"On the filial piety clothes, set up wine and fruit to teach the emperor a few feasts ago, only to be ordered. That is, in front of the Fengtian Palace, set up incense cases, wine and fruits, and other things, and crowned clothes to tell heaven and earth. Go to the Fengxian Hall to tell the ancestors. There is still a crown, a few feasts before the emperor's feast, five bows and three kowtows. End. After the mother came forward, bowed five times and kowtowed three times.

End. Enthroned in the Heavenly Temple. It's morning, bells and drums. Jinyi Wei set up a halogen book. Serve the crown, and cover the palace. The civil and military officials have their own court clothes, enter the Danqi, and wait for the Honglu Temple to lead the deacons into the Huagai Hall to pay their respects. Praise for the service. Please ascend to the temple. Ascend to the throne through the middle gate. The brocade guard whipped his whip. Hundreds of civil and military officials congratulated them.

Hundreds of officials are exempt from congratulations. Exemption form. Stop prostrating five times and prostrating three times.

[Hundreds of officials are exempted] Hundreds of officials went out to Chengtian Gate. The edict of the official of the Hanlin Academy is treasured. The official of Honglu Temple asked for the edict of the Hanlin Academy, and the official of the Ministry of Rites and Rites. Go out from the left door of the Fengtian Temple. The brocade guards are in front of the noon gate, waiting for the edict to be placed in the cloud cover. ”

The various scenery and glory of the new emperor when he ascended the throne stipulated in the Ming Dynasty canon, he did not remember very clearly in his mind, but at the beginning of the death of the imperial brother, he entered the palace as the younger brother of the Emperor Daxing, but he did not dare to enter the palace for several days.

"It's the day, early in the morning, send the official to the Heaven and Earth Sect. The emperor has a few feasts of filial piety (a table with sacrifices, and a tablet of the first emperor and the gods is listed in front). ”

"When the time comes, the bells and drums will be sounded, and the emperor will obey the gate of heaven."

Only when he ascended the throne did he fall to the ground with a stone, and from this moment on, he truly became the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and his life safety was guaranteed.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty wore yellow gowns only for special ceremonies, and they wore black dragon-shaped robes. (Those film and television dramas that give the emperor a yellow robe at every turn can die.) After Emperor Chongzhen, dressed in a yellow gown, ascended the Tiananmen Tower, the enthronement ceremony officially began.

The officials who had been waiting in front of Tiananmen Square for a long time were all dressed in court clothes, and under the guidance of the officials of the Honglu Temple, they crossed the Jinshui Bridge into the Forbidden City. However, at this time, they were not allowed to enter the "Fengtian Temple", because the emperor was still praying at the Fengtian Gate, so the ministers could only stay in the square outside the noon gate. They knelt on both sides of the imperial road in the manner of "Wendong Wuxi", and waited for the emperor to communicate with the gods and goddesses from all walks of life and descended from the "Fengtian Gate".

After coming down from the tower of Tiananmen Square, enter the "Fengtian Temple" and take a seat. Only then did the ministers enter according to their rank and greet the new emperor. Then, the eunuch officially read the edict confirming the identity of the new emperor. This was the beginning of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

A few months have passed, and under the leadership of him, Zhu Youzhen, and Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty can be described as treacherous and evil, and everyone is in the dynasty. When the imperial brother was alive, Wei Eunuch Wei Zhongxian was in power, and a large number of Donglin gentlemen returned to the dynasty to serve. The power of the eunuch party was uprooted, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty congratulated one after another.

At this time, Chongzhen has the joy of being a king!

"I must be an emperor like Taizu of Tang and Taizu of Song, and establish a prosperous era of governance that is no less than that of Taizu of this dynasty, Chengzu, and Xuanzong of Renzong!"

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen made unremitting efforts for the ideals in his heart. In addition to killing the heads of the eunuch party and the civil and military ministers, the exiled ones, and the deposed ones, it is to hand over many vacant positions to the Donglin gentlemen who are worried about the world and care about everything.

In addition to appointing virtuous and upright gentlemen, as an emperor, he really did everything he could. Get up five watches every day and sleep in the middle of the night to review the question book and deal with government affairs. However, it seems that these folds are also unhappy with him, and as far as the eye can see, there are either famines or rebellions in various places.

