Compete for the Song Dynasty

Half a month has passed in a flash. Yujia Village, where Yu Danian and Yin Shijie lived, originally had too many families. There were more than a dozen families, and some of them still had some land for their own use, which was just enough for food and clothing. People who work, every family has a job, and the children can still study, and they all regret that Yin Shijie and Yu Danian didn't come when they said hello.

Seeing that the arrangements here are similar, Wang Pang asked He Li Bo to go back to the capital. Wang Pang did not just wander around in the capital for a few days. People built a simple shed there as a coal yard for entering the capital.

Wang Pang calculated that if all the coal was transported to the city, the tax would be much higher. Building a coal yard there could avoid a lot of tax.Moreover, the location is by the Jinshui River, and the Yellow River is to the west of Jincheng County. There are two ways to choose water and drought. Choose this place as a coal base, and slowly move along the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

If you want every family to have coal, the current price is not enough. The monthly living expenses of a family of four in the capital are only more than ten yuan. If you use a hundred catties of coal in a winter, you can't afford it.If you want to popularize, you have to make small profits but sell quickly.

Wang Pang asked Yu Danian and Yin Shijie to classify the coal according to its quality and set different prices, and there was "iron carbon" specially used for forging.And the briquettes used by the people for heating.There are also "fragrant cakes" specially used by royal nobles.Incense cakes are expensive, followed by iron carbon, and the price of coal briquettes for common people's heating is extremely low, one hundred copper coins per catty. [

Yin Shijie frowned. If it is calculated comprehensively, it will not lose much, but isn't this a money-losing business?Wang Pang laughed and said, "Once the output increases, naturally we won't lose money."

Just as he was talking, the old man Li Jian came to the house, entered the hall and saw three people discussing matters, and said to the king: "The coal well has been opened, and it has been drying for three or four days. Please go and have a look."

Immediately Wang Pang got up and came to the side of the well. He saw that the diameter of the coal well was about ten feet. The turntable cart pulled by the ox beside it had also been set up. A bamboo pole protruded from the well, which is poisonous gas from the carbon exhaust layer.

There is also a round shelf beside the well, with a thick rope coiled on it, which is used for people to go up and down.Three or four people can stand in the well at the same time.Wang Pang put on the iron helmet that Yu Danian had prepared, rolled up his gown, tied the rope around his waist, and went down along the stakes by the well.

When everyone saw that Prince Wang went down the well in person, they sincerely admired him.When Wang Pang returned to the well, he asked Li Jian how much coal was mined in the well in the past.The old man said that this well used to be the same, and when it was almost dug, it was about to be reopened after digging around.

Wang Pang talked about the idea of ​​opening a tunnel in the well prepared in advance, and asked, if it is feasible to open a tunnel underground like this?

Old man Li said: "We also opened tunnels, otherwise it would be a waste to open a hole, and some people were buried in the tunnels..."

Wang Pang saw the old Hannai, and said that the old man had to prepare the wooden slats and planks before opening the alley, but first use the wooden slats to drive piles, and put wooden planks on them as a protection. He said, let the old man see the drawing he had drawn, and at the same time ordered, Going down the well must wear an iron helmet.

When everyone saw his order, they all obeyed it.

Wang looked at the well again. According to the level of the Song Dynasty, this coal well needs protection in addition to safety issues, and the original division of labor is unclear, and there is no production line formed.On the contrary, his safety and efficiency have been greatly improved by such a change. Wang Pang also instructed that a maximum of four lanes should be opened in a pit, and each lane should be narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and there should not be too many lanes.The length of each roadway is also clearly specified.

Old man Li also walked around the place, and marked in detail all the pits that could be dug.Wang Pang identified several pitfalls.They are all far apart.After arranging the scene and returning to the mansion, I found that there were already more than a dozen people waiting in the courtyard.

The person who came was Yu Danian, who lived in Yujia Village where Yin Shijie lived. There was a respectable old man who was brought up to talk to Wang Pang.There are fewer and fewer people in the village, and the two villages are adjacent to each other. The farmers in the village have a poor income, but some farmers also want to sell their land to start mining with Wangpang.

Wang Pang discussed with everyone in the hall to appease the people. There were more than a dozen people sitting and standing in one hall. Wang Pang said that if the negotiation reached a consensus, Wang Pang would also buy all the ten acres of land in Yujia Village.

However, in the past, the number of farms was counted, and the number of people was arranged, and farming was still carried out; the harvest was delivered to the government, and wages were paid regardless of drought or flood;At the same time, several frontage houses will be built along the same road in the two villages, so that those with poor labor force can use them as shops here. The rent is free in the first year, and rent will be collected in the second year.There are also those who specialize in raising livestock and in charge of water transport ships.There are also those who specialize in making fragrant cakes and briquettes; they all have their own wages.

After listening to Wang Pang's plan, everyone agreed unanimously, at least so that their own children could also have books to read.And livelihood is not an issue.Seeing that everyone agreed unanimously, Wang Pang and the elders of the Yu family took the real estate title deeds of the whole village, went to the county government office to get under their own names, and each family gave a small resettlement fee. living, the existing property will not be recovered.

Wang Pang followed Zhang Yi's example and found a house to house the orphans and orphans in the two villages. The old man was accompanied by children, and he hired a couple of women to take care of the old people and children.In the same way as the school asks for a gentleman, let someone hire a full-time doctor to see a doctor for the villagers.

In the county town and other villages, there were four or five gentlemen and doctors who came here to apply for the job. Wang Pang selected the best ones, and Wang Pang gave them a place to live.Even so, there are doctors who are willing to do it. It seems that being a doctor here is also a prestige.

