Could it be that Eunuch De was showing weakness? He held his orchid finger and retorted, "Bold! Do you still dare to doubt the people in the palace? This is disrespectful!"
"General Bai Min, what has been done in this palace from ancient times to the present? Do you need to explain it to the common people? Can you explain it?"
"Do you, a stinky coolie like you, have the qualifications to ask random questions on the emperor's mission? Do you understand the rules? Do you understand the rules?"
After all, Bai Min had studied in the Chinese territory, and knew that the gap between the two sides' concepts was too big, and there was no point in continuing to argue. He quickly pulled Eunuch De aside and smiled.
"Eunuch De, what errands do you have? Can you tell me about it? It's always so awkward. Wouldn't it be difficult for you to do it when you turn around?"
Father De rolled his eyes and said that he was still a bit embarrassed. Bai Min took out his pocket watch and looked at it, "Oh, it's already nine o'clock in the morning. Father-in-law, do you have time for your errand? Don't miss it..." "
As soon as he said this, Eunuch De's face suddenly turned ugly. "Hey... This was originally a good thing, but why did it end up being a waste of time? I'll tell you clearly..."
The two of them whispered for a while, and Bai Min's face suddenly became serious. "Oh, Mr. De, how can we delay such a thing? You should also calm down your temper, and I will persuade you!"
Bai Min walked to the door of the courtyard and said with a smile, "I'm the only one here. I want to see Xin Jian and have a chat alone. You won't be worried, right?"
Xin Jian nodded, "Please come in!"
The two of them whispered for a moment under the dry lilac flowers in the small yard. Xin Jian's face changed several times and finally nodded, "Okay! Then there's General Lao!"
"Brothers, fellow workers! I do have to leave, but please don't worry, brothers. General Baimin has sent a team of new Yulin troops to escort me. There is no danger. Everyone, please disperse!"
Xin Jian walked out of the courtyard and jumped on the war horse provided by the new imperial forest army. He rode past Eunuch De and sneered, "Eunuch, you'd better remember that you have to tell me the details even if you are summoned by the palace!"
"I don't care what bullshit rules you had before, I only recognize Chinese rules!"
"I'm sorry, I'm leaving first... Just chase after me. If it's too slow, just ride a horse."
As he spoke, Xin Jian glanced at Eunuch De's Xiasan Road with disdain, "Oh... I'm sorry, you are the father-in-law, you'd better continue riding in the car, riding a horse is so tiring!"
"You..." Eunuch De's face was blood red. In this area of the capital, saying that a eunuch rides a horse is an absolute curse word. This is all a pretext. A eunuch riding a horse - there is no excuse for it!
This is to directly criticize eunuchs as rootless people. In fact, eunuchs in ancient times were not unable to ride horses, but most of the saddles used by eunuchs when riding horses were cotton saddles instead of hard leather saddles.
Moreover, eunuchs on horseback cannot accelerate and charge like real cavalry and make violent bumps, because they have already been stabbed in the crotch, and if they are bumpy and tossing like this, they will bloom again!
Xin Jian rode his horse forward and headed straight to the west under the protection of several new Yulin troops. Mr. De stamped his feet fiercely, but finally got into the black shed carriage.
"Chase! You are all blind losers. Hurry up and catch up. Otherwise, you will have trouble dealing with Long Live Lord. You losers..."
The two groups of people, one in front and one in back, stared northwest and headed westward at Snowflake. The commotion ended in just over half an hour.
Bai Min left two orderlies to help the technicians get familiar with the environment and then left. At this time, the construction site workers who had long been stunned by the excitement also tentatively moved closer to the courtyard.
After all, the workers from Zhangjiawan had experienced big scenes before and were somewhat braver. They squatted on the wall not far from the gate of the courtyard and watched these people without pigtails moving things down.
The stormtroopers who were with Xin Jian discovered these workers. He smiled and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and walked over and started saying, "Come on, come on, fellow fellow, do you want to smoke? Try my..."
"Ouch... don't you dare... this is... this is a paper cigarette?" The eyes of these workers lit up.
Smoking was still very popular in society in the late Qing Dynasty. Incompetent people smoked big cigarettes, while ordinary people smoked pipes and pots. As for cigars and pipes, they were only popular on a small scale in places with many foreigners. Many people have never seen it.
And this paper-rolled cigarette is a high-end product that the public can see!
Paper-rolled cigarettes originated from the Crimean War when Britain and France jointly fought Tsarist Russia. After the war, veterans took them back to their hometowns and became popular among the people.
The paper cigarette industry in the Qing Dynasty was completely monopolized by the Chinese! Tobacco is hugely profitable. Even though ordinary paper cigarettes only cost a dime, money is based on silver these days. A dime is enough for the people to have a full meal!
Therefore, this kind of paper-rolled cigarettes can only be enjoyed by middle-class and above families. Ordinary people can see them in their lives but find it difficult to taste them.
The workers were rubbing their hands to try and feel embarrassed, but the Stormtrooper worker smiled and immediately opened the seal, stuffed it into his hands, lit the match and turned around to celebrate the fire!
"Oh...it smells so good. It's more fragrant than the old dry tobacco leaves we smoke. It's really a good thing..."
After passing a circle of cigarettes, the relationship between people suddenly became much closer. The co-workers also sat on the ground with these workers and chatted.
"So, you are from Xiao Letian's industrial zone? Do you really not have pigtails there?"
"What are you doing here? Helping the Emperor to make steel? How much wages should I pay you?"
"You all can live in a brick house. Do you need three hundred cash per month? This amount is absolutely indispensable. Why does it have to be three or four times as much as ours?"
"By the way, why are you so brave and dare to conflict with the father-in-laws in the palace? You should be careful and don't turn around and let people wear small shoes. They can be cruel!"
The honest migrant workers express their goodwill in their own way, while the stormtroopers are not willing to give up this opportunity to establish good relationships and will patiently answer any questions they have.
"Haha, of course we don't have to wear braids over there. In fact, the entire Chinese people don't have braids! The Qing Dynasty has nothing to do with us!"
"Are you asking about our wages? We really don't know how much the Qing Dynasty paid us. Anyway, the original guarantee was no less than what we had paid in the industrial zone before!"
"Not much. I give out nine silver dollars at least every month. If the bonus is high or I help the factory solve some technical problems... I can probably give out twenty or thirty silver dollars!"
"What... twenty or thirty silver dollars a month? Silver dollars with dragon patterns?" A group of people were so frightened that their cigarette butts dropped to the ground. The distressed civilian husband quickly picked them up from the ground and stuffed them into his mouth.
The worker laughed and took out another pack of cigarettes, "Stop smoking your butt, smoke a new one... Is my twenty or thirty yuan still a lot? Our eldest brother just went out!"
"That's definitely a top level of technology. Many parts designed by engineers have to go through his hands before they can be transformed from drawings into real objects!"
"He pays fifty or sixty silver dollars every month just like it's a joke... Do you think those father-in-laws will retaliate against him? Damn it, they dare!"
"Our brother Xin Jian was a great man who had a lot of quarrels with the emperor and Mr. Weng Tonghe! At that time, we were just throwing bricks at him!"
