Hehehe, Master Zelianke, don't be angry, don't be angry, no one here uses firearms." A young big man stood up, with brown hair, nearly two meters tall, holding a handful of popcorn in his hand, and was shameless to persuade Zelianke.

Zelenko recognized this guy at a glance, the company's accountant, Polish Mikhailov, and of course he also had a Chinese name - Li Wula.

"Li Wula, you are the bastard again, you will die sooner or later because you are causing trouble." Zelenko yelled.

Li Wula shrugged: "Mr. Zelenko, you are also a noble duke. Can you not speak so roughly? We are studying science, science!"

Zelenko then realized that a stove was built with a rotating head on the ground, and an iron rack was added on it. Li Wula squatted down from time to time, shaking the balloon while eating what was in his hand. Of course, Zelenko recognized that he had seen it when he was in school in the Empire. This was a popcorn machine, but Li Wula was much smaller and only the size of a vase.

At this time, the patrol officers on the street rushed in. When they saw the popcorn machine that was still heating on the ground, they put down their vigilance and cursed. However, when they saw Li Wula, the two patrol officers were helpless. Li Wula stepped forward and said something with her arms around her back. Without Zelianko coming forward, they persuaded the person away. Obviously, this guy had a lot of dealing with the patrol officers.

Li Wula was recruited into the company from the foreign labor market at the beginning of the year by Zelenko. The foreign labor market is actually a slum in the north of Xijin City. All living in foreign workers. According to local laws in Xijin, if you want to use these workers, you have to provide guarantees for the workers. Therefore, employers will hire short-term workers as much as possible. If you use long-term workers, you will carefully select them to eliminate the unstable factors inside. Therefore, labor companies like Zelenko that are well-known to foreign workers are also very profitable in Xijin.

But not everyone can get long-term jobs like Ukrainians, so there are places like foreign labor markets that allow those unemployed or some labor families to live there. Xijin has some policies similar to basic living security for the Ukrainian labor market, including but not limited to poor workers who have just arrived in the country and have not yet worked to provide clothes and food and introduce work.

Of course, similar areas are established more for the convenience of management, because there are always some people who are always unacceptable for various reasons, especially those criminals who have not been able to get a job for a long time will be supported by the Xijin local government. Generally speaking, they will be persuaded to return after three months. Of course, if they are unwilling to do so, they will be postponed appropriately, but will be postponed for at most half a year. In other words, a foreign worker will be stranded in the empire for up to nine months. After the time comes, the foreign worker will not be expelled, but will be directly packaged and sold to slave traders filled with the Black Sea, especially those Jews.

In fact, few people are really turned into slaves. Those who are subject to such punishment are often those who commit crimes. They are unable to repay their crimes. Incarceration can only be a waste of money and food, and only for sale can atone for sins. Foreign workers who have not found a job in Xijin for three months will choose to go to Suez after receiving the order of persuasion. No matter what kind of person you are and where you come from, as long as you have the strength to dig a canal and survive. In fact, the Suez Canal area is the trash can in Xijin.

Li Wula was very open-minded in that mixed place. Although he was young, he had a cheerful personality and extraordinary knowledge. At first glance, he was a guy who had been lingering in the market for many years. The reason why Zelenko recruited him was because Li Wula knew Polish and Russian, and had a little French and English. After arriving in Xijin, he learned a lot of Chinese. Until now, he was quite proficient in Chinese, and he could write and calculate. If he was simply trained, he would become a qualified accountant.

But Li Wula always makes trouble. He is interested in everything in Xijin, or curious about everything he has never seen before, such as steam trains, railways, heating, textile machinery, etc., but he is not only interested, but also has strong hands-on ability. It was not until this guy was curious to remove the radiator in the company's conference room that Zelenko knew that he had found a troublesome. Take the popcorn machine for example, Li Wula caused trouble more than once.

Li Wula called this thing a food amplifier. When he saw the corn kernels put in turned into popcorn on the commercial street, he burst out with a strong desire. He insisted that the vendor put the potatoes in and try it, which led to the patrol police. It was Zelenko who personally saved him, and Zelenko discovered Li Wula's extraordinaryness. On the way back, Li Wula always regarded the "food amplifier" as one of the major reasons for the empire's strength. He firmly believed that it was because the Chinese people had this kind of thing that enlarged food ten times that they became rich and strong. Of course, Li Wula later understood the truth and no longer insisted on the original statement.

After exchange, Zelenko learned that Liwula was a down-and-out nobleman in Poland. Of course, this was not worth it. Because one-fifth of the people in Poland were nobles, he claimed that he had cheated a Jew of a large sum of money, so he went to Xijin to hide from debts. Zelenko knew that foreign workers who came to Xijin had their own secrets, and Liwula was indeed easy to use, and he didn't want to find out the truth.

Who knew that Li Wula was so fascinated by popcorn machines that he actually bought one for special enjoyment. But then he thought that Li Wula's language ability and computing talent were very useful, and he might be able to play in the future "Ukrainian Group".

"Liwula, come with me." Zelenko said to Liwula.

Li Wula collapsed another pot of popcorn, followed Zelenko with her hands and entered the office. Zelenko said to Li Wula: "Li Wula, although popcorn is delicious, don't eat too much, as eating too much will lead poisoning."

"What does lead poisoning mean?" Li Wula still stuffed her mouth in big handfuls.

Zelenko said: "This is a story in popular science books for young children in the empire. It is said that the Romans used lead cups to drink wine and used lead pipes to transport water, which caused a large amount of lead poisoning, which was an important reason for the destruction of ancient Rome. However, Europeans believed that the Romans were prone to death because they loved to take a bath. Until now, people in most parts of Europe, including the king, believed that taking a bath was harmful to the body."

