Chapter 15: Commencement of Construction (Favorites, Recommendations)
A week later, Xingke Company, No. 1 staff canteen.
It was noon, and smoke was curling from the kitchen chimney, and the rich aroma of food was blown everywhere by the breeze.
"One, two, one, left, right, left...... One-two-one, left and right, left, left, ......"
A group of workers, under the leadership of the instructor, shouted the trumpet, and neatly formed a four-line column and ran from the direction of the square. Behind them, there were several more such columns.
After running to the gate of the cafeteria, the instructor shouted: "Stop, stand upright!!"
"Whoa...... ......With the sound of two neat steps, the workers stopped in place, and the formation was not chaotic at all.
The instructor looked at the queue, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Now, you go in to eat according to the queue......
"Yes!" the workers replied in unison.
Although the aroma of the food was particularly tempting after a morning of training had made them hungry, they did not dare to move at all. After a week of military training, their casual habits have been beaten almost with sticks and whips. For them, the ruthless instructors are the most terrible thing in the world, and a little hunger is nothing.
Now the space in the cafeteria is filled with the sweet aroma unique to braised pork.
"Wow, it's braised pork again, it's amazing!!" Wang Qinian swallowed his saliva hard, although now he was so hungry that he was about to stretch out his hand in his throat, but he still had to queue patiently. All the new workers were like him, honestly lining up.
If anyone dares to disobey discipline and rush into the queue, the fun will be great. In the first few days, many people were beaten with military sticks because of this, and the pain that touched the soul made each of them realize what it means to "obey discipline".
"Next ......"
Now it was Wang Qinian's turn, and he hurriedly stepped forward. On the board in front of him were placed more than a dozen square wooden food plates, which were made in the shape of later set meal plates, with several grooves of different sizes on them to hold different meals. According to the rules of Wen Desi, these tableware in the canteen are cleaned by special personnel. After each use, it should be cleaned, then boiled in boiling salt water for ten minutes to disinfect, and then rinsed with water.
The workers in the cafeteria, wearing white masks and hats, quickly put food on their plates and placed them on the boards.
Wang Qinian didn't dare to delay, hurriedly picked up a food plate, picked up a wooden spoon in a bamboo basket on the board and left the queue, and found a vacant seat in the hall to put down the food plate. I went to a nearby board and served a bowl of soup.
"Ah, it's so delicious!" Bringing the soup back, Wang Qinian couldn't hold back any longer, he scooped up a piece of braised pork and threw it into his mouth.
The braised pork here is very delicious, the pork belly is cut into one-inch square pieces, and soy sauce, rock sugar, spices and other condiments are added, and it is oily and red, fat but not greasy, and it melts in the mouth.
Wang Qinian savored the braised pork, felt the luscious gravy flowing on his taste buds, and then slid down his esophagus into his stomach, that feeling was really amazing!
How long had it been since he had eaten meat before coming to Xingke? Wang Qinian couldn't remember this question clearly. Anyway, since he was a child, his deepest memory is hunger, innumerable, endless hunger. In those years, not to mention braised pork, even half a bowl of brown rice was a rare treat for Wang Qinian.
But since I arrived at Xingke Company, I have been full of white rice or white flour steamed buns, and there is meat every day, and there is plenty of oil and water. For example, today's noon recipe is braised pork, vinegared cabbage and fried tofu, one meat, two vegetarian dishes, and a soup, which is stewed with pork bones and snow white, plus radish.
What Wang Qinian envied the most in the past was the food in the landlord's house in his hometown, but now it seems that even if it is the landlord's house, it is not as good as eating here. This is normal, and most of the small and medium-sized landlords in that year were reluctant to eat meat every day.
Although the rules of Xingke Company are not ordinary, the instructors are stricter than the devil, and they will practice every day until their backache hurts, but just for three full meals a day, Wang Qinian feels that it is worth it.
In China at that time, people with a background like Wang Qinian accounted for more than eighty percent of the total population. Those who have never been hungry cannot understand the horror of hunger and the temptation to be full. Most of the countless civil riots or uprisings in history have been caused by hunger, and these rebels who do not want to die are nothing more than to have a good meal.
According to the people at this time, the food standard given by Mr. Wen to these workers is very luxurious, and the daily standard is: 8oo grams of rice, 1oo grams of meat, 3oo grams of vegetables, 1oo grams of bean products, 2o grams of vegetable oil, 15 grams of salt, and 3o grams of sugar. At that time, the food cost per person per day was 8 cents, which was 2 cents per month. 5 silver dollars.
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The first few days of military training made the locals curious, and many villagers in the vicinity came to watch, but within a few days, they felt bored. For these soy sauce people, the rigid queue of workers walking, turning in circles and other actions is really not interesting, except for some little children who continue to watch, the other adults are bored and disperse.
