As the New Year approached, Lu Liang returned from inspecting the construction of the industrial base in Guangzhou and began to explain how to spend the New Year of 1901. He can't help but pay attention to it, he has no relatives and friends, he regards all genetic people as his own family, although they are only genetic people made by the base, and many functions in the brain are deprived, such as lack of perceptual thinking, loyalty, indifference, unsmiling, and no reproductive function, but Lu Liang thinks that they are the same people as himself, not without emotion. Without them, they would never be able to support such a big mess, technicians, managers, soldiers, local, overseas, every job is a genetic person running back and forth, most of the time Lu Liang only needs to give instructions. In this world, in addition to the belief in a strong country and nation, genetic people are Lu Liang's emotional sustenance, especially when Wu Yue also returned to the Wu family to prepare for the New Year.

Wu Yue seems to be busier than Lu Liang during this time, in the education department, she not only did her job well, but also received full recognition, from the student's parents, genetic colleagues praise Wu Yue felt extremely fulfilled, she even forgot what her father told her before - to exchange feelings with Lu Liang, as much as possible to let the Wu family and Lu Liang marry. Fortunately, Lu Liang did not forget, this beautiful girl often appeared in his mind, the loneliness in a strange world and the huge pressure brought by the mission made him unable to remove, and every time he saw Wu Yue, he felt relaxed and happy. The busy work made it rare for the two to meet, but since Lu Liang occasionally wrote a note about education to Wu Yue, the relationship between the two quickly warmed up in this way. The exchange between the two did not go through the storm, most of Lu Liang's notes were the understanding of women in later generations, the extension of women's power, the topography of the world, history, humanities, landscape, political form, various criticisms of women's bad habits, etc., for example, the two had an exchange of ten notes on the issue of foot binding, although Wu Yue did not bind her feet because of Wu Shimin's love, but she had seen the pain of women with bound feet, and she also hated this phenomenon, because of this exchange Lu Liang ordered to be used in his own hired workers, A ban on foot binding was imposed among tenants.

The clan power is stubborn and strong, and the current combination is only a relationship of interests, and there is no situation where you must obey Lu Liang's orders. However, it was implemented very smoothly among tenants and workers, and the prohibition of foot-binding required all tenants and workers to be dismissed immediately if there was any such thing as foot-binding, and the tenants' land rent was doubled, so that no one dared to disobey the order.

Lu Liang is holding a New Year's banquet, and all factories and construction sites under the Ziqiang Group are on holiday on the 26th of the month, and the New Year is of great significance to the Chinese, and the group will certainly not be too harsh. Not only is there a holiday in advance, but also year-end benefits are issued according to each person's position, rank, merit, etc., and Lu Liang will not be stingy in this regard.

The cement road from Huizhou to Guangzhou has been built, and the construction workers have not dispersed, but have moved to other road construction sites in Huizhou, from Huizhou to Haifeng, to Chaozhou, to various factories, to the north near the source of the river, and the short-distance railway from Haifeng to Guangzhou via Huizhou, in short, hundreds of thousands of construction workers are not worried about not having jobs.

"Call it a day!" On the construction site, the gong of the casual workers is struck, and the most popular sound of the workers on weekdays is the gong of the casual workers, but at this time they are a little surprised, it is not yet noon, why did they strike the gong? Wang Xianjiang also straightened up, patted the dust on his body, and rubbed his sore shoulders. Work here, eat well, dress well, live in a simple shed, but it is also impermeable and watertight, cold can not go anywhere, and mosquito coils are also distributed to repel mosquitoes in hot days. And every three months will be issued a pair of work clothes, Lv Kai supervisor said that this matter is produced by the self-improvement garment factory, khaki jackets, denim trousers, anyway, Lv Kai called it so, the clothes are strong and durable, much better than the usual wear, after the hair is in hand, it belongs to you, no money. The workers of this dress are carefully cared for, and it is not bad to save a few pieces to take home and wear for their families.

"Uncle, what's going on, this will be the end of work?"

