"1000 people, come with me to the mountain to collect stones.”
A servant of the Qi King Manor shouted from a high place.
Now, Qingzhou City was building a large number of buildings, and the demand for stone materials was very high.
In addition to the complete stones, there were also many fine pebbles. These pebbles were used with asphalt to build asphalt roads. The amount used was also very large.
Previously, these insignificant pebbles were not of much value and were basically discarded directly. However, they could now be used. The workers could crush or smash them into even and fine pebbles and lay them on the asphalt to make the asphalt road more durable. At the same time, it also increased the friction and prevented slipping.
The mining and transportation of stone materials required a large number of manpower.
"Come, come, come. I want 1000 people here too! Follow me outside the city to make bricks!"
Now, the demand for bricks was also very strong. Whether it was building a six-story building or King Qi's mansion, a large number of diamonds were needed.
Originally, Zhu Xi had bought them directly, but the amount would increase in the future. It would be a pity if he did not make use of the surplus labor.
Instead of spending money to buy it, it was better to build a brick factory and let the workers produce it. Then, the bricks that were produced would be brought to King Qi's mansion and the six-story building. They could be used directly.
Not only would he be able to make use of these disaster victims, but he would also be able to save a large sum of money.
The disaster victims were excited when they heard that Prince Qi's mansion was recruiting again.
"Me! I have strength!"
"Me, me, me!"
The disaster victims swarmed forward because they had heard yesterday that the people who worked for King Qi's mansion were treated very well.
In this day and age, having work meant that one could always eat their fill.
Working for King Qi's mansion was equivalent to having an iron rice bowl and not having to worry about starving to death.
Of course, not everyone responded so enthusiastically to King Qi's Mansion's call. Some people were clearly young and strong, but every time King Qi's Mansion recruited workers, they would retreat and shrink their heads.
They would rather wait here to eat than work. Some were lazy, while others were still grieving over the deaths of their relatives and friends. They were like walking corpses all day long, as if they had lost their souls.
Zhu Rong couldn't care less about this now because the disaster victims came in waves. Even if he tried to arrange for these disaster victims to work, there were still not enough positions.
In order to arrange for more people, he even built a brick kiln specifically for firing bricks.
What delighted him the most was that he had recruited many craftsmen and people who were good at doing business.
The role of craftsmen in the construction of Qingzhou City was needless to say. These people with business acumen had also greatly expanded the caravan of King Qi's residence.
In Zhu Rong's eyes, the caravan was not just a tool to make money, but also his eyes and ears.
He could record the places that the caravan had gone, what they had seen and heard, and send it back to King Qi's manor. In the eyes of others, it was some inconspicuous details, but in his eyes, it might come in handy in the future.
They would not flaunt the name of King Qi's Mansion. Instead, they would appear on various official roads and in various provinces and counties like ordinary caravans. However, they would weave a huge net that would become denser and denser.
In this era where communication was underdeveloped, these caravans played a vital role. In addition, Zhu Xiong would cultivate his own hidden forces in the future. With their cooperation, this would become his trump card.
The lack of communication gave Zhu Rong a headache, especially when it came to news from the Ying Tian Prefecture. It would take a long time, and he didn't even have a messenger pigeon.
After fiddling with it for a few months, he still couldn't figure it out.
He originally thought that sending a messenger pigeon was a very simple matter, but in reality, it was more complicated to train. Moreover, there was a probability of the transmission of information being interrupted.
The carrier pigeon mainly used the carrier pigeon's natural strong homing ability to deliver letters. Pigeons generally relied on magnetic fields and sunlight to determine the direction of their home. Even if they took the carrier pigeon to a place about 1000 kilometers away from the nest, they could rely on their own ability to accurately locate their nest and fly back thousands of miles.
Brother Fei used this characteristic of carrier pigeons to domesticate pigeons in a fixed pigeon shed. When he went out of town, he would bring a few with him. When he wanted to send a letter, he would release one home.
He could only use one-way communication, which meant that he needed to build a pigeon shed in two locations to achieve basic communication.
Whether it was him or the Marquis of Jiangyin, when they came to Qingzhou from the capital, they did not bring any pigeons!
In addition, the pigeons in Qingzhou City had not been trained yet. Most importantly, not all carrier pigeons could return home smoothly. There was a possibility that they would be lost, captured by others, or eaten by their natural enemies.
Its success rate was not 100%, and it was not as reliable as relying on humans to convey information.
Messenger pigeons weren't as magical as those in movies and novels. If they were really that useful, the Daming Dynasty would have raised a bunch of pigeons and used them to communicate.
Zhu Xiong had already gotten people to fiddle with this thing for a few months, but he still hadn't been able to establish communication between Qingzhou and Yingtian Prefecture.
Fortunately, the messenger pigeon that was sent out did not record any substantial content. It was just a test. If it really recorded any substantial content and was discovered by someone, the news might be leaked and cause some trouble.
The most common method was still the beacon fire and relay station. This was also the reason why Zhu Xiong did not hesitate to spend manpower, material resources, and financial resources to spread the intelligence network. Relatively speaking, people were much more reliable than pigeons.
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