Chapter 34: The Problem Exposed
For several nights, the Indians were in trouble on the mines, and when the morning dawned to inspect the belongings, they found little damage.
This made Henry and the security guards of the mine very puzzled.
The Indians came every day, and they were annoyed and did not say anything, for fear that they were engaged in a "wolf" scheme, nine falsehoods and one truth, and a surprise attack.
This possibility has to be guarded against.
Just when Henry made up his mind to turn on the miner's lamp tonight and send a security team to meet the Indian rats, the Indians did not come again.
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It's just a small episode in Prash's dull, lifeless life.
No one notices that there are no stones missing from the abandoned mines, not the numb miners, and neither do the powerful vigilantes and the administrators.
At the same time, in the valley not far from them, it was bustling.
Little by little, a brand new factory is taking shape.
Zhu Fugui would bring white rice and white noodles from outside the village every week, although the quantity was not much, but it played a role in buying bones.
Therefore, when Zhu Fugui made his promise again, the recruitment of workers for the Daming Royal Logging Plant was very smooth.
A total of 300 workers were quickly filled.
Among them, there are 50 male workers and 250 female workers.
So many strong laborers were drawn out of the field at once, which made the old eunuch Li very worried.
He still remembered the words of his grandfather Taizu in his heart: "Build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slow down the king's ......"
Now that I think about it, Long Live Lord ascended the throne early in the morning, and now he has moved the agricultural capital, which is a violation of two at once.
Fortunately, the big stone wall is quite strong, so it should be regarded as a "high wall", right?
As worried as the old eunuch Li is Aunt Niu.
Now the Yin people have changed their Han surnames, and Aunt Bison naturally has the surname Niu.
Although she and Lao Eunuch Li are two people who are 108,000 miles apart and do not understand the language, they have a lot of common topics.
The two of them were like the two old advisors in the Hokage Village, always gloomy and compassionate, floating around with a dead face, which made Zhu Fugui very annoyed.
Later, he simply arranged an errand for Lao Li and Aunt Niu to manage the food.
Don't underestimate this work, now more than 300 people on the construction site have to eat, how to level a bowl of water is a science.
There have been skirmishes between Chinese workers and Yin people before, and the cause was that the Chinese workers who were cooking were shaking their hands a little too much when they were cooking for Yin people.
In fact, the food standard set by Zhu Fugui is not bad, there is meat and vegetables.
These meats and vegetables were basically ordered by Zhu Fugui from the platform out of his own pocket.
Similar to Dingdong grocery shopping, the meals delivered are relatively fresh, and even the ice cubes of the cold chain have not melted.
Generally speaking, each worker has an egg in the morning, and the gruel tube is enough;
The main meal is either stewed potatoes or stewed cabbage, and a large portion of fatty meat, and the rice is also enough.
Such a level of food naturally attracts many people who have not signed up, or do not meet the conditions for participating in the work.
In line with the idea of completing the construction of the project as soon as possible and cutting down trees as soon as possible to return to their roots, Zhu Fugui allowed them to work for a day and eat for a day.
As a result, one day, the Chinese worker in charge of cooking felt that an old man from Yin was here to mix rice, so he deliberately beat a few pieces of meat.
And so a conflict erupted.
Later, Zhu Fugui investigated, and this old man was not lazy, and even did more than some young men.
So it was natural to be very dissatisfied with the deducted food.
And that one called Zhao Aqianhua is also wronged.
Who would have thought that this thin old man could also work?
This porridge and rice are all from the inner money of the Long Live Lord, how can he be told to eat it for nothing?
Long Live Lord rewards himself with food, and he has to think about Long Live Lord everywhere.
This is a very simple thinking of the Chinese.
So there's really nothing wrong with either side.
Zhu Fugui privately praised Zhao Aqian and gave him a small reward.
At the same time, he also personally brought food and went to visit the old man of Yinren.
This old man's name is Stone, and he is very healthy except for his teeth that are a little black due to his love of smoking.
Inspired by the spirit of the old man's voluntary 996 for the rise of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Fugui specially approved him to join the company and became the 301st worker.
Both parties grinned, but the people involved in the fight, especially the one who picked the lead, were not so lucky.
They were all punished with whips.
I smoked half of it, remembered half of it, and waited until the project was not too busy in the future.
Otherwise, if you can't get out of bed now, it will be Young Master Zhu who suffers.
At the same time, through this incident, Zhu Fugui understood the importance of logistics.
A small person who is in charge of cooking can decide a lot of things.
Small enough to eat more meat and less meat.
From the future housing allocation to the placement of children in school.
These are not simple, and they can be solved by relying on Zhu Fugui to allocate more materials.
