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Chapter 116: Fornicating with the mine owners?Never thought about it!

After hearing Liu Sheng's words, the expressions of more than a dozen family heads changed.

None of them expected that Liu Sheng would force him to express his position as soon as they came over.

Zhao Kaifu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Chief, there are three other family heads who are ill and unable to come."

Liu Sheng showed concern, "Are you feeling sick? Is it serious?"

"It's not serious, it's not serious." Zhao Kaifu said sarcastically.

Liu Sheng: "Tieshanji received our rebels so warmly. Now that someone is sick, I should come and take a look.

But I really can't get away, so I'll send three teams of soldiers to visit on my behalf.Inspector Zhao, I have to ask your people to lead the way. "

"Yes Yes."

Zhao Kaifu no longer knew what to say.

When he sent people to notify each family, he had already said that the leader of the thief was a bit difficult to deal with, so that each family would not fall into trouble.

Other families have come, but these three families have not come. Even if they are used by the thieves to establish their authority, they are asking for it.

After dispatching three teams of standing soldiers, Liu Sheng said straight to the point: "Our rebel army came all the way from Queshan to Tieshanji, not for money or food, but for one thing, and that is iron, fine iron.

Since you are so enthusiastic about welcoming our rebel army into Tieshanji, you have to show it, right?

If you don’t have refined iron at home, you can buy it on the spot from the owner of the mining farm.In short, our rebels only want fine iron.

Inspection Zhao, I heard that your family is also one of the top landlords and wealthy businessmen in Tieshanji. Please take the lead and set an example. "

Liu Sheng's request for supplies was something that everyone expected, and the expressions of the family heads did not change much.

Zhao Kaifu gritted his teeth and said with a heartbroken face: "I am willing to dedicate three thousand catties of fine iron to the rebel army!"

Everyone else's expressions changed slightly after hearing this.

Anhui: Good guy, Lao Zhao is really willing to give up this time.

Then everyone showed off their acting skills and spoke one after another as if they were cutting out their livers and hearts.

"My Du family is willing to donate two thousand catties of iron."

"My Liu family is also willing to donate two thousand catties of sperm and iron."

"My Lou family donated a thousand catties of iron."

"···"

First, seven or eight family heads expressed their opinions one after another, shouting out the amount of iron donation from [-] to [-] kilograms.

Then the remaining family heads bought refined iron from these family heads on the spot——

"Mr. Du, I want to buy five hundred kilograms of refined iron from your family. What do you think of the price?"

"Master Liu's mine should still have a lot of refined iron in stock, right? Can you sell [-] kilograms to my family?"

"···"

The heads of the families "discussing business" did not speak loudly. They were all close to each other and whispering to each other so as not to be overheard by others.

Liu Sheng sat in the main seat, looking at the scene below with a happy smile on his face.

Zhao Kaifu stood by the door, continued to wipe his sweat, looked at each house and shook his head secretly.

He thought to himself: What a bunch of idiots... But Liu Sheng, the leader of the thieves, is really powerful. He said "not for money and food, only for iron", which exposed the mine owners.

Zhao Kaifu was not in a hurry, and even had the mentality of watching a show.

As an inspector of Tieshanji, he was targeted by the bandit leader when he came up, and he would definitely not be able to escape.

Now there are several other people accompanying me, which is good.

There is no psychological comfort.

Thinking of this, he came to Liu Sheng, bowed his head and said: "Chief, in fact, not all the mine owners in this mountain are in Tieshanji.

There are also many mine owners in Qilianzhuang to the west of Shimantan and Temple Street, which is more than ten miles west of Tieshanji. "

Zhao Kaifu thought clearly.

Although I don’t know how much appetite this thief leader has, it’s always a good idea to recruit more people to share the burden.

Maybe the leader of the thieves has an average appetite, and if there are more people to share the burden, his old Zhao family won't have to shed much blood.

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "It seems that Inspector Zhao is very supportive of our rebels. That's good. In that case, please ask Inspector Zhao to write down a list of the owners of the mines in Qilianzhuang and Temple Street, okay?"

