Alchemy Greater China

() "They will not only have conflicts, but the three thousand foreign devils will definitely make some moves!"

Long Bo licked his lips, and continued to persuade: "Otherwise, with so many guns, could it be that they came to Alaska to hunt wild game?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"It's not difficult to guess their actions, isn't it just disturbing the people? The more they harass the people of our Huaxia Town, the more determined these people's wavering hearts will be, and they will move closer to us! When the flames burn to a certain point, our Dragon Scale Army Then come forward and beat those foreign devil soldiers severely, and in this way, the hearts of the people will be won!"

"Wouldn't that be too despicable?"

Xie Zhi thought for a while and asked, "They are all citizens of our Huaxia Town!"

This time, without waiting for Uncle Long to answer, Lei Long snorted: "If kindness doesn't command soldiers, how can there be no sacrifice at all? Besides, people don't know how to cherish if they don't experience loss!"..

"Thank you, Deputy Commander, please rest assured..."

Long Xiaohu beside Uncle Long said with a smile: "Most of the people who loyally supported Huaxia Town have moved to Guangming Village and Jiji Village to the north of Guangming Village, and those who stayed along the southern route are all people who have just arrived and have wavering minds. , these people...hehe, many of them haven't even shaved off their braids!"

Indeed, the ten households in Fuyuan Village, the nearest base village to the north of the Denali Mountains, are all Qing people who have not shaved their braids.

Early this morning, before the rooster crowed, Duan Bada got up from the kang, ate a white flour steamed bun, then put on a coat made of blue flour cloth, and curled up his braided braid with some vegetable oil on it. Squinting and smiling, he walked step by step towards the mining area at the east end of the village.

There were still 23 households in Fuyuan Village at the end of last year (Gregorian calendar), but I heard that foreign devils were coming to take over the mining area.Residents of the other thirteen households who had obtained Huaxia Township's household registration packed up their belongings and hurriedly moved north with the guards.

Only Duan Bada and the other nine families shook their heads and insisted on staying, turning a deaf ear to the guards' advice.

Duan Bada stepped on the soles of his mother-in-law Xinna's shoes.Walking on the stone road, I thought to myself: How can I find a good job with foreigners, at least the salary must not be less than that paid by Huaxia Town!

Duan Bada is from outside the Guan, and the blood on his body is Han people, but his ancestors have been flag slaves for a long time, so he has been in Huaxia Town for so long, the braid on the back of his head is not willing to cut off no matter what!Fortunately, cutting braids is voluntary in Huaxia Town, and the guards saw that Duan Bada's family refused to do so.He just sneered a few times, without forcing.

If you don't want to cut your braids, you can't be registered as a township, and if you don't get a township, the wages you get working in the mine will be half as low as those who have a township!

Because of this, Duan Bada's mother-in-law often quarreled with Duan Bada, but every time she was slapped back by Duan Bada who was devoted to the Qing Dynasty.

Even so, the life of Duan Bada's family is much better than staying outside the customs.White flour steamed buns, which were rarely seen a year ago, are now eaten casually.In the past, the family shared one piece of decent clothes, but now my mother-in-law can buy a few pieces every month. In the past, the cooking water used to be used, and now the vegetable oil can be evenly distributed to apply on the hair!If there is no comparison, Duan Bada's family will definitely feel that they are living in the "paradise" that foreign priests often say, and they will wake up with a smile when they sleep.

However.The affairs of the world are always concerned with unevenness rather than scarcity, and Duan Bada feels dissatisfied: Why does Zhang Goutou next door get more money than me?He wants strength but no strength, he wants skills but no skills, and none of the big and small guys work overtime, but I am exhausted and work overtime.The money earned is less than [-]% of his!Bah, isn't it just cutting off the braid on the top of the head?You group of rebels who betrayed the emperor will sooner or later be ransacked and exterminated, all of you will have their heads chopped off!

