More than 2,000 monks were dismissed from Daxiangguo Temple.

Abbot Haiwu only bought a thousand certificates, so more than a thousand people could not stay.

Except for more than 200 people who are willing to return to secular life and live an ordinary life, the other monks are unwilling to return to the world.

They all bowed to the golden statue of Buddha who looked at the face of the Daxiangguo Temple and refused to leave.

Among the monks who stayed, whether they were old or young, they felt sad when they saw this.

They beg Abbot Haiwu and a group of elders to keep these monks as much as possible.

Although Abbot Haiwu and the elders were very particular about the Daxiangguo Temple, they could not use tough measures when encountering such a situation.

After some discussion, they finally found a stopgap solution.

That is, these more than 700 monks were all arranged to work in various shops and industries of Daxiangguo Temple, which was equivalent to the people they hired, not the monks in the temple.

These people still must maintain the diet and morning and evening classes of monks, and must not violate the temple rules.

Only by maintaining this state will Daxiangguo Temple promise to buy them certificates in the next five years to return to Daxiangguo Temple.

There is no way to get this solution. After all, it is to give these monks a place to settle down, and they are working around the temple without leaving their "home".

This strategy of Daxiangguo Temple was quickly imitated by the Taoist temples in other temples.

Everyone tried their best to dismiss the people to return to secular life, but those who were unwilling to leave were given as much as possible arrangements that were not qualified.

The court knew about this matter.

Originally, Feng Yuqiang, a senator of the Hanlin Academy, was very dissatisfied and felt that the execution was not thorough, but the empress dowager asked him to come over and he never mentioned it after he came back.

no way.

The Empress Dowager asked him, no matter how strong Feng Yuqiang was, he could only follow the Empress Dowager's opinion.

When the Empress Dowager came forward for her, the five largest temples, including Daxiangguo Temple, announced at the first time that the amount of porridge will be increased again and the poor families are welcome to collect it.

Not only were they, but many temples and temples that had never been stingy before, have also increased the scale of aid, and have received unanimous praise from the people.

This time, Miao Yan did not jump out at all.

He happily took Jinghedi and allocated 500,000 taels of silver to continue to do the snow-covered road project, as well as to help the people in various places in the Imperial Palace.

In fact, for Miao Yan, cleaning up snow-covered roads is just a means, not the ultimate goal.

His ultimate goal is only two.

First, these victims cannot be in chaos. If they become in chaos, they will either suffer the people or beheaded, and there is no third way.

If you want them not to be confused, the best way is to let them have something to do, and doing something to consume their physical strength, so they will naturally not be easily incited.

Second, let the victims not starve to death and freeze to death.

It’s easy to not starve to death, just give them a job.

If you want to avoid freezing to death on a large scale, clearing the snow can facilitate coal transportation and greatly alleviate the pressure of wintering.

By the way, the road became smooth, and other daily necessities were transported from various places for purchase by the victims and the people in the capital. This was also an excellent way to ensure their lives.

...

Not only was Lord Miao busy himself, he also refused to stop the honeycomb coal workshop in Prince Yu's mansion, and even urged him very much.

The Yuwangfu Honeycomb Coal Workshop has decided to supply honeycomb coal on a large scale, but the problem is that such a big workshop requires so much preparation, and it is impossible to be done in one or two days.

It includes site selection, recruitment, purchase and transportation of various materials, sales, etc.

First of all, the first location is a headache.

Coal is a high-pollution industry. Even if it is just making honeycomb coal, it will cause considerable pollution.

How dare you put such an industry in the Imperial Capital?

This is much more angering than refining lard, so be careful that the people will directly smash the situation.

It’s not that they can’t do it.

If it is placed around the Imperial Capital City, you cannot place it in the water source, otherwise coal will pollute the water source, and the people in the Imperial Capital City will make trouble, and officials will make trouble even more.

It's not OK to be too far away.

It is now constantly snowing heavily and it is difficult to walk on the road. If the road is blocked and cannot be transported smoothly to all places in need, the situation of cold and freezing to death will soon occur.

It was Liu Mingqi who showed the efficiency of modern people and chose the place five miles away from the disaster victims' gathering area in one day.

The honeycomb coal workshop was not very particular, so it surrounded a large piece of land with bamboo fences, built temporary sheds inside, and started production.

While building a shed here, the first batch of 50 million kilograms of coal transported from the Ministry of Internal Affairs was transported from the warehouse.

Liu Mingqi asked Chi San to buy lime in large quantities. The yellow mud is the simplest thing, just dig around the workshop, and you can get as much as you want.

