Su Qi'an and Xie Cang, a dozen or so people, were led by the supervisor to a place called the Dongchang Shipyard.
Here, thousands of craftsmen and strong men are divided into four parts. The East Factory Shipyard is dedicated to building the main part of the hull and is the most critical factory area.
There are twice as many supervisors as there are in the other three shipyards. These supervisors hold whips in their hands and stare at everyone who comes and goes to work with fierce eyes.
Anyone who is lazy or ineffective will be beaten immediately.
These overseers are not ordinary thugs, they are very skilled. If they really want to deal with these unarmed craftsmen, strong men, they can fight more than a dozen each without any problem.
Su Qi'an and Xie Cang were not craftsmen and did not know much about shipbuilding, so they were assigned to carry construction materials. To put it bluntly, they were just a group of coolies.
There are many coolies like this, and most of them are strong and strong.
Under the supervision of the supervisor, Su Qi'an obediently followed the coolies to carry it.
Xie showed no intention of resisting and was very cooperative. Xie's supervisors were a little more satisfied with this scene and slowly lowered the whip they raised in their hands.
For Su Qi'an, if he wants, he can definitely get rid of this private shipyard.
But Su Qi'an's purpose was not that. From his perspective, there was definitely more than one private and hidden shipyard like this in Yuezhou.
To be able to have such a scale, it is not so unscrupulous as to verify the identity, arrest people and trick them into working here as coolies.
Even some famous men were caught together without any fear.
This shows that the owner behind this shipyard has a lot of background, and secretly building so many civilian ships must have a lot of background.
If you take action without understanding the situation, even if you destroy this small workshop, the best you can do is wait until the storm has passed, and it will surely grow like weeds that have been burned out and regenerated by the spring breeze.
Therefore, now we can only remain patient and observe silently.
While Su Qi'an and the others were carrying the goods, several coolies in the team not far ahead of them fell over because they were obviously exhausted, and the goods on the trolley overturned.
This scene directly caused the supervisor to curse loudly, and then he whipped the coolie who fell to the ground hard.
"Hmph, you bunch of useless losers, don't pretend to be dead, get up for me, it will delay the process and kill you, this loser."
The whip struck hard on the coolie's body. Every time the whip went down, the skin and flesh were immediately torn. The coolie curled up, struggled, and got up tremblingly.
At this time, Su Qi'an gave the veteran behind him a look. The next moment, seven or eight people rushed over and quickly helped the overturned cart.
Xie Cang stepped forward quickly, put on a flattering look, and said to the supervisor, "Sir, don't be so angry. It's not worth getting so angry. The progress of the project is more important. Let's speed up the progress."
Seeing the group of veterans helping the cart up neatly, the anger on the supervisor's face softened slightly, he glanced at Xie Cang and said.
"Well, you are more sensible. I know you are new here today. Yes, you have this awareness when you first come here. Work hard and I will be indispensable for you in the future."
"Then thank you for the promotion, sir." Xie Cang smiled and nodded repeatedly.
"You losers, you can't keep up with the newcomer. You've seen it. I'll give you a chance this time. If there is a next time, I won't spare you."
After Xie Cang's flattering persuasion, the supervisor cursed and walked away.
Xie Cang turned around and he and Su Qi'an quickly helped the fallen coolie up and helped him continue working.
Although the man's body was covered in scars, there was a perseverance on his face, and he expressed his gratitude to Xie Cang and Su Qi'an for their help.
Through understanding, Su Qi'an knew that this person's name was Xiao Si. He was young, about thirty, and before he was arrested, he was a technical craftsman under one of the four major shipyards in Yuezhou.
Working in a regular shipyard, life was pretty good, but Xiao Si had a problem and liked to drink. Some time ago, drinking caused trouble, causing an accident to the warship he was responsible for building.
Later, he was driven out of the shipyard directly.
Worried about his future livelihood, he met a group of government officials who said his identity was suspicious and arrested him here.
It stands to reason that with Xiao Si's skills, he should stay in his old profession, but the people here just treat him as a coolie and don't even give him a chance to get close to the ship.
Not only Xiao Si, but also the people who came in the same batch with him, whether they were craftsmen or not, were all treated as coolies.
"It seems that this private shipyard will not trust craftsmen who don't know the details." Su Qian said secretly.
During the contact with Xiao Si, Xiao Si also knew the identities of Su Qi'an and Xie Cang.
He was not very surprised. Instead, with a bit of a wry smile, he whispered, "I advise these two famous men to keep a low profile. Only keeping a low profile can save lives here."
Xiao Si's kind reminder, Su Qi'an and Xie Cang naturally understood that before they were caught here, they knew that if they dared to kill a distinguished master, or even a noble with a title, these people themselves and the fugitives There is no difference between disciples.
