Chapter 88: Happy April Fool's Day!
April 1, 1868,
HERO has made a big "joke" to the world to celebrate Happy April Fool's Day all over the world!
In the afternoon of the same day, HERO began a total shutdown, and employees thought it was just a simple "job transfer", with hundreds of thousands of employees in each factory area moving from the old factory area to the new factory area a few miles away.
The new factory area is no longer like the old factory area, where each factory has a strict division of labor, but like ordinary factories, there is only one commodity for each factory.
The new factory area is mainly military factories and infrastructure-related factories, and other daily necessities, fertilizers and other factories are all under construction.
When all the jobs in the new factory area are full, the redundant employees will be assigned to transportation, infrastructure and other positions.
Thanks to the wise decisions of the former governor, employees now don't mind going to lower-paying infrastructure jobs.
It's better to be low than unemployed.
As for the question of whether millions of employees can be placed in infrastructure positions?
Anyway, HERO wants to build the entire rail and road network of Texas and the Second Mexican Empire, and if there are 5 million workers, HERO will be able to digest all of them into jobs.
In the evening, the Smith factory area ushered in the first night shutdown since the establishment of the HERO company.
There are no workers who have worked the night shift, and they fall asleep in the dormitory, and I don't know how much this night can alleviate the fatigue caused by long-term overtime work for a year.
The old factory area, with the entire area closed, is still crowded.
"Hurry up, put it up, and then go to the next factory!"
"Cousin, what are you installing? The yellow boxes were connected by red threads, and there were a few long black wires outside the factory area, which must be four or five miles long. ”
"Don't worry about it so much, I don't know, you just know that you can just give you five dollars a night tonight."
"It's still my cousin who is good to us."
"Everyone, pay attention, if this rope breaks, a lot of wages will be kickbacked."
"Okay, Li Gong!"
This middle-aged man, known to everyone as Li Gong, is a small foreman of dozens of Chinese workers nearby, and he takes dozens of Chinese workers to place these strange "yellow boxes",
Not only this small group of Chinese workers, but also hundreds of people of all races this time, placed "yellow boxes" in different corners of the old factory.
Hundreds of workers held glow sticks in their hands, and laid red lines in the old factory area of the Smith factory, according to the designated position, more than a dozen tons of "yellow boxes".
It may be that the temptation of five dollars is too great, or it may be that the small foremen have hired too many "helpers" to earn a few extra dollars, and the TNT, which was originally planned to be placed in the early hours of the next morning, was completed at 11 a.m.
After the TNT placement was completed, all the workers who had placed the TNT gathered in the center of the factory according to the previous order of the superintendent John, waiting for the unified payment of bonuses.
"Cousin, five dollars can buy a lot of good things, thank you so much this time."
"Don't talk so much nonsense, just go back and treat the second aunt well."
"Five dollars! I'm going to buy clothes for my son. ”
"My mother said that she would rest tonight, and she specially wrapped dumplings, and when the time comes, you call your second aunt and we will eat together as a family."
"Auntie's dumplings are the best, are they pork green onions or pork cabbage?"
"It's pork ......"
"Poof! Thundered! ”
A deafening explosion interrupted the two cousins who were talking, as well as the thoughts of everyone present.
Is it pork green onion or pork cabbage?
Before they died, they were still thinking about how to spend the five-dollar "bonus."
"You guys, go and organize people to put out the fire."
John, who was standing a few miles away from the factory area, braved the heat wave of the explosion, looked at the fire in the sky, and after dropping a sentence with a blank face, he left the scene of the explosion and rushed to the Smith Building.
Fifteen minutes later, John returned to the Smith Building, and came to Tom's office.
"Knock knock!"
"Who?"
"John."
The sleepy-eyed female secretary, when she heard that John was coming, hurriedly shook Tom next to the pillow, took off Tom's earmuffs, and called Tom softly:
"Tom, John is here."
"It's only a few o'clock, why are you here so early?"
"It's half past eleven, Tom."
"What, didn't you say eight or nine o'clock in the morning? Could it be that the damn workers are too aggressive in planting TNT? Settled in advance? He deserved to be blown up! Death is death, and it affects my sleep! ”
"Tom, I don't know exactly what the situation is, you go and see John."
"I didn't bother to get up, so you went and told John, and according to the original plan, triple the work-related injury compensation, the first time to fully put out the fire, and announce to the public that there was an explosion at the chemical plant of the hero company, and then make false accounts, and strive to let the state government seize the assets in the name of bankruptcy tomorrow. Wasn't the original plan in the morning? I was too lazy to go to this point, and the original plan was that I would arrive as soon as possible instead of me in the field, and I would not be back until tomorrow morning. ”
"Uh-huh, okay."
After about three or four minutes, the female secretary got dressed, walked to the door, and whispered a few words to John, who nodded and left Tom's office and returned to the scene of the "accidental explosion" in the Smith factory area.
By the time the female secretary came back in her usual uniform, Tom was no longer sleepy, so he and the female secretary finished a few more games of "maid tying up the housekeeper".
After the "maid" let go of the "housekeeper", Tom, who was physically exhausted, was comfortably ready to sleep, but the female secretary took advantage of the night to cover up her expression and talked to Tom about the matter, and the female secretary knew that Tom had better talk at this time.
"Tom, the doctor thinks I may not be able to get pregnant again."
"Isn't that a good thing?"
"Look, why don't I help you find a few more companions?"
"It's okay, anyway, there have been a lot of new breakthroughs in the pharmaceutical company recently, and I won't have to worry about illness or anything soon."
"Then I'll arrange it."
The female secretary cried and hammered her stomach a few times.
"Why is my stomach so unhappy......
"Just one is ......"
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Looking at the Smith factory area, dozens of women of all colors were crying outside the Smith factory area, and they couldn't cry as they watched the fire and rain in the factory area.
"My son! My only son! ”
"Oh my God! Give me back my son. ”
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
"Didn't you say you were going to come back at night to eat your mother's dumplings? Look, this is a dumpling made by a mother, your favorite green onion pork filling! ”
A woman whose name she did not know took out a dumpling and began to kowtow to the dumpling, and when she kowtowed, the dumpling was stained red with blood.
If Tom had been there, he would have thought that pork and leek dumplings dipped in human blood were better than pork and green onions.