People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 554: The Ming Dynasty is making a deal with you, do you dare?

Wang Dahai’s words were very clear, we did have some plans.

We also came here with a purpose, not for momentary joy, nor to let you people see how powerful our Ming Dynasty is.

These are all childish tricks, but we don't play childish tricks.

We are here to play with real stuff, and we want you to see it clearly, understand it, and take it seriously.

Let you know that we are not joking, and we did not come to this place because of a temporary interest, but we have a purpose, which is to let everyone in the world see that this is how reform and innovation came about among us.

We also have our own plans. We want to let people all over the world know that reform and change have so many benefits.

At the same time, we want you to understand that reform has so many benefits.

Instead of just telling you how we can make you better.

The idea is not to make you become better with us, but to tell you that at this moment everything is actually a transaction.

This transaction is consensual, and it is very simple.

The goal is to make you all better after the reforms and changes here, and at the same time you will be grateful to our Ming Dynasty.

If you are grateful to the Ming Dynasty, you will naturally be willing to work with us.

That’s why I’m telling you this here now.

The reason I say so much is this transaction.

Of course, if you don’t understand, it’s actually a very simple truth. It’s not that you don’t understand, you are just pretending not to understand.

Since you are all pretending here, why don't you just stop talking in such a confusing way and just speak clearly.

The craftsmen also calmed down at this time.

Listen to what Wang Dahai says here.

Wang Dahai said, "It's a very simple truth, so that you can understand that the reforms and changes in Ming Dynasty can be moved here.

At the same time, it also allows you to understand what the reforms and changes in the Ming Dynasty are like.

It’s a very simple truth, and everyone actually understands it, but some people are just pretending not to understand it.”

So now Wang Dahai opened up to them.

"Craftsmen can enter Daming Engineering College and apply for patents based on their skills. If they use your skills to build a project in Sanfuqi, they can get subsidies based on the amount of money they save.

That is why I hope you can understand that the Ming Dynasty does have some plans, and what it plans is your craftsmanship, and you use your craftsmanship to make a deal.

It’s just that you could originally use your skills to trade, but your transactions were too few, very pitifully few.

But when you arrive at Daming Engineering College, and when Daming starts carrying out various projects in Sanfuqi in the future, you will understand.

It turns out that your craftsmanship can be so valuable. The reason why your craftsmanship was worthless before was because no one recognized it.

But the future Ming Dynasty will recognize you, for no other reason than that the future Ming Dynasty will carry out large-scale construction here.

The construction requires the work of craftsmen like you, so as I said, if you are willing to do this with Daming Engineering College, your future achievements will be limitless.

After you finish your studies at the Daming Engineering College, you can also become an official. The Daming official system, in addition to studying and taking the imperial examinations, also has engineers like you who have good skills and craftsmen who understand technology.

Only by letting those of you who understand technology do it, can these technical tasks be done more efficiently, instead of letting those educated people do it with passion.

They do know how to express themselves better, but they don't understand the technology.

In the past, when we did business in the Ming Dynasty, it could be said that it was a sincere transaction, but the current transaction was not the case.

why?
Because we need more people who understand technology.

You can also ask, why don’t we transfer from Ming Dynasty?

Yes, but this will take us more time to prepare;
Secondly, I think you craftsmen who are doing the engineering work understand very well why people from other places have inferior craftsmanship when they come to Mandala City to do the work.

Because you understand the local customs and materials here better, you will be more adept at it.

Since even the other craftsmen in Sanfuqi are not as good as you, how can we who are transferred from Ming Dynasty be better than you?
We understand very well that it is impossible for the people who live in a certain place to have better skills than you just because they are transferred from other places.

Even if we transfer here, you still have to cooperate with us. It would be better to let you get some benefits so that you will be more loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Based on this consideration, we are going to use you now. Based on this consideration, we need more people like you to stand up now.

In the future, you will be able to contribute a little to the construction here.”

Captain Liu said at this time, "You actually have more opportunities and more advantages.

Of course, if you don’t seize this opportunity, if you don’t seize this advantage, you will regret it in the future, and even in a year or two, your advantage won’t be that great.”

The craftsmen below began to discuss.

"Oh, what advantages do we have? What are our advantages? Is it just because we are locals?"

"Maybe it's because we are locals that we have this advantage. You don't hear people say that the reason we have an advantage is because we understand our local environment better than people from other places."

“Well, this is an advantage for us, and he really means it.

At the beginning, people from other places came to our place, but they didn’t know whether to use this bamboo or not because they didn’t understand the toughness of our bamboo.

But in the end, we found that we had to use our people. Our people boldly used bamboo as a roof arch, and it really worked for a while. "

"Now that we put it that way, it seems like we really do have this advantage."

As soon as they got to this point, everyone seemed to understand everything.

When I heard his people say this again, I felt a little bit of anticipation.

Looking forward to what kind of advantages Captain Liu can talk about?
When Wang Dahai talked about the advantages, others might still be confused and say something like, "What do you know?"
You are not a craftsman, but when Captain Liu said there were advantages, others were willing to listen immediately.

To be honest, since Wang Dahai is a general, all his family members are soldiers.

But when Captain Liu said this, everyone was really willing to listen.

Because Captain Liu's father was a craftsman before.

When we think of this, we become more excited.

Captain Liu began to speak, "The reason why you have an advantage is because you now have a prerequisite.

