DAY 458 Two pebbles turned up in the sky and the giant waves
Many people heard what the blacksmith said.
Right, or wrong.
If no one is qualified to evaluate the blacksmith, everyone has their own way of survival.
Kunlun slave Lao Hei said at this time: "The blacksmith is the richest. He has a piece of gold that weighs five taels. It was rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. This piece of gold is enough."
"I want civilian citizenship. Maybe I can become a high official in the Tang Dynasty!" The slave who was once an official also expressed his attitude.
Lao Hei and Guan both left. They had already made up their minds. Guan came late and the money he had was not enough to redeem himself, but he believed that he would be able to save enough money to redeem himself in three months at most.
The female medical officer was still eating, but she was eating slowly.
When he saw the two people walking out, he said again: "I also know one thing, you can redeem your life first. The difference will be 10% profit a month, which will be deducted from the salary." 10% profit a month, as official
For example, if he is short of eight guans, plus interest, calculated as four months, he needs to pay three guans and two hundred cash more. This is acceptable.
The slaves could be redeemed, and they could also borrow money to redeem themselves first. This shocking news spread quickly among the slaves.
It should be about two to three times what it was worth when it was bought. No one knows how to calculate it specifically. But the slaves have their own methods. Everyone is calculating based on three times. I think they only save enough according to three times.
With the money, you can redeem yourself...
For a fifth-class foreman, if he works hard for one year and three months, he can save enough money to redeem himself.
It takes a year and eight months to become a sixth-class foreman. If a seventh-class foreman wants to redeem himself, his first consideration should not be to save money, but to get promoted.
A fourth-class skilled worker is equivalent to a sixth-class foreman, and a strong laborer in a mine is almost the same as an eighth-class foreman.
According to this calculation, everyone has the opportunity to redeem themselves, and the calculation method of wages after becoming a civilian is different from that of slaves, which can be about 50% higher.
But there are a few types of people who have absolutely no chance of redeeming themselves.
The first category is the lowest level of coolies, and they are from non-mining areas. They are mostly low-level workers doing odd jobs.
The second category is beauties, especially beauties without skills. When they are bought, the price is high, and if they are just beautiful but without skills, they cannot earn the money to redeem themselves here in Yaozhou.
The last category is prisoner slaves. Unless there is an amnesty, they cannot be redeemed because Datang has no policy such as commutation or reduction of prison terms.
Trapped by Li Yuanxing's pebble, Yaozhou No. 2 Workshop District suddenly became a lively scene.
Everyone works hard, working on a piece-rate basis to ensure quality. The better the work, the more income, the higher the income.
Wu Zhao, who was sipping tea in the room, naturally knew what happened in Yaozhou. At present, it was only spread in this workshop area. It was not expected that in three to five days, the entire Yaozhou would be plunged into such a fiery situation.
He reached out and summoned a clerk: "Are you ready for what I mentioned last time?"
"Everything is ready."
"Go and do it!" Wu Zhao waved his hand.
Wang Yuyan and other girls were very curious, but Wang Yuyan asked: "Your Highness, what are you ready for?"
"It is to educate them. The King of Qin is so kind that he must be loyal to His Highness. I have specially selected some civil servants, and they will naturally make arrangements to let everyone in Yaozhou remember that they are loyal to the Tang Dynasty, loyal to the Holy One, and loyal to the King of Qin!"
Wu Zhao answered unhurriedly.
Wu Zhao liked this kind of ideological education very much.
Li Changying snapped his fingers: "Your Highness the Princess is right. Your Highness is kind and should let them know."
After lunch, Li Yuanxing's second pebble began to exert its huge power, which was no less powerful than dropping an atomic bomb directly into a lake.
“After eating, I saw interesting little things!”
Wu Zhao took out a box of slides. From Tang's perspective, this box of slides was truly a technology that was ahead of its time. But in modern times, it was not.
This box of slides is about the development history of modern steam engines in Europe.
But what Wu Zhao chose was not official history, but an incredible design and theory. Wu Zhao did not classify the failures and successes in detail.
This thing, to put it bluntly, is for craftsmen to see.
"Gearbox!" The blacksmith suddenly screamed and jumped up: "That's it, that's the artifact!"
"No, it should be a separation linkage device!" Another person also retorted loudly.
Instead, Ma Yuan saluted Wu Zhao: "Your Royal Highness, the Ma family will serve His Royal Highness King Qin to the death, but Ma Yuan said something that was not part of a certain duty, and some people are not trustworthy!"
"You can study the steam engine with peace of mind. Some things are the responsibility of the Safety Department!"
"Yes!" Ma Yuan responded, and when he was about to leave, Wu Zhao said: "His Royal Highness King Qin said that all machines should benefit the people. How can steam engines be used for farming? You have ten days to come up with a plan.
Come, you will be given half a month to improve the lathe and increase its accuracy."
Ma Yuan nodded heavily.
Then he handed a piece of paper into the hands of the guard beside Wu Zhao.
