Lord of Industrialization

The emperors and generals had their overt and covert struggles, and the common people had their own lives.

In early July, while Frederick was waiting for a reply from Cologne on the farm, Chestnut Village was filled with visitors.

The village built a spacious wooden house specifically for the steam tractor. Today, the large gate was full of people, and a three-headed dog kept running around the 100-horsepower steam tractor.

Angela was so nervous that she almost cried, because Miss Maria von Ertal, the fiancée of Duke Wesson, was standing aside. Behind her was Frick, the administrative minister. Behind Frick stood the state of Wesson. Governor Omet, and beside him was Walter, the president of the "Wesson Daily" newspaper and Frederick's teacher of grammar, rhetoric and logic.

Last month, the news that Angela had signed up to learn how to use tractors took up a spot in the newspaper. Frederick saw it and prepared a front-page headline for her in the press release he left before leaving.

The articles written by Frederick himself in the newspaper were all about political direction and policies. Over the years, the only person who had personally written a front-page headline for a specific person was a certain great thief who had reformed his evil ways.

The leader who is the biggest attaches great importance to it, the senior management pays more attention to it, the middle management pays special attention to it, and the grassroots level are trembling with fear.

Angela was notified the day before. She didn't sleep well last night. When she started working today, she found that she had forgotten her pen.

Maria saw from the side that her hand holding the writing board began to tremble, so she took out her pen and handed it over, whispering: "Don't be nervous, since you already have a tractor driver's license, it means there is no problem, I will take the exam." Didn’t pass.”

Angela suddenly felt as if her soul had taken a hot bath on a snowy day. It was so warm that her anxiety and uneasiness disappeared without a trace.

All Might was well-informed and sighed inwardly. Miss Eltar cast a spell to calm down Angra without saying a word. Her skills in soul magic were terrifying.

Angela nodded to Maria and clamped the pen to the writing board. The writing board had a strap slung across her body like a shoulder bag, and there was an inspection record sheet before and after using the tractor and harvester.

Boiler water level is normal;

The water level in the water tank is normal;

The amount of oil in the lubricating oil cup is normal;

The magic crystal has sufficient energy;

There is no condensed water in the steam pipe and cylinder;

The main screws are not loose;

The valve opens and closes normally;

The chain tension is normal;

The flywheel and gears rotate normally;

…

Angela wrote down each inspection point on the record sheet, made sure the tractor was fine, turned on the water, and then checked the harvester.

The power wheel, transmission gear and chain of the harvester are normal, the dial wheel rotates normally, the double-layer saw teeth were removed and polished two days ago, and the conveyor belt is no problem. Now the entire harvester is in transportation status, and the connecting frame has been hung on the back of the tractor. on the hook.

The pointer of the boiler pressure gauge gradually rotates from the yellow area to the middle of the green area.

Angela opened the steam supply valve, and the hot steam rushed into the pipe, all the way to the cylinder, and pushed open the piston that was hindering its expansion.

The flywheel quickly spun, and the steam engine made a rhythmic sound.

All Might asked everyone in the warehouse to get out, and the people at the door also moved out of the way.

Maria came to the wheat field and waited for a while, then curiously asked All Might: "Why hasn't Angela come out yet?"

Ogilvy replied: "After the machine is started, it must be run without load for a quarter of an hour. Only after making sure that there are no problems can it be used. The time is almost up."

Not long after, after three whistles, Angela drove the tractor out, made a perfect turn on the road, and came to a stop on the side of the road in a corner of the wheat field.

Several farmers and peasant women immediately went over and, under Angela's command, loaded up the harvester that was being dragged behind.

The village chief directed several horse-drawn carriages and mule carts to park nearby, and many people were ready to transport the wheat away immediately after it was cut.

Everything was ready, and after a long whistle, the tractor moved forward slowly.

The wheels of the harvester started to rotate and began to provide power. The three-meter-long wheat dialing wheel moved the wheat in front. The sawtooth blade moving left and right below cut off the wheat stalks. The cut wheat was poured onto the canvas conveyor belt and passed to the left where it fell. In the compartment behind the carriage.

