Cosma Empire

Working on the “dock” is not an easy task. A lot of goods need to be unloaded or loaded every day, and it is almost from the beginning of the day until the night.

The salary of this job is very low and the intensity is very high, so it is difficult to recruit enough people. This is the default clause that requires 50 yuan to be paid in less than half a year. As for why it is half a year instead of two years or more, there is a reason. This kind of high-intensity work may only give people a feeling of exhaustion at an early stage, but as the working hours increase, the physical aspect is no longer exhausted.

Lack of nutrient supplements, no comfortable rest environment, there will be steam locomotives passing by at night, and over time, these porters will have some physical problems, such as “occupational diseases” such as skeletal deformities. . According to the idea of ​​the capitalists, these sick workers have been unable to continue to take on the heavy porters’ work. It is a loss to spend money to raise them and give them food and drink. The only way for these workers is to be kicked. Go out.

It may be that things can’t be so smooth because there are unions. The trade union is a kind of thing that makes all capitalists feel nausea and nausea and wants to vomit. They hate the union and can’t do without the union. They can only hold their noses and make themselves as good as possible. In the dual law of imperial law and theocracy Take care of certain rules.

For example, occupational diseases are work-related injuries, or the station pays a large sum of money to send workers away, or they raise them until they are 45 years old.

God is on, let alone support them, even if you pay five cents more for the capitalists is a kind of meat-cutting behavior that can make them feel pain, so the station agreement is signed for six months. After the expiration of the agreement, the station will open a note to the workers who requested renewal. After the medical examination confirmed that there is no illness or bone deformity, the agreement can continue. As for those workers who have physical problems, they are directly swearing. After the completion of the contract, whether or not these workers are overworked, whether they are sick because they are engaged in heavy physical work at the station, they have nothing to do with the station.

At that time, the unions had no power to use their excuses and stations to lick their knives.

Of course, Durin wouldn’t know this. In the eyes of Mr. Chris, this is a fool from the country. After six months, he will be thrown out and let himself die! what? Learn? That is the school that his daughter runs. Why don’t you introduce the workers to learn a little bit of knowledge and grow a little knowledge and education?

On the second day, Durin came to the station early in the morning, and there was a hint of autumn coolness in the early summer and early autumn. He rubbed his arms with his hands and brought some warmth to his body. Standing on the side of the platform with oil lamps, there are already many workers around, ready to meet the first steam locomotive.

“Newcomer?”, a guy in his thirties, who is as strong as a bear, wears only a vest. He has a cigarette in his mouth, takes another one, and hands it to Durin. .

In the country, some of their brothers sometimes steal Mr. Cosma’s cigarettes, and each person takes a sip. It is not necessarily a pleasure to swallow, it is purely a joyous pastime. In the face of the cigarettes handed by a stranger, he hesitated to come over, or picked it up and thanked him. “Thank you for your cigarette. I am Durin.”

The bear took out a match and rubbed it on Durin’s collar, and suddenly a strong white smoke was set. Both of them leaned their heads to avoid the white smoke that was said to be poisonous, and then they smashed the burning match and lit the cigarette.

After the guy licked the match, he threw it on the ground, stepped on a few feet, grinded it, took a deep breath and spit on the cigarette. He said: “The station is banned from smoking. It is said that other places have happened at the station. The disaster of smoking caused the goods to be burned.” He reached out and grinned. “My name is Graf, I am very happy to be your coworker.”

Durin reached out and grabbed Graf, and suddenly felt a lot closer. The charm of socializing is here, simple conversations, and perhaps not a share of gifts, can quickly bring the relationship between two strangers closer.

“I am very honored, sir.” Durin was very polite. He took a sip of his cigarette and coughed up.

Graf laughed loudly. He patted Durin’s back and smiled and said: “Don’t use the word of Mr., that is the big man of the upper class. Just call my name. Also, is it enough?” A cigarette licking at the corner of his mouth, holding two fingers in front of Durin.

