190: C190 Mining Workers

C190 Mining Workers

Early the next morning, Xu Yanlin went to find the Patriarch to discuss the matter of buying a mountain.

That day, the Patriarch brought Xu Yanlin to Jinling City to settle the paperwork. In order to give face to the King Jing, the Old Patriarch sent two yamen runners to test the waters and wrote a land deed before handing it to Xu Yanlin.

After getting the land deed, Xu Yanlin then talked to the Patriarch about the coal mine and asked him to help to recruit people to mine in the nearby village.

When the Patriarch heard Xu Yanlin say that he wanted to buy the mountain, he knew that there were treasures on the mountain. But since the opponents were princes, killing them would be as easy as crushing an ant, so even if he was dissatisfied, he could only sell the mountain top to them. Now that Xu Yanlin said that he wanted to find someone to mine in the village, it made them feel better.

The clan leader did things very quickly. That afternoon, he gathered the villagers and gathered them at the open space in front of the ancestral hall.

"I've summoned everyone here today to tell them something." "Master Xu from the capital wants to recruit a group of workers from our village to the mountain for mining. The wages are high, and those who are willing to line up for the registration will be here for the next two days."

Just as the Patriarch's voice fell, someone below immediately rushed to ask, "Patriarch, what kind of money is this? Do you have thirty cents a day? "

"Yeah, there must be a way to be sure about how much money we get. Otherwise, how do we know if it's really good?" One of them spoke up, and several others immediately echoed his sentiments.

"You don't want to buy food?" How old are you and how old can you be? "

"How long will it take?"

"..."

The villagers' questions came one after another, but when they heard the Patriarch being confused, they hurriedly reached out to signal for them to quiet down, "Quiet, all of you calm down first. If you have any problems, come one at a time and don't yell like a swarm of bees. I can't hear you clearly."

Hearing the chief's words, the villagers quietened down, but there were still people whispering amongst themselves.

"Patriarch, how do we calculate the wages?" "Also, how do you count the time?" The person standing at the very front asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.

"The wages are fifty dollars a day. I will make a meal and work until the end of the year." The Patriarch replied them according to the treatment Xu Yanlin gave them.

It was only twenty to thirty coins a day, and it wasn't even enough to buy food. The villagers once again, once again, their voices grew louder and louder, and the chief didn't stop them. They waited for them to finish their discussion before continuing with their questions.

"How old are you that you can go to work?" It was a teenage boy, a little dark and a little thin.

"A man over sixteen, under fifty, with strength."

"Sixteen years old? I am just sixteen years old, can I sign up now? " The boy who asked the question jumped up happily and continued to shout.

He was happy, but there were some villagers who were dissatisfied. They all protested, "Kid from the village, you started to do manual labor when you were 13 or 14 years old. With good strength, how come you are only 16 years old?"

"That's right, my child is fifteen years old. He is famous for his strength, so why won't he go?"

The voices of the villagers below grew louder and louder, causing the patriarch's head to ache as he listened. He ordered his son to beat a gong and watched as the rowdy villagers gradually quietened down. Only then did he open his mouth and say, "This is the rule set by Lord Xu.

The villagers of Mu Family Village were all farmers who were born and bred, and had a natural sense of reverence for their masters. Hearing the words of the patriarch, no matter how dissatisfied they were, they did not dare to show it, lest the patriarch really push them to speak to Sir Xu.

"The general rules have been explained. Anyone of you who meets the requirements and wants to go to work, come and register with me."

As soon as the chief finished speaking, many villagers rushed over to register. They were afraid that if they were a step too late, the opportunity to do their work would be snatched away by others.

Because the wages were high and the food was arranged, the villagers were happy to do the work, so on the same day, there were over a hundred people who signed up.

Xu Yanlin took the list of names and sat in the courtyard to look through it. He also asked Shen Jingli about how to make coal balls.

"What kind of treatment did you give?" There seems to be quite a lot of people registering. " Shen Jingli sat on the rocking chair, eating some dried bananas as he spoke to Xu Yanlin.

Mu Yanzhi was a strict craftsman. His craftsmanship was both good and fast, and the rattan chair and rocking chair he made were very meticulous in their work. They were polished and smooth, and very comfortable to sit on.

"Fifty gold coins a day for a meal." The person in question was personally checked by Mu Yiming, and did not lie about their age. Xu Yanlin casually flipped through the list, and then handed it over to the chief attendant, and instructed him, "You will head over to the chief's house later, and have Mu Yiming inform the person on the list to gather at the back of the village tomorrow morning."

"Yes, master." The chief attendant kept the list and immediately went out to do some work.

Xu Yanlin raised his teacup, drank some tea, and then asked about the coal briquet. "Zi An said that you mentioned something called a coal briquet, what is it?"

When Shen Jingli heard him talk about this, he asked Jin Yu to go to his room and bring out a few blueprints.

"What does the imperial government usually do with coal mines?" Shen Jingli asked curiously.

"It's usually used to make iron." Xu Yanlin took the blueprints out and looked through it one by one. The patterns of a few stoves he could understand, but there was one with a long handle behind him. It looked like a shovel but not a shovel, so he was not sure what it was.

