I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 667, Luo Jing

After lunch, Xu Wei led the technicians to continue researching the new steam machine tool. If the research and development is successful, not only the precision of the machine tool will be greatly improved, but also the efficiency will be increased several times, thus speeding up the production of the steam engine.

The goal Xu Wei set was to replace all milling, planing, and grinding machine tools in the factory with new steam engines.And this kind of technology is not too difficult. Dagan has a large number of water conservancy machine tools and manpower machine tools, and what they have to do now is to replace the power source with a steam engine!Used to improve production efficiency.

After these machines are successfully developed, Xu Wei plans to set up a machine factory fully powered by steam as a demonstration!At the same time, announce the arrival of the steam age to the whole world!
After finishing a day's work, Xu Weicai saw Liu He's letter about Cao Cao's intention to send labor to work in Daqian before Xu Wei saw it.

Xu Wei found Niu Gui and asked, "How much labor can Cao Cao provide?"

Of course Xu Wei knew that there was always a shortage of labor force within Daqian. Although Dagan internally counted a population of more than 4000 million in the country, it was extremely scarce in Dagan's tens of millions of square kilometers of land.

Niu Gui said: "It's not clear, but what Cao Cao can provide is the savages from Crab Island. Even if they are recruited, I'm afraid they can only do some very simple things, and they can't do anything more complicated!"

Savage labor has appeared in Dagan for several years, and it has never stopped.The population of Dagan is mainly imported from the north and the south. The south is in the tropical rainforest outside Jiaozhou. These savages are lazy and muddle through. As long as they have a little food at home, they are unwilling to do things.

Bao Xin from Yizhou was very troubled by these savages. It is difficult to control the savages even if one family manages nine households. In order to make them obey the discipline, he tried all kinds of methods.

In the end, Bao Xin found a way to put these savages under militarized management first, and undergo military training for three months to get rid of all their laziness. Even so, they can only do some simple basic labor work.

The population imported from the north is mainly savages from the north of the desert. They were all forced to migrate to the south by the cold winter, and were finally caught by Dagan.

Under normal circumstances, the high-level leaders of Dagan would not kill them. After all, Dagan is short of people everywhere, even in the desert.Now grazing in the desert is economical.Family-style pastures are spread all over the desert. The advantage of doing this is high output, but the disadvantage is the same, and the labor force to pay is also sharply increased.The savages that keep popping up in the north of the North Sea are an inexhaustible population resource point for Mobei. As long as they are subdued first, they will be the most obedient herdsmen.

It’s just that Xu Wei is worried that such continuous southward migration will affect Dagan’s control over the desert. After all, within the entire territory of Dagan, the number of Han people in the desert is the least. Back then, Xu Wei tried his best to relocate millions of people. Go to the desert, but with the pacification of the war these years, the north has become more and more prosperous, and the Han people who migrated to the desert have come back one after another.

Xu Wei is also very helpless about this point, the environment in the desert is inherently harsh.It is even more difficult to survive in the desert during the Little Ice Age.Even the local herdsmen are trying to find a way to go south to Youzhou and join the state for the winter, not to mention these people who originally belonged to the Central Plains. It is even more difficult for them to adapt here and want to return to the Central Plains!

The original herdsmen in the desert accounted for 6% of the population of the desert, and this ratio is still increasing. In order to control the proportion of the population, Xu Wei has to migrate some herdsmen to live in the Central Plains every year, and the savages in Beihai cannot stay here. up.

Most of the savages from the Beihai tribe are Caucasians of later generations, but their civilization level is extremely low, and most of them will be relocated to Youzhou, where they live scattered. They used to live together in small tribes , wild and hard to find, undisciplined.The only advantage is that they are physically strong and relatively easy to satisfy.

Now they are all engaged in primary labor jobs, such as carrying bags, farming, and heavy physical work such as moving stones in mines. I like to find these people to do.And they also like to do this kind of work to support themselves. For them, working hard is like coming to heaven, and they don't have to worry about freezing to death or starving to death anymore.In a way, it's a win-win!

But because he knew the quality of the savages, Niu Gui was not optimistic about the labor Cao Cao had brought over. He could only say that it was a big supplement to the north where labor was scarce.

"Send someone from Big Crab Island to discuss with Cao Cao. Let's set up 1 people to see if the quality of his labor force is high. It just so happens that this year's summer harvest is about to start, and there will be a shortage of people everywhere in Youzhou."

Niu Gui nodded.Said that he would send someone to Cao Cao to discuss.

In the end, this task was assigned to Liu He, the Department of Foreign Affairs.

In this way, Liu He left Jidu, came to Quanzhou Wharf, and took a sea boat all the way to Crab Island.

Liu He's ships were flying the flag of Dagan. After Cao Chun, the director of the dock, found out, he attached great importance to it. He came to receive Liu He in person and reported the news to Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao found out, he was overjoyed and came to receive the Dagan envoy in person, and then said in surprise: "Cao is so surprised, I didn't expect that it was you, Zitai!"

"Brother Meng De is even more admirable to my younger brother. He was exiled by the ruling party to Crab Island, and he can still do so many things. Judging from this pier, the prosperity of your Crab Island is no less than that of the big one. It's a normal town."

"Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "It's too far away. The entire Crab Island has a population of less than one million. Cao concentrated the manpower of the entire Crab Island to build this pier, which is what it is now. After all, Crab Island, It is a small country with few people and poor supplies, and foreign exchanges all depend on this kind of dock, so I have to pay attention to this place! "

The two also knew each other in Luoyang City back then, so of course they couldn't play together, Cao Cao was from the eunuch gang, while Liu He was from Qingliu's side.If it wasn't for Yuan Shao's words to match them up, maybe the two of them are enemies!

But now both sides can be said to be the remnants of the big man, and they were very emotional for a while.

Liu He looked at the environment around the pier and said thoughtfully: "Meng De, the layout of your city is somewhat similar to that of Luoyang back then."

Cao Cao sighed: "Brother Zitai has good eyesight. Brother Zitai arranged the place according to the scene of Luoyang City back then. In order to restore the appearance of Luoyang City back then, he called all the people who had been to Luoyang City in the entire Crab Island. Recall Luoyang City bit by bit, draw it on the picture, and restore it bit by bit according to this picture, this is the only city in the whole Crab Island, Luo Jing!"

(End of this chapter)