Zhang Han wants to make money, but he will not solve the problem of insufficient armor and weapons of the Eight Banners a few years in advance, which is likely to make the Jurchens enter the customs in advance.

Iron is solved, Zhang Han's iron yard has sufficient iron output, the miners are very motivated, and everything is developing in a favorable direction.

The entire northern market can be easily grabbed.

That's a market of more than 10 million catties!

Zhang Han felt that there was a red sun rising in front of him, everything in front of him was extremely fresh, and a new road appeared in front of him.

In the recent period of heightened pressure, Iron Field has really given him strong support here.

Cai Jiu asked someone to open the door of the furnace room, and a burst of heat came to his face. With a look of pride and pride, Cai Jiu said solemnly: "This is the double-chamber smelting method. ”

The miners who were not on duty were not allowed to follow, the technological innovation here was the highest secret level, except for Cai Jiu and Han Lao Liu, only the guards could approach the furnace room.

Zhang Han slowly approached, walked to the furnace room, and looked at everything in front of him.

Han Lao Liu's innovation is very simple to say.

In real history, this double-chamber cast iron method appeared in the late Shunzhi to the early Kangxi years, and was slowly popularized later, because it was an effective method, which also made China's cast iron level begin to develop by leaps and bounds, and it was not too backward until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

When the Qing Dynasty began to cast cannons again, China's iron mold method of casting cannons once led the world, which shows that as long as there is demand, not to mention encouragement, as long as there is no constraint, China has no shortage of capable people and skilled craftsmen.

It's a pity that the development of "technology" can't match the backwardness of "potential".

Originally, the furnace room was a chamber where the molten iron solidified pig iron was placed on the coal, which was then smelted and forged to form a suitable piece of iron.

There are too many impurities in this way, Han Laoliu's method is to cleverly design a return air pipe, connecting two ear chambers, one room is made of charcoal to make a fire, and the pipe sends the heat to the other room, as long as the temperature is reached, it can also meet the needs of melting and forging.

This idea was too simple to see, and it was a very simple breakthrough at the time, and the other is that the connected return air duct should be designed exquisitely to maintain the heat energy as much as possible.

Otherwise, if there is such an assumption alone, the heat energy will not be reached, and the pig iron will not reach the temperature of the melting point, and it will be in vain.

This design and test was also carried out for several months with the support of the iron field, before Zhang Han had already gotten the news, until two months later, after many tests, this method was determined to be formed and could be used, and the iron field on this side of Lingqiu sent someone to arrive at Li Zhuang of Tianchengwei as soon as possible to inform Zhang Han and others to come over to check and inspect.

In the other ear chamber in front of him, the pig iron blocks heated up in front of Zhang Han's eyes, turned red, and after smelting, these pig iron became mature and refined iron, and after forging, the most sophisticated weapons and the strongest iron armor could be made.

"You're doing a great job, and I'm so proud of you. From now on, our Jin Tie is no worse than Min Tie! Zhang Han watched it for a long time, and finally he praised Cai Jiu and the others like this.

Everyone blushed, and their eyes were full of excitement.

The proprietor's words sound fresh, and they feel extremely energetic, simply put, they are to lift their spirits!

Han Lao Liu's eyes blinked with tears, and at this moment he felt that all his efforts and efforts were worth it.

This kind of emotional dedication, only the old miners can understand the feeling.

"It's not easy to be sixth." Zhang Han said: "Cai Jiu, you are the shopkeeper, your efforts can be reflected in the bonus at the end of the year, the iron is good, the more you sell, the more dividends you will pay." Han Lao Liu deserves a heavy reward, what do you think? ”

Cai Jiudao: "What the proprietor said is that the sixth child should be rewarded with silver. ”

"I don't just mean silver." Zhang Han glanced at everyone in front of him, many people showed complicated expressions on their faces, and they felt that it was not easy for Han Lao Liu to be rewarded, and he had made great contributions, but he was jealous of Han Lao Liu's upcoming good luck, this emotion was very complicated, and it was not much of a fault.

Han Lao Liu himself was a little stunned, and the faces of the family members around him showed unconcealed excitement.

"Han Laoliu has made a lot of meritorious contributions," Zhang Han said: "Let's call him a technical group foreman here in the iron field, and the monthly salary is the same as that of the branch shopkeeper." ”

Cai Jiu said to Han Lao Liu: "Lao Liu, you have hit the luck, don't you hurry up and thank the proprietor." ”

Now the organizational structure of Yusheng is almost parallel to that of the archers, the head office should deal with the archer headquarters, the two divisions should deal with the branches of the major regions, each bureau is an ordinary branch, and the various groups composed of craftsmen and special service field services also correspond to the branches.

The main reason is that some of the treasurers and senior dart masters of the account bureau need some names, so that they can be transferred to each other, and it is easy to manage in terms of monthly money and treatment.

Originally, there were not too many craftsmen in the iron field, and the project was almost completed, and all the miners went together when the blast furnace was erected, not to mention the professional construction team.

There are some small subtle improvements, which may not be felt by the parties concerned, but for a large iron yard, it may be thousands of taels of profit income.

