Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

Marked by the contracting of Baijiayao, the coal industry in Qiaotou Town has entered the era of Xiao Taiping. In the ten years of Tongzhi, no one in Qiaotou Town, men and women, old and young, knew Uncle Xiao and Shopkeeper Xiao.Xiao Taiping set up ten large tile houses with bluestone roofs in the west of the town, and sat in the shopkeeper's room of Baijiayao in a stately manner, even more airy than Zhang Sanye back then. Mr. Zhang was wilted. Although he was still sitting in the shopkeeper's room with Xiao Taiping as ordered by Mr. Bai Er, he had nothing else to do—Mr. Bai Er only asked Mr. Zhang to have a charcoal confrontation with Xiao Taiping once a month. account.Zhang Sanye watched helplessly as Xiao Taiping built a new house, entertained guests, and drank booze all day long.

The system of two shifts, day and night, was implemented after Xiao Taiping took over the kiln, and it was implemented smoothly. No one felt that it was inconvenient to go to the kiln at night, but thought it was very good.I always go to the kiln during the day, but I can’t see the sun all year round. The two shifts are alternated. I go to the white kiln in January and the night kiln in January. I get closer to the land and the sun, which makes me feel comfortable.For the kiln workers who are willing to work hard, there is another advantage: they can earn more money if the kiln does not stop at night.Many kiln workers work day and night, earning an extra ten or eight jobs a month.Xiao Taiping also told people everywhere that anyone who is not afraid of money will come to Baijia Kiln to work in the kiln. Other kilns only have 30 days in a month, but our Baijia Kiln has 60 days in a month.

Li Wuye's Lijiayao and Uncle Wang's Wangjiayao also wanted to turn January into 60 days, and they also followed Xiao Taiping's example and set up a two-shift system.But these two masters are not the supernatural shopkeeper Xiao, so they can't recruit so many kiln workers.After a few days of tossing about the two-shift system, the tossing couldn't continue due to lack of manpower, and there were still 30 days a month.Although the two masters were dissatisfied with their mouths, they had to admit in their hearts that this Xiao Taiping was extraordinary, not only capable of fighting, but also a good hand at making kilns...

In order to create an unprecedented two-shift system, Xiao Taiping sent Xiao Taizhong and a few trustworthy brothers to recruit batch after batch of young and tough men from their hometown in the far north, and they all went to Baijiayao to work in the kiln.A few of these newcomers lived in Zazipo, and most of them lived in Luweitan in the east of Qiaotou Town.The shacks and thatched huts newly erected by the nephews expanded the scope of Qiaotou Town a lot. Under Xiao Taiping's hands, the Baijiayao flourished.In the summer of the tenth year of Tongzhi, 15,000 carts of charcoal were produced in one month, equivalent to half a year's charcoal output of Lijiayao and Wangjiayao.So much charcoal was produced, Xiao Taiping posted it, and Mr. Bai Er also posted it.Mr. Bai Er was very proud of his original decision. Whenever he mentioned the matter of the kiln, he would talk about the reason why he should not judge people by clothes and hats. Once Xiao Taiping was approved, how did he treat Xiao Taiping with courtesy and benevolence?

When Mr. Bai Er said this, he was very muttering in his heart. One was afraid that others would poach Xiao Taiping, the God of Wealth who can perform miracles, away from him; Take away the manpower to open the kiln by yourself.At this time, things had turned upside down, it was no longer that Xiao Taiping couldn't leave Mr. Bai Er, but Mr. Bai Er couldn't leave Xiao Taiping.In order to win over this God of Wealth, Mr. Bai Er gave Xiao Taiping an old house in Qiaotou Town to build the ten big tile houses.When the big tile house was completed, Mr. Bai Er gave Xiao Taiping a pair of stone lions.After a new kiln was opened in the north of the old kiln, Mr. Bai Er also handed it over to Xiao Taiping, and without asking Xiao Taiping to ask, he offered to give 37% of the profit—to give Xiao Taiping 30% of the net profit.

