Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 300

The words are divided into two ends.The leather bag company run by Zhao Xin’s cousin is located in an 80-storey office building in the capital.

The newly employed Wu Anan was sitting in his independent office, recalling the delicate figure of a beautiful woman from the company next door, drinking coffee and looking at the palace complex in the distance outside the window.At this time, the phone on the desk rang, and the front desk told him that the interviewer had arrived.

A few minutes later, Wu Ping'an saw the fat man named Fan Tong.When he saw the other person's figure, he guessed that his previous job must be inspection.It is said that other people have sweet dreams in the middle of the night, and you are inspecting and supervising the power plant, and properly exchange your life for money. The key is that the money you earn may not necessarily be more than that of the programmer.

Fan Tong has worked in a state-owned power plant in the north for five or six years. He has been working as a deputy controller since he was a patrol inspector. He finally made up his mind to resign two months ago.Because of the five shifts and three shifts for many years (in vain, middle school and night rest, the author's first classmate in high school did this at the beginning), autonomic disorder, Fan Tong's body shape has become a large idiot.

Wu An'an was very clear about the hardships of the thermal power plant, after all, he also started as an operator.The shifts of power plant operation and inspection personnel are repeated. The asynchronous work cycle and normal work will cause life and work to be staggered with the outside world. It is difficult to have common time with family, relatives and friends; in addition, the thermal power plant is a relatively closed environment. , away from the city, and finally the whole person is out of touch with society.

After listening to Fan Tong's self-introduction, Wu Ping'an concluded that the fat man in front of him had no background in the factory.Seeing the unmarried person listed on the resume, Wu Anan blinked and asked with the usual smile of a leader, "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"No."

"Didn't you find one in the factory?"

"Our place is too far from the city, and it takes three hours to get there by bus. If you find someone in the factory, you have to stay there for the rest of your life. Besides, no one wants to find someone in the factory."

Wu Pingan stared at Fan Tong and said, "We still recruit people here for thermal power plants."

Fan Tong hesitated for a moment, as if he had made up his mind, looked directly at Wu Pingan and said, "I know, but you pay a high salary. Although this job is tiring, I have to figure it out."

It is said that Zhao Xin is also a bad guy. Before he left, he asked Wu Pingan to formulate a salary table for all levels of work, and then he doubled all the above salary.This made Wu Ping'an startled, and said in his heart that this was simply a big welfare distribution, and this person with too much money had no place to spend it!Zhao Xin's explanation is that he works overseas, and if he can't go home for a long time, the salary should be better.Besides, the chances of finding a blonde girl are great.

Wu Anan listened calmly, nodded and said, "Okay, let's go outside and make a paper."

Fan Tong let out an "oh", without any surprise.Anyone who works in a power plant knows that exams are common, the frequency is about the same as in high school, and it is also linked to salary and bonuses.In addition to the annual safety examination, there are many professional qualification examinations.If you don't do well in the exam, it is very difficult to get along in the power plant.Of course, there are also many tricks that are not humane, and the background is very important at this time.

The paper was finished soon, Wu Pingan looked at the answer and got 85 points.Considering that Fan Tong has been away from the power plant for several months, this score is not bad; so Fan Tong was retained as the candidate for the inspection master.

To configure a complete thermal power plant, at least 100 people must be employed in various positions.Wu Ping'an didn't want junior workers. He set his sights on those intermediate workers and senior technicians.The actual level of some middle-level workers may not be worse than that of senior workers, but they just failed the exam.

The fate of small thermal power plants these days is like that of the Chiang Bandit Army in [-]. All of them are in a precarious state, fearing that they will be shut down and diverted tomorrow, and that's the case in terms of remuneration.Now suddenly a company doubles the salary to recruit people, and it is only a few years short-term. After teaching people, they can come back.Good guy, flock to it!

Ever since, Wu Anan took Fan Tong and began to get busy from morning till night.

For Fan Tong, although he is busy right now, he is finally living a normal work schedule.In private, Wu Ping'an would occasionally say something like "blonde girl", which made Fan Tong's darling jump wildly.

In the other time and space, it has already entered April.

On a cargo ship from Yangzhou that was heading east to Funing, Wang Zhenyi, wearing a gauze hat, stood on the side of the ship and saw groups of refugees heading west on the shore, and asked her father behind her, "Father, what are these people?" Where do people come from?"

Before Wang Xichen could answer, a sailor next to him interrupted: "Where else can it be? Henan and Shandong are all troubled by disasters."

Wang Xichen asked the sailor, "Then where are they going?"

The sailor said: "So that this master will know that these people are all going to Xuzhuang, Sheyang Lake, Funing."

"Xuzhuang?" Wang Xichen asked, "Is there a farm named Wang in Sheyang Lake?"

