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Early the next morning, under the warm sunshine, the factory protection team that had finished the morning training lined up with some neat appearances, and under the command of Shi Feng's stumbling and shy password, they came out of the backyard and stopped in front of the factory protection team's room to disband.

Under Shi Feng's arrangement, two of the eight factory guards went to the factory gate to replace the night shift members, and two returned to the backyard to inspect; The two team members came to stand in front of the two gates leading to the backyard in the front yard, mainly to prevent outsiders from entering the production and training area in the backyard; The remaining two came to the warehouses on both sides and walked back and forth.

Under Shi Feng's arrangement, some of the rest of the team went into the house to rest, waiting to replace their companions on duty in the yard, and some were waiting in the yard to open the warehouse for a while to help the workers carry grey fabrics, dyes and other items needed for dyeing and finishing.

Qin Chuan, who was following behind, saw that Shi Feng had made proper arrangements, so he called Chu Yunfei, Chu Yuntao and the laid-off factory guards on duty at night, walked into the small canteen, washed his face and ate.

This small canteen is not responsible for providing lunch for the workers, but is only responsible for the breakfast of the staff on duty in the factory at night, as well as the breakfast and lunch of the brothers of Qin Chuan and the Chu family.

This kind of steam pot for hot rice steaming, before Qinchuan crossed, because of energy-saving reasons, the country has long been banned and eliminated, such a steam pot, Qin Chuan saw it in the factory in the county when he was a child.

So, under normal circumstances, only the owner of the dyeing factory and a few people eat in this canteen. Now there are basically only Qin Chuan, the Chu family brothers and a few members of the factory protection team on duty to eat here, and there is no charge, and there is another one, which is the maid Wu Sister-in-law who cleans up the small western-style building for Qin Chuan.

If you add more workers, the back of the steam pot may not be enough, it seems that the steam pot still has to be remodeled.

As for this small canteen, Qin Chuan is also considering whether to provide free lunch for workers, or at least on Sundays for workers who overhaul and maintain the machinery for free.

However, every time Qin Chuan eats here, although there are only a few of them, and it is spacious to sit at a table, Qin Chuan still only sits at a table alone with the Chu family brothers.

It's not that Qin Chuan dislikes other people, but that Qin Chuan did it on purpose.

Qin Chuan has his considerations, according to his current age, if he wants to quickly establish absolute authority among the workers and in the hearts of these factory guards, he must keep an appropriate distance from them.

Breakfast was served, and the main dishes were white rice porridge and steamed buns, plus two pickled side dishes.

Because the rice in the north is only one season, the rice fragrance is very strong, and it is extremely sweet in the mouth, and Qin Chuan feels very comfortable every time he smells it.

Through the glass window, Qin Chuan saw Li Mingfang and some workers entering the factory one after another through the small door that opened on the door panel, and Qin Chuan looked at his watch before it was twenty minutes before it was time to start work.

At this time, it was not like in later generations, there were eight hours of legal working hours, and now work starts at 7 o'clock in the morning, and even at 6 o'clock, only half an hour of rest at noon, and the end of work in the afternoon is generally at 7 o'clock in the evening. Even the West, which has always flaunted human rights in later generations, is also at this time. Although Qin Chuan is a traverser, he doesn't want to be too different now.

As soon as he entered the factory, Li Mingfang and Master Li, who came in later, said a few words, and Master Li began to beckon the workers to start preparing separately, waiting for Li Mingfang to start moving grey cloth out as soon as he opened the warehouse, ready to start work.

Seeing this, Chu Yuntao hurriedly ate a few bites, said hello to Qin Chuan, and hurriedly ran out, calling a few factory guards to guard outside the warehouse where the additives were stored, he took out the key to open the warehouse door, went in alone and closed the door tightly from the inside.

Qin Chuan developed a habit in the army in his previous life, the meal time was very regular, generally not more than twenty minutes, and when he walked out of the small cafeteria with Chu Yunfei after breakfast, it was exactly seven o'clock. At this time, the backyard was already punctually resounding with the roar of the machine turning.

Li Mingfang, who had finished arranging the work in the morning, was standing in front of the gate with Shi Feng and more than a dozen people from the factory protection team, watching the two factory guards slowly open the two heavy wooden doors that had been bolted away.

Qin Chuan, who was going to go back to the building to take a shower, change out of the sweaty shirt on his body, and then go to the workshop, was suddenly startled by the scene outside the gate and couldn't help but stop.

