Chapter 426: I Want to See and Learn
Ouch! Ouch!
Spare your life, spare your life, don't fight!
The prisoner was whipped and rolled in the snow, but his pleas did not move the overseer at all.
There is a very strange phenomenon in history, the more compatriots and the same clan oppress their own nation, the more serious it is, and I don't know what the reason is because of it.
Barr is now in such a situation.
His eyes were red, his teeth were clenched, and his face was extremely distorted from anger, and he looked like he wanted to eat that guy.
Of course, if you look closely, you will find that there is a trace of excitement in the red pupils of Overseer Barr.
A whole group of prisoners, under the influence of that fellow, became staggered and unsteady, and the companions who were close to the fellow were also unlucky enough to be whipped several times because of his connections, and suffered unjustified disasters.
Therefore, the companions in the team all showed a faint resentment in their eyes when they looked at the guy who was being beaten.
And the prisoners who are still working around them, although they will also glance at this side from time to time, but their work in their hands has not stopped.
And these people all looked like they were gloating, watching as if they were watching a play.
When these prisoners came to America, they had no entertainment life and no hope for tomorrow except hard labor and hard labor.
Therefore, seeing people like themselves suffer has become their only pleasure.
After all, there are people who are more unlucky than themselves, and their hearts will not be balanced.
I have to say that human beings are very strange intelligent creatures.
In many cases, even the gods have no way of understanding the strange thoughts of human beings.
"Look at everything, hurry up and work, do you want to be whipped too?"
One was wearing a green military coat. Ah San, who was wearing a cotton hat, walked over, and at the same time scolded loudly.
Seeing this guy coming, all the prisoners shuddered.
It can be seen that the prisoners are very afraid of this Ah San.
This Ah San is the small leader of the supervision of the construction site here, managing twenty overseers under his command, and there are thirty people on the construction site for people like him.
He was a cold-blooded and ruthless guy in the eyes of those prisoners compared to those European overseers.
"What's going on, why don't you work here. Could it be that they thought that they came here to be an uncle, and it was difficult that we would give them food if they didn't work. ”
After the third steward came over. Glancing at the unnatural European overseer, smooth Mandarin came out of his mouth.
If you want to get ahead on the side of the empire, or make greater progress, then you have to learn Mandarin well.
Only by learning Mandarin well can you become smooth when looking for a job or dealing with other people, so now Mandarin learning in the empire has set off a big trend.
This Ah San steward is obviously a person who learns Mandarin very well.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so fluent.
Moreover, it is precisely because he speaks Mandarin well. There was no barrier to communication with the superintendent of Chinese descent , so this Ah San was transferred out of the patrol team and became the little chief manager of the prisoner construction site.
Compared to the patrol police station, you get more paid as a small chief here. And the full force is greater.
Here, he even holds the power of life and death of the prisoners, so his life is very comfortable.
Every day, his greatest pleasure is to torture those who don't open their eyes. Let these white-skinned people know how powerful they are.
Therefore, in the area under his management, the prisoners are very afraid of him.
The same is true of Barr. Although he is an overseer, this Ah San is his immediate boss.
If you don't do well on your side, this Ah San will punish herself.
In the eyes of that Ah San, he was no different from these prisoners, they were all Europeans.
The Imperial Ah San now looks down on the Europeans, in their opinion, only the Chinese are nobles, the Gurkha are just thugs, and the old blacks don't really need to pay attention to it.
"Lord Steward, this guy doesn't want to work, and wants to rest and eat, I'm afraid that he will affect the progress of the work and the amount of tasks, so I was punishing him just now."
After Ah San walked in front of Barr, Barr hurriedly trotted in front of him, bowed his head and explained to Ah San like a servant.
Ah, there are such bold people, I really want to see it today.
It's really rare to dare to trick everyone into resting, and there are still many requirements.
After listening to Barr's story, a gloomy smile bloomed on the face of the third steward.
When Barr saw this, he suddenly shuddered.
He knew the steward's smile all too well, and it would appear on his face every time he was about to torture someone.
And every time he saw this smile, there would be a prisoner who didn't open his eyes and was tortured to death by him, and there was no exception.
