Chapter 165 Colonial District Committee’s half-year summary!Mechanization and semi-automation have been achieved! ! A large part of the prisoners even regarded Chen Han and the others as saviors.
Not only do they not reject the various tasks in Daming City, but they actively join in and regard this place as their home.
After seeing the behavior of these prisoners, Chen Han had to say that his move was right.
Anyway, giving people enough food is already a very happy thing, which made Chen Han a big subversion.
Because in this era, most people can't even have enough food to eat, let alone have other ideas.
So long as they have enough to eat, they can do a lot of work.
Even the blacksmith's family, which had been inherited by Japanese slaves for hundreds of years, had more than 400 people in the entire family, but Chen Han and his gang captured them all in one go.
But what Chen Han didn't expect was that this family not only didn't feel embarrassed that they were captured.
On the contrary, they have a stable blacksmithing business in this place, and they have enough to eat, so that their craft can continue, and they have a great sense of honor.
He didn't even feel that it was a shame to be captured and enslaved by Chen Han and the others. On the contrary, he admired strong men like Chen Han and the others.
It can be seen from this that the people of the country of Japanese slaves have always had the gene of worshiping the strong engraved in their bones.
They don't care about the country, they only care about themselves.
Under this situation, Chen Han did not criticize their so-called spirit. On the contrary, because they had done a lot for him, he was not so mean to them.
Let them have enough to eat and let them do what they like in a relatively stable environment.
Even when Chen Han was preparing to go back, he was planning to take away at least twenty elites from the family, and he could never let this skill be cut off.
Because he found that this family regarded this skill as a treasure, and even the books they recorded the skill on used paper from the Tang Dynasty, which were well preserved by them.
Although Chen Han did not use force to deprive them of this book, he requested that their descendants take this book back to the Ming Dynasty and pass it on there.
We will not take them by force, but we must copy their classics word for word to the Ming Dynasty.
Chen Han even discovered that the writing on it was not the writing of the Japanese slaves, but the writing of the Chinese.
This family has been able to read Chinese characters well for generations. Although the pronunciation is completely different from the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty, the cadence sounds similar to the language of Lingnan, which is Cantonese.
Chen Han somewhat understood why many people said that it was probably the Hakka people who truly preserved the ancient pronunciation.
I also belong to the Hakka family. When I heard some syllables that were somewhat similar to my own dialect, I felt quite friendly and gained a little respect for this family.
Let’s talk about the use of rail cars in mining this time.
Chen Han and the others made tracks made of pig iron. Although they were heavy, they were very useful.
Even with the technological level of this era, Chen Han could only do things to this extent.
But for the Mining Department, it is simply an artifact.
Originally, the iron ore was transported up from the mine, and the most it could do was to move it up the shaft, and then use a pulley to hinge the basket frame up, and then it still had to be carried out by people.
But now it's different.
Now the entire mine tunnel is laid with rails, and the same pulley is used to run it.
But this efficiency is not to transport the ore one basket at a time, but to pull up one trolley after another.
Craftsmen mining on the bottom layer only need to place the ore on top of the cart.
Then every time you want to pull ore, pull the rope and a bell will ring.
Workers set up between each node will turn the windlass to slowly pull and push the ore up from dozens or even hundreds of meters below the mine.
Here I want to talk about the problem of nodes.
The nodes are set according to the slope. Generally speaking, a node is set at 500 meters. In places with large slopes, a node is set at 100 meters.
Arrange a group of workers for turning the windlass at each node, and each group only needs twenty strong men.
After pulling them closer, they immediately use a special braking system that can be stuck on the rails, that is, a rail clamp, to jam the wheels of those cars.
Then the craftsman at this node will hook the iron hook to the frontmost carriage, and then pull the rattle in the same way. Then the worker at the node above will turn the windlass to transport the mine car up.
Such a relay method makes the work pressure endured by each group not so great, allowing them to repeat the cycle.
Moreover, such a relay method also speeds up the operation.
It is quite difficult to carry it manually, but it is very fast to use the rails to pull the silver ore out of the mine.
After the work efficiency increases, each group can pull up thousands of kilograms of ore every time.
And this track is laid all the way to the water wheel workshop where the ore is crushed.
The reason why this is an assembly line is that every time the silver ore is dug out from the well, it can be directly taken to the workshop where the ore is crushed.
It is then sent directly to the smelting workshop by rail, and then a large amount of silver is directly smelted.
After the silver is smelted, it is sent down the mountain bit by bit via rail cars in the workshop.
The rails are laid all the way to the bank of the Seaside Port Storage Department, where they are stored directly.
It can be said that in many cases if the efficiency is fast enough, the silver will have reached the silver warehouse more than ten kilometers away under the mountain before it has completely cooled down.
The happiest thing for Chen Han every day is to stand on his two-story building and watch the small railway cars shuttle on the tracks on both sides of the built mountain road, and it does not stop day and night.
On the railway track, there are basically more than a dozen carriages moving at the same time. Every time there are ten carriages, each carriage can pull at least one thousand kilograms of silver.
So [-] kilograms of silver went down the mountain at once.
In this process, each node still uses its ability to push the windlass to transport the entire silver mine and silver. Using this method can save a lot of manpower and semi-mechanize the entire transportation process.
This is the best method that Chen Han can use now.
It also made the big bosses like the Ministry of Transportation find it very novel.
And this is also the key to Chen Han's ability to push silver production from 80 people a month to more than 100 million taels.
