Villager of Daming

Chapter 1141 Greenhouse Nursery of Precious Amber
There was another light rain at noon, just like in the morning, it stopped quickly and was not cool at all.

Everyone had noodles for lunch, and instead of meeting the tribal leaders in the afternoon, they had to wait until their dissatisfaction broke out before letting others talk about it.

A group of people went to see the local infrastructure in the afternoon. Many places do not have vegetable greenhouses, but here they do.

In winter you can eat fresh cucumbers, eggplants, watermelons...

Some of the Jurchen tribes are large, and the leaders can obtain more resources, and they are willing to trade for slavery in greenhouses for vegetables.

In order for the people here to continue to support the Ming Dynasty, they will naturally reward you for various reasons. They are not just given to you.

It's not enough to get used to it, unless all four princes are here this time to give it in this name.

You can see a lot of bees next to the vegetable greenhouse. It is obvious that the beehives are nearby. Looking at the round and cute appearance of the bees, they must be Apis cerana. There are no foreign natural enemies now.

Zhu Wentian never thought about introducing foreign bees, such as Italian bees. He refused to come in and would destroy them when they were discovered. Whoever dared to raise them would take care of them.

Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult to send Italian bees to Ming Dynasty. They have to be moved bit by bit and caught up with the flowering season. It is impossible to load them on ships because the ships are slow.

This thing is easy to burn, but it would be a pity to burn it. Even smaller pieces of amber can be put together artificially. Of course, this technology is not available at the moment.

Coal from open-pit mines has a high calorific value and contains coal essence and amber, so it can be mined. Northeast Heavy Industry needs coal, and Fushun's coal needs to be exported to create foreign exchange.

The chief and others only knew the information and did not know the specific situation, although they had shipped a lot of amber and coal essence to Yingtian Mansion.

The land is slower, but it is convenient. I carry beehives and flowers to migrate, and I slowly reach the Ming Dynasty.

Vegetables in season are not valuable right now. Many people have land to grow them, as long as they have enough to eat.

Now is summer, there are many seedlings inside, and the seedlings emerge quickly. If the seedlings are transplanted outside, the survival rate will be high and the yield will be high.

After walking a short distance, there was more coal on the ground. The larger ones that had been dropped while transporting coal had been picked up.

Apis mellifera produces more honey than Apis cerana, and is more aggressive than Apis cerana. Apis mellifera cannot defeat them, and the Apis cerana species will be killed.

When the use of US$50,000 requires the signature of the Prime Minister, everything can be sold out, which is especially cheap.

It is useless to grow cucumbers and watermelons directly in greenhouses. Many of the vegetables on the ground now are seedlings provided in greenhouses.

"Your Highnesses, are you still going in?" When he came to the vegetable greenhouse, Liu Sheng was about to invite, but suddenly changed his mind.

Zhu Wentian actually doesn't need to look at this mine. He knows how much reserves there are. Anyway, with the current mining capacity, it can't be mined in a hundred years.

But they are willing to buy seedlings from greenhouses. The seedlings are not expensive. They can just dig a hole, sit in it, water some water, and wait until they grow up!
So everyone looked and walked through the glass and felt hot.

Zhu Di was the first to object. He knew what was going on in the vegetable greenhouses during the current season, and the time inside must be limited to avoid heatstroke.

"Don't go in, it's too hot and suffocates you to death. It's not like I've never seen it before. Are the rules here different from other places?"

He just asked people to separate amber and coal essence as much as possible when mining. Amber can be used as medicine and jewelry, and coal essence can also be used as jewelry, and can also be carved into works of art, seals, etc.

This location was the west open-pit mine during Zhu Wentian's time. The quality of the coal produced was so bad that people didn't want to mine it. Of course, too much was mined. The entire underground was empty and there was a subsidence zone.

Everyone walked to the place and tried to hide in the limelight. There was no clean place where coal was dug.

The mine area cannot be clean. There is a coal washing place here to wash out the waste. Some of it is kerogen shale, and the waste utilization rate is low. Kerogen shale is a good thing.

In the past, kerogen shale was also exported, but Ming Dynasty did not process it for the time being. It was useless. It was left there and piled up to be discussed later. The miners work there naked, without clothes, and there are no women here.

However, there is protective gear on the face. No matter how high the cost is, protective measures must be taken, otherwise it will be over if you get pneumoconiosis.

Not only coal mines, but other mines with dust such as iron mines and stone mines must wear protective masks. Anyone who dares to disobey will be punished to death.

"Look at how deep it is without digging! There are many ships just transporting it to Yingtian Mansion."

Zhu Fan didn't come near, he was working! He stood on a high platform in the distance and looked through the telescope.

The mining area of ​​the West Open-pit Mine is large, and with the current technology, using humans to dig and blast will not be much lower.

Carloads of coal are loaded and pushed to the coal washing area. A large group of people wash it here. There must be a water source, and water cannot be transported to the mining area.

The place where coal was washed was not clean either. Black water flowed across it, and most of it went into the pit. Coal sludge could also be produced from the sedimentation.

Someone hauls away the coal slime from other places. Those who don’t have money to buy it can transport the coal themselves. The coal slime is free of charge.

Others organized themselves and asked anyone who wanted coal slime, and they were responsible for delivering it and earning transportation fees.

"Are those coal slags?" The fifth brother Zhu Su pointed to a place. Many people went there to put their things and then registered.

What comes out of coal washing is usually not found when digging. It's too late and they are busy working, so they are fine when washing.

Everyone found amber and coal essence and put them aside. They regarded them as the fruits of their labor and asked them to search carefully.

The amount of money given is actually not much, because it is too much, and it usually allows them to earn more than ten pence a day.

Some people also found large amber, indicating that the original pine trees were large and accumulated a lot of pine oil. This kind of amber can be used for research.

When the pine oil flows drop by drop, pollen and other things will fall on it and be wrapped up by the behind. Then drill into it and analyze it layer by layer.

The piece was taken to Xiaqiu Village and left there without being drilled or processed into handicrafts.

The person who found the piece of amber received a reward of ten pieces at once. When others were jealous, they looked forward to finding it too. The one was discovered after blasting, not washed out.

"Slow down, don't drop it, this thing can break."

Soon baskets of amber were picked up over there, and the person in charge shouted loudly.

The structure of a lot of amber is not strong, and there are other things mixed in it. If it is dropped, the bigger ones will crack, and a good piece of material will be missing for making jewelry.

Everyone picked it up and looked at it. Some people have already made jewelry from amber. People in the dynasties long ago liked it. It has low hardness and is easy to process.

It's just that there is a lot of amber in places where people don't know anything. It's especially easy to find amber in this coal mine.

"Your Highness, there are people who collect coal from people who bought it, and then sell it over. Before burning it, they smash it so that children can pick it out."

Liu Sheng also picked up a piece of amber, looked at the sun, and said how the locals cherished it.

Zhu Wentian next to him was the happiest. He knew that local coal was transported to people's homes, and children could easily find it. There was no shortage of ones as big as fingernails, and there were many smaller ones. Some were caught between coals and would break when touched.

(End of this chapter)