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After drinking a cup of tea and calming down a little, Li Peilin found that it was noon.

After a hasty lunch, I talked with a few principals about what should be done on this day, and rested for a while, "My lord, the guests of the agreed Jiangnan family are already waiting in the reception room. ”

Cheng Qiguan was at the door according to today's schedule, prompting him to meet the next person.

Pei Lin pondered for a moment, "In this way, you arrange for someone to go and talk to several shopkeepers of the Han Yuan firm, and ask them to have tea and talk to the shopkeeper of the Fang family first, and I will go here in a while." In addition, you go and invite Niu Qiandao, Bao Zhongchen, and Mr. Ling Zheng. I have something to tell them. ”

Looking at a few inconspicuous places on Ling Zheng's clothes, the small holes that were burned by the molten steel, and the slight fireworks on his face, Li Peilin knew that the manager of the iron-smelting workshop in front of him must be watching those guys pot by pot of iron-making and steelmaking at the scene.

"Ling Gong," he learned Li Shouhan's title, although he didn't understand why Shouhan gave these craftsmen such courtesy, whether it was political status or economic interests, they were several times higher than the craftsmen in the mainland, people like Ling Zheng, if they saw him in the mainland, they would kneel and kowtow, but now they are on an equal footing.

After all, he knew very well in his heart that half of the status and power of the Han Dynasty and the wealth of the army were related to these artisans, and in his mind, he was afraid that he would rather lose the territory of a government and a county than lose these artisans.

"Now you don't have to do everything, there are some things, just arrange the people below to do it."

"My lord, I can't help it. Now the general's territory is growing day by day, the population is increasing day by day, there is still a war in front, and a large number of people are pouring in behind, weapons in front, farm tools in the rear, shovels, kitchen knives, repairing houses and houses, and the construction of ships in the dockyard every month is also like a spark, and steel and iron are used everywhere. If you don't keep an eye on it, how can you support the past? ”

Li Peilin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, that's it! Guarding the Han is at least one generation of heroes. can make the craftsmen think of him, and even what he didn't expect, these craftsmen have thought of it, how can they not make a career with such a killing force?

"Yes! From the beginning of the year to the end of last month, that is, the days when Ye Qi crossed the river and went south, according to the inventory of the wharf and several passes, there were more than 30,000 households and more than 50,000 reclamation people to my Nanzhong. There is a backer. The weapons you need depend on the people in the ironworks. ”

"Now the lord has sent a letter from the former enemy of Hoi An, asking us to make steel from the so-called crucible used at the moment and make it into a blast furnace. I wonder what Ling Gong's opinion is? ”

"This, when the iron-making workshop was built that day, the lord mentioned that he wanted to follow the example of the mountain town and engage in blast furnace iron-making, but because of the lack of money, food and labor that day, he had to turn the chicken coop furnace into a crucible furnace to make iron and steel. However, the lord proposed to let me wait for the test and cast the steel cannon, so that the crucible would be even more useless. So ,......"

"So, according to the lord, the blast furnace must be built! Don't know what's missing? ”

"Back to Lord Changshi, when a blast furnace was to be built, what was lacking was money, food, and labor, and now that a blast furnace is to be built, it is naturally the same. According to the will of the lord, a blast furnace should be built, the shell of the furnace should be made of steel plates, and the refractory bricks should be built in the furnace, and the shape should be vertical and cylindrical. From loading, air supply, slag discharge to tapping and steeling, it is necessary to help with water discharge and other materials, and manpower and animal power are not feasible. Moreover, because the furnace has a large amount of fuel and a lot of fuel, it is necessary to use coke to supply, and coke with less ash and low carbon toxicity must be used. ”

These words, technical and professional, are too strong, Li Peilin is a little foggy to hear, Niu Qiandao, the manager of the statistics office next to him, and Bao Zhongchen, the manager of the law enforcement department, also seem to understand, but they still listen reluctantly.

"How many catties of steel can be smelted at a time in such a blast furnace that the lord said?" Niu Qiandao interjected.

