To build a strong industrial system, there must be a large amount of production, and in order to have production, there must be raw materials. The raw materials for the steel industry are ore and coal.

For mining, Shouhan invested a lot of manpower in the Stony Brook Iron Mine and the Quang Ninh Coal Field.

In these two mines, which are of different species and different mining methods, there is a similar scene: dense crowds of people like ants move rapidly through the mountains.

The establishment of any industrial system is not a euphemistic hymn, but it was built at a great cost, and in the 17th century, that price was often the bones of countless people.

Although Shouhan had the saying that "of course cattle don't want cattle to die", for the native laborers, free laborers, and those official slaves who were mainly composed of prisoners of war, they were guaranteed enough nutrition, three meals a day, enough rice and white rice to eat, and a small bowl of wine to drink at the end of the day, but the huge labor force still transported new people to the cemetery near the mine at a rate of about 10 percent per year.

There is no other reason.

Labor intensity and labor volume.

According to the requirements of the Han Yuan firm, the labor in the mine is divided according to the type of work, mainly excavation, transportation, and classification (beneficiation?). In accordance with the Han and Yuan firms' habitual practice of "losing their conscience and having no humanity" or the practice instilled by Li Shouhan, the daily workload of each type of work and each person was formulated in detail. Those who are responsible for mining must dig a few feet and feet, those who are responsible for transportation must transport a number of ores from the pit to the concentrator, and those who are responsible for the classification of ore must pick out the corresponding ores and send them to the stockpile.

Then the coal, gangue, iron ore, etc., which are sorted and selected, will be transported by the factories that need them.

However, a large number of casualties occurred in these links.

Accidents such as landslides and roof rises, which are inevitable in the modern mining industry, are commonplace here, but fortunately, the Quang Ninh coalfield is an open-pit mine, and relatively speaking, there are fewer casualties.

"Lord, we have no choice but to do it!"

Liang Kai, the chief manager of the Stony Creek Iron Mine, who was holding a strip in his hand, was full of embarrassment.

Just now, an official slave hid in a corner and was lazy, and was found by Liang Kai, who was patrolling on the high slope, and rushed down from the top of the slope without saying a word, waving the bamboo strip in his hand is a violent beating, and the official slave was beaten all over the ground, and his mouth was full of lamentation. The laborers passing by only glanced at the unlucky guy who was beaten and bloodied, and shouted for mercy, but they didn't dare to stop at all, carrying huge bamboo baskets and baskets, and slowly moving up the slope in turn.

Beating people is also a very consuming thing, Liang opened the strip in his hand, called a few overseers, and asked them to drag the official slave away.

"Give him some medicine for the dog's day, come back and go back to work! If you can't finish today's sign, don't let him eat dinner! ”

Sticks are the common name for the workload of workers in the mine, because these laborers in charge of transportation will transport a basket of ore from the pit to the sorting plant, and the foremen and supervisors of the sorting yard will issue them a slip as a voucher, and they will receive a number of sticks several times a day, and use the sticks to calculate the workload. Those who fail to meet the required number of lots per day will be punished.

After doing this, Liang Kai suddenly felt a little strange, and turned his head to find that a group of people led by Li Shouhan, including his immediate boss and several bigwigs of the Han Yuan firm, were standing behind him at some point, quietly watching the process of his handling of this official slave.

Shouhan's eyes stayed on Liang Kai's body and the strip in his hand for a moment, and the expression flowing in his dark pupils made Liang Kai a little hairy, and after a while, he finally spoke.

"It is right to strictly manage and supervise the production process."

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone present secretly breathed a sigh of relief. We all know that this lord attaches great importance to people, and often surprises some new practices in some commonplace things, such as proposing to let the laborers have enough to eat, not only to eat but also to have a certain amount of oil and water, even if it is an official slave, to give a little monthly money as pocket money, and so on. However, the overseer's whipping of lazy official slave laborers was also a last resort, not only the official slaves, but also those native laborers who came to the mine to find work by themselves, but also those who did not pay attention to the slightest notice would hide aside and be lazy, and then when it was time to eat, they would run out of the corners to eat and drink. With the words of Shouhan, the overseers are full of confidence!

