A social silhouette of history
A coachman's miserable world
- Introduction to "Camel Xiangzi".
Xiangzi, a poor boy from the countryside who lost his parents and a few acres of thin fields and went to the city.
At the age of eighteen, he came to Beiping City from the countryside, and after doing everything he could do to eat, he finally chose to become a rickshaw driver, eager to buy a rickshaw of his own with sweat and hard work.
But the wish is beautiful, the reality is cruel!
After three ups and three backwards, Shoko has changed from a hard-working, decent and clean person to a lazy, cunning, and extremely selfish walking corpse-like geist.
Shoko's beautiful qualities of hard work, honesty, kindness, and faithfulness are destined to fail to win the ideal life in the dark old society.
This is the fate of the vast majority of the low-level people in the old era. However, the palm of fate also has a fish that slips through the net.
Like what:
Gao's mother, the maid of Caofu, and Liu Siye, the owner of the car factory.
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Gao Ma: A wise little person, a shrewd and capable "financial expert".
Gao's mother, the maid of Caofu, a thirty-two-three-year-old widow, is shrewd and capable, and does things quickly.
When he was young, he unfortunately married his lazy and violent drunkard husband, so he had to take on the responsibility of supporting his family and working as a nanny for a large family.
The husband was drunk and came to Gao's mother to ask for money. If she didn't give it, she made a fuss outside the house, and her mother, who had no choice, had to borrow money from loan sharks. Therefore, when her husband was alive, Gao's mother was exploited by loan sharks.
A woman's family, in the dark age of feudalism, not only has to support herself, but also make money to buy wine and food for her drunkard husband.
It is conceivable that Gao's mother's situation at that time was far more difficult than Xiangzi, who "fed the whole family without hunger", and was not much better than Xiaofuzi.
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However, her mentality, ability, means, and scheming are far better than those of Xiangzi and Xiaofuzi.
After the death of her husband, she completely got rid of the oil bottle of Gao's mother, and her abilities and means were truly displayed:
Since she was widowed, she gave out the little money she could have left during the month, one for one and two for one and two for servants, as second- and third-class patrolmen, and as petty traders, with at least three cents.
Gao's mother's money was neither saved like Xiangzi nor put into the bank like the servants of the Fang family, but lent it to people who needed it urgently in the form of usury, and then sat down to collect interest and use the money to make money.
As she said to Xiangzi: "Put it in your pocket, a child will always be a child!
Of course, her money is not something that anyone can borrow, she is "let go of the money when she sees it, and she can't let go of the bald-tailed eagle".
is to lend money to others at the same time, to find out the other party's old bottom first, even if the other party does not pay back, Gao Ma has means to deal with it, such as:
When the time comes, the patrol officer will not give any profit, or will not return to his roots, and go to him as a patrol officer! In a word, his errand must be put aside, and he dares to inquire about the day of their salary, and block the nest;
These lending experiences are all tempered by Gao's mother from the hardships and hardships she has experienced before.
With her sharp vision, clever methods, and pungent personality, Gao's mother, a middle-aged widow, was mixed well in the old society.
The second strong sister-in-law, who had the same experience as Gao's mother, was often abused by her drunkard husband, watched her daughter being sold, and finally ended up being beaten to death by her husband.
I have to say that Gao's mother is better than some men. Although she is only a maid who was born at the bottom, her vision and ability make her life more exciting than that of men.
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Liu Siye: A local gangster born at the bottom, a selfish "capitalist".
Liu Siye, Tiger Girl's father, Xiangzi's father-in-law, and the owner of Renhe and the car factory.
When he was young, he served as a treasury soldier, set up a casino, bought and sold people, and let go of the account of the king of Hades.
In the period of the Republic of China, Jin Basin washed his hands and opened a foreign car factory in Beiping, and together with his daughter, he managed people and car factories like iron buckets.
Liu Siye relied on his own strength, heart, means, communication, business name and other survival skills, and after decades of hard work, he achieved a class leap.
From a low-level gangster, he became the boss of the "Renhe Car Factory" in Beiping City, and had a rich family property:
1. There are more than 60 rickshaws, and the worst ones are all new:
Up to now, he has more than 60 cars, and the worst ones are seven or eight percent new, and he doesn't have any broken cars. The car rental, he is bigger than other houses, but in the third section he has two more days than other houses.
According to the value of the new car of 100 yuan, Liu Siye has about 4,500 yuan of fixed assets.
These more than 60 rickshaws are rented at a dime and a half a day, and they have a net income of about ten yuan a day.
2. Own a set of real estate in the capital Beiping - a large factory building of Renhe and Depot:
In front of the field are three shophouses, one of which is used as a cabinet room, and only the coachmen are allowed to come in to give accounts or negotiate matters, and they are not allowed to go back and forth casually. Because the east and west rooms are the bedrooms of the Liu family's father and daughter.
Entering from the gate, turning the west room in front of the face, it is a large square courtyard, and there is an old acacia tree in the middle. The east and west rooms are all open-faced, where the cars are stored, and the south room and the small courtyards behind the south room are all coachmen's dormitories.
4. Have a large deposit:
Although the novel does not write about how much Liu Siye has in savings, it is deduced that Liu Siye has saved a lot of money based on the car rent, usury and other income of the car dealership over the years and the cost of holding the 60th birthday. Even the tiger girl can have a private house of about 500 yuan.
Look at it again, the 100 yuan that Xiangzi bought a car for the first time took three full years, coming and going in the wind and rain, tired and tired, and saving money to save enough.
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Here is also to emphasize one point: during the Republic of China, if you want to drive a rickshaw shop in Beiping City, in addition to having capital, you must also have the "ability" to deal with black and white.
Some people say, why didn't Liu Siye hand over the car dealership to Hu Niu and Xiangzi?
Because Liu Siye knows the skills of these two people: Xiangzi is honest and duty-oriented, and Hu Niu will only collect accounts and deal with poor coachmen.
If Liu Siye dares to hand over the car factory to Xiangzi and Hu Niu to manage, it will definitely go out of business.
Therefore, after Liu Siye saw that Hu Niu was marrying Xiangzi, he immediately sold the car factory and took the money to travel all over the world.