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The Wang and Gu families can stand in Fuzhou City for a hundred years without falling down, which is indeed their own merits. Less than ten days after the end of the share auction, the commercial port in the Monkey Island section, which is just the closest to Mawei, has already entered into intense construction. This is the closest commercial port to Fuzhou, and it is also the first to be put into construction, and it is estimated that more than 2 million taels of silver will be invested to build it into the largest commercial port in northern Fujian.

Since Mawei Port was still under construction, Geng Jingzhong had no energy to manage the construction of the commercial port, so he just sent someone to supervise it here. All other matters are jointly handled by Wang, Gu and several large merchants who hold a five-cent stake. It is the closest to Fuzhou, and it is mainly the Wang and Gu families who are contributing; Who made the two of them the leaders chosen by Geng Jingzhong!

It was November, and the morning weather was still relatively low, but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the workers here. In order to speed up the progress of the project, Wang and Gu adopted the method of paying according to work under Geng Jingzhong's construction, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the workers. In the past, workers worked from dawn to dark, and the wages were fixed, and the enthusiasm of the workers was not high, and most of them would be passive and slack off their time. Now, the construction site will calculate how much soil you pull in a day, how many stones you push, how much lime mud you stir, etc., to calculate the wages of workers; Under a fixed standard, the more you exceed, the more you will be paid. Just like overtime now, overtime pay is more than half higher than the normal paycheck. Those who are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work may get twice as much as others in a day!

The Monkey Island Commercial Port is located at the mouth of the Minjiang River, and its location is quite close to Mawei Port; From Mawei Port down the river, the waterway is only more than 20 kilometers, and you can get there in two quarters of an hour! Geng Jingzhong came back to inspect the results of the soldiers' training, and when he heard that the construction of the Monkey Island Commercial Port had begun, he took a boat down the river to come here. Along the way, there are a large number of river boats carrying stones, which are mighty and mighty, and they are much more spectacular than when Mawei Port was built in the early stage. In order to hurry, several people in charge negotiated to raise the price of a layer of stone, and stone merchants from all over the country flocked to it, which was only a part, and there were many foreign businessmen who drove sea ships to send stones here; This is really rich to make the ghost grind, the most reasonable saying.

At this moment, it is the middle of the morning, and the tens of thousands of workers recruited are constantly busy like industrious worker ants. In order to arrange so many laborers, the Wang and Gu families gave thousands of taels of sesame oil money to the Puzhu Temple, which was less than three miles away from the construction site, before the abbot of the temple agreed to give up the house and courtyard as a temporary residence for more than 10,000 workers. Due to the large number of workers, these merchants did not have the experience of managing a large number of personnel, and the soldiers sent by Geng Jingzhong at this time played a great role. In the process of organizing the displaced people, these soldiers organized the workers into groups of 10 according to the methods of the army, designated one person to be in charge, and each group of 10 was organized into a team, and another person was appointed to be in charge of the general situation, and each team was assigned a place. In this way, a person will be responsible for eating, drinking, and sleeping for a hundred people, and the stewards of the Wang Gu family only need to communicate with the hundred and ten captains. Although the whole team was a little chaotic, there was no chaos, and they worked, ate, and rested in a proper manner.

The sea water here in Monkey Island is not deep, and it is not possible to dock 5,000 tons, that is, more than 15,000 sea ships, but then again, in this era, the largest merchant ship is only more than 8,000 materials and 2,000 tons, and the construction of a commercial port here is enough in the next one or two hundred years. Geng Jingzhong got off the boat and walked into the construction site alone with Yang Jian and a few other guards.

Up and down the construction site, it is full of workers who transport earthwork and stone back and forth, most of them are pushed by wheelbarrows, and some carry earth baskets on their shoulders. Truckloads of earthwork were dug up and then taken away, and baskets of stone were brought in and erected. In the middle of it, you can see the "official overseer" standing empty-handed, wearing an ocean company vest over his clothes.

"One, two, three, hey!" Geng Jingzhong was about to get closer to see the workers digging the earth, when this neat sound came from behind him, and then "Bang!" There was a sound as if something heavy had fallen. As soon as he turned around, he saw a stone disc with a diameter of about sixty or seventy centimeters and a thickness of nearly thirty centimeters, which was connected by ten ropes, and each of the ten people around was holding a rope, so that the stone disc was thrown into the air and fell to the ground with a muffled bang; This neat labor horn makes their movements consistent, and this action is the legendary "tamping". I remember when I was a child, when I built a house in my family, I had to lay the foundation first, at that time, I would generally use the Lu Gong or stone used in the rural field, tie the wooden stick as a rammer, and tie a few pull ropes around according to the weight of the Lu Gong or stone and the number of people needed, and then one person holds the rammer handle, and the others pull and loosen the rope together, so that the rammer floats up and down, and smashes the foundation. In order to coordinate the movements, everyone will shout the trumpet together.

After a while, the ground was rammed with several stone discs. The workers on the side quickly staggered three wooden poles with a diameter of 20 centimeters and a length of about 3 meters at one end, tied them tightly with hemp rope, erected them and divided them into tripods, and used slightly thinner wooden poles to build a horizontal triangle at half a meter from the ground on the tripod, forming a triangular tetrahedron as a whole, with a width and height of about two meters. One by one, these tripods are arranged in order to form the most reliable skeleton. On the underside of the tetrahedron, the workers took out a barbed wire and laid it on it, the net was left loose, and the mesh was also very large, which was certainly not used for fishing! Rows of workers dump large boulders piled on the other side of the net to touch the ground. The other sides were also pulled into the net, and the middle was slowly filled with small stones, mud, hay, etc. to a height of two meters, like a dam, and then filled with fine mud and stones at the heel feet, and this piece was completed.

