Yuan Ji stopped and turned around when he heard the sound, looked at the robe that Sun Shou was holding in his hand, and seemed to smile: "Sanshou, did you send it?" ”

"Master."

Sun Shou is the "Chief Manager Sun", the personal eunuch who served Yuanji as a child, knew that the master was witty, but he still made a look of sincere fear, knelt on the spot with his knees on the hem, and said aggrievedly, "The slave's own money, filial piety to the master." ”

Mink is really not a high-end product today, on the contrary, due to the lack of tanning and processing technology, it is a coarse and low-grade material that is allowed to be worn by slaves, singers, coolies and other people who are restricted in wear, like sheepskin, arrowroot, shuttle cloth, wool brown, and cocoon.

Just like chicken feathers, it was originally a waste product, there was a need for chicken feather dusters, etc., there were chicken feathers for sugar, and as soon as the big farms came out, no one changed chicken feathers.

Demand is a dynamic thing.

Nowadays, wearing sheepskin, mink and other leathers is similar to wearing urea bags. It is not as good as cloth, and it is far inferior to silk, but the leather processing technology is not good.

Silk, satin, silk, yarn, silk, Luo, is today's high-end fabric. Ornaments such as gold, beads, emeralds, silver, and precious stones were not allowed to be worn by slaves.

Sun Shou took a high-grade mink coat made of low-grade mink and dedicated it to Yuan Ji, and the subtext was that he had mastered the processing technology of leather.

Yuanji has to process Mongolian sheepskin and wool, which involves a series of processes such as nitrate cooking, acid leaching tanning, chrome tanning, degreasing, fumigation, drying, elastic wool, wool spinning, etc.

The feathered Indians, and the people in down jackets, actually wore feathers. The reason why the latter is a civilized person is that he can handle feathers.

But this job is not Sun Shou's responsibility, the work at hand is not focused, play this little clever errand to grab a new errand, why bother!

"I'm used to you."

Yuan Ji was noncommittal, and said indifferently, "When Emperor Shizu was shelf, with your loyalty to use your own money to buy clothes for your master, you could kill you a slave on the spot, Sanshou, why?" ”

"After... Harem and eunuch... Servants are not allowed to interfere in politics, slaves... Slaves and maids over... Passover. ”

Sun Shou, who originally pretended to have an aggrieved expression, was really scared now, and his teeth chattered.

The title of the Nine Emperors is cleared, but the status of the prince is still there.

Even if he goes out of the palace to send the minister to raise, he should be an inner servant, Jingqi's mother, with his mother, water mother, mother, guard, pro-standard, and guard, or according to the emperor's example.

Although Yuanji was sent out of the palace, every time he "called", that is, the early dynasty of the small court meeting, and the big court meeting, he still had to enter the palace in less than four watches.

Together with the princes, until the earlier Shunzhi and now Kangxi were sent to the court, they could go out of the palace and go home to sleep again.

The prince who has not left the palace is even more miserable, and after sending the emperor, he has to go back to the study and do his homework, but he can't make up for sleep.

In the Qing Dynasty, regardless of the emperor and prince, the rules were extremely cool, and the prince could be punished for kneeling to death if he violated the rules.

As the so-called "courtiers leak five watches", it means that the ministers of the Qing Dynasty have to go to the court every morning on the fifth watch, waiting to see the emperor.

It was the prince who got up earlier than the ministers, and he had to get up on the fourth watch day to prepare to take over. Even worse than the prince is the princes, and they can afford to go to the court before the fourth watch, ready to accompany the court.

The worst thing is the great court meeting, which has to accompany the five chariots from the east of the Taihe Gate, and measure half of the Forbidden City with their feet all the way, plus the princes have to welcome the important ministers on behalf of the emperor.

The same is true of the emperor, according to the rules established at the time of Shunzhi, Kangxi, who is now fifteen years old, can also afford to be less than four years old.

What Xuan Ye, this kid admires most about Yuanji, is that he is energetic, and he doesn't get up before the fourth watch, and he still fights Buku every day. Sweating out of the court, the little guy still doesn't stop, looking for someone to push pai gow when he sees the sky.

The imperial guards will push eight or nine times out of ten, and accompany the emperor to push cards every day, Yuan Ji's pai gow is very good, and he learned from Kangxi.

Play and play, but just like Dolgon, who loves hunting, Shunzhi, an amorous seed, and Kangxi, who likes to push pai gow, do not delay the extreme self-discipline of the Manchurian royal family, and the rules are extremely strict.