Duan Bada is knowledgeable, he sees Huaxia Town's deeds in his eyes, and often says to his mother-in-law at the top of the kang: "Look, this group of rebellious people, who win people's hearts and cut off their braids, want to become kings on their own! If we can Go back and report it to the government office, this is a marvelous feat, maybe you can be rewarded as a slave in a certain Beizi's mansion!"

His mother-in-law is uneducated, but no matter how she heard it, she felt awkward: "The head of the family, what's the use of going back? There is food and clothing here, and go back to starve and freeze? Oh, I was wrong, stop beating..."

Seeing that the gate of the mining area was right in front of him, Duan Bada slammed into the ground with his toes, as if it was his wife's disgusting face: women have long hair but short knowledge, rebellious people are rebellious people after all, good days can grow ?If we don't plan ahead, my family's heads will be chopped off one by one!Look, when the foreigners come, don't these guards who usually show off their might, slip faster than rabbits?

Foreigners, that is a character that the emperor and the queen mother are afraid of. Can we slaves be able to stop it?Duan Bada shook his neck, but found that there were a few more people around: Xiang Tuzi, Ma Dapanzi, Shan Shorty...they were all heads of ten families who stayed in Fuyuan Village like himself.

"Duan Bada, you didn't sleep much last night?" A middle-aged man with braids hanging and a big peach tumor on his right chin came over with a smile and patted Duan Bada on the shoulder.

"Take your dirty hands away, Xiang Tuzi!" Duan Bada flicked away Tuozi's hand, squinting and said, "You dare to come to foreigners to find work with your actions?"

"Duan Bada, you, your mouth...fucking stinks!" Xiang Tuzi blushed, but thinking that he was not Duan Bada's opponent, he jumped two steps away and said cursingly: "Why can't I find a job?" Don’t foreigners want to dig mines? My strength is not small!”

"Hey, you chicken-like stuff, your tone is so loud!" Duan Bada said disdainfully: "If you want me to say, you should have cut your braids and entered the household registration of Huaxia Town, only they will accept such a waste like you!"

"You... Pooh, I Xiang Liuyang, are you the kind of person who betrayed your ancestors?"

"Hey, I look like it!"

"Okay, okay, let's not say a word!"

Shorty Shan came up to smooth things over, "The ones we stay are all obedient citizens who are loyal to the emperor, and they should be united! Didn't the foreigners who entered the village yesterday not harass us at all? It's not like what the guards said It’s so scary! Today we come to the mining area to ask for food from them, and we won’t have any difficulties!”

"Correct!"

Ma Dapanzi shook his big face and echoed: "We are short of manpower for foreigners. We have rich experience in mining, and one person is worth three. We must unite, and the wages for foreigners are much higher than before!"

"Extremely extreme! It can't be lower than that of Huaxia Town!"

More than a dozen people nodded in this way.

It was finally dawn, and a yawning foreigner came out of the workshop in the mining area.Duan Bada and others who had been waiting for a long time rushed to meet him.

"Oh, you want to mine for us?"

Charlie Nord sat behind a table, with sleepy eyes, looking at the dozen or so yellow men with pigtails in front of him, very interested: "Have you worked in this mine before?"

"Yes. I've been working for almost half a year, and we know this mine the best!" Shan Shorty answered, and he was the only one among the dozen or so who could speak some foreign language.

"Well, tell me, how much does this mine produce every day?"

"My lord, you are asking the right person... This gold mine is not deep. It is almost enough for 30 people to enter each time. Any more will be a waste. Calculated by working ten hours a day. More than 400 kilograms of raw ore can be dug out. !" Shan Shorty introduced in a straightforward manner.

This small gold mine is one of several gold mines that Long Bo 'dropped'.

Charlie Nord is the head of the Monroe family (a small chaebol). The Monroe family only has one mining right, which was bought at a high price later, and the location is not very good. It is on the edge and very far from the port.Therefore, the pressure on Charlie Nord is enormous, at least the family's investment cannot be wasted!

Fortunately, Charlie was lucky enough to come to this mining area yesterday.Discovered an abandoned gold mine!Although the mining equipment inside has been dismantled, let’s do a rough tidying up.Gold can still be mined!

