The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 685 Understand?
"How's the output here?"

From a coal mine three hundred miles away from Chang'an City, Li Yunze came on horseback, and the first thing he asked was how was the output here.

"His Majesty."

The Shaofu Mine Supervisor who was in charge of the coal mine here hurriedly saluted and responded, "The output has increased significantly in the past few months, and the daily output of coal has exceeded [-] catties."

Hearing this, Li Yunze frowned in dissatisfaction, "Why are there so few?"

It's not that he has high requirements, but that this little output is indeed not worth mentioning.

"must."

The mine supervisor hastily explained, "The number of hard labor sent recently has decreased significantly, and the number of hard labor invested cannot keep up with the number consumed, and local people cannot be used as hard labor."

"Huh?" Li Yunze immediately frowned, "Do you dare to use ordinary people to do hard work?"

The mine supervisor was really startled by these words, and he hurriedly saluted and explained, "Don't dare, it's just that the hard labor sent less, and the increase in production slowed down."

The so-called hard workers are naturally those local aborigines captured from the South Vietnam.

Anyone who can prove that they are descendants of the Old Qin people will be regarded as Han people. However, those indigenous people, especially those in the Indochina Peninsula, are all captured and sent to various construction sites and mines of the Han Dynasty.

These hard workers have nothing but thatched huts to sleep in and a mouthful of food to eat.

However, the locals recruited by the mine can earn wages, and have brick and tile houses to shelter from wind and rain. If there is corn and rice, they can eat pickles, and they can even feed meat and bowls of wine during festivals.

The most deadly difference is that the coal seam in this mine is relatively deep, so the deep well dug below is very dangerous.

This kind of work is for hard workers, and they often encounter various situations that lead to losses.

But now the number of hard workers sent can't keep up with the speed of loss, so naturally the speed of increasing production has slowed down greatly.

After hearing the explanation, Li Yunze nodded and said, "It's hard to find hard labor now, and you should try to take it easy when you use it, and don't use it up at will. When the hard labor is gone, why don't you do the dangerous things by yourself?"

The mine supervisor didn't dare to say anything more, so he had to laugh repeatedly.

"We can improve the treatment." Li Yunze thought for a while and said, "Upgrade the thatched hut to a thatched hut, at least it can keep out the wind and rain, and don't get sick when it rains. If someone is sick, let the doctor show it. Here Is there a doctor available?"

"Yes, yes." The mine supervisor repeatedly nodded in response, "The medical center has arranged for apprentices to come to the mine."

The so-called medical center was naturally established by Li Yunze's support of the medical school, and it was directly opened to recruit apprentices for training, and then distribute them to places where they are needed.

"Ah."

Li Yunze nodded again, "The food should also be improved. At least let them have enough to eat. After all, only when they have enough to eat can they have the strength to work. These hard labors are important labor, so how can they be easily thrown away. Understand?"

There is no way, the hard labor on the peninsula is hard to catch now.

The ones that were easy to catch have basically been caught in the past two years, and the rest have already fled into the dense forest full of smog.

Even though the local county magistrates offered high rewards, fewer and fewer people were caught.

In this case, of course, you can only cherish it and use it.

, After all, it is better to entrust them to do dangerous work than to let the common people do it. ,

As for wanting to increase coal production, it is because Dahan's demand for coal is rising sharply at this time.

Li Yunze is well aware of how the originally clear river turned into the Yellow River, and the silted Yellow River has brought terrible losses to the downstream for thousands of years, forming a terrifying aboveground river, so he is naturally aware of it.

So if you want to avoid spending millions of dollars on river embankment repairs every year in the future, but the result is that the more repairs are made, the more it will collapse, so you have to start from the source.

And the source is the burning firewood of the people in Guanzhong for many years.

People in Guanzhong use firewood for cooking, and the source of these firewood is naturally the seemingly inexhaustible forest trees.

Li Yunze had calculated before that just to light a fire and cook for food, the average daily firewood consumption per person in the Guanzhong area was more than ten catties.

The millions of people in the Guanzhong area use tens of millions of catties of firewood a day, and every year, no matter how many forests there are, they will be cut down.

Moreover, Li Yunze is still promoting medical hygiene and epidemic prevention knowledge such as washing clothes frequently and bathing frequently throughout Dahan, drinking more hot water instead of raw water. In order to be able to boil hot water for bathing and drinking hot water, the consumption of firewood is even greater.

In this case, for the traveler, the first thought that comes to mind is coal.

So Li Yunze promoted coal mining in various places, replacing the consumption of wood with coal.

In an era when coal was mined solely by manpower, if you wanted to dig more coal, you needed to use miners to fill it.

And Li Yunze is not a tyrant who treats the people like dogs, so it is naturally impossible to take the lives of the people of the big Han to fill the mines, so the natives from the Xiongnu and the Indo-China Peninsula became the best choice.

It is a pity that after several years of arrests, it is very difficult to catch qualified hard workers now.

After inspecting the mine, Li Yunze wandered to the coal yard next to the mine.

While watching the local miners mixing coal with yellow mud and other materials to make briquettes, I was thinking about where else I could find people to do the work.

