Ever since the more than 400 men and women and 200 Han tenant slaves boarded the Nicole, the dinner discussion in the Red Chamber every night has not stopped.

According to the labor standard set by Xia Xiaoou and his wife, among the 400 Han tenant slaves, there are 351 adult male and female laborers, 21 infants and underage school-age boys and girls, and 30 "semi-laborers" over 50 years old.

The youngest was only eight months old, and the oldest was a fifty-nine-year-old woman, the mother-in-law of a family of three.

The other 29 semi-laborers who became grandparents belonged to the parents of 22 families of three.

Obviously, this kind of population structure is quite young, and it is no wonder that the bigwigs of various industries are competing for it.

The highest voice for labor was Hou Xianglin, who jumped the highest among the crowd, and Hou Ge strongly demanded that at least a hundred strong laborers be sent to work in brick and tile factories, cement factories, and limestone quarries.

Of course, they were followed by Lao Wang and Lao Zhu, who demanded that at least fifty to one hundred people, male or female, be assigned to farms and pastures.

Cao Limei, on the other hand, emphasized that the mines need labor, especially the coal mines, pyrite mines and some placer mines by the sea, and suggested that if the industrial bigwigs want your industrial construction to carry out smoothly, without the support of hundreds of laborers, you will not be able to obtain enough raw material resources.

As for the group of science and engineering men in the chemical and metallurgical groups, they asked for at least ten to dozens of laborers for their industrial construction projects, stressing that these industrial projects are labor-intensive, especially for the construction of factories and equipment in the early stage.

This does not include the labor required for infrastructure projects such as buildings and roads, as Hou Xianglin said, and Kangda, as they said about hydropower projects.

Obviously, 400 men and women are far from satisfying everyone's needs.

However, Sun Lao also noticed that the ladies in the Red Mansion seemed to have something on their minds a while ago.

Since receiving a telegram from Nicole the other day about the purchase of forty-five slave girls, the ladies seem to be absent-minded about everything.

When they come to the kitchen to help Sun Lao cook, they always make mistakes, and when they start cooking, they either put white sugar as salt, or soy sauce and vinegar are not distinguished.

Moreover, the ladies also held a small meeting mysteriously, and Sun Lao felt that this must be the matter of buying female slaves that triggered the already very sensitive feminist nerves of the ladies, and he was worried that the ladies would make some extraneous moves, which would further complicate the already anxious labor distribution problem......

However, what should have come will come after all, and Mr. Sun's fears became a reality the day before yesterday, when the ladies suddenly spoke one after another at the regular discussion meeting on the work of the restaurant, and they first put forward a special motion: the school must be built as a priority to get into the construction of these women before they arrive on Mornington Island, rather than rushing to build the house of the 200 Han families.

Because these people could have stayed on the ship for the time being, but those female slaves—no, they should be called female trade laborers now, should hurry up and enter the naturalization training process as soon as possible.

According to the ladies, these "brides-to-be" need intensive training, which takes at least three months, and then pass the examination before they can live with their "buyers".

The ladies' offer ostensibly looked like it was for the men who had bought the women, emphasizing that they hoped they would finish their training sooner so they could be together sooner.

However, at this time, everyone complained in their hearts that this so-called naturalization training is not something that you ladies made out of nothing, and now they are wearing a caring face, saying that they should end the training as soon as possible, and then they can be together a little earlier, and you are justified in cooperating horizontally and vertically......

Of course, everyone also knows in their hearts that considering that the identity of these women was female slaves in the past, most of them were still illiterate, and they did need to engage in cultural training and the like, not only that, but also all kinds of **, including hygiene habits and living habits.

In general, the so-called naturalization should also include teaching them to speak Chinese, read Chinese characters, and convert to our way of life, at least not to bring the way of life in the jungle.

In addition, Lao Wang and Lao Zhu emphasized that these women are also laborers, at least they can come to the vegetable garden and farm to do some easy work, and they also said that they will never work in vain, and they will pay their salaries.

In this way, labor skills training is also a proper project, in short, this series of training should also be a good thing.

After the best, everyone thought about it carefully and recognized the necessity of this "naturalization training".

As a result, the woman's proposal to prioritize the construction of schools was quickly adopted.

Then the ladies came a second proposal, the famous "Four Rules for the Sale of Marriages and Conquests".

At this moment, everyone was already a little dizzy, and in the face of the aggressive ladies waving all kinds of tall sticks, finally the telegram that caused the boys on the Nicole to complain was sent out of the Red Mansion, and finally caused a situation that was already in the boat.

The rest are the minutiae, such as the booklet of the naturalization training materials that the ladies are currently compiling, and judging from the table of contents of these booklets, the topics at the beginning are quite positive and warm - such as: "How to maintain a happy marriage", "love after marriage", "Physiological characteristics of men and women and health knowledge" and so on.

However, the following table of contents titles are a bit shiny, such as:

"What is Natural Human Rights", "Basic Human Rights Granted to Us by Commonwealth Law of Australia", "What is Equality between Men and Women", "How to Defend Your Rights and Interests in Marriage", "How to Resist Domestic Violence", "How Women Seek Legal Protection", "Eighteen Tricks for Women's Self-Defense", etc., these topics alone make the men in the Red Chamber sweat coldly......

Some of the men who read the pamphlet immediately sneered at it, saying that the article was well written, but it was a pity that the slave girls were illiterate!

And it's okay to be illiterate, there are only three Han girls in it, and only one of them is named Liu Sanniang, who seems to speak Nanjing official dialect, and everyone can barely understand part of her Chinese.

And the other two, one is from Chaoshan, and the other is from Hakka, Fujian, I heard that where she lives, the dialect is different from a few villages, and even Hakka locals can't understand it, let alone us.

As for the origin of the rest of the girls, due to the complete lack of language, Xu Zhi and others on the Nicole have worked hard, and they still haven't figured out exactly where these girls come from, what type of language they speak, ethnic origin and other details are even more confusing.

Excuse me, in this case, how do you intend to carry out your "naturalization training"?

In response to this question, Xia Xiaoou's answer is that we have computer data, which can find out their language system and origin, and they are not very old, as long as they live in a Chinese environment for a period of time, they can completely carry out some basic communication.

So at a certain meeting, Xia Da Mei sneered and retorted in response to this kind of complaint:

"Most of the female slaves come from the jungle tribe, and their brains have not been washed by the set of 'three obedience and four virtues', and the men and women in the jungle tribe are only different in the division of labor, and there is no real sense of male superiority and inferiority of women, this is sociological common sense, right? Many of our concepts are nothing more than a return to nature, and there is a saying that the heart has a little inform, no? You men don't understand this!

So why do we say that our naturalization training can't go on? If you want me to say, not only can it be done, but it will also form a system in the future, and all women who have not obtained Australian citizenship must do so! ”