Zhang San originally thought that the strategic talents who could build seagoing ships were at least the target of the major shipyards, and then after a little inquiry, he found this place where the so-called Yangzhou shipwrights gathered and sold themselves. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There are small workers and master craftsmen here, and they are all either squatting on the side of the road, or standing in groups of three or five. When I asked, I found out that the shipyard has not always had people building ships. So these people are temporary workers in various shipyards.

To put it simply, in order to save costs, some small and medium-sized shipyards generally come here to find people when they receive jobs, and only retain some key personnel if they don't work, and there are too many shipyards, and there are many natural poor management that will go out of business or have gone out of business.

Zhang San took a turn here, and a few people who were looking for work came up to ask, and when they saw that Zhang San didn't want anyone, the others were not interested in him, and finally Zhang Sanxiang fell in love with the middle-aged uncle who was squatting in the corner and looking gloomily into the distance.

It was not that Zhang San was infected by the uncle's melancholy eyes, but that the uncle wrote on the wooden board under his feet: 'Build all kinds of ships, carpentry work, furniture, and iron. Zhang San looked around, and he was the only one who was writing on the ground.

Zhang San looked at him, a shabby pulp washed white cotton clothes, washed very clean, but there were still a few large patches that were particularly abrupt, the beard on his face was very neatly repaired, and he looked into the distance with a melancholy face, and he didn't notice Zhang San's looking at him on the other side.

Zhang San looked at the crowd, and a young man with his hands curled up in his sleeves met Zhang San's eyes, Zhang San waved his hand, and the young man immediately ran over and asked, "Big official, are you alive?" ”

Zhang San took out ten cents and handed it to him and said, "Ask you about someone." ”

This is also Zhang San learned the lesson of the last time, this is a generous shot, don't blame people for treating you as a fat sheep if you don't know how to make money, so now Zhang San also knows how to put some copper coins on him.

The young man was also very happy when he saw that Shi Wen's money was in his hands, after all, as long as he moved his mouth, he didn't earn it for nothing, the young man took the money and looked at Zhang San seriously: "Big official, you said, as long as I know it, tell you." ”

Zhang San asked the first question: "Why are there no tooth people here?" ”

The young man said with a smile: "The big officials don't know, here are all some hard people looking for work haha, and there are few people who sign long-term contracts, and the tooth people can't make money at leisure, so they go to the human market." ”

Zhang San nodded and this is indeed the truth, just like the dock unloading does not need a tooth man, and the tooth man can't make money, Zhang San pointed to the melancholy middle-aged uncle and asked, "Who is he?" Looking so broken? ”

The young man glanced at the middle-aged man with complicated eyes and said: "That's Mo Daoyuan, who used to be the master of the Xiao family's Yangzhou shipyard, and later because he couldn't get used to seeing the Xiao family cut corners and caused other people's ships to be destroyed and killed, he went to testify for other people's bitter masters."

In the end, the Xiao family spent a lot of money to settle the matter, and the Xiao family sent a message to let him sleep on the streets and beg along the streets, if anyone was using him, he would be the enemy of the Xiao family, so Master Mo could only barely survive by doing odd jobs in the past few years. ”

Zhang San asked strangely: "Since the master can't mix a bowl of rice to eat, why stay in Yangzhou?" ”

The young man pointed to a sharp-beaked monkey cheek on the street and said to a person who was giggling and laughing: "See, that is the splash of monitoring Master Mo, the Xiao family made money to accuse Master Mo of embezzling materials and causing the ship to sink, and the Yangzhou government even asked Master Mo to compensate the bitter master for all the losses, not only collected the house and land, but also took a large amount of debts from the Xiao family." Now the Xiao family is looking for someone to watch every day, and they can't leave if they want to. ”

Zhang San squinted his eyes and asked, "Where did this Xiao family come from with such a big force?" ”

The young man said: "This Xiaojia Yangzhou Shipyard, Wangjia Jiangbei Shipyard, Yangjia Official Shipyard and called the three major shipyards in Yangzhou, Yangzhou City and Shanghai ships are all from these three shipyards, and only these three can build more than 5,000 large ships in Yangzhou." These shipbuilding workshops in Yangzhou are all looking up to them. ”

Zhang San nodded and understood the reason, thinking in his heart that this Master Mo could be a consideration object, and then thought about it and asked, "Do you know if there are any powerful masters here who can build sea ships?" ”

The young man thought about it and pointed and said: "Those who sit in the tea stall to rest are all masters, if you want to say that they can build sea boats, they can all do it, if you say who makes the best, this is really hard to say." ”

Zhang San handed over another ten cents, and asked with a smile, "You tell me about it carefully?" ”

The young man took the money and said happily: "Well, anyway, there is nothing to do, let me tell you, some of these masters are free to look for work in their own shipyards, some are yellow in the shipyard and have nowhere to go for a while, and some are from other places to find work." You see, the one who is said to have come from Hangzhou claims to have built a big ship. I don't know if it's true or not. And ...... over there. ”

Zhang San listened carefully, paid special attention to the boatwright from Hangzhou, and understood almost well, Zhang San rewarded the young man with ten cents, and walked to the boatwright from Hangzhou.

This boatwright is also forty or fifty years old, with a frosty face, sitting there a bowl of tea has been put cold and reluctant to drink, such a tea stall is not sitting in vain, you can only sit here if you ask for tea, so this bowl of tea is your own proof of purchase, and it is not good to stay after drinking.

Everyone else was chatting and farting in groups, only he sat silently at the corner of the table, looking at the passers-by from time to time, and was embarrassed to open his mouth when he met someone who came to recruit him, standing up and sitting down. Looking at his own tea bowl in a daze.

Zhang San looked at it for a while and walked over, the people at the tea stall saw that Zhang San was well-dressed, and knew that he was a businessman, so he immediately wanted to come over, Zhang San didn't pay attention to it, and walked straight to the boatwright's table who was looking at the tea bowl in a daze, knocked on the table and said, "Hey! There's a job looking for you, do you do it? ”

The boatsmith raised his head in a daze, looked at Zhang San and stood up and said, "Do, do, what kind of work?" ”

Zhang San smiled and said, "Let's go, go to the teahouse opposite to talk." ”

Saying that, Zhang San turned around and walked towards the two-story teahouse at the mouth of the alley, and the boatman was stunned for a while: "Man, come and give you tea money." As he spoke, he took out two pennies from his body and handed them to the guy, and hurriedly followed Zhang San.

Up to the second floor, Zhang San found a window seat, just in time to see the movement in the alley, the two sat down, Zhang San asked for a pot of tea and two snacks, the guy said good tea, Zhang San made a gesture of please, and the boatwright took a sip and looked at Zhang San.

Zhang San put down the tea bowl and asked, "I heard that you are from Hangzhou?" What is your name? ”

The boatwright said, "Yes, my name is ...... Fu, Chen Fu." Saying his name, it seemed to take a lot of courage, and after finishing speaking, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Zhang San.

Zhang San took a sip of tea and asked, "Can you tell me why you came to Yangzhou from Hangzhou?" ”

Shipwright Chen looked at Zhang San and said, "I can't find a job over there, so I came here to try my luck." ”

Zhang San asked strangely: "As far as I know, the shipyard in Hangzhou is still better than that in Yangzhou, why can't you find a job in Hangzhou?" ”

Shipwright Chen grunted a few times, and finally sighed and said, "Because my surname is Chen." ”