Chapter 201 The Yearning of Foreign Workers
The spring sun shone through the transparent window and sprinkled on the fifteen sturdy men who slept inside. A young man who was sleeping on the side of the window couldn't fall asleep after being photographed like this, twisted a few times, struggled to get up, stretched a comfortable waist, looked at the brothers lying next to him, and smiled helplessly. Passing lightly between them, he took his own washbasin, washcloth, toothpaste, and toothbrush cup from the nearby wooden shelf.
If it had been six months ago, Wall would never have imagined that he would have such a civilized day. Wall was originally a small leader of warriors in the Wolf Tribe, but was later annexed by the Falcon Tribe because he was defeated by the Falcon Tribe. However, the Falcon Tribe encountered a food crisis, and the people who were originally Falcon Tribe were fine, and the care of the clan could still make them half-full. The people of the annexed tribes of the Wall were miserable, and they could only starve and eat a full meal, and they only promised not to starve to death.
Seeing that food is getting scarce, his wife and children are getting thinner, and winter is approaching, Wall is desperate. The son of the Falcon tribe organized a group of people because of his heart for the Yanhuang Trading Company, planning to go to the company to work and find some work in exchange for the materials that the tribe lacked. Wall is like a thirsty man in the desert who finds an oasis and joins without even thinking about it. I was worried about whether people would accept it, but I didn't expect them to hire them as soon as they heard about it.
A total of 3,000 people, all of whom signed employment contracts for half a year, became the company's construction and lumberjack workers. The labor contract given by the company is very generous, and the least person is paid two hundred Yanhuang coins a month, and Wall, because of his strong body and relatively active brain, has achieved the position of team leader, which is three hundred and fifty Yanhuang coins a month. These people have food and shelter, and they can't spend any money, and their monthly salary has been exchanged for a hundred catties of corn cobs and other extremely cheap food. I paid ten yuan for transportation, and the company's trading caravan helped to transport it back.
With the company's guarantee, the people of the Falcon tribe did not dare or were embarrassed to take these grains. Because it is a labor organized by the people of the Falcon Tribe, the Falcon Tribe can also get one-tenth of the laborers' company as a payment every month. Don't think that Xiao Lin suddenly had a kind heart to throw money everywhere, Xiao Lin planned at this time and directly opened the market of the Falcon Tribe. The Falcon tribe is not a very enlightened tribe, and it has little contact with the British and French, and does not have much understanding of the outside world.
The company's products, even for Britain and France, also offer whatever price, they have to recognize what price, not to mention this kind of small tribe. How much it really costs, only the company itself knows. Many people who work in the company's factories say that the company's businessmen are blackened, and a small commodity is sold by them at a price dozens of times the cost. Only the company recognizes the Yanhuang coin, and the transactions between Britain and France and the company are all physical, so there is no need for the Yanhuang coin.
If you don't trade with the company, the Yanhuang coins in the hands of these people are just waste paper that is hard to wipe your buttocks. By trading with the company, they can use the paper to get enough food and sharp swords and compound bows. This deal, then it can't be stopped, the money is not enough to exchange for all the things they like, then they have to find a way. It just so happened that the company's caravan began to buy furs and medicinal herbs, and they exchanged their stocks for Yanhuang coins, and the cold ones were also turned into quilts.
The Falcon Tribe thinks they are proud, but they don't know that something deadly has fallen into the hands of the company. Now that the tribe uses Yanhuang coins for its own transactions, the company has mastered their economic lifeline, and it won't be long before the patriarch and elders of the Falcon tribe will find that their words are not as effective as the company's. And at that time, it was time for the company to peacefully annex the Falcon Tribe. In order to speed up the process, Sholin decided to add another fire.
These 3,000 Falcon tribesmen who came to work in the company have been full of yearning for the company under the brainwashing and education for half a year. Wall is one of them, and when he first came to the company, Wall was dazzled by the company's prosperity. The people living in the primitive tribes reached the middle of the 20th century in science and technology, and the cultural and economic level had reached the late 20th century.
For the first time, Wall felt inferior, and in the face of these company people, he really felt that he was a barbarian who drank blood by spoofing Ru Mao. After receiving the labor insurance package issued by the company, he was even more surprised by the company's wealth. The labor protection uniform, which is no longer rare for the company, is a hundred times better than the leather jacket on their body, plus a military coat that does not pull a few pieces, and they will not feel cold all winter. Those toiletries made him cherish them even more. As soon as he sent it, he wanted to hide it and send it home for his wife and children, but the people in the company said that they would change it if they used it, so he took it out with a red face and used it.
