The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 370 Picket Trivia

[If you don’t like it, you can skip it, but wait for the relevant important plot later, don’t say that there is no preparation, it’s fine if it’s too abrupt. 】

Jiao Shun only asked for half a day's leave, so he still had to sit in the yamen in the afternoon.

Due to the recent flood season of the Yellow River, nearly half of the official affairs handled by the Department of General Affairs are related to the repair of dams, and they have to argue with the river government from time to time.

Fortunately, these matters do not need to be decided by the Department of General Affairs. It only needs to conduct a preliminary screening, send back those with obvious problems, and then sort the rest into categories, and ask people to attach relevant data and send them to relevant departments, institutes, and Just submit it to the Minister of the Minister.

After reviewing more than a dozen official documents requesting funds for river embankment repairs and appropriating supplies, Jiao Shun inevitably felt a little tired, so he dug out a few documents that he was interested in and planned to cheer up his spirits.

This first one is the summary of the results of the first phase of training for the picket teams of the major workshops in Gyeonggi.

Just as Jiao Shun expected, even if they took a lot of exercise to screen at the beginning, only [-] to [-]% of the total number of workers gave up halfway.

After all, the children of Dachang these days are the best soldiers.

It's a pity that the number of places given by the Ministry is limited, and after a brief trimming, the second stage of elimination has to be carried out.

…………

This evening.

In the compound of the picket team of Andingmen Iron and Steel Plant, the closed training lasted for ten days, and finally ushered in a short rest period. After Chen Wansan announced the disbandment on the spot, the young workers who had been holding back for ten days all happily did it. Birds and beasts scattered.

The picket team compound, which had been bustling for a long time, also quickly returned to its previous desertedness, as if the previous boiling anti-Yingtian had never appeared before.

Chen Wansan went back to his small courtyard, took off his light blue uniform and soaked it in the water, thinking that he could wear casual clothes tomorrow, so he didn't rush to scrub - the clothes beside him were all handed over to him now. The maids who did odd jobs in the factory went to wash them, but these two sets of uniforms were always done by themselves.

He mixed half a bucket of cold water into the hot water at noon. He was about to take a shower in the yard when Li Qing rushed in from outside and said, "Hurry up, Lao Feng invites us to eat flower wine. My buddy will take you to eat meat today too!"

Chen Wansan frowned and straightened his back, wondering: "Didn't Representative Feng just take in a concubine, why did he go out to eat flower wine?"

"Ah~"

Li Qing waved his hands indifferently: "You don't understand this, how can wild flowers smell like wild flowers? Don't be verbose, Lao Feng has already gone to occupy a seat first, it is not appropriate to keep him waiting for a long time!"

As he said that, he urged Chen Wansan to go to the house to change clothes.

Chen Wansan hesitated for a moment, but shook his head firmly and said: "I don't want to go to that kind of place. When my mother came here, she specifically told me to save up money to marry a wife—the sister in the brothel wouldn't give birth to me. Son, I will not give them free money!"

"You elm head!"

Li Qing cursed bitterly: "It's Lao Feng's treat, and you don't need to spend money—we're not giving money for nothing, we're playing for nothing!"

"Then I won't go either!"

Chen Wansan still shook his head: "The teacher said, let's try to keep a bowl of water as level as possible, and not be biased..."

"May I not know that?"

Li Qing rolled his eyes, and interrupted him angrily: "Zhu Tiju wanted to install his nephew as the team leader, didn't I agree immediately? I'm close to both ends, isn't it just a bowl of water?"

Chen Wansan also rolled his eyes. Li Qing's bowl of water was flat, obviously not what he understood.

He was determined to be short-handed and short-mouthed, and he couldn't persuade Li Qing, but he would never follow Li Qing's way of thinking.

Seeing that he killed Feng Chen and refused to show Feng Chen face, Li Qing could only go to the appointment alone resentfully.

Chen Wansan closed the door falsely, and silently scrubbed his body again.

Relying on Jiao Shun's attack, he barely solved his worries.

Uncles and brothers must be dissatisfied, but Mother Chen feels that her son has tried his best to help, not to mention that this is the textile factory run by the emperor Lao Tzu, if he is not satisfied, he will be a white-eyed wolf, so Chen Wansan does not need to come forward, Chen Mother will go first They scolded each of them bloody.

Chen Wansan was grateful, and naturally worked harder to make the picket team bigger and stronger.

Unexpectedly, after these days, he started to feel confused again.

Li Qing's mind wasn't on training. He had been fishing for three days and drying the nets for two days. He had expected it a long time ago, and he had already figured out how to persuade this old classmate.

But he never expected that the person who cared the least about this training camp would be the army representative Feng Chen!
At any rate, Li Qing also helped to formulate the training plan. Occasionally, when Chen Wansan was too busy, he would temporarily put aside his plan to make friends with the factory leaders and stay in the picket compound to help out.

