Cao Di, as a pacification envoy of Hebei, presided over everything in the Daimyo's Mansion, of course, he would not be so idle, just to sign a contract to come to the blacksmith workshop, as a privy deputy envoy, he was far away from the court.

The Daimyo's Mansion and Tokyo Bianliang are only more than 400 miles, but as a pacification envoy on duty, he can't leave the Daimyo's Mansion to go to the capital casually, and the connection between the exchanges is either an eight-hundred-mile rush or a secret channel.

Everything above the court, he knew it, because of the huge waves set off by the iron, even he didn't expect that after he saw the iron in the blacksmith's workshop, the first choice was the operation of the military, 3 million catties, which was already the limit, and it was spent in his money.

However, in the court, even the field except for blacksmiths has been included, although this trend has not yet affected the Daimyo's Mansion, but as long as the Daimyo's Mansion is squeezed slightly, it will reach 30 million catties a year, and it will not be a problem.

At this point, he couldn't help but sigh with Zhao Xin's unique vision, in an industry that everyone didn't realize, pry the storm of the entire political arena, and even a governor and hundreds of officials of all grades suffered a big loss because of this, so that Renzong and the three envoys were full at once.

He also knew a little about the affairs of the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Foundry Division, and it seemed that the Daimyo's Mansion should also be abolished, and after the abolition, of course, it would be incorporated into the blacksmith workshop.

In fact, at the time of the large-scale recruitment of the blacksmith workshop, some of the blacksmiths who had not been organized and recorded, and who originally worked for the Ministry of Industry and the Foundry Division, were mostly merged into the blacksmith workshop, and now only about half are left, including more than 800 masters, more than 3,000 helpers and some labor, if these people leave, for the Daimyofu, it is equivalent to removing a heavy burden.

Cao Di is really strange, why, the blacksmiths who are lifeless and have not changed for more than decades are all playing in Zhao Xin's hands, a child of intellectual age who is only four or five years old, has such great ability and courage.

However, every time he saw Zhao Xin and felt his deep and wise eyes, he knew that there was really such a thing as divine bestowed, and people were different from people.

After setting an order of 15 million catties from the Privy Council, Cao Di again placed an order of 9 million catties, this part of the order is for civilian projects, and to try to explore the problem of personnel placement.

This question was caught off guard for Zhao Xin, but it was not that he was unprepared and caught off guard, but that he was really excited.

The blacksmith, in the eyes of those in power, is nothing more than a simple worker, they work according to the above orders, produce qualified iron, if you want to say anything, it is a big pot of rice, do more and do less, anyway, everyone is average, as long as the task is completed.

But it was different here in Zhao Xin, because of the establishment of a blacksmith workshop, Zhao Xin recruited several rounds of blacksmiths from the Daimyo's Mansion, most of them were ordinary, only a few of the masters, or some of them were old and weak.

The prime-aged, skilled blacksmiths were networked by the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Foundry Department, although Zhao Xin's salary was very high, but with an official identity, they were restricted, and no one dared to come.

Before the change, Zhao Xin thought that a master craftsman was nothing, and a master craftsman was not even as useful as a blank piece of paper, but with catalysts and some system transformations, Zhao Xin found that he could not underestimate the wealth of these ancients, thousands of years of smelting history, decades of study, and the master craftsmen who reached the peak, whether it was talent or personal ability, were quite outstanding, even if they couldn't make changes to the overall situation, it was enough for them to adapt quickly.

This is not a master in his fifties or sixties, old and weak, this is a master who is in the prime of life and is at the peak of all aspects.

Whether it is a master craftsman, a helper, or other laborers, as long as the daimyo is willing to give, he will take all the orders without pulling them, but only one or two hundred thousand people, and when there is no training and no training is completed, only basic living expenses will be given, and after the skills have been thoroughly mastered, large-scale output, and then according to the amount.

The previous order, plus the order after the Privy Council, is more than 27 million catties, according to the current ex-factory price, 35 Wen, just these two orders, the total cost is close to one million, enough to pay for everything.

Cao Di came over, just reached a basic agreement with Zhao Xin, more than 30,000 people, and the annual expenditure may be reduced by hundreds of thousands of yuan, this is a burden, even if it is not necessary to feed them as much as giving wages, but these people, plus the relatives behind them, this is a great force, solve them, the entire Daimyo Mansion not only lost weight, but also stabilized the whole situation, this is why not do it.