"How many pounds?" Ling Zhengmeng stood up, he had completely entered the state of selflessness in the technical field at this time, "According to the design of the lord of the day, the maximum size that can accommodate our Nanzhong is 100 cubic meters!" Roughly calculated, a furnace can produce at least 600 tons of steel! ”

Good boy! 600 tons?! At least? Not to mention anything else, Foshan, today's largest furnace is only 6,000 catties of iron per day, 600 tons, what does it mean? Niu Qiandao didn't react for a while.

"How much does such a blast furnace cost?" Li Peilin doesn't understand anything else, but he knows this truth better than anyone else when he does everything.

"This, it's hard to say at the moment, the lord asks that if you can not use people, don't use people, we are easy to say everything else in Nanzhong, but there is too little manpower. The first is to drain with water, the second is to use steel plates to make the furnace shell, the third is the refractory bricks in the furnace, and the iron ore is positive or negative to be fired. Therefore, we plan to be like the porcelain workshop, but also to build a test kiln first, and then go to the blast furnace after it is completed! ”

"However, in this way, a test furnace will at least have more than 10,000 taels of silver invested in the early stage, as well as three months' rations and wages for hundreds of people. However, once the trial production of this furnace is successful, our army's iron and steel will be greatly increased, and the manpower occupied by the ironmaking workshop can also be transferred to other uses. ”

Ling Gong's words are really the words of the old man who seeks the country. In this way, the money and food problem that I just talked about, because I got a windfall today, the two stewards, I invite you here today, just for this matter. Pei Lin took out the accumulation of several generations of the Li family that had just been extorted from Li Muhua, "The location marked on this map is where the Li family buried gold and silver, and you two will send capable people to get these yellow and white things back for me according to the map!" According to what the Li family said, there are about 70,000 taels of gold, more than 400,000 taels of silver, and the copper and tin things are not counted, and you two can each take 10% as funds. The rest was handed over to the government treasury as special money and grain for the construction of blast furnaces. ”

"Ling Gong, I'm sorry for you, write a submission in the name of the iron smelting mill, asking for the construction of a blast furnace test furnace, I attach this Li family's gold and silver number to the back, I and the other four people jointly signed, after using the seal, the clipper ship will be sent to the Hoi An camp and handed over to the general's reading office, what do you think?"

"In this way, in the future, the blacksmiths in Foshan will have no food and clothing!"

Li Peiting's voice came from outside the door.

Jiang Chun, the shopkeeper of the Yangzhou Fang family, is in his thirties, he looks slightly fat, and his facial features are also upright, but his eyes are slightly smaller, but a pair of tortoiseshell glasses on the bridge of his nose immediately makes up for this defect.

Wearing a Confucian scarf and a shirt, according to the Ming Dynasty's clothing system, this Jiang Chun in front of him should be a character such as a student with meritorious fame.

After taking a seat, Li Peilin naturally had some questions in the officialdom to ask for fame and scientific years, which is what he, an old fritter who has rolled in the officialdom in the mainland, can ask, and everyone else is probably blind.

Jiang Chun also confessed.

"The student is from Jiangdu, and he is a tribute student. There have also been several autumn feathers, but they all returned, the so-called one life, two luck and three feng shui, knowing that this life is hopeless, so he went to do the Tao Zhu Gong's thing. ”

"Gongsheng? I don't know how? Is it a tribute, a tribute, or an engong? ”

Jiang Chun raised his head a little proudly, "The student is a tribute." ”

According to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, the requirements for the selection of tribute are all those who are excellent in learning and doing, young and strong, and excellent in the test before they can be filled. Jiang Chun naturally has a reason to be proud.

After a few polite words, the two sides began to cut to the chase.

In the past few years, Li Peiting and Yancao have joined hands to sell refined salt produced in Nanzhong on both sides of the Yangtze River and up and down the canal. After a long time, those two gangs of people who spend a lot of money in teahouses, restaurants, casinos, and brothels will naturally reveal some secrets of the rivers and lakes they know in their words.

These things were summarized and sorted out by people with good intentions, and then they followed the vine and found Li Peiting behind the scenes.

