"Chief," a short and fat middle-aged man said, "I think their car is good, it is a hundred times stronger than the big car we use ourselves, and in the future, the fine iron will be poured out, and the transportation capacity will be much cheaper than ours." ”

Sun Jingting said with a smile: "Fat Zhang, why don't you look at how people make their fortunes!" ”

Zhang Fatzi's name is Zhang Yan, and he is also the core figure of the Dongshan Society, he is a fine person, and he smiled to himself at the moment and said: "I am talking nonsense, people originally made a fortune by mules and horses." ”

After a long time, Zhang Han is no longer a symbol-like character in everyone's hearts, from an unfamiliar strong dragon gradually penetrated into the hearts of the people, everything about He Yusheng has gradually become clear in the hearts of everyone, and Zhang Han's actions, including the experience of how to make a fortune, are gradually becoming well-known.

Sun Anle walked with his head, everyone followed behind him, into the inside of the iron yard, it was still muddy, and it was still muddy, and there was some light everywhere in the east, west, north and south, there were more than 5,000 miners here in Dongshan Society, plus family members, the old and weak women and children also settled inside and outside the iron field, and there were some villages or something, the iron field was the highest place, looking from afar, the lights hovered down from top to bottom, like a little starlight.

I usually saw nothing, but after seeing it in Heyusheng Iron Yard, I felt that there was chaos and chaos here.

The furnace was in the middle of the iron yard, piles of iron ore were piled up at random, all kinds of tools were also placed on the ground, the solidified iron was placed in front of the refinery, and the refined iron was also put aside, and when someone came, the cattle in the mule and horse stables snorted, making all kinds of noises and pungent smells.

Under the starry sky at night, blast furnaces stand quietly like ancient giants.

A blast furnace seems to be a little tilted, this is also Sun Anle's heart recently, this furnace may crack and collapse at any time, once it falls, it is a deficit of thousands of taels of silver, in the past two years, there are more and more personnel in the Dongshan Society, but the profits are getting lower and lower, there is less iron, there are too many fine iron impurities to sell at a price, and there are a lot of local harsh donations and miscellaneous fees, Dongshan Club is just a huge and unscrupulous union-like organization, not the kind of underworld that fights, if the latter is much better, but it is a pity that the uncles and nephews of the Sun family and other major shareholders are not able to, Those who do such things will only use their force to protect themselves, so as not to be bullied by others.

Pushing open the wooden door and entering the room, it is also a smell of rotting wood, Sun Anle, the shareholder and head of the meeting, does not talk much about enjoyment, the room is not big, only some simple furniture and a bed, and there are a few locked cabinets, which are guarded day and night, and the cash and account books are placed in it.

When everyone entered the door, they brought in the mud from all over the place, and Sun Anle didn't mind, he stretched out his hand and asked everyone to sit.

"Everyone has gone to see it today," Sun Anle said: "Starting tomorrow, everyone and everyone will make it clear that it is really good to be with Yusheng, and if you want to, you can go by yourself." There are at least three or four thousand people on the other side, and if most of them pick the people of our Dongshan Society, then I will be thankful. ”

Zhang Yan looked unwilling and said, "We really can't hold on here?" ”

Sun Anle glanced at him and said, "Isn't this nonsense, if we can survive this meeting, what are we going to do together today, are we really running to drink with people in a panic?" ”

Zhang Yan shook his head and sighed, sat on the chair and stopped making a sound.

There are too many people here in Dongshan Club, the burden is too heavy, and the other shareholders are actually anxious and righteous characters, so they gather a bunch of people to do things together, but they are not people who make money, so many years, Sun Anle and others have not accumulated any wealth, and these miners have lived a hard life with them.

Sun Jingting thought of this and interjected: "Today, I went around the other side to know what kind of life our people are living here. We here three times a day is some dried radish and millet mixed cooking, children can't eat, adults can't let food to the baby, hands and feet are not energetic and what work to do, women and children walk around in the mud every day, eating pig food, look at the situation in the iron yard, rather than die of shame. My second uncle and you want to make the miners have a good life, but who has lived a good life all these years? ”

Sun Anle listened to his nephew's words, and seemed to faintly accuse them of failing to do anything, and wanted to reprimand a few words, but when he thought that Sun Jingting's words were reasonable after all, he had to lower his head and keep silent.

Someone said: "In the past few years, there has been a famine every year, and food prices have risen sharply...... Alas, but we have to admit that the proprietor is indeed a capable person, and we are inferior to him. ”

Sun Anle nodded and said: "It's hard for me to survive this home, the stove is mostly old, I can't hold it at any time, the money sold is not enough for everyone to eat, and we can't have money ourselves...... I don't need to say much, that's it. ”

Sun Anle's appearance was very gloomy, and everyone was not very interested, so he immediately said goodbye one by one, went to inform his subordinates, and then went to the miners' gathering place to inform everyone.

