Ancient promotion routine

Early the next morning, Zhang Wuyi found Liu Tieniu and asked him if there were any people in Datong who often went up the mountain.

Liu Tieniu looked at the serious Zhang Wuyi and felt worried.Why are these people so dumb?

He sighed and said, "Why don't you listen to me? We don't have any treasures in the mountains. Can the poisonous coal be treasures?"

Zhang Wuer on the side was tired of hearing it. When Erlang first started doing something, they were all recognized by others, but what happened later?He believed them Erlang!

"You can answer whatever we ask you." Zhang Wuer leaned against the wall and said impatiently, "Just tell me, who in your Jixiang Village often goes up the mountain and is familiar with the environment in the mountain?"

Liu Tieniu was completely helpless, he couldn't figure out why these people couldn't even figure out such a simple question, what kind of treasure did they have to look for?But in the face of Zhang Wuer's insistence, he could only say: "Okay, then follow me."

Saying this, Liu Tieniu took Zhang Wuyi and Zhang Wuer out of the low inn and went to Liu Matian's house in Jixiang Village.

Jixiang Village used to be an ethnic group. The people in this ethnic group were all surnamed Liu. After so many years of reproduction, most of them married wives from outside.

After Zhang Wuyi and Liu Tieniu entered the village together, they attracted the attention of men, women and children in the village.There were very few nobles in their village, and even most of the women in the village had never left Datong County in their entire lives, and they would never leave the county seat. Therefore, when nobles from the capital came to the village, everyone thought it was strange and came out to watch.

Seeing that Liu Tieniu took Zhang Wuyi to Liu Matian's house at the end of the village, everyone flocked to Liu Matian's yard to watch.

At this time Liu Matian was still sucking the millet porridge his wife made newly in the room. Seeing Zhang Wuyi coming in, he put down the big thick porcelain bowl in his hand in panic and stood up.

Isn't this the legendary nobleman from Chang'an?How did he come to such a shivering place?For a while, Liu Matian was still at a loss.

After hearing Zhang Wuyi's intention to come, Liu Matian looked at the heavy copper coins in his hand, and immediately agreed to go to the mountains to lead a way, which was much more profitable than hunting and collecting firewood!After quickly sucking up the millet porridge, Liu Matian followed Zhang Wuyi to see Zhang Yanjin.

Everyone surrounded Liu Tieniu who came together, wanting to ask why.

Liu Tieniu told the people in the village vividly what he saw and heard yesterday.

The quiet village exploded with a bang, and the villagers all expressed that they did not understand the behavior of Zhang Yanjin and his group, and only regarded them as fools.

"These people are from Chang'an. Why are they so dumb? If there is a treasure, why don't we dig it?"

"Let me tell you, the people from Chang'an just love to be wild, and they treat coal as a treasure!"

With such a discussion in the village, everyone felt that Zhang Yanjin and the others had brain problems, they were fools who regarded coal as a treasure, and the leader Zhang Yanjin must be the idiot son of the landlord's family.

It is said that after Zhang Yanjin followed Liu Matian all the way to the deep mountain, looking at the majestic high mountain, the jagged rocks below, and the shining black coal seam exposed below, he was very excited.

The amount of coal stored in Datong is indeed extraordinary, beyond his imagination.

On this day, Zhang Yanjin followed Liu Matian back to the low-rise auspicious inn from morning to evening.

Liu Matian took the bounty from Zhang Yanjin and couldn't walk steadily due to excitement.

"You guys, are you still going around tomorrow?" Liu Matian looked forward to it.He doesn't care if these people are stupid enough to really dig for treasure in the mountains, as long as they can make money!It is said that rich people make money easily, and he has realized that the money they give is just four or five months of expenses for their family!

Just as Zhang Yanjin had this intention, he nodded and motioned Liu Matian to sit down, before asking, "Can you draw a map?"

Liu Matian was in trouble, he scratched his head and said, "What map do you need to look at... Erlang, do you want a map of the mountains around our Datong?"

Seeing Zhang Yanjin nodding his head, Liu Matian took the pen and paper handed over by Zhang Wuyi, and began to draw on the paper stroke by stroke.He doesn't know about other places, how can he still not understand Datong, a place he has traveled thousands of times?

This Liu Matian has a strong body since he was a child. He doesn't like farming, but loves hunting. So after he got married, he rented out his own field, and then went to the mountains to hunt and collect firewood to make money. Every corner was covered by him.

