Pioneering

Time is like quicksand that cannot be grasped, and three years are fleeting.

It came to September in the 8th year of the Ashari calendar.

In Zifengche Town, the summer wind blows the melon fields with a roiling heat wave. Old Kent is full of pride when he looks at the round and huge melons in the field.

Three years ago, old Kent and Lal participated in the night class of the literacy class in a fit of anger. After half a year, they finally knew [-] commonly used words and barely learned common grammar and vocabulary.

But old Kent was a slow learner after all, his grades were not good, and he didn't get the "literacy teacher" contract of the Yaxia government.

This made the old Kent call it a waste of effort at the beginning.

Thanks to his old buddy, Mr. Baimo-Lal, who often bickers with him, suggested that he learn fruit planting, and helped him find information to learn this new agricultural technology.

Since then, the old Kent has also been enlightened, turning the farmland into an orchard, with mandarin oranges, apple trees, grapes, watermelons...the orchard is full of four seasons fruits.

Old Kent is now the largest melon farmer in Zifengche Town, and a first-level distributor in the Chang'an City Fruit Market—pulling fruits into the city to sell.

Those who are willing to spend money on fruits are wealthy citizens. Old Kent's income is more than ten times higher than before.

And Lal is doing well.

At the beginning, Lal's memory was not bad, and he still had the determination to study hard day and night.In order to fight hard, Lal even gave up working as a material worker in a textile factory during the day, and was often complained by his wife and children.

Lal, who finished reading and writing [-] words in one and a half months, is not the fastest. The smartest "oil head" Weisenna in Zifengche Town can read and write these common words fluently in only half a month. , but Lal barely squeezed into the top ten.

In the following grammar and vocabulary learning, Lal's 90.00% hard work and his [-]% talent had a wonderful reaction, and the comprehensive score was further improved, reaching the top three.

As it happened, the population of a new town in Zifengche was only allocated to three quotas, so Lal got on the bus and became an employee of the Yaxia government.

Lal's wretched wife no longer dared to beat and scold him, and even humiliated him, willing to wash his feet.

In the past, Lal was so poor that he only had a suit of clothes left. The brick and stone house and the more than 100 mu of land opened up by his family were all dowry gifts from his wife's blacksmith father.

Who told Lal to be smart and strong when he was young, handsome and talkative?
Girls who are just in love seldom consider the financial situation of their lover's family.

After getting married, Lalna wanted to try everything, and his wife couldn't stand the audacity of wanting to do everything.

Lal just refused to "honestly" take care of the family's land, and all the work in the family's field fell to his wife. How could Melna have no complaints.

Her blacksmith father is a high-level craftsman who can make a full set of knight armor. His income is not low, and she is the only daughter. She has never suffered much that ordinary people in Zifengche Village should suffer since she was a child.

In order to take care of his daughter, the old blacksmith even declined the proposal of the little Senge knight to marry Melna, and he insisted on paying a large sum of money to marry his daughter to Lal. In order to prevent his daughter from suffering, he even bought a hundred acres of land from the baron. A passable house is given to the couple.

Fortunately, the little Senge knight didn't take revenge, or he died on the battlefield before he could take revenge, and the old blacksmith's family was safe.

After learning of Lal's bastard behavior after marriage, the old blacksmith often came to the door to beat his son-in-law with a hammer, and hung a cow rope around Lal's neck to force him to go to the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that the common people in the Principality of Yige didn't have the word "divorce", it is impossible to say that the old blacksmith would have kicked this unreliable son-in-law.

Ke Lal's physique is not suitable for farm work, even if he is often beaten and scolded by his wife, his temperament will not change. Thirty acres of land in Kent had a good harvest that year.

Fortunately, the land is big enough for Lal and his wife to live on, but the old blacksmith can only follow Lal's mind. If Lal wants to learn carpentry, he will introduce him to the master, and if he wants to learn blacksmith, he will teach him himself. Finally, I gave some capital.

Lal's various professional talents are neither good nor bad, and he often learns to the point where he can make no loss and no profit, so he withdraws and loses interest, because he is often beaten by Melna.

Just when the old blacksmith was worried about the whereabouts of Melna and his wife after his death, the Principality of Yige was gone, and Yasha appeared on Yige's body.

The baron's family that the old blacksmith worked for was hanged on the gallows by the king of Assia, and the old blacksmith himself returned home after praying in the Sea God Cathedral, and his ears were bleeding from the aftermath of the Sea God's surrender and Zhong Ming's battle. He became deaf and unlucky enough to lose his job.

