There were several documents on Shouhan's bookcase, which made him very hesitant and didn't know what to do.

This kind of situation seems to have not happened since he took over the throne, and anything he has done before is extremely free and natural in the eyes of others, otherwise he would not be the person chosen by the Emperor of Heaven.

One copy of "The Mining Situation of Stony Creek Iron Ore Reserves", one copy of "The Situation of Kiln Mouths in Various Places in the Quang Ninh Coalfield", and two copies of the respective situations of the coking plant and the metallurgical plant. The main thing is the production situation of these two companies. Solving the threat of the Zheng family behind the scenes, the whole army seemed to be greatly relieved. There is quite a bit of meaning that knives and guns enter Kuma and put Nanshan.

At the New Year's tea party on the fifth day of the first month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Shouhan slapped the table!

"Lose that mother! Yi Niang! Day you mother! You're an ancestor! ”

In the face of a full hall of military attaches and local governors who rushed to report on their work from all over the place, Shouhan scolded in the dialects of various places, which immediately silenced the people present, and some of them had poor psychological qualities, and they couldn't help but start to tremble.

"I just defeated the Zheng family, and the soldiers won't go out of their exercises! The sailors also cleaned the cabins, scrubbed the decks, and the gun range days were changed from once every five days to once every eight days! If you sue me, will the world be peaceful from now on?! ”

"Huh!?"

The hall, which is large enough to accommodate hundreds of tables, has become extremely quiet, as if it is in the middle of a barren mountain and wilderness, and the silence makes people feel oppressed.

"My lord, the brothers just feel that they have been fighting hard for many years, and today the enemies of the north and south have been defeated, and it coincides with the Spring Festival, so they are a little overjoyed. You can rest assured, after the mark goes back, you will be able to practice this group of dogs immediately, and if you don't make up for the arrears of these days, Lao Tzu will not be Zhang Xiaohu! ”

Zhang Xiaohu, who is the commander of the left wing of the water division, is used to joking with Shouhan in Pingsuri, and he is slightly bolder than others, so he intercedes.

"Years of hard fighting? That's true! Since I took over the throne, I first killed He, then conquered Laos, crossed the sea to the east to fight against Luzon, crossed the river to the south to fight against the Ruan family, Pingzhenla, destroyed the city, and fought against Siam, it was indeed a conquest, but! Shouhan raised his voice, "You put down the wine glass first and think about it, if there is no war, if I don't fight to the death, if my Nanzhong Army doesn't move forward desperately, can I have my Nanzhong Army today?!" ”

"If we don't fight and fight, then we will be a small guard of a thousand households that day! Could there be a scene of today's prosperity and glory?! Is there such a day as flowers are boiling oil on a brocade fire? ”

"It's a day like this, everyone thinks, what was your scene ten years ago? What was this Ha Jing Mansion like ten years ago? Ten years ago, the garrison mansion was able to talk about destroying the Ruan family and the Zheng family? If you don't get ransacked by them, it's good to kill all the essence! ”

As soon as he spoke, the people present lowered their heads, and among the civil and military officials of the Nanzhong Army, except for a very few people, such as Li Peilin and Ye Qi, the vast majority of them came from the field camp. Either the Fujian and Guangdong refugees who came to reclaim the famine, or the people of the Miao Yao tribe such as Wang Bao, Peng Kun, and Ah Jin, or the unborn children like Wu Laowolf. Ten years ago, it was said that they were in important positions, armed with hundreds or thousands of people, or in charge of the civil affairs of a place, and many people really had no overnight food.

"Today is to drink New Year's tea with everyone, discuss the big and small things of this year, everyone just drink well, and after going back, take care of the things within their respective jurisdictions and hand them over before the Lantern Festival."

After the fire, it is always necessary for people to be able to end up and step down, so Shouhan raised a toast.

