The government does not care, but the miners themselves must take on this job, because after all, the mine veins are the guarantee they rely on for their meals. However, it takes a considerable amount of manpower and material resources to find the mine veins. Without the government's support, the miners' own efforts have achieved very little.

This is the fundamental reason for the shrinking production of hardware ore in Ezhou. The inaction of the mine supervisor has led to the inability to develop new mineral seedlings, while the old caves have been closed one by one due to the exhaustion of mining.

Not only that, probably because of fear of trouble, the government changed from a proportional tax system to a system of paying fixed quantity of mineral taxes, which of course is a guaranteed income for the country. However, for mines with less and less mining volume, the pressure faced by mine managers is increasing.

Of course, the government does not completely ignore this issue. Every time someone organizes to petition, the government will always reduce taxes as appropriate. But taxation is the achievements of the mining supervisors. It reduces their achievements every few days. For officials who regard advanced and political achievements as their only goals, it is no less than cutting off their bodies.

This is the conflict between the government and the mine manager.

In addition, the various disadvantages that the efficiency of the bureaucratic system has decreased with time decommissioning are also reflected in the mining supervision. For example, the superiors and subordinates accept bribes, deduce responsibilities when encountering problems, do not care about the safety of the mine caves, and do not comfort the mine managers who died in the mine disaster, etc.

These are the details that a dynasty has shown from all aspects after entering a period of fatigue.

Bai Yijie just listened quietly to Yun Fusheng's complaints, and did not speak easily, but just asked a few more details occasionally. After Yun Fusheng finished talking about it, he still said in a plain tone: "Go back, I will talk about these questions later."

In this way, the heads I encountered today are all very different, but generally Bai Yijie classified them into the above three categories. Bai Yijie also had his own plans for how to rectify the order of mines and improve ore production.

The next morning, Bai Yijie asked Xu Shiqing to gather the mine doctors from nearby mines to concentrate on the flat ground outside the big house.

Thousands of people gathered inside and outside the big house in a dark and dark manner. The filthy miners looked at Bai Yijie sitting in the hall.

"Everyone is a straightforward person, so I won't say much." Bai Yijie said loudly: "I am entrusted by the Deputy Chief Commander of Jinghu Transport Department, Ezhou Prefectural Office and the Imperial Army stationed in Jiangling Xiangyang and other departments to manage the mining and taxation matters first. There are a few things to be announced to you now."

"First, the minimum salary limit for miners per hour in the mine cave, and the maximum daily working hours for miners!" Bai Yijie raised his voice even higher: "The state governs mines with benevolence and righteousness, and exhausts all brothers for the sake of a mere ore. It is not the original intention of the emperor and the ministers in the court! The emperor governs the people with virtue, but some people try to squeeze miners in different ways in order to complete the taxes of the government. This is the greatest insult to the emperor and the country! Since ancient times, the life and death of miners has been decided by the head and the mine supervisor, but starting today, the Jing-E Dutong Department and the Transport Department have the final say! Any head that violates the minimum salary limit and increases working hours at will can report to the Jing-E Dutong Department's Office in real name!"

As soon as he said this, the inside and outside the main hall were silent. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how true or false the white-faced scholar said. Since Jiang Taigong took iron from the mountain, he has never heard of such a method in the world.

Bai Yijie was confident. When he talked to Zheng Yunming about using new technologies and new equipment in the mining area to increase the output of the mine, the first article talked about suddenly putting these into the current mine, and would never achieve the effect Zheng Yunming wanted.

The implementation of technology cannot be achieved by force-promoting anyone or organization. The spread of any new technology must have its own driving force. Historically, the adoption of new technology was either a serious shortage of production capacity caused by the development of emerging markets, or a shortage of labor caused by large-scale loss of labor due to certain reasons, which made people seek the power of machinery beyond the separate manual labor. If this factor was not present, handicraftsmen in a single closed agricultural civilization environment would rather rely on human power to complete their work than rely on unfamiliar and expensive machinery. This can be called "mechanical phobia" in history.

The power of this mechanical phobia is sometimes unimaginable. After the time of the other plane was delayed for about seven hundred years, and after Western industrial civilization had occupied the Middle Earth market for more than 60 years and the machine industry had an absolute advantage over handicrafts, the vast rural and townships of Middle Earth still survived tenaciously. Even in Western countries, the huge traditional inertia of handicraftsmen made the advancement of new technologies difficult. A technology that could immediately double its productivity always had to be tried by a few priors, and then imitated by everyone, and it took decades to gradually be promoted.

Abandoning social changes and differences in civilization. Pursuing stability, stability and vigor are probably the subconscious that has been engraved into the bone marrow of human beings.

