Dawuda became a "worker" and a coal miner.

According to the regulations of the Nibchu Mining Company, under the Department of Work of Chesapeake, anyone who becomes a "worker",

Only food and accommodation are included in the first three months.

Starting from the fourth month, there will be a reward of half to one silver coin, and a new reward will be redesigned based on performance a year later.

According to the current price of grain in the Daxia Kingdom, half a silver coin can buy at least 100 kilograms of corn. One hundred kilograms of corn. It can be transported to the Daxia Kingdom to produce 80 kilograms of corn flour in the mills driven by steam engines in various townships, leaving five kilograms for the mill to calculate the labor cost, and you can also lose 75 kilograms.

Corn flour can be made into corn paste and corn cakes. If you tell the mill to ask half of the fine powder and half of the coarse powder when grinding, and at least 30 kilograms of fine powder can be eaten by yourself. If a pig farmer raises pigs, the remaining 30 kilograms of coarse powder are mixed evenly every day and can also feed the pigs.

Therefore, even if the minimum amount is only half a silver coin, you can still survive.

No, no, no, not just eating, this half of the silver coin is pure income. When the workers were mining, they had wooden houses built by themselves under the guidance of carpenters. The wooden houses were all two floors, and each house could live in six people. All the food and clothing expenses were included in the Works Department. Three meals a day, "work clothes", gloves, and thick rubber shoes. Except for too many people living there, there was a better life than Dawuda, the son of the little chief in the coastal areas of West Africa.

Even Dawuda himself wanted to return to Africa so as to win more people from there, but this kind of thought was stopped by the people in charge.

"You are the first and last group of workers who came here from Africa. Of course, there are many people like you in Massachusetts, New Netherlands, and Portsmouth. If you liberate them in the future, you can join you. As for introducing them from Africa, don't even think about it."

"Why?" Dawuda looked confused.

The in charge stared at him, as if he was looking at a strange animal (in his heart, he thought to himself, "The damn Kunlun slave, that is, in the Great Xia Kingdom, is a one-time transaction in any other place in the Americas." The so-called one-time transaction is that after Europeans bought them at a high price, they would spend five to ten years to die. The input-output ratio is mostly ten times, which means that a black man can earn up to five hundred pounds after spending fifty pounds, according to ten years).

"Do you know your price?"

Dawuda shook his head.

"Fifty pounds! It takes a thousand silver coins from the Great Xia Kingdom! But the whites regard you as slaves, and only eat two meals a day, but they are only seven cents full, and work twelve hours a day. I heard that in the Massachusetts plantations, the longest lifespan of blacks is only ten years. There, let alone silver coins, it is good to be able to eat enough."

"Once you get sick, if it is mild, you will keep working. If you are seriously ill, even the whites will be helpless. They will immediately throw you into the jungle and let you fend for yourself."

Dawuda stopped talking immediately.

He thought of the dark days he was on the boat. During the three-month long sea drift, these black men were locked in the lowest cabin, where there was only one air outlet, and the air was dirty, and three hundred people were crowded together, and even they could only sit back to back when they were sleeping. One person was immediately infected after he became ill. They were lucky. Only twenty of them died of illness in the middle of the way. Those who died would be thrown into the sea by the whites without hesitation.

There is only one hard bread that can break its teeth every day. I like it but don’t eat it. If I encounter another privateer robber, in order to make the ship run away quickly, they are the ones who are thrown into the sea first.

In fact, the person in charge was also thinking: "Why is fifty pounds so expensive? These Kunlun slaves are all farming in plantations. According to the level of the Great Xia Kingdom, two young and strong men and women can barely collect fifty acres of land, but Kunlun slaves will definitely not reach it. According to the ability to pick up ten acres of land, the land here is fertile, and each acre of land can produce three stones of wheat. The price of wheat is almost the same as that of rice, including six silver coins."

"Ten acres of land are only sixty silver coins, plus some cotton fields and tobacco fields. If you count 100 silver coins, you can earn it back in ten years. They spend such a big price to buy these black slaves without much profit."

Actually, this is wrong.

In today's Europe, just like the Ming Dynasty, it is still raging in the Little Ice Age. It is common sense to have poor grain harvests. In the entire seventeenth century, about one-quarter of the population in Europe died of hunger. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, a stone of wheat costs about 10 pounds, which is equivalent to 100 taels of silver.

It all shows that prices have soared, but compared with Europe, even when Huang Taiji entered the pass and robbed, prices did not soar to one hundred taels per stone!

So, only five stones of wheat can be bought for fifty pounds, while a black slave can produce at least thirty yards of grain every year! The price of fifty pounds is earned back in a year!

No wonder these Europeans are so crazy about trafficking black slaves from Africa to America!

Dawuda is gone, he is going to dig coal.

The coal mine is not far from their residence. As mentioned earlier, the coal seam ten miles away from the port is buried the deepest, about three meters, or about ten meters underground. At present, they have dug twenty meters. Twenty meters, and a large amount of groundwater has already flowed out. A steam engine specially used to pump water is operating heart-wrenchingly. Not experienced people like Dawuda cannot get inside at the beginning, so they can only wait outside the tunnel.

