Chapter 36 [Lantern Festival]
After razing the village of Pulor, these stubborn households were finally eradicated, and the one hundred acres of land could enter the construction state. Of course, the so-called construction is just the simple work of leveling the land and digging the foundation in the early stage. In order to make reasonable use of the one hundred acres of land, Bel Singh took advantage of the favorable conditions of the Sinjar government. He came to Udaipur and found a relatively large design company, which fully designed the overall layout of the asbestos tile factory and the construction of factory buildings and warehouses and other drawings.
Then, according to the design and planning of the drawings, he returned to Sinjar Town and spent a lot of money to hire all the large machinery in the town. In addition, more than one hundred strong male temporary workers were hired to start the construction of leveling the land for the asbestos tile factory.
Sinjar Town was originally remote, particularly poor and backward. There were not two excavators in the town, and there were even fewer bulldozers or large load trucks. Moreover, the price of hiring these mechanical equipment is very expensive, and the daily fee paid to these mechanical owners is more than one thousand rupees.
As for those temporary workers with hoes and shovels, the price is much cheaper. Each person can break these pieces and work like a donkey for 100 rupees a day. It seems that 100 rupees is not much. It can only buy five kilograms of rice or eight kilograms of cornmeal, but it is an average salary in Sinjar Town, which is still very attractive. After fierce competition, the recruitment scale of 100 people is very happy to have such a job. Of course, you have to serve Master Bel Singh sincerely.
Because there are too few people around him, he had to go back to the Lagar Valley once and select a few smart and high school educated villagers from three Vaishya caste families. He came to his asbestos tile factory site as a supervisor. Things were going well, but he didn't expect that the bad would happen when he returned to Lagar Village. A Shudra servant who lived with him in Sinjar Town was so rude that he told the villagers that he spent 100 rupees to hire outsiders to build his factory.
The villagers of Lagar were not happy about this. They organized themselves and elected some respected elders or some high-caste villagers from the Vaishya family as representatives. They came to the study room of Singh Castle to negotiate with Master Singh to see if these villagers could go to Sinjar Town to work for Master Singh during the slack season to earn some extra money, which could be regarded as a subsidy for the family. After all, one hundred rupees a day was not a low price.
As early as ten days ago, the villagers had planted the third season of crops, and all the heavy work was basically completed. The rest was just to take care of the farmland, water the farmland, fertilize it and weed it. These farm work could be done by women, the elderly and even teenagers. The strong and capable men in the family had nothing to do all day long. It would be better for them to work for Master Bel Singh if they were idle.
After all, they were all from the same village, and they were all farmers of the Bel Singh family for generations, so they were more or less their own people. It was still very trustworthy to work for Master Bel Singh. In addition, it didn't matter who they used, it was safer and more reliable to use their own people. So Master Belsinger agreed, and a week later, he fired all temporary workers in Sinjar Town and replaced them with 100 strong villagers from Lagar Village.
With his own people, the work efficiency increased exponentially, and the land leveling and digging of the factory foundation could basically be completed within a month. Even the foundation of the wall of the 100-acre manor was dug out, and the factory building was built after the cement factory started to produce cement. There was another thing to be happy about. That is, through the matchmaking of the leaders of the town government, Belsinger finally bought two shops on the street of Dongcuo, the central cross street.
Then all of them were demolished, and the warehouses of several shops were indirectly annexed to form a 1,500-square-meter vacant land. Then he started to dig the foundation and even dug two basements of hundreds of square meters. After cleaning them up, he waited for the cement factory to start production. After that, a two-story shop covering an area of more than 3,200 square meters was built, with a 500-square-meter store in the front and a 2,500-square-meter warehouse in the back, which could store more than a hundred tons of cement and tens of thousands of cement tiles.
As for the 200-square-meter basement, it will still be useful in the future. It can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is missing. The east wind is that the machinery of the two factories in China will be delivered to the place, and then officially assembled and debugged for mining, production and firing of cement. As long as high-grade cement is produced, all projects can be started immediately. If everything goes well, next year, that is, after the rainy season in 2001, the two factories will officially make a profit. With these two cornucopias, Belsinger can be his own noble master comfortably again, and he doesn't have to work so hard like now. Having his own factory that makes a fortune every day is called a happy life.
So such a strange scene appeared. The first two shops on the east side of the street on the most prosperous Central Cross Commercial Street in Sinjar Town have been completely demolished. All the foundations were dug and covered with plastic sheets, but there was no sign of any construction. Outsiders who didn't understand asked the residents of Sinjar town and found out who the owner of the land was.
What was it used for? Some outsiders heard that the 14-year-old master Belsinger, who was well-known in the town and had a lot of influence in the surrounding area, actually bought a large mine. He planned to open a cement factory. In the future, the more than 100,000 people in Sinjar town and the hundreds of thousands of villagers in the surrounding area who needed to build houses could buy cheap cement produced by Master Singer's factory on the spot.
The cost of building a house has plummeted. It can be said that the two building materials factories opened by Mr. Belsinger have made great achievements in the contemporary era and will benefit the future. They have won the unanimous support of the entire town of Sinjar and the surrounding villagers. Everyone is eagerly waiting for the opening of these two local building materials factories. Some families with good conditions are now starting to save money to build their own houses.
So, having said that, why do so many outsiders come to Sinjar town during this period? We are here to participate in the annual Festival of Lights temple fair. The Festival of Lights is one of the largest festivals in Hinduism. A grand temple fair is held between October and November every year. It is more lively in some big cities, but the town of Sinjar is just a small town with more than 100,000 people, although it has a certain influence in the surrounding area. But the lively festival scenes in the town are simply incomparable to those in big cities.
But compared to those larger villages, the temple fairs in the towns are more lively. Merchants or vendors in the towns will offer discounts on their products during the festivals and temple fairs in the past few days. A manic shopping festival gradually developed. Some poor people saved a year's income and spent it during the Lantern Festival and temple fairs in these few days.
It is enough to buy those cheap daily necessities. This is a way for a poor family to save money and survive. Therefore, the town is very lively these days. The Hindu temples can be said to be crowded with people, and the Brahmin sacrifices in the temples are also the most prosperous. The income and wallet gradually bulged. It happened that I had nothing to do these days. Belsinger accompanied his young wife Lina to visit the Lantern Festival temple fair and enjoy the fun of young people.