Chapter 73: The Creation of the Backbone 1
86_86695 It is true that there are sharp contradictions between the ruling class and the ruled class. However, within the ruling class, there are also strict contradictions.
Gu Guozhang is a typical representative of the contradictions within the ruling class.
Gu Guozhang was originally from a small landlord family in Nanzhili. He has been brilliant since he was a child, and at the age of less than fifteen, he has passed the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination, and has become a real young talent.
However, human nature is so twisted and pathological. is a fellow villager with Gu Guozhang, participated in the children's test with him and won the third yuan in a row, Liu Jianan, the son of the prefect who is only eighteen years old this year, has a secret hatred for Gu Guozhang, who is younger than himself, but he was admitted to the show and stole his limelight.
Liu Jiannan instigated the nursing home at home, took advantage of Gu Guozhang's solo outing, kidnapped him, and sold Gu Guozhang to a dark coal mine in Daye County, Huguang territory.
Gu Guozhang, as a showman, would not be unable to get out of an ordinary countryside or even in a prefecture or county. In the coal mine where the eunuch was the mine supervisor, no matter how much he struggled and how he identified himself, the answer he received was nothing more than starvation and beating. In this environment, Gu Guozhang worked as a thin miner in the coal mine for six years.
It wasn't until he was sold to Sima Feng by the mine supervisor that Gu Guozhang was freed from his dark life.
From Daye County, Hubei Province, more than 1,000 people sat on four big river boats, went upstream, and it took more than two days to arrive at Wang Shuhui's special wharf, Jiangbei Village Wharf.
As soon as they got off the ship, nearly 1,000 miners and their families were still a little uncomfortable with the feeling of stepping on the ground because they had been on the boat for several days.
Wang Shuhui said hello to Sima Feng, who got off the boat first, and began to observe the miners who had just gotten off the boat.
Sure enough, after the miners got off the ship, they began to look for their baskets. The so-called basket refers to the miners who mine, and every four or five people, there must be a leader in charge of the organization.
In a purely manual environment without mining machinery, in the dark and without safety guarantees, a single miner cannot undertake the operation in the mine. At this time, it is necessary to have a person with certain leadership skills compared to ordinary miners, and organize three or five miners to undertake the work of digging coal together in the form of small groups.
Because the coal is served in bamboo baskets, this organizer is called the basket.
Sima Feng is an old fox who has been around for a long time. He naturally knew that the transportation involving thousands of people, and if he wanted these people to persist in the harsh transportation conditions, the kind of leading figure must be saved. It is for this reason that these baskets are transported for the sake of ease of transportation. You know, the baskets are generally not young. The oldest basket was forty-two years old, and the youngest basket was thirty-five years old.
Sima Feng has seen Wang Shuhui now, and he is a million points careful. can slaughter the same upper-class family without hesitation, such a person, even if he talks to you with a pleasant face, do you say that you can completely put your mind at ease.
Sima Feng carefully observed, looking at Wang Shuhui, who had just disembarked from the ship. Seeing a slight smile on Wang Shuhui's face, Sima Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course, Wang Shuhui was happy. The batch of miners that Sima Feng brought back this time can be said to have solved Wang Shuhui's urgent need.
As far as Wang Shuhui's current situation is concerned, whether it is agriculture, industry or the army, they are all in urgent need of manpower to fill it. However, this group of miners who obviously have a certain sense of organization and are obviously more disciplined than ordinary people, Wang Shuhui will never use them as ordinary labor.
Wang Shuhui gestured to the family members who had already prepared the family camp next to him. When the group of family members got the signal, they immediately rushed forward like wolves, and looked at the group of miners who had just disembarked and were obviously a little confused.
Although the sticks used by the family members were purchased by Wang Shuhui from the modern society, they were wrapped in special sticks made of foam material. However, a group of people who had just arrived in a strange place were rushed up and beaten by another group of uniformly dressed and well-organized people, and chaos inevitably arose.
But soon, the miners who were beaten found out that the purpose of this group of people beating themselves was to make everyone line up. Although some couldn't figure out why they didn't explain it with words first, they went straight to the stick, but these miners, who had been working in collaboration for a long time, quickly lined up under the guidance of the stick.
Seeing this situation, Wang Shuhui's heart had some complicated feelings.
To be honest, Wang Shuhui directly used such violent means, on the one hand, to see if the miners with strong organization and discipline could quickly adapt to the form of queues. On the other hand, he also wanted to see if this group of miners was more resistant as written in the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty.
