes were actually wet and red.

Because they really couldn't believe that there were such things in this world.

"If the craftsmen there are paid so much, doesn't that make us look even more useless?"

"No, this must be a lie!"

"Yes, it must be a lie. How can there be such a high-paid craftsman?"

Some people began to not believe it.

In fact, it’s not that they don’t believe it, but they feel that if they believe it, their worldview will collapse.

They have always felt that in the craftsman industry, if everyone has a very low salary, then they can still accept it. After all, my salary is so low. If everyone around me is at the same level, then it means that there is no problem with my craftsmanship but with the environment.

However, if in this process you discover that there are craftsmen with such high salaries in other places, it is not only because the environment there is good, but also because people there value craftsmen more. This kind of difference is not something that ordinary people can understand.

This is what we call "the problem is not the scarcity but the inequality."

We are all at the same level and we are all poor, so it is easy to get along with each other. But if one day you suddenly become rich and become rich in the same environment as me, then can I still get along with you?
This is human nature.

They would rather accept that all craftsmen in the world have the same virtue than accept that craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty can be treated very well.

The craftsmen began to doubt themselves.

Because people are like this.

When you encounter something that has a huge impact on you.

They did not choose to believe at first, but to be shocked.

After the shock, I began to doubt. Why did I doubt?

I wonder why I am not treated like this.

At the same time, because his own environment is like this, he will doubt whether it is true.

It can't be true.

Then comes anger.

Why is it true.

This process is just a process of pulling one by one.

And the same is true for these craftsmen at this time.

Although they were shocked at first, they later began to feel confused and resentful.

The resentment is why these good things are not mine?
The resentment was that why he was treated so unfairly in Mandala City, but got so little. He resented why he did not live in the Ming Dynasty.

These are the sources of their luck.

These are the sources that they don't understand now.

These are the sources of their words.

Of course this is understandable.

After all, they are both craftsmen. Even if one lives in the Central Plains and the dynasty and the other lives in a small country like Samudra, why is there such a big gap between them?

So big that no one dares to accept it.

this is not fair.

Because there is a voice in their hearts telling me.

You should enjoy these too.

I have been suffering in this environment for so many years. Don’t I deserve that kind of enjoyment?

I have endured such an environment for so many years, and others treat me as an inferior person. But why are the craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty not treated like this? What right do they have?
Jealousy is something that is innate, and not everyone can control human nature.

Why jealous?

First of all, jealousy arises from unequal treatment.

They would feel that they were the same as the craftsmen of the Central Plains dynasty.

But why were the craftsmen of the Central Plains dynasty able to obtain so many resources and receive such high salaries?

Why?
This is the first thing they don't understand.

This is also what makes them jealous.

So now when they heard what Wang Dahai said, although they also wanted to be treated the same way as in the Ming Dynasty, they were very jealous at first.

There is no way.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Dahai and others have to speak out.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Dahai and his team want to stimulate their nerves even more.

Why make them face the fact.

That is, in a place like Mandala City, you will never be able to work as a craftsman and escape from a life of slavery.

But if we, the Ming Dynasty, come here, we can get rid of you.

We can make your lives better. We can let you live the same life as our craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty.

This is the real reason why we are carrying out reforms.

Those people who didn't understand Wang Dahai said, "Why do we need reforms? Why do we need to make ordinary people's lives better?

It's not targeting you personally, nor is it so that you can enjoy the same luxury as those landlords.

But it is to give you basic respect, and this is the real reason for reform.

And this is the real reason why my Ming Dynasty came here. You have been respected, and we, the Ming Dynasty, have benefited.

Everyone is mutually beneficial. No one should say that he or she is a saint and has no personal needs at all.

Even the Ming Dynasty doesn’t dare to say this, but we put it out in the open.

We have given you respect, and you will cooperate more with all the actions of our Ming Dynasty here in the future.

If we make you better, you will be willing to give to us, and you will be more willing to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. This is a mutually beneficial thing.

No one should say that it is a one-sided contribution. We make your lives better, and you become more loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Only in this way can we all achieve mutual benefit.

As for the rest, they are just empty promises and unrealistic.

Only when everything is made clear and laid out on the table will people not feel deceived.

I believe that none of you here are stupid. The fact that you have survived until now and have been able to survive under the exploitation of the landlords in Mandala City shows that you have enough wisdom in life.

It is because you have enough life wisdom that you can understand what we are saying now.

A lot of people said, why do we have to come here to change your lives.”

What Wang Dahai said was very down-to-earth and true. When the people heard this, they also felt that it was true.

At the beginning, the people were all saying that they didn’t understand what they wanted from us.

Therefore, they felt that no matter what kind of national policies the Ming Dynasty proposed, there were actually motives behind them, they just didn't know it.

But now Wang Dahai is telling it all here, just to test your loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

The reason we do this is to let you see that being loyal to the Ming Dynasty can change your life.

Wang Dahai looked at the people present and said again: "Now, do you know why I tell you this?

Now do you know what we are trying to do to you?
We seek your loyalty.

We hope that after you have been made better by our Ming Dynasty, you will be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty will build a port here.

The Ming Navy should be stationed here.

We need to train the navy here, and let the men and warriors of Sanfuzhi take up muskets and cannons like us to conquer other places.

But we will provide the warriors with enough pensions and salaries.

Let the warriors' families have a good life.

At the same time, we also want to make the warriors' hometown prosperous.

Let the warriors deeply feel the Ming Dynasty’s reforms and the changes brought about by the Ming Dynasty’s colonization here.

We know that you have been exploited by the landlords here, so we beat them;
We know you were attacked by quite a few pirates, so we took them out;
We know that even if you work hard to farm the land, the crops you grow will be taken away by the landlords, so when we come, we will not steal your crops.

When we come, we will cut taxes, making you pay less tax and the rich pay more tax.

So you don’t need to worry about having no food to eat next year, and you don’t need to worry about the government oppressing you.

You don't have to worry about pirates coming ashore to kill you, because you have the Ming Navy to protect you.

The Ming Dynasty’s navy will do you justice.

You don’t need to worry about not having enough to eat or not having enough warm clothes in your life.

Everything will be available to you all after the Ming Dynasty's reforms.

This is the actual problem. I have said so much just to inform you of this actual problem. If you don’t understand, I believe you understand but are pretending not to understand. "

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(End of this chapter)