After drawing several wrong sheets of paper, Liu Matian finally drew a complete map and laid it out in front of Zhang Yanjin.

Zhang Yanjin knew that this Liu Matian had probably never touched a brush before, and he didn't blame the wrong drawing. After all, they were newcomers now, and they really couldn't find another person who could draw a complete map of the mountains.

Zhang Yanjin looked at the map on the table, concentrating for a long time. He took a cinnabar pen from Zhang Wu's second hand, and drew a big circle on the map.

The map was laid out in front of him, and he walked around again today, so he was very familiar with the terrain on the map.

The generations of life are endless, and Jiang Yue is only similar year after year.The history is long, and the people living in this land of Datong have changed from generation to generation, but Datong is still the same Datong.

When the floor plan appeared in front of Zhang Yanjin, he quickly judged the location of the largest open-pit coal mining plant in Datong in modern times.

"Erlang, what is this?" Zhang Wuyi took a look at the blueprint, somewhat puzzled.

A confident smile appeared on Zhang Yanjin's face. If he remembered correctly, there was high-quality, high-density anthracite coal here.

But before that, he had to build the place where the craftsmen lived.Otherwise, the weather is getting colder day by day, where are these people going to live?Especially in Xizhou, it is colder than Guanzhong.

Zhang Yanjin thought of the clay floor that Liu Matian passed by today when he took him around.When he was in school, he came across a report that cement was the best material for making bricks.

His slender fingers tapped lightly on the wooden table. The current house is still a civil structure, which needs repair and maintenance, and is prone to moisture.That being the case, why not burn red bricks first and build a few airtight red brick houses?

There are some buildings made of stone bricks and blue bricks these days, but they are seen a lot, and they are definitely not as good-looking as red bricks!Fortunately, it is the Great Wei now, and the royal family advocates yellow and black. According to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the red wall is still unusable for ordinary people!

The method of making red bricks is very simple, which is not too easy for a technical geek like him. If you build a red brick house and build a small building with two or three floors, it will be as amazing as modern people see a [-]-story building .

Since he has such a large area, why doesn't he build it into a small town with great Wei characteristics?At that time, it will completely overwhelm Datong County, and that will be fun.

Thinking about it this way, Zhang Yanjin immediately became motivated.

Zhang Yanjin was determined, and ordered: "Go and discuss with the village chief, and put up a notice at the head of the village, the content is to recruit workers, and each man will be given [-] copper coins for one day's work."

"Thirty copper coins?" Liu Matian's excited eyes straightened.

"Erlang, isn't this a bit too much?" The impatient Zhang Wuer couldn't help interjecting.

Zhang Yanjin shook her head. Burning bricks and moving bricks are all physical work, especially before the weather gets cold, and all the houses have to be built. Thirty Wen copper coins are really not too much. Only with more money can the workers Work hard, right?

"Not much, just write it like this." Zhang Yanjin ordered lightly: "Just mark it, it's a laborious job."

Zhang Wuer and Zhang Wuyi turned around and went out to discuss with the village chief.

Liu Matian, who stayed in the house, ran up to Zhang Yanjin, patted his chest and said, "Erlang, I am very strong. I have walked in the land of Datong since I was a child, and I am familiar with every plant and tree here. Look, I can do what you want." Thirty copper coins a day?"

Zhang Yanjin couldn't help but laugh, the labor force is really cheap at this time.He once calculated that in the Wei Dynasty, one thousand two to one thousand six copper coins were worth one tael of silver, and one tael of silver was measured by the price, which was roughly equivalent to 3000 yuan in modern times.

If the wages of these workers are [-] Wen a day, then they are only [-] Wen in a month, not even worth a tael of silver. It is conceivable how cheap the labor force of these people is. Just now Zhang Wuyi and the others felt that the wages of [-] Wen were high.

After Zhang Yanjin sighed for a while, he saw Liu Matian looking at him in frustration.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Yanjin was a little puzzled when he was distracted just now.

Liu Matian said unwillingly: "Erlang, I, Liu Matian, how is my health? You saw it today. I don't take a breath when I go over mountains and mountains. How can you fancy people in our village and ask them to work for you? I can't do it?" Liu Matian felt more and more humiliated when he thought about it, he is a master of hard work.

Only then did Zhang Yanjin vaguely understand that when he was lamenting the cheap labor force of Great Wei just now, Liu Matian misunderstood him and thought he was lamenting him.

"Of course you can do it. You can register with Zhang Wu as soon as he comes back, but if I need to investigate somewhere, I need you to lead the way." Zhang Yanjin said with a smile.