"Hong Zhanzu, the governor of southern Gansu, reported that on April 11, the thieves seized the king and his gang, and in the first year of Yongxing, he led the crowd to break through Anyuan County, robbed the library and released the prisoners. Shen Kefeng of An Yuanzhi County fled. ”

"On July 20, the Jimen garrison was disbanded after various measures due to hunger and demand, burning and looting gunpowder."

In the mountains of similar inscriptions, there is such similar bad news at a casual turn, or it is a document from various localities requesting the allocation of military salaries and requesting the allocation of funds for disaster relief in Shaanxi.

"Alas!" Emperor Chongzhen sighed, looking at the two baskets of inscriptions brought by the celebrants, eunuchs, and eunuchs, he couldn't help but feel a trance in his heart, "When the emperor's brother was in Japan, how did Wei Wei deal with these documents every day?" ”

"On July 23, the sea overflowed in Zhejiang, countless people and animals were drowned, and hurricanes and rains in Jiaxing caused countless drowning of coastal and suburban residents. Shaoxing is windy, the sea water goes straight into the county town, and the market can be boated. Shanyin, Huiji, Xiaoshan, Shangyu, and Yuyao were drowned, each in the tens of thousands. ”

"On July 25, the Sichuan and Huguang soldiers in the Ningyuan Army in Liaoning Province mutinied due to a four-month lack of pay, and the remaining 13 battalions rose up to respond, binding the governor Bi Zisu, the chief military officer Zhu Mei, the general sentence Zhang Shirong, and the push officer Su Hanchun on the upper floor."

"Don't you have some good news to tell me?" In the face of overwhelming disasters, mutinies and many other bad news, Chongzhen finally became a little angry, he tried to restrain his feelings, and spoke to the little eunuchs on duty in a calmest tone as much as possible.

The two little eunuchs hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"The slave is guilty! The slave is guilty! There is an inscription book on the governor of Liangguang, which seems to talk about the price of rice! ”

"Take it and show me!"

"However, the reign of the Holy Son of Heaven, within the four seas, although there are small troubles, but the treacherous and evil are the head, and all industries are prosperous, the minister sincerely said, since New Year's Day, to the spring and March of Guangdong, the price of rice is only five to six dollars and one stone, and the people are puffing up their bellies and singing, all praising the kindness of the Holy Son of Heaven."

Leaning on the dragon chair, smelling the bursts of sandalwood in the incense burner, and listening to the eunuchs reading the inscription sent by the governor of Liangguang, Emperor Chongzhen finally found a trace of the life of the Son of Heaven in the sea that he was pursuing.

After listening for a while, something suddenly occurred in his mind. He sat up suddenly, his eyes were shining, he pointed to the incense burner that was slowly spitting out the aroma, and asked the little eunuch on duty loudly.

"Since the beginning of my accession to the throne, I have explicitly forbidden the burning of incense in the palace, why do you burn incense here? You must know that my father, the emperor, and the elder brother, have been mistaken by your and other means! ”

Shocked, the two eunuchs couldn't stop kneeling and kowtowing, "The emperor spares his life!" The emperor spares his life! The emperor forbade the things that day, the slaves and maids naturally did not dare to take it out, this incense is the queen mother of Yi'an and the queen mother saw the emperor's daily hard work in reviewing the question book, and specially instructed the slaves and maids to find it for the emperor, which has the effect of quiet and concentrating. ”

Hearing that it was his sister-in-law and wife who sent these eunuchs to do it, Chongzhen turned his anger into joy. "When you do things, you must be attentive!"

Among the many bad news, the price of rice reported by Guangdong has been as low as only five coins and one stone of silver for several consecutive months, which is undoubtedly a bright spot in the gloom of the sky. When the time came, Chongzhen had a good impression of Li Fengjie, the governor of Liangguang who had not yet met.

When he was still in the palace, Chongzhen also dabbled in the things of novel commentary, and remembered that there was such a description in Journey to the West: Sanzang secretly rejoiced in his heart: "People say that the Western Regions are all here, and they have never been here." Take a closer look at this scene, how different it is from my Datang! It is Elysium, and it is true. "I also heard people say that white rice is four dollars a stone, and sesame oil is eight cents a catty, which is really a place of abundant grains. Nowadays, the japonica rice in Guangdong only costs five dollars and one stone, which is clearly the dawn of Elysium!

