Chapter Forty-Eight: The Eve of Blowout Development
In addition to the renovation of old houses, countless wastelands have been developed, and the dwarf hills and dry old rivers have been transformed into flat land by the workers, and the scale of the entire Lishuping has been much larger. This does not include the fact that Shusheng Company has set up some factories in the mountains, leaving only one road out of the mountains.
The scale of the entire Lishuping is much larger than that of the town office, and it initially has the scale of the rural pilot small towns in later generations.
At the west end, on a construction site near the river and mountain, the construction team is in full swing. The ground was dug up, and there were dozens of large and small pits more than one person deep, all of which were the foundations of the new school. On the construction site, workers are pouring cement, lowering steel bars, and pressing large stones that are extremely hard.
"Dangdangdang......"
"One, two. 1.2......"
Groups of stone-carrying workers pluck large stones from horse-drawn carts and carry them into foundation pits to tamp the foundation. The whole construction site, the sound of hammers, mixed with the shouts of workers, seemed extremely busy.
A young man with relatively fine white skin wearing a wearable gown and a straw hat, and several middle-aged people in their thirties were carrying a large long stone of more than 200 catties towards the foundation.
The heavy stone pressed the four people couldn't speak, and it wasn't until they got to the foundation and put down the stone that they took a few long breaths.
"This stone is so heavy. Where are the old brothers from? The young man said.
"It's all from the next village. Young man, looking at your fine skin and tender meat, it can't be a school student who comes to work part-time, right? The three old fellows joked with the young man as they walked.
"Hehe, sort of." The young man lifted the sackcloth from his shoulders and wiped his sweat.
"This stone is not sinking, it was really sunken when you built your school last year. At that time, there were few people, and two people carried such stones. It's better now, four people lift, not to mention running fast, it's lighter. ”
Young man: "Why are you still willing to do it at that time?" ”
"Tired? Young man, you don't understand, in the early years, resisting a piece of wood that is not much lighter than this went to the town office to sell, that is miserable, a few trips, not enough for a day's wages here. A worker said.
Another worker scooped up the small kettle on his trouser belt, poured it, and snorted it happily: "The old farmer has the strength to do it, but there is no place to make money." Boss Zhang was kind-hearted, not only contributing money to build the school, but also managing the wages of the workers. According to me, the children are in school, and I will fight against the stones for nothing. ”
"Huh?" The young man smiled.
"Isn't it? Don't talk about you, lad. is the little calf in my family, which can be regarded as an ancestor who accumulated virtue, and met Zhang Dashan, so that he could go to school and have food. What a good little school, Lao Tzu wanted to go to school when he was a child, not to mention the neighborhood, even in the town, there is no school, only a dilapidated school. A worker who is five big and three rough waved his hand heartily and said, "Every time he comes home from vacation, I ask the little brute to kneel down for Lao Tzu first to see if he listens to the truth at school and has a good class." If not, Lao Tzu will not beat him to death, and will punish him for kneeling all night. In dozens of lifetimes, my ancestors have never encountered such a good opportunity, and they have never encountered such a kind big boss. ”
"Yes, big truth and small truth, what do we poor boys know? It's not just that whoever you get is good, you just remember whom. This radius of more than ten or twenty miles, old and young, who dares to say that Boss Zhang is not good, Lao Tzu is the first to lift the flat and pump him. ”
The young man smiled, he had not been to the construction site in person for a long time, and he was not lazy, but there were too many things, so he jumped into the carriage first, put on the rope, and asked, "I should work a little time to earn some pocket money." I don't know the wages of a few brothers, is it enough for the family? ”
"Enough, how not enough? Buy oil, salt, clothes, matches, and you can drop more than one piece a month. There is one less child, and there is a salary, as well as cheap matches, clothes and salt to buy, this is what I never dreamed of in this life. A worker sighed.
"Student, you are at school, have you heard anything else? I've heard that we seem to be building something, a university? I don't know if my little calf will have a chance to get on it. A worker sighed.
