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"Dog's melon baby, if you squeeze it again, Lao Tzu will be unkind to you!"

"You little rabbit, how can I squeeze it? Isn't it someone else pushing me forward? ”

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, squeeze again, I'll be out of gas......"

"What are you arguing about, didn't you see the steward coming?"

"Phew, damn it, finally squeezed in."

This is a dirt slope at the foot of Iron Hat Village, and on the dirt slope is a table with a tent-like gentleman sitting behind it, and in front of him is a long line of people, one by one, who are scrambling to squeeze forward.

This is the scene of the recruitment of the cement factory in Tiemao Village, since the cement factory at the foot of the iron hat mountain was built, Yueyang has begun a large-scale recruitment work. Unlike modern cement plants, which are almost entirely mechanized, the cement plant built in Yueyang can only be regarded as a soil workshop strictly speaking, and is not even as good as a modern township-level cement factory, which is a labor-intensive factory, so large-scale recruitment has become the preliminary work of the cement factory.

As soon as the news of the cement factory's recruitment came out, the first people to attract were those who had fled to the vicinity of Yingzhou's capital. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to land annexation and natural disasters, thousands of peasants who had no way to survive could only wander around, and these people became the most unstable factor in the Ming Dynasty. In order to eat, there is nothing they dare not do, and many homeless people who have fled to Yingzhou heard that there is a place to recruit people to work, and immediately ran over as quickly as possible without thinking.

On a small road, a middle-aged man in ragged clothes, about thirty years old, led a middle-aged woman about his age to carry a simple burden. Behind them was a little girl of eleven or twelve years old, with a little boy of four or five years old on her back.

At first glance, these four people who know that they are a family have a common characteristic, that is, their faces are sallow and thin, and they know at a glance that they are caused by long-term malnutrition.

"Sister...... I'm hungry! ”

After walking for a while, the boy behind the girl suddenly shouted.

The little girl hurriedly turned around and comforted: "Little brother don't shout, my sister will dig some wild vegetables later, and boil vegetable soup for you, okay?" ”

"Sister...... Are there really wild plants here? Hearing this, the little boy's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his chapped lips.

"Of course, wait for Daddy to find a job. Maybe we can make wild vegetable buns in the future. The little girl comforted her brother.

"Wild vegetable buns......" The boy felt that his saliva was about to flow out, and he could no longer remember the last time he ate wild vegetable buns.

Listening to the conversation between the two children behind him, the middle-aged man walking in front only felt that his eyes were sore, and a stream of hot liquid slowly flowed out of his eyes. It is said that men bleed without tears, but this man couldn't help it. He couldn't figure out how he was a seven-foot man, and he was not lazier than others. Why is it so hard to feed a family?

The man quickened his degree, and when he turned a corner, he saw a group of people in front of him who were desperately squeezing forward, and there was a lot of noise.

Seeing this, the man could not help but be overjoyed, and led his daughter-in-law and two children to a dead tree and said to them, "You are all waiting for me here, and I will go to the front and inquire." See if the front is a recruiting factory. ”

"Master, you go, I'll wait for you here with the child!" His daughter-in-law replied.

The middle-aged man trotted briskly to the front, and after two quarters of an hour, he finally squeezed to the front of the dirt slope, and he asked anxiously to the middle-aged tent man on the dirt slope: "Dare to ask this master, is this the place where the factory recruits people?" ”

"Hahaha......"

The middle-aged man's words caused a burst of laughter among the people around him. The bookkeeper also laughed: "If you are talking about the cement factory opened here in Wulizhai, then it is, do you want to come here to find a job?" ”

The middle-aged man's tears fell when he heard this: "Yes, this lord, we fled from Shandong, and came here by begging along the way, seeing that the child was about to starve to death, you are doing well, just accept me, and give our family a way to live." I'm kowtowing to you! After that, the man knelt down and kowtowed to him.

"Eh, eh, eh, ......" The tent quickly stood up and helped him up, "Don't kowtow to me, this factory is not mine, it is the factory opened by our Lord Yue." Lord Yue is kind-hearted, and he opened this factory to reward you for eating, so you want to thank Lord Yue or thank you. So be it. It's not easy to see you, so I'll accept you, by the way, what's your name. Where did it come from, how old is it? ”

"Back to this master, my name is Wu Mantun, from Laizhou, Shandong, and it's Chinese New Year's Eve second today!" The middle-aged man hurriedly replied.

