Chapter 179: Shortage of Manpower Nothing to say all the way.
When he was about to arrive at the Yingbin Building, the largest restaurant in Yuezhou, Li Zhen suddenly said: "Also, the scale of your shipyard needs to be expanded." ” Wang Dewei was a little puzzled: "There is no problem with the expansion of the shipyard, there are not many other in Vladivostok, but there are a lot of pine trees in the last year, and it is really a very good natural deep-water port, even if the shipyard is expanded ten times, it is not a problem, the problem is ......."
"I know, manpower, right?"
"Yes, it's manpower."
Wang Dewei said: "Now the shipyard is not lacking in anything, the only thing that is lacking is manpower, as long as Your Highness can give your subordinates enough manpower, how large the shipyard you want, your subordinates can build it for you." ” "It's easy to handle, Datang fought such a big victory with Tianzhu in Nanyang, and there are slaves, and when the war in Tianzhu is over for a while, I will send you 100,000 slaves over."
Anyway, Li Zhen of the sea shipyard no longer plans to hide, since this is the case, let him appear in front of the world blatantly, 100,000 people, there are not many others in Nanyang, the only thing that is not lacking is slaves.
"Nanyang slaves?
What do I want them to do?
When Wang Dewei heard this, he looked disgusted: "Your Highness, I have heard of the slaves in Nanyang, that is called a lazy, it is said that at the beginning of this year, 20,000 people were sent to Yingzhou to build a road from Yingzhou to Goguryeo Pyongyang, and the result was almost not the person in charge of this matter was angry to death - even if the overseer whipped them with a whip, they worked slowly, and many slaves died, but after half a year, the road from Yingzhou to Pyongyang has not been built for 100 miles......
Your Highness, you say, what am I going to do with such a lazy person?
Not only will it not work, but it may drag down the progress of our work, and besides, they will not know anything, and we will have to teach from scratch, very slowly......"
Li Zhen sneered: "Don't worry, I will specially select some excellent slaves for you, you can be content, as for the hard-working and skilled craftsmen, you better forget it, we still lack such people." ” "By the way, Your Highness, didn't you say that the Great Food and Sassanid Persia were at war?
Aren't there supposed to be a lot of slaves there?
Wang Dewei suggested: "We can buy it from the big cannibals, there should be a lot of craftsmen there, that's what we need." ” "Don't even think about it, it's impossible."
Li Zhen directly refused: "First of all, because Datang has bought slaves on a large scale over the years, the price of foreign slaves has risen sharply, especially those who have a skill, and the price has skyrocketed exponentially, even if I have money, I don't spend it like this."
Secondly, because Datang has been provoking wars between enemy countries outside for many years, it has already attracted some people of insight to be wary of my Datang, if the outside buys slaves in large quantities again, they will not sell or not, and even if they sell, they will definitely take the opportunity to ask for a sky-high price.
In the end, even if you can buy so many slaves outside, you can't give them all to you, didn't you see Zheng Yintao's eyes red today?
He certainly wanted a group of artisan slaves as well. ” Today, it is not only Liu Renliang and some people who come with Li Zhen, as long as there are officials in the entire Yuezhou who can get free, there are naturally Zheng Yintao, the director of Yuezhou, and his group of subordinates.
However, after Wang Dewei drove the ship over, the moment he saw the huge body of the Emperor of 5,000 tons, Zheng Yintao was deeply shocked, and before the Emperor stopped, he ran to the Emperor and pulled the designer to live or die, asking questions and asking questions, wanting to thoroughly investigate the design concept of the Emperor.
Li Zhen didn't know what happened later, but it could be seen from his red eyes that he was definitely hit a lot - but it is no wonder that since the day Yuechuan was established, it has always been burdened with the name of Datang No. 1 Shipyard, and the people of Yuechuan have always thought so, even the Dengzhou Shipyard, which was established earlier than them, has not been taken to heart by them.
And the Yue ship also lives up to its reputation as the world's first, whether it is from the design to the final shipbuilding, they can do it all by themselves, and whether it is speed or quality, it is first-class.
However, today, there is an unknown so-called Vladivostok shipyard, so that the people of the Yue ship have been deeply hit, whether it is the shock of the thousand large merchant ships, or the technical heritage contained in the Emperor, it is not a Yue ship that they can compare.
Zheng Yintao's gaffe may not have been seen by others, but Li Zhen noticed it, because this was his purpose in itself.
Because with this return to Lingnan, Li Zhen found that the Yue boat actually had a faint arrogance, although there was only a little sign, but this was also something he could not tolerate, so he simply took advantage of the sea shipyard to hit the Yue boat up and down.
Now it seems that the effect is clearly very good.
"Your Highness, what does this have to do with Zheng Yintao?"
Wang Dewei asked rhetorically: "In terms of productivity, quality, speed, and design ability, our Vladivostok shipyard is the first in the world, and we are the best, and the best shipyard must of course use the best shipwright."
Besides, the birds don't in Vladivostok, and he doesn't want to go except slaves, but on the side of the boat, you can use normal craftsmen. ” "That's right, then you let Bengong think about it."
Li Zhen nodded thoughtfully, the reason why Li Zhen bought a large number of foreign slaves was not because foreign monks could recite scriptures, nor because they admired foreign countries, nor because foreign shipwrights had better skills - many of those slaves were from landlocked countries, and they hadn't even seen a big ship a few times, how could they be better than the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty.
In fact, in terms of shipbuilding craftsmen, Datang is the most.
However, there is a problem that the law of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulates that the people of the Tang Dynasty are not allowed to be slaves - your big family can recruit servants, but you must be able to leave at any time, let alone harm people's lives, otherwise you will be severely punished.
And what is Vladivostok?
It's snowy.
Saying that birds don't poop is already lifted there, and there are no people there at all.
As a free man, who would want to go to that kind of place?
No matter how much money you give, you won't go.
Only those slaves who have lost their free men can be forcibly arranged by Li Zhen.
The Yue boat is different, this is the largest shipyard in Datang on the bright side, or the industry under the command of the crown prince, not only the salary and benefits are high, but also the face of going out, everyone likes to come here, so there is no shortage of people here, as long as you want to expand the scale, you can recruit as many people as you want.
"Don't talk about this, the place is here, let's go down."
Li Zhen got off the horse first and said with a smile: "This is my industry, the chefs are all transferred from the Zuixianlou in Chang'an, you haven't been to the Central Plains for a long time, today I will do the east, let you have a good taste of the Central Plains cuisine." ” Wang Dewei and the others swallowed their saliva: "Yes, the subordinates will definitely not be polite." ” "Hahaha......"