Chen Yaozuo took a sip of tea and said to Xu Ping in a heartfelt manner: "Xu Longtu, you are still young in the end, and you don't think about things well enough. The pen is good www.biquge.info, it is transported here from Jiagu Town, and it goes around to the Bianhe River, which is a long way away, and it costs a lot of manpower and material resources. But, have you ever wondered how difficult it is to open a stone? Do you think it's easy to build a new quarry? If we want to build this river for three or five years, we can quarry stones in Guangwu Mountain, but it will only take two or three months, so it is not suitable. ”

"It's hard to build a quarry?"

"It's hard, of course it's hard! You haven't seen a quarry, have you? It is often said that it is as hard as a stone, so you know that the stone is not easy to open. If you have already built a quarry, it will be much easier to mine it down, but if you build a new one, you don't know how much manpower it will take just to dig up the soil layer and expose the stones. Besides, where do you go to find quarrying people in Guangwu Mountain? Don't you know, I don't know how many prisoners die every year in the Jiagu Quarry, and some of them die with stone chips covered in their stomachs. ”

Xu Ping frowned, isn't the occupational disease of quarrying pneumoconiosis? The stone chips must be in the lungs, right? However, there is no need to discuss these details with Chen Yaozuo, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Xianggong, I still think that quarrying in Guangwu Mountain is not as difficult as I thought. Now there is gunpowder in the Qiaodao Xiang Army and Guangbei Siege City, and we can just blow up the mountain, and we don't need to chisel the mountain one by one, and we don't need so many people. The craftsman only needs to trim the blasted stone into the desired shape. The required manpower can be transferred from the Jiagu Quarry, and even those who are less responsible can be exonerated after completing the task of repairing the river. In this way, it is still much more cost-effective than transporting stones from Jiagu to here. ”

"Gunpowder? Can gunpowder blow up mountains? I've seen your fireworks in Zhengzhou, it's just lively! ”

Xu Ping then remembered that in the days when he returned to the capital, Chen Yaozuo had been in Zhengzhou all the time, and he had never seen the power of artillery, and he thought that gunpowder was what fireworks looked like. Guangbei siege work is also casting gunpowder, and the officials in the capital have seen the test cannon and know the great power of gunpowder. But now they are all cannons, but they are only installed on the walls of the capital, and they are not transported to the border. Now that the Khitan and the party are in peace, there is no need to stimulate them, and Xu Ping is afraid that the conflict will be robbed by foreigners.

Looking at Chen Yaozuo, Xu Ping smiled: "Xianggong misunderstood, fireworks and firecrackers are just playthings, how can they be compared with gunpowder?" Once the gunpowder explodes, it is just a trivial matter to open the mountain and break the stones. Last year, the Qiaodao Xiangjun was only building roads around Kaifeng Mansion, and Xianggong had never seen them blow up the mountain, so there was this misunderstanding. There has been nothing to do for the past few days, and tomorrow we will let the Qiaodao Xiang Army bring gunpowder, go to the mountain and blow it up to see the power, and then make a decision? ”

Chen Yaozuo looked at Li Shen, who didn't speak, and Li Shen hurriedly said: "Be careful, there is nothing important tomorrow." ”

"Okay, that's it, let's go tomorrow and see what the gunpowder looks like, if it can really blow the mountain apart!"

Xu Ping said: "Taking this opportunity to have a lively time can be regarded as a ground breaking celebration." ”

On Guangwu Mountain, Amu took Second Uncle Li's hand and crossed his feet to look at the group of people walking across the chasm. After looking at it for a while, I felt that my neck was sore, so I put my feet away and stood up, and asked Second Uncle Li on the side: "Second Uncle, you see that there are a lot of people from the government on the mountain over there. They all said that they were going to dig a river at the foot of the mountain, so what did they do when they had nothing to do in the mountains? ”

"Which knows? The affairs of the official family, we small people don't worry about that, as long as they don't come to us to find our bad luck. In the past few months, I have earned some money in my hands, but I have to be careful. ”

Amu said excitedly: "That's it, that's it!" The money earned in the past few months is worth the wages of several years before! We need to keep an eye on this cellar and not be robbed! ”

Second Uncle Li touched Amu's head and smiled: "This is the cellar entrance of the official mansion, who dares to rob it!" However, the half-year period is approaching, and there will inevitably be many people who want to join the company, and we will not be able to share such money in the coming year. ”

Amu was silent for a while, his left foot kept rubbing around on the ground, twisting and pinching, and after a while, he whispered: "Second Uncle Li, you said that this cellar mouth is the next few of us, so it is so prosperous." When others join the company, they also pay the same amount of money as we paid before, and then they share the same money as us. I've always felt that something is wrong for us. ”

"Alas, Amu, the second uncle has also thought about it, but I can't understand it when I think about it. A few days ago, I happened to have the opportunity to enter Mengzhou, so I went to find Li Tongju. He enlightened me a little, and only then did he understand a little. ”

Amu said excitedly: "What did the judge say?" Can you convince the second uncle? ”

"Persuasion?" Li Er shook his head, "That's a lot of money, can you be persuaded in a few words?" However, what the judge said was reasonable, and although he did not want to, he still had to do what he had said before. ”

Amu grabbed Second Uncle Li's arm and shook it vigorously: "What did the judge say, Second Uncle tell me quickly!" ”

"The judge said that this cellar belongs to the government, but it does not belong to us. Those of us who joined the company at the beginning are just that the government takes care of the people who work here, and is willing to share some more money. Now the capital we paid at the beginning has already been paid off, and the monthly dividends are all in vain, and we can't be greedy. Joining the company is just so that the people who work here can share more money and are willing to work here, not to sell the cellar. If we break the rules, we will be expelled from the company, and the capital we paid at the beginning will be returned to us. Since it is in accordance with the rules, it is naturally not allowed to prevent others from joining the company. ”

"But I still don't understand, there is no benefit for those of us who joined the society first?"

Second Uncle Li touched Amu's head: "Silly boy, how can there be no benefit?" The money we've gotten these past few months is a benefit! The judge has a saying that is right, it is the other workers who will have the opportunity to join the company in the future, that they regard this cellar as their own, and only by doing things wholeheartedly can they make money. If it's like working in other places, do you think the cellar will still make money? This cellar is in the mountains, and it is small, where is there so much money to be made! ”

However, this time Uncle Tan is also going to join the club, and he also brought his two sons with him. I think that at the beginning, he tried his best to prevent the establishment of this society. When I think about it, I am not happy. ”

"If you think about the good in everything, you'll be happy. Are we, who are just workers, really able to occupy this cellar? What should come is always coming, and if you think about making half a year more money than others, you should always feel better. ”

On the other side of the chasm, Xu Ping stopped, pointed to the cellar on the other side and said to Chen Yaozuo: "Xianggong, I came here a few months ago to check the river, and there were local big families who set up gambling not far away. By chance, I found out and arrested all of them. Many workers in that cellar also participated in the gambling, which really affected many people. At that time, because the cellar was in the mountains, it was too small, and it was impossible to send someone to manage it, so they let them take care of the porcelain firing by themselves. Unexpectedly, when I came back this time, I heard Li Tongju say that these people were in charge of themselves, and the cellar became prosperous, and they also paid a lot of taxes. (To be continued.) )