Defend the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 78 Unexplainable

Wu Tumu didn't see Han Ping'an at Bai Xianning's house, so he chased him all the way to Baisha City.

It was still a step too late, the people of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion said that autumn is a good time for hunting, and Chang Shi went out to hunt.

At first, he thought it was Han Sanfeng's excuse that he didn't want to see him. After asking the accompanying warriors to inquire, he realized that Han Sanfeng had really left the city with a large group of people.

He couldn't explain to those uncles when he went back like this, he could only talk to Ami who hurried back.

An Mishan didn't categorically reject their creditors to take advantage, but he gave a bunch of conditions.

For example, if you want to fire pottery, the clay pots and pots you want to fire must be strong, consistent in size, even the glaze is very particular, and they must be fired within a month.

Another example is that if you want to open a dyeing workshop, the color of the cloth dyed must be the same.

These small leaders only have a few craftsmen, and the things they produced were originally self-sufficient. No matter the craftsmanship or management, they can't compare with the Sogdian merchants, and they can't take advantage of Han Sanfeng.

Calling some slaves to dig coal does not require skill, but although there are coal in several places in the Yele tribe, those that can be dug have been dug for iron smelting, and the rest are buried too deep.

Although slaves do not need to be paid, they have to eat, so it is not worthwhile to dig coal to make money.

After thinking about it, he couldn't be reconciled, so he simply found a dirt house to live in, and wanted to see what kind of medicine Han Sanfeng sold in his gourd.

Before I knew it, I had been in Baisha City for more than a month.

The money and food that should be sent by the various ministries have already been delivered, and the slaves who should be enrolled have also enrolled, but they don't gather together to read and read as imagined.

Han Sanfeng turned one state school into four state schools: Yandu, Yaojian, Daman and Kuer.

Nearly 66 schoolchildren were mixed into [-] schoolchildren teams, led by dozens of old gentlemen who did not know where they were found, and lived in more than [-] villages outside the city.

Work in the fields during the day, read and write in the morning and evening.

Older teenagers do heavy work, and younger ones do light work. Everyone has to work.

The nephews and nephews whom the leaders of various ministries put high hopes on have never suffered this crime, let alone being with a group of slaves.

I wanted to instruct them to make trouble, after all, they came to Kaimeng, not to work, but there are guards stationed in every village, who dares to make trouble and wait for the military law, but all those nephews ran back to Yele City in less than three days .

However, Han Sanfeng was willing to spend money on those schoolchildren. Not only did he take care of the meals, he even bought a lot of cloth from Yele City and asked the servants and maidservants in each village to help make clothes.

The school boy teams with new clothes, led by the old gentlemen of each team and Shou Zhuolang stationed in the village, took turns to come to the Dudu Mansion in Baisha City for the entrance ceremony.

Han Sanfeng didn't know where the madness went, every time the entrance ceremony was hosted by that old bastard Han Shimei.

He was elected as an official, and he was the crown prince's orthographic. He is the most learned person in Yele and even in Anxi.

Facing his father who came in a hurry to ask about the situation here, Utum was worried and didn't know how to speak.

Uudam urged: "What's the matter?"

"Father, our children won't be able to stay here for a day, but the slaves we sent must think it's good here."

"Is it good here?"

"Three meals a day, morning, noon and evening meals, every meal is full, meat can be eaten once every ten days, and new clothes are worn by each person."

"They're buying people's hearts."

"It's more than buying people's hearts. In their own words, let those schoolchildren speak Tang dialect, write Tang characters, be Tang people, and do Tang affairs."

It's not that they didn't think that the Han family father and son would buy people's hearts, but they didn't expect that the Han family father and son would really treat the slaves as human beings, and they were really willing to spend all their money on the slaves.

Uudam was silent for a moment, and said with a sneer: "It's just a group of children, even if their hearts are bribed, they can't turn the sky around. Besides, it's been a month and a half, and in another month and a half, those lowly slaves will go back to where they came from. A few more whips from time to time, and they'll know who they are."

Slaves are not human beings. Slaves are like animals. There are indeed ways to tame them.

Wu Tumu nodded: "That's true."

