Chapter 39 Coal Mines and Iron Mines

What Liu Zheng lacks, lack of iron, iron ore, lack of coal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He is extremely lacking in these two things, don't look at the hi skin he burned outside the city, in fact, it is all less firewood, coal he can't afford to play, now the mountain (anti-harmony) east of the coal source is very small, most of them are purchased from other provinces, can use the coal people in addition to Jinan Mansion, Linqing Mansion large households are burning firewood in other places.

Even in later generations, there was a shortage of coal in the eastern boundary of the mountain (anti-harmony), and the reserves of coal ranked tenth in the country.

But if Liu Zheng wants to arm his troops, he must have coal, and only with coal can he make iron and steel, in addition to coal, he lacks iron ore, and now the mines are owned by the imperial court, and they are not allowed to be mined privately.

Now two of the official duties on his handsome case are for iron ore and coal, and the two people who reached out with him are the old man Mohai of Mojia Village and the old man Sun Shishi, the head of the blacksmiths.

The Mo family has already vacated the Zhuge crossbow, but the lethality of ordinary crossbow arrows is too small, so several old men of the Mo family discussed and planned to use iron crossbow arrows instead of wood, so they asked Old Man Sun to make iron crossbow arrows, but who would have thought that Old Man Sun was worried about running out of iron!

This graphite has been brought back, Old Man Sun took a group of people to study the crucible and make a small blast furnace over and over again, this small blast furnace has already been made, the iron smelted is indeed better than the original, and the steel smelted is not good, he now urgently needs a large amount of iron and iron ore to experiment, there is no extra iron to make any crossbow arrows, so the two of them wrote a note and sent it to Liu Zheng as soon as they put it together.

Liu Zheng rubbed his head, carefully recalled the situation in the east of Shandong, especially around Qingzhou, and after thinking for a long time, Liu Zheng suddenly laughed on his face.

In his previous life, he had been in Linzi, and he also had a lot of understanding of Linzi, there was a coal mine and an iron mine in the west of Linzi City, and the reason why Linzi was developing slowly was because there were highways in the north, railways in the south, and Zihe River in the east.

It is too easy to find these two mines, the ancient (anti-harmony) county seat of Linzi has not been touched for thousands of years, only in later generations because of the war, the old county seat was destroyed, and the new Linzi County was built not far south of the old county seat, and these two mines are next to the edge of the city of X county.

From the south gate of Qidu Town, which is now Linzi County, walk four kilometers to the south, turn west and walk eleven or twelve kilometers, dig down to be a coal mine, and then go five kilometers west from the coal mine to five kilometers to the south, and dig down to be an iron mine.

These two mines are located on the plains, with only one layer of soil suitable for heavier soil, typical surface mines, ordinary people can dig up the veins with iron shovels, and they are easy to mine like crazy.

I have to say that Jiang Ziya Jiang Taigong is really powerful, Linzi, the capital of Qi that he personally selected, is really a treasure of feng shui, there has been no earthquake for thousands of years, the Yellow River has flooded and submerged, and there are five springs of Tianqi Yuan in the mountains in the south of the year, in addition to iron ore and iron ore, coal mines and coal mines, and the land is also suitable for the growth of crops.

Liu Zheng got up in front of the sand table in Linzi County, looked at it carefully for a while, and then asked someone to invite Zhou Yun over, and then asked someone to call Mo Liang, who was in the prime of the Mo family, and Li Tiehammer, the blacksmith.

When everyone came, Liu Zheng pointed to the sand table in Linzi County and said: "Here, from the south gate of Linzi County, go southwest for about twenty miles, dig down is the coal mine, go forward about ten miles to dig down is the iron ore, if you can't dig the iron ore, go south for ten miles, there will be iron ore." ”

Zhou Yun, Mo Liang and Li Tiehammer's eyes all popped out, especially Zhou Yun, who was surprised that they forgot the rules in the barracks: "Second brother, how do you know?" Don't you know how to do immortal arts? ”

Liu Zheng was slightly stunned, then glanced at Mo Liang and Li Tiehammer, and found that the two of them looked at him with this meaning in their eyes, and he was immediately shocked.

yes, how do you know? Could it be that I told him that I found it all from my memory in the afterlife?

After turning his mind several times, Liu Zheng helplessly found that he didn't explain at all, and after pondering for a while, he suddenly thought of Jiang Ziya, and said with a smile: "I used to read some idle books at home, and there is a book that records that Jiang Taigong said that there are iron mines and coal mines here!" ”

"Ahh

"Mrs. Jiang?"

"Who is Mrs. Jiang?"

"Jiang Ziya!"

"Ah, Jiang Ziya, I know, that's a fairy, the fairy said yes, then there must be!"

Liu Zheng secretly wiped the sweat on his forehead, Nima can't talk casually in the future.

