The word "world" has been mentioned many times by Liu San in the past few months.

For him, the term was difficult to understand at this time.

What is the world for the people of the village community?

They know that the world is big, but they don't know how big the world really is, and many of them may never have left the village community thirty miles away in their lives.

Thirty miles of heaven, thirty miles of earth, thirty miles of people, salt from far away, plus the stars, the moon, and the sun, this side constitutes the whole world in their eyes.

After entering the village community from the ink master, he went from being a little lazy and disliking farming to wanting to see what the world was like.

He thought that there were always people in the world who could live without plowing the fields.

He had seen, for example, the owner of the original fief of the village community, the sergeant of the Chu State.

The sergeant didn't have to work, at least not plough the fields, and there would be an endless pile of food in the house.

He once thought that the Mo family was like this, but he didn't expect that the people of the Mo family did not send another sergeant to occupy the fief at all, but divided the fief, and told him that there are still many ways to survive without plowing the fields in the outside world.

But it all has to work.

In a trance, in the past few months, Liu San has gradually accepted the saying that wealth comes from labor, and he very much agrees with the Mohist statement that "laborers occupy the wealth created by labor".

But they are all labor, but they are different.

In the past few days, he has seen many strange things, such as railroad tracks, such as coal-burning machines, such as coal, but he feels that this kind of work, although it is not ploughing, is not what he likes.

He didn't know what he wanted to do, because he didn't know how many industries there were in the world, so he couldn't choose, or even imagine.

So he opened his eyes wide and observed everything new he could observe, trying to find a profession that he thought he would like, and that he might be able to do it in the future.

A few days later, their company moved again.

Several companies next door were assigned to dig ditches, one to connect the water channel from the Yangtze River to the Eyi province, and the other to build a farmland area that could be irrigated in the future.

Looking at the people who were wielding shovels digging the river, he was told that there were people in Si who made a living from it.

Instead of serving, he was hired to dig rivers, and his daily income was about twenty catties of wheat.

Liu San shook his head secretly, and said in his heart, this is not what he wants to do, even if this is not farming.

The new weights and measures had begun to be used in the village community, and Liu San knew the concept of catty, and was quite shocked that the money earned from working in Sishang for one day could be exchanged for twenty catties of wheat.

Originally, those people in the village community worked for a year, but they were afraid that there would not be much food left. In his opinion, digging the river can be done by a man, and he can get twenty catties of wheat every day, which really makes him understand the wealth of Sishang.

But he's in compulsory service now, but not so much.

Secretly writing down the figure of twenty catties of wheat a day, he followed his company and left here.

A few days later, they came to a wasteland, and several people were looking into the distance with something that seemed extremely strange to Liu San, and he didn't know what it was, but he knew that he would definitely not be able to do that kind of work.

The work assigned by the company is something they can do, and it looks a bit like building a city, and when I was in the village community, I was called by the owner of the fief to dig up the earth and build the wall of the fief.

In the distance, many people dressed in the same military uniform as him were pushing wheelbarrows and piling up dirt on the road that already looked like a certain shape, and many people pulled heavy stone grinders behind them.

"Is this going to build a city?"

He asked the company commander, and the company commander said no, he was just building roads. Then they were assigned the task of going to a quarry in the distance to carry stones, and they had to complete a certain amount every day, and there would be a monetary reward for exceeding the amount, but this money would not be distributed for the time being, because even if it was distributed here, it would not be spent, and even if they went to the city, they could not buy anything at this time, especially if everyone wanted to buy something.

Liu San trusted what the company commander said, and the people in the company trusted him, because they were sure that a Mo family who had divided the land and did not occupy the best fiefdoms would not be able to speak.

As for what the stones were used for, he didn't ask.

When they arrived at the quarry, everyone carried a wicker basket on their backs, and just after receiving it, they heard several explosions that sounded like thunder.

He had used an arquebus and knew about the existence of gunpowder, but he didn't expect it to be so loud.

The rubble was flying, and he thought it could really blow the mountain apart.

The people who blew up the mountain were dressed differently from them, indigo, and wore some strange hats on their heads to distinguish them.

Later, Liu San learned that these people who blew up stones were all mobilized from Sishang, because the gunpowder they used was not that black gunpowder, but another.

