Chapter 2487: Sunrise in the East

"Enjoy the sunrise?!"

390 was shocked, and at the same time asked with an excited face, "Sir, is this true?!"

Ye Chen nodded, "I just said that in the future, I will definitely ensure that dead soldiers can take turns to go to the ground at any time. For this first time, let's leave it to those children who have never seen the sun, moon, and stars."

390 was excited, but suddenly remembered something and asked Ye Chen, "Sir, is it still dark outside at this time?"

"Yes." Ye Chen said, "In half an hour, it will be dawn."

390 looked at the lights densely covered on the ceiling and sighed, "It seems that the day and night inside us are exactly the opposite of the outside."

Ye Chen smiled slightly, "They don't want you to calculate the date in real life, so they naturally distort the time inside and the reality."

After speaking, Ye Chen added, "However, don't worry. From today on, the day and night here will be consistent with the outside. I will let people prepare clocks for you. In the future, your dates and time will be completely synchronized with real life."

390 said respectfully, "Thank you, Sir!"

Ye Chen said, "By the way, there is one more task for you."

390 hurriedly said, "Sir, please give your instructions!"

Ye Chen said seriously, "Starting tomorrow, you divide your people into three groups, each with more than a thousand people, and then select one hundred and thirty laborers from each group to continue to participate in the daily production and mining of the copper mine."

As he spoke, Ye Chen turned to Li Nianzong, the Cavalry Guard who followed him, and said, "For the sake of fairness, the Cavalry Guards are the same. Let each of the three banners of Left, Middle, and Right select about twenty laborers to participate in the work together with the laborers selected by the dead soldiers."

Li Nianzong said without hesitation, "Sir, don't worry, I will handle it later!"

Ye Chen instructed again, "Work adopts an eight-hour three-shift system, working one day and resting one day, so this requires internal selection of more than one shift of people to ensure that everyone can get a good rest."

"No problem!" Li Nianzong said, "The production scale of this copper mine is not large, and only more than a hundred people are working at the same time. The dead soldiers and Cavalry Guards add up to nearly four thousand people, so it is very easy to deal with this workload."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "We let them participate in work, not to exploit their labor, but to maintain the normal operation of this copper mine, so that the Anti-Qing Society will not notice any abnormality. Therefore, you two tell all the laborers who participate in the work that as long as they participate in labor, I will calculate their wages at double the treatment of normal mine workers in Cyprus, and settle them in US dollars at that time."

Li Nianzong and 390 looked at each other, and Li Nianzong said, "Sir, there is no need for money... You have helped us so much and are our great benefactor. How can we take your money? Moreover, the ore produced by this copper mine is handed over to the Anti-Qing Society, and the settled money cannot enter your pocket. Doesn't this mean you are purely paying for it?"

"Yes..." 390 also hurriedly echoed, "Sir, we can't let you pay for it. Secondly, money is of no use to us at all. Even if you give it to us, for people like us, it's just a pile of waste paper. It's better for you to keep this money, and it can play some role in the cause of eliminating the Anti-Qing Society in the future..."

Ye Chen waved his hand and said very firmly, "If you work, you must get paid. This is one of the eternal truths of human development. You can save this money or use it to buy some things you like. But as 390 just said, for the sake of safety, you definitely can't go out to consume with money. However, I will let people give a list of common goods. If everyone needs it, let the Wanlong Palace be responsible for procurement, and then use hidden means to transport it here and hand it to everyone. What I can promise is that the Wanlong Palace will not earn any price difference."

Li Nianzong and 390 were both stunned.

They didn't expect that Ye Chen would actually intend to use the Wanlong Palace to help them solve the simple shopping problem. It obviously sounded a bit too much.

However, thinking that everyone could really use the money earned from daily labor to purchase various things from the outside world for themselves and their families, they couldn't help but look forward to it.

Especially 390, he didn't have Li Nianzong's freedom. After all, Li Nianzong was already a banner chief of the Cavalry Guards before. Although the banner chief didn't have a salary, at least he lived on the ground, and his understanding of this world was much stronger than 390, who lived underground and was isolated from the world for years.

