When he returned to the inn, Qin Tianmin ran to Lu Hong nervously, "My benefactor, it seems that something is wrong. When I was walking outside in the morning, I always felt someone staring at me. I just asked the guy and said that there was an official who came to the inn last night, saying that it was from Jinan Mansion. I thought that it might be a problem to come to me!"

Lu Hong heard this and said that Qin Tianmin had just owed thousands of taels of silver to shock the bandits. He had to use the official magistrate. The officialdom in Shandong was really chaotic. Could it be that this guy had something to hide from him? After asking, Qin Tianmin told another story.

"My benefactor, when I was planning to take the position of Qingcheng County Magistrate, Weixian County Magistrate Zhang Hengyuan was also planning to transfer his post. I didn't know at that time, but I found someone to send money to the Ministry of Personnel. After the errand, someone told me that he had offended Lord Zhang from the Governor's Yamen. Only then did I realize that Zhang Shouling Zhang Daotai was the uncle of Weixian County Magistrate. Later, I asked someone to send Jingyi to Zhang Daotai, but he also returned..."

Lu Hong frowned. To put it this way, Qin Tianmin was wearing small shoes in Qingcheng County! No wonder he heard that everything was not going well in the officialdom! However, I didn’t expect that this matter became more and more serious. This Taizhang looked very powerful, and this gangster in the officialdom was not easy to defend...

He immediately thought of another thing and immediately asked: "Brother Qin, you don't borrow this money from Zhang's hand, right? Is there any handle to the other party?"

"My benefactor, the money was raised from the Dashengrong Piao, with an annual interest rate of 1 and a half minutes. Dashengrong was handled by the brother-in-law of the Governor Fu. It has nothing to do with Zhang Shouling. As for the handle, nothing should fall into their hands. Otherwise, I would probably come to get the people directly!" Qin Tianmin was also in a very worried state now. Unexpectedly, he would have lost his painstaking efforts to manage his official position and caused such a big trouble!

Lu Hong walked back and forth around the house for a few times before asking: "Brother Qin, your grudge against Zhang Shouling is just because of the actual position of the Qingcheng County Magistrate. If you abandon this position, I wonder if you can solve this problem? As for Da Shengrong's trouble, I think you should have a way to deal with it!"

Qin Tianmin rubbed his fists and walked back and forth for a cup of tea, and then he made up his mind, "My benefactor, then I'll go and meet these messengers from Jinan Prefecture and just stop the matter!"

Lu Hong watched Qin Tianmin take his loyal servant Lao Qin to the backyard of the inn, and was too lazy to follow him. After all, this guy had to solve this problem by himself. He wanted to follow him on another completely different path. Obviously, there could not be such troubles to drag him down. It can be seen that Qin Tianmin was indeed cruel.

Now Qin Tianmin has completely given up his struggle in his position as a precarious seventh-rank county magistrate. Of course, he is obviously skeptical about the long-term vision that Lu Hong showed him. However, today's performance can be seen that he is ready to go all out. In fact, he has no way out!

In just half a day, Qin Tianmin came back calmly, holding an exquisite sandalwood box in his arms. Just looking at the carving and the emeralds inlaid on it, you can see the preciousness. This guy gave this thing to Qin Kai, "My benefactor, this is some of my possessions that I can still take, as a reward for your life-saving grace... I will soon go to Jinan Prefecture and get things done. Please be sure to wait for me in Mengyin!"

This guy... he still didn't forget to plot against him at this moment. After thinking for a moment, Lu Hong naturally understood Qin Tianmin's intention to do this. He fully demonstrated his sincerity in cooperation in the name of repaying kindness. This guy must have gone to Jinan Prefecture after the coal mine starts construction. As for how he solves the big trouble, he doesn't have to worry about it himself. He has no ability and will be useless to him in the future!

