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Yesterday morning, Liu Changyou from Guilin and Zeng Guanlan from Daozhou reported that the rice harvest in Guilin and Yongzhou this year was good.

In particular, Daozhou, Jiahe, Guilin and other places, after August this year, the implementation of land reform pilot, the people of each household allocated some land, although not much, but always considered to be their own land.

As a result, the people ran to the fields every day when they had free time, carefully packed up the crops, removed weeds, piled up livestock manure, carried water for irrigation, and the weather was beautiful, the wind and rain were smooth, and there was no locust plague, and two months ago, the harvest season was ushered in.

After more than a month of warehousing and statistics, Zeng Guanlan was pleasantly surprised to find that more than 600,000 people in several counties of Yongzhou Prefecture that implemented the land reform pilot project were allocated land, and a total of 1.04 million stone of rice was paid at the tax rate of 1 stone per mu; And Liu Changyou's Guilin Mansion, only Lingui County, which has realized the land reform pilot, paid 420,000 stone rice out of 160,000 mouths.

The rice handed over from these two lands alone can provide the original 300,000 holy soldiers with food for a year.

And that's just for food.

At noon today, just now, Huang Yukun, who was in charge of government affairs in Chenzhou and Guiyang, sent a letter to report that all the workshops in Guiyang were in full swing, but after the Holy King led his troops to Liangguang, he did not ask again. Because a lot of things have been backlogged over there, except for some agricultural hardware produced by the hardware factory, which has been sold out, the rest of the backlog has become a heart disease, so I want to ask the Holy King, how to deal with it?

Hao Xide, the person in charge of the sulfuric acid factory, reported that the sulfuric acid factory in Zilong Village, Guiyang, had produced thousands of cans of sulfuric acid, most of which were concentrated concentrated sulfuric acid.

The gunpowder factory in the Xibaoshan mining area of Guiyang City, which Zhou Shengfu is in charge of, has sent hundreds of loads of gunpowder to Liang Litai in Chenzhou, but there are still two or three thousand loads of gunpowder gathered in the warehouse, which is estimated to be more than 300,000 catties.

The Shishan cement factory in the north of Guiyang City has started large-scale production, and the Portland cement produced has also been hoarded a lot, because of the autumn rain a few days ago, many lumps have broken a lot.

Fortunately, Huang Yukun organized a group of brothers in the Holy Army, and led many of the original Chenzhou soldiers and Shaozhou soldiers to build roads with cement mixed with sand and gravel according to Feng Yunshan's instructions before leaving, and used up a lot of cement.

Huang Yukun happily told Feng Yunshan that they had repaired a cement pavement with Guiyang City as the center, Chenzhou City in the east, and Jiahe City in the west, with a total length of more than 150 li, and the cement pavement was half a zhang wide and one foot thick.

The new cement pavement has been repaired for more than 10 days, and the merchants from Chenzhou to Guiyang have transported the goods much faster, the original 60 miles of mountain road, driving the ox cart and horse-drawn carriage to escort the goods, it takes a whole day to arrive, and now take the newly built cement road, although the distance of the road has increased by 5 miles, but the carriage escorting the goods can run, and it can arrive in three or four hours.

This is still to escort goods, and if you are walking alone or marching, it is even faster.

Many people like to walk on the new cement road, and even some people have nothing to do on the cement road to step on, in this way, it also leads to a lot of people passing through the village and town road section too much, blocked to pass, Huang Yukun has no choice, so he has to organize each section to arrange some manpower to evacuate the crowd to ensure that the cement road is unimpeded.

The two brothers, Song Tiesheng and Song Jinsheng, managed the Zhenghe Iron and Steel Factory and the hardware factory in an orderly manner. Zhenghe Iron and Steel Plant can now produce an average of 5,000 catties of pig iron and more than 1,000 catties of steel per day. Although compared with later generations, it is not even a small workshop, but in the eyes of Feng Yunshan now, it is already very remarkable.

Huang Yukun's letter mentioned that 150,000 catties of pig iron and 120,000 catties of stainless steel had been piled up. There are nearly 400,000 catties of pig iron used as raw materials by the hardware factory, a total of more than 30,000 iron pots have been produced, and the rest of the kitchen knives, sickles, iron hoes and iron tongs, scissors and other commonly used utensils in farmers are also tens of thousands, basically sold out, not only the local merchants in the south of the paste came to buy, but also the merchants in Xixi, Guizhou, Liangguang and other places went to sell, and even with the restaurant inn in Guiyang City for a few months the business has been a lot better.

Other cement factories, sulfuric acid factories and steel factories, etc., employ labor, buy some sporadic minerals, etc., all of which cost money, which makes Huang Yukun feel extremely distressed, but a hardware factory, in the past hundred days, sold the commonly used utensils of the farmer's hardware, in exchange for 27,000 taels of silver, to pay for some other workshops, as well as the cost of hiring workers for mining, and there are surpluses.

What moved Feng Yunshan the most was the opening of the mine.

Many of the mines in Guiyang and Chenzhou were originally operated by the Manchu government, and some of the rest were also run by the squire. These mines were all owned by the Taiping Holy Army and returned to the Holy Treasury.

