Chapter 68: Military Uniforms
After Wang Kun's incorruptible tongue, such a flicker and temptation, in the end, Marven still succumbed to Wang Kun's obscenity and agreed to cooperate with Wang Kun, even though he only had five percent of the shares.
Yes! Marven is still glad that he still has five percent of the shares, otherwise even this hateful demon would not give any shares. Marven will inevitably agree at that time, because he doesn't want to be aggrieved in this place for the rest of his life, or run back to the UK as a loser!
After Marven agreed, the atmosphere of the whole conversation became much more harmonious.
"Marven, since you have agreed to join us, then I have to tell you about your main mission. I'm going to set up a shipping fleet, and I'm not going to make you the head of this fleet for the time being! ”
Now Marven is unhappy again, Nima! What about the general manager?
"But that's not all, we don't have that many ready-made crews and sailors at the moment, so these will have to be trained by you yourself for the time being, but we can still provide the ship for the time being!"
Marven only had the urge to scold at this time!
After getting Marven, then the voyage fleet that Wang Kun has always wanted to set up will be considered a good general, then there is a good person in charge, and the rest of the things will be solved!
Because Wang Kun believes that what this fleet needs, Marven himself will solve it, even if he can't solve it himself, Zhao Shichang will help from it!
After solving Marven's matter, Wang Kun came to Li Maolin again, because Wang Kun wanted to focus on cultivating Li Maolin. Therefore, after Zhao Shichang opened his mansion in Kuching, Wang Kun asked Li Maolin to be in charge of Shilongmen's affairs alone, so as to cultivate his ability to be independently responsible for the affairs of a place.
However, Wang Kun didn't come here this time to inspect what he was doing, Wang Kun had given him a task before. That is to ask him to find some women who can do needlework, because Wang Kun brought some cotton cloth from Manila this time, so Wang Kun is going to make military uniforms for his army.
Because only Shilongmen has the largest population now, it is easy to find more people who can do needlework. As for professional tailors, this is really not difficult, because there are at least three tailor shops in Shilongmen, but it is still a bit insufficient!
So Wang Kun thought of outsourcing the work, that is, to let professional tailors cut the fabrics, and then outsource them to ordinary women, so that they can use their leisure time to sew these clothes when they are at home.
It's still the same office building, but now the signs of 'Shilongmen Township Government' have been hung on both sides of the gate.
When Wang Kun came in, Li Maolin was handling things for a fellow countryman. However, Wang Kun did not come forward to disturb, because Wang Kun had told these recruited scholars before that as an official, he must put the people first.
Therefore, Wang Kun did not come forward to disturb his office, but walked around the courtyard alone.
The building was built just over two months ago and is located at the very edge of the street in the miners' residential area. As a local official body, it manages all the affairs of Shilongmen's nearly 5,000 people, in fact, in terms of numbers, it should be called 'village committee'.
Seeing that Li Maolin had finished dealing with the villagers' affairs, Wang Kun entered his office, because there were not many people and things here, so there were only three or four people in the entire company.
"How? Is it easy to work? "When Wang Kun came, he just walked around the courtyard twice.
The people inside didn't find him again, so at this time, Li Maolin saw Wang Kun coming.
"General, are you here? Why don't you come in early? ”
Now the people under Wei Feng's banner all call Wang Kun a general, although many people are not suitable for the original non-governmental organization, and suddenly it has become an official organization. However, this is not something that ordinary people can control, this is decided by big people, and there are many people who have become big officials, isn't it! The temptation to be an official is always great!
Therefore, in Li Maolin's heart, the status of the two has changed, it used to be a relationship between the client and the customer, and now it is the relationship between the monarch and the minister, so the necessary dignity and humility must not be surmounted.
"Oh! I'm just here to take a look, and the skilled needlework woman I asked you to investigate two days ago, have you come out with the results of your investigation? ”
"This investigation has come out, and the women who can be proficient in needlework in our Shilongmen can mobilize more than a hundred people at any time. If not enough, I can get more, but it will take time, and there are five or six professional tailors you mentioned! ”
Li Maolin looked at Wang Kun after speaking, he didn't know why the general was looking for these people, but he still completed the task assigned by Wang Kun seriously!
"Hmmm! It's enough, but it takes a bit of time! But that's okay, the next thing we have is time! After a little hesitation, Wang Kun felt that this was the only way for the time being, and then said to Li Maolin: "Actually, I am looking for so many people this time, mainly to make military uniforms for the army. As for what it will look like, we've already discussed it before, and I've brought it with me this time, so let's call the tailors! ”
Li Maolin instructed a few staff in the office to go and inform the local tailor, Shilongmen was not very big, so they knew where the tailor was.
