Chapter 47 Child Labour
Genius remembers in a second [Aishang Novel Network biquge.info] to provide you with wonderful novels to read.
In the next few days, Yang Rui was struggling with this question - how to make his future father-in-law recognize him, this question is not easy to ask, I can't ask Yu Huizu and Cai Yuanpei how to go on a blind date, what a shameful thing, and it is not good to ask Cheng Ying some of her father's preferences in detail, I believe that she should carefully tell herself some precautions before meeting at the right time, but it is not time yet, so I have no choice but to wait.
Leo has been discharged from the hospital in the past few days, his injuries are very light, the bullet only crossed the shoulder, and the operation does not need to be done on the third day to be discharged, originally according to the meaning of the German consulate, Leo still has to lie in the hospital for a few days, at least until the matter is dealt with before being discharged, but Leo can't drink in the hospital, plus he didn't have a good impression of the German government and ran back in advance, and Yang Rui had nothing to do about it - although Rutte told Yang Rui the meaning of "lying in bed" and asked him to persuade Leo, But Yang Rui didn't dare to say this to Wren, once upon a time, the Kaiser betrayed the Boers and the German volunteers for some kind of political interests - of course, I learned afterwards that this was a British ploy, just to draw a big pie to fool the Kaiser, and now he let himself use the pretext of German interests to persuade Wren to "lie in bed" so that Germany can obtain some kind of benefits this time. Then Yang Rui believes that the result of the matter is that the wound on his head will definitely deepen, and he will definitely not get better before he meets Cheng Ying's father.
After a few conversations, Yang Rui already knows Leo's mind very well, a soldier abandoned by the country, just like the protagonist Swagge in the sniper life and death line in later movies, and he also lost his most beloved woman, even if he will not actively oppose the government in the future, he will continue to resent in a corner, every time he is half drunk, Leo will talk about his things: those military colleagues who retired early with him and hurried to Africa by boat, those comrades-in-arms who fought side by side in South Africa, The British soldiers who lined up to die on the front line and were beaten by them again, and the most beautiful angel in his life, Rebecca......
Every time he said Rebecca, he poured wine vigorously until he finally didn't wake up, and the rest of the thing was Yang Rui's - beckoning the aunt downstairs to get him to bed, Yang Rui understood why he was fearless in the face of the Englishman's gun, he had long wanted to die, in the face of the pain of life, the betrayal of the country he loved and the death of the woman he loved, he had no direction and could not find a reason to live, and the pain before the confusion kept coming, how could this not make people feel painful. After packing up Leo, I went downstairs and saw the busy people in the real yĆ n room, it really felt like two heavens, the upstairs was eager to die immediately, and the downstairs was eager to use one hour for two hours.
In the afternoon, Brown came over, and he brought two letters of apology from the patrol room, as well as a stack of silver tickets for Yang Rui to sign. The result of the matter was dealt with, the British patrol officer was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent back to the United Kingdom to serve his sentence, the two Ah San were also expelled and sent home, and the compensation for Leo and Yang Rui was also calculated according to the maximum amount. Of course, in order to maintain stability, the trial of this case is not public, which should actually be the meaning of the British and German consuls, they should have reached some kind of agreement before this, otherwise the result would not be so fast, as for the content of the agreement, it is unknown. Yang Rui didn't sign the receipt, Leo's share he couldn't decide, and he had to advance and retreat with him, besides, he was sleeping now, according to the previous rule, he would wake up in the second half of the night, so he had to let Brown take it back, and when he woke up, he would tell him about the result, and he wouldn't agree to it.
Matheson's people arrived in Shanghai on Friday, and many of the Americas to Asia in this era are going to the Atlantic, although it is a circle, but the source of passengers is more sufficient so that the shipping company is happy to arrange the route, Bieber in order to hurry up to take the Pacific route, from the receipt of remittances to Shanghai in a month, which is very fast. Mr. Bieber is here to supervise the payment and be responsible for guiding the civil works here, the total price of the equipment is determined to be 150,000 US dollars, and the specific packing list and installation and commissioning training content have also been negotiated, but because there is no foreign bank, the United States cannot believe in the funds, even if the deposit is received, there is no guarantee that the follow-up payment can be in place. At the time of the meeting, Yang Rui showed a post-dated check from an Dutch bank, the amount on which was exactly the amount left after subtracting the previous payment, with this check, Matheson Company could rest assured in the United States.
"Mr. Bieber, I would like to know when the goods will be available in the United States, and what is the current manufacturing situation of the equipment?" Yang Rui is still more concerned about the arrival time of the equipment, the motor can be shipped from Germany at any time, the lag is the electrolyzer, if the time is urgent, then the civil engineering here should speed up the progress to meet the arrival of the equipment. Now the 6 lines have basically become a large construction site, the plant of the monosodium glutamate factory, various infrastructure such as docks, roads, pipelines, etc., as well as the plant of the chlor-alkali factory, the workshop of electrical equipment, these projects have caused the number of engineering team personnel to soar, roughly calculated that there are already 1,000 people, if the equipment in the United States is shipped soon, then this side will immediately increase the number of manpower.