Before leaving, Cao Di also told Zhao Xin one thing, which must be made clear to Zhao Xin, Cao Di as the pacification envoy of Hebei, the Daimyo's Mansion is under his direct jurisdiction, and in addition to this order, he is pushing it single-handedly, so he must be responsible for the whole process of this matter, as well as the completion of the order.

This is also a countermeasure, since it was reported by Cao Di, he must be responsible for everything.

Cao Di didn't care about this, he knew the production capacity of the entire blacksmith workshop, as well as some quality problems with the products, and there was no problem with this.

The only question is, can this production be sustainable?

This is no longer what he imagined before, fifty or sixty million catties per year, simply the Daimyo Mansion itself, there may be seventy or eighty million, plus the number calculated by the court now, at least more than 250 million, so that the total number may exceed 300 million, or even more, he must know clearly before he can make a decision.

300 million catties a year, equal to one million catties per day, this number, for the general blacksmith shop, is an astronomical number, some larger, a thousand catties a day is already very terrible, before the blacksmith workshop took 2 days, to complete the order of 3 million catties, and the quality is very good, but how much is completed in a short time, how much is accumulated before, he does not know.

As a Zaifu, he does not seek victory and defeat, and on the premise of considering any problem, he needs to consider how to lose, if he does not consider this, in case of the worst outcome, how he will deal with it.

As Zhao Xin, he may not understand Cao Xi's vague meaning, but as Zhao Xin, of course he understands that many politicians want to read history, why, to learn from history, some conspiracies, and even some ghosts, can find traces from history, as a doctoral student who studies history, Zhao Xin knows even better, and he also knows how to dispel his concerns.

To put it bluntly, it is very simple, that is, with indisputable facts, it is proved that he can easily solve it.

Zhao Xin didn't say much to Cao Di's questions, and took out a table, which had some basic data, because he took over the iron order of the Daimyo's Mansion, in order to ensure that the initial 3 million catties were all in place, he made adjustments, and only used about 30% of the productivity every day, put it on the finished product, and the rest was all on the iron.

The blacksmith's workshop is no longer the result of patting his head at the beginning, he has had a terrible effect, and it has the situation of an industrial factory in later generations.

After more than half a month of running-in and adjustment, at present, there are about 3,000 groups of blacksmiths, 7 into 2,100 groups, they are divided into two shifts, at least 10 hours a day to produce iron, an average of about 1,800 pounds per group per day.

The production of the daimyo was completed in only 2 days, and at full capacity, it would be close to 4 million catties of iron a day, that is, the 15 million catties of iron currently issued by the Privy Council could be produced in 4 days.

4 million catties? This number is very amazing, has far exceeded the average daily figure of 1 million catties, what does this mean, represents a huge margin, with this margin to lay the foundation, any risk can be dealt with, even if force majeure, affected for three months, or even 4 months, it is impossible to affect the orders of the whole year.

Cao Di said loudly: "Great, produce it as soon as possible, I will arrange the ship!" ”

Including Renzong, the three divisions, and the things recognized by the East and West Governments, it can be said that the legal rationality is already very strong, but if it can be completed as soon as possible, it also represents a huge strength, and future orders will definitely come in a steady stream.

There is a variable in this, on the one hand, the problem of output, whether the entire output can be guaranteed as much as possible, and the other is the problem of transportation, if the freight is higher, it will not be good.

Iron is a bulk commodity, relying on the convenient conditions of the canal, it is impossible to transport it by land, and heavy iron, if it is transported by land, will make the cost surge to an unbearable extent.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty had developed water transportation and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and perhaps large ships could not pass through the entire Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the five major water systems of the Unicom, but among them, the Bianliang section of the Daimyo's Mansion was absolutely fine.

As the four Beijings, the closest contact, but also the most important two, these two contacts are very close, almost every year, there are special people to clean the river, here can be the largest 800 materials of sand boats.

800 materials, that is, about 280 tons, may not be able to load so much, at least more than 250 tons, which means that a ship, at least 500,000 catties, 15 million catties of iron, 30 ships can be transported down.

However, so many ships, to be mobilized, it takes time, the utilization rate of large ships is not very high, often at the peak of the transport can be called, or some military and civilian bulk commodities, but in the jurisdiction of Cao Di, there is a fleet of 80 ships, this large transport fleet belonging to the military, can not be called, but now, Cao Di can justifiably come to the order.