PNB Chapter 499: Being jealous.
Chapter 499: Being jealous.
Ye Kun smiled and said, "Then let ordinary families have one wife and one concubine. Give the concubine for free, divide the land, and don't collect head tax. Who still doesn't want it?"
Sang Buyi smirked: "Pretty ones, of course, are wanted. But for those that are not pretty, it's hard to say."
"Then send the pretty ones out first, so that there will be vacancies in the textile factory, and then train the new workers and let them learn Chinese in the factory."
"Okay, I'll discuss it with the Ministry of Revenue and send the beautiful female workers out."
Sang Buyi shook his head and clasped his hands to say goodbye.
Ye Kun shouted: "This matter must be resolved, otherwise, you can just take all those women as concubines!"
Sang Buyi was frightened and ran even faster.
Because Sang Buyi's family already had one wife and three concubines.
Moreover, his wife is a tigress and is always jealous at home.
If Sang Buzhi were given a few more concubines, his life would be miserable!
Ye Kun was deep in thought in his study, wondering what kind of labor-intensive industry could absorb the endless stream of workers that would come in.
Especially female workers.
After returning to the palace in the evening, Ye Kun went to discuss with Wei Caiqin again.
Because Wei Caiqin is in charge of women's work.
Wei Caiqin thought for a moment and said, "Our own daily chemical factories can also absorb some people, such as toothbrush and tooth powder factories, match factories, soap factories..."
"This method can only absorb limited manpower. Moreover, the factories in Chengdu and Chang'an are too far away, and it is not cost-effective to send workers there. I am considering absorbing the laborers in the north in the coastal areas of Qilu, Jianghuai, and the Central Plains.
Yizhou absorbed the laborers from the southwest and the Qiang people, while Chang'an absorbed the laborers from the Western Regions and Rome. "
Wei Caiqin smiled and said, "If it really doesn't work out, send her to a wealthy family to be a maid. They will be assigned uniformly, and you can't refuse them!"
Ye Kun shrugged: "This is the last step, there is no other way."
In ancient China, there were Kunlun slaves, Silla maids, Bodhisattva barbarians, Persian princesses...all of them were foreign populations.
The wealthy families are still willing to accept them.
Ye Kun also has another trick, which is to disrupt the immigrants from all over the country, intermarry and start families, so that they can take root in the land of China in the future.
After one or two generations, they will also be assimilated into the Han culture and become Chinese.
In the blink of an eye, it was April.
The weather is better.
Ye Kun took Ma Zhengyang, the Minister of Industry, and Ye Qingyang, the Minister of Water Resources and Transportation, to inspect the coal mines and iron mines.
Large coal mines and iron mines are all in the north.
Dozens of open-pit coal mines have been opened in Shanxi, providing coal to the vast area north of the Yangtze River.
The coking plant also produced a large amount of coal and diesel to supplement the shortage of gasoline and support the war against Goguryeo and Jiaozhi.
Ma Zhengyang said: "Recently, the large-scale construction in Zhuo County and Chang'an is almost finished. Can the cement we produce be used to pave roads in coal mines and iron mines?"
Ye Kun smiled bitterly: "This cement is never enough. But we still need to pay attention to the internal roads of coal mines and iron mines. In large coal mines and iron mines, let's consider laying small railways."
There is a cement factory near every iron and steel plant.
Almost all the iron slag was made into cement, but it was still not enough.
Ye Qingyang said: "There is a kind of iron sand in the Yellow River that is magnetic. We threw the iron chain into the Yellow River and pulled it up. It was covered with black iron sand. Can it be used to smelt iron and make cement?"
Ye Kun shook his head. "With our current technology, we can't make iron. It should be possible to make cement, but it's not cost-effective. Because the cement plant is built next to the iron plant, it can digest the iron smelting residue and is also convenient for transportation. Going to the Yellow River and building a cement plant specifically may not be cost-effective."
Ye Qingyang said: "You can give it a try and do the math."
"Okay, get some iron sand and have the cement factory technicians try it out."
Ye Kun continued to inspect forward and understand every production link.
Open-pit coal mines are convenient for digging coal, but they have one bad thing: they are prone to water accumulation.
It's raining, so construction cannot be carried out.
As you dig deeper, you have to watch out for landslides.
There is an urgent need for a stable steam engine to deal with the accumulated water in the coal mines.
The person in charge of the coal mine also raised another problem.
There are too many workers during the day and there is a phenomenon of idleness.
There are night shift workers, but the lighting conditions are poor, which makes work inconvenient and can easily lead to work-related accidents, or even major accidents.
Pang Jia followed Ye Kun to investigate and said, "I have designed searchlights for coal mines and iron mines, but the effect was not very good."
Ye Kun asked: "How did you design it?"
"It is to add a concave mirror behind the flame to focus the light. At that time, it was designed for the port lighthouse."
"This... is a little too simple."
Ye Kun called Pang Jia and the technicians to the coal mine office to check Pang Jia's searchlight.
After a while, Ye Kun took out a pen and paper and explained to Pang Jia:
"You are smart and know that you can add a concave mirror behind the flame to focus the light. But you don't know that adding a concave lens in front can also focus the light and shine it farther.
But when you are testing, you will find that the convex lens in front is very heavy and not easy to operate. After observation, analysis and testing, you will find that there is another way to reduce the weight of the lens without affecting the effect..."
In fact, the lens that Ye Kun mentioned is called Fresnel lens, also known as lighthouse lens.
Later searchlights and dance hall spotlights also used this technology.
But the optical knowledge involved is quite complicated.
Ye Kun wrote and drew, and talked for more than ten minutes, but Pang Jia still didn't quite understand what he said.
"Just follow my drawings and make a few to try first." Ye Kun sighed:
"It's my fault too. I didn't think of it before. Once the searchlight is made, it can be used in iron ore and coal mines, as well as in port lighthouses. It can also be used during wars. We can make a car-mounted searchlight that can adjust the direction, which is very useful at night."
Pang Jia scratched his head and said with a smile: "Brother Emperor, when this searchlight is made, we can call it Pang Jia Searchlight, is that ok?"
"No problem!" Ye Kun laughed.
Transparent glass is already available now, so it is no problem to make lighthouse lenses with it.
In addition to searchlights, Ye Kun also asked the Science and Technology City to research mineral lamps, also known as calcium carbide lamps.
The principle of calcium carbide lamp is to use the reaction of calcium carbide and water to generate acetylene gas, which is then ignited to burn and emit light.
Calcium carbide is solid calcium carbide, a basic raw material for the chemical industry. If we can make a calcium carbide lamp, it will be several times brighter than a kerosene lamp.
The key point of the technology is the synthesis of calcium carbide.
Ye Kun spent more than ten days inspecting the iron mines and coal mines.
It's not just about production, but also about the workers' labor intensity, daily meals and hygiene, as well as education and publicity work.
In iron mines, coal mines and cement factories, foreign workers account for up to 30%.
In other words, the total number of foreign laborers has exceeded 300,000.
Those Xiongnu, Jiaozhi people, Qiang people, and Goguryeo people were all mixed in and put into various factories and mines.
Ma Zhengyang smiled and said, "Our factories and mines have now become a gathering of nations. Fortunately, we have these foreign workers, otherwise, our own people would not be enough."
Pang Jia still had the sentiment of loving all and not attacking others. He sympathized with these foreign laborers and asked, "Are these laborers going to work here for the rest of their lives?"