It was already the end of July in 1910, which is later known as the tail of July, which is usually the hottest time of the year in Taiping Province. Although the global greenhouse effect is not so serious at this time, Taiping Province has a subtropical monsoon climate after all, with high temperatures in summer and fine at night, but the maximum outdoor temperature during the day can still reach 32 degrees Celsius.

Although 32 degrees Celsius is not too hot in the eyes of later generations, it does not belong to high temperature weather, but because the Chinese in this era are generally poor, and lack a large number of heat prevention and cooling equipment and medicines, so in the past, like this weather, there are few people working in the open air under the sun, especially such as the construction industry, such a large physical labor, after all, the loss of personnel due to high temperature illness is much greater than the benefit of rushing that time.

However, on a construction site near the Yangtze River in the west of Ma'anshan in Taiping Prefecture, although the sun in the sky is hot, the construction site is still a hot work scene, full of shirtless and strong men, or pushing small carts, or indulging in all kinds of strange machinery and equipment, under the big sun humming and humming work.

Although most of these people were working with various instruments and machines, they were still sweating because of the hot weather, but these people did not stop at all to find a place to cool off, and they seemed to be quite happy to see how they worked.

At this moment, a continuous convoy came over on the distant road, and the head was a strange-looking off-road vehicle, seeing this convoy, especially after seeing the off-road vehicle at the head, in a simple board room with the door open, Zhou Daqiang, the leader of the overseer who was drinking herbal tea to moisten his throat, was clever, and quickly stood up, ran out of the door with a few followers, and smeared a handful of soil on his body, so he stood up early and waited for the reception.

Soon, the convoy stopped in front of the board room, and the glass of the off-road vehicle at the head also fell, and with the attack of a burst of cold air, the true face of the driver inside was also revealed - this person had a partial head, wore a pair of strange-looking big sunglasses, and was wearing a yellow-green short-sleeved shirt with small lapels, which was the kind of summer military uniform of the regimental training team, not Li Zhigao.

"Ouch, host, why are you here in person on this hot day?" Seeing that it was really Li Zhigao, Zhou Daqiang immediately smiled, "Even if there is something, you can just call and ask." ”

"It's because it's hot that I'm not at ease." Li Zhigao shook his head, "The temperature during the day has been so high recently, I'm worried that someone here will get sick from heat stroke, so I came over to see the situation in person." ”

"The owner is really considerate." Zhou Daqiang bent down and said with a smile, "But don't worry, according to your instructions, we have prepared mung bean soup early, as well as those Huoxiang Zhengqi water you provided, and I guarantee that there will be no problem." ”

"Huh?" Li Zhigao frowned, pointed to the hot scene on the construction site and said, "Didn't I say that you should avoid the high temperature period at noon, and you are not allowed to work between 11 am and 3 pm, why are they still working?" And so many people? Did you force them to do it in pursuit of progress? ”

"Oh, don't you dare, owner." Zhou Daqiang hurriedly waved his hand, "Where do I dare to go against your will, these people really did it spontaneously, and I can't stop it." ”

"Do it spontaneously? So good? ”

"yes." Zhou Daqiang nodded, "Since you added the salary of the high temperature subsidy, it is pointed out that there is extra pay for working in hot weather, and the progress of completing the plan in advance is also approaching, so everyone is working so hard in order to get more money." Their morale is so high, if I want to stop it, they can tear me apart, you say, can I do this thing that cuts off people's money? ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Daqiang pointed to a few foreign devils wearing steel helmets and half-sleeves on the opposite side, holding drawings and pointing: "You see, not only our workers, but even those foreign devil engineers, in order to earn that early completion bonus and high temperature subsidy, are also constantly busy on the construction site, I can't control the foreign devils, right?" You can't force it, can you? ”

Hearing this, Li Zhigao took a look, and sure enough, he found that those engineers from the United States were also at the construction site, so he nodded, knowing that this meeting was not forced by Zhou Daqiang, but really the spontaneous behavior of these people.

But Zhou Daqiang is right, these people are so enthusiastic about work, it is all Li Zhigao's policy, or money.

At the beginning, seeing that the port throughput of Taiping Province was limited, which had restricted the prosperity of import and export trade, and for the sake of future development, Li Zhigao decided to build Ma'anshan Port, and hired more than 20,000 people in one go, and got a lot of construction machinery, in order to build the port as soon as possible, increase the trade throughput of Taiping Province, and prepare for his next heavy industry base.

After putting forward this plan for the construction of Ma'anshan Port, Li Zhigao got the design and planning of Ma'anshan Port from the modern society, and found someone to redesign it on the basis of the original drawings, abandoning the design of the container port terminal and turning it into a design based on the bulk cargo terminal.

With this drawing, the recruitment of personnel is about the same, Li Zhigao took this drawing and asked Marven to find a group of American engineers in China to start construction according to the requirements on the drawings. Although the technical level of American engineers in China is mediocre, and it is said that it seems to be inferior to that of German and French engineers, it is still more than enough to build such a port according to the complete design drawings.

