Of course, none of these people in front of Zhang Yue now could understand the meaning of his words.

I just know that this owner, who looks unspeakably expensive, is young, but he is very good at talking and very polite.

This has made many people let go of their hanging hearts.

There is nothing they fear more than being kicked out again.

That's really no way to survive!

Therefore, they all bowed and said: "The lord is merciful, the lord is benevolent and righteous......"

For them, it is already a blessing to be able to find a place to live in this Nanling, and they dare not ask for more.

Zhang Yue saw their expressions and knew that the mental state of these people was difficult to reverse in a short period of time.

Not only them, but also the healthy slaves and maids controlled by the powerful nobles, if they were suddenly given freedom, I am afraid that the same will be true.

These people have been in slavery for so long that they have forgotten how normal people should live?

Completely derailed from the whole world.

Just like the prisoners of later generations, who were locked in prison and isolated from the outside world for several years, after being released, they would be at a loss, and they would not even know how to survive.

It is almost impossible to change this situation, given the current productive forces and social structure.

Unless......

Give the landlords and nobles a new choice.

A new direction of exploitation.

Just like the military nobles and heroes in the border area now, they basically do not accumulate slaves, and if they want to accumulate slaves, they also accumulate slaves.

Like the Qiang people, the Huns, the Wuheng people and the like.

Why?

It is certainly not that the conscience of the aristocratic landlords of the border is greater than that of the landlords and tyrants in the interior.

It was only because the noble landlords of the Biansai knew that they needed their own township party to shed blood and sacrifice for their wealth, and the local land was very rich.

If the exploitation is too great, the people will vote with their feet.

There are no such conditions in the mainland.

Not only is there no motivation, but there is also a lack of the conditions to do so.

The people don't even have the option to vote with their feet.

Desertion? Where can you escape?

Thinking like this, Zhang Yue already had an idea, and he arched his hand slightly: "I want to make a contract with you, I don't know if you are willing?" ”

When the people heard this, they thought that the young man wanted to buy them as slaves, and immediately they worshipped with joy: "My lord is merciful, I am willing!" ”

After being released, after a brief period of happiness, great suffering followed.

These people have either been sold as slaves since they were children, and have long lost contact with their families, or their parents are slaves and maids, and they have grown up in leather whips and shackles.

After experiencing hunger and cold outside, they instinctively began to miss the slave life of the past.

I even think that being a slave is the right thing to do.

Isn't it surprising that there will be a 'Stockholm syndrome' in later generations?

In later generations, Wang Mang reformed and released slaves and maids, but even the slaves and maids were dissatisfied with many things, and that was the case.

Zhang Yue also knew that it was in vain to reason with them now, so he just turned around and instructed Li Miao: "Go and get the pen and ink book......

"No!"

After a while, Li Miao came to Zhang Yue with a book of simple pen and ink, Tian He also brought a desk, Zhang Yue sat down, picked up the pen and began to write.

A quarter of an hour later, he blew the ink, then got up with the bamboo slip and said to everyone: "I want to make an agreement with you here, and now I will make the content of the deed clear to you!" Those who wish draw a charge, and those who do not want are not reluctant! ”

But when people listened, they just said, "Whatever the lord says, we are willing to listen!" ”

Don't say it's the current person, in another two thousand years, when ordinary people apply, HR throws out a contract, which is extremely domineering, do you sign it or not?

What's more, simply ask you to sign a contract with another intermediary bag company, and then dispatch to this company in the form of labor dispatch.

Do you sign or not?

In fact, most people had to sign it.

This is the helplessness of the disadvantaged.

Not to mention these people now.

They had nowhere else to go except for Zhang Yue, a manor who was willing to contain them.

Once driven out of the area, they will starve to death and freeze to death in the wild, their carcasses gnawed by wild dogs.

But Zhang Yue still solemnly recited: "In the summer and July of the first year of Han Yanhe, Tian He and Li Miao, people from Changshui Township, Nanling, made an appointment with people ......."

It stands to reason that this deed should be made with him.

But the problem is that he is a minister of state, and it is not suitable to enter into a contract directly with ordinary civilians.

More importantly, he needs to tell the world how to play this contract game.

Therefore, he learned the essence of the labor dispatch system of later generations, and designated the two sides of the contract as his retainers Tian He, Li Miao and these people.

