[Asking for tickets, it took some effort to prove the literature of smelting and making embroidery needles on behalf of the past few days, and the work was also busy, so it was delayed]

The workers next to the blast furnace quickly stepped on the bellows to keep the fire in the furnace at a sufficient temperature, and there was a large vat filled with light salt water next to each blast furnace, but even if they could drink the brine water at any time, several craftsmen in front of the furnace were still sweating half-naked, completely ignoring the fact that the weather in April was still a little cool.

The iron ingots are carefully fed into the blazing furnace, and when they are taken out of the furnace, they are already burned red, and they are in a semi-liquid state that can be molded at will.

At one end of an iron ruler is a hole only the thickness of incense sticks, and the craftsmen hammer one end of the iron bar that has not yet been fully fixed into one end of the hole, and then clamp it from the other end and stretch it outward, until the red iron bar is drawn into a thick iron wire from the other side of the hole, which is the second process.

The drawn wire is cut into small sections of an inch long according to the equal length, and after these small sections of the wire are slightly cooled, they are rubbed and sharpened at one end, and hammered flat and drilled, which is considered to be the completion of the third process, but it has not yet been completed, but the discerning person can also see that these items have the prototype of the iron needle after three processes.

Once the needles are formed, they are poured into several large iron pots in the next workshop and stir-fried. In the other room next door, there were several steamers, which were full of iron needles that had already been fried, and in addition to the iron needles, each layer of steamers was also filled with a special preparation of ash, which covered all the iron needles in the steamers, and only a few small needles were exposed from the powder in the ash of each layer of cage drawers.

These powders are made from a mixture of clay powder, pine ash and tempeh, and it is quite laborious to mix the right proportions according to the right proportions, and the function of this recipe is actually to help these semi-finished iron needles complete the final process - quenching. Only after this process is completed can these iron needles be truly usable. In fact, there is not much knowledge about this quenching method in the world, but the joints are in the ratio of various materials, and the most critical data is precisely that Liu Rust combines his previous experience in Foshan Town and his own experience to trial-produce it, and now only Liu Rust and Wang Xingping know it in the entire Poly Bank, and even Ding Deshui and others can't get this formula.

And such a technical secret Liu Rust has figured out more than one these days, Wang Xingping and he are also right-tempered, and he is courteous, which can be regarded as subduing this person's heart, and more importantly, most of Liu Rust's creations are almost all made on Wang Xingping's points, for smelting Wang Xingping may not be an expert, but it is still possible to point out a few directions with centuries ahead, and Liu Rust naturally knows the importance of Wang Xingping's help to him, and it is each other that knows this relationship, Wang Xingping will also rest assured that Liu Rust will be sent to other places to purchase raw materials.

These processes seem to be extremely cumbersome, but in fact, they are divided into a number of detailed work, but Liu Ru has summarized all these contents at the time, and sorted them out into a set of assembly methods according to Wang Xingping's meaning, and now the craftsmen in this workshop are accustomed to it.

Streamline operations, at this time there are more or less workshops, but there are very few such as Wang Xingping who are committed to standardization and refinement, especially the various processes have been repeatedly scrutinized into a number of small steps by Wang Xingping and Liu Rust, and several craftsmen are only responsible for one of the parts, so that the quality and efficiency of the process have improved a lot, and there is no worry that the good workers will be poached, leaving this system, these craftsmen may not be able to have the original craftsmanship.

The demand for this embroidery needle in the market is not small, and there are not many iron smelting that can be done in Guizhou, and the quality is so poor that even if it is sold to the local people, it cannot give a good price. In the past, some of the better iron needles had to be sold from other provinces, which was also a sought-after commodity. In many toasts in Guizhou, the natives who don't use iron needles even use bone needles to grind animal bones, but in fact, the cost of making a bone needle is much higher than that of an iron needle, which really can't be judged by just looking at the material.

Wang Xingping took the merchants to visit the iron factory today, naturally not only to promote the technology of product production, but also to show their own strength, if it is not as rumored that there is really a master craftsman from Foshan Town, Guangdong Province, how can it make such a sophisticated iron needle?

When the many merchants who followed Wang Xingping saw the situation of this workshop, the expressions on their faces began to be eager, technology is the performance of strength, although it can only be regarded as a peep in the leopard seen today, it is enough for a group of merchants to have an intuitive understanding of the strength of Poly Iron Factory, not to mention that the scale of the iron factory of two or three hundred people in Guizhou is already very large.

"You must have seen the same, why don't you change to a cooler place to go to this hot and dry body?"

Wang Xingping politely proposed to everyone.

"Please lead the way." A few businessmen who were already a little too hot to stand quickly chimed in.

