Section 77 Sweet Harbor Storm - The Beginning of the Rout

"It's okay, I ghostwrite letters in front of the county government every day, and I can earn a few dollars. I really can't, I have a cousin--" said that his face was slightly red, "...... You have a marriage contract with me. Uncles and aunts are not snobs either. It's always okay to get a couple of meals. ”

Chen Tianxiong smiled slightly, thinking that it would be better to send him a small mirror as a thank you gift in the future.

Back at the South China Sugar Factory, Chen Tianxiong made some arrangements, especially sending someone to the city to keep an eye on Lin Zhuang, to see if he was "demolishing and rotting" to the point of ignoring it, if this person continued to get drunk and dream in private with the silver, Jihua would have to readjust. Soon the news came that Lin Zhuang had left the county seat and returned to the Zou Monk Temple.

"Old Chen, weishenme, do you have to convince Lin Zhuang?" Wen Tong asked.

"He is the head of the sugar workers, and he has a little prestige." Chen Tianxiong said, "Just our people to lobby, the effect is definitely a little, but it is not as weighty as what he said." ”

"What if he keeps pushing? Won't help. ”

"It's up to him." Chen Tianxiong had already prepared, "He handed us the manuscript to copy, and waited for himself to hand over his pigtails to us." With this," he said, he raised the transcript of the list, "and he couldn't deny it even if he wanted to." ”

"It's really yours," Wen Tong sincerely admired, "how could he be willing to take this hook?" ”

"It's not the benefit of the 28 secret deductions, money-fascination-human eyes." Chen Tianxiong said, "As soon as I tempted him with the settling-in fee, he couldn't hold it." ”

"There are still hidden deductions for the settling-in allowance, this shijie is really TMD dark." Wen Tong said with emotion. "By the way, Chang Shide is back."

"Why didn't I see him?"

"He's in Lingao, ready to carry out his mission," Wen Tong said about the specifics of the handling of pirates between the Executive Committee and South China, "The navy means that it is best to inquire more about this group of pirates, and simply eliminate the evil, so as not to leave future troubles." ”

"I see." In fact, Chen Tianxiong didn't have a clue about this matter, but the matter was man-made, and intelligence work had to rely on people to get out. "But now I have to plan for 'Zhao'an'. What did Ude say about our request? ”

This kind of thing, which involves the large-scale integration of local natives, is now the responsibility of the Civil Affairs Committee. Basically, it was Wude who had the final say.

"Wu De has approved, but he wants us to submit a report on how to arrange this group of labor," Wen Tong said, "whether it will be resettled on the spot or transferred to Lingao?" ”

"What do you think?" Chen Tianxiong has his own opinions on this issue, but the situation in Leizhou is that Wen Tong is in charge, and he naturally knows more about how much labor is needed locally than Chen Tianxiong.

"Of course, it's in place." Wentong's jihua is very large, the distillery will start construction soon, and a group of workers will be needed, and as for the comprehensive processing of sugar waste, it will also require a lot of manpower, so there is no problem in absorbing these laborers.

"That's what I thought, too. Most of them are locals from Leizhou and Xuwen, and they are forced to send them to Lingao, for fear that they will not be convinced. ”

"And how to settle the family."

"There are not so many people in the factory at one time, but it is probably no problem to support their families with their wages." Wen Tong said, "I plan to pay rice and silver concurrently - half money and half rice." The price of rice here is high, and it is more cost-effective to use Vietnamese rice shipped from Chang Shi De. When the career is big in the future, I will slowly absorb my family members to work. ”

This is a good way, after Chang Shide established the sea rice sugar route between Xu Wen and Vietnam, the South China factory has a big granary in its hands.

Even so, once "Zhao'an" is settled, it is the responsibility of South China to eat and drink for a thousand people. Originally, no one cared about it, but once there was a master's family, it was easy to make trouble once there was an accident in the disposal.

"The problem of eating is easy to solve, Chang Shide brought rice, you can eat as much as you want." Chen Tianxiong said, "If it's too late to ship, let Dachang Rice Bank advance a part of it first." ”

"I have to pay a settling-in allowance," Wen Tong said, "and a worker always has to get a foreign dollar." ”

"This is natural," Chen Tianxiong nodded, "and it also shows our sincerity." ”

"But this money can't be sent to Lin Zhuang, he is so greedy, at least half of it will be eaten. We can't be wronged. ”

"This is natural, and we want to do things that are human." Chen Tianxiong took a look, "I'm still afraid that he will roll up his bags and escape." ”

At the moment, I calculated how much money and how much grain I needed. How people arranged, they all made jihua one by one.

