Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence looked at this young man who was about his own age and thought for a while, and quickly found the corresponding information from his memory. This Bill was recommended by Uncle Jill, the person in charge of Lawrence's factory in Eagle Fort. He is the most educated person on their street. He graduated from the Law School of Adams University, the capital of the Eagle's Nest District, the capital of the White Eagle Federation.

Theoretically speaking, Adams University is one of the best in the federation. College students who graduate from here often have a good future. It is a pity that basically all the students studying literature and history in such a university come from prominent families. Although with their upbringing, they won't be able to bully those students of average background. But Bill, who came from an ordinary working family, basically couldn't integrate into their circle.

So after graduation, Bill, who didn't build a network of relationships with those young masters and ladies in school, naturally found that the jobs he could find were far lower than his education level, and the natural salary and job prospects were also the same. in this way. After hitting the wall repeatedly, he gave up his lofty ideals in college and planned to return to his hometown, looking for a job that was convenient for him to take care of his parents and trying to become a middle-class man.

But when he returned to his hometown, he happened to meet Lawrence pulling immigrants to his island through Uncle Bill. Considering that Lawrence is a famous medical expert, and because he feels that he can flex his muscles in such a new colony. He simply came to the island with his family.

What happened later was just as he expected. Due to the lack of talents on the island, college students like him were naturally listed as the key objects of investigation. So he was quickly appointed as a circuit court judge to inspect farms and mediate disputes between immigrants.

Because this work has always been at the grassroots level and it is very hard work. So many of the people Lawrence had recruited from off-island had quit after a while. But this Bill survived by relying on his own ambition, and became one of the few people who persisted except those retainers and descendants of retainers.

Therefore, after the grassroots work during this period was over, these people who passed the test were quickly promoted to higher positions by Lawrence. For example, Bill and several other young people who passed the test were assigned to the core of Port New Sauer Administration. Existing as the secretary and staff of Butler Bayer's administration. That's why he was able to attend this meeting today.

"Oh, Bill, do you know where I can hire a suitable technician? Tell me quickly." Lawrence asked excitedly after hearing Bill's suggestion. After all, it doesn't take much experience to answer this type of question, so even a newcomer like Bill is likely to put forward very constructive opinions.

"It's my hometown, Fort Eagle." Under Lawrence's gaze, Bill expressed his opinion. "In my impression, there are many old workers in my hometown who are around 50 years old. Because of the injuries left in the work before, their lives are not satisfactory, but they have acquired a lot of experience. I think if they After being recuperated here for a while, they can work for at least a few years, and they can also help train a group of mechanic apprentices."

"This is indeed a good idea." According to Bill, Lawrence also realized that this human power has been forgotten by many people. time and minimum wage. However, those factory owners always want to maximize profits, coupled with the technical problems of industry and labor insurance in this era, it still prevents workers from continuing high-intensity work when they are in their forties or fifties.

For those workers who couldn't work hard, the factory owners naturally drove them out of the factory. It's like throwing away a fruit that has been squeezed dry. Before, when Lawrence built the lighter factory there, he specially recruited many such veteran workers. After all, the labor intensity required for lighter manufacturing is not high, and these experienced workers can better complete those manufacturing tasks.

The same is true of Lawrence's mechanical operation work. They can take apprentices and let apprentices help them do the heavy physical work. At the same time, it is enough to guide those apprentices with their own experience. And for many machine operations, the actual consumption of physical energy is not too large.

So Lawrence quickly decided to send a telegram to Uncle Jill, asking him to help recruit a group of more reliable people to the island to help. Of course, Lawrence will give these people 120% of their normal wages as an extra subsidy for coming to such a remote place, in addition to the benefits unique to the island that are obviously better than ordinary factories.

Most importantly, in Lawrence's view, Eagle Fort, which was very cold in winter, was actually not very suitable for these elderly people to live in. If you invite them to this tropical island and stay away from the polluted environment of the past. Maybe each of them will have an increased life expectancy.

After solving these two thorny issues, everyone said that there was nothing more to discuss, so the meeting naturally came to an end. After everyone left, Lawrence walked up to Safir, hugged her and kissed her on the cheek, and then asked her if she had any plans for these two days.

"These two days—there should be nothing to do in these two days." After grabbing a schedule from the table and looking at it, Safiel said. "At least for the last ten days, I don't have anything to deal with. By the way, didn't you tell Nora that there was something important to solve, and asked me what to do?"

"Originally, Nora and I have been researching a trophy in Volume 1 recently, because that trophy is closely related to the improvement of Nora's strength." Lawrence explained to Safiel, and he thought it would be better to explain some things in advance . "However, just today, Nora has successfully solved all the problems a week ahead of schedule, and together with me, she has improved her extraordinary strength, so she just has free time."

"You said that your extraordinary strength has been improved? That is to say, now you have become a traditional silver-level extraordinary, and Nora has become a gold-level extraordinary? This is simply amazing." After hearing Lawrence's words After that, Safiel showed a very happy look on his face. "By the way, we must celebrate this kind of thing. How about having a banquet?"

"Uh, let's forget about this. I don't think there is any need to publicize it other than notifying relatives and friends." Although according to tradition, the emergence of golden superhumans in small independent or semi-independent political entities like Lawrence and the others is enough to hold a large-scale event. There were celebrations, but Lawrence himself didn't want a massive celebration at this time. "I think sometimes it's better to hide some of your strength."

Speaking of this, Lawrence looked at Safiel who was too lazy to get depressed and said: "We can invite those relatives and friends to hold a small banquet tonight, and then we can go out for a walk and relax in the next week , I remember that you haven’t left the Port of New Sauer a few times since you came to this island, so it’s time to go out and take a look around.”

"That's great." Safiel sniffled and said, hearing what Lawrence said, she immediately knew that Lawrence didn't ignore her efforts during this time, but really took her to heart. "But there are still a lot of things to deal with here, and it's not appropriate for us to go out for too long. So I think it's ok to just look around on the island."

"Okay." After persuading for a while and finding out that Safir really thought this way, Lawrence kissed her forehead and said. "Let me make a good plan for the next journey today, and we will set off tomorrow."