"How's the yield over here?"

In a coal mine 300 miles away from Chang'an City, Li Yunze, who came on horseback, asked how the output was here.

"Your Majesty."

The Shaofu Mine Supervisor, who was in charge of the coal mine here, hurriedly saluted and responded: "The output has increased significantly in the past few months, and the daily coal output has exceeded 8,000 catties. ”

Hearing this, Li Yunze frowned a little dissatisfied, "Why are there so few?"

It's not that he is demanding, but this little bit of output is really not worth mentioning.

"Yes."

The mine supervisor hurriedly explained, "The number of hard laborers sent in has decreased significantly, and the number of hard labor put in cannot keep up with the consumption figures, and local people cannot be used for hard labor."

"Huh?" Li Yunze immediately frowned: "You dare to use the people to do hard labor? ”

This is really a matter of fright, and hurriedly saluted and explained, "Don't dare, don't dare, it's just that the hard labor is sent less, and the increase in output slows down." ”

The so-called hard laborers are naturally those local natives who were captured from South Vietnam.

Those who can prove that they are descendants of the old Qin people are all regarded as Han people, but those natives, especially those on the Indochina Peninsula, are all arrested and sent to various construction sites and mines in the Han Dynasty.

These laborers had nothing but a straw hut to sleep in and a bite to eat.

However, the locals recruited by the mine can get paid, and there are brick houses to shelter from the wind and rain, and if they have corn, they can take care of pickles, and even give meat to eat and a bowl of wine to drink during the New Year's holidays.

The most fatal difference is that the coal seam in this mine is relatively deep, so it is very dangerous to dig deep shafts down.

This kind of work is a hard worker, and it is often a loss due to various situations.

Now the number of hard workers sent cannot keep up with the rate of loss, and naturally the speed of production increase has slowed down greatly.

After listening to the explanation, Li Yunze bowed his head and said, "Hard labor is not easy to find now, you should try to be as leisurely as possible when you use it, don't use it up at will." When the time comes, there will be no hard work, and you will do the dangerous things yourself? ”

Where did the mine supervisor dare to say anything, so he had to laugh again and again.

"You can get some more treatment." Li Yunze thought for a while and said, "Upgrade the grass shed to a thatched house, at least it can shelter from the wind and rain, don't fall ill in a large area after a rain." Someone is sick, let the doctor take a look, is there a doctor here? ”

"Yes, yes." The mine supervisor nodded again and again, "The medical hall has arranged for apprentices to come to the mine." ”

The so-called medical hall is naturally Li Yunze's support for the establishment of the medical family, which is directly to open the museum to recruit apprentices for training, and then distribute them to places where they are needed.

"Hmm."

Li Yunze nodded again, "The food should also be improved, at least let them have enough to eat, after all, only when they have enough food can they have the strength to work, these hard laborers are important labor, how can they be easily thrown away." Understand? ”

There is no way, the hard labor on the peninsula is not easy to grasp now.

The two years that are easy to catch have basically been caught, and the remaining ones have long fled into the dense forest where the miasma is rampant.

Even if the local county guards and county commanders offered high rewards, they still caught fewer and fewer people.

In this case, of course, you can only cherish it.

After all, it is better to hand over dangerous work to them than to let the Han people do it. 、

As for the desire to increase coal production, it is because the demand for coal in Dahan is rising sharply at this time.

Li Yunze knew very well how the originally clear river had become the Yellow River, and the Yellow River, which had been silted up with sediment, had brought terrible losses to the downstream for thousands of years, forming a terrifying above-ground river.

Therefore, if you want to avoid repairing the river embankment every year in the future, spending millions of silver taels on river construction every year, but the result is that the more you repair, the more it collapses, then you must start from the source.

And the source is the firewood that the people of Guanzhong have been burning for many years.

The people of Guanzhong cook with firewood, and the source of these firewood is naturally the seemingly inexhaustible forest.

Li Yunze had calculated before that simply for the purpose of eating, the average daily consumption of firewood per person in Guanzhong was more than ten catties.

Millions of people in the Guanzhong area have to use tens of millions of catties of firewood every day, and year after year, no matter how many woods are cut down.

Moreover, Li Yunze also promoted medical and health epidemic prevention knowledge such as washing clothes and bathing frequently, drinking more hot water and not drinking raw water in the whole Han Dynasty, and in order to be able to boil hot water, take a bath and drink hot water, the consumption of firewood is greater.

In this case, the first thought that comes to mind for the traverser is coal.

Therefore, Li Yunze promoted coal mining in various places and replaced the consumption of wood with coal.

In the era of relying solely on manpower to dig coal, if you want to dig more coal, you need to use miners to fill it.

And Li Yunze is not a tyrant who treats the people like dogs, so it is naturally impossible to use the lives of the people of the Han Dynasty to fill in minerals, so the natives from the Xiongnu and the Indochina Peninsula have become the best choice.

It's a pity that after several years of arrest, it's now difficult to catch qualified laborers.

After inspecting the mine, Li Yunze wandered around to the coal yard on the edge of the mine.

While watching the local miners make honeycomb coal from coal mixed with yellow mud and other materials, I wondered where else to catch people to do things.

