January in the Southern Hemisphere is the hottest time of the year. For the Chinese immigrants who are accustomed to the weather in the Northern Hemisphere, the completely different climate makes them a little uncomfortable. After all, they have been accustomed to "numbering" for thousands of years.
"Nine Cold Winters".
Like now, although it is the twelfth lunar month, it is still midsummer.
At noon, the weather was 31-2 degrees Celsius. Although it was not as hot as the heat in his hometown, Li Lin was still exhausted and sweating profusely after working for several hours.
"beep……"
Just then the captain's whistle sounded.
"Rest, rest, brothers, rest for half an hour and drink some water..."
Following the captain's shout, everyone stopped what they were doing. Everything here must obey the captain's order.
This is the rule of Nanhua.
Wiping the sweat on his head, Li Lin raised his head and looked into the distance. At the vague end of the earth, several steam tractors were spitting out black smoke. In the fields, Yangma pulling double-shared tractors was struggling to plow the land.
"Third Young Master, look how fat this land is!"
Sitting on the ground, he took out the smoke from his cigarette bag and rolled a cigarette tube with paper. Liu San grabbed a handful of black soil on the ground and sighed.
"In our hometown of Jinshan, I'm afraid even if the pond mud has been piled up for decades, we can't keep up with this kind of land!"
Looking at the endless prairie stretching for thousands of miles in front of him, Liu San couldn't help but say.
"Third Young Master, do you think we can really buy a piece of land here in the future?"
Half a year ago, after arriving in Nanhua, he registered at the pier like everyone else, then had his body checked and his temperature taken, and then took a shower and "disinfected" again. In the end, he was taken to a large yard surrounded by fences.
That's what the "New Immigrant Education Camp" is.
The "New Immigrant Education Camp" is included in the "Integration Plan" for immigrants formulated by Zhu Xianhai. This is the first step for them to integrate into Nanhua.
After arriving at the education camp, the new immigrants had to undergo military management. At this point, Zhu Xianhai and Li Fugui thought of the same thing - the somewhat stubborn Li Laizi, after exchanging a large number of people.
, in order to facilitate management, he simply used the army's methods in the management of "waiting stations" to discipline those people like soldiers.
This approach worked well. The new immigrants had already adapted to the semi-military management when they came to Nanhua. It didn't take much effort for them to adapt to the life here. In addition to working in the reclamation area and construction sites during the day, they also had to learn to read and write at night.
——This is the biggest difference in Nanhua.
Literacy and literacy are the first step in cultivating workers. In Zhu Xianhai’s view, illiterate workers are definitely not in line with the development direction of the factory. Everyone must learn to read. Fortunately, the literacy level of the people in Jinshan, Jiaxing is not low. Among the new immigrants, there are
There are thousands of people who have attended private schools, and there are even hundreds of so-called students, "educated people" such as scholars.
Of course, no one here takes them seriously. Those "educated people" are just "literacy teachers" and receive an extra two yuan a month in allowances.
Everything in the education camp is managed according to the military camp, from walking, to throwing away garbage, to cleaning the dormitory, and even changing and washing the sheets. In short, semi-military management standardizes everything in Nanhua.
Let Nanhua look completely orderly.
Of course, on the other hand, immigrants are also full of expectations for their future. Except for some immigrants who are eager to become workers and earn more than ten or twenty yuan a month. However, compared to entering factories, people are more willing to go to farms.
After all, compared to factories, they are more familiar with farm work. Even if they are growing on dry land, it is still farm work on the ground. And many people fantasize about owning their own land, so much land
, the company will always rent or sell to everyone in the future!
Liu San is such a person. Now that he is working as a farm worker, what he calculates every day is how much money he needs to save and how long it will take to buy land.
"To buy land, you have to have money, right? You still have to find ways to make money first."
"Make money?"
Liu San couldn't help but feel a little confused. He really didn't know how to make money besides working.
"Here, how much money do you need to earn to buy dozens of acres of land?"
"Actually, you don't have to earn it."
Nunu mouth, Li Lin pointed at the security team member not far away and said.
"Like them, if you join the security force and serve as a soldier for five years, you will be allocated 300 acres of land after you get out, but..."
After taking a look at Liu Lin's figure, Li Lin smiled.
"With your body, I guess people may not want you."
Security team!
Looking at the security team members training in the distance, Li Lin's eyes were a little complicated. In fact, if it weren't for his higher goals, joining the security team might be a good choice.
There are at least three hundred acres of land!
"That's right, Liu San, if there is such a good thing in this world, you should stop dreaming and work harder first. As long as we work for five years, the contract with the employer will be over. By then... maybe
, I can still go back to my hometown in Zhejiang..."
"Um!"
After taking a hard puff of cigarette, Liu San's heart flew back to his hometown in Zhejiang again, but after flying for a while, he murmured again.
"My hometown...there is nothing in my hometown. My family has been renting land from Mr. Li's family for generations. If I could really have a piece of land, wouldn't that be the same?"
Listening to Liu San's words, Li Lin just stayed there silently. Just like in the past, he always cast his eyes on the steam engine in the distance, thinking secretly in his heart.
"Perhaps, I can become a tractor driver in the future..."
However, Li Lin didn't just want to be a tractor driver, he also wanted to understand what this steam tractor was.
Why can it move with coal and water?
Why is "qi" so powerful?
Just when Li Lin was puzzled, a fast horse ran over there. The horse stopped beside the captain for a while and handed him a letter.
As soon as the man left, captain Sun Wei shouted.
"Li Lin, Wang Shiwei, Lu Anxue, you guys come here quickly, hurry up, hurry up, you guys have become prosperous, and the company wants you to report to the preparatory school..."
Li Lin, Wang Shiwei, Lu Anxue and others all looked at the captain blankly.
Preparatory school?
What school is it?
"What is this preparatory school for?"
Obviously, Sun Wei couldn't answer this question, he just kept talking.
"Oh, it must be a good thing, go to school! Think about it, from ancient times to the present, how many people who went to school have not been reused, your good days are behind you!"
As he spoke, Sun Wei's face was full of envy. Going to school is a great thing!
Although they didn't get an answer from the captain, when the three of them arrived at the preparatory school that afternoon, they finally figured out what it was for - it was a preparatory school for studying in the West.