In the drizzle, the dock was still bustling with activity. The people carrying the goods only had a rough rag on their shoulders, and bags after bags of goods were placed on it. With a muffled groan, they grabbed the goods with both hands and walked away.
"They are just dock workers. Xiao Bao, what are you looking at? Have you done this before?" Wang Juan also knew that the work and income of the people who carried out the work was disproportionate compared to other people, but she couldn't stop it. After all, it was an income. Seeing Zhang Xiaobao standing there in a daze, she thought he was reminiscing about the past again.
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head. "No, I have never done this kind of work before. I can do it even if you ask me."
"Then what are you looking at? Are you pitying them? "Wang Juan guessed.
"They are not pitiful. They rely on their own abilities to make a living. What is there to pity? I am thinking if we can increase the efficiency. There are many advanced tools at the train station and docks. The throughput is tens of thousands of times higher than here. "
Zhang Xiaobao's eyes did not continue to stare at the people carrying the goods. Instead, they swept the flat ground beside the dock.
"If you can make those equipment, why don't you help me make the combine harvester? I will open an oil refinery for you." Wang Juan finally found an opportunity to return the favor.
"Don't you know how to change from automatic to manual? To put it simply, it is a pulley block. There is no need to tell the bearings. The wheels can be turned, and the iron wheels can still be turned. The teeth of the gears do not need to be so tight, and the quality does not need to be guaranteed. At worst, we can just replace it. It is better than letting people carry it bit by bit. "
Zhang Xiaobao did not plan to make any precision equipment. As long as there was a piece of lifting equipment and a chain that moved horizontally, it would increase the efficiency by a lot. There was no need for such a high degree of adhesion for the gears. He could make a few more, see which ones were suitable, and put them on.
Wang Juan's physics was better than Zhang Xiaobao's. Zhang Xiaobao did not learn the system at all. When he heard this idea, he thought about it and felt that it was really feasible. It was just a sturdy frame with chains and gears. The wooden wheels could be turned, so why couldn't it be changed to iron wheels?
Regardless of whether it was made by hand or melted into molten iron, there wouldn't be a problem. The only problem was that the chain didn't seem to be flexible enough. With doubts in his heart, he asked Zhang Xiaobao, "Are you sure you can make iron chains? Then our bicycles are almost ready. "
"Can't you use rope? Hearing you ask, I know that iron chains can't be made. If iron can't be made, what about copper? "Zhang Xiaobao did not know anything about this kind of things that involved middle school and above. he could only ask Wang Juan..
Wang Juan thought for a moment and said, "Iron, copper, and rope don't really matter. As long as we find someone to make them, for example, iron, we can forge them with all our might. The quality is not bad, but what about the workers at the docks? When the efficiency of the dock increases, many people will lose their jobs. "
"The workers will continue to be workers. The loading of the dock also needs people. After they are familiar with it, these people are the most important. For example, the distribution of goods, or the binding of ropes, these are all knowledge.
In addition to this, there is another thing. The bigger the dock's capacity, the more people it attracts, and the more goods it will attract. Using these tools to transport the goods to the shore, don't you need experienced workers to transport them? "
Zhang Xiaobao thought more thoroughly in this regard than Wang Juan.
Wang Juan was not stupid. After thinking about it, she stared at Zhang Xiaobao and said, "I understand. In other words, we did not give up the original industry. Instead, we added a new department, and let those people have more jobs. What you want them to do is …"
"Logistics in the middle. These people will not only help to do temporary transportation around the dock, but also help us to collect information. Just like the pricing power of the market in Zhuangzi, I want to know the price of various items in a certain place in the shortest time possible."
Zhang Xiaobao was used to having information in his hands. Now that he had calculated so much, he had long felt that it was difficult. He only dared to play chess in a county. Without so much information to support, he could not make more accurate judgments and long-term plans. For him, the enemy was not terrifying because of their strength, but because of the unknown.
