Inside the Caihong Textile Factory in Beijing, heavy snow is falling outside the factory, the wind is howling, and the weather is freezing. The winter of the 16th year of Hongzhi has really arrived, and the first heavy snow of winter has fallen in Beijing.
The genius had just dawned when the factory wake-up bell rang.
"Dang~dang~"
As the crisp ringtones continued to echo in this large factory, the originally quiet factory suddenly became noisy.
In the dormitory building, many textile workers got up as soon as they heard the bell, then came to the boiler room, turned on the water, washed their faces and brushed their teeth, and then went to the cafeteria to have breakfast and prepare to work.
Rainbow Textile Factory is a large textile factory with tens of thousands of employees. It can spin millions of pieces of cloth every year. Most of the employees in the entire textile factory live in the dormitories of the factory, and only a small number of employees are in the capital.
Have a house or rent a house outside.
When it's time to go to and from get off work, the whole factory becomes extremely lively and noisy. There are people everywhere. Everyone is busy, eating breakfast and going to work.
There was only one person who rested on his bed with his head on his hands and refused to go to work.
This person is Chen Jin, who was originally a fifth-rank censor and a dignified official, but now he was punished by Emperor Hongzhi to come to this factory to experience life.
He has been here for seven days, and within seven days he has already felt desperate and completely unable to bear it.
I have to get up very early in the morning every year. Although it is much later than the morning, I still get up at dawn. Then I have to wash and wash in a hurry, and then go to the factory to work.
His job is very simple, that is, he works as a porter in the factory, specializing in constantly moving various things between various factories.
It was only the morning of the first day, less than half an hour after the move, that he was already so tired that his back ached, his legs cramped, and he was complaining endlessly.
I wanted to take a rest, but I was severely scolded by the supervisor here. If I continued to be lazy, I would just whip him. If the whip didn't work, I wouldn't even have lunch.
This is a common phenomenon in factories in this era. Management is very rough and barbaric.
I was beaten and scolded at every turn, and the working hours were very long and very tiring.
However, the people who work here have to endure this silently, because their wages are deposited in the factory, and some factories even deposit their identity badges.
As long as you work honestly and diligently, most factories have piece-rate wages, and you can get more wages if you work diligently.
Ordinary people can endure it, but how can Chen Jin endure it?
I have been a scholar since I was a child, and I have been well-dressed and well-fed. I have not suffered much crying at all, my hands are not strong enough to tie a chicken, my body is not diligent, and I cannot distinguish between grains.
On the first day of work, he was so exhausted that his hands were shaking when he was eating. He was so tired.
"This is not how people live!"
"Besides eating, sleeping, and having sex, you are at work all day long. Let alone a human being, even an iron person would not be able to bear it."
Chen Jin wanted to cry, but there were no tears in his eyes.
Because in just a few days, he had cried without tears.
When he came in on the first day, he couldn't stand it and wanted to go home.
He thought of his comfortable days at home. Even though going to morning service every day was so unpleasant, after tens of thousands of morning service sessions, his life became much more comfortable.
As a royal censor, he actually has very few things to do. He just has to go to court every morning.
The food cooked by the chef at home is very delicious. When you get tired of eating, you can go to a restaurant outside to have a toothpaste. People often invite him, the censor, to go to the brothel and Chuguan to have fun.
The house at home is so comfortable to live in, and the three wives and four concubines in the home are so refreshing and refreshing. Not to mention how comfortable life is.
But he was brought into this factory by Emperor Hongzhi's decree, and Emperor Hongzhi punished him with two years in prison.
In the past two years, he could not go home and could only stay in the factory, eating, sleeping and working together with the ordinary workers in the factory, without any special treatment.
He was not even allowed to reveal to anyone that he was a court official. Otherwise, not only would he be completely removed from his title and official position by Emperor Hongzhi, but he would also be fined to stay in this factory for ten years.
He couldn't help but tremble when he thought of this.
If he really stayed in this factory for ten years, Chen Jin felt that he might really die here from exhaustion.
"I want to go home~ I want to go home!"
Chen Jin really couldn't help it and burst into tears.
He really can't stand the life here anymore.
I get up very early in the morning to go to work, I can rest for an hour during lunch, and then I have to work all the time until very late at night. At the end of the day, I have to work for almost seven hours, and there are very few vacations throughout the year.
days.
He's had enough, really had enough.
In just seven days, he had had enough.
I don't want to stay here anymore.
