Author: Mu Jili

After the academic awards were announced, recruitment information for lumber mills, mines, and iron foundries was also posted.

In charge of bedding, clothes, food, meat, distributing money, weddings and funerals.

It can be said that although most people have not become workers yet.

But just looking at the treatment of formal workers makes the common people salivate.

Everyone dreams of becoming one of the first factory workers.

But everyone knows that not everyone is qualified to enter the factory. A factory, like a handicraft workshop, has an upper limit on the number of manpower it can recruit.

Now the number of people living in the area has exceeded the upper limit of 30,000, and many people who have heard about the existence of this place are still migrating here with their families.

When the factory officially recruits workers after it is completed, no one dares to guarantee that they will be selected.

Moreover, there is still a gap between factories and factories.

For example, the treatment in foundries is much better than that in logging factories, and the treatment in coal mines is even better.

But compared to the intensity of work, the coal plant is undoubtedly much harder.

Therefore, a compromise has been made, and many people have set their sights on foundries.

However, the number of places in the foundry is limited, and it is said that it will only recruit a maximum of 1,200 people. Therefore, everyone is working hard to compete for a place in the foundry.

Now the Immortal Cult actually said that as long as they participated in the construction of the factory, they would be given priority in hiring. Naturally, people rushed to apply and signed up.

After all, the impression left by the Immortal Cult on everyone during this period of time is that they do what they say.

If you can sing a religious song, you will be given as much food as you want, and there will never be any deductions.

As long as you know a few more words, you can get one more pound of flour than others, and you can do it.

Everyone is well-known for the reputation of the Immortal Sect, and they know that as long as the Immortal Sect makes this promise, it will definitely fulfill it in the future.

Immediately, I didn't care how difficult it was to build a factory. As long as the requirements were met, everyone signed up.

For a time, Lu Liang even began to worry about how to formulate standards for hiring workers.

Qiao Er is an ordinary citizen of the Song Dynasty. He does not have the rich and legendary experiences of Xiao Wu and Lao Qi.

Before coming to Xinhang Mine, he was just an ordinary country farmer.

If there is anything special about him compared to other farmers, it is that Qiao Er knows a few words and can do arithmetic very quickly, very quickly and well.

Unlike Xiao Wu and Lao Qi, Qiao Er has never had any lofty ambitions, let alone thinking that the Song Dynasty was not good and wanted to overthrow this decadent feudal regime.

In his view, these thieves who clamored for rebellion all day long were completely dangerous elements.

However, this idea has changed somewhat in recent times.

When Qiao Er was a child, his ideal was to go to Lin'an City to work as an accountant like his clan brothers or to watch a few coolies at the dock calculating wages for them.

Therefore, he worked hard on both paperwork and Mandarin.

It's a pity that fate played a trick on people, and Qiao Er could not leave the village even when he was forty-two years old. The old men in Lin'an City looked down upon him, a country man like him who had no profound experience and relied solely on talent to make a living.

I don't think he is fundamentally different from the gangsters in Lin'an City.

But after entering the Xinhang Mine, Qiao Er's experience made him one of the most outstanding students in the literacy class.

And because he knew a lot of words, he was very popular with the fat teacher in the class who always looked a little honest when he smiled.

In order to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for learning, the chubby teacher also specially issued an after-school task for Qiao Er.

Let him read some books to everyone.

Naturally, what he is talking about is not the Four Books and Five Classics, but stories similar to various folk anecdotes.

At first, Qiao Er warned himself not to become a thief.

As someone who knows a few words roughly, Qiao Er understands it very clearly.

The Immortality Sect is essentially a rebellion. When these Taoists raise their arms in the future, they will coerce everyone into Tokyo and seize the throne.

When the time comes, these common people will be thieves and will be implicated in the nine tribes.

I was forced to move here just to survive.

If he hadn't been afraid of the power of the godly immortal, Qiao Er would have wanted to run away and go to Lin'an City to find someone to expose this bandit den.

But what he didn't know was that the governor of Lin'an Mansion had now been replaced by Cai Mao, the governor of Lin'an Mansion, who was extremely devout to the Immortality Religion under the operation of Zhang Yuqing.

Bao Xiren has officially assumed the post of Kaifeng Governor.

He also formally sent a message to the Changsheng Cult who stayed in Xishan to request an audience with Daozi, hoping to meet with Zhang Yuqing to have a good discussion.

However, Zhang Yuqing was busy with external activities and had no time to pay attention to him. He had already replied to Bao Xiren's posts three times.

