The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 143 Meeting the Xianbei Duan Family

The next day, Liu Tai got up as usual and went to the Interior Department, but he only worked until midnight. Even Chu Hui, who usually came to the Interior Department to work overtime during rest time, took the initiative to change shifts with Zhang Song today.

Liu Tai couldn't help but sigh that the ability of employees to withstand pressure in this era is really poor. They are nothing more than the king of rolls.

Think about the 21st century. Any student who has experienced winter and summer vacations can do it with a pen, a lamp, a night, a miracle, and go to class as usual the next day.

Look at you again, aren't you just working overtime until noon? This kind of work intensity is nothing.

Of course, Liu Tai also knows that the intensity of work is completely different in different times.

Not to mention, excluding the perspective brought by the upper reaches of history, it is more than enough for a mayor-level person from any modern city to become a state pastor in ancient times.

As for the top city mayors who are responsible for managing cities with a population of more than [-] million, even if they are allowed to become three ministers and nine ministers, they can still do it in terms of ability.

After all, compared with the pursuit of peace and quiet in ancient times, as long as local stability is enough, in modern society, we strive for efficiency, performance, involution, and international competition. Competition is not intense at all.

Therefore, Liu Tai seemed to have accumulated a lot of affairs during his fight with Wang Jun.

But really speaking, as long as you don't micromanage everything like Zhuge Liang, and only formulate relevant strategies, set up a good framework, and set a few principles that cannot be violated, you can basically leave it to Chu Hui to plan, and others will do it. Take charge of the details.

"Have you ever seen a prince get up so early!?" Zhang Song was still a little surprised to see Liu Tai coming so early in the morning.

After all, those who worked with Liu Tai yesterday were all granted a day off, and they are all still sleeping now!

"Zhang Changshi, you are really the best here. Prepare your horses and follow me to the Xianbei prisoner camp!" Liu Tai said.

Zhang Song heard Liu Tai's words and said thoughtfully, "I will order people to prepare. Is the Duke going to see Duan?"

"Didn't I hear yesterday that the six members of Duan Ji's family had been killed by His Majesty? Naturally, I have to inform the Duan brothers about this news!"

Liu Tai said calmly, "If I don't let them escape before the angels come, and do this kind of thing in front of the angels, it will be very difficult for me to be a human being. After all, the court should give the court the face."

"We just ran away from Gou Xi last year, and this year we ran away from the Duan brothers. Isn't this a bit too blatant!" Zhang Song said to Liu Tai, "I'm afraid that the Han Dynasty will be suspicious of the Duke!"

"Doubtful about me? Why do you doubt me?" Liu Tai was a little confused when he heard Zhang Song's words.

"I suspect that the Duke has second thoughts and plans to abandon the Han Dynasty and go to the Jin court!" Zhang Song said to Liu Tai cautiously.

"This is pure slander, and the trash Sima family in the Jin court is worthy of my seeking refuge!" Liu Tai couldn't help but said angrily,

"The imperial court can doubt my loyalty, but it can't doubt my integrity. Take refuge in the Sima clan? I can't afford to lose this person!"

"Since the general doesn't intend to befriend the Sima family, why did he choose to let go of the Xianbei Duan family?" Zhang Song couldn't help but ask.

"Just an experiment!" Liu Tai looked at Zhang Song and said, "An experiment about national integration, an experiment that must be carried out in order to resolve the rift between Hu and Han!"

"Is this necessary?" Zhang Song looked at Liu Tai's serious face with a little doubt.

"There is no way. With the fall of Luoyang and the demise of the Jin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty should have taken advantage of the situation to unify the world.

But among the three great generals of the Han Dynasty, their uncle was dead, Shi Le was rebellious, and Liu Yao was as afraid of Xianbei as a rat, so they were destined to be difficult to unify.

Recently, His Majesty has become more obsessed with women, neglected government affairs, and started to eat Wu Shi San. I think this big man’s future will be very uncertain! "

Liu Tai paused slightly here and said,
"If the Han Dynasty is really going to die, it means that the Sinicized Xiongnu who want to unify China and override our Chinese civilization will not work.

When the time comes, someone will naturally need to open up a new path, so this experiment is imperative! "

"My lord, be careful what you say!" Zhang Song listened to Liu Tai's words, but said carefully to Liu Tai,

"Be careful if these words fall into the ears of the court, I'm afraid the county prince will be questioned!"