Udamu didn't come here for those slaves, so he put down his wine glass and talked about business: "It's so cold, the soil is frozen, they recruited so many civilians and soldiers from Yele City, Juncheng and Tuncheng to work, how much wasteland have they reclaimed?" , How many fields have been sown."

As I said earlier, the land can only be rented for one year.People are not stupid, and they will not come to help open up wasteland.

The father and son of the Han family tried another plan after failing to succeed, and even sent people to the villages and military towns outside Yele City to recruit people and soldiers from the town who had nothing to do in their houses when the weather was cold. Pay back wages.

Thinking of what he saw when he went out a few days ago, Udamu pondered: "Father, I am getting more and more confused about what their father and son want to do."

"Why can't figure it out."

"They just asked people to dig the ground to repair the canals, and used those drums built by Sogdian merchants to divert water to irrigate, but they didn't sow any seeds, not a single seed!"

"Can you grow food without sowing seeds?"

"So I can't figure it out."

"What else did they do?"

"Many cesspit pits have been dug in and outside the city, and all the feces and urine must go into the pits, so no random pulling is allowed."

"Han Shimei is a scholar and loves to be clean. Although Han Sanfeng is not a scholar, he is more clean than his father. He is well-known in Yele City. It is not surprising that he is not allowed to shit and pee everywhere."

Wu Tumu was not as optimistic as Uudam, he frowned and said: "Han San is crazy and hasn't come back today, it's so cold, what kind of hunting, I don't know where he went, and I can't find out what he is doing. "

Uudam asked in a low voice, "Who did he go with?"

"I don't know, I only know that Li Chengye and those people are gone."

"Li Chengye is gone... It's not surprising. His former subordinates defected. I heard from the people in the General's Mansion that it was Han Sanfeng who was going to behead him. The envoy has promised that they will not be allowed to go to Yele city again."

Afraid that his son would not understand, Udamu said again: "But if they don't go to Yele City, it doesn't mean that the soldiers from Yele Town will not come to Baisha City. The Han family and their sons have recruited so many soldiers to do part-time work, so they must not be allowed to see them." Let’s go, otherwise how will General Wang lead the soldiers.”

Uudam nodded: "It makes sense."

……

In the past one and a half months, Han Ping'an, Li Chengye, Chen Yichang, false Taoist chief and others went to four places.

Go to Tusu Gaile Lake first.

It was a saltwater lake surrounded by mountains, with a surface area of ​​more than [-] mu. The rocks around the lake were covered with a thick layer of halite. When the salt crust was cracked, it was either Glauber's salt or gypsum.

Han Pingan only knew that there was potassium in it, but he didn't know whether the potassium was in rock salt or in the brine at the bottom of the lake, so he simply asked Liu Sangen to lead six soldiers and 22 slaves to settle by the lake, and boil it in the most stupid way.

Boil snow into fresh water and boil rock salt to remove impurities and crystallize.

The brine is boiled from the bottom of the lake, and the earthen jar is wrapped with sheepskin to keep warm and crystallize.

They are boiled in various ways, and then they are stored in different categories, and then transported back to Xiaye Wangzhuang by Qian Chonghou's luggage team as the brigade commander.

Everything was arranged properly on Liu Sangen's side, and he rushed to Buyong Ulak without stopping.

This is one of the few carboniferous mines in the Yele Department. The ore seam is not very deep, and the quality of the carboniferous is not very good.

However, Yele is located in a high and cold area, with few trees, and no trees to burn charcoal. For hundreds of years, most of the iron smelting has been made of coal here.

Coal is also used to make iron in Guishu, and Guishu is an important iron production place in the entire Western Region and even in the Tang Dynasty. Most of the iron needed to make weapons and armor in Beiting, Hexi and Longyou comes from Anxi.

The demand for iron from the Yele tribe is not that great for the time being. Han Pingan brought hundreds of craftsmen and Yele people here not to make iron but to make coke.

In the valley, there were some mud houses left by previous mining. After one and a half months of hard work, the place to live was temporarily settled, the location of the coke oven was selected, and the refractory bricks for the first kiln required for the construction of the coke oven were also fired. .

He has to direct craftsmen to dig foundations and fire paths here, go to the refining and chemical workshop more than [-] miles away, and go further to Leigu to instruct Mr. Li's subordinates to refine all things, and he is very busy. .

(End of this chapter)