In just two days, the freighter loaded with coal had to leave early and return.
Of course, this is mainly due to Lei Jianming, who was able to find this large coal mine only more than a thousand meters away from the coast.
Otherwise, transportation alone would not be so fast.
For the indigenous people who work as coal miners, this means that they can eat fragrant rice every day, with half a pound of animal meat, one pound of fish, and even two pieces of rice every ten days.
Pickled salted fish.
Well, a life like this had never happened to them before.
Due to the confrontation between the north and the south of Jiaozhi and the years of war, the Zheng family regime in the north was extremely militaristic.
A large number of young men were dragged onto the battlefield. In addition, most of the land here was owned by the nobles. Ordinary people could only be regarded as tenants at best. After working hard for a year, they could not even say that they had enough to eat.
It may be necessary to sell children and daughters to make ends meet.
Where is it like now, when you go to work with a full meal every day? Although you are a little tired, isn't it hard to work in the fields of those noble nobles? What's more, those noble nobles will sometimes bring in tenants to build their own houses.
Manor or something, but these private labors are not paid half a penny, and tenants need to bring their own dry food!
Once the two completely different lives are compared, even a fool will know that this is a blessed land.
Therefore, the further time goes by, the more native people join the coal mining development team. Even later, the big local landowners and nobles were shocked to find that no one was taking care of their farmland!
Those nasty tenants have escaped!
How can this be done!
After a little inquiry using the methods of these big landowners and nobles, I immediately found out the whereabouts of these tenants.
Therefore, the local county magistrate came up with a plan to encircle and suppress this group of thieves under the guise of negotiation.
No way, the local county magistrate is actually a puppet and lackey of these big landowners and nobles.
If he is disobedient, just send a letter to the Jiaozhi Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the county magistrate can be dismissed on the spot and investigated!
Who would have thought that those thieves were so powerful that they shot down the government servants summoned by the county magistrate with a volley of guns. The county soldiers were defeated like a mountain, and even the county magistrate was captured.
Those big landowners and nobles would naturally not give up, but they could not go beyond the Jiaozhi court to command the army. They could only mobilize their own forces to hype up the rebellion of the thieves in the court, so that the court would be inclined to send troops to suppress the thieves!
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be done in a day or two.
After all, the battle with the Mo's regime in the south two years ago almost destroyed the old foundation of the Zheng's regime in the north. Over the past two years, the national treasury is still extremely empty. If we want to fight against the traitors, all the factions in the court will
There were also arguments, but Prince Zheng, who was in charge of the northern court, was somewhat hesitant.
In any case, after this incident came out, the Provisional Management Committee also asked the industrial group to develop an artillery as soon as possible.
After all, in addition to the Jiaozhi Hongji Coal Mine and the Shilu Iron Mine, which require artillery to deter the enemy, even the dock area actually needs artillery.
Who knows when the Ming army will come again?
Although the Qianhu Station of the Guard has been completely crippled and is now hiding at home without daring to move, what if Governor Guangdong sends out troops?
You must know that the distance between the wharf area and Leizhou Peninsula is only 20 kilometers!
This distance is only a few hours long if you take the lucky boat, even if you travel against the wind.
In short, this matter must be prevented.
At this time, the people in the industrial team had just had breakfast. They were sitting in the newly built activity room of the warehouse, drinking tea, coffee, and boiled water, and discussing.
This activity room was specially built by the construction team under the instructions of the temporary management committee in order to reward the industrial team.
There are some fitness equipment, game consoles, billiard tables, coffee machines, etc. inside.
In short, this place is for people in the industrial group to take a break after their busy work, drink coffee, and play games, so that everyone is exhausted.
However, since the activity room was built and arranged, because the environment is really good, with flowers and grass, and the space is large, it has become a place for morning meetings of industrial groups.
"Come on, come on."
After Zhang Feifei sat down, he took out a pack of jade seals and scattered them around.
After everyone took it, they started to puff away the clouds.
"Brother Zhang, have another one."
A rather naughty young man smoked out all his cigarettes in a few seconds, and then went to Zhang Feifei to ask for it.
Zhang Feifei gave the other party the few remaining cigarette shells with a look of helplessness: "Stop smoking. When will we be able to grow tobacco? There is still a question mark."
Zhang Feifei's words are not false. If you say that the cigarettes smoked by the time traveling people are all rummaged through the ruins, there are only more than a hundred boxes and more than 5,000 cigarettes in total.
It seems that this number seems to be a lot, but in fact, there are more than 300 smokers in the time-travel group, and because of the time-travel incident, many time-travel members also learned to smoke due to their psychological sense of loss.
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In this way, what seems to be a lot of cigarettes is actually distributed to each smoker, only a dozen or so.
For those experienced smokers, more than ten cartons of cigarettes are not much at all.
Under such circumstances, most smokers become economical in smoking.
It is rare for someone like Zhang Feifei to be willing to share a box of cigarettes.
"Let's talk about it, what kind of artillery can we make?"
Zhang Feifei coughed lightly, looked around and asked.
Everyone in the industrial group immediately began to think deeply.
As for the types of artillery, there are not as many choices as rifles.
If it is a front-loaded cannon, then it will definitely be a Napoleon cannon.
This artillery has experienced many battles, large and small, in history, and its reliability and durability have been verified.
If you have a breech-mounted cannon, you have more options, but there are also some technical difficulties.
After a moment of silence, everyone began to discuss, and as time passed, the discussion became more intense.
The key point is the dispute between front-loading guns and breech-loading guns.
After all, only after discussing this point can you continue to choose the type of artillery.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyue was the only silent one, and he was also thinking in his mind.
When it comes to producing front-loading guns, it is the simplest.
The existing machine tools alone can easily produce more than ten artillery pieces every day. As for the artillery shells, it is even simpler.
The only trouble is that the characteristics of the front-loading cannon make it impossible to fire as fast as a mature breech-loading cannon, and it is also more troublesome to use explosive bullets.