Chapter 63: Only 5,000 people
Regarding Li Jing's words, Li Ke naturally appreciated it.
"Hahaha, Dai Guogong, please rest assured, since I accepted them, to put it mildly, if there is a bite for me Li Ke, there will be a bite for them." Li Ke patted his chest and said.
Ancient people did not understand that talent is the greatest wealth.
Can't create value? Why is there no way to create value, they are here, Li Ke has a lot of things waiting for them to do, and when they are done, Li Ke wants to pay them wages, right? After paying the salary and getting the salary, Li Ke researched and researched more, researched good products, and then earned back the salary in their hands, perfect!
Li Ke is like this, Li Jing is a little worried, mainly because Li Ke doesn't seem to be a reliable person.
However, His Majesty and Li Ke are both willing, and the current imperial court is really unable to arrange it, so this is the best choice.
"And when am I going to have them meet at you?" Li Jing hesitated for a moment, and decided not to say more, His Royal Highness the King of Shu is younger, but this is indeed a good thing, a year and a half will be a year and a half, besides, His Royal Highness the King of Shu has a bit of ability to make money.
There is a mall where he has also heard of it a little, can he not hear of it? The housekeeper took a lot of copper coins from his house in a car, and all of this money was bought from Li Ke.
"If you can, you can come tomorrow." Li Ke thought about it, and some of his things were about to start arranging, so it was better to let them start tomorrow.
"Good!" Li Jing was also simple, but after hesitating, Li Jing spoke again: "Your Highness, some of them are missing arms and legs, if your Highness can't arrange this part of the people, it's better to hand it back to me, after all, Your Highness has arranged most of it, and we can also take care of the rest." ”
"Don't worry, let them come, as many as they want." Li Ke waved his hand, his next work needed a lot of manpower, five thousand people drizzled.
In modern times, 5,000 people may be a lot, but in ancient times, in this manpower-based industry, 5,000 people were not many at all.
And Li Ke is still a monopoly industry.
After discussing with Li Jing, Li Jing also offered to leave, Li Ke did not stay, there is no need to have any relationship, such as Li Jing These are human spirits, and they will not get too close to any prince at all, these generals are almost like this.
That is, a Hou Junji followed Li Chengqian, and in the end, he was directly killed by Li Shimin because of rebellion. is also one of the few heroes who was killed with Li Shimin.
Including the eldest grandson Wuji, he knows how to avoid suspicion, and the eldest grandson Wuji also resigned, but it was only later that Li Shimin repeatedly asked for him to come back.
Li Jing left, Li Ke thought about it and directly summoned Tian Meng.
"Your Highness."
"Is there enough food in the village?" Li Ke asked.
"How many people does Your Highness need to eat?" Tian Meng didn't say much, but asked rhetorically.
"Tomorrow, there will be five thousand elite soldiers who have retired from the Tang Dynasty coming over, and they will definitely eat more than ordinary people, so prepare in advance." Li Ke nodded.
"For 5,000 people, our standing food is enough, and there is no need to move the grain reserves." Tian Meng nodded.
"If we continue to buy food, we will be responsible for more than just 10,000 people. There are a lot of homeless people and beggars. Li Ke shook his head and said, Tian Meng still made a simple report to Li Ke yesterday, when Yang Anning popularized underwear for Changle and them.
Li Ke didn't expect that there are now nearly a thousand beggars in Chang'an City alone, this is beggars, that is, children under the age of 12, if you count all the beggars, this number is about more than 2,000 people, and if you add the homeless, the number has soared to nearly 13,000 people.
And this number is still increasing by dozens of dozens every day.
It seems that more than 10,000 displaced people in Chang'an City, with a population of one million, are nothing, but the security problems caused by these displaced people are actually very serious.
They can only take risks if they can't eat enough, and these people who can come to Chang'an City, how much will know some people, for a long time, if they are not handled well, they will provoke the people's uprising, and the environment in which the displaced people live is not good, they often gather in piles, once they find that people are dead, and if they are not dealt with in time, they are easy to breed plagues.
Plagues are not so easy to deal with in this era.
Therefore, displaced people have always been the most troublesome problem in Wannian and Chang'an counties.
Think about it, there are a lot of things in a modern city with a population of one million in later generations, let alone ancient times?
"Yes, Your Highness rest assured, Datang has had bumper harvests year after year over the years, so the price of grain is stable, and it is not difficult to buy grain, as early as ten days ago, when His Royal Highness negotiated this matter with His Majesty, I had already instructed Yuelai Commercial Bank to start buying and transporting grain from various grain-producing areas to Chang'an." Tian Meng said respectfully.
"Well, let the trading houses in the grasslands and the Western Regions also pay more attention, and buy more sheep to rush to Chang'an without affecting the situation in these two places." Li Ke explained.
"Yes!"
I have to say that the Yuelai Commercial Bank, which was inadvertently rectified at the beginning, helped Li Ke too much and saved him too much time.
"By the way, how are the blacksmiths and masons suming up?" Li Ke asked again.
"It's all done."
"You take this." Li Ke took out a map from his arms and handed it to Tian Meng.
This is a map of the distribution of mineral resources in Shaanxi Province in later generations, in fact, Shaanxi is a large resource province, and many resources have not been found in this era.
For example, 150 kilometers away from Chang'an, there are coal mines in Xianyang, which has reserves of up to 5.5 billion tons.
It is also like iron ore and copper ore in the vicinity of Chang'an.
It's just that the detection technology of this era is not developed, but for later generations, the distribution map of these mineral resources is firmly placed in the warehouse of the national strategic reserve, including all that has been mined and unmined.
Tian Meng took it, and when he opened the map, the whole person was confused.
There were also maps in this era, but they were ...... than modern professional maps That's a hundred and eight thousand miles away!
"Your Highness, what is this?" The Tianmeng people are stupid.
Fortunately, the administrative units on the mineral distribution map are not as dense as those on the regular map, but it is enough to explain a lot.
Fortunately, although there are some different terms, as a province with a very strong cultural heritage, many place names in Shaanxi Province in later generations are actually the same as in ancient times.
"These words are simplified Chinese characters that I have researched, mainly for confidential information, this map is absolutely confidential, you can know it yourself, there are mineral markings on it, don't leak it." Li Ke explained.
Tian Meng is an absolute loyal minister, he is estimated to be the type of Li Ke's fanatical believer, basically what Li Ke says he believes.
"I understand, Your Highness." Tian Meng took a deep breath.
"I will keep this picture in mind, and compare it with the terrain near Chang'an."
"Well, the main purpose is two, the first is to find a large iron mine, we will start to make iron and steel, and the second is to find this limestone mine, which are the two most important minerals, of course, copper ore and the like, if it is easy to mine, buy it." Li Ke explained.
"Yes!"