"What else is the news? Report it to me together! ”

Chongzhen's original intention was that there was other news, but unexpectedly, the little eunuch would be wrong.

"Emperor Qiqi, there is also an inscription from the governor of Liangguang here!"

"The minister Li Fengjie bowed his head and said, my emperor worked hard to sweep away the traitors, and intended to clarify the universe. On the third day of April this year, Yuan Chonghuan was promoted to the secretary of the military department and the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, and the governor of Ji, Liao, Deng, Lai, Tianjin and other military affairs, moved to the gate. Today, the iron materials are complete, and the Fu Qi Majesty is allowed, and Guangdong casts 20 3,000-pound Hongyi cannons, 1000-kilogram Hongyi small cannons, and a number of large and small Buddha machines, which are transported to serve before the army. To relieve my emperor's worries! ”

This news suddenly made Chongzhen's mood change from cloudy to sunny to sunny. When he summoned Yuan Chonghuan that day, Yuan Chonghuanjun played the prelude and once said that Liaodong must rely on the cannons of the fortified city to resist the Jiannu iron cavalry. However, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Household said that the cost of building the castle and casting cannons was huge, and that the treasury was currently empty, and it was impossible to cast so many Hongyi cannons.

Now that the two Guangxi sides have prepared all the iron materials, as long as a holy decree is issued here, more than 100 artillery pieces of various sizes will arrive in the Beijing division and become a sharp weapon for killing the enemy in front of the army.

"Who is on duty in the cabinet today?"

"Returning to His Majesty, it's Lord Han."

Han Yi, is the so-called imperial examination on the right path, Jinshi, Shu Jishi, from the 20th year of Wanli to the present, as a squire, Shangshu, Dongge University scholar, can be regarded as highly respected, more importantly, he has a proud protégé, that is, the Yuan Inspector we mentioned above.

"Say, oh, no, please Mr. Han come here."

After a while, Han Yi arrived, and after the etiquette of the king, Chongzhen ordered the eunuch to move a chair, which was regarded as a seat in front of the king, and it was also a gesture for the Son of Heaven to express his courtesy and corporal, of course, it was also a great honor for Han Yi, who was the boss of the Donglin Party. (Han Yi was reactivated in December of the first year of Chongzhen, but we can see it as the reason for the demonic wind that was fanned by the fat wings of the pig's feet, which brought him forward.) ）

"Sir, do you know about the situation in Liangguang now?"

Han Yi twisted his gray beard, thinking about the thoughts of His Majesty the Emperor. The eunuch went to the cabinet to summon him, and his relatives stuffed the silver, and the eunuch revealed that the emperor was in a good mood now, and the boss could rest assured.

"Your Majesty, although the old minister is in the cabinet, there is also a matter of leakage, which is not as good as the holy candlelight, and the hole is like watching the fire. The matter of Guangdong, but the matter of the cannon casting? ”

"The old gentleman is right, this is one of them. From New Year's Day to spring and March, the price of rice in Liangguang is five dollars per stone. ”

"This is the Holy Son of Heaven in the court, the four seas are leveling, and the omen of the prosperous world!"

As soon as Chongzhen's words came out, Mr. Han, who was the first assistant of the cabinet, immediately got up and left his seat, knelt on the ground, and shouted long live.

"Sir, please. I ascended the throne with Chongling, that is, I had to rely on the assistance of the great sages to reproduce the situation of the prosperous era when the emperor was alive. Although his heart is beautiful, Chongzhen still has to show a virtuous and humble attitude, which is in line with the standards of the wise kings of the past dynasties.

"What do you think of the matter of the two Guang's requests to cast cannons?"

After a slight groan, Mr. Han slowly opened his mouth.

"Xu Guangqi in Shanghai of this dynasty has a lot of experience in casting artillery, and the minister has also paid attention to this matter."

What Han Yi said is true, his family is indeed close to Xu Guangqi's family, and there are even people in the family who were baptized into Catholicism because of Xu Guangqi's relationship.

"The cost of casting a Hongyi cannon is huge, in addition to iron and labor costs, even fuel is also a huge amount. On the inscription book of Guangdong, although there are iron materials and other items, but waiting for the approval of the holy decree, it is said that the casting of artillery, two or three out of ten, is already a national hand, which shows the difficulty of casting cannons. In the humble opinion of the minister, you might as well order Guangdong to cast, cast into ten gates, and then go to Beijing. ”

In Chongzhen's ears, what Han Yi said was Lao Cheng's words to seek the country, lest local officials disturb the people in order to cast cannons, but what Mr. Han said had another deep meaning. He has been up and down in the sea for many years, and he knows very well what kind of virtue the officials in the Ming Dynasty are at present, and the casting of cannons consumes a lot of money and food.

