From Chief to Ball

He shook his head and said, "There are so many people on the island, it's impossible for everyone to do it. Not everyone is suitable for holding a spear. Our requirement is that if 1000 people can do it, you have to fulfill your promise. The rest People still need training, but it's impossible to do this well."

Chen Jian pondered for a while, nodded his agreement, and added another condition: "A team of one hundred people will be in charge of the training. But you need to put the reason why I said before the fight into words that the workshop workers can understand. Speak out, and each team chooses one person to tell them why they need to train. Otherwise, they will always think that this is the same as those cities that still have slaves. What does the masters have to do with themselves? I study here, and I must be the bravest."

He said with some fear: "We don't like talking to you...we don't want everyone to listen."

"It's not me that you are afraid of, but what I'm telling the truth."

"Your truth is only half of the truth! I'm afraid that one day they will go to war with you as you say, but they won't get anything!"

Chen Jian spread his hands and said: "Then each depends on his own ability. What is true is always true, and what is false is always false. Is it possible that when I tell a lie, it becomes the truth?"

"Sooner or later, you will go out to fight with us. You see, some of you, such as Ze and you, hope that the people in the world will no longer be slaves, but the way you think of is to return to the clan's equal share era, but I have shown you a new road that no one has traveled. So following us to fight is actually fulfilling the dreams of you people. You can’t deny that there are no slaves in Yucheng, right?”

"The other part of the people just hope that they will have a better life. The more wars are fought, the more workshops, the more things you get back. You are asking for the same thing, but the public property has changed from ten to one hundred. It’s also easier for us to say yes.”

"There are still some people who actually hope to become slave owners, but..."

Hearing this, he already covered his ears with his hands, and made a whining sound from his mouth to prevent himself from listening to Chen Jian, and shouted: "We will not follow you out to fight unless you give our countrymen identity of!"

"It's a good idea! The people of the country will not agree! I am the leader, and it is absolutely impossible to go against the interests of the people of the country!"

He put down his hand covering his ears, and looked thoughtfully at Chen Jian, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He seemed to have thought of something, stopped arguing, nodded and said, "Okay, we agree. But please remember, don't Given the identity of our countrymen, we will never go out of Onozawa, because we are still slaves after leaving Onozawa. I will bring you the elected people."

The main purpose has been achieved, and the rest are side issues. With the Chinese people present, Chen Jian used his full skills to confront them for two days, but he only reduced the daily quota and reduced the daily quota. The minimum fixed wage was raised, the excess piece rate was increased, and the mandatory work hours were shortened from seven and a half hours to six and a half hours.

After the four conditions were basically discussed, Chen Jian made another opinion.

"You don't want to go on strike easily. Let me see it this way in the future. You elect eight people as representatives of your workshop workers. If you have anything to discuss with us through these eight people, we may agree to it. Except for the cultivation department, the eight Each workshop will select one person, but it is absolutely impossible to only have people from your smelting department. I can even approve a room for you as a place for you to discuss matters."

"Also, you are affecting the normal work of the workshop. According to the rules, all those who haven't worked in the past few days will be whipped. The rules cannot be broken."

After the three of them left, the people of Xiacheng who surrounded them asked puzzledly: "Jixia, the first few conditions are very good. There are indeed too few people here. If there is a fight in the future, they will really be able to help you." Please help me. Only the last one, you let them choose eight people... Isn't this fueling their resistance?"

Chen Jian said with a smile: "Are you stupid? Take part of the money from the public property, let the eight people selected out of production, get rid of the work of the workshop workers, and even give them some benefits. After a few months, they can still be with those workshops. Work with one heart? With a little effort, these selected people will lose the trust of those workshop workers sooner or later, and even their bottom line can tell us, which is easier than buying informers."

"Furthermore, as soon as these eight people got out of work, their minds changed. We told them all day long that the strike would actually harm the interests of the workshop workers. If we want to cooperate, we cannot fight. To protect us is to protect them." Myself, let them preach as workshop workers, isn’t it more convincing than our words? Do you believe them when you tell them now? If the three people before said it, they would believe it. Every time before a strike, these People will definitely know in advance, when the time comes, buy a few and tell us, hey, prepare in advance, so that they can't stop. How much is this for a room?"

"If this trick works, we can also buy some people, let them live better than other workshop workers, divide them, and prevent them from being single-minded. It seems that we have paid more, but in the long run, our losses are actually Small."

