Datang first village

Many people have heard the words of the blacksmith.

Right, or wrong.

No one is qualified to evaluate the blacksmith's words, everyone has their own way of survival.

Kunlun slave Lao Hei said at this time: "The blacksmith is the richest. He has a piece of gold that weighs five taels. It was rewarded by His Majesty the Tang Emperor, and this piece of gold is enough."

"I want to be a commoner, maybe I can be a high official in the Tang Dynasty!" The slave who was once an official also expressed his attitude.

Both Lao Hei and the official have left, and they have already made up their minds. The official came late, and he didn't have enough money to redeem himself, but he believed that after three months at most, he would be able to save enough money to redeem himself.

The female medical officer was still eating, and she was eating slowly.

When I saw the two of them going out, I said again: "I know one more thing, I can redeem myself first. The difference is [-]% per month, deducted from wages." To put it bluntly, he is short of eight pennies, plus interest, calculated on the basis of four months, then he needs to pay three pennies and two hundred coins more.This is acceptable.

You can redeem yourself, and you can also borrow money to redeem yourself first. This shocking news spread quickly to the slaves.

It should be about two to three times the purchase price.How exactly, no one knows.But the slaves have their own way, all of them are calculating by three times, presumably they are only saving enough money by three times, then they can redeem themselves. .

For a fifth-class foreman, if he works hard for a year and three months, the money he saves is enough to redeem himself.

A sixth-class foreman needs one year and eight months. If a seventh-class foreman wants to redeem himself, his first consideration should not be saving money, but promotion.

The fourth-class skilled worker is equivalent to the sixth-class foreman, and the strong labor in the mine is almost the same as the eighth-class foreman.

According to this calculation, everyone has the opportunity to redeem themselves, and the calculation method of wages after becoming a commoner is different from that of a slave, which can be about [-]% higher.

But there are a few types of people who have absolutely no chance of redeeming themselves.

The first category is the lowest-level coolie workers, and they are not in the mining area, and more of them are low-level jobs doing odd jobs.

The second category is beauties, especially beauties without skills. When they are bought, the price is high, and they are just beautiful without skills, and they cannot earn money to redeem themselves here in Yaozhou.

The last category is convict slaves, unless there is an amnesty.Otherwise they could not have been redeemed.Because Datang has not yet commuted the sentence or other policies.

After Li Yuanxing made this small stone, the Yaozhou No. [-] Workshop area suddenly became full of excitement.

Everyone is working hard, piecework with guaranteed quality, the better the work, the more income you get.

Wu Zhao, who was sipping tea in the room, naturally knew about what happened in Yaozhou. Right now, it is only spreading in this workshop area. In less than three to five days, the whole Yaozhou will fall into such a fiery heat.

He stretched out his hand and summoned a civil servant: "Are you ready for what I said last time?"

"Everything is ready."

"Go do it!" Wu Zhao waved his hand.

Wang Yuyan and the girls were very curious, but it was Wang Yuyan who asked, "Your Highness, what are you ready for?"

"It is to educate them. King Qin is so benevolent that he must be loyal to His Highness. This palace has specially selected some civil servants, and they will naturally arrange them so that everyone in Yaozhou will remember that they are loyal to the Tang Dynasty, loyal to the Holy One, and loyal to King Qin!" Wu Zhao answered unhurriedly.

Wu Zhao likes this kind of ideological education very much.

Li Changying snapped his fingers: "What Her Highness said is not wrong, Your Highness is kind, you should let them know."

After lunch, Li Yuanxing's second pebble began to exert its enormous power, which was no less powerful than dropping an atomic bomb directly in a certain lake.

"Have eaten and seen interesting little things!"

Wu Zhao took out a box of slides. From Tang's point of view, this box of slides is truly beyond the age of technology.But in modern times, it is not.

This box of slides uses the history of the development of modern steam engines in Europe.

But what Wu Zhao chose was not official history, but an unimaginable design and theory, among which there were failures and successes.Wu Zhao didn't make a detailed division either.

To put it bluntly, this thing is for craftsmen to see.

"Gearbox!" The blacksmith suddenly screamed and jumped up: "That's the thing, that's the magic weapon!"

"No, it should be the separation linkage device!" Another person also retorted loudly.

Instead, Ma Yuan bowed to Wu Zhao: "Your Highness, the Ma family will serve His Highness King Qin to death, but Ma Yuan said something that does not belong to a certain duty, some people are not reliable!"

"You can study the steam engine at ease, some things are the responsibility of the security department!"

"Yes!" Ma Yuan responded, and when he was about to step back, Wu Zhao said, "His Royal Highness Qin Wang said that all machines should benefit the common people. I will give you ten days to come up with a plan on how to use the steam engine for farming. Come on. Within half a month, improve the lathe and improve the accuracy."

Ma Yuan nodded heavily.

Then he handed a piece of paper into the hands of the guard next to Wu Zhao.

