Lantian is a county adjacent to Chang'an in the southeast. Its topography is the Lishan Qinling Mountains in the southeast, and the central and western rivers and plains are interspersed, and there are Bahe River and Chanhe River running through its territory.

Lantian is rich in mineral resources, famous for its blue sky and beautiful jade, especially the reserves of high-quality kaolin and high-quality limestone, so as early as before the New Year, this place was selected as an important industrial base by Xiao Quai.

Although it is the New Year and the next day is the Shangyuan Festival, all the construction sites in Lantian County are in full swing at this moment. Camps have been built everywhere, and simple sheds have been erected. Under the command of craftsmen and technicians from the Ministry of Industry and the Four Seas Trading Company, the small workers are leveling the foundation and marking lines with lime.

All kinds of materials for building factories, masonry, and wood, were pulled by four-wheeled wagons, and were continuously transported from all sides and piled up in open places. At the outermost end of the camps, recruitment continues.

The person in charge of the trained Sihai Trading Company shouted loudly: "Fathers and brothers, the Sihai Trading Company recruits workers, over 18 years old, under 50 years old, and those who are strong are preferred. Three silver coins per month, no credit. For each hired worker, there is also a settling-in allowance of the usual copper coins, which will be available immediately after signing the contract!

If there are craftsmen who know how to make hoop kilns, burn bricks, make paper, smelt iron and steel, raise sheep and pigs, and have double their wages, they are really skilled, and when the building is built, they can also divide a house, which is that every household has running water. Do you know about tap water? It is to turn on the bamboo tube switch at home, and the water will flow out by itself. ”

In fact, there is no need for him to be so detailed, these people who came to apply for jobs have already inquired clearly. The treatment here is really good. Not to mention the salary of at least three silver coins per month. Enough for a family of four to eat and drink. Life is hard though. But two meals are full, and there is one day off every ten days, isn't this the same as an official?

Even the mother-in-law of the family can come out to work, and she has a salary of at least one and a half silver coins per month. Even if there are young children in the family, they can leave the children in the nursery and be taken care of by the women who come out to work. And those half-grown children, if they are willing to pay 100 wen a month, can also go to the primary school to study. There are the best gentlemen who teach them to read and write.

Compared with the previous treatment, the last one is a great thing. Reading and literacy has always been monopolized by the aristocracy of various families, and they, the lowest peasants and urban handymen, even dare not dream that their children can also read and write!

It is said that when the sound of reading in the elementary school hall came out, many workers who were doing things heard it and couldn't help but cry!

And what they repay to the four seas trading company is to work harder, no one is lazy, and no one is tired. Every time, the foreman had to shout several times before he was willing to rest for half a moment.

Xiao Quzhi and others traveled all the way, and what they saw was such a hot scene. Various construction sites in Lam Tin. Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi came for the fourth time, and Li Xian came for the second time.

Here is the specific responsibility of the sixth uncle Wang Yujue, Xiao Quzhi has always respected professional things, and handed them over to professional people to do. The reason why he came so diligently is because this is the foundation of his career system, and he is not allowed to pay less attention; At the same time, it is also necessary to let everyone know that it is the person who brought them all this.

"Look, King Lanling is here!"

"Lanling Wang, Wanghou Wandai!" There has always been only the prince Wandai, but Xiao Qubing is now a prince, and it is obviously no longer appropriate to call the prince Wandai.

"King Lanling, King of Jianning, Princes and Princes of Wandai!"

A team of nine people, no matter where they went, were a crowd of people cheering happily, if they didn't have to do things, and the construction site was very disciplined, and they were not allowed to move around casually, these people could surround Xiao Quai's illness on three floors inside and three layers outside.

"Master, Xiao Qi is very happy to see you every time you come here, why is that?"

"You're not happy?" Xiao Qu said to Xiao Qi, how can you be like a curious baby, but he is actually very happy, he deliberately pulls Li Qi with him every time: "Seeing so many people change their fate because of our efforts, most of them here are farmers who have lost their land, who have been displaced, hungry and poorly clothed.

Now that we are well fed, warmly dressed, and life is getting more and more hopeful, they are sincerely grateful to us, and I am sincerely happy, and I feel a special sense of accomplishment. Give people roses, and there is a lingering fragrance in your hands. Do you know that this is also a kind of happiness.

A person's happiness is always limited, so almost everyone can't help but tell their nearest and dearest people when they encounter something extremely happy. Sometimes there are good things that you can't afford to eat but also leave them for your closest people to eat together, which is the joy of sharing.