The group of stonemasons who made and repaired stone mills for sugar workshops and paper workshops were urgently summoned here and began to make grinding mills on a large scale to grind charcoal blocks.

The large and small blacksmith workshops inside and outside the Imperial Capital have been busy these days. On the one hand, they have to accept the unified standard iron chimney list given by the imperial court, on the other hand, they have to accept the same unified standard orders for pressing honeycomb coal machines, and also to cooperate with the stonemasons to make honeycomb coal stoves.

The three have time limits, and the police officers of the Imperial Palace are guarding outside the door. They will transfer everything you want to come here immediately. I just want you to make a thug and then a thug!

For a moment, thick black smoke emerged from the blacksmith workshops, and even the heavy snow could not be covered.

In order to make more money, they worked hard, working for at least six hours a day.

Unfortunately, there are no modern machinery and equipment, otherwise the machines that suppress honeycomb coal can be completely semi-automated, and there is no need to create at least two thousand manual machines.

The construction of the honeycomb coal workshop has another advantage in the disaster-stricken areas, that is, it can also utilize the idle labor here.

The women and the elderly of the victims were unable to go far to do things in winter, but the honeycomb coal workshop was close to us.

Liu Mingqi asked Chi San to accept everyone, and as long as he had the ability to work, he could come in to do all kinds of work.

There is a responsible for rotating the grinder to crush the coal.

There are dispensed to get snow outside to boil, so as to mix and stir the raw materials.

There are specialists in stirring various raw materials.

There are also those who are strong and responsible for suppressing honeycomb coal.

There are also piles the prepared honeycomb coal in the shed and waits for it to dry naturally.

There are even those who cook specifically for these tens of thousands of people.

Wait and wait.

The only process that did not allow them to participate in the entire process was to mix three raw materials.

The servants of Prince Yu's mansion put various raw materials into the funnel cart in a tightly defended over half of the enclosed shed, and then covered them with thin cloth and pushed them out, allowing the workers to pour them into the piled pit and start stirring.

After the stirring is completed, it is sent to the pressed place and pressed into honeycomb coal.

The hundreds of servants of Prince Yu's mansion present must be very tired, and they almost fainted after being busy all day long.

Liu Mingqi had to let them take turns, and they had to change the round in three days so that they would not collapse in the assembly line.

To be honest, the efficiency of a group of workers who are pieced together in this way is definitely not very high.

At the beginning, it was a bit messy. At least one-third of the honeycomb coals made on the first day were unqualified, and only tens of thousands of them were made.

But any workshop is made through running-in.

As they became more and more proficient in their own processes, the honeycomb coal workshop got on track five days after the formal construction began.

The honeycomb coal produced every day has also hit new highs, from tens of thousands a day to millions a day now.

...

What Liu Mingqi came over and saw was a busy and busy scene.

The environment of the honeycomb coal workshop is very difficult. Even Chi Saner, who was temporarily transferred to the supervisor, had a dark face. When she smiled, she only showed her white teeth, which looked a bit like a black buddy.

The roads here are also very muddy, and many workers are so busy that they can only run, so from time to time you can see someone falling to the ground.

When Liu Mingqi came in, she saw an old man in his fifties and sixties falling heavily on the muddy ground.

"Did they get hurt a lot?" the boy asked with a frown.

"How can I not be injured? After all, there are very few young and strong people, most of them are elderly and women." Chi San said, "There are dozens of injuries every day, and a few people have died of accidents these days."

Speaking of this, he was a little heavy, "But your Highness, don't care too much. We have paid enough money for those who are injured and killed.

Those of them think of the difficult consequences when they come out to do things. They are all for life and have no complaints."

Liu Mingqi also sighed. In modern times, you cannot guarantee that there will be no casualties in every industry, let alone in ancient times.

Although the Dakang Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time and has many good emperors, especially the current emperor uncle, who has made too much for the people, there are still so many people who are unable to eat enough and work hard for life.

This is true for the elderly and women, let alone those men in charge.

Thinking of this, Liu Mingqi once again looked forward to sweet potatoes.

With its super high yield, at least every family can eat - without asking them to eat enough, at least there is hope for them to survive.

Chi San changed the topic at this time, "This time, because it was very urgent, the wages we paid were not low, the average wage was 100 cents a day. If the inspectors determined that they did well on the same day and worked hard, they would add another 50 cents.

In addition, three servings of bran porridge and bran steamed buns are enough every day, but many of them do not eat bran steamed buns for dinner and want to take them home for their families to eat. Because of this, people often fainted from hunger at night.
To be continued...