Chapter 186: Attracting the People
Huang Sheng saw that Zhang Zhiji was eager to try, afraid that they would move around to make gunpowder, which deviated from his original intention, and emphasized:
"There is a premise here, the Huang family only recognizes the gunpowder produced by Wang Gong's factory, and does not accept anything made in other places. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhang Zhiji was already a little blind to Huang Sheng, and when he saw his words, he couldn't help but believe it, so he pinched his fingers and calculated.
Said: "If the foolish brother gets 100,000 catties of gunpowder from Wang Gong's factory, will the virtuous brother give the foolish brother a hundred Jiannu true grade?" ”
Huang Sheng said with a smile: "The elder brother's account is not wrong, it is true, but the younger brother must get the gunpowder before May 1 this year, and he will not wait for it!" ”
In order to promote the children of the noble family, it is the simplest and most effective way to obtain military merits, and the military merit with the highest gold content is the head of the Eastern Nu, followed by the Northern Prisoners, that is, the Mongolian Tartars, and then the Southern Wa, and the head of the bandits and rogues cannot be on the table.
Zhang Zhiji was a little excited for a while, he had too many noble friends, and he didn't know how much favor he would get if he opened it at such a price, and how much face he had!
He is a high-ranking official and nobleman, and he has no concept of making money, so he likes the feeling of being sought after.
Huang Sheng said at this time: "The Huang family received gunpowder and delivered the head of Jiannu before the end of the year, if it can't be successful, how about the Huang family compensate everyone with a pound of gunpowder and a tael of silver?" ”
"Foolish brother believes you, you used 50,000 catties of gunpowder this time, and got the head of a small 400 real slave, you should be confident, right?"
Huang Sheng said very coquettishly: "Of course, the little brother will do what he says, when did he let go of the empty cannon?" ”
"Deal, the foolish brother will definitely let those brothers get the gunpowder of Wang Gong's factory, as for how much, I can't say for sure, anyway, it shouldn't be too little, our honorable master in Beijing is not a fool."
Fooling Zhang Zhiji to call on the nobles to engage in Wang Gongchang's gunpowder for military merits is also a last resort, anyway, the Huang family now has the strength of World War I, and it is not possible to train a strong army in the training ground.
Only by constantly fighting and winning battles can soldiers be tempered, soldiers who have experienced the baptism of war can grow into fierce soldiers, and generals who stand out can become famous generals.
Anyway, they will use Jiannu to practice, after the long coastline, the Jin army is invincible, and the strength of the Huang family is not what it used to be, so they found the opportunity to pick the enemy's weak defense, and it is inevitable to get it.
It doesn't matter if you can repay your merits or not, as long as the Huang family can get benefits, they will be able to develop, and if they have strength, they don't need to be rewarded by others, they can reward themselves completely.
Huang Sheng then told Zhang Zhiji that he was going to borrow his family's estate to hold a trade fair on May 3, two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, with large-scale singing and dancing performances and entertainment in theater.
The little grandfather didn't care about other things, and Huang Sheng's trivial matter of borrowing a place was not worth mentioning, so he agreed in one bite.
was only interested in the fight in Huang Sheng's mouth, and asked, "Brother Xian, are you asking everyone to roll the dice and bet on the size?" ”
"What's the point of rolling the dice, the little brother's fight has to be played by hundreds of thousands of people, and most of them can win."
"Huh? And so much fighting? The foolish brother doesn't believe it, and most people can win, and the foolish brother doesn't believe it even more. ”
Huang Sheng is going to sell lottery tickets to let most of the people in Jingshi participate, and the goods produced by the Huang family are all huge profits, and it is impossible to paste them upside down as prizes.
And according to the market price, the person who gets it thinks that he has earned it.
For example, the first prize is a four-wheeled carriage, that is, a car, and the market price is 5,000 taels and you can't buy it with silver, while the Huang family calculates that the cost is only 500 taels.
The fifth prize is a large porcelain bowl and other civilian porcelain, according to the retail value of the Jingshi seventy or eighty wen, the cost of the Huang family is only ten wen.
The second prize arranges dozens of huge dioramas, that is, fitting mirrors, the cost is only a dozen taels of silver, and there is no place to buy this thing in Beijing, who can say for sure how much it is worth?
The third prize is a soap gift box, Jingshi has become a household name, and everyone knows that the price of silver is thirty taels and it is necessary to rely on the relationship to be able to buy it.
The canned sea fish used as the fourth prize is naturally suitable for all ages, and even the ceramic jar will be treated as a treasure by the common people.
The lottery ticket is very cheap, only 20 copper coins, the probability of winning the fifth prize is half, theoretically you can get a home porcelain worth 70 or 80 wen for 40 wen.
Of course, except for the unlucky ghosts who are too unlucky, there are also people who have bought dozens of lottery tickets to thank you for your participation.
The common people will feel that it is worth the money, and the Huang family has a gross profit of thirty wen in it, and there will be a lot of money after using this money to subsidize the deficit of the first to fourth prizes.
The printing technology of the Huang family is no problem, as early as the year before last, he began to print his own textbooks, and now it has been updated five times, and now the quality of the internal journals published by the Huang family is better than that of the Daming Di newspaper.
In order to encourage everyone to study, Huang Sheng regularly collected the excellent essays of the family members to run a periodical, and also rewarded the selected essay manuscript fees, so as to encourage the soldiers to think diligently and love to write.
Printing lottery tickets is too simple, but it is necessary to consider that most of the people of the Ming Dynasty are illiterate, and the winning content is replaced by animal patterns.
