Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2433 Indistinguishable between good and evil

Regardless of whether Xu Huang and Wei Yan can understand the overall layout of Fei Qian, and whether they can understand the aspect of infrastructure construction, the pre-projects of the vigorous infrastructure construction have already begun to be promoted, such as the large number of prisoners of war sent back by Wei Yan. Not simply killed, not worthlessly imprisoned, but basically sent to labor camps.

  In the labor camp, there are roughly three types of labor.

  One is the poor and proletarians around.

   Not only farmers who lost their land, but also nomadic shepherds around. These people lost their original means of production due to natural disasters and man-made disasters. Instead of being slaves to other people, it is better to work here in Feiqian, which has a higher salary.

   The second category is prisoners of war.

  Like this time, a large number of prisoners of war brought from Sichuan, Shu and Hanzhong were supplemented, and together with the Qiang people from Longyou and Longxi, they became cheap labor, and then contributed to the infrastructure construction of the Han Dynasty.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, these Qiang people and Di people were quite a powerful force. Opening up the local annals of these places often became a very important part of these counties. Since Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty, it seems that these places have been There is no year that is relatively peaceful, and there will be riots and even rebellions among the local indigenous people at every turn, and the conflicts are very fierce.

Under such circumstances, the Han Dynasty’s defense against these Qiang and Di people became an important task for local officials, and then turned into blind suppression. The Han people have not been able to go deep into the central hinterland of the Qiang and Di people. Until the appearance of Hussar General Fei Qian.

  Perhaps many children of the gentry will find it strange that they are also local prefects. Why did the prefects sent by the Han Dynasty and Jia Xu sent by Feiqian have two completely different results?

  It’s actually very simple. How can a local official who only wants to make money as soon as possible from the beginning to the end, and then run away as soon as possible, make any contribution to this place, and how can he manage this area well?

  The officials who used to be corrupt in these lands are being gradually arrested, tracked down, eliminated, and paid a corresponding price, not only for themselves, but also for their families.

Those with minor crimes may just be confused for a while, and those who paid three to five times the fine and started their lives again with almost bankrupt, while those who were corrupt and the amount was huge, not only You can be exonerated if you go bankrupt or commit suicide. Even if you die, your family members must bear joint and several responsibilities.

  These people have become another type of labor force in the labor camp. Of course, they are also a warning, or the meaning of the existence of these people is not to make much value to make up for the previous crimes, but to provide a warning and deterrent effect...

This kind of "joint and several" effect makes the cost of corruption much higher at once, and makes many officials can't help but consider whether it's worth it. After all, suicide is very painful. Even suicide can't solve the problem, and it will involve family members and even If they are clansmen, then there is a big problem. Otherwise, it is like the kind of later generations, specially set up prison cells, living in a small single room, eating in a big pot, singing and singing every night in the first half of life, never playing or eating anything, and then the health is three high, and almost got some cardiovascular disease and diabetes Now, in the second half of my life, I can just change it, live a regular life, go to bed early and get up early, eat porridge and side dishes with no desires, maybe live longer, and I can also participate in some special interviews, special lectures, and publish some books. Enjoy in the front, enjoy your life in the back, beautiful. Is this a warning? Is it inspirational?

  As for those ordinary Qiang and Di people, they are correspondingly much better. It is not that the living conditions of the prisoners of war of these Qiang and Di people are better than those of the family members of corrupt officials, but that these Qiang and Di people are better able to adapt to heavy labor. Even the tribal leaders of these Qiang and Di people are often Those who have personally participated in the labor, and some have some skills, such as knowing a little about carpentry, or knowing some ways of domesticating livestock, while those corrupt officials' families often know nothing except writing.

  In the labor camp, craftsmen are often drawn out to form a team, responsible for repairing and making labor tools, while others are outright coolies. Especially under the "Law of Corruption", the family members of these corrupt officials are not allowed to hold any managerial positions within three generations, even for low-level positions such as work points among laborers. The family members lost the last straw.

Especially when these newly appointed big Han local officials will see the family members of the previous major corrupt officials serving hard labor, looking at those clumsy appearances, and then gradually turning from white and fat to black and thin, they also see the appearance of many corrupt officials. The family members couldn't stand the hard work and chose to commit suicide. The result of the death of the whole family made these newly appointed officials engrave a deep imprint on their hearts, which is more effective than hanging human skins inside the yamen.

  Do you really want to risk the death of your family to become corrupt?

  Sometimes the more you think about it, the result may be different.

  Under the rule of Fei Qian, when the "Law of Corruption" was strictly enforced, many officials would inevitably weigh in their hearts when they saw the third category of labor in these labor camps.

In the past, some officials could still use the skill of "being an official" to blackmail Fei Qian, but as more and more, more and more detailed matters were recorded by Naoyin Academy and became a reference example, just like Operating specifications in the factory. After all, it is not difficult to train a worker, but it is difficult to produce a craftsman.