However, this representative Feng has completely become a hands-off shopkeeper. The longest time he stayed in the picket team was when he married his little wife seven days ago, when he came to post a post for Chen and Li.

This representative Feng was born in the army, and I heard that he was also a daring master in Qianxiang Country. He couldn't be so slack in training soldiers before, right?
Chen Wansan was puzzled by this.

Later, when he couldn't bear to ask Li Qing for advice, Li Qing sneered at his thoughts: "What's so strange about this? Old Feng has a limped leg, and he will never be able to go to the battlefield in his life. Now he is transferred to this steel factory Supervisor, the future will not depend on it, no matter how good the picket team is, what use is it to him?"

Chen Wansan was tongue-tied, feeling that it shouldn't be so reasonable.

According to his simple values, the benevolence and righteousness of the court, let the disabled Feng Baihu come to the steel factory to be honored, Feng Baihu should be grateful and loyal, how can he be so negligent of his duty?
"Why don't I always say you're not enlightened!"

At that time, Li Qing patted Chen Wansan on the shoulder and said: "But it's good that you are like this, no matter what, there must be someone who can do things, and I will take care of the others, so we brothers can't suffer."

It was fine if he said that, but Chen Wansan didn't ask any more, but he still had a knot in his heart, so he refused to go drink flower wine with Feng Chen - anyway, Li Qing also said that his foundation is with the teacher .

wow~
Seeing that the scrubbing was almost done, Chen Wansan poured the remaining half bucket of water on his head, threw the bucket aside casually, and took a towel to wrap it from head to toe.

While he was busy with his work, he suddenly heard someone calling the door outside: "Captain Chen, is Captain Chen at home?"

Chen Wansan couldn't help frowning when he heard this voice, because the person who came was Zhu Tiju's [eighth-rank official, equivalent to the factory director]'s nephew Ming Teng, the only related household among the three team leaders.

Although after the first stage of screening, 86% of them have been eliminated, but there are still as many as [-] players left. For the convenience of management, they are temporarily divided into three groups, and each group has several teams under its jurisdiction.

Chen Wansan's impression of Sun Mingteng has never been very good. He always felt that this guy would only be lip service by stealing and playing tricks. At that time, let alone the team leader, even the corps leader didn't want to take advantage of him.

Li Qing had no choice but to use reason to suppress others, saying that if there is no trustworthy person here, the factory will probably treat the picket team as a different kind, which will not be conducive to the picket team's future work.

Chen Wansan had to compromise. Fortunately, the other two team leaders were selected according to his preferences. They were both honest and honest, willing to endure hardships and abide by the rules, and they were not too slow to learn.

Hearing that it was Sun Mingteng calling the door, Chen Wansan didn't rush to agree, went inside and changed his clothes, and then raised his voice to let Sun Mingteng in.

Unexpectedly, besides Sun Mingteng, there were two other team leaders who opened the door and walked in.

Chen Wansan was stunned at first, and then became more and more displeased. He usually used Sun Mingteng as a negative teaching material, but now the two team leaders followed Sun Mingteng closely, as if they followed Sun Mingteng's lead.

But after thinking about it, he is not incomprehensible. After all, Sun Mingteng is standing behind Zhu Tiju, and there are thousands of people in this steel plant. Except for a few with roots, who would dare to fight Zhu Tiju? Do it against?
It's just that understanding is understanding, and I am still a little disappointed in my heart.

Therefore, Chen Wansan did not lead the person into the house, and pointed to the stone table and chair in the corner, "Sit down and talk."

"Thank you Captain Chen for your seat."

Sun Mingteng cupped his hands with a hippie smile, and put two bottles of wine and a few oiled paper bags on the table.

Chen Wansan glanced at it and asked suspiciously, "This is it?"

Sun Mingteng chuckled: "We heard that Captain Chen stayed alone at the picket team at night, so we wanted to come and have a drink or two with you to relieve boredom—they were all bought by the brothers in the customs room, and they are not good wine or food, so don't pick them." We'll be fine."

If it was just him, Chen Wansan would most likely invite him to shut the door, but the three team leaders have come, and with Sun Mingteng's words to say, if he refuses, he will seem to look down on them.

So he hesitated for a while, then nodded and said: "This is not an example, especially during training, if you dare to drink, don't blame me for being unforgiving!"

"sure!"

While Sun Mingteng was speaking, he greeted the two dull team leaders behind and spread out all the oil paper bags, while he himself filled Chen Wansan's wine.

The oil paper bag was full of meat and vegetables, which suited Chen Wansan's taste. After drinking a few glasses of water and wine, the atmosphere on the table immediately became lively.

While pouring the wine, Sun Mingteng inquired with a smile: "Captain, I heard that you first rehearsed that opera in Mengxue?"

The other two team leaders were busy picking food at first, but when they heard the word Gongxi, they raised their heads with bright eyes, and looked at Chen Wansan expectantly.

