Siberia in October was already a little cold, but Luo Zongshan's heart was hot, when he was nested in the small ravine of Xingdusi, Shaanxi, he never imagined that he would have today.

At that time, although he was not poor jingle, but the family did not have much money to spare, and when the harvest was good, maybe he could eat a meal of meat and drink some water and wine every month or two, and if the harvest was not good, then he would only drink porridge and batter every day.

At this time, he was also drinking porridge, but it was breakfast, he didn't have the habit of eating breakfast before, not that he didn't want to eat, but he couldn't afford to eat, at that time his family was generally two meals a day, one at noon, one at night, and in the morning there was only to drink the northwest wind, Shaanxi Xingdu Division, that is the authentic northwest wind.

Now he is not drinking ordinary porridge, the thick porridge is obviously added to the lean meat, and it is not a piece, yes, it is lean meat, at the beginning of this year he heard about it in the Dusi Ridge Fort, which is especially suitable for raising pigs, so he bought a few little piglets and tried it, and it really grew very fast.

Later, he simply bought hundreds of piglets, let those mother-in-law who had nothing to do for a day to feed, just the pig pen built several, of course, he let people raise these pigs not to sell for money, but to eat, now, he kills pigs every day, and it is not one, the meat is directly divided, and every family almost has one or two catties.

This kind of thing is not something that all of Xiber's guards have, and he may be "scorpion, the only one." Who told him to be hungry for meat before, when he had no money, he was thinking, if he has money in the future, he will eat meat every day, and he will eat meat every day!

Now, he is rich, and he is still very rich, so his dream of eating meat every day and eating meat at a time has come true, even in the porridge in the morning, he asked his mother-in-law to cut half a catty of lean meat and cook it, and every household in the entire thousand households can eat meat for free every day.

Well, this thing is indeed strange enough, how rich is he? It's so nonsense!

Let's put it this way, since the coal mine was officially mined, his daily dividends have been more than 100 taels, and now his family is more than 10,000 taels!

The money came quickly, and he didn't feel much distressed when he spent it, and he was not that kind of stingy person, so every family in the entire 101,000 households lived a good life, not only eating well, wearing well, and living well, the adobe houses that were temporarily built last year had already been pushed, and now every household is a brick house, and it is also a building, a single-door courtyard, just like the small villas of later generations.

After eating breakfast leisurely, he began to educate his son, he has three sons, the eldest son joined the Ming third-class army at the age of sixteen, and he is very young; Now that the second son is almost fourteen, he wants to train the second son to be a soldier too; The third son is just ten years old, and he is only twenty years old after ten years of study, and it seems that there is still hope for a meritorious examination, so he is ready to train his third son to study and participate in the imperial examination; As for the youngest daughter, she is only more than seven years old, she is a baby bump, she doesn't have to learn anything, she doesn't have to do anything, just find her a good in-law in the future.

Looking at his son who was still snoring and drinking porridge, he had a blank face and said seriously: "Second brother, how is the marksmanship study, are you lazy?" “

The second child raised his head and asked innocently: "Dad, why do you want to learn marksmanship, don't you all use muskets now?" They all said, no matter how good the kung fu is, if you knock it down with one shot, what's the use of learning marksmanship? “

When Luo Zongshan heard this, he directly picked up a chopstick, knocked it on the second child's head, and scolded: "Which Wang Bazi said it?" It's because you're lazy and don't want to study hard, right? Your father and I have learned muskets and don't know, a shot to knock down that has to hit the vital point, how can it generally hit the vital point, when the time comes, you don't have to rely on real kung fu, now the battlefield hand-to-hand combat is rifle and bayonet, very similar to a spear, learn marksmanship, you have a few more lives, you know? “

The second child touched his head and looked at the middle-aged beauty on the side aggrievedly, wanting his mother to teach his father a lesson, but his mother was holding her little sister and feeding her dotingly, as if she hadn't seen it at all.

