The opening of the Xinzheng Coal Mine and the Xinzheng Iron Mine was divided into two parts, one was to acquire the land of the mining area and the coalfield, and this matter was handled by Gao Shipra and asked the five uncles to deal with it, and it was relatively difficult to buy land in Xinzheng and Xuzhou, which is adjacent to Xinzheng and Xinzheng in the name of the Gao family.

On the side of Xuzhou Iron Mine, the Fan family will also come forward to help, and Gao Pragmatic made it clear that he would not engage in the set of overpowering people, and the price of buying land is in line with the market situation, and can even slightly exceed the market price. The Fan family also knew that a family like the Gao family cared more about reputation, and of course the more attentive they were, they worked very hard to buy a mine.

Speaking of which, if it is now the third year of Wanli, I am afraid that even if the Fan family will still move closer to the Gao family, it will not be so stammering, after all, Fan Shouji is still only a new imperial examination person, and he was only admitted to the Jinshi in the third year of Wanli in history. Whether there is a jinshi or not is definitely a world of difference for a family.

Gao pragmatic's investment in Xuzhou iron ore is not big or small. It's not big, that's compared with Jingshi, the estimated scale of Xuzhou Iron Mine is only one-tenth of Jinghua Iron and Steel.

"Jinghua Iron and Steel" is an internal name, which is divided into several parts externally, each with its own name: its main body includes three parts: Jinghua Kaiping Coal Mine, Jinghua Qianxi Iron Ore Plant, and Jinghua Kaiping Iron Smelting Plant. In addition, there are hundreds of guards stationed in Kaiping and Qianxi, who are responsible for protecting the safety of the three major factories.

In view of the fact that there were sometimes Mongolian left-wing Koubian in that generation, although the impression was that due to Qi Jiguang's guard, the Mongolian left-wing basically did not please there, but Gao pragmatic still did not dare to slack off, in addition to the resident guards of several hundred people, he also ordered a group of people to be selected among the miners, and carried out a certain intensity of training in their spare time, as a factory protection team, that is, a reserve.

At present, the three major factories combined, nearly 20,000 workers, nearly 2,000 factory guards, plus the permanent guards, once there is a police, nearly 3,000 can be gathered in a minute, although the attack is unreliable, it should be more than enough to protect the three major factories. The only disadvantage is that you should provide an extra allowance to the factory guards.

Fortunately, Gao Shiyu is not short of money, and he can afford this money.

Gao Xiaozhuang has now been transferred from Jinghua Soap Factory to Jinghua Iron and Steel by Gao Shishi, in charge of coal and iron affairs in Kaiping and Qianxi, it is said that this kid is now under great pressure - although the scale of Jinghua Soap Factory is much smaller than that of Jinghua Iron and Steel, it is a golden egg-laying enterprise, and the profits are amazing, and it is easy to be a supervisor there.

The Jinghua Iron and Steel is still in the investment stage so far, although there has been a part of the output, but the sales channel has not yet been opened, the three major factories whether it is raw materials, or finished products, have a lot of backlog in the warehouse, Gao Xiaozhuang feels that the coal, iron ore and iron ingots, iron bars, all as if pressed on his head as heavy.

Gao Xiaozhuang is anxious, Gao pragmatic is not particularly anxious, because he knows that his involvement in the steel industry is originally in advance of the layout, and now the imperial court has not let go of the military industry and private, it is normal for him to have these steel and iron in his hands not open the situation for a while, after all, if it is purely civilian, he can almost only think of selling the part of pig iron, and the part of stainless steel has no market at all - why do civilians want fine steel?

But the military industry and private industry can only rely on Gao Gong to promote it in the court, Zhu Xizhong, Zhang Rong and others can only beat the side drum, and he can't do anything but wait.

However, there was an accident: Qi Jiguang's courage was extraordinarily fat, and he placed an order in Gao Shishi's hands to buy 3,000 stainless steel barrels.

If you really want to say it, except for the wooden butt and other parts, he purchased all the metal parts on a Saigon gun.

But the face of the imperial court still has to be taken care of, so Qi Jiguang did not order the entire Saigong gun, he ordered all the steel and iron parts separately, and then asked the guards in Jizhen to make the butts and other parts, and finally assembled them by himself.

Well, who said that the ancients wouldn't do such a thing? You see how handsome people Qi is playing.

It's a pity that Qi Jiguang can play this hand now, although the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong and Shanxi are high-arched, but they can't stand the lack of money in the three towns, and they are not worse than Qi Jiguang's side of the training of soldiers, and they can always get silver in the imperial court, so although Ma Fang and others saw the samples of Jinghua Iron and Steel, their saliva was ticking, but they were really shy and could only watch with dry eyes.

Xinzheng is mining coal, making steel and smelting iron, and Gao Pragmatic himself estimates that even if the private military industry is approved by the imperial court, he probably won't get too many military orders. After all, in the interior of Henan, the demand for ordnance is far less urgent than that of the towns on the nine borders.

The Henan military usually sends troops to suppress bandits or something, and occasionally there are uprisings and rebellions, and the scale is not large, and it belongs to the kind of opponent who can take down the guards together, and the demand for ordnance is of course very limited.

However, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, and Gao Pragmatic still left a thousand tons of steel production capacity a year for Xinzheng in the investment plan, and as for the rest of the part, it is all pig iron and wrought iron, and pig iron accounts for the majority. Obviously, Xinzheng is planning to focus on the civilian market.

In the final analysis, this is a project to benefit the township and create jobs, and its main role is to invite names.

In this case, Gao Pragmatic will not bother too much, and throw the entire coal and iron business in Henan to his mother Zhang.

Zhang's family was born in a family of businessmen, whether it is his own business acumen or the business talents that can be mobilized, he is enough to control these transactions in Henan, and this is his wife, so he can rest assured.

Gao Pragmatic is now basically satisfied with the promotion of his own industry, but what he is worried about is the talent. After Jinghua Steel's shelf was erected, he transferred Gao Xiaozhuang over, and now the golden rooster of Jinghua Soap Factory was handed over to Gao Xiaozhuang's third uncle Gao Fu.

Gao Fu was originally recommended by Gao Xiaozhuang to Gao Pragmatic, but what he is good at is actually carpentry, construction, etc., when he was transferred to Sanshenyuan, he was also in charge of mining, and now he is in charge of Jinghua Soap Factory, which is completely chasing ducks to the shelves. Fortunately, Jinghua Soap Factory is on the right track, and Wei Ximin and others are responsible for sales.

Even so, Gao Pragmatic felt that Gao Fu could not be delayed in the soap factory, and now Kaiping and Qianxi were still just a small fight, and after the imperial court approved the military industry and private industry, it was about to usher in a peak of development, and Gao Fu must be transferred to be responsible for coal and iron mining at that time.