Su He looked at the news reported from various places.
The land distribution work has basically been completed throughout Sichuan, and tenant farmers have their own fields. They support the government's policies from the bottom of their hearts.
This is during the slack time of farming, and various governments have already planned cement roads, recruited young people to lay foundations, and are waiting for the cement to be shipped.
Regiments under the First Army and the Second Division arrived at the garrisoned areas.
Large-scale local soldiers in various parts of Sichuan have been wiped out, and the work of improving the civil engineering flow is progressing rapidly.
The chieftains tried their best to resist the change of local rule, but the most powerful chieftain, Shidui, was defeated by the army.
However, the other chieftains could not even defeat the colonizing corps. These chieftains were wiped out, leaving only the chieftains who were not opposed to returning to their native land.
Both the military and political aspects of Sichuan have tended to be stable.
Suhe can shift its focus to industry.
Complete the layout of light and heavy industries in Sichuan and rectify the salt industry.
After these tasks were taken care of, Su He was ready to lead his troops back to Hanzhong.
Zhang Dezhi, Minister of Industry, sent a large number of craftsmen to replicate Hanzhong's industrial system in Sichuan.
The Secretariat also transferred a group of capable factory director candidates to Sichuan.
Arriving at the same time as these people, there is also some important news.
The most important news for Su He is that his wife Wang Wenjun gave birth to a pair of twins.
Su He has a child of his own, and he still has both children.
When he received the news, he immediately shared it with those around him.
He also wanted to finish the work in Sichuan quickly and go back to see what his child looked like.
Two more news.
For his own use, the rebel king sent someone to Hanzhong to deliver a message that he wanted to join Su He's command.
Wang Zhongce cannot handle this matter, so Su He needs to handle it personally.
The secret guards gathered information about Mongolia, and Huang Taiji, the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty, was leading troops to attack Mongolia.
Many Mongolian tribes moved westward, which may cause changes in the situation.
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Boom, boom, boom.
There was a knock on the door.
There was no notification from the guard, but a direct knock on the door.
Su He already knew who was coming.
"Secretary Tian, come in!"
Su He had never met a genius before. When he met Tian Jiapeng, he really saw the learning speed of a genius.
Tian Jiapeng's wife fired the first shot against the gentry.
Su He heard that Tian Jiapeng was seriously injured and dying.
As a typical figure, Hanzhong Daily vigorously promoted him.
If the victim dies, the ironclad case will be stained, which will affect the publicity effect.
Su He learned about this situation and immediately took a famous military orthopedic doctor to the Tian family.
A famous orthopedic doctor in the military, he is very good at treating broken bones.
When soldiers fight, their bones are broken and injured. This is a common disease.
Military doctors treated this mild bone injury immediately and Tian Jiapeng was saved.
Su He learned that Tian Jiapeng was punished by his clan for learning Western knowledge.
He discussed some scientific knowledge with Tian Jiapeng.
Tian Jiapeng took out the books he purchased.
These are materials written in foreign languages.
Tian Jiapeng bought it through Macau Grape Man, and the text on each book is different.
He didn't know these words, so he could only choose some books that he could understand.
Most of these books are mathematics books such as Elements of Geometry, and a small number are design drawings of ships and some machines.
These books are all books that Tian Jiapeng does not read and does not affect reading.
There is another book that is the most special. The cover shows a naked woman with a broken arm.
The book depicts the distribution of a woman's bones and internal organs. This is a popular science book that introduces skeletal organs.
Tian Jiapeng chatted with Su He. He said that when he was more than ten years old, he had mastered books such as "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".
After learning that Xiyi's mathematics was advanced, he asked his friends to help him buy a batch of Xiyi books.
Unexpectedly, these things were not tolerated by Confucianism. He was found by the patriarch to find reasons to seize his family property, and he almost died.
Su He cherished his talent and gave Tian Jiapeng a set of elementary school books.
Let him learn it and go to his own house to teach him more profound knowledge.
Su He expected Tian Jiapeng to be able to walk around with crutches.
He should also be able to basically understand the knowledge in these two books.
Take the opportunity to recuperate and understand the content in the book.
Tian Jiapeng is a very rare talent. In this era, there are too many people who engage in liberal arts, and those who engage in science are rare.
Many primary school teachers cannot read these two very simple primary school mathematics and nature books.
