Chapter 135: 135Railways and sleepers
Chapter 135 135 Rails and sleepers
Toby, who is 34 years old this year, has no idea what he is doing. The weather has just gotten warmer for a few days, and he has begun to do unfamiliar work in this familiar land.
Yes, he didn't even know what he was doing... He was speechless and drove a very long iron nail into the foundation fixed with gravel.
This is a foundation that is first paved with gravel, and then long strips are laid at regular intervals, just like the wooden boards used to make a wooden house.
Then, long, I-shaped rails in cross-section are laid on these sleepers - these construction workers do not even know that this long wood is something called a sleeper.
They just do the same job every day, and even eat casually. They eat simple things brought by the canteen workers next to the railway tracks.
The most common ones are vegetable burgers, followed by some flatbreads filled with minced meat and vegetable leaves. In short, whatever is convenient is made.
Every few days, they had a nice meal, an extra soup, potatoes and a sauce called soy sauce.
This black thick juice is very salty and cannot be eaten directly, but it tastes pretty good when stirred into potatoes.
In any case, their life on the construction site is actually very difficult, but everyone is quite satisfied. At least they can sleep in tents.
While Toby was hitting the nail with a hammer, some ashes fell from the top of his head, like drizzle, constantly falling from the sky.
In the distance, in the direction of the vicious forest, the thick smoke rising from the flames still did not dissipate. These days, they could see this scene every day.
Yes, I can see it every day. It started more than twenty days ago, and it was not until a few days ago that the thick smoke gradually dissipated. But to this day, the smoke has still not completely dispersed, and it can be seen at a glance.
Even from such a distance, they can see clearly. It must have been a very huge wildfire, the kind of wildfire that was so huge that it was scary.
With the fire, the air quality in Bunas dropped by another order of magnitude. People's shoes quickly become dusty when walking on the streets, which makes Bunas not at all like a seaside city.
The black smoke billowing in the sky can be clearly seen in Bunas. The arsonists of this fire are Tang Mo's construction team, who are burning large areas of forest.
The speed of cutting down trees is really too slow, so Tang Mo plans to take advantage of the dry weather in spring and do it simply and roughly.
His construction team just cut out a circular "fire-retardant zone" around the site of the factory, and then couldn't wait to ignite a fire.
With the recent development, Bunas has developed into a city where every inch of land is precious. It has indeed become a city - the population has exceeded one hundred thousand, and it is definitely a city in the true sense.
Previously, the population of Bunas had been hovering around 70,000, and it had never been able to develop.
But as Tangmo’s factories gathered more and more workers, and brought many of their families, Bunas finally became a city.
After the census, the mayor of Bunas happily sent his political achievements to the royal city, and then the royal city happily upgraded him, the mayor, to the local city lord.
This is also an unwritten rule. After all, developing the scale of a town can definitely be regarded as the greatest political achievement of a local shepherd.
If a small town is upgraded to a city, but the local mayor, sheriff, etc. are immediately transferred away, then who will be willing to seriously develop the regional population economy?
Tang Mo naturally congratulated the newly promoted mayor and Sheriff Sauron. As for Bunas's tax officer, Simone, an old bureaucrat with the least sense of existence, he defected to Tang Mo early and became Tang Mo's "subordinate".
This old man is very visionary and courageous. After Tang Mo and Sirik signed the cooperation agreement, he put all his wealth on Tang Mo's side.
In his words: "I have never seen an agreement in my life that Cyric could sign with his nose pinched and suffer a loss, so I bet once and it won't be a loss!"
Immediately afterwards, on the second day after he swore allegiance to Tang Mo, the mountain fire in the Vicious Forest burned like this, covering the entire city of Bunas in a cloud of dust.
“Work quickly! Stop dawdling!” A foreman walked past everyone carrying a wooden stick. He was not using the wooden stick to beat the disobedient people, but simply used it as a crutch.
Because he had to patrol this special road back and forth every day, he had to walk a long way, so he prepared a crutch for himself.
Everyone is highly motivated to work because the treatment provided by Tang Mo is actually very good.