I saw a large group of people standing in the dark outside the gate at some point, there were as many as 200 or 300 people, these people were men, women, old and young, and most of them were ordinary people dressed in disheveled clothes and even some ragged short clothes.

Behind this large crowd of people, there were more than thirty people who looked like merchants in bright clothes and silk wraps, and these people were blocked behind the crowd, all of them probing their brains and sticking their necks to look into the factory. Further down the street, there were dozens of rickshaws and carts parked, twenty or thirty men in short clothes and hats and a group of coachmen standing on the side of the street also looking this way, and many passers-by also stopped and asked what was going on here.

As soon as the door opened, the crowd blocking the door was in a commotion, all vying to rush into the factory, it seems that Li Mingfang had already prepared, several young people from the factory guard team did not wait for the crowd to pour in, they had already lined up at the gate into a wall, and they struggled to block the crowd.

Seeing the scene, Li Mingfang was also a little anxious, and shouted loudly: "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, don't squeeze the child." ”

So many people blocked the factory gate early in the morning, what is this going to do?

Is it hungry and begging for food?

There aren't so many people who come with them to beg for food?

Could it be that the worker in the dyeing factory is causing some trouble? Let people come to the door to seek justice?

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.

If the workers in the factory really got into any trouble, it really had to be him, the owner.

"Lao Li, what's wrong?"

Qin Chuan shouted Li Mingfang while walking a few steps towards the gate, Chu Yunfei had already stiffened his face, rolled up his sleeves and followed closely.

Li Mingfang turned around and saw Qin Chuan coming, hurriedly took a few steps, and explained to Qin Chuan with some embarrassment.

"Boss, that's what happened, according to your meaning, yesterday evening I went to the Baihe ferry to recruit people, because I went late, I didn't see a few outsiders waiting to find a job, so I found an acquaintance, and asked him to help find thirty non-local workers, and come to the factory this morning. But I didn't expect that when I heard the news, I came so much at once, and they were blocked at the gate of the factory early in the morning, and I had already seen them when I went to work in the morning, they were all from Fengxiang, Shaanxi, and they fled after the disaster. ”

After Li Mingfang finished speaking, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and spread his hands.

Knowing that these people were here to find a job made Qin Chuan feel at ease. However, he was still a little puzzled, and nodded with his jaw at the businessman-like people behind the crowd.

"What do those people do?"

Li Mingfang saw Qin Chuan asking the people behind him, and he was interested again, and said in a low voice with a smile: "Dongjia, except for two or three of those people, I don't know each other, and the rest of them are all the shopkeepers of our Tianjin Wei large and small cloth shops, and it is estimated that they are all here to buy goods." ”

Qin Chuan nodded: "It's not a way for these people to block the door, let them all come in and talk." ”

Qin Chuan looked at the anxious and worried refugees in the crowd: "We can't have so many people now, but these people are dragging their families, in this way, the workers are still recruited according to the number we need, and the factory protection team will recruit more people, to ensure that each of these people who come today has at least one person left, and if there is such a person working in the family, the whole family will have a little dependence, and there will be a way to live immediately." ”

Originally, the recruitment of workers was all young people who were physically strong, especially this year, there were many victims who came to Tianjin to beg for a living, and a random move was a lot, but Qin Chuan's first thought was the lives of these disaster victims, which made Li Mingfang feel awe-inspiring to Qin Chuan in his heart.

Qin Chuan looked at the commotion behind the crowd and said, "Also, Lao Li, you ask people to invite all those cloth shop shopkeepers to the reception room, and when you finish dealing with these workers, you will answer them." ”

Li Mingfang called the third son in the account room, a thin and shrewd young man in his twenties, and asked him to be responsible for inviting the shopkeepers of the cloth shops into the house, and asked Shi Feng to call the people of his factory protection team, put everyone in, and separate them from household.

Watching these victims gather together in the small square in the front yard, Li Mingfang raised his voice.

"Folks, standing behind me is the owner here, our owner's surname is Qin, and his name is Sichuan."

Li Mingfang looked back at Qin Chuan, and then said to the victims: "Originally, our owner only wanted to find thirty workers, but the owner sympathized with you and dragged your family to flee and make a living, although we can't use too many people for the time being, but the owner still wants to recruit as many people as possible among you, the owner has already said, regardless of physical strength, each family will recruit at least one person, so that each of your families in this Tianjin Wei life will be settled." ”

As soon as Li Mingfang's voice fell, the crowd that had calmed down suddenly became commotion again, and the family standing in front of the crowd was led by an old man who was wearing a shabby blue robe and looked like a private school teacher about fifty years old, and behind him stood a middle-aged couple with a seventeen or eighteen-year-old tall young man, whose eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to the old man, most of them were the grandsons of the old man. The old man looked particularly excited, and turned around and shouted in a voice that was a little hoarse from excitement.

