After lunch, Xu Wei and his technicians continued to study the new steam machine tool. If the research and development is successful, the accuracy of the machine tool will not only be greatly improved, but the efficiency will also be increased several times, so that the production of steam engines can be accelerated.
The goal set by Xu Wei is to replace all the milling, planing, and grinding machine tools in the factory with new steam engines. Technically, this is not too difficult. Daqian has a large number of hydraulic machine tools and manual machine tools, and now they All that needs to be done is to change the power source to a steam engine! Use it to improve production efficiency.
After these machines are successfully developed, Xu Wei plans to build a fully steam-powered machinery manufacturing plant as a demonstration! At the same time, he will announce to the world the arrival of the steam age!
After finishing the day's work, Xu Wei saw Liu He's letter about Cao Cao's desire to send laborers to work in Daqian.
Xu Wei found Niu Gui and asked, "How much labor force can Cao Cao provide?"
Of course Xu Wei knew that there has always been a labor shortage within Dagan. Although Dagan has an internal population of more than 40 million people in the country, it is extremely scarce spread over tens of millions of square kilometers of land in Dagan.
Niu Gui said: "This is still unclear, but what Cao Cao can provide is the savages from Crab Island. Even if he recruits them, I'm afraid they can only do some very simple things, and they can't do anything more complicated!"
The savage labor force has appeared in Daqian for many years, and it has never stopped. The population of Daqian is mainly imported from the north and south. The south is in the tropical rain forest outside Jiaozhou. These savages are lazy and muddle along. As long as they have a little food stored at home, They are unwilling to do things.
Bao Xin of Yizhou was troubled by these savages. It was difficult for one family to manage nine households, but it was difficult to control the savages. In order to make them obey the rules, he tried all kinds of methods.
In the end, Bao Xin found a way to put these savages under militarized management and undergo military training for three months to get rid of all their laziness. Even so, they could only engage in some simple primary labor jobs.
The population imported from the north was mainly savages from the north of the desert. They were all forced to migrate south by the cold winter, and were finally captured by the Daqian.
Under normal circumstances, the higher-ups of Daqian will not kill them. After all, Daqian is now short of people everywhere, even in the desert. The desert is now about economical grazing. Family-style ranches are spread throughout the desert. The advantage of this is that the output is high, but the disadvantage is that the labor required also increases sharply. The savages constantly emerging north of the Beihai are an inexhaustible population resource point for Mobei. As long as they are first If they are convinced, they are the most obedient herdsmen.
However, Xu Wei was worried that such continuous southward migration would affect Daqian's control over the desert. After all, in the entire Daqian territory, the Han people in the desert were the fewest. Xu Wei tried his best to move millions of people back then. Went to the desert, but in recent years as the war has calmed down, the north has become increasingly prosperous, and the Han people who migrated to the desert have come back one after another.
Xu Wei was also helpless about this. The environment of the desert was already harsh. And it was even more difficult to survive in the desert during the Little Ice Age. Even the local herdsmen found ways to go south to Youzhou and spend the winter in the same state, not to mention these originally They belong to the people of the Central Plains. It is even more difficult for them to adapt here and want to return to the Central Plains!
The original herdsmen here in the desert account for 60% of the desert population, and this proportion is still increasing. In order to control the proportion of the population, Xu Wei moves some of the herdsmen to live in the Central Plains every year, and the savages from Beihai cannot stay here. .
Most of the savages from the Beihai tribe are white people from later generations, but their level of civilization is extremely low. Most of them will be moved to Youzhou and live in separate states. They were originally small tribes that gathered together to survive. , wild and hard to find, undisciplined. The only advantage is that he is strong and relatively easy to be satisfied.
Nowadays, most people are engaged in entry-level labor jobs, such as carrying bags, farming, and carrying stones in mines. They like to find these people to do such heavy physical work. And they also like to do such work to support themselves. , for them, coming to Daqian is like coming to paradise. They no longer have to worry about freezing to death or starving to death. To a certain extent, it is a win-win situation!
But just because he knew the quality of the savages, Niu Gui was not optimistic about the labor force that Cao Cao brought over. He could only say that it would be a considerable supplement to the north where labor was scarce.
"Send someone to Big Crab Island to discuss with Cao Cao. First, set an order for 10,000 people to see if the quality of his labor force is high. It just so happens that this year's summer harvest is about to begin, and there will be a shortage of population everywhere in Youzhou."
Niu Gui nodded and said he would send someone to Cao Cao to discuss it.
Finally, this task was assigned to Liu He, the Department of Foreign Affairs.
In this way, Liu He left Jidu, came to Quanzhou Pier, and took a sea boat all the way to Crab Island.
Liu He's ship was flying the flag of Daqian. When the dock supervisor Cao Chun found out, he took it very seriously. He personally came to receive Liu He and reported the news to Cao Cao.
Cao Cao was overjoyed when he found out. He came to receive Da Qian's envoy in person, and then said in surprise: "Cao Cao is really surprised. I didn't expect you to be Zitai!"
"Brother Meng De is even more admirable to me. Even though he was exiled to Crab Island by the ruling party, he can still cause so many things. Judging from this pier, the prosperity of your Crab Island is not inferior to that of the big cities." It’s like a normal town.”
"Cao Cao waved his hand and said: "It's too far behind. The entire Crab Island has a population of less than one million. Cao Cao concentrated the manpower of the entire Crab Island to build this pier, and that's why the scene is like this. After all, Crab Island, It’s a small country with few people and poor supplies. All foreign exchanges rely on this kind of dock, so we have to pay attention to this place!”
The two knew each other in Luoyang City back then, but of course they couldn't get along. Cao Cao was from the eunuch gang, but Liu He was from Qingliu's side. If Yuan Shao hadn't brought them together, maybe both of them would have been together. enemy!
But now both parties can be said to be the remnants of the Han Dynasty, and they were filled with emotions for a while.
Liu He looked at the environment around the dock and thought a little: "Mengde, the layout of your city is somewhat similar to Luoyang back then."
Cao Cao sighed: "Brother Zitai has such good eyesight. Brother Wei arranged this place according to the scene of Luoyang City back then. In order to restore the appearance of Luoyang City back then, he summoned everyone from the entire Crab Island who had been to Luoyang City.
I recall Luoyang City bit by bit, draw it on the picture, and restore it bit by bit according to this picture. This is the only city in the entire Crab Island, Luojing!"