Chapter 1295 Recruiting

Under Bai Feng's instructions, the servants of the Hanzhong Marquis' Mansion quickly prepared a notice to recruit miners.

Soon, the people in the city saw the notice to recruit miners posted on the notice board.

"Mining, although the treatment given by the Hanzhong Marquis is very good, I am not interested."

After reading the notice, a citizen shook his head and walked away.

After reading the notice, most of the people had no interest in mining, even if they were mining for Bai Feng and the treatment was still very good.

The main reason was that the people in Hanzhong lived a good life. Even if the treatment for mining for Bai Feng was higher than the pay for their current work, most people did not choose to mine.

The main reason was that the danger of mining was still too high, and now they were only allowed to mine when dealing with some prisoners.

So the notice to recruit miners was posted for several days, and few people came to sign up.

"This won't work!"

Bai Feng couldn't help but think after learning about the recent recruitment situation from the servants.

Originally, Bai Feng thought that if he offered such generous treatment, it would be easy to recruit a group of miners.

He didn't expect that he made the people of Hanzhong live too well. Even if he offered generous treatment, most of the people of Hanzhong had no intention of mining.

"It seems that I still have to go to Yizhou to recruit workers this time."

In the end, Bai Feng decided to go to Yizhou. If the treatment for recruiting miners is raised, the silver in Bai Feng's hands will be a bit stretched.

After all, the R&D center, Yamatai, and nitroglycerin/oil explosives workshop all require a lot of silver.

Although the soap workshop and steam engine production line can bring great profits to Bai Feng.

But after Bai Feng opened the mine, these ores were not sold to the outside world at all. They were all kept for building railways and for use in the R&D center.

It can be said that every penny invested in the mine is a cost, without profit.

So Bai Feng sent people to Yizhou to recruit miners.

Of course, the treatment for recruiting miners in Yizhou is not as good as in Hanzhong.

But the basic treatment of food and accommodation remains unchanged.

At the same time, Bai Feng also sent a letter to Xiahou Dun, explaining the reason why he was recruiting miners in Yizhou.

After all, it is unrealistic for the people now to want to move freely, and Bai Feng needs a lot of miners.

After receiving Bai Feng's letter of explanation, Xiahou Dun directly replied to Bai Feng, saying that he could recruit as many miners as he wanted.

This was mainly because Bai Feng explained to Xiahou Dun that recruiting miners to open mines was mainly to increase the output of the steam engine production line.

And Xiahou Dun also learned that Bai Feng would build a new steam engine production line at the end of this year and put it into production at the beginning of next year.

The servants of the Hanzhong Marquis' Mansion who went to Yizhou to recruit miners posted the recruitment notice, and soon some Yizhou people came to sign up.

For the people in the villages and towns of Yizhou, the treatment of mining for Bai Feng is still very good.

Even if there is a risk of injury, it is also a good job to earn more than 20 taels of silver every year.

In fact, Bai Feng always went to Yizhou to recruit workers. One very important reason was that after the Great Wei unified the world, the population of Yizhou recovered very quickly.

Originally, Chengdu was known as the Land of Abundance, which was very suitable for farming.

In addition, the high-quality grains exchanged by Bai Feng from the system have spread throughout the Great Wei, so the population of Yizhou, who can eat well, naturally recovered faster than other states and counties in the Great Wei.

Therefore, part of the population of Yizhou has now begun to make a living in other states and counties.

Of course, this part of people is still very small now.

One is because of the restrictions of the household registration policy of the Great Wei, and the other is because most of these people are merchants.

The people of Yizhou who were preparing to go to Hanzhong to mine have been sent to Hanzhong in batches by the servants of the Hanzhong Marquis' Mansion.

Because Bai Feng has built mines in places rich in iron ore resources according to the Hanzhong mineral distribution map obtained in the system lottery while recruiting miners.

And dormitories have also begun to be built around the mines.

Now even if there is no nitroglycerin/explosives for mining, the new mine can already be started.

As for mining and smelting, Bai Feng's plan is naturally to start mining as quickly as possible.

So the first two batches of more than 100 miners from Yizhou have now started mining in the mine.

This time, Bai Feng plans to recruit at least 500 miners from Yizhou.

At present, this goal has been completed by 30% under the efforts of the servants of Hanzhong Houfu in Yizhou.

After arriving at the mine, the people who came to Hanzhong from Yizhou found that their treatment was the same as what the servants of Hanzhong Houfu had said before, without any discount.

Whether it was food and accommodation or the intensity of labor, they were very satisfied.

Soon, the three iron mines in Hanzhong began the next step of mining.

After dealing with the miners and the mine, Bai Feng returned to Yamatai again and brought back several craftsmen who were good at building blast furnaces from Yamatai.

With iron ore, it is natural to smelt it.

The efficiency of the blast furnace is much faster than the traditional smelting method used by the Wei Dynasty now, and the impurities in the smelted iron ingots are relatively good.

Then, four groups of Yizhou people came to the mine in Hanzhong one after another.

That day, Bai Feng heard the report that the last group of people from Yizhou who came to Hanzhong also arrived at the mine.

So Bai Feng came to the mine to see how the mining was going.

After arriving at the mine, Bai Feng saw the miners who were arranging their luggage and assigning dormitories.

Under the arrangement of the foreman, the miners were carrying their luggage and talking and laughing, heading to the assigned dormitories.

Bai Feng did not bother the foreman who assigned dormitories to the miners, and took a walk around the mine.

"It seems that the miners recruited from Yizhou are quite satisfied with the conditions of the Hanzhong mine."

"You will be more satisfied when nitroglycerin/explosives are used for mining."

Bai Feng thought in his heart.

Before leaving the mine, Bai Feng also planned to build railroad tracks on the mine.

This will not only facilitate the transportation of mined iron ore, but also directly transport the smelted iron ingots to the R&D center.

"Well, it seems that the steam train will be useful soon!"

Bai Feng has planned to use steam trains to transport iron ingots, and to transport coal in the future.

This time Bai Feng only mined iron ore first.

As for the coal mines, there was no need to worry, because after more and more steam looms were put into use in Yizhou, under the organization of Xiahou Dun, Yizhou's coal had begun to be mined vigorously.

Bai Feng, who had previously given Xiahou Dun several carts of coal, was now buying coal from Xiahou Dun.