They can only follow the textbook and teach knowledge to students in a cram-like manner.
Su He only hopes that some students with strong self-learning ability can learn these scientific knowledge and then teach this knowledge to the next group of students.
If things continue like this, each generation will become stronger than the next.
He didn't expect that in just three days, Tian Jiapeng would be carried on a sedan chair by his family to learn new knowledge from Su He.
Su He made a simple inspection and found that Tian Jiapeng really learned the entire elementary school mathematics in just three days.
Not only the basic four arithmetic operations, he also mastered the knowledge of rectangular coordinate system, linear equation of one variable and so on.
Su He taught Tian Jiapeng more profound mathematical knowledge, and he mastered calculus in just over a month.
Can directly point out the errors in Su He's teaching of calculus.
No matter how profound the mathematical knowledge is, Su He himself does not understand it.
He could no longer understand the questions raised by Tian Jiapeng, so he could only let Tian Jiapeng do his own research.
Su He understood that Tian Jiapeng liked machines and taught him to draw design drawings with pencil.
He taught Tian Jiapeng some basic physics knowledge, such as the role of force.
Tian Jiapeng also learned quickly. He has optimized several types of machinery through scientific calculations.
Su He appointed Tian Jiapeng as his secretary, responsible for scientific research and statistics.
Su He saw Tian Jiapeng push the door open and come out with a stack of design drawings and an excited look on his face.
"Commander Su, I designed the milling machine for rifling.
In the future, we no longer need to rely on the experience of craftsmen to process gun barrel rifling and gears.
A trained craftsman can use a milling machine to process the rifling of gun barrels and other products."
Tian Jiapeng handed the design drawing to Su He and explained the goals that the milling machine he designed could achieve.
"Commander Su, the waterwheel is affected by the water flow, and its speed is not stable, sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
Previously, it relied on craftsmen to operate and could only draw one rifling.
After the speed of the waterwheel changes, the rifling drawn by the craftsmen also changes.
The riflings no longer affect each other, the riflings in the barrel cross each other, and the gun is immediately scrapped.
The milling machine I designed can process three riflings at one time and directly process the entire barrel.
As long as the speed of the water wheel is within a certain range, the yield of the gun barrel can be guaranteed."
When Su He heard the news, he was immediately surprised.
This is a rifled gun. After mass production, the range of the musket can be increased a lot.
With rifled guns, the accuracy of muskets will also be greatly improved.
In this way, the formation of troops does not need to stand too close together, and fire suppression can be maintained.
The improvement of the range and accuracy of muskets is also more beneficial for firearms to deal with nomads.
Nomads rarely cultivate heavy cavalry, they mainly rely on light cavalry.
They used bows and arrows to harass people from a distance. Previously, the range of muskets was about the same as that of bows and arrows.
With the popularity of rifled guns, the range of muskets will exceed that of bows and arrows.
The troops under Su He can effectively counterattack the nomadic light cavalry.
His next expansion is to Shaanxi and the grasslands.
Sichuan was the only place under his rule that had a large plain, suitable for growing food on a large scale.
For the sake of agricultural stability, too many people cannot be removed from the army to join the army.
Too many people joined the army, which affected agricultural stability.
There are no automated agricultural machinery now, and only by investing enough manpower can we ensure the output of the fields.
Lack of food led to a famine, and the ruling order collapsed.
In Shaanxi, due to drought and other natural disasters, it is impossible to grow much food.
Many farmers have become refugees, which can draw more people to join the army.
The people in Shaanxi have been screened by natural disasters, and the quality of the soldiers is relatively good.
Weak and sick people simply cannot survive in a state of extreme hunger.
Su He put down the design drawing of the milling machine in his hand, turned to look at Tian Jiapeng, and said: "I think the principle of this design drawing is feasible.
The craftsmen and tools here in Sichuan are not very good, so it is difficult to manufacture such a complex machine tool.
When you return to Hanzhong, arrange for a few level nine workers to try to manufacture the milling machine you designed.
It can really process the rifling of gun barrels with high efficiency, and you will have made a great achievement."
Su He finished chatting with Tian Jiapeng and officially started working.
Mechanical design and mathematics are Tian Jiapeng’s hobbies in his leisure time.
His main job now is to assist Su He in statistics of Sichuan's resources.
The preliminary data compiled by officials mainly focused on the scale of minerals and agriculture obtained by the confiscated gentry.
