Liu Cixin couldn't believe his ears, since he was ten years old, his greatest wish was to learn a trade, but it was not so easy to become an apprentice. Most of the highly technical industries, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and masons, are ancestral industries, and the way of passing on the business is mainly from father to son, and people who are not close to them cannot learn any advanced skills. As an apprentice in a business, you need to rely on your relationship to find a guarantor, but his family has no way. Lu Yang offered to accept him as an apprentice, which was tantamount to pie in the sky for him, surprised and delighted, and at the same time his heart was full of joy, he did not forget to kneel on the ground and kowtow to Lu Yang three times in a row. "The master is above, please accept the apprentice's worship!" The three heads were so sincere that their foreheads were bruised. Although he didn't know what Chief Lu would teach him, he knew that the chiefs were all people with great skills, so what else was there to be picky about learning from them?

Lu Yang pulled Liu Cixin up from the ground and patted the dust off the latter's knees, "Okay, you are my apprentice now, remember to study hard, if you are too stupid, the master will scold." ”

"A teacher for one day, a father for life, a disciple must abide by the master's teachings!" Liu Cixin agreed. In this era, it is normal for a master to beat and scold his apprentice, and it is also appropriate to pour night incense for the master's house.

After sending away the newly recruited apprentices, Lu Yang was about to greet him to start his afternoon work, when another survivor asked, "Why do you think of accepting apprentices?" ”

"Do you know how many electricians there are among the survivors?" Lu Yang didn't answer the rhetorical question, and the former shook his head.

"There are only seventeen electrician qualifications," Lu Yang quickly unveiled the answer, "as soon as the power plant is repaired, we will immediately enter the electrical era." As soon as various factories are built, where will seventeen electricians be enough? The young people in our own people don't want to become officials and join the army, or they follow to study the fashionable majors of medicine and law, which of those half-otaku wants to come in a hard and tiring industry like ours? If I don't start accepting apprentices now, will I have to climb the pole myself in the future? If the above allows, I still want to accept that Ah San as an apprentice! As he spoke, he pointed to the pole climber, who was more nimble than a monkey.

The driver of the bulk cement truck smiled, knowing that it was impossible. However, Lu Yang's words also reminded him that he should also consider the issue of cultivating successors in this job. Can you still be a driver for the rest of your life? In the new society, it is too miserable to not be able to mix with an official and a half-job.

After finishing work in the afternoon, Lu Yang reported to his superiors about accepting apprentices, and then reported to the management committee by the power department. In fact, the management committee has long discussed how to teach modern skills to the indigenous people, and what extent to teach them, but there is really no consensus. Lu Yang's "first cut and then play" became a wedge machine, bringing the problem to the point where it had to be solved. The lack of skilled workers will be a bottleneck for industrial development in the future, and the construction industry is flooded with indigenous workers who have actually learned a lot of modern skills.

It took only one night for the Interim Measures for the Recruitment of Aboriginal Apprentices to be introduced. The "Measures" stipulate that the four industries of electricians, fitters, turners, and vehicle drivers, which are currently in short supply, are allowed to recruit indigenous apprentices, and the recruitment targets must be from local families and shall not exceed the age of 18, and only men are currently recruited. At the same time, restrictions were also placed on the movement of these people, such as not being allowed to enter the base at will, not entering the military premises, and driving vehicles only to drive agricultural diesel vehicles. However, this provided a policy basis for Lu Yang's behavior of accepting apprentices.

After the document of the "Interim Measures" was officially posted, Lu Yang personally went to the apprentice's house. After lunch, Lu Yang rode a heavy bicycle, let the apprentice sit in the back seat, and went to Liu's house under the scorching sun. The Liu family said that it was in Nanshan, but in fact it was still two miles away from the town, and riding a bicycle on the bumpy field road was so torturous that Lu Yang had to get out of the car and push it away.

From a distance, he saw a small village composed of more than a dozen earthen houses, and Liu Cixin introduced that it was where his family was. Yesterday, the second son came back and said that the short-haired master wanted to accept him as an apprentice, and Liu Jinshui, who had never seen anything in the world, was also skeptical. To say that Erzai has been eye-catching since he was a child, and being favored by the master is also his creation, but when he went to be an apprentice, he couldn't earn that Guangyang salary every month, and the family didn't have a lot of income? It's hard to decide between gains and losses, and now I heard that the short-haired master came to the door in person, so I thought it would be better to let Erzai be an apprentice, maybe he could have a big future in the future. As for the salary of the glorious one, let the eldest boy earn it, and he can take care of the work in the field by himself. made up his mind, and led the family out to greet the short-haired master.

When Lu Yang walked to the entrance of the village, he saw that a large group of people were already waiting there. Except for Liu Cixin's family, everyone else in the village came to see the excitement, even the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law did not shy away from suspicion, standing in the distance and pointing at Lu Yang's hairstyle, clothes and his strange two-wheeled vehicle. Seeing Lu Yang coming over, Liu Jinshui led the family to kneel, and Lu Yang hurriedly set up the car and took two steps forward to pull Liu Jinshui up. Modern people are very uncomfortable with the habit of kneeling at every turn, but it is not possible to change this habit in a short time. Liu Cixin introduced the two sides, and Lu Yang motioned for the apprentice to push the bicycle on, and he pulled Liu Jinshui to the village. "Brother Liu, let's go home first!" Liu Jinshui couldn't understand the words of the short-haired old man, so he had to turn sideways to lead the way in front, and the group walked back surrounded by dozens of people in the village.