After the start of construction, because there was no shortage of money, and because he wanted to improve the progress and complete the project early, Li Zhigao discussed with several American engineers and gave an early completion award in addition to the normal salary.

The meaning of the early completion award is that the project is divided into stages, each stage is given an approximate completion time, and if the progress is completed within the specified time, there is a full attendance bonus, and if the progress cannot be completed within the specified time, the full attendance bonus will not be issued, and if the progress is completed in advance, then in addition to the full attendance award, it will also be issued according to the number of days in advance, and the more time in advance, the more this bonus will be.

This money is not only paid to workers, but also to American engineers, and the amount of this bonus is calculated according to the proportion of your salary.

If you get a full attendance bonus, it is equivalent to 1.5 times your normal salary, and if you can get an early completion bonus, it will be even more, for example, if you get five days early, you can get at least twice your normal salary.

Originally, this incentive policy was already very good, and everyone was red-eyed, but after entering the hot weather that Li Zhigao thought, it may have been affected by the high temperature work in later generations, many people fainted and even died, and he made a policy of rest time for high temperature work.

Specifically, the period from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. is a break time, which is a time to work and avoid the heat. However, it is impossible to stop such a large project at the same time, so for those who have to continue to work between half past eleven in the morning and three in the afternoon, Li Zhigao gave a high-temperature subsidy, which is a lot of money, half of the current salary.

In this way, not to mention ordinary workers, even American engineers are not calm.

Originally, the full attendance bonus and the early completion bonus were very tempting, and if you were not allowed to work at half past eleven in the morning and three in the afternoon, it must be a delay in time.

Therefore, after having these policies, no one took Li Zhigao's order to not work during the high temperature period seriously, and they all engaged in spontaneous labor, and even were particularly willing to work during the high temperature period, because then they could receive an extra high temperature subsidy award.

It is normal for Chinese to suffer for a little money, and Americans can endure hardships so much, but it makes Li Zhigao in a trance for a while, is this still those American uncles?

In fact, Li Zhigao was also fooled by the country's mainstream media in later generations, Americans are not unable to endure hardship, on the contrary, their ability to endure hardships is very strong, but they usually do not have enough motivation for them to endure hardships, and now with the incentive of money, these American engineers in China, who are not rich themselves, are also full of momentum, and in this way, they continue to carry out high-temperature work so spontaneously.

Of course, this is also related to Li Zhigao's protective measures in place, after all, if something doesn't work, he will be carried down immediately and sent to the rest room of the board room to rest, and it is also equipped with enough Huoxiang Zhengqi water, wind oil essence and mung bean soup with sugar and salt, etc., at this temperature, there will be basically no major problems.

Just when Li Zhigao was still thinking there, a cold female voice suddenly came from the passenger seat: "Lord Li is really a good means, not only turning his hands into clouds and turning his hands into rain, and making a Taiping Mansion silently under his own hands, but also allowing these people to work for you so hard in this weather, this ability, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a hero." ”

"Hehe, Ms. Yin, you have won the prize." Li Zhigao turned his head to the young woman in the co-pilot who was wearing a Kuomintang American-style summer military uniform, wearing a yellow-green American-style boat-shaped hat, and said to a very delicate face, "Actually, my method is very simple, it is nothing more than giving money, as long as you give enough money, anyone can be like me." As for whether the hero is a hero or not, I don't care too much, anyway, as long as I can make more contributions to this country, this nation and these people, what does it make if it's called? ”

"A good one, for the country, for the nation, for the people to make more contributions!" The delicate-looking woman sneered and pointed to the car air conditioner that was still blowing cold wind, "Look at the car you drive, the things you use, these are all expensive, right?" It's all people's fat and people's ointment, right? Are you such a person for the country and the people? ”

"Hehe, who said that for the country and the people, you have to live poorly?" Li Zhigao smiled, "Besides, it's true that my things are expensive, but if you don't want to accept them, you don't dare to accept them, I don't earn these things by squeezing ordinary people, but by science and technology...... Forget it, I won't be able to tell you for a while, we have different concepts in this regard, so in order not to hurt the harmony, I won't talk about it. As I said before, seek common ground while reserving differences, and since our goals are the same in the general direction, there is no need to worry about the small details. ”

After speaking, for fear that the other party would continue to nag, Li Zhigao hurriedly pushed the car door and got out of the car, and began to deliberately ask Zhou Daqiang about the situation and chat.

Now with Li Zhigao's prestige and status, not to mention other places, at least in Taiping Mansion, no one dares to choke him like this, the reason why Li Zhigao lets the other party so much, in addition to Li Zhigao's own surname, is also because the other party is a young woman who is quite good.

Of course, this is not enough, although she looks good, but she is still a little short of the big beauty in her aesthetics, and it is impossible to be fascinated by her beauty, so the key is the identity of the other party, that is, she is the first big man she saw after coming here, a real famous person in history, and it happens that she still knows the big man.

That's right, the woman who choked on her words in the co-pilot's seat just now is Yin Ruizhi, who is said to have been a bodyguard for Sun Yat-sen, as famous as Qiu Jin, and is known as the flower of the Republic of China and one of the three heroes of modern Chinese women!

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