Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 296 Sweet Hong Kong Situation - The Beginning of the Rout

"It's okay, I can earn some money by writing letters on behalf of the county government every day. If it's not possible, I have a cousin—" His face turned slightly red when he said this, "...has a marriage contract with me. Uncle and aunt Not a snob either. A few meals are always okay."

Chen Tianxiong smiled slightly, thinking that he might as well give him a small mirror as a thank you gift in the future.

Back at the South China Sugar Factory, Chen Tianxiong made another arrangement, especially sending someone to the city to keep an eye on Lin Zhuang, to see if he was "dismantled" to the point of ignoring him. If you continue to live and dream in private, the plan will have to be readjusted.News soon came that Lin Zhuang had left the county seat and returned to Monk Zou Temple.

"Old Chen, why do you insist on persuading Lin Zhuang?" Wen Tong asked.

"He is the head of the Tangliao workers, so he has more or less prestige." Chen Tianxiong said, "If only our people lobby, the effect must be a little bit, but it is still not as powerful as his words. "

"What if he keeps pushing? Not helping."

"It's up to him." Chen Tianxiong had been prepared for a long time, "He handed over the original copy to us, and then handed over his own pigtails to us. With this," he pointed out the copy of the list , "He can't deny it even if he wants to."

"It's really you," Wen Tong sincerely admired, "How could he be willing to take the bait?"

"It's not the benefit of the [-] secret deduction. Money is alluring." Chen Tianxiong said, "When I lure him with the relocation fee, he can't hold it anymore."

"There are hidden deductions for the settlement fee, this world is really fucking dark." Wen Tong said with emotion. "By the way, Chang Shide is back."

"Why didn't I see him?"

"He's in Lingao, ready to carry out his mission," Wen Tong recounted the specific plan between the executive committee and South China to deal with pirates. "What the navy means is that it's best to find out more about the pirates and get rid of the evil." , so as not to leave future troubles.”

"I see." In fact, Chen Tianxiong didn't have a clue about this matter, but it depends on human effort, intelligence work depends on people to get out. "But now we have to think about 'recruiting'. What did Wu De say to our request?"

Matters involving large-scale admission of local aborigines are now under the responsibility of the Civil Affairs Committee.Basically, Wu De has the final say.

"Woo De has approved it, but we are required to submit a report on how to arrange this batch of labor," Wen Tong said, "Should they be resettled locally or transferred to Lingao?"

"What's your opinion?" Chen Tianxiong has his own opinion on this issue, but Wen Tong is in charge of Leizhou's situation, so he knows more about the local labor force than Chen Tianxiong.

"Of course it is resettled on the spot." Wen Tong's plan is very big. The winery will start construction soon and will need a group of workers. As for the comprehensive processing of sugar industry waste, it will also require a lot of manpower. There is no problem in absorbing these labor forces.

"I think so too. Most of them are locals from Leizhou and Xuwen, and sending them to Lingao is afraid that people will not accept it."

"And how to arrange for family members."

"The factory can't arrange so many people for a while, but it's probably okay to support their families with their wages." Wen Tong said, "I plan to pay both rice and silver—half the money and half the rice. The price of rice here is high. The Vietnamese rice shipped by Shi De is more cost-effective. When the business grows in the future, I will slowly absorb family members to work."

This is a good way. After Chang Shide established the sea rice sugar route between Xuwen and Vietnam, the South China factory has a big granary in its hands.

Even so, once the "recruitment" is completed, the food and drink of the small 1000 people will be the responsibility of South China.Originally, no one cared about it, but once there is a master, it is easy to cause trouble if there is an accident in handling.

"The problem of eating is easy to solve. Chang Shide has shipped rice, and you can eat as much as you want." Chen Tianxiong said, "If it is too late, let Dachang Rice Bank make a part of it first."

"We still have to pay for settling down," Wen Tong said. "A worker always needs one dollar in foreign money."

"Naturally," Chen Tianxiong nodded, "It also shows our sincerity."

"But this money can't be given to Lin Zhuang. He is so greedy, he will eat at least half of it. We can't be taken advantage of."

"Naturally, we are required to do human affairs." Chen Tianxiong said, "I'm still afraid that he will escape in packs."

Immediately calculated how much money and food would be needed.No matter how people arrange things, they have made plans one by one.

