"Hey~hey~"

The huge blast furnace was billowing with smoke, and next to the blast furnace, the workers of the Miyun Iron Works were shirtless, working hotly, shouting neat trumpets, sweating one by one.

If it weren't for the lively melon-eating crowd wearing thick cotton clothes from a distance, it would really make people think that it was a hot summer day.

Truckloads of iron ore, limestone, coke, and dolomite were poured into it from the feed port at the top of the blast furnace, and the huge blowers next to it were pulled by dozens of strong men.

"Tsk, it's a bit of a look, but I don't know how much steel can come out of this furnace."

Zhu Hou looked at the lively scene in front of him, and the whole person became radiant, for such a thing, he liked it the most, of course, as long as it was not related to learning to be an emperor, he was very interested.

"Let's go, go back and have a good meal, and you'll know in the afternoon."

Liu Jin turned around and walked towards his place of residence, because it was the first furnace, so it needed a time to wait slowly.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm so hungry."

Zhu Houzhao touched his stomach and said.

"Go and eat, I can't eat, I can't eat until I see this first furnace of steel come out, it's all silver piled up."

The British public Zhang Mao shook his head, and the whole person seemed a little anxious.

The blast furnace in front of him, in its words, was really piled up with silver, and it took more than 100,000 taels of silver to build it, if he didn't believe Liu Jin, he would really be reluctant to spend silver like this.

"Brother Xu, let's go, let's go, have a good meal, and you can open the furnace and produce water in the afternoon."

Liu Jin pulled Xu Guangzuo and Zhu Houzhao up, and the three of them hooked up and went to have a big dinner together.

Only Zhang Mao and Huang Jinquan are left here, Zhang Mao, a traditional feudal nobleman, although he has earned a lot of silver with Liu Jin, but it is still difficult to adapt to this industrialized mode of operation.

With such a large investment and so many people, how can this money be managed?

How should this iron factory be managed?

If there are too many products produced, how can they be sold?

At this time, Zhang Mao fell into such a confusion, of course, this is not only Zhang Mao, with Liu Jin, a butterfly flapping his little wings, it has brought too much, too much huge impact to this era.

Many coal workshops and cement factories have been set up in Tianjin and Beijing, because the business is getting better and better, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, which naturally follows the management problems of enterprises, product sales problems, cost control, and so on.

If you only rely on the traditional methods of operation and management, it is difficult to adapt to the larger and larger scale of enterprises, so more and more people are thinking about the way of management and sales.

After all, most of the traditional workshops are mainly manual and limited in scale, and it is very good to be able to employ dozens of people, while cement factories and coal factories, even if they are labor-intensive industries, need to hire at least a few hundred people casually.

If there are too many people, how to manage them, how to save costs, and how to produce as many products as possible, these are all testing new capitalists like Zhang Mao.

That's right, although Zhang Mao was a great nobleman in the feudal era, but with Liu Jin to make money and make a fortune, he has gradually changed from a traditional feudal aristocrat to an emerging capitalist.

In the past, the British government's main financial income came from the rent of the huge land under its command, and all this rent was grain, not to mention that the amount of grain was very large, but it was not much when converted into silver.

In addition to tenant rent, there are also a small amount of income from shop operations, business properties, and minerals, which is not much and accounts for a small proportion.

The calculated income of the British government may only be tens of thousands of taels when converted into silver, and tens of thousands of taels of silver are of course nothing less than astronomical amounts for ordinary people, but compared to the salt merchants, tea merchants, grain merchants, etc. in the Jiangnan area, it is nothing at all.

Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, Xu Guangzuo, the wealth of these people is actually still accumulated by their ancestors from generation to generation, and this is the case for each generation, so whether it is a prince or nobleman, a gentry and landlord, or an ordinary person, as long as there is money, the first thing is to find a way to buy land, which also inverts the land and slowly concentrates, and finally it is the change of dynasty.

But now it is different, because following Liu Jin step by step to taste the sweetness, Zhang Mao set up a huge industry, and is mining coal, running a cement factory, engaging in marine fishing, ocean trade, and Liu Jin to set up an iron factory, etc., the profits of each industry are very high, far exceeding the profits that can be brought by the huge land under his command.

So he began to slowly sell the huge land in his hands to raise funds to continue to expand production capacity, and he changed from a feudal nobleman to a new capitalist.