Liu Matian nodded hurriedly, and said beamingly, "Okay, if Erlang needs it, I, Liu Matian, will be here at any time!" From today on, he, Liu Matian, will be earning [-] Wen a day!He went back and told his mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law would definitely be overjoyed!

Looking at the back of Liu Matian leaving happily, Zhang Yanjin had a faint smile on his face.The sense of happiness comes from the level of expectations. If the sense of happiness exceeds the expected value, then people will feel happy. It seems that this is indeed the case now.

He can be regarded as boosting the economy here in Xizhou Datong?

When the bricks are fired, he will start to prepare for coal mining. Thinking of the factory with red walls and black tiles, the shining black scale coal is dug out one after another, Da Wei's first open-pit mining. The coal plant was built by him!At that time, if you have money to lie down and earn, you will have a comfortable life in the future.

Zhang Wuyi followed Zhang Yanjin's arrangement and first went to Jixiang Village to recruit workers.The villagers in this auspicious village saw Liu Matian making money today, and they were extremely envious. At this time, they saw Zhang Wuyi recruiting a job, and they all stepped forward to sign up. After all, they saw Zhang Wuyi personally put the heavy copper coins in Liu Matian. In the hands of Ma Tian!

Zhang Yanjin suddenly became a nobleman of Jixiang Village, and became the object of gratitude for everyone.

It is late autumn, and people have already finished their work in the fields, so they will wait for the winter in the nest, and then they will be busy next spring, which means that the main labor force in Jixiang Village has nothing to do now. Workers earn money and sign up enthusiastically. It can be said that the main labor force of Jixiang Village has signed up.

As soon as Zhang Wu thought of what Zhang Yanjin had ordered, he asked the head of Jixiang Village to take him to several other villages.

When the village chiefs in several other villages heard that there were noble people in Chang'an City and they could make money, they all signed up enthusiastically. As a result, Zhang Wuyi recruited 130 strong laborers within a day.

Zhang Yanjin was in the inn at this time, discussing the matter of burning bricks with the craftsmen.

"When you went up with me today, you also saw that there is a puddle of clay. The clay in it is made of high-quality clay. You should all know that, right?" Zhang Yanjin drew a small circle on the blueprint.

Old Liu nodded his head and said, "The soil embryo fired from the clay inside is the strongest."

Zhang Yanjin looked at the low inn and said: "The current houses are earth-embryo houses. If we want to live for a long time and live comfortably, we can't build this kind of earth-embryo houses. As for other houses made of wood, factories Once opened, wood is flammable, prone to decay, not safe and not durable."

Just as he was talking, he picked up a pen and drew a square three-dimensional picture on the paper, saying: "I want to mix this clay with other things, and fire it into this rectangular clay, and when it is hardened, it will become a brick." , and then pile these bricks together to build a house."

After finishing the painting, he handed the drawing paper to Wang Youwei, a former stonemason, and said, "Wang Youwei, you are good at building houses. What do you think of this idea?"

Wang Youwei looked at it for a long time before he said slowly, "Brick?"

Zhang Yanjin compared the appearance of the bricks, and Wang Youwei said: "If the bricks can be fired very firmly, the house built will indeed be much stronger than the earth embryo house, but the question is, what can be used to make these bricks The bricks are glued together."

Zhang Yanjin knew that there was no perfect adhesive in ancient times, but he did. Who in modern times does not know the magic tool of construction, cement?

"Don't worry about this, I have my own way."

Now Wang Youwei has gradually gotten used to Zhang Yanjin being able to come up with new ideas from time to time, so he feels at ease now.

"If these bricks are made of clay, the house will definitely be much better than the mud house, and more importantly, it will be strong, so you don't need to renovate it every year!"

When other people heard it, they came to watch it one after another. Some were amazed, while others were suspicious, fearing that it would not be done.

Lao Zhangtou and Lao Liutou agreed with Wang Youwei. Lao Zhangtou praised: "In the past, mud walls were made of stones mixed into the mud to make the walls stone, but this kind of brick is different. It is much stronger than mixing stones into clay when it is actually fired. After the foundation is laid, these rectangular bricks are built together. This kind of bricks are very strong, and we can also directly use a wall to bear the load. , without the need for a large amount of wood to bear the load."

"Yes, that's exactly the case, use the wall to bear the weight." Zhang Yanjin was not in a hurry to toss the cement, but was going to burn the bricks first, and then praised: "Go up tomorrow, and let's see how much water is mixed with this cement. , the strongest state can only be reached after stepping on and turning over."