Liu's house is three thatched houses with a small yard outside, there is a longan tree in the yard, Liu Jinshui's wife put a small table under the tree, Liu Cixin asked the master to sit down on the short bench, but his father stood aside respectfully. Lu Yang had to beckon Liu Jinshui to sit together, how could there be a reason in the world for the host to stand and the guest to sit, and he didn't want to raise his head to talk to people. Liu Jinshui couldn't help but sit down on the short bench cautiously, and his wife brought tea, two pottery bowls that were directly used without teacups.

Lu Yang can only speak the inaccurate Cantonese dialect, while Liu Jinshui speaks the Bao'an dialect, and the conversation between the two can only be communicated with gestures, and when talking about complex issues, Liu Cixin needs to act as an interpreter. Lu Yang took out the gift from the satchel first, but it was actually not a valuable thing, just two packets of rock candy. This made Liu Jinshui panic again, the confiscation gift of the apprentice was given to the apprentice's family first, is it true that the rules of the short-haired old man's family are different from the local? Besides, these two packs of things that I don't know what they are are are definitely not cheap, what will I give as a gift in return for a while when I am a poor family!

Lu Yang saw that Liu Jinshui was slow to take the gift, so he opened one of the packets, and then beckoned Liu Cixin's younger siblings to come over. The three little guys were a little scared, and they twisted it before Liu Cixin took it over, Lu Yang gave each of them a rock candy, and the sweetness made the three little guys laugh, and Liu Jinshui then told his wife to accept the things.

Lu Yang's kindness made Liu Jinshui no longer so restrained, and the two sides began to talk about Liu Cixin. According to the Interim Measures formulated by the Management Committee, formal apprentices are required to sign a contract with the employment department, mainly stipulating that the apprentice must work for the workplace for at least 20 years, which is also to prevent indigenous people from finding other jobs after learning skills. While this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, it's always a good idea to prevent it from happening. This kind of contract, which contradicts modern labor law and is called the "overlord clause" and "deed of sale" by some survivors, is a matter of course in Liu Jinshui's view, and the owner is willing to hire him for 20 years, which is a great thing. What Lu Yang and most of the survivors didn't know was that the master of this era had the same power over the apprentice as a parent, and the apprentice was a servant and helper who didn't spend any money, beating and scolding, and even holding the power of life and death, which was unimaginable in the eyes of modern people. What the survivors need now is skilled workers with subjective initiative, not slaves who sell coolies for food and clothing, and Lu Yang also hopes that Liu Cixin will be able to take charge of himself in two or three years, and of course it is impossible to implement the backward master-apprentice relationship of the old society. When teaching skills, he will not engage in the set of "teaching apprentices and starving masters".

After talking about duties and powers, the next step is to talk about the salary package during the apprenticeship. Originally, according to the habits of the new time and space, the apprentices all ate and lived in the master's house before leaving the school, and usually the master did whatever the master told him to do, except for not being able to go home during the New Year, there was no salary. So when Lu Yang said that Liu Cixin's monthly salary was two oceans and he could go home for one day a month, Liu Jinshui even thought that the ancestral tomb of the old Liu family was smoking, otherwise how could such a good thing hit his head. Without any further hesitation, Liu Jinshui immediately put his fingerprint on the contract, which is also because Liu Cixin is still a minor, and the contract must be signed by a guardian.

The master-apprentice relationship was formally established, and Lu Yang was Liu Cixin's elder, although he was only a dozen years older than the latter. In the eyes of Liu Jinshui and his wife, he is his son's master, in the eyes of Liu Cixin's eldest brother, he is a great benevolent person who changes his family's living standard, and in the eyes of Liu Cixin's younger siblings, he is a good person who brings delicious sweets. Liu Jinshui wanted to entertain Lu Yang well, but the Liu family really couldn't come up with any good things, and even the tea was borrowed from a neighbor. was about to send his wife to buy some wine and meat, when he heard Lu Yang say goodbye. How can my son's master come to the door with no good wine and good food, this must not make people laugh? It's just that the countrymen are stupid and don't know how to express their gratitude, but in the end, Liu Cixin came out to relieve the siege, explaining that the master still has work tomorrow and can't stay here for a long time, which allowed Lu Yang to get out.

When the two sides were talking, there were many onlookers outside the courtyard gate of the Liu family. Liu Erzai paid good luck, not only was he able to learn from the short-haired master, but he also had two Guangyang wages every month, which made the onlookers envious, jealous and hateful! When Lu Yang went out, someone immediately came over and asked the old man if he still wanted an apprentice, and tried his best to sell his children. Lu Yang looked at a few eight or nine-year-old radish heads, and thought: I am accepting apprentices, not helping you take care of children. I have to explain that now only teenagers over the age of 14 are accepted. Children are too young to learn anything, of course, these words were translated by Liu Cixin.

It was not easy to get out of the encirclement of the villagers, and when they arrived at the entrance of the village, Lu Yang let Liu Cixin go to the back seat, and the master and apprentice rushed back to the base under the afternoon sun.