Sasha today in history.
Author: Sasha.
This article was originally written by Sasha, and no *** is allowed
Why is Shoko's nickname in "Camel Shoko" instead of "Horse" and "Cow"? March 7, 1937: Lao She published a long ** "Camel Xiangzi".
After Shoko was captured by the army and became a folk husband, he took 3 camels with him when he escaped.
Although Camel Xiangzi is a fictional character of Lao She, he also has a real prototype.
Camel Shoko is not a typical example of working people, on the contrary, he can be said to be a wicked person.
Naturally, Shoko is not very smart and belongs to a bit of a clever and bad person!
Decent working people are coachmen like Lao Ma, who support their families by labor safely and steadily, with an upright character and a warm heart.
Shoko does not belong to this category of people, although he is taciturn and seems to be honest, he is actually wilted.
First, Shoko's calculations.
As far as the villagers who enter the city are concerned, Xiangzi is a smart person and a capable person in the township.
As mentioned in the book, after Xiangzi entered the city, he chose a lot of jobs as coolies, and finally chose to pull a cart.
From this, it can be seen that Shoko has a brain.
At that time, the driver was not a low-paying profession, but a good profession like a taxi driver around the year 2000.
The monthly salary of a rickshaw driver is between 8 and 12 yuan. At that time, the emperor of part-time jobs, the skilled workers of the Shanghai factory could only take so much money.
You must know that skilled workers need to master technology, and not everyone can do it.
The human driver is relatively simple, and it is enough to have a good body to endure hardships, and the entry threshold is much lower.
In Beijing, where Xiangzi lives, a monthly salary of 12 yuan can maintain a well-off life for a family of four. Shoko is a bachelor, and this kind of income is very good. Because the rickshaw is not his own, Xiangzi's original identity is equivalent to today's night driver, and he needs to pay rent to the car factory every day, and his income is about five or six yuan per month.
After Xiangzi entered the industry, he had several vehicle accidents one after another, but he was still able to save 100 yuan at the end of 3 years and buy a rickshaw.
In those days, rickshaws were much more expensive than today's taxis, and were a fortune in their own right.
After buying a car, Xiangzi's monthly salary increased to 8 to 12 yuan, and his personal property also increased greatly. Xiangzi is only in his early 20s, and normally he can then gain a foothold in Beijing City, and his income is not low.
As a peasant who went to the city without culture and capital, whether ancient or modern, Xiangzi was a good mix.
Naturally, these normal life calculations are essential skills for survival, and it cannot be said that there is anything wrong with them.
However, Shoko's calculations are more than that.
At many critical moments, Shoko will choose to protect her interests as much as possible and will not lose a penny.
We'll talk about that later.
Second, Shoko's ruthlessness.
Many people don't realize that Shoko is a ruthless person, much more powerful than ordinary people.
The first time Shoko lost his car was because he pulled the car to the war-torn suburbs, but was captured by the rebels.
The group of coachmen, unlike other groups, are people who walk around the street and are quite well-informed.
At that time, it was clear among the coachmen in Beijing that there were rebels in the western suburbs arresting people and cars, so why did Xiangzi dare to go?
In the final analysis, it's for two oceans of car money. In the past, Tsinghua University, which was pulled to the western suburbs, was at most two or three cents, but now it is equivalent to hiring a car ten times as much.
The other coachmen disagreed, and once they were pulled away by the rebels, it was difficult to say whether they would come back alive.
However, Shoko has a ruthless spirit and would rather make such dangerous money. That's Shoko's earnings for a week, and now it only takes an hour or two to earn it.
This kind of ruthlessness is not shared by everyone, and ordinary people simply do not have this kind of courage.
Shoko's other ruthlessness is that he can take the risk of pulling camels away in the chaos of the army.
The camel is a valuable animal and an important means of transportation. The unit price of camels was higher than that of horses, and in the late Qing Dynasty, when there were no trains, you could buy 100 to 200 yuan.
After the **, the price of camels fell, and it was worth a lot.
In the book, Liu Siye said: "Hmph, you stupid boy! Pull it into the city and sell it to the soup pot, which is also worth more than a dozen yuan a head; In winter, when the camel hair is complete, three horses will have to be sold for sixty dollars! ”
This is still selling camel skins and meat directly, and selling them as a means of transportation can be sold for at least 100 yuan.
However, Shoko only sold for 35 pieces of ocean.
Then, Xiangzi's stealing of camels and selling them cheaply just shows that this person is not simple.
Shoko's army was attacked by the enemy and fled.
Why did the officers and soldiers run away, but left behind 3 camels that were quite valuable?
The soldier is not a fool, and he left his camel because he walked too slowly. If a soldier with a camel is easily caught up by the enemy, he will not even be able to save his life.
