History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

The cafeteria is also very large, just walking in through the gate, just like being in a spacious hall.

Huang Qin followed behind his eldest brother, a little timidly.

The eldest brother took out two meal tickets and led him to line up together.

"When you sign the contract tomorrow, someone will issue you this kind of ticket. Remember, all the expenses in Zhuangzi are settled with tickets. Tickets are used for eating, tickets are used for bathing in the bathhouse, and tickets are also used for hot water. This kind of ticket is called a meal ticket. When you eat, you can eat as much as you can, and you will give it to others. The dishes are all the same.”

Huang Qin nodded, and took a big bowl with his elder brother. The bowls were made of wood, stacked on the shelf, and whoever used them would take it. It looked quite big, and it was as big as Huang Qin's face.

"After eating, you have to wash the bowl by yourself. After washing, put it in the big bucket over there. Later, people from the kitchen will carry it to the back and cook it in boiling water." In fact, the eldest brother also finds it a bit troublesome. It's for disinfection.

But the eldest brother couldn't understand the used bowl, how could it be poisonous?

For the meal, the two each asked for three taels, the dishes were good, one meat and two vegetables, probably there were a lot of people doing physical work in the workshop, so the dishes for everyone were piled full.

Holding the bowl and found two empty seats, the eldest brother seemed to think of something to remind him, "Tomorrow I will take you to the medical clinic on Zhuangzi, and the doctor will give you a pulse for the first time. As long as there is no infectious disease, basically you will stay." Come down. From now on, I will take my pulse once a month, and I have to wait for the specific day to be notified, after all, there are quite a lot of workshops here, so I have to come one by one. Whose turn it is, I will be notified one day in advance."

The eldest brother continued to talk about some situations, trying to let the younger brother know more about it.

Huang Qin buried his head in his meal without saying a word, and echoed when his eldest brother's voice stopped.

Fortunately, there are acquaintances here, who can let him know something as soon as possible.Otherwise, it would take him a while to grope for these common senses alone.

After eating, I followed my eldest brother to the sink to wash the dishes and put them in the bucket.

After leaving the cafeteria, the two walked to the dormitory area and gave the note to the steward of the dormitory, who took them to see the house.

It is a suite with two rooms inside and outside, enough for a big man to live in.

After thanking the manager, the eldest brother said to his younger brother with some envy, "Your house is not bad, it is an independent household, unlike your second brother and I who live in other people's homes."

Huang Qin hurriedly said, "Then why don't you guys move here too?"

The eldest brother quickly waved his hand, "Forget it, we're used to living there, not to mention two families can't live in your place." His wife still lives with him, so what's the point of coming to live with my brother-in-law?

Huang Qin didn't force him either. He saw that there was only a single bed and a cabinet in the room, and thought that there were some furniture that he had nothing to do at home that he could move here.

After roughly estimating how big the house was and how much furniture could be put down, the two closed the door and prepared to go back.

After moving, the sky was already a little dark, Huang Qin had another meal in the cafeteria, and returned to his lodging to start his single life.

There are still many people like Huang Qin, and the factory has indeed recruited many people in the past six months.

Minning wants to build the factory into a factory area that integrates research and production. In the future, some entertainment facilities will be added one after another, so that people living in it can enjoy convenience without having to go out of the village.

In order to reduce some unnecessary troubles, the entire factory area implements a meal ticket system, and a certain amount of meal tickets are issued every month. These meal tickets can be enough for one person to eat three meals a day, but they are only limited to those who work in the factory. Dependents are not included.

The amount of meal tickets issued to each person varies according to their job level. If some people are big eaters and don’t have enough meal tickets, they can exchange them with money or exchange them with fellow workers.

Generally speaking, the prices of things in the factory are much cheaper than those in the capital. For example, the toys produced may cost at least [-] yuan in the capital to buy, but they only cost [-] cash in the factory.

There was a difference of two hundred cash, which encouraged some second-hand dealers to buy toys in the factory and sell them.

In fact, [-] Wen is the ex-factory price, and the extra [-] Wen is considered as a benefit for employees.

This money can only be spent in exchange for meal tickets, which promotes people's consumption in a disguised form.

However, there is a quota for each person's monthly redemption of meal tickets, which cannot exceed five consecutive meals.So there are not many benefits that are actually earned.

Now there are more and more people inside, nearly a thousand people, and the whole Zhuangzi is becoming more and more lively.

Minning also plans to open a school in it for some children over the age of three to go to school. This benefit alone makes people look forward to it, and they don't want to leave even if they die.