Bieber is a chubby engineer, not tall, with a round face with a pair of round glasses, and the mustache between his lips and nose is very cute, he pushed the glasses between his eyebrows, thinking: "It took half a year for us to produce equipment for the Niagara Falls factory, of course, it was our first time to produce mercury electrolyzers, it took more time, and the number of electrolyzers in the Niagara factory is more than 700, and this is the second time to produce mercury electrolyzers, there is no technical problem, Also, you only ordered more than 200 of them, and I think the equipment will be ready for shipment at the beginning of next month, and the arrival time should be in early June. ā
"In early June, there are still about fifty days," I don't know why Yang Rui thought of the meeting with Cheng Ying's father again, and hurriedly put this idea aside, and asked Zhong Guanguan: "It seems to you that the construction of the factory can be completed in fifty days?" ā
Zhong Guanguan took out his notebook and looked at it, and replied: "It's basically okay, but I'm afraid that the small aspects can't be completed." ā
Yang Rui remembered the example of the old Maozi in later generations who first set up a machine and then built a factory, although this chemical factory is not good to be directly exposed to the wind and rain, but as long as there is a house to protect it, the corners such as painting the wall can still be done while producing, and said: "You pay attention, especially the source of materials and the quality of the project, I would rather slow down and not make any trouble." ā
Zhong Guanguan nodded. Bieber still had something to say, "Misteryan, I went to see the site of your factory in the morning, and I think it would be a bad choice to put the factory address in this place," Bieber is obviously not a businessman but a technical expert, "According to Matheson's concept, the chlor-alkali factory is either placed in the place where the salt is produced or next to the power station, and in the current location, in my inquiry, there does not seem to be a large salt field in the vicinity, let alone a suitable place to build a hydropower station." This will result in higher costs. ā
Yang Rui listened to his words quietly, people are right, the chlor-alkali factory is placed in the 6th line without a salt field at one end and no hydropower station at the other end, but this is also a no way to do things, to really put the factory in Jiangsu Lianghuai salt farm, it is estimated that it is difficult to acquire land, as for hydropower, there is no place to build a hydropower station in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the transportation is also very inconvenient, and only thermal power can be used here. "Thank you for your advice, Mr. Bieber," he said. We are going to use coal for electricity, and the upstream rivers will easily transport coal and salt, and the hydrochloric acid produced by the chlor-alkali plant will only be used in the factory next to us, and only the caustic soda needs to be sold or exported. Good construction advantages like Matheson's Niagara Falls plant don't have in every factory. ā
Bieber understood Yang Rui's explanation, he just wanted to remind the factory leaders to be cautious about the location of the factory, as he was very reluctant to lead the construction of the factory not long before it collapsed and went bankrupt. The next step was to guide the construction of the chlor-alkali plant based on the drawings that Bieber had brought, and two translators were found to provide guidance on the spot and correct the errors in the previous telegraph language description of the schematic diagram.
After the MSG factory was on the right track, Yang Rui had not come over for several days, and the factory's qiÄ process had been formalized, including the placement of the machine qƬ - except for the two large jars, of course, all of which had been appropriately adjusted, and the responsibilities of various departments and positions had also been changed, and even employees were required to queue up for commuting. At first, these things were difficult to be accepted by employees, but under Yang Rui's high pressure - in fact, it should be said that under the temptation of high salaries, these systems were implemented, and now everyone has become accustomed to these things, if they change factories and do not do these requirements, they will inevitably be very unaccustomed to new places without rules.
Of course, there are some things in the factory that Yang Rui is very satisfied with, but there are also some things that make him very dissatisfied, or to be exact, there is only one thing that makes him very dissatisfied, that is, the child labor in the packaging workshop. At that time, he didn't know the popularity of child labor in this era, when he entered the factory and saw these half-grown children, Yang Rui asked Zhong Guanguan to quit and change to some aunts, Zhong Guanguan hurriedly went, and then led a large group of children over, those children saw Yang Rui and knelt on the ground, and then shouted in various dialects that Master Yang was good and good, Yang Rui listened to the scalp numbness, not walking, not standing there, if these child laborers do not work here, then they have to go back to live that kind of hungry day with a full meal.
Zhong Guanguan also persuaded on the side: "It's done, if you really drive them away, it will be really miserable, these are all found in Zhabei, I see that the people who fled there are pitiful, all of them are impossible, so they all pick the children to recruit." ā
Yang Rui is a person who has never rented out the world, and he has no impression of how the situation is out there, and he usually only makes plans and orders when the factory reserves, so he doesn't know anything about the child labor that comes out below, after all, there is no such thing in the future life. Seeing these biggest children kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, they really can't be driven away.
Yang Rui asked, "How much do they pay?" ā
Zhong saw that Yang Rui's planned packer was a very easy job, the most tired was the wooden box that was loaded, that is, more than 30 catties, the two children with small strength were more than enough, and the big one was done, and the other was very satisfied with the wages of child labor, basically minus two yuan for food and housing, he was a little unconfident and said: "A corner a day, minus food in a month is a piece of seven or eight." ā
Yang Rui knew that ordinary female workers would be higher than this salary, so he sighed and said, "You tell them not to kneel, just stay." With that, he turned around and left. The next day, a management method for child labor was introduced, mainly three, one is to recruit as many children as possible in the future, and give selection criteria, the second is to reduce the number of child laborers to work every day, to do gymnastics in the morning, and to study in the evening, the teacher is sent to the students of the Patriotic Society, and the outstanding ones are rewarded, and the third is to strengthen the food for child labor, and the increased food expenses are made up by the factory. Yang Rui's original intention was to provide talents for the future expansion of the factory, but now this society is basically a talent desert, and those who are literate are scholars, and those who stay abroad are revolutionary. These regulations were unexpectedly approved by everyone, but Adego, who originally thought he would oppose it, was the most supportive, and talked about his experience of dropping out of school as a child.