After collecting a certain amount of patent fees, the smelting technology of the Ordnance Bureau was granted to six companies: Jinxian Iron Works in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, Xingguo Iron Works in Huguang, Laiwu Iron Works in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, Yangshan Iron Works in Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, Gongchang Iron Works in Shaanxi, and Fuguo Iron Works in Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi Province. The Ordnance Bureau itself has Qian'an Iron Works, Luanhe Iron Works, Anshan Iron Works, Shandong Zichuan Iron Works and Nanzhili Xuzhou Iron Works.

Except for the five iron factories owned by the Ordnance Bureau, the rest of the government-run iron factories have been resold to the private sector. In the early years of Yongle, the annual iron output of the Ming Dynasty was more than 19.57 million catties, and in the Jiajing period, it reached more than 269.23 million catties, or about 160,000 tons. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, a total of 660 million catties of iron were born among the people in the country, which is still the amount of taxes paid, and the five iron factories owned by the Ordnance Bureau produced a total of 570 million catties of iron, with a total of 1.23 billion catties in the country.

As for steel production, originally only the five iron factories of the Ordnance Bureau plus the Suzhou Fu Iron Works could produce steel, and the total steel output in the four years of the Apocalypse was less than 200 million catties, even if it was all used to make rails, it was only barely enough to make 2,000 miles of rails, not to mention that weapons manufacturing also needed a large amount of steel. After the technology authorization was released, the eight years of the apocalypse had reached 320 million catties.

Although there is a big gap in technology, the steel output has reached 40 million tons shortly after the reform and opening up, and in 2014, there were more than 800 million tons, equivalent to more than 140 billion catties, and the gap of more than 4,000 times is too big.

The technical side will not be able to catch up for a while, so we can only find a way from other aspects. After the tax rate of the iron mill was set at 15 tax 1, at the end of the 8th year of the Apocalypse, the household department set the tax rate of the steel mill at 20 tax 1.

Merchants are the world's most sensitive animals with a sense of smell, is the most sensitive to money, the change of the tax system of the imperial court, so that merchants know that mining stone can make money, but earn less, the ore into iron, you can not pay the tax on ore, so you can earn more, and if you smelt iron into steel, then even the iron tax does not have to pay, and the more formalities, the less tax you pay. How many people will be tempted by such profits.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the steel output increased to 540 million catties, and now there are very few simple iron ore factories, and those who do not have the technology to pass the standard and do not want to spend patent fees will smelt the iron ore into pig iron and sell it to other large iron factories, and the big iron factories will buy the iron and use it exclusively for steelmaking, of course, the output will increase greatly.

However, there are two things that make the steel mill unhappy, one is that the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, referred to as the Environmental Protection Bureau, always charges you environmental protection fees according to the number and size of the chimneys in your factory. But when they found out that the EPA, which had taken their money, had asked them to plant trees near their steel plant, they weren't so upset.

The second is that when steel is sold to the Ordnance Bureau, it must meet the standards of the Ordnance Bureau, and the inspection is very strict. However, when they meet the standard for two consecutive years, the Ordnance Bureau will give them the specifications of the rails, let them directly make the steel into rails, and purchase them at a higher price after passing the inspection, and the tax bureau will refund 30% of the tax on the sale of the rails at the end of the year, which also makes them feel that this is actually quite good.

Zhu Youxiao has always believed that the government camp is the most inefficient option. According to the principle that power cannot be privately owned and property cannot be publicly owned, public ownership of property eventually becomes the private ownership of those in power and the private ownership of managers. In later generations, China's oil prices were higher than those of most developed countries, and the world's first state-owned enterprise with assets of more than one trillion yuan, PetroChina, actually lost money, and the state-owned enterprises that had to collect five corners or even more to rob each kilometer of road basically lost money on highways in various provinces. Where this loss went, in fact, everyone knows it in their hearts, but is there any reason?

Therefore, in this life, Zhu Youxiao wants to privatize as much as possible. Except for very special industries, such as banking, transportation, energy, military, tobacco and other enterprises, all other enterprises that can be privatized must be privatized. The reason why he wanted to add the agricultural cooperative to other people's shares was that he was prepared to turn it into a privatized enterprise when the conditions were ripe.

Even like the bank, he was prepared to relax the restrictions on banks and allow private banks to open banks after the domestic financial climate had formed, and of course, the Royal Bank would become something like a regulated bank. And he will also allow private newspapers to run at the appropriate time, enact the "Press Censorship Law", and set up a management body.

Zhu Youxiao's privatization process, at least in the steel sector, has achieved great results, as evidenced by the substantial increase in steel production year by year. According to this development trend, it will only take more than ten years to build the railway to the border of the Rakshasa country.

The Iron and Steel Works of the Ordnance Bureau accumulated a large number of steel rails, but did not have enough manpower to build the railway. Zhang Qianfang, the governor of Zhenyuan, sent two large ships to transport the first batch of 8,000 Indians, which made the Ministry of Railways, which was in great need of manpower, very happy.

Soon, the second batch of 6,000 people also arrived at Tianjin Port, and there were some Indian women who came with them, who heard that Daming's life was better and came to cook for the Indians. Mao Yuanyi welcomed this, because soon after the first batch of Indians had eaten a full meal, they began to dislike the food again, and it should be a good way to use Indians to cook.

These Indian women brought with them a lot of local spices, mainly a thing called curry, and many other spices. There was a strong aroma in the food, which made the officials of the Ministry of Railways drool, but when they saw the way they were grabbing rice with their hands, they suddenly lost their appetite.

Soon the officials of the Ministry of Railways discovered that these Indian women were not only here to cook, but also to run the skin and meat business. The official immediately reported the matter, and Mao Yuanyi encountered this kind of problem for the first time, and he didn't know how to deal with it, so he went to consult Xu Guangqi.

Xu Guangqi said: "You have to make sure that Indians are forbidden to enter the Qinglou and that the Ming people are forbidden to patronize Indian women." The rest is their internal business, there is no major problem, it does not affect the construction of the railway, so it is left alone. ”

Chinese officials in Goa soon discovered that if Goa's manpower alone were to supply the country's railways, there would not be many people under their rule. So he lured the Indians near Goa with the "high price" of one or two pieces of silver every ten days, so that a large number of Indians came to Goa, and then took a boat to the rich country they longed for - Daming.