"Two or three out of ten? Where did all the iron go? Don't you know that iron can be recast? Do you really think that the old man is a fool? On the one hand, he looked at the emperor in front of him loyally, and mocked the officials of Liangguang in his heart.

"Don't look too ugly! Don't eat alone! ”

Twenty Hongyi cannons, one hundred Hongyi small cannons, add up to more than 100,000 catties of gun body weight, this is not counting the gun carriage, shells and other things, if all are calculated, I am afraid that if it is not these cast artillery, there will be 200,000 catties of iron, according to the standard of two or three out of ten, the iron required is an astronomical amount!

"In my opinion, Li Fengjie, the governor of Liangguang, is loyal to the king, diligent and capable, and intends to promote him.

Chongzhen's promotion of Li Fengjie's position as the right capital of Yushi is roughly equivalent to the mayor of Beijing. It's just that I went to Nanjing, not Beijing.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thought that it was better to order the Guangdong cannon to arrive in Beijing, and then promote Li Fengjie, the minister remembered, Fujian also reported, the price of rice in the province is only between eight yuan and one tael, if the price of rice is simply low to promote officials, I am afraid that there will be public opinion unfavorable to His Majesty. Once the artillery is cast and transported to the Beijing Division, it can be assured that the governor of Liangguang can be promoted. ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen's impression of Mr. Han became even better. Listen, what a virtuous minister who thinks about me!

When Han Yi's sedan chair returned to his mansion, there were already housekeepers and nephews waiting in front of the door.

The housekeeper who helped the master get out of the sedan chair had a smile on his face, "The master has worked hard!" ”

"Well, for the courtiers, they should serve the country loyally, this is the duty of my generation of scholars, can there be something at home today?"

The housekeeper ordered someone to carry the sedan chair away, and told his master in a low voice, "The governor of Liangguang sent someone to send some native products of the South China Sea, and nothing else, among which there is a five-foot-long dressing mirror, which is rare in the world." ”

"Humph! You've been with me for many years, so why are you still so indifferent to these things outside of you? Is there a letter? Han Yi's attitude was very clear, and he reprimanded the housekeeper a few words, but the housekeeper was also accustomed to it.

"Letters, prayers, and gift lists are all in the master's study."

Li Fengjie's letters were written very politely, and he kept calling the old-timers with respect, but because of the mountains and rivers, he could not listen to the teachings in the morning and evening, and he deeply regretted it. Send someone to send some native products of the South China Sea to show their admiration. At the end of the letter, I mentioned that the price of rice in Guangdong is now low, and if Mr. intends to transport rice north to help the victims, the student is willing to repay the service.

"This Lord Li is also interesting and tight!" Putting down the letter, Han Yi twisted his beard and laughed. The housekeeper ordered someone to set up the dressing mirror, sent the subordinates out of the study, and prepared to listen to the orders in front of the master.

The frame made of rosewood and the glass mirror inlaid in gold shine brightly under the candle flame. Rao is Mr. Han's ups and downs in the sea all his life, and he has never seen such a huge mirror!

Looking at himself in the mirror, the suave young scholar has become white on both sideburns, and his forehead is full of wrinkles. Compared with the new concubine who bowed his head and served on the side, one was like a lotus flower with water spirits, and the other was like an old pine with dense scales and armor. As Su Dongpo said, it is just like a pear tree pressing begonias. Mr. Han couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Lian Po is old! ”

"How does the lord compare himself to Na Lian? That Lian Po became famous only because of the tolerance of people who read, and he became famous in history. If there is no Lin Xiangguo, he is just a wine bag and rice bag with rice and meat, and a martial artist, but the master is my first assistant of the Ming Dynasty! "The butler slapped the ass at the right scale.

"You write a letter in my name to Lord Li, the governor of Liangguang. Sue him, saying that the saint has agreed to his cannon-casting matter, and asked him to be careful and handle this matter, so that he can spend time with the old man in the capital, talk about poetry and painting, drink and admire the moon. ”

For his master's method of betraying the wind and thunder, the housekeeper has long been extremely proficient, and nodded yes at the moment.

