Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 584 Mount Hada Silver Mine (First update)
"Hey, it's not that we are short of people here! Besides, our life in Daming is much more comfortable than that in Chahar, and this officer is thinking of them!" the way.

"Then you should be a little more secretive. You have been sued by this king and punished with alcohol!" Liu Hongjian put down the bowl and chopsticks, picked up the wine jar and poured a big bowl for Babara.

"Whoever made the accusation, let me know, and I must smash his mouth!" Babara immediately changed his face when he heard the accusation, but he was discouraged when he saw Liu Hongjian's unhappy expression.

"Hey, my lord, I know I'm wrong, I'll drink this wine." After speaking, Babara picked up the big bowl and poured it into his stomach.

"All right, all right, I'll make a joke with you." Liu Hongjian didn't expect Babara to be so sincere, and was speechless for a while.

At this time, the Han people had generally mastered the technology of distilling alcohol, and the alcohol content was not low. The big bowl was at least [-] milliliters, and they didn't even eat rice. Who could stand such a filling.

Bang - Barbara drank it all in one gulp and put the big bowl back on the table.

"My lord told me to drink it... I'll drink it, hiccup - I'll admit it even if I'm drunk to death." Babara raised his sleeves and wiped his wine-stained beard.

"You bastard, who will fight for me if you drink to death, sit down!" Liu Hongjian knew that this man was speaking the truth, and couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement in his heart.

"Hey... hiccup—" Babara blushed like a monkey's butt, and kept hiccupping.

"Although Menggu Province is vast and sparsely populated, it's just a ranch and doesn't need so many people. Why did it make such a bad move?" Lu Haibo couldn't help interjecting.

"General Lu doesn't know something. Originally, he was still...barely enough, but a few months ago we...we opened a big silver mine in Guhata Mountain of our League, and we need a large number of people, such as nurses and miners. .

Except for sending two... two officials to monitor, the imperial court doesn't care about anything else, and the hundred... people in the pass refuse to move, what can I do? "The wine was a bit high, Babara shook his head and said bluntly.

"Silver mine!" Lu Haibo said with wide-eyed eyes.

He couldn't help but not be shocked. After Liu Hongjian informed Chongzhen of the location of the silver mine, he didn't tell anyone else, and the silver mine was the most important thing for the imperial court, and it was impossible to publicize it widely.

"Well, it's a big... big silver mine, bigger than the one in Yunnan." Babara felt top-heavy and couldn't hold on anymore.

At that time, there was no machinery, and the mining and transport of ore depended entirely on manpower. In a large mine, there were at least tens of thousands of artisans, guard soldiers, miners, smelters, and smelters.

"Good boy! God treats our Daming kindly, ZTE is hopeful!" Lu Haibo said excitedly.

"Hurry up and eat the vegetables, you idiot! Who said that you have to run over there to yell?
Find a few herdsmen with good families, move their pastures to the edge of Chahar’s pastures, and let them show off. Do you understand showing off?It's just pretending! "Liu Hongjian said angrily.

Let the poor herdsmen in Chahar really see how comfortable they are in our Daming. They are not stupid to herd sheep, but can they live a good life?

This is just one of them. There is no clear border line in this year, let alone satellite monitoring. It is not easy to gather manpower. Liu Hongjian can name a few at will.

But Babara used the most idiotic means to pull people blatantly. What's the difference between this and pimping? It really left him speechless!

But before he finished speaking, he heard Duang's bang—— still lying down beside the table.

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On the second day, Liu Hongjian promised to all the officers and men of the expeditionary force that the collective merit of this expedition would be rewarded with 100 taels of silver per person, and the generals would report any promotion to military rank.

When he returned to the capital, he would fulfill his promises one by one, and then ordered more than 1 allied troops to return east to Northeast Province, where they were originally stationed.

He himself took off his armor and put on a python suit again, and followed Babara to the Hada Mountain Silver Mine.

Mount Hada is located in the upper reaches of the Luer River. The mountain is not very high and because it is located in the northern grassland, there is not much vegetation in the mountain.

After nearly two months of hard work, the Hadashan Silver Mine has begun to realize output.

"Old Ba, how are these mite people doing? Are they all honest?" Liu Hongjian stood on a high slope and looked down and asked Baba.

Rows of bald men in ragged clothes came out of the deep mountain pushing carts full of ore, and the soldiers leading the way led them to the smelting workshop at the foot of the mountain.

If you look closely, you will find that the foreheads of these bald men all have a big "servant" tattooed on them.

"Be honest, be honest, let's tell them to go east, they will never dare to go west." Barbara said without a word.

Those who said they were dishonest were killed by Governor Feng's allies long ago. Although there was no wages for the rest, he did not lose the food for this group of people.
The whole Mount Ha Da was surrounded by soldiers, less than five miles away from here, he had [-] garrisons, and they would not be able to overthrow the sky.

"My lord, there's nothing interesting about this mining. I'll take you to the smelting workshop down there, where you can turn this stone into white silver." It's amazing to become silver that can be bought and bought.

The building at the foot of Hada Mountain is also newly built. In order to catch up with the work, most of the houses, including the courtyard walls, are all made of cement bricks.

The workshop was guarded by a thousand households of soldiers, and there were more than 30 craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry alone, which shows how much the imperial court attached importance to this silver mine.

"Lord Yin, Lord Gao, come and meet the prince." Babara said to the two old men standing by the blast furnace as soon as they entered the workshop.

There were people coming and going in the workshop, including ore transporters, coke transporters, and blast furnace guards. The two old men who were called by Barbara trotted towards Liu Hongjian after hearing the words.

"Yin Jingsheng, a doctor from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and Wang Pan, a member of the Ministry of Industry, pay homage to the prince!" They walked to Liu Hongjian's side and saluted.

Both of them were officials in the capital and naturally knew Liu Hongjian. Although they were amazed at why Liu Hongjian came here, they still did not dare to neglect them.

Thanks to the blessing of the Prince of Anguo, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty had their salaries greatly increased, but the civil servants had been suppressed for a long time, and seeing Liu Hongjian himself inevitably felt a little complicated.

"My lords, please tell me, how much silver can this workshop produce in a day?" Liu Hongjian asked with a hand.

"My lord, there are currently more than [-] miners in the Hasan Silver Mine who are mining and transporting the ore. They can produce [-] stones of silver ore every day. If all these ores are refined, they can be converted into more than [-] silver ores." Two." Wang Pan, a member of the Ministry of Industry, reported truthfully.

"It's just that the workshop has just been built, the blast furnace is not enough, and there is a shortage of manpower. The ore is piled up outside. At present, 2000 taels of silver can be refined every day." Hubu Langzhong also reported.

"Why is it so small? What is 2000 taels of silver enough for? Is it enough to pay these craftsmen and workers?"

(End of this chapter)