After the craftsmen finished their meals and returned to their rooms to rest, Zhang Yanjin also returned to her room.

Zhang Yanjin sat cross-legged on the couch and meditated quietly. After the bricks were smelted, he would start preparing to make cement. Speaking of cement, he had to mention concrete, which was also a great weapon for ancient times.If this is used to build cities and build roads, I am afraid that there will be no hot weapons, and the wars in the future will have to make the grassland aliens overwhelmed.

The stakes are high, and he plans to use concrete later.

Nowadays, burning bricks to create a characteristic town is the most important thing. After calculating the construction period, one red brick house can be built one by one this winter. After the house is built and dried, he may be able to live in it next year. up.

After Zhang Wuyi and Zhang Wuer came back from work, they also went to Zhang Yanjin's room.

"Erlang, we have visited several surrounding villages and recruited 130 workers. This is the list." Zhang Wuer put the list in front of Zhang Yanjin.

When recruiting, they registered their names and addresses according to the villages. There were seven villages in total, so they distributed seven pieces of paper.

After flipping through it casually, Zhang Yanjin handed the paper to them again. He took out another piece of paper, picked up a brush on the side and wrote a format on it: "Tomorrow you will copy it down according to this format, let Every worker signs and pledges."

Zhang Wuyi took it over and took a look, and found that there was a big contract written on the top of the paper, and detailed wages, construction period and other things were written on the bottom, which can be said to be very accurate without any loopholes.

It's not that Zhang Yanjin is careless, but that his Dawei No. [-] Work Team and Dawei No. [-] Coal Yard will definitely recruit more and more workers in the future, and there must be a complete contract, rather than doing it later if something goes wrong. It is better to do the best from the beginning if things like contracts are used to make up for it.

"Erlang, is it necessary to do this?" After Zhang Wuyi read it, he didn't understand the contract, but after a closer look, it was no different from a contract.

These days, when their rich and powerful families hire people to work, how can they sign a contract? This is too flattering to those people.

"Erlang, why didn't you just write the deed of sale?" Zhang Wuer was also a little puzzled.

Zhang Yanjin shook his head and said: "Of course it's not a contract of sale. We just hired these workers to help. This is a new type of labor-employment relationship. They should go back to their home after work, and they should go to their mother to find themselves. mom."

Zhang Yanjin put it another way and said: "It's like the relationship between the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper. Not to mention that those people can't sign the contract of sale, even if they are willing to sign, we can't afford it."

Zhang Wuyi and Zhang Wuer wanted to say something, but Zhang Yanjin waved his hands and said, "Go ahead, I have my own conclusions." He is a modern person, and he does not have the habit of buying countless slaves, and he thinks what he needs Not slaves, but the proletariat who worked for him.Of course, this matter was a bit strange in ancient times, so he didn't want to say more.Anyway, his identity can save him from explaining to others.

Zhang Wuyi and Zhang Wuer looked at each other, they had no choice but to go down to work, and after Zhang Yanjin arranged things, he changed his clothes and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yanjin took the craftsmen to the clay field, and Zhang Wuyi and Zhang Wuer gathered the workers together and asked them to sign the contract.

After Zhang Yanjin, Liu Matian, Wang Youwei, Lao Zhangtou and the others arrived near the clay field, Zhang Yanjin brushed aside the weeds next to the clay field and said, "Use these air-dried clay to make."

Old Liu Tou suddenly said: "Erlang, I remembered that in order to make the clay stronger, we used to mix the water soaked with millet and the clay. After stepping on it several times, it will be stronger than the ordinary refined clay."

After being reminded by the old head Liu, Zhang Yanjin suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a thing. He made a decisive decision and asked the crowd to dig out piles of air-dried clay and pull them back with a carriage.

When Zhang Yanjin went back, Zhang Wuyi had already completed the contracts drawn by the villagers, and Zhang Yanjin signed his name in the house.

He looked at the piles of contracts with a smile on his face.Now that the workers are in place, the coal digging process can be officially promoted tomorrow.

So far, everything has been surprisingly smooth.

"Erlang, Ruifu is here."

Zhang Yanjin came back to his senses, he was in the right mood, and said, "Let him in!"

Then Zhang Yanjin saw Ruifu come in with a bundle, and laughed so hard that his eyes disappeared.

The author has something to say: Do you think it is better to divide it into two chapters, or divide it into one chapter and combine it into one?Leave it to you to decide