On the glorious plain, the fields are arranged neatly like squares. The Don River quietly passes through the vast plains and nourishes the arable land; the black soil underground has rich nutrients that can support crop growth.

Between the blocks is a green forest, scattered around the newly cultivated land;

Public land, mixed between various fields, has farms and wooden houses made of pine wood;

The wells are scattered around the cultivated land, and there are small rivers and other rivers flowing everywhere. The river water is clear and there are small fish swimming. The tall windmill stands on the fields, like giants standing, turning with the windmills, grinding flour for the wheat.

The breeze hits, and it feels refreshing and has the beauty of the countryside.

In the vast fields, a clattering sound suddenly came, and then a steel monster sprayed with black smoke appeared, dragging its huge body, and carriages hung behind, making loud noises, accompanied by a violent roar, and continued to move forward.

The steel monster is moving slowly, not as fast as the carriage, but it can be defeated by its strength and long lastingness.

chug!

Accompanied by strange screams, coming from afar.

Walking far away, gradually disappearing, only the black smoke still spreads in the air.

The black smoke has a pungent smell. Take a deep breath and has a disgusting smell, but it is the atmosphere of industrial civilization.

A few days later, the nobleman with leather boots on his feet, a tall hat on his head, and a civilized crutch on his hands appeared.

Behind the nobles are vicious thugs, some holding wooden sticks, and some holding long swords, all ferocious.

Huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

The wooden house was lit and the fire was burning.

Farmers were crying and resisting.

The thugs rushed forward and the rebellious farmers fled one after another. Some of them slowly fell to the ground with blood on their chests.

The expulsion continued, and the farmers lost their land and entered the city on a large scale, becoming beggars.

At the same time, countless arable land is connected together, and small pieces of arable land become large pieces of arable land. On the periphery of the arable land, they are connected together by fences to surround large pieces of arable land. The arable land no longer planted wheat but mainly planted forage and grazed sheep.

...

The Empire of Glory.

Karan City, slums.

The land enclosure movement caused farmers to lose their land, and countless farmers gathered in the city, forming slums.

The house is built with wood at will, barely preventing wind and cold. It is not very comfortable. Instead, it is small and depressing. A family of seven or eight people are crowded together. The house is pitch black, and all kinds of debris are piled up together, messy and crowded.

There are no good drainage facilities here, and the dirty water after washing is poured on the roadside at will. The roadside is often "river surging" and exudes a dirty atmosphere.

Less than a hundred meters away, there is a garbage pile, with many garbage piles together.

In summer, it smells dirty and stinky, flies flying around, mosquitoes screaming, and maggots crawl everywhere.

The population here is densely populated, but the small urban area is filled with nearly 100,000 people.

In a small wooden house in a slum, a ten-year-old child opened his eyes, his pupils changing, seemingly shrinking, as if he had lost his light, but in the next moment, there was endless light blooming again.

"who I am?!"

The ten-year-old child stood up and felt a sour smell when he entered his nose. The smell on his body was very smelly and he hadn't taken a shower for almost three consecutive years.

Touching his head, reaching out and grabbing a handful of fleas.

He pinched his fingers and several lice were strangled to death.

I touched it again, and there were several lice.

Looking at my own house again, there was black mud on my nails.

The palms are thin and dry, like chicken claws, and the arms are dry, as if they are malnourished for a long time.

Huh!

Take a deep breath and look around. There are no electric lamps, and no oil lamps.

Natural light illumination.

When I got to the ground, I put on my shoes.

The shoes are leather shoes, which are not as gorgeous as the leather shoes of the previous life. They are just a few simple sheepskin sewns, which are neither beautiful nor comfortable.

He was wearing wool-woven clothes and had several holes in the clothes.

Dirty.

Looking outside, it seemed like a garbage dump.

"There is no such broken old city in China... Is this an Indian slum or a Brazilian slum?" Su Ming said inexplicably, his eyebrows were beating and his mind was fluttering. At this moment, memories were transmitted, and the memories of the two people were intertwined, chaotic and disorderly.

