"Dad, why did you bring us here?" Wen Qi asked in confusion. If it was an inspection, we should go to the steel plant for inspection. What are we doing here?
"Of course I have something to do. I have to go to the steel plant for inspection later, but I'm here now." Yunxi didn't explain much, checked the children's clothes again, and led them to the steel plant workers' residential area below.
Walk to town.
As he walked towards the town, Yunxi looked at it. It had changed a lot from when he came to see it a year ago. The family area in the middle of the town was a bit larger, and there should be more workers. The area near the family area was bigger.
The streets are full of shops selling various products, and there are many restaurants. The restaurant is not big, but the tables inside are piled high. Passing by the door, you can see the waiters wiping the tables and chairs, and washing the vegetables.
, the cook who chops meat.
There were not many people in the restaurant at this time, but there were quite a few people in various shops. These people were all women, sometimes with a few underage boys, chattering and talking while selecting goods.
After walking a few more steps, Yunxi took six children and more than a dozen guards to the gate of the family area and saw a police station. Originally, when the steel plant was state-owned, for the convenience of management, this police station was owned by the steel plant.
The steel plant was under the jurisdiction of the factory. Later, after the steel plant became part of the imperial family and owned by some dignitaries, the police station was placed under the jurisdiction of the Xicheng Police Station. But this place is a bit far from the city, and although the steel plant is no longer state-owned, the managers of the steel plant
It is still something that a few small policemen cannot afford to offend. In fact, they still listen to what the factory managers say. Because the residents here are mostly workers and their families, they all know each other, and there are factory disciplines, so there are very few troubles that need to be dealt with by the police.
Things, people at the police station are very relaxed.
They were playing horse tags in the cell and looking at the chips on the table, they had been playing for a long time. A policeman drank water and turned his head to see a few people standing outside the window. He quickly put down the cards in his hand and started playing again.
He patted the shoulders of others. They hurriedly put on their clothes and walked out of the house. A slightly older man, who seemed to be a senior, asked: "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"I am the manager of the steel plant. I came here to see how the workers' housing conditions are." Yunxi replied.
So Zheng knew it was nonsense as soon as he heard it. He knew all the managers in the factory at all levels, so how could another one suddenly appear? Even if it was a new transfer, it was impossible. How could anyone come with several children?
'Look at the housing conditions of the workers'?
But Suozheng did not refute it immediately. There were so many people behind this man, and these people seemed to be protecting him. His status must not be low, and he could not afford to offend Suozheng. If he wanted to do something bad, he would not be able to offend him.
That's it, he has to take care of it; but if someone just wants to enter the family area to have a look, it would be a bit short-sighted for him to push back.
"I wonder who your last name is? I have poor eyesight and have never seen you. According to the rules, non-steel factory personnel and family members are not allowed to enter." Suozheng finally said.
"That's easy to say." Yunxi then took out a waist badge and showed it to him, so he immediately opened the middle door and let the group of people in.
"Dad, what did you show that person just now?" Wen Qi asked.
"It's nothing, it's just a pass for the steel factory." Yunxi said. Since he came to inspect the family area, how could he not be prepared and ask for a factory pass in advance.
There was nothing good to see in the family area. Yunxi walked around twice and knocked on the wall to make sure that no corners were cut. There was nothing good to see. Several children even felt that there was nothing good to see in this place.
want to go out.
At this time, he happened to pass by a small yard separated by a fence. When Yunxi turned his head and took a look, he felt very strange. There were more than ten children in this yard, and they all looked about the same age, all under three years old.
Babies. If this family just gave birth to too many children, how could it be possible to give birth to so many children in one or two years? Decaduplets? The pregnant woman’s belly was not bursting.
But it is impossible to say that children are kidnapped. This is the family area of the steel factory. Are you crazy enough to kidnap and traffic children here, and then put them in the yard without any disguise?
Yunxi immediately wanted to ask, but there were only two women in the hospital. Seeing him, a strange old man, wandering around the family area with so many strange old men, he was wary. He probably couldn't ask questions himself.
What happened? Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a very noisy sound coming from outside, and then workers walked into the family area.
Yunxi, who had inspected the steel factory before, thought about it and knew that this was the morning shift workers getting off work. The steel factory requires heavy physical labor, and the time requirements are very strict. It is difficult to take time to rest while working.
Working from morning to night is exhausting; but this is different from miners, which requires skilled workers. As early as in the country, it was divided into two shifts, morning and evening, and it became part of the imperial family and part of the powerful. This has not changed.
Yunxi hurriedly took a few steps back and made way for these workers to pass. The workers were also very curious about Yunxi and his group, but they couldn't stop and take a closer look. Secondly, they were very tired after work and wanted to go back to rest.
Everyone just looked at it for a few times, then looked away and continued walking forward.
Yunxi didn't care about these workers. He was still thinking about how to question the two women after a while. He might as well reveal his identity a little and ask a factory manager to come over and ask. But while he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a voice coming from beside him.
: "Master Zhu?"
"Who are you?" Yunxi raised his head and saw a man dressed as a worker standing in front of him, talking to him, but he had no impression of this person at all. He glanced sideways at the guard and saw nothing.
People have impressions and can only ask questions.
"You, an old nobleman, have so much history that you naturally don't remember me. Two years ago, around this time, you and another gentleman went to Heyanzhuang and told us about new farming methods. You also said that you were willing to go to every household in Jiangbei to open up wasteland.
When you asked the common people what they wanted to say, and the villain answered, you arranged for the villain to come here and become a worker in a steel factory." The man said with a smile on his face.
