"How's the production here?"
There was a coal mine three hundred miles away from Chang'an City. The first thing Li Yunze asked when he came on horseback was how the production was here.
"His Majesty."
The Shaofu Mine Supervisor in charge of the coal mine here hurriedly saluted and responded, "The output has increased significantly in the past few months, and the daily output of coal has exceeded 8,000 kilograms."
Hearing this, Li Yunze frowned with dissatisfaction, "Why are there so few?"
It's not that he has high requirements, but this small amount of output is indeed not worth mentioning.
"must."
The mine supervisor hurriedly explained, "The number of hard workers sent in has decreased significantly recently. The number of hard workers put in cannot keep up with the consumption, and we cannot use local people to do the hard work."
"Huh?" Li Yunze immediately frowned, "How dare you use ordinary people to do hard labor?"
The mine supervisor was really frightened by these words, and he hurriedly bowed and explained, "I don't dare, it's just that there are fewer hard workers, and the increase in output has slowed down."
The so-called hard workers are naturally the local indigenous people captured from South Vietnam.
Anyone who can prove that they are descendants of the Old Qin people will be regarded as Han people. However, those indigenous people, especially those in the Indochina Peninsula, are all captured and sent to various construction sites and mines of the Han Dynasty.
These hard laborers had nothing but a hut to sleep in and a mouthful of food to eat.
However, the local people recruited by the mines are paid wages, have brick houses to shelter from the wind and rain, have enough corn and pickles, and are even given meat to eat and bowls of wine to drink during festivals.
The most fatal difference is that the coal seam in this mine is relatively deep, so digging a deep well down there is very dangerous.
This kind of work is for hard workers, and they often encounter various situations that lead to losses.
However, the number of hard workers sent now cannot keep up with the rate of losses, so the rate of increase in production will naturally be greatly slowed down.
After hearing the explanation, Li Yunze nodded and said, "It's hard to find hard labor now. You should try your best to take it easy when using it, and don't waste it all at will. When there are no hard labor, why don't you do the dangerous things yourself?"
The mine supervisor didn't dare to say anything more, so he had to laugh repeatedly.
"The salary can be improved." Li Yunze thought for a while and said, "Upgrade the thatched hut to a thatched hut. At least it can protect you from the wind and rain. Don't make a lot of people sick when it rains. If someone is sick, let the doctor take a look. Here Is there a doctor assigned to you?”
"Yes, yes." The mine supervisor nodded repeatedly, "The medical center has arranged for apprentices to come to the mine."
The so-called medical clinic was naturally established by Li Yunze with the support of doctors. He directly opened the clinic to recruit apprentices for training, and then distributed them to various places where they were needed.
"Um."
Li Yunze nodded again, "The food should also be improved, at least let them have enough food. After all, only when they have enough food can they have the strength to work. These hard workers are important labor, how can they be thrown away easily. Understand?"
There is no way, it is difficult to catch the hard workers on the peninsula now.
Basically all those who were easy to catch have been captured in the past two years, and the remaining ones have long since fled into the dense forest filled with smoke.
Even though the local governors and magistrates offered very high rewards, fewer and fewer people were caught.
In this case, of course, you can only cherish it and use it.
, After all, it is better to leave dangerous work to them than to let the common people do it. ,
As for wanting to increase coal production, that's because Dahan's demand for coal is rising sharply at this time.
Li Yunze knew very well how the originally clear river turned into the Yellow River, and the silt-silted Yellow River had brought terrible losses to the downstream for thousands of years, forming a terrifying above-ground river. Naturally, he also knew.
Therefore, if we want to avoid repairing river embankments every year in the future and spending millions of dollars on river construction every year, but the result is that the more repairs are made, the more they collapse, then we must start at the source.
The source is the people in Guanzhong who have been burning firewood for many years.
The people in Guanzhong all use firewood for cooking, and the source of this firewood is naturally the seemingly inexhaustible forest trees.
Li Yunze has calculated before that the average daily firewood consumption per person in the Guanzhong area is more than ten kilograms just for the purpose of cooking.
The millions of people in the Guanzhong area use tens of millions of kilograms of firewood a day. Year after year, no matter how many forests there are, they will be cut down.
Moreover, Li Yunze also promoted medical and epidemic prevention knowledge throughout the Han Dynasty, such as washing clothes and bathing frequently, drinking more hot water instead of raw water, etc. In order to be able to boil hot water for bathing and drinking hot water, the consumption of firewood increased.
In this case, the first thought that comes to mind for travelers is coal.
Therefore, Li Yunze promoted coal mining in various places and replaced the consumption of wood with coal.
In an era when coal was mined solely by manpower, if you wanted to dig more coal, you needed to use miners to fill it.
And Li Yunze is not a tyrant who treats the people like rutted dogs. Naturally, it is impossible to use the lives of Han people to fill mineral deposits, so the natives from the Xiongnu and the Indochina Peninsula have become the best choice.
Unfortunately, after several years of continuous arrests, it is now difficult to find qualified laborers.
After inspecting the mine, Li Yunze wandered to the coal field next to the mine.
While watching the local miners mixing coal with yellow mud and other materials to make briquettes, I was thinking about where else I could find people to do the work.
