It is almost impossible for Licheng and Du Kang City to complete the city before the beginning of winter. However, if they squeeze each other, it is still okay for the supporters to spend the winter safely.

It is common sense to sell woodcutters for a hundred miles, and to sell woodcutters for a thousand miles.

At this time, Liu Bei could no longer use common sense to infer.

More than half of the construction of Licheng City, and most of the construction of Du Kang City. The cold winter is approaching, and stocking up enough firewood and charcoal to survive the winter safely is the top priority.

Fortunately, there is this wild forest.

Firewood is firewood. The big ones are called firewood, and the small ones are called firewood.

When Liu Bei was young, he heard that a relative of his subordinates had a family member was frozen to death. At that time, he was mourning his misfortune and angry that he did not fight. The north was ripe every year, and the wild forests were everywhere. There were plenty of time to cut firewood and chop wood. If you work hard, how could the firewood and the whole family be frozen to death?

Later I learned that in addition to land rent, there were also heavy taxes and labor service.

During the slack season, Qimin would be drawn in large quantities, building roads, bridges, and cofferdams. The laborers at home were withdrawn from labor, leaving only women and children at home, so they had no time to cut firewood and chop firewood. The whole family would even be frozen to death. Otherwise, they would have to pay two thousand yuan a month to replace them with others.

How can Qimin get two thousand coins?

Liu Bei was speechless for a long time after understanding the causes and consequences.

The reason why Shaojunhou was praised for his kindness and righteousness was not only low taxes, but also never used people in vain. Two communication channels and two cities were built in large cities. The labor used was all calculated as wages. A luxury house worth one million yuan. A house built with heavy wood and heavy materials was extremely low. Shaojunhou also allowed to buy it on credit first and repay it for many years. No interest was charged.

A strong laborer is two hundred yuan a day, a healthy woman is one hundred and fifty yuan a day, and a weak woman is eighty to one hundred yuan. A strong laborer is six thousand yuan a month. Apart from the severe winter and hot summer, you can get 60,000 yuan a year. A house can be paid off in two years. The fifty acres of beautiful fields each household receives are free of money.

With such treatment, how could the people of Huai Si Mountain not move here!

Cutting off firewood is not about cutting down wood. It is about cutting off excess branches. Cutting off the branches will also help trees survive the winter. When the flowers bloom next spring, the broken branches will re-emerge. This is repeated. Cutting off firewood requires strong labor. Women and children can only go to the wild forest and pick up the fallen dead branches to make firewood. Therefore, the big ones are called firewood, and the small ones are called firewood.

Lou Sang, Xilin, Du Kang, tens of thousands of people live together. It is far from enough to pick up firewood. The firewood from nearby prefectures and counties moves forward to Lou Sang on land and water, and continuously transports it to Lou Sang. There are also many woodcutters who push a cart of firewood to Lou Sang for sale.

"Four Minutes": "In February, harvest firewood and charcoal. When the charcoal is gathered, do not discard it. Mash, sieve, boil rice and soak it (rice water) and stew it, and then pound it to cook. The balls are like chicken (eggs), and exposed to dryness. For use in the cage furnace, it will be used to make fire. It will be able to reach the dawn all night, firm and durable, and more than ten times the charcoal."

The fire in the cage furnace refers to the fire in the smoked cage and the fire in the furnace.

The charcoal mentioned here refers to charcoal. Cutting firewood and burning charcoal in the south mountain. Burning wood into charcoal is very important for a densely packed place like Lou Sang. Charcoal is obtained by dry distillation of wood. There is no smoke or odor during burning, no flame, no sparks, low ash, large heat, long burning time, clean and safe.

Lou Sang and firewood are collected. Firewood is mostly used to burn boilers and provide hot soup heating. Charcoal is used to stew pots, boil wine, and lavender.

Apart from the firewood and charcoal, there is also coal at this time.

Nowadays, coal is called carbonite, black firewood, black gold, and burning stone. The "Shan Hai Jing" first recorded the existence of coal and was called "Stone Nirvana".

