It snowed all night, and when I ran and exercised in the morning, I stepped on it to my ankle.

Everyone was very happy, Li Kui looked at the overwhelming snow and smiled: "My good brother, do you want to take a few days off and rest when it snows heavily, even if you don't have morning exercises for a few days." ”

Chao Gai said: "You ask Niu Gao what they say?" ”

Li Kui asked Niu Gao: "Black boy, do you think you should train when it's snowing?" ”

Niu Gao raised his eyebrows and said, "Can you skip eating when it's snowing?" ”

"You can't stop eating."

"That's it, you have to train to eat." Niu Gao said.

Hua Lei, who was on duty, had already taken the soldiers of his headquarters to clean up the snow on the school field, and Wang Jin had already begun to train Shi Jin, Shi Xiu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun.

"Liu Tang and Niu Gao, you each lead the team for snow marching training, pay attention to keeping warm and safe." Chao Gai ordered.

"Yes."

The two men gathered their own teams and drove out of the camp. Mongolian horses can basically ignore this snow, but they are afraid of slipping, and their speed slows down. The infantry is different, and it is not possible to walk fast at all when stepping on the snow, but fortunately, the soldiers have cowhide winter boots and are not afraid of getting wet.

Chao Gai frowned and said, "It's not easy for soldiers to walk, let alone the people?" ”

Zhu Wu said next to him: "What did my brother think of again?" ”

"This heavy snowfall is very good and ensures a good harvest of wheat next year, but the snow on the roads will also affect business travel." Chao Gai said.

Zhu Wudao: "This is easy to do, I think Wenbin will also take this into account when he comes, and let him mobilize the people to clear the snow." ”

"Otherwise, the eyes of the people are bright, and it is not advisable to directly mobilize the people, so let's clean up first, and then mobilize the people when we clean up. Li Kui, Chao Ran, Chao Zhang. “

"In, in, in." Threesome.

"Change your clothes immediately, and follow me into the city with a shovel to clear the snow." Chao Gai ordered.

"Yes."

"Mr. Zhu, let's go with us and see the snow scene in our Yuncheng." Chao Gai said.

Li Kui, Chao Ran, and Chao Zhang gathered 300 people and quickly changed their shovels and other equipment. Jiao Ting also brought four personal guards to protect Chao Gai and Zhu Wu. The group rushed to Yuncheng to clean up the snow.

Sure enough, this sudden heavy snow did affect the traffic in Yuncheng County, especially in the city. Although the scale of Yuncheng County is still so small, the prosperity of commerce has increased a lot of foreign population, and the horses and carriages have left a deep imprint on the road. As soon as one steps on the road, it becomes smoother, and occasionally someone can be seen falling.

Li Kui, Chao Ran, and Chao Zhang were each responsible for a section of the road, and then began to clear the snow. Chao Gai and Zhu Wu also cleaned up a stick of incense, and at this time Shi Wenbin arrived, he took his long entourage and dozens of servants, and even Zhu Tong, who had not seen him for a long time, also came.

"Chao Tuan Lian also came to clear the snow, we just swept the snow out of the county government and went to the street, but I didn't expect that Chao Tuan Lian came early." Shi Wenbin said.

Chao Gai said: "The snow is too deep, and it affects walking if it is not cleared, and the county order came just in time, just to mobilize the people to clean up together." ”

"That's exactly what I mean." Shi Wenbin said.

When the people saw it, Chao Tuanlian and Shi County Orders had cleared the snow, and the little people had nothing to say. One by one, they took out their tools and took to the streets to clear the snow from the road. Although there are still 30,000 people in the county seat, there are 15,000 or 6,000 people when they are mobilized, and there are a sea of people. There is a lot of strength in the crowd, although there is a lot of snow, but it can't stand the crowd, and the snow in the city is cleared in half a day.

Li Kui and others led the team and organized more than 3,000 young and middle-aged people to drive out of the city, preparing to beat the snow on the traffic arteries outside the city, but found that someone had already cleaned it, and it turned out to be the people of the nearby villages, one by one with shovels and brooms to clean in full swing.

Many people had participated in militia training, and when they saw Li Kui, they all shouted: "Li Dutou has come to clear the snow." ”

Li Kui said with a smile: "Do you think I don't know how to sweep the snow when I usually play with the axe?" ”

"No, no. Li Dutou is also very good at clearing snow, and there are several of them. "Everyone.

"Haha, your consciousness is high, you know that the snow has come out to clear the snow." Li Kui laughed.

Everyone: "Sweeping the snow is not only convenient for others, but also convenient for yourself, and we ordinary people still understand this truth." There are Chao Tuanlian and Shi County Orders for our Yuncheng people to make decisions, this little day is getting better and better day by day, who is still willing to be lazy and unwilling to make some effort. ”

Outside the city is mainly to clean the traffic arteries, as the role of the regiment to practice Chao Gai is to take the lead, Chao Gai and Zhu Wu and others cleaned for more than an hour in the city to visit some emerging workshops, mainly woodware, weaving, weaving and so on. These workshops vary in size and production technology are not too advanced, mainly in the handicraft industry. For example, a workshop that uses bamboo to produce tea tubes, which is all handmade, was originally opened in Hangzhou, and then the southern Huashigang made a lot of trouble, and there was no way to get to Yuncheng.

