"Yes, I've been to my brother-in-law before. In that place in Guangzhou, people are black and black, and every step will be crowded, and if you are not careful, you may be stepped on.

Moreover, the houses on the street are all made of stone, which is sturdy and beautiful, compared to which Shanghai is just a small fishing village. ”

"Guangzhou is a capital city and a provincial capital, so it should be better than Shanghai. Hello, I have a good brother-in-law who has been everywhere. Cheng Aniu said enviously.

Both of them are in the project team of imitation silk reeling machines, but the time and opportunity to enter the project team are different.

Zhao Tiezhu's sister is the wife of Chen Fan, a popular engineer in front of Zhao Dagui, and Chen Fan naturally has to take care of him.

When Zhao Dagui decided to set up a project team and convene 20 scholars and 20 workers to do this, he asked Chen Fan and three other engineers to recommend workers with good technology and fast learning, and Chen Fan recommended his brother-in-law Zhao Tiezhu over.

Therefore, Zhao Tiezhu has been following Zhao Dagui since the establishment of the project team.

As for Cheng Aniu, it all depends on his own ability.

Some time ago, Zhao Dagui gathered all his workers together for a technical competition, and then selected the ten people with the best technology to add to the project team.

The technical competition is also very simple, after specifying some geometric parts in advance, let the workers who can use Western-style machine tools use the machine tool to make hollow pipes, threads, cubes and other geometric parts, and those who do not use machine tools can make similar objects by hand, such as carpenters can use wood, coppersmiths and silversmiths also have their own methods.

After making it, Zhao Dagui took Chen Fan and several other engineers to use precision measuring tools such as spiral micrometers to measure its size to see how big the difference was from the specified size, and then ranked it according to the size of the error.

With this method, the basic skills of the workers can be seen best, Zhao Dagui promised a lot of bonuses, and the workers also had the heart to compare with each other, and they were very enthusiastic for a while.

In the end, the ten workers with the best size control got some bonuses and were transferred to the imitation machinery project team, and the treatment was much better than before, which made many people envious.

Zhao Dagui recruited about 200 Western-style shipyard workers, of which 100 could use Western-style machine tools.

Zhao Tiezhu's results are not very good, only the thirty-second place in the machine tool category, and he was very dismissive of Cheng Aniu, but he couldn't bear his brother-in-law Chen Fan'er's life, so he had to have a good relationship with Cheng Aniu, so he had to have more contact with Cheng Aniu.

Fortunately, both of them were eighteen or nineteen years old when they were the youngest, and they usually had to work and study together in the project team.

On this day, the two of them went shopping in the county town with several elderly workers, and bought some necessary items at hand.

"The cloth here is so cheap, I'll have to buy some to take home later. ”

"The white sugar here is much whiter than ours, and the price is not expensive, so you can take it back and give it away. ”

Several of the older workers, all in their thirties, have started their families and are already talking about what to bring home with them.

"By the way, you won the first place this time, and the owner rewarded twenty taels of silver, how are you going to spend it?" Zhao Tiezhu remembered that the friend next to him was actually a big money, so he turned his head and asked.

"I don't know, if I don't make a silver hairpin and bring it back to my mother. Also, buy some pen and paper or something, and use it later. ”

"Hmm, what kind of silver hairpin to buy, how good is the silver bracelet, thicker. But you're a little craftsman, what do you do when you buy pen and paper?"

"The last time I helped the owner, I happened to hear him mention that in the future, he would ask the teacher to give us a lecture, so that we could read and hyphenation, and learn foreign geometry and the like.

I bought a pen and paper, so I can use it in the future. ”

Cheng Aniu said casually, and then found that the surroundings suddenly quieted down, and several workers who came out together suddenly stopped talking, and they all turned their heads to look at him.

"You mean the owner is going to teach you?" asked one of the oldest workers, looking at Cheng Aniu, uncertainly.

"It's not me, it's us. Cheng Aniu said: "Last time, the owner called me over and asked me to give him a 72-tooth gear, saying that I felt good, but the basic knowledge was too poor, and I needed to make up for it, and I wanted the gentlemen of the college to come and give a lecture."

I told him if it was too exciting, and the owner said that not only me, but all the workers should learn from the gentlemen, but because of the shortage of manpower now, we can only start with 30 people in our project team. ”

Zhao Dagui wanted to improve the knowledge level of his workers very early, and there were many scholars in the academy, so it was not difficult to enlighten the workers and make them literate and hyphenated.

Of course, on this basis, basic mathematical knowledge and geometric principles must be taught, otherwise many workpieces do not know how to be processed.

It's just that there are many teachers who can teach Chinese, and there are very few teachers who can teach mathematics and geometry, and just giving lectures to those scholars in the college who have not studied mathematics is somewhat insufficient, so Zhao Dagui can't care about it for a while.

However, now that the affairs of the college are gradually on the track, and some teachers can barely come out to give lectures to the workers, Zhao Dagui thought about this in his heart, but he didn't say it out, but a few days ago, Ah Niu processed parts for him, and he was about to reveal it for a while.

If Chen Fan knew that Zhao Dagui had already intended to let himself and others learn mathematics and geometry, and even arranged a teacher, there was no need to ask Wang Zichao at all, and he still owed a favor or something, and his expression would probably become very exciting.

"And this kind of thing, did the owner say when you started learning?"

"Learn this, you have to be restrained, right?"

"What do the proprietors think all day long, most of us don't work when we come, we flutter outside the city, and now we still have to learn words?"

The workers suddenly began to talk about it, but no one thought that learning words was a bad thing, but they felt that the owner was unreliable, and they wanted to spend money as much as they wanted, even if they had gold and silver at home, they would have to spend it all.

Is it that I met the legendary loser, but if I think about it, it doesn't seem to be, I have heard of the loser who has wine and wealth, and I have never heard of the loser who recruits workers to teach and learn to write.

After some discussion, they still couldn't think of what the owner wanted to do, and finally felt that they didn't have to care so much, just take the money they had, teach and learn when they had books, and in short, they didn't suffer losses.

Even if the owner loses all his property, it is a big deal to take his salary and go back to his hometown to find another job, at most it is not as idle as now.