Naturally, Xiao Taiping had nothing to say, and the idea of ​​opening his own kiln that he had earlier was temporarily dismissed, and he also expressed to Mr. Bai Er that without Mr. Bai Er, Xiao Taiping would not be where he is today. You have to do your best for the Bai family, and you will never do anything wrong to the Bai family... Also because of the relationship with the Bai family, Xiao Taiping was still polite to Mr. Zhang.Although he wished to kick Mr. Zhang into the Damohe in his heart, he always had a smile on his face.Sometimes I chatted with Mr. Zhang Sanye casually.Xiao Taiping knew that no matter what he said, Mr. Zhang still represented the Bai family, and he had to reconcile accounts with him every month, so it was no good to be too stiff.

Mr. Zhang San is very mean. At this point, he still regards himself as his master and Xiao Taiping as a kiln worker carrying coal.At that time, Mr. Bai Er hadn't gotten along with Xiao Taiping enough to cut off his head, so he was wary of Xiao Taiping, so although he was furious with Zhang Sanye in his heart, he didn't kick him away. On the contrary, he secretly encouraged Zhang Sanye, wanting to use Zhang Sanye and Xiao Taiping's sworn hatred to restrain Xiao Taiping more or less.This created a greater illusion for Mr. Zhang, thinking that the status of grandfather and grandson is eternal, and he can still be this master for tens of thousands of years.So he was presumptuous, and when he drank too much wine, he would always look infinitely fascinated, and talked to others about Xiao Taiping's downfall back then, saying that Xiao Taiping wished he could call him dad back then.

These words spread to Xiao Taiping's ears over and over again, Xiao Taiping finally became angry, and called Xiao Taizhong, the younger brother of the kiln guard team in front of him, and said: "Master Zhang's skin is itchy, you brothers, let's see how we can fix it." ?” Xiao Taizhong said: "Brother, it's simple, let's loosen the skin for Mr. Zhang." Xiao Taiping said: "Then look for Mr. Zhang when you have time. Besides Songpi, he also treats his mouth—Master's itchy skin is because of his cheap mouth." This is the first task received by the kiln protection team of Baijiayao after its establishment.

The establishment of the Baijiayao kiln protection team is another major event that can be recorded in the annals of Qiaotou Town.Starting from this, in the subsequent history of Qiaotou Town, there were self-contained armed forces with different names but the same substance, such as the mine guard team, mine police team, and guard team.In the tenth year of Tongzhi, when Xiao Taiping asked Xiao Taizhong to recruit more than 20 brothers to form a kiln protection team, he didn't know that he had inadvertently written the first stroke in the history of the coal mining industry in Qiaotou Town.

In order to loosen Zhang Sanye's itchy flesh, Xiao Taizhong called together the kiln workers of the kiln guard team, summed it up, and explained a few things according to Xiao Taiping's meaning: First, Zhang Sanye cannot be killed , It's not good to give an account to Mr. Bai Er if you are dead.The second thing is to cure Mr. Zhang's problems all at once, so that he doesn't dare to talk cheap again.Thirdly, we can't let Mr. Zhang know who it is who punished him, especially we can't let him know that it was Xiao Taiping's intention. Most of the kiln servants are brothers of the Xiao family, not to mention they are all loyal to Xiao Taiping, and they are all good fighters in the battlefield back then, and they do their jobs well.That night, more than a dozen brothers jumped over the wall into the shopkeeper's room of Baijiayao, dragged the sleeping Mr. Zhang from the bed, covered his head with a sack, and beat Mr. Zhang until there was hardly a piece of good meat on his body. .Because Xiao Taiping specifically mentioned Mr. Zhang's mouth, Xiao Taizhong dutifully took off his shoes and beat Mr. Zhang's mouth with the soles of his shoes. dry shit.

