Sitting on the throne, Liu Che looked at the various materials brought back by Zhang Tang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These materials are a foot high!

gave Liu Che a detailed introduction to the changes in Nanyang County in recent years, and Liu Che was also emotional.

In the past four years, the situation in Nanyang has really undergone earth-shaking changes.

The total output value of industry and agriculture, the total population, the number of workers, and the number of slave laborers all crown the country.

Today's Nanyang County is not only the largest county in the Han Dynasty, but also one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

Its population density can be compared with Chang'an and Linzi.

In the past seven months of this year alone (from winter and October to the present), Nanyang County has produced more than 2 million catties of pig iron, 300,000 catties of refined iron and 100,000 catties of crude steel, and even produced 10,000 catties of good steel quality comparable to the general steel quality of later generations!

Although converted into the output of later generations, it is about equivalent to a small township iron-smelting plant with high pollution and high energy consumption.

But in this pre-century world, it is undoubtedly open.

Just those two million catties of pig iron are worth more than tens of thousands.

It can be made into 100,000 knives or 50,000 curved ploughs.

However, in order to produce this steel, more than 200 slave laborers died in furnaces and smoke within seven months.

There are also more than 500 people who are terminally ill, including even a hundred Nanyang residents.

Within a radius of 100 miles near the base, birds and beasts are forbidden, vegetation and trees are not growing, rivers are seriously polluted, and groundwater is almost undrinkable.

That's the price of industry.

It's never been a warm vein, and there's no reason to talk about it.

During the Industrial Revolution, the whole of London was shrouded in smog, and few of the workers at the bottom lived past the age of thirty.

Huge numbers of child laborers died in factories.

At the same time, Paris, France, and the Ruhr, Germany, were not much better.

The Thames and the Rhine once even the shrimp died, and the water was black and smelly.

It took Europeans 50 years after World War II to recover their ecology.

As for the Folk Pig Lighthouse Country, the situation is even worse.

Even in the new century, the heavy metals in the five great lakes of Midi are still shocking, and all the fish and shrimp in these places are inedible, and what Asian carp is overflowing? Do you really think it's Midi who doesn't eat it? I can't eat it!

Eat the one who will die!

Therefore, there is no pollution without industry, and if you want industrial development, pollution is inevitable.

At least, in Liu Che's mind, even in the new century, when environmental protection technology is already very developed, if you want to develop industry, pollution cannot be avoided.

As for now?

Pollution and exploitation are industry, and industry is pollution and exploitation!

And in the most serious and dehumanizing way!

For the current Han family, the only good news is that there are many, many Yidi in this world.

In traditional Chinese values, Yidi is a two-legged brute, and with them to work and develop industry, no one will be crooked – the only one who can be crooked is already dying.

The rest of the Virgins have also collapsed and become a plate of scattered sand, which is not to be feared.

Now the problem is already obvious.

We want to continue to develop and expand Nanyang's heavy industry and build it into China's Ruhr.

Then, in the future, the supply of slave labor must be guaranteed.

But...... At present, the supply potential of the labor force of the kingdom in the southwestern Yishan area has been basically exhausted.

Even the monkeys in the Cochin jungle can't catch much.

After all, it's not just Nanyang's blast furnaces that need cheap labor.

There were also sugar cane plantations in Cangwu and Yulin, rice cultivation in Cochin and South Vietnam, whaling in Anton, and even the workshops of the landlords and nobles of the world, which also required a lot of cheap labor.

And the population of the entire Southwest Yi and Indochina Peninsula combined, is there still four million?

This is a big question mark.

Later generations of Omi ghost animals have also encountered similar difficulties.

In the end, though, it was Uncle Black Africa who saved their career.

And now, Liu Che needs the people of the third brother!

However, the problem is that the current third brother is still too far away from China.

Therefore, the current Han family urgently needs to find a temporary alternative source of labor.

"How many people is there still in Nanyang County this year?" Liu Che put down the materials in his hand and asked Zhang Tang.

"Back to Your Majesty, at least more than 3,000 workers are needed!" Zhang Tang Gongshen said: "In order to barely maintain the existing output, if there is to expand and increase, then the required manpower will probably be doubled!" ”

Today's Zhang Tang is undoubtedly much more mature than more than four years ago.

He has gradually become a qualified professional legalist bureaucrat.

In the thinking of the Legalists, the process is not important at all, even if they shed blood and use millions of people as sacrifices, as long as the result meets their expectations, they will not hesitate and ruthlessly carry it out.