It’s not like Brother Huang Qin wants to go further. These people work in a circle. Since they can find out who is good at making some inventions, or cheat or ask, the whole factory will attract many people who are good at inventing. people.

And the inventions during this period were one after another, and new products were launched in the toy store every month.

Even the bicycles have been modified, not as strenuous to ride as they were in the first place, some people have stuffed the wheels of the bicycles with beef tendon to make the bicycles easier to ride.

These inventors are already a little crazy, and some are looking through ancient books, trying to find inspiration from ancient books.Some books on studying foreigners absorb their theories.

A few days after Huang Qin came in, he felt a vast world, and his previous self was like a frog in a well.

He felt that it was the right time to come here, there was too much new knowledge waiting for him to absorb.

"How many people have been recruited this month?" Lin Yuan asked Acton who was beside him.

Now Lin Yuan is in charge of most of Angege's business, and Acton has become his subordinate instead, helping him manage some chores.

Acton flipped through the records in his notebook, "350 people were recruited."

Lin Yuan patted his big belly, and said, "There are still a few workshops to be completed, and we can't leave them empty when they are done." This Zhuangzi said it was Zhuangzi, but it was actually built according to a city. A small city that accommodates 10 people.

Now the entire Zhuangzi has less than 2000 people, which is still too small for Lin Yuan.

"But the funds in hand are insufficient, and the money I earned recently has been invested in this city. If we recruit more people, the money may be tight."

Lin Yuan patted his head and said, "Don't worry about this, when Zheng Jun comes back, he will bring a large amount of silver into the account." The boy came back last time and took 10 taels of silver with him, part of which was earned by selling those gems , some were added by Master An, and some were put together by other people.Master An allowed them to participate, and Lin Yuan not only invested himself, but also invested 1 taels of the output of Lord Baylor's property.

"At the moment, I don't know when Zheng Jun will come back. Recently, some shops have been pressing our payment and have not settled it. It seems that there is someone behind them to support them."

Lin Yuan looked serious, "Have you found out who did the right thing to us?"

Acton replied, "It looks like those princes made a move."

Lin Yuan said solemnly: "I will report this matter to my master, those who have pledged the money, don't ship to them for the time being."

"But if we don't ship, there will be a large amount of goods in our hands."

"This is easy to solve." Lin Yuan smiled immediately, "Then increase the amount of each person's exchange for meal tickets, presumably the inventory will be cleared soon."

Acton immediately understood what was going on.

"Do you need to say hello to the clothing workshop? If someone takes action against the clothing workshop, the situation will be unimaginable." The clothing workshop is full of women, and a random mistake can bring destruction to the clothing workshop sexual blow.

"We have to tell the master as soon as possible, our status is too low to get involved." Lin Yuan shook his head and said.

And when Lin Yuan said this, something went wrong in the clothing workshop.

Under the blue sky and broad daylight, someone actually tried to climb over the wall of the workshop. Fortunately, some thorns were planted underneath, and the person who scratched was covered in blood. In the end, he couldn't help howling and was discovered.

In fact, there is still some distance from the place where the girls work, and the sudden intrusion in broad daylight still made Widow Li break into a cold sweat!

After arresting him and sending him to Shuntian Mansion, Widow Li began to send people to patrol around, and then urgently reported the news.

This day, Minning received two urgent reports in a row. After she opened them, she looked dignified. It didn't look like she was trying to hit her business, but more like a trial at the beginning.

Thinking of the unrest among the princes recently, she couldn't help thinking, could it be that those princes wanted to suppress Fourth Master this time?

I don't know whether it is a single prince, or several tacit cooperation.

But I really couldn't guess it just by reading the letter, so after thinking about it, I decided to ask Fourth Master for advice.

"This matter looks more like the work of the prince." The fourth master said after reading the two letters.

"Prince? Lord, how could the prince take action on my business?"

The fourth master sneered, and threw the letter aside, "This is a warning to me, warning me not to have thoughts that I shouldn't have like the third."

"Master, aren't you with the prince?"

The fourth master looked at her, "Who said that the master is with the prince? Help him to speak, but the master respects him as the prince."

In the end, no matter it was the fourth master or the other elder brothers, they were not convinced that the crown prince would take that position.

It doesn't make sense that they are all the sons of Khan Ama, and the prince is superior.

Minning couldn't help sighing. It seems that there are too many sons, and all of them are not good enough. Their eyes are fixed on the chair under the emperor's buttocks. Doesn't anyone look at this vast world?