"Lead the way. I'm going to see where the mining is! ”

gave Liang Kai a reassurance, and Shouhan motioned for him to lead the way and go to see the mining site.

"My lord! The mining place is full of rocks and cannon holes, and the lord has a golden body, so you must not venture to it! ”

Hearing that Shouhan was going to the mining site, everyone from Liang Kai to Lin Huofeng and others opposed it in unison.

In the past, iron ore mining was mainly carried out by underground mining methods such as flat and inclined shafts, and workers went to the deep tunnels to excavate. Today, however, the way mining is done has changed dramatically. From underground mining, it gradually becomes open-pit mining.

With the words of Shouhan, the overseers are full of confidence!

"Lead the way. I'm going to see where the mining is! ”

gave Liang Kai a reassurance, and Shouhan motioned for him to lead the way and go to see the mining site.

"My lord! The mining place is full of rocks and cannon holes, and the lord has a golden body, so you must not venture to it! ”

Hearing that Shouhan was going to the mining site, everyone from Liang Kai to Lin Huofeng and others opposed it in unison.

In the past, iron ore mining was mainly carried out by underground mining methods such as flat and inclined shafts, and workers went to the deep tunnels to excavate. Today, however, the way mining is done has changed dramatically. From underground mining, it gradually becomes open-pit mining.

With the help of gunpowder, the mining and stripping process of the whole territory and the wide step slow operation has completely replaced the underground mining method. But it also brought a large consumption of gunpowder, but as soon as the blast hole exploded, a piece of iron ore was collapsed from the mountain rock, and then the laborers in charge of transportation carried bamboo baskets and baskets with smoke and dust rushed into the blasting site that was still filled with the smell of gunpowder, quickly loaded large and small ores into the back baskets, and turned around and went to the sorting field.

"I don't go to the front line, I just go to the road to see if it's okay?"

With so many people's bitter begging, Shouhan naturally couldn't refute everyone's face, so he put forward a compromise plan.

The group then followed the ramp and meandered down. Of course, along the way, someone naturally ordered the accompanying soldiers and the mine's guard team to drive all the laborers aside and make way for the lord first.

Walking all the way, I only heard the sound of eye-piercing and firing in the distance, and I only saw bursts of smoke and dust billowing up, and the extremely noisy floating soil under my feet, which made people have the desire to cough. The dust from the opening of the mountain and the smell of sweat from the ants moving the house make the place filled with a breathless smell. Looking down at the ridge in the distance, the slopes lead straight to the mine in the distance, where the Buddha is a huge wound lying across the earth.

And those officials and slaves who were obviously underage were squatting or sitting, nervously sorting the ores, and there was no look on their faces related to their age, such a sight made Shouhan feel a great sense of guilt. He suddenly remembered a movie he had watched before, about the plundering of Latin American countries by Western conglomerates, and the long shot of a mine in it was exactly the same as what he saw, but the time and place were different.

O plunder, naked servitude and plunder! The conscience in Shouhan's heart, which had not been completely eaten by dogs, let out a cry of justice, but another voice jumped out to refute him very discordantly, "Bullshit plundering and enslavement, in other places, these people are not as good as they are now!" Where else do they have enough oil and water and enough white rice to eat? Besides, instead of letting the resources here be buried in the ground and sleeping, and letting those white-skinned pigs mine them, so that my Chinese nation will suffer hundreds of years of humiliation, it is better to mine them now and use them to build our industrial system! ”

The righteous conscience is not willing to show weakness, "You guy who only knows himself!" We must pursue all mankind and universal values! ”

"Smack!" A resounding slap slap came, "I hit you, you can't fight back, because as soon as you fight back, you violate your universal values!" ”

The discordant voice triumphant.

The accompanying cadres naturally didn't know the struggle in Shouhan's heart, but they followed Liang Kai's guidance all the way, and arrived at a mining site that had just been burst by gunpowder, only to see a large group of laborers busy there with their hands and feet, and several overseers covered their mouths and noses with mouth towels, and kept shouting, "Be careful, don't let the stones above fall and hit your dogs' heads!" The people didn't bother to answer, but just gathered around the pile of freshly blown iron ore and threw large pieces of ore into their baskets. Seeing that he was almost ready, he estimated what he could carry, and then picked up the basket and walked along the direction of the crowd to the ramp.