The scratch part is covered with raw lacquer, it is impossible for anyone to break the cow to be able to make a fake lottery ticket immediately within a few days, the Huang family's lottery tickets are printed on Huangjiashan Island, and the craftsman studied it for a month.
Lottery tickets are shipped directly from the sea hundreds of miles away from Jingshi, and the craftsmen who produce lottery tickets do not know the purpose at all, and no one comes to Jingshi, so the possibility of cheating is zero.
The lottery is carried out in the form of scratch tickets, and the people buy and scratch the prize immediately, and the young musketeers who maintain order explained to everyone, so that the people do not leave the scene to prevent being misunderstood and cheating, and it is estimated that no one dares to disobey discipline.
This arrangement is seamless, unless Huang Sheng is guarding himself and cheating, but the talented man refuses to do this, it is harmless to deceive the dignitaries and nobles, and it is not good to deceive the poor Shengdou Xiaomin, Huang Sheng has a moral bottom line.
must bring a fair, open and just fight to Daming. If it succeeds, the Huang family will not only not suffer, but it seems that they will be able to quietly recruit a lot of talents.
Huang Sheng 1510 told the little grandfather how to fight, and he was fascinated by what he heard, and his eyes were full of little stars.
This kid is not in a hurry, and he is anxious to see if the prize prepared by the Huang family is genuine.
Fortunately, Huang Sheng has a lot of targeted things, everything is for publicity, so he personally made a small advertisement with the British grandfather and his entourage.
The things that are prizes are so good, they are all rare things, and the little grandfather likes them all, and of course he disdains civilian porcelain such as large bowls.
Those entourages knew the value, and knew that if they were lucky, they would be able to get a big bowl worth seventy or eighty yuan for forty yuan, and they all thought that there would be a crowd of people at that time, not to mention that it was possible to get a car worth five thousand taels of silver and no market price for twenty yuan.
Huangjiashan Island is producing ceramics, steel, and cement, which not only provides jobs for its own people, but also increases financial resources for Liaodong Jiangmen, and for more than a year, the Huang family has purchased a large amount of coal, pig iron, limestone, clay and clay.
In fact, the cement plant on Huangjiashan Island can only be regarded as a cement kiln, which calcines a certain proportion of raw materials into mature material in a vertical kiln similar to burning lime, and then grinds it to make cement.
The cement made by mixing lime and clay in a three-to-one ratio has the best performance, and then adding a certain proportion of iron-making slag and an appropriate amount of gypsum to grind together to obtain an ordinary Portland cement similar to later generations.
With cement, how to reasonably match reinforced concrete? Huang Sheng also taught Zhao Shimin and a group of master plasterers, who built his own house in the 90s and later managed the unit's infrastructure projects, so he knew a little about the construction process.
This is enough to point out the direction for those experienced masters, and more clever ways of using them in their labor practice are emerging one after another, and more reasonable proportions are constantly emerging.
Everything is due to the fact that the big problem has been solved by raising the temperature, the massive use of coal, the progress of wind temperature technology, so that the 1,450 degrees required to fire cement can be easily obtained, and the steel inverted flame furnace has reached 1,700 degrees.
As long as the firing glass reaches about 1,600 degrees, the Huang family has only two similar to the Daming glazed kilns on Huangjiashan Island to produce glass with air temperature technology, and the raw materials are too easy to obtain.
The glass produced by the Huang family is ordinary silicate glass, which is ground and mixed with quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar and limestone as raw materials, and then processed and formed in the mold after high temperature melting and full stirring, and then annealed to become a product.
The people of the Huang family have no skills and only stupid strength, and the laborers are also very busy with work, and they can also earn more than one or two or five yuan a month while taking care of food.
Because the Huang family does not have a big pot of rice, they are all piecework workers who work more and get more, and the workers work tirelessly every day to get up early and work in the dark in order to be rich.
There are too many animal power, wind power, and manpower mills on Huangjiashan Island, and the raw materials have to be smashed and then ground into powder, and the workload is too great, and the problem that can be solved by three people with a machine in later generations needs hundreds of people in this era.
The Huang family needed too many cattle, horses, mules, donkeys, and other large livestock, because in this era, there was no firepower and electricity, and there was no water power to use on Huangjiashan Island, only negligible wind power, and they had to rely on animal power and manpower to produce large-scale production.
The designed manpower and animal power grinder can not be regarded as a machine, that is, a large steel hammer weighing 3,000 catties is lifted through a pulley block, and then it is allowed to fall freely along the established track and smash into the raw materials that need to be crushed.
Because they are all artificially manufactured, the output of steel, glass, cement and other products produced by the Huang family is too low, and it is far from enough for their own use, and they are never sold out.
The coal mines, iron mines, and gypsum mines in Jiangmen, Liaodong, were almost unsustainable due to the war and chaos, and the population was almost unsustainable, but now they have not only increased their manpower, but also started to open new mines, and they are actually providing raw materials to the Huang family, and more than 10,000 people have obtained employment opportunities.
They used the chariots, horses, boats, and laborers of the imperial court to make a fortune for themselves, and they used to struggle to find buyers, but now with the large purchases from Huangjiashan Island, they made a lot of money.
In this era, it is too convenient to run an industry on the island, because in ancient times, water transportation was the most efficient existence, and now official ships and private ships are busy increasing income on the island of the Huang family, and even the white copper of Yunnan is continuously transported to the Huang family by water.