(I just went to see Wolf Warrior 2, and then watched the 90 military parade, I was really excited, and there was some feeling of excitement, the gunner was older, and he had experienced those weak years in my great China, and he can still remember that our embassy was bombed by the Americans, and he remembered the tears of humiliation shed by the then Premier Zhu when he was broadcast on TV, and he could remember the heroic sacrifice of the pilot Wang Wei. Our motherland has really become stronger. Or now we are not the strongest, but we are already strong, to paraphrase a line of the wolf warrior, those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away. ）

(In addition, in the previous chapters, there was an error, Ge Qingsheng was the secretary of the Ministry of Industry at the time, but I forgot to write it, and asked him to take over as the county guard of Taiping County, I don't know if the VIP chapter can be modified, I'll give it a try.) Thank you for pointing it out. Another point, the gunman is an amateur writer, and he uses five strokes to type, sometimes a dozen fast, there are often typos, and I don't have time to read and revise carefully, which has caused confusion in reading for everyone, I'm sorry, I'll try to pay attention to it in the future. ）

Compared to Taiping City, Daye City is obviously larger in scale. There are no city walls, and small towns with countless populations are scattered in every habitable place in the mountains. In the valleys, on the slopes, patches of reclaimed land show the industriousness of the people here.

It is a typical immigrant city.

The displaced people who originally came here have now become the top group of people in Daye City's ecological chain, as long as they have a little ability, they have become large and small stewards if they have not entered the iron smelting and steelmaking plant, even if they are not engaged in things related to iron smelting and steelmaking, it is a good choice to do business here.

Daye City is basically self-sufficient in terms of grain, vegetables, etc., but in terms of other daily necessities, it all needs to be imported from outside, which creates countless opportunities for these first batch of displaced people who got rich first. As long as you have a little capital, you can open a small shop, which is enough to support your family.

Even if there is nothing, a merchant can support his family by relying on his two legs to walk through the mountains without fear of hardship.

Mining is naturally the hardest and most dangerous job. Most of this kind of work is carried out by people who come here later, and the mining is divided into two different communities. Some are free people, who do this hard work because mining is well paid, and for those who have nothing, it is a quick way to get themselves out of abject poverty. As long as you work hard for two or three years, you can save a considerable amount of money, so that you can have some different choices in your life.

The other community has no choice. They were prisoners of war, or were they criminals sent here. They need to atone for their past with their hard labor. Prison sentences generally range from one year to three or five years. During this period, they have to use their labor to create value for Daming desperately, so that they can become a free people.

This segment of the population is engaged in the most dangerous jobs. The shallowest bare ore is generally dug by the freedmen, because if there is a problem, the death of a freedman, the mine will pay a lot of compensation, so the mine will let the freedmen dig those mining areas that are basically not dangerous, so as to minimize the danger, and the mining areas that need to be excavated deeply are naturally excavated by these prisoners of war and criminals, even if something happens, the responsibility is very small.

The management of this part of the criminal miners has also changed a lot after several years. In the beginning, these criminals did not have the slightest power, and the managers who led the team would unceremoniously use whips to teach lazy people a lesson, and there was a fixed number every day, and if they couldn't finish it, they would not want to get rest or food. As for security, that's basically none.

Such a high-pressure policy finally led to a riot, these criminals and miners have a guy in their hands, steel drills, shovels have become their weapons, this riot, under the joint suppression of the army and the free people, was quickly extinguished, but it sounded the alarm for the authorities of Daye City, realizing that they must make changes.

What's more, the country's demand for steel is increasing, but the mining manpower is becoming more and more insufficient. This is a dangerous job, and now the Ming people have more and more alternative ways to survive, mining, has become the last resort.

When the number of freeman miners was getting smaller and smaller, how to tap the potential of these people and make them work hard and honestly became a problem for the authorities of Daye City.

The first thing these convict miners feel is the change in their treatment. Of course, their food has always been good, mining is a heavy physical work, and if they don't eat well, they will naturally have no strength. The change in their treatment is first and foremost in terms of equipment. They had better clothing, they were no longer unclothed, and then they were equipped with gloves, which was quite important in winter.

It is no longer an endless labor of 365 days a year, but every 10 days, they will be given a day of rest. In the past, minor injuries and illnesses had to be carried out by themselves, but now there are doctors to deal with them professionally.

More importantly for these prisoners of war and convicts, they had a daily quota. You only need to complete the allotted amount, and they will be counted as having completed your work today, and any more that they dig up will be recorded, and these extra digs will be rewarded, although the pay is insignificant compared to that of the freemen, but at last there will be some income, so that these people will not have nothing after the end of their sentences.