Others don't know, but he himself knows it, what time is it? In a few months, the worthless carpenter emperor Tianqi Emperor, who was belittled by Donglin and Donglin's descendants, will die. After the death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian, who was able to control the overall situation for him, was also executed by the great, wise, glorious and correct people of the whole country represented by Donglin. The so-called "Zhongzheng Yingchao" situation has once again appeared.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it was very strange that when the so-called eunuch party was rampant, the country's financial situation would be better, the people's living burden would be lighter, and the price of grain in various places would be lower. On the contrary, as soon as the righteous men and gentlemen of Donglin came to power, taxes were immediately reduced, the country's finances were tight, and those who served as soldiers could not receive military salaries and did not have enough to eat. The common people complained, and the price of rice skyrocketed.

And the Donglin people only need to say at the critical moment that the destiny of heaven is returned, and the number of great bright qi is exhausted, and they can use Shi Ran's razor to completely change the clothes that have not changed for three thousand years, and then go to praise the saint tomorrow.

Chongzhen reused such a group of people, and it is conceivable how far the country will go, and soon after coming to power, it was the Eighth Emperor who came to the city of Beijing. The turmoil in Shaanxi that began at the end of the Apocalypse gradually evolved into riots and uprisings, and finally formed a large-scale peasant army, which the history books called Liukou, which disturbed the Jianghuai River and the Han Dynasty, and then the state affairs deteriorated.

However, in Shouhan's view, this is an opportunity that he must seize and can seize!

Therefore, he must spur this group of subordinates from time to time, so that they can't lose their sharpness and fighting spirit in this comfortable life!

However, soon, piles of documents continued to fall on Shouhan's desk like rain in the rainy season.

It's easy to say anything else, but the most tangled thing for Shouhan is the matter of coal and iron.

Later historical researchers, some people studied the previous foreign operations of the Han Dynasty from another angle, and came to a very interesting conclusion, that is, the purpose and result of waging war are closely related to economic development.

"In other words, Li Shouhan's foreign war, in fact, it was the giant beast of productivity development that he released with his own hands that pushed him forward, so that he had to do this!" The scholar who wrote the paper said this at the conference.

"To fight the Spaniards is to trade and trade; When fighting with Zhang Xiaohu's pirate gang, because of the trade channel; The war with the Ruan family was for the land of the Jiulong River, and in addition, there were a large number of kaolin resources. The same was true of the wars with the local governments of the time, such as Siam, Chenla, and Champa. The purpose of going north to crusade against the Zheng family is even more widely known, that is, for energy. This is exactly the same as the war between certain countries in our time over oil! ”

Shouhan was thinking about another thing at this time.

The Quang Ninh coalfield is already under control, not to mention the Stony Brook iron mine. What comes to his mind now is the picture of coal mined in the open pit of the Quang Ninh coalfield being transported to the coking plant to be made into coke, and then sent to the metallurgical mill, which has been renamed a steel plant, along with the iron ore mined from the Stony Brook iron ore, to be smelted in a small blast furnace, and at the same time additives such as manganese ore are added as appropriate, or smelted into ductile iron or turned into high manganese steel.

This is the idea of the coal-iron complex!

In the original operation link, there was a stumbling block to the Zheng family. Coal supply must take into account many factors such as profits, delivery time, quantity, etc., which adds a lot of time and economic costs out of thin air. Nowadays, it goes without saying that you can plan your production according to your own requirements and ideas.

The next step is to inform each of the two mines to extract enough ore and coal.

Putting down a few documents in his hand and wiping his face with the hot towel sent by the guard, Shouhan's mind seemed to be much clearer, "Made! Why do other traversers, just think about fighting, don't worry about anything else, if you want to fight that, even if you are on the other side of the world, you have to shout 'Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away!' 'When it's my turn, I'm going to be like a miser and a small landlord, counting the money and food of the soldiers, horses, and horses, sorting out knives, guns, and equipment, calculating the limits of logistical support, and even considering the stock of coal?!" It's not fair! ”

After complaining a few words in his heart, Shouhan picked up the copper rattle on the desk of the bookcase, shook it lightly twice, and the crisp bell rang a few times, and the guard on duty outside the door walked in.

"Lord, what do you command?"

"Please come to me to discuss matters!"

Although Li Peilin's position is still the long history of the General's Mansion, the scope of his responsibility is already the entire responsibility of a political envoy. In addition to not being in charge of soldiers and horses and military industry, the rest, such as reclamation, immigration, road construction, construction of village forts, appointment and dismissal of village heads, and many other matters are in his charge, and Shouhan only guides in the general direction.

