Daming Military Empire

Chapter 623
Siberia in October is already a bit cold, but Luo Zongshan's heart is hot. When he was nested in the small valley of Xingdusi in Shaanxi, he never thought that he would have today.

At that time, although he was not so poor, his family didn't have much money. When the harvest was good, maybe he could eat meat and drink some water and wine every other month or two. If the harvest was not good, At that time, the only thing to do is to drink porridge and batter every day.

Now he is also drinking porridge, but it is breakfast. He didn't have the habit of eating breakfast before, not because he didn't want to eat it, but because he couldn't afford it. At that time, his family usually had two meals a day, one at noon and one in the evening. In the morning, the only thing to drink is the northwest wind. Shaanxi Xingdusi is the authentic northwest wind.

Now he is not drinking ordinary porridge, the thick porridge has obviously added lean meat, and it is not a piece, yes, it is lean meat. He heard about it at the Dusi Bastion at the beginning of this year. Bian is especially suitable for raising pigs, so he bought a few piglets and tried them, and they really grew very fast.

Later, he simply bought hundreds of piglets and let those mothers-in-law who had nothing to do all day to feed them. He built several pigpens alone. Of course, he asked people to raise these piglets not for selling money, but for food. Now, he kills pigs every day, and not just one head, the meat is divided directly, and each household has almost one or two catties.

This kind of thing is not available in all the guards in Xibo. He may be "scorpion shit, the only one." Who told him that he used to be greedy for meat. When he had no money, he was thinking, if he has money in the future Yes, I have to eat meat every day, every meal!
Now, he is rich, and he is still very rich, so his dream of eating meat every day has come true. Even in the morning porridge, he asks his wife to cut half a catty of lean meat and cook it. Go in, and every household in the entire Qianhusuo can eat meat for free every day.

Well, this matter is really weird enough, how rich is he?It's so messed up!

Let's put it this way, since the coal mine was officially mined, his dividends have been more than 100 taels a day, and now his family fortune is more than 1 taels!

The money comes quickly, and it doesn't feel bad to spend it, and he is not that kind of stingy person. Therefore, every household in the entire [-] households has lived a good life, not only eating well, but also wearing good clothes. The house is good, the adobe brick house that was temporarily built last year has long been pushed away, and now every household is a brick house, and it is still a building, a single-door detached house, just like a small villa in later generations.

After a leisurely breakfast, he began to educate his sons. He has three sons. The eldest son joined the third-class army of the Ming Dynasty at the age of 16, and he has great prospects. Now the second son is almost fourteen. He also went to serve as a soldier; his third son was only ten years old, and he was only 20 years old after ten years of study. It seemed that he still had hope of gaining fame, so he planned to train his third son to study and take part in the imperial examination; as for his youngest daughter, she was only seven years old. Many, it's a baby lump, you don't need to learn anything, and you don't need to do anything, just find her a good husband's house in the future.

Looking at his son who was still wheezing and drinking porridge, he straightened his face and said seriously: "Second brother, how is your marksmanship going? Are you lazy?"

The second child raised his head, and asked naively: "Father, why do you want to learn marksmanship? Don't you all use muskets now? They all said that no matter how good your kung fu is, if you shoot down with one shot, what's the use of learning marksmanship?" "

Hearing this, Luo Zongshan directly picked up a chopstick, slammed it on the second child's head, and cursed: "Which bastard said it? It's for laziness, don't you want to learn it? Your father and I have learned guns I don't know yet, if you shoot down, you have to hit the vital point. How can you usually hit the vital point? At that time, you will have to rely on real skills. Nowadays, the rifles and bayonets are used in close combat on the battlefield, which are very similar to long spears. If you learn marksmanship well, you will have a few more lives, you know?"

The second child scratched his head and looked at the middle-aged beautiful woman with aggrieved eyes, wanting his mother to teach his father a lesson, but his mother hugged the younger sister and pampered her, as if she hadn't seen it at all.

Now he has no choice but to respond aggrievedly: "Oh."

