Chapter 75 Essential Skills for Travelers

Teng Xiang was very efficient. The next day after Zhu Zaigui gave the order, he had already started recruiting workers in Shunyi Industrial Park.

In terms of wages, Zhu Zaigui determined the wage at 100 wen a day after conducting a survey of the capital's labor market. According to the two-shift work system currently set by Zhu Zaigui, a worker can have an average of 15 normal working days a month.

This means that the monthly income is only about one and a half taels of silver. Even in Beijing, this monthly income of one and a half taels of silver is considered a "high-paying" job that is not as good as the top job but better than the bottom.

Moreover, since the Shunyi Entrepreneurship Park was to implement a fully closed militarized management model, Zhu Zaigui also generously gave each ordinary worker a living allowance of 5 cents a day on this basis.

Of course, these 5 cents were not paid directly into the workers' wages, but were included in their daily meal allowances, ensuring that they could eat at least one meat meal every day during the working days. Therefore, this 5 cents subsidy was completely a living benefit provided by Zhu Zaigui.

Therefore, when the recruitment notice of Shunyi Industrial Park spread in Shunyi, Huairou, Miyun, Jizhen and other places, all the young laborers who felt they were suitable could not help but be tempted. They took the trouble to come to Shunyi Industrial Park to apply for jobs, either on foot or by sharing a ride on an ox or mule cart.

Teng Xiang directed the on-site management staff to carry out the screening process for recruiting workers step by step.

"Take your documents and line up here for inspection."

Wenyin is the identity card of the Ming Dynasty, which records the height, age and appearance characteristics of the cardholder, such as whether he has a beard, whether he has moles, birthmarks, scars on his face, face shape and skin color, etc.

The purpose of checking the citation information is actually to check the applicant's place of origin and age, and to ensure that the recruited workers are native people from Shunyi, Huairou, Miyun, Jizhen and other places.

These indigenous people are different from outsiders. They will scatter like birds and beasts when they encounter risks. If they are organized, at least they are still willing to defend their homes.

That is why Zhu Zaigui repeatedly told Teng Xiang to make sure that the people he recruited were locals.

"What if you don't bring the citation?"

Some people came in such a hurry that they forgot to bring their passports, so when the management staff shouted that they needed passports, they couldn't help but ask loudly.

The on-site management staff also responded loudly: "Those without a certificate will not be recruited! If you want to apply for a job in the industrial park, you must bring a certificate to be eligible to apply. This recruitment will last for seven days. Those who don't have a certificate can take advantage of this period to come and apply at any time with a certificate."

After hearing the response from the manager, the applicants present also hurriedly took action. Those who had documents began to line up at the place where documents were checked as instructed, while those who did not bring documents began to rush back and go home to find their own documents before coming back.

After checking the documents, those who meet the age and place of origin requirements will enter the next round of interviews.

"People who meet the age and origin requirements should come here to have their limbs and torsos checked."

This step is to check whether the applicants are physically healthy. If they have difficulty moving their limbs, they will not be hired for the time being. After all, they will face dangers in a year and cannot afford any defects. Therefore, this check is also very strict.

Those who pass this examination will also need to undergo a physical fitness test.

"Those who pass the physical examination will be able to lift a 50-jin stone lock. Those who lift the stone lock will enter the next round of testing." To be honest, lifting a 50-jin stone lock is already a very low requirement. Normally, it would take about 100 jin. However, Zhu Zaigui also took into account that most people of this era were probably malnourished and their physical fitness would not be as strong as that of later generations, so he made some adjustments at this stage to give more people a chance to enter the next round.

After all, the industrial park is to be managed in a militarized manner. How can you do that without some physical strength?
Besides, Zhu Zaigui didn't recruit these people just to engage in processing and production. He also wanted to train their obedience and cooperation skills according to military standards, so they had to be able to lift the 50-jin stone lock before they could enter the next round.

After passing this round of tests, a group of doctors will then check the condition of the teeth, skin, etc. Those found to have skin diseases or other infectious diseases will be eliminated.

After all, the Shunyi Industrial Park is for food production, and it also provides collective accommodation for two to three thousand people. How can we not pay attention to these?
So this one is also very important.

Applicants who pass this test will be considered to have passed the exam and become quasi-formal employees of the Shunyi Industrial Park.

Next, they will be arranged to bathe and disinfect with lime water or sulfur water. After completing this step, they can receive clean work clothes and enter the park.

The reason why it is so complicated is that ancient doctors could not use scientific instruments to check more problems like doctors in later generations. Therefore, in order to ensure maximum safety, even those who have passed the recruitment must undergo a comprehensive physical disinfection.

Although lime water may harm the skin, there is no other way around it. We can only make up our minds and let these workers kill the bacteria on their bodies again in this way to ensure their health to the greatest extent.

If you want to change the thrilling experience of taking a bath in lime water, there is only one way left.

That was to make soap as quickly as possible, and Zhu Zaigui happened to know something about how to make soap.

Therefore, the first new product that Zhu Zaigui will launch in Shunyi Industrial Park is Yiran brand soap.

Soap, a must-have gadget for home and travel, is actually very simple to make. You just need to mix some wood ash or alkaline solution with oil, heat and stir until the oil is fully saponified, then drain out the "water" and dry the remaining solid in the shade to harden it. This is the simplest soap.

If you feel that the smell is not nice enough, you can add some spice flower petals or something like that according to your preference, and the soap will become a fragrant soap. And if you think the soap is not hard enough, you can add some salt to increase the hardness.

Therefore, making soap with alkali is simply a powerful tool for time travelers to show off. If one cannot even make this simple thing, it is simply a shame for a time traveler.

Moreover, in the process of making soap, the "water" that leaks out is also a high-end thing that cannot be ignored. Its name is - glycerin!
If you add other ingredients to glycerin, such as saltpeter and sulfur, you can make nitroglycerin, a miracle drug for treating heart disease.

Of course, it must be done at low temperatures, otherwise it will explode!

And if this explodes, it will be absolutely earth-shattering and horrifying!

So don't try it yourself. You only have one life, and it's very precious.

(End of this chapter)

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