Tian Jitang said with a smile on his face: "There are really a lot of sheep in Beiyu, and we don't have so many sheep in the entire Datong Mansion, and I'm afraid there are none in the whole of Shanxi." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Plus Xuanfu doesn't have this number." Zhang Han stood on the edge of the battlement, looking at the white clouds-like flock, there has been no snow recently, the snow on the grassland has already melted, the grass is now green and yellow, and the herd still has the last time to graze, Zhang Han's eyes are very soft, these are not livestock in front of him, but piles of silver taels moving.

Not to mention anything else, there are more than 200,000 sheep alone, a sheep can produce twenty or thirty catties of meat, and bones and fur are all useful, and the whole sheep is almost worth one or two taels of silver, and the sheep alone can be worth nearly 300,000 taels.

Cattle used to be worth three taels, in recent years prices have begun to rise, a strong cow can be worth five or six taels, calves and old cattle that kill meat are also worth more than three taels, horses are the most valuable, pull horses also have to be three or four taels to six or seven taels, the worst war horses are worth more than six taels, a better war horse, dozens of taels to a hundred taels, and even have a very outstanding quality war horse, worth a thousand gold.

Tian Jitang smiled toothlessly, the sum of war horses, cattle and sheep is worth nearly 500,000 taels, which is the cost of Yusheng's entire system for two months.

After laughing for a while, Tian Jitang said with a straight face: "My lord, you still have to open source, otherwise you can only throttle." ”

Going north, going south, expanding the army, these are all extremely expensive things to consume money and grain, plus the opening of the north-south canal, the expansion of the factory, in the early stage of investment must be a huge amount of money, and these cattle and sheep in front of them are not a day or two can be sold, to the northern provinces to sell, the fastest has to be sold for a month or two, two months later, according to the current method of spending money and monthly income, the financial deficit again.

Zhang Han looked to the east, and only after half a sound did he say, "Don't worry, as soon as it's cold, our silver will flow over again." ”

Tian Jitang was dumbfounded, and he didn't know why.

……

In the evening, Zhang Han met Li Dongxue and others in the signing room.

Li Dongxue sat down and said: "My lord, we are waiting for exploration in a radius of ten miles as the core, except for the place where Sun Yuanhua first discovered copper ore, we have found a large amount of ore everywhere. ”

Han Lao Liu said with some restraint: "According to our calculations, these easy-to-mine reserves alone should be able to mine more than hundreds of thousands of catties a year, and they can be mined continuously for many years." It's not easy to calculate the exact numbers. ”

Zhang Han smiled and said, "This result is already very good. ”

Li Dongxue said: "The Department of Military Affairs has calculated that before recruiting miners in the early stage, we must first set up a camp, bring some good hands from Lingqiu to build a blast furnace, dig a good wellhead roadway, and from doing these things to producing copper, it will take about three months." But we are about to enter the very cold season, and we can only set up the camp before then, and I am afraid that the construction of the blast furnace will not begin until after March next year, and if the construction is expected to begin, it will be in May next year. ”

Zhang Han said: "This is already very good, you are really hard, but the next thing is to continue to do a good job in exploration, choose the location of the first blast furnace, the place where the well is erected, and then build the corresponding living area and ore area, smelting area, storage area, etc., everything must be careful, to be trivial and not afraid of hard work, the early things are done solidly, and a lot of things will be saved in the future." ”

When Zhang Han spoke, everyone listened carefully and nodded frequently, no matter what, everyone was convinced by the guidance of the person in front of them.

Zhang Han looked at Han Lao Liu and asked with a smile: "Lao Liu, who has been gambling recently, has stopped gambling?" ”

Han Laoliu's face flushed, and he said: "I haven't gambled for a long time, it's not interesting to play with money, and it's a bit interesting to save money to buy a house and buy land." ”

Li Dongxue said with a rare smile: "The sixth child has bought more than 300 acres of land, a three-entry courtyard, and more than 20 rooms. ”

Zhang Han said: "Why doesn't the sixth child buy stocks in the Chamber of Commerce?" ”

Han Lao Liu said: "I think, five thousand taels a share, let's find some foremen or something, everyone wants to make up a share, but it's still far away, let's buy the land first." The land of our Lingqiu, there are many mountains, many slopes, few paddy fields, and one acre of slope fields and bones and fields are all in hand, but three taels, the land we bought is less than a thousand taels of silver, although the harvest is small, there is always an industry, I am the right ancestors and descendants. ”

The price of land here in Datong is indeed getting lower and lower, and Yusheng's purchase of a large amount of land has not affected the land price in further places, especially in Lingqiu, a mountainous area with seven mountains, two rivers and one field, the fertile land is expensive, and the paddy field is more than six taels per acre, and the mountainous slope field, that is, two or three taels of silver per acre, is very cheap.

Zhang Han pondered for a while and said with a smile: "No matter what, the sixth child has grown. ”

Han Lao Liu was happy, and his face was also full of pride.

It is precisely because of the appearance of Zhang Han that Han Laoliu's life trajectory has completely changed, and he in front of him and the bad gambling miner a few years ago are completely two people.