"It's okay!" Liu Tai shook his head and said, "If the court treats me well, then I will treat the court well. If the court suspects me of rebellion, then I will show it to him!"

"Come on, hurry up! Let's go see the Xianbei prisoners first!" Zhang Song listened to Liu Tai's words and quickly pulled Liu Tai on his way.

To be honest, it is really difficult for Zhang Song to understand Liu Tai's idea of ​​not being loyal to the Han Dynasty.

After all, in Zhang Song's view, to a certain extent, Liu Tai's resume almost grew up with the Huns and Han Dynasty.

Liu Tai also participated in many wars, large and small, and even played a decisive role in many key battles. Not to mention that at least Liu Cong saved him once!
There is no greater merit than rescuing the enemy. Why does Liu Tai have such a low sense of belonging to the Huns and Han Kingdom?Zhang Song was very confused.

But for Liu Tai, whether it was the Xiongnu Han Kingdom or the Western Jin Dynasty, he just had no sense of belonging.

At most, I feel a sense of belonging to Wang Mi who raised me, but unfortunately Wang Mi is dead.

Then I can only aim at the goal of ending the Wu Huan Hua and ending the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

if not?Waiting to die?
On the outside, the Xiongnu Han Dynasty seemed to be prospering, but seeing Liu Cong singing and singing together every night like he had never seen a woman before, Liu Tai felt baffled and expressed that he did not understand Liu Cong's thoughts at all.

How can a woman have a kingdom? Look at Qin Shihuang. With a kingdom, you can pursue wonders (the Great Wall), you can pursue figurines (Golden Figures), and you can even pursue breakthroughs in life science and technology (immortality). How can women compare with these? Up.

But the problem is, it seems that as long as the Hu people are not Chinese, after becoming emperor, they will indulge in all kinds of women, build all kinds of palaces, and do many things purely driven by desire.

Liu Tai took a look and felt that this big man was hopeless.

Although Liu Tai didn't know exactly when the Huns and Han Kingdom were destroyed, Liu Tai looked at Liu Cong's operations and wondered if he could survive ten years.

If Liu Congruo dies, I hope the next emperor will be easy to get along with, otherwise I will have no choice but to rebel.

Zhang Song naturally didn't know what Liu Tai was thinking, but Liu Tai's words sounded a bit scary, but looking back, it was similar to Wang Mi's original plan to separate Qingzhou.

However, compared to Wang Mi, Liu Tai at least really wanted to solve the problem between Han and Hu.

But at this moment, the Xianbei prisoners, the prisoners at the bottom, feel that they are living a life like gods.

Every morning, I have a meal, or eat thick porridge, with a few mouthfuls of strong pickles, and sometimes even fermented bean curd, which is simply amazing.

After eating, start digging coal for two hours, and then eat lunch, which is generally the most abundant time of the day.In addition to steamed buns and pickles that must be included in every meal, there are occasionally seasonal vegetables and, if you are lucky, even tofu.

After working for another two and a half hours, there was actually dinner, which turned into porridge and pickles again, which made them burst into tears.

All in all, the food treatment here is probably lower than the military food in South Korea.

The main side dish is pickles, and the main food is multi-grain porridge, but there is no such thing as military pot.

Moreover, those who perform best every month will be assigned to a table with the same meal treatment as the caretakers.

Occasionally there is salted fish, bacon, and even chicken legs. The most important thing is that there is no limit to the food at this time, and you can eat as much as you can.

After all, it is somewhat necessary to set an example for these service members.

At the same time, the outstanding Xianbei aliens are treated the same as the instructors who manage them. This is Liu Tai's implicit expression. As long as you integrate into the Han people and within your own sphere of influence, you will receive the same treatment as the Han people, and you will treat them equally.

So when they ate these foods on the first day, they all felt that they were going to be tricked and killed tomorrow.

They ate in silence one by one, thinking that if Liu Tai wanted to do this, then as long as someone took the lead, he would fight Liu Tai. Even if the Xianbei people like him were no more noble than the Han people, they would still be covered in Han blood before they died. .

As a result, we ate as usual and worked as usual the next day, except that a group of people called Military History came to take notes. After dinner every night, before it was completely dark, they voluntarily chose whether to go to the Military History Office to learn Chinese.

On the third day, these Xianbei slaves were completely relieved, because the military discipline of the Han army seemed to be quite strict.

