Sitting on the throne, Liu Che looked through the various documents brought back by Zhang Tang.
These information are one foot high!
Liu Che gave a detailed introduction to the changes in Nanyang County in recent years. Liu Che was filled with emotion after reading it.
In the past four years or so, the situation in Nanyang has really undergone earth-shaking changes.
The total industrial and agricultural output value, total population, number of workers, and number of slave labor all rank first in the country.
Today's Nanyang County is not only the largest county in the Han Dynasty, but also probably one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
Its population density is almost comparable to that of Chang'an and Linzi.
In just these seven months of this year (from winter to October to the present), Nanyang County has produced more than two million jins of pig iron, 300,000 jins of refined iron, and 100,000 jins of crude steel. It has even produced 10,000 jins of steel.
Good steel of average steel quality for future generations!
Although converted into the output of future generations, it is roughly equivalent to a small township iron smelting plant with high pollution and high energy consumption.
But in this world before the Christian era, it was undoubtedly cheating.
Just those two million kilograms of pig iron are worth more than tens of millions.
It can be made into 100,000 swords or 50,000 curved plows.
However, in order to produce this steel, more than 200 slave workers were killed in the furnaces and smoke in seven months.
There are more than 500 people suffering from terminal diseases, including even 100 Nanyang residents.
Within a radius of 100 miles around the base, no birds or animals are allowed, no vegetation grows, the rivers are seriously polluted, and the groundwater is almost no longer drinkable.
This is the price of industry.
It has never been a warm and affectionate thing, and there is no reason to explain it.
During the Industrial Revolution, the whole of London was shrouded in smog, and few lower-class workers lived past the age of thirty.
Large numbers of child laborers died in factories.
At the same time, Paris, France, and the Ruhr, Germany, were not much better.
In the Thames and Rhine rivers, even the shrimps were all dead at one time, and the water was black and smelly.
It took Europeans fifty years after World War II to barely restore their ecology.
As for the Minzhu Lighthouse Country, the situation is even worse.
Even in the new century, the excessive levels of heavy metals in the five Great Lakes of the United States are still shocking. All the fish and shrimps in these places are inedible. What kind of Asian carp are rampant? Do you really think that the United States does not eat it? It is really inedible!
It will kill you if you eat it!
Therefore, without industry, there will be no pollution. If we want industrial development, pollution is inevitable.
At least, in Liu Che's understanding, even in the new century when environmental protection technology has become very advanced, if you want to develop industry, pollution cannot be avoided.
As for now?
Pollution and exploitation are industry, and industry is pollution and exploitation!
And it is the most serious and inhumane way!
The only good news for the current Han Dynasty is that there are many, many Yi Di in this world.
In traditional Chinese values, Yi and Di are equal to beasts that walk on two legs. They are used to work and develop industry. No one will chirp. The only Lu and Ru who may chirp are already dying.
The remaining Holy Mothers were also defeated and became a piece of scattered sand, with nothing to fear.
The problem now is obvious.
We want to continue to develop and expand Nanyang's heavy industry and build it into China's Ruhr.
Then, in the future, the supply of slave labor must be guaranteed.
But... now, the labor supply potential of the kingdoms in the southwest Yishan Mountains has been basically tapped out.
Even for the monkeys in the Cochin jungle, there are not many that can be caught.
After all, it's not just Nanyang's blast furnaces that need cheap labor.
There are also sugarcane plantations in Cangwu and Yulin, rice cultivation in Jiaozhi and South Vietnam, whaling business in Anton, and even the workshops of the landlords and nobles all over the world, also need a large number of cheap labor.
And the total population of the entire Southwest Yi and Indochina Peninsula is now still 4 million?
This raises a big question mark.
Later generations of Omi ghosts also encountered similar dilemmas.
In the end, though, Uncle Black Africa saved their career.
But now, Liu Che needs the people of Third Brother!
However, the problem is that the current third brother is still too far away from China.
Therefore, the current Han Dynasty urgently needs to find a temporary alternative source of labor.
"How many manpower does Nanyang County still lack this year?" Liu Che put down the materials in his hand and asked Zhang Tang.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, at least three thousand more workers are needed!" Zhang Tanggongshen said: "In order to barely maintain the current production, if it is to be expanded and increased, then the manpower required will probably double!"
Zhang Tang today is undoubtedly much more mature than he was more than four years ago.
He has gradually become a qualified professional Legalist bureaucrat.
