"Ang Li, I asked you to take over Xunyang County before, raided Lin Taishou's house, and cleared the old nest of the Julong Gang, how much money do we have now?" Back at the Li Mansion, Xiao Yao immediately began to rebuild the ironworks.

"Young master, after copying Lin Taishou's house before, plus the treasures obtained by clearing the old nest of the Julong Gang, we now have about 300,000 taels of silver in our hands." After Li An exterminated the Julong Gang, he immediately sent someone to move all the treasures in the Julong Gang's nest back to Xunyang County.

"Okay, it's easy to do things with money! The first thing, now that the assassin is dead, the dragons in Jiangzhou have no leader, and your Li family is the most prestigious in Jiangzhou, and the people in other counties must be the head of Xunyang County, Li An, as the acting Taishou of Xunyang County, in the name of clearing out bandits, ordered the entire Jiangzhou defenders to be transferred from the elite to form a bandit guard for our use! Xiao Yao commanded.

"That's right! It's still the young lord who is far-sighted, with this guard, it's not up to us to have the final say in Jiangzhou! "Daddy Li knows best the benefits of having soldiers in his hands.

"The second thing is that you will choose a site to start construction immediately, according to the design of the Xiao family's iron workshop, it will be built with cement and stone, isn't there still that group of minions of the Dragon Gang, who spared their lives at that time, and now they can be used." Xiao Yao commanded.

"My subordinates understand! So our iron workshop is preparing to produce glazed ware? If the glazed ware appears again, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble! Zhou Chao now has a deep understanding of the fact that the husband is not guilty.

"No, the new ironshop only needs to produce black powder and make ironware, and there are artillery muskets that we didn't have time to mass-produce in the Xiaojia ironworks back then, this time it will be mass-produced!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

He also knew that if the glazed ware reappeared, not to mention that he was not capable of protecting it now, even Yu Wenzhi of the Zhou State might notice that Xiao Xiao was not dead back then.

"But if the iron workshop does not have a stable capital income, it is difficult to make a large number of artillery muskets with these 300,000 taels of silver alone, and the construction of the iron workshop requires the purchase of a large number of materials, and the kiln must be opened to burn cement first, as well as the wages of craftsmen and many other places need money, which is not enough for expenses." Zhou Chao made a rough calculation and found that the money was really not enough to spend.

"Making firearms is really a money-burning job, and if you have to buy everything yourself, it's really hard to sustain yourself in an iron workshop alone, huh! Why don't we mine ourselves? Xiao Yao had a flash of inspiration.

"Start your own mine?" Everyone was shocked.

"Yes, we also have our own coal mines, iron mines and so on, so that the resources of coal and iron can not only be self-sufficient, but even sold out! Yes, let's open another trading house, like the Xiao family trading house, when the time comes, businessmen from all over the world can do business with us, and our people can even send spies and spies to various places。。。。。。 The more Xiao Yao spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't stop.

"Young master! Young Lord! We all know the benefits of opening a mine and a trading house, but where do we open a mine? Is it here in Jiangzhou? Jiangzhou has never heard of iron ore ore here. Zhou Chao interrupted Xiao Yao's words, they were still staying at the point of mining the mine, but Xiao Yao said that when it came to the spies, they couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all.

"Oh, I'm sorry, it's crooked." Seeing that everyone was looking at him with unknown eyes, Xiao Yao reacted, his thinking turned too fast, and no one kept up.

The father and son of the Li family on the side were not familiar with Xiao Yao's character, so they didn't dare to easily interrupt the young master's words, and when they saw Zhou Chao's voice, they immediately echoed and said: "Yes, young master, we haven't heard of any big iron mountains and coal mountains in Jiangzhou for so many years, they are all small workshops and small mines. ”

"Jiangxi, no, Jiangzhou is a good place with rich resources! I remember that there was a place called Fengcheng, which was said to be the Tibetan land of the cadre Mo Ye, and there were coal mines there, and there were many of them. Xiao Yao remembers that Jiangxi has a lot of resources, but it is difficult to mine.

"Young master, do you also know that Fengcheng's cadre Mo Xie? But it is now divided into Guangfeng County and Xin'an County, and there are really coal mines there? "As a local, Ang Li is not as familiar with Jiangzhou as Xiao Yao.

"Of course there is, but I don't know exactly where it is, you have to arrange for craftsmen and earth masters to go to investigate, as for the iron mine, there is a place called Shangrao in Poyang County, there is it, there is Wuyi Mountain, I don't know where it is, you have to find it yourself." Xiao Yao said it very easily, but everyone was shocked to hear it.

"Young master, do you even know all this? Those are all poor and remote places, wild places, and there are really coal mountains and iron mountains? Li An couldn't believe it, Xiao Yao was only a teenager, how could he know so much?

"Of course there is, it may be the hilly area of Jiangzhou, these should be buried in the ground, not in the open air, so it is difficult to find, and it will be very difficult to mine, when the time comes, you should prepare more gunpowder and blow them up!" Xiao Yao knew that without black powder, it would be difficult to mine with human hands alone.

"That's right, according to the young master's idea, when the time comes, the mountain will split the stone and dig the coal mine, and the blasted stone and the dug coal can just burn cement on the spot, young master, your idea is really killing two birds with one stone!" Zhou Chao's thinking gradually caught up with Xiao Yao's rhythm, and he also patted his ass by the way.

"It's really like what the young master said, then I will arrange for the master craftsman to go to investigate as soon as possible, the young master is really powerful, even I, a Jiangzhou person, don't know that there is coal and iron in these places." Ang Lee once again bowed down under Xiao Yao's pomegranate skirt.

"Of course, I know astronomy and geography, ancient and modern, astrology, Qimen Dunjia, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, omniscient, omniscient, haha, otherwise how to be your young master!" Xiao Yao pretended to be forced by the situation.

"The young master is wise! Brother Li didn't know, but it was rumored in the whole Jiangling that the young master was a disciple of Taishang Laojun, and he got the true biography of Taishang Laojun, and the young master was a chosen person with the favor of the gods! Zhou Chao continued to pat his ass.

The father and son of the Li family were even more shocked when they heard this, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed and said: "The young master is a genius, clever, erudite, and more favored by the gods, and his subordinates will definitely swear allegiance to the death, and saddle the horse and back for the young master, and the liver and brain will be smeared!" ”

"Get up, I just read more books than others, and I know more than others, don't make a fuss, it's up to people to make things happen, and gods alone can't do things!" Xiao Yao pretended to be humble.

"But you must do these things for me no matter what, as long as the coal mine and iron ore can be successfully mined, then the iron workshop can develop! The firearms I told you about can be made on a large scale, and when our army is equipped with these weapons, we will definitely succeed in our great affairs! Xiao Yao said confidently.

"Don't worry, young master, we will start arranging it tomorrow! It will definitely be done! The crowd replied in unison.