It's a cold season.

There are only a few days left before the Spring Festival.

The common people inside and outside the capital, whether they are rich or poor, always have a festive smile on their faces.

Although I still can't eat meat, and there are not a few drops of oil in the dishes, but fortunately, this year has been a warm year, and a load of coal is only a penny of silver, and potato flour is cheap to six cents of silver.

The family is very full of food, living in a warm ondol, even if there is no poor family with a penny of silver, as long as there is a ancestral hall as a guarantor, you can also disassemble the two cents of silver interest from the worker's ticket number to survive this difficult winter.

After the beginning of spring, go out to work as a long-term worker and return the money to the worker's ticket number.

Dismantling to these poor people who have no family property will not only offend the local squire, but also have a big drawback.

The poor and white people are not enough, and they can completely escape.

Huang Zongxi has long considered this, in this world where it is inconvenient to travel and go out of the village to be robbed, he has a great dependence on the ancestral hall.

Usually in the countryside to fight for water, autumn harvest, conflicts with people with foreign surnames, etc., all need the help of the ancestral hall, without the help of the ancestral hall, even if you do a long job in the squire's house, you will be bullied, and no one will know if you die.

Without the help of the relatives of the ancestral hall, if someone is killed, he will be killed, and no one will sue the yamen, and it will only become a headless murder case.

It's different with the ancestral hall, as long as he reports that he is a child of a certain ancestral hall, before others bully him, he will first consider how many men there are in the ancestral hall behind him and how well he can fight.

When you meet people with the same surname, you may be able to climb a relative and help each other, and even many people have climbed to the rich and noble family and live a good life.

Whether you know each other or not, the trust in the same clan is extremely high, because they are a family.

Huang Zongxi can not be described as a talented person who is rich and rich, and only used a method to let the ancestral hall as a guarantee, he has completed many feats that cannot be completed by the big ticket number, and the ticket number is rooted in the countryside.

The shop with the worker's ticket number is not large, with only one façade and a courtyard, but the location of the store is very particular, basically next to the largest ancestral hall in each township.

Over time, the ancestral hall with the worker's ticket number has also become a status symbol, which means that the ancestral hall of one's own family is the number one ancestral hall in Hongo.

There is no need for the industrial faction to send a nursing home, and the children of the ancestral hall will spontaneously wander around the workers' ticket number to prevent thieves such as the lama from harassing the 'own archway'.

Huang Zongxi didn't save the money, and implemented Zhu Shun's idea of improving the status of the sergeant, and assigned two disabled sergeants to each worker's ticket number, holding a flintlock torch in his hand.

The layout of the workers' ticket number in Shuntianfu was imperceptibly completed, and Huang Zongxi did not have the slightest complacency, and was planning to open the layout of the workers' ticket number in the five northern prefectures of Beizhili.

Li Lusheng, who thought that he had also completed the layout, was invited by the three major Jin merchants and bureaucrats to attend a banquet in Chalou.

Just today, the number of mules and horses transporting coal at the Zhenyuan Mining Bureau has decreased significantly, and it seems that it is finally unable to hold on.

Li Lusheng has been under a lot of pressure during this time, and since the price of the charcoal has dropped to one cent of silver, the charcoal of the Zhenyuan Mining Bureau has not risen.

Li Lusheng was ready to plan a way back, who knew that on the day of the heavy snowfall, coal obviously began to decrease in large quantities.

During this period of time, a total of 40 coal washing plants have been built in western Beijing, which can basically eat up the abandoned raw coal mountains on the vast land.

In order to meet the industrialization capacity of these coal washing plants, the only way to do this is to restart the coal kilns, and with the reserves of coal in western Beijing, it will become a second industrial city in a few years.

Although Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, had been escorted to the capital by Sun Chuanting and killed by Ling Chi's torture, the problem of displaced people was still difficult to solve.

Zhu Shun's brother-in-law, Song Yingjing, the prefect of Shuntianfu, learned that the industrial faction intended to restart the coal kiln, so he found Zhu Shun overnight and asked for all the potters.

Song Yingjing planned to use the large number of coal kilns to resettle the homeless people whose land was occupied by the bureaucratic gentry, and gave the suffering people a way to live.

The reduction in coal in the Zhenyuan Mining Bureau is not due to the lack of raw coal, but the raw coal in the Jingxi Coal Mining Area can last for a year and a half.

It was only because Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, sent a letter saying that the soldiers of the northwest border pass were short of coals, and hoped that the industrial faction could transport a batch.

Zhu Shun intercepted half of the coal and sent it to the northwest border, originally just to help the soldiers in the northwest frontier, but he didn't expect it to coincide with the plan of the Marquis of Zhenyuan to destroy those traitors who made it difficult to make money.

If you really want the three Jin merchants and bureaucrats and squires to feel that they are finished, it will take at least half a year of water grinding, but who knows how far Li Lusheng can climb with the financial resources of the five Jin merchants for such a long time.

After all, Li Lusheng is his own person of the Donglin Party, and he is still the protégé of Feng Quan, the old man of the Donglin Party, as long as he enters the officialdom, he will be all the way.

The Marquis of Zhenyuan thought about making a false shot first, so that the three major Jin merchants and bureaucrats and squires thought that the industrial faction was no longer good, and waited for the Spring Festival to give Li Lusheng the final blow on the good day of the New Year.

Li Lusheng was sitting upright at the main table of the Accord, stroking his beard and smiling and changing glasses with the dignitaries at the same table, feeling a little uneasy, and always feeling that something was wrong.

Looking back at his plan, there was nothing wrong with it, nothing was wrong.

This plan can be said to be the one he has the best chance of winning for so many years, and the only thing that can go wrong is only one point.

Zhu Shun really has the ability to pick coal in large quantities.

Regarding this point, Li Lusheng has also carefully calculated that in order to meet the daily consumption of so many ordinary people in the entire Shuntian Mansion, at least 100,000 long-term workers are needed to pick coal.

100,000 long-term workers?

It's ridiculous to think about it, not to mention whether it can recruit so many long-term workers, even if it does, there are not more than 100 civil officials who are good at governing the people, and it is not possible to command so many long-term workers.

As soon as the number of people is large, it is easy to have contradictions, and when the time comes, it is very likely that large-scale armed fights will occur when the children of the ancestral hall are gathered to theorize.

As long as more than 10 people die in the fight, let alone continue to pick coal, it is difficult to say whether the coal kilns in western Beijing can be saved.

After all, the people who died were all the people who left their names in the yellow book of household registration, not the family servants who were equivalent to the private property of the powerful, and each of them was the source of the Ming Dynasty's taxes.

If this is okay in the countryside, spending a little silver can buy the officials of the sixth room to dredge this matter, Zhu Shun is different, the Donglin Party has too many pairs of eyes staring at him, staring at him wrong.

Thinking about it, 100,000 long-term workers are absolutely impossible.

If Zhu Shun really had the ability to recruit 100,000 long-term workers, Li Lusheng would also be convinced.