In Legalist thinking, the process is not important at all. Even if blood is shed and millions of people are used as sacrifices, as long as the result meets their expectations, they will not hesitate and execute it ruthlessly.
What's more, all those who died were Yi Di, so there was even less psychological pressure.
Therefore, although more than 30,000 people died in the blast furnaces in the past four years in order to produce these steels, Zhang Tang still acted as if nothing had happened.
It's as if what died was not a person at all, but just some tools that were consumed.
What Liu Che needs is people like Zhang Tang.
However, no matter how strong Zhang Tang is, he obviously cannot create labor force out of thin air.
Liu Che pondered for a moment and then said: "Last year, Master Wang captured tens of thousands of Dawan, Daxia and Kangju prisoners of war under Gaoque. I will hand over all of these people to Aiqing. Aiqing can use them first...
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Judging from the current expansion rate of Nanyang Iron and Steel Base, it can easily swallow two to three thousand lives a year.
If the scale is further expanded, it would not be unusual for 10,000 people to die a year.
You know, when the Japanese Empire engaged in industry, hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers died just to build railways.
Nowadays, it is not too much for Liu Che to use tens of thousands of Greeks to make steel for the Han Dynasty.
Anyway, they will definitely die and they will definitely have no future.
At least, Liu Che never heard in later generations that there were any Greeks in Central Asia and South Asia.
Since they will die sooner or later, then they should contribute their own strength to the progress of mankind!
"No!" Zhang Tang was overjoyed when he heard this. With these tens of thousands of free labor, at least in the next one or two years, he won't need to worry about workers' problems.
But Liu Che knew that this could only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
The Han family still needs a stable source of cheap labor.
Thinking of this, Liu Che said to Zhang Tang: "Before you came to the capital, I summoned Lord Guiping and Lord Fengren of Linqiong to come to the capital. At this moment, the two princes have also prepared a banquet for you in Qi'an in Chang'an.
Perhaps Aiqing can reach a consensus with the two lords..."
Zhang Tang was shocked when he heard this.
Lord Guiping and Lord Fengnen are the biological fathers of the emperor's two beloved concubines.
That is, Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying from Linqiong.
These two are not good people.
In Southwest Yi and Jiaozhi, their bad reputation is enough to make children stop crying.
Over the years, these two Han patriarchs, relying on the royal family, have used their power to stir up troubles and sow discord among the southwestern barbarians. So far, more than a dozen small countries and dozens of tribes have been destroyed because of them.
They are currently the number one slave traders in the world.
Just in the mines and workshops of these two men, it is said that thousands of lives are lost every year.
In addition, they also joined forces to monopolize and control the most famous Bo slave trade in the world today.
A carefully trained and trained female slave from Bo country only costs five thousand gold at most in Bo country, but when resold to Chang'an, it can easily cost hundreds of gold, and the profit is as high as a hundred times!
Therefore, in order to get more and better Bo slaves, these two men did everything they could.
Legend has it that there was a princess in a certain country in the southwestern Yi who was naturally beautiful and stunning in appearance. After these two people learned about it, they tried their best to destroy her country. Then they kidnapped her to the country of Bo, trained her carefully, and finally sent her to Pyongyang.
Become the concubine of the Joseon King.
Even Zhang Tang didn't have a good impression of these two heads of state who did all kinds of evil and could be called devils on earth.
However, what Zhang Tang and the nobles in the world did not expect was that these two heads of state had a very high reputation in Guanzhong and Shu County.
Because they funded the construction of Baoxie Road, which opened up the transportation between Shu County and Guanzhong, and also benefited several counties near the project.
At the same time, the two heads of state joined the Shaofu's policy of counterfeit farm tools.
This allowed the people of Guanzhong and Shu counties to borrow farm tools produced by them.
A Quyuan plow with a market value of more than 5,000 yuan can be bought from their workshop for only 1,000 yuan.
Then, the common man only needs to repay five hundred yuan every year for ten consecutive years, and he can turn that precious bent-column plow into his own property.
The most important thing is that if there is a problem with the Quyuan plow that the farmer borrowed under the guise, or there is a quality problem, it can be repaired or even replaced for free.
This is simply the best way to win people's hearts.
Up to now, in almost the entire Shu County and Guanzhong area, the reputation of the two royal abbots is even better than that of Bo Dou's cousin, and only second to the Yi family's cousin who is now invincible.
There are even people in Shu County setting up sacrifices to commemorate them.
I have to say that this is really a huge irony.