Jiang Chun is this person with a heart.

Directly posted to the Yan Gang and the Cao Gang to meet at the mansion prepared for Li Ergongzi in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture.

Li Peiting, who was unmasked, was naturally a little embarrassed or angry, and even wanted the accompanying guards to kill Jiang Chun.

However, when Jiang Chun explained his intentions, the two sides immediately hooked up and became traitors.

"I was ordered by the head of the family to go south to discuss cooperation with you, in order to show my sincerity, the master of the family ordered me to bring four boats of cotton and two boats of raw silk, all of which were given to the princes of Nanzhong at the purchase price. There are also 100,000 taels of silver, all of which are full-colored Taizhou ingots, which are used by me to purchase goods in Nanzhong. ”

Four boats of cotton and two boats of raw silk are placed in Nanzhong, which is enough to keep the 200 Xiuer machines busy for a few days!

"I don't know what Brother Nian wants to buy in this wild and barren place in Nanzhong, where the miasma is everywhere? Is it ivory? Horns? Leopard skin? Pearl? Or something else? Li Peilin deliberately diverted the topic.

"Brother Nian, this is a bit too much! The second son is in Jiangnan, and he has made the Jiangnan brine industry, everyone is flying and jumping, and the two gangs of Yancao have purchased raw silk, porcelain, tea and other things on a large scale, how can they hide it from Jiang? ”

Pei Lin snorted and took the words.

"Our family is in Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Nanzhili, Suzhou, Songjiang, Taihu Lake and other places, with a total of 77 large and small salt numbers. There are also dozens of salt merchants, hundreds of thousands of stones in and out of salt every year, but there are many families, and the expenses are huge. Therefore, the head of the family hopes to be able to cooperate with the princes of Nanzhong," Jiang Chun pointed to the couplet at the door, "make a fortune together." ”

"If you want salt, there is naturally no problem with the supply," Li Peilin also has a businessman's face. "However, with these difficulties, I hope Brother Nian will understand."

"Oh! Brother Nian, please talk face to face, ask for money in a big way, always think about yourself in the first half of the night, think about others in the second half of the night, and help others is to help yourself. ”

The meaning of Jiang Chun's words, Li Peilin heard it very clearly, I have already shown you my friendship, I did not report your brother who smuggled smuggled salt, and I brought the cotton and raw silk and other things you need, and brought silver, it depends on what you mean.

"Brother Nian is afraid that it is a misunderstanding, what Li meant, of course, is also the meaning of my general, it was my immature brother who went to find the two gang leaders of Yancao, and they did not give up and cooperated with us, and my Li family can be regarded as having a foothold in this southern neutrality. Now, Brother Nian and Guidong's family, who are rich and powerful, and are salt merchants who are given salt by the government, naturally don't take the two gangs of salt and Cao to heart, but the two gangs of hundreds of thousands of people make a living from this. I don't know how Brother Nian and your owner will deal with this matter? ”

Get! The problem of the scope of sales was kicked to the Fang family!

"Brother Nian is kind and noble, which is admirable, but please rest assured about this. Before I went to sea this time, I had already discussed with the head of the family, if the princess did not give up, and if I cooperated with our family, my master of the family would definitely cooperate with the two gangs of Yancao, and I dare not say that the well water does not interfere with the river water, at least, as long as it is the territory of the two gangs, my family will never touch it. There are dozens of large and small salt merchants in Yangzhou, and the three of us can defeat them one by one! ”

"Besides, Brother Nian, please look!" Jiang Chun lifted the tortoiseshell frame and unfolded a map in the book, which was a rough map, obviously drawn by Jiang Chun himself, on which various provinces and some large prefectures and counties were marked with different colors.

