Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 260

2021-02-23

Chapter 260 The Workshop
Ivan - Gevordan "Known" for Alcoholism and Domestic Violence The former sergeant of - finally realized the true meaning of life: life is not peaks and valleys, life is the valleys and deeper valleys.

He was the first enemy the Winters captured during their first engagement with Legion, a new settlement, and in this regard, the presence of prisoner Ivan is evidence that Winters has officially raised the flag of rebellion.

From the moment of captivity, Ivan's experience can be summarized as: being beaten up, being interrogated, being escorted, imprisoned, and most importantly, being forced to weave straw sandals.

There is no violence and coercion, and the attitude from above is simple and clear: no work, no food.

The management of the captives was handed over to Samukin by Winters, and there were only three captives at the time.

In order to prevent someone from holding grudges on the straw sandals, Ivan and the three were asked by Samukin to leave special marks on the straw sandals.

Samukin told Ivan sincerely: "If there is a problem with the quality of the shoes, then you will have a problem."

Ivan desperately nodded. At one point he really thought he was going to die, and being lucky to survive made Ivan extremely life-threatening.

Samukin invited an old man who knew how to weave shoes from Nanxin Village. The old man taught the captives for a day, leaving a few sets of brackets and a large bundle of rushes and flax, and walked away shaking his head.

For the first two days, Ivan lived entirely on water. The straw sandals he made will fall apart before they are worn, and naturally they cannot be exchanged for food.

People in desperation can occasionally burst out with power that amazes themselves. On the third day, Ivan, who started to master the know-how, successfully made a pair of shoes.

Although the quality of the shoes he made was still not up to standard, Samukin gave Ivan two small loaves of brown bread as an encouragement.

On the fifth day, Ivan received the normal amount of brown bread.

Ivan's life after that is to reunite with his former colleagues one by one while constantly improving his shoe knitting skills.

During that time, Winters was dedicated to destroying the microstructure of the garrison garrison in Gervoudan. For any grain requisition team that was ambushed by him, the recruits could leave by disarming and surrendering, but he did not let go of the veterans and sergeants. .

The prison in Wolftown is getting more and more crowded.

Warden Samukin initially insisted on solitary confinement to prevent concatenation. Later, there were too many prisoners, so they were not very particular about it, and it became the norm to stuff four or five people in a cell.

This made Ivan even miss the days when he was just captured in a single room.

As the number of prisoners soared, Ivan gradually left the front-line shoe knitting position and began to teach others the skills of shoe knitting in exchange for bread, and his life improved considerably.

It is at this stage that the supply of straw sandals produced by "labor camps" exceeds demand. Originally, one pair of straw sandals was full for one day, but soon it became three pairs of straw sandals for two days, and then two pairs of straw sandals for one day.

People only have two hands, and there is a limit to how fast we can make shoes. Ivan is not a businessman, but he realizes that he will starve or die of exhaustion if he continues to develop. The demand for straw sandals is saturated, and new gadgets must be found that are equivalent to more bread.

It's all "weaving" anyway, and Ivan thinks about weaving baskets, seats, and baskets. He petitioned Samukin, hoping to invite a smith to teach skills, and he also wanted to appraise raw materials such as reeds, wheat straws, and thin wicker.

The previous day's petition, the second day prisoners were transferred.

Ivan was so scared that he was about to wet his pants when he walked out of the barracks. He thought he was going to the execution ground. But they were only taken to a hidden camp deep in the forest.

It was in this camp that Ivan crashed into another captive, Lieutenant Asko.

Ask was ordered to assist Bud and Mason in slaying the bandits, but he was captured as soon as they left Gervoudan. In fact, Asko was taken to Wolf Town long ago, but he lived in a single room, so Ivan never saw the lieutenant.

"Why were you arrested too?" Ivan's tears flowed out all of a sudden: "Gevodan is gone?"

"I was tricked. Lieutenant Asko was very calm: "Don't worry, the rebels are rushing to move us now, which means that Major Ronald is coming—probably already. I estimate that after a few more days, the major will be able to rescue us. ."

Ivan was both happy and regretful to hear this.

He still really wants to try basket weaving and matting, because it's one of the only two things in his muddleheaded life that he hopes to do - the other is getting married.