"Then what should I do with my business? The prince won't do anything to me, right?" Minning didn't want the impressive business he managed to do so hard to be ruined by the prince.

The fourth master thought for a while, "If you have something good there, I'll help you present it to Han Ama later, so the prince must not dare to act rashly. This is a matter in the business field, so I can't help you."

Min Ning patted his chest and said, "There is no problem in the business field, but I am not afraid to come in an open and aboveboard manner. I am afraid that someone will bully you with power."

The next day, after Minning was ready, she brought fourth master to the Zhuangzi under her name.

All the people in Zhuangzi gathered beside a big waterwheel by the small river. This waterwheel was not the same as usual. It was not a single waterwheel, but a series of several sizes that were looped together. The big wheel drove the small wheel. , The amount of water transported once is twice as much as before.

That is, fields can be irrigated twice as fast as before.

Fourth Master and Min Ning didn't have too many people around them. When they walked to the river, they found that what those people were watching was not a waterwheel, but a device the size of half a cow next to the waterwheel.

The people in the Zhuangzi didn't know Minning, but they knew the Zhuangtou next to her, and seeing the gorgeous clothes of this man and woman, they knew that they were not ordinary people, so they quickly retreated to a distant place to watch.

At this moment, fourth master also knew that it was not the improved waterwheel that he was taking to see, but this huge appliance.

"What is this?"

Minning waved his hand, and Zhuangtou immediately took half a bag of grain from a farmer, and someone put the bearings of the utensils on narrow belts and connected them to the bearings on the waterwheel.

After the connection, the bearings on the water wheel quickly drove the bearings on the machine to rotate, and the machine made a rumbling sound, as well as the sound of blowing wind caused by the rotation of the fan inside.

Zhuangtou asked someone to hold a betel and put it at the exit, and he poured half a bag of wheat into the machine.

After the clicking sound, the white rice fell into the basket from the outlet, and a lot of chaff fell directly under the machine.

Fourth Master's eyes widened.

Seeing his surprised look, Minning said proudly, "This is the new shelling machine developed in my workshop. It can only shell rice now, and it can also shell peanuts and some nuts in the future. The noodle mills and oil presses, in the future, these will not need humans, oxen, horses and donkeys, and can be driven entirely by waterwheels.”

The fourth master clapped his hands excitedly, "If these things are promoted, how much manpower and material resources will be saved, I will go to the garden now and report this matter to Han Ama." After speaking, he asked someone to lift the machine onto the carriage .

Minning hurriedly stopped him, "Master, why don't you go just like this?"

Fourth Master thought she was worried about the waterwheel, "Don't worry, there are also waterwheels in Changchun Garden."

Minning shook his head, "I'm not concerned about the waterwheel, sir, don't you realize that this waterwheel is different from others?"

Only then did Fourth Master take a closer look, and found that the middle of the waterwheel was a circle made of fine iron, and it was this circle that connected the other waterwheels.

Minning explained, "This is a bearing. The water wheel in Changchun Garden cannot drive this machine without bearings. If it wants to drive it, it needs to be modified."

The fourth master immediately said: "Then what's the problem, just take the water truck with you."

Well, forgot he was a privileged person?

As the saying goes, when the master opens his mouth, the slave runs away.

With Siye's order, the waterwheel and shelling machine were quickly dismantled and transported to Changchun Garden by bullock cart.

Fortunately, this Zhuangzi was also in the western suburbs, not too far from Changchun Garden, and it took two hours to finally transport it to Changchun Garden.

When they arrived at Changchun Garden, Si Ye kept on horseback and asked people to dismantle a waterwheel in the back lake, and install the one he had brought.

The emperor was dealing with political affairs, and when he heard about the movement of his fourth son in Houhu, he became interested and asked him to drive to Houhu.

When he arrived at the back lake, the emperor saw from a distance that the fourth son was directing the water wheel to be adjusted.

As soon as he saw the appearance of the waterwheel, the emperor could see that this waterwheel could lift more water than the previous waterwheel.

"See Khan Ama, Khan Ama is auspicious." Hearing someone knelt down to pay his respects, Fourth Master turned his head and saw the emperor, and quickly knelt down to pay his respects.

The emperor asked with a straight face, "Yinzhen, are you planning to tear down my garden?"

The fourth master hurriedly said: "Ama Khan, let me introduce you to my son to report that my son found a good item, so he brought it to Ama Khan for a reward."

The emperor pointed to the waterwheel and said, "That's it. I've seen it, but it looks a little ugly." The waterwheel in Changchun Garden was made like a work of art, and it was naturally different from this practical waterwheel.

