After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

Of course, the salary and benefits will naturally be different as the work content is different.

For example, male workers are required to be strong and have no bad habits, while female workers are required to be diligent and capable, not be pampered, and not slack off.

All personnel must receive unified training upon entering the site.

There will be an assessment after the training is completed.

Only after passing the exam can you officially start working in the factory.

The first batch of sugar factory recruitment provided nearly 100 jobs in Xining.

In addition to the sugar factory, Zhong Ning also built a furniture factory and transferred an experienced but older master from the Military Equipment Bureau to provide guidance.

If he were still in the Armoury, he would definitely not be able to do delicate work due to his age, and would be put aside and eliminated.

But it was different in Xining. He didn't need to do any hands-on work. He only needed to give some guidance courses to the carpenters newly recruited by Zhong Ning.

You have to know that those who can enter the Military Equipment Inspectorate are all top-notch. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a big shot. All the carpenters recruited into the factory can benefit a lot from the guidance of such a person.

In addition, with the reference of some furniture drawings provided by Zhong Ning, I believe these carpenters will be able to continue to innovate on this basis.

Of course, the most important thing is that after Zhong Ning inspected the entire Xining City, he discovered that there were coal mines on the mountains outside the city.

Although this coal mine is located in Xining City and is registered under Li Jun's name, it is actually the property of Prince Lu.

Moreover, the income from the coal mine was also an important way for Li Jun to make money by providing benefits to Prince Lu.

Zhong Ning curled his lips. Whatever the property of Prince Lu was, it belonged to whoever it was registered under. Now that Li Jun had been executed, it naturally belonged to the court.

Zhong Ning asked Hei Lie to take 300 soldiers to take over the coal mine.

Three stewards and supervisors who were said to be from Prince Lu's mansion were beheaded in public, and the coal mine accounts were checked. Only then did they realize to what extent Li Jun and Prince Lu had exploited these miners.

These people had no place to stay, only some thatched sheds. Occasionally, when they were extremely tired, they would rest here.

Their living conditions were poor, and they mostly ate black, lumpy steamed bread. They worked day and night, and it could be said that they worked harder than donkeys but ate worse than pigs.

The money he finally received was less than half of his original salary when he first entered the factory.

The reason is probably that part of the money was deducted for no reason, part of it was taken away by the supervisor, and some of it was deducted for living expenses and accommodation expenses.

When I finally got it, I found that I couldn’t even support my family.

The most important thing is that mining is difficult nowadays. Not only is the efficiency extremely low, but accidents are also frequent. At least several miners die in accidents every month alone.

But even so, there is still a steady stream of people going to the mines to find part-time jobs in order to support their families.

Even if I only work for two months, I can at least earn some money for the family.

After Zhong Ning took over the coal mine, he directly copied it according to the standards he had given to the salt mine before. He built a canteen where it needed to be built, and built a regular factory building where it needed to be renovated. He even ordered people to re-level the road for transporting coal up and down the mountain.

Of course, this is not enough.

Zhong Ning vaguely remembered that honeycomb coal was mentioned in the time-travel novel, so she re-entered the space and copied down the method of making honeycomb coal.

In addition to honeycomb coal, there is also a simple coal stove.

The entire coal mine needs to be adjusted from the inside out. Selling coal alone will not produce high sales, especially in winter, when people will only buy coal when they are very cold.

According to the account books, most of this coal was taken to Prince Lu's fiefdom. But what was it used for?

You know it if you think about it.

There are iron mines in Prince Lu's fiefdom, so most of this coal is naturally used for smelting, and in order to make the accounts look good, the price is extremely low.

Most of the profits were taken away by Prince Lu.

As for the remaining small part, it belongs to Li Jun and this group of miners.

Someone will definitely say, why go through so much trouble? Wouldn’t it be better to just transfer the coal mine to Prince Lu and not have to pay any money?

But you have to know that this is around the capital.

If Prince Lu had any property, that would be a huge handle.

So they came up with this roundabout way.

Fortunately, Zhong Ning had delivered all the correspondence between Li Jun and Prince Lu to Emperor Yong. It seemed that Emperor Yong had his own ideas on how to deal with this vassal king.

After finishing all this, Zhong Ning took the opportunity to send a letter to Fang Ping who was in the capital.

She remembered Fang Ping had mentioned before that there was a genius in their Academy of Sciences who had developed gears by himself. Zhong Ning wrote about the situation in the letter, roughly explaining that the coal mine here needed something that could easily transport large items.

Ask them to help see if they can make it.

Zhong Ning was originally a liberal arts student. She was not just bad at physics and chemistry, but very bad. Until now, she didn't even understand what a magnetic field was.

So she only roughly knew that if the gears were used properly, they could probably be made into lifting tools.

Professional matters should be left to professionals. She only raised questions to see if the other party could conduct research based on the existing problems.

It would be great if we could figure it out, but it’s okay if we can’t.

Anyway, the situation can't be worse than it is now.

Zhong Ning arranged everything and everything went smoothly.

Murong Yun returned to the county government office dejectedly.

He hid his identity and went to the front line in the name of an ordinary yamen runner to check the real situation.

Of course, there are also those who want to persuade the gentry to cooperate with the government in handling cases through their own efforts, not relying on their so-called status.

But I didn't expect that they would humiliate me and kick me out.

He was the prince of the current dynasty and had never suffered such humiliation. The most important thing was that he had not even won an argument with the other party, because the other party had no martial ethics and did not argue with him at all, but directly scolded him.

For the first time, Murong Yun felt powerless in the debate. He finally realized what Zhong Ning had said before: not everyone has been to school, and not everyone understands your profound truths.

For ordinary people, the most important thing is to protect their own survival and be able to survive in this world.

Zhong Ning was just about to enlighten him when he heard the doorman come to report that Miss Zhang, the daughter of Marquis Pingning, was here to visit!

It is also the time to plant sweet potatoes in spring. Zhang Wanting came at this time, one to provide guidance on planting, and the other to visit Zhong Ning.

Last year, Zhang Wanting planted a small number of potatoes because it was a trial period. The same was true for sweet potatoes, only a small number were planted.

Both of them are people who only know how to eat and are not very good at growing.

Therefore, in order to successfully grow these high-yield crops, it takes time to explore and experiment.

This time she came to Xining because Xining City is the hometown of Pingning Hou. There are at least 800 acres of farmland here, which is suitable for large-scale trial planting.

Zhong Ning had a brief meeting with Zhang Wanting, and then sent someone to take her directly to the Zhang family's farm.

Zhang Wanting looked at her resentfully, and Zhong Ning had to comfort her, saying that as long as she could grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, it would be a great achievement.

She will definitely ask the emperor for credit!

Only then was Zhang Wanting satisfied.

Things in the world happen one after another. Just after seeing off Zhang Wanting, three young tutors arrived.

These three people are Murong Yun’s teachers. They came to Xining specifically to guide Murong Yun in his studies.

When Murong Yun heard this, his eyes lit up slightly, and he immediately went out to greet the three teachers in person. He said that he had not received much guidance from the teachers recently, and he did not understand many things very well.

Now it’s okay, the teacher is here.

He also had someone to ask.

Of course, this is not to say that Ajie is bad, but because Ajie speaks too directly, and even her ideas go against what the teacher taught.

This made him unable to tell which one was true.

Murong Yun warmly welcomed the three young masters in.