Chapter 113: Collecting Debts (Part 2)
The training class was busy throughout the Spring Festival. Master Changxin had come up with a cooperation plan for more than 5,000 households for Huo Chong, and the young people who were being trained were shocked by the number. Song Cunyu, the monitor of the second class and one of Huo Chong's prospective apprentices, asked tentatively, "Mr. Huo, will this... cheat us?"
Song Cunyu's words clearly represent the thoughts of all the students. After several years, the number of people participating in the planting of blessings is only more than 7,000 households, and they are scattered in several counties. Master Changxin alone has created more than 5,000 households for Huo Chong. Anyone who knows what 5,000 households represent knows that there is such a risk.
"Whether it is a scam or not, we will know after we go there." Huo Chong replied with satisfaction.
"Sir, can we do such a big business?" Deputy squad leader Li Ziran asked.
"We asked everyone to come for training so that we can discuss what to do there. These 5,000 households will definitely not be close to us, everyone should understand that."
"Of course!" The students agreed with this.
"We don't need to worry about these. Those 5,000 households definitely want to live a good life, there's no doubt about that. The key point is what kind of good life they want, and whether the model we propose when cooperating with them can satisfy them. We must not plant blessings after death, because that would cause trouble. No matter how we cooperate, it's during life, not after death."
The training class was like this. Huo Chong was not the only one who gave the lectures, and Huo Chong was not even responsible for the main content of the lectures. The models that the Zhongfu platform has developed in recent years have their own responsible persons, and these responsible persons will explain the relevant cooperation models.
Looking at a group of "lecturers" in their twenties giving lectures, Huo Chong was both happy and worried. The progress of these young people was beyond imagination, and they were selected precisely because they showed the direction of progress. However, during the growth of these people, Huo Chong also saw many problems. Many of them were quite disturbing.
Young people believe that what they have learned from Huo Chong is correct, and Huo Chong has such confidence. However, young people also think that those who do not follow this path are wrong, or at least stupid and ignorant. After they have learned the words "stupid" and "ignorant", they can even use these words to define others.
Although everyone has this stage, Huo Chong still hopes that the backbones of the Zhongfu platform that he selected can get through this stage as soon as possible. Especially now that he has to cooperate with Master Changxin, if these stupid kids he sent can't help but give him a blow, it will hurt the relationship.
After thinking about it, Huo Chong became more and more worried. He simply told his worries to the students. After listening, everyone was confused. Li Weitao, the study committee member of the study class, was quite straightforward and asked loudly: "Sir, why can't we talk about them?"
"I scolded you, but you are not happy. I think you know that I didn't scold you out of malice. You know that if we cooperate with the people on the side of Master Changxin, they may not know that we are doing good for them..."
"Sir, if they don't know what's good for them, why should we go?" Li Weitao immediately expressed his displeasure.
Huo Chong couldn't say that he wanted to rebel. If he rebelled, he would certainly hope to have many friends and few enemies. Only in this way could he deal with the Manchu Qing forces, which had a huge advantage at that time.
Since he couldn't tell, Huo Chong had no idea why he should be polite to those people. Logically, the people who received the blessing should serve the people sent by Huo Chong well.
Seeing Huo Chong was speechless, the squad leader Hu Zhengdao said obediently: "Since the teacher wants us to do this, we should just listen to him."
There aren't many people who are so well-behaved. Huo Chong saw all kinds of confusion on the faces of the young people. Although most people were not prepared to oppose Huo Chong's ideas, they didn't understand what Huo Chong wanted to do.
Seeing that this was not going to work, Huo Chong had to give everyone a reason, "Why do you think I'm so nice to you?"
Hu Zhengdao continued to give his answer in a docile manner. It was obvious that the young people who came to receive training agreed with his answer.
Huo Chong's mind moved, and he continued to explain his purpose, "If we want everyone to be free from poverty, it doesn't really matter if a few people have money. How much of the money you earn every month do you give to your family? As far as I know, you should at least give half."