Another half month passed, and Tangjia Village was already small and large. Wang Pang invited Chenghao county magistrate to visit again.

The two people next to King Cheng Hao walked around the two villages and saw that the people in the village were full of energy. Cheng Hao praised them a lot and said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, Brother Ruoxian is no worse than a brother in management. If you are so If it continues to develop, the surrounding areas of Jincheng County will all go here.”[

Wang Pang laughed and said: "Bo Chun has just appointed this county for re-election. During this period, I will help Bo Chun to hand over a big report card."

Cheng Hao was naturally full of joy: "Could it be that brother Ruo still has plans?"

Wang Pang said ambitiously, "I promise you will expand the county by five miles!"

This is not a small number. Expanding the county seat by five miles means that the four sides of the city wall will expand outward by five miles.Cheng Hao's eyes widened, and he smiled in a flash: "Brother Ruo is very ambitious."

Wang Pang smiled, knowing that Cheng Hao might not believe it, the land of Jincheng extends in all directions, and it is also Zezhou, where East Road meets Northwest Beijing Road, and there is an important road near the Yellow River.He wants to annex one by one.

Wang Pang does not live in the village either. He is thinking that it only takes one to two ten minutes to ride a horse from Tangjia Village to the county seat, and it takes four to five ten minutes to walk faster. He has a bigger plan in his mind.

Cheng Hao asked Wang Pang to meet Mr. Wang Pang again. Wang Pang remembered that the matter had been put on hold for a long time, so he hurriedly asked Cheng Hao to meet Mr. Wang Pang in his shop tomorrow.

The mansion where Wang Pang lived was the highest standard in the county, and the environment and facilities were very good. Naturally, Wang Pang made an appointment there to entertain the two of them.

Cheng Hao went back to visit Tangjia Village, and went back to the county to do his own business. Wang Pang saw that the manpower here was almost the same, and each had a division of labor, and issued a notice that there were other suggestions to improve the quality and efficiency of each link. Five taels.At the same time, those who perform well in each link of the process will have opportunities to improve.

Of course, Wang Pang did this to motivate. For example, how to automate the process of making briquettes, and how to make it simple and mechanized with wooden structures, requires someone to think about it, otherwise it will be much slower to do it manually one by one.Moreover, the selection of talents is also very important. In the future, more people will be employed. This is also a way.

He called Yu Danian and Yin Shijie, and first asked Yin Shijie how much he had spent and the remaining silver taels. Yin Shijie reported that the expenditure was 800 taels of silver.Now the monthly fixed expenses are 600 taels.There is no credit.

Wang Pang calculated that he had almost enough rewards from the emperor, but he was not in a hurry, he would have everything when he returned to the capital.He asked Yu Danian again, how was the preparation of the first batch of coal and coal cakes escorted to the capital?

Yu Danian said: "I have prepared five ox carts, each of which costs three to four hundred yuan, and two boats for water transport. Each boat can hold two thousand catties."

Wang Pang knew that the ship was rebuilt from a water tanker, basically unchanged but reinforced, and he himself had no time, so seeing that it was ready, he and Yu Danian and Yin Shijie went to have a look in person.

When I went to the shore, I saw that my pier had been set up several times. I didn’t know who had the heart, so I made a small flag of Jinxiang Mansion and stuck it on the pier. Wang Pang smiled and looked at the boat again: the bottom of the boat was five feet two long and nine feet five wide. , the planks used are as thick as two villages, and the wood is all big-rooted nanmu. The bow is nine feet five inches long, and the bottom is six feet wide; the stern is nine feet five inches long, and the bottom is five feet wide;

The large crossbar at the top of the bow is eight feet long, and the corresponding crossbar at the stern is seven feet long. The whole ship traverses the ship's god's big wood, and there are fourteen.

Set up a middle mast with a length of one foot and four, with a flag fluttering on it, waving in the wind, and embroidered with the words Jinxiangfu; it looks so grand.When you board the boat, you can see that the passages on both sides of the ship building are seven feet six inches wide.

Wang Pang was in a good mood. This was his own big ship, which was completely standard for water transport grain ships. Wang Pang praised Yu Danian and said: "This ship was prepared very quickly, and Yu Danian did a great job."

But Yu Danian said with a troubled face: "The boat has arrived, and we haven't paid for it yet. We ordered one from Zhou's shipyard a few years ago, but we didn't expect it to be delivered so soon, and we even sent two more. Said that the young master is not short of money, and said that the young master should pay his respects in person."

Wang Pang also didn't expect the ship to be delivered so soon, and he knew that the "bottom boat" material for making a good nanmu tank boat was 120 taels of silver.The price of the pallets and other items on the ship can be compared with the silver of the bottom ship, so if doubled, it should be 560 taels.For the time being, where would he get so many silver taels, and every time he gave away, he would get two ships.

It can be seen that the owner of Zhou's shipyard is very well-off. Just now he only said it was the cost of construction. If he sold a boat to Wang Pang for 2000 taels, it would cost [-] taels.

Wang Pang was baffled by Zhou's shipyard's move.Yu Danian pointed to the upper reaches, a branch can be seen not far away, but there are mountains where the back of the branch cannot be seen. [

"Behind that is the Zhou Family Dockyard. Do you want to go and see it yourself?"

Of course I will go, since the ship has arrived, vomiting blood can no longer be looked down upon, Wang Pang said to Yu Danian: "You go and inform, I will personally visit the house the day after tomorrow."