Just like me, it's nothing to be happy, but when I see Kerr and you happy, I'm very happy, even happier than I have encountered something, this is human nature.

Master just generalized this kind of human nature, I think that my own good life alone is not my ability, if there is a person who can make more people live well, and see more people happy because of me, I will have a special sense of accomplishment and happiness! ”

Li Qi nodded thoughtfully, he was born in the royal family, the royal family pays attention to herdsmen and servants, and the common people are just a resource and a tool in their eyes, and they never feel that I have done anything to make the people happy, and then I have a sense of accomplishment and am very happy.

However, there is one thing that Li Qi agrees with very much, he said in his heart, I am the same, seeing that the master is happy, Xiao Qi is even happier than himself.

Li Xian is also a royal family, but compared to Li Qi, he is a distant branch, and his identity is more in Confucianism and officials. He looked at Xiao Qu's illness and said, "That's why the auxiliary ministers set the wages of these workers so high?" The treatment is so good? Just want to make them happy, and then the auxiliary ministers will have a special sense of accomplishment and happiness? ”

"That's it." Xiao went to the pathology institute of course.

Li Xian blinked, a little puzzled: "Actually, you don't have to give such a good treatment, someone else comes, so that we can also save some money and use it for a longer period of time." ”

Since a few days ago, Xiao Quzhi handed him the plan to be made in the next few months. Li Xian's previous kind of "We are very rich." You can't use it up for two years while lying down" was completely overturned.

This Xiao Qu's illness is too big. The budget for building three invincible ships and developing new weapons for naval warfare turned out to be 2.5 million yuan, which is really 2500000 yuan.

Also, the salary of 30,000 soldiers recruited in Luoyang is too high. Not only are the soldiers full of food and meat every day, but the soldiers' families also have to arrange work and provide food and lodging. If you have children, you have to go to school, you don't have to pay a penny, not to mention, the food is very good. Even after half a year, I plan to strive for half a catty of milk and two chickens to eat every day for each child.

Isn't this a loser!

Now seeing that the treatment of workers on various construction sites is also so good, when he thinks of spending money like flowing water, Li Xian deeply feels that he is not a good manager.

"Brother Yanjian, don't just think about expenditure, you are also a person who has served as a local county magistrate, on any construction site, can you see someone working so actively, so carefully and meticulously? and the foreman to catch them up. Are you willing to rest? ”

Li Xian thought for a moment and said, "That's not true. ”

"So. Don't look at the high remuneration we give, they will return us more profits when the time comes. You don't have to worry, this piece is definitely not a loss, and after the workshop is built, it will become more and more profitable! ”

It took nearly two hours for the group to go around several large construction sites. The cement kiln and the brick kiln have been hooped, and the workshop that will be able to fire bricks and cement and smelt iron and steel is still under construction. Xiao Quzhi wants to burn coke and build a boiler with refractory bricks, but the current coking with coal is still in the experimental stage.

What makes Xiao Qubing happy is that the paper mill has almost been built, and in less than a month, a large number of papers will be produced, and then the auction agency will be taken out, which will be a large amount of income.

"The assistant minister is here, how is it, are you still satisfied with the progress everywhere?" After looking at the construction sites, the group came to the recruitment place, and the sixth uncle Wang Yujue greeted him with a smile.

"Satisfied, how can you not be satisfied, it's a surprise everywhere, the sixth uncle has worked hard." Xiao Quzhi smiled and grabbed Wang Yujue's arm, and asked as he walked, "How is the recruitment?" Are there many kinds of mechanics? ”

"All construction sites are almost full, and there are enough technicians, but no one understands coking, and now more than a dozen charcoal-burning masters are being recruited."

Wang Yujue was also happy and worried: "It's just that there are too many people coming, we can't use so many people, how can we deal with so many people left, let them go back?" ”

Xiao Quzhi also frowned, this is also a trouble. Population growth, land annexation by powerful families, underdeveloped commerce, and political ~ corruption ~ corruption ~ have created a large number of landless peasants and small citizens who cannot find jobs.

After all, his career has just started, how can he have the ability to digest all these labor forces at once? Call them Luoyang, aren't there such people near Luoyang?

"In this case, you can find someone to build a batch of straw huts out of wood and thatch outside the construction site, and I will tell them that the recruitment is full......"

