With the assistance of Jinmingchi Shipyard and Water Tiger Wing, the first honeycomb charcoal workshop in Wujin Xing has been modeled almost day by day at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.

In fact, the workshop is not complicated, with seven or eight brick houses serving as dormitories for workers, and two sheds serving as warehouses for coal dust and semi-finished products.

The main tools of production are the water mill and water mill located next to the aqueduct, where large pieces of coal are smashed and then ground into a fine powder by the stone mill. It's perfectly fine to replace livestock with a water mill without a water mill, but it's a bit more difficult to do without a water mill.

Coal merchants in this era were too honest and honest, and they loaded high-quality coal from Huaizhou on ships through Jiudingdu on the north bank of the Yellow River, and then went down the river east into the Bianhe River, and transported it to the coalwork field in the west of Bianliang City, where they paid taxes and then distributed it into the city.

In this series of shipment projects, the coal is packed in rattan baskets in blocks, and the pulverized coal is not easy to transport and easy to lose, and is not loved by customers, so Hong Tao's plan to be lazy and buy coal powder directly was aborted.

Zhu Bajin had already asked three or four of the largest coal merchants, but none of them could provide a large amount of coal powder. In this case, the Ugin Society will have to add another process, crushing. The coal must be smashed before it can be put into the stone mill to continue crushing.

So can you directly send people to the coal-producing areas to buy coal powder? It is certain that the coal at this time is not a commodity prohibited by the state and can be bought and sold at will.

Coal is produced in Hanoi County, Huaizhou, Hebei West Road, which is probably near Jiaozuo City, Henan Province in later generations, and is only more than 200 miles away from Bianliang City, with smooth waterways and very convenient transportation.

However, Wujin Bank does not have such a large capacity to purchase goods from the place of origin, and the manpower and transportation tools are all shortcomings, and the situation will not be improved too quickly.

This kind of equipment was originally used to process grain, but as long as it is slightly modified, it is also a good choice for crushing coal. In fact, its function is much more than that, and it can also be used as a forging hammer after strengthening.

That's what the Jinhe Empire's forging industry did when it was just starting out, so it's not a loss to get an extra water wheel, just like that complex gear transmission system, it's all idle and busy.

There are things to do every day, and the busy time will pass quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it will be the first day, that is, the Spring Festival in the future. Since the Song Dynasty did not have a Gregorian calendar, only a lunar calendar, which is the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of January every year is the Spring Festival. But at this time, there was no Spring Festival, and the Song people called this day the Yuan Day.

In addition to comparing various economic data, there are many more intuitive ways to evaluate whether life is rich or not in an era, such as festivals.

The richer the country, the more festivals, because the pressure of life is not so great, everyone lives more easily, and if you have a few spare money in your pocket, you will figure out how to spend it, and the festival is basically equivalent to spending money to have fun.

There were many festivals in the Song Dynasty, and Hong Tao used this as a topic when he taught the princess and Lian'er to plan the plate, and the calculation result was 113 days. What level is this? Similar to the modern era nearly a thousand years later, China currently has 115 legal holidays per year.

Starting from January 1 of each year, the first day, the third day of the first month, the Tianqing Festival, the Shangyuan, the winter solstice, and the cold food have to be off for 7 days, and the whole country celebrates the festival together, eats, drinks and has fun, and travels with the family, which is the same as the holiday economy of later generations.

Then there are Heavenly Sage, Summer Solstice, Heavenly, Zhongyuan, Xiayuan, Descent, and Wax Day, each with a 3-day holiday; Beginning of Spring, Renri, Zhonghe, Spring Equinox, Spring Society, Qingming, Shangsi, Tianqi, Lixia, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianzhu, Chufu, Zhongfu, Liqiu, Qixi Festival, Late Fu, Autumn Society, Autumn Equinox, Clothing, Chongyang, Lidong, each has a 1-day holiday.