Ivan waited a long, long time for Major Ronald to appear.

I waited until I was brought back to the scorched wolf town, until Samukin invited the master craftsman, until the wicker and straw were approved... Major Ronald did not appear.

Ivan began to learn to weave baskets and seats, but Lieutenant Asko, who was once calm and calm, was almost out of control, and Ivan had to speak out to persuade him.

"You stop drinking and eating meat, those are all working hours." Ivan cautiously suggested: "You should come learn basket weaving with me, and if you do a lot, you will be able to cover your working hours. ."

Asko looked at the former sergeant and now a new rookie craftsman with intoxicated eyes: "The rebels win, what's the point of these things? If the rebels lose, I will naturally regain my freedom. Weaving baskets? Drinking alcohol Drink!"

The food is in short supply, how can there be so much wine for the lieutenant? Ivan silently weaves the straw, watching the lieutenant try to intoxicate himself with watered moonshine and carry more "hours" on his back.

Ivan didn't think as much as the lieutenant. He was simple-minded. He was just hungry and learned. The brutal sergeant Ivan did not survive, but the timid prisoner Ivan survived.

Major Ronald eventually appeared before Ivan, but he also came to the labor camp as a prisoner. Not only the major, but all the officers who were alive at the former Gervoudan garrison came here.

Ivan had grown numb, and now he wouldn't be surprised if General Adams appeared before him in chains. He was promoted to teacher, in charge of teaching his former officers to weave baskets.

The will of Lieutenant Asko was completely disintegrated. The lieutenant tried to kill himself at first, but after being rescued from the sling, he quit drinking, obediently and honestly learning basket weaving with Ivan.

The troughs and deeper troughs are real, and the days just pass by.

On this day, Ivan, as always, brought straw and distributed it to the cells. He then went to the warehouse and set about inspecting the cells of the previous day's products.

Ivan insisted that the "marking measures" be kept in order to prevent other prisoners from holding grudges and secret manipulations. If you can't do anything well, then follow the "mark" to go back to find someone and deduct rations.

Now Ivan can not only eat enough, eat meat occasionally, but also get a salary.

The proverb says "Sparrows are small, but they also have blood, organs, and bones."

With the expansion of the scale, Samukin's labor camp gradually differentiated into many "organs", like a small society.

For example, Ivan, who is now only responsible for teaching and quality inspection, no longer weaves baskets and shoes like ordinary prisoners all day long.

Knitting required a lot of raw materials, and Samukin sent prisoners who had behaved well to chop branches and harvest straw as a reward.

Hard-working prisoners were responsible for light, important work, and they were given occasional access to ale and meat, as well as airing within the camp walls.

Prisoners with poor skills and bad attitudes are at the bottom of labor camp society, sitting in prison cells all day long.

Invisibly, the making of the basket is divided into several processes, each of which is in charge of a different "level" of prisoners.

In labor camps, human life is very low. If you want to die, as long as you don't work, you will soon starve to death.

Samukin, who manages the labor camp, does not have the same obsession as "keeping everyone alive". His attitude has always been "if you want to die, go to die", and the rest are naturally willing to live.

The labor camp had a bumpy start, and there were instances of prisoners hiding tools to try and kill guards to escape. But it continues to move in the right direction -- from Samukin's perspective.

The output of woven products has increased steadily, and gradually subdivided into different styles such as large baskets, small baskets, wide mouths, and narrow mouths.

Samukin used the carriage to pull up the basket and exchanged food for farmers from the nearby villages.

In the beginning, the carriage only went to the villages in Wolf Town, because it was close. However, the demand for baskets by farmers in Wolf Town soon became saturated, and the basket-making capacity of the labor camp was increasing day by day. Samukin had to send the carriage to a neighboring town.

In order to sell more, Samukin was sold very cheaply. The two craftsmen in Wolf Town were quickly overwhelmed. They couldn't compete with free raw materials, unpaid labor and the production method of "one person only does the same job".

A smith was recruited by Samukin and came to a labor camp to be a supervisor. Another bamboo craftsman has land at home, and weaving baskets and mats is a subsidy for the family.

