A week later, Xingke Company, No. 1 employee canteen.
It was noon at this time, and smoke was rising from the kitchen chimney, and the rich aroma of the food was blown everywhere by the breeze.
"One, two, one, left, right, left, one, two, one, left, right, left."
A group of workers, led by the instructor, shouted slogans, lined up neatly in four columns, and ran from the direction of the square.
Behind them, there are several such columns.
After running to the entrance of the cafeteria, the instructor shouted: "Stop, stand at attention."
With the sound of two neat footsteps, the workers stopped on the spot, and their formation was not disordered at all.
The instructor looked at the queue, nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Now, you go in and eat according to the queue."
"Yes" the workers responded in unison.
Although the training all morning had made them hungry, and the aroma of the food seemed particularly tempting at this time, they did not dare to move at all.
After a week of military training, their loose habits have been beaten away by military sticks and whips.
For them, the cold instructors are the most terrifying thing in the world, and it doesn't matter if they are hungry.
Now the space in the canteen is filled with the unique sweet aroma of braised pork.
"Wow, it's braised pork again, it's great."
Wang Qinian swallowed hard.
Although he was so greedy that he almost stretched out his hand, he still had to wait in line patiently.
All the new workers were waiting in line like him.
If anyone dares to disobey the rules and jump in line at random, the fun will be great.
In the first few days, many people received military sticks because of this.
The pain that touched their souls made each of them realize what "obeying discipline" means.
"Next" Now it was Wang Qinian's turn, and he quickly stepped forward.
There are more than a dozen square wooden food plates placed on the chopping board in front of them.
They are made in the style of later set meal plates.
There are several grooves of different sizes on them to hold different meals.
According to Wen Desi's rules, these tableware in the cafeteria are cleaned by dedicated personnel.
After each use, clean it, sterilize it by boiling it in boiling salt water for ten minutes, and then rinse it with clean water.
The workers in the cafeteria all wore white masks and hats.
They quickly filled the plates with food and placed it on the chopping board.
Wang Qinian did not dare to delay, so he quickly picked up a food plate, picked up a wooden spoon from a bamboo basket on the chopping board, left the queue, and found an empty seat in the hall to put down the food plate.
Then he went to a chopping board next to him and brought a bowl of soup.
"Ah, it's so delicious."
After bringing the soup back, Wang Qinian couldn't bear it anymore.
He first 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 cubes and added with soy sauce, rock sugar, spices and other condiments.
It is cooked until it is oily and red, fat but not greasy, and melts in your mouth.
Wang Qinian tasted the braised pork carefully, feeling the sweet gravy flowing over his taste buds, and then sliding down his esophagus into his stomach.
The feeling was so great.
He felt that this was the happiest time every day.
Wang Qinian couldn't remember how long it had been since he had eaten meat before coming to Xingke Company.
Anyway, from childhood to adulthood, his most profound memory was hunger, countless hungers with no end in sight.
In those years, let alone 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 eating white rice or white-flour steamed buns every meal, and there is meat every day, and there is plenty of oil and water.
For example, today's lunch menu consists of braised pork, vinegared cabbage and pan-fried tofu, three dishes, one meat and two vegetarian, and a soup, which is made of snow-white stewed pork bones and added with radish.
What Wang Qinian envied most before was the food at Landlord Wang's home in his hometown, but now it seems that even Landlord Wang's home doesn't have as good a meal as here.
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This was normal.
Most small and medium-sized landowners in those days were reluctant to eat meat every day.
Although the rules of Xingke Company are not as strict as usual, and the instructors are more severe than the devil, and they train until their backs ache every day, but just for this three full meals a day, Wang Qinian feels that it is worth it.
In China at that time, people with backgrounds like Wang Qinian accounted for more than 80% of the total population.
Those who have never been hungry cannot understand the horror of hunger and the temptation of being full.
Most of the countless civil riots or uprisings in history were caused by hunger.
These rebels were desperate for nothing more than a meal.
According to people at this time, the food standards given by Mr.
Wen to these workers were very luxurious.
The daily standards were: 800 grams of rice, 100 grams of meat, 300 grams of vegetables, 100 grams of soy products, 20 grams of vegetable oil, salt 15 grams, 30 grams of sugar.
According to the prices at that time, the food expense per person per day was 8 cents, which was 2.5 silver dollars per month.
The military training in the first few days made the locals curious, and many nearby villagers came to watch.
However, within a few days, they found it boring.
For these soy sauce workers, the workers’ rigid actions of walking in line, turning in circles, etc. were really not interesting.
Except for some little kids who continued to watch, the other adults found it boring and dispersed on their own.