The industrial production capacity of the iron smelting industry directly closed the blacksmith's shop of the old blacksmith.

Under the worry and anger, the old blacksmith fell ill.

This made the livelihood of the old blacksmith's family even worse. Even though Yaxia changed the soil system and gave them the permanent right to use the land, their income was still greatly reduced.

At this moment, Lal seemed to have grown from a child in his 30s into an adult. He took the initiative to participate in Yasha's work-for-work, planted grapes to make wine, and went to the street to sell something...

Lal finally got a job as a material worker in a printing factory in the outskirts of New Chang'an City by virtue of his flexible hands and feet, but the income was still unable to support the family's expenses, and the living standard was greatly reduced.

The Lal family became one of the very few losers who complained after Yasha appeared.

Lal himself cursed Zhong Ming and the damned God of Wealth a lot in private. He often prayed to the God of Wealth to conjure a little silver with magical magic, cursed a few more words, and continued to pray...

After Ke Lal broke the boat and won a valuable employment contract from the Yaxia government, the Lal family instantly transformed from opposition to diehard loyalists...

The old blacksmith even got sick from a dying illness, lived a second life, and healed without medicine.

Not long after Zifengche Village was promoted to Zifengche Town, the arrival of the literacy campaign also changed Lal's life.

Lal has transformed from the loathsome dog who hates dogs to the "superior person" in the eyes of the people in the town. Among the married ladies and unmarried girls who give him a glance at him openly and secretly, the one who is more beautiful and has a better figure than the old and yellow Melna There are many.

Melna only gave birth to a daughter to Lal, and she also lost the financial support of her biggest backer, the old blacksmith. Since then, she has been gentler to Lal and gave him another son.

Lal can be regarded as proud of his horseshoe disease, living out his second life.

Of course, Lal still has a conscience, but he didn't abandon Melna and his daughter.

Today is sunny and sunny. Lal, who has traveled half of Yaxia in the past few years and literate everywhere, finally returned to his hometown when he was free. He invited a few old friends to the Douchihua chain restaurant in the town, and he treated them to guests.

By the way, neither Kent the fruit farmer nor Lal, who is employed by the government as a staff member, has a higher income than Martinez, the tempeh flower restaurant that doesn’t say a word. Now the tempeh flower has bloomed in more than 20 cities and towns.

Cooking also requires talent. After Arce’s literacy speech, a large number of stunned youths who were seriously literate and followed the recipes and then poured into the catering industry were beaten and cried bitterly.

Then some of the people who failed to start their businesses had to work for Martinez, the owner of the Douqihua restaurant, to pay off the bank's debts.

No one dared to owe money to His Majesty the King. Every time everyone went to work in the factory owned by the royal family during the slack season, they could see ghosts of extravagance who worked day and night and were so blind that they shed tears.

Whenever the new workers are terrified by seeing dark creatures, the old employees will tell them unhurriedly:

This is the money owed to Yaxia Bank to speculate and do business. After failing, he could not pay back the money and committed suicide to avoid the debt. As a result, a powerful wizard hired by His Majesty the King was pulled back from the Hades and became a person who did not eat, drink or sleep. A half-dead tool until the arrears and penalty interest are paid off.

In this way, the terrible consequences of not being able to rest in peace after being owed money to Yashai Bank spread throughout the entire territory of Yashai, and even spread to other countries...

It has effectively cracked down on the bad business atmosphere in Yaxia and curbed the blindness of the market—when you find that there is no rule of bankruptcy and death is inevitable, some of the disadvantages of the market economy will be cured without treatment.

Zhu Yu was in front of them, and these fellow villagers who had learned a half-baked craft dared not pay back the money, so they could only defect to Martinez and work for him.

Who told Martinez to give a lot of money, although there are also many inexplicable rules.

Martinez's chef talent is not top-notch but first-class, and he pays attention to the shaping of the dining environment and atmosphere, restaurant hygiene, control of the consistency of dish taste, training of service attitude, and even developed the prototype of takeaway. In other aspects, it has achieved the leading level in the industry, and it has defeated the blows of its peers.

Even if there are a few smart colleagues who want to learn from Martinez's off-the-shelf tricks, they are still inferior to Douchihua, which first established a brand reputation.