"This is the Yangtze River, this is the canal. Your salt goods are mainly landed near the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then received by the two gang leaders of Yan Cao, and then used their boats and stacks to sell them along the Yangtze River and along the canals to the cities along the coast, which is why they were able to eat the 40,000 stone refined salt that Li Ergongzi transported for the first time at one time. ”

However, their sales scope is narrow and cramped, and the salt gang cannot cross the Huai River in the north and reach the west of Zhejiang in the south. The Cao Gang can only be sold along the canal. ”

"Moreover, the population in the second gang is large, and the cost has doubled." Li Peilin listened to Jiang Chun's analysis, and his eyes were fixed on the pale red and light yellow color blocks marked with the two gangs of salt and cao on the map. I couldn't help but say what I was thinking in my heart.

"Brother Young! If you want to sell the salt of Nanzhong to the mainland in a big way, and partner with our family, you can get twice the result with half the effort! ”

In fact, the 30,000 stone salt that Li Peiting sends to the mainland every two months is already fragrant in the eyes of the two gangs, but it is a big fat meat that can't be eaten. Their own territory has become saturated, and other people's territory is inaccessible in a short period of time, and in the view of Li Shouhan and others, it is necessary to find another partner in the mainland.

Now, the Fang family, who has the coat of a legal salt merchant, comes to ask for cooperation, which is naturally excellent! However, even the inner ecstasy cannot be brought out on the surface.

"However, can Brother Nian promise on behalf of your proprietor not to snatch the territory of the Yancao Second Gang?"

"Huh! Brother Li, I have already said it just now, the second gang of Yancao, the three of us cooperate, grab other people's territory, and we will never kill in our own nest! Besides, my lord is safe and secure in Yangzhou, breaking millions of bitter haha jobs for no reason, this, not to mention the loss of longevity, do you have to beware of those bitter ha people day and night to seek revenge? ! ”

"But I don't know, Gui Dong, Brother Nian, how much salt are you going to want? Every shipping schedule. ”

"Huh? In the lower reckless, I don't know what you mean by the shipping schedule? ”

"It's my fleet, after loading the goods at the dock, unloading the cargo at the port terminal you designate, and then returning, this round trip, we call it the shipping schedule."

"So, when you go south, will you return to the air?" Jiang Chun had clearly found an opportunity to take advantage of. Returning to the air is also a term for Cao Yun. It refers to the return of vehicles and ships with empty loads, without carrying passengers or goods, resulting in a waste of capacity.

"What's the matter, does the shopkeeper of Jiang University have a place to take care of us?" Zhang Xiaoqi, who was in charge of the shipping affairs of the Han Yuan Firm, had a twinkle in his eyes.

"My lord, your army's fast boats are really powerful, my six lucky boats, the first day of departure, but they have not arrived for a long time. If it hadn't come on the second son's ship, it is estimated that it would still be bumpy on the sea today. So, I plan that in the future, when your cargo ship goes south, it will be carrying my family's goods! ”

A group of guys talked about how to transport illicit salt to the north, and how to transport beans and wheat, cotton, raw silk and other things to the south in front of the God of Wealth.

"My lord," the business was discussed to such a point, and Jiang Chun quietly changed his name. "There are a few things you said just now, in the eyes of the students, it is nothing more than that the sales scope and interests of the Yancao Second Gang cannot be affected, and then the demand quantity of my family. Initially, I plan to make each shipping schedule the same as that of the Cao Gang, 30,000 stones. In addition, I would like to ask my lord, what is the use of all the cotton and raw silk you want? Naturally, raw silk can be sold to Yangyi, but it doesn't need to be that much, right? Jiang Chun began to try to understand the other party's intentions.

The Li brothers glanced at each other, and their eyes exchanged meanings with each other.

"Someone!" At Fauber's shouting, several people walked in with a few pieces of cloth in their hands.

"Is this a fancloth?" Jiang Chun saw the cloth in the messenger's hand at a glance, which seemed to be very similar to the cloth produced in Songjiang Prefecture. Fanbu came from Wunijing, Shanghai County, and was taught by Huang Daopo. High quality and high price, "a horse has a fee to platinum 100 two". During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, it was often used as a gift to bribe high-ranking officials of the imperial court and ministers close to the emperor, and the cloth was woven more and more exquisitely, and even woven patterns such as dragons and phoenixes, bullfights, and unicorns.