Now that smile is back in the picture, it looks like the guy is going to be out of luck.
But what does this have to do with himself, who made him not work well and be verbose.
You must know that your salary is linked to the amount of tasks.
Their lives are worth a few dollars, but they're just prisoners.
"Separate his shackles from the team, and find a new person to add to this team, this guy I plan to let them know the road well, he doesn't want to do whatever he wants on the imperial side."
With the order of the third steward, several tall European warriors who followed behind him walked out and walked to the prisoner with expressionless faces.
"What are you going to do? Master Er, I was wrong, I was wrong, I was wrong, spare me, I must do a good job! ”
At this time, even if the prisoner is an idiot, he knows that he is going to be unlucky.
Unfortunately, he himself was restrained by those European warriors and could not move at all.
And his shackles, which were smashed with a clang, broke away from the team as a whole.
Then a guy was added, and the group of prisoners went on with their work, and no one was paying attention to the soon-to-be-happing guy.
Of course. Occasionally, when a team passed by, they would sneak a glance at the unlucky one.
The European warriors who restrained this unlucky bastard did not have any unbearable look on their faces.
They all come to the construction site with a high salary, which is their duty.
In their eyes, there is no such thing as a compatriot at all, only silver coins with white flowers.
Salaries in the Empire were high, much higher than in Europe.
It is worth it to work for the empire.
As the saying goes, the money and the people eliminate disasters, and the Europeans are still doing a good job in this regard.
As long as they take your money, even if they are compatriots, they can still raise the butcher knife in their hands.
So. The prisoner's bitter pleading did not work for these warriors at all, but they gave him a few hard blows, so that the prisoner could be honest.
Of course, these warriors knew what kind of punishment and suffering this prisoner would suffer, but what did it have to do with them.
They themselves are the guards of the site steward, and what they do is to do things according to the steward's orders.
"Hang him up for me, I want him to know the way, this is not the place where he says it."
In fact, this is the case at many construction sites, and these European prisoners have come. Most people don't know what they're doing. I thought they were really just here to do the labor, but how did I know that they had actually been sold and were already a living dead.
The European side exchanged them for large sums of money, and the empire needed these people for hard labor.
As for their lives. No one cares at all.
So, they are lazy and slippery, or they have all kinds of requirements, they are all cleaned up.
The Empire is not accustomed to their stinky tempers. Do they still think it's in Europe?
"These damn guys, the old men paid a lot of money to buy them back, and all they want is for them to work hard. It's not for them to come here to be uncles. These guys don't even have the slightest eyesight, and they deserve to be unlucky. ”
Barr followed the third steward and whispered in the same direction.
"This is not the most important thing, you must know that this construction site was contracted by the big men. If you can't complete the task and workload on time, the big man will suffer a lot of losses, and you or I will bear this loss at that time, so our burden is not light. ”
Ah San's affairs are about to torture people, so he is in a good mood now, and he rarely revealed a little information for Bal Zhilu to say.
"Well, that's the case, no wonder those big men attach so much importance to engineering."
Barr nodded in agreement.
"We don't work very the construction site, and we get a high salary. Therefore, if we want to be worthy of the big man, we must do a good job. And I've heard that if you do well, you're likely to get a citizenship, and I don't need it, but don't you people need it? ”
Ah San took a deep look at Baal and told him something shocking.
Citizenship ID
This is what many European freedmen crave.
With this ID card, they can become real citizens.
Although he can only be a fourth-class citizen of the empire, even this can be a lot of benefits.
Therefore, many people who have racked their brains also hope to become citizens of the Empire.
It's just that the empire is very strict about this now, so it won't issue many citizen ID cards at all.
This has disappointed many European workers.
But now that there is such an opportunity in front of him, how can Barr not be excited.
After becoming a citizen, the welfare benefits will be greatly improved, not to mention, you can also get good land, and your children can go to school, and there are other unexpected benefits.
That's a lot stronger than someone who isn't a citizen.
In particular, the tax rate for citizens of the empire was lower than for non-citizens...... (To be continued.) )