The Huns continued to retreat. At this time, there were almost no Huns tribes within 200 miles north of the Great Wall.
The frontier troops may not encounter the Huns even if they go hundreds of miles out of the fortress, let alone capture coolies.
Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the South Vietnam side. Those who have not been caught are hiding in the dense forest. The smoke is so thick there that even the most greedy rangers dare not go deep into it.
Now it's either a big war or finding a more suitable place to collect coolies.
"There are quite a few black dwarves on Nanyang Island, but they also like to live in dense forests. It would be too costly to capture them."
Walking to the piles of briquettes waiting to be transported away, Li Yunze pondered, "Why don't we just go to Africa?"
With a large ship and the navigation knowledge and charts provided by Li Yunze, it is not difficult to go to Africa.
But the distance is too far, so just to catch a group of those people back, the gain outweighs the loss.
While standing there blankly watching the miners beating briquettes, Ju Meng Xiaobu came over and said, "Your Majesty, a document has arrived from Chang'an City."
Li Yunze is not an emperor who likes to hide in the palace all day long, doing nothing but eating, drinking and having fun.
He spent at least half of the year riding around the world on horseback, seeing with his own eyes, asking with his own mouth, and hearing with his own ears what the world was like.
So if there is an emergency, Chang'an City can only send a fast horse to deliver it.
He took the document and spread it out. It turned out to be a document from the Ministry of Industry. It said that the construction of the road to Yelang Kingdom was slow and hard work was urgently needed to speed up the process.
After pacifying Mitsukoshi, Li Yunze set his sights on Yelang Kingdom and the Dian Kingdom behind Yelang Kingdom.
But after these two countries penetrated deep into the mountains and old forests, and they were not close to the sea, and there were no big rivers, it was more difficult than when Qin State entered Bashu. They could only build large-scale official roads first and build them all the way across.
Make roads when encountering mountains and build bridges when encountering water.
It seems like a simple job, but in the mountains full of primitive jungles, it is really a fatal thing. Basically, every mile of official road construction must be filled with a group of hard workers.
Li Yunze was reluctant to let the ordinary people fill it, so he had to find a way to find outside help.
"That's all we can do."
Li Yunze made up his mind and called the accompanying Lang Guan over, "Sima Xiangru, you write it."
Once Li Yunze was determined to make Sima Xiangru unable to succeed in his life.
But after Zhuo Wenjun gave birth to the prince Liu Xiu, Li Yunze also became more generous.
When the prince Liu Xiu was born, Enke was prescribed, and Sima Xiangru performed well, so he was given the opportunity to be a writing officer by his side.
That's right, the son Zhuo Wenjun gave birth to was named Xiu'er by Li Yunze.
There were so many emperors of the Han Dynasty, but apart from Liu Bang and Liu Che, only Liu Xiuer was the most outstanding. After all, he was the Great Magister.
It is estimated that Liu Xiu will not appear in this world in the future, so he just named him Liu Xiu to get some luck.
Sima Xiangru, who was touched by Liu Xiuguang, quickly prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then looked up at Li Yunze.
"Write to Li Danghu, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, and ask him to arrange for a fleet to take the charts south to Africa. I don't have any special requirements, that is, as long as the men there don't want women, and before boarding the ship to be transported back, I have no special requirements. Carry out harmless treatment.”
After writing this, Sima Xiangru was stunned. He didn't understand what harmless treatment meant.
Li Yunze waved his hand casually, "I'll leave this matter to the Young Master and ask them to prepare a group of cleansing masters to go with the fleet. Do you understand?"
"Understand."
Sima Xiangru nodded repeatedly, now fully understanding.
". We must select those who are hard-working and willing to work. We cannot bring back everyone. We must be more careful in this regard."
Li Yunze spoke quickly, and Sima Xiangru also wrote quickly.
As expected of a person who can easily write hundreds or even thousands of poems and verses. He writes really fast, fast and well.
"...We need to find some local chiefs and establish a good cooperative relationship. Let them catch them, and there is no need to go deep into the interior."
The eloquent document of a thousand words was finally finished. Seeing Li Yunze nodding, Ju Mengcai stepped forward, took out the seal and stamped it.
After writing it, put it away, give it to the accompanying Yulin army, and quickly send it to Chang'an City.
The scale of the sea-going fleet has been continuously expanding, and even super-sea ships with 800 materials have been built. It is estimated that a large fleet can bring back a lot of important labor force once it goes to sea.
These laborers have no hidden dangers, they just contribute to the construction of the Han Dynasty.
As for those that have not been dealt with cleanly, that is absolutely unacceptable, and we will never give them the slightest chance to spread.
As for whether he would be unruly or anything like that, Li Yunze wasn't worried.
Because those who can be sent here are basically willing to be obedient, because those who are disobedient are already gone before they are sent to the ship.
Li Yunze plans to visit the local farmland again to see how the grain production is this year. After all, food is the most important thing for the people.
But before he went to the fields, he received a piece of good news that made him smile.
"Your Majesty, I have come to report from the border that Zhang Qian, who was on an envoy to the Western Regions, is back!"
(End of chapter)
