Chapter 1115 You Zhi's Complaint
After finding out the location of the Qiao clan, Luo Chong finally felt relieved, and then he said again.
"Old man, since you were once an elder of the Qiao clan, if I send someone to find the Qiao clan, are you willing to follow and persuade them to join the Han tribe?"
The elder hesitated when he heard this, and he said hesitantly.
"Well, if we go to the big tribe, then of course there is no problem. Even if I don't go, it's the same to let Qiao Yan go with you.
"Qiao Yan is the patriarch of our tribe, and he is also familiar with the people in the big tribe. If he goes with us, I can't say that he can persuade everyone, but I think some people will definitely be willing to join.
"As for other places, it's hard to say. The chief also knows that many of our Qiao clan members have migrated outward. As for where they went and how many people are left now, we ourselves don't know.
"Moreover, these migrated clan members have long lost contact with the big tribe, and they are not sure whether they recognize us or not. It will be very difficult for the chief to find these people back!"
Luo Chong raised his head immediately after hearing this.
It's difficult if you don't know them?!
There were many tribes that the Han tribe didn't know, but in the end, didn't they all join the Han tribe?!
Just like the Jiang clan with a population of more than 2,000, the Han tribe didn't know them either, so they brought all these people back
. But when Luo Chong thought of the candidates to be sent, he felt a little worried.
Exploring unknown maps and winning over unfamiliar tribes, such things used to be done by the You brothers, but now You Ye is the governor of Heyuan County in the north, and You Fu is in charge of Chengkang and Qian'an counties in the middle and lower reaches of the Liuyang River, as well as the mineral mining and industrial construction there. , laying railways and other tasks.
Neither of the two brothers could get away, so who should be assigned to this task?
Luo Chong thought about it, but couldn't find any good candidates for a while, so he thought about waiting until he arrived in the capital.
Several people gathered around the dinner table and chatted. After a while, Qiao Yan and Zhang Fan also came to Qiao Yan's house with fresh fish caught from the river and more tableware.
When it was time to eat, Luo Chong asked them about their living conditions here in more detail and asked if they had any difficulties. Zhang
Fan was even more excited at this time. When he heard Luo Chong ask this, he immediately answered.
"To reply to the leader, everything is good here for the time being. There is no problem with self-sufficiency. The only thing is that we lack some other supplies, such as sugar, cloth, ironware and the like, but these are problems in the past. Now that there is a train in our village, it is convenient to get anything you want. The leader doesn't have to worry about us. "
Only after hearing this answer did Luo Chong feel relieved.
The best way to make a strange tribe completely integrate into the Han tribe is to let them live a better life than before. Only in this way can they become dependent on the Han tribe and make them reluctant to leave. This is also the basis for the rapid growth of the Han tribe for so many years.
Therefore, the living standards of the people are what Luo Chong cares about most.
After dinner, it was completely dark, but it was a bit early to go to bed immediately, so Luo Chong asked Zhang Fan and Qiao Yan to take him around the village.
In this village with the Qiao family Although the houses are a bit shabby, the people's life is really good.
The houses here are adobe houses with thatched roofs, and the walls are made of fences, but every household has a calcium carbide lamp.
You should know that calcium carbide lamps can only be produced in the eight counties of Hanyang. With an average monthly salary of 30 yuan, the local calcium carbide lamp costs 5 yuan a lamp. After long-distance transportation here, the selling price has to be increased by a few cents. However, the people here can still afford such an expensive price, which is enough to prove that their income is not low.
Luo Chong randomly selected a few households to visit and found that the pigs raised in this village were not Not many. The most common animals raised by ordinary people are rabbits, black-feathered chickens and goats.
After asking, I found out that the pigs distributed by Dashu to them were not many. Only a few immigrants and Qiao Yan had big pigs. The other villagers only had piglets, which were all born by those big pigs.