Among the laborers, according to their status, the headscarf is also divided into three colors. The turbans on the heads of the native laborers were red for the main prisoners of war, the turbans for the native laborers were of no longer any color on the top of their heads, and the white turbans for those who came to work by themselves were the same white turbans. No matter what color the headscarf is, people without exception pin the scarf that represents the workload to prevent it from being lost.

Under the huge dust, the people in the mine have all become "gray people" without exception, and the laborers are half naked carrying baskets and passing past Shouhan and others, and their gray bodies only leave a gray figure in people's sight. Occasionally, someone passed by Shouhan and grinned at him, and only the teeth that showed were faintly white.

"Going back to the mine, allocate some money to build a few shower houses on the side of the shed. Let people have a place to wash after work, so that they don't get too dirty! Slightly dizzy from the strong smell of sweat on the laborers, Shouhan realized that it seemed that these laborers should be given a place to take a bath, otherwise this kind of labor-intensive enterprise would easily cause an epidemic of infectious diseases if they were not careful about cleaning and hygiene.

After hastily reading the Shixi Iron Mine, Shouhan took Lin Huofeng and other high-level executives of the Han Yuan firm back to the office of the iron mine. Compared to the dusty mining site, this is no less like a paradise.

"Liang Kai. Tell me, how many iron ore can you produce every day, and can you guarantee that 1,000 tons of selected ore will be sent to the steel plant every three days? ”

Liang Kai was a little excited, just kidding! Just made a plan to produce 90,000 tons of steel in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the lord took a group of bigwigs to the Stony Creek Iron Mine to supervise and inspect, which also said that the status of our iron ore in the mind of the lord is different!

"My lord, at present, the mine is divided into five pits, there are about 700 officials and slaves at each pit, about 200 native laborers, and there are about 100 people who come to the mine to find money every day, adding up, there are about 1,000 people, and a total of five pit mouths is more than 5,000 people, plus more than 6,400 people such as the master who shoots the hole and fires the gun, the mine guards, the mine supervisors, etc."

There are often casualties in the mines, so the number of people is also fluctuating, and Shouhan is also well aware of this.

"The number of people doesn't have to be so precise, you just have to tell me if I can complete the numbers, or what conditions are needed to do it?"

Gritting his teeth, Liang Kai decided to speak.

"Lord, if you give me enough gunpowder and transportation capacity, it will be said that it is a thousand tons in three days, that is, a thousand tons a day, and my subordinates can complete it!"

"Gunpowder is there! If you want as much as you want, you will send a letter to the firm, and the merchant will go to the barracks to discuss the purchase, but the problem of transportation capacity is difficult to handle! ”

Without waiting for Shouhan to speak, Lin Huofeng frowned, he was in charge of the affairs of the Han Yuan firm, and he naturally knew the production situation in various places.

Workshops, mines, forestry farms, and shipyards all over the country are complaining about the need to increase manpower or transportation capacity to solve the problem of connecting all links in production.

The biggest problem that plagues the inland areas at the moment is the shortage of animal power for transportation, and the prices of mules, horses, and donkeys have skyrocketed, even to the point that there is no market! In order to alleviate the contradiction of insufficient capacity, some people even came up with the idea of a buffalo, but this guy walked slowly compared with mules and horses!

"You first prepare a production plan, first mine the ore according to the requirements, and then think about transportation." Shouhan also felt very scratching his head about such a thing, but he could only eat one section of sugar cane and bite another.

"What do you mean?" Liang Kai's eyes lit up a little, "My subordinates will make a plan, first go and bring him back with a thousand stones of gunpowder, let the master who shoots the guns rush to work overnight, put a few more cannons, and then let those lazy people carry an extra hundred catties every day, so that the ore that the lord wants will be piled up in the stockyard, and at that time, we will find a way to transport it!" ”

Alas! The production management and organization of the enterprise is also a science! To maximize efficiency, to squeeze out everyone's full productivity, this is definitely learning!

