Five days later, Xu Tangyi was ready for the army's departure. The soldiers were very happy when they heard that they were going to suppress the bandits again, and those veterans had already blown the situation of the bandits in Maqishan this summer, as if the suppression of bandits was as simple as picking up silver.

And now the soldier's equipment is not much stronger than this summer's equipment, although there are many bandits, but the cottage is not dangerous to defend, not as easy to defend and difficult to attack as Maqi Mountain. It's so weak that you don't want it, and it would be unreasonable to don't make meritorious contributions in the face of such a soft persimmon.

Therefore, both new recruits and veterans are scrambling to sign up to suppress bandits. In the end, Xu Tangyi personally selected the six general flags with the best training results, with Xu Detian as the captain and Ma Wu as the deputy captain to go to suppress the bandits.

Fifteen rockets had already been made at the firearms factory, and for fear that those soldiers would not use this new weapon, a craftsman was sent to the scene to guide them.

In order to hide people's eyes, according to He Zhiyuan's request, most of the soldiers changed into civilian clothes, and a small number of soldiers dressed up, holding steel knives in their hands, accompanied the team to protect them. All the baggage, such as guns, ammunition, food, and clothing, were loaded into the truck and set off with the team.

The whole team looked like a group of migrant workers escorted to a foreign country by their families.

Out of the state border, in order to avoid the interrogation of the officers and soldiers of Yizhou and arouse suspicion, this team bypassed Yizhou City, took the small road, and went straight to Heishi Mountain.

After two days of marching, we finally arrived at our destination.

Boss Yin should call him Mine Chief Yin now, this is the position and title given to him by He Zhiyuan. Now he specializes in the production of coal mines and the daily management of miners, and Boss Sun, now known as Boss Sun, is responsible for the sales of coal and external liaison.

The two of them had already arranged the team's camping camp before He Zhiyuan arrived with the team. In order to paralyze the bandits and achieve the goal of exterminating them in one fell swoop. According to He Zhiyuan's request, all the more than 300 soldiers were placed in the compound where the miners were fed and lodging, and they ate and lived with the miners. Of course, the food is definitely much better than that of the miners.

When Mine Chief Yin saw that more than 300 Ding Zhuang came at once this time, it was not the 100 Ding Zhuang that He Zhiyuan said at the beginning, and his disappointment changed, and his confidence in suppressing bandits increased greatly.

In the valley of this mining area, there are more than a dozen neat courtyards, which are specially designed for the coal kiln owners and supervisors, and can also be regarded as the office and living place for the middle and senior managers of the mining area.

After settling down the food and lodging of these soldiers, early the next morning, He Zhiyuan recruited Shopkeeper Sun, Mine Chief Yin, Xu Detian, Ma Wu, and Xiaoqi Wei, who had to come to this courtyard, to come to this courtyard this week. After everyone was seated, He Zhiyuan began to say:

"Now everyone is talking about the situation in the mines, and whether the bandits have been moving these days. Mine Manager Yin, let's talk about the situation of the miners first. ”

When Mine Chief Yin heard that he was the first to speak, he quickly sorted out his thoughts and said: "Now there are a total of 386 miners in the coal mine, including 90 underground coal diggers, more than 170 coal bearers, and the rest are coal washers and other handymen. ”

"How many are over fifty and under sixteen?" He Zhiyuan asked.

"There is no specific number for this, it is estimated that there are dozens of people." Mine Chief Yin never cared about this, so he could only answer vaguely.

"How many people are sick and can't go to work?" He Zhiyuan asked again.

"There are more than a dozen sick people, all lying in bed." Mine Chief Yin replied.

"What are the identities of these people in the mine now? Are there any fugitive criminals, unidentified people? He Zhiyuan then asked.

"These materials are all in the Tooth Shop's Boss Luo, in the past, our mine only employed people, and the management of the miners was done by the Tooth Shop, so I don't know where they came from." Boss Yin replied helplessly.

He Zhiyuan nodded to indicate that he knew, and then said to Mine Chief Yin: "After the meeting is dismissed, Mine Chief Yin will immediately conduct an investigation of these two hundred and eighty-six miners to find out their identity origins, ages, identity status, home addresses, etc. The sick miners immediately went to Lang Zhong to see a doctor, and the medical expenses were paid by the mine. Those who are old and infirm and those who are under the age of sixteen are willing to go home and pay them double their wages and let them go home, and those who do not want to go home or have no home to return are given some easier work. If it is found that there are criminals who are at large, they will be arrested and escorted to the government, and all of them will be dismissed from unknown sources. ”

After doing this, he told the miners that from now on the wages will be doubled, and from today all the miners will improve their food, and they will ask for meat in the dishes, and they will not eat the black nest heads, and replace them with white flour steamed buns. How can you do such heavy work and eat so badly? ”

Mine Chief Yin said gratefully: "Gongzi He is so kind to the miners, they will definitely be grateful to Dade and work harder." ”

After that, he hesitated and said: "However, He Gongzi has greatly increased the treatment of miners, and the miners of other coal bosses will definitely demand high treatment." Wouldn't that offend the coal bosses? Especially in terms of food, the canteen was built by everyone, and we opened a small stove for the miners alone, which made it difficult for the men. ”

He Zhiyuan pursed his lips, despised Mine Manager Yin in his heart, and said, "What is the average monthly wage of miners now?" ”

"An average of one or two cents of silver." Mine Chief Yin said.

