Of course Yun Chao would not keep the coachman from Dongping Mansion.
The job of driving a car is not very technical.
He now owns Sanshui Town and Woniu Town. The two towns together have a population of nearly 20,000.
It is definitely not an easy task to feed 20,000 people. Unless Yunchao ignores it and lets the people under his rule fend for themselves as he did before, otherwise they will have to be provided with jobs.
Yun Chao initially planned to build a thousand carts, which meant he would need a thousand cart drivers.
With these one thousand coachmen, one thousand families can be fed.
Based on an average of five people per family, the driver alone can solve the livelihood problem of 5,000 people.
Yun Chao has 400 boys under his command, who can also provide for the livelihood of 400 households, that is, 2,000 people.
With these two items alone, the livelihood of 7,000 people is solved.
The remaining people can work as helpers, farm, or be self-employed.
In this way, people in the two towns can basically solve their survival problems and live a relatively good life.
Why didn't Yun Chao expand wildly? It was because he couldn't solve the livelihood of the people under his rule.
The peasant uprising in the late Ming Dynasty was so huge. Why it ended in failure was because the base areas did not develop.
From having nothing to being firmly established, throughout history, there have been only two such teams for thousands of years.
One is Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang who started with a bowl, and the other is the one who completely ended the landlord class...ahem...
As for other dynasty changes, most of them are landlords and landlords, aristocratic families and aristocratic families, and mutual fighting games between the same classes. Very few of them have truly achieved a class jump.
Although the coachman was not left behind, Yun Chao's good food, drinks and hospitality were not in vain.
As they return to Dongping Mansion, Mr. Yun's reputation in Qingyang County will surely be spread!
These days, reputation is very important. With enough fame, many people will bow to you as soon as you meet them.
If you are notorious, many people would rather die than play with you.
The coachmen left early the next morning.
Reluctant to leave.
Worried about being hungry on the way, Mr. Yun gave each of them ten large white steamed buns.
With the big white steamed buns given by Master Yun in their arms, all the carriage drivers were moved to tears.
Don't say anything, Mr. Yun, just watch and see how we promote it to you after we get back!
Of course, these were the wishes of the drivers, and Yun Chao did not tell them to do this.
Some things are boring to say out loud. He, Yun Chao, is not the kind of person who wants to repay favors!
The coachmen have finished their journey, but the cart has not.
Many big cars were bought by Yun Chao with his money.
The drivers who drove the carriages were hired for money, and they went back in other people's carts.
Thus, a new round of driver selection began with great fanfare.
Coachmen and helpers are different. Helpers are temporary workers, while coachmen are contract workers.
Helpers are paid for one day's work. They work when there is work and rest when there is no work.
The driver pays his bills once a month. Even if he is off for half of the month, his wages are still very little.
Of course, Yun Chao asked them to take this break, not the driver himself.
There will be a deduction for taking leave yourself.
It's not that Yun Chao is harsh, the main reason is that he doesn't want others to eat from a big pot.
Yun Chao knew the disadvantages of big pot rice in his previous life and would not make the same mistake in this life.
This time in Dongping Mansion, Yun Chao got almost three hundred carts and needed to recruit three hundred cart drivers.
The people who know how to drive carts in the two towns have already been recruited by Yunchao, and the cart drivers who are now being recruited need to be trained from scratch.
Moreover, signing up to be a driver requires a guarantee.
The need for guarantees is an iron rule, and Yunchao does not intend to abolish it in the short term.
The wages of the coachmen are not low. In addition to taking care of the food, they only have a salary of one stone of grain per month. If they save a little on food, they can barely support the family.
Of course, the rest of the family can't do nothing.
If seven or eight people are supported by one person, one stone of food per month will not be enough.
At this stage, except for the gang of boys who need to work hard, Yun Chao will not give high salaries to anyone else.
Otherwise, how can we distinguish the difference between soldiers and ordinary helpers?
For ordinary non-combatants, the standard set by Yun Chao is that they will not starve to death even if they cannot eat enough.
Only in this way will these talents not be content with the status quo and will try their best to find ways to climb up.
This is also the most ideal state of a society and a country.
If everyone had enough to eat and bask in the sun, who would want to go to war?
Of course, even Yun Chao's so-called unsustainable treatment is already the best treatment in Qingyang County and even Dongping Prefecture, bar none.
You'll be given one stone of grain for a month's work, and you'll have to take care of three full meals a day. You can't find such a good job except here in Yunchao, even with a lantern!
Therefore, whether it is a helper or a driver, no one will be lazy when working.
One is that I feel sorry for my conscience, and the other is that I am afraid of being fired.
At present, Yun Chao has not discovered the disadvantages of doing this, so he is ready to continue doing it.
"My dear friend, I have successfully tested the circulating heating method you mentioned. Do you want to go and have a look?"
As soon as the coachmen left, Tang Long limped to Yunchao and brought him good news.
Tang Long's injuries are not completely healed yet, but he is barely able to direct others to work.
When he was recuperating, Yun Chao frequently discussed iron smelting matters with him, the most common of which was how to increase the temperature of the furnace.
The Dawu Dynasty mainly used charcoal to make iron, but coal was also used to make iron.
Yun Chao knew something about iron smelting. When charcoal is used to make iron, the quality of the iron is relatively good, but the disadvantage is that the combustion value of charcoal is not high and the temperature it reaches is not enough.
Coal has a high combustion value and is relatively rich in resources compared to charcoal.
However, because coal contains impurities such as sulfur and phosphorus, the iron produced is relatively brittle and the quality is not as good as the iron produced from charcoal.
Unfortunately, neither charcoal nor coal can reach the melting temperature of pure iron under normal circumstances.
The melting point of pure iron is more than 1,500 degrees. Under normal conditions, the burning temperature of charcoal is only 700 to 800 degrees, and the burning temperature of coal is only a little over 1,000 degrees. There is no way to melt pure iron into molten iron.
However, because pig iron contains impurities, its melting temperature is lower than that of pure iron. Most of them can reach 1,200 to 3,000 degrees Celsius.
Yun Chao didn't know how the top blacksmiths of the Great Wu Dynasty made iron. Tang Long and Hu Blacksmith used the steel forging method, also called the Hundred Steelmaking Method.
It is made by burning iron in a furnace and then forging it repeatedly!
Yunchao now wants to increase the furnace temperature as much as possible.
The higher the furnace temperature, the easier it is for iron to melt, the higher the efficiency of steelmaking, and the better the quality of the steel produced!
