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- By the time Zhao Hao received Zhang Xiaojing¡¯s letter from across the ocean, it was already the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month in the first year of Wanli.
At that time, he was standing on Niutoushan Mountain at the junction of Changxing County, Huzhou Prefecture, and Guangzhou Prefecture, Huizhou Prefecture, overlooking the busy mining area in the valley.
I saw that the original beautiful pastoral scenery here was gone, replaced by the earth blackened by coal.
There are several dark coal mines scattered on the dark land. Each kiln is paved with rails. The rails snake out from the cave dwellings, and like spiders falling into webs, they merge into two long railways in the center of the mining area, leading directly to the outside of the valley.
The coal miners are also all black, with only their eyes and teeth white. They cut out the coal in the kiln and loaded it on a hand-pressed mine cart. Then they shouted trumpets and transported it out of the coal kiln. They then hitched the cart to mules and horses and transported it out of the valley. After the raw coal is roughly selected at a dock several miles away, it is shipped into Taihu Lake and transported to various places in the south of the Yangtze River through waterways extending in all directions.
As the population continues to pour into the south of the Yangtze River, the supply of firewood gradually exceeds the demand, and the price continues to rise. Nowadays, burning coal is much more cost-effective than burning firewood. Coal consumption by residents in various places has increased rapidly, and it has been several times that of six years ago.
¡°However, the majority of coal consumption in each county is agricultural fertilizer production. Under the guidance of Kunshan Agricultural College, farms in various counties have learned how to allocate and use nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. No matter how much coal is mined in the Changguang Coal Mine, there is not enough for them. Even the coal mines on Xishan Island were forced to operate and had to wait until Tangshan coal was shipped south before they could be closed again.
It¡¯s just that in the eyes of the world, this scene is really devoid of beauty and can even be called ugly. Especially the four huge machines two or three stories high next to the coal kiln, with their thick rocking arms nodding slowly and constantly spraying steam, made people in the agricultural era feel shocked and frightened
No wonder the people who came here to see the excitement came back feeling disheartened. Even the bunch of flattering scholars supported by the group's publicity office refused to recite poems and write poems for them to whitewash these steamy things on the grounds that they had no aesthetic value. Water pump's bad image.
But Zhao Hao had a soft spot for these four big guys. He had been staring at them for a full hour, and even shed tears of excitement.
The senior executives of the group who accompanied him during the inspection were all confused. Even Xu Wei, who was as smart as Xu Wei, could not understand why he was like this.
Pan Shujun, the chairman of Changguang Coal Industry, hurriedly explained to Mr. Xiaoge: "This steam engine can greatly save manpower. Although it does not work slowly, it can pump 20 to 30 tons of water from the mine in an hour. .¡±
¡°Oh, it¡¯s going to take hundreds of people to pump water, right?¡± The senior officials finally became interested. Nowadays, the salary level of the group is getting higher and higher. If this'Steam Girl' can replace a large number of labor forces, we can order a batch.
The four units in front of you are verification machines produced by Xishan Research Center 03 and do not belong to Jiangnan Group.
After it is finalized, it will be jointly produced with Jiangnan Manufacturing Group according to the established model and share profits.
Today, Zhao Hao is here to inspect the completion of the first five-year plan of Changguang Coal Industry, and to inspect and accept these steam engines.
"Don't worry about these guys who don't know anything." Zhao Hao patted Zhang Jian on the shoulder encouragingly and said, "We just know how great this thing is!"
"Yes, Master." Zhang Jian smiled carelessly. He was used to the Ming Dynasty, which had abundant manpower and did not pay attention to mechanical inventions.
He didn't care at allwell, he was still a little hurt.
When the master asked him and Zhao Shizhen to choose the direction of development, he gave him two choices, guns and machines.
Zhao Shizhen snatched the former, so he could only choose the latter. Of course, tinkering with machinery is also his hobby.
Six years have passed, and Zhao Shizhen has already become famous all over the world with his Longqing rifles and year series artillery.
As the director of the research center, he also invented many machines such as the drainage king, the crane, the hydraulic plywood hammer with variable speed gears, the hydraulic cotton gin, etc., which significantly improved the group's production efficiency For example, because of his Through improvements, the production cost of Songjiang Cotton Textile Industry has been reduced by 30%, while the efficiency has doubled.
But people all call Zhao Shizhen the ¡®Great Ming Artillery God¡¯, but they refuse to call him ¡®Machine King¡¯¡
There are just other inventions. This steam engine is the brainchild of which he has invested most of his energy since the project was established in January of the second year of Longqing.
But still not praised by people
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"Isn't it easy to achieve this step by step?" Zhao Hao went down the mountain and came to the steam engine, looking up at this great invention destined to change the world.
"It's not easy." Zhang Jian nodded heavily, recalling all the hardships along the way, his eyesnbsp; That would be purely out of this world. What were the conditions in prisons in this era? Haven't you read "Prison Diaries"? Oh, that was written by someone from the Qing Dynasty
¡°But the conditions in prison are indistinguishable, they are all the same.
"If you don't believe it, ask these labor prisoners. Even if they died of exhaustion in the mines or were killed by mine accidents, none of them would want to go back to a prison that is darker than a coal mine.
¡°If I go back there, I¡¯ll probably die of hunger, disease, or torture by the prison bosses within a few days¡
Although the labor intensity in Jiangnan Group¡¯s mines is high, the mortality rate is also higher than that of normal workers. But the working conditions and safety regulations are much higher than elsewhere.
And as long as you complete the task, you won't be beaten and you can still have enough to eat.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Tonight, the mine didn¡¯t take them away, but there was no wine and two side dishes were missing It wasn¡¯t to save money, it was mainly to widen the gap and not let the workers have any objections.
In this way, the labor prisoners can eat until their bellies are round and their faces will shine.
Compared with the prison, this place is simply paradise!
So some prisoners don¡¯t even want to leave after their sentence is over
Of course, there are people who even dream of leaving this hellish place. For example, my former predecessor, Mr. Xiao Ge
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