It doesn't matter whether the quantity is large or small, as long as the raw gold ore can be mined, he will have the capital to make business with the family.

However, Zha Li's manpower and machines are limited, and the main focus is still on excavating the large ore lode where the location has been proven. How to allocate manpower to mine this small gold mine gave Zha Li a headache last night.But never expected.Early in the morning, some 'indigenous people' came to ask for help, which solved the headache.

"Okay, this gold mine will be handed over to you, no less than [-] kilograms of raw ore every day! You. Be their leader, go out and start working!"

As soon as Charlie Nord made a decision, he pointed to Shan Shorty and settled the matter.

Six hundred kilograms?

Shorty Shan who understood was a little dumbfounded. When the people next to him were still giggling without knowing why, Shorty Shan hurriedly asked cautiously: "My lord, six or six hundred kilograms, isn't it too much?"

"many?"

Zha Li, who was about to leave, stopped, turned around and said funnyly: "Short, tell me, why are there so many?"

"It turns out that there are more than 30 people, and the best day does not exceed 450 kilograms. Now it is increased to 600 kilograms. With only a dozen of us, can it be completed... Ah, will the adults send people to help?" Shan Xiaozi said halfway , suddenly 'woke up', thinking that I might still be able to manage a few foreign devils, the bones in my whole body were softened: knowing foreign language, that's great!

"No, I won't send people! It's just you who dig this gold mine, 600 kilograms per day, not less than a gram!" Charlie shook his head and said seriously.

"Ah? My lord, it can't be done without extra hands!" Shorty Shan froze and shouted hastily.

More than a dozen people dig 600 kilograms a day, crazy, it will be exhausting!

"Can't finish it? Don't you guys work overtime?" Zha Li became impatient, and frowned: "How is it enough to work 10 hours a day? Let me say that 4 hours of sleep a day is enough. Starting today, Everyone must work in the mine for 18 hours a day!"

Duan Bada and the others were still giggling, but Shorty Shan was in a cold sweat: This foreigner is too, too cruel!

"Eighteen hours, we will die!"

Shorty Shan told the people next to him what Zha Li meant, and the complexion of these people changed drastically, and he quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Excellency, we will all be exhausted within ten days of such intensive work." No way, my lord, absolutely no way!"

"The eardrums hurt from the noise!"

Zha Li couldn't understand what Duan Bada and the others said. He rubbed his ears and reprimanded Shorty Shan, "Tell them to stop arguing. If you keep arguing, I'll call the guards to come in and kill you!"

As soon as Shorty Shan wiped his sweat and told the story, the dozen or so people who were shouting at the sky immediately shrank their necks and fell silent.

Shan Shorty's face was sweaty, and he kowtowed like a head-knocking bug several times: "My lord, calm down, working 18 hours a day will really kill you. If we die, no one will dig mines for you, right?"

With a cold face, Zha Liyin smiled: "It's okay if you don't work for 18 hours..."

"Ah, thank you..." Shorty Shan showed joy on his face.

But before Shan Shorty finished speaking, Zha Li said in a low voice: "You should all have wives and children, and you don't want to work for 18 hours, that's fine. Then take your wives and children to the mine to help! I No matter how you divide the work, in a day, I will see 600 kilograms of raw ore! I can't see it, huh, you all don't have to live!"

After saying this, Zha Li put his hands behind his back and left with a sneer, leaving only the single dwarf with a dull and remorseful face.

After listening to Shan Shorty's report, more than ten people all froze into clay sculptures.Before they came, they never expected such an ending: not only did they not get high wages, but they had to face the demanding task of digging 600 kilograms of raw ore a day!

"What should I do?" Ma Dapanzi cried with a sad face, his legs were so weak that he couldn't get up.

"This is no way for people to survive! Damn, you are more black-hearted than those officials and lords outside the customs. If you want me to say, we turned against this group of foreign devils!" Duan Bada gritted his teeth. Until this time, he felt a little regretful: If you follow the escort team to evacuate earlier.How wonderful it would be!Although the money is less, it is still a hundred times better than it is now!