At his first meal in the company, he was almost swallowed by his tongue. With enough white rice, vegetables to eat in winter, and a pot of delicious and sticky broth, Wall ate it for the first time in his life. People say that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, and after that, Wall thought in his heart, he didn't want to go back to that backward and poor tribe, he wanted to join the company and become a master. He even wanted to join the company's army, and once he encountered a wild beast at a construction site, and he saw a militia company like a heavenly soldier.
Wall has never been absent from the literacy and brainwashing classes offered by the company. Today is the day when their workforce returns home. Although the food is good, but doing heavy labor every day, these people seem to be more robust, but in fact, their bodies have reached a limit, and they will be wasted if they continue. So, go back and rest for two months. At the same time, Xiao Lin also wanted them to spread the scene of the company's advanced wealth, so that the entire Falcon tribe had a yearning for the company.
After Wall finished washing, he called all fourteen of his team. In the morning they would pack their belongings, and at noon there would be a farewell party, and at the end of the day, they would go home with one of the company's trading caravanserais. Washing and washing, tears appeared in the eyes of many people, and Wall couldn't stand it, so he laughed and cursed.
"What are you crying about, aren't you happy to go home?"
"Captain, I can't bear to leave here. My house is tattered and rotten, the air leaks everywhere at night, the food is not as good as here, I have nothing to do all day, it is completely wasted time, I don't want to go back. ”
"What a stupid thing to say, your father and mother are still waiting at home. Besides, it's not like we're not coming back, we're just going home to rest for two months. ”
"Captain, can we really come back, but I've heard that the tribe is planning to change us and let those people come. ”
"Of course, the head of the company has renewed the contract with us, and if we don't come, or the tribe won't allow us to come, they will send troops to clean them up. ”
"Hmph, tribe, that's not our tribe at all, I'm not from the Falcon tribe. I decided that I would have to find an opportunity to bring my family over and join the company directly. I've been in touch with the chief a long time ago. ”
"Yo, Kafka, you're pretty good, can you help me get in touch?"
"And me, and my ......"
"No problem, absolutely no problem. ”
Wall watched his subordinates make a fuss, and his heart couldn't help but be alive. That Falcon tribe, he didn't have anything to remember. Perhaps, he should also find a way to take his family out and join the company together. Letting go of these distractions, Wall returned to his lodging and began to pack his things. A set of utensils issued by the company, and three sets of clothes of their own. The new clothes and various small gifts that I bought for my family with my salary were all put in the big suitcase of the company I bought.
And his team members, because the salary is a little lower, they don't buy as many things as Wall. However, everyone is also frugal, just waiting for this time to buy some good things for their family, and one by one they are also stuffed with their own suitcases. It was noon, and everyone left the dormitory and walked to the collective cafeteria. Here, the people of the company have been almost decorated, and the people of Wal are a little flattered when they see the leaders of these companies doing it.
They hurried up, forcibly pulled the men away, and then took over the last manual work themselves. Wall: They were familiar with a few petty officers of the company who were in charge of their labor, and they were in charge of the command. The master chef of the canteen was able to make a table of good dishes this time. First of all, there is the braised pork full of flavor, which is full of ten large pots, plus a variety of seasonal vegetables and side dishes, pickled salted fish and mustard, and the fragrance comes to the nose, causing Wall's saliva to flow everywhere.
The people in the company didn't talk nonsense much, and said a little word of encouragement to express their expectations for working together again. Then, everyone sat together to eat and drink. Wall, these activists were all called to the table of company officials, drank together, inherited the style of Xiao Lin and the Chinese people, and deepened their feelings at the wine table. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the farewell party was finally over, the caravan had arrived, and everyone packed up their things and followed.
Things can be carried by the wagons of the caravan, and the people have to go on their own. In about ten days, they will be able to return to their hometown. This is to follow the caravan, you have to hurry, it took more than half a month when they came. Xiao Lin stood at the window of his office, looking at the scenery outside. Pearl, as his wife and secretary, sat right behind him to report to him.
"Husband, will this really work?"
"Don't worry, sure, we'll just be ready to welcome their families. Of course, let the people of the Guards Regiment be ready to enter the second-level combat readiness at any time, and I am afraid that there will still be a fight in the end. ”