The day before the departure, the free slaves who remained on the headland were all gathered. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The people on the island are all strong, and the slightly inferior ones are thrown to the village farm, and this time the workshop workers of the various workshops in the future are selected.

From now on, everyone will no longer plant rice today, move bricks tomorrow, but will do one thing in the future.

The slaves who were selected and signed up for themselves were divided into several groups according to the future workshop, and stood in a still barren land, full of longing and anxiety for everything to come.

Ze Min and the others all entered the smelting workshop as they wished, and it seemed that Jian Chen was really overconfident and didn't take them seriously at all, and agreed without the slightest vigilance.

They are physically strong, the most able to endure hardships, and have also been slaves in pottery kilns, persevering, clear-headed, and it is natural for them to go to the smelting workshop.

In the face of the black oppressive crowd, Chen Jian said very clearly and bloody: if he tries to disrupt the normal production of the workshop, he will be whipped; and those who inform, reward; Those who secretly try to sabotage as they did in the brick factory will be deducted half a month's corn; low-level resistance to smashing tools, hanging; Whoever destroys the furnace and smashes the furnace shall be killed.

In this regard, Chen Jian explained: You are human beings, not slaves, and I can't kill you at will. But although you are human, you are not from Xiacheng. These things tool furnaces belong to Xia Cheng, and you have to accompany them if you smash them, but the problem is that you can't afford to pay for them.

If you can't afford to pay for Taobei corn, then pay with your life.

In addition to these, everyone had to work seven hours and fourteen hours a day, and those who were late for work were deducted three days of corn, and those who were sick were thrown to fend for themselves on a distant island if they were contagious, without rest.

If you are injured in the work, Chen Jian said that he and the people of Xia Cheng are kind, and if you are injured and cannot work, Xia Cheng will also compensate you for the corn for three months. But after that, it doesn't matter, your injuries have nothing to do with me, I didn't ask you to do the work.

These conditions are actually similar to when they were slaves, the only difference is that the people of Xiacheng are not qualified to decide their life and death, and they cannot be executed at will.

And in addition, everyone has the right to buy all kinds of goods, including going to the market to buy all kinds of goods, building houses privately, studying and studying, as for whether they can buy it is another matter.

All wages are no longer paid in kind such as corn and salt, and all tokens such as Taobei and copper shells are issued, and one meal is managed at noon, and the rest of the meals need to be purchased with Taobei, which can be exchanged at any time by the supply and marketing department.

Any goods, even weapons and gunpowder, as long as you have enough pottery, you can buy them all.

In this regard, some people have calculated that with the corn pottery shells that are now distributed by working every day, it is still unknown whether they can live for 25 years without eating or drinking to buy a bronze sword, and they cannot get sick or eat meat or change their clothes halfway.

An open purchasing system will inevitably lead to material shortages under the condition of insufficient productivity. However, what the entire Yucheng is eligible to consume is nothing more than the Xia Cheng people and the noble children of various cities, so the supply is sufficient.

Among the nearly 10,000 people, they are all nominally human, but in fact there are only seven or eight hundred people.

After Chen Jian finished saying these rules, Hongyu quietly found Jian Chen and asked, "We are short of people now." If you do this, once someone attacks us, this group of people will not be able to help us at all. They have nothing to do with the city, the city is not his, they will naturally not protect it, you are not doing it right. ”

Jian Chen smiled: "I know." First bitter and then sweet. And it has to be fought for with their hands to know that it is valuable. What I give to them, they will not cherish. Besides, if one day I die, and no one gives them charity, and they have no experience in fighting, they will be grateful if they sell it well, but that is not good. I also have to know if the hearts of this group of people are qualified to be Xia Cheng people. ”

"Besides, now that I treat them as my own, where am I going to get so much meat, noodles, and vegetables to serve them? Even if there are more pottery shells, they can't buy anything except food, so when the time comes, I will re-fire the pottery shells that are specially exchanged for these things according to how much cloth and meat we have? ”

"The former is their heart, and the latter is ours. The first one we can't control, and the second one can only be done after the village farm is built next fall. ”

"Don't worry, we won't be able to fight in a year or two, and when the fight really starts, I promise that this group of people will stand with us."