Chinese dynasties have never been as strict as the Qing imperial family, not to mention eunuchs, the eunuchs of the Qing court are the most powerless eunuchs, and the concubines have no status.

If Sun Shou's little clever spirit is in the palace, he will be killed by a rod in minutes.

"The slave is guilty."

Sun Shou Yuguang saw Yuan Ji's smiling expression, and his heart was cold, and he didn't care about the rotten ground, and as soon as he put his clothes to the side, he knelt and kowtowed.

"I don't have to get dirty, I'm wearing a good skin."

Yuan Ji smiled and stretched out his leg and kicked Sun Shou, and when the kid looked up, he said to the side of Nunu, "Pick up the clothes, and try it when you go back." ”

Zhao Fu, Qian Lu, Sun Shou, and Li Xi are the four personal eunuchs who have served him since childhood, and they are called "Zhao Qian Sun Li, Fu Lu Shouxi".

Sun Shou ranked third, and he had a small wit in the camp, so Yuan Ji used this kid as a "career-oriented eunuch".

Because the eunuchs are really useful, if Emperor Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty hadn't listened to a group of corrupt eunuchs who had misled the country, and took back all the eunuchs in charge of mines, the eunuchs who collected taxes, and the eunuchs who ruled the customs, the treasury would not have collapsed.

In terms of loyalty, how can a Confucian minister be loyal to a eunuch? How many Confucian ministers have not surrendered since ancient times, and only a few eunuchs have rebelled since ancient times?

In terms of poor handling, how much worse is the eunuch's handling than that of Confucian ministers?

Anyway, they all use slaves, and Yuan Ji feels that eunuch slaves are better than Confucian slaves, so of course eunuchs must be reused.

It is not impossible to form a eunuch and eight banners, and he is in charge of the General Security Bureau of the Qing Empire, which consists of three major departments: the Gestapo, the Cheka, and the Qing Commission for Discipline Inspection.

As for Sun Shou's little problem, he uses people's strengths, and he doesn't use people's problems. As long as the festival is not lost, it is still a good minion.

"Sanshou."

Yuan Ji put his hands behind his back, looked at the hot construction site, and instructed, "You keep an eye on the construction period, the track is laid one day earlier, the materials will come in one day earlier, and the iron plant will be completed one day earlier." ”

After a pause, he said, "The track is paved one day earlier, and the master will give you a reward of one hundred taels, and the iron factory will be completed one day earlier, and the master will give you a reward of one thousand taels, one of which will be rewarded to you." ”

"Slaves and maids serve their masters, how dare they ask for rewards......" Sun Shou, who had just gotten up from the ground, immediately became loyal.

"Yo!"

Yuan Ji pretended to be surprised, "You can't spend a lot of money?" Can you help you spend a bad time? ”

"Thank you, master."

Sun Shou's knees weakened when he heard the sound, and he knelt on the ground again, "The slaves and maids will move over today, the little cubs dare to be lazy, and if they don't keep it, they won't see the sun the next day." ”

"It's not good to have more wages to destroy the market, the bonus might as well be higher, and there is motivation to be energetic. Make the food better, at least let people be full, and if you can't eat enough, where will you get the strength? Don't save a little money, I want the construction period. ”

Yuanji was noncommittal to Sun Shou's statement, and only cared about the issue of the construction period, "Since it is a sectional construction, which section is not built well when it expires, and the quality is not up to standard, the master will cut the length of the section in two." If the total construction period is wrong, you can cut it yourself! ”

Sun Shou shuddered when he heard this.

The wooden tracks being laid, which are used for horse-drawn wagons, connect the factories and mines under the "Daqing Petrochemical" umbrella, and will stretch from Mentougou all over the hills and mountains to the outskirts of Beijing.

Along the track, there will be a drinking horse post all over the place, a pavilion in five miles, a post in ten miles, and a forage warehouse for each post. Set up a station every 20 miles, and set up a warehouse stable.

Post stations and stations will run trains according to the track, and a number of horses will be reserved for horse relays.

Because the terrain of Mentougou is all mountainous and hilly, coal, marble, glazed tiles and other foreign transportation. External mining materials, grain, meat and vegetables and other daily necessities, raw material input. It was all carried out by mules in and out of the mountains, and by camels in and out of the flats.

Each camel can carry 400 catties and 200 pieces of honeycomb coal, but it can't carry honeycomb coal, which is fragile and has a large loss.

The advantage of the camel is that it is trafficked over long distances, it regurgitates. It lies in the passability of the wilderness, its soles are large, the sand is not sunken, the sharp stones are not broken, and the endurance can drive thousands of miles.

