Since these Japanese laborers came to the camp, the camp here has been divided into two. The civilian workers in the Tang Dynasty who were responsible for carrying soil were also arranged to do some somewhat technical work, such as the simplest processing of sleepers.
The process of transforming sleepers from logs into real sleepers in Datang was more complicated than in modern times.
There are two reasons. First, there were not so many chemical materials in the Tang Dynasty. Second, ancient people were definitely better at playing with wood than modern people. You must know that almost everything in ancient times was inseparable from wood.
Ten miles of foundation a day actually means that these ten miles should be completely completed in five days.
One day is spent digging the foundation for ten miles. On the second to fourth days, the sleepers are placed here and the rails are lifted up. The last day is spent tightening the screws, while the rest of the people are responsible for planting all the trees on the roadside. Here
It is required to plant five layers of trees. It can be said that the trees are used as a tree wall to protect the railway.
The first hardest job is to lay the foundation, the second is to transport the gravel, and the third is to lift the rails.
The craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty worked in groups of forty, while the Japanese almost needed groups of sixty to seventy people, because their physical strength was not as good as the workers of the Tang Dynasty.
When it was time to eat at noon, the Tang craftsmen and the Japanese laborers separated again.
An old bowl of fried noodles with a pound of scallion pancakes is the most standard Tang Dynasty meal. The favorite of southern workers is vegetable rice, which is to cook the vegetables first, then steam them with rice, and then cook them straight out of the pot.
Mixed together.
The workers’ favorite ingredients for vegetable rice are potatoes, carrots, and beans.
Of course, if the broth is used when cooking, it will be more delicious. If you put a few pieces of meat on the bowl at the end, there is really no way to praise it and you can only bow your head and eat.
This meat, regardless of what kind of animal it is, is divided into three categories, including pigs, cows, and sheep.
First-class meat is definitely high-quality fine meat. Even the small fine ribs are considered first-class meat, but the large ribs are not.
The second-class ones are in a bad location, while the third-class ones are just scraps of meat at the corners.
Ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty mostly ate second-class meat. For ordinary people, this kind of meat was considered to be the best meat compared to their previous lives.
Today's lunch includes meat. Each person has two dragon bones and three slices of pork belly. It is available whether you eat rice or noodles.
"Those Japanese people nearby also seem to have meat to eat?" A fifth-class craftsman was sitting in the corner of the camp. He was considered a minor official at this level. Compared with others, in addition to the standard meal, there was also a plate of side dishes and a plate of peanuts.
, and two ounces of wine, and a chicken leg.
Sitting opposite him was a fourth-class craftsman, who could be said to be the highest-ranking craftsman in the camp.
He is mainly the chief craftsman in charge of sleepers.
To the carpenters of the Tang Dynasty, sleepers had no technical content, but thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of sleepers all had to be of the same size, and the holes drilled and the iron buckles inserted had to be exactly the same, which required careful attention. So.
The Ministry of Works sent a fourth-class carpenter to take charge of this matter.
While eating, the fourth-class craftsman was looking at the inspection report on the sleepers in the morning. He was not afraid that the sleepers were not in good condition, but that some bad ones were placed under the tracks. This was not a light crime. So he was extra careful.
Hearing his colleague across from him speak, he just said casually: "Japanese are human beings too, what's the point of eating some meat?" After that, he pointed to the two chicken wings on his plate. He ate two more steamed buns this morning.
You can eat a chicken wing."
The fifth-class craftsman who spoke at the beginning was a blacksmith. His task was to set rivets, which was also a very important job in railway construction.
He took the chicken wings without any courtesy, and then said to a young man next to him: "It's been hard work these two days, take it and eat it." The young man quickly thanked the two craftsmen. He was only a seventh-class craftsman, because he was young and suffered all the hardships.
The care of the elders.
"Well, young man has a good appetite. Just eat more and work more." The fourth-class craftsman nodded politely. After all, this young man is not his apprentice.
While they were chatting, an old man about fifty years old came over to sit down and put the plate on the table.
"Xiao Qi, hurry up and give Mr. Mo a cup of tea." The fifth-level blacksmith ordered.
Although this Mr. Mo is also a fifth-class craftsman, he is older and must be respected.
"I just came over to inspect the roadbed. These Japanese people did a good job. The rails for more than ten miles ahead have been lifted to the roadside. They are just waiting for the roadbed to be driven over before they can go on the track. I was thinking about whether I should give them a reward!
"
"Old Mo, you will be rewarded for your merits and punished for your mistakes. When did you hesitate for such a thing?"
The craftsman surnamed Mo shook his head gently: "The Japanese are different from us Tang people. Let's talk about eating. Cut off the good meat of a chicken, chicken wings, chicken legs, and chicken breasts, and then cut the chicken rack into small pieces and put them in the pot.
.All the good meat is on your plate. And their pork is like the offal meat that a certain person ate when he was young!”
When it comes to offal, anyone who has experienced hard times knows it.
That meat is simply inferior meat, it can be said to be the worst type of third-class meat.
"The night before yesterday, I went to have a drink with an old man from the same village. They were making something called extra meat. They were using offal meat, which is the offal meat that has not been cleaned from third-class meat. It was broken into pieces with a machine.
Then mix a lot of starch, add salt and sugar, and then steam them into pieces, let them cool and cut them into slices. They look like meat, smell and taste delicious. Someone originally wanted to try it
A piece of meat, but I heard that this kind of extra meat has strict orders not to be sold to us Tang people."
