Chapter 89: The Sin Slave Trade (Part 2)

Lingzhou is not a large-capital state. It has six counties and eighteen towns. It has a population of more than 150,000 people. However, most of the people in Lingzhou have their own fields, and most of them are the elderly, weak, women and children. No one is willing to do this dirty and tiring job.

Li Daozhen took Chen Ying's sword and successfully accepted these industries under the name of Chen Ying. It is easy to say that the salt farm was there. After all, there were more than 2,000 slaves and more than 1,000 craftsmen, which could ensure that the daily salt yield was as much as 1,000 stones.

In fact, this is far from the limit of the four salt mines in Lingzhou. If the manpower is sufficient, Lingzhou salt mine will adopt the method of cooking salt by charcoal, and there will be no problem in expanding its production capacity by three to five times.

The key is that Li Daozhen is not under the control of the people. Of course, this person is not a talent. Li Daozhen has the identity of the Li family in Baicheng County and is from the Longyou family. She has brought hundreds of budget-conscious experts from the Li family, and successfully resumed production of fourteen large and small coal mines and four salt fields.

Nowadays, whether it is coal or salt, as long as it is produced, it is all money. Seeing that it is impossible to expand the production scale due to manpower shortage, Li Daozhen is so anxious. Now she is already stooling, showing some concerns, and her energy is even worse than before. If this problem cannot be solved in time, it will be even more troublesome in the future.

Li Daozhen was very energetic at this time. She didn't plan to ask Chen Ying what status she wanted. She just wanted to give birth to the child safely and raise him. Whether it was coal mines or salt fields, these were the foundation laid by Chen Ying, and they were temporarily interrupted by Li Daozong. As long as there were enough manpower, it would not be too difficult to resume production.

Li Daozhen also thought about using the resources left by Chen Ying in Lingzhou to build a gratifying foundation for the children he would be born in the future.

Li Daozhen actually targeted the three blast furnaces built by Chen Ying. It is said that when these blast furnaces are made of coke, they can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of fine steel per day and three blast furnaces, which can produce no less than ten million kilograms of fine steel per year.

In fact, the production capacity of this kind of small steel mill is very limited, with an annual output of more than 5,000 tons. That's all, steel mills of this scale in later generations were only equivalent to workshop-style steel mills. However, in this era, the efficiency was astonishingly high, and Li Daozhen was shocked and sweated. Although Li Daozhen was a woman, she also knew that the important role of steel in the Tang Dynasty. Chen Ying's steel mine was the lifeblood of the imperial court. With the identity of the royal family woman of the Li Tang royal family, no matter who becomes the emperor in the future, if he wants to take this steel mill for nothing, he will never change it if he doesn't give it to a duke.

It’s okay for the technical workers of the steel plant to say that because they were there with Chen Ying, as long as they spoke, Chen Ying would never refuse, but ordinary craftsmen had a headache. Many jobs in the steel plant, such as crushing ore, adding ore to the furnace, and adding coke.

Each furnace can make 10,000 kilograms of steel and requires about 16,000 kilograms of iron ore, and nearly 8,000 kilograms of coke. These things need to be added manually and require a lot of manpower. Therefore, an excellent craftsman led more than a dozen disciples and commanded hundreds of slaves, which was enough to complete this task.

Li Daozhen urgently hopes that steel can be put into production, because only in this way can she use this steel to get the greatest benefit for the children she will be born in the future.

Li Daozhen sat in the warm chalet and sewed her small clothes very carefully. Although Li Daozhen never touched Nu Hong before, in order to make the children born in the future, Li Daozhen picked up the needle and thread. Her hands that had been dancing with guns since she could remember, picked up the needle and thread, undoubtedly like Zhang Fei's embroidery, and every inch of the small clothes was stained with mottled blood.

Seeing Li Daozhen being stabbed again, Xiao Tao said with a heartache: "Madam, should I let me do it?"

"No!" Li Daozhen said stubbornly: "I don't believe it anymore. Can this little thing still make me difficult? Today I must learn to sew clothes."

Xiaotao sighed helplessly.

Since Li Daozhen became pregnant, she has changed a lot. In the past, she didn't care about money and always spent money as she pleased, but now, Li Daozhen seems to be in the eyes of money.

She wants anything from Chen Ying. Even Guo Zhun's tinplate workshop, she insisted on 30% of them. However, Chen Ying's prestige in Lingzhou is too high. Although Li Daozhen is arrogant, Lingzhou really has no one who rejects Li Daozhen, not because of anything else, because Chen Ying has the grace of living and recreational feelings towards the people of Lingzhou. In this era of advocating virtue to repay kindness, Li Daozhen is enjoying Chen Ying's connections and resources.

