Chapter 130: The Ambition of Farm Workers (Third update, please subscribe)

January in the southern hemisphere is the hottest time of the year. For Chinese immigrants who are accustomed to the weather in the northern hemisphere, the completely different climate makes them a little difficult to adapt to. After all, for thousands of years, they have been accustomed to the "nine cold days of winter."

For example, now, although it is the twelfth lunar month, it is midsummer.

At noon, the temperature was 31 or 32 degrees Celsius. Although not as hot as his hometown, Li Lin was still 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 had to obey the captain's orders.

This is the rule of Nanhua.

Wiping the sweat off his head, Li Lin looked up into the distance. At the end of the earth, several steam tractors were spewing black smoke, and foreign horses pulling double plowshares were plowing the land in the fields.

"Third Master, look at this land, it's really fertile!"

Sitting on the ground, Liu San took the tobacco from his pipe and rolled a pipe with paper. He grabbed a handful of black soil on the ground and sighed.

"In our hometown of Jinshan, even if we have pond mud and fertilizer for decades, it wouldn't be as good as this kind of land!"

Looking at the endless grassland 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 at Nanhua, he registered at the dock like other people, then had his body checked and his temperature taken, then he took a shower and was "disinfected". Finally, he was taken to a large courtyard surrounded by fences, which was a "new immigrant education camp".

The "New Immigrants Education Camp" is included in the "Integration Plan" formulated by Zhu Xianhai for immigrants. It is the first step for them to integrate into Nanhua.

After arriving at the education camp, the new immigrants had to accept militarized management. On this point, Zhu Xianhai and Li Fugui had the same idea - the somewhat naive Li Quezi, after exchanging a large number of people, for the convenience of management, he simply used the military's methods in the management of the "waiting station", and disciplined those people like soldiers.

This trick worked quite well. When the new immigrants came to Nanhua, they had already adapted to the semi-military management. It took them little effort to adapt to 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 was the biggest difference of Nanhua.

Literacy and literacy are the first steps in training workers. In Zhu Xianhai's opinion, illiterate workers are definitely not in line with the development direction of the factory. Everyone must learn to read and write. Fortunately, the people in Jinshan area of ​​Jiaxing have a high level of literacy. Among the new immigrants, thousands have attended private schools, and there are even hundreds of so-called students, scholars and other "learned people."

Of course, no one here takes them seriously. Those "learned people" are just "literacy teachers" and get an extra two dollars a month in allowance.

Everything in the education camp was managed in accordance with the military camp, from walking, to throwing away garbage, to cleaning the dormitory, and even changing and washing bed sheets. In short, the semi-military management standardized everything in Nanhua, making Nanhua completely orderly.

Of course, on the other hand, immigrants are also full of expectations for their future. In addition to some immigrants who are eager to become workers and earn a dozen or twenty dollars a month. However, compared to working in factories, people are more willing to work on farms. After all, compared to factories, they are more familiar with farm work. Even if it is dry land, it is still farm work in the field. And many people fantasize about owning their own land. With so much land, the company will always rent or sell it to everyone in the future!

Liu San is such a person. Now working as a farm worker, he still calculates every day how much money he needs to save and how long it will take to buy land.

"To buy land, you must have money, right? You still have to find a way to make money first."

"Making money?"

Liu San couldn't help but feel a little confused. Apart from working, he really didn't know how to make money.

"How much money do I need to earn to buy dozens of acres of land?"

“Actually, you don’t have to earn it.”

Li Lin nodded and pointed at the security guard not far away.

"Like them, if you join the security team and serve for five years, you can get 300 acres of land when you are released, but..."

After taking a look at Liu Lin's figure, Li Lin smiled.

"With your body, I don't think people will want you."

Security team!

Looking at the security team members who were training in the distance, Li Lin's eyes were a little complicated. In fact, if it weren't for the 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. There is no such good thing in this world. Don't dream about it. You should work harder. As long as we work for five years, the contract with the employer will end. Then... maybe we can go back to our hometown in Zhejiang..."

"Um!"

Taking a deep puff of the cigarette, Liu San's heart once again flew back to his hometown in Zhejiang, 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 for generations. If I could really have a piece of land, wouldn't it be the same there?"

Listening to Liu San's words, Li Lin just stayed there silently. As in the past, he always cast his gaze towards the steam engine in the distance, thinking secretly in his heart.

"Maybe, I can become a tractor driver in the future..."

However, Li Lin didn't just want to be a tractor driver, he wanted to understand what this steam tractor was.

Why can it move with coal and water?

Why does “steam” have such great power?

Just when Li Lin was puzzled, a horseman came running over, 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, the rest of you, come here quickly, quickly, you have become rich, the company wants you to report to the preparatory school..."

Li Lin, Wang Shiwei, Lu Anxue and others all looked at the captain in confusion.

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, to go to school! Think about it, from ancient times to the present, how many people who went to school were not reused? Your good days are still ahead!"

As he spoke, Sun Wei's face was full of envy. Going to school is a great thing!

Although they did not 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 abroad in the West.

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(End of this chapter)