"I don't know, look, isn't that Lu Kai's supervisor!"

Lu Kai, the supervisor in charge of this section of 500 people, walked to the top with a loudspeaker: "The workers have gathered here, something is announced!" The crowd slowly gathered with tools, and Lu Kai saw that the people were almost there, and said loudly with a loudspeaker: "Approaching the end of the year, the group has decided to have a holiday in the near future, everyone can go home for the New Year, and come back to continue working on the eighth day of the first month!" ”

As soon as Lu Kai said this, everyone realized that the New Year was coming, not an exaggeration, the amount of labor on the construction site was really not small, everyone was so tired every day that they couldn't straighten their waists, and they lay down to sleep after eating, and they really didn't have any extra thoughts to think about the New Year. Wang Xianjiang is only 17 years old, he is the youngest in this work section, and he is taken care of by everyone, and he is not allowed to do particularly heavy work, but Wang Xianjiang also exercised in half a year, also because he eats well and is strong, and he does not look like a seventeen-year-old at all.

"We put the tools back to the temporary camp depository, after the handover to the accounting office to receive this month's salary, the group specially issued a year-end bonus, two silver dollars per person, recorded in the book more credit can also receive more, the specific number is in the accountant, then you will know. After receiving the salary bonus, everyone went to the welfare office next to the accounting office to receive the year-end benefits, which is also a reward for the group's sympathy for everyone's hard work! Lu Kai spoke, everyone was jubilant, the Chinese were subtle, not good at exaggerating the joy in their hearts, but showed a sincere smile on their faces.

The temporary camp was very lively, this is a camp that provides temporary accommodation, food, and rest for 3,000 workers, there are long queues at the wage and welfare distribution office, there are high silver dollars piled up on the table at the salary distribution office, and behind the welfare office are the welfare materials that are ready to be distributed to the workers, piled up like a small mountain, the workers are waiting in a neat line for their turn, and there is no one who messes around, one is because of the strict discipline requirements of the site organizers for the workers, and the other is the group training of more than 20 people in uniform clothes and carrying long guns near the distribution office. I heard that it used to be called a factory guard, but now it has been renamed and called Huizhou Tuanlian, all of whom are under the command of Master Lu Liang. The workers who received the wages and benefits left happily, muttering about the good of Master Lu Liang.

Wang Lao Er and Wang Xianjiang were next to each other, their eyes wide open, hoping to know how much they could get. Fortunately, the speed of distribution was very fast, and it was Wang Laoer's turn after a while.

"Wang Laoer, this is your salary of one silver dollar this month, and the year-end bonus is 3 silver dollars. Grab it and go over there to claim your perks! ”

"Wang Laoer, this is your year-end welfare, a ready-to-wear garment, a two-foot dyed cloth, a bag of flour, a Ziqiang brand watch, the next one!"

"Uncle, I received a year-end bonus of two silver dollars, and I went to the construction site for six months, and now I have eight silver dollars in my hand, shall we go home now?" Xianjiang has never seen so much money, his salary was stored in his uncle before, and now he can finally return to his hometown. Eight silver dollars is not less, according to the description in "Kong Yiji", four copper coins can buy a big bowl of old wine, one or two silver (that is, one silver dollar) for 1,000 copper coins, converted to modern times, a bowl of old wine is calculated at five yuan, plus the rise in silver prices in the late Qing Dynasty, one or two silver dollars can be worth more than 1,000 yuan now, and eight silver dollars are tens of thousands of yuan! In peacetime, ordinary people spend only six taels of silver a year for a family of three, and if they farm at home, they pay the rent a year, leaving less than five silver dollars, and Wang Xianjiang's work for half a year is worth the income of a family of three farming for a year.

"Little nephew, I plan to go to Wujia Town to buy some New Year's goods and bring them back, what about you, do you want to follow me?" Where does Wang Xianjiang disagree? I have been suffocating myself for half a year at the construction site, and I can't bear the age of loneliness, but I have long heard about the prosperity of Wujia Town, and now I can finally see it.