While waiting for the people of the city to come, the slaves had been cursing the destruction of it all, perhaps starving, and finally ceased to make noise. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

By the time the more than 300 people arrived, Jian Chen had already inspected the collapsed mines nearby, and he had not been here since he had come a few times in the past few months.

Wells, the reason why it is written as wells is not for nothing. Even if the well is used to draw water, it is not just a hole to be dug at random, in which case it will not last long before it will collapse, and it must be paved with wooden masonry and four logs to form a tic-tac-toe to prevent people from being stoned to death by the wall of the well.

This is a great invention, because there is no need for a well, a well, which does not require a tic-tac-toe structure and masonry, and must be a shallow or even artesian spring, so there is no need to dig a well; And where the groundwater is very deep, it must be used in this way to be habitable, so that agricultural civilization can leave the river valley.

The principle of the mine is similar to that of the shaft, even the most primitive mines need to be supported by wooden frames, otherwise children would have to be used to carry the ore, so that the female slaves would become a kind of real fertility machine, used to produce child slaves in batches.

After looking at a few caves that were about to collapse, Chen Jian chose a location to circle them, and when more than 300 people arrived, he first built a few wooden houses for these people to live in, and assigned some people to be responsible for cooking.

The enclosed place is 20 meters long and 8 meters wide, Chen Jian is going to dig a deep pit here, and 200 people are divided to dig a pit here, and the remaining 100 people go to the mountains and forests to cut trees, and by the way, a path leading to the mountains and forests is not far away, and the path is paved with two logs side by side like railroad tracks.

After the trees are cut down at the tree farm, they roll along the paved log track to the vicinity of the mine.

The best wood is oak or pine, which are the most dense and strong, and the bark of the pine must be burned black by fire; The oak must be peeled, otherwise it will start to decay from the outside in less than three years.

When the pit reached a depth of four meters and reached the vein, a wooden tower was built on the top of the pit, pulleys and ropes were installed on the top, and a downward slope was made of wood to facilitate the selection of ore.

While the wooden tower above was still under construction, the mine below also began to dig in the direction of the ore vein, this time the mine was much wider, and Chen Jian's requirement was that adults could stand up.

When the burrower had carved about ten meters, the man behind followed behind, using oak to make a frame to support the left and right and the walls above.

If Jian Chen's structural mechanics were good, he wouldn't have to support it so densely, but he didn't understand it at all, so he had to support it every very close distance.

This would consume a lot of wood, and the nearby oak forest had already been cut down, and this time, without waiting for his arrangement, the tribesmen had learned to build a path and then roll the wood on it, and even some of the smarter clansmen even thought of raising the starting point and using gravity to roll it down.

Timber of the thickness of the bowl is piled up near the mine, creating a small logging yard, but at most a few tens of meters depending on the amount of support used below.

Although a lot of wood is consumed, in the long run, every slave who dies can do a lot more work.

Jian Chen inspected the nearby hill and led a few of his clansmen to the top of the mountain, which was densely covered with oak trees. In the past, these oak trees could not be cut down casually, and the tribesmen also needed to eat acorns to survive the difficult winter, and they had a kind of reverence and worship for nature, but first they had forgotten the trees that saved their lives in these winters.

"When the new slaves arrive, build a ditch here that leads to the bottom of the mountain, and I will send a few children in the school who are good at learning to help you measure it."

"After repairing, I cut down the trees on the mountain, and after cutting, I trimmed the branches at the top of the mountain and made logs. When it's cold, they splash water in the ditch and put all the wood down the ditch when it freezes. When you put the wood, don't come here, in case there is a blockage, let the slaves dredge it. ”

The mine official frowned and said: "The winter is very cold for a short time, and at most it can freeze for more than a month. You can't cut much wood in a month. ”

"You can usually cut it, but after you finish it, you can pile it on the top of the mountain, and put it all down in the coldest days of winter. Now the mountains are full of trees, and you can't roll them down, and it will take a lot of men to resist them, and I can give you a maximum of one hundred and forty slaves, and I can't get any more. ”

The mine officer thought about it for a while, and felt that this method was indeed very good, and it didn't take much effort to pile it on the top of the mountain, but after such a high and steep mountain froze, the speed of the logs would be extremely fast, and the slaves who were responsible for dredging didn't know how much more they would die.

"Slaves are very expensive, and the slaves from the tribes in the northeast need more and more food, and each slave can do a lot more work for an extra day, and all we pay is some grain and acorns. This point must be made clear, let the slaves live one more day, is to let the clansmen get some more benefits. ”

"These more than one hundred and forty people, don't make such a mess again, at most five people die every month, if you are any more, you will really be unqualified as a mine official, how can you make each slave work for an average of two years. Otherwise, I might as well throw them all away and grow wheat, beans, and corn. ”

The mine officer was a little puzzled by how the time of the year was calculated, and Chen Jian explained: "Copper can be exchanged for corn, and slaves can also be planted, and they can live for the same amount of time, five times as long as they can grow corn." Slaves who grow corn can live for an average of ten years, so these miners must live for two years, otherwise the clan will definitely not allow us to continue mining in the future. ”

After saying this, the mine official wiped his sweat, nodded and said, "I will pay attention in the future and try not to die so much." ”

"At the end of the year, there are less than five dead slaves, and you will be rewarded. You should also think about it, how can you let the slaves die less, and if they continue to die like this, the city really can't bear it. ”

After thinking for a while, Jian Chen said again: "Also, those injured slaves, don't just throw them out to feed the wolves, if they can be cured, they can be cured, they can still weave sacks without legs, and they can drive away the birds in the wheat field without hands." ”

The mine officer pointed to the slaves who were locked in the house and said, "What about those people?" ”

Jian Chen looked at the huts, the sixty or seventy slaves imprisoned here were no longer usable. They don't know how to stand, but they would rather curse together, this kind of slave is dangerous in Xia City, and they must be exchanged for new slaves, and use new norms to reduce the number of deaths and improve efficiency.

"Those people...... Go to other cities and towns for food, and you will leave these things alone. I'll give you new slaves, and don't tell the people in the city about the riots here, because the fewer people who know, the better. ”

Standing on the top of the mountain, Jian Chen looked into the distance, and could not see the city and the Acropolis, but he had already found a place for these slaves who knew about the resistance, maybe when the seventeen people returned, he could tell them the real truth, and then sell them.

The success of these sold slaves will not have any effect on Xia Cheng: under the rules of the times, there are only two ways for slaves. Either flee back to the mountains and forests to continue to live in caves, or become slave owners, you will not be able to get out of this circle until the productive forces have developed to a certain extent.

Xia Cheng's current location is very awkward, and if he wants to integrate into the cultural circle without moving east, he can only go south or east, and he must always tear a hole in these two directions, no matter what the method is. And this needs an opportunity. (To be continued.) )