Although Zhao Kaifu knew that what he said just now meant that he had offended the owners of the two mines.

But Liu Sheng's words still made his expression change slightly.

Write a list?
This "crime" is just on paper, and I won't be able to ignore it in the future.

But when things got to this point, he had no choice but to write.

However, he began to think that he couldn't really offend all the other mine owners - those with strong backgrounds would not be written properly.

Thinking about it, the thief leader may not know. Even if he knew, he could evade it by saying "I didn't know that the owner of the mine was actually the owner of the mine."

"Just write it here."

Liu Sheng stood up and gave up his seat, but paper and ink were already prepared on the desk.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Kaifu was shocked and thought to himself: Could it be that the leader of the thieves had already planned to reach this point?
Soon, the remaining companies in the hall had negotiated with the mine owner to purchase refined iron, and they all spoke out about the amount of refined iron they would donate to the rebels.

Zhao Deyou, who was called to serve as a guest clerk, respectfully handed several pieces of paper with the record number to Liu Sheng.

I saw that it not only stated the amount of refined iron donated by each company, but also classified mine owners and non-mine owners.

Counting Zhao Kaifu and the three others who didn't come, there should be 12 mine owners in Tieshan Ji.

At this time, Zhao Kaifu also wrote the list and handed it over.

Qilianzhuang, as its name suggests, is a village established by seven mining owners.

There are nine mine owners on Temple Street.

This adds up to 28 companies.

It is in line with Liu Sheng's expectations - even if there are some missing ones, it is estimated that they will not exceed ten fingers.After all, today's iron mines and iron yards are very small in scale and are controlled by different powerful squires. It is normal to mine and smelt iron separately.

It is estimated that the one who occupies the best iron mines is the Ming court, or rather the mine supervisor.

He also visited the mine at the government-run iron yard this morning. It was almost an open-pit mine, and the ore was of good quality.

With such a good mine, the government-run iron yard can only produce about 50 kilograms of pig iron every month.

There are 20 iron furnaces in the iron yard, including 8 bottle furnaces similar to small blast furnaces and 12 ordinary iron furnaces.

On average, it is equivalent to an iron furnace smelting more than 800 kilograms of pig iron in one day.

It should be noted that a bottle furnace with a height of more than four meters can normally produce more than 3000 kilograms of pig iron in one go.

The reason why the government-run mines are so inefficient is not only because of official corruption and incompetent management, but also because the miners are slave laborers, and the craftsmen in the ironworks are also official craftsmen affiliated with the Ministry of Works.

The Ming Dynasty inherited the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and many systems were inherited from the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty.

For example, the craftsman household system was almost completely copied from the Yuan Dynasty at first, and craftsmen were used as semi-slaves.

In the Hongwu Dynasty, there were military craftsmen affiliated with the guards and official craftsmen affiliated with the Ministry of Industry. During the Yongle and Xuande periods, there were also palace craftsmen affiliated with the internal supervision.

Among them, military craftsmen and palace craftsmen were completely restricted in their freedom of life. They could only receive meager wages and salaries and work under orders.

In the beginning, when the administration of officials was relatively clear, there were not many deductions in food, salary and salary, and life was manageable.

But if the government is even slightly corrupt, their lives will be difficult to live by.

Because under the Ming Dynasty system, these craftsmen were the easiest to bully, and there was no pressure to exploit them.

Official craftsmen are craftsmen recruited from local people. They are divided into live-in craftsmen who work for the local government for three or four years, and shift craftsmen who are forcibly recruited from other places to work.

Live-in shift workers receive a meager food subsidy, while shift workers are equivalent to serving in the military. Although they only work for half a year, they do not receive wages and have to deal with food and other issues themselves.

Although the Ming Dynasty began to carry out relevant reforms during the Hongzhi period, by the Jiajing and Wanli periods, many changes had been made, allowing private craftsmen to "use silver in lieu of labor" and become more free.

