Chen Jian dug a pit and buried his brothers and sisters in all kinds of whys. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fun and confused.

The more I asked, the more I realized that I knew so little. The more I wrote, the more I doubted whether what I wrote would be wrong and ridiculed. The more I compile, the more I can imagine that in the future, children and adults will inevitably have to come up with explanations in the book when they speak.

It's a wonderful state, a new birth that immortalizes the name and the soul in a special way.

It's just that Chen Jian didn't jump into this pit, but on a sunny day after the rain, he took Wang Zhe and his deputy, who had been resting in Mincheng, to the mining area in Nan'an.

The two deputies are quite talkative, and Chen Jian is willing to spend money, and there is no shortage of food and drink every day, which is much more comfortable than in the army or in the field.

Four people, five horses, and one horse had a large package hanging on it, and I don't know what it contains.

All four of them are good horseback riders, and Jian Chen has spent decades riding bareback horses, and now such obedient horses are even more satisfied.

Occasionally show a little horsemanship, tout each other's military methods, or occasionally beat the birds and rabbits on the road with new guns, just as a summer tour.

The two deputies looked at Jian Chen's movements on the horse, and praised him: "Mr. Chen is so stable and skillful on the horse, if you don't say it, it's really hard to believe that Mr. Chen's father is a navy and grew up on the deck since he was a child." To say that Mr. Chen is one of those blood tax nationals near Yangguan who got on the horse to ride off the horse for the people, it is even more believable. ”

This is a compliment, and although the blood tax system has long since been abolished, the yeoman farmers are still the most conservative and stable soldiers.

Although the charge is heavy and has been cut a lot, if you really need a ranger, you can still pull up a lot in a moment, but you haven't fought for many years, and I'm afraid it's difficult to have regular cavalry in its heyday.

Jian Chen smiled and accepted these compliments, asked some interesting things in the army, and let the horse walk with difficulty on the muddy road.

Choosing to go out on a sunny day after the rain is mainly to see the road conditions at this time.

This road is a transportation channel such as coal and iron, not a regular post road, it is very simple to repair, and there are not many people who maintain it every year.

The minerals produced in the mining area are transported by such roads to the wharf on the Min River, and then sent by the wharf to various towns.

Because of such roads, half of a pound of coal in Mincheng is freight.

Two deep ruts lay on either side of the road, floating with black mud and occasional padding yellow sand.

Just after the rain, the water strider from nowhere was already jumping on it. In such weather, no one would choose to transport coal and stone at this time.

It's a bit better here, but if you continue to the impact plain of the lower reaches of the Great River, the road will be even more magical.

When the weather is dry, the ground is smooth and hard, and a four-wheeled flatbed truck can pull thousands of pounds of goods alone. But once it rains, the slime will come up, and it is the stupidest thing to wear shoes to go out after the rain, and the shoes will not be found in three steps at most, even if they are tied to the feet, they will weigh dozens of pounds more in vain, and it is really difficult to move an inch.

The road is not bad, at least the mine owners occasionally spend money to repair it, fill in some sand, and the ground is tamped.

However, after being crushed by thousands of ruts, it finally became like this.

After turning a small river, Jian Chen suggested that instead of taking the main road, he would follow a straight line through the field.

The three of them didn't say no, and turned their horses away.

Chen Jian walked and stopped, constantly asking some surveying and mapping questions, and occasionally galloped to the top of the hillside, standing on it and taking out a pen and paper to draw something.

Wang Zhe, who had been silent, glanced at Jian Chen immediately and asked, "Mr. Chen, do you want to build a road?" ”

Jian Chen said with a smile: "Anyway, it will take some time to go to Qi Kingdom, and we have to wait for the wind to come over." I thought that since Brother Wang was fine, he might as well do me a favor. ”

turned around and said to the two deputies: "This is a private matter, so naturally I have to pay for it." I was thinking about finding someone else, but then I thought about it, since it all costs money, why not let a few people take this money? ”

The two deputies smiled happily, and said in their hearts that the order was to follow Mr. Chen to do things, and now they are idle, and it is better to make money?

Wang Zhe said: "Mr. Chen is so unhappy, I said this earlier, I have to wait until now." ”

"Brother Wang, I am not a figure in the army, and it is inevitable that I will be twisted and twisted when I talk and do things."

"Build roads?"

"Dig the river."

Wang Zhe sighed, and didn't say yes or disagree.

Jian Chen looked back at the two deputies, who shook their heads, indicating that they couldn't be the masters.

After a big circle, he bypassed the small canal path that Chen Jian had planned before, and without mentioning it again, he arrived at a mine.

As soon as he got closer, Wang Zhe was stunned for a moment, and for the first time took the initiative to ask, pointing to the winding wooden track road in the mining area outside the mine: "What is that?" ”

He had never seen it, but he saw that the ground was covered with swindling centipede-like wood, two side by side, with some wood in the middle, but the intervals were flattened with sand.

Visually, between the two pieces of wood is the width of the butts of the two horses.

There were a few small carts on the tracks, and the carts were piled up full of ore, and only one horse pulled forward, and it didn't seem to be too much effort.

On some of the shorter tracks, two people are pushing a small cart, and the stones in it would never have been able to push on flat ground according to common sense.

Especially after the rain, the operation does not stop, people neigh, and the excitement is very lively.

Just as he was wondering, he suddenly heard a cannon sound, and the horses under his crotch were not war horses, so he raised his hooves and made a commotion, but the horses in the mining area were unmoved.

Wang Zhe knows that mining mostly uses black powder to explode mines, and this kind of cannon sound is also normal in the mining area, and now the nitrate is piled all over the country, and the formula has long been popular, this kind of thing has been used hundreds of years ago, and now it is even more common.