Before Xiao Qu finished speaking, he heard a commotion behind the recruitment team, and everyone turned their heads to look over. In fact, although the recruitment office is long and overcrowded, it is still orderly.

Sihai Trading Company is very orderly, if you don't line up according to the rules, you will be driven back, and they will not be allowed to recruit workers, so Xiao Qubing and others have gone all the way, but there are many people but not chaos.

"What's going on?" Wang Yujue's face turned cold, and he asked sharply.

Xiao Quai's two personal guards ran over, and soon the "culprit of the accident" was brought to them, two children, a man and a woman, the man was about eleven or twelve years old, and the woman was six or seven years old.

The two of them were dirty all over, their faces were full of mud, their hair was dirty and knotted, and they were glued together into a strip shape, one was wearing a pair of broken straw sandals in the winter, and the other was simply barefoot, and the black feet were full of frostbite and blood cracked by the cold wind, which made people feel distressed to look at.

"Back to the king of Lanling, Mr. Wang, these two children come every day, I have told them not to recruit children, but they refuse to leave." An employee of the Four Seas Trading Company, who is in charge of maintaining order, said in embarrassment.

"Lord Wang, take me, I can work, I have strength, I don't want to be paid, just take care of me and my sister have two full meals!"

The boy's arm was grabbed by the employee's hand, and at this time, I don't know where he got such strength, so he broke free from his hand at once, and knelt in front of Xiao Quzhi with a "plop", kowtowing again and again, and her sister next to her was stunned for a moment, and she also knelt down and was about to kowtow.

Xiao didn't care about being sick, so he helped the two of them up one by one, and said to his brother, "What's your name?" What about the parents at home? ”

The two children looked up at Xiao Quai, their eyes were full of pleading, but at this time they lowered their heads sadly, their faces were full of sadness, and after a long time, the boy said: "The little one is called Chen Goudan, this is my sister Chen Alan." Daddy, Auntie, they're all dead. ”

His voice was choked, but he was still stubborn, but Chen Alan burst into tears. Li Qi, Li Xian, Wang Yujue and others all quietly watched Xiao Quai's illness to see how he would deal with it.

"How did you die? Don't you have any other relatives? ”

"Daddy is the border army of the Shuofang army, and he died in a battle with the Turks six years ago.

Saying this, he finally began to shed tears one by one, with a hateful expression on his face: "A-Niang feeds us by weaving silk and doing laundry for others. We have no land for a long time, but a year ago, Wang Ji asked Ah Niang to pay the rent and the Yong Tune, and even Ah Daddy's five-year rent had to be paid, and Ah Niang couldn't pay it, so she was dragged to the Yamen and beaten half to death, and died three days after coming back...... Woo......"

Xiao Quzhi looked at Li Xian with some doubts, and Li Xian said in his ear: "The border army guarding the frontier can be exempted from the rent and Yong adjustment, and the border army will be transferred every six years.

Over the years, the border generals were ashamed of their defeats, and the soldiers who died in battle did not report to the government. In fact, the male in the family died in battle, and the chief of the chief knew that in order to collect more taxes, Wang Ji deliberately pretended not to know, forcibly collected it, and injured people's lives! ”

"Damn." Xiao Qu scolded hatefully, reached out and patted Chen Goudan on the shoulder: "How did you spend this year?" ”

Xiao Quzhi can see that although the two of them are as thin and weak, it is obvious that Chen Alan's nutrition is better than that of Chen Goudan, and he has more clothes, this Chen Goudan is not only thin, but also has injuries all over his body, and he was beaten again, and several places on his calf were obviously bitten by dogs.

"We beg for a living, sometimes we steal, we beat when we catch it, and sometimes we are bitten by dogs if we don't steal anything......"

"But even so, you still take care of your sister better than yourself. You're a good boy, a good brother. Xiao Quzhi was a little moved in his heart, thinking that this was also a soldier's bereaved family, and he should help him if he encountered anything.

"But we don't recruit child labor, what can you do if you're so thin?"

Chen Goudan lowered his head helplessly, and Chen Alan cried even more desperately. Xiao Quzhi squatted down slightly, looked at Chen Goudan, and said seriously: "At your current age, you should go to the school to study."

In this way, I will lend you a sum of money and send you to the primary school to study, and when you grow up, can you earn money and pay me back? You can also go to the cafeteria to help out with chores and earn some living expenses, okay? (To be continued.) )

PS: Two chapters in one, and the rest will continue to be written, but it will be sent tomorrow.