237 develops, hibernates

(It's December, brothers, ask for a monthly pass, thank you for your support, keep up the good work!) ）

For these captives, the freedom of the miners was something they could not hope for, so it was strange not to make trouble.

So Li Zixiao ordered one of the most productive mines to be designated as the prison of their White Dragon Army.

The original miners here were all transferred to other mines, or assigned to work in the iron-making furnaces of Beigu Town, leaving only all the prisoners here.

In addition, the prisoners of several other mines were also transferred here to serve their sentences, and a labor camp was set up here to monitor the labor of these prisoners.

In this way, it is much more convenient for the guards to supervise these labor prisoners, and at the same time, the number of people in other mines has also been reduced.

Only two or three people are left in each mine to manage it, who are responsible for keeping track of the miners' work, distributing wages, arranging cooking, etc., which makes it much easier to manage these mines.

In addition, Li Zixiao also ordered the personnel in charge of the mine to pay attention to the safety in the mine as much as possible.

It is better to sacrifice a little speed of mining than to ensure the safety of the miners as much as possible, and the roadway should be used to support wood, not less at all.

Mining operations are carried out under the premise of ensuring safety.

For miners at other ordinary mining sites, eating a big pot of rice is not possible, and history has proved that eating a big pot of rice affects people's motivation.

So Li Zixiao gathered the new mine managers of these mines together and said to them: "In the past few days, I have turned down on the mine and found a bad phenomenon.

That is, the people here are passive and slacking off, waiting for mixed food to eat, do you think I am wrong? ”

Several mine managers nodded yes again and again, but they all expressed helplessness.

Because before Li Zixiao sent them, he told them that they were not allowed to beat and scold these miners at every turn, and they had to be as good as possible to the miners.

So now that they find out that someone is slacking off, they won't easily beat and scold them, so this situation is getting more and more serious.

They can't beat and scold at every turn, so there is no good way to solve this problem, so some people propose to continue to use the old way of beating and scolding.

"Hehe, after beating and scolding the miners, they will hate you even more, in fact, there is a better solution to this problem than scolding.

In the future, you will link the amount of ore produced with the treatment of miners at each mining site.

Divide the class into mines, first select a squad leader with high prestige in each class to lead the class, first assign manpower to them, and after a period of time, allow them to combine freely.

You only need to be responsible for the amount of ore they produce, weigh and measure, whoever produces more ore will eat better, and whoever produces less ore will eat poorly.

Every month, whoever produces more ore will be rewarded in addition to the full salary, and the person who does the least will be deducted from his salary.

In this way, everything is very fair, everyone who has complaints, let him come to me Li theorizes that I don't believe that there will be people who dare to sleep lazily below, eat and wait for death.

As long as those team leaders are given the freedom to combine the rights of their subordinates, those who are lazy and don't work at that time will naturally be wanted, see what else they can do.

Unless they don't want the job to go home and die," Li Zixiao said eloquently.

The heads of these mines were immediately overjoyed, and as soon as Li Zixiao said this, they immediately understood the truth.

If you follow Li Zixiao's method, then you really don't have to worry, some people are lazy and don't work down there, waiting to come out and eat.

After Li Zixiao gave orders for this method, it began to be implemented in various mining sites the next day.

When the miners heard this, those who were lazy in the past were dumbfounded, while those who worked hard were overjoyed.

In the future, they will no longer have to be unbalanced in their hearts, they will take more if they do more, eat well, and eat less if they do less, and no one will have anything to say.

Just on the first day of the trial, the output of each mine site has doubled, the original class of mines, can only produce 1,800 catties, now at least more than 1,000 catties.

What's more, two thousand catties of ore came out in one class, but the group of mine managers who were sent to manage the mine were crooked.

Everyone admired Li Zixiao's method for working, and they admired Li Zixiao even more.

In this way, Li Zixiao saved a lot of manpower and could free up it for other use.

Under the impetus of Li Zixiao, whether it is the dam repair and bird building in Baihu Village, or the repair of iron-making furnaces in Beigu Town, as well as the mining work of various mining sites.

It can be said that there has been a great improvement, and all projects have begun to be in full swing.

On the way back to White Snake Village, Li Zixiao stopped for a short time in Beigu Town.

Seeing that in just a few days, the old furnace head led a group of craftsmen to reclean and repair two small and medium-sized iron furnaces, and immediately put in materials and began to make iron.