What's more, all the deaths are Yidi, which makes there no psychological pressure.

So, despite the fact that more than 30,000 people have died in the blast furnaces in the past four years or so to produce this steel, Zhang Tang is still uneventful.

It's as if the dead weren't people at all, they just consumed some tools.

What Liu Che needs is someone like Zhang Tang.

However, no matter how strong Zhang Tang is, there is obviously no way to conjure up labor out of thin air.

Liu Che groaned slightly, and said: "Last year, under Gao Que, Wang Shi captured tens of thousands of prisoners of war from Dawan, Daxia and Kangju, and all of these people were handed over to Aiqing, and Aiqing will use them first......"

Judging from the current expansion rate of the Nanyang Iron and Steel Base, it is easy to devour two or three thousand lives a year.

If the scale is expanded, it is not uncommon to die 10,000 a year.

You must know that when Midi engaged in industry, hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers died just to build railways.

Now, Liu Che used tens of thousands of Greeks to make steel for the Han family, which is not too much.

Anyway, they will definitely die, and there will definitely be no future.

At least, Liu Che did not hear in later generations that there were any Greek people in Central and South Asia.

Since they will die sooner or later, then, they should contribute their strength to the progress of mankind!

"No!" Zhang Tang was overjoyed when he heard this, with these tens of thousands of free laborers, at least in the next year or two, there is no need to worry about the problems of workers.

But Liu Che knows that this can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

The Han family still needs a stable source of cheap labor.

Thinking of this, Liu Che said to Zhang Tang: "I also summoned Guiping Jun and Fengrenjun from Linqiong to enter Beijing before Qing entered Beijing, and at this moment, the two feudal monarchs have also prepared a banquet for Aiqing in Qili in Chang'an, maybe Aiqing can reach a consensus with the two feudal monarchs......

When Zhang Tang heard this, he was shocked.

That Guipingjun and Fengrenjun are the biological fathers of today's two concubines.

That is, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying of Linqiong.

These two are not good people.

In Southwest Yi and Cochin, their notoriety is enough to stop children crying.

Over the years, these two Han family fathers, backed by the royal family, fox and tiger might, in the southwest Yi stirred up trouble, sowing discord, so far there have been more than a dozen small countries and dozens of tribes destroyed because of them.

They are the number one slave traders in the world today.

In the mines and workshops of these two alone, it is said that thousands of lives are swallowed in a year.

In addition to this, they also joined forces to monopolize and control the slave trade, which is now the most famous slave trade today.

A well-trained and well-trained slave girl in the Yu Kingdom only needs 5,000 yuan at most, but when she sells it to Chang'an, it costs hundreds of gold at every turn, and her profit is as high as a hundred times!

Therefore, in order to get more and better servants, these two will do everything.

Legend has it that there was a princess in a certain country in Southwest Yi, who was born beautiful and had a stunning appearance, and after these two people learned about it, they used great means to make her country perish, and then took her captive to the country of Yu, trained carefully, and finally sent to Pyongyang, where she became the concubine of the Korean monarch.

Even Zhang Tang has no good impression of these two national rulers who do all kinds of evil and can be called demons in the world.

However, what Zhang Tang and the nobles of the world did not expect was that these two abbots had a very high reputation in Guanzhong and Shu County.

Because they funded the construction of the Baochuan Road, the traffic between Shu County and Guanzhong was opened, and it also benefited several counties near the project.

At the same time, the two abbots joined the Shaofu's fake farm tool policy.

So that the people of Guanzhong and Shu County can pretend to lend the farm tools they produce.

A curved plough with a market value of more than 5,000 yuan can be bought from their workshop for only 1,000 yuan.

Then, the people only need to repay 500 yuan a year for ten consecutive years, and they can turn that precious zigzag plow into their own property.

The most important thing is that if there is a problem with the plough or the quality of the plough that the farmer has faked, it can be repaired or even replaced free of charge.

This is simply the best way to buy hearts and minds.

Up to now, in almost the entire Shu County and Guanzhong region, the reputation of the two abbots is even better than that of Bo Dou's relatives, and only the Yi relatives who are now invincible.

There are even people in Shu County who have set up a memorial for them.

This has to be said, it is really a great irony.

These two demons whose hands were stained with blood and were comparable to Bai Qi were actually supported and loved by the people.

