Chapter 9 New Standards for Employment

Gently patting the old cigarette stick in his hand, Yang Lao Liu sighed a little melancholy. He was originally a craftsman of the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, and with his own diligence and sweat, he practiced a pair of jīng zhan planing and milling skills, even in the shipyard where jīng was gathered, it was also counted. But like all ordinary Chinese people, he also has the wishes and expectations of having many sons and blessings, and there are no entertainment programs in this era, so he is already a father of six children.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, which had never paid attention to the lower ninth-rate and had a serious feudal mentality, he worked hard in the shipyard for a month, and he couldn't get much salary. Coupled with the pressure of supporting his family, he did not hesitate to take his wife and children and other recruited workers to board the passenger ship to Taiwan after the Taiwanese threw out the temptation of ten taels of silver a month.

"Lao Chen, you said that we have been here for more than a month, why don't you ask us to go to work?" Yang Laoliu asked his fellow workers in a dull tone.

"What are you anxious about, haven't people already given this month's salary? Besides, if you don't work and still get paid, where can you find such a good thing?" After glancing at his friend, Lao Chen said slowly.

Hearing his words, Yang Lao Liu also nodded in agreement, after putting away his cigarette pouch, he rubbed his calloused hands, and his sun-tanned face revealed a hint of cháo red, and asked nervously to the workers around him: "Lao Chen, did you say that the new charter posted a few days ago is true, why do I always feel bottomless in my heart!"

Thinking of the announcement read out a few days ago, Lao Chen's heart couldn't help but be a little excited.

"Then you can relax, it was a guard of hundreds of people, announced in public by the butler of Fuda, how can this be fake!" Speaking of this, Lao Chen couldn't help but be a little jealous of the old friends around him, according to the factory employment standards just implemented, Yang Lao Liu was rated as a senior technician, but the monthly salary was enough for twenty taels of silver, if you can bring out a few more apprentices, then it is really not worrying about food and clothing.

"It seems that I will have to ask Lao Yang for advice in the future, otherwise I will be an intermediate technician every month, and my salary alone will be ten taels of silver off him, but it will be too much of a loss!" Lao Chen thought secretly in his heart.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the workers, Huo Shan took out some factory management regulations and worker evaluation standards in advance in later generations, and divided the workers into six standards according to the level of each person's skills: apprentices, junior technicians, intermediate technicians, senior technicians, technicians, and senior technicians. At the same time, in order to be able to quickly expand his own team of workers, Huo Shan also specially put forward the reward conditions for the 'passing on the band', for each junior technician brought out, he will be rewarded with five taels of silver; he will be rewarded with ten taels of silver for an intermediate technician; and he will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver for a senior technician; of course, technicians and senior technicians will be rewarded more, each of which has reached hundreds or thousands of taels, but those who can meet the technician evaluation standards are senior talents with certain research and development capabilities, which are too few in old China now.

"Young master, you are still amazing, in our Huo family's factory in the past few days, after the implementation of the new employment standard you explained, our soap output has doubled in the past few days. The young master's intelligence is so high, it really makes the old slave ashamed!"

Listening to the old housekeeper's admiring words, Huo Shan, who had always been thick-skinned, couldn't help blushing a little, but the pride in his heart really couldn't be suppressed.

"Hehehe, Fu Bo has won the award, these are all trivial things that are not enough to worry about!" After being self-absorbed, Huo Shan then asked: "By the way, Fu Bo, is there any news about the machine we ordered from Europe now?"

"Not yet, young master!"

Hearing his words, Huo Shan nodded clearly, it will take nearly a month to travel from Taiwan to Europe at the fastest speed of this era! Then he has to select the factory, disassemble and assemble the equipment, and then transport it back to Taiwan, it will not take half a year, and it will not be completed at all! But he is anxious! "Fortunately, there are still machinery and equipment from the Qing Dynasty, and you can also make up for it!" Huo Shan said secretly in his heart. After more than 20 years of Westernization, the Qing Dynasty set up a number of good modern industries! However, their production efficiency and equipment utilization rate are really flattering! However, Huo Shan has taken a fancy to these machines and equipment that are close at hand!

Standing up, Huo Shan walked around the study with his hands behind his back a few times, and then asked, "Fu Bo, how about you say we are building a railway in Taiwan?"

