Licheng and Dukang City, if they want to complete the construction of the city before the winter, it is almost impossible. However, if you squeeze each other, the annexes will have no problem surviving the winter.

Hundreds of miles do not sell wood, thousands of miles do not sell wood. It's common sense.

At this time, Liu Bei could no longer use common sense to deduce.

Licheng supervised more than half of it, and the governor Kangcheng supervised most of it. Winter is coming, and hoarding enough firewood and charcoal to survive the winter is the top priority.

Fortunately, there is this wild forest.

Firewood, i.e. firewood. The big one is salary, and the small one is firewood.

When Liu Bei was young, he heard that there were relatives of the attached people, and the whole family froze to death. At that time, he lamented his misfortune and was angry with him. The Northland is ripe once a year. Wild forests are everywhere. A lot of time to cut firewood. If you work hard, how can you run out of firewood and your whole family freezes to death?

Later, I learned that in addition to the land rent, there were also heavy taxes and servitude.

When the farming is not working, the people will be transferred in large numbers to build roads and bridges, pass canals and cofferdams, and so on. The labor force in the family was taken out of labor, and only women and children were left in the family, so it was too late to cut down wages and cut wood. and even the whole family froze to death. Otherwise, you can only pay 2,000 yuan a month for the 'pawn practice' and be replaced by someone else.

Two thousand dollars, how can ordinary Qi people get up.

Understanding the cause and effect, Liu Bei was speechless for a long time.

The reason why the young prince was praised for benevolence and righteousness. In addition to low taxes. And never in vain. Two communication canals, twin cities are built. The labor employed is counted as wages. A mansion is worth millions of dollars. The price of a house built of heavy wood is 100,000 yuan, not to mention, it is extremely low. The young prince was also allowed to buy on credit in advance and repay it for many years. No interest is charged.

Strong laborers work for two hundred dollars a day. A healthy woman earns one hundred and fifty dollars a day. The old and weak also have eighty to one hundred dollars. The strong laborers have six thousand dollars in a month. Excluding the harsh winter and heat for two months, you can get 60,000 yuan a year. A house can be paid off in two years. And the 50 acres of beautiful land allocated to each household do not cost money.

With such treatment, how can the Huaisi mountain people not move here!

Logging is not logging. Instead, the excess branches are cut off. Cutting down branches is also good for trees to survive the winter. When the spring flowers bloom next year, the broken branches will recur. And so on and so forth. Cutting wages requires strong labor. Women and children can only go into the wild forest to pick up fallen dead branches for firewood. Therefore, the big one is called salary, and the small one is firewood.

Lousang, Xilin, Dukang, tens of thousands of people. It's not enough to collect firewood. Firewood from nearby states and counties was transported to Lousang in a steady stream by land and water. There were also many woodcutters, pushing carts full of firewood to Lousang to sell.

"Four People's Month Order": "In February, collect charcoal." Do not let the charcoal gather under the crumbs, and do not let it be discarded. Pound, sift (sieve), boil rice swill (rice water) to soak it, and pound it to make it cooked. Balls such as chicken (eggs), dry. For the purpose of planting fire in the cage furnace, it can reach the dawn all night, solid and durable, more than ten times the charcoal. ”

The fire in the cage furnace refers to the fire in the smoke cage and the stove.

The charcoal here refers to charcoal. Cutting and burning charcoal in the southern mountains. Burning wood into charcoal is very important in a densely populated area like Lousang. Charcoal is obtained from wood dry distillation, no smoke when burning, no peculiar smell, no flame, no sparks, low ash content, high calorific value, burning time, clean and safe.

Lou Sang salary charcoal are all collected. Firewood is mostly used to burn boilers and supply hot soup for heating. Charcoal is used for stews, wine, and lavender.

In addition to charcoal, there was also coal at this time.

Nowadays, coal is called coal, black gold, black gold, and burning stone, and the existence of coal is first described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which is called "stone nirvana".