Although the scale of pig farming in the Han tribe is constantly expanding, the population size is also constantly expanding. Therefore, on average, it is still impossible for every household to be allocated a pig.
Fortunately, the Han tribe has other livestock that can be used as substitutes, such as sheep and rabbits that reproduce faster. In addition, the Han tribe's gradually expanding fishing industry can also solve the problem of people eating meat.
In addition, Luo Chong also found that the children here, and even adults, also learned to read and write. After visiting a few families, Luo Chong found several children doing homework, and the content of the homework was just copying poems, copying new words a certain number of times, and some simple addition and subtraction math problems.
Luo Chong even checked some adults casually and found that these people could actually recite multiplication formulas. Children learned to read by learning pinyin first and then learning Chinese characters.
Seeing this situation, Luo Chong was very happy and praised Qiao Yan.
"The education here seems to be well popularized. You still have to work hard, so that you can cultivate more talents for the tribe. Only by learning knowledge can your children live a better life in the future.
"Regarding education, if you have any difficulties in the future, you must report to the higher authorities immediately. The tribe will definitely give you the greatest support."
Qiao Yan immediately bowed and said, "This is all the credit of the immigrants sent by the tribe, but our tribesmen are also very supportive. They know that these Chinese characters were created by the leader and record a lot of advanced technologies. Even adults will learn to recognize characters and arithmetic. In this way, when trading, the tribesmen will not suffer losses."
Zhang Fan also added at the side, "Yes, leader, when selecting immigrants, County Magistrate Lin specifically instructed that someone should come here to teach, so he specially selected two families of graduated students to come here.
"We built a primary school in the village, gathered all the children of school age, and formed four classes with more than 200 people. These children are studying on weekdays, and even the adults in the village, sometimes we will gather them to learn arithmetic and recognize characters.
"It's just that the price of paper is relatively expensive at present, so we can only use it for children first. Adults are reluctant to use paper and ink to practice calligraphy, so most of the adults in the village can only read and recognize, but not write well."
"Really?!"
Luo Chong nodded when he heard this, picked up a child's homework book from the table and flipped through it, and found that the quality of the paper in the homework book was actually quite good. Even in the entire Han tribe, the quality of the paper was also top-notch, so he asked the big tree next to him.
"Big tree, how is the current situation of paper use and papermaking in the south?"
Big tree ruled the entire south, and no one knew more about the affairs of the south than him, so he said without thinking.
"Reporting to the leader, most of the paper used in the south had to be shipped from the north before, the price was expensive, and the quantity was small.
"But it is not a good idea to always transport from the north. It was not until we took down the Bamboo Island that we began to use bamboo as the main material to develop the papermaking industry in the south.
"After two years of hard work, the paper in the south has become self-sufficient and no longer needs to be shipped from the north. At present, the demand for window paper, educational paper, and official paper has been temporarily met, but it is impossible to lower the price in a short time.
"Didn't the leader say before that a series of factories would be built in the south with steam engines? I looked at the list of those factories at that time and found that there were more advanced automatic papermaking factories, so I didn't let people continue to expand the scale of papermaking.
"When the leader builds the automatic papermaking factory, I think the backward production capacity of the original handmade papermaking should be eliminated."
Luo Chong nodded again after hearing this. The south has been able to achieve self-sufficiency in many aspects from relying solely on support from the north. This is already a great improvement.
You know, the south still has no iron smelting ability. In the field of metal smelting and processing, it still needs the support of the north. It is very good to be able to do what it is now. After all, the foundation here is not as solid as that in the north, which is a fact that cannot be changed.
However, Luo Chong does want to expand the papermaking industry in the south. In the future, the south will not only make paper, but also cheap paper, and a lot of special paper.
For example, toilet paper, napkin paper, official document paper, book paper, writing paper, and corrugated paper for packaging goods, which is the kind used to make cartons, as well as kraft paper for packaging food, such as paper boxes for cakes and candies.