Although these instructors were unhappy with themselves and others, they never beat or scolded them casually.

Any instructor who does this will be recorded by military historians or reprimanded loudly.

But if he seeks death and violates discipline, then even if he is beaten to death, the military historians will not say a word, but coldly cross out the name of the deceased on the roster.

By the fourth day, these Xianbei captives had adapted to local life very quickly.

For them, compared to the days when they had no meals on the grassland, now they have food to eat every day, which is simply paradise.

Except that this paradise requires digging coal mines all over the world, life is a bit miserable.

But then I thought about it, I was defeated by Liu Tai, and it was natural for me to be captured as a coolie, but I was just unwilling to do so.

If you stay for too long, even if you eat the delicacies you used to dream about every day, sooner or later it will be like chewing wax!
Compared with the life of the Xianbei captives, the treatment of the Duan brothers and the centurions captured by Liu Tai was similar.

It's just that the work is easier. There is no need to go down to the coal mine. Instead, you only need to push the millstone to grind the finely crushed coal that has been excavated from the coal mine and has been initially processed.

These coal powders will undergo various washing, filtering, drying, and other multiple processes before being converted from coal ore into coal.

Coal resources appeared very early in ancient times. They are generally called Heidan or Shi Nie. During the Western Jin Dynasty, Lu Yun wrote to Lu Ji and said:

"I went to Santai in one day and found hundreds of thousands of kilograms of stone mills hidden by Mr. Cao. It seems that the burning has been eliminated and can be used again. I wonder if you have seen it? I will send you two snails now."

This shows that the mining and use of coal has already appeared, but it is only circulated among the rich and powerful.

We had to wait until the Song Dynasty for the coal industry to mature and even be applied on a large scale.

Because the Song Dynasty established an agency specifically to manage the coal industry and made the coal industry government-run.

In ancient China, it was very important to see whether something was mature or not, and whether it was profitable or not, and whether the court had nationalized it or even set up an agency specifically to manage this material.

For example, when money comes from salt and iron, salt and iron become government-run. For example, cloth is valuable and it immediately becomes the currency to be handed over. For example, tea is valuable. This industry can even survive until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

During the Song Dynasty, the coal industry was naturally targeted by the court.

In Liu Tai's impression, Qingzhou's coal mine resources were relatively abundant, so he asked Master Kanyu to look for them and quickly found the coal mine.

However, coal mining is a high-risk and harmful job. Since we have these Xianbei people on hand, we will naturally use these Xianbei people for mining as the price they pay for integrating into the Han people.

When Liu Tai came to this mine, for Liu Tai, there were only a few things that could really promote social development.

Energy, materials and rules, the entire society can continue to progress because these things are constantly driving it.

After your death, if energy cannot be converted from livestock into coal, if materials cannot be converted from wood into steel, and if the rules of return cannot change from thinking that you are in heaven to pursuing the stars and the sea, then hundreds of years after your death , if you want to go back to the original track like coming to China, at most it will be just one more celebrity worth mentioning in the history of China.

Therefore, this seemingly small mine is actually taken very seriously by Liu Tai.

At least the coal from this mine will be transported to the blast furnaces to forge steel.

Liu Tai only hopes that before the decisive battle with Wang Jun, the steel coming out of the blast furnace can reach a high enough standard to allow his army to complete the re-equipment. If it really can't be done, then it can't be done. What can he do with technology? This thing just needs to be done slowly!
Just when Liu Tai was holding a piece of coal that had been made with a metallic luster and looked at it.

Zhang Song brought the Duan brothers over. After all, the Duan brothers were wearing clean clothes.

There was one guy who seemed to have more bruises and bruises, but the rest of the people didn't have any injuries.

Liu Tai had no intention of talking nonsense to them. After these people were pressed over, the soldiers wanted to push them to kneel down.

Liu Tai waved his hand and said: "If you don't want to kneel, then don't kneel. After all, I didn't come to them just to make them kneel to me!"

After hearing this, the soldiers let them go.

Duan Shujun stood up, looked at Liu Tai and said, "General Huben, is there any result from your visit to us today?"

Following Duan Shujun's words, the few remaining people showed some expectant eyes.

"Yes!" Liu Tai nodded calmly and said, "Your eldest brother has been executed by His Majesty's order."

　No need to wait any longer for today's update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)