The Regent's Sweetheart

Chapter 399
The main reason is that Shannan is a mining area. The largest iron mine in Danan is located in Shannan. Almost all the pig iron used in the armor of the entire Danan army comes from Shannan.

It can be said that this is an important military area in the Great South, but there will be a long cold wave here every winter, and most of the miners here are from Jiangnan.

There is mostly no snow in the south of the Yangtze River, so people who come here will be overwhelmed by the wind and snow here. People freeze to death every year, and the government will come to the mining area in autumn to prepare winter supplies.

If not, there will be a gap in the iron ore needed to repair the armor by the beginning of spring.

At this time, there will always be someone from the Shannan government who will be charged with delaying the military plane after being investigated.

Therefore, almost all the officials who came to Shannan to serve would pay special attention to the preparations for the winter of those miners, and dared not be negligent in the slightest.

But even so, people often freeze to death in winter. Generally, as long as there is no large-scale freeze to death, there will not be much attention here, because most of the miners who come here are prisoners.

This year's snow has been extraordinarily heavy, so houses in the Shannan miners' residential area have been crushed by the snow, and there are almost no intact houses in the entire residential area.

Most of these houses have been in disrepair for many years. The government has enough preparations for the official mission or the government's people in winter, but they ignore the prisoners and laborers from the south of the Yangtze River.

As a result, hundreds of workers in the entire mining area were frozen to death overnight after the residential area was crushed by snow. Hundreds of thousands of workers in a mining area were frozen to death. Otherwise, this is the reason for the large-scale disaster in Shannan.

Some people rebelled, and the army came to suppress it, but they were either frozen to death or killed. How can these workers choose?
After the chaos, almost all the miners who escaped from Shannan were arrested, and the places passed by those laborers who escaped from the mining area, whether they were government offices or poor people, were almost looted.

Another heavy snowfall, the consequences can be imagined.

And this matter was not dealt with because of the discord between the emperor and the regent in the court.

On the first day he came here, Yan Sihan saw countless corpses on the side of the road, all of which were frozen into ice sculptures. Within a day, all the tents he brought were set up, making a temporary shelter for tens of thousands of people. resettlement point.

Grain and grass were brought in continuously, but the weather was so cold that cotton and linen tents could not withstand it. All the cotton coats in the armory were distributed to the victims, but this was not enough.

So on the third day, Yan Sihan sent people to organize the victims to go up the mountain to cut trees. Every tent has a stove. Someone came to repair their house again.

Although the disaster area was chaotic and tragic, all the laborers involved in the incident were arrested and temporarily imprisoned outside Shannan.

As the regent, Yan Sihan did not bring more torture to these poor laborers, but each of them got three years more sentences for mining here.

Three years of mining in Shannan, as long as the winter is fully prepared, you can actually live, so the treatment of this labor is the root cause of the solution.

Regarding this matter, Yan Sihan had already had people rectify it for three years, and Shannan was about to complete the rectification in these three years.

But as he was preparing to leave the capital a few days ago, the Shannan County Governor directly asked the emperor to change.

This mountain south involves the Ministry of War, and for those local officials, this is the area with the most lucrative water.

(End of this chapter)