In addition, Bai Qi from the Printing Department has recently developed a roller ink printing technology. After further improvement, this technology can be converted into a large-scale automatic printing equipment powered by steam in the future. At that time, batch printing of newspapers will not be a fantasy.
And if you want to publish newspapers, you have to study the large amount of paper required for these newspapers.
Even paper currency, that is, banknotes, Luo Chong also wants to make it.
At present, the metal copper of the Han tribe is mainly used for coinage and arms. A large amount of currency and bullets consume almost all the copper of the Han tribe.
This is before entering the era of electricity. If you want to build generators and lay cable circuits in the future, you will use more copper.
If we can't find new copper mines or expand the mining of copper mines, we can only find ways to save copper. When that time comes, I'm afraid we can only replace the current metal currency with paper currency.
Fortunately, after these years of currency issuance, the Han tribe has enough credit, and the people have no problem with the credit of currency. Then it is not difficult to issue paper currency, a pure credit currency.
Speaking of the industry in the south, Luo Chong is now willing but unable. He wants to do a big job, but the foundation in the south does not allow it.
If you want to build a series of factories in the south, you must wait until You Fu opens the railway from Qi'an County to Taigang County of Yuantang Tribe. With this railway, a series of industries in the south can have a foundation.
After inspecting the village, Luo Chong and his friends went back to the train to rest. There were too many people following Luo Chong, and there was no place for them to stay in the village. It was better to sleep on the train.
Although it was mid-November, it was already winter in the north, but it was still like autumn in the south.
The winter in Hanyang Eight Counties lasts for four months, and the winter in Heyuan County further north is even longer, even up to six or seven months. However, in Takuhai County and Ducheng, the winter is generally only two months, and there is neither snow nor ice in the winter here, which is quite warm compared to the north.
It is for this reason that vegetables can still grow on the land in the south.
The next morning, around four o'clock, when the sky was just beginning to turn pale, the train set off again for Ducheng.
According to the distance calculation, starting from four o'clock in the morning, they can reach Ducheng at most at seven o'clock, and they may even be able to have breakfast in Ducheng.
The steam engine was puffing white smoke, pulling this train full of building materials all the way to Ducheng.
In Ducheng, You Zhi had already received the news that Luo Chong would come to inspect, and he brought people to wait at the station early.
The station in the capital city, although called a station, actually looks more rudimentary than the temporary station in Qiao's village. It only has two simple platforms, a round track turning device, a large flat land, and several temporary sheds, which are used to temporarily store steel bars, cement, and other building materials.
As for the granary, only the barracks of Jinwuwei have granaries at present. The grain transported from Takumi County is directly taken to the barracks as soon as it gets off the train.
After all, only by controlling the grain can the more than 8,000 slaves here be firmly controlled.
You Zhi and his men waited here for a whole night. Finally, at 6:30 in the morning, when it was just dawn, a train spewing white smoke drove quickly from the distant horizon.
Wuwuwuwu————
The train slowed down and entered the station, sounding a loud whistle. After it finally stopped, teams of soldiers holding rifles quickly got off the train and lined up, standing on the platform. Luo Chong also walked down with the big tree at this time.
Seeing this, You Zhi came up quickly and excitedly saluted Luo Chong.
"I am You Zhi, the commander of the Jinwu Guard. I am honored to meet you, the leader, and the governor of Lin."
Luo Chong took a few quick steps and helped him up, praising him.
"You Zhi, you are great. You look stronger and more like your two uncles."
"Hehehe," You Zhi smiled awkwardly.
Luo Chong asked again, "How is the construction in the capital these two years?"
When You Zhi heard what Luo Chong said, he immediately showed a bitter face and couldn't help complaining to Luo Chong.
"Leader, why don't you let me do something else? The task of supervising the construction of the capital is too difficult.
"It's been two years, two full years, and we haven't built a single palace yet. The entire palace is so big, and I don't know when it will be built. I even doubt whether it will be completed in this lifetime."
(End of this chapter)
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