In the evening, Xiao Zhenlei returned to the Xiao Mansion, and it happened that Song Shijie, Fast, and Wang Yaqiao also came back, and everyone happened to be here today, and Xiao Zhenlei also wanted to find out about the recruitment and training of workers.

After dinner, Xiao Zhenlei called Song Shijie and Fast Wang Yaqiao to the study and asked, "Mr. Song, how are the workers recruited?" Is there any training scheduled? ”

Song Shijie put down the teacup and introduced the situation of recruiting workers these days: "Sir, there are a lot of people looking for work on the construction site these days, at first I thought it would be difficult to recruit workers, but I didn't expect thousands of people to come there at once, I wondered, why did so many people come at once?" I found that most of those people were in tattered clothes, haggard, and had vegetable faces, presumably hungry, and then I asked, only to know that there were signs of drought in Jiangbei, and these days I recruited more than 500 workers, all of whom were able-bodied, and first let them build some sheds on the construction site to solve the problem of accommodation, and together with other refugees, cook some gruel every day to make them live, but it is not a matter for these thousands of refugees to stay there for a long time.

As for the training of workers, I have already arranged, a few days ago I ran a few times to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, I heard that now many workers in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are idle, no work to do, and the salary can not be paid, this situation has been a long time, there are all masters who work there, I estimate whether I can dig some old workers from there, so I went to find someone to inquire, this also let me go to the right, I found an old worker named Huang Jiacai to tell the situation, and asked him to come to our factory to work, The salary is better than in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, I didn't expect the old man to agree on the spot, obviously he knows the situation of the factory we are building, I asked him if he can get the people he knows in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, he said that now many workers in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau are eating chaff vegetables, so poor that they can't come over, as long as he talks about the situation, he dares to guarantee that many people will follow him, no, yesterday the old man Huang brought more than 100 skilled workers to join us, I divided them into more than a dozen groups, and each group appointed a team leader, and asked them to train the 500 workers they had just recruited, of course, now we have no machine and equipment, we can only train some things that need to be paid attention to in the factory, so that the workers can have discipline, hygiene, and so on! ”

After listening to this, Xiao Zhenlei nodded and affirmed Song Shijie's work during this time: "Well, Mr. Song has done a good job, but the workers still have to be recruited, we have to build two factories in advance, with the scale of these two factories, five hundred workers is definitely not enough, and we must continue to recruit, only workers can wait for the machine, and we can't let the machine wait for the workers!" ”

Song Shijie promised: "Okay, sir! ”

"In addition, the thousands of refugees will let them stay there first, get some gruel for them to eat, and don't let them starve to death, after a while, they will go to find work themselves, and they will not stay here all the time, but we must tell Hu Weishan and others to be optimistic about the building materials on the construction site, and don't let those refugees steal materials to sell for money, which is very important! By the way, what did you tell them about the salaries of the more than 100 skilled workers who were poached from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau? ”

Song Shijie said: "I promise them that the salary for working in our factory will not be lower than that in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, but higher. ”

Xiao Zhenlei said: "You have promised others, we can't be untrustworthy, so let's do it, before the factory is officially completed and started, their salary will be paid according to their salary in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and after the factory officially starts, we will give them some discretionary increases, as for those new workers, the salary paid to them during the training period can make them live and dress on the line, and after they have mastered a certain technology, they will increase their salary according to their respective technical levels, how much, you will determine according to the consumption situation in the market!" ”

Song Shijie nodded and said, "Okay, sir!" ”

After saying what Song Shijie was responsible for, Xiao Zhenlei looked at Fast again and asked, "Old Fa, how is the situation on your side?" How many foreign technicians or engineers have been recruited? ”

Fast said apologetically: "Boss, I'm really sorry, I went all over Shanghai and the surrounding cities and found only four engineers who know how to produce machinery, you also know that the situation in Europe is a little tense now, all countries are stepping up the arms race, factories are working day and night, and the demand for workers is much greater than ever......

Xiao Zhenlei touched his chin and said: "This is also what I expected, it doesn't matter, four is four, let's use it for the time being, you take them to the construction site tomorrow to train workers, and the salary should be satisfactory to them, and we can't let them run away because the salary we give is too low!" ”

Fast agreed: "Yes, sir! ”

Speaking of which, Xiao Zhenlei asked the two of them to go back to the room to rest first, after all, they were really tired of being busy outside these days, leaving only Wang Yaqiao in the study.

"Brother Jiuguang, how is the preparation of the secret operation team?" Xiao Zhenlei threw a cigarette and asked.

Wang Yaqiao took the cigarette and lit it with a match, took a puff and said: "After these days of hard work, Xiaoshuang and I secretly recruited eighty-eight people, some of these people are mixed up in the rivers and lakes, and some are even masters, I am ready to organize these people into a real action team, mainly responsible for hands-on things, usually do nothing other than training, there are a total of thirty-six of these people, and there are more than fifty, I am going to train them into fine works, these people are ordinary people, In addition to training the ability to find out the news, deal with people, and hide their identities, they also have to train the means of killing people and shooting guns. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Yaqiao paused, took a sip of tea and continued: "Everything else is easy to say, but almost no one in the entire team can shoot, and I don't know where to find someone who can shoot, but Xiaoshuang told me that Brother Huanyu is a master of guns, but I don't know if you can ......."

Xiao Zhenlei glanced at Wang Yaqiao when he heard this, and said with a smile: "What, you hit me with the idea?" Okay, I'll be this firearms instructor, you arrange a time, preferably at night, and I'll teach them how to shoot! ”

Wang Yaqiao said with a smile: "Okay, it's just that if you want to train to shoot guns, you must have guns, and we are a secret action team, we are afraid that we can only use short guns when we act, and it is not convenient to carry long guns, we have a total of forty people who need guns, it is best to use a unified model, so that it is convenient to distribute bullets, but where did these guns come from?" This is not a small amount, if only one or two guns from the black market can still think of a way, the number is too large to buy on the black market or not, even if you can buy it, I am afraid that the movement will not be small, it is terrible to be known by some people with a heart! ”

Xiao Zhenlei frowned when he heard this, this is indeed a problem, forty guns, a lot of them, buying them on the black market will definitely cause the idea of the secret agents of the concession patrol room, and it will be worth the loss if it causes trouble, but if you buy it from foreign foreign companies, the quantity is too small, and if you want to buy a batch of firearms, you must also report to the relevant departments, without approval, those foreign companies do not dare to sell guns indiscriminately.

This matter is really a bit nerve-wracking, Xiao Zhenlei thought about it and said: "Actually, I have a few pistols and two rifles here, but the number is too small. In this way, you first go to the Lihe Foreign Guild to meet their manager to see if you can buy it, this matter can't be seen clearly, the Qing court yamen and the concession patrol house know that there is trouble, you can only look for him secretly, if you can buy it, it's the best, if you can't buy it, we can't think of other ways. ”

Wang Yaqiao nodded and agreed: "Okay!" ”

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