Coal was one of the earliest sources of energy used by our ancestors. During the Warring States period, there are records of the use of coal for military purposes. "Mozi Beixue": "One hundred and ten per (coal), its weight is forty catties, but (burning) charcoal Du (Zuo), full of furnace and cover, do not let the gas out." ”

During the Western Han Dynasty, coal was mined and used in the Central Plains. In later generations, burned coal and unburned briquettes were found in the two Han Dynasty dwellings and iron-making ruins.

Illustrate the era in which Liu Bei lived. Coal has been widely used in the Central Plains as an energy source for heating and ironmaking. Iron smelting is generally close to the fuel source. "Treatise on Salt and Iron": "Where salt is metallurged, the colonel (arrives) is all dependent on the mountains and rivers, and is close to iron and charcoal." The "charcoal" here refers to coal.

Nowadays, coal mining technology tends to be complete, and combustion technology is becoming more and more mature. Coal mining, use, because has been further developed.

Around the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao built three cities based on the city: Tongque, Jinhu, and Bingjing, and a large amount of coal was stored in one of the ice wells. About a hundred years later, Chen Yun, a writer from the Western Jin Dynasty, came to Santai and saw Cao Cao's graphite (coal) stored in Santai, which was very novel, so he wrote a letter to Lu Ji.

The letter said: "Three times a day, Cao Gong collects hundreds of thousands of catties of graphite, the cloud burns this, and it can be restored. "The combustible graphite mentioned here is coal.

In the Western Jin Dynasty Zuosi's "Wei Du Fu", it is said: "Mojing Salt Pond, Xuanzi Su Liquid", and according to the Tang Dynasty Li Shan's note in "Wei Du Fu": "There are graphite wells in Yexi, Gaoling West, and Boyang City West, and the well is eight zhang deep."

When coal is called graphite, the ink well is the graphite well, and the graphite well is the coal well. The depth of the well is eight zhang, which refers to the depth of the wellbore. It does not include the extension of the underground roadway. At that time, coal was mined in the Bazhang vertical shaft, and its production scale can be seen.

At this time, the nearest coal-producing area to Zhuo County is Dai County, followed by Wei County.

Wu'an County, which is "Wu'an Iron Smelting", is in Wei County. The flower iron used by Lou Sang was transported from Wu'an.

"Water Jing Note": "The yellow water is injected into the Wuzhou River in the east, and the north of the ancient pavilion is in the east, and the water in the west stream of the fire mountain is on the right. The water conducts the source of the volcano in the northwest flow. There is a fire well on the mountain, sixty or seventy steps from north to south, the width is reduced to a certain foot, the source is deep and bottomless, the flame rises often if the slight thunder sounds, and the grass planing (cuàn leads the fire), then the smoke is fired. The volcano recorded in the text is the Datong coal mining area in later generations.

At this time, it was located in Daigun. Now Xianbei Koubian often plunders. There is not one out of ten people in the county, and all industries are wasted. If you want coal, you can only go to Wu'an.

There's no rush yet. Charcoal is sufficient. If there are more and more people, it is obviously not enough to rely on only a wild forest within a radius of 100 miles. Liu Bei took precautions and prepared to stock up on briquettes. Just as Cao Cao hid tens of thousands of catties of graphite in the ice well platform, it is an intention.

The miniature topographic map of the entire fiefdom was also created by Suber. It is merged with the topographic map of Lou Sang-eup and placed in the middle of the study on the fifth floor. Wild forests, white forests, hills, canals, and cities are clear at a glance. Spectacular. Hundreds of miles away, it is impossible to see the whole picture from the heights. Licheng, Governor Kang, Liu Bei will take a wheel boat to check it out in a few days. The two construction sites are subject to change. Heavy walls rise from the ground. Huge trees dug up from the wild forests were planted on both sides of the roads in the city, and they were arranged in rows to form a boulevard. There are also cattle, sheep, chickens and dogs that have moved north with their families all the way, scattered among them. The newly built castle is becoming more and more popular.

100 days for officials. Guo Zhi and Guan Ning are already quite proficient in political affairs. If you are an official for a thousand days, you will become a great talent.

Practice makes sense. In the world, those who hear it do not know it as well as those who see it, and those who see it do not know everything as well as those who live there. This is a matter of place wherever it is said.