Daqin Engineering Corps

Zhao Gui and his party committed the crime of "strictly prohibiting private fighting".

This is no small crime...

The so-called private fight refers to this kind of large-scale group fight.

There must be a mastermind in a group fight. According to Qin law, the mastermind must be beheaded, and the follower will be severely punished.

That's the beauty of this law.

Its main purpose is to prevent "clique formation and self-interest", and at the same time, it does not want to kill and harm the people because of the usual small troubles, so the "mastermind" is severely punished.

As long as no one dares to be the "mastermind", then this private fight will naturally fail.

So Zhao Gui was immediately tied up and taken to Caishikou to be chopped up, and the rest of the nursing home were also detained and waited for hard labor.

Chen Yong's power was wiped out at that moment because of this accident.

Shen Bing met Chen Yong instead.

In fact, it was Chen Yong who rushed to Yunzhong County to make amends.

Shen Bing said directly to Chen Yong:

"No, from now on, the cloth in Yunzhong County will be handed over to you for sale!"

Chen Yong couldn't believe what he heard, and looked at Shen Bing in surprise:

"General means..."

Shen Bing replied:

"You get [-]% of the profit, and Yunzhong County is responsible for the production and transportation."

"With such a win-win cooperation, we don't need to think too much about it, so why not do it?"

Chen Yong was so flattered that he knelt down and kowtowed:

"General Xie, regardless of previous suspicions, the grassroots must do their best to serve the general!"

Chapter 323 Recruitment

Sales is not something that the current Yunzhong County can take care of, nor does it need to take care of it.

The role of Meng Liang is to open up sales channels and set up sales points rather than taking care of sales.

Otherwise, today is Yanmen County, tomorrow is Taiyuan County, and the day after tomorrow is Handan County... There are more and more sales outlets, how many avatars does Meng Liang need to take care of them?

Shen Bing has two options for this:

One is to send people directly from Yunzhong County to set up retail outlets.

The second is to find someone locally as a retail outlet.

Although the former can swallow all the profits, it is obviously not realistic.

Because it involves humanities, location, relationship, management and other aspects.

The Central Plains is so big, at this time even the characters, coins, and even the language are not unified. From Yunzhong County to send people to various unfamiliar places to operate, there are many uncertain factors that will increase the operating costs in series.

On the contrary, the latter is simple and easy to do.

Yunzhong County does not need to consider anything, only production and transportation needs to be considered, and the rest can be handed over to local businessmen for operation.

If there is any loss, it is to share a small part of the profit.

But this profit is not worth mentioning compared with the costs and risks incurred by the former to set up their own sales points.

Even Shen Bing can mobilize the competition in the local market.

For example, in Yanmen County, the cloth was not distributed to Chen Yong's family, but to several families at the same time.

Therefore, Chen Yong could not arbitrarily raise the cloth price to disrupt the market.

In addition to opening up sales, Meng Liang's task is to find talents...

As I said before, the status of workers in ancient times was not high and their lives were unstable, and because of the large number of people and the lack of land, there were still a large number of workers wandering in society.

This is a good thing for Yunzhong County, because Yunzhong County needs people, especially a large number of skilled workers.

Peasants cannot dig, mainly because they are bound by the land and cannot leave.

Workers have no such concerns, and if anything keeps them going it is having family members to care for.

However, the salary Shen Bing gave was [-] yuan a day, but he could easily support a family of ten, so it was not a problem for the whole family to move to Yunzhong County.

So why hesitate?

Workers in Yunzhong County are valued and have a high social status, their jobs are even more stable than farmers, and more importantly, they can earn money to support their families... So I didn't think much about it, and of course moved to Yunzhong County.

This is almost like recruiting jobs everywhere.

Local officials paid more attention to farmers than workers, and even recruited workers and took away a group of idlers who had no jobs and nothing to do in society, which reduced safety hazards and made it easier to manage, so they did not object.

Therefore, while the cloth is constantly being sold to various counties, the population is also flowing to Yunzhong County, and most of them are workers that Yunzhong County urgently needs.

These workers are easily distributed, and they use their skills to their advantage.

Workers who build houses are arranged to go to construction, and those who make ironware go to ironwork workshops. In addition, there are iron and copper smelters, folk sword makers, carpenter masons, and so on.

In Shen Bing's eyes, these people are all proper talents, and Shen Bing doesn't understand why they are despised in the "low social status" class.

At this time, Yunzhong County is in a state of waste, and in the future, it will expand its borders, and further industrialize... These workers with various skills are the mainstay.

In this way, for more than a month, Yunzhong County has gathered more than [-] people.

5 people is not too much. For example, Yanmen County has more than 29 households with a population of [-]...an average of four people per household.

Qin Shi needed to force adults to separate families due to tax collection, so the population of each household would not be too large.

The 5 population in Yunzhong County is just at the beginning, especially many of them are still in the state of "retail households"... The so-called "retail households" refer to people who live in Yunzhong County, but only for living, their household registration is still in place, and they are recruited , remote service, etc. have to return to their hometowns.

Most of the workers and homeless people who come here to work belong to the status of "retail households".

This is also one of the reasons for the small population flow in ancient times.

In fact, there are only more than [-] people who escaped from Dai County who can be counted as household registration in Yunzhong County.

This figure seems a bit shabby.

However, this situation will soon change...

The food in all parts of the Central Plains has matured, and Meng Wu immediately marched towards Yan with a 20 army sharpening their knives.

The reason why it is Yan State instead of Dai State is because Yan State is the focus of the north.

It is well known that Dai State was born by relying on Yan State. If Yan State is destroyed, Dai State may surrender without a fight.