"What about the price of rice?"

The housekeeper replied, "Now the price of rice in the north has skyrocketed, and if you can buy rice for five dollars of silver, you can make a huge profit by transporting it to the north."

"Slow down! Nowadays, there are not a few people who are staring at the price of rice in Guangzhou. We can't wade into this troubled water lightly. ”

Han Yi knew very well in his heart that although the rice was only sold for five yuan per stone in Guangdong, it would become eight yuan or even one tael in Fujian, and if it was transported to Jiangxi and Jiangnan, I am afraid that it would cost three taels? Where is the money to be made?!

"In addition, send someone to Ningyuan and tell him that the Hongyi cannon I said before will be available soon, let him be careful."

"Yes! The little ones will do it right away! ”

Zheng Yiguan who accepted Zhao'an

A secret letter written by the Shoufu Lord's personal letter was sent to Guangzhou by the Governor of Liangguang and the Yamen Sect in Beijing as quickly as possible, and handed over to the Governor Li Fengjie's bookcase.

"Minghan, come and see!"

After reading the letter, the governor was in a very happy mood, and ordered his son Li Minghan to find him and hand him the letter from the capital to read.

"The staff members around Lord Shoufu Han wrote a letter to tell him that he is his father, the emperor," Li Fengjie clasped his fists in his hands and bowed to the north, "I have agreed to my plan to cast cannons, and the cabinet will be released in the near future, and His Majesty is rarely satisfied with my time in Guangdong, especially the abundance of people in Wufu, the low price of rice, and the people singing with their stomachs, which makes His Majesty happy." Inside, I told sù that I had cast the artillery, and immediately went north to the Beijing Division, and His Majesty was about to be promoted to my father's official position again! ”

"Minghan, congratulations to my father!"

Hearing this, Li Minghan was also overjoyed. The so-called first 30 years look at the father and respect the son, and the last 30 years look at the son and respect the father. He is now in the first thirty years, and in these two vast lands, it is the officials at all levels who want to condemn him.

In particular, he partnered with Li Ergongzi to traffic a large amount of japonica rice to Guangdong, and countless grain merchants who had intricate relations with officials at all levels flocked to the city, holding a large amount of silver in their hands, and wanted to get a piece of the pie from their hands. Hundreds of thousands of stone japonica rice were sold out in an instant, not to mention earning enough money for him, but also a lot of good fate.

"It's okay, Mi has it! Brother Zong just went to pick it up, I'm afraid they don't have so much silver! Li Peiting didn't care about showing his attitude. However, I sell five coins of silver to you, brother Zong, for the sake of the fame of Lord Zun, you still have to keep an eye on those merchants, and you must not be greedy for small profits and raise the price of rice! ”

That day, I still felt a little disgusted with Li Peiting. Now I found that Peiting's words are really reasonable!

"You have made a great contribution to this matter, if it weren't for your cooperation with that Li Er, how could your father have this merit? Where do you go to raise so much fine iron? A few days ago, a company came to report that four 3,000-pound cannons and 11,000-pound Hongyi small cannons had been cast. At this rate, as long as the supply of iron is guaranteed, it will be possible to cast about eight cannons before the Mid-Autumn Festival. The father has ordered them to make ten cannons before the Double Ninth Festival, and then go to Beijing to offer gifts! ”

"My emperor is bound to be happy, and my father's official position will be one step higher!"

"Huh! No matter what official position he does, he will report to Jun'en and go down to Anlishu. ”

After the father and son said this, they looked at each other and smiled.

Now it is the season of autumn grain collection, and the refined iron of several smelters has also received 400,000 catties, in addition to being used to make large and small Hongyi artillery and large and small Buddha Lang machines, a large number of iron materials have been quietly transported out by officials at all levels in the name of loss and drifting, and sold to private iron-smelting workshops to make firearms such as zuò bird guns.

