Half a month has passed, Yu Danian Yin Shijie's Yujia Village, there were too many people in the village, there were more than ten families, and some of them still had some self-owned land, that is, just enough food and clothing.

Seeing that the arrangement here is about the same, Wang Pan asked He Libo to return to the capital, Wang Pan was not idle in the capital for a few days, he looked at a few acres of land outside the water gate in the northwest of the capital, and asked He Libo to go back to buy the land, and arranged for people to build a simple shed there as a coal yard into the capital.

The king calculated that if all the coal was transported to the city, the taxes would be much higher, and the coal yards would be built there, and the taxes could be avoided a lot. Moreover, the location is on the Jinshui River, from the west of Jincheng County is the Yellow River, which is feasible to choose this place as a coal base, and slowly advance along the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

If you want to let every family have coal, the current price is not good, the living expenses of a family of four people in the capital are more than a dozen per month, if you use 100 catties of coal in winter, but you can't afford it. If you want to popularize it, you have to make small profits but sell quickly.

Wang asked Yu Danian and Yin Shijie to classify coal according to quality, set different prices, and have "iron carbon" for forging. and briquettes for the heating of the people. There are also "fragrant cakes" for the royal nobility. The price of fragrant cakes is expensive, followed by iron and carbon, and the price of coal cakes for heating is very low, 100 copper dollars per catty.

Yin Shijie frowned, if this is a comprehensive calculation, it won't lose much, but isn't this obviously a money-losing deal? Wang Bi laughed: "When the output goes up, naturally I won't lose money." ”

As he was talking, the old man Li Jian came to the house, entered the hall and saw that the three of them were deliberating, and said to the king: "After the coal well is opened, it has been drying for three or four days, please go and have a look."

Wang next to then got up, came to the well, saw that the diameter of the coal shaft is about one zhang, the carousel car pulled by the ox next to it has also been erected, the teleportation has been to the underground, if the ox can be dug below the transmission up, from the underground poking out of a bamboo pole, this is the carbon layer poisoning gas.

There is also a reel shelf by the well, on which is coiled with thick rope, which is used for people to go up and down. Three or four people can stand in the well at the same time. Wang Bong brought the iron helmet prepared by Yu Danian, pulled up his robe, tied the rope around his waist, and went all the way down the stake by the well.

When everyone saw that Wang Gongzi actually went down the well in person, they were sincerely amazed. When Wang returned to the well, he smelled to Li Jian how much coal mining had been mined in this well in the past. The old man said that in the past, this well was dug almost to the surrounding area, and it was necessary to reopen it.

Wang Bi expressed the idea of opening a roadway in a well prepared in advance, and asked, if it was like an underground roadway, would it be feasible?

Li Laohan said: "We also open the roadway, otherwise it is a pity to open a pit and waste it directly, and some people are buried in the roadway......"

Wang saw that the old man was helpless, and said that he had not asked him to prepare wooden planks and then open the alley, but to use wooden bars to drive piles first, and put wooden planks on them as protection, and said that he would let the old man see the drawings he had drawn, and at the same time instructed that he must wear an iron helmet when going down the well.

And when they saw that he commanded him, they all obeyed.

Wang looked at the well again, if according to the level of the Song Dynasty, this coal well needs to be protected in addition to safety issues, and then there is the original division of labor is unclear, and there is no assembly line production. However, he changed the safety and efficiency a lot, and the king instructed that a pit should open up to four lanes, and each laneway should be narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and not many lanes. The length of each roadway is also clearly defined.

Li Laohan also walked around this place, marking in detail all the places that can be dug pits. The king identified several pitfalls. are all far apart. After arranging the scene, I returned to the house and found that there were already more than a dozen people waiting in the courtyard.

The person who came was from Yujia Village, where Yin Shijie was located, and there was an old man with high morality who was elected to talk to the king. The number of people in the village is gradually decreasing, and the two villages are adjacent to each other, and the farmers in the village have a small income, but some farmers also want to sell their land to follow Wang Bi to open a mine.

Wang next to pacify the people in the hall and discuss with everyone, a hall sat and stood more than a dozen people, Wang said that if the consensus is agreed, the more than ten acres of land in Yujia Village will also be bought.

However, the original statistics of the number of fields and the number of people arranged for farming are still farming; The transaction is collected to the house, and there is a salary regardless of drought or flood; Then there are people who are in charge of the mountains and forests, and the spice groves are expanded. At the same time, a few front-facing houses were built along the same road in the two villages, so that those with poor labor could be used as shops here, and the rent was free for the first year, and the rent began to be collected in the second year. There are also those who specialize in raising livestock and are in charge of water transport vessels. and then there are those who specialize in fragrant cakes and briquettes; They all have their own wages.

The people listened to the king's plan and unanimously agreed, at least so that their children could also have books to read. And livelihood is not a problem either. Seeing that everyone unanimously approved, Wang Pan and the elders of Yujia Village took the real estate title deed of the whole village to the county government and passed it to their own name, and each family gave a small resettlement fee, and at the same time, the houses in the two villages were also allowed to be lived in by the villagers, and the existing real estate was not recycled.

Wang Pan followed Zhang Yi's example, and found a house to place the orphans and orphans in the two villages together, and the old people were accompanied by children, and hired one or two mothers-in-law to take care of the elderly and children. In the same way, just like the school invites Mr., and then asks a full-time Lang Zhong to see a doctor for the people in the village.

In the county town and other villages, there are four or five gentlemen and Lang Zhong who come here to apply, Wang Pan selects the best to hire, Wang Pan places a residence, Lang Zhong is highly paid, but the medicine cannot make the villagers' money, and it must be the same as the market price. Even so, there are Langzhong who are willing to do it, and it seems that it is also famous to come here to be Langzhong.

