From Chief to Ball

If you are injured during work, Chen Jian said that he and the people of Xiacheng are kind-hearted, and if you are injured and unable to work, Xiacheng will also compensate you for the corn you live on for three months.But I don't care about it after that. I have nothing to do with your injuries. I didn't ask you to work.

These conditions are actually similar to when they were slaves. The only difference is that Xiacheng people are not qualified to decide their life and death, and they cannot be executed at will.

In addition, they have all the rights that everyone can have, including going to the market to buy various goods, building houses privately, learning and reading, and whether they can afford it is another matter.

All salaries are no longer paid in kind such as corn, salt, etc., but are all issued in tokens such as Taobei, copper shells, and one meal at noon, and the rest of the meals need to be purchased with Taobei, which can be exchanged at any time by the Supply and Marketing Department.

Any goods, even weapons and gunpowder, as long as you have enough Taupei, you can buy them all.

In this regard, someone did some calculations. With the corn Taobei that is distributed every day, if you need to buy a bronze sword, you have to work for 25 years without eating or drinking. If you can’t get sick, eat meat, or change clothes, whether you can live that long or not? unknown.

An open purchasing system will inevitably lead to a shortage of materials under the condition of insufficient productivity.However, the people in Yucheng who are eligible to consume are nothing more than the mobilized Xiacheng people and relatives and children from various cities, so the supply is sufficient.

Out of nearly [-] people, they are human in name, but only seven or eight hundred are actually human.

After Chen Jian said these rules, Red Fish quietly found Chen Jian and asked, "We are short of people now. If you do this, once someone attacks us, this group of people will never help us. They have nothing to do with the city." , the city is not his, they will naturally not protect it, it is wrong for you to do so."

Chen Jian said with a smile: "I know. It's bitter before it's sweet. And it's up to them to fight for it with both hands to know the value. They don't cherish what I give to them. Besides, if one day I die, no one will give me alms." Oh, and they have no experience in fighting, so they would be grateful if they sell anything well, that’s not acceptable. I also need to know if this group of people have the qualifications to be Xiacheng people.”

"Furthermore, I treat them as my own people now. Where can I get so much meat, noodles, and vegetables to supply them? Even if there are many Taobei, they can't buy anything except food. At that time, I will rely on how much cloth we have. , meat, and re-fire the taube specially for these things?"

"The former is their heart, and the latter is our property. The first is out of our control, and the second can only be done after the village farm is built next fall."

"Don't worry, there won't be a fight in a year or two. When the fight really happens, I guarantee that this group of people will stand with us."

Red Fish shrugged with a smile, chatted a few more words, and sent Chen Jian to the boat.

After seeing him off, he probably guessed what Chen Jian wanted to do. He took out a scroll of wooden slips and told the supervisor that any informer would tell her that it would be recorded for reward.

Then she recalled what Chen Jian said to the free slaves, and she felt more and more wrong.

In fact, the rule of disrupting the normal production of the workshop is very vague. Smashing the furnace is also included in disrupting normal production. Moreover, such things as connecting with each other are actually more dangerous than smashing tools spontaneously. Quite the contrary—chaining is nothing but whipping, smashing tools is hanging.

She knew that it was impossible for Chen Jian to remember it wrongly, and she said it backwards. After thinking about it for a long time, she suddenly understood.

With these rules, it was clear that Chen Jian was encouraging this group of people to do something big.Spontaneous behaviors such as smashing tools are low-level resistance and meaningless. It is better for him to help this group of people avoid detours-encourage violent resistance, group together, and discourage breaking tools alone.

Looking at the rules written on the wooden slips, Red Fish laughed for a long time, and said to himself that he had only heard of making laws and rules to protect himself, but this was the first time he heard of making laws and rules to destroy himself.

He blushed from laughing and bent over, sighed helplessly, closed the wooden slip, and found out for no reason the weird leather suit that Chen Jian cheated on counting nine together a long time ago, unfolded it and looked carefully, thinking: "If things go on like this, I'm afraid that one day, what I said about making him laugh and kill me to admit defeat to others in the city will really happen. On that day, I will wear this dress."

……

Two days later, Chen Jian led the guards in black to find the mine they had found. The gray-red mine seedlings covered the mountain like a hat, not too big or too high.

The distance between the coal mine and the iron mine is not too far, and it is much more convenient than the copper mine in Xiacheng, just on the mountain beside the river.Water transportation in summer and icing in winter are the best roads. You can play this way without considering the cost of competition in the early stage.

On the top of the mountain, several people were digging a hillside with tools. After digging a few deep pits, a large bag of sealed gunpowder was taken out from the boat and buried in the dug hole, leaving a long lead.

When digging copper mines in Xiacheng back then, they had to burn them with fire and then pour water on them to blow up the rocks, but now it saves so much trouble.

"Ji Xia, fried?"

"Explosion. We don't dig mine holes here, we dig mountains directly. It's okay if it's blown to pieces or scattered. Make a note of how many were buried in total, and count the noises later. Don't run over and snort and blow yourself up to death."

A few people smiled and lit the twisters soaked in potassium nitrate, ran away, hid in the tree house they built, and listened to the movement in the distance.

After a few loud bangs, he counted the sounds clearly and was sure that the bombing was over. Chen Jian took his men up the mountain and searched among the piles of rocks.