"Folks, our Fengxiang suffered a disaster, we folks had to flee to this Tianjin Wei, along the way we passed through countless prefectures, and even went to the foot of the Son of Heaven in Gyeonggi, you say, when did we meet such a good person? Such a good person is simply a living bodhisattva, and he is the great benefactor of us Fengxiang people. ”

When the old man turned around, his eyes were already red, and he faced Qin Chuan.

"Benefactor, I, Xu Zichuan, thank you on behalf of these villagers, please accept the old man's gift."

After speaking, Xu Zichuan knelt on the ground with a puff.

The old man knelt down, and the old man's family also knelt down, and more than two or three hundred old and young people behind him also knelt down with hula and lala.

A few days ago, the workers bowed to Qin Chuan, and Qin Chuan couldn't stand it, not to mention that this old man took the lead in kneeling for him. Panicked, Qin Chuan ran over in a few steps, stretched out his hand and forcibly picked up the old man.

"I can't do it, I can't do it! Hurry up, everybody, I have something to say. ”

After the victims got up, Qin Chuan took a few steps back, stood on the steps of the small cafeteria, and said in a loud voice: "My surname is Qin. Did you know? The surname Qin is said to have several origins, the earliest ancient has been, but now whether it is the Central Plains or the Qin surname in the Zhili area, most of them are from Guanzhong, although I Qin Chuan went abroad with my parents in the early years, but according to my father, my ancestors moved from Guanzhong to Zhili, hundreds of years ago my ancestors lived with your ancestors on the fertile soil in Guanzhong, from this point of view, I and you are also fellow villagers. ”

"Fathers and fellow villagers, since we are brothers and sisters, don't say thank you anymore, I only have one request, that is, all those who stay in the factory must do things seriously. In addition, although I can't arrange a job for the rest of you for the time being, but I am still preparing to open a new factory in the near future, and I will first arrange the families of our dyeing factory workers when we need manpower, and at that time, I Qinchuan welcomes you all to come to my factory to work. ”

Qin Chuan's words made the victims feel a lot of commotion, Qin Chuan hurriedly signaled Li Mingfang to quickly select the workers, he didn't want someone to kneel down and thank him for a while.

Xu Zichuan's son is named Xu Xifang, and his grandson is called Xu Tong, and Li Mingfang first selected these two people. Taking advantage of Li Mingfang's selection, Qin Chuan asked Chu Yunfei to lead Xu Tong to the small canteen to bring two chairs, pull Xu Zichuan to sit down, and talk to Xu Zichuan's family.

Xu Zichuan is an old boy, and he has died early after repeated attempts, and his family background is not good, and he has no land, so he has to work as a private school in his hometown and barely make ends meet. Xu Xifang, like his father, had no achievements in the imperial examination and was also a child. Under the guidance of his grandfather and father, Xu Tong also read some books, but Xu Tong had no interest in scientific research. Fengxiang produces wine, there are many shochu workshops, and Xu Xifang, Xu Tong and his son are all helping in the winery.

Although Xu Xifang is only thirty-five or sixteen years old, he has a shrewd energy in his calmness, Qin Chuan paid attention to his hands, although they were also a little rough, but they obviously did not rely on strength to eat all day long.

Xu Tong looked a little quiet towards Qingxiu, but those two eyes that were neither humble nor arrogant made Qin Chuan obviously feel that this young man had an unruly temperament.

Xu Zichuan, who was sincerely grateful to Qin Chuan, was very talkative, and introduced the situation of the rest of the victims to Qin Chuan, from Xu Zichuan's introduction, Qin Chuan knew that most of the rest of the victims had no land to help.

From the tone of Xu Zichuan's conversation, as well as the grateful eyes of those victims looking at him, Qin Chuan could feel their deep sincere gratitude to himself, and having such a group of people who had a sincere sense of belonging to him by his side was definitely a great help for himself.

No, you must not let these people go easily, Qin Chuan thought in his heart.

Qin Chuan began to secretly think in his heart, whether to hurry up and open the factory that made refined salt first, so that he would keep these people by his side.

Qin Chuan, who was thinking about things in his heart, was suddenly awakened by a burst of sobbing, and Qin Chuan, who was a little stunned, hurriedly looked up to check, wondering what had happened again.