The fourth master walked up to the emperor, "Khan Ama, the waterwheel is just one of them, and what I want you to see is another."

At this time, the water wheel has been adjusted, and the water flow drives the water wheel to rotate.

Seeing this, fourth master didn't continue to explain, but asked someone to move out the shelling machine.

The emperor looked at this weird looking machine, and the corners of his eyes twitched. It was true that everything presented to him had been modified, for fear of obstructing his eyes. No matter how it looked, everything was bare, and the wood was exposed to the outside. .

The fourth master asked the emperor to come closer, then pointed to the hulling machine next to the waterwheel and said, "Khan Ama, this is a newly developed hulling machine in my Gege workshop, which can hull rice."

When the emperor heard it, he was a little dubious, "Then try it and let me see."

Fourth master asked Zhuangtou who was brought up to do it again. Zhuangtou faced the saint for the first time and his hands kept shaking, but he did it again successfully.

The emperor grabbed a handful of rice from the bag, the rice was still hot, it looked a little yellowed, and the shell was not completely removed, but it was enough to open the emperor's eyes.

"Okay, okay!" The emperor said yes three times excitedly, then turned around and patted Sizi on the shoulder, and praised, "That's right, your Gege's workshop really opened my eyes."

Then the voice changed, and he ordered: "Come here, find all the shelling machines in that workshop, and bring the craftsmen who made the shelling machines."

The guards on the side were immediately ordered.

Fourth Master's face changed drastically, "Khan Ama..."

Only then did the emperor press his shoulder, "Fourth brother, this kind of thing is not something you can keep. You have to know that something that benefits the country and the people can only come from the royal family." Otherwise, no matter how beneficial it is to the people, The imperial court will not promote it either.

This is not the previous deep tiller, but a modification.The shelling machine made this time is unprecedented.

Only then did Fourth Master figure out the relationship inside. He felt that he was too reckless this time, and his thinking was too superficial. Khan Ama really taught him a lesson.

"Son understands." The fourth master answered Han Qianxi.

"However..." the emperor changed his voice and said again. "I'm not someone who covets such things, what kind of reward do you want?"

The fourth master hurriedly replied: "What kind of reward does she need as a little woman?" He paused and said: "If there is something that needs to be asked to ask Khan Ama, I don't know if the second brother's disciples are like me There is some friction in the shop, I heard that some merchants have been contacted to delay the payment, my Gege has many craftsmen who need to support, and the money is not available for a while, so I am anxious to ask my son if he has messed with the second brother. "

The emperor frowned, obviously understood what was going on, this is the crown prince starting to suppress the fourth son, the fourth son has always respected the prince, why can't the prince distinguish between the enemy and us?Suoertu must have brought the crown prince down!

The emperor hated Suoertu more and more. This old thief had brought his prince to ruin, so he had to be driven out of the court as soon as possible.

"Then give her the name of an imperial merchant." The emperor thought for a while.

At this time, the emperor suddenly bestowed the title of Imperial Merchant, obviously to beat the prince, no matter what the prince thinks, he will definitely stop.

It can also be regarded as the emperor's warning to the prince, telling him not to stretch his hands so long.

In any case, the goal was achieved, and fourth master quickly left.

Minning wanted to cry, but when the fourth master went to Changchun Garden, she went to the workshop to inspect. Unexpectedly, halfway through the inspection, the imperial guards came and grabbed her and took away her clothes. The shell machine still has a half-finished noodle grinder, and even the master who made these packed it away.

Fortunately, he still saved face and explained it to her specially, otherwise she would have thought it was a devil entering the village and gave her a three-light policy.

As soon as the people left, Minning was completely depressed. She didn't understand what the fourth master had said to the emperor?How did you put her shelling machine in one pot?

She doesn't feel sorry for things being taken away. What she feels sorry for is those talents who have been cultivated with great difficulty.

In other words, after working so long, she is completely helping the emperor to train people?

Minning immediately asked people to hide the rest of them, and vowed not to show off so much in the future, otherwise no matter how many people she cultivated, the emperor would take them away.

"Okay, don't look at it, those people must have entered the manufacturing office in the palace, and they have a good future."

After calming down the craftsmen who were trembling with fear because the imperial guards broke in, she then ordered Lin Yuan, "Calm down the family members who have been taken away, and if they are willing to work in the workshop, arrange a job for them. If you don’t want to send them home, there must be news in two days.”

Lin Yuan agreed.

Minning sighed, then he was not in the mood to read any more, so he went back home.