Seeing that the sun was in the west, and seeing that Shouhan was also a little meaningful, everyone mentioned that they would go back to their homes, so as not to slip the road in the middle of the night and have some accidents.

Halfway through, Shouhan suddenly reined in the horse's head, "What is that place over there?" ”

In the distance, in the twilight, a faint red light flickered, and bursts of smoke and fire came.

"Back to my lord, that's the coking pool of the coking plant!" Someone on the side replied.

"Let's go! Check it out! Shouhan added a whip to the horse under his crotch and took the lead in the direction of the coking plant. Lin Huofeng on the side was so frightened that he hurriedly sent someone to take a shortcut to the coking plant to make some arrangements and say hello.

At present, coke is a necessary fuel for steelmaking and ironmaking in Nanzhong Iron and Steel Plant, and a large amount of coke is consumed to make a furnace of steel every year. Fortunately, now the Quang Ninh coalfield has been seized by the South China Army, and a large amount of high-quality anthracite coal mined here is very convenient for burning coke, which greatly reduces the smelting cost of the South China Army. Moreover, the tar and other substances produced after coking are still dyes and raw materials for the manufacture of weapons after secondary fractionation.

After walking a short distance, we entered the boundary of the coking plant, and the directors of the coking plant who had already heard the news were waiting here. After a few words, Shouhan asked them to lead the way to the area of the coking pool.

The coking pond in front of everyone's eyes is a rectangular coking pond, the bottom of the furnace is slightly higher than the ground, paved with bricks, and an earthen wall is built around it, the foot of the wall is about one foot deep, and the wall is three feet high and one foot four inches thick. The furnace is eight feet wide and five feet long. The fire gates are built symmetrically, and the distance between the fire gates is about three feet. The shape of the fire door is square on the outside and round on the inside, large on the outside and small on the inside.

This scorched pond is dotted with flames and white smoke from far and near. Coal is mined from Quang Ninh and other places, and after being screened for coking, it is transported here and then fired. The coking time is three days, and the coking rate is more than 60%, (in the words of the coking master who works here, I guarantee that 100 catties of coal will produce 70 catties of coke!) Hehe, it seems that the charcoal field in the railway guerrillas who couldn't let go of the roll when I was a child is also this coke rate! There are 10 coke ponds, each of which can produce 20 tons of coke at a time.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured, as long as we have coal here, we will not let a few blast furnaces run out of fuel."

The fat supervisor of the coking plant patted his chest and assured Shouhan.

On the third day of Shouhan's inspection of the Stony Creek Iron Mine, Lei Mingsheng took the people who built the factory to the mine to survey the terrain and build a large shower room that could accommodate hundreds of people to bathe in the mine at the same time for the workers of the mine and the mine workers who were deacons, supervisors, and guards. At the same time, garbage ponds and public toilets have also been built in the shed area.

"The lord is kind to us, you must do your best when you do things, those lazy officials and slaves, natives, who dare to steal and play tricks, hang up and smoke fifty strips first! Then send an announcement to the villages everywhere, which village has more lazy workers, and which village people don't want to come to my mine to do things! ”

After announcing that the daily workload of each official slave and native laborer would increase by one hundred catties, Liang Kai yelled at the supervisors under him with a black face.

"Your Excellency!"

A small overseer raised his hand.

"There's something to say, there's a fart!"

"My lord, it's night shifts everywhere these days, should we do the same? I heard that several workshops have bought calcium carbide lamps and hung them on high places to illuminate, and those who are willing to make a few more money at night will come to do things. Can we do the same? ”

"What are you doing there?! Can we do this job at night? Shoot your eyes at night? Isn't it that the old birthday star eats arsenic and thinks that he has a long life? The colleagues on the side were a little unimpressed.

"You're the fart! What Lao Tzu said is to shoot a few more blast holes during the day, and the ore that bursts out will be transported at night! ”

"Oh! He Lao Liu, what you guy said makes sense. Light a few more lights at night, whether it is an official slave or a native, as long as you go down to the pit to carry a basket, and come up with a hundred catties, you will be given a hundred catties of money, and I will write a post for the big shopkeeper! ”

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