Since Wang Kun did not miss anyone's wages at the beginning, these tailors did not like in China, as soon as they heard that the government sent them to do any work, ordinary civilians were reluctant to come forward. The businessmen here are very happy to take over the Wei Feng Company, or the General's Mansion, because they have the previous reputation as a guarantee!
After a while, the tailors who received the notice rushed to the township government, that is, the original office.
There are men and women in these professional tailors, and everyone is forced to leave their homes, so there are no men and women who are defenseless!
There were six professional tailors, four men and two women. As soon as they entered, they immediately kowtowed to Wang Kun and shouted, "The grass people meet the general!" The Great General is mighty! ”
Hearing these words, Wang Kun also smiled helplessly, and the first thing he thought of when he wanted to set up an overseas regime was to provide a place for these Chinese to take refuge. But the first thing that came to mind for these civilians was that they would all be officials in the future, and they would have to kneel down and kowtow when they met again!
Pull them up, and then try to say in a more amiable tone: "Hehe! We don't need to be so formal, after all, here is overseas, we are mainly to unite to protect ourselves, so you don't have to kneel, just meet in the future! ”
The kneeling ceremony, especially the kneeling ceremony during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was what Wang Kun hated the most. Therefore, on the day of the establishment of the General's Mansion, everyone, mainly Wang Kun and Zhang Lei, proposed that the kneeling ceremony must be abolished!
No, Cheng Luo couldn't stand it for a while, not only Cheng Luo couldn't accept it in this era, especially those who read in the Qing Dynasty, but they couldn't accept it. Because since ancient times, peasants have seen officials, and they must kneel, which is stipulated by national law! Of course, the exception can be made for the reader, who refers to a person who has a meritorious reputation!
They don't even have the saying 'everyone is equal', they must maintain the deterrent power of the government in the hearts of the peasants!
Therefore, Wang Kun proposed a pro-people official government, and it took a lot of effort to persuade Cheng Luo to abolish the kneeling salute!
Although Cheng Luo still has a lot of concerns in the end, it's just that his knowledge is limited and he doesn't know what to say, but he knows that what his ancestors left behind is reasonable after all!
Wang Kun and the others also knew that he was worried that once the government lost its deterrent power, it would be easy to cause the people to be afraid of the officials and the government orders were not easy to implement, but there was no need to worry about these at all. The experience of later generations proves that there is no need to worry about this, because the official mansion that Wang Kun wants to build is completely different from what they thought!
Pulling up these kneeling tailors, Wang Kun took out a piece of paper from his pocket and spread it out on the table for everyone to see.
It's just that when I look at them, I frown, not how ugly this picture is. It's just that they find it strange, or rather, tricky, about the clothes drawn on this picture, because they have never cut such clothes before.
However, they didn't think it was so shocking, because the picture was similar to the clothes worn by Wang Kun in front of them.
Yes, that picture depicts a T-shirt and a military uniform similar to the style of the later Republic of China tunic style. Compared to the traditional robe and horse jacket, this is simply a fancy dress!
However, they had already seen Wang Kun and them pass through like this, so they didn't make a fuss.
When they saw that the color of the T-shirt marked on it was white, the outer uniform was blue. There is no more, as for how to cut Wang Kun directly said to them, these are only up to you!
The reason why the color of the military uniform is blue here is mainly because of the pigment problem, as for those time-traveling novels in later generations, the protagonist will get a dark green military uniform as soon as it comes up. Here Wang Kun expressed his admiration, because in the late stage of World War II, due to the war, the United States did not have German chemical pigments, and their military uniforms were dyed pale yellow, and it was not until the end of World War II that the United States restored dark green and bright military uniforms.
Wang Kun explained to them the cooperation model, Wang Kun asked these professional tailors to cut according to certain specifications, and then handed over these cut semi-finished products to those skilled needlework women, and then they made these semi-finished products into clothes.
Then Wang Kun negotiated a reasonable price with them, as well as the corresponding quantity and quality, which is mainly the quality of cutting and sewing. Because all the fabrics are provided by Wang Kun himself, then this matter is completely solved.
When the time comes, just let Li Maolin keep an eye here, it will take less than a month for his army to wear a unified military uniform, and there will be no need to be like now, it will be like a gang of outcasts and bandits!