The sailor shook his head and said, "I really don't know about it. Master, you'd better ask when you get there."

Wang Zhenyi couldn't help being stunned when she saw the hundreds of groups of refugees on the river bank, men and women supporting the old and the young, crying and howling because of hunger as they ran.Unexpectedly, it has been a year since the drought in Henan, and this scene is still there.

She was born in a family of officials and officials, and traveled to Beijing, Shaanxi, Hubei, Guangdong and Anhui with her grandmother and father, and learned a lot.Thinking of how many millions of taels of disaster relief money allocated by the imperial court would be pocketed by officials at all levels, he couldn't help letting out a faint sigh.

At this time, more than 20 sand boats were moored on the river channel northeast of Xuzhuang, Sheyang Lake.Thousands of refugees are scrambling to get onto the diving board and enter the cabin; women's cries and children's cries can be heard from the crowd from time to time.Don't be in a hurry, we don't give out pancakes until we get on the boat.

Seeing this, several yamen servants of the inspection department hurried over and waved the whips in their hands. "Crack! Crack!"

"Damn, what are you robbing! I'll let you rob again! I'll beat you to death!" A yamen servant brandished a whip in his hand, and viciously whipped a young and strong man, causing him to roll on the ground.

"Master Xu, you say this is too evil! Since the second day of February, hundreds of people have come every day, and Mrs. He is almost out of control."

Xu Dayong, who was dressed in silk and satin and a melon skin hat, took a heavy cloth bag from his subordinates, handed it to the servant who was talking, and said with a smile: "Brothers have worked hard, here is some tea money, everyone Divide up. As for Mr. He, I have another idea."

The yamen servant took the bag, his hands sank suddenly under the weight of the heavy copper coins.He didn't need to open the bag at all, he already estimated in his heart that there were at least ten tangs, so he smiled and said, "Oh, Mr. Xu, you are too polite. I will explain it to Mrs. He later, it's a trivial matter!"

"Bastard! If you don't have money, you can't afford it. If you have money, it's a trivial matter." Xu Da could not help cursing in his heart.

At this time, a man who looked like a housekeeper came over and said to several yamen servants: "Master Li, Mr. Zhang, our master has already prepared a banquet at the Zhuangzi. Everyone, go and have a drink in a while. It is really hard work for everyone."

"Okay, okay!" Several yamen servants laughed and said, "Master Xu, don't worry, these people will be able to board the boat before noon."

Xu Dayong couldn't care less about epidemic prevention now. He didn't expect that the number of refugees coming after February would more than double that of last year.In March, news came from Xuzhou that the refugees were spreading wild rumors that as long as they defected to Xuzhuang in Sheyang Lake, they would have a way to survive.

The circulation of information in ancient society was relatively slow, and the life circle of a farmer was limited to villages, towns, states and counties throughout his life.In the event of a famine, most people will first consider the nearest place to seek food based on the convenience of geography.

For example, the victims of the disaster in Henan Province first moved from the north of the Yellow River to the south of the Yellow River, and then moved from the west and north of Henan to the east of Henan and the south of Henan.After these people arrived in Yanshi, Gong County, and Dengfeng, some of them went to Yunyang and Xiangyang in Hubei; others continued to go east. Many refugees did not know about Sheyang until they arrived outside Xuzhou. There is a way to live in the lake.

In the history of another time and space, it was precisely because of the catastrophe in the 50th year of Qianlong that millions of refugees from both sides of the Yellow River went south to Hubei, and then entered the virgin forest area on the border of the three provinces of Sichuan, Chu, and Shaanxi. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sichuan and Chu finally brewed the soil for the spread of the White Lotus Sect, which led to the White Lotus Sect riot in the early years of Jiaqing.

When Xu Dayong received the news, he felt bad. If so many people came, if they were not transported away quickly, something serious would happen.He hurriedly asked Wang Changsheng to go to Shanghai County to contact the Cao Gang, urgently rented ten sandboats, plus the other ten, and began to send people to Jeju Island day and night.

At this time, he couldn't care less. In order to make these refugees board the ship obediently, he invited the officials from the inspection department to help maintain order.

Over the past two years, Xu Dayong and Wang Changsheng have been bribed from top to bottom, from the inspection department to Funing County, and then to the Yamen of the prefect of Huai'an. The master also sent 5000 taels of silver, and only then did the matter be suppressed, and no one tracked it down.

Xu Dayong went back to his own courtyard on Zhuangzi, wiped his face with a towel, and then sat down to have lunch.After taking two bites, one of his subordinates came over and said in a low voice, "Brother Xu, I have contacted my hometown, and they will arrive in three days."

Xu Dayong nodded expressionlessly and continued to eat with his head down.He is no longer the cautious little landlord he was when he first came here. Now in the entire Funing County, Mr. Xu has become the largest household in the county.