Maybe no one will realize this, not even Liu Jin has not realized this, but if history continues to develop like this, it will definitely be written in the future history.

With the rise of a series of new investments in the early days, the traditional feudal aristocracy continued to differentiate, and some people tasted the taste of new industries and gradually transformed into new big capitalists, the most representative of which were the British Duke, Chengguo Gong, Dingguo Gong and others at that time.

Of course, Zhang Mao didn't think about this at all at this time, he was anxiously waiting, waiting for the first furnace of steel to come out.

In the afternoon, Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao and Xu Guangzuo slowly came to the steelmaking blast furnace again.

"Lao Zhang, have you eaten?"

Liu Jin looked at Zhang Mao and asked with a smile.

"Eat, eat, I've never seen a loser like you, how good is it necessary for this worker's food?"

"I eat with the workers at noon."

Zhang Mao looked at Liu Jin and pouted and said, he finally understood how the investment of two million taels of silver was spent, Liu Jin's food for the workers of the steel mill, three meals a day, three meals a day, the key is to eat meat, this landlord is not so extravagant.

"When you are well fed and well-fed, you have the strength to work, you see that this is all hard work, and the wool comes out of the sheep, and when the furnace is opened, you will not be heartbroken for that little bit of food."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head and said.

"Master, can you open the furnace?"

Here, Huang Jinquan has not rested, has been directing on the spot, and the mountain-like iron ore, coke, etc. that were originally piled up on the side have all entered the huge belly of the blast furnace, and as for the situation inside, no one knows now.

"Almost, let's open the furnace."

Liu Jin calculated the time, nodded and said.

"Ready to open the furnace~"

When Huang Jinquan heard this, he immediately hurried to get busy, and while he shouted loudly, he also said to his subordinates.

As Huang Jinquan's words fell, the scene became more busy, and at the same time, everyone became anxious one by one, and began to look forward to it, waiting for the moment when the miracle appeared.

"1 set is ready~"

"2 sets are ready~"

"3 sets are ready~"

Next to the blast furnace, the stewards of the division of labor said loudly.

"Open the furnace~"

Huang Jinquan saw that everyone was ready, and he also shouted loudly, and as he shouted, beside him, a strong man began to ring a bronze bell.

Well, the ancient people were still very particular about rituals, and now various workshops, cement factories, etc. are learning this.

"Bell~Bell~"

With a loud bell, everyone's eyes were on the outlet.

"Hey, hey~"

As the bell rang, on both sides of the water outlet, two teams of strong men began to shout neat trumpets, constantly pulling the winch to pull the huge iron plate of the water outlet.

"Whoa~"

Everyone's eyes looked at the water outlet, and as a gap appeared, revealing a dazzling white world, the blast furnace was red, and then a stream of molten iron flowed out of it, and there was a loud sound.

"Out of the water~Out of the water~"

Someone shouted excitedly.

But this was just the beginning, and soon all the huge valves were opened, and in the moment they opened, it was as if the reservoir was opening to release water, and a fiery red torrent surged out.

"Zizi~"

The blazing white molten iron gushed out, making a sizzling sound with the cold air outside, and at the same time, the molten iron also quickly began to cool down.

"Wow~"

Zhu Houzhao's little eyes are wide, and anyone who sees such a scene for the first time will be deeply shocked by this scene, the molten iron gushes out like a torrent, as if the river bursts its embankment, and it seems to be a flood, red molten iron, terrifying high temperature, and sizzling sound.

Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzuo, Huang Jinquan, everyone at the scene was stunned, looking at the torrent that was surging out in front of them, flowing along the channel that had already been paved.

Because there is no large-scale lifting equipment, so the molten iron is baked, Liu Jin is also specially laid a very long, very long waterway, the specifications of these waterways are different, some are used to make steel bars in one step, some are the standard iron ore of this era, and some are long iron plates in short.

The molten iron was poured into it, and the blazing white molten iron flowed, and there were also a large number of sparks constantly beating, and at the same time, there were clusters of splashed molten iron burning a raging flame.

"How much iron is there in this furnace?"

Someone's eyes widened, looking at the crimson torrent, and his mind was full of white flowers and silver, because in his vision, a large area of water outlet here was all covered by boiling molten iron, like a blazing white world.