When he returned to the chamber of commerce, Yang Yue had just gotten up. Yang Yuanzhao was frank about staying in Wuhan for one more day. Yang Yue didn't say much. Although cotton planting is tight every day, it will take until April and transplanting until May, and it will be very time-consuming.

Growing cotton is just a stepping stone, which is what he can think of. He is the fastest to buy and rashly intervened in the field of industry and commerce. Not to mention the human aspect, there are too many unknown things. Whether it is importing raw materials, production, sales, etc., there will be unknown problems. If they appear, they will lose all their money. The most important thing is the huge investment.

On the contrary, agriculture, the landlords of this era only rely on the weather for agriculture, and it is easy to achieve a significant improvement under the scientific planting methods of fertilizers. Taking agriculture as the entry point is the best choice. At most, four or five months, when everything is clear, you can gradually put your vision into industry.

The trip to Wuhan can be said to be a preparation. The machines and drawings have been completed. Next, there will be workers, which is also an extremely important part. In Yang Yuanzhao's view, even on the previous machine drawings, he stayed here for another day.

He came to Hanyang Iron Factory again, and the door was still strictly guarded. Wu San was waiting there early. He received the news last night that Yang Yuanzhao asked him to wait at the door of Hanyang Iron Factory at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Yesterday's harvest was rewarded 2 yuan before, and then 1 yuan, which was a total of 3 yuan. Wu San was even more looking forward to Yang Yuanzhao's arrival, but when he arrived at the door, he found that Yang Yuanzhao was here alone, not as good as Yang Shixun yesterday.

Wu San's heart was filled with drums. He was just a servant, but he didn't have the ability to bring Yang Yuanzhao in. So when he saw Yang Yuanzhao get off the carriage, he walked over quickly and said with a little aggrieved: "Master Yang, why don't you let Manager Yang come together? I..."

"But I'm afraid I can't get in!" Yang Yuanzhao said.

The film flashed and Wu San was stunned for a moment. He had never seen such a film, but had heard of it because it had the Sheng family's logo on it. You should know that Hanyang Iron Factory is almost the private place of the Sheng family. He was more respectful than their director with his film.

Sure enough, at the door, they were stopped. When Yang Yuanzhao took out Sheng Huaixuan's film, the guards were shocked and let them in respectfully.

"Master Yang, what are we doing today?"

"You know, where is the roster of Hanyang Iron Factory?"

"Roster?" Wu San recalled carefully and said, "The rosters are all in the Iron Bureau, not here!"

Yang Yuanzhao frowned and said with a little confusion: "The workers' list is also in the Iron Bureau!"

"Worker?" Wu San said hurriedly: "The workers are here, right where the foreman, Mr. Yang, please follow me!"

Wu San quickly stepped forward to lead the way, and Yang Yuanzhao followed behind calmly. Wu San muttered in his heart, why is this Yang Master so strange? I didn’t say that yesterday, those factories that were abandoned places were so concerned, and he was almost watching from one machine at a time. Today he became interested in the list of workers. Don’t he know that at Hanyang Iron Factory, the workers are at the bottom of the level?

The purpose of the big man is always something that the little man cannot guess. Wu San dared not think too much and led Yang Yuanzhao directly into the depths of the Hanyang Iron Factory. Yesterday, Yang Yuanzhao went to visit the machine workshop of the Hanyang Iron Factory, but the shed did not go to the work shed. This shed is located in the northeast of the Hanyang Iron Factory, adjacent to Zhashan. It is a dirty place. The current Hanyang Iron Factory has not started construction, and at most one-third of the worker has been started. The number of workers has dropped from the initial few thousand to less than 3,000 now.

3,000 people are also a huge number. Even if each person has a house, there are 3,000 houses. When I really saw it, it was a scar. There were only four or five extremely large rooms in that shed. According to Wu San, it was lived by the foreman. The foreman calculated the official subjects of Shanghanyang Iron Factory. No one was in charge of 500 to 600 people. There were 5 foremen in total. The remaining workers could only live in dilapidated sheds. Those sheds were piled up with thatch, at most one or two meters high, which was just one or two people lying on one person.

It was time to go to work. There were very few men in the shed, leaving only women and children, and they could only sleep. Next to the shed, which was difficult to turn around, stoves were built. A few women were boiling water and cooking, and some took their clothes to wash clothes in the puddle a mile away. Occasionally, they saw a few dark children playing in the shed, but more of them were hiding in the shed, looking at Wu San of Yang Yuanzhao timidly.