In order to maintain the big family's ostentation, with Lu Shoushan's consent, the Zhuangzi hired some servants in addition to the helpers originally sent by Beihai Town. Xu Dayong even hired a concubine as a cover.When the landlords in Funing County heard that Xu Dayong hadn't married his first wife yet, they almost broke the threshold when they asked someone to come to him as a matchmaker.

After the meal, Xu Dayong lit a cigarette and was enjoying himself leisurely. A servant came in and bowed and said, "Master, a father and daughter came outside the door and said they wanted to see Master Wang." greeting post.

Xu Dayong took the greeting card, and saw that there were three large black characters written on it - "Wang Xichen", so he asked in surprise, "Master Wang? Which Master Wang?"

(In the Qing Dynasty, red invitations can be used as long as they are students or above. Later, even ordinary scholars also generally used red name invitations. The name written on the name invitation card should be large, and the name should be written in a large size to show humility. If it is too small, it will be considered arrogant.)
"They said they were looking for a master named Wang Yuanfang."

Xu Dayong waved his hand and said: "Let them go, where is Wang Yuan from? Wait a minute!"

He has been so busy since the morning that he has been dizzy, and his brain hadn't reacted at all before. At this moment, he was suddenly jolted, remembering the telegram he received last month.So he hurriedly asked: "Did they say they still want to find a manager Xu?"

The servant's eyes widened, and he said in surprise, "Yes, it was the woman who said it."

"Hurry up and invite people to the flower hall and serve good tea."

In the flower hall, Wang Zhenyi looked around curiously, and was a little surprised when she found that the furniture decoration was very conventional.But she didn't come here for a visit this time, but she planned to continue to ask math questions.

The father and daughter sat for a while, and the servant came over to serve tea.Wang Xichen picked up the teacup and took a sip, the taste was mellow and sweet, and it turned out to be the Dragon Well Tea before Yu.

At this time, only hearing the footsteps outside the door, Wang Zhenyi couldn't help being a little excited; but when she saw the appearance of the person coming, her heart sank again.

"Your honor is Master Wang, right? My surname is Xu, and I'm the manager of this village." After Xu Dayong came in, he bowed his hands to Wang Xichen and saluted very politely.

As for Wang Zhenyi, because the other party is a woman, and the defense between men and women is very serious these days, Xu Dayong chooses to ignore it.

Wang Xichen and his daughter looked at each other, thinking that it was indeed here.After his father and daughter got off the boat, they searched and asked all the way, and everyone told him that there was only Xuzhuang on the side of Sheyang Lake, and there was no Zhuangzi surnamed Wang at all.Wang Xichen originally wanted to turn around and go back, but couldn't stand his daughter's begging, so he gritted his teeth and decided to give it a try.

"Wang Xichen in Xiajiangning, this is my little girl." After Wang Xichen introduced himself, he felt a little strange in his heart. Since the owner of this village is named Wang, why is he also called Xuzhuang?So he asked.

After hearing this, Xu Dayong quickly explained: "My master usually keeps a low profile and doesn't want to make public, so he uses the name of villain. When he's not around, villain helps with Zhuangzi's affairs."

Wang Xichen let out an "oh", thinking that this Mr. Wang is really a weirdo.But Wang Zhenyi behind him misunderstood, she thought that "Master Wang" was devoted to studying arithmetic and didn't want to be disturbed.

Wang Xichen said again: "Guangshi Xu, it's like this. I once met Mr. Wang of Guizhuang in Guangzhou, and listened to him explain the principles of arithmetic. I admired him very much. This time I passed by and came here to visit. I need to ask him about some arithmetic problems. consult."

Xu Dayong pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh, what a coincidence, my master has something to go to sea by boat."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the woman softly "ah" in his ears, with a regretful tone.

Wang Xichen sighed and asked, "May I ask when your master will come back?"

Xu Dayong said: "If it is short, it will take three to five days to return, if it is long, it will take ten and a half months. If you are not in a hurry, Mr. Wang, why don't you stay in Zhuangzi for a few days?"

Wang Xichen pondered for a while, only to feel the flesh on his arm tighten suddenly, he couldn't help grinning in pain, and said hastily: "If that's the case, then I'll have to take care of things."

That night, Zhao Xin, who was in Fuerdan City, received a telegram from Xu Dayong: The father and daughter of the Wang family have arrived and are waiting for instructions.

Zhao Xin hesitated all night, thinking of the woman who died of illness at the age of 29, he couldn't help but feel very sorry.If I didn't intervene, it would probably be the same as another time and space.

Early the next morning, Xu Dayong received Zhao Xin's order: to ensure the safety of the two, and tie them back together.

(End of this chapter)