At the end of April, spring is getting hotter and the day is getting longer.

The working hours of workers grow longer with the increase of daylight. In addition, the weather is hot and the fire is extremely high. More than a dozen weak workers have begun to experience diarrhea, sweating, and weakness.

The Melancholics had experience in dealing with similar incidents. They quickly melted salt into water, treated the dehydrated workers one by one, and sent the seriously ill workers to the hospital.

The processing is quick and quite effective.

But the workers began to complain every day because of this.

Ju Zizhou was in it and felt that doing this was unbearable.

——The daily labor time is too long.

Long-term repetitive physical labor makes people numb, and it seems that thinking is delayed. At the same time, physical fatigue cannot be relieved through sufficient rest, which makes people lose their energy every day and cannot be motivated to do anything. Although they have enough food to supplement, they cannot be saved.

At this time, the first batch of iron tools from the copper and iron furnace were also cast.

That was a batch of iron swords.

Short handle, tooth blade, shaped like a sickle.

The Momen instructed the workers to simply polish the iron sword and then hurriedly transported the barely qualified weapons to Xianyang City.

In the middle of the night, the King of Qin quickly sent people to the copper and iron furnace, strictly guarding the important roads everywhere, and not allowing people to enter and exit at will. The next day, he strictly registered the workers at the construction site, recreated the book, and pulled these people out of their original household registration and included them in the household.

Not long after Ju Zizhou woke up, he was found by the envoy of the King of Qin and pulled into a relatively wide office.

The messenger was the eunuch who had met with Yu Ju Zizhou next to Yiren. He had a short beard and kind face, and seemed very intimate.

"Mr. Ju, please." The messenger put his posture very low.

Ju Zizhou was a little dazed and reacted for a while before he remembered who the other party was. He nodded and asked, "Is there anything wrong with me?"

"The king ordered me to hand over all the manpower, money, and various powers here to Mr. Ju." The messenger smiled, without much flattery: "Mr. Ju, please accept the roster."

Ju Zizhou looked at the pile of bamboo slips behind him and nodded: "So, what are the requirements of the king?"

If you give up all your rights, what you want will inevitably be great.

"The king heard from the master of the throne that Mr. Ju still has a way to make the iron quality even further..." The eunuch looked at Ju Zizhou's face and said, "Although the iron now is beyond the king's expectations,... it is a wonderful thing to be better if it is better!"

Iron, compared to copper, is extremely cheap.

So far, Yiren has not invested much money in the copper and iron furnace. It is only two or three million yuan, that is, two or three hundred kilograms of gold.

And what about Tiege?

Remove the transportation costs of ore and the necessary attempts during smelting. In addition to a little bit of insignificant consumables, the cost of iron itself can be almost ignored.

Moreover, the performance is not bad.

Compared with bronzes, irons are obviously harder, and as weapons, they are sharper after being sharpened.

Although it is a bit brittle compared to the copperware, it may be easier to rust... but can we continue to optimize it?

It's optimized!

Yi Ren is not a fool. He has better performance and cheaper metals to use, so there is no need for him to hold the original bronze ware.

However, each person has his own affairs and needs basic respect for technicians.

Therefore, he delegated all the things on the construction site, including all personnel and financial powers connected with the construction site, to Ju Zizhou.

Ju Zizhou nodded: "Then please ask the envoy to report to Your Majesty. I will make some adjustments to the specific structure of the copper and iron furnace so that the construction site and better technology will be transferred to other places in the future."

"You are the one who decides everything." The messenger bowed his head and said, "By the way, Mr. Ju, if you don't dislike it, please call the villain's name, Zhao Xuan."

"Xuanzi's Xuan?" Ju Zizhou asked.

Zhao Xuan nodded with a smile: "That's right."

"The name is quite grand!" Ju Zizhou smiled: "In addition, report to the king, I want to invite ten doctors at the construction site."

"You can make your own decisions about such trivial matters." Zhao Xuan said.

"Okay, then I'll make my own decision!" Ju Zizhou breathed a sigh of relief: "First of all, this year, copper and iron furnaces will be busy optimizing iron smelting technology to a certain extent, so the number of iron weapons that can be produced will not be large... It mainly takes over the manufacturing work of arrows, and the remaining materials will be used to create some agricultural tools and sell them at low prices to maintain basic expenses, and try not to rely on the King's subsidies for copper and iron furnaces."

"It's of course great to be able to save money. If you can make money more..." Zhao Xuan glanced at Ju Zizhou's face: "That would be better!"

Ju Zizhou nodded: "For this, please don't worry about the king..."

...

After seeing Zhao Xuan away for a long time, Ju Zizhou discovered that the construction site had been surrounded by Qin soldiers.

There are many meanings of surrounding this action, and the most reliable one is Ju Zizhou. It is because Yiren is afraid that too many iron weapons in the construction site will flow out.

——The current corruption of the Qin State administration is not a secret. It is a matter that everyone knows. Although it cannot be said openly on the table, the fact is that.

The nobles made a big fuss, and the Qin officials touched the food and drinks of the whole family. Although they could not be called "eating, they were asked for money," they were definitely not called clean.

If the ironware flows out, even if only a few or more pieces are flowing out every day without stopping, and accumulated for three or five years, it will be a big deal.

Ju Zizhou glanced at the guards Qin soldiers and turned back to the factory.

Then there is the adjustment of the architecture.

The length of work for workers can no longer change blindly with the length of the day, but needs to be standardized.

The second is the adjustment of welfare conditions.

Ju Zizhou drafted a document and asked the Mo people to preach back and forth at the construction site, requiring the Qin people who were interested in continuing to work on the construction site to sign employment documents with the "copper and iron furnace".

Each person has signed for forty years.

——You must know that the average life expectancy at this time is not as high as forty years.

The document was signed and basically solved the unemployment problem that workers have always been worried about.

In fact, it is the responsibility regulation - Ju Zizhou requires all workers to master the technical work of a certain link in the iron smelting process, rather than being stupid enough to only know how to cook and add firewood.

If you don’t study, or can’t learn within a specified time period, your salary will be deducted.

Then came all kinds of pure welfare benefits.

The salary is not very high, or even low.

For example, after being old and weak, and not being able to continue working on the construction site, he would take care of two meals a day, but his wages were only one-third of what he could do when he was working.

When a worker gets sick, the construction site will postpone the doctor.
Chapter completed!