Zhang San took a special look at these slaves, although they were not strong but they were not hungry, when Zhang San was scanning back and forth among the slaves, among the kneeling slaves, suddenly one suddenly jumped up and killed Zhang San with a hoe in his hand.

Zhang San was stunned for a moment, and then looked at him coldly, only to see the person talking in the Chinese language, and rushing towards Zhang San with a fierce face.

only heard a bang, Zhang San hurriedly retreated, this guy was too bloody, he directly smashed the person, and the blood was splashed all around, and the other slaves touched their faces and looked at the severed limbs on the ground before they came to their senses and lay on the ground trembling.

The officials of the farm were also frightened and pale, this was the king who was attacked on his farm, but he couldn't get out of it, Zhang San asked curiously: "What did that guy just say?" ”

The officials looked at each other, and one of them bowed down and said, "That person seems to be talking about avenging the head of the Yanagi family." ”

Zhang San and Ben didn't take this matter to heart, and they were not interested in paying attention to who the head of the Yanagi family was, what kind of story he had, and continued to inspect, all the crops planted here were rice, because of the priority supply of fertilizer, so the crops here grew well.

As for the disposal of dereliction of duty, someone will naturally be responsible, and Zhang San doesn't need to care, but seeing that he runs the farm quite well, Zhang San feels that there is no need to dig deeper, after all, Zhang San dares to use slaves, so he has to be prepared to bear this kind of grudge.

After seeing the farm, another day was consumed, Zhang San took a boat again, this time to the copper mine in central Luzon, and sailed overnight, arriving at the copper mine wharf, just as a new group of slaves were disembarking, Zhang San frowned and asked, "How many January deaths are here now?" ”

The head of the copper mine wiped his sweat and said: "Because of the tight production schedule, more than 2,000 people will die here a month. ”

Zhang San nodded not bad, for a large mine of 200,000 slaves, the loss of one percent a month can still be over, Zhang San said: "We must pay attention to epidemic prevention work, and the corpses must be disposed of in a timely manner, and they will all be cremated." ”

The manager nodded and said: "They are all sent to the incinerator in strict accordance with the requirements, and those suspected of being infectious diseases are also isolated, and they will be incinerated as soon as they are diagnosed." ”

Zhang San also felt a little cruel when he heard it, but there was no way, these monkeys were lazy, did not adopt high-pressure policies, and could not move them at all, and now the rapid development of the Ryukyu economy has a great demand for copper, and Zhang San's treasury is also very dependent on copper, so die a little more, die a little more.

Zhang San specially looked at the reserve general who was responsible for guarding the copper mine, this person is still very legendary, this person is called Li Fuhan is from Fujian to join the Weiyuan dart game, at first he was only a bronze medal dart master, but he has been training hard, and he is very good at leading soldiers, and he was promoted to a silver medal dart master because of his merits in less than a year.

It's just that because he has been vague about his own origins, he has not been recommended to Sea Shark Island, when Zhang San was passing through the Ryukyus at a critical moment, the army began to expand on a large scale, and the Weiyuan Dart Bureau considered it or recommended him to the Ryukyus.

Because of a little foundation, he was appointed as a commander as soon as he arrived in the Ryukyus, and later performed well, and was promoted from company commander to battalion commander in previous expansions, although it was a little far from the first echelon, but it was also the kind that was promoted faster.

But because of his background, he was still stuck at the battalion level, so Zhang San personally interrogated him and recruited him to the Praetorian Guard Camp for training for a period of time, and finally told the truth when Zhang San attacked Borneo.

It turned out that the Li family he was born in was a descendant of the Southern Tang Dynasty, because he escaped the pursuit of the Song army, he went south to Borneo to settle down, and for more than 100 years, he relied on hard work in Borneo and created a foundation, but in the end he did not escape the greed of the indigenous monkeys, and finally his family was killed by the monkeys, and he jumped into the sea with a piece of wood to escape.

Later, when he returned to the Great Song Dynasty, he originally extinguished his desire for revenge and wanted to find a job to survive in a down-to-earth manner, but he didn't expect that the first job he found was to go to Weiyuan to be a dart master, and finally arrived in Ryukyu to have the opportunity to take revenge with his own hands, so he asked Zhang San to confess everything and wanted to take the troops to Borneo for revenge in person.

Zhang San was still quite apprehensive about the use of this kind of general with personal vendettas, and besides, his family lived in western Borneo, and Zhang San did not plan to march to western Borneo immediately.

In order to dilute the hatred in his heart, Zhang San decided to put him in charge of guarding the copper mines in central Luzon, and seeing what happened to these monkeys now may be able to erase the pain in his heart, and only those who hate these monkeys can do it strictly.

The copper mine in central Luzon is now engaged in mining and beneficiation with more than 200,000 efforts, and there is no livestock and no machinery, so it can only use this most primitive method to mine at least 200 catties of copper ore a day.

Since the beginning of the war with the Great Song Dynasty, the mining rate of Luzon copper ore has been increasing, from less than 100,000 people to more than 200,000 now, and now it can mine more than 10,000 tons of copper ore and smelt more than 500 tons of copper every day.

These copper coins can be produced more than 160,000 coins, and now the city can produce more than 50 million copper coins a year, accounting for more than half of Ryukyu's copper production and the largest fiscal revenue of Ryukyu.

Of course, in order to produce this copper, the lives of more than 30,000 indigenous slaves had to be filled in every year, and the cost was also huge, and there were many such mines, including iron ore and coal mines in the Ryukyus.

Therefore, more than 500,000 slaves died last year due to various reasons, all of which were caused by the war to speed up the production efficiency of the mines.

But this also has advantages, at least the islands developed by Zhang San will not have a savage rebellion, because there will be no people there at all, this time I came to see if the smelting process of copper ore should involve slaves.

Zhang San's principle of using slaves has always been very simple, that is, slaves are not allowed to participate in any technical positions, so all mines have always used slaves to mine and transport ore. Smelting and other processes are still using a large number of Han miners.

However, with the increasing number of new mines and the increasing scale of mining, there was a shortage of Han miners in various places to varying degrees.

With the increase in the number of people in the mines, some supervision and management positions began to select 'excellent' slaves to fill the positions, and these mine leaders trained and led a large number of obedient people, and after more than two years of education, nearly 10,000 miners learned Chinese.