He was just amazed at the wooden paths, and asked the horses at will, as soon as he opened his mouth.

"It's called an orbit. I made it, and it's a miracle of the school palace. In the Nan'an mining area, there are many installations, and people and horses are labor-saving. ”

"Good stuff."

He praised it stingily and rode into the mining area with Jian Chen.

This mining area has not been here once, it is the first batch to install wooden rails inside the mining area, and Chen Jian has been here several times before.

Coupled with the promotion of gas safety lights, the miners stopped their work and greeted Chen Jian when they saw him.

Since the advent of the wooden tracks, these miners have been able to save a lot of money. Although there are more mines dug every day, and the salary has not increased, at least there is no need to carry or push with bare hands in some places as before.

As for the safety lights, they have saved the lives of some miners, the pain of the last explosion is still fresh in the memory of these miners, and the miners' lights can judge whether there is gas gas by observing the color of the flame to make the miners live one more time.

In the whole of Fujian, if you talk about the influence of the Mexican Party among the hired workers, there is no one more than the coal mines. Theoretical propaganda is useful, but sometimes small changes become friends and are more direct.

The mine owner happened to be in the mine today, and when he heard that Chen Jian was coming, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly came out to greet him.

Chen Jian introduced Wang Zhe again, only saying that this was a figure in his trading company, and he was a guard hired at his own expense.

The mine owner didn't care, just nodded his head and hurriedly invited Chen Jian to the house.

"I'm here this time, and I'm here for something."

"Mr. Chen's matter must be a good thing. If there were a few more things like this track, the miner's lamp, and the like, I wouldn't be able to ask for them. ”

When I said this, I thought to myself, "You'd better not represent your Mexican Party and want me to raise the wages of your employees." If that's the case, it won't look good.

The mine owner is conflicted, if he doesn't deal with the group of people in the Mo Party, there are some new things that he can't get by himself, just like the wooden track and the miner's lamp, which are real gains.

Let's deal with it, the group of people in the Mexican Party have good mouths, and they have no interest entanglement with this group of employees, but they are all good things that can be trusted by employees.

He knows that he is most afraid of hiring a group of workers, and once he gets together, there will be trouble. However, the mines are different from other places, and these hired workers will naturally join together, and most of them are outlaws, so they have to hire more overseers, gunmen, hooligans, and so on.

Chen Jian didn't know what this person was thinking, and said with a smile: "It's a good thing, an absolute good thing." Is there a master who can blow up mines in this mine? Call us and let's talk. ”

There must always be a few masters who can bomb mines in the mine, which are extremely difficult crafts, and they can only be mastered by words and deeds for more than ten years.

Even if black powder is used, it is very dangerous.

But it is also the same, if you become a master, then you will be much more than hired in the mine - unlike some kiln-making, cloth dyeing, charcoal-making, and so on, the small workshop owners in those places often want to steal the learning, and after learning it, kick the master who pays a lot of money to pay for flowers. However, the mine owner will never learn the matter of bombing, and if others learn it, it will cost more money, so the position of the bombing master in the mine at this time is very detached.

Just like those velveters, the essence is still a hired worker, but he gets a lot of money and status, so much so that he doesn't believe that he is a hired laborer. This kind of person is generally temperamental, and the people of the Mexican Party cannot deal with this kind of person, so they can only ask the mine owner to come forward.

The mine owner was overjoyed when he heard this, and before Chen Jian left for the capital a year later, he was invited by Chen Jian to the workshop to see a new explosive.

The explosives were indeed fierce, and the mine owners who watched and admired them were shocked and their eyes lit up.

The problem is that it is too violent, and it has no practical value at all.

The mine owner remembers that the first thing he saw was a bottle of yellow bulaji oil, which had been poured on a stone.

A four-pound iron lump was tied to the stone, and a rope was tied to it. Chen Jian also told these mine owners at the time that this thing was very sensitive, and a four-pound iron lump could detonate when it fell from a height of two inches.

The mine owner remembered that he had measured how tall two inches was at that time, and then he saw an earth-shattering scene, which was indeed much more fierce than black powder.

He was still shocked, and several of the mine owners in the quarry were about to jump up with excitement, compared to the coal mine open-pit quarry, which was really asking for this thing.

It's just that after being excited, I know that this thing is not a good thing. Four pounds of hammer and two inches will explode...... Two inches, if it falls on the cover of the heavenly spirit, it may not be dead, maybe it will blow up if you fall while walking with a bottle.

Chen Jian said at the time that there must be a safe way, and you don't need to invest money to research, I will spend it myself. But there is one thing, after success, on behalf of our party, I hope to have a place in your mining area.

The miners asked what they were doing, and Chen Jian said that after the evening, they would read, write, tell stories, drink less and talk more, gamble less and chat more, exchange mining techniques with each other, and work hard to improve mining efficiency.

Chen Jian said, if you don't agree that we all have to buy a house in a small town, just say hello in advance.

When the mine owner heard this, he said in his heart what is the point of saying hello in advance? But since that's been said, let's prepare in advance and arrange for some people to listen to what you guys are talking about in the evening. Besides, it's not sure when this explosive will be used, and once it is used, it will be a great thing, as long as the requirements are not excessive, how much will be given face.

When Chen Jian and the others were full, and these days, because of the use of the wooden track, they found that the efficiency has improved a lot, and they thought that it was not impossible to give three or five more coppers when they made a fuss, so they didn't take it seriously. But the premise must be to give it first if you don't make trouble, and you can't give it after you make trouble, once you make this precedent, I'm afraid it will be endless.

Unexpectedly, less than half a year has passed, Chen Jian is really here, and while he is excited, he is inevitably a little uneasy.