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Chapter 13 What Is a Scientist?

"Chu Yun, come out for me!"

Chu Yun was watching soldiers drill on the school grounds, when he heard someone calling his name directly from a distance.

In the entire Guanglu Island, only Kong Youde dared to do this.

"Hey, isn't this Brother Kong? Why are you here when you have time?" Chu Yunqiang greeted him with a smile.

"I won't come to you when I'm free! Look at you, you've snatched away the people and fleet of our South Island, what will our more than 1000 soldiers in the South Island eat this winter?" Kong Youde said angrily.

Along the way, he saw the well-connected villages on Chu Yun's land, and counted them carefully, there were hundreds of households.Moreover, Chu Yun still has more than [-] warships and merchant ships moored in the port of the North Island. This development momentum is not inferior to that of the South Island, and there is a faint tendency to replace it.So Kong Youde was in a hurry, wouldn't Chu Yun sit on his head if this went on?
"Brother Kong, don't be angry, you have something to say! I didn't force the people and businessmen on the island to come here. This is their own choice. My little brother is really innocent!" Chu Yun said with a sad face.

"Ma Balazi! If you didn't collect taxes, these people would have gone to the North Island?!" Kong Youde was furious.

"Aren't I trying to attract refugees from Houjin's territory to come to our Guanglu Island? I have worked so hard for the good of our Guanglu Island! How can you treat my brother like this!" Kong Youde was angry, and Chu Yun was also angry. "How could I have imagined that the people in the south would also come here, blame me!"

Kong Youde was stunned by Chu Yun's anti-guest.Why did Chu Yun look so innocent.If Kong Youde hadn't remembered the purpose of coming here, Kong Youde would have been bluffed.

"Then you return the people and merchant ships who fled north to me, and I'll go back, and I won't argue with you." Kong Youde saw Chu Yun's wronged look, and he couldn't argue with him, so his tone softened.

"The common people already have their own houses and fields in the North Island, and they live and work in peace and contentment. How can we make them displaced? The merchant fleets come and go freely, and they will go wherever there is interest. How can we force them?" Chu Yun continued to talk about his great principles.

"What are you talking about? Anyway, I don't care, or you return the people and merchant ships, or we brothers have nothing to do!" Kong Youde scratched his head, unable to argue with Chu Yun, so he could only say angrily.

"Oh, my brother is really in trouble. Since brother Kong is making things difficult for me, for the sake of the safety of the people, I have no choice but to put this brotherhood aside." Chu Yun sighed.

Kong Youde stared bull-eyed.Hearing Chu Yun's words, why is he so mean-spirited?

"I didn't mean that..." Kong Youde always felt that he was wrong, and said hesitatingly.

"Brother Kong, who is our brother! My people are also your people, and my merchant ships are also your merchant ships! The big deal is that brothers will honor you with 500 taels of silver every month as compensation, how about it?" Chu Yun said generously .

"Is this true?!" Kong Youde didn't hear anything else, but heard the 500 taels of silver clearly.

"Really!" Chu Yun said sincerely.

"Hahaha, as expected of my good brother, let's go, let's have a drink and forget about the previous unpleasantness!" Kong Youde said with a turned face.

Chu Yun couldn't help but rolled his eyes, for the sake of Yinliang, Brother Kong didn't even want moral integrity.

But Chu Yun didn't care.Spend a small amount of money to stabilize Kong Youde's big boss first, and then get back the principal with interest later!

"Continue to practice, let's go, Brother Kong, let's go drink." Chu Yun hurriedly took Kong Youde away, for fear that he would know the power of his musketeer team's drill.

The two people who were about to fight, talked and laughed happily in a few words, making the surrounding soldiers look stupid.

"Boss is shrewd, train quickly, this is not something you can learn." Changyi, the captain of the second team, looked at Chu Yun and Kong Youde who were leaving, and then kicked the stunned soldier.

Kong Youde was drinking in Chu Yun's military tent, but he didn't see that an unremarkable textile factory was rising on the small flat land next to the port of Beidao.

"You all earnestly learn from the Western masters. After two years of good performance, you will not be prisoners. Otherwise, you will be slaves for generations and suffer from this labor forever." Xu Ji, the three captains, is in charge of supervising the affairs of the textile factory. At that time, he led a team of soldiers to maintain order in the textile factory.

It can be understood that Xu Ji is the captain of the security guard, Hargreaves, who invented the Jenny loom, is the instructor, and Chu Yun is the director of the factory.

In addition to arranging Houjin captives to work in the textile factory, Chu Yun also recruited island residents to do textile work.At present, the main business of the textile factory is spinning, and in the future, it can develop from spinning to higher value-added industrial links such as cloth, dyes, and clothing.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of prospective workers, Chu Yun divided textile workers into five occupations.

The first level is a textile apprentice, generally a novice with no experience.

The second level is ordinary workers, who usually have two years of service and double their salary.

The third level is skilled workers, who usually have five years of service and double their salary.

The fourth level is a craftsman, who generally has more than ten years of service, and his salary is doubled.

As for the fifth level, known as "scientists", they are the most outstanding technicians in this field. At this time, they can no longer be measured by silver, and they will enjoy the best service provided by Chu Yun here.Of course, the threshold for a scientist is very high. Not only must he have worked in a textile factory for more than ten years, but he must also make outstanding contributions to the textile factory, or make a huge research breakthrough in the textile industry.

On the one hand, Chu Yun’s design is to promote the development of local talents and contribute to the rapid cultivation of a group of outstanding craftsmen in the next few years. On the other hand, it is also to set a goal for the figures in various scientific fields to be summoned, so as to avoid some sciences that value material The big coffee didn't pursue here, and turned to other forces.

As soon as the news of the textile factory's recruitment came out, there was an uproar in Guanglu Island.As long as you work hard, it is very likely that your salary will increase eight times in ten years!For the textile workers of the Ming Dynasty who had been paid almost the same wages all their lives, this was something that they could not even imagine in their dreams.When did the imperial court pay so much attention to technical talents?And if you accidentally become that "scientist", wouldn't you have sixteen times the salary?Bah, at that time, the salary is not important, what is more important is the good reputation!
Although the people of the Ming Dynasty in this era didn't know what the "scientist" invented by Chu Yun meant, but who cares, as long as they know that this is the title of the most superior talent!
"Everyone who signs up to be a textile worker should line up for me, that kid over there, do you want to jump in the line! Damn, if you continue like this, you will be disqualified from the interview!" Maintain order among the common people who signed up to work in the textile mills.

Alas, these people are just crazy.Xu Ji wanted to scold his mother.

(End of this chapter)