Geng Jingzhong looked at this very funny, and personally went up to help pull the net. He was obviously dressed as a rich son, and the workers around him did not stop him, just as the son of a family came to have fun.

"This son, looking at what you're wearing, you shouldn't have come to do this! It's dirty, and you'd better let it go so you don't stain your clothes. An old man about fifty years old reminded out of kindness.

"It's okay uncle, I'm just here to experience life, this port also has a part of my family, and my father specially sent me over to familiarize myself with the environment." Geng Jingzhong said to this tough uncle with a smile, and then picked up a stone and filled it into the iron net.

"Oh, it turned out to be the young owner here, disrespectful and disrespectful. Childe, your body is really good, and the old man doesn't have as much strength as you when he is young. Those sons and brothers in Fuzhou City are all stretched out their hands without lifting four taels, like a big girl, without any strength. The old man quickly picked up the stone from the pile and put it into the frame, and then carried it down into the iron net with the young man behind him.

"Uncle, this is your son behind you, seeing that this brother is not very old, are you willing to let him come here to suffer?" Geng Jingzhong glanced at the young man with his eyes, he looked a little shy and introverted, at most sixteen or seventeen years old, if he was left in modern times, it was the age of the third year of junior high school, how could he do heavy work.

The old man smiled: "What's this, he has also grown into an adult, it's time to make money for the family." If you want to say tired, what kind of work is not tired! One day's work here is worth more than three days in Fuzhou City. The old man and his son can get 400 literary wages a day, which is more than a dozen taels of silver a month, and they are also given food and drink here, no need to spend money, and the income is all their own, which is comparable to our family's income for half a year. If you look at these people around you, they don't work hard, they all want to earn a few more silver, and there will be no more shops in this village. ”

Geng Jingzhong stopped, the pile was filled again, turned over the dirty sleeves, and wiped the sweat with a clean place. This work is really tiring, and I don't want to do it anymore, and I'm used to it. Looking at the pocket watch, I unconsciously worked for more than half an hour.

"Dangdang!" Several overseers, dressed in trading company vests, struck the gong a few times and shouted, "The first to twentieth teams have begun to eat!" Hurry up and finish it and let the next wave eat! "All the way, the workers gave way. The team that was ordered immediately put down their work and went to eat on the other side. There were also a few overseers calling on the construction site in the distance, and it seemed that this was not the same place to eat.

"Uncle, what team are you on?"

"We're on the fifty-third team, and it's our turn to eat in half an hour. Don't worry, they all take turns to eat here. The old man said, but he didn't stop what he was doing, and continued to carry the stones.

At this time, the sun was already very high, and just as Geng Jingzhong was about to leave, a few overseers who had just walked over walked back. "Which of you guys are the team leaders? As I said yesterday, it's time to pay! ”。 Geng Jingzhong and Yang Jian were all dirty because of their work, and a few stewards didn't notice them.

The old man next to Geng Jingzhong immediately stepped forward and took out a piece of broken silver and handed it over: "Steward Wang, this is our group, you take it!" ”。 The king's steward took the broken silver, looked at it, and put it into his purse. After the other leaders also handed over the broken silver, the steward left satisfied.

Looking at this scene, Geng Jingzhong understood that this is the legendary Hades who are good to see, and the little ghost is difficult. Yang Jian's eyes widened even more angrily, and he waited for Geng Jingzhong's order to go up and beat them. "Uncle, what's going on? I didn't hear my dad say that he would ask you for money. ”

"Hey, the owners above are all big people, and they can't control us poor workers. The steward of the king said, "If we don't pay the money, we won't be able to stay here and work." Fortunately, he didn't ask for much, twenty wen per person per day, and just one or two for five days. After the salary was paid a few days ago, he began to collect money from one group to another. "The old man has lived for decades, and nothing has happened to him, this thing is all too common.

"Uncle, everyone, I apologize to you here! I don't know anything about this, my dad and the owners don't know about it, don't worry, no one will come to collect the money in the future, I will let those guys spit out ten times as much as they handed it over just now! Farewell! As soon as Geng Jingzhong finished speaking, he turned around and left, and Yang Jian hurriedly followed, leaving only a group of workers to stop there and discuss.

"Yang Jian, find someone to take us to the general dispatch office here!"

"Yes!"

Several people, led by a steward, entered the general dispatch office. The general dispatch office was located in a large family in a nearby village and occupied the front yard of the house. When several of the responsible persons of the Wang and Gu families here heard that the prince was coming, they immediately ran out to greet him.

"See the Son!" Although Geng Jingzhong's clothes were a little dirty, these people in charge had met him at the auction, recognized his face, and immediately bent down to salute when they saw Geng Jingzhong.

Geng Jingzhong walked straight to the chair in the lobby and sat down: "You guys are very leisurely here, have you taken care of things here?" ”

Geng Jingzhong's loud shout led several people's hearts to burst, and they didn't know what they had done wrong to make the prince so angry. One of the people in charge stepped forward and said, "I don't know what the prince is referring to, if there is a problem, I will do it immediately!" ”

"Yang Jian, you sue them!"

"Yes!" Yang Jian told the whole story just now, and when several people in charge heard it, they immediately knelt down: "The prince forgives the sin, I really don't know at this time, it must be those stewards who asked for money privately, and we will go to investigate it immediately." Several people were frightened, if Geng Jingzhong was to blame for this matter, they would be finished, and their master would definitely not bypass them.

"Yes, it must be done, let those people exchange ten times the money back and then all get out of the way, and replace it with a batch of honest ones. If something like this happens again, I'll forget it this time, and I'll go straight to you next time! Go ahead! ”

A few people ran out and did so.

"You guys get us some water to take a shower! It's sweaty all over my body, and it's uncomfortable. ”