Half an hour later, the piece of paper was placed on Lu Chengqing's table. After reading it, Lu Chengqing slapped the table heavily: "Catch people, everyone in that square will be arrested!"

"Slow!" Liu Erxiao who was sent to Yaozhou stopped a lieutenant who was about to rush out.

"One, he can't escape. Two, what is his real purpose for writing this? Three, is there any other accomplices? Fourth, what's the point of killing a few people? When we work in the Qin Palace, we will maximize the interests of everything. Can it be said that this guy is useless?"

Hearing Liu Erxiao's words, Lu Chengqing looked at the piece of paper again.

The writing on the piece of paper is extremely small, written with sharpened charcoal, and in Goguryeo script.

"It says something about a steam engine, which can be regarded as the principle of a steam engine, but he doesn't seem to understand the structure, which is different from what someone knows. According to Mayuan's report, this person has not touched the core part, but he has participated in several In terms of his ability, Ma Yuan’s original idea was to arrange for him to be a fourth-class foreman in charge of processing transmission shafts.”

Lu Chengqing analyzed, according to his thinking, arresting people and using torture, how could he not be able to ask his accomplices.

"Wait, at least ask His Highness!"

Lu Chengqing realized that His Royal Highness King Qin might have some plans against Goguryeo.

As night fell, the slaves gathered together again.

This time, it was not a gathering of several slave leaders, but a gathering of slaves of different types of work.

"As much as you can carry on your back, you can't make much by pulling a cart or pushing a cart." The blacksmith was speaking, and the person listening to him was a fourth-class foreman, but the fourth-class foreman in the mining area was in charge of people. It is almost the same as the second-class foreman in the blacksmith workshop.

The foreman in this mining area used to be a school lieutenant, a member of Dou Jiande's subordinates.

He was unlucky, because he shot Li Yuanji's horse to death with one arrow, so he didn't even have a chance to surrender, so he became a slave.

"I heard that that thing can lift tens of thousands of catties!"

"Wrong, I know that the locomotive in Chang'an needs to be replaced, because the locomotive is not well made, wasting coal and water. And the coal ash is too big, so Lu Guan'er plans to replace it. The new one has already been made. At most It will be transported to Chang'an in five days, and after being assembled in the Zhuangzi of His Highness King Qin, the old one will be disassembled in another ten days."

"How much can it pull?" the foreman in the mining area asked.

"The strength of five hundred horses."

After hearing this, the foreman in the mining area stood up suddenly: "I'm going to go to Shangguan, but I really can't go to Lu Guaner!"

Lu Guan'er in the mouth of the slaves is Lu Chengqing.Lu Chengqing was considered a good official. He patrolled Yaozhou's territory all day long. He didn't dare to say that everyone in Yaozhou knew him, but the foremen of some identities had spoken to him more or less.

The slaves have already begun to think about how to improve work efficiency.

It’s just that they don’t know the word work efficiency yet. The idea of ​​the slaves is very simple. Take the miners as an example. If a mining area digs an extra [-] catties a day, that’s a reward of [-] pennies. Up and down, more or less can get a few hundred coins.

The mining area is not the only one who has the idea of ​​steam engines.

When the foreman in the mining area went to Lu Chengqing's place, there were already seven or eight foremen here, and he and Lao Hei were the only ones who were slaves.

"Old Hei, what are you doing here?"

"I thought about using wooden boards to make a movable slope, so that I can transport ten times the amount of stones in one day. It can also save most of the labor, so I asked for a machine. According to the blacksmith, the machine is as tall as one person. The four we made will depend on whether we can get one for the cement workshop, and the Shangguan in our workshop is already there!"

The slave foreman in the mining area had a second thought, turned around and left immediately.

Lao Hei's status is higher than him, and Lao Hei didn't even go in. He went to count the onion, so to solve the problem, the chief official of the coal mine should come. He is not afraid that the chief official will not come. There are no lazy officials or corrupt officials in Yaozhou.If he had, he would have been beaten to death a long time ago. The original guarding general here was General Cheng, known as the Demon King of Confusion.

There is no curfew in Yaozhou at night, because many workshops need to work night shifts.

It was past nine o'clock at night, and Lu Chengqing was sitting at the top. There were at least 30 people below, and there were hundreds of people standing outside the house. These people had only one purpose, and that was to want a steam engine, because this thing was a steam engine. At worst, the machine can hold hundreds of people.

Especially in places where human hands can't use it, this thing is really a good thing.

There are also those originally powered by water wheels, because water wheels are restricted by weather, water flow, and water level, and are far less reliable than this steam engine.Even if Cheng Yifang sent someone over, they also want one, even if they haven't figured out how to use it yet.

Originally, Shui Siyuan, the personal guard next to Wu Zhao, gave Lu Chengqing a small box.

"Newly planted tobacco this year! Your Majesty and His Royal Highness, take a sip when you are tired." (To be continued.)