"You all have to learn more, learn how to manage these people well within the rules. In the future, maybe I can take part of the public property and let you go outside to open workshops. The rest of the cities can only manage slaves, but they don't know how to manage them. Such workshop workers, don’t go to learn from other cities, those are outdated methods. Slave work is really not as fast as workshop workers. Learn."

A group of people froze for a while, then stuck out their thumbs in admiration, and praised: "High! High! It's really high! How can this slave work as fast as a workshop worker? It's just that they didn't care about it before, and they were afraid of their resistance. If you can control it The way they resist, how can we think about returning to the time when we were slaves?"

Chapter 1 Everything is Ready

The turmoil that has been brewing and fermenting for more than half a month has finally calmed down. This is an imperfect non-violent and non-cooperative grassroots movement that cannot be replicated. The success this time will cost them countless blood in the future.

Chen Jian's tacit support and instigation, the inferior suppression methods of the old people in Xiacheng, and the scarcity and irreplaceability of the population are the prerequisites for this success.

They smashed the old city of the clan and blood nobles, and seemingly invisibly established a new city, and in the near future, the two sides will be integrated in this city, inseparable, and strengthen the cohesion of the city .

The basis of classical compromise politics stems from the small number of people and the need for the participation of all urban residents in wars. Just like the all-out war in the industrial age a long time later, the country or the embryonic form of the country needs to mobilize all forces so that the bottom people have the basis to fight for their rights.Of course, if this is a human being, it cannot be a legally inhuman slave. Even in other cities, the people in other cities are far more involved in discussing politics than the leader’s dictatorship. It’s just that Xia City has expanded the scope of people, because Chen Jian believes that people are always better than slaves. more able to work.

Military service seems to be an obligation without rights to those workshop workers, but it has laid the foundation for them to be eligible to be citizens in the future.When the war came, the upper echelons of Xiacheng had to give the lower echelons more political rights so that they could go to the battlefield. At that time, Chen Jian could justifiably accept them as new Chinese, otherwise he would risk offending all the old Chinese. risks of.

After the negotiation between the two sides was reached, the strike workshop workers were collectively whipped and rested for two days. The workshop workers officially resumed work, elected representatives of each workshop, walked into the workshop with the joy of victory, and started a new year. The endless toil of the wheel.

The workshop regained its vitality, and it also made Xiacheng people truly feel how powerful the human heart is.

On the first day after the resumption of work, the output of winter clothes was [-]% higher than before, and the workshop workers of the dyeing and spinning department took the initiative to extend their working hours.

It is always faster to work for yourself than for someone else.Originally, the winter clothes they produced had nothing to do with them, but now they produce them for their own wear.

After lowering the daily fixed salary and increasing the piece rate wage, more semi-full-time workers need to count the number of pieces, but the enthusiasm of the workshop workers also increases. a lot.

The daily income of the workshop workers was higher than before, but the Supply and Marketing Department was not too concerned about it, because Chen Jian asked the Supply and Marketing Department to increase the prices of non-essential items, and at the same time gave Xiacheng people a certain amount of compensation.

The living standard of Xiacheng people has not been reduced due to subsidized housing, and the living standard of workshop workers has not been improved due to the increase in wages.

In addition, various invisible barriers have also been opened, workshop workers are allowed to use public baths, and have the opportunity to clean for free twice a month.

In the bath where people are stripped of their clothes, there is no distinction between high and low, and this place has also become a place to eliminate barriers and communicate.

Schools for workshop workers' children are also being prepared for construction, and the smart people selected from workshop workers have begun to take the lead in off-the-job learning as children's teachers.

The houses represented by the workshop workers were also approved by Chen Jian, and the workshop workers of the construction department took advantage of the rest time to build them, and the Xia Chengguo people's buying operation also started, with little effect for the time being, but some people have let go and betrayed their class Becoming a running dog is just around the corner.

On a small island far from Cape Island, an isolation home was also started, in which women selected from the twelve workshop workers would take care of the workshop workers who were thrown on the island.Before the construction is completed, they are learning simple herbal medicine uses and antipyretic methods, as well as one of the few treatment methods in Xiacheng, with the people from the Department of Medicine.

All of these were won by the workshop workers. In fact, Chen Jian could have given them alms a long time ago. These requests are not excessive and will not cost too much budget.But he didn't want to, he hoped that these people could understand the difference between liberation and salvation, and a group that dared to fight and dared to resist had the hope of having the last laugh.

This is a big river, not the Ganges; this is the city of Yu, not the holy city.Don't ask for the afterlife, don't ask for heaven, don't ask the Buddha, don't look for the Son, just ask for this life, and only rely on your hands.There is no need for reincarnation, no need for saints to save, just a sentence of princes and generals.