Under the influence of the infiltration of the Immortality Religion, officials in important points around Lin'an Prefecture are gradually being replaced by officials with firm faith values.

This is one of the reasons why Zhang Yuqing came here personally to preside over the work.

Lin'an Prefecture will become an important hinterland of the Immortality Sect in the future.

Under this situation, if Qiao Er went to complain, he would be arrested immediately and put in jail.

In fact, during this period of time, Cai Mao's side has captured many people who have heard and seen the strange behavior of the Changsheng Cult.

However, Cai Mao, as one of the first officials to fully surrender to the Immortality Religion, faithfully carried out Zhang Yuqing's decree and kept these people under strict supervision.

Neither mistreat them nor let them go.

He only told them that the government attaches great importance to this matter and is conducting a secret investigation. In order to protect ordinary people like them, they are temporarily detained for a while.

They won't be released until the truth comes to light.

Of course, as for when the truth will come to light, it depends on how long it takes the Changsheng Sect to infiltrate the people of the house.

When these people are released, they will find that the entire Lin'an Mansion only knows about the Immortal Lord but not about Zhao Zhen.

Qiao Er didn't know all this, but his natural caution prevented him from telling the truth, so he stayed in the Xinhang Mine day by day, living a life of farming, building, reading, and eating.

But later on, Qiao Er gradually became really fragrant.

There is food and accommodation here, and the food is simply better than what Lin'an Fuyin eats. Moreover, the Taoist priests of the Changsheng Sect believed in their promise and personally signed and stamped the land deed issued to Qiao Er.

For Qiao Er, whose house and fields were all washed away by the flood, this was tantamount to changing from a poor man to a citizen class with property. At that moment, his waist became straighter for a long time, and he felt more energetic when walking and eating.

It's also more fragrant.

Now is the spring plowing period, and every day I walk a few miles to cultivate the immortal seeds handed down by the immortal sect, looking forward to the day when I can produce thousands of catties per mu in the future.

In the evening, as long as you help the Taoist priests build houses together, you can get a bowl of rice porridge for free.

Not to mention how happy it is.

What's more, these houses will be allocated to them free of charge for their own living use in the future.

It is equivalent to saying that they are basically building their own houses now, and the Immortal Sect has to pay them food as a reward.

Is there anything more beautiful than this in this world?

Qiao Er doesn't know.

He only knew that when it was his turn to serve in the army and help the imperial court, the imperial court had to prepare all the dry food himself, not to mention providing salary. No one would care about you if you starved to death.

Now you can build your own house, and the Immortal Cult will also take care of your food and provide you with a large bunk for fifty people to live in at night.

Qiao Er is not a fool. He has already figured out which one is more important, the imperial court or the Immortal Sect.

The thought of informing had long been extinguished.

He was even thinking about whether he could be a corps commander or something like that when the Immortal Cult Taozi recruits troops in the future.

After all, I am more literate, and I also know how to count!

Apart from anything else, he knew everything from one to five by heart, so he would definitely not miss any calculations or overcount the soldiers under his command.

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On this day, Qiao Er was still telling everyone some stories about ghosts and ghosts. When he got to the climax, everyone burst into applause. Even some common people who had nothing to do and came to watch after classes were over from other literacy classes also joined in the applause.

At this time, Xiao Wu came over with a hoe.

After Xiaowu, a group of military men, joined the Changsheng Cult, due to their past experiences, they were absorbed into literacy classes to teach the common people some skills such as military boxing.

According to Zhang Yuqing, they are just for physical fitness, and we don't expect to rely on them to fight the war anyway.

If there were to be a head-on conflict in the future, there would naturally be formal guards to take over, and there was no need to rely on them.

But now people's spare time life is too scarce, and accidents are easy to happen when people are idle. It's better to get busy and stop being idle.

Xiao Wu and others refused to accept it, but they were all knocked down by Lu Liang, an old man, and their voices were instantly silenced.

It seems that all the Taoist priests of the Immortal Sect are extremely powerful, and the little martial arts they know are completely looked down upon by the Taoist priests.

It is no wonder that His Highness Daozi did not agree with their proposal to dispatch soldiers to practice day and night.

I had no choice but to join the literacy version like ordinary people, work hard to learn simplified Chinese characters and basic mathematics, and teach military boxing to some interested people after school.

Xiao Wu raised his hoe and said, "Qiao Er, your luck has come. Headmaster Daozi wants to see you."
To be continued...