The next morning, Lu Hong brought Wu Shengxi and Qin Tianmin at the disaster relief porridge farm at the Wenshui Wharf, Beimen. The county town was a little bigger, and the news had already spread. The rich captain in the yamen was in charge. More than a dozen yamen runners were showing off their power to maintain order around the porridge farm. Five or six large pots were set up along the way, and the aroma of sorghum rice, brown rice and mixed grains could be smelled by the entire woof.

The beggars who were queuing for famines at the entrance of the porridge farm had already lined up about two or three hundred people at dawn, and they were still extending, which even exceeded Lu Hong's expectations. He had estimated that there were only a hundred families who fled for famines, but now it looked far more than a hundred people. When he saw those sparse porridge pots like springs, he had to scratch his chin and could not do anything about it. This is the style of official business today...

However, a large number of people waiting to pay porridge obviously found that today's porridge farm was a little different from the past. A middle-aged man at the door was shaking his head and explaining the notice hanging at the door of the porridge farm. "The magistrate of Wu County cannot bear the hunger of his elders. He now ordered labor for relief. The authors were not allowed to participate in the labor. In the morning and afternoon, he had to give two servings of porridge. Today's work was to put the wood and stones on the dock on the ship. Those who were willing to work, come to my place to get a sign, and someone would take you to work!"

When Lu Hong heard this rule, he immediately wrinkled his nose. He remembered clearly that everything Wu County Magistrate said before was used to serve porridge. Of course, giving more porridge to participate in the work was the rule he set... As a result, when we arrived here, the rules had been changed. This is really direct! No wonder the two old officials said that the 10 stone of rice was enough to serve porridge for half a month...

There was a chorus of people lined up below, and some lazy and vulnerable people left immediately. However, many people mostly brought their families to escape famine and lived by working short-term workers or begging in the city. In this cold winter, I don’t know how many people failed to make a day for kind-hearted people to serve porridge. I heard that they could get two servings, so I couldn’t wait to wait, and kept muttering, “Mr. Wu is really Master Qingtian!”

Qin Tianmin next to him naturally saw Lu Hong's expression. After asking, he immediately smiled: "My benefactor, the clerks below must not underestimate this official. Whether the affairs of the yamen can be handled depends on whether they are willing to do things... Of course, they must have the benefit of giving porridge when they come out. If the 10 stones of grain are loose on their hands, they can take out six or seven stones of porridge to give porridge, otherwise where will they come from when they eat and use them at home!"

This truth immediately made Wu Shengxi, who was still studying hard on the side, snorted dissatisfiedly. This guy was obviously immersed in the realm of "the saint is the people", and he was quite disdainful of Qin Tianmin, who was also a scholar...

Lu Hong smiled slightly. From this guy's mouth, he obviously had a deeper understanding of this era. Although this guy is not a gentleman, he is indeed someone who can help him. He thought about it and asked, "Brother Qin, if Lord Wu asked about this, wouldn't he be annoyed that the people below were disobedient and disobedient!"

"My benefactor, how could these old officials do this? The porridge is not over yet. Before it is over, the remaining porridge will naturally be applied to the old and weak!" Qin Tianmin said calmly, which made Lu Hong and Wu Shengxi laugh and cry, but there was nothing to say.

However, soon their attention turned to the waist tags that were sent out to work at the wharf. In a short while, 43 young and strong waist tags had been sent out. In addition, there were more than 20 or 30 women and children. Lu Hong even saw children who were twelve or 33 years old and who were not as tall as a shoulder pole, and this kind of thing about squeezing child labor was somewhat unbearable for a time traveler...

However, today's porridge is not only for the sake of the Wu County Magistrate's reputation, but more importantly, it is to recruit a group of laborers who are willing to work hard. This is an important basis for the coal mine factory to make continuous profits... This batch of wood and stone was specially obtained by the Qian family to build a house in the mining area. God knows what the route was. Anyway, it only took a day to pile up a hill on the dock.

Qian Yiduo obviously underestimated the labor force of these people. At noon, a mountain-like material was transported onto a flatbed. After drinking a bowl of porridge, these laborers began to fight for the next bowl of porridge, and they also boarded the boat to the open-pit mining area of ​​Wennan Village. The Qian family had already circled a large piece of land next to the dirt mountain with the official documents from the yamen.

