Chapter 293: Word of mouth spreads among the people!
Ten days later.
It’s already November.
The weather is getting colder, and people on the streets have also put on more clothes.
The roar of the steam engine never stopped.
The machine demonstrated by Zhou Ning is placed like this at the market entrance. Whenever the market opens, someone will go there and add a few fires to start the machine. Although there is not much substance. It was used, but it also allowed the people who came after hearing the inquiry to have close contact.
Ten days.
No less than a thousand people came to watch.
Even surrounding states and counties come here to visit.
Today's market entrance has become a tourist attraction in Yuhang. Almost everyone who comes to Yuhang will stop here to have a close look at the existence of 'machines', and the existence of steam engines, It also spread to the world and became known to more local people.
Local people's resistance to machines also gradually weakened.
Currently, there are several 'guide'-like people who are explaining to the people around them, so that people who are unfamiliar with it can have a deeper understanding of the 'machine'.
Market entrance.
It is mid-day time.
There are a lot fewer people on the streets, and they all go home to cook and rest.
But at the market entrance, there were many people coming.
They were all dressed simply, with serious faces, and a bit uneasy and panicked. Under the leadership of a middle-aged man, they stood in front of the 'steam engine' that was emitting thick smoke. in front of.
Fang Erniu said: "Li Dali, Wu An'an"
Fang Erniu called out their names one by one. These are the salt workers called by the other Chief Secretaries to attend the 'Workers' Conference' , these names were all familiar to him, and now that he really saw them, he was completely relieved.
At least the government didn’t lie.
Indeed, the Zao households from each province who were "leading the trouble" were called.
"Is this a machine?" Li Dali stood in front of the 'steam engine' and circled the roaring machine twice. His eyes were full of shock and doubt. Was it this iron lump that caused their livelihood to be cut off?
No matter how he looks at it, it doesn’t feel real.
Fang Erniu smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Li, let alone you, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, how could I have believed it? We have all been kitchen households for decades, so how could we Are you lying about this? This thing is called a 'steam engine', which is used to make salt in those factories."
"We have all been replaced by it!"
"This one now is just an empty shelf for people to see."
"When the lower part is said to be built to extract the brine, we can build something above it to speed up the evaporation of the brine."
“This is much faster than our own Aoyan.”
Li Dali nodded.
In fact, these people have never seen the 'machine', although they did want to see it, and even thought about entering the 'factory', but the people in the factory did not want them at all, so they have been , their understanding of the machine is all based on their own imagination, and the descriptions of other people from the outside world.
Now I really see it.
I was also stunned on the spot, speechless for a long time.
Fang Erniu said a few words briefly and said nothing more. During this period, he had actually taken over many outside kitchen households. There were never fewer people with the same look as Li Dali, and there were even others. Speaking of them, even he himself, even though he had seen them many times, still felt shocked and throbbing in his heart when he saw them again.
This metal machine feels too oppressive.
Let them not have any thoughts.
In a daze, Li Dali subconsciously stretched out his hand, which also startled Fang Erniu. He quickly pulled his hand back and said hurriedly: "What are you doing? Don't want your hand? You are all boiling water." , Is this okay?”
“Even in the factory, except for adding coal, everything else is in the back.”
Fang Erniu reminded.
Li Dali smiled coquettishly and said quickly: "Isn't this the first time I've seen it? I'm a little itchy and subconsciously want to touch it. This thing is indeed good, but how can it be possible when it can use so much iron? Something bad?”
"Just like this, our livelihood will really be cut off."
Fang Erniu said: "It can't be cut off."
"This machine also requires people, and the imperial envoy I specifically said before that he went south to solve this problem. I heard privately that the imperial envoy actually never thought about spreading this thing in the south. It was some people in the south who secretly took other people's drawings and built them themselves. ."
"That is to say."
"We are all fooled." "The imperial envoy is here to clean up these people's butts."
Hearing what Fang Erniu said, Li Dali nodded and cursed: "I knew something was wrong. These bitches are just blind to money. When they see that this thing can make money, they change their ways to give it to them. He built it himself and didn’t care about our life or death. I said, how could your majesty, who cares about the people, allow such a thing to happen? "
"These dogs should have been killed in the first place!"
Fang Erniu's face froze and he said: "Don't talk nonsense."
"The Imperial Envoy is in Yuhang now, and he is also here to resolve these matters. When the conference is held in two days, then Let the imperial envoy think more about it for us and at least find a way out for us. According to the imperial envoy, no matter how hard it is, it will not be as hard as being a kitchen household."
"Think about it this way, we actually made a profit."
Li Dali snorted coldly, noncommittal.
Earn?
Where did they make money?
This period of time has been spent on tenterhooks.
Recently, I have been living on being helped by others. In the past, although life was difficult, how could it be as miserable as it is now? If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't survive, they wouldn't be willing to make peace with the government. If there weren't various news coming, they would be prepared to fight to the end.
Just the fact that these 'bad' news came one after another completely broke their psychological defense.
That’s when they chose to come.
Of course, he did not deny that the attitude of the government had indeed changed. At least they did not shout and kill them so easily. Instead, they just asked them to participate with a cold face, as if they had been impatient with them for a long time. look.
Li Dali said: "Lao Fang, you have been here for a long time. Please tell us brothers what is the attitude of the government?"
"How does he want to settle us? Can he really solve it for us?"
"Will we be settled by the government in the future?"
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Li Dali Asked a lot of questions in succession.
All are matters of urgent concern to them.
Fang Erniu smiled bitterly.
How did he know?
He only listened to one lecture and watched the steam engine several times a day. He had some understanding of the steam engine, but he really didn’t understand anything else.
Fang Erniu said: "Brothers, you guys."
"I am also a kitchen farmer."
"How can the government tell me what to do?"
"But it has been so long, the government should have thought of a solution, otherwise it would not have brought so many people together, and I heard before that the local government We have made a big step back, saying that the Zao household registration will be abolished in the future, and we will no longer be subject to the restrictions of household registration.”
“I heard that there are still some, but I don’t know whether it is true or not.”
"In my opinion, this imperial envoy is quite capable. He can come up with so many things and explain everything clearly. At least he is much better than these local officials."
Li Dali said coldly. : "Speak less to them."
"They're all the same."
"These officials don't have good intentions."
"But everyone is here this time, so it doesn't hurt to go and take a look."
"It will be clear then."
"If you lie or just trick us into coming here, when I come back, I have already told the other brothers that if we can't come back in a month, they will There’s no need to wait for us, the government officials must have gone back on their word, let them continue to fight the government to the end!”
"We have no way to survive."
"I'll make them lose a few heads too!"
Li Dali spoke with murderous intent, as if the fish was dead and the net was broken.
It’s just that no one else was interested in this. They were all staring at the huge machine in front of them, and their eyes were a little blurred.
The longer they looked at it, the more unusual it became and the more frightened they became.
It seems like they really can't compete.
Li Dali and others are not the first group to come, nor will they be the last group. They are not even the first people with such strong emotions. However, all emotions can only wait for two people in the end. Future workers’ conferences.
(End of this chapter)