And most of the middle and low-level officials are not "artisans" at all, they are just "workers" in the officialdom. Among these people, some people don't have too many ideas, they can just mess around and live a day Even for a day, with rigid behavior, pushing and procrastinating, if you can fish for a day, you will definitely not only fish for half a day. How difficult is it to replace such an "official"?

A large number of poor students and poor children are staring at them eagerly, waiting for these people to move away. There are even some bachelors of agriculture and engineering who grew up from the grassroots, and inspections, etc. If someone really leaves their position, they can be found immediately There are several replacement candidates, how can you "coerce" under such circumstances?

Resignation, after the Pei Yuan incident, has also become an extremely troublesome choice. If you are still in office and you haven't found out about yourself for a while, you can more or less sneakily make up for the deficit, and then do a good job in the books. After leaving, will the successor be willing to bear the shortfall left behind?

   Then immediately brought in investigators...

  It can only be with its tail between its legs and its nose, not daring to be a demon at all.

  The labor camps in Guanzhong are mainly near the Qinling Mountains.

In the formation process of the labor camp, most of them will break up the establishment, that is, the Xianbei, Qiang, and Di people, as well as other tribes, labor reform criminals, etc., all disrupt the mixed formation, and the purpose is naturally to engage in that kind of mutual restraint In any case, it is impossible to give these labor camps the opportunity to link up and make trouble. At the same time, among these laborers, mainly those Qiang and Di people, some with a relatively high degree of obedience were selected as the team leaders of the laborers.

  Strict hierarchical relationship, absolute power between the upper and lower levels, and the benefits generated through this power, these things are all tempting in the human community. These labor captains have extra straw hats and whips for laziness and slowness. These captains immediately forget that they are still prisoners of war and are ready to work hard to supervise the new wretches.

  Because of the high demand for roads and construction, the newly arrived prisoners of war were basically assigned to the camps that made bricks.

  The buildings of later generations have gradually shifted from ordinary bricks and tiles to the use of reinforced concrete, but at present, this kind of fired bricks and tiles is still the most widely used and economical building material.

The process of firing bricks and tiles is quite cumbersome. First, the raw soil must be mined, that is, clay that does not contain organic matter. The raw soil is dried and crushed. adobe.

The adobe cannot be fired directly into the kiln. If there is too much moisture, it will be cracked and deformed directly in the kiln. Therefore, it must be dried in the shade for ten days and a half months. During the drying period, it cannot see the sun, strong wind, or cold. It will still crack. Only after drying in the shade can the adobe be fired in the kiln, and then the fire should not be too high, it will crack, and it should not be too small, it will not burn through...

  The original brick-burning process was very cumbersome, but since Fei Qian created some technologies and lit up some nodes of the technology tree, some things became relatively simple.

  The brick making machine first appeared, which simplified and standardized the simple work of making bricks by hand. The efficiency of making brick embryos is no longer limited by making bricks, but depends on how much clay is mined.

  Similarly, because they disliked the low efficiency of firing bricks and stones in the original earth kiln, under the guidance of Fei Qian, craftsmen developed a new brick kiln, which is somewhat like the wheel kiln of later generations.

In fact, a similar structure has already been born in iron and steel smelting. The principles of preheating, batch feeding, and continuous output are actually the same to some extent. This kind of wheel kiln is similar to later generations. Of course, it is more advanced than those Modern brick kilns such as tunnel kilns are very backward, but they are definitely an advanced thing in today's Dahan.

  This kind of continuous production of bricks and stones can simultaneously load blanks, discharge bricks, and clean, which greatly improves the efficiency of making bricks and tiles. This kind of brick kiln is composed of many interconnected small brick kiln chambers, which are generally ring-shaped like a wheel, and there are many kiln doors around. In this way, each small cave dwelling can be fired in batches.

   According to the number of cave dwellings, it can be divided into four kilns, six kilns and eight kilns. It is said that twelve kilns are currently being developed...

When the brick kiln works, it is divided into four working steps: drying, preheating, calcination and cooling. In simple terms, the first kiln is producing bricks, then the fourth kiln is cleaning and drying the kiln body, and then the third kiln is in Preheating, the second kiln is calcined in a big fire, so as to rotate.

  There are still some intervals between the four kilns, and the intervals between the six kilns and the eight kilns are gradually shortened. It is said that if the twelve kilns are completed, there will be twelve hours of continuous kiln production!

The throughput of the brick kiln has increased, which in turn requires the number of **** bricks to be dried in the shade. Then, due to the limitation of shade drying, more bricks and soils of different materials have been tested repeatedly. The ratio is constantly improving, and **** bricks are gradually replacing Those brick embryos that were supposed to be dried in the shade for about ten days have become a large amount of brick-making raw materials.

  In addition to technological improvements similar to bricks and tiles, there are other technological evolutions, such as soil cement.

  In later generations, most people's concept of cement is just a phone call, and at most they will care about the price. But for the people of the Han Dynasty, all the concepts of cement were obtained from Feiqian.