Half an hour later, the piece of paper was placed on Lu Chengqing's table. After reading it, Lu Chengqing slammed the table: "Arrest them, arrest everyone in that area!"
"Slow down!" Liu Erxiao, who was sent to Yaozhou, stopped a deputy general who was about to rush out.
"First, he can't escape. Second, what is his real purpose in writing this? Third, does he have any accomplices? Fourth, what's the point of killing a few people? When we work in Prince Qin's palace, we will maximize the benefits of everything.
Transformation. Could it be said that this guy has no use value?"
After hearing Liu Erxiao's words, Lu Chengqing looked at the piece of paper again.
The characters on the paper were extremely small, written with a sharpened charcoal tip, and were written in Goguryeo script.
"What is written here is about steam engines, which can be regarded as the principles of steam engines, but he seems not to understand the structure, which is different from what someone knows. According to Imahara's report, this person has not been exposed to the core part, but he has participated in the data
The first test machine, considering his talents, Ma Yuan’s original idea was to arrange for him to be a fourth-class foreman responsible for processing transmission shafts.”
Lu Chengqing analyzed, according to his idea of arresting people and torturing them, how could he not be able to identify his accomplices?
"Wait a minute, at least ask His Highness!"
Lu Chengqing realized that it was very likely that His Highness the King of Qin had some plan against Goguryeo.
At nightfall, the slaves gathered together again.
This time, it was not a gathering of several slave leaders, but a gathering of slaves of different types of work.
"You can't carry as much as you can carry on the backrest, whether by pulling or pushing the cart." The blacksmith was speaking. The person listening to him was a fourth-class foreman, but the fourth-class foreman in the mining area was in charge of people.
Not much different than the second-class foreman in the blacksmith shop.
The foreman of this mining area used to be a school captain, who worked for Dou Jiande.
He was unlucky because he shot Li Yuanji's horse to death with an arrow, so he didn't even have a chance to surrender and became a slave.
"I heard that that thing can lift tens of thousands of pounds!"
"That's wrong. I know that the locomotive in Chang'an needs to be replaced because it is not well made and wastes coal and water. Moreover, the coal ash is too big, so we, Lu Guan'er, plan to replace it. The new one is already ready. At most
It will be shipped to Chang'an in five days. After being assembled in His Majesty's Zhuangzi, the old one will be dismantled in another ten days."
"How many pounds can it pull?" asked the foreman at the mining area.
"The strength of five hundred horses."
After hearing this, the foreman of the mining area suddenly stood up and said, "I'm going to go to Shangguan, but if I can't go to Lu Guan'er!"
The official Lu in the mouth of the slaves is Lu Chengqing. Lu Chengqing is considered a good official. He patrols the territory of Yaozhou all day long. I dare not say that everyone in Yaozhou knows him, but some foremans of some status have spoken to him.
A few words.
The slaves have already begun to think about how to improve work efficiency.
It's just that they don't know the existence of the word work efficiency. The slaves' ideas are very simple. Take the miners as an example. If a mining area digs an extra 100,000 kilograms a day, that is a reward of ten thousand yuan. After one month,
Going up and down, you can get a few hundred cents more or less.
It's not just the mining areas that are interested in steam engines.
When the foreman from the mining area went to Lu Chengqing, there were already seven or eight foremans here, but he and Lao Hei were the only ones who were slaves.
"Old Hei, what are you doing here?"
"I was thinking about using wooden boards to make a movable slope. In this way, I can transport ten times the amount of stones in a day. It can also save most of the labor, so I came to ask for a machine. I heard from the blacksmith that a machine as high as one person can be used.
I’ve made four, and we’ll see if we can get one for the cement workshop, our workshop’s Shangguan is already inside!”
The slave foreman in the mining area had a second thought and immediately turned around and left.
Lao Hei had a higher status than him, so Lao Hei didn't even go in. He went to count the onions, so to solve the problem, he still had to ask the chief officer of the coal mine to come over. He was not afraid that the chief officer would not come. There were no lazy or corrupt officials in Yaozhou.
If there was, he would have been killed long ago. The original guarding general here was General Cheng, known as the Demon King.
There is no curfew at night in Yaozhou because many workshops require night shifts.
It was past nine o'clock in the night. Lu Chengqing was sitting at the top. There were at least thirty people below him. There were also hundreds of people standing outside the house. These people had only one purpose, and that was to get a steam engine, because this thing always
At worst, one machine can support hundreds of people.
Especially in places where manual operation is difficult, this thing is really a good thing.
There are also waterwheels that were originally powered by waterwheels. Because waterwheels are limited by weather, water flow, and water levels, they are far less reliable than this steam engine. Even the Chengdu Medical Center sent people over, and they also wanted one, even if they hadn't thought about it yet.
How to use.
It turned out that Shui Siyuan, the personal guard next to Wu Zhao, gave Lu Chengqing a small box.
"New tobacco planted this year! Your Majesty and His Highness the King of Qin will smoke it when they are tired." (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)