1000 people, come with me to the mountain to collect stones

A servant of the Qi Wang Mansion stood high and shouted loudly.

Now, with the large-scale construction in Qingzhou City, there is a great demand for stone materials.

In addition to intact stones, there are also many fine small stones needed, which are used in conjunction with asphalt to build asphalt roads, and the amount used is also very large.

Previously, these inconspicuous small stones were of little value and were basically discarded. However, now they can be utilized by workers to crush or smash them into evenly small gravel, which is laid on top of asphalt, making the asphalt road more sturdy and durable, while also improving surface friction and preventing slippage.

The mining and transportation of stone require a large number of manpower.

Come on, come on, I also need 1000 people here! Follow me to burn bricks outside the city

Nowadays, the demand for bricks and stones is also very strong, whether it is building a 6-story building or the Qi Wang Mansion, a large amount of diamonds are needed.

Originally, Zhucha was bought directly, but in the future, the usage will continue to increase, and it is a pity that so much surplus labor is not utilized.

Instead of spending money to buy it, it's better to build your own brick and stone factory and let the workers produce it. Then, the bricks and stones produced can be transported to the Qi Wang Mansion and the 6-story building for direct use.

Not only can these disaster victims be utilized, but they can also save a lot of money.

Upon hearing that the Qi Wang Mansion was recruiting workers again, the disaster victims immediately became excited.

I! I have strength

Me, me, me

Hurrah! The disaster victims flocked to the area because they had heard yesterday that the people working for the Qi Wang Mansion received exceptionally good treatment.

In this day and age, having work to do means being able to eat well all the time.

Working for the Prince Qi's Mansion is equivalent to having an iron rice bowl and not worrying about starving to death.

Of course, not everyone is so actively responding to the call of the Qi Palace. Some people are young and strong, but whenever the Qi Palace recruits workers, they will step back and shrink their heads.

They would rather wait here to eat than go to work. Some people are lazy, while others are because their relatives and friends have left one by one, and they have not yet recovered from their grief. They are like zombies all day long, as if they have lost their souls.

Zhu Cha doesn't care about these things now, because there are waves of disaster victims coming one after another. Even if he tries his best to arrange these disaster victims to work, the positions are still not enough.

Even in order to arrange more people, he built a brick kiln specifically for firing bricks.

What delighted him the most was the recruitment of many craftsmen and people who were good at doing business and had business acumen.

The role of craftsmen in the construction of Qingzhou City goes without saying, and these business savvy individuals greatly expanded the caravan of the Qi Wang Mansion.

In Zhu Cha's eyes, caravans were not just tools for making money, they were also his eyes and ears.

It is possible to record and provide feedback to the Qi Wang Mansion on the places and observations of the caravan. In the eyes of others, these may seem insignificant details, but in his opinion, they may come in handy in the future.

They do not boast about the Qi Wang Mansion, but rather appear on various official roads and in various states and counties like ordinary caravans. However, invisibly, they weave a large net, which will become increasingly dense.

In this era of underdeveloped communication, these caravans play a crucial role, and in the future, Zhu Zhan will cultivate his own hidden stakes. With mutual cooperation, this will become a trump card in his hands.

The underdevelopment of communication has caused Zhu Cha a great headache, especially when news from Ying Tianfu arrives, which takes a long time. He doesn't even need a carrier pigeon now.

I've been tinkering for several months, but I still haven't been able to tinker it out.

He originally thought that it was a very simple matter for pigeons to transmit messages, but in reality, it is more complex to cultivate and there is a probability of interruption in intelligence transmission.

The transmission of messages by carrier pigeons mainly utilizes their innate strong homing ability to achieve the purpose of delivering messages. Pigeons usually rely on magnetic fields and sunlight to determine their direction home. Even if they bring carrier pigeons to a distance of about 1000 kilometers from their nest, they can accurately locate their nest with their own abilities and run back for thousands of miles.

Feige Chuanshu utilizes the characteristic of carrier pigeons to train them in a fixed pigeon shed. When traveling to other places, he brings a few pigeons with him, and when he wants to deliver a message, he lets one go home.

He can only conduct one-way communication, which means he needs to establish pigeon coops in two locations to achieve basic communication.

And neither he nor the Marquis of Jiangyin brought any pigeons when they came to Qingzhou from the capital!

In addition, the pigeons in Qingzhou City have not been cultivated yet. The most crucial thing is that not all carrier pigeons can return home smoothly. They may be lost, captured by others, or eaten by natural enemies.

Its success rate is not 100%, and it is not as reliable as relying on people to convey information.

Pigeons are not as miraculous as in movies, TV dramas, or novels. If they were really that effective, the Ming Dynasty would have raised a bunch of pigeons and relied on them for communication.

This thing, Zhu Cha has been tinkering with for several months, but communication between Qingzhou and Yingtian Prefecture has not been achieved.

Fortunately, the released carrier pigeons did not record any substantial content, only underwent testing. If any substantial content is really recorded, someone may discover it and the information may leak out, which may cause some trouble.

The most common way is still through beacon fires and relay stations, which is why Zhu Zhan spared no expense in manpower, material resources, and financial resources to spread the intelligence network. Relatively speaking, people are much more reliable than pigeons.

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