After Feng Yunshan left Guiyang, Huang Yukun summoned the original miners, hired them all at a price 10% higher than the original, and led a group of prisoners and displaced people who fled from the north to resume mining.

Huang Yukun is also black-hearted, and no matter what the mine is, all of it is mined, stored, and accumulated a large pile of ore. Of course, his main focus was on the mining of sulphur, copper, iron and lead-zinc ores, which were naturally for the production of gunpowder and steel, etc., but purely for money.

Copper ore lead-zinc ore is accompanied by gold and silver, mined and refined, more than 100 days, it will obtain more than 200 taels of red gold, more than 3,000 taels of silver, and more than 60,000 catties of copper. Huang Yukun flushed all these minerals into the holy treasury.

This is also because in the next two months, the mining captives were all pulled to build roads, and if all the captives were used for mining, I am afraid that there would be more production.

And a lot of zinc blocks that are smelted don't know what to do with it.

After reading Huang Yukun's letter, Feng Yunshan's heart was like honey.

These factories and mines are the result of his busy work in Guiyang for more than a month, and now he has output, as if the children he feeds have grown up and can earn money, this feeling is extremely happy.

Guiyang is mountainous and inaccessible, so if you want to transport steel and mineral products to Guangzhou, you have to think of another way. It's still minerals, not ores. All kinds of ores are refined into products near the Gyeyang Mine Cave and then transported.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan opened the map and once again looked at the terrain of Liangguang and southern Hunan that he had already familiarized with by heart.

At this time, Liu Shengbang came in to report and said that Wu Chongyao had asked the Holy King.

Speaking of Wu Chongyao, he was originally given the post of deputy chief comprador of the Holy Army with the general system, and then ordered him to be the general manager of the Nanyang Company. However, all this will have to wait for the complete occupation of Liangguang.

"Chongyao! Just right, you come over and take a look here. Feng Yunshan happened to be thinking about the transportation of goods, and when he saw Liu Shengbang bringing Wu Chongyao in, he chuckled and said, "Did you Jardine Matheson transport goods to Huguang in large quantities before?" Is the road difficult? ”

"Holy King, it turns out that foreign merchants come to buy goods and sell goods by themselves. However, according to Wu's understanding, most of them chose to take the waterway. I remember that there was a merchant from Hengzhou Mansion who only brought a dozen guys and bought a lot of iron tools from Foshan, weighing tens of thousands of catties. Later, he hired two large boats to set off from Guangzhou, along the Beijiang River, upstream, and after arriving at Shaozhou Mansion, he changed to six small boats, and went along the Wujiang River to Lechang City, and then he could not take the waterway. Then unload the ship and load the ox cart, go all the way to Lingnan, enter the territory of Munan, and arrive at Hengzhou Mansion through Yizhang and Chenzhou. ”

Wu Chongyao came as soon as he opened his mouth, obviously very familiar with the business routes of those merchants.

Feng Yunshan followed his pointers on the map and found the location of Wujiang. Suddenly, he noticed that the last time he asked Zuo Zongtang to send someone to visit the Dabaoshan Iron Mine and Quren Coal Mine, he didn't know if he had found it. But according to my impression, it's in this piece.

Feng Yunshan marked the approximate location of the two mineral deposits on the map, and at a glance, it was only about twenty or thirty miles away from the Wujiang River, and said happily: "Chongyao, you said that the Wujiang River can be navigated by tens of thousands of catties in the downstream of Shaozhou Mansion?" Is it that after passing the Shaozhou Mansion, only a few thousand catties of ships can be navigated? ”

"Holy King, the section of the river below Lechang in the wet season can carry twenty or thirty thousand catties of wooden boats. But in the dry season, it is estimated that there are only a few thousand catties of boats, but if you can organize people to clean up the river, you can navigate larger boats! As for the section of the Wujiang River below Shaozhou, it can be navigated by tens of thousands of catties of large ships all year round. More than half of the wood in the Guangzhou area was transported from around Lechang to Guangzhou through the Wujiang River. ”

"That's great! Chongyao, now that Nanyang Company has been established, in addition to having an accident with foreigners, it also has to do some other livelihoods, otherwise, the money will be backlogged and it will lose its effect. According to this king, it should be good for the Nanyang Company to buy some wooden boats and set up a boat shop on the Wujiang River to specialize in the water shipping business. Feng Yunshan was actually thinking about how to transport the Dabaoshan Iron Mine and the Quren Coal Mine, and it was most reasonable for the coal mine to be transported to the vicinity of the iron mine, and then to build a steel plant near the iron mine.

Wu Chongyao hurriedly agreed! Seeing Feng Yunshan draw a circle in each of the two places, his heart moved, and he pointed to the side of the marked Dabaoshan Iron Mine and asked, "Does the Holy King know that there is a copper mine here?" ”

"The chalcopyrite mine here, more than ten years ago, a merchant from Shaozhou invited my Wu family to open a mine together, but when I went there, it was a copper-sulfur mixed ore, buried very deeply, difficult to mine, and unable to make a profit, so the mine was later abandoned." Wu Chongyao said with some regret. (To be continued.) )