On the one hand, the wages and other miscellaneous benefits provided by Tang Mo are far higher than those of other workshops now. After all, there are not many bosses as rich as Tang Mo. On the other hand, Tang Mo’s other supporting benefits including education are indeed far ahead of this era.
The second point is actually the main reason why all workers see hope in their lives and are willing to work hard for Tang Mo.
They saw that Tang Mo would hire doctors and set up a hospital in the factory to seriously diagnose and treat soldiers injured in the war and workers injured at work. Tang Mo would even provide full medical treatment after confirming the work-related injury, which is almost unbelievable in this era.
In addition to the hospital, everyone can see the construction of the school. Because Tang Mo's office has not yet been completed, the school has become the tallest building in the entire factory.
In this building, students receive new knowledge every day, and this knowledge has gradually emerged in Bunas.
Tang Mo has taught many children the most basic knowledge of chemistry in the laboratory in the teaching building. These apprentices immediately surpassed the alchemists in the city and became chemists with a complete theoretical foundation.
These children who have learned mathematics can work as interns in various stores in the city. They calculate income and balance costs, which helps many operators a lot. These students are very popular now and every one of them is in high demand.
Through study and Tang Mo’s military training, most of the children in Bunas are much stronger than children of the same age. The girls are becoming more and more charming, and the boys are also strong and strong.
Coupled with the improvement of their food, the supply of meat, eggs, and milk, and their families becoming wealthy due to work, the height and weight of these children are beyond that of this era.
They are on average about 3 centimeters taller than children in other cities, their shoulders are wider, and their speech is more organized.
Watching these children thrive, the parents of Bunas are naturally more willing to do things for Tang Mo—who doesn’t want to have a capable person in their family in the future?
Even those who are not yet married and have no children have a hope in their hearts: if they have children in the future, they can send them to school to receive the best education.
Yes, the best education! These parents have no doubt that Tang Mo provides their children with the best education of this era.
Because in less than a year, the changes in these children can be described as huge.
Wearing uniforms of paramilitary management, students who look like soldiers have begun to feel that they are different from children in other places. They feel that they are in two different worlds from those children who have not studied in school. They are completely different people.
Similarly, officers who studied in military academies also found that their horizons were much higher than those of their colleagues.
They can now easily calculate the firing rate of artillery, and they will enter the vicious forest for field inspection in a few days.
These officers would know at a casual glance where to deploy their Jaegers to kill high-ranking enemy officers, and they could select the best artillery positions just by looking at them.
These officers have visited Tang Mo's modern factories, seen the latest industrial technology developments, and even made or repaired the most advanced weapons and equipment with their own hands.
Their use of troops began to become weird and unpredictable. During war games, they could torture the newcomers who had just entered school to pieces.
They have to draw up battle plans every few days to understand the supply situation of the troops. They know how much food each company of troops needs to eat every day, how many carriages a battalion needs, and how far a regiment can advance in a day.
These things were experimented by them personally. They had to carry a full set of soldier equipment and supplies for cross-country drills of more than five kilometers almost every day.
What makes them even more happy is that the official ranks of their seniors in the Beiling Army have skyrocketed, and several artillery commanders have become the Earl's new favorites.
They were appointed as commanders of new troops. These new battalion captains, or artillery captains, immediately remembered their "disciples" who were sent to Bunas to study.
As a result, these Beiling officers who were still studying in Bunas were promoted and had their salaries increased before they graduated.
Two new legions are vying for people, either writing letters promising official positions, or the leaders are considerate and chatting on WeChat to establish relationships.
In short, as long as you graduate and come to work with us, you will be the favorite of our battalion! In the future, big brother, I will become the regiment commander, and you will be the battalion commander Balabala...
The world has never heard of such a school where graduates are scrambled by employers while they are still studying in school.
Therefore, in March of the 114th year of the Wright Kingdom, the factory school established by Tang Mo was officially renamed "Datang Military Academy", and under its jurisdiction was the "Military Preparatory Academy" for boy scouts.
(End of this chapter)