The earliest coal mine was actually an open-pit coal mine. When it was mined, the whole mountain was covered with coal. Except for the weathered coal on the surface and the rocks covering it, there is coal underneath, and it is a "coal mountain".

The coal mine is very easy to mine and easy to transport, and the roads are flat.

Minerals in other places, although they are all open-pit and easy to mine, can be transported as a big problem.

At that time, there were no forklifts and excavators, and it was completely manual, so you can imagine how difficult it was to build a road.

The copper mine was excavated from a yellow gravel cliff halfway up the mountainside somewhere in the mountains, and the veins were actually found.

Halfway up the mountain, there is a ravine below, and it is impossible to build a road. You had to build an uphill road from the mouth of the mine to the top of the hill, and then a downhill road from the ridge to the outside exit. Then find a steep slope to make a "slope", and drip (slide) the copper ore transported from the "slope".

And then! The transport workers below hauled the copper ore from below in horse-drawn carts from the flat avenue.

Afterward! In order to save transportation costs, furnaces are built near all mining areas to directly refine the mined ore into semi-finished products. Such! It's much easier to transport it out.

In this deserted mountain, experts have discovered countless minerals. But! Bai Gui was not fully mined. It's about mining as much as you want, mining nearby, and what minerals are needed to mine what minerals

Most of the "rare earths" needed for smelting are still transported from Zhoudi.

Bai Gui personally went to the mining area to inspect and saw the ancient people mining, and couldn't help but admire: the tenacious life spirit of the ancient people.

The conditions on the coal mining side are better, and the workers use copper shovels, copper drills, hand hammers and small drills and other tools to knock the lines from below and hollow out the bottom. And then! The coal is cut by a stonemason in the same way as the stones.

And somewhere, it's soft coal or peat, and they start from here and hollow it out. Anyway! Hollowing out is the only way to dig coal and mine. Where it is convenient to hollow out, start there. And then! Cut down piece by piece according to the texture.

Because the coal is black, the coal mining workers have become black one by one, and only their eyes are shining.

Minerals such as copper ore are much more difficult to mine. There are many kinds of mines, all of which are carried by hand, with a hammer in one hand and a drill in the other, and are hammered down from the ore piece by piece. Sometimes! A worker can't knock a basket of ore in a day.

Because they live in the mountains, these people also live a very difficult life. It's hard to eat meat and drink alcohol. Women, too, are a rarity for them. Only leaders have the conditions to take women up the mountain. But their women generally can't endure that hardship and are unwilling to live in the mountains.

"Mining is important! So! Be sure to take care of their lives and care about their emotions! When it's convenient for them, let their wives and children come up to visit them, and give them more opportunities to get them home!

Other than that! Be sure to reward them according to the fruits of their labor. Do more work, get more, don't drink their oil and water, don't exploit them, don't squeeze them.

Nurture their motivation! For the work that is not easy to do, as long as they work hard and use their brains to do it, they must be paid daily wages. Otherwise! If they are paid for their work that is not good, they will not be paid......"

After some explanations, Bai Gui came out of the mining area.

Every time a new mine starts, Bai Gui has to go there in person. In between, he had to go and see it again.

How to mine on this side, his people don't understand. The people of the caravan are only responsible for providing security guards, and how to manage them is the specific responsibility of the shopkeeper below.

The families of the miners, Bai Gui arranged for them to live in one place and provide security services. In normal times, Bai Gyu asked people to dress up as miners, go deep into the masses, and listen to the opinions of the miners' families.

Practical problems can only be solved if the voices of the people are heard.

If you listen to the people in charge of mining, it's often a lie. It's not that it's pretty, it's a problem. And what the miners and their families say is true.

After collecting the voices of the people, Bai Gui arranged a special person to be responsible for handling the situation on the spot. Frequently! The information provided by the miners' families is very practical and can solve the problem.

For the work arrangement of the miners' families, Bai Gui takes a variety of forms. They can farm, they can work in handicrafts, and they can help others.

But! At this stage, the main work of women is to give birth to the population, raise children, and take care of the elders.

Now the entire Linquan people, every family has a pregnant woman, and there are Linquan people who are born every year. These people who were born in Linquan are serious Linquan people.

Those Wei people who migrated over now proudly declare: I am from Linquan!

They are the happiest! All walks of life are happy. In addition to the peasants' farming and settling their own rations, the surplus is sold at Linquan Castle. Selling to those merchants can often fool up a good price.

In this bartering place, I have a bag of rations, and you have to trade a horse or wool or something with me, or I won't. Merchants from the prairie often don't know the market, and the worthless things on their prairie often don't matter. Outcome! was blinded by the Wei people.

The same is true for craftsmen, who are often blind and can blind newcomers to outsiders.

"To change or not to change? Don't change pull down! ”

Outcome! All the families of these migrants have become wealthy, and they all have rich family property.

Opposite! The people of Deer Park are getting poorer and poorer.

Under the comparison of Linquan people, the people in Luyuan, who were lazy before, have become diligent. In the past, he was reluctant to work for others, or did not want to work because he earned enough "five buckets of rice", but when he saw that the Wei people who had migrated to him were getting rich, he had to come to Linquan to work for others to improve his life.

All of a sudden! Linquan has become the best place for Luyuan people to work.

Ever since Bai Gui built the castle, the people of Deer Park have liked to run to Linquan. Whatever they want, they can get by going to Linquan Castle and working for others for a few days. Where was this possible in the past?

In the past, only when the caravan of Xue Lian and others came, they took out their belongings to exchange them, and they could get what they wanted. And now! As long as you come to Linquan, as long as you are willing to work for others, you can exchange your labor for what you want.

Under the leadership of the Wei people who migrated over, many of the people in the deer park migrated out of the deer park and settled in Linquan, engaged in agricultural production and part-time work, and learned the way of life of the Wei people.

Among them! There are many people who follow the third brother (third brother-in-law) and buy houses in Linquan Trade City to live the life of city people.

Under the leadership of these deer park people who got rich first, it stimulated the nerves of the deer park people. In this new era, you can't do it if you don't work hard!

Beggar! I'll be laughed at by others.

The deer park people who used to be lazy, really! Many of them couldn't accept it for a while. But! It's not okay not to accept it! When you accept it, your mindset changes, and your quality of life improves.

"Let me dig coal for the white officials! I can't do it from Luyuan (concubine)? ”

(End of chapter)