Chapter 81 Zhoujiawu Boat

Half a month has passed. In Yujia Village, where Yu Danian Yin Shijie was located, there were originally too many people in the village. There were more than a dozen families, and some of them still had their own use, that is, just enough food and clothing. Looking at the people who followed Wang to do things, every family had jobs, and the children could still study. They all regretd Yin Shijie at that time. Yu Danian didn't come when they greeted each other.

Seeing that the arrangement here is almost the same, Wang Bing asked He Li Bo to return to the capital. Wang Bing did not hang out in the capital for a few days. He looked at a few acres of land outside the water gate in the northwest of the capital, asked He Li Bo to go back to buy the land, and arranged for people to build a simple shed there as a coal farm to enter the capital.

Wang has calculated that if all the coal is transported to the city, the tax is also much higher. If you build a coal farm there, you can avoid a lot of taxes. Moreover, it is located by the Jinshui River. From Jincheng County to the west is the Yellow River. It is feasible to choose this place as a coal base and slowly advance along the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

If you want to use coal at home, the current price is not good. The monthly living expenses of a family of four in the capital are more than ten yuan. If you use 100 catties of coal in the winter, you can't afford it. If you want to popularize it, you have to make a small profit and sell more.

Wang made Yu Danian and Yin Shijie classify coal according to quality and set different prices, with "iron carbon" specially used for forging. Coal cakes for heating with the people. There are also "flavor cakes" exclusively for royal nobles. The price of fragrant cakes is high, followed by iron carbon. The price of heating coal cakes is extremely low, 100 copper coins per catty.

Yin Shijie frowned. If this is a comprehensive calculation, he won't lose much, but isn't this a loss of money? Wang Zong laughed and said, "When the output goes up, I won't lose money."

As he was speaking, the old man Li Jian came to the house and entered the hall to see the three people discussing. He said to the king, "The coal well has been opened and has been hanging for three or four days. Please go and have a look"

Wang immediately got up and came to the well. He saw that the diameter of the coal well was about ten feet, and the turntable cart pulled by the cow next to it had also been set up, and the transmission had reached the bottom of the well. If it was driven by the cow, it could be transferred up without being dug below, and a bamboo pole was poking out from the bottom of the well, which was poisoned by the carbon exhaust layer.

There is also a wheel shelf by the well, with a thick rope on it, which is used for people to go up and down. Three or four people can stand in the well at the same time. The king took the iron helmet prepared by Yu Danian, rolled up his gown, tied the rope around his waist, and followed the pile by the well all the way.

Everyone was sincerely amazed when they saw that Mr. Wang went down the well in person. When the king returned to the well, he heard from Li Jian how much coal mining had been mined in the past. The old man said that it used to be this well. When it was almost dug around, it was about to be reopened.

Wang Bing said the idea of opening the lane in the well prepared in advance and asked, is it feasible to open the lane like underground?

Old Li said, "We also open the lane, otherwise it would be a pity to open a pit and waste it directly. There are also people buried in the lane..."

The king saw that the old man was helpless. He said that he was not asked to prepare wooden boards before, and then open the alleyway. He had to use wooden strips to make piles first, and put wooden boards on them as protection. He said that the old man could see the picture he had drawn. At the same time, he ordered that he must bring an iron helmet to the well.

When everyone saw his command, they also obeyed.

Wang pang looked at the well again. If according to the level of the Song Dynasty, the coal well needs protection in addition to safety issues, and the original division of labor is unclear, and there is no production line. On the contrary, the safety and efficiency of such a change have been improved a lot. The king also told him that there are at most four lanes in a pit, each of which is narrow and wide, and there are not many lanes. The length of each roadway is also clearly defined.

Mr. Li also went through this place and marked in detail where the pits could be dug. Wang identified a few pits. They are all far apart. After arranging the scene, I returned to the house and found that there were more than a dozen people waiting in the courtyard.

The person who came was from Yujia Village, where Yu Danian Yin Shijie was, and there was a highly valued old man who was elected to talk to the king. There are fewer and fewer people in the village. The two places are adjacent to each other, and the farmers in the village have a small harvest, but some farmers also want to sell the land to follow the king to open a mine.

Wang Bian comforted the crowd in the hall to discuss with the crowd. There were more than a dozen people sitting in one hall. Wang Bian said that if the consensus agreed, the king of more than a dozen mu of land in Yujia Village would also be bought.

However, the number of fields originally planted is counted, and the number of people is arranged, and the number of people is still farming; when it is collected and sold to the house, there is a lot of money regardless of drought and waterlogging; and someone is in charge of the mountain forest, and the spice forest is expanded. At the same time, several front-to-face houses will be built along the same road in the two villages, so that those with poor labor can be used as shops here. The rent will be free for the first year, and the rent will be collected from the next year. There are also people who specialize in raising livestock and water transport ships. There are also those who specialize in making fragrant cakes and coal cakes; they all have their own jobs.

Everyone listened to Wang's plan and agreed with it. At least their children could have books to read. And the livelihood is not a problem. Seeing that everyone passed unanimously, Wang Bian and the elders of the Yu family took the real estate deed of the whole village to the county government to pass under their own name, and each family gave a small resettlement fee. At the same time, the houses in the two villages were also allowed to live in the villagers, and the existing real estate was not recycled.

Wang was like Zhang Yi again. He specially found a house to put the orphans and orphans in the two villages together. The old man was accompanied by children, and hired one or two women to take care of the elderly and children. Similarly, just like the student's house, let someone hire a full-time Langzhong to see a doctor for the villagers.