Not only can you avoid risks perfectly, but you can also get tangible benefits.

"The contractor is paid 3,000 yuan a year, hired by Tian He and Li Miao, for a period of five years, and pays Yong capital to Qi, counting 15,000 yuan......"

"Li Miao, Tian He and others promised: If the contractor is pragmatic and diligent, he will be rewarded ......"

"During the employment period, the contractor has two meals a day, and the clothes for each season of spring, summer, autumn and winter are borne by Li and Tian......"

"The contractor shall obey the laws of the land, carry out the orders of Li and Tian, work diligently, and have no complaints......

…………………………

Zhang Yue took a breath and finished reading the content of this contract.

To sum up, in fact, everyone has to sign a contract with his retainers Tian He and Li Miao, accept their commands and orders, work hard, and be not afraid of hardships and dangers.

After a five-year term, it will be paid.

If there is any conflict, disobedience or other bad behavior that Party A deems bad in the past five years, the money will be deducted.

And Party A (Tian and Li) has the right to direct and arrange them to do anything (except for violating the law and violating public order and good customs).

In general, this is an overlord contract, which is almost a copy of the contract of the contractor in later generations.

But after hearing this, everyone looked incredulous and shocked, and they cried and worshipped: "Lord is benevolent, Lord is benevolent!" ”

In their cognition, this kind of not only can you eat a full stomach, but you can also find it with four seasons of new clothes, and you can't find it with a lantern!

As for what diligence and seriousness, this is the last thing they lack.

Not to mention that there is money to take, and it is 15,000 dollars!

If they have this money, it will be enough for them to set up a small family in Guanzhong!

So everyone rushed to draw a pledge on this deed.

Originally, reasoning this kind of thing needs to be notarized by the government, at least the tour of the township pavilion must be present, and it is also necessary to enter the documents for filing.

But Zhang Yue is now very short on time, so he omitted this step.

Anyway, in the future, this matter can be handled by Li Miao and Tian He brothers.

After the deed was completed, Zhang Yue instructed Tian Miao: "A month ago, I ordered Er and other brothers to dig puddles and soak bamboo tubes at the foot of the mountain outside Jiating Village, and you go and take someone to take out these bamboo tubes and transport them back to Zhuangzi......"

He also instructed Li Miao: "Take people to the mountains to cut salaries and prepare for fire......

It's time to get the blank slate.

"No!" The two immediately received the order and each took more than ten people to do things.

When they left, Zhang Yue took the rest of the people to tour the manor, and then issued one order after another.

First of all, it is to stop the construction of watchtowers, which are backward and useless.

Then, he ordered people to dig a few caves in the place near the mountain, and prepared to fire porcelain.

With the information of spatial backtracking, he knew that during the period of the Han Dynasty, there was a leap forward in Chinese porcelain firing technology, and the prototypes of the dragon kiln and the steamed bread kiln had already appeared.

And in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the first celadon was fired.

Zhang Yue planned to use the dragon kiln to fire celadon first, practice his skills, and then light up the technology tree of porcelain.

This is a big deal, and if you do it well, you may not be less profitable than salt and iron.

So, he attaches great importance to it.

Not only did he personally draw the structural diagram of the dragon kiln - this is what he copied from the restoration diagram of the Eastern Han Dynasty porcelain kiln.

This kind of dragon kiln is still very primitive, there is no chimney, only there are smoke exhaust holes at the tail to exhaust smoke.

But precisely because it is primitive, there is not much technical content.

It is precisely because of this structure that the temperature in the kiln of this primitive dragon kiln can reach 1,200 degrees or even higher.

With porcelain, coupled with white paper, the economic output of this estate will not be less!

Making tens of millions a year is the same as playing!

In this case, the crops on the land of the estate are all high-yielding winter wheat.

This requires a complete overthrow of existing farming tools and techniques and a completely new set of things.

So we have to wait until Xinfeng has produced a curved plough and a cocoon car, and then send a batch back.

Tell these things one by one, arrange them, and bring people back to Li Miao, who went to the mountains to cut wood.

In this era, the forest area of Guanzhong was very large, and people could easily find piles of hundred-year-old or even hundred-year-old giant trees on the mountain.

Therefore, Li Miao and the others barely spent much effort, so they brought back several truckloads of various firewood.

