Chapter 58 Labor
First of all, they demolished all the thatched huts they once lived in, although they had lived in them for decades or their ancestors had lived here, but after living in the tidy camp for many days, they rolled up their sleeves and began to tear down the thatched huts they had lived in. And Li Yong and their craftsmen are still thinking about planning new towns and shipyards, cement clay kilns and glass clay kilns have begun to be built, and they can be put into production in a few days, and other construction materials can be found nearby, if not, they can go to other places to collect, at that time, these things were not wanted, what made Li Yong a headache was that there were still not enough manpower, although there were these villagers, but there were only 100 people who could be working, and the rest were old and weak, women and children.
"Childe, there is too much shortage of people now, just the construction of residential living quarters, where are these people enough, not to mention the ports and shipyards behind."
"yes, there's no one to work, what should I do?"
Li Yong also felt a headache, and it was difficult for him to solve the problem of manpower, so he couldn't rob people, right? Well? A thought flashed through Li Yong's mind.
"yes, why didn't I think of it, no one, we can rob people."
When the craftsmen heard Li Yong's words, the black lines on their heads came down, and they wanted to rob people if they didn't have anyone else?
"Childe, don't do it, this robbery is illegal."
"I didn't say that the people who robbed our Datang, we can rob the Turks and Tuyuhun, weren't those people beaten down by us, Jieli was escorted back to Chang'an to dance for the saints, we can use our worthless goods to exchange for some of their slaves to work for us, we don't care about the wages every day, we can also have a work sharing system, they have accumulated enough work, they can let them get our resident status here, what do you think?"
"Gao, this trick is high, those savages have strength, just give them food every day without starving to death."
Listening to the words of these black-bellied craftsmen, Li Yong has to praise them, who said that technicians can't play, and they can play better than anyone else, after confirming, Li Yong asked Li Tiezhu to go back to Suzhou City to find people from the Intelligence Bureau, let them send a message back to the valley, and let them arrange people to go to the Turks and Tuyuhun to buy people, and the requirement is those young and strong, so Li Yong's great cause of human trafficking began, although it is immoral to do so, but Li Yong feels that he can not only solve the problem of manpower, but also assimilate them in the process, as long as they get it, Slowly educate them with Han culture, as long as two or three generations, you can be completely sinicized, this is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, the connection between Xinhua Pavilion City and Xishan is very frequent, Li Yong They are also a thousand clues, after all, the conditions here are not as good as Xishan, after all, at least it is still the fiefdom of Changle, a lot of raw materials can be obtained, it is very convenient to do things, there is nothing here, even the land is illegally obtained, not to mention other things, even a lot of materials are transported from the Xishan Mountain, which is thousands of miles away, Fortunately, there is the Grand Canal, otherwise Li Yong doesn't know what to do, a boatload of materials and personnel went down the river to Li Yong, and after the intelligence bureau received Li Yong's message, he immediately contacted the intelligence officers on both sides of Tuyuhun and the Turks, and exchanged the Xishan goods of their caravan for their young and strong slaves, and those aristocratic tribal leaders who had tasted the sweetness of the Xishan commodities didn't care about exchanging some young and strong slaves, anyway, those people raised it was a waste of their food, and even a piece of soap for ten slaves were there, and those slaves were collected, The caravan pulled these slaves back to the Central Plains in batches, there was a slave trade in Datang, and it was legal, of course, it was only limited to foreign races, and these slaves were pulled back to the customs in batches, so that the army guarding the pass and those pervasive hundred horsemen would not find the clues, those slaves were transported to the Weishui wharf outside Chang'an, and then by the merchant ships to Xinhua Pavilion City, becoming laborers here, a large number of laborers joined, the speed of Xinhua Pavilion City immediately increased, under the guard of a hundred black soldiers armed to the teeth, where did those laborers dare to resist, What's more, the fear of the black army in their hearts has long been indelible, and they have no resistance to them being separated from the Han people, after all, everyone does not understand the language, and they can't communicate if they want to, as for the people on Li Yong's side, they don't bother to care about those laborers, but they are surrounded by tall stone walls in their camp, and there are circles of iron wires on it, what kind of barbed wire is that the black army calls, as long as people are hung up, it is difficult to come out, some people do not believe in evil, so they defy the law, and the result is to attract a large number of people to watch, The black army of those guards watched indifferently as the man continued to struggle in the wire, not only did he not struggle out, but he became more and more tightly entangled, and his body was scraped with flesh and blood, which was unbearable, and finally the black army threw the corpse of this defying law into the sea to feed the fish, and since then no one dared to climb the high wall, and honestly obeyed the orders of the black army, and the camp of the laborers was like a huge prison, with the addition of a large number of laborers and the help of cement, steel and red bricks, The first phase of the residential area of Xinhua Pavilion City was completed in half a month, and the living area and production area were also completed one after another, according to the design plan, they also built the city wall on the main access road into Xinhua Pavilion City, these reinforced concrete city walls, according to the current weapons are not able to break through, slowly, the entire Xinhua Pavilion City is surrounded by the towering city walls on all sides.
