Wang Zhihong strolled along the streets of the county town. He saw people walking quickly on the streets, people moving out of the county town temporarily, and trucks pulling piles of construction materials or abandoned construction materials from time to time passing by. Wang Zhihong felt that it was unreal.
"Brother Wang, are we really in Lu 'an? Why do I feel like this isn't real?"
Lin Xin looked around and felt that everything around him was so surreal.
Wang Zhihong didn't say anything because he had the same feeling. Gradually, they arrived at the site of the demolition. They could see many workers demolishing the houses. It was only at this moment that he finally saw the young man.
Wang Zhihong didn't say anything. He just watched everything quietly. Some of the ground had already been demolished. Some workers were cleaning up the construction waste that had been demolished. They loaded it into trucks and quickly pulled it away.
The entire county town seemed to have turned into a huge construction site. The people could no longer be seen in the places that were being demolished. They had probably moved out of here temporarily.
The workers were curious when they saw the two weak men walking around, but no one came over to ask.
As they walked, a cordon was set up in front of them. The road was blocked and had been sealed off.
Wang Zhihong looked into the distance. He could see that it had already become a construction site. There were workers laying the foundation on the construction site, and some workers were using cutting machines to cut the steel bars.
This scene shocked Wang Zhihong. Of course, he knew about the reinforced concrete pouring technology of the western countries. There were also construction teams in Jiangnan that knew reinforced concrete pouring technology, but this kind of construction team was not suitable for ordinary people.
Most of them were chosen by the rich. For example, the most famous modern architect in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, was Zhang Mozhi. He was a famous architect in Jiangnan and had a construction company under him.
His construction team was known as one of the best construction teams in the country. Even many national defense fortifications were built by his construction team.
However, Wang Zhihong did not expect that not only did Lu 'an have architects who knew reinforced concrete pouring technology, but they were also rich enough to start using reinforced concrete pouring on a large scale in ordinary buildings in this city.
One must know that the domestic industry is not developed now. The annual steel production in the country is only a pitiful 50,000 tons. This makes the price of steel bars very expensive. It is definitely not the price of steel bars that we have now.
In this era, steel bars were expensive. Ordinary people could not afford to use expensive steel bars to build houses. This was one of the reasons why reinforced concrete buildings were rare.
But what did he see here? Ordinary city buildings used reinforced concrete. This scene refreshed Wang Zhihong's worldview.
"Factory! No! Not only that, I want to see the most important factory. Everything now has to do with factories. I have to see how strong Han Bin's Red Star Corporation is and how terrifying its industrial capabilities are!”
Wang Zhihong thought for a while and realized that everything was related to the factory. He had to go and take a look at the factory.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhihong thought about it again. He couldn't ask in the city. There was a recruitment registration office at the city gate. If he asked in the city, the people here would definitely suspect him.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhihong looked back and his gaze fell on the demolition workers.
He brought Lin Xin to the workers who were demolishing the houses and said loudly,"Little brother, let me ask you something. The road ahead is blocked. Where can I go around the city?”
A young man wielding a sledgehammer turned his head and gave Wang Zhihong a strange look when he heard Wang Zhihong's words.
"Are you from another city? What are you doing here? Everyone in this area had moved away, so there was no one here. If you want to leave the city, you'll take the wrong way. The entire Dongcheng Area is sealed off. If you want to leave the city, you can only go back the way you came!”
The young man said with a smile, but his words made Wang Zhihong's mouth twitch. Good heavens, how did these people know that he was a foreigner the moment he opened his mouth? Had Lu 'an changed so much?
However, Wang Zhihong didn't say this out loud. Instead, he smiled and said,"Little brother, is there really no other way? It's too far to go back the way I came. I don't want to take a detour. Why don't you let me enter the construction site?”
The young man swung the hammer a few more times and knocked down the last bit of the wall. When he heard Wang Zhihong's words, he shook his head and said,"You can't go over. There are security guards guarding the construction site. If you go in, you will definitely be arrested.
However, it's fine if you don't want to walk. You can rest here for a while. In a while, the people from the muck team will come over and pull the muck away. You can take their truck and leave.”
As the young man spoke, he held the sledgehammer and said to another person wearing a white safety helmet,"Boss, we've finished smashing the wall on our side. I'm going to rest for a while and drink some water.”
The man in the white hat said expressionlessly,""Rest!"
The young man chuckled as he walked to a collapsed wall and sat down. He took off his yellow safety helmet and took out a pack of cigarettes.
"Brother, come and sit for a while?"
The young man waved the cigarette in his hand. Wang Zhihong smiled and sat down beside the young man.
"Brother, come and smoke. Where are you from? What are you doing in Lu 'an? Are you here to do business? If you want to do business, you have to register with the county government first.
Lu 'an is different from before. The county government has issued a decree that all businessmen who enter Lu' an to do business must register with the county government and then receive the price list set by the county government.
No businessman is allowed to do business in Lu 'an without permission. The price can't be messed up. Otherwise, if they are caught, they will be fined. A few days ago, some businessmen from other places were selling hawthorn in Lu' an. In the end, they were fined a dollar because they didn't register.
The price of these guys was too high, and they were fined three dollars. Don't be fined by the government. When you go back, you'll cry to death!”
The young man seemed to be very talkative. He took out a cigarette and handed it to Wang Zhihong while talking non-stop.
Seeing this, Wang Zhihong also took out his cigarette."Take mine! My old sword card is a good cigarette!"
The young man looked at the words on the cigarette box and asked curiously,"It seems that big brother is rich! Since he actually drew the old sword card, then I won't be polite!”
As he spoke, he took the cigarette, but Wang Zhihong was stunned. He looked down at the words on the cigarette box and asked the young man with a strange expression,"You can read?"
The young man took the cigarette and took out a kerosene lighter under Wang Zhihong's surprised gaze. Wang Zhihong opened his mouth.
The young man lit Wang Zhihong's cigarette first, then he chuckled and said,""It's alright! In the past, I couldn't read a single word, but ever since I joined Red Star Construction Company, I started to learn how to read. Now, I have to go to a two-hour literacy class after work at 5 pm every day, so I can read a few words.”
The young man's words made Wang Zhihong frown and ask,"What is a literacy class?"
The young man picked up his cup and took a sip of water before saying,"This was funded by the county lord. He said that if we want to change our fate, we must read and write. Therefore, in our Lu 'an County, every village and town, including our Red Star Group, has set up a large number of literacy classes to let us read and write.
Moreover, the county magistrate said that as long as we graduate from the literacy class and know at least 3,000 words, after passing the assessment, our salary will increase in the future. He might even have the chance to be a small leader. For example, he might be the leader of our demolition team. In the future, he would also be wearing a white hat on the construction site.”
Wang Zhihong was shocked when he heard that. He felt like he had gone abroad.
A literacy class? Know three thousand words? In other words, knowing these commonly used words doesn't seem to be a big deal to us.
But you have to know that in the Republic of China, reading and writing was a very luxurious thing. The national illiterate rate was high. Those who could read, even if they went to the city to write and calculate for others, their monthly salary would exceed ten yuan. It was far from what those laborers who worked hard for a month could not even fill their stomachs!
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Today, I present the third chapter. Kneel!
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