The person who told this story may know, but Liu San can't know what the things he said are, and can only vaguely associate this explosive as if it is related to some alkali and soap making workshops in Sishang, but he doesn't know any more.

When he went back to wash his hair, he looked curiously at the soap dispensed and wondered how this thing could be associated with an explosion.

Then watching the soap bubbles floating on the surface of the water slowly burst, he seemed to understand something, but in fact he didn't understand anything at all.

He and the people of the company carried the stones for more than half a month, and finally understood that the stones were really used to build roads, and those smooth and tamped roads were piled with such stones, and then some wood was laid on them.

The timber is brought in from a forest not far away, and there is a water-powered sawmill right next to it.

After laying the wood, they laid the long iron called rails that they had loaded and unloaded by the river.

Liu Sanxin said that he was finally able to see what kind of car could run on this kind of road.

In addition to curiosity, he gradually adapted to this kind of life, although he was tired every day, he could rest for a day and a half every ten days, and the remaining half of the day had to listen to people's lectures, literacy, and so on.

You can eat enough every day, although you don't eat well. When they rest every ten days, there is no place to go nearby, and many people will run to the woods to release their long-suppressed lust, and it is not embarrassing to tacitly understand each other.

There are almost no women in the vicinity, some women also have husbands, and there are no prostitutes in the Mo army, so it can only be so.

During the break, he curiously asked those who were in charge of blowing up the mountain, how much money could they make every day?

The other party gave a amount, which was about 80 catties of wheat per day, and he had to give more when he came out to Chudi.

Liu San couldn't help but have hot eyes, so he asked the other party how to do such a job? The other party said that to be literate, he had to go to a special school to learn some basics after finishing primary school, and he had to train for a month, and then the other party told Liu San very clearly that he had no chance.

The other party also told Liu San that this kind of work is very dangerous and easy to get into accidents, so the salary is high. However, they belong to the public sector, and if they are disabled, they will be paid to support them until they die, and if they can live until they are fifty years old, they can retire.

Liu San asked, what is retirement. The other party thought about it and said, you don't have to work but you have money to spend.

This answer surprised him, and he wondered what Sishang was like. Before leaving, he couldn't help but ask: "You can buy eighty catties of wheat every day, is there so much wheat on that Si?" ”

The other replied with a smile: "There is not so much wheat, but there is cotton, Xuanlin, pottery, iron pots, wooden tables, silk...... It is impossible to buy wheat with all this money. ”

He'd seen the windows and coveted the iron pots of the grocery store, but he had never seen pottery or anything like that.

He thought that he should go to meet him, and when he retired, he would do what he wanted to do, make a lot of money, and buy a lot of things.

Then the other side told him a very inspirational story, saying that there was a person in Sishang who started from carrying stones, saved money little by little, and finally opened a workshop of his own. He solemnly told Liu San that as long as he worked hard, he could get rich.

This story omits one of the most important places.

There is indeed such a person, but the money for this person to open a workshop is not from carrying stones, but after carrying stones, he went to the South China Sea to traffic long-term labor.

The most important part is hidden, and after simplification, there is a very perfect set of rhetoric: labor creates wealth, as long as you work well, you will have the opportunity to get rich, so you must work hard.

Those workshop owners must be hardworking, intelligent, and capable than everyone else, otherwise why would they be rich?

This truth sounds like no problem, so Liu San cherished such a dream, received the army's pocket money that could buy half a catty of candy every month, and began to desperately carry stones to exchange excess amounts for a meager salary, and when he was resting, he followed the army night school all day long to learn literacy and arithmetic, and retracted his tongue to learn the language of Sishang.

Soon after, the more than 10-mile-long road connecting the coal and iron mines of Hubei was finally completed.

Liu San saved some money, and when the road was completed, he also got some psychological satisfaction - some people preached that this is beneficial to the world.

At last, he saw the carriage running on it, and saw the carriage under the choke as if it were a chariot, pulling the previously unimaginable pieces of coal along the iron road.

He thought that these two horses were more and faster than the previous six or seven horses, so it was.

He asked the company commander who came up from Si, are there many such railroad tracks in Si?

The company commander thought about it and said, not very many, only some mines far away from the river are used, at least he has not seen it in Pengcheng, because Pengcheng has a good river, and the ships must be transported more.