After a series of inspections of Scrooge's family businesses and the University of Cleveland, Yung and Scrooge reached a preliminary agreement to purchase a new production line of the Model 1864 rifle and reached an agreement to arrange for Chinese students to study in the United States.

After sending Rong Hong away, Alaska's opening plan was officially launched. The conditions offered by Scrooge were quite generous under the conditions at the time, and there were many unemployed people at that time, so although Scrooge repeatedly emphasized that high wages correspond to high risks, Alaska's natural environment is harsh, sparsely populated, and infrastructure is almost non-existent, and once you get sick, even the simplest cold may lead to death. But the people who signed up almost broke through the door of the recruitment office.

"Hey, Jose, you're going to Alaska too?" A man standing in a long queue said to another big man standing beside him.

"Ah, Jack, I can't help it, I've got to make a place where I can feed myself." Jose replied, "If nothing else, at least they will make sure I am fed." Why did you go to Alaska? ”

"Needless to say, naturally it's the same as you, eating with a mouth." Jack replied, "By the way, I heard that it is very cold in Alaska, and it is snowy for most of the year. It can often be cold to more than minus 60 degrees Celsius (Fahrenheit, roughly equivalent to minus 50 degrees Celsius), which is terrifying to think about. It is said that the snow will fall thicker than a person. I heard that when I slept at night, when I pushed the door of the house the next day, the door of the existing house could not be opened, and the whole house was buried by snow, and finally I could only climb out of the chimney, and I don't know if it was true. ”

"This must be nonsense, how can there be such a big snow? Especially since it can't be so much in one night. Well, Jack, aren't you afraid of dogs? I've heard that it's all dog sledding to go out there. Will you be able to adapt? Jose remembered another question.

"Yes, I'm a little afraid of dogs. But I'm more afraid of starvation. Besides, I was told that although the sled dogs looked like wolves, they were actually very gentle and did not bite. Jack said.

At this time, they saw one of their acquaintances, Add, walking from the registration office with his head down.

"Add, what's wrong?" Jack asked.

Eddie raised his eyes and saw that it was them, so he stopped, and then said depressedly, "What else?" Those people said I didn't meet the standards. ”

"What kind of standards are there? Can you tell us about it? Jose hurriedly asked.

Eddie, who had just been rejected, was not in a good mood, but for the sake of Jack and Jose being his friends, he still told them in detail:

"They, in general, prefer big guys. As far as I saw earlier, the bigger guys are basically guò. Well, Jose, you're so big, it's going to be fine. If it's not big, well, it's dangerous. Because they're going to make you lift heavy objects in the back, and they're going to make you blow into a tube or something. Anyway, I was eliminated at that link. ”

"Thank you so much." Jose said.

"Add, don't be discouraged." "I've heard people say that they don't have very precise standards, and they can't remember all the people who are here every day. Tom tried three times, and the third time he got through. ”

"Really? Thank you so much! I'll come back in the afternoon. Apparently, Eddie's words were encouraging, and he seemed confident again.

After waiting for a long time, it wasn't until two hours later that it was finally Jose and Jack's turn, and sure enough, just like Eddie said, Jose quickly passed the test, as for Jack, maybe the guy in charge of the audit was in a good mood, anyway, he barely passed the test. The company told them: go back and get ready, next Monday, they will go out to Alaska.

……

A few days later, Jose and Jack set up a company in Alaska and boarded a train to Mississippi in the south. Because all of Alaska's ports are on the Pacific coast (on the other side of it is the Arctic Ocean, where there won't be any ports, at least until there are reliable icebreakers), their itinerary is quite complicated. They will take Guò 6 to Mississippi, then take a boat to Veracruz, Mexico, and then cross Mexico to Acapulco on the Pacific coast, and then take a boat to Alaska.

After such a toss, by the time Jose and Jack actually set foot on Alaskan soil, it was already more than two months later.

……

At this time, the wharf had not yet been fully built, and the big ships could not come up, so they could only use small boats to bring people and things ashore one by one. When you go ashore, the first thing you do is get your clothes. It's still early autumn in the Great Lakes, but it's already very cold in Alaska. By night, the temperature is said to be below 32 degrees Fahrenheit and the outside is starting to freeze. After receiving the clothes and assigning the room, it was time to go to lunch.