And the black liquid town and Wu mastiff town smiths are about to follow in the footsteps of their counterparts in wolf town.

The reputation of the labor camp spread quickly, and there were even foot traffickers in Sank who drove the carriage to stock up.

Samukin is ruthlessly destroying the "household" style of production in rural areas, but he doesn't realize it himself, he's just trying to keep the labor camps running.

Although Ivan was Samukin's "accomplice", he failed to look at this issue from a higher perspective. To be honest, he was just doing work for rations, deducting work hours, and making some money by the way.

Ivan checked the previous day's products and picked out the ones that were obviously of substandard quality - he even let them go if he was so-so, but some prisoners were just too much.

After the inspection, he went to inspect the cells as usual. Today Ivan is not so much a prisoner as a half guard.

A real guard came over and patted him affectionately on the shoulder: "Brother Ivan!"

"What's the matter? Sir Hamill?" Ivan knew when he heard the voice who is it.

“Sir Samukin asked you to come over.” Hamill reminded in a low voice: “Lord Montagne is here, and I want to see you by name.”

Ivan walked towards the camp nervously. So, keep thinking about it all the way. Finally, he walked outside Samukin's office and hesitated for a long time before knocking hard on the door.

"Come in." was the voice of Chief Samukin.

Ivan swallowed and pushed the door open. He saw Chief Samukin and "Lord Montagne" chatting happily.

Winters turns around and sees Sergeant Gervodin, known for his alcoholism and wife beating, again.

Winters looked at the former sergeant carefully—the other was so skinny that the neck, shoulders, and wrists were all skinny, and old clothes were like rags hanging on branches; only One of the hands was particularly thick, and the knuckles were swollen high.

"You're that Ivan who likes to beat his wife?" Winters asked, frowning slightly.

Ivan would wake up in his dreams because of the sound, the owner of which had dragged him out of the room like a dead dog and smashed his three molars with one punch. He trembled, not daring to answer.

It's Ivan who has wronged Winters. It was Pierre who had beaten Ivan that night, and Winters was just asking questions, and he let Pierre be gentle.

However, Ivan's memory has long been confused, so he believes it is the blood wolf Montagne, and this misunderstanding may not be solved until death.

See each other's shiver coldly, Winters sighed.

He said to the prisoner with emotion: "Your wife is really... amazing. I heard that you are still alive, your wife holds a child and a child, and blocks the gate of the station every day to petition. , please forgive you. Every day from morning to night, I don't know what she eats and drinks, it's just annoying."

Hearing Winters' words, Ivan's eyes were dull and his limbs were stiff. as the soul is shattered.

“What’s wrong with your husband and wife?” Winters cocked his chin and asked with great interest, “I heard that you beat your wife when you drink too much, so that the neighbors across the street can hear it. In this way, your wife will never give up. And such a good wife, you have to fight every other day. Are you the evil one, or she is the evil one?"

Ivan Shen Shen Head down.

Winters turned and looked towards Samukin: "Is this a special custom of your Paratus? Alcoholism, wife beating, and the other party trying to commit suicide?"

"How can you use 'you'?" Samukin was extremely aggrieved: "My family moved here only ten years ago!"

"Okay." Winters smiled and took it from the table He picked up a piece of paper and tapped on the prisoner: "This is the first pardon list, and you were not on it. According to my opinion, you should continue to be imprisoned, and you should be released when you have worked enough hours. "

Ivan tried to swallow, but his mouth was dry.

"But Samukin said you were very diligent and had a good attitude." Winters picked up a quill, scribbled the prisoner's name at the end of the list, and said coldly, "It's also up to your wife. For petition's sake - you're free."

Ivan stood still stiffly.

"What are you still standing for?" Winters raised his eyebrows lightly: "Let's go!"

Samukin stood up, patted Ivan's shoulder, and sent the latter to the door , said to the latter: "The pardon will be officially announced tomorrow, when the time comes with a carry to pull you back to Revodan."

Ivan gratefully nodded.

"Go." Samukin waved his hand: "Pack up and go."

Winters watched Samukkin go out and come back, although his expression was calm and moody. But some waves. Not for the prisoner, but for Samukin.