On the contrary, destroying the Dai country may not have this effect.

So of course, the soldiers are directed at Yan.

On the other hand, because Yan State was defeated by Qin State and was repeatedly forced by Qin to "borrow food" from the people, Yan Wangxi was already angry and complained that no one was willing to fight for him...Attack Yan State The timing is perfect.

As for what Yingzheng said earlier, "If you give food, you won't attack the country of Yan"...that's just a trick to deceive children, and only Yan Wangxi will believe it.

Shen Bing didn't know about the battle between Qin and Yan, he only knew that Meng Tian was in battle.

At this time, Meng Tian was 30 years old. Before that, he had made meritorious service for breaking Qi and worshiped it as an internal history... the highest political officer in the capital.

Perhaps it was because of Wang Jian who was fighting abroad, so Meng Tian had always been an official in Xianyang before.

It wasn't until this time that Ying Zheng sent Meng Tian into battle with his father Meng Wu.

This way, you don't have to think about it...the two are not a heavyweight at all.

The State of Yan is still at a stage where its vitality has been severely injured and has not yet recovered, but the Qin army is in full swing, and Meng Tian is commanding it. This battle can be said to be without any suspense.

Things really happened as Shen Bing expected.

Meng Tian immediately sent troops straight into Yan and Dai to cut off the connection between the two countries. On the other hand, Meng Wu surrounded Yan Wangxi in the capital and only besieged but did not attack.

Only then did Yan Wangxi realize how stupid it was to "borrow food" to the Qin State again and again before. Wouldn't it be self-defeating?

The Yan army surrounded in the city could only look at the empty granary in a daze. Although the grain was ripe, it was harvested by the Qin army outside the city...

Out of town to grab food?

Unless you win the Qin army stationed outside the city.

Stay in the city?

There is only one ending of starvation.

Therefore, Yan Wangxi had only one choice, and that was to surrender.

If this is the end of Yan, then Dai will naturally not be able to escape the fate of surrender, unless King Zhao is willing to flee to the border of the Huns in the north.

This situation is already very clear, even the common people who don't care about political affairs understand it very well.

So the people of the country of Dai fled in a swarm.

To be precise, it was not "running away in all directions", most of them fled in the direction of Yunzhong County...

Yunzhong County is the hometown of the people of the Dai Kingdom, and it has been announced early on that it is willing to take them in and treat them kindly.

What's more important is that some people have fled to Yunzhong County long ago and sent back news that they were indeed treated preferentially there.

It was true that information was blocked in ancient times, but it was a matter of life and death for the people, and they would desperately seek out information.

As a result, the people of Yunzhong County and the original people increased rapidly during this period, and it didn't take long for the population to grow to [-] and still increasing.

Chapter 324 Profit

Yunzhong County soon became lively and busy at the same time.

Only then did Shen Bing realize the difficulty of managing a city:

Household registration issues, housing issues, job issues, etc., all seem to be small problems individually, but when the number is as large as hundreds of thousands, it is a big problem.

Fortunately, Shen Bing had already made preparations before that...

The grain stored in the warehouse is enough to meet the livelihood of the people for more than a month. In addition, the grain in Yanmen, Taiyuan, Handan and other places has matured, and Shen Bing can continuously exchange cloth for grain from other places to feed the people.

Of course, these grains are not "distributed" to the people.

There is a saying that goes "teaching a man to fish is worse than giving him a fish".

If you just distribute food to the people, on the one hand, you will sit and eat, and on the other hand, you will cultivate the laziness of the people.

Therefore, these grains are actually distributed as wages, and even if there is no food, they must be recorded.

The industrial area has been well-planned, and many factory buildings have even been built by new craftsmen, including double-storey factory buildings... This is determined by the lack of land in Yunzhong County.

The arable land and industrial land outside Yunzhong County are planned within the scope of "enclosure". The land is limited but the population is growing rapidly, and it takes time to enclose new land, so a two-storey factory building was built to use one piece of land as two pieces of land.

However, the double-storey factory building is not a difficult task for the workers of this era. They only need to use thicker and taller timber to erect the second floor.

More importantly, this is hydraulic weaving, and there are basically no safety hazards.

Factory buildings were set up, and teams of trained and qualified workers went to work. The production speed of cloth increased rapidly from [-] pieces per day to more than [-] pieces per day within one month, and it is still growing.

As a result, the ramie that Shen Bing thought would be enough for use was consumed in a short period of time... This made Shen Bing have to urgently purchase ramie from Yanmen, Taiyuan and other counties to ensure production.

Of course, in the process, a large amount of wealth has also been concentrated in Yunzhong County.

You must know that this is the production of more than [-] pieces of high-quality cloth every day.

Fatzitun once calculated that if the cost of raw materials, labor, transportation, and sales are all added up, it is only [-] yuan... This even includes the production cost of the factory building, waterwheel and loom.

In fact, these expenses should be counted as "depreciation", because the factory buildings can be used for several years, and the cost should be amortized over several years.

But people in ancient times didn't understand modern accounting knowledge and directly included it in the cost, so Shen Bing didn't worry about it. Anyway, what he wants in the end is not wealth but people... Thousands of people who can gather in Yunzhong County and live and work in peace and contentment , People who can provide development and influence for Yunzhong County to provide military resources.

So at this time, these accounting methods that are not scientific enough and have many loopholes will turn a blind eye and close one eye and let them go.

Fatty Tun reported while holding the ledger:

"Forty-five cents minus eighteen cents is twenty-seven cents."

"The daily production of 350 six pieces of cloth is 610 taels!"