On the morning of March 17, Meng Qi drove Lin Shangzhou to a machine factory on the outskirts of Strasbourg, where he parked his car at a nearby street corner and drove further, fearing that the doorman would see Lin Shangzhou getting out of the car and raise his vigilance.
"If you go any further on, you'll see the factory, so get off here.
He turned his head to Lin Shangzhou and said, Lin Shangzhou nodded, opened the car door and got out of the car.
"If life inside is really difficult, you must remember to come out in time and don't tire yourself.
Meng Qi rolled down the window and told Lin Shangzhou.
"Well, see you in a while.
After saying goodbye to Monchi, he walked out of the street and in the direction of the factory.
Before coming here, he was worried that the factory might not accept workers, but Monchi told him that the factory was hiring when they went to see before, so there was no need to worry about that.
Coming to the outside of the factory, Lin Shangzhou saw that the doorman was sitting on the seat and reading the novel in his hand, and on the side was a big dog lying on the ground and raising his head to stare at him vigilantly.
Lin Shangzhou walked up to the doorman and said hello to him.
"Hello.
He glanced at the novel the doorman was reading, a book he had written.
The doorman looked up at him vigilantly, and when he saw that it was a Chinese, he hesitated and said,
'Ah... You are... Are you looking for a job?"
"Uh-huh, I heard that the factory has been hiring recently, so I wanted to come and have a look.
Lin Shangzhou nodded again and again.
"Then you've come to the right place, the factory is just hiring people recently. The
doorman stood up and opened the door of the factory, and after opening the door, he said to Lin Shangzhou:
"You go in, do you see the white house over there?
Lin Shangzhou walked to the door, looked in the direction pointed by the doorman, saw a small white house, nodded, and walked towards it.
After Lin Shangzhou left, the doorman closed the door and sat on a chair to continue reading his novel, he never dreamed that the person who had just walked past was the author of the novel in his hands.
Lin Shangzhou walked on the road in the factory and looked around the factory, there are three large factories in the north, there is no need to guess where the workers work, the east side of the large factory is a smaller flat-roofed house, the sign on the side says that it is a canteen, on the west side of the factory is a row of flat-roofed houses, it seems to be the workers' dormitory, on one side of the dormitory is two large toilets, and there is a very neat two-story building on the east side of the factory, which may be the office of the management personnel.
The factory area is still quite large, and the environment is passable.
Lin Shangzhou came to the white house and knocked on the door, and after getting permission from inside, he pushed the door and walked in.
There was a table in the house, and behind it sat a middle-aged man with a shrewd face and a pair of glasses on his face.
"You are..." The
man with glasses looked up at Lin Shangzhou suspiciously, and after seeing that he was Chinese, he understood his intention to come here.
"You're here to be a worker, aren't you?"
"Uh-huh, I'm here looking for a job."
Lin Shangzhou nodded.
The man with glasses pointed to the roster and pen on the table and said to him: "9 pfennig an hour, including food and lodging, 7 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the afternoon to 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock in the evening, 11 hours a day, if you can accept it, sign a name to go to the No. 1 factory to find a Kaiden foreman, let him take you to the dormitory to find a bed, and then go to work." (
Hiss...)
The treatment of the workers made Lin Shangzhou gasp, 9 pfennig an hour, eleven hours a day, such a large workload can only earn 1 mark if rounded, and 7 marks a week.
Lin Shangzhou has traveled for two months, and he has a clear understanding of money and consumption levels, 7 marks a week can make a family hungry and not freeze to death and have a certain surplus, but that's all.
The minimum weekly salary of the newspaper is 15 marks, and he can get about 10 marks a week in that restaurant, but he only gets 7 marks a week of hard work in this factory, and Lin Shangzhou already has an evaluation of this factory in his heart.
"Don't you have to sign a contract?" Lin
Shangzhou asked, if he didn't sign a contract, there was no guarantee for the workers at all, and he could guess whether the workers in this factory had signed a contract, and it could be seen from the so many names on the roster that there were not many workers who signed contracts.
"Do you want to sign a contract?"
Hearing him answer like this, Lin Shangzhou already had the idea of leaving in his heart, signing a contract with a salary of one finnig less and not including food and housing, the purpose of the factory is obvious, that is, to let the workers not sign the contract.
Most workers certainly don't quite understand what a contract means, and some may not even know what a contract is, plus they sign a contract for less pay and no food and housing, so most workers definitely choose not to sign a contract.
However, the purpose of his trip was to investigate the living conditions of the workers, and although he could glimpse some of the words of the man in glasses, he still had to live with the workers if he wanted to be truly clear.
So Lin Shangzhou suppressed the urge to leave in his heart, shook his head, stepped forward and signed his name in the book.
"Wait, don't go yet. As
he turned to leave, the man in glasses stopped him.
