The Regent's Tender Darling

The main reason is that Shannan is a mining area. The largest iron mine in Danan is in Shannan. Almost all the pig iron used by the entire Danan army comes from Shannan.

It can be said that this is an important military area in Da Nan, but there will be a long cold wave here every winter, and most of the miners here are from Jiangnan.

There is mostly no snow in the south of the Yangtze River, so people who come here will be overwhelmed by the wind and snow here. People freeze to death every year. As soon as autumn comes, the government will come to the mining area to prepare winter supplies.

If not, there will be a gap in the iron ore needed to repair the armor in the spring.

At this time, if the investigation is carried out, there will always be someone on the Shannan government side who will be blamed for delaying the military flight.

Therefore, almost all officials who come to Shannan to serve will pay special attention to the miners' preparations for winter, and do not dare to be negligent in the slightest.

But even so, people freezing to death in winter often happen. Generally, as long as there are no large-scale freezing incidents, there won't be much attention here, because most of the miners here are prisoners.

This year's snowfall was particularly heavy, so houses collapsed under the weight of the snow in the Shannan miners' residential area. There were almost no intact houses in the entire residential area.

Most of these houses have been in disrepair for a long time. The government is well prepared for the winter for official servants or people from the government, but they ignore the prisoner laborers from Jiangnan.

As a result, after the residential area was crushed by snow, hundreds of workers in the entire mining area froze to death overnight. Hundreds of thousands of workers in one mining area froze to death overnight. Hundreds of workers who lived and ate together froze to death overnight, and the remaining workers immediately froze to death. On the contrary, this is the reason for large-scale disasters in Shannan.

Some people protested. If the army came to suppress them, they would either freeze to death or be killed. How could these workers choose?

After the chaos, almost all the miners who escaped from Shannan were arrested, and the places passed by the workers who escaped from the mining areas, whether they were government offices or poor people, were almost looted.

It's snowing heavily again, and the consequences can be imagined.

This matter was left unattended due to the discord between the emperor and the regent in the court.

On the first day he came here, Yan Sihan had already seen countless corpses on the roadside, all frozen into ice sculptures. Within one day, all the tents he brought were erected, making a temporary shelter for hundreds of thousands of people. Settlement site.

Food and grass were continuously brought in, but the weather was too cold for the cotton and linen tents to withstand. All the cotton clothes in the arsenal were distributed to the victims, but this was not enough.

So on the third day, Yan Sihan sent people to organize the victims to go up the mountain to cut trees. Each tent had a stove. As long as they went up to the mountain to cut firewood regularly, they could survive the winter. When early summer tomorrow, the Ministry of Industry will send People came to repair their houses again.

Although the disaster area was chaotic and tragic, all the workers involved were arrested and temporarily imprisoned outside Shannan.

As the regent, Yan Sihan did not bring more torture to these poor workers, but only increased the sentence of three years for each person mining here.

During the three years of mining in Shannan, I could actually get by as long as I was well prepared for the winter. Therefore, the treatment of labor was the fundamental reason for solving the problem.

Regarding this matter, Yan Sihan has been rectifying it for three years, and Shannan has almost completed the rectification in these three years.

But as he was preparing to leave the capital in the past few days, Shannan County Sheriff directly asked the emperor to change his people.

Shannan involves the Ministry of War, and for those local officials, this is the most lucrative area.