Several people worked together to lift a smaller stone, and one of them said with a smile, "Qu Laoqi, that kid in your family is only a few years old, and he is still lying on his stomach in the upper grades of elementary school." This is a university. Know what a university is? ”
"What is a university?"
"I also heard from the foreman that this university is something that only people in the city can attend, and I heard that there are not even one or two in Kunming. That's what people from those big places in Shanghai and Guangdong can only go to. ”
"I've heard of it, but I don't know where Shanghai and Guangdong are."
"You don't care where it is, as long as you know that if it weren't for Boss Zhang, our little cub would want to go to college? Let's talk about dreaming about a hundred years of spring and autumn. ”
"That's ......"
The young man asked, "Is there any difficulty in working here?" Like being bullied by a foreman? ”
"The foreman is a good man, or a guard, so he won't do such a thing."
"Boss Zhang is really a good person, he is studying for a university here, and I heard that under the mountain col over there, he is repairing a hospital. For generations, even barefoot doctors looked down on them, but I didn't expect to see any Western doctors like dioramas in the future. ”
"Let's hurry up, take a few more trips and have lunch, why don't you have anything else, there is only this little strength, and it can be regarded as helping Boss Zhang." Whether it's a school or a hospital, it's all for the benefit of our children and grandchildren. ”
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Throughout the morning, Zhang Shusheng wandered around three important construction sites. Wearing a straw hat and a wearable coarse cloth melon gown, he is a poor work-study student who uses his monthly vacation to do some small work.
He has always believed that no matter what the people below tell you, only by really going to ordinary people, listening to their complaints, listening to their joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and listening to their things about firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, can you be able to reach your eyes and ears.
There are more and more things in the Xiaoqingshan militia and Shusheng Company, and almost all kinds of things will be lined up from morning to night, but he still insists on taking out one or two days every month, disguised a little, and going to the construction site or factory mine below.
Although its own company is essentially aimed at making money, it will not be built on the flesh and blood of the poor people, sucking the blood of the poor people, and even if they pay for their hard work, they must be paid equally.
It's not that workers are needed to hire them, that's not my fundamental idea, workers can be hired at cheaper wages, but that is just a way to dry up and fish, not to hide the wealth from the people. At least let the people in his sphere of influence not run after him on an empty stomach.
It's not that how many companies you have built and how many guns you have under your command are, how well you do your job, and how well you do your career. For his great intentions, the effective and widespread circulation of wealth can ultimately promote economic and social development in the territory under his control.
At noon, I had a hasty meal in the cafeteria with a few workers who wanted to improve their lives, which was not bad, only cost less than two cents, although it was not rice, but it was also fragrant sweet potato rice. It's cheap, it's easy to fill your stomach, it's not expensive, and it's a favorite of workers.
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"Is it true that Ben wants to replace Germany and have all the interests of Germany in China, especially in Shandong?" When I returned to my office at noon, I picked up the urgent telegram sent back from the telegraph station set up in Kunming by the Special Intelligence Department of the militia group, saying that someone had reported that I was moving around Yanjing. Zhang Shusheng slammed the document book on the desk with a snap, which frightened the guards outside into a thump.
The butterfly effect brought about by his own crossing has not yet fully appeared, and the impact of selling tank drawings in advance on Germany has only made the casualties of the Anglo-French army larger. At most, a month or two later than in the original history, Germany would still have surrendered.
There was simply not enough time for him to plan the layout, and the First World War had already reached the end of 1917 in a bumpy way. Historically, in late September 1918, the German interests on the Shandong Peninsula were formally obtained, and now it is the beginning of October 1917, and perhaps at this time next year, there will be no fundamental change in the humiliation of Kou entering Shandong. Shamefully, China may still be the nominal victor of World War I!!
Zhang Shusheng no longer has the spirit to scold anyone. What President Feng, what kind of politicians in this faction, that faction, that house, he can only greet Xiao Yueben's relatives fiercely and scold Xiao Yueben's mother.
But he wasn't discouraged!
