Grandpa Turtle knocked Shui Wa: "As a human being, you must seize the opportunity, and don't look at the heights of this mountain and that mountain!"
The Imperial Master is a god-like figure. If you can meet him and say a word or two to him, you are already very lucky!
Not just anyone can follow a big shot like the Imperial Master! If you are willing to follow, people still don’t know if you are trustworthy or not!
This general is also a big shot, and it is your good fortune that he can take a fancy to you. In the future, when you really get along well and do something important that will impress the Imperial Preceptor, the Imperial Preceptor will naturally take the initiative to recruit you.
, much better than if you take the initiative to stick to it now!"
Actually, Grandpa Turtle has another reason that he didn't say.
He really didn't know what Zheng Chiyuan's character was, and because of this, he pressured Shui Wa to agree.
If the general is cruel by nature and becomes angry after being rejected by Shui Wa, the two of them will be in danger.
In that situation, saying yes was the only right choice.
Shui Wa thought for a while and felt that what Grandpa Gui said made sense, so she nodded: "Grandpa Gui, you are right. I will definitely do something big that will make the Imperial Master look up to me in the future!"
"I believe," Grandpa Turtle rubbed the water baby's head: "We water babies are the smartest!"
Shui Wa grinned, and then thought about being separated from Grandpa Turtle when she went to the Navy. She couldn't help but feel sad: "But Grandpa Turtle, if I go to the Navy, wouldn't I not be able to see you?"
"I raise you just so that you can support me in my old age. If you run away and I die in the future, who will throw the brazier for me?"
In order to make Shui Baby feel at ease, Grandpa Turtle said with a smile: "I am getting old and can no longer make a living doing discharge work. If you go to the navy, I will find a place to live next to your navy camp and find some livelihood."
Come and do it!”
"This is the best, this is the best!"
Shui Wa was happy again when she heard this: "When you die, I will throw a brazier for you!"
"I'm not dead yet, I'm just saying bad words!" Grandpa Turtle slapped Shui Baby on the head: "Say bah bah bah!"
Shui Wa was not annoyed, and giggled, spitting into the sea twice, and then carried two pieces of fish meat to deliver to Uncle Hu Zi behind.
In the evening, the steamboat dragged the first batch of rafts back to the dock waters and went straight to the fishing dock.
The fishermen who had been waiting in the shallow sea immediately rushed up, untied the rafts tied together, and then re-bundled them into small bundles of two or three. They stood on them and used bamboo poles to support them. They followed the canals dug in advance and transported them to the northwest of the dock.
A large shed in the corner.
This shipyard covers a large area with many ditches and sheds. Most of the sheds only have a few rows of columns and a roof, which can barely guarantee that the workers working inside are not exposed to the sun or rain. But this shed in the northwest corner is surrounded by
But they were surrounded and guarded by bodyguards.
The workers in this shed are not recruited refugees, but common people transferred from Sichuan by Princess Ninth.
The reason why it is different from other sheds is that the job of this shed is to saw wood.
This is considered the first process of shipbuilding. Only after the No. 1 workshop has sawed the wood into various types of boards, other subsequent workshops can carry out subsequent work.
According to the way Dakang used to saw wood, if you want to cut a log into wood chips, you need a carpenter to use a saw to pull it bit by bit.
This job doesn't require much skill, but it does require strength.
You must know that a tree can be as short as three to five meters, as long as seven or eight meters, or even more than ten meters. You can imagine how much time it takes to cut them into pieces of wood with a saw.
Sometimes two big men can't even cut a few pieces after working for a whole day.
This kind of work efficiency was too low, so Jin Feng asked Mancang to buy more than a dozen cutting machines.
The new cutting machine is powered by a steam engine and has rails on the ground. All you have to do is lift the log onto the trolley and push it under the cutting machine. It can cut a large tree as thick as a full arm in two minutes at most.
Nowadays, the East China Sea is full of refugees, and Jin Feng knows without even thinking that there must be detailed work by various forces.
Steam engines are a relatively core technology in Sichuan and Sichuan. For the sake of confidentiality, some arrangements must be made.
Knowing that Jin Feng had been waiting for the fishing boat to launch, after the logs were transported to the workshop, the workers in Workshop No. 1 immediately lifted the logs onto the trolley and started cutting.
With the roar of the machine, the logs turned into stacks of wooden boards, which were transported to the next shed for the second process.
On the coast, Grandpa Turtle and Water Baby also came ashore.
Now that the wood has been transported away by the workers, their task is completed.
The two of them looked at the huge shipyard in front of them and the densely packed workers walking on the shipyard. Their eyes were filled with shock.
This was the first time they had seen such a lively scene.
While the two men were in a daze, a young man wearing the uniform of the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce came over and said, "Are you two from the Fangpai Gang?"
"Yes, I am Lu Dagui!" Grandpa Turtle nodded.
"It turns out you are Grandpa Turtle from the Fangpai Gang, disrespectful!"
The young man bowed his hands towards Grandpa Gui: "My name is Lu Xi'an, and speaking of Grandpa Gui, we are still from the same family."
Grandpa Turtle returned the gift and asked, "I wonder what little brother wants from me?"
"See, I was only focused on chatting and forgot about business."
Lu Xi'an explained: "I am a guy from the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce. Now the raft has been delivered. My shopkeeper asked me to pay you the wages. Grandpa Gui, please give me the paperwork."
Upon hearing this, Grandpa Turtle quickly took off a small cowhide bag from the waistband of his trousers.
The cowhide bag contained the silver given to him by Zheng Chiyuan, a few copper plates, and finally a carefully folded document.
Grandpa Turtle carefully handed the document to Lu Xi'an.
After Lu Xi'an carefully checked and confirmed that there was no problem, he led the two of them to the station of Jinchuan Bank and settled their wages for them.
"Grandpa Turtle, this is fourteen taels of silver. Take a look at it. If there is no problem, just put your thumbprint here!"
Lu Xi'an handed the money bag to Grandpa Turtle and pointed to the paperwork on the table.
"This... so much?"
Grandpa Turtle stared in shock: "Didn't we agree when we were in Sichuan that the wages would be seven taels of silver? Could it be a mistake?"
"My boss said that the arrangement is a life-threatening job, and you sent the wood to the East China Sea in advance, so I decided to pay you twice the salary, which is considered a bonus for you!" Lu Xi'an explained with a smile.
Grandpa Turtle felt relieved when he heard that it was the bonus given by the big shopkeeper of Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce.
What kind of bonus is it? It's just a reward.
In the past, some bosses also gave rewards when they were released, but they were not as generous as the big boss of the Jinchuan Chamber of Commerce and gave so much.
Grandpa Turtle reached out and took out a small silver ingot from his money bag, held it in his hand and handed it to Lu Xi'an: "Thank you, the shopkeeper, and thank you, little brother!"
