Yang Shiyan and Li Cailing teamed up to pick Dongzhu, and Li Yu felt a little distressed when he thought about it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The preciousness of Dongzhu is undoubtedly a way to make money and reduce pressure on Li Yu's current financial constraints.

The two girls are Li Yu's insiders who have long regarded reservations as their own in his heart, and it is impossible to snatch them from them.

After thinking about it hard, Li Yu made a big move, and joined hands with Yang Shiyan and Li Cailing in the way of sending people out of the boat, accounting for fifty percent of the shares, and established a Dongzhu firm specializing in collecting Dongzhu and sales. The firm will have the exclusive right to collect, sell and price all rivers and pearls under the jurisdiction of the Andong Prefecture, and enjoy tax incentives.

This is a plan that is good for both parties, after all, Yang Shiyan and Li Cailing have more than 100 pearl divers on two boats, and with the addition of Li Yu, it is not a problem to increase the number of pearl diving ships to hundreds, and the pearl divers are a matter of one sentence.

When Li Yu sent this set of cooperation plans to Yang Shiyan and Li Cailing, who were pearling on the Yalu water.

Yang Shiyan snorted: "Brother Yu is really greedy, the old lady bothered to organize a fleet to pearl diving, and he, the king of Yan, is like a tiger who smells the smell of meat, and can't wait to rush up to tear off half of the meat." ”

"Hehe......" Li Cailing covered her mouth and said with a light smile: "Sister Shiyan, let's cooperate with Brother Yu, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages for us." Think about it, just rely on the manpower of our two boats, how many Dongzhu can be mined in a few days? With the addition of Brother Yu, the Dongzhu Commercial Bank was established, and with the support of a large number of people and ships, the number of Dongzhu that can be harvested is definitely several times that of the current one. With our current manpower, we have 50% of the shares of the firm, but in fact, Brother Yu has let us take a big advantage! ”

"Cai Ling, why don't I know what you said about my sister?"

Yang Shiyan sighed and said: "The two of us are naturally beautiful, people love us, and flowers bloom." After leaving Pyongyang for seven or eight days without a sound, I didn't see him send someone to care, and finally came to personally convey the news, but he came to share the benefits of our sisters. ”

Yang Shiyan's charming face looked at the blue sky from afar, and her resentful tone made Li Cailing look stunned, and muttered in her heart: Is this unrequited love? Probably not! It seems that Brother Yu is also interested in Sister Shiyan.

Yang Shiyan said leisurely: "Brother Yu is not very old, but this Yanwang Mansion is a golden house, and all kinds of little girls are full of it, creating a gentle fragrance that makes the hero sink into the mystery!" ”

Li Cailing smiled stupidly, his mind suddenly flashed, and an absurd idea came up: Brother Yu's golden house is hidden in Jiaojiao, it seems that he is also one!

Yang Shiyan's resentment Li Yu didn't know, he only knew that mastering the country meant having a beauty, even if she didn't want to be his beauty.

In later literary works, do you want a country or a beauty? When he was younger, he thought it was a multiple-choice question. When he became an adult, he found out that if he wanted the country, could the beauty still run out of the clutches? If you want a beauty and you don't have a country, can you still keep the beauty?

Xia Wei, King Shang, and King Zhou You explained this truth very well.

After all, it is just a beautiful vision woven by later generations of literati for the general public!

At this time, Li Yu was busy deliberating on the removal of soldiers from the Ten Divine Beast Guards, Yanyun Beihai Iron Cavalry, and the Liao Eighth Army to set up the backbone of the army in the newly built Fourteenth Guards.

A new armament plan was formulated, and the Cast Iron City was ordered to increase the scale of production, and for this purpose, 5,000 slave laborers from other places were sent to the Cast Iron City to join the mining team.

After nearly a year of construction, the surrounding landform has changed greatly, and the iron-making blast furnace of the iron-making workshop is not limited to the west of the iron-making city, but is divided into the north steel-making blast furnace area and the south iron-making blast furnace area.

Around the foot of Dagu Mountain, a blast furnace area has been built on the east bank of Yangliu River, and the furnace fire is continuous day and night. The molten iron in the furnace flows out through a small opening at the bottom of the furnace, and the iron-making masters instruct the slaves to introduce the molten iron into pieces of wrought iron with the abrasives that have been prepared in advance.

