(I didn't update it yesterday, but I made it up today, and there's another chapter in the evening.) ）

It has to be said that Chen Gong is a master of internal affairs, and after seven or eight days of rectification and exploration, more than 4,000 workers have gathered, and the number of workers is still increasing, and the direction of the road and the location of the coal mine have also been determined. Two thousand workers were used to build roads, and two thousand were used to open mines and build the necessary houses for coal mines.

Lu Chen couldn't wait to announce the start of construction, although it was a little hasty, but the technology of this era is so crude, there is no need to compare the efficiency with later generations. Anyway, coal mining and cement manufacturing, he is the only one of the three countries, there is no competition, as long as there is output, it is not a loss. In terms of industry, he has no experience, and can only rely on the people below to accumulate experience to improve technology and improve efficiency by himself.

There was no ceremony to start the construction, but Lu Chen went to make a mobilization meeting for the workers, which was actually not a political mobilization meeting, nothing more than carrots and sticks.

Riding on the back of the tall Xiong Jian's Xiao Luo, Lu Chen was dressed in a sassy armor and held a high-imitation Fang Tian painting halberd (the original version had been returned to Lu Bu), majestic. He took a horn made of bamboo strips and linen, and pretended to be a thief and spoke loudly, saying that he wanted to talk to a large group of bitter people below for three chapters.

First of all, Lu Chen told them that they had to sign a labor contract for 20 years, and he knew that more workers would be needed in the future, so he was not ready to give them the rights and freedom to be farmers. Twenty years, this is tantamount to buying a life, although many people are worried, but life is a problem, they have no choice. And Lu Chen also said that if there is someone who escapes halfway. They will be punished as desertion, and in serious cases, beheaded. If the work is unsatisfactory or lazy, the supervisor may be punished with caning. It's no different from other places, and you have to work for 20 years and not leave, it's just perverted! Most of the people retreated, but they didn't dare to leave.

Secondly, Lu Chen told them to work five hours (ten hours) a day, and receive different remuneration according to the type of work and labor ability. Is this little gentleman really a fool? If you only work five hours a day. And it can ensure that you can eat enough or not starve to death. That's a great thing! Everyone's thinking has changed, some of them are yellow scarves who escaped from the Taihang Mountains, and some are refugees who ran from Hebei or Guanzhong. It's a great blessing not to starve to death.

At last. Lu Chen told them that their daily salary was five yuan. This is the minimum treatment, after 10 days, according to the respective working ability and skills. Raise wages and pay for monthly adjustments. If the labor force is strong, you can receive eight yuan, if you know technology, you can receive twelve yuan, and if you are a skilled craftsman with particularly good skills, you can enter the craftsman supervision as a craftsman, and the treatment ranges from 600 yuan to 1,000 yuan per month. At this moment, the people below were stunned, thinking that they had heard it wrong, even if Lu Chen was a fool, he wouldn't be so stupid, right? You must know that even if it is the lowest treatment, five and a half baht a day, you can buy a pound of rice. One pound of rice and wild vegetables is enough to ensure that the family does not starve to death! Where is this little gentleman a fool? It's clearly a living bodhisattva.

Then, the workers below thawed, but Lu Chen was stunned.

Because of the unclothed workers below, Wu Yang knelt on the ground, and for a while, in the wild east of Mayi City, which was about to start building roads, there was a cry.

There are those who call Xiaojun Hou to live the Bodhisattva, some who shout Long live Xiaojun, and there are those who let Xiaojun Hou ascend to heaven as a god.

Lu Chen was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.

After a long time, Lu Chen exhaled deeply, he was a little moved, but more because he felt shameless, these people were the least demanding, and he was too oppressive of them. This made Lu Chen's conscience a little uncomfortable, but he had no other way but to say to Chen Gong, who was also shocked next to him: "Uncle Gongtai, do you see it?" This is the will of the people. At the beginning, I told Guo Jia that kindness cannot win the world, but it can win the hearts of the people in the world, and I believe that being kind to the people is definitely not a bad thing. Therefore, we can appropriately reduce the price of our grain, and the autumn harvest will be soon, and there will not be too much shortage of food, even if there is not enough food in Yanmen, we can go out to buy it. ”