There are few entertainment programs these days, let alone rehearsals for workers?

In just half a year, the degree of popularity of Gongxi opera in steel factories has far surpassed that of Beijing opera and Kunqu opera.

Chen Wansan subconsciously wanted to scratch his head, but he managed to stop it quickly, and followed Jiao Shun's example, spread his hands and said, "This kind of banxi was indeed selected from among us in the first place, but it's a pity that I didn't choose it because of my stupidity——Your Captain Li did not choose it." I got the role of an arsenal manager, and I still have seven or eight lines of lines."

The two team leaders were a little disappointed when they heard the words.

Sun Mingteng saw that the flattery was not picked, so he quickly changed his words: "It's good if you didn't get selected, so you don't get angry when you hear the nonsense outside - now the outside has banned the work show, I heard that the officials in the court look down on us These craftsmen! They are said to be scholars, farmers, businessmen, but even the merchants who are at the end of the four peoples are ten times better than us craftsmen! They can't help but watch what they like to watch, but only this craft show!"

This time, Chen Wansan's emotions were really mobilized.

He admires and appreciates Jiao Shun the most, and the work dramas produced by Jiao Shun are naturally highly respected, not to mention that many of the plots related to workers have given him a deep sense of substitution and pride.

The imperial court inexplicably ordered to ban it, and said obscene language that is unbearable...

Chen Wansan took a sip of the wine in his glass, poured himself another glass, undid a few buttons, and said with his arms half open: "He can hold it for a while, can he hold it for a lifetime?! Long live God already Deliberately promoting us craftsmen, teacher... Mr. Jiao took advantage of the opportunity to come up with an engineering study, in order to pave a way for us to reach the sky!"

Naturally, these words were not his original words, or even Li Qing's intentions, but came from the mouth of Yang Hongqing, the head of the engineering school and a candidate for the ninth rank.

Although Li Qing often said some sour words, but in terms of vision, Yang Hongqing's title as the top engineering student is well deserved.

Chen Wansan usually kept these words in his heart when he heard them, but now that he had drunk and was aroused by Sun Mingteng, he immediately poured out: "Long Live Lord is in the prime of life, Mr. Jiao is even more successful at a young age, wait Those old officials in the court are gradually getting sick, and it's our turn to have a good day!"

"Work points are also given in the picket team. When the time comes, you yourself, or your smart brothers and nephews at home, will be sent to the engineering school to practice, and at least you will be able to be a steward after graduation—if you are lucky enough to win the championship, directly You can go to the Ministry of Industry to be an official!"

Sun Mingteng came here to win over Chen Wansan on the orders of his uncle, but he didn't expect to hear such words, and couldn't help but feel his heart pounding at the moment, and blurted out, "Can you really be an official?"

"Why not?"

Chen Wansan stared: "Yang Hongqing, the first name of our class, got the ninth-rank official status at the graduation ceremony!"

As he spoke, he described the scene of that day vividly and vividly. During the period, he couldn't help mentioning the first thing he was called to the stage—of course, the fall was covered up with spring and autumn brushwork.

The three of Sun Mingteng scratched their ears and their cheeks were moved, and they all secretly wondered if it was possible for them to become an official like Master Yang.

At this time, I heard Chen Wansan say again: "If you really want to be so determined, the sooner you can enter school, the better - I heard that the Ministry of Rites wrote a letter a while ago, asking work-students to take the imperial examinations, and they can only be selected for officials after they have achieved merit. I was stopped by His Majesty and Master Jiao, otherwise..."

Jiao Shun actually didn't contribute much to this matter, but this did not prevent Chen Wansan from bragging about his mentor.

The three of Sun Mingteng were passionate, and they couldn't help scolding their mothers when they heard this.

One said that the heart of a scholar is the dirtiest, so he can't see others being better than him.

One scolding these dog officials wants to cut off the future of his own children and grandchildren!

Sun Mingteng gritted his teeth even more, drank a few glasses of wine, clenched his fists with red eyes and said fiercely: "Whoever dares to cut off my career as an official, I will follow him with white knives in and out with red knives..."

"What nonsense!"

Chen Wansan heard what he said out of line, and hurriedly stopped him.

In private, he couldn't help but ask himself, if someone really cut off his career as an official, what should he do?

Although it was only a short period of ten days or so, he has already fully experienced the feeling of being a master. If someone cuts off his path of advancement for no reason...

Chen Wansan clenched his fists unconsciously, and his usual simple and honest face showed a bit of ferocity—Sun Mingteng and the others were just imagining the future, but he really has a chance to be an official!
But the imperial court really wants to cut off this engineering student's path to becoming an official, so what can a small picket team leader—or a deputy—do?
After thinking about it, I can only pray that the emperor and his mentor Jiao Shun can withstand the pressure.

(End of this chapter)