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"I wonder if you have any questions after reading the daily operations of this Poly Iron Factory?"

In the hall of a large house near the outer wall in the courtyard of the iron factory, Wang Xingping was reclining on a chair, drinking a cool drink from the steward of the iron factory, while the corner of his eyes swept over the merchants sitting in the room. It's too hot in this iron factory, it's only April, and I'm afraid I really have to learn from the iron factories around the country to have a holiday in the middle of summer. Fortunately, the whereabouts of these people have also been arranged, and now the newly added tuntian also needs their help, and many of these industries also have a share of these craftsmen.

Among the merchants in the hall is Dong Yi, and there are other merchants who have come to visit Wang Xingping these days, they are fat or thin, tall or short, some look wealthy, some are more like obscene old farmers, and there are all beards and beards that look like reckless men, but all of them have a common characteristic - they are all local businessmen in Guizhou.

Today, it is to convince the merchants of their own strength, so he brought the proprietors to visit the workshop in the north of the city early in the morning.

Dong Yile said with a smile, "Poly Bank's ironware is really worthy of its reputation, this iron needle alone is much stronger than the one sold from Zhenyuan Mansion in the past, and the price is still low, and it is even easier to do after saving freight." ”

"Therefore, Wang does not dare to monopolize such a good business, and he needs all his peers to carry it together." Wang Xingping smiled and swept through the halls, and saw that the merchants who were still a little tired were refreshed again.

"It is really a blessing for my merchants to think like this, to be honest, when I heard the news at first, I didn't believe it, but after seeing the articles of this iron factory and the master craftsmen in the workshop, I believed it."

Wang Xingping corrected: "It's Futai, not Poly Bank, this Poly Bank is strictly speaking, it is an official supervision and business office, and there is a firearms workshop in the middle, which is not convenient for you to participate in the shares." ”

Now that Wang Xingping, the prosperous Poly Bank, does not plan to share the profits with others, not to mention that there are still a few old man's dry shares, and he will get involved in the copper coin business in the future, which is even more difficult to let more people participate in it.

Therefore, he now chooses to take out the Futai for financing, which is actually only to solve the liquidity problem that is already somewhat stretched, but he does not intend to give up the complete dominance of Poly Bank, and the merchants are just paying money and sharing profits, of course, even so, the merchants are not unwilling. After all, the business of making profits is not easy to do in Guizhou, there is competition from Jiangxi businessmen outside, and there are local people inside, but it is not so easy to take advantage.

The old merchant smiled when he heard this: "Hehe, it's the old man who lost his word, but since the ordinary ironware of Poly Bank will be handed over to the Futai for sale in the future, it is actually the same." ”

After looking at the operation of the workshop and asking about the wages of the big workers, many of the proprietors dismissed the idea of digging people alone.

Because the clever businessmen have discovered from their understanding that Wang Xingping's iron factory has formed a set of systems, although these people do not know the concept of the system, they also know that these things that they have just seen are not easy to copy, not to mention that the upfront investment required to build such an iron factory is not something that any of these businessmen can afford, plus those technical details that cannot be understood by just looking, now naturally no one will bother with other ideas.

Wang Xingping said: "It's good to say, in the past, most of the commercial goods in Guizhou were controlled by people from other provinces, not to mention anything else, even the green seedling loans and fish fry in the fields every year are mostly handled by people in the Jiangxi Guild Hall, which not only exploits the people of this province, but also cheapens the interests of profiteers from other provinces." ”

Wang Xingping said this is a good point, in the past, every year when the spring sowing time was to give loans to the peasants, and in the autumn to reap the profits, often double the benefits, those ignorant villagers did not realize how much they had suffered, and even happy to associate with such profiteers, it was really helpless to say. It is precisely because of this relationship that after the beginning of spring this year, not only in the military tun under his control, but also in the surrounding areas Wang Xingping was willing to give low-interest loans to buy seedlings, which bought a lot of people's hearts.

Seeing that he had said more or less that, he put down the drink in his hand and stood up.

"This business alliance is voluntary, the conditions have been made clear before, as long as you are willing, everyone here can participate, as long as you draw a pledge on this charter, I have asked people to invite the official ...... of Beicheng"

However, after half a day, what Wang Xingping wanted to do had been done, and after he sent all the eleven merchants away, only Dong Yi was left in the hall.

Wang Xingping turned to look at him, smiled slightly and said to the merchant who had been singing peace with him for a long time, "Dong Dong's proprietor has done a good job today, since it is as we discussed before, then Brother Dong's share of the stock does not need to be subscribed." ”

But Dong Yi, who had seen the situation in the workshop, hesitated, but finally made a decision.

"I'd like to add some more shares......"