I am engaged in construction in Datang

The mine administration building.

Some room.

"What do you think of the rules of my mine?" Li Yin looked at the dozens of people around her with a smile in her eyes.

Everyone was shocked.

For a moment I even forgot to speak.

How can these slaves look like slaves?

They are just like a group of soldiers who follow strict rules, but they don't learn how to use swords, guns, sticks or clubs. They just follow the rules.

Moreover, they saw clearly that there was no numbness on anyone's face, which was completely different from the other slaves who were working hard.

These people can work for at least another 30 years!

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Master Li, can you teach us this method?" Everyone's eyes were full of desire.

"No hurry, there's something else I want to show you!"

Li Yin nodded in agreement and told everyone not to worry.

After the slaves left the mining area, Li Yin brought a group of people to the dormitory building where they lived.

Several three-story townhouses are arranged in an orderly manner.

"Master Li, you're not going to ask us to see where they live, are you?" asked a middle-aged man who refused to visit.

He had seen where the prisoners lived, and the smell was unbearable.

"Boss Zeng, don't be so quick to refuse. Wait and see first." Li Yin kept the crowd in suspense and led everyone upstairs.

Let’s start from the third floor.

The dormitory manager opened the door of Room 301, and everyone filed in, and then were shocked again.

"This is more orderly than my own family!" Boss Zeng shouted.

Isn’t it just more orderly than his family?

Look at the way that quilt is folded, is that something a human can do?

And there was no bad smell in the room, which showed that everyone was keeping it clean.

And the toothbrushes were all facing in the same direction.

Is the person in this dormitory sick?

Li Yin took them to visit each dormitory one by one. They were all so clean and tidy that everyone had gradually become numb.

It's not that the other person is sick, but that Zhuangzi asked for it.

"This is to train their solidarity and obedience. Everyone is the same, so those who are different always have greater psychological pressure."

Li Yin continued: "Actually, this makes management more convenient."

Everyone thought about it for a moment and understood.

After the tour was over, the joggers all came back, and it was only 6:15.

Thousands of people stood in the square and marched in orderly steps into the cafeteria one by one to get their meals.

The food in the canteen is very good. After all, these people have to do hard labor. There are two kinds of porridge, salty and sweet, and there are a few side dishes, steamed buns, meat and vegetable dumplings, and meat and vegetable pancakes.

The plate is big, so you can get enough food at one time.

After everyone has finished their meal, they place their plates on the table and stand still at their seats until everyone has finished their meal.

The chief stood at the front, and a squad leader beside him walked out.

"Mercy for the farmers, plant a grain of millet in spring, one or two!"

After he finished shouting, all the soldiers and slaves in the cafeteria started to speak: "In spring, plant a grain of millet, and in autumn, harvest ten thousand grains..."

After reciting the poem, the class teacher yelled, "Sit down!"

In a flash, thousands of people gathered in unison, then sat down and concentrated on eating without a single sound of talking.

After eating, some people would go to the dormitory to get their textbooks and wait until 7:30 to go to work. They could read with the books in hand. This was allowed by the mine.

After all, mining is physical work, and it is impossible for everyone to do it all the time. There will always be times when you feel tired.

When you are tired, you can sit down and read. These will all require exams.

In the mine, it doesn't matter whether you are lazy or not, as long as you complete the required amount every day, you can use the rest of the time as you like.

Of course, you can also continue digging, and the extra ore will be converted according to points.

Points are very important. If you want to buy things outside, you have to spend points.

Promotion in position does not consume points, but it depends on the total amount of points.

So basically everyone would work in the mine for eight hours every day.

上午7:30到11:30，下午2:00到6:00，六点下矿吃饭，6：50还要去上课，一直到晚上十点半才会结束。

Everyone is so busy that they have no time to think about anything else.

At the beginning, some people were planning to escape because it was too painful and they just couldn't learn those things called pinyin.

So everyone went back to the dormitory and hid in the toilet to make plans.

Then they were discovered by the dormitory manager, and everyone who committed the crime made a self-criticism in public.

What a shame!

Afterwards, some people planned to escape, but they all fell asleep while talking in bed at night...

The next day, I ate a big chicken drumstick in the cafeteria. In the evening, I was educated again. When I returned to the dormitory, I had forgotten everything we discussed the night before.

This went on day after day until these people were tortured to the point of numbness.

Li Yin appeared.

Owner Li said that starting from the fourth year, there will be free quotas every year.

As long as those with high scores pass the ideological and political education test, they can be restored from their slave status to the status of citizens of the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, they can choose to continue working in the mine, and the village will pay them. If they have wives and children in Tuyuhun, the village will help bring their wives and children over to live together.

You can also choose to leave, go back to your hometown or do something else.

Everyone was excited.

Some brave people even asked Li Yin if she could help send a letter home to tell his wife and children that he was still alive and asked them not to worry.

Li Yin agreed and sent people to Tuyuhun at full speed to help find people and deliver the message.

I have looked for everything I could find, and even brought back quite a few letters from home. I am still trying to look for the things I can't find.

The man burst into tears when he received the reply letter from his wife and children. His wife could not write, so she asked someone from the farm to write it for her and then gave her a keepsake, such as jewelry.

When the people sent by Zhuangzi saw that the other party was in financial difficulty, they would lend a hand and arrange some leisurely work for them at the salt mines run by merchants from the Central Plains.

Adults don’t care, but the children must be well fed. These people have no men in their families, and it’s not easy for the women to raise the children.

Li Yin didn't want to see a loving couple being separated because of this tragedy.

The defeated Tuyuhun soldiers had never seen such a situation before. Their lips trembled and they were unable to speak. Some even knelt down and kowtowed to Li Yin.

A long time ago, they all thought that they would die of exhaustion in the mines, and as for their wives and children, they didn't dare to think about them at all.

A group of people from merchant families followed Li Yin from morning to night and also attended ideological education classes.

Li Yin kept introducing until her tongue was blistered.

Everyone returned to the administration building.

"Think about it, my friends. If Tuyuhun became a real territory of the Tang Dynasty, wouldn't it be easier to use the salt mines and grassland resources there? And you wouldn't have to worry about accidents when doing business!"

Li Yin drank tea and said, "You bought them for only a few thousand guan, and you would have earned it back a hundred times in ten years' work. Why do you have to hold on to them? A living person is always more valuable than a dead person."

"Why do people in the village speak the Central Plains dialect? Why do they teach ideology and morality?"