Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 212

"Yao Ju——"

"Hey, Master Mian!" Yao Ju was carrying a load of bricks out. When he heard Jiang Xiumian calling him, he put the bricks down and immediately ran towards Jiang Xiumian.

It can be seen that Master Mian is determined to guide him, so he needs to be more diligent and work harder.

Jiang Xiumian handed him the blueprint and said, "I have already taught you how to read this blueprint. You can lead your people to build a few more brick kilns according to this blueprint. The bricks produced should be transported to Shangtang Village first, so that the villagers whose houses have collapsed can rebuild their houses first."

To be honest, it is really good that the brick kiln has such a success rate. We should strike while the iron is hot and start mass production.

"This batch of bricks...are they really for Shangtang Village?" Yao Ju's hands were shaking as he took the blueprint. A red brick house, so magnificent!

Jiang Xiumian didn't even raise his head, but just responded: "Not just this batch, but also the next batch, and the next batch after that. All the dangerous and collapsed buildings will be replaced."

"Then how much do you want to sell these bricks for?" If they were cheap, he would demolish his dilapidated house and rebuild it.

"for free."

Yao Ju: “!!!!”

"Really?!" He suddenly raised his voice, which he had not dared to raise since he became a laborer, causing the people carrying bricks and stacking bricks to look at him: "What's wrong?"

Yao Ju didn't bother to answer them, and asked Jiang Xiumian anxiously: "Is... is that what Lord Jiang meant?" After he finished speaking, he felt something was wrong and quickly explained: "Master Mian... I didn't, I didn't mean that - I meant..."

Jiang Xiumian understood what he meant. He simply felt that he was not capable of taking on such an important role, but he also felt that saying it bluntly would cause his dissatisfaction.

He nodded firmly: "This is what my father wanted."

fake.

His father didn't even know that the bricks were made, but saying this could avoid a lot of trouble, so Jiang Xiumian used his father's tiger skin to say whatever he wanted to say -

It was all Lord Jiang’s fault.

Jiang Yipei, who is far away in the county town, has been blamed for layer upon layer of things.

"That's great! Thank you, Lord Jiang! Thank you, Master Mian!" Yao Ju knelt on the snow with a plop, kowtowed to Jiang Xiumian, then turned around and kowtowed to Jiang Yipei in the direction of the county town. He stood up and shouted to everyone, "Master Mian said that all these bricks should be used to build our house!"

“Really?!” Many people hadn’t gotten a definite answer yet, so they knelt down and kowtowed to Jiang Xiumian: “Thank you, Master Mian, thank you, Master Jiang!”

Jiang Xiumian: “…”

This posture of kneeling before ancestors is so damn scary! !

He moved aside in small steps and said dryly, "Work hard and strive to have every household demolish their mud houses and build red brick houses."

"Yes!" Everyone responded decisively.

Compared with the red brick house and mud brick house, even a fool would know that of course you should choose the red brick house! And they know the quality of the hot red bricks they just fired, which is not inferior to the blue bricks at all!

Isn't that equivalent to building a blue brick house!

A blue brick house!

This is a dream that the peasants have been struggling to realize for generations!

Now that this opportunity is before them, how should they choose?

Of course, we have to fight to the death!

If the dustpans carrying bricks were full, they would have piled two hundred more on top.

The brick stacker wished he had eight pairs of hands so he could stack the fired bricks in no time and carry them down the mountain!

The commotion here was even heard by the logging team in the distance. They all looked over here, peeking their heads out.

"Get to work!" Zhang Feng shouted, "Complete today's mission. You'll know what's going on when you move back! If you don't, don't think I'm cruel when I leave you in the mountains to feed the wolves!"

The laborers did not dare to neglect their duties, mainly because they were afraid of the whips in Zhang Feng's hands.

Yes, Zhang Feng and Liu Hai still used the corporal punishment method they were used to when managing the labor.

If you don't work hard, you will be beaten.

If you dawdle at work, you will be beaten.

If you make a mistake at work, you will be beaten.

Anyway, the word "fight" can take you anywhere in the world.

Jiang Xiubai couldn't stand it at first, and talked to Jiang Xiumian several times, saying that now is a human rights society, laborers are also human beings, and you can't always beat them, it's not good!

Later, a small number of laborers in their charcoal-burning and kiln-burning team, about four or five people, saw that the two young men were too easy to talk to and were slow in completing the tasks assigned to them. Jiang Xiumian reprimanded them several times, and they all nodded and bowed in fear, saying that they knew they were wrong and would change next time.

