After Li Tian and Uncle Wang came out of the teahouse, they went around other shops in the village for a long time.

After chatting along the way, I heard a lot of news. There are truths and falsehoods here.

After all, the guys in these shops have never been in the mines, and they all listen to other miners.

However, what is certain is that there must be no small danger in the mine, and people are missing almost every day. Whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster is unknown.

The two of them didn't go to the mine today, they couldn't go to get free food, and Li Tian and Uncle Wang didn't bring much money, so they didn't have lunch in the village in the end, and went back to their residence to eat dry food.

Here, the miners who went down to the mine did not have to worry about running out of food, in order to ensure the efficiency of mining, the town owner set up a pavilion outside the mine, divided into two pieces, one is the place where ordinary miners eat, and the other is the place where those prisoners eat.

In addition, the town owner hired people to take care of the food for the miners.

Due to the large physical exertion of the miners, they are divided into morning, noon and evening to eat three times a day, with porridge, steamed buns and a soup dish.

In fact, basically no miners choose to come out to eat at noon, and they all eat breakfast in the morning, and then bring a pot of water and dry food for the whole day.

In this way, it is saved to go back and forth, otherwise the time will be wasted on the road, and in the end you will not be able to dig much ore.

It is precisely because of this initiative that many beggars, refugees and farmers in the town who have failed to harvest their crops have come to sign up for mining.

There is food, shelter, and money to earn, and it doesn't matter if you earn less money, it doesn't matter if there is a certain danger.

Compared to being starved to death and frozen to death, the mine is already very good here.

In the afternoon, Li Tian and Uncle Wang had nothing to do, and they didn't know what to do. Finally, a miner came back from the house, but he didn't pay attention to them, and fell asleep when he was tired.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang discussed it, and decided to go to the mine to take a look, and it was best to go into the mine to see the situation.

Familiarize yourself with it first, and start working tomorrow.

After making up their minds, Li Tian and Uncle Wang put their items together, took the waist card, and went straight to the mine.

Don't look at the mine is not high, the two of them climbed for a while before they saw the pavilion where the miners were eating, and the road was heavily guarded, just what the two of them saw, there were three sentry posts, not counting those secret posts and patrolling soldiers.

After Li Tian and Uncle Wang showed the miners' waist cards, the soldiers were allowed to pass.

It's past lunchtime and there's no one in the pavilion.

The two of them rested in the pavilion for a while, and then walked and inquired, and finally came to the place where the ore was weighed and registered.

There are several stone houses here, and there are quite a few guards outside the houses to prevent outsiders from entering.

It is said that there is a ledger in the stone house, and each miner should dig how much ore each month and how much ore he has dug up, these are recorded, and in the middle of each month, they will be paid according to the amount of mining in the previous month.

Each miner will have a number on the deed, how many numbers will be reported here, and the identity will be confirmed again when it is recorded.

If you can't remember your work deed number and your name clearly, then you can't complain about others.

A lot of sheds were built outside the stone house, and Li Tian saw that from time to time miners came with baskets on their backs to register their accounts.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang chose a vacant shed and walked in.

"Huh?" Li Tian entered the shed and snorted subconsciously.

I didn't pay attention to it outside, but when I got inside, I found that it was some women who were responsible for registering the miners.

In each shed there was a man and a woman, the men were responsible for weighing the miners, the women were responsible for keeping accounts, and the stone houses behind the sheds where the accounts were kept, and only these women could enter and exit.

Li Tian and Uncle Wang explained their intentions and reported a series of numbers marked on the work deed.

After the woman listened, she said to Li Tian and the others, and then turned around and went to the stone room to find the corresponding account books of Li Tian and Uncle Wang.

Taking advantage of the woman's absence, Li Tian inquired about the man who was in charge of weighing on the side.

Only after this inquiry did I know that these women were the personal maids of the eldest son of Qianzhuang in Houqi Town, and they were all cultivated by Qianzhuang since childhood.