Coal was one of the earliest energy sources used by our ancestors. During the Warring States Period, there were records of using coal for military purposes. "Mozi Beijiu": "A hundred per 100 coal weighs for 40 kilograms, but if the carbon is burned, the furnace is filled and covered, so that the air will not be released."

During the Western Han Dynasty, coal was mined and used in the Central Plains. Later generations found burned coal and unburned coal cakes in the kangs and iron-making sites of the Han Dynasty.

This shows the era Liu Bei was in. The Central Plains had used coal as a heating energy and iron smelting energy, and was widely used. Iron smelting generally must be close to the fuel production area. "Salt and Iron Theory": "Where the salt smelting is the main collusion (arrival) and the iron charcoal is close to the mountains and rivers." The "charcoal" here refers to coal.

At present, coal mining technology is becoming more complete and combustion technology is becoming more mature. Coal mining and use have been further developed.

Around the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao built three platforms based on the city: the bronze bird, the golden tiger, and the ice well. One of the ice wells, Taichung, stored a large amount of coal. About a hundred years later, Chen Yun, a Western Jin Dynasty writer, came to Santai and saw the graphite (coal) stored by Cao Cao in Santai. It was very novel, so he wrote a letter to the mainland machine.

The letter said: "I went to Santai in a day, and Cao Gong hid hundreds of thousands of kilograms of graphite. He burned it here and it was used again. However, people in the smoke did not know that, and I would rather see it?" The combustible graphite mentioned here is coal.

Zuo Si of the Western Jin Dynasty said in "The Wei Du Fu": "The Salt Pond of Mojing, Xuanzi Su Liquid". According to the note of Li Shan, a Tang Dynasty man in "The Wei Du Fu", "There is a graphite well in the west of Ye, Gaoling, and Boyang City, with a depth of eight zhang."

At that time, coal was called graphite, ink wells were graphite wells, and graphite wells were coal wells. The depth of the well was eight zhang, which refers to the depth of the wellbore. It did not include the depth of the underground tunnel. At that time, the coal mining of eight zhang was used to mine coal, which shows the scale of its production.

At this time, the nearest coal-producing area to Zhuo County is Dai County, followed by Wei County.

Wu'an County, which is "Wu'an iron smelting", was in Wei County. The flower iron used by Lou Sang was transported from Wu'an.

"Shui Jing Zhu": "The Huangshui also flows into Wuzhou River in the east, and then passes through the north of Guting in the east, and combines with the west stream of the volcano. The water guides the source of the volcano flows northwest. There is a fire well on the mountain, which is sixty or seventy steps north and south, and is about a foot wide. The source is deep and cannot be seen bottom. The flames rise often like a slight thunder sounds. If you use grass to cuàn to drive fire), smoke will rise and fire." The volcano recorded in the article is the Datong coal mine area in later generations.

At this time, it was located in Dai County. Now the Xianbei attacked the border and often plundered. One out of ten people in Dai County was abandoned, and all industries were abandoned. If you want coal, you can only go to Wu'an.

There is no hurry now. There is enough firewood and charcoal. If there are more and more people in the city, it is obviously not enough to rely on a wild forest within a radius of a hundred miles. Liu Bei is preparing for the future and is preparing to stockpile coal cakes. Just as Cao Cao has hidden tens of thousands of kilograms of graphite in Taichung, the ice well, which is an intention.

The miniature topographic map of the entire fiefdom was also created by Su Bo. It was merged with the topographic map of Lousangyi and was placed in the middle of the study on the fifth floor. The wild forests, white zes, hills, rivers and canals, and cities were clearly visible at a glance. It was spectacular. It was a hundred miles away and could no longer see the whole picture. Licheng, Du Kang, and Liu Bei had to take a wheel boat to check it in a few days. The two supervising construction sites would change every time. The walls of the heavy building rose from the ground. The giant trees dug from the wild forest were planted on both sides of the roads in the city, arranged in a row, and thus became a tree-lined avenue. There were also cattle, sheep, chickens and dogs that moved north along the way with their family, scattered among them. The newly built cities became more and more popular.

He was an official for a hundred days. Guo Zhi and Guan Ning were already well-versed in political affairs. If he was an official for a thousand days, he would become a great talent.
Chapter completed!