Chapter 232: When you go out to play, you still have to think about work
There are many people skating on the river, so naturally some people have their own ideas.
I don’t know when a car selling kebabs appeared on the river embankment, and a group of village women with foreign accents set up sheds and curtains.
People who were tired from playing on the ice gathered in groups and asked for a shed. There was a small charcoal stove in the middle of the shed for heating skewers and hot tea. Everyone sat around eating and chatting.
"Gu...just kill me!"
Belle Burke glared at Frederick fiercely, because this guy had agreed before ordering that he would not be paid for food today.
"Sit down first," Frederick said to her, "I want to ask you something."
Belle Burke closed the curtain of the shed facing the river and sat down, muttering. He asked, "What's the matter?"
With a wave of his hand, Frederick opened the curtain again, and Maria and the others could be seen skating carefully.
He asked Belle Burke: "How much money can you make here?"
Belle Burke pouted and replied: "Not much, just hard-earned money. Now that the construction site has stopped, we can only come out to find something to eat."
"We also went to the textile factory, but it turned out that the factory canteen A group of people rushed out and chased us away, and even beat us. "
"It's better at the smelting plant. Let us go there at night, and we can get some business while they change shifts at night."
< br>"Now we set up a stall here during the day and go to the steel factory at night. We have to pay taxes twice. How much do you think we can earn?"
After she finished speaking, she left.
Frederick could hear that she was a little resentful.
Presumably, Belle Burke entered the catering industry with the idea of making a lot of money, and tried to use it as a springboard to enter the construction industry, but the reality was very skinny.
The reason is simple. The threshold in the catering industry is not high, and what she can do can be done by others.
She can get a cooking cart, but others can make do with modified flatbed carts, and the cost is lower, so the competition is fierce.
Soon after, Belle Burke came over with a stream of hot tea and placed it in the middle of the charcoal stove. After a while, she brought a large plate of grilled sausages, mutton skewers, beef, pork belly slices and Tofu skin.
Unlike other barbecue restaurants, here she has chili powder obtained from internal channels, which is just right in winter.
“Ask me one more thing.” Frederick called Belle Burke down again.
After sitting down, Belle Burke pouted and asked: "Have you found your conscience and are willing to pay?"
Frederick asked her: "A stall like yours is under tax pressure. Is it big?”
“It must be big,” said Belle Burke. “We charge taxes based on head count just like the roadside stalls in the city. The more people here, the higher the tax. Much.”
After hearing this, Frederick nodded and asked her to go about her business.
Recently, there have been many small stalls and hawkers in the municipalities directly under the central government of Weisen State, including both foreigners and local migrant workers. How to manage them has become a difficult problem.
Now the Executive Yuan is taxing these people in an attempt to reduce the scale, but it has no effect and instead intensifies the contradictions.
Weisenberg City is better, because trenches are being dug everywhere to bury water pipes, so vendors have no place to set up stalls, so the problem is not big.
It was not only Frederick who came to skate, many officials in the city also came to play with their families, so the Minister of Administration Frick was called over.
"Eat whatever you want." Frederick smiled and said to him, "Eat as much as you can, because I want you to work overtime."
Frick immediately said nervously: "My lord, you can give me whatever you want. ”
He is now one person below ten thousand people in the administrative system of Wesson State, but he also understands that he can sit in this position not because of his outstanding ability, but because he has followed the Wesson family from the day he joined the company. Walk at pace. And now there are new regulations. From now on, the top positions in Weisen State will be replaced every five years. Whether they can stay depends on the assessment. A person can be re-elected once at most.
So he works more and more seriously, and strives to be re-elected for one term. Next time, his grandson will be an adult and can help arrange a good job. Otherwise, who will take care of the tea? you.
Frederick knew the little thoughts of these people, but it didn't matter. Now, except for his special approval, all current employees in Weisen State must pass the entrance examination. From now on, the selection of officials will be prioritized within this system, and no matter who they are, they must first Let’s talk about passing the exam.
He poured a cup of tea for Frick, first picked up a roasted fat beef and said while eating: "Nowadays, in many cities there are people who are seeking to make a living by setting up stalls like this, which causes a lot of trouble. , the newspaper reported an accident in which the patient almost died on the carriage because the road was blocked, so these matters must be dealt with. "
Frick immediately said: "After the New Year. I will arrange to deal with this matter immediately.”
Frederick added: “It’s not easy for people to make a living from afar, so I have an idea to set up an area for them in a suitable place. The stalls will not affect traffic, and they will not be set up outside the area."
"At the same time, there will be no tax, and we don't have much money, so just charge a sanitation fee based on the stall."
Frick thought for a moment and said with a bit of embarrassment: "This matter is not easy to handle. I heard a staff member say that a fight broke out between a vegetable seller at his house and a vegetable seller on the roadside, and he was injured. There are quite a few people.”
“Because the vendors in the vegetable market have to pay stall rent, it is a little more expensive than those on the roadside, and people can’t buy from outside.”
Philippines. Te Lie frowned after hearing this. He didn't expect this to happen here.
The wet market is also one of the new policies of his First Five-Year Plan.
In the past, the place where vegetables were sold was basically an open space, with dust and flies flying around, and the vegetables and meat were the same color as mud. It was very unhygienic. Later, a neat and clean vegetable market was built.
"Let's do this," he said, "the stall area stipulates the types of items sold, mainly to fill vacancies, and cannot compete with formal shops."
"At the same time, vocational training and recruitment must be stepped up to divert people. Going to the factory is our foundation.”
Flick said that we will make arrangements when we start work next year.
At this time, a fast horse ran in the distance, and Helmut personally sent a piece of information from the military.
Frederick looked at it, frowned slightly, and then said: "Ignore them, just prepare the border defense in case of emergency."
After Helmut left, he said to Frick: "We have a battle between the Principality of Franconia in the north and the League of Regens in the east. There are hundreds of people. It's so cold that we don't know what to do."
Frick looked around and saw that there was no one else around, and asked Frederick in a low voice: "Sir, are we going to deal with them in the future..."
Frederick shook his head and said: "There is no hurry. , We currently do not have enough troops to defend these two places, and we do not have enough officials to govern them. The expansion of the administrative system in recent years is to prepare for the future."
Frick understood and asked no more questions. .
When he saw Maria and the others coming back from playing, he slipped away wisely.
"Humph!"
Maria sat opposite Frederick, but turned her head and ignored him.
Susan and Lilu were the same, talking to themselves and ignoring Frederick.
Frederick handed over the kebabs with a smile, and they ate, but they would not talk to anyone who did not want to play with them.
“Drink some hot tea.” Frederick poured them tea with a smile.
We had originally agreed to go out skating together, but when he saw Belle Burke and the others, he remembered work and did not go out skating.
That’s good, he found a good excuse to cover up the fact that he couldn’t skate and save a little face.
(End of this chapter)