"Poisonous?" Several people asked quietly in surprise.
"It's not poisonous. Someone asked and said that this kind of low-grade meat is only for the low-class people to eat. Anyone who uses this kind of stuff to earn money from the Tang Dynasty will be whipped for a hundred times at the least, and five years of hard labor at the worst. This is a holy thing.
It’s an imperial decree, so who dares to mess around?”
The fifth-level craftsman who was sitting here gave one of his apprentices a wink.
The young apprentice pulled a shelf and climbed onto the vines. He stared at the Japanese camp for a while, then came down and said, "You can see clearly, it's a chicken shelf. The staple food looks like mixed noodles."
The fried pancakes are also crumbled flour pancakes!”
Speaking of these things, everyone here has eaten them all, regardless of their age.
In the hard days, there was a bowl of porridge-like mixed noodles cooked with broken millet, bean flour and white flour. But now that things are getting better, even the lowest-level transport coolie has to work here.
The wages of a seventh- and sixth-class riveter are ten cents, and a seventh- and sixth-grade riveter can earn at least forty cents a day, and there is also a reward.
"Go and find out how much the Japanese are paid!" The fourth- and fifth-class craftsmen are already leaders here. Naturally, there are some things that you need to know.
The young man went out for a walk and came back soon.
"Master, the Japanese are paid one penny for coolies a day, and reward one penny for good work. In addition, they will give their families one stone of polished rice every month. It seems that hundreds of people have entered the craftsmen's camp, and they don't know the wages."
One stone of polished rice is quite expensive!
But the young man added: "This one-stone rice is not our Tang Dynasty rice. The Japanese only have one Tang Dynasty rice with four and a half shi. And this is unhulled rice, or Nanyang soft rice." The young man reminded in particular,
This is Nanyang soft rice. For the sake of production, almost all rice in Nanyang is produced all year round, at least three seasons.
But there is also some extremely high-quality rice that is available two seasons a year, but most of this rice is kept for oneself and eaten, and is rarely sold to the Central Plains. Because of this, there are soft rice and hard rice.
Several craftsmen discussed it, and finally Lao Mo said: "It seems that it is better not to accept this reward."
"No, I want to ask for a reward. The rules of the Tang Dynasty are rewards and punishments. Even if it is a group of pigs, he will be rewarded for his merits. One or two cents is also a reward." The fourth-class carpenter closed the book and said very
He stated his opinions directly.
"That makes sense."
The fourth-class craftsman then said: "Pass this message secretly, but all the craftsmen of our Tang Dynasty are strictly prohibited from mentioning their wages in front of outsiders. I am a little afraid that these people will cause trouble. After all, there are tens of thousands of people!"
All the craftsmen nodded in agreement.
That night, ten more Japanese were picked out and whipped.
He didn't kill anyone, but even if it was serious, he would have to lie in bed for about ten days.
The team that did the best was rewarded with one penny each, and the captain and each team were given rewards of one hundred penny, fifty penny, and ten penny in turn.
Finally, it was time for the Japanese to disperse and go back to eat. A camp manager said: "Master Mo from Dongying said that the section from Sixteenth Mile to Seventeenth Mile was well repaired, so he asked the engineering management for a reward. Every day
I’ll reward you with two cents per person, come and get it!”
There is no detachment leader for this bounty, it is still an ordinary laborer, but two pieces of money are put in a basket.
Several young people were standing not far from here. They were sent by the Tang craftsman camp to inquire about the news. When they saw a group of Japanese people cheering, one of them said: "If we receive the reward, it will take at least one extra day.
I understand the wages. We Tang people are Tang people, and those Japanese are Japanese."
"That's right, no wonder the craftsman told his subordinates not to discuss wages casually?"
"Let's go back and tell the master!"
The younger group left.
Do the Japanese really not know how much people in Tang Dynasty pay? Even if they don’t know, can’t they see it if they have eyes?
The preciousness of copper, jade culture, lacquer culture, and silk culture have been spread to Japan as early as the Han Dynasty.
In fact, during the day, a group of Japanese carpenters and blacksmiths entered the workshop. Even though they did not know the wages of Tang craftsmen, they had eyes to see.
The sterling silver hip flask, the red copper and jade belt buckle, the wooden lacquer cup for drinking water, or the beautiful crystal cup. And the stainless steel water cup, etc., and the precious tea leaves. Such precious things
If you put it on the Japanese island, even the lord will carefully keep it at home.
But in the workshop, the Tang craftsmen put them on the table next to the craftsman's bench so casually.
Snap...
While picking up tools, a four-inch-high glass filled with green tea leaves was knocked to the ground by a Japanese blacksmith. Seeing this scene, the Japanese blacksmith felt dizzy. He didn't know how much work he had to do.
It takes years to afford the compensation.
Snap...
This sound was not caused by the cup falling to the ground, but by the foreman of the blacksmith shop slapping the Japanese craftsman in the face. Then he cursed in Chinese that the Japanese could not understand: "You bastard, send this
You're so stupid. If you stand here blocking the road, if you don't go and clean up the glass shards on the ground, I'll beat you to death if you break someone's foot."
The Japanese people didn't understand, but they were all frightened when they saw this vicious expression. Most of the Japanese people knelt on the ground. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)