"It's just when are you going to 'recruit security'?"

"It depends on Lin Zhuang's awareness. However, if he really doesn't realize it, we will be the overlord." Chen Tianxiong said, "It seems that Xiao Zhanfeng said that burning incense is not a problem, but we You have to guard against him too."

After Chen Tianxiong left, Lin Zhuang had money on his body, and he became more courageous. He originally planned to hang out with Mrs. Ai for a day, but now that the situation is complicated, Huanan and Haiyitang are all eyeing him. Of course, his worth has doubled. There are advantages to being able to have both sides, but how can we make this situation of "two feet on two boats" be done well?This is a lot of work.If you stay in the hall any longer, you won't be able to control the situation.Although I felt a little regretful, I hurriedly left Mrs. Ai's house and went back.

On the way, I went to a rice shop first, and bought some old rice with the few taels of silver that I had in my hand, and sent it to Monk Zou Temple.He is already a regular customer here, so Mi Xing naturally complied.

He went to the Qianchun store again and put the whole silver that Chen Tianxiong gave him on the cabinet.I hurried back to Monk Zou Temple.He has a room here—it was given to him by Zhu Sanye Guanzhao Temple.He is a bachelor and settled down, he has no money when he has money, he spends his days in Tangliao, and he has no decent belongings, there is only a bamboo bed in the room, a few tattered clothes, and he is not afraid of thieves stealing.When he arrived at the temple, he went back to his room without saying hello to anyone, closed the door and lay down on the bed, thinking about it.

Being able to step on two boats is a good thing, but it is not a long-term solution after all.Sooner or later, we still have to decide whether to follow Haiyitang or South China.

On this point, Lin Zhuang didn't have any ideological struggle.In his opinion, South China is an outsider after all, no matter how powerful they are, they can't compete with the deep-rooted Haiyitang here-at most, everyone will make peace in the end.It is always right to follow Haiyitang.

But Huanan is much more generous than Zhu Sanye.The shopkeeper Chen I met today paid 50 taels when he made a move. Zhu Sanye doesn't have this kind of style.Lin Zhuang couldn't help sighing, if the two could be reversed, he must be devoted to shopkeeper Chen.

What made him salivate most was the 500 yuan 'double pillar' Yinyang. Lin Zhuang had never seen such a large amount of money.He wondered how he could get the money—at least part of it.

Burning incense and swearing cannot be delayed.This is his idea just now.If you slow down, you won't be able to explain it.The third master Zhu wanted him to take the opportunity to make trouble. Not making trouble is already discounted. If there is not even a cutscene, there will be nothing to talk about in the future.

The problem is that once the oath is made, it is tantamount to breaking his promise to South China.If the other party becomes angry from embarrassment, it is easy to clean up yourself.This is inevitable.

I am thinking about whether there is a way to deal with both sides as much as possible.Someone knocked on the door: "Brother Lin!"

He heard that the person calling the door was the leader of this group, Ma Sanqiang.He is a native of Qinzhou, and he is very prestigious among the unemployed workers from Qinzhou. Lin Zhuang can't help but treat him in a perfunctory manner.

Get up quickly and open the door, let Ma Sanqiang come in and sit down.

"Brother Lin!" Ma Sanqiang cut straight to the point, "Someone sent rice outside, and this time the rice is old rice, how can I eat it?"

"Couldn't Chen Mi be eaten?" Lin Zhuang knew that he was arguing about this again, and he was very unhappy—one of the main reasons why he had been hanging around in the hall was that he didn't want to see these people—he was so downcast Living in the temple is also very particular about being poor all day long.

Seeing his indifference, Ma Sanqiang trembled with anger: "Can you eat it? You eat it!" As he spoke, he shook open a cloth bag, and the rice inside was broken into pieces. There is also a lot of barnyard grass and sand.It doesn't even count as rice, it can only be regarded as sweeping the bottom of the warehouse.

Lin Zhuang felt a little guilty. He only had a few taels of silver to buy rice. He asked the rice dealer to "buy as much as he can, and the more the better." Naturally, the cheapest rice was sold to him.Finally, three coins and one stone were finalized. I didn't expect the quality of the rice to be so poor!I'm afraid it can only be fed to pigs.

"It's still rice," he said stubbornly, "you can fill your stomach if you eat it. Now there is no condition to be particular about it."