"Railway?" the old man asked rhetorically, a little surprised!

Although in the past few days, he has already adapted a little, Young Master Huo's whimsical ideas and means of spending money lavishly, but when he heard this word, it still made his heart beat hard. Because in this day and age, building a railway means spending money, and it's not a decimal!

"Yes, the railway! Although the initial investment is a bit large, the profits contained in it are not small, this is a long-term transaction!" "Young Master Huo, who looked out the window, said to himself.

From the 21st century, he has been influenced by Grandpa Mao, and the wise saying of 'I want to get rich and build roads' has always been firmly engraved in Huo Shan's mind. Therefore, after having money in his pocket, he immediately thought of the possibility of building a railway in Taiwan.

"Young master, it is feasible to build a railway in Taiwan, a few years ago, Ding Rìchang, who is now the governor of Fujian, has been thinking about building a railway in our place, but they don't have any money, so this matter will not be resolved in the end!"

"Oh, is it that easy?" asked Huo Shanshen differently.

"Of course, with the current status of our Huo family, even the current governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, He Jing, will sell the face of our Huo family!" said the old man proudly.

"Since this is the case, then this matter is so decided! However, Fu Bo! I want to trouble you to personally go to the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion for this matter, and say that our Huo family wants to pay for the construction of the Taiwan Railway, as long as the Yamen goes out of the land, when the railway is repaired and the money is made, we can give them half of the profits, as for how they divide the money, we don't care, but the right of way of the railway must be in our hands!"

"Half the profit, young master, is this too much?" the old man couldn't help but ask.

"Hehe, if it doesn't matter, how can these moths get on the road! Don't worry, Fuber! This time, we will not only repair Taiwan's railways, but also overhaul them, and we will circle the entire island with the railway line. I roughly calculated, the total length of the railway should be about 900 kilometers, and if such a long railway wants to be built, it will take a year, and after a year, it will be impossible for them!" Huo Shan sneered.

Looking at the cold look on the young master's face, the old man couldn't help but move in his heart, thinking of those soldiers who were secretly trained in the mountains.

After Fu Bo left, Huo Shan sat on the chair and rested for a while, then raised his head and shouted, "Lei Zi, go and call Huo Bao to me!"

Huo Long, Huo Feng, Huo Shi, Huo Hu, Huo Leopard, Huo Wolf, Huo Tian, Huo Di, Huo Xuan, Huo Huang, Huo Yu, Huo Zhou, Huo Hong, Huo Huang, Huo Feng, Huo Yu, Huo Lei, Huo Dian, they are all the eighteen of the orphans adopted by the Huo family, they have been cultivated by the family since childhood, not only are they good at kung fu, but also have been educated in both Chinese and foreign ways, and they have rich knowledge, and they are loyal to the entire Huo family, so as to control all aspects of the Huo family's huge family business. A few days ago, after he took over the Huo family from his mother, these eighteen people who were the most important to the Huo family were also handed over to Huo Shan to personally lead.

Looking at the little boy not far in front of him, with his back to him, Huo Bao still found it hard to believe that so many jīng wonderful army combat theories could be written by a child who was just six years old.

"Here, how is the training of the militia group?" Huo Shan asked as he turned his head to look at the young man in front of him, who was more than six feet tall and had a fierce face.

Thinking of the surprised way they looked when he put the Huo family's militia group in the training base in the back mountain for joint training a few days ago, Young Master Huo couldn't help but laugh in his heart.

Looking at the smile on the young master's face, Huo Bao touched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "According to the young master's rules, everyone is training very hard, and the level is also improving quickly!"

"Well, yes, I've got a lot of things to do during this time, and I'll find time to go over and have a look in a few days!

According to your orders, we have recruited another 20,000 innocent young people through Brother Tian's channels on the mainland, and they have all been put in the base in the back mountain, I believe that in just one year, they will be able to become real jīng soldiers!" Huo Bao said with his eyes shining.

Looking at his appearance, Huo Shan couldn't help but shake his head and smile. As a general, everyone hopes that there will be more and more soldiers under his command.

"Young master, can you buy us some more firearms, now we only have more than 5,000 71 Mauser rifles, is it not enough!" Seeing that the young master was in a good mood today, Huo Bao hurriedly asked, when we came, everyone repeatedly explained that we must ask the young master to implement the gun first.