"It's just that when are you going to 'Zhao'an'?"

"It depends on Lin Zhuang's consciousness. However, if he really doesn't come to his senses, we will overlord the bow. Chen Tianxiong said, "Now it seems that Xiao Zhanfeng said that burning incense is not a problem, but we also have to guard against him." ”

After Chen Tianxiong left, Lin Zhuang had the silver on his body, and he became bold, and he originally planned to hook up with Ai's sister-in-law for a day, but then he thought that the situation was complicated now, and South China and Haiyitang were eyeing him, although his value was doubled, and there were benefits of being left and right, but how could he do a good job in this situation of "stepping on two boats"? It's a lot of work. If you stay in the hall any longer, you won't be able to control the situation. Although I felt a little regretful in my heart, I hurriedly left my sister-in-law's house and went back.

On the way, I first went to the second rice store, bought Chen rice with a few taels of broken silver in my hand, and sent it to the Zou Monk Temple. He is already an old customer here, so Mi Xing naturally does it.

I went to the money shop again and stored the whole silver that Chen Tianxiong gave him on the counter. Hurried back to the Zou Monk Temple. He has a room here -- it was given to him by the third master in the temple. He is a single, he has all the money, he lives in the sugar house on weekdays, and he has no decent household goods, there is only a bamboo bed in the house, a few tattered clothes, but he is not afraid of thieves stealing. When he arrived at the temple, he didn't greet anyone, but went back to his room, closed the door and lay down on the bed, thinking about it.

It's naturally good to be able to step on two boats and go left and right, but after all, it's not a long-term solution. Sooner or later, it will have to be decided, whether to go with Haiyitang or South China.

At this point, Lin Zhuang did not have any ideological struggle. In his opinion, South China is an outsider after all, and no matter how great his ability is, he can't fight the deep-rooted Haiyitang here - at most, everyone in Zuihou will make peace. It's always right to follow Haiyitang.

But South China is much more generous than Zhu Sanye. The shopkeeper Chen met today, as soon as he made a move, it was fifty taels, this kind of style, Zhu Sanye did not have it. Lin Zhuang couldn't help but sigh, if the two could be exchanged, he would definitely be dead set on the shopkeeper.

What made him salivate the most was the five hundred yuan of 'Double Pillar' Yinyang, such a large sum of money, Lin Zhuang had never seen it. He wondered how he could get his hands on the money—at least part of it.

The matter of burning incense and swearing cannot be delayed. This is the idea he had just hit. If you delay it any longer, you won't be able to explain it. Zhu Sanye wants him to take the opportunity to make trouble, if he doesn't make trouble, it's already discounted, if he doesn't even have a cutscene, he won't be able to talk about anything in the future.

The problem is that once you swear an oath, you are tantamount to breaking your promise to South China. If the other party becomes angry, it is easy to clean up after himself. This is not unguarded.

I'm thinking about whether there is a way to try to perfunctory both sides. Someone knocked on the door outside the house: "Brother Lin! ”

He heard that the person who called the door was the one headed by this group of people, named Ma Sanqiang. He is a native of Qinzhou, and he has a great prestige among the unemployed workers of Qinzhou, and Lin Zhuang inevitably wants to be perfunctory to him.

Hurriedly got up and opened the door, and let Ma Sanqiang come into the house to sit.

"Brother Lin!" Ma Sanqiang got straight to the point, "Someone outside sent rice, and this time the rice is old rice, how can this be eaten?" ”

"Can't you eat old rice?" Lin Zhuang knew that he was making a fuss about this matter again, and the eldest in his heart was unhappy - one of the main reasons why he had been hanging out in the hall was that he didn't want to see these people - and they were all so depressed that they lived in the temple and were poor all day long.

Ma Sanqiang saw that his attitude was indifferent, and he trembled with anger: "Can you eat it?" You eat, eat! As he spoke, he shook open a cloth bag, and the rice inside was shattered, and many of them were black and yellow, and there were many barnyard grass and sand in it. It's not even rice, it can only be regarded as the bottom of the warehouse sweeping room.

Lin Zhuang was a little weak-hearted, and the silver he took to buy rice was only more than three taels, and he asked the rice store to "buy as much as he could, and the more the better", so he naturally sold him the cheapest rice. zuihou finalized three coins and one stone, but I didn't expect the quality of this rice to be so poor! I'm afraid I can only feed pigs.