"Well, that's it!" The tent wrote a few times in an account book, and then gave Wu Mantun a wooden plaque and instructed: "You, put the wooden plaque well." Follow the road behind me straight ahead, there's a factory there, just report there! Your monthly salary is 50 catties of grain and 500 yuan, do you understand? ”

"I understand, thank you, thank you!" At this time, Wu Mantun was so happy that his chest seemed to be about to crack. The man in his thirties happily ran to the big tree and shouted: "Child, mother, I have finally registered for the name, and the steward said, I can go to the factory to work tomorrow, and we will have steamed buns to eat tomorrow!" ”

In the past few days, stories like Wu Mantun have been born almost every day in Tiemao Mountain, this new cement plant has officially started operation in Daming, maybe it is still stumbling at this time, but Yue Yang firmly believes that it will be able to bear fruit.

One day in mid-June, Yue Yang led Hai Lanzhu, Linglong Sisters and Shunbao and other unmanned horses to Iron Hat Village, and saw two large chimneys from a distance, which were spewing smoke.

Before everyone had time to express their feelings, suddenly there was a loud noise from the other side of the mountain, which startled several people's horses and neighed uneasily.

"Yue Yang, what the hell is going on, how can there be an explosion!" Hai Lanzhu, who was taken aback, hurriedly asked. For this kind of voice, except for Yue Yang and Shunbao, the other three women were frightened.

"It's nothing, it's just the sound of explosives being released in our factory when mining stones." Yue Yang replied nonchalantly.

Yes, that is, to mine stones with explosives. Black powder technology has been stored in China for a long time, and the first thing Yueyang did after getting the most scientific black powder ratio formula was to open a black powder factory to make black powder. After opening the cement factory, Yue Yang naturally used black powder to mine stones, which would make an earth-shattering attack every time it was time to fire a cannon.

At the beginning, the villagers of Tiehat Village also protested to the factory that the earth-shaking noise shook their chickens, ducks and pigs to stop eating, and finally the situation was reported to Yueyang, and after compensating each family with five taels of silver, all the discussion disappeared without a trace.

Along the way, I only heard the rumbling of cannons, thick smoke billowing out, and the dust generated by the kiln and the opening of the mountain to set off the cannons, which made the surrounding sky feel gray. Looking closer, I saw that the mountain next to the Iron Hat Village, which was originally like a hat, seemed to have been peeled off at this time, all the vegetation was gone, and what was exposed was a piece of gray-white rocks, all the grass and trees were gone, and there were potholes and stone pits everywhere.

Seeing such a situation, Yue Yang was also taken aback, he was too familiar with such a situation, this is industrial pollution, a term that both adults and children are familiar with in modern time and space.

Looking at the smoke of the cement factory, Yue Yang had a white sweat on his forehead, if such a factory was opened in modern time and space, the Environmental Protection Bureau would punish him to death, but in this time and space, no one cares about this kind of thing, after all, people at this time can't even eat, isn't it nonsense to talk to them about environmental protection?

When Yue Yang and his party came to the foot of the mountain, they immediately saw a large group of "chiluo" people with their upper bodies covered and their mouths and noses pushing small carts, carrying the blasted stones onto the cart and pulling them to the crusher not far away, where there were two steel monsters rumbling and rolling, and at the foot of the mountain, there was another group of people who were holding a sledgehammer and smashing the big stones that rolled down the mountain into small pieces.

At this time, Hai Lanzhu behind Yue Yang asked curiously, "Yue Yang, why are these people covering their faces?" ”

"Well...... this" Yue Yang was a little stuck, and he didn't know how to explain the problem of dust pollution to Hai Lanzhu after thinking about it for a long time. At the beginning, the workers were not willing to wear masks to work, because it was inconvenient to breathe after wearing them, and then Yue Yang forced an order, and if anyone worked without wearing a mask, half a month's salary would be deducted, which made these people wear masks.

Everyone walked to the two rumbling steel monsters again, and Yue Yang explained to Hai Lanzhu and the girls: "You see, this is called the grinding ball grinder, which is used to mix those stones, clay and coal and crush them, we crush them and then send them to the kiln to calcinate, and then crush the lumpy things that are burned, and what comes out is cement." ”

"Yue Yang, how do these things move?" Looking at the grinding ball crusher that couldn't stop turning, a trace of awe flashed in the eyes of Hai Lanzhu and the others, this is a kind of emotion that anyone will have when facing industrial civilization for the first time.

"This is a miracle powered by steam, and I will tell you in detail later." Looking at this machine that kept turning, Yue Yang also felt a trace of helplessness in his heart, if it was possible, how could he be willing to use such a backward thing.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see the finished cement!" After a while, Yue Yang led everyone to the side again......