"It's not particular! If you eat this stuff, it's better to eat chaff." Ma Sanqiang saw that he had never eaten in the temple for more than a month. Although he was dressed in tatters, his body did not lose weight at all, but rather put on weight. Already angry.

On the contrary, Lin Zhuang calmed down, and spread his hands: "I can't help it! That's all the money given by the third master. I'm not a rich man, so I gave more money out of thin air. There are good rice, two taels and one stone, how can I feed it?" many people?"

These words are plausible.Although Ma Sanqiang suspected that he had stolen it himself, but there was no proof, and he couldn't say anything.

"I don't believe it, Zhu Sanye will only give this amount of money? Is it possible to do good deeds like this?"

"Mr. Zhu didn't do good deeds in the first place—" Lin Zhuang said, and suddenly felt that it was inappropriate for the words to reach Mr. Zhu's ears. If you are so kind, you have to give something back to others! If you want to go to South China to make a vote, everyone will push you back." He felt that he had a good reason, and he even rang his throat three times, "How do I go to talk to Zhu San? Grandpa said?!"

"I won't do this kind of illegal thing." Ma Sanqiang's attitude became tougher, "I'll tell you the truth, someone asked me to go to South China to work a long time ago. I thought that everyone gathered together to sue. You can't tear down the stage just to feed yourself, and you didn't agree to others. Now it seems that I was unnecessary." He said with fists in his arms, "Brother Lin, take care of yourself!" Said and walked away.

Lin Zhuang was hit by a thunderbolt - "Someone asked him to work in South China", he murmured in his heart.The shopkeeper Chen clearly said he wanted him to help "recruit security", so why did he already put his hand in?He quickly chased it out.In the yard, Ma Sanqiang and his fellow countrymen gathered around him on weekdays were packing their luggage.

"Sanqiang, there is something to discuss!" He grabbed Ma Sanqiang's hand and said, "You come back, we will discuss it again, don't tear down everyone's platform!" He then whispered, "You helped me maintain it, we Naturally, there are benefits for you!"

Ma Sanqiang showed a look of disgust on his face, and said loudly: "I don't care about it. You can save the money and spend it yourself! I, Ma Sanqiang, work hard to earn money, and don't use this kind of money from unknown sources!" Said and waved, "Go!"

More than a dozen workers from Qinzhou followed him out.Lin Zhuang stomped his feet again and again, but he knew that he couldn't stop it. Seeing the workers and family members around him talking a lot, people's hearts fluttered.Lin Zhuang cursed secretly in his heart - Shopkeeper Chen, you are too poisonous!South China must have sent people to work among the workers long ago!

"Master Lin," a sugar cooker quietly approached, "Recently, some people who used to work in Tangliao came here for activities, and I'm afraid they are people from South China..."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"You've been missing all day, where can I find you?" The other party was very dissatisfied and complained, "You don't take things here too seriously!"

Lin Zhuang was speechless.He knew that Chen Tianxiong had put him in the army, and it would be fine if he cooperated with the "recruitment", but if he played tricks, he had already prepared a strategy to deal with him.This time, he completely shattered his dream of being both right and left.

He gritted his teeth: shopkeeper Chen, you are unkind, don't blame me for being unrighteous.It was decided to burn incense on time and start an incident—anyway, it was the next day.That night, he summoned some prestigious people among the Tangliao workers to discuss the matter. Unexpectedly, the attitude of these people had changed a lot.

Among the unemployed Tangliao workers, the sugar cookers who are most enthusiastic about making troubles and smashing South China are the sugar cookers, but these people are unwilling to do it themselves-although they hate South China the most, but because they made a lot of money in the past, their families have some foundations. The faces of other workers are down and out.Don't want to get yourself into trouble.

As for the ordinary laborers who are poor and white, the public is already raging, and their anti-South China attitude is firm, and they are always ready to fight.However, things have now turned around—the fact that South China is willing to recruit them as workers has spread among the crowd, and there is a glimmer of hope in front of them. Naturally, no one wants to do such illegal things again.No matter how much Lin Zhuang encouraged him, he said that this matter violated the king's law, and he was afraid that there would be no good fruit to eat; starve.Some people simply suggested that everyone go to work in South China.

(End of this chapter)