Dawuda was pushing a wheelbarrow specially used for transporting coal. Of course, the wheels were already covered with rough glue. When he filled the coal, he could push it around a slope to the ground. A wheelbarrow could carry about one hundred kilograms of coal. Dawuda could run forty trips a day, which means that he could transport two tons of coal in one day.

In addition to one hundred blacks, coal transporters like him also had two hundred British prisoners, which totaled more than 600 tons per day. After preliminary screening, the daily coal output was about 500 tons.

There are many places that require coal in Pisachek Province. Not to mention, the twenty large ships of the American fleet can carry 1,500 tons of coal. According to the current output of the Nibchu coal mine, it is far from enough. However, the coal loaded by an albatross is enough for him to run for 75 days. Therefore, although the output is relatively low, it is barely enough.

If the effective operation time of one month is twenty days, it can reserve 10,000 tons of coal, which can meet the needs of loading thirty Peregrine ships. The Peregrine ship is the main ship of the Hanhai Army. In other words, the one-month production of the Nibchu coal mine can meet the needs of a whole American fleet for training, combat and navigation in one month.

According to the average speed of the Hanhai Army warship, the speed is about 20 kilometers per hour. It can run nearly 500 kilometers a day, and 15,000 kilometers a month, which is enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean (westerly wind belt, 5,000 kilometers). Even the Pacific Ocean can cross (westerly wind belt, 7,500 kilometers). When you arrive on the other side, you still have enough energy to fight!

As the so-called screening, the Daxia Kingdom can only distinguish obvious objects such as coal gangue. As for ash, sulfur cannot be treated for the time being.

After the final confirmation of the Department of Industry, Nibchu's coal was not ordinary lignite, but was close to the level of subbitum coal in later generations. Such coal was produced in large quantities on both sides of the Appalachian Mountains. Of course, the Daxia Kingdom did not have the ability to divide coal into peat, lignite, subbitum coal, anthracite, and coking coal at this time. It was just roughly viewed on the outside and divided into several levels.

After the railway is repaired, the most difficult task of transporting coal to the dock is solved. Although it is only ten miles away, if it is carried by carriages or manual transportation, the efficiency will be even lower.

This time, in order to save the space of the ship and consider the difficulty of hoisting operations, only a 20-ton locomotive was transported. Such a locomotive can only pull six carriages, each carriage can load twenty tons, and six knots is 120 tons. The output of a day is enough to run four trips.

However, after coal production, the mining of iron ore was put on the agenda. However, since the iron ore was still twenty miles away, new railway tracks and other components were still on the next immigration ship, and they might have to wait for the autumn harvest when they arrived here. Therefore, before that, a road about thirty miles long had been built from the iron ore to the dock.

Every day, there are endless load-loading carriages running on the road. Some of these carriages are carrying thick iron. The thick iron will be transported directly to Chita City by ship for the next step of refining, and some are pulling slag, ready to be transported to the cement plant on the other side of the river, with limestone and clay together to make cement.

After the new immigrant ship, that is, the other ten thousand slaves captured by the Daxia Kingdom from Li Chengdong, who were captured due to the uprising, there will be other locomotives, railway tracks and other items in the fleet. At that time, the coal mines and iron ore can be connected, and all the things can be transported directly to the dock by train.

When Dawuda and others transported the coal to the ground in Dongluo City, there were other people who loaded the coal onto the train. Only two skilled Han people who could start the machine in Daxia operated the lifting machinery fixed to the ground and loaded the coal directly onto the train. When the load was filled, the train walked a little further until it was filled with six sections.

At this moment, a thought appeared in the mind of the person in charge.

"In this case, the locomotive needs to be started in advance, which will waste a lot of coal. If the lifting machinery can move around by itself, it will consume much less coal and can load and unload everywhere."

So, after about five years, a rough track lifting machine will appear in the Americas first, and there are naturally Nikan's opinions here, but the details are all thought of by ordinary people like this. Daxia's technology is developing quietly in actual needs.

Nikan plays a mutual promotion role with those who have these ideas. Although he was a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in his later generations, he did not specifically engage in related matters, but he certainly knew the development history of machinery. People with these "whimsical" ideas can turn Nikan's ideas into reality.

Without these people, Nikan would not have offered to do anything, but once someone proposed it, it would definitely have a real purpose, and it was even imminent. If these people were allowed to explore by themselves, it would be like the development of the steam engine in history. It would not be possible without a hundred years. But with Nikan, a shameful time traveler, and still a time traveler who knows how to do it, everything would be simple.

A hundred years will be greatly shortened, and this is the value of time travelers.

Forty trips a day, although it was only a short distance from the ground, I was still very tired after a day. Old workers including Dawuda, Jackson and other workers soon fell asleep after a full meal.

But they had different dreams. Dawuda dreamed of his hometown in West Africa. Although his tribe members were killed by white people, he still wanted to go back and take a look.

But Jackson cursed in his dream.

"Damn Cromwell, when will you pick us up?!"

The figure of the king appeared in Jackson's mind.
Chapter completed!