The eldest prince of Qianzhuang trusts them very much, and they can only do the bookkeeping of the mine, and no one else is allowed to interfere.

And these men who are in charge of weighing are people from the town lord's mansion. The two of them cooperate with each other and supervise each other.

The immortals issued a decree that the excavation of the mine needed to be accelerated.

But you can't just dig for treasure and leave those iron ores aside.

However, there are only so many people, and they can't take care of mining iron ore if they go to dig treasures.

And there is no extra money to expand the staff.

When the town lord was in a dilemma, the son of Qian Zhuang contacted the town lord's mansion and said that he was willing to invest in cooperating with the town lord's mansion to mine ore.

To put it simply, the money village is responsible for paying the money, the town lord's mansion is responsible for recruiting workers, the treasures that the immortals want have to be dug up, and the iron ore has to be mined.

After digging out the treasures, the money rewarded by the immortals needs to be divided into the money village first, and the money from the sale of iron ore must also be shared.

If it had been placed in the past, where would the town lord allow others to share this big cake, but the immortal side ordered him to speed up, and in desperation, the town lord had no choice but to agree to this cooperation model.

The town lord is not a loser, although he agreed, he also slaughtered the money bank. Including the houses where the miners live at the bottom of the mountain, the firewood burned, the stone houses and pavilions on the mountain, the tools used for mining, and the food consumption of the miners, all of which are paid by the money bank.

These expenses made Qianzhuang suffer for a long time, but with the surge in iron ore output, Qianzhuang slowly recovered its capital, and its income increased day by day.

And the eldest son of Qianzhuang, who contributed to this incident, firmly confirmed his identity as his successor.

Hearing the man in charge of weighing this, Li Tian remembered.

A few days ago, Hou Ping got a table of good dishes from the back kitchen from the upstairs private room.

These dishes and wine guests have not been touched much, and they are all cheaper than these guys in the back kitchen.

At that time, Hou Ping was talking about the eldest son of Qian Zhuang banqueting the daughter of the town lord's mansion.

It's a banquet, but it's basically a conversation.

It seems that it was that time that the town lord's mansion and the money village reached a consensus to cooperate in mining ore.

After a while, the woman in charge of the record returned, holding a thick stack of ledgers.

The woman found the numbers of Li Tian and Uncle Wang, looked up at Li Tian with some confusion and said, "It says that the two of you need to hand in half of the ore every month than other laborers, and you need to pay for three consecutive months, and you have no wages, right?" ”

Obviously, the woman had not seen such a contract agreement between Li Tian and Uncle Wang.

Li Tian said indignantly: "That's right, I killed two damned dealers, and I haven't ended up well." ”

Li Tian was still a little unconvinced by the verdict of the town lord, why did he and Uncle Wang eliminate harm for the people, eliminate violence and peace, and finally accept punishment?

Uncle Wang stabbed Li Tian on the side, and replied to the woman: "My nephew is not sensible, don't blame the girl, the lord of the town sentenced us to come over to mine, and bother the girl to explain the rules." ”

The woman didn't think Li Tian was rude, she also felt that Li Tian and the others were doing the right thing, eliminating harm for the people, and it could be regarded as benefiting the people.

As for being punished by the town owner to come to mining, this can only be said that the current sentencing standard of the town owner is mining, and as much as he committed, he will dig as many mines as he committed! Someone might steal a dog and get caught, and they all have to be sent over to dig for a few days......

After knowing that there were no errors in the records of Li Tian and Uncle Wang in the account book, the woman nodded, picked up a pen and wrote the date of the day in the account book, and ticked it.

This hook date means that Li Tian and Uncle Wang came to report today, and the three-month period officially began.

may have felt that Li Tian and Uncle Wang had done a very happy deed, and the woman in charge of keeping the account books patiently explained to Li Tian and the others the amount of tasks that Li Tian and the others had.