The Huns continued to retreat. At this time, there were almost no Huns tribes within [-] miles north of the Great Wall.

The frontier army traveled hundreds of miles, and they might not meet the Huns, let alone catch coolies.

Of course, there is no need to say more about Nanyue, those who have not been caught are hiding in the dense forest, and the smog is rampant there, even the most greedy ranger dare not go deep into it.

Now it's either a big battle, or finding a more suitable place to collect coolies.

"There are quite a few black dwarves on Nanyang Island, but they also like to live in dense forests. It would be too costly to capture them."

Walking to piles of briquettes waiting to be transported away, Li Yunze pondered, "Why don't we just go to Africa?"

With a large ship, and the navigation knowledge and charts provided by Li Yunze, it is not difficult to go to Africa.

But the distance is too far, just to catch a group of Nasha back, the gain outweighs the loss.

While standing there staring blankly at the miners mining briquettes, Ju Meng Xiaobu came over and said, "Your Majesty, Chang'an City has sent documents."

Li Yunze was not an emperor who liked to hide in the deep palace all day long, except for eating, drinking and having fun, he only cared about piling.

He spends at least half of the time in a year riding a horse to tour the world, seeing with his own eyes, asking with his own mouth, and hearing with his own ears what the world is like.

So if there is something urgent, Chang'an City can only send a fast horse to send it over.

After receiving the document, he opened it up and saw that it was from the Ministry of Industry, saying that the construction of the road to Yelang Kingdom was slow and hard work was urgently needed to speed up the process.

After pacifying Mitsukoshi, Li Yunze set his sights on Yelang Kingdom and the Dian Kingdom behind Yelang Kingdom.

But after these two countries went deep into the mountains and old forests, and they didn't rely on the sea, and there were no big rivers, it was even more difficult than Qin's entry into Bashu. They had to build large official roads first and build them all the way.

Every mountain opens a road, meets water and builds a bridge.

It seems like a simple job, but in the mountains full of primitive jungles, it is really a terrible thing. Basically, every mile of official roads is built, a group of hard workers must be filled.

Li Yunze was reluctant to let the big fellows fill it out, so he could only find a way to find outside help.

"That's the only way to do it."

Li Yunze made up his mind, and called the accompanying Lang Guan over, "Sima Xiangru, you write."

Once upon a time, Li Yunze was determined to make Sima Xiangru unable to win the imperial examination for the rest of his life.

But after Zhuo Wenjun gave birth to the crown prince Liu Xiu, Li Yunze became more generous.

When the prince Liu Xiu was born, Enke was opened, and Sima Xiangru performed well, so he was given a chance to be a writer by his side.

That's right, the son Zhuo Wenjun gave birth to was named Xiu'er by Li Yunze.

There are so many Han emperors, but apart from Liu Bang and Liu Che, only this Liu Xiu'er is the most outstanding, after all, he is a great magister.

It is estimated that there will be no Liu Xiu in this world in the future, so I just named it Liu Xiu to make a splash.

Sima Xiangru, who was stained with Liu Xiuguang, quickly prepared his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and then looked up at Li Yunze.

"Write to Li Danghu, the captain of the navy, and ask him to arrange for the fleet to take the charts and go south to Africa. I don't have any special requirements, as long as the men over there don't want women, and before they are brought back on the ship, all Do harmless disposal."

After writing this, Sima Xiangru was stunned. He didn't know what harmless disposal was.

Li Yunze waved his hand casually, "Let the Shaofu arrange this matter and ask them to prepare a group of skilled players to go with the fleet, understand?"

"Understand."

Sima Xiangru nodded again and again, now he understood completely.

".You must choose those who are hardworking and willing to work. You can't bring everyone back. You need to be more careful about this aspect."

Li Yunze spoke quickly, and Sima Xiangru naturally wrote with great speed.

He deserves to be someone who writes hundreds or even thousands of Fu at every turn, whether he writes really fast, or fast and good.

".We need to find some local chiefs and establish a good cooperative relationship. Let them catch them, and don't need to go deep into the interior."

The thousand-word document was finally finished. Seeing Li Yunze nodding, Ju Mengcai stepped forward and took out the Xingxi Seal to stamp it.

After writing it up, put it away, give it to the accompanying Habayashi Army, and send it to Chang'an City on a fast horse.

The size of the sea-going fleet has been continuously expanding, and even [-] super-sea ships have been built. A trip to the sea by the large fleet is estimated to bring back a lot of important labor.

These labor forces have no hidden dangers, just add bricks and tiles to the construction of Dahan.

As for those that have not been dealt with cleanly, that is absolutely unacceptable, and they will never be given the slightest chance to flood.

As for whether it will be rebellious or not, Li Yunze is not worried.

Because they can be sent, they are basically willing to be obedient, because those who are disobedient are gone before they are sent to the ship.

Li Yunze planned to go to the local farmland again to see how the grain output is this year. After all, people depend on food.

But before he went to the field, he received a piece of good news that made him smile.

"Your Majesty, the frontier is here to report that Zhang Qian, who was on an envoy to the Western Regions, has returned!"

(End of this chapter)