What are the prerequisites?

If you enter earlier than others, the Ming Dynasty will establish the Ming Engineering College here after it colonizes this place in the future, and you will have more choices than others.

First of all, Daming will definitely recruit more craftsmen here in the future. Whether you like it or not, the number of craftsmen who enter Daming Engineering College to study will be very large.

Whether you can have priority entry over others in the future is another matter.

What are the benefits of priority access?

It's very simple. In order to commend the enthusiasm of you people and also to achieve the effect of buying a good horse with a lot of money, I will definitely give priority to teaching you more techniques.

At the same time, we will also give priority to people like you.

After all, I have to make a statement to everyone.

Let you get benefits and bring more people. This is what we in the Ming Dynasty must do.

This is also the way for you to be one step faster than others in the future. Why is that?

Because the first batch always has courage, but when the second batch starts, it begins to be trained in an assembly line manner.

After you have tasted the first batch of benefits, you will have the opportunity to enter into the construction projects led by the Ming Dynasty in the future faster than others.

That is to say, we need to put more energy into training people like you than others.

In the future, the Ming Dynasty will carry out reforms in your Mandala City or your Sanfuqi, and will have to carry out so many engineering projects.

You are the first group to be brought in, so do you have more advantages? "

After hearing this, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, because Captain Liu was right.

That’s right. If the current Ming Dynasty wants to come to Sanfuqi to carry out reforms and changes and wants to carry out all the projects, it must have talents.

Where do talents come from? They come from people like us.

Although civil servants will be needed to take the imperial examinations in the future, they must have literary talent in order to manage the local areas.

But today's Sanfuqi is obviously not satisfied with the needs of the Ming Dynasty.

They will definitely make drastic efforts to build roads or bridges, and they will need craftsmen.

How to train craftsmen? There must be a process.

Since we are local craftsmen, we have the opportunity or advantage to be recruited into Daming Engineering College.

Once the opportunity comes, it will be easy.

No matter if you are like the Engineering College of Ming Dynasty, you can hand over your technology, apply for patents and get subsidies.

Or use the advantages of our local people to guide the future projects of the Ming Dynasty, which will give us more advantages than others.

So after saying this, all the smart people immediately figured it out and their eyes lit up.

Since they have clearly intended to occupy the entire Sanfuqi, they even want to make life better for the people here.

It would be especially interesting to let the local craftsmen have a share of the pie.

We need to set an example for later craftsmen so that other craftsmen, who were originally on the fence, will jump in as soon as they see the benefits.

However, as Captain Liu said, the first batch that has just arrived definitely has more advantages.

Because you are the first one who dares to stand up, it is equivalent to helping Da Ming to light up a sign first. In order to express its gratitude to you, Da Ming will treat you better.

When the craftsmen below heard this, their eyes immediately lit up.

Now is really the time to express your feelings.

Then a craftsman stood up after hesitating for a moment and asked another question.

"Then General Liu, let's keep saying the same thing. If we enter Daming Engineering College and hand over our technology to apply for your so-called patents, can we really get a subsidy of ten taels of silver every month like those craftsmen in Daming Engineering College?"

As soon as these words were spoken, many of the craftsmen's eyes lit up and they looked at Captain Liu and his men.

If Captain Liu and the others agreed here, I would definitely hand over these technologies immediately.

No matter if I teach others or not, as long as I can get a subsidy of ten taels of silver every month, wouldn’t that be great?

This was much more profitable than doing carpentry work, blacksmith work, or other jobs, so after hearing this, others also began to look forward to it.

Captain Liu said, "The monthly subsidy is 10 taels, that's for first-class technology. Our Daming Engineering College is divided into four grades: A, B, C, and D, and the subsidies for each grade are different.

Of course, it is our governor who should set the rules for you personally, not us soldiers.

So I say again, if you believe it, after we establish Daming Engineering College in the future, someone will come to tell you about this and you will be admitted immediately.

We came here today to set an example, so that you and other cities in Sanfuqi will understand that we will provide subsidies and we will treat you preferentially. "

After hearing this, the other craftsmen became even more excited.

Although Captain Liu did not say exactly how much these things there were, the same thing still applies.

Since they have already promised, and said it in front of so many people in Mandala City, they will definitely do it.

So everyone started to take it seriously.

"Okay then, we will believe in the Ming Dynasty this time. We craftsmen were once the lowest of the low.

Now that you said so today, okay, we are willing to make some concessions.

If you agree today, we can help you promote it tomorrow.

We need to gather all the craftsmen in the entire Mandala City and explain things to them clearly. We are even willing to make sacrifices and concessions.

Since you haven't established Daming Engineering College yet, we will join it first.

Whether you want to build roads or houses in Mandala City and need our help, just let us know. Let's just think of it as a gentleman's agreement. We are willing to take the lead and make the concessions that you are willing to see.

Let me show you that the craftsmen in our Mandala City are also open.

We were oppressed before, but now we are willing to cooperate with you and show our sincerity, is that ok?"

Captain Liu laughed and said, "Well, that's what I said. The craftsmen are not lowly people, but are very sensible.

Everyone knows what's going on. In that case, you guys go ahead and do it. We'll give you a big reward once you get the people you need."

Captain Liu knew very well that if he wanted to do anything, he had to use money to pave the way.

Even though these craftsmen seemed to be volunteers, they still had to pay...

(End of this chapter)