"Father, last month, Li Er shipped a total of 1.1 million stone japonica rice, and I have already sold 500,000 stone of it to the ground of the Dongjiang River. The rest of the 600,000 stones were bought by the families of Qian Yaoming, the eunuch of the city, the general soldier of Guangdong and others. But by the time the Mid-Autumn Festival is settled, according to my calculations, the government should be able to earn at least 200,000 taels or more in rice and iron alone. ”

"Well, you can do this kind of thing! Remember one thing, my father may be transferred to Beijing at any time, and it is better to be clear about the exchange of money and money! ”

"Yes! The son also thinks the same, the rice merchants everywhere, the son asks for five dollars of silver in cash to pay! ”

"You should write a letter to Li Er, first, to inform him of the dealings in the money business, and second, to tell him the news that your father is going to be transferred, and ask him if he wants to continue the business in Guangdong. Since friends have a relationship, they must not leave behind their mouths and handles. What's more, this promotion for my father is a good thank you to him. ”

"Yes! What my father taught! ”

"Also, the tea and oil fruits, tung oil, tea withered and other Liangguang specialties that he entrusted you to procure, you have to complete the delivery or transfer accounts with him as much as possible."

What Lord Li Fengjie is doing now is to prepare to open the way at any time, this Guangzhou, although there is a lot of silver to be earned, but compared with the Beijing Division, he is still willing to choose the capital.

"Father, is there anyone in the capital who will take over your news?"

Compared with Li Fengjie, Li Minghan feels good here in Guangzhou, if you go to the capital, the clan, the nobles, the eunuchs, the ministers, and countless people who are better than themselves are all over the streets, where can it compare to the two Guangzhou? You can run rampant in officialdom and shopping malls!

"I haven't heard of it, but Xiong Wencan, who is next door, wrote a letter a few days ago, praising his father's actions in Guangdong."

The father and son discussed it and then dispersed.

A few days later, a letter written by Li Minghan to Li Peiting was transferred to Shouhan.

"Officials and businessmen all over Guangdong think that I am Governor Li's person, once Li Fengjie is transferred, will I also leave, and their two financial routes will be cut off!"

The two ways of wealth in Li Peiting's mouth, one is that he is the representative of the South Central Army, and the price is low (at least that's how people see it!). ) to sell industrial and agricultural products to the Guangzhou-Guangzhou region; Second, he entrusted the merchants of Liangguang who had business dealings with him to purchase the special products of Liangguang in all directions.

"Sue them, no matter who is the governor, business still has to be done!"

Shouhan fed a piece of newly made pastry from Daoxiang Village to Erya, "Good girl, is it delicious?" ”

"Delicious!" Erya answered her father's question in a milky voice.

"It's the Mid-Autumn Festival in a month, and there will be more delicious mooncakes at that time!" Shouhan hugged Erya and pointed to the moon in the sky, which had already taken on an oval shape, and told the child seriously.

"Erya likes to eat moon cakes!"

Mei Shan, who was waiting on the side, supported her waist and staggered all the way, "Miss, can you play with your aunt?" Daddy has business to do here. ”

"No hurry! Let Er Ya stay with me a little longer. Erya, Daddy asks you, do you see the two aunts in their wombs, is it a little brother or a little sister? ”

Sister Mei Shan and Sister Sirin were sown by Shouhan almost at the same time, and now, their bellies are also bulging. Soon it was time to give birth, and Shouhan used this common method to play with Erya.

"Well, an aunt's belly is a little brother, and an aunt's belly is a little sister!"

"Hahahaha!"

"The eldest lady is really smart!"

Erya's words made the people present laugh.

Seeing Erya being taken away by her mother-in-law, Li Peilin didn't know what it was in his eyes, which was a little uncomfortable. In the blink of an eye, the girl has been dead for almost a year.

In the past six months, in accordance with Shouhan's strategy of selling surplus products to the Liangguang region, initial results have been achieved, and at least one million shijing rice is processed every month and transported to the Liangguang region by sea. The surplus grain in the hands of the peasants was purchased in large quantities, and the silver money in exchange was turned into wrought iron plough sticks and nine-turn steel hoes and shovels and picks.

"In several state capitals, grain sellers jointly went to Yamen to petition for the purchase of iron and steel farm tools, and for this reason, the iron and steel factory and the Han Yuan firm jointly submitted a petition asking for the opening of a third blast furnace, otherwise it would be impossible to guarantee such a huge demand for steel!"

Thinking of the blue and purple face of the prefect who came to deliver the official document that day, Pei Lin couldn't help but want to laugh, where would he have thought that in order to be able to buy a plow stick and a few pairs of hoes made of wrought iron, the peasants would actually gather to beat the drum and ask the prefect to apply for an increase in the sales of steel and farm tools for the people? In the end, because they were dissatisfied with the prefect's reply, a few stunned young boys beat the prefect?

