After staying outside for more than ten days and thoroughly understanding the shipyard and salt works, Zhu Youxiao returned to Beijing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In general, the situation of the shipyard is not optimistic, although there are a large number of skilled craftsmen, and the transformation and design of clippers have also made breakthrough progress, but there is a serious shortage of raw materials. Two or three years later, before the large timber sent by Liaodong dried up, the shipyard was afraid that it would be completely abandoned, and after the production of the three Galen ships with thousands of materials, it was completely stopped.

After despairing of his own raw materials, Zhu Youxiao set his sights on the south, to be exact, it was Luo Sigong's body, hoping to get enough wood when he raided his home, otherwise his idea of extending his power to the ocean would be completely ruined.

Zhu Youxiao stayed in Tianjin for five days, and then he went to Changlu Salt Factory to inspect the work, which is the hen that lays golden eggs at present, and there is absolutely no room for mistakes. After the emperor left the port, the whole of Tianjin began to be busy again. That's right, the shipyard is not working now, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to do.

The port was trimmed, but the fortifications were not, especially the batteries, which were none. After the incident in Ningbo, Zhu Youxiao attached great importance to the safety of the port, so before leaving, he gave an order to build a fort.

Fortunately, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not do his job, and in order to guard against the threat of the sea, a few of them had set up some forts here, such as Dagu, and now Zhu Youxiao wants to rebuild it, it will be much easier.

Leaving Tianjin, Zhu Youxiao came to the Changlu Salt Farm, which has changed a lot now, and has completely become a place where salt mountains are piled up, and the vast and flat land is full of salt fields, and the salt of white flowers is piled up everywhere like a hill.

Now the Changlu Salt Farm has been put on the right track and is under the jurisdiction of the Production Department of the Inner Government, which is full-time salt drying, and nothing else matters. As for sales, it naturally went to the sales department, and it was priced and distributed by the local Tiangong firm. Salt merchants from all over the country signed agreements in the Tiangong firm in Changlu to compete for agent qualifications.

Zhu Youxiao abolished the traditional salt introduction system and adopted the agent system instead, with the county level as the unit, each county bids for an agent, and the agent pays money to buy the goods in the Tiangong firm, and then takes the receipt, goes to the salt factory to pick up the salt, transports it back to the county seat, and sells it according to the price on the agreement.

In this way, there is no difference between official salt and private salt, all the people buy salt from salt merchants, the government no longer interferes at all, and the profits of the entire salt industry are completely in the hands of Zhu Youxiao. Although it has only been put into production for a month, the salt merchants who have flocked to various places have already paid 3 million agent recruitment fees, and this alone has almost filled up Zhu Youxiao's expenses in the past half a year.

"Good, good." After learning about the operation of the Changlu Salt Farm, Zhu Youxiao laughed, such a rich report made his heart completely settle, with the successive integration of several salt farms over there, as long as he didn't open ten legions in one go, with his capital reserves and income, he almost didn't have to worry about running out of money.

"So much money, you have to use it." After being happy, this question came to Zhu Youxiao's mind again, although he had no financial knowledge, he still knew some things he had learned in political class, government finance is not the more money, the better, the money spent is called money, otherwise it is just scrap metal.

In the northern provinces supplied by the Changlu Salt Farm, the competition fee has already been paid, and in the next two years, it is more likely to have an income of three million taels a month, but with the consumption of salt, there will be an income of six or seven hundred thousand yuan per month. Moreover, as the price of salt decreases, salt consumption will also increase until the price and sales volume reach a stable point.

In other words, six or seven hundred thousand taels per month is not the peak, and it will grow slowly after that, as for how far it will grow, this is not something that Zhu Youxiao can predict. In the country, there are three that can be compared with the Changlu Salt District. Of course, the Liaodong Bay Salt Area has not yet been developed, and there are only three in the country, one is Wang Wenyan's target this time, the Huaiyan District, and the Laizhou Bay Salt Area in Shandong, which has begun to be rectified by Liu Bin

Judging from Zhu Youxiao's estimate, if the four major salt areas are all integrated, oh no, the three major salt areas are all integrated, and with the addition of Sichuan's well salt, the income of the salt industry in the whole country is estimated to be about 20 million to 30 million taels, which is a huge income.

For the next period of time, Zhu Youxiao only spent money with Ke Jin.

"Let me think, where is the need to expand investment?" After returning to the Forbidden City, Zhu Youxiao just snapped his fingers every day, thinking about how to spend the money, if he didn't spend it, soon the Ming Dynasty estimated that there would be deflation, he had collected 30 million taels of silver in his hands, and the ghost only knew how many taels of silver could be circulated in the world.

Thinking about it like this, Zhu Youxiao was shocked, and at this time he realized that he seemed to have gathered too much money. "Spend money, you have to spend money."

"Iron and steel making should be expanded, the gun factory should also be expanded, the production of cement, and shipbuilding, now the wood will be bought and dried, and then it will be built in three years." Zhu Youxiao calculated that he planned to completely build a steel industrial city in the western suburbs, and use the huge amount of iron smelting to feed agriculture.

