Chapter 321: Migrant Workers
Daqi has been busy all year round, and time is short, Yang Hao will not let the good time be wasted on eating and waiting for death.
The court was busy, and the people of Qi were busy.
After the autumn harvest, the women began to spin the good hemp into twine, although there were state-run textile workshops in Daqi, but there was no commercial use, most of the cloth produced by state-run textile workshops was used in the army.
The people wanted cloth to make clothes, and the main source was to weave their own cloth to make clothes.
From this point of view, Qi has the taste of male cultivation and female weaving.
In addition to the people who are busy at various construction sites in the Qi country, the remaining men cannot be idle, burning wasteland, fishing, cutting down trees, repairing city walls, one work after another, it can be said that as long as the people in the entire Great Qi can still move, they will not be idle.
Working for the imperial court, in addition to being able to eat one meal for free, there is also a subsidy for copper plates every three days.
For future generations, this amount of money can be said to be the most naked exploitation, and even the most bloodthirsty capitalists cannot be so shameless.
But Yang Hao was not worried that the people of Qi would be dissatisfied because of this, he just let them work, and did not ask them to work overtime, sunrise and sunset, although the efficiency is not high, but it is much better than hiding at home and doing nothing.
In November, the water began to freeze.
Near a river between Qicheng and Chang'an, it took only one month for the black people to cut down the trees near the river, and the use of metal completely exposed the destructive power of human beings.
Yang Hao knew that if such a large-scale destruction continued, maybe one day before the river disappeared, it would become as muddy as the Yellow River in later generations.
This kind of result is not what he wants to see, and he can only wait until the whole territory is completely unified by Daqi, and then use the power of the state to protect the environment.
For example, for each tree felled, two trees must be planted in the original location, perhaps this method can slow down some soil erosion.
After all, the Loess Plateau in later generations had a large area of primeval jungle in this time and space, and even Yang Hao heard that in the Xia Dynasty, there were still elephants, animals that only existed in the south.
It is conceivable how perfect the natural environment of this time and space is, and Yang Hao hopes to find a way to live in harmony with man and nature while developing.
Yang Hao is not worried about the construction of the dam, according to the test and deduction of the sand table, Daqi has found a more stable way, as long as it is carried out strictly according to the plan, there will be no big accidents, there will be no big problems.
The rest is only a matter of time.
When the dam is completed, he estimates that the hydraulic machinery will be ready for use.
Although the transmission technology has not yet found a design pattern for maximum efficiency, it has been able to make regular mechanical movements by making models.
As long as a hammer is placed on it, under the never-tiring hammering, steelmaking may not be a delusional thing.
Yang Hao doesn't know whether his steelmaking method is reliable or not, but the ancients always have a certain truth in tempering, no matter what, there will never be much mistake in beating it all the time.
Even if this method is inefficient, it can be continuously improved in the process, and there is no shortage of smart people in this era, and perhaps there is a talented guy who has found a better way.
Yang Hao never felt that his IQ was higher than that of these ancients, but that he could let those geniuses be used for himself, which was what an emperor should do.
In fact, in his heart, he also wants to live a few days of life, but the revolution has not yet succeeded, and he Comrade Yang Hao still needs to continue to work hard.
Daqi's steel has not yet been refined, but Yang Hao has always felt that his path forward is the right one, and he knows what he wants to do and what he wants to do.
The embankment is under vigorous construction, and the Youyu clan in the south has also received the first toll from the Miao people.
The Miao people were naturally dissatisfied with this, but when the Yu clan moved out of the name of Daqi, the fierce Miao people also had to weigh the consequences of angering the Qi people, and finally reluctantly took out a small part of the goods traded with the Qi people as the passage fee for Youyu.
Although the toll is not much, but for Youyu this is a matter of great significance, the brave and ruthless Miao people actually lowered their arrogant heads, thinking that Youyu's waist suddenly hardened a lot.
After Rong let go of the Miao caravan, he immediately chose a transportation artery, let his people build a city here, and named the new city Yucheng.
As he said to Yang Hao, Youyu has indeed abolished slaves, and he is very confident that within three years, the tens of thousands of people in Youyu will not go hungry.
The source of his confidence, in addition to the income from tolls and grazing land, and most importantly, the fact that they are a group that is allowed to be hired by the Great Qi.
To put it in layman's terms, in the southern border of Qi State, only they can use their own strength to go to Qi to work and make money.
There are a lot of projects in Qi now, large and small cities in the south need to be built, roads need to be paved, and mines need manpower.
Therefore, the Qi court issued a policy to recruit workers from friendly ethnic groups to alleviate the pressure of manpower shortages.
The first batch of migrant workers in this time and space did not come as soon as they wanted, the Qi State only allowed two ethnic groups to have such treatment, the north naturally had the Yu clan, and the southern one was the Yu clan.
Their salaries were not paid with food and materials, but with copper coins produced by the Qi State.
If you want a group to be completely inseparable from yourself, an economic offensive is indispensable.
Through the migrant workers, Qi can push out its own currency, so that these people are used to using money to buy things.
The materials of Qi are abundant, and in the end, these copper coins will still flow into Qi country, which can stimulate economic development to a certain extent.
Without the threat of foreign races, the life of the Yu clan has undergone earth-shaking changes, and there is a backer of Qi to escort him in safety.
The people who were originally hiding in the deep mountains and old forests slowly walked out of the mountains and came to the plains to start a new life.
After the propaganda of Yourong's high-level officials, almost everyone yearns for the powerful relative power in the north.
Whether it is a freed slave or the original Youyu tribesmen, they all know that as long as they prove that their race is not a waste within three years, they can get any of the king's status, be given the status of Qi people, and live a life without worrying about food and clothing.
The rumors became more and more exaggerated, and slowly evolved into a wonderful day where as long as you work hard for three years, you can live a fairy life, and you can never finish eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas.
The more and more outrageous legends make these people feel like they have been beaten with chicken blood, and the freed slaves have no idea of escaping, because when the Qi people recruit people, they don't care about their previous identities at all, as long as they are willing to work, they can get money and even eat a full meal for free, which is a life that they once couldn't think of.
Anyway, people like them are alive everywhere, not to mention the expectation in three years, and it is even more beautiful to return to the original tribe's mind, maybe one day they will become a human being.