Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 386 The Evil Slave Trade
Chapter 88 The Evil Slave Trade

After Chen Ying came to Lingzhou, the biggest change he brought to Lingzhou was the use of charcoal instead of firewood.In order for the people of Lingzhou to survive the cold winter, Chen Ying brought the kang and fire wall of later generations to this era.The mined coal is loaded into four-wheeled carriages and transported to Lingzhou City or the six counties of Lingzhou to be used in the eighteen towns of Lingwu for cooking, boiling water or heating for the people. Hardly anyone uses it anymore.

Even if you don't want to spend money on charcoal, just take a broom and just sweep the official roads, the charcoal powder is enough for daily consumption.With the development of coal, this kind of thing is also mixed with some soil and processed into honeycomb briquettes. However, whether it is a fire pit or a fire wall, it is not as convenient to use dry firewood for burning.There is a saying that it is easy to go from simple to extravagant, and difficult to go from extravagant to superficial. Lingzhou people are used to using coal as firewood, and they can no longer change it.

Especially after Guo Zhun moved his family to Lingzhou, he started a soft iron workshop. Guo Zhun used the method given to him by Chen Ying to start building that simple briquette stove and iron chimney.Less than five months after Guo Zhun came to Lingzhou, soft iron briquette stoves entered thousands of households.

With the large-scale use of briquette furnaces, the consumption of coal in Lingzhou has gradually increased. In terms of production and life alone, there are about 15 people in Lingzhou, with a total of more than 60 households, consuming as much as 150 coal every day. More than [-] catties, after entering the cold winter, plus the consumption of fire pits and fire walls, the coal consumption has almost tripled, and today the consumption of coal is nearly [-] catties.If the heating consumption of the primary school and workshop established by Li Daozhen is included, the coal consumption exceeds [-] million catties per day. If in later generations, this is only the carrying capacity of seven or eight King Coal Trucks, but for this time, such a The difficulty is more than a hundred times.Because of coal, many industries have been derived, and a large number of horse-drawn carriages and ox carts that carry goods in the cottage version have begun to appear.

When there were as many as two to three thousand four-wheeled carriages and ox carts in Lingzhou, some problems arose.Li Daozhen took the Mo Dao that Chen Ying gave him, under the banner of Chen Ying, and successfully took over the coal mine developed by Chen Ying in Lingzhou.However, with the sudden drop in winter temperatures, new problems have emerged.

Originally, Chen Ying only used 20 to 300 Turkic prisoners of war to mine coal mines, either because of heavy physical labor, or because of illness, or because of poor working conditions, these prisoners were reduced by nearly one-third, and the original [-] Ten thousand catties is nothing, it is easy to complete this task, but with the increase in consumption, especially when Li Daozhen took over the four salt mines prepared by Chen Yingzai, using charcoal to boil salt, the coal consumption in Lingzhou is close to [-] million catties per day , In this case, each prisoner of war needs to dig out five or six thousand catties of coal to meet consumption.

Especially after learning that Chen Ying still has three blast furnaces, each of which can smelt tens of thousands of jin of refined steel. Under such circumstances, the amount of coal mined is far from enough for consumption.

At the beginning of November, the weather in Lingzhou really turned to ice outdoors. Seeing that the coal reserves in the city were not enough for ten days, Li Daozhen was frowning and didn't think about eating or drinking.

Xiao Tao saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart.She thought that Li Daozhen was ill, so she hurried to find Mrs. Song Wusao, an old woman who had given birth, to see the situation.

When Song Wusao came to Bogulu City, she discovered that Li Daozhen had no appetite because of physical reasons, but because of lack of charcoal.

Li Daozhen sighed: "The weather is so cold, if the charcoal is cut off, I am afraid that Lingzhou will not be able to persist!"

"It's not that I'm afraid, but I'm sure I won't be able to keep going!" Song Wusao said, "I heard people say that last winter, thousands of people died of freezing in Lingzhou because of the cold weather."

The town general Ma Laoliu said disapprovingly: "There is not enough charcoal, so just dig it. It is not a difficult thing. Even if the road is blocked by ice and snow, there is still the snow boat that General Chen brought when he came. As long as there is snow , galloping like flying on the snow."

Li Daozhen smiled wryly and said: "I also know how to dig, but no one is there. There are only less than [-] prisoners of war in total. Now each of them has to dig [-] to [-] jin of coal every day, which has reached their limit. More people will die, and by then, not only will the production not increase, but it will drop sharply.”

"There is no one, but there is actually a solution!" Ma Laoliu scratched his head and said, "General Chen captured many Turkic prisoners of war and asked them to dig coal, not to mention that these Turkic prisoners of war are tall and powerful. , Digging charcoal is a top player."

