"I don't dare to ask for ears." The old merchant replied with a smile.

So the two turned in the direction of the iron-smelting field. The old merchant was very curious about the iron-smelting yard, and asked Zhang Song a lot of questions along the way, and Zhang Song answered them one by one. Although the old merchant has a lot of questions, he is very measured, and he does not ask any questions about the secrets of iron smelting.

After a while, the two arrived at the iron-smelting yard, and the old merchant was instantly shocked by what he saw, and his mouth opened wide. Zhang Song looked at the old merchant with a smile, although the old merchant has been traveling south and north for many years, but such a scale of iron smelting, Zhang Song estimated that he had seen it for the first time.

After a while, the old merchant came back to his senses and asked, "This is the iron-smelting yard you want to build?" ”

Zhang Song nodded proudly.

"So big! How much iron can be produced in a year after completion? ”

"It's not much, it's about 5,000 catties a month."

"Five thousand catties a month, that's not a ......" The old merchant suddenly came to his senses, "What? What you just said is 5,000 catties a month? ”

Zhang Song smiled again and nodded, "That's right, it's five thousand catties per month." ”

"That's a big deal, so you can supply steel to the whole country." The old merchant exclaimed.

"No, we're only for our own use, and it's not necessarily enough for our own use."

"Self-use? Where is it used so much? ”

"Can I use it, but I'm worried that it won't be enough?"

"What are you going to do? It takes so much steel. The old merchant asked suspiciously.

Zhang Song knew that iron was still a rare thing in this era, except for the necessary agricultural tools and weapons, iron was not used, and even if there were weapons, many of them were filled with wooden staffs, so the old merchant would say that he could not use so much steel.

"I will replace all the soldiers' weapons with iron weapons, and I will also replace all the agricultural tools with iron, and in the future, there will be boats, cars, and daily necessities...... I'm going to make it with iron. Zhang Song spoke eloquently for the old merchant.

"You're too extravagant." The old merchant shook his head, not agreeing with Zhang Song's opinion.

"It's not extravagant, it's one step at a time, it's just the direction of future development."

It is the inevitable consequence of social development that an industrial society will definitely replace an agrarian society, just as an agrarian society will replace a fishing and hunting society. It's just that this truth is not something that a person who has lived in an agrarian society for most of his life and has never seen the achievements of industrial society can understand at once.

"Uncle, let's go over." Zhang Song saw the blacksmith coming this way from a distance, so he beckoned the old merchant.

"Lord, uncle, you are here." The blacksmith saluted the two men.

"Well, bring my husband to visit your ironworks."

"The lord laughed, where is my iron-smelting yard, this is obviously your iron-smelting yard." The blacksmith said with a smile.

"The iron-smelting yard was built under your supervision, and you have a lot of credit, and there is nothing wrong with saying that it is your iron-smelting yard." Zhang Song saw that some people had already put on hats made of bamboo strips, and nodded secretly.

"Without the lord, there would be no blacksmith for me today, in the final analysis, it is all the lord's." The blacksmith was grateful, but a smile bloomed on his face.

"The blacksmith worked hard to help the lord build this iron-smelting yard, and that was a great achievement." The old merchant said.

The blacksmith's face was flushed, his smile was even brighter, and he was very happy.

"However, these people don't seem to work very carefully, blacksmith, you need to supervise more." The old merchant pointed to the people wearing bamboo hats and said.

Zhang Song looked at it, and sure enough, those wearing bamboo hats were moving more slowly than yesterday.

"Maybe it's because I'm a little unaccustomed to wearing a bamboo hat just now, but it'll be good to get used to it in two days." The blacksmith smiled slightly, frowning slightly, but quickly stretched his brow and smiled.

"Let's go, sir, let's go to the lounge and have some tea." Zhang Song looked at it for a while, but didn't find any major problems, so he said to the old merchant.

Before he reached the shed where he was resting, the door of the shed opened, and two people came out of it, one was Liu Xiaojun, and the other was supported by Liu Xiaojun, the person was pale and tired, and it was the man who was injured last time.

"I've seen Zhang Jun!" The two saluted Zhang Song.

Zhang Song hurriedly stepped forward to support the man who was injured last time, and said, "You are injured, you don't have to salute, sit down and rest." ”

Turning around, Zhang Song glared at the blacksmith and blamed: "He was only injured yesterday, why did you call him to this construction site today?" ”

"Don't blame the blacksmith, it's the servant himself who wants to come." The injured man defended the blacksmith.

"You have an injury, take care of your injuries at home, take care of your injuries first, and then talk about what you are doing at this construction site." Zhang Song reproached in a caring tone.

"Don't blame Laifu, if you want to blame, blame me, Laifu is here to solve the problem for me." Blacksmith Road.

"Solve the problem for you? What's the problem? Zhang Song asked suspiciously.

The injured man looked at the blacksmith and did not speak. Liu Xiaojun glanced at Zhang Song, and originally wanted to speak, but after glancing at the blacksmith, he stopped talking again. The blacksmith's smile grew awkward, and he kept scratching his head with his right hand.