Samukin Sopkin is his old Wolftown subordinate, one of his most trusted and powerful subordinates. When he only had thirty or so people, Samukin was already the ten commander, one of the three ten commanders he had selected earlier.

The other two ten commanders were Vashka and Tamas, the latter now the first company commander of the Iron Peaks infantry.

If Samukin also goes to Revodan, the position of the first company commander should be his. But at that time, there were a large number of prisoners in Wolf Town who needed to be controlled, and Samukin was the only person who had this ability, and he had always been in charge of managing the prisoners.

So Samukin stayed in Wolftown. He missed the battle of Gervodan, the battle of Hammerfort, and the reorganization of the troops.

For Samukin, Winters feels guilty.

He had a lot of things he wanted to do when he returned to Wolf Town, but his motives for finding the brick-burner Sean and Xiao Ping's brothers initially fell to a secondary level.

He wants to see Bud, he wants to kidnap Carman, he wants to put Big Bentine on trial in Wolftown, he wants to talk to Ronald and the others...and, he wants to Samukin was taken to Gervodin.

"I've seen this kind of thing a lot." Samukin chuckled and walked back: "Everyone in the village knows that if a husband and wife fight, they will be scolded by both of them. You don't need to speak for Ivan's wife. Since that woman asked you to petition, she deserves it if she is beaten to death."

"Just don't block the door." Winters smiled bitterly: "Blocking at the gate of the station every day, I have to go over the wall."

Samukin laughed.

Winters looked at Samukin and said with emotion: "You can manage hundreds of people with dozens of people, and you can still produce output. You are really good at managing this labor camp... It's better than I thought. ."

"It's fine if you don't blame me." Samukin scratched his hair sadly: "I have had a headache recently, and I don't know what to do."

"What?"

"There are too many people." Samukin pointed at the prison and said helplessly: "Some people have already started to form gangs - people from Revodan, Beiba Town and Nanba Town. Just had a fight last week, and I wonder if I made them too full!"

"If you can touch this, it means you are better than all the company commanders. Both are strong." Winters was no longer satisfied, but a surprise, and he thoughtfully mentioned Samukin: "I remembered something I didn't understand before, but now I can see something. Do you know the sea blue pier? "

Winters speaks of the rivalry, strife, and strife of the Monta, Vine, and Paratus on the sea blue pier.

Samukin listened carefully, He asked: "You mean that the people above the dock workers deliberately divided them into three groups and asked them to fight each other? So here I should..."

Winters turned over the paper and drew a triangle on the back: "Not necessarily 'deliberate', more likely 'laissez-faire'. Customs does not want to directly manage all the dockworkers, nor does it want to see the dockworkers in a group. So gangs and associations filled the space. "

Speaking, Winters divided the triangle into three layers, and wrote customs, gangs and dockworkers respectively.

"What's the advantage of doing this? Winters asked in a guided way.

Samukin bit his lip: "Uh... people fight people, easy to control?" "

"What's the downside? "

"Fewer people are actually working." Samukin thought hard: "And... it's very dangerous." The little gang doesn't know when it's going to get out of hand. In the fight last week, I maimed two, and I hanged two more, and I suddenly lost four people who could work. "

"So what are you going to do?" "Winters put down his pen.

"Now that I can manage it, I think it's better to let the prisoners understand that there is only one fist in the labor camp. If I can't handle it, I'll try to separate them. "

"Very good, really good." "Winters sat upright, put away his smile, and called by name: "Samukin Sopkin!" "

Samukin stood up abruptly as if sitting on a soldering iron: "Here! "

"The prisoner was pardoned, ostensibly in response to the petition of Gervodin and Beiba Town." Winters said word by word: "Actually, I don't care about the prisoners. I'm here to free you! "

Winters took out an iron arrow from his bosom, with a solemn tone: "One iron arrow is ten small arrows, now called a company, with a total of one hundred and twenty people." This iron arrow - is yours. "

Samukin looked at the iron arrow, his nose was a little sore.

"The troops have been organized, and it is difficult to directly integrate into them." So I plan to set up another military police company, and you will be the commander of this company. "

"I..." Samukin choked a little, tears welling in his eyes: "You still remember me, Hundred-Men Commander." "

"No, I don't want you to be a military police commander now." With a violent force from Winters' hand, the iron arrow broke "peng".

