Zhang Han braved the rain all the way to Lingqiu City, and soon after entering the city gate, the rain stopped.

The main road of the county is paved with bluestone slabs, the horse's hooves are trampled on it, making a sound of trampling, everyone first went to the mansion that Zhang Han bought in the city, Zhang Xuezeng also lived there, after meeting, Zhang Xuezeng praised Zhang Han and said: "I thought that Wenlan would not be able to help but fight with the Han family, you can hold back, you know to find the county main mediator, this is very good." ”

The two Jiang brothers both showed disapproving looks on their faces, they felt that Zhang Xuezeng was very pedantic.

Zhang Han smiled and said: "What the third uncle said is very true, you can't think about fighting and killing everything, of course you have to talk about it." ”

At this time, Li Dayong and a few others also arrived, and after meeting, Li Dayong of course also flattered Zhang Han a few words, which was nothing more than Zhang Dongzhu's temperament and temperament were first-class, and he could endure what others could not bear. As for Han Tong, he did too much and was not a son of man.

These words sounded like praise, but in fact, they were instigating, but Zhang Han's face did not move when he heard it, and he only smiled and said: "Labor everyone, I am really ashamed, I still set up wine in Feiyan Tower at night, please enjoy it." ”

Sun Anle frowned and didn't say anything, Sun Jingting pressed his sword and smiled: "Proprietor Zhang, if the Han family is still so aggressive, I don't know what the proprietor plans to do?" ”

Zhang Han smiled: "I don't think about things that didn't happen in advance. ”

Sun Jingting raised his eyebrows and said: "Everything is not foreseen, it will be wasted, Zhang Dongzhu is also a person who has read books, don't you know this truth?" ”

"There is also a sentence called seeing walking, what has not happened, making plans in advance, just messing up your own position."

"The proprietor is relieved...... Sun Jingting looked helpless, and continued: "But the miners of the Guitiechang are afraid that it will be difficult to recruit them again. ”

"What's the difficulty?" Zhang Han still smiled, and said calmly: "My first furnace is about to catch fire, and I have enough people for the time being, and I will recruit next." My miner, the treatment should be the highest in Lingqiu, whether it is monthly money or food, housing, and use, it is the best, there are ready-made examples there, are you still afraid that you won't be able to recruit people? ”

The uncles and nephews of the Sun family glanced at each other, they had also heard that the iron yard of Heyusheng was different from other places, but because of their identity, they had not been able to go to the scene to take a look, Sun Anle made a look, Sun Jingting said cheekily: "I don't know if I can go to Zhang Dongzhu's iron yard to visit, our Dongshan Club will also have a good example, and the miners will be better." ”

"What's this?"

Zhang Han said with a smile: "Originally, I planned to invite all the proprietors to visit after the first molten iron came out. ”

Sun Jingting felt Zhang Han's sincerity, not casually perfunctory, he smiled at the moment and said, "Since this is the case, I have to bother." ”

Zhang Han also inquired about it for a while, Dongshan Club is indeed as people say, it is a self-help organization of miners, and the uncles and nephews of the Sun family only have share capital in several furnaces, because they are forced to do so, the small miners with share capital have organized themselves and set up such a meeting, in fact, the organization is very loose, it is said that there are thousands of people, and the core is only dozens of shareholders, plus some brave and fleshy miners can pull out to fight, this can be regarded as a firm foothold, no wonder there is a conference of thousands of people, and Han Tong can only do some containment, and the strength is still under the Han family.

This is also the Ming Dynasty's version of the "trade union", although Zhang Han is not interested in this matter, but he also knows that there are similar organizations on both sides of the Cao River, just like the Qing Gang in the Qing Dynasty, in fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, it was also similar to the Dongshan Society, but after the Qing Dynasty, first against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and later to help the Qing Dynasty extinguish the foreign, in fact, the soup is not changed, and in the bones it is just some poor coolies who sell coolies to keep warm. Even the Boxers have the shadow of the White Lotus Sect, and what seems to be a mystery is actually nothing more than that.

"Okay, the county lord sent someone to urge, everyone please."

Li Dayong urged him to move, Zhang Han rode his horse in front, Zhang Xuezeng and others also followed, Li Dayong deliberately slowed down a few steps, stood beside Sun Anle and whispered: "It seems that this fire is arched white." ”

Sun Anle said: "Although this Zhang Han is young, he is very calm when encountering things...... I have heard that there are hundreds of his dart masters, many of whom are brave, Zhou Wu has been in Daliang Mountain for many years and has asked him to bring people to suppress, and now the head is still hanging above the east gate of Xinping Fort, such a strength, in case of trouble, I actually endured it first, it is really speechless. ”

Li Dayong gritted his teeth, and his heart was also depressed.

instigated the Han and Zhang families to fight to the death, and then they fished in the water and took the opportunity to strengthen themselves...... Absorb the miners of the Han family and seize a few high-quality ore veins, if the Han family is trapped badly, as long as the conditions are sufficient, it will naturally be easy to do, as for the side of the Heyusheng Iron Field, Li Dayong and Sun Anle didn't think about taking any advantage, the furnace over there is new, the ore veins are average, and the miners are also average, but He Yusheng is a strong dragon in their eyes, Zhang Han has a back, Jing has strength, and has strong force.

