Regardless of whether it is wages or not, as long as the word "food controls" is enough to attract refugees from all over Beijing. In just three days, Xishan Glass Factory was already full of craftsmen.

These refugees were dressed in tattered clothes and took their families with their families. When they arrived at the desolate West Mountain, Zhou Kui was heartbroken and bleeding.

This is not a factory building, it is clearly a place to resettle refugees. Zhou Kui once had some doubts, whether his grandson had deceived him again. Under the guise of building a factory, he made money to resettle these refugees.

This is very similar to what Zhu Cilang did. The more you think about it, the more nervous Zhou Kui became, and he became panicked. If this is true, he would hit him and die on the west mountain, causing the prince to bear the charge of killing his grandfather. Zhou Kui did what he said.

However, what I saw with my own eyes was that they filled the sand into the stove and melted it into glass.

After all, he was worried. Zhou Kui whispered to Liufu, a servant beside him, and said, "Liufu, go and call that shopkeeper Meng here."

The brother of the secret guard Meng Fanchao, the shopkeeper Meng of the blacksmith shop, was recruited by Zhu Cixuan to Xishan. The shopkeeper Meng was named Meng Fanping. When he heard the father-in-law called him, he hurriedly trotted over and said, "Mr. Guo, what are you looking for for villains?"

Zhu Cixuan, not far away, was asking his subordinates to place the refugees. Zhou Kui was a little embarrassed. He couldn't ask for his doubts clearly, so he had to whisper: "Shopkeeper Meng, when will he start producing glass?"

"This..." Manager Meng looked back and replied respectfully: "It may take some time to go, and there is nothing in the West Mountain. Now, the first priority is to place these craftsmen, and then build a kiln. This is simple. It is not difficult to obtain sand and gravel, but the coal needs to be transported by mules and horses, and it may have to wait for some time. As for when it can be produced, this villain is unknown. Please ask His Royal Highness the Prince."

Manager Meng doesn’t understand. Just ask the prince directly about this. Why do you come and ask me in a low voice like a thief?

Zhou Kuixin waved his hand unwillingly without asking, but suddenly he asked in a word: "Shopkeeper Meng, is this glass real?"

Obviously, Manager Meng still didn't understand what the father-in-law meant, and he was stunned again.

Zhou Kui simply said: "I am always worried that if I can't make this glass, wouldn't it be that all my previous efforts would be wasted?"

"Don't worry, this princess, the villain did a few trials later. He did it every time. It seems that there is no problem with this method. Otherwise, the villain went over and called the prince over, and the princess, please ask yourself."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, I just said this, I'm relieved. Okay, go busy." The words of Manager Meng made Zhou Kui feel a little relieved. However, what Zhu Cixuan did next made Zhou Kui begin to doubt his life.

Because Xishan is now poor and everything starts from scratch. There are no villages near Xishan, and the first thing the refugees do when they come is to build houses.

The people are familiar with building houses. They collected mud and mixed them with broken hay. They quickly built thatched huts with stones, and basically everyone used local materials. The cold thatched huts finally gave the people a shelter from the wind and rain.

The current conditions are a little harder, and the glass factory will be built in the future. When you make money, Zhu Cilang made up his mind to let all the people in the West live in glass windows and brick houses.

Zhou Kui felt sorry for food because the craftsmen recruited all included food and accommodation. It was a good idea that these craftsmen solved the problem by using local materials themselves. It was rare to eat.

The glass factory continues to recruit workers, from the initial few hundred people to the current thousands. The daily food, drink, defecation and scattering are a huge sum of money. The food shipped from all over the country is a truckload of silver.

The grain converted from silver was then cooked in a large pot and distributed to these craftsmen. This scene was very similar to the government setting up a porridge shed to provide refugees.

In fact, Zhu Cixuan did ask his subordinates to cook porridge in the porridge shed and distributed it to the craftsmen in the West Mountain. The more refugees gathered, it was difficult for Zhu Cixuan to drive them all away.

There is no way, the food is really tight. The craftsmen in Xishan can eat two meals a day. The craftsmen have two steamed buns and one bowl of porridge at noon, and the craftsmen's family has one steamed bun and one bowl of porridge at night. There are a little bit of one or two dishes at night, but all this is simply paradise for these wandering refugees.

Zhou Kui couldn't sit still, so he found Zhu Cixuan again: "Your Highness, this is not possible. Look at our small western mountain, which has attracted so many refugees at once. Before this factory was built, we will be eaten up first."

Zhou Kui was right, this is building a factory, not doing charity. Although he raised more than one million taels of silver this time, he was still struggling to face such a large amount of expenses.

Zhu Cilang also knew that ideals are always full, and reality is always cruel. But he could watch these homeless refugees carelessly, no matter what, he could not.

"Grandpa, I understand this. I will write to the court to the court and find a solution."

There is really a way. Perhaps it is the large number of resettlement of refugees in Xishan that has suddenly reduced the pressure in Beijing. Or maybe Emperor Chongzhen could not bear to have his son working too hard for these things, after all, he is still a child.

So, the court sent tens of thousands of stones of grain to the West Mountain for the first time to solve the food problem of refugees. These grains were really squeezed out by the court.

However, for Chongzhen, all this is worth it. Because the resettlement of refugees in Beijing has always been a headache for the court. Now that Xishan has taken over this matter, not only has resettled refugees, but also found a livelihood for them. It can be said that there are multiple goals in one fell swoop.

Zhou Kui finally saw a smile on his face, but Zhu Cixuan couldn't be happy. So many refugees far exceeded the original idea of ​​building a factory. It was not that there were too many people, nor that the expenses were huge. It was because of the scarcity of coal.

According to this scale, unless some large coal mines can be found nearby, the output will be far from keeping up without coal.

While building a kiln factory, it became an urgent matter to find coal. Zhu Cixuan had been to the Ministry of Industry. Officials of the Ministry of Industry were also actively dispatched some exploration teams to search for coal mines around the capital.

The coal mine is not only used by the glass factory in Daxishan, but also coal is needed in all iron ores in Beijing. Although the coal reserves are abundant, due to the restrictions of transportation conditions, it can only be found around the capital of the capital to fundamentally solve the problem.
Chapter completed!