Now he had no choice, so he could only respond aggrievedly: "Oh." “

Luo Zongshan said to the third person on the side: "San'er, how is the study of "Thousand Character Text", the school over there will be enrollment in the spring next year, if you don't get in, be careful that I beat you." “

The third child shrank his neck in fright, and Nuo Nuo said: "I have memorized it, but there are still many things I don't understand." “

Luo Zongshan is quite satisfied with this third child, I heard that the third child has memorized all the "Thousand Character Text", he couldn't help but say with relief: "Well, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, go to your Uncle Wang's house to listen to the class, and if you don't understand it, ask him, he will still give me this face." “

Before the third child could speak, the fourth girl sitting in her mother's arms said excitedly: "Dad, I also want to go to Uncle Wang's house to listen to the class." “

When Luo Zongshan heard this, he said dotingly: "Little baby, girls don't need to learn that, you can accompany your mother at home and learn to take care of housework." “

The fourth girl didn't follow it, and twisted in her mother's arms and said, "No, no, I'm going, I'm going." “

Luo Zongshan was ruthless, and said with a straight face: "Don't go, what does the girl look like when she shows her face." “

The four girls were silent, with tears in their eyes, and looked up at her mother.

The middle-aged beautiful woman coaxed a couple of sentences in distress, then slapped the steel spoon on the table, and scolded angrily: "Old man, what are you doing, look at the hungry cubs, what girls can't show up, you have a few stinky money and think that you are the master of a big family, right?" “

When Luo Zongshan heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly nodded and said, "Okay, good, good, go, go, go." “

After that, he dropped his chopsticks and fled.

As soon as he got out of the house, he ran to the stable, shouted a few times, called a dozen or so strong men, took their weapons, beat their horses, and ran to the coal mine.

As for why they should bring people with weapons, the main thing is that they have to run twenty or thirty miles in the woods, and if they encounter bears and blind men or even tigers, they can't do it without weapons.

Riding horses on the mountain path for about half an hour, a huge open-pit coal mine appeared in front, now it has been dug like terraces, a ploughing dragon slowly turned on one of the terraces, hundreds of people pushed the two-wheeled dump truck, with a shovel to shovel the coal turned out into the dump truck, and soon someone pushed the full dump car to the far away railway station, and at the same time, the railway station side also continued to be pushed over.

This new type of dump truck and dumping dragon are provided by Daming Royal Machinery Group, with these two things, they do not know how much the speed of digging coal has increased, to be like the original, all rely on people to dig with a hoe, and then use a bamboo basket to pick, a person can dig a thousand pounds a day is good, now with the dump dragon and dump truck, a person a day two or three thousand pounds is not a problem!

Luo Zongshan inspected the coal mine, chatted with a few hundred households on duty for a while, and then walked in the direction of the railway station.

This is a very special station, there is no gate, only the platform, there is a slope under the platform, from the slope up, the height is exactly as high as the open car for transporting coal, as long as you put on an iron plate, the coal can be poured directly into the car.

This is, just a car is full, looking at the five trains full of coal out of the station, Luo Zongshan couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, it's a pity that there are too few people, now the coal digging is all young and strong in the guard, and other places can't recruit people at all, otherwise, the ten trains can be filled quickly, and now the five trains have to be loaded for half a day, but unfortunately, if there are enough personnel, the money earned in a day can easily be doubled." “

Just as he sighed, an empty car drove into the train station, and a young man in a formal suit jumped out of the cab and went straight to the platform.

Luo Zongshan saw that it was Zhang Yue, the captain of the personal guard who commanded Master Ma Kaima, and he hurriedly greeted him and laughed: "Hahahaha, Xiaoyue, I haven't seen you for a long time, why are you here." “

Zhang Yuefu smiled and arched his hand: "Lord Luo, Lord Ma asked me to inform you that the imperial court will use a special train to transport a large number of laborers to work here in the near future, do you need manpower?" “

Luo Zongshan's eyes lit up when he heard this, joking, he was still sighing that no one was working, how could he not need manpower!