Today's industry is very simple, mainly heavy industry of metal smelting and food processing, and light industry of textiles.
These industrial chains are extremely dependent on resources.
Su He picked out the information that he felt was important.
Let Tian Jiapeng summarize these data and turn them into charts using mathematical methods.
Anyone who sees the chart can clearly understand the local resource situation.
They have sorted out most of the information some time ago.
It only took more than an hour for the final finishing work to be completed.
After Su He read the compiled chart, he asked Tian Jiapeng to draw the chart on a large white cloth and support it with a screen.
Seeing that it was almost time, he ordered the guard standing aside:
"Go and inform Sichuan Governor Li Zhisheng and the officials of the Sichuan Industry Department.
Hanzhong sent over to support Sichuan's craftsmen and factory management talents.
They came to my place for a meeting to study the industrial layout of Sichuan."
Su He walked out of the room, and the guard next to him pushed Tian Jiapeng and followed him.
They came to the main hall in front of the residence, which could accommodate hundreds of people for meetings.
Su He looked at the currently proven distribution of minerals and other resources, and he already had a preliminary plan.
Li Zhisheng led the officials from the Sichuan Industrial Office into the main hall.
Soon, a group of plainly dressed craftsmen and factory managers entered the hall one after another.
Su He asked the guards to move the screen over. The huge chart on it was facing everyone.
He told everyone in the hall: "Sichuan is rich in resources. Before that, gentry mined coal and iron in various places.
There are coal mines in Qijiang County of Chongqing Prefecture and Guang'an Prefecture of Shunqing Prefecture, iron mines in Jiading Prefecture of Zigong Prefecture and Daliangshan in Jianchang County, and sulfur mines in Xuzhou Prefecture.
These are necessary resources for the development of industry.
Some time ago, I had arranged for the governor's office to coordinate labor reform prisoners and recruit common people, take over the gentry's mines, and continue to exploit these resources.
Officials also allow private individuals to purchase mining rights for mining, and the tax bureau will strictly investigate mining taxes."
Su He introduced Sichuan's resources to everyone and listened to their opinions.
He understood the opinions of most people and directly announced his arrangements.
In order to concentrate manpower and funds, Suhe achieved economies of scale.
He directly established five companies and took the lead in establishing Sichuan's industrial system.
They are Sichuan Coal Company, Sichuan Iron and Steel Company, Sichuan Cement Company, Sichuan Textile Company and Salt Industry Company.
The company manages multiple factories through which preliminary industrialization is completed.
Chongqing Prefecture established a series of large-scale factories such as steel plants, machinery plants, gun factories, shipyards, and cement plants.
A gunpowder factory was established in Yibin County, Xuzhou Prefecture, specifically responsible for manufacturing granular gunpowder.
Rongcheng Prefecture established a series of large-scale factories such as rice mills, flour mills, slaughterhouses, silk-cutting factories, textile factories, garment factories, soap factories, and cement factories.
Two major factories, a salt processing factory and a cement factory, were established in Zigong Prefecture.
In addition to its huge usage, cement can be manufactured everywhere, and factories have been built in many places.
Rongcheng Prefecture mainly develops light industry, while Chongqing Prefecture mainly develops heavy industry.
In order to effectively utilize water power, all factories are built along the river.
Su He was helpless with this arrangement.
He even wants to establish heavy industry centers in Chengdu and Chongqing.
When heavy industry develops, it can manufacture various machines, guns and cannons, which will increase the strength the most.
Nowadays, funds and talents are very scarce, and there is no way to establish multiple heavy industry centers.
It can only be concentrated in two main areas according to the distribution of resources.
Chongqing is located in a mountainous area, surrounded by abundant coal and iron resources, and the Yangtze River provides continuous power.
It was planned as a center for heavy industry.
There is a large amount of iron ore in Jianchang County, but it cannot be transported out now.
After opening up the external roads of Jianchang County, iron ore can be transported through the Yangtze River.
The Daliang Mountains in Jianchang County and the area on the border with Yunnan, later called Panzhihua, have a large amount of iron ore.
Rongcheng is located in the Sichuan Basin, surrounded by great plains, and has extremely developed agriculture.
The plains are suitable for agriculture and breeding, and can provide a large amount of food, meat, eggs, and milk.
Many farmers also plant mulberry trees and breed silkworms at home, which can produce a large amount of silkworm cocoons.