And he is leading some of his subordinates to inspect a large abandoned iron furnace in Beigu Town, and is taking out the waste residue in the iron furnace and starting to repair it.

It is estimated that it will not be a few days before this large iron-making furnace can be put back into use.

In order to help the old furnace repair the iron-making furnace, Li Zixiao also ordered a few stonemasons, masons, carpenters, and leathermen from the White Snake Village to come over to help the old furnace.

In this way, the work of the old stove is even more like a fish in water, and it is much more brisk.

And a group of people who were transferred from the miners have also settled here.

Anyway, there are more abandoned houses in Beigu Town now, so it's no problem to clean up and settle these people casually.

Therefore, there will be no shortage of manpower in Beigu Town in a short time, and after the old furnace builds a new iron furnace, the iron output of Beigu Town will be greatly increased.

When the time comes, it will be enough to meet the needs of the White Dragon Army, and even take out to create profits.

In addition to the existing craftsmen of the White Dragon Army, he also gathered many local craftsmen to participate in the construction of the cottage dam and waterwheel.

And with the end of the summer harvest and summer planting, the surrounding people who are now in the slack season do not want to be idle at home.

Even on a hot day, when they heard about the recruitment of workers in the White Dragon Army, they all gathered here in Baihu Village with shovels, pickaxes, flat poles, baskets, bamboo baskets and other tools.

Devoted to the work of building a dam and a water truck for the White Snake Village, in a short period of time, thousands of people were gathered.

These people transported the earth, quarryed the quarrying, and moved the stone, and Sun Tong unified the scheduling, so that the progress of the project now seems to be quite good.

And these ordinary people who came to help, firstly, they were grateful to the White Dragon Army for giving them land and land, and secondly, because they came here to work and could give them two full meals a day.

Even if you don't have a salary, you can eat two full meals this year, which is a good choice for these people.

A lot of laborers basically came to Baihuzhai to help, and even some healthy women came to help with tools, so that there was basically no shortage of engineering labor, and there was even a surplus.

The elderly, children, and old ladies are not idle, they are all in front of the village, in the back of the village, in the latrine, in the pigsty, in the corner, behind the house, holding small brooms, looking for the soil and nitrate on the wall on the ground.

They carefully swept down the soil and put it in bags, and then carried it to the purchase point that specialized in purchasing the soil and nitrate, and sold it to the people of the White Dragon Army.

In this way, the problem of nitrate soil in a short period of time was basically solved by the White Dragon Army.

Truckloads of nitrate began to be transported from various villages and villages to the White Snake Village, and Wu Yao personally took a few apprentices.

Check in the village, check the quality of these nitrates, and divide the grades, and set the price for the people to settle the bill.

Dong Zhuang took people to Yongcheng County and Xuzhou to purchase sulfur to meet the needs of preparing gunpowder.

Tie Pingliang's side obtained Li Zixiao's approval because of the new bird gun, and he also began to move to the stage of finalized production.

Start to build the molds needed to make the birds, and as long as these molds are in place, the work of making the birds can start quickly.

In short, with the White Dragon Army returning to the imperial court and completely settling down, gratifying changes are happening here every day, and everything is developing in a good direction.

After inspecting all the places, Li Zixiao returned to the White Snake Village.

As soon as I returned to the cottage, I saw Zhao Zilong taking a group of teenagers from the youth camp to do physical training.

Although the juvenile camp does not belong to the official establishment of the White Dragon Army, Li Zixiao did not order the cancellation of the juvenile camp, and still let Zhao Zilong lead the juvenile camp.

The hundreds of 12 to 16-year-old teenagers in the youth battalion will be trained every day under the leadership of Zhao Zilong in terms of literacy and physical fitness, and Li Zixiao will train them as future officers.

Zhao Zilong took a group of teenagers and greeted Li Zixiao, and as soon as they met, he shouted: "Subordinates see the general." "One by one, there are still some of them.

"Zilong, keep training."

"Yes."

These teenagers were also very obedient, and sensibly followed Zhao Zilong away and continued their physical training, while Li Zixiao went to the conference hall.

When the generals heard the news of Li Zixiao's return, they all rushed to the conference hall to meet Li Zixiao.

Li Zixiao glanced at the conference hall and saw that the main generals were all there, and there was also an additional Zhang Ergouzi who had just returned from Kaifeng.

So he nodded and saluted everyone, but after a lively time, everyone sat down and began to report the situation to Li Zixiao during this period of time.