Not to mention that after the Song Dynasty, the supply of manpower, the most traditional source of productivity in handicrafts, reached an unprecedented level. After the investigation of the population after the Nandu, the population density of half of the mountains and rivers increased significantly compared with the past due to the large number of northerners fleeing to the south. In addition, the climate is warmer than the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and the progress of national governance methods, the tens of millions of numbers on the household registration book cannot be fully believed. But what is well known to all people in the world is that there are many people in the Southern Dynasty.

The so-called "southeast is beautiful and prosperous", one of the potential meanings of prosperity is that it is densely populated. Half of the country lacks land, minerals, and various products, but there is no shortage of people. Some of the many achievements in economic and material culture in the Southern Dynasty in history were due to sufficient manpower.

Therefore, the demand for new technologies and new machinery in the mining and metallurgical industries in the Southern Dynasties was even more sluggish. In fact, when many laborers were facing unemployment, almost all inventions that saved manpower, even machinery invented since the Qin and Han Dynasties, degenerated and disappeared during the Southern Song Dynasty. This was not the so-called suppression of craftsman technology by Confucian civilization, but the real market elimination of unsuitable technological inventions.

In order to break this situation, Bai Yijie needs to rely on the coercive power of the government. The so-called limiting of the minimum salary standard and the maximum time limit is naturally nominally to give full play to the benevolence and righteousness and win people's hearts for the court. However, the additional effect that Bai Yijie valued most is the forced increase in the labor costs of the mine. Once the labor is no longer so cheap, the mine has to consider using other methods to save expenses.

The Jing-E Dutong Department has prepared the method to save expenses and is just waiting for them to come to the door by themselves.

Bai Yijie didn't care about everyone's surprise attitude. He believed that Zheng Yunming's means and strength to implement the policy. As long as this order was issued, Zheng Guanren always had a way to start and end it well. He continued: "The production of mines is getting smaller and smaller. According to some information from me, in addition to the fact that there are indeed reasons for the depletion of mine veins, the biggest disadvantage is tax evasion."

"Some mines are shut down during the day and do not work. They secretly light pine branches and torches in the middle of the night to start work, or they pick ore during the day and do not transport them. They secretly smuggle ore out at the middle of the night. What is the purpose? Isn't it just to check the mine supervision? Some officers and soldiers guarding the card have been staying in the mine for a few years and then go back to buy houses and land. Who gives them the money? Who is allowing the country's taxes to be lost in vain?"

He secretly glanced at Li Chaoen, the little Yinkeng standing in the corner, and sweat beads were pouring on his forehead and wiped it with a hand towel.

"From now on, the soldiers in the checkpoints and mines will no longer be sent by the Ezhou Prefectural Office, but will be sent by the Jing-E Metropolitan Commander. The accounts submitted to each pit will be re-verified and approved by the Transportation Department. Once it is found that anyone deliberately evades taxes..."

He swept everyone coldly: "I will never be lenient."

Of course, this is just a short period of time to shake the tiger, but by establishing Zheng Yunming's majesty, no matter how good this opportunity is, it will be gone.

Bai Yijie announced several more decisions one after another.

The official will raise funds to form a special prospecting team, and the costs will be shared by the mine manager, the blacksmith shop and the government. We will focus on finding new veins in the entire Jinghu area, and at the same time study ways to develop new mineral deposits on existing veins.

All mines that adopt the fixed tax system have been completely changed to a proportional tax system, but the frequency and time of mine supervision inspections have been increased to investigate the actual output of each mine in detail.

In addition to mine supervision officials, there are no inspectors, who are responsible for checking the safety and personal protection of mine caves. They urge mine caves to rectify safety measures day and night, and do not be lazy and careless.

He talked and decomposed one by one, and his pen was silent and his writing was not stopped. He was so smart that he thought. Not to mention that the miners were stunned, even the mining supervisors who came from scholars shouted that they had never seen it before. Within half an hour, the mine affairs were arranged properly. The boy held the written announcement, and the mine found someone who could write it again, and then posted it to various places in the Ezhou mine.

Before noon, Bai Yijie had already handled various affairs of the Ezhou mine and told Xu Shiqing and several mine supervisors: "The country is in a critical autumn, and the Tartars will invade every year in the future. Gold, silver, copper and iron are related to the situation ahead. The safety of tens of millions of people and the emperor in the Song Dynasty, and you may think I am exaggerated. But if the mines in Ezhou can achieve real results, they will be the best support for the soldiers fighting on the front line. The chief is brave in the front and is concerned about the mines in Ezhou. Everyone should be careful to solve the problems of the chief, and they will work hard sooner or later to revive the situation of the mining and smelting in Ezhou as soon as possible."

Xu Shiqing and the mine supervisors agreed tremblingly, and then sent Bai Yijie to the mountain pass and bowed to say goodbye.
Chapter completed!