Redfish shrugged his shoulders with a smile, chatted a few more words, and sent Jian Chen onto the boat.

After seeing him leave, he guessed what Jian Chen wanted to do, took out a scroll of wooden tablets, and told the overseer that any whistleblowers told her that they wanted to record it for reward, and that any whistleblowing incident must not be handled privately, but must be recorded.

Then she recalled what Jian Chen had said to the free slaves, and felt more and more wrong.

In fact, the rule of disrupting the normal production of the workshop is very vague, and the smashing of the furnace is also included in the disruption of normal production, and the fact that such a thing as a series of things is actually more dangerous than the spontaneous smashing of tools, and the result of dealing with them is the opposite - the tandem is nothing more than flogging, and the smashing of tools is hanging.

She knew that Jian Chen could never be wrong, so she said the opposite, thought carefully for a long time, and suddenly understood.

These rules clearly mean that Jian Chen is encouraging this group of people to do something big. Spontaneous actions such as smashing tools are low-level resistance and meaningless, and it is better for him to help make this group of people take fewer detours - encourage violent resistance and collective grouping, and discourage individual venting and smashing tools.

Redfish looked at the rules written on the wooden tablets, laughed for a long time, and said in his heart that he had only heard of making laws and rules to protect himself, and it was really the first time he had heard of formulating laws and rules to destroy himself.

Laughing red-faced and bent over, sighed helplessly, closed the wooden tablet, and for no reason turned out the strange leather clothes that he had deceived with Chen Jian a long time ago to deceive number nine, unfolded it and looked at it carefully, and said in his heart: "If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that one day, the thing I said that made him laugh and kill himself in order to admit defeat to others in the city will really happen." And when that day came, he wore this garment. ”

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Two days later, Jian Chen and the black-clothed guards found the mine they were looking for, and the gray-red seedlings were covered on the mountain like hats, not too big or not too high.

The coal mine and the iron ore are not too far apart, much more convenient than the copper mine in Xia City, just on the hill by the river. Water transportation in summer and freezing in winter is a good road, and it can be played in this way without considering the cost of competition in the early stage.

At the top of the mountain, several people were digging a hillside with tools, and after digging a few deep pits, large bags of sealed gunpowder were taken out of the ship and buried in the dug holes, leaving a long lead.

When I was digging copper mines in Xia Cheng, I had to use fire to burn them and then pour water on them to blow up the stones, but now I have saved so much trouble.

"Ji Xia, are you going to blow it up?"

"Fried. There are no mining holes here, just digging mountains. It's okay if it's blown up, and it's okay if it's blown up. Make a note of how many are buried, count the sounds in a moment, and don't run over and snore and blow yourself up. ”

A few people laughed and lit the twist soaked in potassium nitrate, and ran away, hiding in the erected tree house, listening to the movement in the distance.

After a few loud bangs, he counted the sounds and made sure that they were all blown up, and Chen Jian led people up the mountain and searched for them in a pile of rubble.

For a long time, holding a crystal cluster made by nature's ingenuity, I sighed at the magic of creation. The hexagonal clusters are bright like mirrors, shimmering with the luster of gemstones, but in fact they are just iron ore, but they are shaped into a beauty that cannot be restored by humans.

The blasted ore was full of cherry red powder, and there was still gunpowder that had not dispersed around him, Chen Jian sat in the pile of rubble, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Go back and send a message to Hongyu, asking her to send more than 1,000 people from the Smelting Division who are in charge of mining in batches. The first batch sent thirty more of her own people, as well as the woman in charge of cooking, and asked her to calculate the food she needed and reserve it in advance. ”

"Let's build a cabin here and stay here for a few days." (To be continued.) )