“Enjoying the sunrise?!”
Thirty Nine Zero was stunned and at the same time full of excitement as he asked, “Sir, is this true?!”
Charlie wade nodded: “I have just said that in the future, I will make sure that the dead soldiers can take turns to go to the ground at any time of the day, and right now this first time will be reserved for those children who have never seen the sun, moon and stars.”
Thirty-nine Zero was excited, but suddenly remembered something and asked Charlie wade, “Sir, at this moment it is still dark outside?”
“Yes.” Charlie wade said, “In another half an hour, it will be light.”
Thirty-nine Zero looked at the dense lights on the ceiling and sighed, “It seems that our day and night inside are diametrically opposed to the outside.”
Charlie wade smiled faintly, “They don’t want you to calculate the dates in real life, so naturally they will invert and distort the time in here with reality.”
After saying that, Charlie wade added, “But you don’t need to worry, from today onwards, the day and night here will be the same as outside, and I will have someone prepare clocks for you, so from now on your dates and times will be completely synchronised with real life.”
Thirty-nine Zero gratefully and respectfully said, “Thank you, sir!”
Charlie wade said, “By the way, there is another task for you.”
Thirty-nine Zero busily said, “Please command, sir!”
Charlie wade said seriously, “Starting tomorrow, you are to divide your people, into three groups, each group numbering roughly a thousand people, and then from each group, select one hundred and thirty labourers to continue participating in the daily production of the copper mine mining.”
Saying this, Charlie wade turned around and said to Aziz Lane, the primus guard who was following him, “For the sake of fairness, do the same for the primus guard, and have each of the three banners within the left, centre and right select roughly twenty labourers to participate in the work together with the labourers selected by the dead soldiers.”
Without thinking, Aziz Lane said, “Don’t worry, sir, I will do it later!”
Charlie wade instructed again, “The work will be done in three shifts of eight hours, with one on and one off, so this requires that at least one more shift be selected internally when choosing people, so that the shifts within each group can be rotated to ensure that everyone gets a good rest.”
“No problem!” Aziz Lane said, “The production scale of this copper mine is not that big, there are only a hundred or so people who started work at the same time, the dead soldiers and primus guards combined are almost four thousand people, it is still easy to cope with this amount of work.”
Charlie wade nodded and said, “We let them participate in the work, not to exploit their labour, but to keep this copper mine operating normally and not let the Broken Qing Society notice anything unusual, so you two tell all the labourers involved in the work that as long as they participate in the labour, I will settle their salaries at double the normal treatment of mine workers in Cyprus , when the time comes to settle in US dollars.”
Aziz Lane and Thirty Nine Zero looked at each other and Aziz Lane said, “Sir, there is no need for money, you have already helped us so much, you are our great benefactor, how can we take your money again, moreover, the ore produced from this copper mine is given to the Broken Clear Society, the settlement money will not go into your pocket, is it not the same as you purely stick money? “
“Yes,” Thirty Nine Zero also hastened to agree: “Sir, firstly, we can’t let you pay for it, and secondly, the money is of no use to us at all, even if you give it to us, it will only be a pile of waste paper for us. The money will be of some use to the cause of eradicating the Qing Breaking Society.”
Charlie wade waved his hand and said very firmly: “You have to be paid for your work, this is one of the few truths that have remained unchanged throughout the ages. I will have a list of commonly used goods sent to you all at that time, and if you need them, let the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons be responsible for purchasing them and then transporting them here and handing them over to everyone by hidden means, and what I can promise is that the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons will never make any difference in price.”