It's just that Fei Qian didn't carry the system or the old man with him. Although he knew that there were names such as earth cement, he didn't know how to do it well. He could only play its guiding role again. Let craftsmen continue to explore on this road.

  The original version of soil cement is of extremely low quality. Even after it solidifies, it will shatter under some heavy blows. In some cases, its hardness is not as good as that of rammed earth, but it has the advantage of fast molding.

   Later, with the continuous discovery of cement raw materials and repeated tests, the soil cement compounded with slag, clay and limestone as raw materials gradually meets some needs.

  Fei Qian doesn't know why such a ratio can produce soil cement with relatively complex requirements. Maybe it's because of some metal elements in iron ore **** that cannot be extracted?

  At the same time, due to the improvement of steelmaking technology, the development of earth cement has been promoted in turn, because when firing earth cement, the raw materials need to be ground into powder.

The stone mill originally used for grinding was connected with wood, and the wood is obviously not enough in terms of durability and toughness. Even the relatively brittle pig iron is easy to break under stress, until the part that will be connected later All replaced by steel. The use of bearings completely reduces the resistance during rotation, making mechanized grinding possible.

  However, the initial feeding and sieving was still done manually, which was not only inefficient, but also prone to pneumoconiosis...

There are several such cases in Baiyi Museum. Although the doctors in Baiyi Museum still don't know the onset of pneumoconiosis and can't find any good treatment methods, Fei Qian knows that it is caused by the harsh living environment. , especially in places with a lot of dust, after issuing masks, it was found that these people did not use them at all!

  These poor people will put away the masks, or sell them directly, because at this stage, the masks are made of relatively high-quality fine linen and gauze. Although there are only a small piece, they can still be sold for some money...

   In other words, these people are not completely unaware that they will get sick sooner or later in such an environment, but these poor people choose to use their lives to earn more money to support their families.

  Later, these relatively heavy and disease-prone positions were replaced by prisoners of war. But this still does not completely solve the problem, because from a certain perspective, prisoners of war are also labor forces, and continuous output can also provide surplus value.

Therefore, craftsmen now have a new task. They are developing a machine that can be attached to the mill. It is driven by gears, similar to an additional blower, and uses wind to screen coarse and fine materials, then collects the fine materials, and re-sends the coarse materials through the conveyor belt. Back to the feeding port, while the whole milling machine is closed, there is only one feeding port and a discharging port.

But such a mechanism is quite complicated. As of now, some people have proposed some plans and made prototypes, but they will always get stuck during the specific operation process, and the closed shell is not easy for people to judge what it is. There is a problem in one link, so it is still in the process of improvement.

  As for the steam engine, in fact, Fei Qian also has this idea, and is still researching it. After all, there is still a long way to go before the idea can be realized in reality.

  The main reason is that Fei Qian didn’t have any relevant structural concept of steam engine in his mind, but generally knew that boiling water vapor was used as power. Boiling water vapor can be obtained by burning coal or even oil, which is not difficult, but from water vapor to high-pressure water vapor, there must be cylinders and pistons, and the problems of power transmission and steam condensation when it is condensed are by no means simple. It can be made with a simple three words.

   Like the advancement of these technologies, it has changed a lot...

   Even the fabric of society.

From a certain point of view, those who work in the labor camps and the factories opened by Fiqian, including prisoners of war, can be regarded as the first batch of proletarians at this point in time. The despicable capitalist, the one who hangs the street lamp, is Fei Qian himself.

   Whenever Fei Qian realizes this problem, he can only smile wryly. He now has multiple identities. On the one hand, he is an absolutely veritable landlord who controls a lot of land from Beidi to Guanzhong, and even Hanzhong, Sichuan and Sichuan, real estate such as shops, and a large area of ​​tenant farmers attached to him. Live by farming the land under his name.

On the other hand, Feiqian is also a big capitalist. He owns many manufacturing camps and factories such as silver shops, mints, brick and tile factories, cement factories, textile factories, paper mills, printing factories, etc. He also controls gold mines, silver mines, Copper mines, coal mines and other important resources and minerals drove a large number of prisoners of war to work day and night.

  At the same time, Feiqian is still a great warlord...

   Entrust the princes of the cracked soil.

  A powerful minister who is close to the pinnacle of power.

  Any single item is enough to be taken out and hung up.

  But in the hearts of most people, Fei Qian is not only not a bad person, but also a very good person!

  Even ordinary farmer families are willing to do odd jobs in various industries under Fei Qian’s name, and then earn some extra money to improve their lives. It can be said that these industries under Feiqian's name have raised the salaries of the overall labor force of the original big man, so that the same labor can get more remuneration, and then these ordinary people who have obtained extra income, in turn, have higher income. Purchasing power promotes the prosperity and circulation of commodities in the market under Fiji...

  So in the end, it was difficult for Fei Qian to make a clear positioning for himself...

   Is it good or evil...

  (end of this chapter)