With the discovery of Miyun iron ore, the team sent by the Ministry of Industry has come to the good news, in the exploration of iron ore Zhu Cijiong maintained his magic as always, he said that several places are rich in iron ore reserves, as long as you carefully recruit you will definitely be able to find a large number of them, just in Liaodong alone, there are no less than 100 iron ores found, the officials of the Ministry of Industry are amazed, the emperor is really wise and martial!

Next, the mining of iron ore has set off a boom, Zhu Cijiong originally wanted to hide the wealth from the people, improve the overall consumption power, and stimulate economic development, but it is certainly unrealistic to give silver to the common people for some reason, and it is easy to cause inflation, now there is no difference with iron ore, because the mining of iron ore is accompanied by the growth of wealth, so he gave a big gift to all the civilians who are mining, dig 500 catties of iron ore to give one or two silver, and dig as much as you want!

What is the concept of five hundred catties of iron ore and one tael of silver, let's put it this way, an adult, even if he is soft and weak and has no strength, he can easily carry thirty or forty catties of iron ore, and it is not a problem for a strong laborer to carry a hundred catties at a time, the place where the Ministry of Industry decided to open the mine is a rich ore, and the kind that can dig iron ore can be dug at will, and the people of Liaodong, Beijing, Shanxi and Sichuan are not crazy, you must know that as long as an adult is not lazy, you can dig out at least five or six hundred catties of iron ore a day, which is more than one or two silver!

Now it's terrible, the people of the four places frantically flocked to the mine opened by the Ministry of Industry, and kept digging frantically day and night, what kind of land did they plant, how much silver can they earn in a year, and they can easily dig iron ore for a few days to earn it back!

For a time, all the mines were crowded with people, and there were civilians with baskets on their backs and hoes everywhere, and there were many iron ores, and the trains couldn't pull them day and night, not to mention 10 million catties a month, and tens of millions of catties could be dug up in a day!

Tens of millions of catties is really not much, you must know that an ordinary adult can dig out five or six hundred catties a day, and tens of millions of catties is the amount of more than 100,000 people a day.

If there are not enough mines, there will naturally be contradictions when there are too many people, so there have been bloody conflicts in various mines of the Ministry of Industry one after another, and the public security environment in the mining area is deteriorating day by day.

This situation was unexpected by Zhu Cijiong, he had to make a 'faint king' who changed his order every day, lowered the price of iron ore to a thousand catties and one tael of silver, and sent Jinyi guards to various mining areas to maintain order, and whoever dared to fight would be locked up!

Even the common people are still enthusiastic, and they keep flocking to the iron mine opened by the Ministry of Industry from all directions, and no one cares about the crops in the field!

Zhu Cijiong had to attach a condition again, that is, each household was only allowed to send one laborer to mine, the local officials strictly checked the household registration, and each household only issued one mining certificate, and Jinyiwei strictly checked the mining license in each mine, and all those who came to mine without a mining license were locked up, so that the crazy situation could be contained.

After several months of exploration and improvement, Daming's iron ore economy has finally formed a fixed development model:

First of all, civilian mining, as the Ministry of Industry continues to develop new mines, the final daily output of iron ore has reached a terrifying 100 million catties, that is to say, farmers in the four provinces can make a profit of more than 30 million taels of silver a year, and the consumption capacity of the four places has increased several times, especially in Liaodong, the degree of wealth even exceeds that of Nanzhili!

Then the Ministry of Steel Plant produced steel for sale, the iron ore was sufficient, the output of the Ministry of Steel Plant also came up, the blast furnace of steelmaking was added and added, and it continued to develop to a huge size, and finally the daily output of the Ministry of Steel Plant reached a terrifying 10 million catties!

The price of steel is not one or two silver and one thousand catties, but one or two silver and one hundred catties, which is just an ordinary steel ingot, if it is a steel plate and steel bar, the price will be doubled!

That's it, Daming's steel business is so hot that it can't work, not only the people of Daming are in strong demand, North Korea, Dongying, Ryukyu and other vassal countries are also in great demand, as for all parts of Nanyang, it depends on luck, Daming and the three vassal countries have a surplus, will be sold to merchants all over Nanyang, Daming steel has increasingly become a famous brand that is popular throughout Southeast Asia, uh, no way, now the world is on this brand, exclusive monopoly, no other semicolon, besides, Daming steel was originally the best quality at that time.

After a few months of development, the output of the steel mill in Xicheng District has not kept up with the demand, Zhu Cijiong is already considering building a larger steel mill, this profit, even if it is calculated according to ten taels of silver and a thousand catties, the profit of at least five taels of silver is removed, that is to say, the steel mill in Xicheng District can earn 50,000 taels of silver a day, and it can earn nearly 20 million taels of silver a year, and such a steel mill can earn 200 million taels of silver a year, and the world's gold and silver will flock to Daming!

Of course, it is impossible to open ten, with the current iron ore mining volume of Daming, at most five more such steelworks, but also to consider the problem of sales, a five-fold increase in output, it is likely to cause oversupply, or take your time, one by one, to maintain strong demand, so that steel will not depreciate.

Finally, the merchants who buy steel will process the steel into various commodities for sale, the purity and carbon content of the steel refined by the Ming Ministry of Industry have been strictly controlled, and the raw iron smelted by the soil method is not known to be many times stronger, and the things manufactured are naturally good and durable, not to mention the swords, guns, swords, halberds or something, the Ming Dynasty is now only used by the hunters in the mountains, and the army has long been replaced with thermal weapons, and it can only be sold to the armies of those small countries in Southeast Asia.

Let's just say that civilian things, such as kitchen knives, hoes, nail rakes, wood knives, axes, iron pots and so on, almost everyone has to use them, how many people are in the Ming Dynasty and the vassal states combined, and how many people are in the Nanyang market, according to the average of ten catties of iron per person, that is billions of catties, this is only the poor at home, and those who have money buy more ironware.

Moreover, now many workshops in Daming are developing new products, such as iron buckets, iron basins, iron boxes, and iron shelves. Also, with the promotion of cement, the demand for steel bars has grown explosively!

The demand for civilian use alone is so large, and with the large iron users of Wang Gong Factory, Machinery Factory and Dongdaying Cannon Foundry Factory, a steelmaking plant with a daily output of 10 million catties is really not enough.

There is a very common pattern of economic development in later generations, that is, to promote the characteristic economy, I believe that many people have seen the brand of what township, and even the people themselves are the hometown of a characteristic economy, why highlight the development of the characteristic economy? Because this characteristic economy can not only highlight its advantages and occupy the market, but also promote the development of other economies.

Like the iron ore economy of Daming, the demand for coal has also increased, steelmaking that requires a lot of coal, with the experience of iron ore economy, the development of coal economy is naturally familiar with the road, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Yunnan and other provinces rich in coal reserves of the common people have made a fortune again, especially Shanxi, a few years ago is still poor can not open the pot, this year is iron ore and coal mines, the common people are making a lot of money, there is a tendency to catch up with Nanzhili and Liaodong to become the richest province in Daming!

Of course, Daming is not only in the development of iron ore economy, coal economy, but also the world's leading textile industry, shipbuilding industry, glass industry, as well as the emerging cement economy, copper mine economy, etc., all walks of life are developing in a blowout, at this time, Daming can be regarded as really embarked on the road of prosperity.