Zhang Sanye can be regarded as a good man, such a heavy dose of medicine did not cure his illness.Early the next morning, Mr. Zhang dragged his bruised body and moved to the door of the shopkeeper's courtyard. He leaned his back against the courtyard wall and cursed at the street facing the Sankong Bridge.Zhang Sanye's upper and lower lips were swollen, and half of his face was swollen, like an upright pig, but it didn't affect the sound and effect of cursing.Zhang Sanye scolded viciously and crazily, and his direction was quite clear. They were all aimed at Xiao Taiping, and he kept saying "your mother of the eighteenth generation", and he still blatantly yelled: "...you stinky bastard Back then, I wished I could kneel down and recognize me as my own father..." Seeing this scene, Xiao Taizhong felt ashamed and felt sorry for Xiao Taiping's trust, so he ran to Xiao Taiping's mansion and said to Xiao Taiping: "Brother, it seems that there is no cure for the third master's problem, let's just... This bastard will be slaughtered with one knife." Xiao Taiping refused, and said with a smile: "If you can't cure it once, let's treat it several times! I don't believe that Mr. Zhang can be tougher than the stone in the latrine!" It wasn't until Mr. Zhang scolded his voice hoarsely that he couldn't yell any more, so Xiao Taiping staggered to the shopkeeper's room. When he saw Mr. Zhang, he looked surprised and asked, "Mr. Zhang, you... ...what's the matter with you?" Zhang Sanye looked at Xiao Taiping and said: "Whoever wants to take San Ye as a fool will blind his mother's eyes!" Xiao Taiping laughed, and there was something in his words: "Third Master, look at what you said! You are the smartest person in Qiaotou Town, and the most knowledgeable about current affairs. Who dares to treat you as a fool?" Zhang Sanye ignored Xiao Taiping, and cursed at the street again: "I am a master! If you can't beat me to death, I am your master! I call you your mother of eighteen generations, you poor grandson dare to beat me! I only want you As long as I breathe, I will never finish with you..." When the people in Qiaotou Town saw Mr. Zhang scolding the street like a shrew, they didn't think it was Mr. Zhang's toughness. Instead, they all shook their heads, thinking that the good times between Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhang were over.Even Mr. Zhang, who has always been the best scholar, sighed and said, "Third Master is finished, Third Master is really finished..." Zhang Sanye didn't admit that he was done. Looking at Xiao Taiping in front of him, Mr. Zhang thought, it's just the beginning, and he doesn't believe that Xiao Taiping can walk on the slope forever.Not to mention that Xiao Taiping's gang of gangster brothers are all monolithic.He had a deep understanding of the power of silver - silver brought him the ambition to rebel against the Bai family, and brought Xiao Taiping the dream of Baoyao, so one day, silver will also give Xiao Taiping's gang of gangsters Bring about the rebellion against Xiao Taiping.When one poor Huazi gets rich, it will make a hundred poor Huazi dream of getting rich.When that day comes, Xiao Taiping will be in great trouble, and he will counterattack with ten times the force and give Xiao Taiping a devastating blow... Mr. Zhang, who is numb about other things, is really sure about this point.On the third day after eating the sap, someone quietly came to Zhang Sanye on the slope to report to Mr. Zhang, saying that the group of people who beat him were kiln workers ordered by Xiao Taiping, and he wanted Mr. Zhang to go to Xiao Taiping to settle the score.Zhang Sanye was very pleasantly surprised and asked the messenger who reported the letter to go with him to confront Xiao Taiping, but the messenger who reported the letter was scared away. At that time, there were indeed quite a few brothers—mainly the brother surnamed Cao who hated himself as the head of the Second Regiment.But no one really dared to publicly stand up against Xiao Taiping.Disgruntled brothers know that Xiao Taiping is neither Mr. Bai Er nor Mr. Zhang San.Xiao Taiping was not an ordinary person in Cao Tuan back then, but now he has a kiln guard team, and a large group of brothers from the Xiao family, Xiaoju, who can wake them up at any time with fists, kicks and sticks. Xiao Taiping also knew the dissatisfaction of some brothers.It is precisely because of this that Xiao Taiping asked Xiao Taizhong to recruit batch after batch of newcomers from outside, which not only continuously enriched the manpower of the kiln, but also gradually weakened the strength of the first generation of kiln workers in Zazipo. Minimize the possibility of future rebellion.He believed that one day, if the brother surnamed Cao used what he did to Mr. Zhang Sanye and Mr. Bai Er to deal with him, he would have enough strength and means to deal with it.For Qiaotou Town, the miracle of labor oppressing capital created by Xiao Taiping is the first, and it should be the last.The new Xiao Taiping and the new myth of labor defeating capital should never appear again... In the ten years of Tongzhi, Xiao Taiping's country was stable, and Baijiayao was prosperous under Xiao Taiping's rule.