"Other ordinary miners need to hand in half a basket of ore every day, that is, one basket of ore every two days, but the two of you have to hand in half the amount of ore than they do, that is, each of you has to hand in one and a half baskets of ore every two days.

That is to say, others have to hand in at least fifteen baskets of ore a month to be paid, while the two of you have to hand in at least twenty-two and a half baskets of ore a month to complete the task.

In addition, if the task is not completed in the current month, then postpone it later, when the sixty-seven and a half baskets of ore are dug up, and when can leave the mine.

In addition, the counting by basket is only an approximate quantity, and each basket of ores must be brought to us for screening, and only the ores that meet the requirements can be weighed and counted. In the end, it also depends on the total number of ore catties. ”

Li Tian asked, "If we complete the task of sixty-seven and a half baskets in two months, what will we do then?" Can we go back early? ”

The woman smiled: "Impossible, there are fewer and fewer ores near the mine now, and if you want to get better ores, you have to go to the depths."

It's good for an ordinary miner to dig fifteen baskets of ore a month and get paid, but it's already very difficult for the two of you to dig twenty-two and a half baskets a month, and it's impossible to dig it in two months!

Besides, I need pure ore to weigh it, and I can't bring a little dirt. ”

The woman obviously didn't believe that Li Tian and Uncle Wang could complete the task ahead of schedule, and she didn't even say what arrangements would be made after completing the task.

Uncle Wang could understand from the sidelines that the woman in charge of keeping the account books had explained so much to the two of them out of kindness. It's been good to the two of them after talking about it for so long, there's no need to be ignorant of advancing and retreating, and annoying others.

Uncle Wang saw that Li Tian was going to be more serious, so he hurriedly pulled Li Tian and then changed the topic and said that he was going to go to the mine and take a look first.

After Li Tian and Uncle Wang received the mining tools, they left here and went straight to the mine.

The main tools for mining are pickaxes and baskets, and you can also carry hammers and spikes.

The pickaxe and the back basket are not more than the other, one is used for mining and the other is used for carrying ore.

The same is true for hammers and spikes, if the iron ore is too tight to be gouged with a pickaxe, then use a hammer to smash the spikes into the gaps, and then smash the spikes so hard that a large piece of ore will be lifted.

The mining tools received are counted on the individual's head, and they must be returned when the ore is handed in, and they will be collected again next time they go to the mine. Tools can be damaged, as long as they are brought back, they will not be pursued.

But if you lose the tool, you will deduct some pounds of ore to pay off the debt.

As a result of the total limit, the miners who mine will be able to make ends meet, and it is impossible to save too much for their wages.

And mining is indeed a chore, these tools themselves are not light, hammers, spikes, pickaxes plus the water and dry food they carry, generally people with little strength carry these things on their backs is the limit, how can they carry ore.

It seems that those ordinary miners hand in half a basket of ore every day, and they have almost reached the limit.

After the tools were taken and the kettle was filled, Li Tian and Uncle Wang picked a mine and walked in, they thought that they would not try to dig up much ore on the first day, and they could familiarize themselves with the route.

The entrance to the mine was very large, and when Li Tian and Uncle Wang first entered the mine, they didn't even feel the light dimming.

The tunnel near the entrance is also flat.

There were a few people here who tried to dig through the walls with pickaxes, but they didn't get much, and all they got was dirt and stone, not iron ore.

Iron ore is reddish in color and is easily recognizable.

As he gradually deepened, the light dimmed little by little, and although his vision was still quite clear, Li Tian found that the road was getting more and more difficult to walk, the sides were getting narrower and narrower, the mine walls were getting lower and lower, and the road surface was beginning to slope downward.

There are a lot more people mining here than there are at the entrance to the mine, but it doesn't seem to be very rewarding.

Further on, there is a fork in the road, and the back of the fork is pitch black, which makes people feel scared for no reason.

When Uncle Wang chatted with the teahouse owner before, the boss mentioned that after the fork in the road, the place where a large amount of iron ore can really be dug up, and it is also the place where danger begins......