"The kid understands..."
Kou Ji said to Li Di.
Li Di nodded and sighed and left the north gate.
After Li Di left, two more groups of refugees were sent to the North City Gate. Kou Ji followed the previous method and selected some prestigious village elders and clan elders to restrain them.
In cooperation with the government officials brought by Kou Ji, Liu Heng, and Cao Yu from the yamen, the refugees were placed in a place where they were managed in an orderly manner.
In the evening.
Kou Ji personally took the lead and distributed porridge food to the refugees.
After eating, the refugees went back to sleep in their tents.
Since there are no beddings, beds, etc., the tents are covered with hay that the women cut back during the day.
The refugees lay their entire bodies in the hay. Although it is hard to talk about how warm they are, they will not be cold, let alone freeze to death.
For them, having tents and hay is already very good.
After all, on the way to Bianjing, their biggest luxury was to have a bite to eat.
I didn't even dare to think that the court would give them a place to live.
The refugees fell asleep after a day of exhausting work, but Kou Ji did not sleep. Instead, he brought the artisans from the mansion, the clerks of the Ministry of Industry, and the village elders elected by the refugees to check the results of the day’s labor and to welcome tomorrow. Refugees prepare.
The women harvested a day’s hay during the day, picked up a day’s dead branches and waterlogging firewood, and piled a dozen piles at the gate of Ruisheng Garden.
These women of labor origin are really diligent.
Kou Ji also worried that they would be lazy and passive.
They used the fruits of their labor to dispel the worries in Kou Ji's heart.
The fruits of the young men's labor are not small.
Under the leadership of the craftsmen, they cleared the silt in the area planned by Kou Ji, dug the foundation deeply, and rammed the earth into a wall, which has already taken shape.
I believe that in a few days, the earthen walls will be sturdy, and by that time, as long as the roof is covered, the houses will be completed.
Kou Ji took the crowd around and returned to the place where the women were drying their clothes.
Liu Heng lit a bonfire in the open space, and a group of people sat on the thick dead wood, warming around the bonfire while talking.
Liu Heng held a dry firewood and shook the bonfire, saying: "In just one day, the number of victims flooding into the city of Bianjing has faintly exceeded 10,000. In the next few days, I am afraid that more and more victims will be affected.
According to the spies I spilled back to report, a large number of victims are still behind.
The largest group came from the south, with roughly more than 50,000 people. "
Kou Ji stretched out his hands and put them beside the bonfire, frowning while baking, "More than fifty thousand people? Such a huge number?"
Liu Heng nodded, "Compared to the victims in Xiaowang Township and Liwang Township, those victims really have nothing."
Kou Ji frowned even more when he heard this.
Liu Heng added: "Moreover, the number of victims has far exceeded the number estimated by the court."
Kou Ji raised his brows and said solemnly: "It's over 160,000?"
Liu Heng nodded heavily and reminded in a low voice: "After all the victims have arrived, those tents will not be able to live. Even if the newly built houses are completed, they will be very damp. There is no way for the victims to live.
You have to find a way to get another batch of tents. "
When Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng heard this, they hurriedly said, "Kou Industry Department and Liu Fengzhuang, the people of our two townships have already lived in the tents. You two should not drive them out when the time comes."
Kou Ji glanced at the two of them, shook his head and said, "Don't worry. I won't let you make room."
Kou Ji said to Liu Heng: "You send someone to go back to the city and tell the three of Mu Chong, let them prepare 10% more things."
Liu Heng glanced at the others, got close to Kou Ji, and asked Kou Ji in a low voice, "Four brother, you want to add 10% temporarily, are they willing to give it?"
Kou Ji said of course: "Why not?"
Liu Heng asked suspiciously: "What benefit did you promise to give them? They are willing to pay such a large amount of money?"
Kou Ji stared at Liu Heng with a smile, "Do you want to know?"
Liu Heng nodded heavily.
Cao Tu is very close to Kou Ji, so he heard the conversation between the two, and he also approached Kou Ji with a smile: "I am also curious... Merchants are chasing profits. This is a well-known thing. If there is no big profit, They can't afford to spend such a large amount of money."
Kou Ji cast his eyes on him and asked with a smile: "Want to know?"
The two nodded together.
Kou Ji stretched out his hand and said, "Take the money! I'll tell you when I take the money."
Liu Heng and Cao Tong were shocked.
Liu Heng's eyes rolled around, and he said happily, "I'm out of half a million pens..."
Cao Tong looked at Liu Heng blankly.
He didn't understand, Kou Jiming didn't say anything, why Liu Heng happily gave out half a million pens.