Encountering such a lord and having such a vast platform for display, (the jurisdiction of the Nanzhong Army now includes the vast and long coastline from Thang Long to Chai Stick, bordering Myanmar to the west, and Laos, Chenla, and Champa have all become history.) To the south is the Chao Phraya River Valley. It is about the same as the area of several provinces in the Central Plains, dozens of state capitals, and millions of people (who have a Chinese household registration or serve the South China Army) in their own hands, and this feeling is many times better than the most glorious time of the Li family in the past!

"Sect brother, how have you been these days?"

On less formal occasions, or when discussing topics that are not particularly strict, or discussing very important official duties, Shouhan likes to chat with his subordinates in a more relaxed and pleasant manner, and sometimes he even calls his subordinates by nicknames.

"Hey! Wine and meat are chased every day, and the second child is a good friend and a lively person, from the wax moon to the Lantern Festival, there is almost no day without feasting guests, and there is no day without drinking! I just want to drink a bowl of porridge now! Smiled bitterly twice, Li Peilin was also very helpless.

The two of them each filled a pot of cigarettes and began to swallow the clouds and spit.

"Sect brother, please come over today and have some ideas to talk to you."

Shouhan got straight to the point and told Li Peilin about his thoughts.

"Convert the metallurgical workshop into a steel plant, and unite with the Stony Brook Iron Mine and Quang Ninh Coalfield to become a big deal?" Although he felt that it was a bit inappropriate to use the word "business" to describe it, Peilin couldn't think of other words to describe it.

"That's right! It's a coal-iron complex! ”

"Enterprise? Is it similar to the joint number of the transaction? ”

"Well, that's how it can be understood."

Shouhan's intention and concept are as follows: the steel plant formulates a production plan according to the requirements, and after this plan is decomposed, the coke and iron ore figures needed are respectively notified to the coking plant and the Stony Brook Iron Mine, which are still under the name of the chemical workshop, and they provide coke and iron ore, and at the same time, the steel plant allocates the funds required for materials to the coking plant, iron ore, coal field, etc., and the four form a complete production chain. The Quang Ninh Coalfield and Shixi Iron Mine are the most basic and important links in this process, the supply of raw materials.

Pei Lin's head began to spin rapidly.

"My lord, it is indeed a good thing that these families are combined. However, now that the overall situation of our army has been decided, there will be no major war in a few years, and the demand for steel does not seem to be as strong as before. ”

Shouhan glanced at Li Peilin's face approvingly, this guy has been close to Zhu Zhechi for a few years, and he already has an economic concept in his mind, and he knows how to consider market demand and other issues. It's not like those bureaucrats who pat their heads on the head and don't think about whether they conform to the laws of the market.

"Go on."

Shouhan peeled an orange and handed it to Pei Lin.

"His subordinates are in charge of civil affairs and economic affairs, and the time when the Lord ordered people to build a blast furnace coincided with his meeting. The shock of the blast furnace to his subordinates is still fresh in my memory today, a blast furnace can produce as much as 600 tons of steel every three days! This figure does not count the iron produced by those crucibles and improvised blast furnaces (i.e., earthen blast furnaces), and when they are pulled down, I can have thousands of tons of steel every month in Nanzhong. So much steel used to be used to strengthen the army, and swords, guns, firearms, artillery, and armor were all made of steel and iron, but now it seems that there is no place to go that can consume so much steel. ”

"Just listened to what the lord said, it seems that there is still a shortage of steel production?"

Shouhan put down the orange peel in his hand and wiped the juice on his hand with a hand towel, "Not bad!" Of course I think it's less! ”

One sentence came out, and Pei Lin was a little stunned. It is today's output, and the number of one month is comparable to the annual output of Foshan, which is good at the iron industry, is still insufficient? What is this lord going to do?!

"Sect Brother, you're right, the current military need for steel is not as much as before, but it doesn't mean that there is no more. I checked the documents reported from various places, and as of the end of the year, there are more than 1,000 missing artillery pieces in various villages and forts and prefectures and cities! That's a lot? ”

"There's another place to go, which I ignored intentionally or unintentionally before!"