"I gave all my money to my family." A student shouted immediately. The students sighed. A large part of the money they earned was used to supplement their family expenses. Young people actually want to have their own money. Although they don't resent their families, they are not that happy.
Huo Chong felt that he had found a breakthrough point. "I'm not even saying that your family members earn more than you. If every adult man and woman in your family earns 90% of yours, would you feel much better?"
The students sighed. Song Cunyu, the monitor of the second study group, said, "Sir, if my family can earn 90% of the money, I can still ask my parents for some. If you say so, why don't you recruit our relatives to work?"
Amid the voices of approval, some young people also sang a different tune, "My family members don't want to come. They don't want to leave home."
Huo Chong quickly waved his hand to end this meaningless discussion. "Master Changxin is in Laoshan. If we can develop that place, it will be of great benefit. The people there will have money in their hands, and they can buy the things we produce here. If we sell more of our products, we can hire more people. You have all learned arithmetic. Look at this formula."
Huo Chong wrote an equation where W equals Y divided by X. He described the relationship between the variables if Y is income and X is the number of people who share the money.
At this time, the effect of the training came out. These selected members had never thought about the problem in this way. After listening to the explanation, their minds seemed to be enlightened. Huo Chong didn't want to say more, so he handed the question to the class leader and study committee member of the training class and asked them to discuss it with everyone.
When the students continued their schedules as required, Huo Chong sat aside in a daze again, full of thoughts. If it were the 21st century, rebellion against the Qing Dynasty would not be a topic worth discussing. What should be discussed is the success rate of the rebellion, and everyone needs to rebel at the most efficient node.
In 1722, the people under the rule of the Qing Dynasty did not have such persistence. Cursing the government and criticizing the gentry was also the norm for the people. But these people did not have the option of overthrowing the world.
How to instill this option into the minds of these people is the biggest problem for Huo Chong, and also the biggest difficulty Huo Chong feels.
Thinking about the time again, Huo Chong temporarily gave up the idea of inciting rebellion. According to history, Yongzheng would ascend the throne within a year.
If Kangxi died as in history, he would have to wait until Yongzheng executed Nian Gengyao before he could rebel. If he took action before Nian Gengyao fell, and Nian Gengyao led his troops to suppress the rebellion, he would have to face an enemy who was as loyal as the emperor and his subjects.
As long as Nian Gengyao died as he did in history, the Manchu ministers would at least be cautious when facing Yongzheng. After all, what Yongzheng did when he doted on Nian Gengyao in history made a lot of gay novels written by female writers. Huo Chong didn't think these two were gay, but after reading those instructions, he also felt that they were very disgusting.
After making such a disgusting statement, he forced Nian Gengyao to commit suicide. Even though Nian Gengyao's crime was unforgivable, those cunning Qing officials would have no choice but to think about what happened to Nian Gengyao. Every crack in the Qing court was a space that Huo Chong, who might rebel in the future, could use.
Soon, the Spring Festival passed, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month passed. Before the Dragon Raising its Head on the Second Day of the Second Lunar Month, the twenty students selected from the study class went to the Laoshan area under the escort of the guards sent by the platform security department and began to fully cooperate with Master Changxin.
Huo Chong stepped up his arrangements. The most important thing for the rebellion was the base, and the Yimeng Mountain base was a very famous place.
Although it was February and the snow in the mountains had not melted yet, Huo Chong still sent people into the mountains to make contact, planning to build a forest farm in the Yimeng Mountains and plant trees on a large scale.
If you want to rebel, you need tools, and if you want tools, you need wood and metal. Although Huo Chong also planted a large number of trees on the land he bought, the truly reliable forests were still in the Yimeng Mountains.
As soon as the news was sent out, the people from Zhangdian arrived. They delivered a document full of anxiety, "The iron ore vein has been mined out, and nothing has been found in more than a month!"
Huo Chong sighed in his heart. This was another use of wood. Building a mine also required wood, and it was very solid wood.