Zhang Yue immediately asked people to set up a stove, and asked people to find a lot of lime, soak it in wooden barrels and set it aside.

Then on the stove, set up a big cauldron, build a fire in the stove, everything is ready, just wait for Tian He to bring back the bamboo materials, you can start work.

Half an hour later, Tian He led people and drove a few ox carts to pull back the bamboo tubes that had been soaked in the puddle that day.

There are hundreds of these bamboo tubes, and because they have been soaked in the puddle for too long, even if they are taken out and washed once in the Changshui River, they still exude a strong rancid smell.

You can smell it even from a dozen steps away.

Behind Tian He, there were many people with strong curiosity, following behind.

There were even a dozen or so long water cavalry patrolling the area, followed behind.

Since Zhang Yue's manor has not yet rebuilt the wall, although these people can't come in, they are also around the door.

When Zhang Yue saw it, he simply let them in.

After all, this papermaking technique was born, and there is always a witness.

…………………………

"Zhang Chiyou has returned to Nanling?" Zhuang Xing is a team leader under the command of Captain Changshui, and he is ordered to patrol the vicinity of Captain Changshui's camp every day, and in the last month or so, he has been ordered to strengthen patrols of the manor area on the south bank of the Changshui River, expelling and arresting any rangers or other unidentified persons who may endanger the local area.

Although this order made him a little slanderous, he felt that the people above were making a fuss and making a big fuss.

But now, he thinks it's a great order.

Because he finally had the opportunity to meet and even make friends with that 'Zhang Chiyou'.

It's just that......

"What is this Chiyou doing when you pull back so many stinky bamboo tubes?" Zhuang Xing looked curious.

The cavalry under his command also followed him with great interest and entered the Zhuangzi.

Then, they saw dozens of men dressed in brown clothes, washing these bamboo tubes with lime water repeatedly, and then using axes to chop off the green skin on the outside of the bamboo tubes.

The tubes are then placed into a boiling cauldron that has been boiled in a large fire.

In the stove under the kettle, firewood is constantly being added.

I heard a man's voice say, "Continue to cut wages, this cauldron will have to be steamed for three days and three nights!" ”

"No!" Immediately, someone received the order, and it seemed that they were ready to set off for salary.

"Why not peat?" Zhuang Xing listened and couldn't help but say: "If you use fire for a long time, it must be better peat!" ”

The blacksmiths in the camp of Captain Changshui used peat to make fires to repair weapons.

He has also seen that he knows that peat burns longer than firewood.

…………………………………………

Zhang Yue looked at the hot cauldron in front of him, and sighed in his heart.

There is no way that among the cooking utensils in the Han Dynasty today, the largest one is this cauldron.

Bigger, that is the bronze tripod used by the princes and nobles.

It's not that there are no iron pots, and it's not that iron pots can't be made.

But because of technical limitations, no one dares to use an iron pot.

After all, iron rusts, and if you cook it in an iron pot, you are buying something that is worth a lot and won't last for a few years.

Even a person who is rich is reluctant to waste it like this.

Therefore, he could only find this bulky cauldron to steam and cook the bamboo tube.

As soon as the order was given to Tian He to lead people to continue cutting, he heard an onlooker say, "Why not use peat?"

"If you use fire for a long time, it will be better with peat!"

Zhang Yue immediately looked up, but saw that it was a long water cavalry.

So he stepped forward and asked, "Dare to ask where is the so-called 'peat'?" ”

The man hurriedly dismounted and bowed: "Don't dare to ask the prince, there are many camps of the captain of the peat Changshui, if the prince needs it, he will go back to the captain and bring it to the lieutenant!" ”

"Your Excellency!" When Zhang Yue heard this, he hurriedly bowed: "Dare to ask Your Excellency's name?" ”

"The last general Zhuang Xing!" When the officer heard this, he was very excited, and bowed: "Please wait here for a while, and the general will go back at the end!" ”

So saying, he turned on his horse and led the people away.

For him, being able to get to know this Zhang Chiyou is tantamount to the most critical thing in his life!

Zhang Yue looked at the other party's distant figure and thought slightly: "Has coal begun to enter the iron smelting and casting industry at this time?" ”

The so-called peat, of course, he knew was the old name for coal.

But he really didn't know that at this point in time, coal had been widely used in the smelting industry of the Han Dynasty.