There is no indiscriminate charge here in Yuncheng, and all kinds of transportation are also convenient, of course, there are also bad places, that is, you can't deduct workers' wages, which dares to mess around, the consequences are very serious, on the whole, the economic development of Yuncheng is still very fast, although it is the year, but some workshops have many orders, and they have to take turns to rest and work overtime.

After visiting five or six houses, it was almost dark, and the streets were all lit up.

The scorched stomach growled.

Chao Gai said: "Jiao Ting, this is hungry." ”

Jiao Ting smiled: "I'm hungry, it's cold and hungry." ”

Chao Gai said: "Presumably Mr. Zhu is also hungry, why don't we find a place to eat and then go back." ”

Because it is already the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, many restaurants on the street are closed. The group had to go straight to Chaojialou, and the food in their own restaurant was good, so why not do it without spending money.

Xu Hai happened to be there, and he saw Chao Gai coming to greet him.

"Zhuang Owner, Mr. Zhu, Jiao Dutou, you are here." Xu Haidao.

"Well, here we are. Lao Xu, don't be polite, arrange a table of meals first, the old rule is four dishes and one soup, and there is less wine. Chao Gai said.

Xu Hai said: "Today's guests are a little full, and the private room upstairs is full, or I will discuss it with them and change the private room." ”

Chao Gai said with a smile: "Where there is a host to change seats for guests, this hall is very good." ”

Xiao Er quickly served food and wine to Chao Gai and others. A plate of large carp, a plate of cut mutton, a plate of roast chicken, and a plate of vermicelli cabbage. The steaming ones are all added to them, and they are piled up like hills.

Chao Gai, Zhu Wu, Jiao Ting, and four other pro-soldiers, seven people ate away.

While eating, Chao Gai noticed that there was a tall man on the table next to him, looking at the one with a bronze face and a pair of big eyes. One hand is big and rough.

I ordered two dishes, a pot of wine, and sighed while drinking, sullen.

Chao Gai looked at Zhu Wu, and Zhu Wu naturally understood what Chao Gai meant, and immediately got up and said, "Disturb this strong man, under Zhu Wu." ”

This person saw someone greeting him, although he was not happy, but he couldn't refuse people thousands of miles away, and hugged his fists and said: "It's really Meng Kang in Xiading." ”

Zhu Wu smiled: "It turned out to be Brother Meng Kang, it seems that you have a lot of unhappy things." It's better to meet by chance, since you meet is fate, why not come and drink a few cups with us, if there are any unhappy things, let's talk about it, maybe there can be any way. ”

Meng Kang said: "Okay, let's drink together." ”

Saying that, Meng Kang moved all the wine and food over and sat at a table with Chao Gai and the others.

Chao Gai said: "You are the famous shipbuilding master, Meng Kang." ”

Meng Kang was surprised: "I, Meng Kang, am an unknown person, I don't know how you know." ”

"Haha, in Chaogai, Xiayun City, I have long heard that the Meng Kang brothers are the best at making large and small ships, don't look at the unknown nationality now, but there is no one in the world who knows the future." Chao Gai said.

Meng Kang said with a smile: "No wonder a few people look so strong, it turns out that they are the owners of Chao Gaichao, and I have heard businessmen talk about the name of the owner in Suzhou and Hangzhou." The umbrella in the rain, the charcoal in the snow, is a man praised by everyone. I'll do it first for respect. ”

After that, Meng Kang drank three glasses of wine in a row, and after the wine was drunk, Meng Kang's words increased.

Zhu Wu asked: "Brother Meng Kang is really Dingren, why are they still in Yuncheng for the New Year." If there is any difficulty, please mention it, as long as we can help, we will do our best. ”

Meng Kang sighed: "My hometown is a Zhending person, and I take dozens of fellow villagers to shipbuilding as a business, although I dare not say how exquisite the skills are, but most of the large and small ships can still be built." At the beginning of last year, the imperial court began to transport the flower stone from the south of the Yangtze River, the flower stone is huge, and it is obviously impossible to transport it by carts and horses, so it can only be transported by large ships. In this way, I rushed to the health house with dozens of brothers to build a big ship. Originally, everything was fine, the ships were made of good quality and could carry a lot of cargo. But who knows, this year, there is a new promoter in the shipyard, and this promoter is bent on embezzling money and making us cut corners everywhere. The boat sails on the water, no more than anything else, cutting corners once it encounters wind and waves, it will be lost underwater, I argued a few words and was remembered by him. Since this year, I have been given a small shoe boat everywhere, and I have been squeezed often. I originally wanted to leave, but this guy withheld the wages of dozens of my subordinates for a year, so he could only accept the bird's anger of this promoted officer. ”

Chao Gai is very clear about Meng Kang's talent, and he is good at building ships.

Chao Gai said: "How are the skills of your dozens of brothers?" What is the annual salary? ”

Meng Kang said: "They are all skilled craftsmen, and one thirty people can start five big ships at the same time." Originally, I talked about fifty times a year, but in fact, it would be good to be able to give thirty times a year. ”

Chao Gai said: "To be honest, I also have a shipyard in Yuncheng, which specializes in manufacturing bird ships and centipede ships. It's just getting started, and there aren't many craftsmen. I don't think it's better to do this, I'll pay 2,000 yuan, you pay all the wages you owe to your brothers, and then bring someone to me, and your annual salary will be calculated according to 200 yuan, and your skilled craftsmen will be calculated according to 80 yuan, how about it? ”

Meng Kang was very surprised, but he didn't expect Chao Gai to want him to come to the shipyard here in Yuncheng as soon as they met.