Li Dayong thought for a while, and then said: "Can the people who do things be reliable? ”

"You don't have to this heart." Sun Anle said: "After fighting for decades, it is not reliable to put some people there in him, why should I hold this Dongshan Club." ”

Li Dayong was a little relieved, looking at Zhang Han's back on horseback, he felt that his teeth were itching, and he had to pretend to be a good person to participate in this "mediation", and he was embarrassed in his heart.

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Everyone went to the county office, entered through the side door, bypassed the lobby and the sixth study, and then entered the second gate until the second hall sat down.

Han Tong and Zhixian did not arrive, everyone sat and drank tea and chatted, but Zhang Han inquired about a lot of iron yards and blast furnaces, and had some understanding of the situation of the rest of the families.

The profit of this Jin iron is indeed not high, Dongshan will have the most iron furnaces, there are seven, the Han family is the second, there are six, one is called Ma Huaxian's third, there are three, Li Dayong has one in his home, in terms of this blast furnace of Li Dayong's family, the small furnace of sunrise iron is 2,000 catties, there are 150 days of iron in a year, 30,000 catties of pig iron in a Chinese New Year's Eve, each catty is worth six cents of silver, and the sale of iron in a year is only 18,000 taels, here you have to remove some logistics and sales costs, less than 1,000 taels, 300 people are employed, plus food and salt vegetables, In addition, the cost is nearly 7,000 taels, and the bulk is the silver money for buying coal, 300,000 catties of iron have to use about 2,000 taels of coal, plus some other miscellaneous expenses, the annual net profit is only 5,000 taels, this silver seems to be a lot, with the net profit of seven or eight yuan of silver a year on one mu of land, this income is worth the net profit of six or seven thousand mu of land...... But Li Dayong has no way to take all this silver, and he can set up an iron yard in the mine to build a blast furnace, and he doesn't want to think about it without a certain relationship, this relationship is piled up with silver, even if it is a family like the Han family, this silver can't be saved...... The political envoy is the yamen, and there are governors, patrols, patrols, patrols, guards, and then the general army...... If you go elsewhere, you might as well ignore the general army in Shanxi, where there are many iron yards, there is an edict to ask the general army to take strict precautions and beware of the miners making trouble, so you can't get through the joints of the general soldiers, and under the pretext that you are a good and bad miner, you are asked to close, it is not impossible to do this.

Finally, there is the county magistrate who is the official of his parents, as well as the second master, the third master, the fourth master, the commander of each room, and then the local Jiupin Inspection Division, the master around the county lord also has to take care of it, and he also has to do some door politics, and he can't forget to serve the personal servant of the county.

In each place, the most is one or two hundred taels, and the few have to be dozens of taels, and dozens of places are sent down, and in the end, Li Da used only more than two thousand taels of silver...... Most of the net profit went to the hands of others.

I work hard to hire workers in the furnace, I don't know how much heart I bear, how much I suffer, and I have to worry about selling and recovering the money, others sit at home, and the silver naturally falls into the pocket, and this kind of income is almost above board, how many years has the dynasty not been verified and punished for corrupt officials?

During the Taizu period, he peeled off the skin and grass after embezzling sixty taels, but now? Even if there are shameless officials who make tens of thousands of dollars a year, if they are too greedy, they will be countered by the civilian clique themselves, and the local gentry will join forces to drive away the excessive officials, but no matter how bad the corruption is, it is nothing more than taking the silver to resign and go home, which is the most severe punishment.

"In recent years, the situation has become worse and worse, with officials everywhere oppressing the localities, large households swallowing up the middle class and small households, and small households going bankrupt and even going ......into exile."

Zhang Xuezeng is really a little pedantic, everyone speaks to the point, Zhang Han listened to the thrill and had a smile on his face, Zhang Xuezeng is an outsider, but there are a lot of angry words.

At this time, there was the sound of walking outside, and there were people talking, Zhang Han hurriedly stopped Zhang Xuezeng's words, and said with a smile: "Third uncle, the Holy Tomorrow is above, I'd better not say more." ”

"Hmph."

Zhang Xuezeng snorted coldly, and completely disagreed with Zhang Han's words about "Holy Tomorrow".

It is said that it is the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, the Ming and Qing Dynasties are completely different, at least in Zhang Han's eyes, what he sees is that the scholars do not have much respect for the emperor, unlike the Qing Dynasty, accusing the emperor is not only in danger of losing his head, but also will not be supported in public opinion.

Wanli's reputation among the people should be better in the south than in the north, after all, in the past few decades, the economy of most of China has made great progress, and the hardships are the west and north along the line of the Great Wall. Not to mention the recitals of the rest of the officials.

In short, Wanli is 108,000 miles away from the Holy Son in Zhang Xuezeng's heart, but fortunately, he also understands that Zhang Han told him not to say more in front of others, and he always had good intentions, so he didn't say anything with a cold face at the moment.