And more importantly, when this excess accumulates to a certain extent, they will receive a reduction in their sentences, which is extremely important for prisoners of war and criminals.

Most of the current prisoners of war come from barbarians and soldiers who rebelled in Zhengyang County. After the rebel soldiers in Zhengyang County completed their sentences, Daye was completely unsure that they would stay, because Zhengyang County was one of the most prosperous and wealthy areas in the Ming Dynasty, and these soldiers would naturally return to their hometowns after completing their sentences. What the authorities of Daye City want to do most now, and have been working hard, is to keep these barbarian prisoners of war permanently, even if it is good for them to become free miners in the end.

In order to achieve this, the authorities of Daye City moved all the families of these prisoners of war to the vicinity of Daye City through various operations. In order to do this, they did a great deal of work when the imperial court began to emigrate barbarians to the counties.

The families of these prisoners of war arrived in Daye City, and with the help of the local government, they began to cultivate the land, or do some small business, or rely on Daye City to participate in some peripheral work, and slowly settled down.

There will be one day every month, which is the day for these family members to visit their relatives, and the family members are allowed to send something to these prisoners of war, so that these prisoners of war know that their families have lived and worked here in peace and contentment, and at the same time reassure them, they are afraid and dare not make trouble at will.

When these people have completed their sentences, they have nowhere to go except to stay in the local area, their families have become accustomed to life here, and have a small family business, and these barbarians, in fact, the means of making a living are extremely lacking, the iron and steel mills will never admit them to enter, but to engage in other jobs, they can't read a basket of big characters, and some barbarians who can't even speak the Ming language, except for turning into free miners, they have no other means of making a living.

Through these means, Daye City finally managed to survive, but the shortage of miners was still obvious. If there is anyone who hopes that the Ming Dynasty will start a war against Qin immediately, it is Daye City. Because only when the war began, they could get more prisoners of war for free, which made Daye City's steel production even higher.

Now Daming's weapons have begun to be sold to the outside world, which makes Daye City even more pressured. The thirst for manpower is even greater.

Higher iron-making furnaces were built, which made the first few blast furnaces to stand up, now they have become dwarfs, dozens of towering iron-making furnaces show the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and now, the iron and steel producers of the Ming Dynasty basically account for two-thirds of all steel production on this continent, and more importantly, the quality is much higher than that of Qin Chuqi.

Iron products have completely become a general commodity in the Ming Dynasty, and even if they are in Qi, they have not yet reached this goal, and iron, in Qi and Chu, is still a control-level strategic material that is strictly forbidden to flow out.

Daming, there is no such prohibition, but there is not much outflow, but this is because the domestic demand is too large, every year just the production of farm tools, to consume a lot of steel, and the steel farm tools ordinary, bring about the great development of agriculture. For example, the current high-grade steel, because of the production reasons, can only be used by the army to build weapons and some special parts, such as the pressure spring in some of the latest weapons such as crossbow machines, the shock absorbing spring of four-wheeled carriages, and some other places that have to be made of steel.

"Your Majesty, in the past two years, our iron-smelting and steel-making technology has developed rapidly." Kim Kyung-nam proudly pointed to the towering blast furnaces: "The higher furnaces, higher temperatures, and the ability to hold more ore have multiplied the amount of molten iron that comes out of each furnace, and more importantly, the quality has been greatly improved." Now our blast furnace ironmaking only uses coking coal, which can make the temperature in the furnace higher and the impurities in the molten iron less. The quality of the iron products smelted is also naturally better. ”

Jin Jingnan said with great interest: "The master craftsmen told the ministers that the reason why the original iron was very brittle and easy to break was that there were too many impurities in the iron, such as carbon, which was not completely refined, and now they have improved the blast furnace, used coking coal, and increased the furnace temperature, which can make the iron more pure to the greatest extent." ”

Qin Feng nodded slightly, the quality of steel can be said to be the lifeline of Daming, and every step of improvement in technology here can ensure that Daming can lead the countries in all aspects.

"Now the masters have invented a new furnace to train steel, they call this furnace converter, the first phase of the experiment has been successful, the first furnace of steel, the minister went to see, it is indeed much better than the previous one, which greatly saves the manpower and cost of forging in the later stage."

"Your Majesty, hydraulic forging is now changing with each passing day, and the masters have even invented all kinds of hydraulic forging machines, and sometimes, the minister really thinks that these people are too smart." Jin Jingnan introduced to Qin Feng triumphantly.

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