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Chapter 836: Must Have Slaves

Standing on the train, Wang Ning'an really has a magical artifact in his hand, and I have the impulse in the world.

Not only the transportation field, but also the textile, metallurgy, mining, and mechanical manufacturing will undergo earth-shaking changes.

Take Jiangnan today as an example. The spinning wheels driven by hydraulics are commonly used. This has a problem. The water flow is not stable and will change. The threads spinned out are not uniform, far less than manual work. It is just because the price is low. When it comes to the north, the situation is even worse.

Because it is cold in winter, many workshops can only work in spring, summer, autumn and spring. No matter how anxious it is in winter, they can only stare at it.

But when the steam engine appears, the situation is completely different.

As long as there is coal and as long as it is not broken, it can continuously and stably output power.

Wang Liangjing was full of resentment and thought to himself that his son had arrived in Youzhou and wouldn't go home yet. Do you want to learn from Dayu? He came with anger, but after seeing the effect of the steam engine, Lao Wang immediately smiled.

This thing is really wonderful.

For example, the Song Dynasty had already built cannons and also made muskets. The most difficult thing to make muskets is the tube. If a straight and even barrel is drilled out, it will test all craftsmen.

Even the most skilled workers can only drill two at most for a month, and they may not be qualified.

If you switch to a steam engine, it will be more powerful and the efficiency can be increased by hundreds of times. In a short time, hundreds of thousands of people can be replaced with firearms!

Think about it, hundreds of thousands of muskets bombarded the cavalry, what a scene it would be!

Dad Wang's eyes shone, and he suddenly felt full of passion!

I can fight for 30 years!

Wang Liangjing suffered a serious injury during the battle in Youzhou, and his health was no longer as good as before. In recent years, he has been handed over to other young people to fight against the enemy.

Sometimes, Dad Wang often sighs that his age is useless and old age is useless.

But once firearms are equipped on a large scale, personal bravery will be overwhelmed by the lowest level. Just bombard me! No matter how powerful a warrior he is, can he block the lead ball?

The more I thought about it, the happier Wang Liangjing became, and even danced.

The eldest young master Gouyaer initially rejected dirty and tiring work. His father was the prince, and his grandfather was the leader of the country. Even he was a fake general of the imperial guards.

What is the purpose of getting black and gray and callused hands?

But the moment the train came out of the mountain, he felt deep awe!

This train can bring more than 100 people out of the mountains, and can achieve the effect of at least 30 horses. And with continuous improvement, a train is expected to have more than a thousand and ten thousand war horses!

Just imagine, there are tens of millions of war horses, who is that person?

Dad, grandpa, or Zhao Shu... Gou Yaer suddenly felt that the silly Xu Yang and these dark craftsmen were simply devils. They had the ability to make ordinary people have the power to surpass emperors and generals!

Terrible, it's so scary!

No wonder Dad didn’t let the news leak out!

If I knew in advance, someone might collectively object.

Back then, Cangjie created characters, ghosts and gods cried, and steam came out, at least the mountains and rivers changed color, and the sun and the moon were gone!

The eldest young master was trembling all over and motionless.

Suddenly, I was slapped in the head.

"Okay, go home quickly, wash it well, you'll become a monkey!"

Bai said fiercely: "What a big deal, I have to do it myself. I finally got home and couldn't stay with me for a while?" Wang Ning'an just smiled silly and didn't dare to say anything.

But my dad was so straight.

"You are a woman, but your hair is long and your knowledge is short! Let me tell you that after the steam engine has been studied, no one on the grassland can defeat us again. You can die thousands of soldiers every year and save many families! This is a matter of accumulating merits, and your vision is too small!"

Bai Shi was so angry that she glared at her husband.

"As long as you have knowledge, we females are all redundant!"

The old couple started arguing, and of course Xiao Guanyin looked at his master Bai. She chuckled and said, "Dad, according to me, this steam engine may not be able to accumulate virtue, and maybe even commit sins!"

Wang Liangjing was stunned and said in surprise: "How could it be?"

Xiao Guanyin smiled and said, "I just saw that the steam engine burns coal. I'm afraid it will increase the demand for a lot of coal in the future?"

Wang Ning'an's eyes lit up. His wife's knowledge was really good!

He gave a thumbs up, "That's true, no power is produced out of thin air. The steam engine needs to be powered by coal, and it is also a massive amount of coal! The next step is to dig coal everywhere, not only that, but also tens of millions of times the coal mining workers."

Hearing this, Lao Wang woke up suddenly.

"Erlang, something happened a few days ago, which made me very angry."

Wang Liangjing complained to Wang Ning'an that after the increase in coal demand in Youzhou, many people went to Xishan to open small coal mines, and one of them was a cousin who was positive.

This guy was too greedy and caught up with the heavy rain. He forced the workers to continue working. As a result, the mountain torrents poured back, drowned dozens of workers in the mine.

Afterwards, the boy actually lied that the workers robbed his money, all ran away, and became a bandit.