And this is not just the peak according to the estimates from the Mining Ministry, the silver on the surface is being excavated while groping, and the quality is not very high.
Therefore, the grade of silver ore will be higher the further in, and the higher grade means the more silver is contained in each piece of ore.
Of course, every piece of ore contains not only silver but also other minerals, which Chen Han cannot understand.
But some craftsmen in the excavation and mining department can distinguish them and stack them one by one, which may be useful in the future.
When the director of the Mining Department finished talking about the production volume, everyone exclaimed.
Chen Han was not stingy and just clapped his hands: "I have said before that if your mining department can complete the monthly output of 100 million taels of silver, I will reward your mining department with 10 taels of silver and cash it out immediately. How will it be distributed? As long as you ensure that the brothers under you won’t complain about your business, I don’t have a problem with you even if you take it all by yourself.”
The director of the mining department laughed loudly: "Chairman Chen, you really look down on me. Don't I even have this awareness? I am only responsible for supervising and arranging daily work, rather than doing it myself.
If the craftsmen under me don't work so hard, who will get my turn to show off my power here.
So what you said really offended me. I would never do such a thing.
I would rather not take a tael myself, but share it with my brothers.
I also hope to use 5000 taels of silver to buy some meat and subsidize the captives.
Even though they were once our enemies, they still worked hard.
If they are not well fed and well clothed, it is really difficult to ensure efficiency.
These prisoners were well trained and their craftsmanship was very good. We couldn't let these people die so quickly. "
Chen Han smiled, "That's your own arrangement. As much silver as you give to the Logistics Support Department, they will provide you with as much extra meat as you want. You can discuss it yourself.
The head of the logistics support department should say a few words here. "
The head of the Logistics Support Department stood up and said, "Chairman Chen, you are right. How much money they give us, of course we have to do as much as we want.
And with such a huge amount of income, shouldn't the Mining Department treat everyone to a nice meal? "
As soon as this was said, everyone started to cheer and asked the director of the mining department to treat everyone to a meal and a drink.
The director of the Mining Department laughed and said, "That's no problem at all."
Then Chen Han said: "This time I want to transport 100 million taels of silver back with me. In addition to the 10 taels of silver awarded to the Mining Department, the remaining 10 taels of silver will be equally distributed to other departments and the army as bonuses. .
The same will be true for the court in the future. You just need to ensure that 100 million taels of silver are transported back to the court every month. Whatever is left will be used as funds for the development of Daming City and bonuses for you. "
When Chen Han said this, even Mu Ying next to him was shocked.
Because he knows very well that as Daming City slowly expands, more and more people will join.
Under Chen Han's benevolent propaganda from the Ministry of Etiquette, a large number of Japanese slaves came to Daming City spontaneously.
What they need is not a salary, they just need a bite to eat, and what they need is a place to work.
Therefore, slowly more and more prisoners will enter Daming City to work as craftsmen, which will speed up the progress of excavation.
Even the monthly production of silver should increase even more.
But Chen Han's requirements were so low, 100 million taels a month, and the rest was all the craftsmen's bonuses.
So if 150 million taels of silver are given out per month, will it be divided equally among 50 people?
If that's the case, the attraction is simply too great.
Sure enough, when Chen Han said this, everyone's eyes lit up.
However, Chen Han had no way to tell them that this was because the imperial court needed silver, and it was just a transition in the past few years.
One million taels a month and twelve million taels a year were enough in Ming Dynasty.
After several years of accumulation, silver no longer needed to be exchanged for treasure banknotes. Everyone believed that when the imperial court had great credibility, too much silver inflow would not mean much to the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, Chen Han no longer needs to have so much silver. On the contrary, the more silver he has, the greater the impact on the value of silver will be.
Even later, he will definitely keep the mining volume here at 50 taels per month.
As for what the silver will be used for later, Chen Han also has a lot of plans in his mind.
Silver may not be used in the Ming Dynasty, but it can be used to plunder more wealth elsewhere, or it can be used as a commodity.
Of course, Chen Han's biggest target is the Sado Gold Mine heading east.
The gold mine there is Chen Han's biggest goal, but more institutionalization and more replicable experience must be completed here to better dig those gold mines.
Mu Ying has actually been doing work here. He even organized the captured soldiers into groups for training.
It does not provide them with hot weapons, but it provides them with more opportunities to make contributions.
After all, they still think that they are soldiers of the Ouchi clan, and they will not feel that they are surrendering to Daming City.
But the Ouchi clan is now under the control of Daming City, that is, the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, using this puppet, you can completely command these soldiers, which is also a very useful group of talents.
Let these soldiers be used as cannon fodder in the front to attack other cities, and then Ming's soldiers will help them in the back to lower the morale of the other party.
He even directly pulled the artillery to attack the city, so that the soldiers of the Ouchi clan were equivalent to a source of assistance.
However, the food, population, and property brought back are all in Daming City.
Mu Ying is a very clever commander in this regard and is very good at using these little devils.
Sufficient food support enables these little devils to have stronger combat effectiveness. Anyway, driving them to destroy their own compatriots is equivalent to cultivating a group of puppet troops.
There are as many as 2 puppet troops in this group. Their loyalty is very high and their combat effectiveness is quite good.
They were called the death squads of the Ouchi clan by other Japanese slave warlords, and they were hated by the entire Japanese slaves...
(End of this chapter)