In the afternoon, when Lu Hong felt that a small water turbine was already being installed by the river outside the mining area. However, because he didn't know how to assemble the coal precipitator, Li Blacksmith and Liu Carpenter transported various parts and were piled in a temporary wooden shed.

Lu Hong once again mobilized the super industrial system to familiarize himself with the drawings and holographic images of the M1 type mineral processing machine, and immediately directed Li Tiejiang, Liu Carpenter and his apprentices. In the afternoon, a chute that was more than 4 meters and could be operated smoothly under human shaking had been installed.

Of course, what made Lu Hong speechless again was that Europe had entered the scientific era of standard metrology in this era, but the measuring rulers used in Mengyin were still diverse, which led to the iron drum-shaped transmission device made by Li Blacksmith slightly enlarged than originally designed, while Carpenter Liu's chute component was slightly smaller in size. Fortunately, after discussing the two of them, they made a little changes and started to operate.

The next morning, Wu County Magistrate Lu Hong, Qian Yiduo and Qin Tianmin all appeared in the mine together. A group of workers who were attracted yesterday had begun to work on the two original mine pits in the open-pit mining area. The turbine completed yesterday had been hung with a coal preparatory machine. The coal blocks were simply hammered and sent to the funnel-shaped entrance. The coal preparatory machine driven by the drum transmission device was slowly vibrating up and down, and there was a sink on the side to draw water into it.

The scene was filled with the monotonous and harsh "cracking" sound of coal preparatory machines. However, this seemingly crude machine was indeed operating efficiently. The various stones mixed with coal stone impurities entered from the front end, and the black and shiny coal kept rolling down from the tail of the chute. After this seemingly simple treatment, the raw coal had become the refined coal mentioned by Lu Hong!

Everyone was stunned and watched the machine was operating very faithfully, while Lu Hong was experiencing another surprise at this moment. After the M1 type mineral sewing machine started working, the super industrial system obviously also changed. In the holographic image, in addition to the first-level resource collection system, there is already an additional prompt at this moment!

"Hello, the first-level evaluation system is activated, you can now evaluate the M1 type mineral sewing machine!"

Lu Hong needs to click on the image and immediately came out a holographic image. The image of the ore dresser in front of him also appeared in the picture. The system score is marked next to the ore dresser... "M1 type primary ore dresser, product efficiency is 63%, and the processing efficiency is calculated... 0.2 tons of raw coal is processed per hour!"

The score is really low... The efficiency is probably greatly reduced!

Soon, a number was formed in Lu Hong's mind. According to an average of 10 hours of operation per day, it could process 2 tons per day. If it was converted into profit, with a profit of 50 cigarettes per 100 kilograms, the machine alone would have a daily income of nearly 2,000 cigarettes. The only question is whether this mining area that relies entirely on manpower will be limited by production capacity.

Thinking of this, Lu Hong turned around and came to the floating soil open-pit coal pit that had just been excavated. A magical thing happened. After starting the first-level evaluation system, when he saw Lao Li in the mine, the system would immediately conduct an evaluation and give a quantitative figure later. When Lu Hong observed one of them was quite strong, the bronze man wearing a torn jacket was strong in this season, the system actually achieved the highest production efficiency of the workers present, digging 0.3 tons of raw coal per hour, which was nearly 600 kilograms of portions. It seems that this manpower mining is still not inefficient.

Of course, there were also workers who were not very hardworking in the venue, and Lu Hong was too lazy to pay attention to it. Bi Jin was not on the right track... When he returned to the mine dressing machine, Qian Yiduo was already making people weigh the fine coal with a scale. Later, he excitedly reported the estimated production capacity to the magistrate Wu County. Suddenly, Wu Daqiu's rigid horse face was also full of flowers!

After the first-level assessment system appeared, Lu Hong suddenly remembered an important management measure!
Chapter completed!