Winters slapped the broken arrow on the table: "One hundred and twenty people, I'm so wronged! I give you one thousand two hundred people! "

"One thousand two hundred? "Samukin was stunned.

"That's 1,200 people. " Winters laughed proudly: "But not 1200 soldiers, but 1200 prisoners, prisoners from Vigne. There was no one in Gervodin, and I had to take charge of the big labor camp myself. But now, you are qualified to carry this burden. Your official position is still company commander, but you will have ten times as many people as other company commanders. Pack your bags and come back to Revodan with me the day after tomorrow! "

"Then... what about the labor camp in Wolf Town?" "

"All those who were not pardoned were moved away, with the twelve hundred captives you were to take over." Take them all to Forge Township, where the troops are stationed. "

"What about the officers and captives of Gervodin?" Samukin looked distressed: "Do you also take it to Forge Township?" Is it too close to Gervodin? "

Winters also had a headache when he mentioned this: "They will continue to stay in Wolf Town. You can assign some reliable personnel to Lieutenant Budd, and let Lieutenant Budd take care of them first." "

Samukin raised his hand to salute.

Winters sighed, he didn't intend to hide his true thoughts: "One thousand two hundred people, I don't know if you can manage such a large scale." labor camp. I'm going to mine Ironpeak again, and I'm going to organize a logging crew. There are many things that are expected to be done with these prisoners. So this position is very important, and I don't worry about giving it to anyone. "

Samukin leaned his body, pursed his lips, and his eyes were tense.

"Don't be so serious, why are you so serious?" Winters smiled lightly: "You called me all the way, are you even afraid of me?" "

Samukin forced a smile, but his cheeks were still stiff.

"But I'm impossible to do everything myself, and you'll have to share my responsibilities sooner or later." I think you can already take on bigger responsibilities, and you were the first in my old department to take on such responsibilities. Let go and do it, I'll give you the bottom line. "

Winters threw the two broken arrows to Samukin, helplessly said with a smile: "If you don't do well in the big labor camp, you can find a blacksmith to put this iron arrow together." Come on, come back and continue to be the commander of the military police for me. "

Samukin held the iron arrow and was silent for a long time, then stood up to salute.

Winters also stood up and returned the salute solemnly.

 …

Leaving the camp, Winters was relieved, but he had another concern.

He hadn't had time to put Big Bentine on trial or to talk to Major Ronald, but these It's all small things.

After arranging where Samukin would go, Winters came to Wolftown with only one major event - abducting dear Father Carmen to Gervodin.

This matter, Winters is not in a hurry at all, he has not even spoken to Kaman alone.

Because he is very clear that he wants to turn Kaman to Gervodin... ...Humph, the key to this matter is not Kaman.

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[Broken the wolf in labor camp The process of smashing the craftsmen is the process of handicraft workshops defeating the rural self-employed.]
[It is not a factory, and it is still far from the industrial revolution]
[A workshop refers to a large-scale handicraft workshop in the budding stage of capitalist development; a factory It refers to the modern production method of mechanized production.]
[The core of industrialization is the change of power source. Taking manpower as the prime mover cannot be called "industrialization" in any case, but handicrafts]
[ As for the assembly line, the real assembly line was invented by Ford. However, the concepts of "decentralized production" and "centralized assembly" have long been applied to industries such as shipbuilding.]
[The concept of division of labor did not appear until after industrialization. Yes, the handicraft workshop is the product of the division of labor among many people. There were handicraft workshops in the Qin Dynasty and ancient Rome, but it had nothing to do with industry]
[Please allow the author to give an example, the ship outfitting work carried out by the 16th Venice Arsenal: keel After the hull was built in the new arsenal, it went down the river to the old arsenal, "in order to go through each workshop to do the corresponding assembly. First rigging, then storage facilities, then swords, then projectors and artillery...everything that should be outfitting one after another". This description is completely the feeling of the whole vehicle assembly line, but it is不是工业，仍属于手工业】

[《资本论》First Volume Twelfth 章标题——分工和工场手工业，内容就是讲手工工场]