In the county and other villages, four or five of the gentlemen and Langzhong who came here came to recruit. Wang was hired, and Wang was placed in the residence. Langzhong was highly paid, but the use of medicine could not make the villagers' money, and it must be the same as the market price. Even so, there are Langzhong who are willing to do it. It seems that it is also famous to come here to be Langzhong.

Another half month later, Tangjia Village has a small scale, and Wang Pian invited Cheng Hao County Magistrate to visit again. The county magistrate saw that Wang Pian placed the county people so properly, and he strongly supported him.

The two people next to King Cheng Hao walked around the two villages. Seeing that the people in the village were energetic, Cheng Hao praised them and said with a smile, "I didn't expect that if there was no virtuous brother to manage it, it would not be worse than my brother. If you continue to develop like this, the area around Jincheng County will come here.

Wang side laughed and said, "Bocun has just appointed this county for re-election. In this period, I will help Bo Chun hand over a large political record."

Cheng Hao is naturally full of joy: "Do you still have a plan if you don't have a brother?"

Wang said ambitiously, "I promise you will expand the county by five miles!"

This is not a small number. Expanding the county by five miles means that the city wall is expanded by five miles on all sides. Cheng Hao's eyes widened, and in an instant, he smiled and said, "If you don't have a brother, you have a lot of ambition."

Wang smiled and knew that Cheng Hao did not necessarily believe that the land of Jincheng was connected in all directions, and it was Zezhou. Hedong Road intersects with Jingbei Road, and there was an important road near the Yellow River. He wants to annex villages one by one.

Wang is not living in the village. He is thinking that it only takes ten or twenty minutes to ride a horse from Tangjia Village to the county, and it takes four or fifty minutes to walk faster. He has a bigger plan in his mind.

Cheng Hao asked Wang to meet Mr. Wang again. Wang just remembered that this matter had been put on hold for a long time. He hurriedly asked Cheng Hao to meet him in the store tomorrow.

Wang Bian's residence is the highest specification in the county, and the environmental facilities are very good. Wang Bian's appointment there is naturally to entertain two people.

Cheng Hao visited Tangjia Village, that is, he returned to the county to be busy with his own affairs. Wang saw that the manpower here was almost the same, and they had their own division of labor, and issued a notice. Those who had suggestions to improve quality and efficiency in other links adopted the reward of five taels of silver. At the same time, those who perform well in all links have opportunities to improve.

Of course, Wang Bing did this to motivate, such as how to automate the process of making coal cakes. The simple mechanization of wood structure requires someone to think about it, otherwise it will be much slower to do it one by one by one. Moreover, it is also very important to select talents. There will be more people to use in the future, which is also a way.

He called Yu Da Nian Yin Shijie. First, he asked Yin Shijie how much the expenditure and the remaining silver are now. Yin Shijie reported that the expenditure was 800 taels of silver. Now the fixed expenditure is five or six hundred taels per month. I didn't get the money.

The king calculated that it was almost used by the emperor's reward. He was not in a hurry. He would have it all when he went back to the capital. I also asked Yu Danian, how is the preparation of the first batch of Ming coal and coal cakes escorted to the capital?

Yu Danian said, "Five ox carts are prepared, each of which is nearly three or four hundred, and two boats are transported. Each ship can hold two thousand catties"

Wang knew that the ship was transformed with a rowboat. Generally speaking, there was no change but only reinforcement. He also had no time. Seeing that he was ready, he went to have a look with Yu Da Nian Yin Shijie in person.

When I went to the shore, I saw that my dock had been built several times. I didn't know who had the intention. I made a small flag of Jinxiang Mansion and put it on the dock. The king smiled and looked at the boat again: the bottom of the ship was five feet long and nine feet five feet wide. The boards used were as thick as two villages. The wood was all large nanmu, the bow was nine feet five inches long and the bottom was six feet wide; the stern of the ship was nine feet long. Five villages, five feet wide;

The large crossbar on the top of the bow is eight feet long, and the corresponding crossbar on the stern is seven feet. The whole ship crosses the big wood across the ship god. There are fourteen long dragon mouth beams close to the bow, and the distance to the bottom of the ship is four feet;

The middle mast is one foot long, with a flag fluttering on the mast, fluttering in the wind, and embroidering three types in Jinxiang Mansion; it looks so elegant. When boarding the ship, the passages on both sides of the boat building are seven feet and six inches wide.

Wang's side is in a good mood. This is his big ship, which is completely the standard of grain transport. Wang's side praised Yu Danian and said, "This ship is very fast, and Yu Danian has done a good job."

Yu Danian said with a difficult face, "The ship has arrived, and we haven't given us the money for the boat yet. Originally, we ordered one from the Zhou family's dock a year ago, but we didn't expect it to be delivered so soon. We also sent two ships, and said that the prince was not short of money. He said that he wanted the prince to go to thank him in person."

Wang Xun didn't expect the ship to be delivered so soon, and he knew that the "bottom boat" for making a good Nanmu boat was 120 taels of silver. The price of its pallet and other items on the ship can be compared with the silver of the bottom ship, so the double should be 1,560 taels. For the time being, where can he get so many silver taels, and there are two for free.

This shows how rich the owner of this week's dock is. Just now, he only said that it was the cost. If he added a few profits to sell a ship next to the king, it would cost 2,000 taels.

The move of the Zhou family dock made Wang inexplicable. Yu Danian pointed to the upstream, and a stream could be seen not far away, but there were mountains where he could not see the back of the tributaries.

"Behind that is the Zhou family dock. Do you want to go and have a look in person?"

Of course I will go. Since the ship has arrived, I can't let people see it. Wang said to Yu Danian, "You go and I will visit in person the day after tomorrow."