And he Zhang Tang, over the years, has worked hard in Nanyang, worked hard to do work for the people, persuaded and counseled, and almost knelt down to kowtow to his fathers and elders, but he only won a few words of praise, and there are even countless people who hate and hostile him behind his back.

This made Zhang Tang really a little psychologically unbalanced.

As the saying goes, peers are enemies, and Zhang Tang doesn't have much affection for the two national abbots.

However, he is a smart man and knows how to hide his emotions.

"No!" Zhang Tang said with a slight compliment.

Liu Che looked at him and nodded, Zhang Tang basically knew what Zhang Tang had done in Nanyang over the years.

You must know that Zhang Tang has always followed Ning Cheng by his side!

And who is Ning Cheng?

That's a vicious dog that wants to climb up all the time!

Zhang Tang was able to subdue Ning Cheng, which was already very rare.

However, there are some things, Liu Che felt that he still had to listen to Zhang Tang's introduction in person, so he asked: "Aiqing has done a very good job in Nanyang over the years, and the cultivated farmland and channels are also praised by the imperial historians...... However, I would like to hear from Aiqing that the people on the side of the Nanyang blast furnace base have a ...... opinion of the blast furnace."

The people of Nanyang, the view of those terrible monsters that spit smoke and discharge sewage all day long, will to a large extent become the view of the people of the world in the future about these blast furnaces built at their doorsteps.

The Chinese are a nation with strong environmental awareness.

As early as ancient times, the Three Kings and Five Emperors had paid attention to the harmony between man and nature.

A Book of Changes, the principle expounded, is the balance of two words.

In the thinking of the Chinese, only the harmony of yin and yang, the balance of the five elements, can the wind and rain be smooth, the country and the people, and the ideological development since the Spring and Autumn period has linked man and nature, heaven and earth with national politics.

In this era when even the eclipse of the sun is the responsibility of the emperor's labor and management, the river water is dirty and the air is turbid, which is difficult for people to accept, and it will make the people think crankily.

Liu Che has seen in later generations how the simple people oppose the construction of PX, garbage recycling stations, and even telecom base stations near their residential areas.

He didn't want to face a massive opposition in the future.

Therefore, taking precautions, first understanding the people's thoughts, and then making targeted policy explanations, is a way to alleviate people's worries.

Of course, Liu Che knows that the most important thing is to let the people feel the benefits brought by it.

This is like if the future generations want to give the people benefits before the construction of PX, and then do enough environmental protection, the people eat people softly, and take people short, Liu Che believes that the opposition will definitely be much smaller.

When Zhang Tang heard this, he thought about it and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the minister is in Nanyang, and he has indeed encountered a lot of resistance...... However, thanks to His Majesty's blessings, the efforts of the ministers, and the admiration of the people, it is not a big problem......"

But in fact......

Zhang Tang knew in his heart that the people within a radius of 300 miles near the base of the blast furnace had no positive views on those towering furnaces at all.

Over the years, he has relied entirely on high-pressure rule and harsh punishment to maintain the normal operation of the base.

In the process, people have even died.

Therefore, he was repeatedly scolded by the local gentry, and even three elders chased him with crutches for three streets.

But what can he do?

This is the task assigned by the Son of Heaven, the people of Nanyang, they must obey if they understand, and they must obey if they don't understand.

What's more, Zhang Tang felt that the people of Nanyang had taken advantage of this matter.

If there is no blast furnace base, how can Nanyang have the best channel in the country? If it weren't for the slave labor in the blast furnace and the large sums of money allocated by the state, how would he have used to repair so many channels? What to build so many roads?

Not to mention, the rail carriage that started construction in Nanyang this year connects Suiyang and Nanyang.

All of these are brought by the blast furnace base.

For this reason, the people of Nanyang put up with smoke and sewage, it is no big deal.

Back then, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, but he didn't ask the people of the world!

This is also the way of thinking of the Legalist bureaucrats.

Brother thinks it's right, the people and gentry don't be verbose, just obey the order obediently, you don't understand it now, but you will definitely understand and agree with me in a hundred years!

They will offer me up like Simon Leopard.

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Today, there is a total power outage in the author's Jun's community, and the power will not be returned until 10 o'clock in the evening, and this chapter is coded at a relative's house.

Therefore, today's outbreak has been postponed to tomorrow, so please forgive me

In addition, I recommend a friend's book "Tang Dynasty Little Waiting Master" (to be continued.) )