For a long time, holding a crystal cluster created by nature's ingenious workmanship, I lamented the magic of creation.The ore clusters of hexagonal crystals are as bright as mirrors, shining with the luster of gemstones. In fact, they are just iron ore, but they have been shaped into a beauty that cannot be restored by human beings.

The blasted ore was covered with cherry red powder, and there was still gunpowder smoke all around. Chen Jian sat among the rubble and nodded with satisfaction.

"When I went back, a few people sent a message to Red Fish, asking her to send over 1000 people from the Smelting Department in charge of mining in batches. The first batch sent [-] of my own people, as well as a woman who was in charge of cooking, and asked her to calculate Let’s stock up on the food we need in advance.”

"Let's build a wooden house here, and we're going to live here for a while."

Chapter 94 Mine Promotion ([-])

When the first ship came to the mine a few days later, there was a face that Chen Jian hadn't seen for a long time among the people who disembarked, and the man called out a little embarrassedly: "Brother."

It wasn't Yu Qian'er, but Ji Yun, the original tax collector of Xiacheng, and Chen Jian's kinsman.

The young guy had a promising future, but after being beaten and scolded by Ji Song for accepting gifts from the wild village, his reputation was ruined, and he couldn't be a tax collector.

His face was full of vicissitudes at a young age, he was no longer the laughing young man with an unshaven beard, and a scar appeared on his face at some point.

"How did you come?"

"Hey, I can't stay in Xiacheng anymore. Everyone is pointing at me behind my back, and I will never have the chance to be recommended as an official in this life. I am the first batch of students in the school, so that chance is gone. Listen As soon as Si Huo Ji talks about the matter here, she might as well come to Yucheng, at least there is still a chance."

He only called Chen Jian "brother" when he got off the boat, and after that he called Yu Qianer "Shuo", which was very polite.

Chen Jian didn't think too much about it. Now is the time for employing people. Since Ji Yun is one of the first batch of tax collectors who came out of the school, he can be regarded as a figure that Yucheng urgently needs.

Ji Yun said a few more words, took out a piece of silk from his bosom, put it in a bark tube, sealed it with wax, and printed the finger-pull stamp of elm money.

"what happened?"

The first thing Chen Jian thought about was whether something happened to Yuqian'er. Ji Yun hurriedly said: "Everything is fine at home, nothing happened. Don't worry if anyone dares not listen after Sihuo returns."

"Then this is?"

"I wondered if I wouldn't go back to Xiacheng. If I go back and live under the guidance of others, it would be better to come here. I just... well, I sold the land and slaves to Fangshi, and exchanged Taobei and copper shells. There are quite a lot. Sihuo said that it would be inconvenient to fit so many, so he wrote down the number and asked me to come to you to withdraw."

Chen Jian clicked his tongue, tore off the wax marks on it casually, looked at the number written on it, and said in shock: "Okay, I have accumulated a lot of things over the years."

Ji Yun hurriedly waved his hand and said, "This is really not a gift I received. I know I made a mistake at the beginning, and besides, I didn't receive much at all... just some dried meat."

"I am no longer a tax collector. I have lost all my achievements and no land. I used to farm at home, but then I took the lead in finding some members of my own family, sold the land, and bought some weapons, slaves, and wolf skins. After discussing, use his name to go to the west to capture slaves."

"At that time, he will get half, and we will get half, and then divide them equally according to the amount of goods each has produced. In the past six months, we have built a few villages and made a lot of them."

Chen Jian looked at him, and praised: "Okay, armed slave arrest, your brain is very useful." After putting away the piece of silk, he said: "I will give it to you when I return to Yucheng."

"Brother, I want to do a good job here. I don't dare anymore. Because of that little meat, I can't hold my head up in Xiacheng for the rest of my life. When everyone chooses something every three days, they will use me as an issue, Tao When the rules on the clay board were explained, I was mentioned all day long. After that, I had to go every time, and I had to stand in front of everyone and talk about my thoughts after I made a mistake..."

After thinking about the scene, Chen Jian couldn't help laughing for a long time. Ji Yun sighed: "Actually, one was for the meat at that time. Didn't there be women at that time? Another one...the other one was really not available to the barbarian village at that time." , My heart is also pitiful. I didn’t say these things, because the tax collectors should have collected taxes. If they don’t collect taxes, how can we feed the people in our cities? I’m afraid it’s not good to say these things, so I haven’t explained them all the time.”

The things he received back then were indeed not many, but Chen Jian only believed half of what he said later, so he didn't ask any more questions at this time, and said: "You are lucky. Now there is a shortage of people. If you come three or five years late, When you are a human being, no matter how capable you are, I don’t need you. Wherever you fall, get up wherever you fall, do it well, start from scratch, and you still have a chance.”

Ji Yun sighed, and changed his name to Ji Xia instead of Brother, thinking he wanted to get down to business.

"Ji Xia, I think there are some rules in our Xia City that need to be changed. For example, the selection of officials. If you don't become an official, it depends on your daily virtues. For example, be good to mothers, and be good to women and children. , don’t quarrel with people or anything like that.”

"But this, I don't think it's good. You see, I didn't want the meat because I married a woman and have a mother at home. I just wanted to make them live better. You see I'm not bad, am I?"

"But if you treat a good family member, can you be a good official? Let's say that when there was not enough food in the winter, you asked Ji Song to look after the granary. His family was also hungry, but he didn't take anything from the granary. Everyone said behind his back that he was ruthless. But if he were an official, he would definitely be better than me."