"So it's you." When he said this, Yunxi also thought about it. Not long after he returned from the Western Regions, he wanted to promote family farms and transform agricultural production from pursuing the highest yield per unit of land to pursuing the highest output per unit of individuals.
A relatively special farm like Heyanzhuang was selected for the pilot project. This farm had a bumper harvest that year, and the average amount of grain harvested by each household nearly doubled. This caused a sensation throughout the capital and countryside. Everyone came to this Zhuangzi Hall one after another. Why?
With such high yields, family farms have also been promoted. However, because most people are unwilling to leave their hometowns to open up wasteland in other places, the amount of land cultivated by each household has not increased much, and the effect is not as good as he expected.
"What's your name? What's your name?" Yunxi wanted to recall his name again.
"The villain's name is Yang Ling. Are you here again for inspection today?" Yang Ling said.
Hearing these words, Yunxi suddenly became vigilant again. He remembered that he never said his last name when he was at Heyanzhuang. How could this person know it? Could he know his true identity? How did he know it?
?Yunxi immediately wanted to order the guards to arrest him and interrogate him.
But the man's next words dispelled his idea. "You are really a busy man, and the father-in-law above is willing to reuse you. However, the father-in-law above sent you to the family courtyard to inspect. Could it be that a new steel plant is being built somewhere?
, also want to build a new family home? Can you come in advance to see how to arrange it? "
'Huh?' Yunxi was confused and tricked him into saying a few words. He learned that after Yang Ling left Heyanzhuang to work in the steel factory, he accidentally learned that Heyanzhuang's status was unusual. He was probably already the Queen of the Emperor's Village. He couldn't help but
He went back and asked; Lu Lingfeng also wanted to ask him to help him send one of his sons to work in the steel factory, so he told him part of the truth. Yang Ling asked Yunxi's identity again, and Lu Lingfeng said that he was from the 24th Yamen of the Internal Affairs Bureau, with the surname
Zhu, but he is not a eunuch.
After hearing this, Yunxi felt a little relieved and said a few more words to him. Yang Ling flattered him a few more times, then suddenly staggered and said, "Master Zhu, I just got off work, and I'm a little nervous."
I'm tired, so I won't talk to you all the time. But if you have any instructions, just call and the little man will do it for you right away."
"Just now, I have something I need your help with." Yunxi glanced at the nearby yard with many babies and said to him, "Do you know who this family is? Why are there so many babies?"
"Oh, this." Yang Ling didn't need to look, he knew what was going on just by pointing in the direction that Yunxi pointed in, and said, "Mr. Zhu, most people don't understand it when they see this kind of thing for the first time. But here we don't understand either.
It’s a commonplace thing.”
"Although the steel factory earns a lot of money every month, it is also tiring. Those who are willing to work here are poor people, and some people owe a lot of debt and want to pay off the debt as soon as possible. The men in the family work in the factory, and the women also want to find something to do.
Do."
"But the fields here are very poor. We can't grow food well. We can only grow some vegetables. We can't farm at home. There happens to be jobs that women can do in the factory, so we hired a lot of women from workers' families to work there."
"Because the money earned from working is more than farming at home, everyone is willing to work. But the mother-in-law who just gave birth to the child became confused. After the confinement, she could take good care of the child by breastfeeding at home, but
You can't make money in the factory; you don't have to nurse your children at home, and there is no one to take care of them. Because the wages in the factory are high, there are many people who want both wages and care for their children.
"At this time, someone said: Just let me take care of your children, and you can go to work during the day. I didn't ask how much you would pay me every month. Some women thought about it and thought it was a good idea, so they gave me their own money.
She takes care of the children, gives her money every month, and works in the factory by herself," Yang Ling explained.
"This is a nursery?" Yunxi looked at the yard in disbelief: "Is there already a nursery now?"
But he quickly calmed down. Under his instigation, even the heliocentric theory came out, the Ming Dynasty discovered the American continent, and the envoy from Castile visited more than a hundred years in advance. It is not very strange for a nursery to appear.
‘And this is the family area of the steel plant, the place closest to future generations, so it’s normal for the nursery to appear first.’ He thought.
"That's all. What do we feed the babies in this nursery?" Yunxi asked again.
"Nursery?" Yang Ling repeated doubtfully, understanding the meaning of the word, and said with some surprise: "Has something like this happened in other places? I even thought of the name."
"Go in and ask what to feed the child." Yunxi saw that he probably didn't know, so he added.
Yang Ling immediately called "Sister-in-law of the Zhang family", opened the door and walked in. He smiled and said a few words to the woman who was taking care of more than a dozen babies. Then he came out and said to Yunxi: "Master, what if the baby...
In the morning, give her a kettle filled with milk and the child together. Of course, feed the child's mother's milk, warm it a little and feed it to the child; if there is no milk, make some rice cereal yourself."
Yunxi asked a few more questions about the nursery, and Yang Ling felt a little annoyed: "Why don't you ask all the questions you have? You have to ask me back and forth. I've annoyed Sister-in-law Zhang with all the questions. Why don't you give them back at night?"
They gave me something to show their disapproval. If you let me ask around like this without getting paid, I would be at a loss.' But even though he thought so, he didn't dare to go against Yunxi's words, even if he didn't give it to him.
Remuneration. If he makes Yunxi unhappy, he might not be able to continue to be a worker here. He can't afford to offend Yunxi. So he can only run from the courtyard to the outside, and from the outside to the courtyard over and over again.