Yang Yuanzhao wanted to go over, but was stopped by Wu San. Wu San said: "Master Yang, these are all dirty people, please stay at Zunbu!"

Yang Yuanzhao sighed. He had forgotten his identity a little. This was not later generations, but feudal society under the control of the Qing Dynasty in the early 20th century. He knew very well that Hanyang Iron Factory did not pay attention to workers, but he did not expect that it would not pay attention to such a level. It seems that the iron factory is probably better than the disaster victims and the salary is not high. The workers can guarantee three meals a day and have a place to sleep.

These are not something he can interfere with. Even if he agreed to invest in the Hanyang Iron Factory and was recognized by Sheng Huaixuan, Sheng Huaixuan would not have challenged the entire class for a mere 100,000 yuan. This is Hanyang. Although the reform has not been for a few years, the feudal power in the hinterland of China is still very large. The ruling class often regards workers as slaves and servants. If he had not traveled to the relatively barren Baotou, what he did would have been discovered long ago.

It seems that traveling to Baotou is also a good thing. Hanyang Iron Factory is not a bad thing to blame the workers. In such a difficult environment and such a meager salary, as long as he slightly improves his treatment, the essence of these Hanyang Iron Factory cultivated in 20 years will be turned to his arms.

"Wu San, let's go and find the foreman!"

Wu San saw Yang Yuanzhao decide to leave and breathed a long sigh. The location of the shed was almost the forbidden area for the officials and the relationship between the two parties was extremely tense. If the officials were not accompanied by guards, they rarely entered the shed. They were not chaotic and dirty, and maybe they would be beaten.

He kicked open the door, and Wu Sanyao walked in with great might and shouted, "Is Maozi Wang here?"

In the room, there were three or four strong men gathered together to gamble. When they heard a loud noise, they looked angry. They were about to have an attack, but they saw Wu San. It seemed like a mouse saw a cat. They immediately straightened it out. A man with big arms and round waists and fat and strong body stood up in a hurry and said, "Mr. Wu is here, I don't know if Director Zhao has any instructions!"

"I didn't follow Director Zhao's instructions. This master has the famous sect held by General Sheng!"

Mr. Sheng and the foreman could contact each other, Wu San could call him the master, let alone the biggest boss, and the few people immediately became respectful.

Yang Yuanzhao looked at Wu San's behavior but said nothing. These foremen at the bottom were all big and round. Obviously, among the workers, the foreman's whip and fists were still the key points of management. If there was no change, it would probably be the same after the founding of the Republic of China in the future.

With Sheng Huaixuan's famous sect and Wu San was under pressure, the foremen did not dare to neglect. Soon, the other four came, and there were twenty or thirty small foremen, they were managing more than 3,000 workers in the entire Hanyang Iron Factory.

The foreman are all vulgar people, many of them are gangsters from Hankou, and not many of them are literate, and the same is true for workers. The rosters of workers are not complete, and there are very few that are recorded in detail. At most, they are just a roster. Most of the records on them are symbols.

Yang Yuanzhao frowned. This was a bit different from his previous thoughts. Fortunately, one of the foremen was smart and said hurriedly: "Three years ago, Chief Engineer Robut once advocated establishing a roster, and now he is probably in the Archives Department!"

"Robut!" Yang Yuanzhao's eyes lit up. Unexpectedly, he heard his name again. As a British engineer, he should know that the benefits of skilled workers to steel mills were probably against the public at that time. However, no matter how good the scriptures were, if they were read wrongly, they would not have much effect. After this list was taken out, they would put it there. Unexpectedly, it would be cheaper.

"Let's go to the archives!" Yang Yuanzhao said to Wu San, and the five foremen took a breath. Although they were arrogant and powerful in front of the workers, in the Hanyang Factory, even ordinary servants were above them. If they had not had the strength, they would not have been able to get this job.

Young Master Yang was obviously not an ordinary person, and he was holding the famous thorn of Lord Shan. It can be said that he could kill them by blowing his breath and turning his palms. In this case, if he could send them away early, he would have sent them away early.

Yang Yuanzhao took two steps, retreated and asked, "By the way, I took these lists, is it okay?"

"No, Mr. Yang will take it away, just take it away!" The foreman just wanted to send Yang Yuanzhao away, and said in a hurry.
Chapter completed!