But just like some of the reforms in other aspects of the Ming Dynasty, many of them were not in place or thorough.

Coupled with the fact that some corrupt officials deliberately take advantage of craftsmen households, the lives of quite a few craftsmen households are actually the same as before.

Even because of the end of the dynasty, life has become even harder.

The craftsmen in this government-run iron farm were all "shift craftsmen" forcibly recruited from various places during the Chongzhen period. Some were indeed shift craftsmen, while others were substitutes.

But no matter who they are, they are treated as half slaves when they come here.

There is definitely no wages.

Even the food is mediocre. At most, the craftsmen need to work hard to make iron to improve the food quality.

If all the craftsmen in the world were slaves and were not paid for their work, improving food might give the craftsmen some motivation to work, thus improving the efficiency of iron-making.

The problem is that in Tieshanji, the iron-making craftsmen in private mines are paid wages, which are not low.

Some masters who mastered advanced iron-making skills were even treated as guests by the mine owners.

Some of the mine owners even had ancestors who were masters of iron smelting and became landlords and mine owners.

Such a comparison, just improve the food, how much motivation can the officials and craftsmen have?
Most of the time I just deal with errands.

As for the mine slaves in the government-run iron mines, they are not good people abducted, but criminals recruited from prisons everywhere.

These mine slaves are all used as death row prisoners - just kill a batch and transfer another batch, and there is no money anyway.

The mine slaves are driven to work by the overseer with a whip.Never stand if you can lie down, never work if you can be lazy, work as slowly as you can.

So mining efficiency is very low.

Through inquiries, the military and political officials learned that a month of digging in such a good open-pit mine would only be enough to smelt iron for ten days at the ironworks.

This is the main reason why the government-run iron yard can only produce about 50 kilograms of pig iron in a month.

And this time Liu Sheng came with thousands of rebels. He not only wanted iron, but also people.

He wants both craftsmen and miners.

The craftsmen can be brought back for reorganization and training first, and then used to build Huabu's steel factory when they reoccupy this place in the future.

Miners are a very good source of soldiers.

But those miners in the government-run mines are definitely not good - not to mention a considerable number of them who have actually committed serious crimes, most of them have been worn out and cannot be replenished.

After abducting refugees from the Pan family in Tongshan to work as mining slaves for mining, Liu Sheng guessed that most of the mine owners here, maybe even all of them, were using mining slaves instead of miners.

After all, there are so many refugees and refugees these days. If you just bring out some food, you can lure a lot of people.

The government will not pursue the case and will thank the mine owners for helping reduce internal displacement.

However, these private mine owners still need some capital to deceive the refugees, and it is not as easy as the official mines to recruit criminals as slaves, so they are probably not as ruthless as the official mines.

In addition, private mining is for profit, and to make profit, you must pay attention to efficiency.

In order to improve mining efficiency, the mining slaves must be well fed so that they can have sufficient physical strength and not be too passive and slow down at work.

As a result, the mining slaves in private mines are basically refugees, and their physical condition is better.

Therefore, the mining slaves in private mines are the source of soldiers Liu Sheng wants, and even the source of serious miners in China in the future.

If, after the rebels take control of Tieshanji, they directly send troops to seize all the big households and wealthy businessmen, and torture them to see if they have mines, it would be too rough, not only inconsistent with the image of the rebels, but also time-consuming.

How good is it now?

With just a smile on his face, he easily got the list of most of the mine owners in Tieshan Jilian and nearby Qilianzhuang and Temple Street.

Next, as long as you find a reason, you can search for it according to the picture and copy it from house to house.

As for having sex with these black-hearted mine owners?

Liu Sheng never thought about it.

Unless there are some good-hearted people among the mine owners.

But Liu Sheng believes that such a mine owner who is not evil cannot exist because the market and the surrounding environment will make it impossible for him and his mine to survive.

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　　Thanks to [Indifferent Youyuan] for the 100 starting coin reward!
　　
　
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