"You are quite ambitious, aren't you? You even want to use this. What do you want to do? " When Wang Juan heard the information, she also became spirited. She was also in this line of work. She was even more specific than Zhang Xiaobao. Zhang Xiaobao only wanted to know, but she was in charge of collecting information in the past.
"Nothing much. Didn't someone say that if you give him a fulcrum, he can move the Earth? Then what I want to say is that if you give me accurate information, I can disrupt the universe, control the air and the sea. It doesn't matter. Only by controlling the information can we win."
"You are talking about control of electronic power, right? How big is your ambition? "Wang Juan understood what he meant.
"My ambition is to one day eat whatever I want, wear whatever I want, and do whatever I want," Zhang Xiaobao said longingly.
"What do you mean?" Wang Juan looked at Zhang Xiaobao with an unusual gaze.
"The scope is a little wider, for example, the …"
"Do you know how to speak human language? I know you have been wandering around the world for a while. Don't try to fool around in front of me, you know? "
“ye~！ I …. "
"Zhang Xiaobao!"
"Yes, I understand. It means to drink soy milk and want to boil sugar, boil sugar, boil red pond, boil red pond, boil red pond."
Zhang Xiaobao looked at Wang Juan's disdainful gaze and finally admitted that sometimes, hard work and hard work were only equal to genius. He remembered that Wang Juan was proficient in nine languages, including some regional dialects. When such a person existed in the world, he announced to the world that the one percent of talent that determined success or failure.
"Zhang Xiaobao, I am telling you seriously now that I won't allow you to think of anything else," Wang Juan said seriously.
Zhang Xiaobao nodded. "I'm not thinking of anything else. I'm just telling you the truth. I'm not afraid that you will laugh at me. Back then, I worked so hard to live on so that I could fulfill Grandpa Dean's last wish. I still don't know what love is."
"You give me candy, and I give you fun things to play with. When disaster strikes, you reach out to me. That is love," Wang Juan thought for a while and replied.
"Then I don't want to implicate you, so I let go."
"That is heartless."
"Is it like the person who wrote a hundred years ago, 'The mountains are without edges, and the heaven and earth are in harmony. Only then did I dare to fight with Jun.'" Zhang Xiaobao thought hard and finally thought of a better sentence to describe it.
Wang Juan was so angry that she laughed. "Shallow, what are you saying? When we go back, no need. Starting tonight, you will read the Book of Songs to me. I will let you know what is evil. I want to know with Jun. Xia Yuxue … dared to fight with Jun. "
"Who are you calling shallow? Do you still want your husband's discipline? "Zhang Xiaobao had never heard such a long sentence and thought that it was only those two sentences. He glared at her and said unhappily.
"Who do you think I'm talking about? What discipline? "Wang Juan glared back.
"That's right, that's right. What discipline? You misheard. What I said was, 'Meng Po Soup at the Bridge of Helplessness. Holding the bowl and looking back, one's intestines will be broken.' Who says it is easy to forget in this life, and only wait for tomorrow to lie by the side. "Zhang Xiaobao reacted quickly and quickly came up with a rhyme.
"So you're saying that in my last life, or perhaps before, we were fated to meet?" Wang Juan listened to Zhang Xiaobao's words and laughed.
"Fated or not, a hundred years of cultivation to sleep on the same pillow. Sleeping on the same pillow, holding an umbrella in the pouring rain. Holding an umbrella, not meeting in the vast sea of people. Not meeting, the magpie flies, the moon is curved. "Zhang Xiaobao saw that he had changed the topic and immediately continued.
Wang Juan covered her mouth with her hand and leaned her head on Zhang Xiaobao's shoulder. Faintly, she said, "Little mouth, you're so smooth. Speak, how many girls have you tricked?"
"What's the point of tricking girls? I've always been eyeing men to trick. "
"Xiao Bao, don't say anymore. Let's go to the first house in Lin Shui first. I want to eat some ginger, it's disgusting."
"Then don't vomit on me. I don't know what you're thinking about all day."