"You follow me, I am Han, I love my home."
Then a large group of suffocated Chinese followed along, Li Tiezhu took the ring ruler and pointed to the words written on the blackboard, and took the following 100 people to recognize Chinese characters and speak Chinese, Li Yong looked at the good writing guards around him and had nothing to do, and followed his ass all day long, so he sent them all to the laborers as night school teachers, those laborers in addition to working on various construction sites every day, they also had to accept learning Chinese and Chinese characters at night, which was originally Li Yong's original intention, originally those laborers were reluctant to learn, but heard that they learned well, You can be the captain of the labor team, and you can also process points, and the enthusiasm for learning can be high, because each of them is the lowest slave in the original place, although they still belong to the lowest level of existence here, but the clean and tidy camp here, and there is a full meal every day, I don't know how many times better than before, and now they are working hard to add a point to the work book in their hands, as long as they reach 100 points, they can become the people of Datang and enjoy the treatment of those residents here. Immediately this prison, live in those beautiful houses.
"Give me serious study, if you want to become an upright Tang Dynasty citizen in the future, if you want to live in those houses, you have to work hard, study hard and transform, these are not dreams in the future."
Li Tiezhu and the other guards in the tent brainwashed these laborers from time to time, and those laborers were as excited as if they had knocked the drugs every time they heard these words, if Li Yong saw this scene, he had to call 666, this he was the leader of the pyramid scheme in later generations, those laborers lined up every morning after breakfast and went to their respective construction sites with tools held high, that momentum, even the black army on guard said good guys, this momentum is about to catch up with them, this is a group of laborers, this is a labor army, In the evening, the laborers studied in the night school, and after class, they exchanged with each other what they learned tonight, and the whole labor camp slowly communicated in Chinese, although many people did not speak very well, but they could express their meaning, and the villagers worked with them on the construction site, and some of them became friends with those laborers.
"Madahar, I find that Nong speaks our local dialect more authentically than we all do."
"My friend, I've been with Nong for a long time, and I've found that I've forgotten even my hometown."
There are a lot of laborers with high language talent, not only speak Chinese well, but even the local dialect is almost the same as what the locals say, Li Yong feels that this is a bit biased, sometimes he unintentionally finds that some laborers actually use the local dialect to communicate with the locals, and they can't tell who is the local, there are good and active workers, and naturally there are laborers who ignore discipline, and those laborers are all sent by Li Yong to the dirtiest and most dangerous cement kiln brick kiln, and the new Huating City is changing day by day. There is already a shipyard framework on the tidal flat, and there are ten large dry docks in it, each of which can build a large ship of more than 10,000 tons, and the 10,000-ton ship at that time is equivalent to a super ship of 18,000 materials, which can be said to be an invincible existence at that time, so it is the final result of Li Yong's discussion with the old craftsman and the old shipwright's research institute, although Li Yong wants to build the kind of giant ship that cannot move tens of thousands of tons in the future, but the problem of power and the existing technical problems cannot be done at all, so it can only be installed first. The laborers worked day and night in three shifts under the command of the craftsmen, the imperial shipyard and the port of Huating had already begun to be built, and Li Yong had temporarily stopped the slave traders, because the number of laborers had met his needs, and the endless increase would inevitably arouse the suspicion of the imperial court, and he would have to spend a lot of grain to feed these people.
"The Imperial Shipyard has completed the construction of the first dock, and the next thing is to build the ship, to build such a big ship, all of us have built it, in terms of materials, the best is fir and pine, and the second point is teak, lattice, persimmon, and how to lay the key keel, especially the warship, and install artillery on it, the kinetic energy of the artillery when it is fired, whether our keel can withstand it, these need to be carefully considered."
Those experienced old shipwrights also have a headache when they look at the ship drawings provided by the research, such a big ship, not only must be able to withstand the sea, but also the problem of what kind of artillery is fired, all kinds of problems they have never touched, the largest ship they have made is a ship of hundreds of materials, and the big ship of tens of thousands of materials is also built by Li Yong, but the technology of Li Yong's era is simply pediatric, here, Li Yong is helpless, he has this knowledge, but you don't have the materials you can't do it, As for those fir and pine trees, they basically grow in the deep mountains and old forests of the Qinling Mountains and the Yangtze River Basin, and transportation has become the biggest problem.