Li Wula has been playing with a popcorn machine for a long time. He knows some of the tricks. The popcorn machine is to put the grain into the belly of the cast iron machine and use a screw to pressurize the mouth. The sealing is very important. In order to solve this problem, the mouth and cover of the barrel bottle are made of lead. The lead is softer and easier to seal under the action of the screw. Of course, he does not understand the principles of popcorn, such as pressure temperature, moisture into water vapor, and that is science.

But Li Wula did not believe in lead poisoning because he had read the imperial textbooks, which were filled with many negative content to European countries, in order to prove that the empire is more civilized and the legitimacy of the current regime. So he asked: "Is it true or false? Are the Chinese deliberately ridiculed Europe, and they like to do this the most!"

This is a common topic between Zelenko and Li Wula. They usually like to discuss similar words, mainly because Zelenko is either subordinate or Ukrainian laborer who is dependent on him. Zelenko really needs a friend like Li Wula who has considerable knowledge and can maintain relatively equality with him. Obviously, even Zelenko, who is a foreign duke of the empire and who has been fully educated by the empire, still has similar views to Li Wula.

The reason why Zelenko chose the Ukrainian nation was because he did not have much recognition of the empire, or in other words, the empire did not satisfy him in terms of its acceptance. This is closely related to the thoughts and education within the empire. In the education of a nation-state, the easiest way to promote national unity is to establish an enemy for his own nation. In the pre-imperial era, this enemy was undoubtedly the Manchu tribe, but in the establishment of the empire, in order to achieve national reconciliation and unity, Manchuria was no longer an enemy, and this enemy gradually became the entire Europa nation, that is, the empire's biggest competitor on this planet.

White people, believing in monotheism, are two major elements of the enemy, but what makes Zelenko regretful is that he and the Cossacks he belongs to belong to also belong to this category, so during the process of Zelenko's study, he can see that the nation gets along well with Manchuria, Mongolia, North Korea and other nations. Even in the early days, Manchuria could integrate into the imperial society by pretending to be Mongolia, but Zelenko was not good, he was always an alien.

It is precisely because of the idea that white people are opponents in imperial education that Li Wula's similar thoughts were created - everything is suspicion and denial of white people and the Christian world, and may be slander. Of course, this is not necessarily wrong, but it is a topic that cannot be studied and understood, because no one can measure it from a neutral perspective.

It was precisely because Zelenko believed that he could not truly integrate into the empire that he chose to start a new business. The same is because he knew that the whites could not integrate into the empire that he supported Pei Yuanqi's policy in Xijin and established the Ukrainian founding plan as a backup plan.

Zelenko shook his head: "My major does not involve these, but this is a common concept in the imperial scientific community. I don't think there is any mistake."

Li Wula finished eating all the popcorn and said, "Okay, I will figure it out. And the Zelenko University asked me to come here, it wouldn't be just for this."

Zelenko authorized King Yu to establish an army, and he told him that Li Wula wanted to bring Li Wula into the army. Zelenko saw that Li Wula's eyes and expression changed completely, and became a little unfathomable. In the end, Li Wula said: "No, I can't promise you. I don't want to go to the distant overseas adventure. There are many interesting things here, and I haven't figured them all out."

Zelianke knew countless people. From Li Wula's expression, he could tell that what he said was not what he thought, but Li Wula quickly said that Zelianke could fire him, and he would not go anyway. Zelianke had no choice but to let Li Wula go out. However, the more Zelianke thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Li Wula seemed mysterious, and unlike other foreign workers, he did not seem to be seeking survival or making money.

Soon, Zelenko found another accountant, who was originally a member of the Ukrainian Workers' Brotherhood and soon agreed to join the army. Zelenko remembered that this man had a good relationship with Li Wula and asked, "Why did Li Wula call Li Wula?"

The accountant said: "He said that when he first came to Xijin, it was still winter, and his feet were almost frozen. Someone gave him a pair of cotton shoes to save his feet. The cotton shoes were not cotton, but a kind of grass. It is said that it was from the northeast of the empire, called Wulacao. Poor farmers would use Wulacao to keep warm in felt boots. It is said that Xijin introduced Wulacao a few years ago for foreign workers who had just arrived in Xijin and were short of food and clothing."

Zelenko knew these things. In fact, it was not only Xijin, but also several border areas of the empire. Because the border areas were very cold, cotton shoes could not achieve the effect of keeping warm, and adding umlaze was enough. Therefore, many agricultural and pastoral areas would plant a little. They were harvested in autumn and beat them with wooden sticks. Of course, Zelenko heard that umlaze was more of the rumor I heard when I was studying in the capital - there were three treasures in the northeast, ginseng mink marten umlaze.

But Zelenko and Li Wula's friends were deceived by him. Li Wula's Ula was not the Ula in Chinese at all, but the Ula in Russian. In Russian, Ula had no specific meaning, it was just a tone with strong emotions. However, because the imperial diplomats had heard of the shooting army in Moscow to Tsar Qihuwula, they thought it was the meaning of long live. This translation gradually spread in Xijin. After Li Wula arrived in Xijin, he realized that Ula in his mother tongue had this meaning.

Li Wula is not a down-and-out Polish aristocrat. He is a Russian. His full name is Peter, Alexeyevich, Romanov, and his real identity is the true master of Russia's second tsar. In Peter's eyes, Li is the surname of the empire, and Ula is Long Live. In Chinese culture, Long Live is the emperor. So as the master of Russia, he should be called Li Wula, although this name sounds a bit rustic!
Chapter completed!