It is true that he did not catch up with the First Sino-Japanese War, the turmoil in the northeast caused by the Russian period, and still less the fact that he received the rights and interests of Shandong. However, I will not miss the most important war of resistance against Japan, let alone the excellent opportunity to lay the foundation for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in the two wars.
Now it's only the end of 1917, and there are still twenty years left for him, with the premise of the dream machine, as long as he is determined to develop and grow, on that day after twenty years, his strength is enough to make Xiao Yueben unable to eat and walk, and even go back to the country of animals.
Isn't Xiao Yueben known as the first industrial power in East Asia? Lao Tzu wants to build the largest industrial belt in Asia and the largest in the world.
Wasn't Xiao Yueben's army famous for its cruelty during the Anti-Japanese War, and famous for its bayonets, heavy firepower, and airplanes? Then Lao Tzu will train a more iron-blooded army, build more advanced tanks and artillery, and build more advanced fighters.
Didn't Xiao Yue rely on China's internal and external troubles, and the people's hearts were uneven, but they were fighting inwardly? In the face of national righteousness, Lao Tzu does not recognize anyone, as long as anyone hinders the war of resistance and who is annihilated by the Han Dynasty, Lao Tzu himself will poke him to death with a bayonet.
On the way to the orphanage, Zhang Shusheng's mood was unprecedentedly excited, originally isolated from the world at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan, it seemed that those major political events were far away from him, but now Xiao Yueben's bandit behavior is like a wake-up call ringing again.
The orphanage was built in a very secluded mountain, and the conditions were even harsh, and the school included a large residential area, which was much more difficult than the three schools outside.
Barbed wire, deep trenches, tight sentry posts, and heavily armed guards cut it off from the outside world, and no one dared to believe that it was an orphanage school, only a military exclusion zone, even though it was nominally an orphanage.
The militia guards are not directly drawn from the troops, but are specialized and rigorously trained full-time guard units. The iron-clad military orders and the extremely strict military regulations covered the guard units of the militia with a veil of mystery.
All the soldiers who were selected for the guard unit were personally lectured by Zhang Shusheng.
"In your next vigilance mission, whether it is a civilian or an officer, or even me. It doesn't matter who it is, whether it's you as the executor, or as the trespasser who is executed. As long as the warning order is violated, there are only two results. Arrested, or even shot! ”
After a strict document review, Zhang Shusheng and Luo Feng entered this isolated orphanage.
"Salute!"
On the orphanage's sidewalk, more than a hundred children finally met their vice-dean, who would never smile, and the dean to whom they would be loyal forever.
More than a hundred children, the youngest was five years old, and the oldest was in their teens, all straightened up, saluted, and stood there with their heads up, not daring to move.
Zhang Shusheng walked up to the lecture platform alone, looked at the more than 100 immature faces below, thought a lot, and after a long time, he waved his hand and asked, "Tell me, what is your task." ”
"Train, train, train!"
"Tell me, who are you allegiant!!"
"Dean, Dean, Dean!"
The children blushed one by one, and the youngest child was so frightened that he barely cried, but none of them dared to violate the discipline in any way.
These children, who almost starved to death and froze to death in the streets and alleys, have learned obedience and discipline at a young age, only two months, and they have learned a lot of things.
It's not the first time he's been here, he's going to come once every three days, he's going to lecture the kids, he's taking care of them, he's giving them lessons, he's bandaging their wounds......
Zhang Shusheng nodded and asked, "The person who didn't complete the training task yesterday stood up. ”
The three children, the eldest of whom was only about 9 years old, stood up, his body shaking a little, obviously hungry. Walked to the front with all the sympathetic and shameful eyes of all.
"Tell me what the punishment you deserve."
"Violating Article 3 of the House Rules, wasting time and learning nothing. You should stop eating for a day and be locked up for a day. The eldest child, unable to bear the shame, said in a mournful voice.
"Come with me to the office!" Zhang Shusheng walked away with a face, the other students were disbanded, and in the afternoon there would be a cultural class, a military training class, and even a simple psychology course.