In terms of adaptability to the queue, they did make Wang Shuhui feel very satisfied. However, in terms of the spirit of resistance, this group of miners obviously did not give Wang Shuhui a satisfactory answer.
Soon, the miners lined up were led into the freshly built bathrooms by the river. When the miners saw the bathroom, they generally felt some panic.
Speaking of which, the reason why miners are scared is simple. The bathroom was built with waste shipping containers brought back from modern times by Wang Shuhui. Behind the bathroom is a huge boiler room that is almost two stories high. Next to the boiler room is a large dark red iron chimney that stands tall.
The mottled, lifeless bathroom, the big chimney emitting black smoke, not to mention these miners who have traveled a long distance and are worried about their future, it is Sima Feng, this guy, when he saw this situation, he also felt a little uncomfortable.
However, under the persecution and suppression of the sticks, the miners soon took off their essence honestly and walked into the bathroom in groups.
Wang Shuhui has entered this bathroom. Others may not have any special feelings after seeing this bathroom, but Wang Shuhui has a sense of intimacy and familiarity when he sees such a bathroom. This huge bathroom resembles the washing workshop in the state-run slaughterhouse he visited as a child.
On the ceiling of the bathroom, there is a grid of water pipes. These pipes are densely packed with small holes. When the main valve outside the bathroom is opened, the bathroom is filled with a small stream of water.
As a scholar, Gu Guozhang was originally quite opposed to stripping naked in front of everyone. However, after a few years of life worse than death in the dark coal mine, the cruel life has long since cleansed him of the hypocrisy of a scholar. Gu Guozhang soon stripped himself naked like other miners, and in his own team, followed the people in front of him, and honestly walked into the bathroom.
Before entering the bathroom, everyone was given a large brush by the housekeepers guarding the bathroom door. With this brush in hand, Gu Guozhang walked into the big bathroom.
Because it was summer, the water temperature in the bathroom was not very high, about 30 degrees. Gu Guozhang found that the light green water that sprayed everywhere and couldn't be avoided anywhere had a strange and pungent taste. However, bathing with hot water like this is already a treatment that Gu Guozhang has not enjoyed for a long time. He found a place with the most water flowing, and comfortably enjoyed the feeling of the warm water rushing through his body.
In the midst of a room full of bare-chested people, if there was a man in shorts, most people would think that this person must be the one who is good at talking. And so it is. Those who appeared in the bathroom, shirtless and wearing a pair of shorts, were the instructors of the battalion. The instructors continued to use sticks, allowing the miners, who were enjoying the hot water, to scrub themselves with large brushes in their hands.
After the instructors had carefully examined the miners' work, they led them to the next room.
In the next room, a group of instructors are taking measurements on the bodies of miners who have finished bathing. Each person who was tested was given a set of underwear and a set of khaki cloth trousers. Socks and shoes can be picked up at the door. Before going out, everyone was forced to swallow a few small yellowish pills.
Wang Shuhui knows that in China, it was not until after the establishment of New China that a comprehensive national-level epidemic prevention system was established. Before that, all kinds of infectious diseases and parasites were unscrupulously spread and infected among all Chinese in ancient times.
Wang Shuhui specially added disinfectants to the miners' bath water, and gave each miner anti-inflammatory drugs and anthelmintic drugs. He didn't want these precious human resources to be unable to adapt to the biochemical conditions in the Zhijiang area after a long journey, and an epidemic would break out, causing a needless loss of these precious human resources.
The miners, who had finished bathing, lined up in a new line on the playground behind the large bathhouse. After seeing some women and children in the bathhouse on the other side with wet heads and strange smells coming out of their bodies like them, many miners with families couldn't help but feel a little commotion. However, when they found out that the people in charge of organizing the women and children were young women, the commotion subsided.
After this little episode, all the people soon lined up and were led by the family members into a large shed on the edge of the playground. This shed was a temporary canteen for these miners prepared by the battalion.
For the sake of the health of these miners, who have been starving all year round, Wang Shuhui prepared a very simple meal for them. Each person received a bowl of thick cornmeal porridge, two cornmeal flatbreads and a salted fish, and this was the first meal for the miners when they arrived at their destination.
Although Wang Shuhui felt that such a diet was already quite light and simple. However, for this group of miners, although they don't know what these golden pasta are made of, they also know that it is real food. Everyone devoured their own polenta and cornmeal flatbread.
Seeing this situation, Wang Shuhui couldn't help frowning, and he asked Sima Feng next to him, "What did you give them to eat along the way?" ”
Originally, Sima Feng was a little nervous when he saw Wang Shuhui's expression. However, Wang Shuhui's question still made Sima Feng stunned for a while