It goes like this in the book: He pulled the camel up. He didn't know much about what to do with the camels, but he was not afraid of them, because he came from the countryside and dared to go near the animals. The camels stood up very slowly, and he did not bother to investigate whether they were all tied together, and when he felt that he could be pulled away, he took a step, whether it was to pull one up, or to "handle" all of them. As soon as he took a step, he regretted it. Camels—accustomed to carrying weight in their mouths—cannot go fast. Not only do you have to walk slowly, but you also have to walk very carefully, because camels are afraid of slipping; A puddle of water, a puddle of mud, you can teach them to split their legs, or twist their knees. The value of a camel is all on four legs; Once the legs are finished, all are finished! And Shoko wants to run for her life!
Shoko is a civilian man in the army and wears a military uniform top. If the enemy comes, seeing him wearing a military uniform and leading a camel, he will definitely be killed as a soldier. Then, Xiangzi is equivalent to exchanging his life for a camel, and if he doesn't do it, he will die.
The threat of the enemy army is only part of it.
The army that captured Xiangzi robbed, raped and even killed people in the surrounding villages, and the common people hated it.
Shoko also said that if he was found by the nearby people as a fleeing soldier: the lightest would be buried alive.
Why did Shoko risk her life and lead the camel slowly?
It's for the money. His car is gone, and he wants to make up for the loss as much as possible.
Therefore, he would rather risk his life to make money. This is absolutely impossible for 99 percent of the working people, and Sasha does not have the guts!
In the book, Xiangzi's thoughts are written: let's go, go, go**count**, what to say; live, earn a few livestock; Dead, resign to fate!
Shoko didn't take the camel to the city, but found someone on the road and sold it at random. At least 3 camels that can be sold for 1,200 yuan, Xiangzi only sold 35 oceans.
Why is this happening?
First, Shoko understands that it is too dangerous to carry a camel. After walking all night, when it was dawn, there were more people on the road and in the village, and there were really no hiding three camels of this size. If you don't do it, you will really be beaten to death by the villagers as deserters. After repeated tossing, Xiangzi was exhausted, tired and hungry, he couldn't hold on, he really couldn't continue to lead the camel slowly, and he had to deal with it as soon as possible
Second, Shoko knew that this was theft of army property. At that time, the city of Beijing was still controlled by the rebel army, and Xiangzi would definitely be investigated when he entered the city. At worst, the camel was snatched, and at worst, Shoko could go to prison or even be executed by soldiers. In other words, Shoko simply couldn't lead the camel into the city.
Therefore, he would rather get rid of it at a low price, and make a little is a little, which is better than not earning at all.
Third, Shoko is cold-blooded and ruthless.
* There are several scumbags in it, one of which is Detective Sun, who extorts and extorts ordinary people.
Those who were willing to be detectives back then were rubbish, decent people would not do this, and Detective Sun's behavior was not unexpected.
The second is Xiaofuzi's husband, the officer who spent 200 yuan to buy Xiaofuzi as his wife.
This person is clearly spending money to play with women, and he is shrewd enough to get the maximum return with the smallest investment.
spent 200 yuan to buy Xiaofuzi as a little wife, but in fact, she is half a maid and half a sex slave.
You must know that even if this officer has been a prostitute for more than 1 year, it will cost a lot, not to mention that he will get dirty diseases. In this way, if you spend 200 yuan to buy a yellow flower girl to accompany you for 1 year, the officer will not suffer.
When it was time for the army to start, the officer directly got rid of Xiaofuzi, and he didn't treat her as a wife and didn't care about her life or death.
The third is the dihadron.
Compared with Detective Sun and the military officers who harm others, Erqiangzi wants more garbage, and he harms his relatives.
Erqiangzi can be said to be the biggest scum in the book, he killed his wife after drinking and sold his biological daughter for 200 yuan.
Obviously he is still in his 40s and still has a labor force, but the second son drinks and fools around outside all day long, ignoring the life and death of his three children, especially his two minor sons.
What's even worse is that in order to maintain his drinking, Erqiangzi forced his daughter to pick up customers at home, and finally sold Xiaofuzi to a brothel to become a public prostitute. In the brothel of those days, as long as the prostitute signed a deed of sale, it was worse than death. Not only does a woman lose her personal freedom, she will be beaten and scolded casually, but she can't decide how many customers to pick up and how many customers she receives a day. Xiaofuzi, a woman who could endure hardships so much, hanged herself only a few months after being sold to a brothel.
If the scum of Erqiangzi is not an ordinary coachman, but a warlord leader who is also garbage, I am afraid that more people will be killed.
However, Xiangzi is also a member of the scum, and he is no better than the second strongman.
When the tiger girl was forced to get married, why did Xiangzi marry her?
You know, the tiger girl is old, her appearance is ugly, and she is no longer ** when she is with Xiangzi, which is a big thing.
Some people say that Xiangzi heard that Tiger Niu claimed to be pregnant and wanted to be responsible.
There may be some factors in this regard, but Shoko's main consideration is definitely not these.
Speaking of which, Xiangzi is not interested in the tiger girl, but in the family property of Liu Siye.
Liu Siye has been a hooligan leader all his life, and when he was old, he also opened a car factory, which is today's taxi company.