A memory, I am doing it for the mortgage loan, and I am sub-healthy. I complain about the rising price of pork. I can’t afford to eat pork, but I can only eat chicken. I can’t afford to buy a suit that costs 1,000 yuan, but I can only buy a suit that costs 100 yuan, and I complain to myself in front of the mirror.

Dreaming of work, getting closer to home if you have too much money and less trouble.

A memory is that a ten-year-old child lives in a slum, eats black bread, works in a coal mine, and spends five copper coins a day, dreaming of becoming a male servant of the noble master.

Memory is chaotic and disorderly, gradually becoming clear and real.

Su Ming closed his eyes and opened them again.

Traveled through time and came to another world.

The Empire of Glory...

Land enclosure exercise, sheep eat people...

Farmers entered the city, and slums appeared one by one...

The eldest sister starved to death, the second sister died of illness, and the fourth brother died too...

There are father, mother, him, and four-year-old younger brother at home...

In my father's memory, being a serf is so happy that he can have enough food every day; but after entering the city to work as a worker, his family often goes hungry.

In order to subsidize the household income and to have enough food, Su Ming worked in a coal mine when he was eight years old.

The owner of the coal mine is kind. Workers only need to work twelve hours a day to get five copper coins and pay their daily wages.

No vacation.

The factory owner here is very stupid. It is not a piece-based salary or a performance salary, but a salary calculated based on working hours.

"My amulet has also traveled through time!"

Su Ming touched his chest and touched the amulet.

Take a small golden bag from your neck and remove the gray stone.

Holding it in the hand, the gray stone penetrated into the body like flowing water and disappeared without a trace.

I wanted to search but couldn't find any trace.

...

"Su Ming, it's time to eat!"

"knew!"

On the table, food was set.

The main food is potatoes, black bread and broth.

The black bread is hard like a stone. It must be soaked in the soup before it can be swallowed.

The broth is mainly made of old meat.

Potatoes are mainly mashed potatoes or soup.

These are the staple foods for the day.

"Mother……"

Su Ming was a little worried when he looked at his diet.

But the moment I eat it, it feels natural.

After dinner, Su Ming went to the coal mine to dig coal.

...

The dark hole is dark and deep, like the mouth of a devil.

The entrance of the cave is about one meter high, half-human, and unfathomable, so it goes to an unknown area.

At the entrance of the cave, there was a foreman standing next to him, with three or five thugs holding sticks, full of murderous intent and ferocious spirits.

Next to it, there are baskets.

There was a neat queue in front of me, with about a hundred people, among which child laborers accounted for the majority, with the youngest being only eight years old and the oldest being twelve years old. Su Ming was mixed in the crowd and was very inconspicuous.

"It's still the same rule, do a day's work and pay a day's salary, adults have fifteen copper coins a day, and women have ten square copper coins."

The foreman said.

Then, the workers entered the mining area in turn and began to mine coal.

Su Ming also entered the coal cave and began to follow the adults to mine coal mines.

The mining of coal mines is original and inefficient, without various coal mining equipment. The main thing is that adults pry open the coal blocks, and the child laborers are responsible for picking up coal, then put them in a basket and pull them out with the basket.

At the coal mine passage, some kerosene lamps are set up to illuminate.

With the roar of steam engines, the demand for coal increased, and coal mines of large and small appeared in the Glorious Empire Thunder, including small and medium-sized coal mines.

The underground coal mining and coal transportation are mainly artificial.

The underground port road is digging deeper and deeper, and requires a very short body to enter. This is very suitable for child labor.

In addition, adult men generally have high wages, requiring fifteen copper coins, and only five copper coins can be hired for child labor. In order to save money, they also hire more child labor.

Under the wage inflow, a large number of adult men are unemployed, and it is easier for child labor to find a job.

There are 105 coal miners in this coal mine, of which about 75 child workers.

...
Chapter completed!