Chen Gong said: "Five dollars for a pound of grain, and it will be dropped?" If it is lowered, it will be parity, we are four dollars a pound of purchase, and almost all the Yanmen farmers have booked this year's surplus grain, you must know that the newly reclaimed land is not fertile, even if there is no tax, the surplus grain is very small. ”

Lu Chen looked at Chen Gong in surprise: "The grain you collected is four dollars a catty?" And then, ready to sell it to these workers for five dollars? ”

Chen Gong was a little unhappy: "Didn't you ask me to sell it at a high price?" ”

"You're a loser!" Lu Chen roared in a low voice, "With the labor of collecting grain, the freight of carriages and horses, and the depreciation during transportation, is five yuan high?" It's so affordable! ”

"And how much do you say is appropriate?"

"What's the matter, you have to pay ten dollars a pound, right?"

"Shhhh

"What a! You have to raise the price of grain here, and then the grain merchants from other places will transport grain to Yanmen to sell! Otherwise, who will sell grain to Yanmen County, where our birds don't? Shall we go out and collect food ourselves? It's no wonder that you weren't killed by those princes! Don't be too high, if a foreign grain merchant sells grain to us, he will give him six or seven dollars! The population of our Yanmen will gradually increase, and we can't support ourselves at all, so we can only use money to smash it! Then, use these workers to dig coal to make cement and weapons, and cooperate with the Xiongnu Xianbei horses to earn money back! ”

"Xiaojun is famous, but can cement and coal really make money?"

"Coal is not sold, only cement is sold to those warlords to build cities, roads, houses and graves! Sell arms to them, siege them, smash roads, destroy houses, and dig ancestral graves! Arms are the most profitable, trust me. ”

Chen Gong was merciful, but he had to raise the price of grain according to Lu Chen's idea. Looking at the workers kneeling on the ground, he looked at Lu Chen, who had a mighty and righteous face, and suddenly had a sense of demonic immediacy.

Subsequently, Lu Chen added some benefits to the workers.

First, it doesn't cost money to see a doctor, dozens of Hua Tuo's disciples are about to leave the school, and the construction site in the summer is the most likely to get sick, so they can just practice and practice, as for whether they will occasionally kill one or two, Lu Chen can't control it. The workers burst into tears, but they didn't know that Lu Chen was using them as guinea pigs to train his military medical team. However, something is better than nothing, and Lu Chen is not all bad-hearted.

Second, he would open a wool mill, where workers' female families and children could enter the mill to learn weaving, and the salary was not high, but it could be regarded as an income, and a lunch was included. This is the happiest among the workers, and it is also the happiest for Lu Chen, although he feels a little guilty about deceiving people, but he has always got a large number of almost cheeky laborers, women and children. The status of women in this era is not high, so Lu Chen can buy a large number of grassland wool and let them weave blankets, wool is not expensive, labor is cheap, but blankets are strange goods, Lu Chen secretly smiled crookedly.

In the end, Lu Chen, who couldn't get over his conscience, still did something meaningful in the end, that is, all the sons and daughters of workers can go to a public private school for free for two years, and they don't have to pay tuition, but they have to bring their own food. This kind of policy of benefiting the people was almost ignored by the workers, who said that they would not read any Laoshzi books, or let the little doll enter the textile factory to make good money, and also include food, the children's bodies are small, and the women's lives are cheap, and one meal a day is enough. Even Chen Gong frowned, complaining that Lu Chen wasted resources to do a private school for the children of workers, how could those untouchables deserve to read the books of sages? He felt that this was an insult to the sages. provoked Lu Chen to almost get furious on the spot, and in the end, he had no choice but to go back to the city.

If the wisdom is not opened, what can the people make, and from it, they can't make it, and they know it?

It can only be taken, and the people can make it happen, but they can't know it.

The people don't understand anything, they can't understand your explanations, the officials understand everything, but they can't understand your ideals, so what can you do? Only dictatorship! Then let me make Lu Peel once, Lu Chen thought.

Although the two-year private school education is far worse than the compulsory education of later generations, it can make them literate, and the children of today, ten years later, will be the pillars. They have to be different from their parents, only in Yanmen can there be hope, and only in the world can there be hope, Lu Chen never believed that he could save the building from the general with his own strength, and he couldn't believe in those children of the family who thought very highly of themselves-

(To be continued......)