It took a while for Durin to get through. He didn’t dare to smoke this cigarette anymore. He coughed his face a little pale. “What is it inside?”

Graf seems very happy and proud. “In addition to a small portion of the tobacco leaves, there are straw, cane dried and cut into silk, right, and some blood orange skin and a little bit of ground pepper. skin.”

“You let the kid go, Graf, who can stand your thing?”, people have noticed the situation here, and immediately workers laughed and screamed.

Graf didn’t care at all. He re-sucked the cigarette on his mouth and gave them a squint. “This guy can stand it!” He arched Durin with his arm and almost unbalanced the Durin arch and fell to the ground. “You said yes, is it good?”

In fact, most of the smoke smoked by workers is such a cigarette that they have added something because they are not enough to make them eligible to consume cigarettes. They usually pick up some cigarette heads left in the station and leave the tobacco leaves and collect them. If these tobacco leaves are simply rolled into cigarettes, they may only be able to roll out two or three cigarettes a day. If you add a little material, you can roll out a package more or less.

The upper class has the luxury of the upper class, while the bottom society also has the survival wisdom of the bottom society. After trying a lot of things, most people have approved dried cane and dried orange peel. As for Graf’s increased straw and paprika… that’s his personal hobby.

Durin looked at Graf’s sincere eyes and the hope of the bottom of his eyes. The kind-hearted country boy could only take a bite of his own one, and his face turned white. “Yes, yes!”, coughing a few times after speaking. Let Graf laughed heartily.

Durin can see that Graf is not playing with him, he is really happy laughing.

At this time, the steam locomotive in the distance began to whistle, and the workers began to pack up their tools and stood on the side of the platform waiting for unloading.

When the steam locomotive arrived at the station, Durin discovered that the so-called “standard goods” did not mean a parcel, a sack or a box, but a lot. According to some of the knowledge he learned in his dreams, there are almost four cubes. In fact, if you think about it, you can give two cents if you just ran back and forth. I am afraid that the station does not need to recruit workers at all, and it has already been smashed by workers.

Graf handed two ropes tied together at two ends to Durin, then helped him to pass his arms over his shoulders, forming an X shape on the back. “If you only use brute force, you can run five or six at most, and you have no strength. Use this rope to stretch the two corners of the box, you can use the strength of the whole body, relatively relaxed and not hurt the body.”, said that he hit a hammer on Durin’s shoulder, “You have to learn more things.” ,brother!”

The work in the morning was relatively easy, and there were not many steam locomotives in the night. It was only in the afternoon that Durin realized the real exhaustion. With steam locomotives coming in, Mr. Chris also walked out of the office, yelling at the workers and scheduling, almost from a little busy until 7 pm, before taking a breather.

The arms had already begun to tremble, and Durin, who couldn’t even punch his fist, sat at the table, holding a piece of bread with a trembling hand, and sipping his broth on the table.

One day today, according to the workers, he earned twelve points. If you continue to follow this progress, he can earn five ones this month, which is a good result for the novice.

Graf was also holding a bowl of broth and holding a few breads. He sat on the edge of Durin, biting the bread with a big mouth, and the words were unclear.” Don’t take a shower at night, go to sleep when your clothes are off, don’t do other things, or you can’t do anything tomorrow.”

Durin always believed what the experienced person said, and Graf didn’t say anything that made him feel ridiculous, just let him not take a shower. Without too much consideration, Durin was determined to believe in Graf’s advice, and he also raised a question.

“Mr. Chris told me that in a few days the union’s people would look for me and let me not join the union. Should I participate?”

Graf’s face immediately showed a contemptuous look. He looked back at the window with the lights on the second floor. Hehe sneered. “Don’t listen to the liar. If you don’t join the union, who can guarantee the bottom workers? Rights? He just wants to be cheaper from you, and then, is the fifty-fifty membership fee expensive?”

Durin nodded, after drinking the broth in the bowl, he actually ate a piece of meat with a small fingernail cover.

“I understand!”