Someone on the carriage caught the fallen wheat and placed them in the same direction as the stalks and ears. The driver on the carriage adjusted their relative positions so that they could be placed more conveniently.

After the car is full, the people on the car put up the fence at one end of the conveyor belt to block the wheat and then ask the driver to move quickly. When the next car comes, the people on the car open the fence.

Angela carefully maintained the speed of the tractor. Except for the fact that the speed was slightly slower when changing carriages, it was basically fixed. If it was slower, it would affect efficiency, and if it was faster, the carriage could not keep up.

A decadent-looking man stood next to a vegetable field more than a hundred meters away, looking at his daughter who was concentrating on work on the tractor from a distance, with a rare smile on his face.

Frick walked over at some point and gave the man a kick on the butt like two farmers joking with each other. He whispered: "Your family is lucky. Since your father is the soldier led by me, I’m going to take the village chief certificate exam this year, and I’ll arrange to be the village chief in a new territory before I retire.”

As an administrative minister, he had no problem arranging a village chief for the son of an old subordinate who had made meritorious service, but now Frederick required that to become a village chief, he had to pass the exam, at least he couldn't be a horse manure bag who didn't understand farming.

Although this person was punished by Frederick, it has been so long that he probably cannot remember it, and the Executive Yuan has no relevant files. Moreover, the story of "knowing one's shame and then being brave" is in line with the current publicity. As long as he gets the certificate, there is room for maneuver.

Frick will retire in a few years, and this kindness may still be passed on to his descendants in the future.

In the wheat field, the tractor quickly finished harvesting all the way. Angela breathed a sigh of relief and began to turn clockwise to harvest the other side.

People in the surrounding villages also breathed a sigh of relief. Because of the conscription, no one drove a tractor. Now that someone is there, they can ask her to help during the harvest at the end of the month.

Someone found Angela's mother, and she talked with them about wages with a smile on her face.

"[Wesson collar swears]!" She had a bad temper. "Why is my daughter's salary less than other men who drive tractors?"

"Did she drive slowly or did she drive into a ditch?"

"Since all the jobs are the same, if you want to hire my daughter, you have to pay the same price as those men, and you get the same lunch, and you get a pork knuckle!"

She looked at Walter who was watching the excitement and asked, "Master newspaper, do you think this is true?"

Walter had dealt with a lot of news about hiring people to do farm work during busy farming periods before, and he had some knowledge of market prices. Men's wages had always been higher than women's.

He first thought that it was normal for Angela's wages to be lower than those of other male tractor drivers, but he immediately thought that the difference in wages between men and women was caused by the difference in the amount of labor results caused by differences in physical strength. If the difference in physical strength no longer affects the results of labor, Then there should be no difference in wages based on performance.

As a famous rhetorician and logician, Walter used beautiful words and impeccable logic to explain to Angela's mother and others that Angela's wages should be the same as other male tractor drivers.

Then those farmers didn't understand.

When Walter explained clearly, Angela had already harvested half of the wheat field.

Angela’s mother said, “Oh, if you say you charge piece-rate like cross-stitch, we’ll understand.”

"That is to say, for the same amount of fields, whether it is a man or a woman, the price will be the same after harvesting, right?"

Walter was a little hurt, thinking that what he just said was enough to be included in the textbooks of rhetoric and logic, but they didn't understand.

The news outline that Frederick left included other people's opinions of Angela. Walter needed to collect it on the spot and fill it in, so he wrote it on the front page.

Then Wesson exploded.

In mid-July, when Frederick returned to Weissenburg after completing the negotiations, he found that newspapers and magazines were engulfed in controversy.

There are three battlefields: whether women can work outside the home like men, whether men and women should receive the same pay for doing the same work, and whether "farmers can understand" is a new direction in the development of rhetoric.

The debate was so intense that Frederick saw many familiar names, even foreign emperors and princesses.