At the end of the ten days, the men selected according to the various workshops also began to have a day of military training in every ten days of each ten days.

They will not be used as shock arms and advanced arms, but the simplest and easy-to-train spear spear phalanx infantry, mainly responsible for maintaining the stability of the front.

The black-clothed guards who trained them were amazed at the cooperation ability of these people. Those who had worked for a long time in the workshop according to the sound of the whistle understood how to advance, retreat, and left and right more easily than they did in the clan era, which surprised the black-clothed guards.

But when I think of those children in Xiacheng Academy, I feel a little relieved. The rigorous semi-military training in Xiacheng Academy allows every child who walks out of the academy to quickly integrate into the highly disciplined military life. the same.

The male workers who were trained kept their oath after taking the oath. At the same time, they also knew that their hard training was to give their children a chance to be human beings, so they worked very hard.Some of them have no heirs yet, but there are rumors that make them full of hope. They heard that Jixia bought a large number of female slaves from other cities, and they will be transported to the promontory island.

Simple wooden sticks are used as spears, and the dense array of spears will march back and forth in the open space every nine days, and the roll call at work every morning has changed from the original separate count to the queue count.

The ten selected people also began to learn from Chen Jian, telling those workshop workers that the reason for taking up arms was for their own benefit, and that without Yucheng they would become slaves again, not to fight for others, but for themselves.By the way, mixed with the indoctrination of concepts such as ancestors and ethnic groups, new ideas and old ideas began to collide, quarrel, compromise or accept, and then these people passed them on to the newly trained phalanx in a way that was easier for the workshop workers to accept.When these people fight for their national status, this reason will be more reasonable and will be a matter of course.

Yucheng regained its vitality and let the upper class see the strength of the lower class.

In the temporary calm, Chen Jian finally asked the people in the smelting department to stop building houses. A large number of heat-resistant green bricks produced were transported to the previously selected smelting furnace site, and the smelting furnace was completed before the ground froze. .

The mold makers began to prepare a large number of molds for plowshares, hoes, picks, and other tools. The quality of the iron produced in the first few months could not be high, so all of them had to be melted and cast into spring plowing tools urgently needed by the farm and village community, and they should be prepared before March next year. At least enough agricultural tools for the farm, this is the first task of the entire Yucheng Smelting Department in winter.

A large amount of salt and animal and vegetable oils for quenching are also being prepared, and a simple stone-pressed soybean oil workshop is also being built in the farm. Tomorrow, the farm will plant all the beans to ensure the use and consumption of oil in Yucheng. Simple, vegetable oil is squeezed out after frying, but the first batch of oil squeezed out is not soybean oil, but a kind of castor oil.

These wild castors have been known to the people here for a long time, because the seeds are poisonous, but the oil content is very high, and they look like ticks on cows that are full of blood. It is fragrant, but after eating three or five pills, you will get dizzy and die. In the famine years, many people can't bear the hunger.

Castor can also be used as a material for sackcloth, and the oil squeezed from the seeds is a natural lubricating oil, which is not easy to oxidize and dry. In previous lives, it was often used as a high-grade lubricating oil raw material for aerospace, just like whale oil.

The first batch of oil will be used as the lubricant for the workshop group next year, especially since there is no bearing at the shaft of the waterwheel, so we can only find ways to reduce the resistance, and this oil is much stronger than animal oil.

Moreover, fried eggs with castor oil can induce labor, and the tetraenoic acid synthesized with the lecithin in the egg yolk will be converted into prostaglandins to promote uterine contractions. Although it may cause the contractions to be too severe and rupture, it is not necessary to consider for the time being.Cooperating with forceps is another way to promote population growth and reproductive survival.

In addition to the production of lubricating oil, the soybean oil produced by the oil workshop can also be used to make soap, and the by-product glycerin can also be obtained.

There will be a lot of time next year. Use the earthen method of burning bile alum to cool down the U-shaped tube to make sulfuric acid to boil concentrated sulfuric acid and then mix it with potassium nitrate to produce nitric acid. Add oil to make soap by-products. It does not need to be industrialized. Be careful. Kill more than a dozen people, enough for people with angina pectoris to eat.

The remaining glycerin can be added with some spices to make some original skin care creams and the like. With the medicine for angina pectoris, you can make a fortune. Those who can afford it must be those who have enough land slaves, or they can also be used as Gift.It can be regarded as using any small workshop to the limit, making high-end products as much as possible, and constantly motivating and luring people in other cities to build low-end product workshops.