Luo Zongshan said to the third child again: "San'er, how is your "Thousand-Character Essay" going? Next spring, the school at the Capital Division will start enrolling students. If you fail the exam, be careful and I will beat you up."

The third child shrank his neck in fright, and Nuonuo said: "I have already memorized it, but there are still many things I don't understand."

Luo Zongshan is quite satisfied with the third son. Hearing that the third son has memorized the "Thousand Characters" by heart, he couldn't help but said with relief: "Well, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Go to your Uncle Wang's house to listen to the lectures. Ask him, he will still give me this face."

The third child hadn't spoken yet, but the fourth girl sitting in her mother's arms said excitedly: "Father, I'm going to Uncle Wang's house to attend classes."

When Luo Zongshan heard the words, he said dotingly: "Little darling, girls don't need to learn that, you can stay at home with your mother and learn to do housework."

The fourth girl refused to obey, twisted her mother's arms and said coquettishly: "No, no, I'm going, I'm going."

Luo Zongshan was cruel, and said with a straight face: "You are not allowed to go, what do girls look like in public?"

The fourth girl remained silent, with tears in her eyes, she looked up at her mother.

The middle-aged beautiful woman coaxed a few words distressedly, then slapped the steel spoon on the table, and scolded angrily: "Old man, what are you doing, to scare the hungry and good-looking cubs, what kind of girl can't show her face in public, how many do you have?" If you're a stinky rich man, you should think of yourself as the master of a rich family, right?"

When Luo Zongshan heard the words, he nodded in fright and said: "Okay, okay, okay, go, go, go."

After all, he dropped his chopsticks and fled in despair.

After he ran out of the house, he immediately ran to the stables and yelled a few times, called a dozen or so strong boys, put on weapons, beat their horses, and ran towards the coal mine.

This coal mine is the basis for the entire [-] households to make a fortune. He takes people to inspect it every day. As for why they bring people with weapons, the main reason is that they have to run twenty or thirty miles in the woods. To Xiong Xiazi or even a tiger, you can't do without weapons.

After riding the horse on the mountain path for about half an hour, a huge open-pit coal mine appeared in front of it. Now it has been dug like a terraced field, and a ground-turning dragon is slowly turning on one of the terraced fields. , hundreds of people behind were pushing two-wheeled dump trucks, holding shovels to shovel the dumped coal into the dump trucks, and soon someone was pushing the full dump trucks to the distant railway station, and at the same time There are also empty cars being pushed over.

This new type of dump truck and digging dragon are provided by the Daming Royal Machinery Group. With these two things, their speed of digging coal has increased. With a bamboo basket, it is not bad for one person to dig a thousand catties a day, but now with a dumper and a dump truck, it is not a problem for one person to dig two to three thousand catties a day!

Luo Zongshan toured the coal mine, chatted with several hundreds of households on duty for a while, and then walked towards the train station.

This is a very special station. There is no station door, only the platform. There is a slope under the platform. Walking up the slope, the height is just as high as the open-top coal carriage. As long as an iron plate is built, the coal can be poured directly into the carriage. .

This time, a car just happened to be full. Seeing the five-section train full of coal leaving the station, Luo Zongshan couldn't help sighing: "Oh, it's a pity that there are too few people. Now the coal diggers are all young and strong in the guard. Other places It is impossible to recruit people at all, otherwise, the ten-car train will be filled quickly, and now the five-car train will take half a day, which is a pity, if there are enough people, the money earned in a day can easily double. times."

Just as he was sighing, an empty train drove into the train station, and a young man in formal attire jumped out of the cab and went straight to the platform.

Luo Zongshan took a look and found that it was Zhang Yue, the personal guard captain of Master Ma Kaima, who commanded Lord Ma Kaima. He hurriedly went up to meet him, and laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, Xiaoyue, long time no see, why are you here?"

Zhang Yue smiled and cupped his hands and said: "Lord Luo, Lord Ma asked me to inform you that the imperial court will send a large number of laborers to work here in a special train in the near future. Do you need manpower?"

Luo Zongshan's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he was joking, just now he was lamenting that no one was working, how could there be no need for manpower!
(End of this chapter)