The Badaohe region has always regarded metal and cotton as the most important materials, and they are valued far more than money. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, when Guo Ziren brought back thousands of tons of such materials, everyone was overjoyed.

In the face of the sincere admiration of his companions, Guo Ziren was embarrassed, he smiled and didn't say much, just said, just follow the master's family.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family, was warmly received by the owner of Zhang Guoan.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, is very optimistic about the development prospects of Ezhou City and Xiangyang City, and in later generations, it is the famous Jianghan Plain.

In that world, the Jianghan Plain is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the middle and lower reaches of the Han River, the central and southern part of Hubei Province, from the Zhijiang River in Yichang in the west, to Wuhan in the east, from Jingmen Zhongxiang in the north, and connected to the Dongting Lake Plain in the south, covering an area of about 46,000 square kilometers.

The plains are conducive to the cultivation of temperature-loving crops such as cotton, rice, and corn, and are also suitable for oil crops.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, held a dust-washing banquet in the dining room of his home and warmly entertained Liang Xin and his party.

At the wine table, the two talked about the development status of the two regions and made a beautiful imagination about the business cooperation that can be carried out in the future.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, pointed out that the bottleneck of the development of Liuqiu Island is the lack of metal resources such as steel, and in addition, manpower is also a difficulty in restricting the development of Liuqiu Island......

Liang Xin, the chief treasurer of the Lu family trading house, pointed out that the people of the Great Song Dynasty needed whale oil and cotton cloth from Liuqiu Island, and hoped that Liuqiu Island would increase the output of both......

In the end, the two sides signed a series of fair and equitable contracts in steel, agriculture, commerce and manpower.

After the banquet. Under the leadership of Zhang Guoan, Liang Xin, the chief treasurer of Lu's Commercial Bank, and his party visited the industrial, agricultural, commercial and fishery industries on Liuqiu Island.

At present, the production and use of Romanesque cement and pozzolana cement are entering a prosperous period.

Liang Xin, the big shopkeeper of Lu's firm, carefully watched the process of their processing of bamboo-reinforced cement components, and immediately said: "Why not use iron reinforcements? I think it's going to be stronger......"

Zhang Guoan Island is happy, who said that the ancients were stupid? He still has the ability to draw inferences......

"The cost ......," he said It saves money with bamboo bars, and it is definitely stronger than city bricks......"

Liang Xin, the chief proprietor of the Lu family's trading house, fell into deep thought at that time. If you use it to fortify a city or build a castle, it will be very impregnable.

He observed the firing process of these two objects again, and did not feel how difficult it was.

Now, several private cement cave kilns here have expanded their industries, on the one hand selling their products to Zhang Guoan, and on the other hand, they are hoarding their own goods, and they have hoped to ship them to the Great Song Dynasty in bulk soon.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family, visited the warehouse where they stocked up on goods, and after seeing that there were thousands of barrels of cement there, he said lightly: "Sell them all to my Lu family." The same will be true in the future...... Talk to my men about the offer. ”

Subsequently, he said to the owner of Zhang Guoan: "I wonder if I can build such a cave there?" ”

This is really not good, because the owner of Zhang Guoan doesn't know where they have natural marl, and the volcanic ash may not be there.

He said, "This is like white ash, not just any stone can be fired...... Stones capable of burning cement can only be found here at the moment. ”

Indeed, Zhang Guoan found another large natural marl in the mountains, which is constantly being blasted and excavated, and transported by ship from the upstream. Cement kilns are also built directly in the mining area.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family, immediately said: "I see, then how about my Lu family also build more than a dozen cave kilns here?" ”

All right. Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, can only convince you, you are really a lot of people, you have worked hard for so long to build five, and this guy has more than a dozen of them.

Natural marl is a kind of rock that transitions from clay to limestone, and its hardness is much smaller, so it also requires a lot of hands to process and crush. Zhang Guoan is still thinking about making it into a hydraulic crusher.

Liang Xin, the chief treasurer of the Lu family's trading house, said: "Labor has never been a problem, and there are as many soldiers and prisoners as there are ...... I see that you are using here, presumably because of the lack of manpower, so it doesn't matter. When the time comes, I can lend you some ......."

In this time and space, people can buy it, let alone borrow it...... Zhang Guoan immediately expressed his gratitude!

The more people, the better!

Now he deeply understands that the box soldiers can be obtained, and there is no need to wait for Comrade Lao Jia to arrange it!

He made up his mind, and he would write a letter to Lao Jia in a while, and ask for 10,000 more soldiers, and send them himself!

They can take the initiative to send those fried salt households, and the box soldiers should too, I am here to help you increase the employment rate!

The Great Song Dynasty government is a normal government, and there are no strange ideas about why they don't sell their salt, or what to do if they will raise the price, but they are happy that the price of salt is cheap now, and because it is only operated by the Great Song City Bo Si, it is conducive to control, not to mention, the amount of salt tax is obviously higher than the original amount of public salt collected through the Zhujia frying salt farms, but the refined salt project was lost, and there was also the higher price of bamboo salt that appeared later...... These revenues were all put into the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty official family.

A lot of people are thinking about this.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family, carefully inspected the three salt farms in Badaohe, and understood more about the other role of cement, which is that cement is used as a pool, which will never be mixed with mud and sand, and will not seep water, so as to create salt fields.

He arched his hand to Zhang Guoan's island owner and said: "The old man wants to set up a salt farm here, but the island owner can rest assured, my Lu family will never compete with everyone for the salt market, at least you can let everyone sell ...... by themselves."

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, smiled, for himself, the use of sea salt will never be just for eating, besides, this amount of output is not enough to completely squeeze out all the salt frying farms in the Great Song Dynasty.

He said calmly: "As long as you abide by the rules here, you can build a field at will, and the scale depends on your own wishes...... It's okay. ”

Liang Xin, the big shopkeeper of the Lu family, looked at the expression of the owner of Zhang Guoan, knowing that he was by no means a hypocrisy, and his heart was suddenly greatly admired, what kind of mind is this, how can a person in business not understand the benefits of exclusive possession?

This young man has a big vision......

He said: "Master Zhang Guoan, my Lu family firm is not a person who takes advantage of others...... The good iron needed here, my family has it all......"

Zhang Guoan is happy, and this kind of deal is what he likes. (To be continued.) )