Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 752 The Reason of Eating Meat and Drinking Soup
In the mining and metallurgy industry, the earliest and most widely used is the coal mining industry.

China is the first country in the world to use coal as fuel. This period began in the Western Han Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, coal began to be used on a large scale among the people, while coke for smelting steel appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, and later began to be used in large quantities in the Yuan Dynasty. .

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary residents generally used coal as fuel for cooking and heating, and most of these coal-producing areas were in the north.

Now the most famous coal producing areas are Niutoushan Coal Mine in Hanshan County, Hezhou, Baiyangkou Coal Mine in Changping Prefecture, Shuntian Prefecture, North Zhili, Xishan Coal Mine in Jingshi, Pingdingzhou Coal Mine in Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi Province, and the coal from Xishan Coal Mine in Jingshi is a resident of Jingshi The main source of fuel for daily life.

According to the experience of later generations, the reserves of coal resources in Shanshan, Shandong, Henan, Northeast and other places are extremely rich. Now due to various reasons, the coal mining industry in these provinces has not flourished, and coal mining is only limited. Limited to certain local large households, a dozen or 20 people were recruited or hired to run micro-coal mines.

Under Zhu Youjian's instruction, Sihai Coal Industry has been established, and began to explore and mine coal mines in the north.

Sihai Coal Industry spent a lot of money and hired many experienced old miners. These people can distinguish the color of the soil from the surface, and then dig. ) scorching people, there are those who chisel out the middle section of a giant bamboo, sharpen the end, and insert it into the charcoal. The poisonous smoke penetrates from the bamboo, and people pick it from the bottom. The left and right sides are widened, and the upper support plate is used to prevent the ear from being crushed."

It is also China's first initiative to use rough wood support layers to prevent roof fall, which is of great significance in the history of coal mining in the world.

Over the past three years, Sihai Coal has successively opened coal mines and coal yards in five states and counties, employing a total of more than 300 workers. With the continuous accumulation of various experiences, the quantity of coal produced is also increasing, and the profits It is also very impressive.

According to Zhu Youjian's instructions, Sihai Coal Industry has adopted a high-tech employment method. The monthly salary of the coal miners is quite generous, and the daily workload is only four hours, with shifts every two working days. Clothes, shoes, hats, gloves, masks, etc. The equipment is provided free of charge by Sihai Coal Industry, and there are canteens in each coal mine. For a nominal fee of a few pennies, you can enjoy one meat and two vegetarian dishes.

Zhu Youjian knew that the wages of coal miners were real hard-earned money. They had to risk their lives every day to drill into the dark underground tunnels and chisel out the coal one by one, and then their partners used baskets Fill it with coal and drag it to the ground by crawling.

Moreover, in the process of coal mining, accidents may occur at any time, such as roof fall (collapse) and water seepage. Often a pickaxe is used to dig down the groundwater next door, and then the flood breaks through the obstacles of earth and rocks, instantly destroying the entire mine. Inundated, absenteeism at the entire operational level will not be spared.

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, there was a flooding accident in the Pingdingshan Coal Mine of Sihai Coal Industry, and all [-] absentees on duty were killed. He was basically indifferent, but after the news reached the palace, Zhu Youjian still felt extremely uncomfortable.

Although he knew very well that this kind of accident was unavoidable, it was still hard for him to accept the tragedy of a dozen or so fresh lives disappearing in such an instant.

For this reason, Zhu Youjian specially decreed that Sihai Coal Industry should make generous compensation for absenteeism in case of accident, and in the future, it should make as many assumptions and preventive measures as possible in terms of production safety, so as to avoid similar tragedies from happening as much as possible.

Absentees employed by Sihai Coal Industry can retire as long as they work until they are 50 years old. After that, Sihai Coal Industry will pay them monthly pensions.

Zhu Youjian's decree was only aimed at the property under the name of Sihai Commercial Bank, and the courtiers did not have any discussion about it.

In the case of extremely rich material conditions and remuneration, the conscience of the vast majority of scholar-bureaucrats is still not lacking. After Zhu Youjian frequently mentioned the importance of Li Shu, court officials gradually accepted that they ate meat and the common people gnawed their bones. The rationality of the situation of drinking soup.

Without the hard work of the grassroots, where would their glory and wealth come from?

In order to allow future generations to enjoy wealth and honor forever, treating grassroots people as well as possible is the long-term way. A few years ago, the thieves who rose up everywhere were made up of grassroots people?

It was because the imperial court did not treat them kindly that the grassroots became angry and used hoes, wooden sticks, and rakes to smash the lords and ladies who oppressed them and regarded them as worthless into a pile of mud.

Zhu Youjian's blunt words gradually spread in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the court officials were vigilant because of this, because the scene the emperor said was vivid, as if it was yesterday.

The lump coal excavated by the Sihai Coal Industry will be smelted into coke, which will be used exclusively for smelting iron and steel, while the remaining coal surface and small coal lumps will be sold in the coal yard. The noodles will be bought by the common people for heating and cooking.

"Finish coal is like flour, and most of the time comes from the wind. The muddy water is mixed into cakes and put into the furnace. After burning, it is the same as bright coal, and it will not be extinguished day and night. It is half used for cooking."

In addition to the above-mentioned traditional handicraft industries, with the stabilization and improvement of the situation in recent years, some emerging industries have also emerged in various places, and these industries are basically promoted by the government.

For example, the construction industry, water conservancy facilities construction industry, fur processing industry, road and bridge exploration and construction industry, animal husbandry and breeding industry, these emerging industries are basically handled by Sihai Commercial Bank, and only one part of the construction industry is allocated, and this business is managed by Tian Hong. The construction team jointly established by Yu Yu, Zhou Kui, Yuan Yerang, Zhang Guoji and other relatives were separated.

Because they tasted the sweetness in the new housing project in the capital, several relatives of the state simply invested in the construction team again after discussing several times, and expanded the scale of the construction team, and then solicited business in the Gyeonggi area in order to obtain more profit.

In view of the idea that the fat and water should not flow into the field of outsiders, Zhu Youjian waved his hand and handed over all the projects that need to be built by the introduction of talents in the Imperial College to them. The entire project will be constructed according to the drawings provided by the Ministry of Industry.

The total budget of this project is more than 70 taels, and it is estimated that the overall project will be completed in two years. As for how much money the relatives can earn, Zhu Youjian does not care. He only hopes to see more professional and powerful The birth of a more solid professional team in various industries, and the rest of the details have their own laws. The process of anything cannot be full of sunshine. As long as it can promote the healthy development of society, other things don't matter.

The truth that there are no fish when the water is clear has never changed.

(End of this chapter)