"When you newcomers have eaten, each of you has taken an axe, and you all go with the convoy to the other side of the hill to cut wood. In another ten days and half a month, it will snow here, and before it snows, you will have to build the houses for the next batch of workers, just as the last batch of workers prepared houses for you. Otherwise, when the time comes, the new workers will have no place to live, so they will throw you all out and feed the wolves! After lining up outside the restaurant, a responsible-looking man shouted at them.

"Okay, do you understand? If you understand it, go eat right away! The man shouted.

"Got it!" Everyone said.

The canteen was built of wood and mud. The walls were made entirely of earth, very thick, and Jose estimated that the walls were nearly three feet thick. The door was also made of planks about half a foot thick, which made it look very sturdy, and the room was very low, and the windows were very small, so that the room was very dark, almost like a cave.

"Why did you build the house like this?" José muttered.

"To keep warm." A hunk sitting next to him said in strange English.

José turned his face to look at the man who spoke so strangely, and by the light coming in from the window, he saw that the man was less of a white man and more like an Indian.

"You're an Indian?" Jose asked in surprise.

"No, I'm Chinese." The man replied, "It's a member of the escort here, my name is Chen Guang." The nickname is Eight Feet. ”

"You're a mercenary from Blackwater?" Jose asked enviously, "Are there still Chinese in the black water?" ”

"Yes. There are a few, but I'm the only one here. They said that I was slow to learn English because there were always Chinese people around me who spoke Chinese, so they sent me here. But by this point, my English has improved a lot. Chen Guang stumbled and said, "Although it's not very good, but you can understand it, right?" ”

Probably in order to learn English as well as possible, Chen Guang's words are very special. But strange to say, although this guy kept talking, he didn't delay eating at all. There was noticeably more food on his plate than the average person—Jose looked at it, and Chen Guang's plate contained two more chunks of spam and a large chunk of bread with thick butter, and an egg than his plate—but in the blink of an eye, Chen Guang had eaten it all.

"You Blackwater guys eat so well. But it seems like you're eating more than they do. Do you eat as much as you want? Jose asked.

"If they're willing to carry a hundred and thirty pounds a few hours a day, like me, they'll be able to eat that much." Chen Guang ate the last egg in one bite, and then sighed: "It's still delicious eggs, Spam is simply not something for people to eat." That sense of superiority almost made Jose faint.

However, Chen Guang can only have a sense of superiority in front of such ordinary people, and among Heishui's comrades-in-arms, he can only be the object of ridicule. The 130-pound thing was actually a body armor with a thick steel plate inserted into it. Chen Guang had to wear it for a long time every day, until he trained to walk, and no one could tell that he was wearing it. As for the purpose of such training, it is clear to everyone that it is to block bullets for important tasks. A big man like Chen Guang, who is eight feet tall and has a waist circumference of eight feet, can definitely block the important people to be protected tightly.

After eating, the new workers each got an axe and prepared to go up the hill to cut down the trees. A few of Blackwater's mercenaries took their guns and followed them to guard.

"Chen, is there any danger here?" Jose asked when he saw Chen Guang also walking beside him with a rifle.

"Danger, there are many wolves, there are wolves here, a group of about a dozen or twenty, if you are alone, they can gnaw you to the bone. Well, by the way, you have to remember that these guys look almost exactly like our sled dogs, but they are completely two things, so don't be mistaken. As if remembering something funny, Chen Guang couldn't help but laugh.

After laughing for a while, Chen Guang continued: "Actually, the wolf is nothing, as long as you are not alone, there is nothing wrong." The most dangerous thing is the grizzly bear here. Last month we ran into one, good fellow, that one, if he stood up, he would be estimated to be ten feet tall. And not afraid of people at all. ”

"And then?" Jose asked.

"Later, of course, it was eaten by everyone." Chen Guang said, "The fat is very thick, the fishy smell is very strong, except for the soles of the feet, it is not delicious." ”

By this time, they had come to the site of the logging, a hill with tall spruce.

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