"Brother, the land measurement of Qingquan Village has been completed, and this is the latest fish scale book."

Uncle Fei handed the booklet to Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan took a general look at it, and said: "Sure enough, there are mostly mountains, even if it is a field, most of it has been abandoned, and we have to recruit displaced people to come here to cultivate it." ”

As he spoke, Lu Yuan asked Shen Guangzu: "Tell me about what you did in Linqing City, as well as the number of this batch of grain." ”

Shen Guangzu stood up and told him how he and Tu Dazhu and the others got rid of Dou Ding, and said, "This time, I brought 5,000 stone of grain, which was prepared by the young grandmother in advance. ”

"Really?"

Lu Yuan couldn't help but smile, thinking that this Tang Ying still knew his thoughts.

Then, Lu Yuan asked Shen Guangzu why he brought the son of the Lu carpenter, and Shen Guangzu hurriedly answered the reason.

Lu Yuan nodded after hearing this, and he also had an idea in his heart, and looked at the person in front of him: "In this way, the mechanics who come to Qingshui Town Fort will each pay ten taels of settlement allowance, and bring all your current family members to Qingshui Town Fort to live with you, so as not to separate the two places, what do you think?" ”

"This is good, thank you young master", Zeng Dongsheng was happy first, after all, he had a settlement fee of ten taels of silver, and he didn't have to live separately from his daughter-in-law, so he naturally wanted to do so.

Lu Liang and Zuo Tiejian also agreed with a smile.

After the fields were measured, the food was available, and the worries of the mechanics were properly addressed, Lu Yuan began to prepare for the recruitment of homeless people and the establishment of an iron factory.

The recruitment of displaced people is to supplement the shortage of existing human resources in Qingquanzhai, after all, without labor, the industrial base cannot be established.

And steel is the foundation of all industries, especially the military industry, Lu Yuan has to recruit displaced people to recruit soldiers, and he has to make his own weapons, and he can't rely on the imperial court to allocate some broken copper and iron, not to mention that he can't get any good firearms as a chief flag officer of the inland guard station.

Lu Yuan, who already had experience in iron ore mining, went to find iron ore veins, while Uncle Fei was still responsible for training the existing family members and preparing for the recruitment of displaced people.

Caiyi was appointed by Lu Yuan as the civil director of Qingquan Village, responsible for managing the civil work of Qingquan Village, and his main responsibility was to help handle Lu Yuan's daily work and be responsible for grain sales.

The leaders of the twenty-four households and the five production groups are all subordinates of Caiyi and directly obey Caiyi.

"Childe, I really didn't expect there to be such a good mining area here."

On this day, Zuo Tieji, who often goes around the mountains, suddenly ran to Lu Yuan, and said breathlessly: "Childe, I took a look, the soil layer here is very red, it is a good vein, and more importantly, it is still shallow, so it is easy to mine." ”

"In this way, we can directly open an iron factory, I really didn't expect that there would really be iron ore in such a place where birds don't."

Uncle Fei was also happy and said.

In the late Ming Dynasty, private mining has become a common phenomenon, and the government has not strictly prohibited it, otherwise the Wanli period would not have sent so many eunuchs to collect mining taxes in various places.

And what's even better is that because of the opposition of the civil and official clique, after Wanli, even the eunuchs who collected mining taxes were withdrawn, and the private mining was more free and more profitable.

Lu Yuan naturally doesn't have to worry about being investigated if he wants to open an iron factory now, not to mention that he himself is still a court official.

"Is there any coal?"

Lu Yuan was not much surprised after listening to Zuo Tieji's report, because he had long known that there might be iron ore resources here, after all, it was not very far from Handan, but he just asked again.

Zuo Tiejian nodded: "Yes!" ”

"So much better! Hahaha! Only with coal and iron can we run an industry," Lu Yuan said with a smile.

"Industrial?"

Zuo Tiejian didn't understand what industry meant, but he still reminded Lu Yuan: "Childe, this coal can't be used to make iron, in that case, you can't make good iron." ”

Lu Yuan naturally also knows that the sulfur content of coal is high, and direct use for ironmaking will cause the quality of steel to decline, so many times steelmaking is made with high-cost good charcoal, which also leads to the fact that metal has always been a relatively expensive thing in ancient times.

"That's the wrong way you make steel."

Lu Yuan said.

Next.

Lu Yuan began to prepare for the opening of a steel factory.

Heavy industry is the foundation of industry, and the steel industry is the pillar industry of heavy industry.

After all, production and life are inseparable from steel in many aspects, especially in today's Iron Age, and when the steam industrial revolution has begun, the demand for steel has increased significantly.

At that time, the amount of steel produced determines the strength of a country.

Lu Yuanxian divided the entire proven mining area of Qingquanzhai and its surroundings into a steel industrial zone, and established Chunfeng Iron and Steel Plant, with Zuo Tiejian as the director.

The first task of Qingquan Iron and Steel Plant after its establishment was mining and steelmaking.

"Recruitment, recruitment, the official opened a steel plant, and now he wants to recruit workers in mining and steelmaking, and the salary is one or two a month! Those who are interested should come to the newly built Qingquan Square to gather and register! ”

Zhou Gou'er became Lu Yuan's propagandist again this time, and began to shout while knocking on Luo in Qingquan Village.

Qingquan Square is one of the municipal projects built by Lu Yuan when he recruited the military households of these production groups to build residential areas, in order to facilitate the military households of Qingquan Village to have a place for meeting and leisure and entertainment.

Of course, the more important purpose is to build a commercial district here.

At this time, Qingquan Square was already full of people, and Caiyi, who had temporarily become the personnel director of the steel plant, sat on a chair, holding a pen in one hand and a booklet in the other, and asked a military household at the front: "Name!" Age! Gender! ”

"Zhao Dan, eleven years old, male."

A military household replied.

"It's too young, go back, my uncle said that the steel mill does not recruit child labor!"

Caiyi put the booklet on the lid and said to a boy who was two years younger than herself, but much thinner than herself.

This Zhao Dan hurriedly knelt down for Caiyi: "Please accept me, I have nothing to do when I am idle at home, it is better to earn some money." ”

"If you can't say no, you can't! Why don't you have anything to do, my uncle's five-year plan has a plan to set up a school, and you will all go to study at that time. Caiyi said.

"I don't study, I just want to make money!"

This Zhao Dan hurriedly waved his hand.

"If you don't study, you can't do it, besides, reading can't delay you from making money in the future, Fan Siyuan, pull him away!"

Caiyi shouted again as she spoke, "Next!" ”

A strong woman hurriedly squeezed up: "Girl, do you think I can do it, do you use women?" ”

"My uncle said, now that the factory has just opened, it takes a lot of labor, regardless of men and women, report their names and ages, and go to the side to check their health."

Caiyi said.