Jiang Yi came in and said, "My lord, Zhang Shixiong and others from Xiaohehe Fort were ordered to come and wait outside. ”

Zhang Han nodded and said, "Call them in." ”

Zhang Shixiong and the others were already waiting outside, and as soon as the news came in, everyone's spurs were scratching on the ground, bringing out a long spark.

After entering the house, I probably didn't expect that there were so many people in the house, Zhang Shixiong, Ma Wu, Li Gui and others first marched, and then everyone faced Zhang Han, saluted and said, "I've seen adults." ”

Because it was indoors, all of them took off their military hats and put them in their arms, and everyone's hair was neatly and neatly tied, meticulous, and everyone was upright with their chests and backs, and their eyes were bright, and these officers, with an average age of no more than twenty years old, were really a very young group of people, and with their heroic spirit, the room immediately seemed to be full of masculinity.

"My lord, then we will leave." Li Dongxue stood up, his status was high enough, and Tian Jitang often dealt with him, knowing that Li Zhuang had been in financial difficulties recently, he was anxious to take Han Laoliu and others to continue the exploration and site selection work, the first shot must be fired, and the silver from the mining should be earned back in the shortest possible time.

Everyone is full of confidence, but they are also very eager, even the most ordinary technicians are the same, and the overall environment of Yusheng is the same thing, which can make everyone take this collective business as their own business, and of course it is a generous reward, including people like Han Lao Liu can buy hundreds of acres of land and mansions......

However, Zhang Han understands that Han Lao Liu is not much after all, he is a meritorious man who contributed to the double-chamber ironmaking method, which has won a rich reward, compared to ordinary miners or mine technicians, the income is still not very high.

At least judging from the clothing and temperament of the people in front of them, many people have just gotten rid of hunger and are now in the stage of food and clothing, even so, they are already very content.

"I've seen Mr. Lee."

Li Gui was the first to say hello, and the rest of the young officers also saluted Li Dongxue, the Military Administration Department is definitely the department that the soldiers are most grateful for, and Li Dongxue, as the chief officer of the Military Affairs Department, has of course gained enough respect.

"Well, please take the position." Li Dongxue nodded casually and took Han Lao Liu and the others out.

Zhang Han didn't get up to see them off, but when Li Dongxue was about to go out, he said to Li Dongxue's back: "Dongxue, you are not allowed to work overnight, and you will talk about it tomorrow." ”

Li Dongxue seemed to smile bitterly, but he still agreed.

Zhang Han waited for Li Dongxue and the others to leave, and after the door was closed, he said to the officers: "Ma Wu is also here, right?" Stand up to me. ”

"Yes, sir!"

Ma Wu stood up in the crowd and saluted Zhang Han.

"Oh, it's you kid." Zhang Han smiled and said: "Once Wang Changfu was on a night patrol and found a person in the kitchen who secretly ate baked sweet potatoes, I thought it was a small man at that time, so I said to Wang Changfu: What should I do as usual?" ”

Ma Wu was embarrassed and didn't know what to say, and many officers heard about it for the first time, and they couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Han couldn't help but smile and said with a straight face: "Wang Changfu said that stealing is the most unbearable behavior of soldiers. ”

Ma Wusheng blushed and said: "My lord said at the time that soldiers can't tolerate stealing things, but stealing food still means that our food is not good enough, and we didn't let the boys eat enough, otherwise people would come to steal food in the middle of the night?" The military stick is beaten, and then confined for a few days, and there is no need to keep a demerit in the file, and of course there is no need to be dismissed. ”

Zhang Han smiled and said: "After two years, the person who stole food in the middle of the night has made a great contribution, and the son of the Mongolian Khan has also been taken out, Ma Wu, you have made a lot of meritorious contributions." ”

"Thank you for the compliment!"

Ma Wu's face was full of excitement, as a martial artist, and a young military attaché, he was most worried that his martial arts would not be known, and of course he was more worried about not being known by the adult in front of him. Zhang Han's prestige in the army is irreplaceable, and like any army, the army established by Zhang Han also has large and small mountains, but in everyone's hearts, Zhang Han, the adult, is the biggest mountain, and there is no doubt that all factions are the most loyal objects.

Zhang Han smiled and said, "But Ma Wu, you are not allowed to be awarded, that is because you sent troops without authorization...... Don't talk about anything else, you were brought out by me, when you stole baked sweet potatoes, although I didn't drive you out of the camp, but beat you with a military stick and locked you up, there is no less? As a soldier, you should understand that military discipline is military discipline, and if you don't have to negotiate and have no flexibility, you can't lead soldiers if you can't make sure that you can't distinguish rewards and punishments...... What the hell do you know that sweet potato is a good seed that Mr. Kong specially brought to Li Zhuang to cultivate? ”

Zhang Han said in the end, with a smile on his face, but his tone was already very serious.

Ma Wu was very ashamed and said: "My subordinates know that they are wrong. ”

Li Gui also said: "My subordinates know that they are very wrong, please punish them." ”

The rest of the people also followed suit, Zhang Han looked at everyone, and said to Li Gui: "Your mistake is that you can't stop your comrades who commit crimes, you know, it's not difficult to make mistakes with everyone, the difficult thing is that everyone makes mistakes, you can find out what's wrong, what's even more difficult is that you dare to speak out and stop everyone." Li Gui, I am a little disappointed in you this time, and I hope you can suffer a loss and grow wiser in the future. ”