"Thank you, Proprietor!"

Han Lao Liu lay on the ground, kowtowing with surprise in his heart, he didn't expect that he would be able to reach the position of the branch shopkeeper all of a sudden, others don't know, he is still clear about the upper and lower levels of He Yusheng, the income of the branch shopkeeper is at least about two hundred taels a year, which is equivalent to increasing his current annual income by about twenty times.

"There is no shortage of silver." Zhang Han said with a smile: "According to Wang Debang's example, the old man will be rewarded with six thousand taels of silver." ”

"Haha," Cai Jiu had been waiting for this sentence, and then said to Han Lao Liu with a smile: "Don't get up, continue to kowtow!" ”

"Get up, get up." Sun Jingting pulled up Han Lao Liu on the side and said, "Your proprietor doesn't like to accept this gift, and you don't want to be like this at your age." ”

Han Lao Liu was actually weak all over, and he couldn't get up even if he was told to get up, if it wasn't for Sun Jingting to support him, I am afraid that he would lose face today.

Han Lao Liu thought for a long time, and said: "Proprietor, I will definitely do my best in the future, and then think of some good ways to make the quality of iron higher." ”

Zhang Han said: "Just do it with your heart." ”

He patted Han Lao Liu's shoulder again, and Han Lao Liu grinned, revealing a mouthful of broken yellow teeth.

After Zhang Han left, Han Lao Liu was surrounded by several layers of people inside and outside, many people who looked down on him before came up to greet him, Cai Jiu is the big shopkeeper here in the iron field, and each branch has a shopkeeper, Han Lao Liu's technical group and the shopkeeper of the branch are flush, and the general ledger is also the same identity, in the iron field of thousands of people, one of the ten or so people with the highest status, everyone added awe from the envy and jealousy, and when talking to Han Lao Liu, he has been extra careful.

Han Lao Liu's family followed behind him, Han Lao Liu's son and daughter-in-law were a little arrogant, and his grandson was not clamoring for candy to eat, staring around in a daze.

"Lao Tzu shouldn't have gambled a long time ago!" Looking at the crowd around him, listening to the words of the people in his ears, Han Lao Liu suddenly thought so.

……

Sun Anle, Li Dayong Ma Huaxian and others stood at the gate of the Dongshan Club and waited, and around noon, Zhang Han and his party rode to the front of the iron field of the Dongshan Club.

It is also very different from the last time Zhang Han came, the same roads were built, a lot of houses were built, Sun Anle was originally very good to the miners in his iron field, and after the profit increased, he also learned from He Yusheng, and the welfare of the miners increased greatly.

The entire Lingqiu is similar, these things are all watched by one family, and if they are not changed, they will not be able to retain people at all.

Of course, if there is no Zhang Han to take the lead, except for Sun Anle, it is difficult to say whether the rest of the owners will be willing to pay for it.

"Zhang Dongzhu."

"Master Zhang."

"Patrol Zhang."

After Zhang Han dismounted, Sun Anle and others came forward to greet him, and everyone's names were also different.

"It's rude to tell everyone to wait here for a long time."

The Iron Chamber of Commerce in Lingqiu normally gathers in Lingqiu City, according to Zhang Han's rules, the chairman and the directors are responsible for daily affairs, of course the chairman is Zhang Han, because he is not in Lingqiu normally, and Cai Jiu acts on his behalf, and the directors are also elected according to their respective strengths, and those who are not strong enough will not come out to offer this ugly.

Everyone also signed an agreement when they joined the association, and all aspects of pricing, wages, sales, and purchases were subject to the constraints of the Chamber of Commerce, which was already like a large company with a loose structure, and while Zhang Han gave these iron farms technical help, these iron farms also had to give up some of their own free powers, which was a win-win situation.

The situation of Lingqiu and Tianchengwei is different, and it is even more different from the grassland.

Iron smelting and iron mining require concerted efforts, and coupled with their own low status, each iron farm does not have much resistance to union and division of labor.

In the past six months, the iron industry chamber of commerce in Lingqiu has been operating well, and the profits of each family are very considerable, only He Yusheng has been spending money to expand the scale of the iron field, buy mines, and build a new blast furnace, and when Zhang Han came back to get the financial report, there were still 70,000 silver profits on the books, which showed that each family had made a lot of money.

It is profitable, and of course the tolerance for the Chamber of Commerce to interfere in its own affairs will increase, and if it is not profitable, even if it is a contract, I am afraid that people will have already withdrawn from the association.

Only the few people gathered here today are the people in front of them, only a few directors and more members of the Chamber of Commerce are waiting in Lingqiu, including Zhang Han, this is the real core member of the Chamber of Commerce, the central person who can decide the direction of things.

"Everybody come into the house and talk." Sun Anle is a landlord, and he said to everyone: "It's already past noon, everyone is hungry, how about talking while eating?" ”

Everyone looked at Zhang Han, and Zhang Han smiled: "I am indeed hungry for a long time, but there is a word first, before you finish talking about business, don't drink alcohol." ”

Zhang Han's self-discipline and love to abide by the rules have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone has inherited it with a smile.