In addition, there is one day off in the first, middle and second half of each month, which adds up to only 2 days less than the afterlife. Of course, this is the treatment of civil servants, and it is very likely that there will not be so many holidays when working in a company.

In the Song Dynasty, there were also statutory holidays for the employment of workers in government-run workshops, but they were much less than those of civil servants, almost half of them. However, it is still too much to compare with the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were only three festivals of the Yuan Day, the Winter Solstice, and the Lantern Festival every year, with a total of 18 days off, and the three-day holiday every month was also canceled. The Qing Dynasty basically copied the Ming Dynasty's vacation system, except that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was culturally invaded by Western powers, and one Sunday was added every week.

This is still the treatment of civil servants, if it is replaced by state-owned enterprise workers, it will be even worse, the Yuan and Ming dynasties adopted the craftsman registration system, and the workers are regarded as paid requisitioned by the government, and they are stronger than slaves.

It was not until the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty that this system began to be slowly abolished, and personal freedom was gone.

As for the employees of private enterprises, the government of the Song Dynasty did not impose a holiday on which day, and all of them were handed over to the society to regulate themselves, and the bosses of private enterprises would not be too vicious. Don't look at the social climate, this thing can't be touched or seen, but its binding force on people is still relatively strong.

This is not Hong Tao's groundless conjecture at all, when Fu Ji and Zhu Bajin ran the Flying Eagle Club and Wujin Xing, they all invariably put the vacation of hiring labor on par with state-owned enterprises.

Presumably, if they were too harsh on the workers, they would quit their jobs. Even the princess treated the craftsmen of the palace equally, and did not act recklessly because they were sent by her emperor's brother.

In fact, the first festival of each year has begun three days before the first day of the new year, in addition to the service industry, government agencies, industrial and mining enterprises, large and small workshops, including the forbidden army in Beijing, the closure of the Zhang, the closure of the business, the closure of the business, one after another into the holiday.

"When Mrs. Tomorrow enters the palace, if Your Majesty asks about me, she will say that she can't get out of the way for her husband to inspect the seedlings in Qionglin Garden, and then personally congratulate Your Majesty on the New Year when the Shangyuan Lantern Festival comes."

Accustomed to various festivals in later countries, Hong Tao was not interested in the festival. As soon as he thought of going to the street to shop and visit the tile market, his head hurt, and what worried him the most was to follow the princess into the palace and have a royal party.

I basically don't know anyone except the emperor, and I have nothing to talk about, so I have to be sneered at by a certain relative, what are you trying to do. So he began to make excuses, the nature of Qiong Lin Yuan's work The emperor must have understood it in his heart, and he must not blame it for this.

"Niangniang heard that Da Lang was very uneasy, and she couldn't see Da Lang on weekdays, can you go for a day?"

The princess had been preparing the clothes to enter the palace two days ago, and turned out the Beizhu direct family that she was married to when she got married from the bottom of the box, wiped and wiped, and planned to return to her parents' house with beautiful and beautiful scenery, so as to show that her little life was no worse than anyone else. When she heard that her husband didn't plan to accompany her, her face was immediately full of disappointment. Without her husband by her side, there is no point in wearing a lot of water.

"Take me to thank my mother for her love, this matter is the trust of Your Majesty, and there can be no mistakes. Spring planting is about to begin, and if something goes wrong, even if Your Majesty is willing to forgive, the ministers will not agree. Wait for the husband to be busy with the solar terms, and set the new pearl crown for the lady, no worse than the queen's, and then go to see the mother. ”

Of course, Hong Tao understood what the princess meant, but he could only be sorry again. As for next time...... It's probably still sorry, who bothered themselves with this kind of occasion, unless it was particularly necessary, or if you can, you won't go.

In the end, the princess still failed to persuade her husband, in fact, she never insisted on anything, not even the Beizhu direct line, and walked away accompanied by Mama Wang with a sad face.