In the office, Zhang Shusheng closed the door, looked at the three children standing there motionless and didn't dare to move, looking at their hungry eyes, his heart hurt more than anyone else.
"Tell the Dean why you didn't complete the training mission." Zhang Shusheng asked kindly.
"I, I forgot a Tang poem."
"Me, I slipped out of the training net."
"I, I ......"
"Dean, he was sick yesterday and fell asleep in the afternoon class."
Zhang Shusheng nodded and helped them wipe away their tears one by one. These seven or eight-year-old children, compared with the flowers in the greenhouse in later generations, have bloomed much earlier and matured a lot, and they were originally selected children, although they are small, but they are very sensible.
Thinking about the huge national crisis, thinking about the blood feud of tens of millions of people in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and thinking about the pressure that the Western nations put on the Chinese nation in the future, he had to prepare for it a long, long time in advance. Prepared from all aspects, Plan A of the orphanage can only be the tip of the iceberg.
"How many hungry meals have you had?"
"Two, two."
"Hungry?"
"Hungry."
"Do you blame the teacher and the dean?"
"No wonder, the vice president said on the first day he brought us back that those who fail to complete the training are useless people, and those who are useless live to waste food, and they should be kicked out of the orphanage and starved to death." The eldest child, crying and shouting, felt both ashamed and scared that he had not completed the task.
Zhang Shusheng nodded, turned around, secretly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, opened the drawer, and took out three big and red apples, as well as a jar of porridge.
However, although the children's eyes were full of desire, they did not dare to eat it.
"Tell me, what is the dean's order?"
"Supreme Order!"
"Now I command you to eat!"
Putting the apples in the hands of the children one by one, and then carefully holding the meat porridge in a bowl, looking at the eager and excited eyes of the children, Zhang Shusheng handed them one by one and motioned them to eat, "Tell the dean, except for the sick classmates, can you complete the task tomorrow?" ”
"Hmmm! Dean, we will be able to complete the task tomorrow. ”
"Well, finish eating the apple here, don't tell the other students, this is the dean's order, and it is also the dean's and your biggest secret. The dean believes in you, and will not make your classmates laugh at you as cowards, nor will you let me down. However, if you still can't complete the mission, you should know that the Dean can only visit you once every three days. ”
"Hmm!" The children nodded firmly, and at a very young age, they already understood a lot of things. The three children quickly finished eating the apple, wiped away their tears, and thanked Zhang Shusheng before opening the door and being picked up by the orphanage guards. In addition to the sick children, waiting for them, will be closed for a day.
And similar things, Zhang Shusheng, who came to the orphanage once every three days, would always do it once or twice. And between him and many students, he also has a secret that is hidden deep in the hearts of children.
Zhang Shusheng stood up, and Luo Feng, the vice president who had just come over, was looking at the children in the distance, "Luo Feng, did you say that I did this, is it wrong?" ”
"Dean, you're right. They were supposed to starve, get sick, and freeze to death in the streets. They were the ones who fished them back from Hades one by one! Without a plan, they would have died long ago. In this cannibalistic society, people will inevitably have to pay some price if they want to survive, eat, dress, and live. They just trade their efforts for life and long-term survival.
The tranquility of hundreds of millions of people must be guarded by the sacrifice of a small number of people. Train them rigorously so that they can complete tasks better in the future. Just so that they will not be discovered by the enemy in the future and killed by the enemy. ”
For a long time, Zhang Shusheng didn't speak, and finally walked back to the office door, turned his back to Luo Feng and said: "In the future, the students will be punished, and the confinement can be locked up for one day, and the punishment for starvation will be reduced to two meals, otherwise the child will be hungry." If a student has a psychological problem, be sure to report it to me so that I can deal with it myself. ”
"If the jade is not cut, dean, wouldn't this be too merciful?"
"It's an order!"
"Yes!"
"Also, starting next year, the first batch of foreign children will be sent in the next step, and the preliminary preparations will start now!"
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