The sudden lightning and thunder made Cai Feng, who had just entered Diqiu City, startled. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

They were passing through an open area called the "Research Institute", and the courtyard wall blocked the view, so he did not see the figure inside, but only a kite floating in the air.

While he was hiding from the rain, he saw an arc of light falling from the sky, and immediately after, there was a loud noise in the research institute, and smoke and fire came out.

Cai Feng and the others looked at each other, what was going on?

"Firefighting, firefighting!"

"Mr. Yu, Mr. Yu, call Lang Zhong quickly!"

There were too many things they didn't understand in the noisy voice, but they still understood the word firefighting. Therefore, Cai Feng and the others ran towards the courtyard quickly, wanting to find a door to enter the courtyard to help put out the fire.

But immediately, a guard came out of nowhere and stopped them: "What are you going to do?" ”

"Rescue, fire!"

Cai Feng stammered and replied, that guard had a terrible majesty on him.

"You don't need to put out the fire, this is a forbidden place in the research institute, under any circumstances, you are not allowed to enter!" The guards brutally rejected them.

"But ......"

These guards had a terrifying majesty on them, and Cai Feng hesitated for a while, but didn't say anything more after all.

They just watched from there, and soon a carriage came, and the carriage came up to win people, and carried out several stretchers into the institute, and then carried people out.

There was an old man who was carried out, who was obviously anxious, but he was still waving his arms on the stretcher, and said excitedly: "Sure enough, sure enough, the thunder and lightning in the sky and the thunder and lightning we made in the laboratory are really the same thing!" ”

Cai Feng and the others smacked their tongues, and the old man's accent was with a thick Tokyo accent, so they could hear it very clearly. What shocked them was that the people on Diqiu's side could even manipulate the thunder and lightning in the sky, and even create thunder and lightning in any room!

Thinking of what the Jiuhe River Chief said, Zhou Quan may be one of the few feng shui masters in the world, who can change the feng shui and change the water, and they no longer have the slightest doubt about this.

Next, they were audited and then moved into different workshops. After the initial discomfort, it was only two months before they fell in love with the city, and even occasionally referred to it as "We Diqiu" when they spoke.

Unlike Xuzhou, almost all of Diqiu's workshops belonged to the Zhou family, and the Zhou family treated the workers they employed very well in this era.

Every month, they would send a letter to Kaocheng County, first by mouth, and then at the workers' night school, where they could write a text message themselves, and although there were many typos, they could barely achieve their goals. In this way, time flies, winter goes to spring, flowers are blooming and summer is solstice, and it is more than half a year in a blink of an eye.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty changed the Yuan again, and the original second year of Chonghe became the first year of Xuanhe, so this year also became the second year of Xuanhe. At the beginning of May, Cai Feng and others arrived in Diqiu for half a year, and they worked every day for half a year, although they worked hard, but they also saved some belongings, like Cai Feng, because he was smart, learned to write and calculate quickly, and was repeatedly rewarded, and was promoted to a small foreman in the workshop, and accumulated more than 20 household goods, which were replaced by him into easy-to-carry silver dollars and sewn into the mezzanine of clothes.

The rest of the companions also saved five to fifteen yuan, only five yuan is not lazy, but because of good gambling, and Diqiu is forbidden to gamble, and the factory is even more strictly forbidden, he was punished several times, and a few yuan were confiscated.

Compared with when they first came, a few people only had a few dollars on them, and now everyone can be said to have rich pockets.

Cai Feng calculated that as long as he is diligent, plus the food and lodging are in the workshop, he almost does not need to spend money, so he can save forty yuan a year, which is enough to feed a family of four, although the life is not rich, but it can also be fed.

What's more, here, he sees hope: the hope of rising and the hope of making more money.

If he can learn a skill, hone it in ten or eight years, and become a craftsman, then his monthly income will be forty yuan, and the annual wages and bonuses will be more than six hundred yuan.

But in Xiaohekouzhuang, he has absolutely no hope of becoming a rich man, and here, as long as he works hard, it is possible to achieve it.

Half a year of hard work, especially overtime during the Spring Festival, allowed him to accumulate a twelve-day vacation, and he felt that it seemed as if it was time for him to go back to Xiaohekouzhuang.

This is also a benefit launched by the Zhou family in this half year, as long as the Chamber of Commerce and merchant ships can reach the place, workers who have accumulated enough vacation can apply to go back to visit relatives with the ship, not only the ship's travel expenses are free of charge, but also the basic amount of salary in the workshop, which is equivalent to about one-third of the normal work.

However, there were only two people who went back with Cai Feng, and the other one who only saved five yuan was very ashamed and returned to his hometown without a face. They reported the matter to the authorities, and it didn't take long for them to make arrangements to accompany a cargo ship to Beijing, but when they got on the ship, the three of them were immediately happy.

It was the shipowner who sent them in the first place.