"Dang~dang~"
Another bell rang, this was the bell for going to work, and the one in front was the bell for getting up.
Hearing the ringtone, Chen Jin couldn't help but get excited. He immediately got up quickly, put on his clothes in a hurry, and hurried to the workshop.
"Gugu~Gugu~"
His stomach growled very unsatisfactorily, and he couldn't help but feel regretful. He didn't have breakfast and he was very hungry.
But the rules in the factory were so strict. He couldn't eat after the meal time. He had to go to work hungry.
"Chen Jin~ It's you again!"
"I'm late again today, five cents will be deducted!"
Seeing Chen Jin's late arrival, Zhang Hu, the steward responsible for moving this area, couldn't help scolding him. At the same time, he took out his notebook and wrote it down.
"Manager Zhang, I'm not feeling well, so I'm late, and I haven't eaten yet. Can you let me eat something before I start working?"
Chen Jin touched his belly and asked weakly.
"The factory has factory rules. You can't eat after the meal time. Do you think this is your home?"
"Go to work quickly and send this cart of cotton to Factory No. 2."
Zhang Hu said impatiently.
This Chen Jin, at first glance, seemed to be a well-educated man, but he didn't know what he had done and ended up working as a porter in a factory.
He was a gentle man with a big belly, and he looked like he was working as a coolie, but there was no other way. His superiors had told him that this was what he did.
Hearing Zhang Hu's words, Chen Jin was helpless. He wanted to reprimand him harshly in a condescending tone.
But when he thought that if he did this, he would have to stay here for ten years, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.
"Pa~"
As he walked away, he slapped himself hard.
It’s all my fault that I’m a mean-mouthed person, and I blame myself for being a troublemaker.
There was something bad about the policy proposed by Liu Jin, and he insisted on opposing it. He became an enemy of the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and offended everyone.
It's fine now. Until now, no one has said a word to me or begged for mercy. Not even a single colleague here has come to see me.
If someone comes to check on me, I might be able to move to a more relaxed position.
"You can still live if you do evil in heaven, but you can't live if you do evil on your own!"
Chen Jin ate hard and pushed the heavy cart toward the workshop.
Because I hadn't eaten enough, my feet were weak. If I wasn't careful, I fell heavily to the ground, grinning in pain.
"Chen Jin, be careful. If you fall, it's okay. If you soil this cart of cotton, I'll beat you to death."
Zhang Hu saw this scene and immediately came over and scolded him.
"I quit this job~"
Chen Jinhuo came up, and he fell almost to death. He didn't get up, and he was scolded. Is his dignified fifth-grade censor not as important as this cart of cotton?
"Quit?"
"Do you think this is your home? You can come when you want and leave when you want?"
When Zhang Hu heard this, his tiger eyes widened immediately, and then he said fiercely: "If you don't want to work anymore, get out of here immediately. Look at your appearance, you don't look like someone who wants to work."
"Get out as soon as possible so that my transport team can have more peace of mind."
"Get out of here!"
Being scolded by a low-level factory manager like Zhang Hu made Chen Jin feel angry.
What he always looked down upon the most was these ordinary people. He was a scholar, a scholar-official, and a fifth-grade censor, so he was above them.
In the past, he would not have even looked at a person like Zhang Hu, but now Zhang Hu is scolding him and telling you to get lost.
This made him furious. He had never suffered such humiliation before.
As soon as he got up, he shook his sleeves heavily and walked straight to the factory entrance.
But when he came to the factory gate, he remembered Emperor Hongzhi's will again, and immediately stopped again, then helplessly lowered his head and slowly returned to Zhang Hu's side.
"Why are you back again?"
"Didn't you say you quit?"
"No one asks you to do things, and no one forces you to do things. If you want to make money, you have to do things honestly."
Zhang Hu looked at Chen Jin and couldn't help but laugh.
This Chen Jin, who is in his forties, doesn't even understand this truth.
Didn’t you see that everyone in the factory works very seriously?
"Manager Zhang, I'm new here and I don't understand the rules yet. Please bear with me, bear with me~"
Chen Jin saluted and apologized to Manager Zhang.
"Okay, enough nonsense, let's get to work~"
Zhang Hu shook his head helplessly. He really couldn't understand why this Chen Jin came back again?
There is nothing better than doing this. What's more, this Chen Jin is still a scholar and can read and digit. At least being a teacher is no problem at all.
But I just came to this factory to work as a porter.
Zhang Hu couldn't understand Chen Jin's helplessness. He could only go hungry and continue to carry things.