You must know that in the countryside at this time, many places did not even have an iron rake, and only stone or wooden rakes could be used for spring ploughing.

"I still need more prisoners, 30,000 Jurchen prisoners of war, invested in the iron ore mining in Qian'an, there is no splash at all, so many people, now can only barely supply the consumption of the steel plant, we must increase the mining efforts, I still need more prisoners. And the prisoners, more troops will be needed to capture them. ”

In this way, after returning to the Forbidden City, the young emperor, who was stimulated by the huge amount of money, was immersed in the pleasure of spending money, and under the stimulation of this pleasure, he continued to write one plan after another, all kinds of plans, almost piled up in his study.

Until, Xu Guangqi's report woke him up.

"Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon's body, the whole system is with Your Majesty, and you can't ignore it." Xu Guangqi frowned and looked at the emperor's flushed face, stepped forward, and couldn't help but gather all the manuscripts and stack them, so that he wouldn't be reading them.

While cleaning up, Xu Guangqi shook his head, he knew a little about the emperor's experience these days, he thought it was an exaggeration, but he didn't expect that the facts were not rumored to be more serious, the emperor was almost going crazy and making various plans, if it weren't for the foundation of the previous martial arts practice, his body would have collapsed long ago.

It is also because of this that he hurriedly finished his idea, and after the successful modification experiment, he immediately came to see His Majesty, and only the emergence of some new technologies can drag the emperor out of this abnormal state.

"Your Majesty is older, it's time to find him a daughter-in-law, the huge palace, Your Majesty doesn't even have a woman, no wonder, the lonely time can't be passed, you can only do government planning, it's all suffocating." Xu Guangqi sighed and secretly kept this matter in his heart.

There's still a queen missing in the palace!

Xu Guangqi, who was packing up the manuscript paper, didn't know the weight of the papers in his hand, the plans written on these papers, the entire Ming Dynasty, since Zhu Youxiao's death, still carried out a full hundred years to complete, this is a real centennial plan. Almost everyone in later generations was very curious about how the Holy Emperor of the Apocalypse relied on this person to write this amazing hundred-year plan in just ten days.

This is another unsolved mystery, which will be studied and studied by future generations, and in the end it can only be attributed to the head of His Majesty the Holy Emperor, which is different from ordinary people.

"You mean, there has been a breakthrough in the open-hearth furnace for steelmaking?" Zhu Youxiao's eyes were closed, his face was flushed and he was lying on the soft couch, his forehead was covered with green tendons, which were jumping suddenly at the moment, making his head ache faintly.

Xu saw his discomfort, a maid boldly stepped forward, withdrew her hand and pressed, and began to massage him, with bursts of regular pressing, Zhu Youxiao finally felt a lot better, but at the moment he still couldn't think, he only felt that his head was empty, and there was nothing in it.

He didn't know what he had done in the past ten days, and when he was awakened by the news of Xu Guangqi's breakthrough in steelmaking, he was stunned, and he really didn't expect that the manuscripts on the table in front of him were all written by himself. Until now, his right hand was still twitching imperceptibly, and a tidal wave of labor pain came from there.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to use this hand for a few days." Zhu Youxiao, who knows his body quite well, made such a judgment.

"Yes, Your Majesty, after the study and some improvements of the old minister, we can finally successfully refine a furnace of high-carbon steel." Xu Guangqi said with a red face, he knew how important it was to be able to make steel in batches, and he couldn't say what it meant.

"Oh, how did Aiqing do it?" Zhu Youxiao asked curiously, anyway, he couldn't think of how to solve the problem of steelmaking under this adjustment.

"That's right, Your Majesty, after the pig iron comes out, select those with a relatively low carbon content as the main material, and then put it into the open hearth, along with iron ore, coke, and limestone." Xu Guangqi said with a retrospective face, obviously recalling his experience when tackling key problems.

"Pig iron is melted with coke, which will cause it to be too brittle, so some iron ore is used to neutralize it, and then, Lao Chen opened a hole at the top of the open hearth, placed a bearing in it, and then connected to a water-driven transmission shaft, at the end of the transmission shaft, installed with a rootless wrought iron rod, used to stir when the pig iron melts, at the same time, an additional fan was added to increase the agitation of the wind......" Xu Guangqi described his idea in detail, although there are many steps, but without exception, all are used for decarbonization, or neutralize the carbon content of pig iron.

For Zhu Youxiao, who is familiar with these steelmaking materials, these are very easy to think of, but he didn't expect to be used by Xu Guang to achieve them by so many means. In this way, he really understood and absorbed Zhu Youxiao's theory on the elements!

Compared with the breakthrough in steelmaking, Zhu Youxiao is more pleased with this.

"Congratulations Xu Aiqing, you are one step closer to the way of heaven." Zhu Youxiao said lightly, and his sudden words interrupted Xu Guangqi's speech.

"Oh...."After the other party was interrupted, he was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that he laughed.

[Author's digression]: Thank you, Uncle Da...... It's a bit of a cheap name.

This chapter is a bit messy, isn't it?,The idea is not smooth.,There's no outline!