*****
"Brother Jia, you've come late. You should be punished with a cup of wine. It's fine if you offend us, but if you neglect a beauty, then you've committed a great crime."
In the first house in Lin Shui, in a single room on the third floor, a person had just entered when he was stopped by the person guarding the door. The person had a cup of wine in his hand and insisted that this person drink it.
The person called Brother Jia swept his eyes across the room. He saw that the woman next to the farmer was looking back. Without saying anything, he took the wine cup and raised his head to drink it. He said, "A cup of good wine is also a cup of purity. Don't let your emotions lead you to the beauty."
"Good poem." Just as this person with the surname Jia finished speaking, someone loudly shouted from the side.
"Brother Weiran, you're really talented. Just one cup of wine and you're able to write a poem." Another person praised. From the way they addressed each other, it was obvious that they were close.
Jia Weiran did not look smug. He cupped his hands and raised his head. Just as he was about to receive the woman's gaze, he realized that the woman had already turned her head away. She was looking at the scenery outside through the window. All that was left was her graceful back view.
"Brother Weiran, quick, quick, sit here." The person who had expressed his friendliness just now raised his hand to greet Jia Weiran. However, Jia Weiran didn't walk towards him. Instead, he went to another window and signaled the person there to leave with his gaze. Then, he sat down.
"Xiaoying, there's not much scenery outside. Why don't we talk about poems together? It's better than looking at those indecent people working naked, right?"
Just as he sat down, Jia Weiran said to the woman by the window on the other side. Unfortunately, the woman did not turn her head. He could only see the side of her face.
Just as he was about to say something, another person appeared at the door. He must have heard Jia Weiran's voice and said, "That's not right.
"Brother Jia, that's not right. Why are the people below naked? Are they not wearing pants? There's a piece of linen on their shoulders. From what I see, that piece of linen looks better than some people's headscarf. What do you think? "
"So it's Mister Han."
"I didn't expect Mister Han to be so gracious at today's gathering."
"Mister Han, come and sit here."
The people at the table seemed to recognize the new person at the door. They all greeted him.
The person standing at the door smiled and nodded. He did not wait for others to say anything about the punishment and poured himself a cup. "I'm a little late. I deserve to be punished."
As he finished speaking, he walked to the window and stood behind Jia Weiran. He looked at the situation below and said, "I have a few lines that I'd like to share with all of you. It's for fun. The tides on both sides of the Luoshui River, the three autumn leaves are yellow and the four seasons are sparse. Can't eat more than the five grains? How can the harvest be good enough to guard the six lines? Seven turns and eight turns into this place. Nine arms, ten stones, a hundred shoulders. Thousands of helpers gather like ants. Thousands of people get rice. Ten ships, nine villages, eight miles, seven days, six hours. Forgot to mention the five classics and four virtues. Just a few words, one person ridiculed? "
"Han Xuanfeng, you dare to scold me for forgetting the five classics and four virtues of a gentleman? I'll fight it out with you."
The one with the surname Jia was not bad. He knew what the other party was talking about. When autumn came, the people of Sanshui County would run out of food. How could they follow the rules of whether to wear clothes? They were in a hurry to pick out the food. Tens of thousands of people worked together to deliver the food to the local people, even at night. Only those who had forgotten their fathers, mothers, brothers, friends, and the four virtues of a gentleman would show off their knowledge and mock the people there.
Unable to hold back his anger, he turned and pounced on Han Xuanfeng. The people around him naturally would not let him succeed. They pulled him and said Han Xuanfeng's lines.
"It's so lively. There are so many people. Xiao Bao, come in. Brothers and sisters, you can talk. We're not causing trouble. We're just here to watch and not talk. We even brought our own stools."
While the people were tearing, Wang Juan pulled Zhang Xiaobao and walked in. She smiled shyly at the others and explained. She dragged Zhang Xiaobao in. Each of them took a folding stool and ran to a corner to sit down.
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