Liu Heng glanced at Cao Tong, and there was a meaning of hating iron but not steel.
Although Cao Tong didn't know Kou Ji's purpose, he happily agreed to pay when he saw Liu Heng's eyes.
He has just gotten a member of Vientiane House, so he hasn't received much dividends yet, and he doesn't have much money in his hands.
Therefore, he can only use the dividends from the Vientiane Tower at the end of the year.
Kou Ji waited for the two of them to happily agreed to take the money, and said with a smile: "Does Cotton know? I told you when I was in Baozhou."
Cao Tong and Liu Heng looked puzzled.
But they nodded all together.
Kou Ji smiled and said: "This thing can be woven, and the cost is higher than hemp, but it is lower than silk. But making clothes and protecting against the cold is not lost to hemp and silk."
Although Cao Yu and Liu Heng were born as officials and officials, they also had contact with business matters.
So when Kou Ji talked about this, they had already understood the benefits of cotton weaving.
But they still have doubts in their hearts.
Cao Yu questioned: "You told us about cotton, and we also know some. But it's a bunch of things, really can weave cloth? Can the people recognize the cloth it woven
Also, I didn’t seem to have seen this thing like cotton in our Da Song Dynasty. "
Kou Ji nodded and smiled: "I don't have the Song Dynasty, but the Western Regions do. Cotton is not only suitable for planting in the Western Regions, but also suitable for planting on the soil of the Song Dynasty. Someone has already sent someone to the Western Regions to get cotton seeds."
Cao Tong and Liu Heng nodded thoughtfully.
Kou Ji said again: "As for the weaving problem you mentioned, don't worry at all. The craftsmen in my house have already built a spinning wheel. Not only can weave cloth with hemp and silk, but also cotton and wool."
Cao Qi looked at Kou Ji in amazement, and said, "Fourth brother, are the craftsmen in your mansion reincarnated? How can everything be made."
Liu Heng glanced at Kou Ji and lowered his head thoughtfully.
Kou Ji smiled and said, "I don't know if the fairy is reincarnated. But I know that the spinning wheels made by the craftsmen in my house are extraordinary."
Cao Yu immediately asked: "What an extraordinary method?"
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Most people now use hand-operated single-spindle spinning wheels handed down from the Qin and Han dynasties, but the craftsmen in my house have created a three-spindle pedal spinning wheel.
Not only can we use cotton and wool to weave cloth, but it can also greatly increase the output of cloth.
It is also useful for hemp spinning and silk spinning. "
In terms of spinning wheel technology, Kou Ji did not learn from later spinning wheels and textile machines.
Instead, I adopted the skills of Huang Daopo, my Chinese ancestor.
Kou Ji mentioned the three-spindle spinning wheel, which was made by Huang Daopo, a cotton spinning expert at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.
It is more than five hundred years earlier than the well-known Jenny Ji at home and abroad.
When the three-spindle pedal spinning wheel evolves into a multi-spindle spinning wheel, the work efficiency and output can be comparable to the Jenny machine.
It can be said to be the pinnacle of human textiles.
But Kou Ji did not take out the multi-spindle spinning wheel all at once.
Instead, I was going to test the water with a three-spindle spinning wheel.
Cao Tong stretched out his arm and muttered: "The description of the hand-cranked spinning wheel is appropriate, but what do you say about single spindle and three spindles?"
On this issue, Kou Ji could not explain to Cao Tong in detail.
Kou Ji glanced at him and said: "Look back and wait for the craftsmen in my mansion to make it. You will know it at a glance."
Cao Tong nodded and asked, "You are using the three-spindle spinning wheel to lure those merchants to help you?"
Kou Ji smiled and said nothing.
He didn't tell Mu Chong about the three-spindle spinning wheel.
If they told Mu Chong about the three-spindle spinning wheel, it is estimated that the three of Mu Chong would not have the intention to help him settle the refugees.
After all, whether it is cotton spinning or steelmaking, it is the big cake Kou Ji painted for the three of Mu Chong.
The three of Mu Chong didn't see these things, so what they said in their hearts must be to help Kou Ji set up the refugees first, and then wait for Kou Ji to get the things out.
This is a long-term process and there is no rush.
But after telling Mu Chong about the three-spindle spinning wheel, it was different.
The three-spindle spinning wheel is directly related to their silk trading.
Once the three of them know about the three-spindle spinning wheel, Kou Ji will definitely be urged to make the three-spindle spinning wheel to help them update their Sichuan and Shu workshops.
At that time, their eyes will be attracted by the three-spindle spinning wheel, and they will not try their best to help Kou Ji resettle the refugees.