However, when the news reached Neijiang County, the county magistrate was still shocked.
Those idiots don't know what military training is, but the county magistrate still understands.
He quickly sent someone to ask, and then Kafur came forward to explain to him.
Kaful said with a smile: "Mr.
County Magistrate, the factory run by our company is the latest factory.
In order for these farmers to become qualified workers, they must undergo some necessary training, otherwise they cannot use it."
He explained that this kind of training just looks like military training, but there is no weapons training.
"Oh, that's it."
Magistrate Zhang, who had just taken office less than a month ago, quickly accepted this explanation. 500 silver dollars is still very significant, which greatly improved Mr.
Zhang's understanding.
Besides, Governor Xiliang has sent someone to say hello and to take care of Xingke Company.
During the 20 days of military training for these workers, it was not all military training.
Wen Desi made use of all his time.
The daily schedule is as follows: get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, eat breakfast, rest for a while, train from 7 o'clock to 12 o'clock, and have lunch at noon.
Eat and rest for one and a half hours, train from 13:30 to 18:00, and study from 19:00 to 22:00 after dinner.
Wen Desi not only required them to learn the company's rules and regulations and instill good habits, but also arranged various brainwashing courses.
The main content is loyalty, loyalty to Mr.
Wen, and loyalty to the company.
"You can now have enough to eat every day, and you can also have meat to eat every day.
Who gave this to Wang Qinian, you answer" the biochemical instructor asked with a serious face.
Wang Qinian stood up and replied loudly: "Reporting to the instructor, it was President Wen's company that allowed us to eat well."
At this time, Wen Desi and several of his men were watching outside the classroom.
"Mr.
Wen, why don't you instill revolutionary ideas in them?"
Gu Xiaolu asked with some confusion.
She knew Wen Desi's plan.
Wen Desi smiled and said: "Haha, it's too early now.
How can a bunch of illiterate people who can't read understand the revolution?
I just want them to start from the most basic loyalty."
Then, he added: "Xiao Lu, take note.
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After these people officially go to work, they go to work during the day and go to class at night to learn literacy.
Our company does not allow illiteracy."
April 20, 1906, Menkantan Industrial Zone.
Starting yesterday, the employees completed their 20-day military training and officially started working today.
As for those foreign employees and senior technicians who did not participate in military training, Wen Desi did not leave them idle.
This was not a paid holiday.
They are all busy during this time, either making plans, compiling programs, writing teaching materials, conducting field trips, etc.
Especially people from the Ministry of Construction are busy surveying and revising drawings these days.
As soon as the personnel are in place today, the construction on the drawings will begin.
More than 6,000 new workers were assigned to various construction sites.
According to the plan, the priority construction parts were: factories, docks, and roads.
"Look what that is!"
Suddenly, several workers shouted excitedly.
"Wow, this is it."
Looking at the dozens of large machines that rumbled out, Chief Engineer Wei Sunan couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
"Hey guys, there are so many construction machinery including excavators, bulldozers, road rollers, loaders, shovels, graders, and crawler cranes."
He basically recognized these machines, but compared with the things he had seen before, their appearance was slightly different.
Wei Sunan would not be surprised in terms of variety, but what surprised him was the quantity of these things.
In this era, these tractor-based construction machinery had just come out.
The grader appeared in 1879, the excavator appeared in 1880, and the bulldozer appeared in 1904.
Among them, the earliest grader has a history of more than 20 years, and the latest bulldozer has only been around for less than two years.
Even in Europe and the United States, it has not been widely popularized.
It is good to have a few or more than a dozen units on a construction site.
But who knew, on this Chinese construction site, fifty or sixty units suddenly appeared.
And this is not a big city like Shanghai, it’s just a county in Sichuan.
Wen Desi, who came from a later generation, was used to mechanized production, and he would not be used to it without machinery.
In his opinion, there are so many roads and buildings that need to be built in such a large industrial area.
If we rely solely on manpower, it will take until the end of the year.
His schedule is very tight, and there is no time to waste time on these things.
Of course, the machinery of this era cannot satisfy him, because these gadgets are basically steam-powered and the efficiency is too low.
But he couldn't buy better ones.
These were already the most advanced equipment in the world.
Therefore, he had no choice but to let his biochemical technicians make some modifications to these machines within their capabilities during the military training period.
After all, the biochemical technicians have accumulated hundreds of years of knowledge.
Although the efficiency of these modified machines cannot be compared with similar products of later generations, the efficiency is at least doubled compared to the current similar products. .
"Wow, hahaha, 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 smile up to the sky
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