When all ten fingers were pierced, Song Wusao brought Yu Guni to the warm room. Xiaotao finally breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed a bunch of small clothes, and said to the needle girl beside her: "Give you half an hour to sew all these small clothes!"

Yu Guni bowed to Li Daozhen and said, "Greetings to the county lord, respected county lord, may I ask you, what's wrong with your servant coming?"

Li Daozhen said: "The county lord wants people, and there are many people."

Yu Guni stared at Li Daozhen with big eyes, his eyes full of confusion: "I don't know what kind of person the county lord wants?"

"Prison of war, or slave!" Li Daozhen said: "The Sui people, Qiang people, or Lite people captured by the Turks, can do whatever kind of people."

Yu Guni shook his head and said, "The weather is cold now and you can't use troops. If the county lord wants people, he will need to be after the beginning of spring next year as soon as possible."

At this time, the Yushe Division was strong and powerful, with more than 10,000 cavalry and well-equipped. Most of these cavalrymen followed Chen Ying to fight the Turks and Liu Wuzhou, and they were also rich in combat experience. He would definitely not dare to let Yu Guni enter the Turkic Khan tent alone. However, Yu Guni had no psychological burden when dealing with the small tribes scattered in the Hetao area.

"This county lord won't let you work in vain!" Li Daozhen paused and said, "No matter what method you take, you should give this county lord a strong man. I will give you ten thousand yuan, or property of the same value."

A green light appeared in Yu Guni's eyes: "Where is that woman?"

"Women are halved, only five thousand dollars!" Li Daozhen's purpose of asking prisoners of war was to restore life in the steel mill, and women's use is not as big as that of a tycoon.

Hearing this, Yu Guni was moved.

If Li Daozhen wanted a free slave, even though Yu Guni would not refuse Li Daozhen, he would at least use some reasons or dozens or hundreds of slaves to swear Li Daozhen, but if Li Daozhen bought real money and silver, it would be different. Ten thousand yuan is not a small amount. You can buy 100 stones of grain, and you can buy a few jackas...

At this time, Yu Sheshi's army was in the Hetao area, and was invincible. If you go out casually, you can get millions or tens of millions of dollars. Yu Guni was immediately moved by such a thing.

Li Daozhen and Yu Guni joined forces to start the slave trade. Li Daozhen paid the money, and Yu Guni went out to grab it. For the first time, Yu Guni successfully ambushed a tribe of Baima Qiang. Yu Guni took the initiative to bring all the more than 500 young men and women from the Baima Qiang tribe to Lingzhou. Li Daozhen was not vague and gave Yu Guni five million yuan at that time. Li Daozhen naturally did not have this money, but Li Daozhen gave Yu Guni 1,500 stones of salt to Yu Guni. Yu Guni was overjoyed.

If in the Central Plains, the price of salt is equivalent to about 30 jin per catty, and more than 300 jin of salt is about 10,000 jin. However, this is only the price of salt in the Central Plains. However, on the grassland, two buckets of salt can be exchanged for one cow. More than 300 jin of salt can be exchanged for fifteen cows. The huge profits in the middle are coming soon.

After receiving the first sweetness, Yu Guni was out of control from then on.

In November of the second year of Wude alone, Yu Guni sent his subordinates to take the initiative five times, braved the cold, and obtained nearly 3,000 war slaves and nearly 4,000 women. Li Daozhen used this war slave to start the restoration of production in the steel factory.

Pei Ju stayed in Lingzhou for more than half a month. Through open and secret investigations, he finally found out Li Daozhen's general strength now. Li Daozhen not only completely accepted Chen Ying's fourteen carboniferous mines, four salt fields, and a steel mill developed when he was in Lingzhou.

Especially the steel mill located in Qingtong Canyon has three blast furnaces, each furnace can produce more than 10,000 kilograms of steel within twelve hours.

Ten million kilograms of iron, although the quantity is not small, will not make Pei Ju lose his composure. However, ten million kilograms of steel have already made Pei Ju feel unbelievable. After repeated confirmation, Pei Ju found that Li Daozhen had twelve furnaces of molten steel in five days.

At this time, a thick steel billet was placed in front of Pei Ju, with a sharp blue aurora, and a soft flick of his fingers, making a steel sound like a dragon's roar.

Although Pei Ju doesn't know how to make steel, he also knows that this is an excellent piece of steel in front of him.

Pei Ju said with an extremely excited expression: "It's so good."
Chapter completed!