Lin Shangzhou turned to the glasses man and asked, "Is there anything else?" The glasses man
pointed to the iron box on the side and said,
"The Chinese have to pay a deposit of five marks." "
Why!" Lin
Shangzhou asked puzzledly, such differential treatment also made him feel a trace of anger in his heart, Chinese pay a deposit?
I recruited Chinese before, but your compatriots broke the things in the factory and fled, no one compensated, since then the factory stipulates that the Chinese need to pay a deposit of five marks, and when you don't want to do it, it will be paid back to you, if there is no money, then you will not be paid wages for the first five days, and you will be paid after the fifth day.
The man with glasses pushed his eyes down and explained to him, and Lin Shangzhou's reaction was also expected by him.
He took two deep breaths to calm down his emotions, this is a helpless thing, it is understandable that the factory will do this, but only he knows whether what the man with glasses said is true or not.
Lin Shangzhou took out a crumpled five-mark note from his pocket and put it in the iron box, he didn't take his wallet when he went out this time, only put some change in his pocket.
"Good, you can go. The
man with glasses smiled with satisfaction, his smile was extremely disgusting to Lin Shangzhou, and he left the white house quickly.
Lin Shangzhou came to the gate of the No. 1 factory building and looked inside, he saw the workers working on the assembly line, heard the roar of the machine, felt the heat wave in the factory, there was a man pacing around between the workers, Lin Shangzhou estimated that this guy was the foreman.
He walked into the factory and walked towards the man, who also noticed Lin Shangzhou, and some workers also looked up at Lin Shangzhou curiously, and the man who seemed to be the foreman reprimanded the worker who looked up at Lin Shangzhou and walked over to him.
After walking to Lin Shangzhou's side, he looked at Lin Shangzhou and asked
, "Are you new here?" "
Well, I just arrived, and the registration office asked me to find the Kaiden foreman." "
I'm just, you come with me, I'll take you to find a place to live in the dormitory, and then I'll come to work."
"Okay.
Then Kaiden took Lin Shangzhou to the dormitory, and after the foreman left the factory, the workers who were working talked about this new Chinese, and a young man working in a corner of the factory immediately became excited when he heard the news, for no other reason, he is also Chinese.
After entering the dormitory under the leadership of Kaiden, Lin Shangzhou casually found an empty bed, took off his coat and threw it on, of course, the money was not in the coat, the money was in his pants pocket.
The environment of the dormitory can also be seen, there are mattresses, pillows and quilts on the bed, but the smell in the dormitory is a little unpleasant.
After finding a bed, Cayden took him to the factory, found him a place, told him what to do, and then Kayden left.
Lin Shangzhou looked around the factory while working, the huge roar of machines, the unpleasant smell, the workers here are working in such an environment
? (Fuck, when I finish the investigation, I must report this Gouba factory)
He thought angrily, but at the same time, he also had doubts, in a left-wing area, the factory still dares to treat the workers like this, what does the factory director think?
Forehead.... It occurred to him that this was the territory of the SPD, and that just because the government was all SPD, it would not be possible to completely improve the treatment of workers.
(There are many factories like this...)
With a long sigh in his heart, Lin Shangzhou focused on work, and such things were quite common in this era.
"Hey, hey, brother, brother?!"
Ten minutes later, Lin Shangzhou heard someone whispering to him in his ear, turned his head to see a Chinese person standing on the side, he looked at each other in surprise, but the surprise in his heart did not last long, unexpected but reasonable.
The person who came was a young man in his twenties, and there was irrepressible joy on his face, and Lin Shangzhou was also quite excited, this was the second Chinese he had met, and the first was his uncle.
As for the Chinese restaurant, there are Chinese Americans who speak with an American German accent.
"Brother
, what's your name?" the young man asked enthusiastically in Chinese, Lin Shangzhou wanted to answer his German name at first, but then thought that this compatriot's original intention should be to ask his Chinese
name, so he smiled and said, "My name is Lin Shangzhou, what about you?" Hearing Lin Shangzhou's
name, the young man was even more surprised, and he lowered his voice: "Damn, you are also surnamed Lin, and my name is Lin Wenhua."
Then Lin Wenhua approached Lin Shangzhou and asked eagerly: "Brother and brother
, where is your hometown?" "My hometown?"
Lin Shangzhou was stunned for a moment, he must answer where his hometown is in this world, but he has not asked his uncle where his hometown is before, but he can also guess where his hometown is by talking to his uncle at home in dialect.
"Henan, what about you?"
Lin Wenhua's face was slightly lost, the Chinese named Lin Shangzhou in front of him was not from the same place as himself, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that he met the Chinese, and the most joyful place at this time, so his loss disappeared immediately, and he said to Lin Shangzhou excitedly:
"I'm from Shandong..."
Counting and saying that, Lin Wenhua suddenly lowered his head and worked seriously, seeing this, Lin Shangzhou also hurriedly lowered his head and worked seriously, and after a while, he felt that someone walked behind him.
After Kayden walked past the two and walked away, Lin Wenhua whispered to him: "Let's talk at lunchtime, and now we will work first." "
Hmm. "
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