The pieces of cloth in front of me are all wrong yarn colors, heald threads, and good things!

"The cotton we want is here to make this, and the flat white cloth we want is used to make this." Fauber gestured to the dyed cloth in the hands of a messenger in the back row.

"Songjiang cotton cloth is the world, this, we naturally dare not look at it, but we also have our benefits!"

The so-called inexhaustible Songjiang cloth refers to the fact that there are many people who make a living by spinning and weaving cloth in Songjiang Prefecture, and the natural output has gone up. However, in Ha Jing, now with the Xiuer machine, the labor cost and output are naturally not comparable to the average family unit.

However, the specific output and cost, the Li family brothers and Fu Bo will not sue Jiang Chun if they are killed! The weapon of the country can't be shown!

"How much does this kind of cloth cost to sell for? Jiang wants to monopolize the profit of the sale of this cloth, I don't know if it is possible? Jiang Chun looked at the cloth patterns one by one, and what he saw in his eyes was white flowers and silver.

"Brother Nian, why bother in a hurry, please look at this thing."

Li Peilin took something similar to an account book from the side and handed it to Jiang Chun.

Jiang Chun has seen a lot of strange people and strange things, so he naturally has a little bit of cultivation that is not shocked. However, when he opened the book, he was really surprised.

I flipped it casually, it was completely cloth, it was different kinds of cloth, dyed in different colors, and I counted it roughly, and there were more than 20 kinds of colors.

"Brother Nian, do you know how much these cloths are asking for?" Li Peilin's still gentle voice sounded in Jiang Chun's ears.

"Students don't know, but it seems that this Nanzhong does not produce kapok, and it is naturally expensive to transport kapok from Jiangnan thousands of miles away!" Jiang Chun carefully rubbed the feel of the cloth with his fingers, and realized the difference with the cloth of Songjiang Mansion.

"The dyed cloth in your hand, we sold to the Japanese people for two pieces of cloth and two taels of alloy. Such a cloth is four gold horses. However, Brother Tai is naturally different from the Japanese people, so how about we sell it to Brother Tai at a 50% discount? ”

Such a dyed cloth, ten taels of silver per piece of cloth, is naturally not expensive, and it is quite profitable to transport it home.

"That's good! The cotton, raw silk and other items transported by the students this time were all folded into this cloth! Jiang Chun silently calculated in his heart, four boats of cotton and two boats of raw silk are about more than 200,000 taels of silver, and they can be transported back with 10,000 or 20,000 pieces of cloth.

"I don't know when these more than 10,000 pieces of cloth will be able to be woven and handed over to students?"

"You're miscalculated, right? Epigenetic. Fauber carefully groomed his sparse beard with a comb, "Not more than 10,000 horses, but nearly 30,000 horses!" ”

Well? Isn't it ten taels of dyed cloth?

"The exchange of gold and silver in the mainland is about one tael of gold for ten taels of silver, but the exchange of silver between us and the Japanese slaves is one tael of gold for four taels of five taels of silver, so naturally we can't let my brother Tai suffer this secret loss! Five taels of silver and a piece of dyed cloth! However, it can only be sold in the area I designate, if it is sold to a Japanese slave or someone else, Brother Jiang, do you regard me as nothing? ”

"Your Excellency!" Jiang Chun didn't care about his identity as a tribute, so he pouted and fell to his knees, "I implore my lord to hand over the cloth franchise to the students!" The students will supply the cotton, grey cloth and raw silk needed by Nanzhong, no matter how much, there will be no shortage of them! I just hope that my lord will give me this cloth franchise! ”

Many years later, Jiang Chun, who had hundreds of millions of dollars, learned that after the textile cost of Nanzhong that year, he couldn't help but smile wryly, a dyed cloth was only five dollars of silver. "It's less than 5 dollars of silver?? This is still the result of General Li's kindness in giving the workers a reward of three festivals and two birthdays every month, two meals a day, and work clothes, and also limiting each shift to no more than five hours, and there is a reward for excess work! If it were me, I would definitely be able to push the cost down to a penny! ”

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