He Yusheng has been recruiting people for a long time, and most of the people here in Dongshan Club know it, but they haven't been able to speak, everyone doesn't know the details, although there are many people who are tempted, they don't dare to go by themselves, Sun Anle and others make a decision, I'm afraid they will go away a lot in the short term.

Sun Jingting also pushed the door out, and in the room behind him was the light sigh of his uncle, and he was also sour in his heart.

In any case, the foundation in front of him is the hard work of the second uncle for thirty years, but unfortunately he can't hold on. may be the arrival of Yusheng, which is really a very good opportunity to solve the troubles of the Dongshan Society.

Sun Anle didn't say it when there were a lot of people just now, in fact, Dongshan Club has a lot of debts, too many people to feed, Sun Anle has not taken dividends for several years, and lost his share in it, even so, there are still many creditors who come to force debts at the end of the year, which is really unsustainable.

"Brother, why is my dad sighing inside?"

A hand suddenly patted lightly on Sun Jingting's shoulder, Sun Jingting was startled, and then he heard the voice of someone talking, the voice was crisp, with a little naughtiness, Sun Jingting's hand on the sword was withdrawn, and he turned around and smiled bitterly: "Yu Niang, can you not learn to walk like a ghost?" ”

Sun Jingting turned his head, and sure enough, it was a beautiful face as white as jade, this is Sun Jingting's cousin Sun Yuniang, and it is also Sun Anle's pearl in the palm of his hand.

Sun Yuniang is not like the daughter of an ordinary big family, and she also wears a sword, of course, she learned from Sun Jingting, but the sword is worn on her, she only looks naughty, where can she have the heroic atmosphere of her own imagination, it is nothing more than that the little girl's family loves to play, and the adults dote on her, and she has never asked her to take off the sword.

On a rainy day, the ground was muddy, and Sun Yuniang's pair of deerskin boots were also stepped on in the mud.

"Big brother," Sun Yuniang pretended to be pitiful, and said in a muttered voice: "You ate gunpowder today, and you will count me down when you meet, and my father sighed inside, didn't you go to eat wine today?" ”

"Flamboyant," Sun Jingting scolded with a smile: "You are still a big girl." ”

Seeing that Sun Yuniang still wanted to enter the house, Sun Jingting pushed her again and said, "Let's go, the second uncle is in a panic now, do you go in to find training?" We are not at home today, do you want the second uncle to ask you carefully what you are doing at home? ”

In this way, it really scared Sun Yuniang, she is not yet sixteen this year, and in a place like the mine, of course, her appearance is first-class beauty, but her temperament is a little wild, today the family can manage her all gone, after lunch, she sneaked out with her personal maid, changed into men's clothes and went to the mountains to hunt wild boars...... There are no decent wild things in the East Mountain, only some pheasants and rabbits in the deep mountains, the biggest prey is the wild boar, this thing has a very thick skin, hung with resin and other protection, and the idle hunting bow can not be shot, Sun Jingting took Yu Niang to fight a few times before, this girl thought that the wild boar was very easy to fight, but she didn't meet it today.

"Today is to talk to the proprietor of Yusheng about important matters, and we have to have a lot of people here to transfer to him......" Sun Jingting sighed for no reason, and said: "That proprietor Zhang is not a few years older than you, he originally lived with his widowed mother, and his family background is just average. ”

Sun Jingting felt a little out of shape, and scolded: "If you don't hurry back, what should you do if your mother is in a hurry?" ”

"I'll just go......"

Sun Yuniang stuck out her tongue, smiled playfully, and walked away as if she were a smoke.

At this time, Sun Jingting saw that his cousin was wearing men's clothes, and it was a hunting robe, this dress was still made by Sun Anle's happy time Yuniang, the waist was tied very tightly, and the slender and slender figure was set off, and people knew at a glance that it was a girl, but fortunately, it was the sphere of influence of the Dongshan Society within a radius of ten miles, even if someone saw it, they didn't dare to say anything, Sun Anle only had this one daughter, and everything was up to her as long as it wasn't too out of line.

Sun Jingting just smiled bitterly and shook his head, the second uncle was worried in his heart, the matter in front of him was just a trivial matter, so he had to let Yu Niang go.

……

In the blink of an eye, five or six days passed, Zhang Han's iron furnace produced nearly 5,000 catties of molten iron every day, and the amount of coke was less than seventy percent of that of other furnaces, saving a lot of costs, the biggest cost of the iron furnace at that time was in addition to labor and bribery, each family could reduce expenses as much as possible, such as accommodation and meals, but no one had a way to use charcoal, charcoal was the best, coke was second, and coal again, the quality of different charcoal iron was different, heaven and earth, no one had anything to say, If it weren't for Zhang Han's back, Jing and strength were enough, if the ordinary little proprietor from the outside road ran to Lingqiu to do such a thing, I am afraid that he would have been tied up and tortured harshly, and he must be forced to ask the truth.