So he changed the topic and said: "Thanks to Mo Lao and Sun Lao, these two have solved a lot of problems for me, now there are too many people outside the city, and when they get together to keep it together, there will be some chaos, even if we choose five thousand strong people, we also took away a large number of people to work on the construction site to build houses, but there are still too many people left, these people have nothing to do, as long as there are people with bad intentions a little bewitched, it is inevitable that some people will have crooked thoughts!" ”

"Now, as long as the ore vein is explored, all the men who have not worked in the disaster victims, those over the age of fourteen and under the age of fifty, are selected, let them go to the mines, and tell them clearly, one or two silver a month, and those who don't want to go carefully ask about the situation, if there are old, weak, sick and disabled people at home who need to be taken care of, you don't have to let them go, if there are no special circumstances at home and don't want to go, then it's easy to do, just pull them down to the barracks!"

"Brother Zhou, when you go to select people tomorrow, remember to pull 3,000 people from the camp over, and let these people train nearby and train them to open the mine normally! By the way, Mo Liang and Iron Hammer, remember to elect representatives from absenteeism and let them be autonomous, so we don't send people! ”

Mo Liang looked at Liu Zheng suspiciously: "Let them be autonomous?" Is this okay? ”

Liu Zheng smiled and said, "Why not?" It's just that they will be autonomous so that there will be no chaos! In this way, twelve people as a group, each group selects a pair of two team leaders, look at the performance, if their group of people perform well, these two team leaders will pay an extra one or two silver per month, and the group members will be paid half a month's salary, if someone in their group makes trouble, then these two team leaders will deduct their half a month's salary! As soon as this method comes out, I guarantee that no one will make trouble for you! ”

Mo Liang and Li Tiehammer's eyes widened in surprise, while Zhou Yun laughed secretly, his brother really knows how to play with his mind, and there are endless ways to treat people.

After sending away Mo Liang and Li Tiehammer, Liu Zheng Zhou Yun talked about the recent training: "Big brother, this training has been more than a month, and the recruits are also a little bit like that, I think there should be a confrontation match, a confrontation match for veterans, one is to cheer up those recruits, and the other is to let everyone feel what the battle is like!" ”

Zhou Yun pondered for a while and said, "Second brother, what are you going to do with them?" ”

Liu Zheng touched his chin and thought for a while: "It seems that there are fewer people in the squad as the confrontation, and in the ranking unit, it seems that there are only thirty-six people in the three squads, so let's take the company as a unit, one hundred and eight people, exactly one hundred and eight generals, haha, see if these one hundred and eight people are heroes or bears, pull them out and compare them!" ”

Zhou Yun also smiled and said: "Now that the veterans are scattered, they are all non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level, and there are also many company commanders, if you do this, doesn't it mean that the whole army is comparing?" Speaking of this, Zhou Yun suddenly thought of something and said: "By the way, second brother, you choose a veteran to compare, is it still the eighteenth battalion?" ”

"Eighteen battalions?" Liu Zheng was slightly stunned and then groaned: "Eighteen battalions, count them in!" ”

Zhou Yun's smile suddenly thickened: "The eighteenth battalion is all veterans, they are already very familiar with the battle battle, and with this crazy training for more than a month, they run in together every day, don't you think it's very unfair to our veterans?" If the first three are all veterans of the Left Guard Battalion by then, won't it make everyone's face disgraced? ”

Liu Zheng replied casually: "No light on your face? What light do you need if you lose? What is the competition for? Isn't it just to find out your own gaps? I only see my own strength, but I can't see my weakness, and sooner or later there will be a time when I will die and I don't know how to die! Isn't training and competition just to find shortcomings, change them into shortcomings, and gradually make yourself stronger? If you recognize this clearly, you won't feel that your face is disgraced, and those who recognize this clearly will beg your opponent not to save any face for yourself! ”

Zhou Yun nodded vigorously when he heard this, and then listened to Liu Zheng again: "I see that everyone is living too steadily these days, and I have forgotten where we are and what we are doing!" You've forgotten six doors, and I haven't! ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Zhou Yun was suddenly shocked in his heart, yes, this time has been too fulfilling, and he has forgotten how dangerous he is in, and what he is doing now is a head-killing business, and if he is not careful, he will end up with a miserable end of death without a place to bury.

He wrinkled his brows and groaned for a long time before he spoke: "Second brother, these six doors are indeed a scourge, find out as soon as possible and get rid of them as soon as possible to feel at ease!" ”

Liu Zheng shook his head and said: "You can't get rid of it, even if you get rid of this wave, there will be the next wave, and if you come hard, it will only make us live in peace for the rest of our lives!" ”

Zhou Yun thought about it too, and sighed: "Then second brother, what do you say?" ”

Liu Zheng looked out of the tent, and after a while before he spoke: "We must think of a way to contain them, or divert their attention!"

"A way to contain it? Divert your gaze? Zhou Yun muttered for a while and said: "I really can't think of a way to contain it, this diverts our attention to a lot of ways, we can use the functions of the six doors to create more trouble, such as finding a few martial arts families to play a fighting scene, or finding the Quartet brothers to ask for some brothers in his water village, pretending to be bandits to harass Xiaqingshi Pass or Dongpingzhou City!" ”