However, after the news was transferred to Neijiang County, the county magistrate was still taken aback. Those mud legs don't know what military training is, but the county commander still understands it. He hurriedly sent someone to ask, and then Cavour came forward to explain it to him.
Cavour said with a smile: "Mr. Prefectural Order, the factory run by our company is the latest factory. For these peasants to become qualified workers, they must have some necessary training, otherwise they cannot use ......"
He explained that this kind of training just looked like military training, but there was no weapons training.
"Oh, I see......" The Zhang county commander, who had only been in office for less than a month, quickly accepted the explanation.
5oo silver dollars are still very weighty, which makes Master Zhang's understanding greatly improved. Besides, the Governor of Xiliang has already sent someone to say hello and take care of Xingke Company.
These workers are not all military training during the 2o day of military training, Wen Desi used all the time, the daily arrangement is like this, get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, eat breakfast, rest for a while, train from 7 o'clock to 12 o'clock, eat and rest for 1 and a half hours at noon, train from 13:30 to 18:00 in the afternoon, and study time from 19 o'clock to 22 o'clock after dinner.
Wen Deji not only asked them to learn the company's rules and regulations, inculcate various good habits, but also arranged various brainwashing courses. The main content is loyalty, loyalty to Mr. Wen, and loyalty to the company.
"Now you can eat enough every day, and you can eat meat every day, who gave this? Wang Qinian, you can answer......" The cyborg instructor asked with a stern face.
Wang Qinian stood up and replied loudly: "Report to the instructor, it's Mr. Wen! It's the company! Let us have a full meal......
At this time, Wen Desi and a few of his subordinates watched outside the classroom.
"Mr. Wen, why don't you instill revolutionary ideas in them?" Gu Xiaolu asked with some puzzlement. She knew about Wen Dehei's plan.
Wen Desi smiled: "Hehe, it's still too early, how can a bunch of illiterate people who can't read big words understand the revolution, I just need them to start from the most basic loyalty......"
Then, he said: "Xiaolu, make a note, after these people officially go to work, they will go to work during the day and attend classes at night to carry out literacy, and our company does not allow illiterate people to save zài......"
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April 2o, 19o6, Menkantan Industrial Zone.
Since yesterday, the employees have completed a 2O day of military training and officially started work today.
As for those foreign employees and senior technical personnel who did not participate in military training, Wen Desi did not let them be idle, this is not a paid holiday. During this time, they were all busy, making plans, making plans, writing textbooks, or field trips, and so on.
Especially the people in the Ministry of Construction, who are busy surveying and revising drawings these days. As soon as the personnel are in place today, the work on the drawings will begin.
6ooo More than a number of new workers were assigned to various construction sites, and according to the plan, the priority parts for construction were: factories, docks, and roads.
"Look...... What is that......" Suddenly, several workers shouted excitedly.
"Wow, this is ......" Looking at the dozens of large machines that were rumbling out, Chief Engineer Wei Sunan couldn't help but have his eyes shining. "Good guys, excavators, bulldozers, road rollers, loaders (bulldozers), graders, crawler cranes, there are so many construction machinery ......"
He basically knew all of them, but they were slightly different in appearance compared to what he had seen before. Wei Sunan wouldn't be surprised in terms of variety, what surprised him was the number of these things.
In this era, these tractor-based construction machinery also just came out, graders appeared in 1879, excavators appeared in 188o, and bulldozers appeared in 19o4.
Among them, the earliest grader has a history of more than 20 years, and the latest bulldozer has only come out for less than 2 years, even in Europe and the United States, there is no large number of popularization, and it is good to have a few or more than a dozen units on a construction site. But who knows, on this Chinese construction site, fifty or sixty units have popped up all at once. And this is not a metropolis like Shanghai, just a county seat in Sichuan!
Wen Dehei, who came from later generations, was accustomed to mechanized production, and he would not be accustomed to it without machinery. In his opinion, there are still so many roads and buildings to be built in such a large industrial area, if he only relies on manpower, then he will have to repair it until the year of the monkey?
Of course, the machinery of this era could not satisfy him, because these things were basically steam-powered, and the efficiency was too low. But he couldn't have bought anything better, these are already the most advanced equipment in the world. So, he had to let his cyborg technicians make some modifications to these machines during this period of military training.
After all, the cyborg technicians have accumulated hundreds of years of knowledge, and although the efficiency of these modified machines cannot be compared with similar products in later generations, the efficiency has at least doubled compared to the current similar products.
"Wahahahaha, with these big guys, the construction period can be at least doubled, no, three times faster!! no, five times faster!!" After confirming that these things were under his command, Chief Engineer Wei couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile.
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