However, the reality is——

Sincerely admit your mistakes and resolutely refuse to change.

He even instigated others behind the scenes, saying that Jiang Xiumian and Jiang Xiubai were soft-hearted, and that they didn't need to be too dedicated when working, and should just be lazy when necessary!

Here, they have thick cotton-padded clothes to wear, free meals to eat, and occasionally meat. Life is better than at home. If every day is like this in the future, they would rather make bricks in the mountains for the rest of their lives.

Of course, it would be nice if I could go home more often to see my wife and children.

Of course, it would be nice if you could give me some money every month.

Of course, more money would be better!

After hearing this, Jiang Xiubai's heart felt colder than the minus 30 degrees Celsius weather outside. He immediately shut his mouth and almost got mad at himself. He pounded his chest and couldn't breathe for a long time.

From then on, when Liu Hai and Zhang Feng beat people, he would not say a word as long as it was not too excessive.

However, Liu Hai and Zhang Feng are not troublemakers and generally will not use heavy-handed methods.

Firstly, they are not cruel people and do not have the habit of abusing others for fun.

Second, if someone is really beaten up, who will do the work?

Jiang Xiumian is different from Jiang Xiubai. He never uses other people's mistakes to punish himself.

I've made myself so angry, isn't this punishing myself?

So after he heard about this, he didn't say anything, but starting the next day, he let Zhang Feng and Liu Hai take charge of Team 3 and take good care of them.

Three days later, these people were as obedient as quails and did not dare to disobey at all.

Facts have proved that if a management method can be used for a long time in an era, there must be a reason for it.

Even conciliatory policies can fail.

"Oh, right..." Jiang Xiumian had already slipped away, but turned back and said, "We will build a brick kiln these days. The bricks produced in our kiln will be supplied first to those who have no houses or whose houses have collapsed while serving labor. If those who have good houses also want to use free bricks, there are policies for that.

That is, each family will provide two laborers to help with the work. Food is provided but accommodation is not provided. There is no salary. It does not matter whether you are a man or a woman. However, you must be quick-handed and hardworking. Please consider it. If you are interested, please come to Yao Ju to sign up. "

Don’t be fooled by the free stuff. They are the ones who earn the most by attracting workers, but the initial investment is just larger.

Yao Ju knew a few words, otherwise he would not have been able to understand the brick kiln design drawings, so he was still able to do the job of recording the names. If there were words he didn't recognize, he could also find alternative ways to record them.

So he agreed hurriedly, but unfortunately, his family was out of labor, otherwise he would have free bricks. However, he believed that if they made more bricks, the price of bricks would definitely drop, and it would be cost-effective to buy them with his own money at that time!

Blue bricks were very expensive in ancient times, largely because of the slow construction period and low output.

However, the red brick kiln built by Jiang Xiumian and his team can achieve mass production to a certain extent, so it will definitely have a certain impact on the price of blue bricks.

However, the current environment is not good, and the contradictions will not be revealed for the time being, but it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

But Jiang Xiumian has a way to solve this small problem, but the person who implements it must be Jiang Yipei -

These are all things for the future, and it is too early to talk about them now. The laborers’ minds are now filled with the four words “free red bricks”. Not to mention two people, they would be willing to sign up even if it was the entire family’s labor force!

At first they thought that doing forced labor would be as hard and tiring as before, and they could even die, so they were very scared. But when they got here, they found that the food was good, the clothes were good, and the weather was a little cold, but it was acceptable because it was not that cold when they were working.

Moreover, there is rest time every day, unlike the previous forced labor where we had to work around the clock. Where can we find such a kind-hearted adult? Those petty-minded and unsatisfied people really deserve to die!

Jiang Xiaomi and Jiang Suying did not rush back to the county that night, nor did they stay in the mountains. Instead, they went back to Yao Lizheng's home in Shangtang Village with Jiang Xiubai and Jiang Xiumian.

As soon as Yao Lizheng heard that Jiang Suying and Jiang Xiaomi were Jiang Yipei's wife and daughter, he immediately asked someone to clean up the best room in the house. Jiang Suying waved her hands again and again: "Don't bother, old man. We can just stay in Xiao Mian's room."

Seeing Jiang Suying's firm attitude, Yao Lizheng was worried: "Will this be too unfair to Madam?"

"It's okay, I don't feel wronged." Jiang Suying smiled kindly.

She would have to observe Jiang Xiubai for another night to assess whether he could go back to the county with them.