Similarly, Kou Ji did not tell Liu Heng and Cao Tong about the steelmaking.
Because the two of them knew that Kou Ji could forge iron that was better than the iron, with high output and low price, they would probably be even crazier than the three of Mu Chong.
After all, Cao Mansion is a senior general, and Liu Mansion can be regarded as a general now. The two of them clearly know what iron is better than iron.
Cao Yu saw that Kou Ji didn't speak, nor did he pursue the roots.
He finally understood Kou Ji's profitable intention to resettle the refugees when he left the city.
Obviously, Kou Ji intends to use the power of the refugees to build one after another huge textile workshops.
"Then I'll just wait to get rich with my fourth brother..."
Cao Tong said with a bright smile.
Liu Heng never said a word from beginning to end.
After Cao Yu sat back, Liu Heng mysteriously leaned in front of Kou Ji and said in a voice that is smaller than a mosquito: "Four brother, did you make all those things? Then, in the name of the craftsman in the mansion, Release it?"
Liu Heng had really experienced Kou Ji's amazing craftsmanship, so he expected that Kou Mansion could produce so many good things, it must be related to Kou Ji.
Kou Ji glanced at him with a smile, and said nothing.
Liu Hengxi smiled and said, "I understand, I understand..."
Kou Ji smiled and scolded: "You know what a fart... You still don't send someone to Bianjing City to pass a message to Mu Chong."
Liu Heng got up, patted the dust on his butt, and happily went to find someone to pass on.
Kou Ji stared at the back of Liu Heng running away, and shook his head dumbly.
Although this servant has matured a lot since he became an official, there are still some children's xinxing in his bones.
After Liu Heng left.
Kou Ji looked at Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng, and said: "In the days to come, the victims will continue to use them. The number is huge, beyond the imagination of the two.
The two of the officials also saw the process of disaster relief.
Therefore, I hope that the two of them can lead the elders and village elders selected from the refugees who will come to settle the refugees together. "
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng were all overjoyed when they heard this.
Kou Ji obviously wanted to delegate power to them, and they had no reason not to agree.
The two hands together, "It's all in the hands of the Kou Engineering Department..."
With the power promised by Koj, the two talk more.
Chen Jing took the lead and said: "The Kou Industry Department, Xiao Lao Er visited around today and found some problems. We are not many at the moment. You arrange the young men to build houses and the women to collect firewood. There is no problem. .
But when the people in our hands get together more and more, there won't be so much work to do. "
Kou Ji nodded when he heard the words, he could understand the meaning of Chen Jing's words.
Without waiting for him to speak, Wang Tiansheng spoke, expressing what Chen Jing wanted to say clearly, "Once the people are too many and there is nothing to do, it is easy to think randomly, and it is easy to gather people to make trouble.
Therefore, the Kou Industry Department should help them find something to do. They should not be left idle, nor should they be allowed to eat the royal food for nothing.
Not to let them receive your favor in vain. "
The transformation of Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng was expected by Kou Ji.
When a person moves from the bottom to the management, his attitude and ideas in doing things will inevitably need to be changed.
Those who can complete the transformation will take root firmly in the management.
Those who fail to complete the transformation will soon be eliminated from the management.
Chen Jing and Wang Tiansheng have spent many years in the positions of clan elders and village elders, and they have been in the management for many years.
They naturally know how to enter management and how to quickly change their identities.
Kou Ji is very satisfied with the transformation of the two.
At least, after these two people change their attitudes and ideas, they will deal with him, which makes it easier for him to arrange and manage the refugees.
Kou Ji smiled at the two and said, "The officer will find enough things for them to do, so please don't worry, you two."
Chen Jing couldn't help saying: "The number of people affected by the disaster this time is not small. Apart from building roads, building bridges, building dams, and city walls, there seems to be nothing else to do.
But the ground breaks in the winter, but there is something wrong.
I don’t know what the Ministry of Industry intends to let the people do? "
Kou Ji was stunned. Chen Jing thought Kou Ji had doubts, so he hurriedly said: "The roads, bridges, dams, and city walls built in winter are easy to crack in spring and summer.
So it's not appropriate to break the ground in winter. "
Kou Ji smiled and said: "It is indeed wrong to break the ground in the winter. However, there is always a place for the tens of thousands of victims to settle down. You two visited this place today and saw it. I have drawn a large number of them. Place, ready to build houses.
Regardless of whether this house will crack in the spring and summer.
We all have to build them up and give them a place to live.
Only by giving them a place to settle down can we think about the next step. "
Wang Tiansheng asked, "How long does the imperial court intend to raise us? When next spring, will it let us go back again, give us good land, and let us cultivate?"