Zhang Song didn't speak, just looked at the blacksmith calmly. The blacksmith scratched his head for a moment, and then began to speak with an embarrassed face.

The cause and process of Laifu's injury this morning appeared in several versions, among which the most miraculous version said that there were evil ghosts in the construction of the iron-smelting plant, and the construction of the iron-smelting plant violated the evil spirits, and Laifu's injury was the result of the evil spirits.

For a while, everyone was worried, for fear that they would offend the evil spirits and be condemned by the evil spirits. When the work started this morning, almost everyone was reluctant to start work, and even less was willing to do the work of building the blast furnace.

"And what do you think about Rifle's injury?" Zhang Song was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, and asked the blacksmith.

"This is how Rifle accidentally fell, how can there be any evil ghosts, it is simply those people who don't want to work, so they chew their tongues!" The blacksmith said angrily.

Zhang Song didn't speak, he looked at the others with an inquiring gaze. Laifu lowered his head, didn't speak, and didn't dare to look at Zhang Song. The eyes of the few people next to him flickered, avoiding Zhang Song's gaze, but their expressions revealed that they thought it was the result of the evil ghost's guilt.

"I've been here in Qingsong Valley for so many years, and I've never heard of any evil ghosts here, even if there are evil ghosts, you can ask them to leave." Liu Xiaojun said.

"It's just such an injury, and I can't tell if it's the devil's fault." The old merchant said.

"There is no ...... in this world at all" Zhang Song saw that the people around him believed in the existence of evil ghosts except for blacksmiths, so he wanted to open his mouth to educate them in materialism, but halfway through his words, Zhang Song felt that something was wrong, so he didn't say any more.

"Then why are you willing to start work now?" Zhang Song sighed in his heart and forcibly changed the topic.

"This morning, I told you that there are no evil spirits in this world at all, and that Laifu's injury was just an accident, so they don't have to be afraid and continue to work. Even if my mouth is dry, they just don't believe what I say, and they don't want to get to work. The blacksmith remembered the events of the morning, and smiled bitterly.

Zhang Song nodded, the blacksmith's statement, no one will believe it, in the era when science was not yet prosperous, many natural phenomena were incomprehensible, and they could only use evil ghosts as an excuse. Moreover, it is many times more difficult to prove that there is nothing in this world than to prove it, and it is impossible to prove that there are no evil spirits.

"Later, I really had no choice, so I planned to invite the lord over. At this time, Xiaojun proposed that he could ask Laifu to explain to everyone about his injury, and everyone would believe it. The blacksmith pursed his dry lips and pointed to the people next to him, "Don't stand here either, go see how they're doing, and get them up to speed." ”

After the men had gone away, the blacksmith lowered his voice and said, "When I called Rifle, I took a lot of effort to convince Rifle to blame his own carelessness when he explained it to everyone. ”

When Laifu heard the blacksmith's words, his face suddenly turned even paler, and while he struggled to get up, he said to Zhang Song: "Zhang Jun, I didn't mean to embarrass the blacksmith, but I don't remember why I was injured......

"Don't get excited, don't move while you lie down, the blacksmith just recounted what happened, and didn't mean to blame you." Zhang Song stopped Laifu from getting up.

"That's it, Rifle, I don't mean to blame you, but I have to tell the truth to my lord. After Laifu came to the construction site, he patiently explained to everyone, saying that he was injured because he was not paying attention for a while. Everyone also asked a lot of questions about Laifu, and Laifu answered very well, and finally everyone believed Laifu's statement and officially started. ”

"You handled it well." Zhang Song said appreciatively to the blacksmith, "I didn't misunderstand you. ”

The blacksmith's face was a little better, and his expression was much more relaxed.

"It's just that everyone still has doubts." Zhang Song pointed to the people working on the construction site, their lazy appearance compared with yesterday's enthusiasm, but one in the sky and the other in the ground.

"yes, these people really don't look like they're working hard." The old merchant chimed in.

"I'm so grateful to everyone for starting work, where can I expect them to have yesterday's enthusiasm." The blacksmith said with a wry smile.

"That's not going to work, we're pressed for time, and we have to get everyone nervous and finish it as soon as possible so that we can start steel production." Zhang Song said solemnly.

"If you want to improve efficiency, you can only use coercion in the current situation. However, the people who work here are all people from the Green Pine Valley, and it's not easy to force it. "The blacksmith is embarrassed.

It is definitely not possible to take coercive measures, Zhang Song still expects to develop and grow on the basis of the Qingsong Valley, if all the people in the Qingsong Valley hate themselves, then what kind of development is there.

"Surely no coercion can be used." Zhang Song looked at the old merchant and said, "What do you say, uncle?" ”

"You're right, you can't use coercive measures, it's normal for everyone to have some concerns after Laifu was injured, what we need to do now is to take measures to eliminate everyone's concerns, rather than taking coercive measures to deal with everyone." The old merchant stroked his beard and said, "Since it's a problem with evil ghosts, let the evil ghosts solve it." ”

"Solved by demons?" The blacksmith was a little confused, and even Liu Xiaojun and Laifu were also stunned.

"Okay, let's do what my husband said." Zhang Song understood the old merchant's thoughts.