In the catering market in the surrounding towns of Chang'an City, there is only one "McDonald" chain that has just emerged recently. It focuses on a weird bubbling black liquid drink, and the "McDonald" chain is based on fried chicken and burritos at low prices and fast delivery. The restaurant brand can compete with Douqihua restaurant.

It is said that this magical and charming black drink is the product of an accidental experiment by the owner of the restaurant, a wizard apprentice named Maidang. His Majesty Zhong Ming was shocked after tasting it, and he personally named it Coke.

Since then, McDonald's has risen, and drinking Coke has become a recent Asian fashion.

If it weren't for McDonald's restaurant's focus on convenience rather than delicacy in food cooking, it would not be able to open up the mid-to-high-end market, and with the brand of Coke, it would not be reduced to the grade of Douchi Hua.

Both sides are determined to enter the city of Chang'an.

The above topics have also become what Lal, who had dinner together today, talked about with the rest of the people.

"So, Lal, you are a teacher, why do you pay so much attention to this food? Maybe you are going to open a restaurant to cook." An old friend joked.

Unexpectedly, Lal twisted his neck and said seriously: "I really have this plan."

This sentence instantly made everyone in the private room explode. Most of them didn't even care about grabbing fat, and they all spoke to dissuade him.

"Don't commit the old problem of being half-hearted. I don't know how many people dream of your job..."

"Yeah, 200 silver a month, my God, you alone can beat three of me..."

"You are considered half of His Majesty the King, why leave it alone..."

Lal rubbed his forehead and said solemnly: "Be quiet, friends, be quiet!"

The suppression brought by income and social status made Lal's modest voice full of persuasiveness, and the private room became quiet again.

Lal cleared his throat: "Thanks to His Majesty the King's kindness, we half-baked tutors who can literate illiteracy can get the income of former nobles' retainers.

However, prices are also rising now, and we have another child in our family.

Reading and literacy has changed my destiny, so I want my children to also learn to read and write, but my current income is not enough to support all three children to read and write, even if Sanna (the eldest daughter) does not go, Both kids are choking.

Moreover, the five-year contract expires in less than two years. Although there are rumors that we will be arranged with a new job that is not worse than this, no one has accurate information on how it will be.

No one knows whether the contract will be renewed in the end, and it is right to plan early. "

"Didn't you say that His Majesty is going to implement some kind of 'compulsory education' and give children free education?" someone asked.

Lal shook his head: "Compulsory education, hehe, God knows how long it will take to come out, Your Majesty is kind, but you can't conjure up millions of teachers who can teach serious knowledge out of thin air, right?"

"I'm half-baked at my level, and counting 20 fighters, I can't make up a million!"

"It's nowhere in sight!" Lal took a sip of ale and moistened his throat. "What's more, the Wulin Province has been a bit uneasy recently. I was doing literacy there, and I felt a little uneasy. I wanted to go back to the Central Province."

"Melna and the others are also homesick."

"The majestic Chang'an City is the hometown of my dreams! I want to make a lot of money, make a lot of money, and turn Melna and the others into Chang'an people!"

Everyone heard Lal's bold words and ambitions, and saw that his logic was clear and all the rules were right, and they didn't know how to persuade him for a while.

"The Wulin Province is not peaceful? Has something happened?" Someone asked curiously, "Who wants to make trouble in such a good world?"

Lal enjoyed the superiority of being a superior source of information, took another sip of ale, and said, "Yes, why not?"

"There is no shortage of restless people at any time!"

"Like you?"

"Hey, where is there?"

"This time in Wulin Province, it's not really a big mess, but it's not a small mess either. After all, people died and blood was shed!"

"Oh? Who caused trouble?" Lal's words successfully aroused everyone's interest.

"Who's making trouble? It's a mess, factory owner? Worker? Well, a little bit of both."

"Many of the factories run by black-hearted ghosts in Wulin Province have low wages, bad environment, and even goblin-bred beasts who broke the one-third working system against the oracle."

"These vampires have reduced their wages to half in the central provinces. They have recently replaced new equipment and have to lay off a large number of people. They have not paid compensation in accordance with the "Labor Law" promulgated by His Majesty."

"No way? The local civil servants don't care?"

"Hehe, what the fuck, they're all asking for salary maliciously! This group of...forget it, I'm also half a civil servant. It's not easy to scold me too badly. I want to resign because I can't stand these people."

"Many workers who can't get compensation can't find a job, and the land has been sold and sub-leased in recent years. They have no livelihood, so they can only get together to find a way..." (End of this chapter)