He Zhiyuan thought, the coal boss here is really ruthless, doing such heavy work, only to give such a little silver. Compared with them, the workers in the workshop in Hejiazhen are simply the days of immortals. Thinking of this, he said: "Even if it is doubled, there is no three taels of silver, do you know how much the wages of the workers in the workshop in Hejia Town are in January?" With a minimum of three taels of silver, their work is much easier than these mines. Tell me, ah, three taels of silver is not much. ”

"If other coal bosses come to you, you tell them that it won't be long before the miners' capitation fee and land fee will be gone, and if you give the miners this silver, the coal production will definitely increase exponentially, so wouldn't it be more profitable? As for the canteen, just give the guys processing money and let them work overtime, and as for the other coal bosses to do it or not, I don't care, as long as they can appease the miners. ”

"Okay, after the meeting is dismissed, I will implement it immediately." Mine Chief Yin hurriedly agreed.

After the miner's matter was finished, He Zhiyuan asked Shopkeeper Sun again: "What's the situation on Shopkeeper Sun's side?" Did the Yahang and the bandits make trouble in the past two days? ”

"There's nothing going on in the tooth shop, but the day before yesterday, the Black Stone Village, oh, it's the bandits' village, and two bandits came to the Black Stone Village, saying that their big boss's birthday is coming, and they want each of our mines to give a hundred taels of silver as a gift." Boss Sun said.

"How did you reply to them?" He Zhiyuan asked.

"I said that we would talk about this when our owner came, and there was no silver in the mine now, and the two bandits were not happy, and they said that they would not leave if they could not get the money. He also took out a knife and threatened me, but fortunately Wei Qi and the others beat them both and drove them away. ”

He Zhiyuan said to Wei Zhouzhou: "Okay, you did the right thing. If they come again, it won't be so cheap, at least cut off one of their ears. ”

When Mine Chief Yin and Shopkeeper Sun heard this, they were secretly surprised in their hearts, this is to do it with the bandits. I didn't expect this white-faced student to be so ruthless.

Next, He Zhiyuan asked the shopkeeper Sun and Mine Chief Yin to leave, and then called Xu Detian and Ma Wu, Jiang Yuanqing, Zhou Zhi, Song Fuchen, Ding & Yuanzhen, Guan Yuede and Wei Zhou, who was originally there, and the nine of them held a small military meeting together.

First of all, Wei Zhou said: "Gongzi He, in the past two days, according to your orders, our Xiaoqi went to Heishi Village to investigate. The black stone village is not big, the radius is three or four hundred steps, the wall is not high, about one zhang and four feet, all of them are built up with stones, only a wooden gate in the south. It's much easier to deal with than the bandits in Ma Qi Mountain. ”

"How's the terrain going?" Xu Detian immediately asked.

"Captain Xu, that village is in a north-facing valley, with mountains on both sides, and on the west side of the village is a small river two zhang wide, the river has frozen, and you can easily walk to the other side of the river from the ice." Wei replied.

When Ma Wu heard this, he said excitedly: "Hey, this group of bandits is really a rabble, and setting up a village in this kind of place is simply looking for death." There is a wall at both ends of the north and the south, and none of them want to run! He Gongzi, get ready, we'll go and kill it tomorrow. ”

He Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "Don't worry, this time we want to eliminate the bandits." And it is also necessary to wipe out all the bosses of the tooth shop who are behind the evil, the bandits are in the light, and the teeth are in the dark. If you want to eradicate the bright ones, if you want to eliminate them, you have to think of a way to let them jump out by themselves. I ask you not to reveal your identities before you take action, lest you startle them and make them shrink back. ”

Xu Detian added: "Do you understand? With the exception of a few soldiers disguised as soldiers, no one was allowed to leave the compound, wear soldiers' clothes, and even less take out their weapons. Violators, military law engaged! ”

Several flags replied in unison: "Yes!" ”

At this time, Song Fuchen, who had not spoken, stood up and saluted He Gongzi and said, "He Gongzi, I have a suggestion below. ”

He Zhiyuan saw that Song Fuchen was not tall and thin, and the only thing that looked like a soldier was his dark skin and shining eyes. He Zhiyuan looked at Xu Detian with an inquiring gaze, and Xu Detian hurriedly explained: "This is Song Fuchen, the general flag of the recruit team. He is a rare talent among the recruits, and he has studied in private school for more than ten years. Don't look at him as thin and weak, he is ruthless to himself when he is trained, and the veterans admire him. ”

Hearing this, He Zhiyuan nodded appreciatively, then motioned for him to sit down with both hands, and said with a smile: "Okay, there is a shortage of literate soldiers in the army now." In the future, those who serve as soldiers must learn to read and write, so that only such soldiers can have combat effectiveness. Then he changed the topic and said: "Song Zongqi, if you have any suggestions, you might as well say it directly." ”

(End of chapter)

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