He also sued the local government offices to delete these people from the yellow book.

As a result, some of the miners' families did not believe it, saying that their families would never become robbers. In this way, the quarrels were finally opened up. Someone found the corpse in the mine, and the truth was revealed.

However, the local yamen believed that Xiang Hao followed the King of Xiliang for many years and was the prince's confidant, and his cousin was not an ordinary person, so he was only sentenced to be exiled to the army.

Wang Liangjing had been training troops and didn't know about it. Later, he accidentally returned to Youzhou and listened to the people's discussions. He knew the truth. He was so angry that he was going crazy!

He actually dared to do things that are harmful to the world under the name of the Wang family. He really doesn't want to live anymore!

Wang Liangjing immediately ordered the boy to be brought out of prison and to engage in military law, and directly beheaded.

In addition, he found the Xiang family. Xiang Hao had already gone to the Western Regions to assist Wang Ning'an in developing the Western Regions. He had no idea about the family's affairs at all.

After Wang Liangjing learned about the situation, he did not blame Xiang Hao, but the Xiang family paid 20,000 yuan to subsidize the family of the dead miner, and finally calmed down the matter.

"Human hearts are not old, but human hearts are not old! Tell me, why does this person do everything for some money? It's simply outrageous!"

Lao Wang kept complaining, but found that his grandson was laughing.

"What, what I said is wrong?"

"Yes, yes, I just think it's a bit weird."

"Where is the blame?"

Gou Yaer whispered: "The corrupt scholars and literati in Beijing also said that to the father, attacking the new law!"

Wang Liangjing widened his eyes and angrily shouted: "Little bastard, are you saying that your grandfather is a corrupt scholar? Is he poor?"

Gou Yaer waved his hand quickly and shook his head desperately.

Wang Ning'an smiled faintly, "Dad, don't be angry. The rivers are surging and mud is covered with sand. This is impossible."

"What does it mean to be helpless? Shouldn't you care about it if you are harming the world?" Mr. Wang also had a stubborn temper and insisted on asking carefully.

"Of course, it should be taken care of, and if you find it, you must punish severely and severely, and you cannot tolerate and raise evil. But if you want to develop and improve, you are nothing more than improving your technical level and strengthening organizational management. Besides, you are more polite, squeezing workers, sucking bones and marrow. As long as it is profitable, someone will do it. Take Xijing for example. In recent years, many child laborers have been born, and even children younger than dog teeth have been exhausted and beaten to death. Every year, there are a lot of cases in the Ministry of Justice, and the court only tries to deal with it. After all, many child laborers are sent by their parents and relatives, and it is difficult to thoroughly investigate."

Bai took a breath and asked in surprise: "How come such a cruel thing happens under the emperor's feet? How did this parents act like this? Is there any local yamen? Has anyone checked it?"

"Youzhou may also have it, but among all cities, Youzhou's situation should be the best."

"Why?" Bai said curiously.

"Because of the distribution of fields!" Wang Ning'an not only studied steam engines with craftsmen these days, but also asked them a lot of things. Gradually, Wang Ning'an discovered a situation.

Due to urbanization, many problems have occurred in various places, but in Youzhou, the degree has been greatly reduced.

At first, Wang Ning'an thought it was them who reported good news but not bad news. Later, he arranged for someone to visit, and the result also proved that Youzhou was different from other places.

Of course, Wang Ning'an has to summarize the reasons.

After restoring Youzhou, he personally took charge of the matter of land distribution, and about 80% of ordinary people got the fields and pastures.

Although the area is not large, it is at least enough to eat and drink.

There are also many young and middle-aged people who go to the city to work, but they just want to make some money and spend it and go back to improve their lives.

If the boss squeezes too hard, they can go home without doing it!

In contrast, most of the workers in other cities are refugees and tenants without land, and they have no way out. No matter how hard they are in the exploitation, they have to grit their teeth and hold on.

"Oh, who said no, there is a way out, it is much better than not." Bai suddenly said curiously: "Erlang, can't other places be divided into fields at one time?"

After asking, Bai's head shook his head, how could it be possible! Youzhou was newly built, and other places were occupied by gentry, officials, and wealthy families. It was a solid piece. Unless all these people were chopped down, how could they bow their heads?

"So from this point of view, if the steam engine is invented, the amount of coal used in various places will surely skyrocket, and the life of coal miners will be even worse?" Wang Liangjing frowned in pain, very entangled, "Did we invent something that harms people?"

"Of course I can't say that, steam engines are just tools, there's nothing right or wrong." Wang Ning'an pondered: "It's just that people are born greedy and pursue profits."

Wang Ning'an pondered for a while, then said, "We are not sages, we cannot educate the people, let them all change their essence, and we cannot put in a good steam engine without using it. There is only one way..."

"What's the idea?" Dad, Bai Shi, Xiao Guanyin, and Gou Yaer looked at Wang Ning'an together.

"It's very simple. It's just to use barbarians as miners and hand over all the most dangerous and mortality work to them!"
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