Another half a month has passed, Tangjia Village has a small scale, Wang Bian invited Cheng Hao County Commander to visit, and the county Commander saw that Wang Bian had placed the county people so properly, and he was even more supportive.

The two of them walked around the two villages next to King Cheng Hao, and when they saw that the people in the village were full of energy, Cheng Hao praised it and said with a smile: "I can't imagine that if there is no virtuous brother to manage it, it is no worse than being a brother." If you continue to develop like this, the surrounding areas of Jincheng County will all defect here. ”

Wang said with a smile: "Bochun has just been re-appointed to this county, and I will help Bochun hand over a big political performance card this time." ”

Cheng Hao was naturally even more happy: "If there is no brother, do you still have a plan?" ”

Wang Bei said ambitiously, "I promise you to expand the county seat for five miles!" ”

This is not a small number, and the expansion of the county seat by five miles means that the four sides of the city wall are expanded outward by five miles. Cheng Hao's eyes widened, and in an instant he smiled: "If you don't have a brother, your ambition is not small. ”

Wang smiled next to him, knowing that Cheng Hao might not believe it, this Jincheng land extends in all directions, and it is Zezhou, where Hedong Road and Jingbei Road are connected, and there is a key road near the Yellow River. He wants to annex village by village.

Wang Bi didn't live in the village either, he was thinking about the fact that it would take only one or twenty minutes to ride a horse from Tangjia Village to the county seat, and it would take forty or fifty minutes to walk faster, and he had a bigger plan in his mind.

Cheng Hao asked Wang to see Mr. again, and Wang remembered that the matter had been put on hold for a long time, and he was busy asking Cheng Hao to meet him in the store tomorrow.

Wang Pan's residence is the highest standard in the county, and the environmental facilities are very good.

Cheng Hao returned to visit Tangjia Village, that is, back to the county to busy his own business, Wang next to see that the manpower here has been almost the same, each has a division of labor, and issued a notice, there are other links to improve the quality and efficiency of the suggestion to adopt the reward tattoo five taels of silver. At the same time, those with excellent performance in each link have opportunities for improvement.

Of course, Wang Pan did this for incentives, such as the process of making briquettes, how to make it automated, and the simple mechanization of wooden structures, which needs to be thought about, otherwise it will be much slower to do it manually one by one. And the selection of talents is also very important, and there will be more people to use in the future, which is also a way.

He called Yin Shijie in Yu Danian and asked Yin Shijie first how much he was spending and remaining silver taels, and Yin Shijie reported that he had spent eight hundred taels of silver. Now the fixed expenses are five or six hundred taels a month. Not really.

The king calculated that the basic emperor's reward was almost used, but he was not in a hurry, and he would have it when he returned to the capital. I asked Yu Danian again, how was the first batch of coal and briquettes to escort to the capital prepared?

Yu Danian said: "I have prepared five ox carts, each of which is three or four hundred near, and two boats for transport. Each ship can hold 2,000 pounds."

Wang knew that the ship was transformed with a boat, and it was generally unchanged but only reinforced, and he had never had time, so when he saw that he was ready, he went to see it in person with Yu Danian and Yin Shijie.

When he went to the shore and saw that his wharf had been set up several times, he didn't know who had the heart, so he made a small flag of Jinxiang Mansion and planted it on the wharf, and the king smiled and looked at the boat: the bottom of the boat was five feet two long, nine feet five feet wide, the planks used were as thick as two villages, and the wood was all large-rooted nanmu, the bow of the ship was nine feet five inches long, and the bottom was six feet wide; The stern is nine feet five feet long, and the bottom is five feet wide;

The large beam at the top of the bow is eight feet long, and the corresponding beam at the stern is seven feet, and there are fourteen large beams across the ship, and the dragon's mouth beam near the bow is one zhang long, and the distance from the bottom of the ship is four feet;

Set up the middle mast is one zhang long and four, the mast is floating with a flag, waving in the wind, embroidering three typing on Jinxiangfu; It looks so magnificent. When you board the ship, you can see that the passages on both sides of the building are seven feet six inches wide.

Wang Bian was in a good mood, this is his own big ship, which is completely the standard of the grain ship, Wang Bian praised Yu Danian and said: "This ship is prepared very quickly, and Yu Danian has done an excellent job." ”

Yu Danian said with a sad face: "The ship has arrived, and we haven't given the boat money yet, we originally ordered one to the Zhou family dock a year ago, but I didn't expect it to be sent so soon, and two ships were also sent, and said that the son was not bad for money, and said that he wanted the son to go to thank him in person." ”

Wang Bian also did not expect this ship to be delivered so quickly, and he knew that the "bottom boat" for making a good Nanmu Cao boat was one hundred and twenty taels of silver. The price of the pallet and other articles on board can be compared with the silver of the bottom ship, so that it should be doubled to be one thousand five hundred and sixty taels. For the time being, where is he going to get so many silver taels, and there are two ships as soon as they are sent.

This shows how solid the owner of the dock of this week is, and just now he only said that it was the cost, and if he added a few percent of the profit to sell a ship next to the king, it would cost 2,000 taels.

The Zhou family's dockyard made Wang Bean inexplicable. Yu Danian pointed upstream, and a tributary stream could be seen not far away, but there were mountains and mountains that could not see the back of the tributary.

"Then there is the dock of the Zhou family, do you want to go and see it in person?"

Of course I have to go, since the ship is here, vomiting blood can't be looked down upon, Wang said to Yu Danian: "You go and inform, I will visit you in person the day after tomorrow." ”