These two demons, whose hands were stained with blood and were as good as Bai Qi, actually gained the support and love of the people.
As for Zhang Tang, he had worked hard and worked hard for the people in Nanyang over the years, persuading and guiding him. He almost knelt down and kowtowed to the elders, but he only received a few words of praise, and even countless praises.
People hate and are hostile to him behind his back.
This made Zhang Tang really mentally unbalanced.
As the saying goes, people who work together are enemies, so Zhang Tang didn't have much favorable impressions of the two abbots.
However, he is a smart man and knows how to hide his emotions.
"No!" Zhang Tang said with slight respect.
Liu Che looked at him and nodded. Liu Che basically knew everything Zhang Tang had done in Nanyang over the years.
You know, Zhang Tang is always with Ning Cheng!
And who is Ning Cheng?
That is a vicious dog that is always thinking about climbing up!
It is very rare for Zhang Tang to be able to convince Ning Cheng.
However, for some things, Liu Che felt that he still had to listen to Zhang Tang's introduction in person, so he asked: "Ai Qing has done a very good job in Nanyang these years. Even the censors are full of praise for the farmland and channels they have opened up.
...However, I would like to hear from Aiqing what the people on the side of the Nanyang Blast Furnace Base think of the blast furnace..."
The people in Nanyang's view of those terrible monsters that breathe thick smoke and discharge sewage all day long will, to a large extent, become the view of people all over the world regarding these blast furnaces built at their doorsteps.
The Chinese are a nation with a strong awareness of environmental protection.
As early as in ancient times, the Three Kings and Five Emperors have paid attention to the harmony between man and nature.
The principle explained in the Book of Changes is the word balance.
In the thinking of the Chinese people, only the harmony of yin and yang and the balance of the five elements can the weather be smooth and the country and the people be safe. The development of thought since the Spring and Autumn Period has connected man and nature, heaven and earth, and national politics.
In this era when the emperor's labor and management are responsible for even solar eclipses, the rivers are dirty and the air is turbid, which is difficult for people to accept and makes people think wildly.
Liu Che has seen in later generations how simple people opposed the construction of px, garbage recycling stations, and even telecommunications base stations near their residential areas.
He doesn't want to face a large-scale opposition in the future.
Therefore, taking precautions and understanding the people's thoughts first, and then making targeted policy explanations is a way to alleviate people's worries.
Of course, Liu Che knew that the most important thing was to let the people feel the benefits brought by it.
This is like if in future generations, before building a px, they would first provide benefits to the people, and then do enough to protect the environment. The people will be soft-spoken and short-handed. Liu Che believes that the opposition will be much smaller.
After hearing this, Zhang Tang thought for a while and said: "Reporting to your majesty, I did encounter a lot of resistance in Nanyang... However, thanks to your majesty's great blessing, the efforts of the ministers, and the admiration of the people, the problem is not big..."
But in fact...
Zhang Tang knew in his heart that the people within a radius of three hundred miles around the blast furnace base did not have a positive view of those towering furnaces at all.
Over the years, he has relied solely on high-pressure rule and harsh laws to maintain the normal operation of the base.
In the process, people even died.
Therefore, he was repeatedly scolded by the local gentry, and even three elders chased him three streets with a cane.
But what can he do?
This is a task assigned by the emperor. The people of Nanyang must obey if they understand it, and if they don't understand it, they must obey.
What's more, Zhang Tang felt that Nanyang people had taken advantage of this matter.
If there was no blast furnace base, how could Nanyang have the channels that now rank first in the country? If it were not for the slave workers in the blast furnace and the large sums of money allocated by the country, what would he use to build so many channels? What would he use?
Build so many roads?
Not to mention, the railway carriage connecting Suiyang and Nanyang that started construction in Nanyang this year.
These are all brought by the blast furnace base.
For this reason, it is no big deal for the people of Nanyang to put up with the smog and sewage.
Back then, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, but he didn’t ask the people of the world!
This is also the way Legalist bureaucrats think.
I think you are right. Common people and gentry should stop being nagging and just obey orders. You may not understand now, but you will definitely understand and agree with me in a hundred years!
I will be sacrificed like Simon Leopard.
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Today, the author's Jun family's community had a complete power outage, and the call did not come back until 10 o'clock in the evening. This chapter was coded at a relative's house.
Therefore, today’s outbreak has been postponed to tomorrow. Please forgive me.
I also recommend a friend's book "The Little Marquis of the Tang Dynasty" (to be continued.)