The Xiongnu side kept retreating, and at this time, within 200 miles north of the Great Wall, there were almost no Xiongnu tribes.

The border army went out of the fortress for hundreds of miles, and they did not necessarily encounter the Huns, let alone catch coolies.

Needless to say, there is no need to say much about the South Vietnamese side, those who have not yet been caught are hiding in the dense forest, and the smoke and miasma are rampant there, and even the most greedy rangers dare not go deep into it.

Now it's either a big war or a more suitable place to collect coolies.

"There are a lot of black dwarves on Nanyang Island, but they also like to live in dense forests, and it is too much to catch people."

Walking to the piles of honeycomb coal waiting to be transported, Li Yunze pondered, "Why don't you just go to Africa?" ”

With the big sea ship, as well as the navigation knowledge and charts provided by Li Yunze, it is not difficult to go to Africa.

But the distance is too far, just to catch a group of those things back, the gains outweigh the losses.

Standing in place and watching the miners beat honeycomb coal, Ju Meng Xiaobu came over and said, "Your Majesty, Chang'an City has sent documents." ”

Li Yunze is not an emperor who likes to hide in the deep palace all day long, except for eating, drinking and having fun, he only has to drive piles.

He spends at least half of the year touring the world on horseback, seeing with his own eyes, asking with his own mouth, and hearing with his own ears what the world is like.

So if there is any urgency, Chang'an City can only send a fast horse to send it over.

I took the document and opened it to see that it was a document from the Ministry of Industry, saying that the construction of the road to Yelang Country was slow, and hard labor was urgently needed to speed up the process.

After pacifying Sanyue, Li Yunze's eyes were on Yelang Guo and the Dian Kingdom behind Yelang Kingdom.

But after these two countries went deep into the mountains and old forests, and they were not close to the sea, and there were no big rivers, it was even more difficult than when the Qin State entered Bashu, so they could only build a large official road first and repair it all the way.

Open the road in the mountains and build bridges in the water.

It seems like a simple job, but in the mountains full of primeval jungle, it is really a fatal thing, basically every mile of land built on the official road, a group of hard labor has to be filled.

Li Yunze was reluctant to let the people of the big Han fill in, so he could only find a way to find external help.

"That's all I can do."

Li Yunze made up his mind and beckoned the accompanying Lang official to come over, "Sima Xiangru, you come to write." ”

Once Li Yunze was determined to make Sima Xiangru unable to win the game for the rest of his life.

But with Zhuo Wenjun giving birth to the crown prince Liu Xiu, Li Yunze also became generous.

When the crown prince Liu Xiu was born, he opened Enke, and Sima Xiangru performed well, so he was given a chance to take him with him as a writer.

That's right, the son born to Zhuo Wenjun was named Xiu'er by Li Yunze.

There are so many emperors of the Han Dynasty, but in addition to Liu Bang and Liu Che, only this Liu Xiu'er is the most brilliant, after all, he is the great demon master.

It is estimated that there will be no Liu Xiu in this world in the future, so he simply named Liu Xiu for a lottery.

Sima Xiangru, who was stained with Liu Xiuguang, quickly prepared a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and then looked up at Li Yunze.

"Write to Li Danghu, the governor of the navy, and ask him to arrange a fleet with nautical charts, and there is no special requirement for going south to Africa, that is, as long as the men over there do not want women, and before they are transported back on the ship, they will all be harmless."

Writing this, Sima Xiangru was like a god, he didn't understand what harmless treatment was.

Li Yunze waved his hand casually, "This matter is arranged for Shaofu, let them prepare a group of clean masters to follow the fleet, understand?"

"Yes."

Sima Xiangru nodded again and again, and now he completely understood.

We must choose those who are hard-working and willing to work, and we can't bring everyone back, and we must be careful in this regard."

Li Yunze said quickly, and Sima Xiangru naturally wrote quickly.

It is worthy of a person who writes hundreds or even thousands of sentences at every turn, whether it is really fast, or fast and good.

Find some local chiefs and establish a good relationship. People let them catch it, and they don't need to go deep into the interior themselves."

The thousand-word document was finally written, and seeing Li Yunze nodding, Meng Cai stepped forward and took out the seal and stamped it.

Write it and put it away, hand it over to the accompanying Yulin Army, and send it to Chang'an City on a fast horse.

The scale of the sea fleet has been constantly expanding, and even 800 super sea ships have been built, and a large fleet of ships can bring back a lot of important labor when they go to sea.

There is no hidden danger in these laborers, just contribute to the construction of Dahan.

As for those that are not clean, they are absolutely unacceptable, and they will never be given the slightest chance to overflow.

As for whether he will be unruly or something, Li Yunze is not worried.

Because they can be sent, they are basically willing to be obedient, because those who are disobedient are gone before they are sent to the ship.

Li Yunze plans to go to the local farmland again to see how the grain production here is this year, after all, the people live on food.

But before he could go to the field, he received good news that made him smile.

"Your Majesty, the border pass has come to report that Zhang Qian, who sent an envoy to the Western Regions, has returned!"

(End of chapter)