Seeing his doubt, Shen Jingli took the initiative to explain, "This is a tool to make honeycomb coal. Un, I'm not very clear on how to operate it specifically, you go and think it over with the blacksmith."

Hearing Shen Jingli's straightforward answer, Xu Yanlin weakly rolled his eyes. He knew that Shen Jingli was unreliable, and would only move his lips a little every time.

"It's always up to me to figure it out. Sometimes, I really suspect that you did it on purpose." Xu Yanlin put away the blueprint and glared at Shen Jingli fiercely.

Shen Jingli laughed lightly and continued to leisurely eat dried bananas. There were a lot of things that he had seen on TV, he only knew a little about the situation and had never actually used it before.

The matter of mining began like a raging fire. Because the treatment given was good, the villagers were very active in their work, and the results were remarkable.

Xu Yanlin was even busier now, he wanted to discuss with the blacksmith the tools needed to make the coal briquet, he also wanted to discuss with the guards how to transport the coal mines back to the capital, and he also needed to write a letter to King Jing to report the situation.

Qing Sheng's condition was not much better. He kept his promise, and on the second day, he went to the village to borrow a copy of the < Male Ring > from a pair who had read before. Every day, he would force Shen Jingli to read it.

"Sister-in-law, tell me about Shuang-er's kamikaze ways."

Again?

Shen Jingli hugged his head in pain and sighed in his heart. Did he do some sort of evil thing in his previous life? Why did he have to learn such a strange thing in his life?

He pretended to be an ostrich and hid in his bed. No matter how Qing Sheng shouted, he refused to come out and told him to carry < Male Ring >.

"Sister-in-law, hurry up and get up. Don't think that I will let you off just because you pretend you didn't hear what I said." Qing Sheng reached out and pulled away the blanket on Shen Jingli's body, then pulled Shen Jingli out of the bed.

Shen Jingli could not help but sigh, when he heard Da Ji calling from outside, "Madam, the Lord has sent you another message."

"Alright, I'll be right there." Shen Jingli stood up excitedly, Big Ji did a good job, "Bring the 14 items back, I want to go and take a look."

With that, he did not care about Qing Sheng's reaction as he walked out.

Looking at his happy expression, Qing Sheng couldn't help but sigh. Why didn't he learn it well?

"What is this?" Shen Jingli looked at the two white eggs on the table with a tinge of green in them, and was a little puzzled.

"Eggs." Big Ji honestly replied.

Of course he knew it was an egg, but why did he send two of them back?

"Did you get fourteen people to bring these back?" He had asked someone to bring back two eggs, so he couldn't possibly tell them to cook and eat it, right?

"Yes." As he nodded honestly again, he smiled.

Shen Jingli took a closer look at the two eggs again. The white eggs were a little green, and were a lot bigger than the eggs. They didn't look like goose eggs, nor like ostrich eggs.

"Other than these two eggs, there's nothing else?" Ever since Mu Chen's first letter came, people would occasionally send things over. They were all things Mu Chen had bought along the way, along with a few simple letters.

"No more." Big Jim shook his head.

It was truly strange that there was no letter.

"Alright, you may leave." Knowing that he wouldn't be able to get anything out of them, Shen Jingli waved his hands and let him down. Carefully picking up an egg, he gently caressed it before basking it in the sunlight, "It's actually an egg.1

Impossible, this is not something that Mu Shisi would do.

He put the egg back carefully and sat in a chair, lost in thought.

"Sister-in-law, I heard that my brother sent a letter back. Is he already in the Southern Wilderness?" Have you regained your Da Ping Village? " Mu Jin carried Xun Er, and the moment he entered, he saw the two eggs in the basket. He immediately rushed over, "Sister-in-law, where did the eggs come from?"

"Eggs, Xun Er wants to eat steamed eggs." When Xun Er saw the two eggs, it was as if he was looking at delicious food.

Looking at his son's happy expression, Shen Jingli suddenly had a teasing heart. He waved his index finger in front of Xun Er: "Xun Er, these two eggs are not for you to eat, but for you to hatch a bird."

"Sparrow?" Xun Er tilted his head and looked at Mu Jin, then turned to look at his nerves, "Mama, how do we hatch the eggs?"

"Sitting on top of the egg for ten days to half a month and then hatching out." Shen Jingli was spouting nonsense.

But Xun Er took it as true, and stared at the two eggs with wide eyes, "Really? That Xun Er wants to hatch a little bird. "

Xun Er struggled to get down from Mu Jin's embrace and reached out to grab the two eggs. Shen Jingli knew that the joke had gone overboard, so he hurriedly stopped Xun Er and hugged him, "Mama is just teasing you, this bird is going to be placed in a chicken nest. Let the hens hatch."

"When can we hatch birds?" Xun Er stared closely at the two eggs, as if he would be able to hatch very soon if he were to continue staring at them. In a month's time, the birds will be hatched. " Shen Jingli kissed Xun Er's face and told his to find a hen to sleep in.

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