Li Zixiao looked at Zhang Ergouzi and said with a smile: "Brother Ergouzi is back, you have worked hard in Kaifeng during this time, and you have provided us with a lot of valuable information."

Even in Kaifeng to establish our own intelligence system, you are indispensable, I heard that you have changed your name, called Zhang Fugui is not, this is a good name, rich and noble, yes, your wish will come true.

At least you are already a thousand presidents now, you should have a bright name, Zhang Fugui is good, much better than that Zhang Ergouzi. ”

Zhang Ergouzi, no, it's Zhang Fugui now, after listening to Li Zixiao's affirmation of his merits, he bowed down to Li Zixiao again and again to thank him, and his heart was also moved.

And Li Zixiao continued: "I know that it is not easy for you to go to Kaifeng this time, since you are with me, then I, Li, also regard you as a brother."

As long as you do what I tell you to do, I Li will never treat you badly, and you go down to the old master to receive five hundred taels of silver, which can be regarded as a reward for your contribution during this time.

In addition, I am going to set up our own intelligence department, which will be responsible for intelligence gathering and investigation, and you will be in charge of the intelligence department. ”

Zhang Fugui's nose was sour, and he almost shed tears.

He is indeed timid and afraid of death, he can't go into battle to kill the enemy like Zhou Dazhu and them, and he is not treated well by the White Dragon Army brothers.

But here in Li Zixiao, he feels valued, as long as he listens to Li Zixiao and does good things for Li Zixiao, he can have the dignity of being a human being, and even be reused.

So he thanked him again and again and withdrew.

After watching Zhang Fugui resign from the meeting hall, Li Zixiao glanced at the group of people under him, and the expression on his face relaxed.

"I know that you all look down on the two dogs, but you also have to know that cats have cat paths, rats have rat paths, and each person has his value.

Especially now, let's not look at the official army, but in the future, we have to make friends with the people of the three religions and nine streams, and at that time, the chickens and dogs and thieves also have their uses.

In the future, everyone should respect Fugui, he is now in charge of the intelligence work of our White Dragon Army, maybe you will all need to cooperate with him in the future. ”

Everyone immediately got up, indicating that they knew what to do in the future, and Li Zixiao nodded.

Then Li Zixiao asked Qian Guangyuan, who had just come back, "Mr. Qian, tell me about your affairs!" ”

Qian Guangyuan nodded, cleared his throat, and said, "What the general ordered, we merged the newly arrived refugees with dozens of small villages in Yongcheng County.

After the consolidation, now all the displaced people have been properly arranged, and the population of dozens of small villages scattered here and there has been enrichment, and it has now been merged into 53 villages.

According to the previous general's orders, ten households in each village are one Jia, and the first head has been selected, and we are only waiting to send our people down to be the security chief in the next step!

As long as the chief of the security team continues, we will basically be able to control the situation of these newly formed villages.

The summer planting is basically over, in short, the current implementation of my affairs here is relatively smooth, and the people everywhere are more cooperative.

Some of the local snakes wanted to make trouble, but I immediately arrested them and sent them to the mines for labor reform.

The vast majority of the common people are grateful to the general, and they are holding back their energy, waiting for the autumn harvest, hoping to have a good harvest this year. ”

After listening to Qian Guangyuan's words, the big guys were very pleased, at this time, the White Dragon Army had completely gained a foothold in Yongcheng County, and it had truly become their foundation.

Li Zixiao quietly listened to Qian Guangyuan's report, then raised his head and said: "Mr. Qian has worked hard this time, Mr. Qian's hard work is in everyone's eyes and in mind, I, Li, am here today to say thank you to Mr.

In the future, Mr. Qian will still need to be responsible for the main affairs in our territory, but we are now officials and soldiers, and we are actually not qualified to manage local government affairs.

In a few days, Mr. Qian will go to Yongcheng County to find Wang Yong, the county commander, and obtain an official status, and then you will be able to manage the affairs of the county in a proper manner.

Wang Xianling is a smart person, so I haven't touched him, he knows what to do, and when the time comes, you will work in the county government, and it is okay to let Wang Yong help you.

We are doing things now, and we must also pay attention to a justifiable and provincial way to catch the handle, and we are now more low-key than before, this is our dormant period. ”

After hearing this, Qian Guangyuan also nodded, very satisfied, and admired Li Zixiao's thoughtfulness and caution.

"The general is really far-sighted, his subordinates are really admired, and his subordinates know how to do it." (To be continued.) )