Historically, logistics has been the most prone to corruption.
Once the logistics are eroded and it becomes a situation in which the front is tight and the rear is tight, the morale of the military will also be dispersed.
To solve this problem once and for all, Zhu Fugui can't think of a way.
We can only pick up people's teeth and wisdom, and use the old method of ancient and modern times, that is, to set up a discipline inspection committee.
Lao Li's East Factory was put into operation again.
And Aunt Niu became his deputy.
Aunt Niu didn't know what the concept of the deputy admiral of Dongchang was, but she only heard Zhu Fugui say what she wanted to do, and she became the first female eunuch in history with joy.
There are two reliable heavyweights, Lao Li and Aunt Niu, and soon the logistics work will be smooth.
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But this is not the only thing that makes Zhu Fugui upset.
Only when you really do things will you find that problems are always coming.
Because the simple factory itself has a very low construction threshold, the molding speed is very fast.
But Zhu Fugui was not very satisfied with this.
The workers are well paid and enthusiastic about their work, but the labor scene is too disorderly.
Zhang Changgui was responsible for directing the labor of the workers.
But he apparently inherited the Taipings' loose management model.
Of course, this looseness is compared to the enterprises of later generations.
If compared to the Green Battalion, or even the Eight Banners, the early Taiping Army was still a strong army with strict military discipline.
In short, in Zhu Fugui's view, although the workers are enthusiastic, they are a bit like flies without a head, and they cannot be ordered and forbidden, and they are uniform.
At the same time, material management is not proper.
All the building materials were piled up in a mud shed made of asbestos tiles.
Ma Er held the abacus and sweated profusely calculating various materials.
It's not that his arithmetic skills are not good, it's that the scene is too chaotic, and the things that have just been counted are moved again as soon as he turns his head.
Zhu Fugui found two more Yin people's half-grown sons as apprentices and handed them over to Ma Er, and the situation improved.
However, even so, the construction material still exceeded expectations by almost 10%.
Many of these are due to the fact that the prefabricated parts are not well communicated, resulting in repeated construction.
There are also unskilled processes that lead to scrapping of materials.
Even Zhu Fugui saw that in the village, the damage on some of the Yin people's stone houses was also repaired with asbestos tiles, which was obviously also returned from the construction site.
A few asbestos tiles aren't worth much.
But that's not a good sign.
In his previous life, Zhu Fugui had heard that in many places, villagers would justifiably steal natural gas from local state-owned enterprises.
Anyway, it's the state, don't take it for nothing.
Enterprises are sometimes reluctant to take care of it, and they don't want to cause a fuss.
Anyway, it's the state, and if you take it, you will take it for nothing.
Zhu Fugui felt that he should take precautions.
He found Zhang Changgui and Ma Er.
Qi Wenchang is now busy forming a motor vehicle team, and he can't get out of the way for a while.
As a personal disciple of Zhu Fugui's old driver, Qi Wenchang's driving skills improved rapidly, not only successfully leaving the school, but also independently completing the last two stone theft operations.
It is foreseeable that this agricultural vehicle will be the most important means of transportation in the Ming Empire for a long time.
So Zhu Fugui gave him 10 places to teach and form a system.
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Zhang and Ma came to Zhu Fugui's temporary office happily.
"Your Majesty, it is expected that the factory will be completed tomorrow!" Ma Er said happily with the list.
In his opinion, it is a miracle that such a large factory, with dormitories, warehouses, and even bathhouses and manure pits, was built in just one week.
Not only that, the humble factory building in Zhu Fugui's eyes is quite shocking in the eyes of Ma Er.
Especially in the special warehouse of more than 500 square meters, each wall is made of stone and ash, which is extremely strong, and I am afraid that even earth cannons will not be able to open it.
It's all silver!
Although the stone was borrowed by the iron chariot from the stone.
But this ash is all good material!
I'm afraid that only the 500-year-old Zhu family can afford these things overseas!
When he first got the construction plan, Ma Er thought that Long Live Lord was joking.
Now, all he has in his heart is his admiration for the Long Live Lord.
Ma Er felt that he, a member of the household department, must be unworthy, but if he let Wan Sui Ye become a secretary of the Ministry of Industry, it would definitely be condescending.
Of course, that's just part of Banzai's talents.
Just when Ma Er was thinking wildly, he heard Zhu Fugui's unhappy voice: "Two, are you satisfied just by building a small factory?" Even this small factory has exposed too many problems. ”
After a pause, Zhu Fugui said again, "Give you half a day to think about what needs to be improved in the future work, and how to improve it." Come and report to me before dinner. ”