I'm really exhausted.

There are things everywhere.

Her wish of sleeping six hours a day has not yet been fulfilled.

But it happened today. Jiang Xiubai fell asleep early. Jiang Suying took his pulse twice and found that he was fine. So she and Jiang Xiaomi fell asleep on the bed next to him.

As for ordinary people, there are many people and children in the family. When the children grow up, the room is not big enough. They can only put two beds in one room, which is unaffordable for four or five children to live in.

Jiang Xiumian was also very sleepy. He looked at the 20 centimeters space Jiang Xiubai had left for him and kicked him in. Jiang Xiubai grunted twice and turned over without even opening his eyes, occupying his 20 centimeters of bed tightly.

Jiang Xiumian: “…”

He stepped on the foot of the bed and lay down on the inside, but then he thought that this was not a good idea. His sleeping posture was very unruly. If he accidentally fell off the bed and triggered some illness, he would be doomed.

He had no choice but to grab Jiang Xiubai's ankles and drag him inside. After he was tilted, he began to move his upper body. Even after moving him like this, Jiang Xiubai did not wake up.

The next day, Jiang Suying felt that Jiang Xiubai could still go back to the county with them. The county's free clinic could not be let go for too long, otherwise the prestige in the county government that Jiang Yipei had accumulated with great difficulty would easily be lost.

"vomit--"

As soon as the carriage started moving, Jiang Xiubai felt like vomiting.

Car sickness and seasickness are both types of motion sickness.

There are many reasons for this, but for someone like Jiang Xiubai who never gets carsick, it is very likely that his brain is damaged. There is a solution, so Jiang Xiubai hit the road with a head full of silver needles. He also had a lot of piercings on the back of his ears, so he had to sit upright to prevent the carriage from shaking and throwing him against the wall - with so many needles in such a dangerous area, it would be easy to be pierced to death!

But in order to avoid feeling dizzy, I’ll just have a head full of needles!

Jiang Xiubai has returned to the county, but Jiang Xiumian is still fighting alone in the mountains. The great but unstable kiln project still needs him!

Jiang Xiumian: “…”

Really, I feel helpless sometimes.

He asked Jiang Xiaomi to escort Jiang Xiubai and his mother back to the county and then come over to accompany him, but Jiang Suying vetoed his request: "It's freezing cold in the wilderness, and you let your sister come alone? How can you be so careless as a brother!"

"Then why doesn't she go back? There are so many people escorting you. One more or one less won't make a difference. Why must she go back? I don't care. I don't agree to stay here alone! Let Jiang Xiaomi stay with me! Mom, I'm your son. You said you would keep it fair all night!"

Things have come to this point. If Jiang Suying disagrees, it would seem that she is very biased!

So Jiang Xiaomi was left behind.

Jiang Xiubai returned to the county. From the time he got off the car to the time he went to his room, he never took off the bamboo hat that covered his face. This made Liu very anxious: "What happened? Let me see! Did you hurt your face? It's okay. We don't marry a wife based on her face! Oh my God! His father!"

"What's going on?!" Jiang Yida, who was following closely, was extremely anxious.

"Where's the incense! Where's the incense! Find it quickly, I have to worship it! The older generation said that there are a lot of dirty things on the mountain. I didn't believe it at first, my God! Hey - no matter what kind of female ghost you are, get away from my son quickly. I know my son is a virgin and a man is precious, but he is not someone you can covet. If you know what's good for you, leave quickly, otherwise, when I invite a master over, you won't be able to run away even if you want to! Hey -"

"His mother..." Jiang Yida was a little scared when he saw his wife's crazy look, but when he saw his son's face, he ran to find all the incense sticks he could find and handed them to Liu: "Light them, light them all, and get rid of these dirty things!"

Seeing his parents jumping up and down, Jiang Xiubai felt both amused and distressed, and quickly pulled them back: "It's not a dirty thing, I'm just sick."

Liu didn't believe it: "What kind of illness is it? How can it be so serious? It must be a ghost! His father, hurry up..."

"Really not—" Jiang Xiubai suddenly became weak: "Dad and Mom, I don't have much energy to explain to you now, but Auntie said it can be cured, so don't worry, don't light incense in my room, I feel uncomfortable and can't breathe."

"Okay, I won't light it!" Liu hadn't even lit the incense yet. Upon hearing this, she quickly stopped and stuffed all the incense into Jiang Yida's arms, helping him lie down: "Slow down, tell me, where do you feel uncomfortable?"