Liu Siye has more than 60 cars, at least seventy or eighty percent new. According to market price calculations, these more than 60 cars alone are worth five or six thousand yuan. Of course, Liu Siye still has savings, and even Hu Niu's own private money is more than 500 yuan.
It can be seen that Liu Siye has quite a family property. The key is that Liu Siye has no son, he is almost 70 years old, how many years can he live? After Liu Siye died, he would leave a lot of legacy.
Then, after Xiangzi and Hu Niu got married, this inheritance naturally belonged to the husband and wife.
You said that Xiangzi didn't marry a tiger girl for money, no one would believe it. Unexpectedly, Liu Siye was even more ruthless, and he didn't want to let people like Xiangzi take advantage of him at all, so he directly sold the factory and ran away.
Now, it's Xiangzi's turn to be passive. He thought that he could get a lot of property by marrying Hu Niu, and now he can only get 500 yuan of ocean from Hu Niu.
The key is that the tiger girl is used to spending money and spends money quickly. A year and a half later, in addition to the rickshaw bought for Xiangzi worth eighty oceans, in the end, there were only a few oceans left on Huniu.
So, ** came to the climax.
After the tiger girl had a difficult birth, Xiangzi could have sent her to the Western Hospital**, but she waited for three days and three nights.
Even Xiaofuzi couldn't stand it, so he took the initiative to go to the Western Hospital and asked the *** doctor for ten yuan for a trip, just to see, and didn't care about the delivery. The delivery was twenty dollars. If you have a difficult birth, you have to go to the hospital, and it will cost dozens of dollars.
My wife is going to die in childbirth, not to mention that there are still your own flesh and blood in the belly. From the perspective of ordinary people, even if you are bankrupt, you have to save people first.
The point is that Shoko is not without money. His car is worth eighty yuan, and even if it can't be sold at once, it can be delivered to the pawnshop. Beijing pawnshops can be half of the real thing, and there are more than 40 oceans, or pay money on the spot, even if you go to the hospital for surgery.
Strangely, Shoko didn't do anything and continued to wait for most of the day until the tiger girl died.
Why?At this time, the tiger girl has no use value.
Xiangzi married a tiger girl, mainly to get Liu Siye's family property. Now Liu Siye has run away with the money, and Hu Niu's 500 yuan of ocean has been used up. At this point, the tiger girl has no value to continue to be used, but will become a burden and a burden, and needs to be fed by Xiangzi.
Let's talk about it in layman's terms, Xiangzi is no different from today's little white-faced rich woman. Now that the rich woman has no money, the little white face naturally broke with her.
It's just that Shoko is even more ruthless, sitting back and watching his wife and unborn child die.
This kind of person's heart can be called poisonous as a snake and scorpion, and ordinary people can't do this kind of thing.
Some people say that didn't Xiangzi sell his car to hold a funeral for Hu Niu?
It's just a gag for someone else. After all, Xiangzi is the one who mixes in the scene, and the coachmen in Beijing are all in contact with each other. If Shoko's reputation is completely stinky, he will not be able to stand on the street and will not be able to do this business anymore. So he sold the car, only took out a small amount of money and buried the tiger girl, and kept the rest for himself.
This funeral is very shabby, and it shouldn't cost a few dollars: follow Hu Niu's coffin to the outside of the city, and no one will send the funeral, except for Xiangzi, who is Xiaofuzi's two younger brothers, one of whom holds a thin dozen paper money in his hand and scatters it along the road to the roadblocker.
Xiangzi can sit back and watch his wife and children die, and it is not difficult to understand Xiaofuzi's ruthlessness.
After the death of the tiger girl, Xiaofuzi hopes to live with Xiangzi.
Xiangzi understands that he can run to pull a car for Mr. Cao for a long time, and let Xiaofuzi go to Cao's house as a nanny, and the income of the husband and wife can not only make ends meet, but also raise children.
As for Xiaofuzi's two minor brothers, one is thirteen years old and the other is eleven years old, and they are not far away.
It is not uncommon for the children of the poor to be in charge of the family at an early age, and it is not uncommon for them to work outside the home at the age of twelve or thirteen.
In other words, as long as Shoko and Xiaofuzi help a little, the lives of the two brothers can be maintained.
The key is that Xiaofuzi has a beast father and two strong sons. This despicable drunkard is a bottomless pit.
Once he married Xiaofuzi, Erqiangzi had nothing to do to harass and ask for money, and even asked for good wine and meat at home, and Xiangzi's life was very sad.
From Xiangzi's standpoint, he can barely accept the slight drag of his two brothers-in-law at most, and he will definitely not raise a father-in-law like Erqiangzi.
In the end, Xiangzi chose to break with Xiaofuzi and pushed Xiaofuzi to a dead end.
At that time, Xiaofuzi had become a private prostitute, and what was waiting for her was definitely the fate of finally becoming a public prostitute.
Although it was his biological father Erqiangzi who killed Xiaofuzi, Xiangzi is also one of the best.
Seeing the end, Sasha remembered a common saying that was used to slander the working people: "The poor are treacherous, and the rich have a long conscience"!
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