"Rebellion. It can't be rebelled!" Shaking his head dejectedly, Shan Shorty said, "I've seen it before, and there are at least 30 foreigners with guns! We are bare-handed, how can we rebel? That's called death!"

"If you can't, let's run away!" Xiang Tuozi suggested.

"Escape? How to escape?"

Shorty Shan smiled miserably, and pointed in a circle: "Everyone is not a family. Foreigners have horses and carts, we only have two legs, and the road outside the village is well-built. If we can escape three miles, we will be blessed by the Bodhisattva. !"

"It's not going to work anyway, and it's not going to run away. Then we really have to work hard for the foreign devils until we die?" Duan Bada was terrified, almost crushed.

"Hey, I can only do this first, mining is better than being killed!"

Shorty Shan sighed: "Be patient for a few days, maybe the guards will come back again to drive away these foreign devils?"

Guard?

Everyone looked at each other with mixed emotions.Before, I hated the guards to death, but now I hope they will come back soon!This man is really a bitch!

Everyone went back and told the situation. Every family was in a mess, crying and scolding their parents, and hanged themselves to find their own lives. But there was no way. The mine completed the task of [-] kilograms of raw ore per day.

To live a day is a day!

There is more than one case of such a thing as Fuyuan Village. Most of the residents staying behind in the base villages along the southern line are like Duan Bada, with braids, dissatisfaction with Huaxia Town, and expectations for foreigners. A life of misery and misery...

"Huh, short-sighted! A group of fools who only know that they only care about their own interests and that Xiaoan is rich!"

Pulitzer Morgan was in his carriage, cursing so loudly that he even kicked his beloved cigar box away.

Pulitzer couldn't help not being angry. He walked all the way and found that those chaebols who had arrived at the mining area they assigned had actually detained their own security guards. Forget about the Pulitzer agreement!

"What guards? They're all scared away. We should dig mines and make money actively. What's the deal with them? Should we accompany them to play hide-and-seek in the mountains?"

"The guards didn't embarrass us, and we shouldn't push people too much! We are all civilized people, and we should make money with peace."

"The aborigines here are very fierce. We want the security team to stay and protect themselves! Besides, Mr. Morgan is not bad for us, right?"

... One reason after another, the words are better than the songs, anyway, these chaebols have vested interests, so they completely ignore the big plans!

"Protect yourself, protect yourself!"

Pulitzer kicked into the carriage angrily again: "When I don't know, the aborigines are forced to go to the gold mines by you, and they still want to protect themselves! Hmph, Schmidt is a good trick, throw a few This small gold mine has made these short-sighted guys dizzy... It’s okay, these people have done more than fail, without them, I can still kill Schmidt’s guards!"

Pulitzer gritted his teeth and muttered to himself for a while, then patted the carriage in front of him and said, "Where is the nearest Rockefeller mining area? Turn around, let's go there first!"

The Rockefeller family, under the leadership of Dodd, united the five consortiums of DuPont, Lehman Brothers, Goldman, Loeb, and Citigroup, and acquired a total of 32 mining areas. In terms of quantity, it has already surpassed the Morgan consortium.However, these 32 mining areas are relatively scattered. Without encountering the obstruction of the guards, the group of six giants including Rockefeller "divided troops" all the way after discussion. At this time, the "divided troops" occupied 3 mining areas. The large force stopped at Mingyue Village, less than [-] kilometers west of the Pulitzer convoy.

The person in charge of Rockefeller is King Klein Mailey, a middle-aged handsome guy with fluttering blond hair. He received Pulitzer graciously, and then called the heads of DuPont and other five major consortiums, and they got into a three-story building together. High-rise wooden house.

This wooden house turned out to be the center building of Mingyue Village. Whether it is building materials or decoration, it is the best in Mingyue Village. As soon as Jin Kelai arrived, he unceremoniously requisitioned it! (To be continued.)