Develop light industry based on food processing and textile industries.
Zigong Prefecture has a special geographical location, with artesian wells and tribute wells, and is the largest salt-producing area in Sichuan.
Nowadays, the mainstream table salts are well salt and sea salt.
The chemical industry is underdeveloped, and rock salt usually contains many toxic impurities, which currently have no technology to separate them.
This highly toxic table salt can easily kill people.
The taste is also extremely bitter and cannot be swallowed at all.
Su He explained the industrial layout of Sichuan.
He immediately began appointing directors to various companies.
The company has two equal supervisors, the manager and the chief engineer.
The manager's main task is to manage the company and complete the production tasks arranged above.
The chief engineer is the most capable craftsman in the company and is responsible for specific technical issues.
Su He appointed company managers and directors of various factories.
According to the differences of each company, allocate funds to them and let them prepare the company.
With the craftsmen dispatched from Hanzhong as the backbone, we recruited craftsmen and young people from Sichuan to get the factory up and running as soon as possible.
The Sichuan Governor's Yamen must provide necessary support to major companies.
Li Zhisheng saw the company supervisors and workers' office officials leaving.
He walked to Su He and said heartily: "Commander Su, it will cost too much for you to build so many factories.
Most of the money we collected from the gentry in Sichuan was properties, houses and shops, and there was very little silver.
All our cash is converted into silver coins through banks.
After deducting military expenditures and rewards to soldiers, and the allocations to governments at all levels, only eight million taels of silver coins remained.
Now we need to spend five million taels of silver coins to build factories and two million taels of silver coins to build roads.
Now that the government has no money, it still needs to allocate funds from Hanzhong.
We did not lose money in the war, but we still have to pay so much money in governing Sichuan."
Su He looked at Li Zhisheng. He was worthy of being a minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and he was so sensitive about money.
He smiled and said: "Zhisheng, that's not how the accounts are settled.
When silver coins flow, this is called money.
The factory will also become profitable in the future, providing us with a steady stream of tax revenue.
Regardless of the productivity benefits of factory products, as long as it provides so many jobs, it is completely worthwhile to set up a factory.
Workers get paid and they spend it.
Calculating the economic general ledger, the factory initially requires a large investment, but will provide us with a steady stream of benefits later on."
When Li Zhisheng heard what Su He said, he still didn't quite understand that if he wanted to recover the cost of five million taels of silver coins, he might not be able to recover it in ten years.
But I understand that Su He is resolute.
"We, the Sichuan Governor's Yamen, will definitely provide convenience for factories in various places and ensure that the factories can be put into production smoothly."
After Li Zhisheng finished speaking, he exited the hall and personally helped several key factories to speed up their construction.
Su He watched Li Zhisheng leave. These traditional literati now do not understand the power of industrialization.
In a few years, the scale of the factory will increase and the changes in society will shock these people.
When Su He built a huge factory, he also indirectly improved the wages of craftsmen.
The salary of craftsmen has improved, even surpassing that of some scholars.
Only those who are educated are willing to learn a technology and join a company to become chief engineers.
The huge demand will also make smart people specialize in industry and design more machinery.
Suhe alone cannot complete industrialization.
Only the majority of people in society, driven by interests, can push society forward.
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Chongqing Fuqijiang Coal Mine.
You Yu, captain of the reform-through-labor brigade of the Qijiang Criminal Bureau, inspected these reform-through-labor prisoners.
He is responsible for the most dangerous work in Qijiang, digging mines and reinforcing mines.
According to the craftsman's drawings, he dug the mine according to the direction and opened some ventilation holes to facilitate others to dig.
The underground environment is very complex, and no one knows what can be dug out with a shovel.
Youyu inspected these labor camp prisoners, who were having breakfast.
There are enough dried sweet potatoes for each person, as well as a bowl of boiled cabbage and radish, but there is no oil star in it.
Everyone finished their meal quickly and gathered together under the arrangement of their respective captains.
Hou Baoming wore a small bamboo cage on his waist, which contained a gray mouse that had been hungry for two days.
Just now when he was eating, the mouse smelled the food and kept barking.
"Work has started. The captains of each reform-through-labor team are preparing to take the prisoners down the well."
The captains of each reform-through-labor team are active members among the prisoners and are responsible for assisting Youyu in managing the prisoners.