If such a thing happens in the mainland, it will first be characterized as gathering people and beating officials, and maybe how many people will go bankrupt and wipe out the nine clans.

In the end, it was Shou Han who made the decision, mobilized a batch of farm tools and steel to the area where the accident occurred, and sold them to the farmers, and at the same time, arrested the boys who made the trouble and sentenced them to several years of hard labor, and the matter was over. However, calls for the addition of a third group of blast furnaces continued unabated.

"I don't care about this matter, you let the steel plant, Shixi mine, Quang Ninh Mining Bureau, and coking plant sit down together to have a discussion, and see if they can meet the needs of the third group of blast furnaces, whether it is the output of ore, coal, coke, or the type of technician in front of the furnace, they must be well calculated."

"Don't worry, my lord, I will do it according to the previous road, manpower, ore, coke and other things cannot meet the demand, and I will definitely not open this furnace!"

It is said that this is true, but Li Peilin, as the actual political envoy and head of the family, has indeed seen the many benefits brought by steel production, and from the bottom of his heart, he is also Yan zhòng is inclined to open a third group of blast furnaces immediately.

The use of a large number of iron and steel agricultural tools has greatly reduced the labor intensity of agricultural production, and the plough sticks made of wrought iron are naturally incompatible with the effects of pears.

A large amount of waste from steelmaking was turned into fertilizer, and with the addition of new agricultural tools, large areas of wasteland were quickly reclaimed and planted with sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn, potatoes and many other crops.

Roughly calculated, by July of the first year of Chongzhen, the harvest of the two crops of rice was nearly 10 percent higher than the original land area of last year's two crops of rice. And that's not even counting the yield of those newly opened up.

What is even more surprising is that a large number of laborers have been liberated from the use of iron farming tools, and according to the calculation of the labor documents issued by the Tunpu Prefecture in various villages, nearly 200,000 Ding Zhuang will leave the original land in this year. This is not counting those female workers like Su Siniang.

"These people can be absorbed and consumed by road construction, city construction, mines, forestry farms, shipyards, and workshops, and they will never be allowed to become displaced people."

These prime-aged laborers who have left the land may be a factor of social instability in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Shouhan, they are an important factor necessary for the construction of an industrial system, labor!

At that time, the British issued a series of bloody decrees in order to drive labor into the factory. Now, a group of young adults have been turned into workers in the factory by a steel farming implement.

"My lord, three blast furnaces can produce at least 150,000 tons of steel per year, which is barely enough."

After 90,000 tons of steel is not enough, almost because of the lesson of the civil unrest caused by the purchase of steel farm tools, Li Peilin now does not dare to say big things.

"In addition to some of the export parts, I plan to replace the machinery in various places, rice mills, shows, looms, and sugar presses with nine-turn steel parts." Shouhan was about to blurt out a show, but suddenly remembered that the beauty had gone, and Yin and Yang were separated. Hurriedly and quickly change his words to prevent others from being sad to hear it.

However, the "others" Li Peilin who was present was already a little sad.

Pei Lin wiped his eyes in the shadow of the light and shifted the topic to the side.

"My lord, if all of them are replaced with steel parts, something similar to iron farming tools will happen, what should we do?"

Shouhan looked at Li Peilin's somewhat vicissitudes of life with some approval, this person is not simple, he knows how to draw inferences from one another, and knows that because of the increase in the level of productivity, a series of problems will arise.

"If nothing else, if the spinning machines and looms are replaced with steel parts, it will inevitably lead to a huge increase in production, and then where will we find so much cotton? I'm afraid that Jiang Chun will bring all the cotton from the mainland, and it will not be enough to use! ”

"This!? ……”

Shouhan really didn't think about the source of raw materials, and was about to think about how to solve the problem of raw materials in the cotton textile industry, when a figure hurriedly walked over under the corridor.

"Your Lord!"

The Wooden Tooth Dog still has the same weird-sounding tone.

"Zheng Yiguan sent his younger brother Zheng Zhibao here!"

But it was Zheng Yiguan who wanted to accept the invitation of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, to say hello to Shouhan, a partner, and by the way, there were other things to discuss!

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