The speed of the camel is only on foot, and as the head of the traction vehicle, it is better to pull the horse heavily.

Heavy pull horse pull force is roughly more than seven into five of its body weight, heavy pull horse with the pulley cargo car on the track, dragged on the non-slope wooden track, two horses can pull 30,000 pounds of cargo car, pull walking distance for one mile.

The average carrying capacity of the "horse-drawn train" is 37 times that of camels, the loss is a fraction of that of camels, the average speed of a unit distance of 20 miles is five times that of camels, and the carrying efficiency has increased by more than 100 times.

The original freight throughput and exchange volume from Mentougou to Jingshi for one year can be achieved in three days once this track is completed.

One day ahead of the construction period, 100 taels of silver will be awarded, and in exchange for the current four-month freight volume, 100 taels of bonus is nothing.

"A day in advance, a hundred taels?"

The eyes of Tasha's eyes on Yuan Ji's side are about to bulge out, his monthly salary, money, reward, add up to only eight taels, and the paving track is actually rewarded with a hundred taels one day in advance, especially Sun Shou, a eunuch, can actually draw ten taels, and what makes him even more distracted is, "Master, the iron factory is one day in advance, and the reward is one thousand taels?" ”

"yes."

Yuanji turned his head and smiled at Tasha, "Do you want to do it?" I see that you have the strength to do the guards, why don't you come and lay the tracks? Building a factory? ”

It's really that the annual income of this year can't keep up with the military spending.

Zheng Zhilong invited the Dutch fleet that year, and the reward in the Green Forest Summoning Order was five taels for a Dutchman's head and three hundred taels for a Dutch plywood ship burned by a fireship, which was a huge reward.

Now the monthly salary of an eight-banner rider is only three or five taels, which is already a lot, enough for a few families to spend a year.

In later generations, Huguang, which was "familiar with the lake and full of the world", is now full of tigers, and has not yet recovered from the ruin after the war.

In the ninth year of Shunzhi, the total amount of taxes and grain collected in Huguang was only 540,000 taels, but the salaries of the green battalion soldiers in the Huguang area alone were 710,000 taels, not counting the salaries of the Eight Banners and Yamen officials who fought in the Huguang area.

Unable to pay military salaries, they could only continue the tradition of robbery outside the Guanwai that broke the wall every year, fed the war with war, and ate the enemy, so that the Qing army could grab it all the way, which caused considerable damage to South China.

Kangxi divided Huguang in three years, measured the land, and recruited displaced people to give land, so that it could be regarded as slowly stabilizing.

But the military salary is still not enough, whether it is the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion soldiers, they go outside to take on a part-time job and do odd jobs, which actually starts at this time.

A hundred taels, a thousand taels of rewards, is a reward that can only be opened by the siege!

"The slave still protects the master."

Tasha's eyes were red, but he was a rich and unobscene, and said firmly, "No matter how expensive the rail and iron works are, they are not as expensive as the master." ”

"There's rails, there's ironworks."

Yuan Ji chuckled, "Ye Cai is expensive!" ”

Once this track is opened, the building materials of the iron works, pig iron furnaces, iron ore will be able to come in.

The most unique place in Mentougou is that there is coal, and the premise of bricks and tiles is coal, and coal is used to burn bricks and tiles.

The foundation that carries the power of industry is not a steam engine, it is a union of coal and iron, iron and fire.

As soon as the refractory bricks were burned, the pig iron was there, and the blast furnace was built, and the steel came out. With steel, hot casting, cold rolling, hydraulic forging tables, steam hammers and other large processing equipment can be manufactured on site.

There is steel and processing equipment, plates, pipes, components, components, parts are all out, and any steel kitchen knife will cost a few taels of silver. I was happy to build a steel cannon and scared the Jesuits to death, and one door was sold for 10,000 taels, and there was no bargaining!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi purchased artillery from the Portuguese in Haojing, and the purchase price reported was 1,000 taels and one guns, and the shipborne long-barreled heavy guns sold by the Europeans to Taiwan's Zheng Jingshui Division were 3,000 taels and one guns.

It's all old guns that have been decommissioned!

The guns purchased by Xu Guangqi were actually 800-ton cruiser-class armed merchant ships of the British East India Company, four-and-a-half-inch Demi.Culverin half-snake guns salvaged from the sunken "Unicorn", and Saker Saker cast-iron cannons.

What Zheng Jingshui purchased were old cannons unloaded from Spanish armed gold ships, most of which were cast iron "falcon cannons".

These cannons are the "Hongmaoyi cannons".