390 once spent several years explaining to his son that the earth was a circle.

However, his son had not gone out to perform tasks until now and had not seen the outside world. 390 himself couldn't even take out a globe, and there was no reasonable way to let his son understand this simplest truth.

Once the mode mentioned by Ye Chen is implemented, he only needs a few dollars to buy a globe to explain the true composition of the world to his son.

Ye Chen added, "In terms of the selection of laborers, I hope you can take the family as a unit and let each family select a strong laborer to participate, so as to achieve fairness and justice to the greatest extent."

"Okay, Sir!" Both of them nodded and agreed without hesitation. Ye Chen's idea coincided with their plan.

Ye Chen continued, "Also, if family members participate in logistics support work, they should also be settled according to the actual job type and workload. In addition, if there are underage children, two hundred US dollars will be issued per person per month as milk money, and this money will be collected and managed by their family members."

"Milk money?" The two were confused and couldn't understand what this money meant at all.

Ye Chen just said indifferently, "Just treat it as a little benefit I give to the children."

As he spoke, Ye Chen remembered something and said to 390, "In the future, from 5:00 am to 11:00 pm every day, these 18 hours, you can send at least 6 batches of people to the ground in turn. They can change into the uniform of the Cavalry Guards and carry out outdoor activities on the ground for three hours, but they must not leave the copper mine without authorization to avoid leaking the news."

390 guaranteed immediately, "Sir, don't worry, I guarantee with my head that no dead soldier or their family member will leave the copper mine area without authorization!"

"Good." Ye Chen nodded, "Alright, start organizing the children to go up one after another now!"

Soon, batches of infants and teenagers began to take the lifting device of the mine one after another, arriving at the ground they had never stepped on in their lives.

Among them, there were babies who were only a few months old, children who had just learned to speak, and teenagers who were about to become adults.

In order to let these children feel the first sunrise of their lives first, all adults were not on the list of going up the well this time.

However, there was one exception, that is, all children under three years old could be accompanied by their mothers to the ground to feel the late first sunrise of their lives.

Children under three years old were accompanied by their mothers, and those over three years old, holding hands with their brothers and sisters, or little friends, came to the ground in batches.

On the roof of the copper mine office building, more than seven hundred children under the age of eighteen, breathing fresh air they had never breathed before, stared at the eastern skyline with excitement and expectation.

The moment the east began to turn white, all the children were so excited that they didn't even dare to blink, for fear of missing the first sunrise of their lives.

It was a pity that although these children had heard their parents talk about the sun since they were young, no one knew what the sun looked like.

After all, in the dead soldiers' station, there was not even a photo related to the sun.

Some children couldn't believe that the fireball that shone with dazzling light mentioned by their parents would illuminate all things on earth after rising to the sky.

Since they were born, children had only seen lights, so in their impression, a lamp could at most illuminate a room, so how could it illuminate all things on earth?

Therefore, at this moment, they were all waiting to witness the miracle.

A few minutes later.

The sky gradually brightened, and the mottled clouds in the sky were vaguely visible.

The ever-changing sky made all the children marvel. Everyone stared at the clouds floating constantly in the sky and exclaimed. They had never seen such beautiful scenery.

As the brightness became stronger, looking around, all things on earth, as well as the magnificent sea, were clearly visible.

Standing on the roof, you could easily overlook the sea.

Seeing this, the children couldn't help but exclaim.

They had heard their parents talk about the sea, saying that it was boundless water. In the extreme distance, the sky and the water were connected into a line, and the sea and the sky were the same color, which was very spectacular.

It was just that they couldn't understand what "the sea and the sky are the same color" meant. After all, they hadn't even seen the sky.

Now seeing the sky and then seeing the sea, all abstract descriptions suddenly became vivid.

Amidst the exclamations of the children, a golden light suddenly rose from the east, and the fish-belly white skyline turned into a piece of gold at this moment!

The next moment, a golden arc in the sky had already protruded from the other end of the sea level.

A child pointed to that arc and shouted excitedly, "Look! Is that the sun?!" ===== CHAPTER 2488 =====