Chapter 248 When fellow villagers meet fellow villagers, they burst into tears
At the same time, here in Salt Lake Village...
Since all camps under Zhou Xu’s command have been fully upgraded to villages, his four villages , basically all have their own responsibilities.
The Salt Lake Village is like an industrial area. There are two mining farms, a chicken farm, a salt mining farm and a pottery factory distributed in the area.
Considering space and environmental issues, the firing of pottery has also been moved here.
Among them, the two mining farms that are most in need of labor are undoubtedly those.
On the front line, the first batch of prisoners had just been sent over, and they were all ‘robbed’ by Salt Lake Village.
The personnel losses in the winter, coupled with the previous conscription, made their manpower, which was not abundant, suddenly become more tense.
Now that hard labor has finally arrived, every place in Salt Lake Village does not want to let go of any of them.
This made the escorts dumbfounded.
"Village Chief Li, don't worry, there are several groups of prisoners behind us, and the leader is also leading a large army to collect the population of other tribes in the mountains. This time, at least a hundred hard laborers can be captured. Come back."
"That's not good. Since there are so many more, just give these ten to us in Salt Lake Village. What can happen to us in Salt Lake Village? But it’s almost impossible to turn around!”
As he spoke, Li Shitou was ready to pull all ten prisoners off the ox cart.
At the same time, the people in Salt Lake Village stopped doing work. When they saw their village chief moving, they immediately followed to pull people in. It was obvious that they would not leave people behind, and they vowed not to do so. give up.
Seeing this, the escort quickly stopped him.
"Don't! This group of prisoners was escorted over, but none of them were taken to Black Moon Village? How will I explain to the leader and Village Chief Zhang then?"
"I'll go back to the leader and Xiaoshan." Say!"
"..."
The escort did not dare to take Li Shitou's words seriously. When the time comes and he is really blamed, he is not the one in the middle who will suffer?
"You should leave three at least?! At worst, if the next batch of prisoners comes over, I promise to leave two more for you, right?"
Around the ox cart escorting the prisoners, the escorts and Li Shitou and others kept going around.
Although Li Shitou and the others looked aggressive, they did not dare to actually grab it, even though no one on either side would let anyone go.
After a last ditch effort, an agreement was finally reached.
“It’s agreed that this batch of prisoners will leave three for Black Moon Village, and the next batch of prisoners will leave two more for me!”
“Okay, okay, everything. Easy to say.”
While they were talking, the escort quickly left the seven prisoners behind, and then ran away in an ox cart without looking back.
Seeing the other person running for his life made Li Shitou feel embarrassed.
He doesn’t want to do this either, but isn’t the manpower here in Salt Lake Village almost exhausted?
As the two followers who have been following their leader for a long time, Li Shitou originally thought that he would only serve their leader, serving tea and serving water, and doing some tricks for the rest of his life.
I never expected that before spring, their leader would directly promote him and Zhang Xiaoshan to village chiefs.
One is responsible for Black Moon Village and the other is responsible for Salt Lake Village.
This shocked them, and their first reaction was to wave their hands and refuse, saying that they were not that capable and could not do this.
But their leader said at that time...
"You two have been with me for so long, and when I deal with various affairs on weekdays, you are always watching. Even if you are watching, It’s time to watch, right?”
“And don’t be so nervous. It’s not that difficult to be the village leader. There are ministers and field directors in charge of various departments and fields in Black Moon Village and Salt Lake Village. , they will handle daily matters.”
"What you two village chiefs have to do, to put it bluntly, is to help me keep an eye on those departments and places, and make arrangements from them. If there is anything that cannot be solved, report it to me." After a round of deception, Zhou Xu handed over Zhang Xiaoshan and Li Shitou. I cheated and got my job.
At first, when their leader assigned Black Moon Village to Zhang Xiaoshan, Li Shitou breathed a sigh of relief.
Because in Li Shitou's view, there are many departments and complicated affairs in Heiyue Village, and the ministers all have high status, which makes them difficult to manage at first glance.
On the other hand, here in Salt Lake Village, they are all places. To put it bluntly, they are just working. It seems to be much easier to manage.
Facts have proved that most of the time in Salt Lake Village, you only need to immerse yourself in work, but you can’t stand the overwhelming workload!
Moreover, the demand for labor in these fields is huge. As soon as the village chief Li Shitou took office, he was very busy because of the labor problem. Recently, he even avoided the field directors and dared not show up. .
No way, the first thing those directors did when they saw him was to take care of him.
But where did he come from? You can't just conjure it out of thin air, right?
No, it made people anxious, and they came directly to rob the cattle cart.
In the next few days, subsequent prisoners were delivered one after another, which gradually replenished the insufficient labor force in several villages.
"Okay, you guys come with me!"
In Salt Lake Village, pointing to the few prisoners he had been assigned, the director of the external copper mine directly took them Brought outside their mine.
Then he pointed to the shed outside the mine and opened his mouth...
"The drinking water is over here. There is a bowl next to it. The water is in the jar. If you are thirsty, you can use the bowl to scoop out the water."< br>
After saying that, the field director directly stuffed a large backpack into each of their hands.
"Put the backpack on your back. I will find someone to take you next."
This is the first time they have seen the backpack, but the workers who come in and out of the mine all carry it on their backs. They learn everything, but it's not like they can't learn it.
The director, after looking around, shouted at the top of his voice...
"Kuromu! Kuroki, come here!"
Hearing the director calling him, Heimu, who had just put down a basket of stones, hurried over.
"Kuromu is new here just like you. Although he has only been here for a short time, his work attitude is very good and he is very serious! Next, I will let Kuromu take care of you!"< br>
After saying that, the field director turned to look at Kuroki, whose face was covered in dust, and then patted his shoulder.
"I'll leave it to you to take care of these newcomers, behave well! As long as you keep up the good work, you might even get a hard work award at the end of the month!"
Hearing this, Kuroki suddenly became excited.
"Don't worry, director, I will perform well! Take care of the newcomers!"
"Well, I'm optimistic about you."
After saying that, the director turned and left.
Watching the field director leave, just when Kuroki was thinking about how to bring in new people, a slightly familiar voice sounded, making Kuromu confused.
"Blackwood?"
"Red, Red Stone?!"
Heimu didn't expect the leader of Red Stone to appear here at all. The two of them were quite confused when they saw each other.
At this moment, I really had the feeling of ‘when a fellow villager meets a fellow villager, tears well up in his eyes’.
(End of this chapter)