Chapter 396： New Year preparations in the city

Nanjing city, suburban slums.

The people here are all refugees who have fled to Nanjing from various places. Before, it was very difficult for such refugees to survive in other places.

Girls are likely to sell themselves to landlords, wealthy merchants or brothels. Men are even more miserable. They can only serve as domestic slaves or tenant farmers for the landlord.

Even worse than them are those who can't sell themselves. They have no land in a foreign country, and there is not much work to do on the market, and they will most likely be starved to death.

But these refugees who came to Nanjing this year have lived a life they couldn't imagine.

The houses they live in are better than those of ordinary people in the city.

Although these houses are only for them to live in for three years, they do not belong to them. But for the past three years, there is no money. This is already a great gift.

Before the change, if there was such a good thing, the government issued some rice porridge, which was already the greatest relief.

With a house and a place to stay, this is not their greatest blessing. For these refugees, the greatest blessing is that Nanjing needs a lot of people, and there is no need to find work.

Major factories are hiring people, and the manpower required is huge.

There are also many job opportunities in the city. Pull a rickshaw, work as a cleaner, and go to the dock to unload...

Whether it is a strong man, the old or the weak, or a woman, they can find a job that suits them.

If you have a job, you have an income, and if you have an income, you can live.

When the world is peaceful, they can return to their hometown.

However, there is a high probability that none of these people will leave Nanjing again.

Nowhere else is Nanjing so easy to make a living.

Now these refugees are just thinking about making money, and then pooling enough money to buy the relief housing they live in and become their own home.

According to the government, people in Nanjing who want to buy such relief houses cost two hundred taels of silver for each building, and they must be paid in one lump sum.

However, for refugees with foreign household registration, they only need one hundred taels to buy this kind of house, and they can also be paid in installments.

Calculated with three labors in a family, one month's income in Nanjing is about two taels. Excluding various expenses, you can save two taels of silver a month.

One year is twenty-four taels, and you can pay off the house by depositing for almost four years and own your own house.

This kind of red brick house can live for tens of hundreds of years, and it is totally worth it to spend four years to buy one.

As the New Year approaches, refugees in these slums also rarely buy meat to celebrate.

Life needs a sense of ritual, no matter no matter how hard it is, no matter how poor it is, this Spring Festival cannot be shivered.

Of course, there are also some very rational refugees who choose to continue eating pickles.

They know very well that the price of meat during the holidays is 50% more expensive than usual.

As long as you resist eating during the New Year and wait until the end of the New Year to buy, you can only buy two catties, but you will be able to buy three catties, which is even more cost-effective.

Those are the days of the poor, and the people in the city don't need to plan carefully like refugees.

They have a house in the city and don’t need to save money to buy a house. You can spend as much as you earn.

With the prosperity of Nanjing and more and more lucrative jobs, the people in the city have also made a lot of money by relying on the advantages of the locals.

Even if you go to drive a rickshaw, the locals are more familiar with Nanjing and earn more.

In addition, Nanjing locals have more connections in the local area and can find good jobs better.

Not to mention those people who have land in the local area. They make a lot of money by renting or selling land to businessmen who run factories. They directly enter the middle class, and the wealthy people have it.

With money, it is natural to enjoy it.

Nowadays, there are so many luxury goods on the market, and the newspapers blow up these luxury goods so amazingly. People who have never used it before can't hold back their hearts.

Taking advantage of the New Year, many people are also extravagant.

The peppers, monosodium glutamate and watercress that are usually reluctant to buy have been bought for early adopters.

The soaps and perfumes that I usually reluctant to buy, have been bought to experience it.

The brothel that is usually reluctant to go, but also to go shopping during the Chinese New Year.

In short, ordinary people in the city have a much better life than in previous years, and their lives are more colorful.

In just one year, the living standards of these people have been greatly improved.

In the Tong family, relying on the early days of joining Wu Changqing, Tong Youwei made a lot of money this year, and the future prospects are very good.

When Zhang Luo celebrated the New Year, it was naturally all kinds of hard spending.

How can you prove that you have money if you don't spend money hard?

Even those expensive fireworks, their family directly bought more than one thousand taels of silver goods.

The government has announced that the government will set off fireworks in the square on New Year's Eve to celebrate with the people.

However, as a person with status, how can Tong Youwei allow his family to watch the kind of free fireworks.

If you want to see the fireworks, you can just buy it yourself, but it's just a little bit of silver, what a big deal.

If you buy it yourself, you can order it yourself, which adds a sense of experience.

Playing with the fireworks that I bought is the only way to have a compelling life and to reflect the difference in his home.

However, they need to spend money to show their difference, which shows that their family is just an ordinary rich man.

The real top class generally likes to be low-key.

Like some royal relatives, state officials, and noble ministers, they are all like this.

Chen Daolin's family did not deliberately show off, but the preparation in detail was exquisite and luxurious.

The Chen Mansion looks ordinary on the outside, but the various decorations and supplies inside are very expensive.

Even if there is no need to show off, everyone knows what the Chen family means.

This is enough for the queen's natal family.

Many people who want to visit Chen's house or want to curry favor with Chen Daolin have no way out and are not qualified.

And those powerful ministers and nobles, it is not convenient to show off their wealth.

Although the salaries of officials in the Dahua Empire are relatively high, they are still incomparable with businessmen who do business.

If they reveal their riches, they will be in trouble if they are targeted by someone who is interested.

It is impossible for officials in this period to be completely incorruptible.

Moreover, the purpose of most officials as officials is to make money.

Wu Changqing wants to put an end to corrupt officials through high salaries and honesty, but the current effect is not very good.

The problem of corrupt officials has been an eternal problem since ancient times, and even in the future, and it is very difficult to solve.

Wu Changqing often thinks about solutions, but so far, he has not thought of it.

If he can come up with a solution to this problem, he can be rated as the King of the Ages alone.

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