"We can't even see the Turkic people now, where are we going to catch the Turkic prisoners?" Li Daozhen shook his head and said, "It's really difficult."

Song Wusao suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her head: "Master, why did you forget Yu Guni?"

"Yu Guni? That Turkic barbarian?" It's not that Li Daozhen has no impression of Yu Guni, but his impression is very clear.Because when this Yu Guni saw Li Daozhen for the first time, he knew that Li Daozhen had Chen Ying's child in his belly, so he crawled on the snow and kissed Li Daozhen's boots, which made Li Daozhen blush.

Song Wusao said with a smile: "Now this Yu Guni is a rich man. The population of his Yushe Department is about to exceed [-], and most of them are young and strong. There are tens of thousands of elite cavalry. As long as the county lord finds him, he will definitely It will bring enough prisoners of war to the county lord!"

Li Daozhen said almost without thinking: "That's fine, please let Fifth Sister-in-law go to Lingzhou City and call Yu Guni here!"

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At this time, Yu Guni is also serving as General Lingwu of the Tang Dynasty, but no one in Lingzhou City thinks highly of this fourth-rank general, but Yu Guni doesn't care, so he set up the tent outside Lingzhou City. In the Wild Boar Ridge Valley, because the Wild Boar Ridge Valley is leeward and there is a natural hot spring, camping here will not feel cold.

Not being recognized by Tang officials and scholars, Yu Guni was also very disappointed.He also gave up the idea of ​​camping in Lingzhou, but Chen Yingying's rewards are not low, and now Yu She set up a department without worrying about food and clothing, especially this winter, there are three or four thousand women in the resident in Yezhuling alone. When a person is pregnant, as long as the spring begins, these three or four thousand women will give birth to three or four thousand children, and the population of the Yushe Ministry will exceed 5000, and at worst it will increase to 6 or [-] in a few years.

Although Yusheshebu still lives as a nomad, his living habits have also undergone tremendous changes.At this time, they no longer used cow dung and horse dung to heat the fire as before, but used charcoal cakes produced in Lingzhou. It can be burned for a day and a night, and it is very convenient for a family of five to boil water for cooking. You don't need to smell the pungent smell, and you don't need to look at the disgusting horse dung all day long.

People in Yusheshe like this kind of charcoal cake very much. It is very fire-resistant and very clean. The most important thing is that it is very cheap. A sheep can be exchanged for 100 yuan of charcoal cake, which can be burned for a month.Especially in the cold winter covered with ice and snow, herdsmen can't find firewood at all. Although sheep dung, cow dung, or horse dung can be used to make a fire, not only the heat is small, but also a lot of dung is consumed.The most important thing is that the tinplate charcoal stove is also very convenient to transfer.Now more and more herdsmen like this kind of briquette stove.

A briquette stove was put in the tent, and the tent was warm all day and all night.Unlike the bitter cold in the past, for the Turkic people, briquettes are not expensive, and after one winter, they are only equivalent to the cost of consuming five or six sheep.Five or six sheep spend a warm winter. For the people who set up the department in Yushe, this is no different from giving away for nothing.

This day, Yu Guni had just vented on Xinna's Lite (Persian) concubine, draining her excess strength.

Although Yu Guni lost his strength, his brain was very active.He hadn't seen Chen Ying for almost half a year, and he really missed the scene of following Chen Ying on the battlefield. At this moment, there was a slight microwave in the milk tea bowl in front of him.

When Yu Guni saw this scene, he knew that there were cavalrymen approaching quickly.

Yu Guni smiled slightly, and clapped his hands on Li Te's concubine's plump buttocks: "Hurry up and put on armor for Yeye!"

This slap was very heavy, and a big red and purple handprint appeared on Li Te's buttocks instantly, but she didn't dare to neglect, and quickly put on armor for Yu Guni.

When Yu Guni put on his armor and walked out of the big tent, he saw a group of cavalry appearing at the end of the snowy field.

Yu Guni raised the sentinel who was looking at the watchtower: "Who is it?"

"Black Banner Army!"

Yu Guni breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt a sense of loss.

After a while, a group of war horses panted and came to Yu Guni, and Yu Guni saw Song Wufu's big face.

Fifth Sister-in-law Song said: "County Master Baicheng welcomes you!"

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Song hit the horse and returned to the original road.

Yu Guni waved his hands left and right: "Go out with Yeye!"

All the cavalry guards wailed and howled, followed Yu Guni and galloped towards the first fortress of Bogulu City.

The horseshoes stepped on the snow, and there were waves of snow.

More than a hundred cavalrymen slowly disappeared on the horizon.

(End of this chapter)