"It's always rice," he said to himself, "and you can eat it to fill your stomach." Now there is no condition to pay attention to it. ”

"It's not exquisite! If you eat this thing, you might as well eat the bran. Ma Sanqiang saw that he had never eaten in the temple for more than a month, although he was dressed in tatters, his body was not emaciated at all, but he was a little fat, and he was already angry in his heart.

Lin Zhuang took a deep breath and spread his hands: "I can't help it!" That's all the money I gave to the third master, and I'm not a rich man, so I gave more money out of thin air. Good rice has, two taels and one stone, how did you feed so many people? ”

These words are eloquent. Although Ma Sanqiang suspected that he had taken it privately, he had no evidence and couldn't speak.

"I don't believe it, I wish the third master will only give these few dollars? Do good deeds do this? ”

"Zhu Sanye is not a good deed-" Lin Zhuang said, suddenly felt that it was very inappropriate for this word to reach Zhu Sanye's ears, and quickly changed his words, "I mean, I wish Sanye to help everyone is already a great kindness, and there must be something to give back to others!" If you want to go to South China to do a vote, you will all push back and block," he felt that he had a good reason, and even his throat rang for three points, "How do you want me to talk to Zhu Sanye?!" ”

"I don't do this kind of illegal thing." Ma Sanqiang's attitude also hardened, "I'll tell you the truth, someone has already asked me to go to South China to work." I remembered that everyone was going to sue together, and I couldn't dismantle the stage just to eat for myself, so I didn't promise others. Now it seems that I am doing this excessively. He said with a fist, "Brother Lin, cherish yourself!" He walked away.

Lin Zhuang is now a thunderbolt -- "someone asked him to go to South China to work," he muttered in his heart. The shopkeeper Chen clearly said that he wanted him to help "recruit An", why did he already put his hand in? He hurried after him. I saw that in the courtyard, Ma Sanqiang's fellow villagers who gathered around him on weekdays were packing their luggage.

"The top three, there is something to discuss!" He grabbed Ma Sanqiang's hand and said, "When you come back, we'll discuss it again, don't tear down everyone's platform!" He then whispered, "You helped me maintain it, and I will naturally benefit you!" ”

Ma Sanqiang's face showed a look of disgust, and he said loudly: "I'm not rare. Keep the money for yourself! My Ma Sanqiang is dignified and working hard to make money, and do not make this kind of money from unknown sources! He waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

More than a dozen Qinzhou workers followed him out. Lin Zhuang stomped his feet again and again, but he knew that he couldn't stop it, and saw that the workers and family members around him were talking about it, and people's hearts were fluctuating. Lin Zhuang secretly cursed in his heart - Shopkeeper Chen, you are too poisonous! South China must have sent people to work among the workers a long time ago!

"Master Lin," a sugar cooker quietly leaned over, "Recently, a few people who used to work in the sugar liao have come here to do activities, I'm afraid it's people from South China......"

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"You don't know where I came to you?" The other party was very dissatisfied and complained, "You don't take things here too seriously!" ”

Lin Zhuang was speechless. knew that Chen Tianxiong was the commander of his army, and it would be fine if he cooperated with "Zhao'an", but if he played tricks, he would have already prepared a strategy to deal with him. This time completely shattered his good dream of being left and right.

He gritted his teeth: Chen shopkeeper, you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. It was decided to burn incense on time - it was the next day, anyway. That night, he summoned some of the prestige people among the sugar workers to discuss the matter, but he did not expect that the attitude of these people had changed greatly.

Among the unemployed sugar workers, the most enthusiastic about making trouble and smashing up South China are the sugar cooks, but these people are unwilling to do it themselves -- although they hate South China the most, because they have made more money in the past, their families have some foundations, and they are not as depressed as other workers. I don't want to get myself in trouble.

As for the general laborers who are poor and white, they are already in a raging group, and Nan's attitude is resolute, and he is always ready to fight. However, now that things have taken a turn for the better -- the fact that South China is willing to recruit them as workers has already spread among the people, and there is a glimmer of light in front of them, and naturally no one wants to do such illegal things again. No matter how Lin Zhuang instigated, he said that this matter violated the king's law, and he was afraid that there would be no good fruit to eat; He also lamented bitterly, saying that his whole family had not been able to eat enough, and if something happened to him, if he entered the class room, his family would probably starve to death. Some people simply suggested that everyone go to South China to work.