"In the past, we focused on training and strengthening the army, there is no way, we must survive, for the farmland and water conservancy in various places, although we have also poured a lot of effort, but compared with the military industry, there is still a lot of lacking. Brother Zong, you are in charge of civil affairs, do you know that among the four or five thousand villages and towns scattered everywhere now, the materials of agricultural tools? ”

"Many of the farming tools used by farmers, hoes, shovels, shovels, and ploughsticks, are made of wood. A little iron or a little iron on the pear is a good thing. ”

"The subordinates have been derelict in their duties, please be guilty!"

Hearing Shouhan say this, Pei Lin couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, since the monarch said such a thing, it is necessary to have the taste of accountability, rather than waiting for the lord to be held accountable, it is better to ask for the guilt first. Then he lifted the hem of his robe, and knelt down to plead guilty.

"Brother Zong, this matter has nothing to do with you! If I am to blame, I am the biggest culprit. According to the surveys conducted by the business intelligence office in various villages, the villages near Ha Tinh Province are better, and the farther they are, the worse these agricultural implements will be. It's not that I don't have the money to buy it, I can't afford it. It's that you can't buy it because of the lack of goods. It is said that it is a fine product like Jiuzhuan Steel, that is, wrought iron, and these are very few of the goods on the streets of Ha Jing Fu. ”

"For no other reason! Low yield! ”

Pei Lin came to his senses from his shock and made his own judgment and conclusion.

"If farmers everywhere, the farm tools in their hands are nine turns of steel, oh, this is a bit unrealistic, the popularization of wrought iron farm tools, everyone uses iron plowshares, shovels, iron hoes, iron pickaxes, farmland can be turned deep, and the crop yield everywhere can be increased by a large piece? Can we also free up a lot of labor that we have been in short supply to work in factories and shipyards?! ”

Pei Lin has a habit, whenever he has a heart to calculate numbers, he uses his fingers to compare and draw on his clothes, listening to Shouhan's discussion, he can't help but use his fingers to compare on his trouser legs.

Shouhan has been with him for many years, so he naturally knows this habit of him, and he doesn't bother him at the moment, just drink tea and eat snacks there to replenish the brain power consumed in the past half a day.

"Oh!" Pei Lin let out a long breath. He's already figured out the approximate number.

"Lord, back then, Feng Mofeng had at least two sickles, hoes, a nail rake, two plowshares, and a miscellaneous family, which was about twenty catties and nine turns of steel, which met the minimum farming needs of a family of three. As you said, if wrought iron products are popularized, the weight will be increased, and the subordinates will be counted at twenty-five catties......"

"That's not right! The types you mentioned are the lowest standards, in addition to sickles, hoes, nail rakes, plowshares, shovels, pickaxes, etc., must also be taken into account, in addition, the unit of measurement in my southern middle school, everyone is used to two catties per liter of water, if it is replaced by the weight of the mainland, it is less than two catties per liter of water. You also need to take into account the difference. ”

Taking weight as an example, the measurement standard of the South Central Army is 500 grams per catty, and the more obvious standard is that the weight of one liter of water is two catties. The popular measurement standards in the mainland range from 600 grams to 700 grams per catty. In this way, the difference between one pound is as much as four taels.

Pei Lin smiled and nodded, indicating that he remembered.

"As of the pacification of the Zheng family, the number of households scattered by our army is about 1,020,071 households. According to the standard of at least 50 catties (500 grams) of wrought iron farm tools for each household, it will consume more than 51 million catties at one time! And that's not even counting those that need to be replaced! ”

"If the pears are spread to every household according to the lord's previous proposal, this number will be even larger!"

"Coupled with what the lord just said, the absence of those artillery pieces will also be a huge demand once they are filled!"

Shouhan chewed mangosteen in his mouth, the sweet and juicy taste permeating his mouth, and the juice of mangosteen's shell stained his hands red.

"So, it's not too much steel, it's far from enough!"

Shouhan is the final word for today's conversation!

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