In the steel-making furnace area, the slave laborers, under the command of the master, put pieces of wrought iron sheets into the steel-making furnace, and embedded the pig iron sheets in the middle of the wrought iron sheets, and the mouth of the furnace was covered with mud-coated straw sandals, and then a furnace fire was built for smelting. This method allows pig iron to melt more easily by obtaining oxygen from the air, thereby improving the efficiency of smelting and producing better quality steel.

This method is Li Yu wanted to break through his brain, and searched out the Ming Dynasty steel filling method in his brain from the memory of his previous life, and finally found out a specific technical standard that the cost is not too high and can produce high-quality steel in batches.

This enables the ironworks to produce high-quality steel in large quantities and stably, which is also an advanced technology that Li Yu keeps extremely secret.

Zhang Xiaofan's father, Zhang Gensheng, is the owner of the ironworks, and his literacy is quite appreciated by King Yan, although there are some bad rumors, but he can't hide his own talent.

The family tradition of prospecting and mining technology not only learned well, but also came to their own new insights, and put forward several new prospecting techniques. Under the personal leadership of Zhang Xiaofan, five iron ores and three coal mines were newly discovered within a radius of 100 miles from the Cast Iron City.

Because Zhang Xiaofan was literate since he was a child, he was quite talented, and he was a literati son who lived to entrust him, so he naturally became the right-hand man who assisted his father Zhang Gensheng in managing the ironworks.

During the management of the iron-making workshop, Zhang Xiaofan followed the iron-making masters to learn the method of steelmaking, and was bent on finding a simpler way to make good steel and reduce production costs.

At this time, Zhang Xiaofan was specializing in the crucible steelmaking method that flourished during the Han Dynasty and later declined.

When King Yan came to inspect the Cast Iron City, he met Zhang Xiaofan, and the two talked about the steelmaking method in the world, and Li Yu told him that the crucible steelmaking method was a good development direction, and Zhang Xiaofan remembered it.

With the coke technology proposed by Li Yu to smelt steel, the high-sulfur and high-phosphorus iron ore that has plagued the development of Huaxia's iron and steel industry is not a problem, and there is no technical problem in carrying out the crucible steelmaking method.

"Eryang, Dad told you to go back for something important."

"Big brother, I'll come right away after I pack up!" Zhang Xiaofan instructed a few craftsmen to smelt according to the method he said, and there should be no mistakes.

Zhang Xiaofan's eldest brother rode a horse to inform him that he saw that Eryang's specially made small iron-making furnace that was only six feet high had produced molten iron, and said with a smile: "Eryang, is your crucible coming out of molten iron or molten steel?" ”

"I don't know, we'll have to wait until it cools down." Zhang Xiaofan shook his head and replied, after trying several times, he couldn't get what Yan Wang said about directly refining molten steel.

"I wonder what Dad told me to go back?"

"Your Highness has a new order, so that our ironworks only have a small number of people to produce agricultural tools, and make every effort to produce weapons and armor."

The cast iron city is in the big lonely mountain city, on the bank of the Yangliu River.

Zhang Xiaofan rode a horse and walked with his eldest brother in the direction of the iron city, looking at the iron mine he accidentally discovered, Dagushan, which is now the main source of iron ore in the ironworks. Once more than 80 zhang high, Dagu Mountain has been excavated by more than 10,000 slave laborers for nearly a year, and it is more than 17 zhang shorter. The whole mountain is full of slave laborers busy digging.

On the banks of the Yangliu River are lined up with waterwheels, which power the blast furnace blowers in the ironworks.

Within a radius of three miles, Dagu Mountain became a large construction site, and the local garrisons, blacksmiths, and slaves were busy with their own work.

As for the slave laborers, as long as they have worked for five years, they will be freed and divided into private households, and whether they can live for five years is another matter.

For a traverser, it is impossible for Li Yu not to give the slaves a hope of hard work. People can only be motivated if they are full of hope, otherwise they are not much different from dead bodies.

"Dad, you're looking for me!"

Zhang Gensheng, who pinched the bridge of his nose and pondered, saw that the second son had arrived, his face was happy, and he beckoned Zhang Xiaofan to come to his side, and said, "Well, Eryang, come and see, this is His Highness's new production task." At the end of May, the ironworks had to provide 2,000 sets of armor leaves, 10,000 horizontal knives, 20,000 spear heads, and 5,000 lance heads. I called you here to see how to allocate personnel, otherwise with the current production strength of the ironworks, it will be difficult to complete the production on time if it is not well organized. ”