The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 187 Infrastructure Construction
Xu Guangqi believes that it is not a problem to buy and transport food with his own influence, and expresses his position:

"10 taels of silver are enough to transfer [-] stones of winter wheat to the north, and there is a guarantee for the teacher, and the balance can be settled after all the grain arrives in Hong Kong.

Don't worry, within one and a half months, the first batch of food will definitely appear at Funing Wharf.

Being a teacher and an official for many years has not saved gold and silver contacts, but I still have a lot of contacts. I dare not make things difficult for me. If there is a bad idea of ​​​​daring to use these life-saving food, wouldn't the teacher not kill people? "

Huang Han knew that the sea and water transportation of the Ming Dynasty was too deep.

As a military officer of the fourth rank, there are many dogs in Daming, and I have to rely on my own strength to organize dozens of sea ships to transport food. I don't know how many obstacles I face along the way.

It’s not a big deal to get a card for food, and it’s very possible that it will be detained directly by Haiphong Road’s clever name.

However, Xu Guangqi, the famous official of Qingliu, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, came forward to buy the relief food, even the relatives of the emperor and nobles would not dare to do it, and the local officials and coastal defense generals would not eat the guts of leopards.

The key to getting things done is to use the right people. Huang Han entrusted Xu Guangqi to do this great event that has accumulated a lot of good deeds. The elderly really don't need to raise their whips.

Not only did he use his connections to try to buy more food and spend less money, but he also wrote letters to several former students and officials of Haiphong Road asking them not to make things difficult and to provide protection.

Who dares to neglect the orders of the old superior who is about to become Minister of Rites and is very likely to join the cabinet?Who can be an official, how can there be a fool?

In normal times, there is no way to deliberately curry favor with the high officials in the court, and Mr. Xu has something to ask, but it is still not done properly.

With the expectation that [-] stones of spring wheat will arrive soon, Huang Han doesn't need to save food too much, let alone extravagance and waste. It is essential to provide two meals to all the refugees, and the hired refugees will get three meals.

At this time, Huang Han discovered the loophole of excessive food consumption and plugged it in time, because the practice of eating big pots of rice was too stupid and undesirable, and the waste was too serious.

For example, an ordinary person would be full if he ate three biscuits and a bowl of porridge, but because he ate unlimited rice in a big pot, he would eat at least four biscuits even if he was full.

Doing so is not only bad for your health, but also directly stretches your stomach.

If they were eating their own food at home, the common people would at most be willing to eat [-]% to [-]% full, and eating two biscuits would be considered a luxury.

Therefore, the grain consumed by 100 people can make 200 people who live a small life eat healthy.

Thinking of Huang Han's style of doing things immediately, the big pot of rice was cancelled, and now the common people get the miscellaneous grains and rice noodles in proportion to once every ten days.

The large cafeteria where collective labor eats three meals does not allow unrestrained overeating. Basically, a strong laborer is provided with a bowl of porridge and two multigrain cakes for one meal.

Now even the entire "Red Banner Army" implements food rationing. The three meals of the soldiers are set at a standard that normal people can be [-]% full. Protein supplements can only rely on sea fish now.

The soldiers all expressed their understanding. After all, refugees everywhere need a bite of food to survive. It doesn't hurt if everyone eats less. Maybe the saved food can save a life.

After solving the food problem, many workshops planned by Huang Han began to break ground, and the construction of ditches also called a large number of refugees under the guidance of Xu Guangqi.

The refugees are willing to be hired, because they will get three meals a day if they get a job, and they will also get a subsidy of at least ten yuan. Wen's reward.

Getting along with Xu Guangqi day and night has indeed comprehended a lot of technology belonging to this era. Huang Han feels that he has benefited a lot, and scientists also feel that talking with closed disciples has solved many doubts in their hearts.

Now he spends less than half an hour every day practicing a set of boxing methods taught by Huang Han to strengthen his body. The scientist practiced them very seriously. He really likes this new boxing method - Taijiquan, which has the opening and closing of yin and yang, the combination of hardness and softness, and both internal and external training.

There are countless people who practice Taijiquan during morning exercises in later generations, and Huang Han is one of them.He did his best for Xu Guangqi's health, leading scientists to fall in love with Tai Chi.

Because this great scientist in history will die in office in Chongzhen six years due to illness.Nowadays, practicing Taijiquan every day to strengthen the body, it is unknown that the elderly may live a few more years.

More than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Huang Han invested in several labor-intensive industries. A single brick kiln absorbed [-] men and women laborers. Women and half-old children were busy making bricks.

Women and children will get three meals and ten Wen a day, and strong laborers will get [-] to [-] Wen a day according to their workload. After all, people are different. Some people are strong and fast, so Correspondingly earn more.

The brick kiln adopts the model of piecework to distribute remuneration, which is naturally a manifestation of rewarding work and punishing laziness.

Qin bricks and Han tiles, brick making is the oldest traditional craft of the Han people. When it developed into the Ming Dynasty, kiln workers had long understood that in order to reduce costs, they must make full use of heat energy, and more efficient wheel kiln firing bricks came into being.

It's just that most of the modern crafts are handed down by word of mouth by the old kiln masters without written records.

In order to gather the strengths of each family for his own use, Huang Han deliberately found seven or eight well-known master kiln craftsmen in Kaiping town.

These people are artisan leaders, working in brick and tile kilns similar to the later round kilns.

After chatting for a while, Huang Han judged that these master craftsmen from different kiln mouths had their own strengths, and they all had opinions on the kiln mouths they were in charge of.

Huang Han gave each person a heavy reward of 20 taels of silver on the spot. These black-faced and thick-handed craftsmen would shake their legs when they saw the official. Seeing that the adult gave the silver just to get their experience in firing kilns, how dare they neglect it? , One by one knows everything and speaks endlessly.

It took one night to complete a trial version of the brick firing process of a rotary kiln with more than ten pages. When Huang Han presented this pamphlet to Xu Guangqi for review, the old man was overjoyed. He thought that he would publish this technical book and spread it to the world. to benefit more people.

Huang Han can't change more people for the time being. He arranged to publish it, but it was only spread in his own system and became a standard of operation.

Scientists are still too idealistic. Huang Han is familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty. He is not thinking about helping the world at the moment. He just wants to ensure that the brick kilns he invests in will use what should be the most advanced process in the world today.

This is only the first draft, and will continue to improve after accumulating practical operation experience.

Kaiping is blessed with high-quality coal mine resources. Brick firing, a low-tech and labor-intensive industry, was launched easily and solved the employment problem of too many people.

(End of this chapter)