The shipowner couldn't remember them, and he only remembered when Cai Feng reminded them that they had seen Zhou Quan that day.

There were more than ten other people who returned west on the same boat, and they were all fine on the boat, and they asked each other, and found that they were all the same, and they were sent by their respective peasant associations.

At this time, Cai Feng was no longer an uninformed person in the township, and vaguely, he felt that it was an inexplicable force pushing them to do so. But he didn't care at all, after all, this inexplicable force allowed him to live a good life that he had never thought of before.

Everyone discussed the miserable life in the countryside at the beginning, and then talked about the current situation, and scolded those who obstructed the construction of the Beijing-Xu Railway in the first place. Hearing this, Cai Feng and the others were silent, and when someone saw that they didn't speak, they asked curiously: "Could it be that Brother Cai, you don't know about the Beijing-Xu Railway?" ”

"We are from Kaocheng, and we can't hide it, when we obstructed the construction of the railway, we made a contribution, and I even beat people." Cai Feng hesitated for a moment, and then said.

Everyone's eyes changed when they saw him, but Fang Cai was still kind and friendly, and he instantly became vigilant.

"Why did you do this?" After a moment of silence, someone asked.

"He was taken advantage of and did stupid things...... Now that I think about it, it's really stupid, the railway is bad feng shui, what do we poor people have to do, this is a good thing for our poor people, if someone blocks it, we should fight hard with it! Cai Feng said this, hesitated slightly, and then gritted his teeth and said: "After I go back this time, I will explain this matter to the township, if possible, I will stay in the township and promote the construction of the railway!" ”

Abandon everything you have gained in Diqiu, and return to the countryside to fight those big families?

Everyone's attitude towards him changed again, from vigilance and dissatisfaction to admiration: "Brother Cai is really a good man......"

"If you want our hometown to be like our Diqiu, you have to promote the construction of the railway, and don't forget, you guys, you have to talk to the peasant association about it when you go back...... Moreover, I heard that the construction of the railway, it takes a lot of labor, how the Marquis of Zhou treats us people, this does not need me to say more, then the labor on the railway must be a lot, those who can't give up their wives and children, if they can contribute to the construction of the railway, they can get a large share of the income, a year is worth their food in the field for ten years and eight years, and the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood! ”

Cai Feng's speech was still a little messy, but it went to everyone's hearts. If the railway could be completed, they would not need to go so far to Diqiu to work, and even if they took one less silver yuan a month in their hometown, everyone would think it would be okay.

The premise is that the matter of repairing the Beijing-Xu Railway must be put into operation as soon as possible!

A boat of more than 20 people, after leaving Xuzhou, began to get off the ship one after another, and when they arrived in Kaocheng, only Cai Feng and the three of them were left.

The two companions were a little hesitant at this time, and seeing that their hometown was in sight, they asked, "Brother Cai, are you going to stay in Kaocheng and not return to Diqiu?" ”

"If you want to go back, if the railway is completed, I will take the railway back to Diqiu!" Cai Feng said categorically: "Originally, I didn't plan to do this, but after thinking about it along the way, I was really wrong at the beginning." With our rules in Diqiu, if there is a mistake to admit a mistake, admit a mistake and correct a mistake, I have to correct my mistake now! ”

He meant what he said, but it also had a purpose.

That invisible force, now that he can figure it out, must come from Zhou Quan.

The people opposed the construction of the railway, and Zhou Quan used simple and crude methods to deal with those who dared to beat the surveyors, but he still used another method for the blind obedience of the people.

Although Cai Feng didn't understand, with Zhou Quan's power, he could forcibly push the Beijing-Xu Railway, why did he still beat around the bush and make such trouble. But he knew that since Zhou Quan had invested so much in this matter and had such patience, he would definitely not give up.

If he can serve the Marquis of Zhou in this matter, even if he can't enter the eyes of his old man, he will inevitably be watched by the person who presides over this matter.

Diqiu's trip broadened Cai Feng's horizons at the same time, but also gave him greater ambition, after the first reading and writing and arithmetic, he was in awe of the so-called big families in the countryside, and now he disdains and hates them.

The more than 20 people who returned home with him were the tinder.

There are many more fires like this, and there are thousands of people before and after. When they returned to the countryside, they saw the situation of the countryside where the accumulated charcoal was ignited and combustible.

The peasant association has grown rapidly in the past six months, and although it is still only a mutual aid organization for poor peasants, it has become seriously antagonistic to the local big households. It's just that the people of the peasant associations, although they can organize, do not know what to do, and these workers, who have worked in the workshops, understand the organizational structure of industrialization, and know how much wealth the factories can bring, bring a surge.

From June of the second year of Xuanhe, Kaocheng County first occurred, then expanded to the surrounding areas, and then almost swept half of Henan, and a huge "road protection movement" broke out. (To be continued.) )