To be able to arrest people under the noses of Yuezhou high-level officials and build such a private shipyard, it is difficult not to say whether there is collusion among Yuezhou officials. One thing is certain, the officials in Yuezhou officialdom are probably terrible.
Su Qi'an, Xie Cang and others were arrested and had been working as cattle and horses in this hidden private shipyard for more than ten days.
During these ten days, they realized what it means to be unworthy of others and what it means to be at the bottom of society.
In these more than ten days, at least 20 people were beaten to death. More than half of these 20 people were newly arrested and unconvinced.
The result was no accident, he was beaten to death directly. No matter what his identity was, as long as he came here, he only had one identity, that of a tired cow and horse.
If you want to survive, you have to be obedient.
In more than ten days, Su Qi'an and Xie Cang, who were dressed fairly well at the beginning, are now no different from low-class beggars.
Their clothes were torn a lot, their hair had fallen out, and their faces were dark. If you didn't look carefully, you would have thought they were a group of beggars.
Although they looked miserable, spending more than ten days with these coolie craftsmen allowed Su Qi'an and Xie Cang to master a lot of information.
The owner behind this private shipyard has a strong background, and is probably one of the top officials in Yuezhou.
Moreover, it is said that the purpose of building a large number of ships is to enable Yuezhou senior officials to escape in advance.
Once the war is unfavorable, the Yuezhou gangsters will take these civilian ships in advance and flee quickly.
Of course, the authenticity of this news has yet to be verified. After all, it is the speculation of low-level coolies, which is somewhat groundless.
After all, if the ships really need to be built and run ahead of schedule, an ordinary shipyard can complete this kind of construction in less than a month.
Instead of sneaking around and arresting strong men, the scale of this private shipyard is obviously larger than that of ordinary shipyards, and judging from his intention to build, he will not stop at all, and the shipyard will not be too short.
Therefore, the truth remains to be verified.
Of course, after more than ten days of fighting, Su Qi'an and Xie Cang had the biggest harvest.
That is, in the next few days, the coolies in the East Factory Shipyard will have a big attack.
This kind of secret information can be said to be confidential, and it is not Su Qi'an or Xie Cang's turn to know.
Thanks to Xiao Si's revelation and matchmaking.
The ten days of hard work are not in vain. They work hard without complaining and have no airs. Unlike other famous men, even if they are caught here, their faces are very arrogant and they don't take them seriously at all. inside.
Only Su Qi'an and Xie Cang got along with them without any objection.
This kind of equality and people-friendly style made the coolies of Dongchang Shipyard accept the two of them.
Through Xiao Si, I gradually learned about this person.
Su Qi'an had no intention of stopping the gangsters in the East Factory Shipbuilding Area. It was just a good time to use them to test the waters and see if they could blow up some big fish behind the scenes.
Once the coolies in the East Factory Shipyard are killed, the effect will definitely be great. After all, the coolies in the East Factory Shipyard account for almost three-thirds of the entire coolie workforce.
one part.
It would be difficult to stop this kind of large-scale massacre just by relying on the supervision of a hundred or so people.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, let Su Qi'an see the strength of this private shipyard.
As time passed, three more days passed, and today was the promised shipyard ***.
Many coolies in the shipyard of the East Factory worked silently as usual.
Until several small carts overturned again in front of the supervisors, and suddenly, three supervisors jumped out from the high platform.
Without saying a word, they whipped the coolies severely.
With their eyes, they couldn't tell that these people did it on purpose. Their purpose was nothing more than to have resentment in their hearts and deliberately provoke them.
The overseers will not be used to this kind of provocation and will respond with the harshest whip.
The harsh sound of breaking wind, accompanied by the angry curses of the supervisor, echoed in the open space of the factory.
It's just that the supervisors of this flogging did not expect that when they were punishing, they would be surrounded by a large number of coolies at some point.
The supervisors noticed this, raised their heads sharply, looked at the coolies surrounding them, raised their whips, and cursed angrily.
"What the hell are you looking at? They're a bunch of losers who want to rebel. Those who don't want to die should go back to their posts!"
Immediately afterwards, he whipped the coolies around him with the whip in his hand.
Only this time, a coolie who was afraid of them instead of retreating, instead, with an angry face, he grabbed the whip in the hand of the overseer despite the whip.
The remaining people swarmed up and pushed the overseer away. At this time, someone shouted.
"Brothers, these guys don't regard us as human beings. Working silently will lead to death. Resistance will lead to death. They will simply break the jar and smash it."
"Come at me!"
It was this slogan that directly ignited the inner anger of the coolies in the East Factory Shipyard.
Everyone put down what they were doing, used the materials for building the ship as weapons, and rushed towards the overseers on the high platform in a swarm.
There were no materials suitable for use as weapons, and they even used the cart as a siege vehicle and rammed it hard towards the high platform.
Suddenly, the entire East Factory shipyard began to be in chaos, and the massacre began.