Youyu took the trouble to read out the labor camp policy every time before going down the well.
"You work hard and the team that excavates the mine with the fastest speed can each eat one more salted fish today.
The members of the reform-through-labor team with the highest cumulative total every month will have their sentences reduced."
The captain of the labor reform team led the team members to receive shovels, pickaxes and other tools and went down the well in order.
Hou Baoming touched the bamboo cage around his waist and looked at his surroundings with his peripheral vision.
This is a large coal mine.
The outside is surrounded by wooden fences and guard towers are built around it.
There were soldiers in yellow clothes, holding muskets on guard.
There was a company of soldiers guarding the coal mine.
They, the disaffected miners, have no way of escaping from prison.
He is a serious criminal, with a sentence of eighty years.
But he has family, and his family guarantees him that he will not escape from prison.
Only Hou Baoming could obtain the captaincy and his sentence would be reduced twice as fast as others.
He won't be able to escape from prison, and he can get rewards by catching other people escaping from prison.
The thieves in yellow use this method to prevent prisoners from uniting and escaping from prison.
There are hot air balloons around the coal mine, and the thieves in yellow use telescopes to observe the surrounding environment.
Even if you run out of the coal mine, you can't run out of Qijiang.
Hou Baoming heard from the new prisoners that all of Sichuan had been captured by thieves in yellow clothes.
Not only the Ming army, but also many native soldiers under the chieftain's command were wiped out by the yellow-robed thieves.
The thieves in yellow did not allow them to rule. In addition to their own troops, they also had large-scale armed forces.
Even if they escape from prison, they can't hide.
Hou Baoming was a personal soldier of Hou Liangzhu, the commander-in-chief of Sichuan during the Ming Dynasty.
He is very tall and needs to bend down when walking in the mine tunnel.
These mine tunnels were excavated bit by bit by them.
During this process, more than ten reform-through-labor prisoners died due to accidents such as mine collapse and water leakage.
They quickly went underground and dug in the dark for coal.
Previously, a group of people wanted to light candles to dig faster.
They were digging the mine tunnel, and there was a loud noise, and a fireball rushed out of the mine.
None of those who went in came out alive.
The tinkling sound of the mining pick is in sharp contrast to the squeaking sound of the rat on Hou Baoming's waist.
"Captain, the rat on your body makes a terrible noise.
It's too hungry. If it doesn't work, just give it something to eat."
Hou Baoming said seriously: "This rat is not ordinary. If it stops barking, we must be vigilant."
This is the habit of mining veterans in my hometown.”
While he was talking, he noticed that the mouse on his waist had stopped moving.
Hou Baoming shook the bamboo cage vigorously, but the mouse still did not move.
He shouted at the top of his lungs: "Everyone stop working and follow me out of the mine."
"Captain, I haven't eaten meat for several days. I want to eat salted fish."
Hou Baoming severely reprimanded: "If you stay here any longer, you will die.
If you want to survive, just exit with me."
After he said it loudly, he felt a little stuffy and his breathing was unusually laborious.
After he finished speaking, he turned around and climbed up along the tunnel he came from.
Climbing to the ground and breathing fresh air, Hou Baoming felt like he was alive again.
He looked at the little mouse in the bamboo cage. Its limbs were twitching and it looked like it would not survive.
"The captain is right, this mouse can really save lives."
When Youyu saw someone coming up, he quickly walked over and asked, "What happened?"
Hou Baoming took off the bamboo cage from his waist and found that the rat inside was dead.
"Sir, poisonous gas leaked out of the coal mine again, and all the rats I brought with me died."
"You guys go and have a rest. If you don't dig the mine tunnel these days, we'll do other work first."
After this reform-through-labor team came, many more reform-through-labor teams came one after another.
The mice around their waists are all dead.
There was a labor camp, but no one came to it.
Youyu knows that these people will never come up.
His job is one of the most dangerous, with a high death rate.
Other coal mine jobs are for petty criminals and civilians recruited, so safety is guaranteed.
People who do this kind of work are doing extremely evil things.
But they were not the main messengers, they were just accomplices who completed the orders. They were not sentenced to death, but were sentenced to heavy punishment and were placed in the worst places.
Youyu knows that the coal mine is not suitable for people to live now.
He led these reform-through-labor prisoners to dig more ventilation holes into the coal mine from the ground to allow the poisonous gas in the mine tunnel to dissipate.
