"If there is a useful place below, please ask Zhang Dongzhu to speak."

"There will also be a banquet in the next few days, and I will invite Zhang Dongzhu to enjoy the light when he arrives."

Everyone coaxed and said goodbye, Zhang Han and the others went out of the restaurant, and they didn't go to the prepared residence, and planned to go directly to Dongshan...... That's where the mining area is located, and the furnace must be on the hill.

Zhang Xuezeng said: "I won't go, I'm a little tired, go and rest first." ”

Zhang Xuezeng operated these things for Zhang Han in the city, and felt that the effect was not very good, and he was quite ashamed, which also showed that the brand of the Zhang family in Puzhou was becoming more and more difficult, and it also made Zhang Xuezeng a little sad. When he was young, when the prestige of the Zhang family was still prominent, he was invincible wherever he went, and the local officials heard that the descendants of the Zhang family in Puzhou had arrived, and they must have invited the official to live, or at least convene a decent banquet, so that the gentry in the city knew the stakes, but now he has been here for many days, only seeing the magistrate, getting promises, and giving gifts, but the magistrate has no intention of banqueting Zhang Xuezeng and Zhang Han, which also makes Zhang Xuezeng sad.

Zhang Han saw Zhang Xuezeng's thoughts, and said with relief: "The third uncle is free, going up the mountain and setting up the furnace is originally a hard thing, and the third uncle can just sit in the city." ”

Zhang Xuezeng nodded, and said: "The city is now the magistrate of the county just sitting on the ground to draw points, each family is indispensable to his benefits, Han Tong is the strongest, the heart is also the blackest, and the wrist is the strongest, he is our fierce opponent, that Li Da uses a few, wants to instigate Sun Anle, and uses our strength to fight with the Han family, it is not good forage, Wenlan, you are used to everything, I will say this, you need to be more careful." ”

"Third uncle, don't worry." Zhang Han nodded with some emotion: "I know in my heart, I will never let these people capsize the boat." ”

"Hmm."

Zhang Xuezeng nodded, pulled his horse and turned around, and went back to his apartment in the city, a small guy hurriedly followed, Zhang Han thought about it, and ordered Liang Xing to send two more people to take care of it over there, but it is conceivable that there will be more turmoil in the future, and it is better to be more careful in everything.

Zhang Han also sighed in his heart, the business environment of the Ming Dynasty is really not generally bad, except for some self-made businessmen in the southeast, the well-known Jin merchants undoubtedly have the backs and scenery of the gentry, and the well-known Jin merchants in the Qing Dynasty are also mostly imperial merchants, and the real folk national capital has only developed after the First World War, when the international and domestic environment are relatively relaxed, in this era, it is either an official gentry family like the Zhang family in Puzhou, or a "maritime businessman" like Zheng Zhilong, a pirate-born "maritime businessman", a real good businessman wants to be bigger, In addition to a wealthy place like Susong, it is really difficult to go elsewhere, with the current strength of the Zhang family and Zhang Han in Puzhou, it is so difficult to open an iron field, you can imagine how difficult the situation of small and medium-sized businessmen is.

Dongshan is not very far from Lingqiu City, the fast horse turns a few times, after traveling more than ten miles, you can see the undulating mountains, you don't feel how to see it from a distance, you can see that most of these mountains are bare, there are potholes everywhere, the trees on the mountains are cut down, except for the low shrubs and grasses can not see a little green from the outside, several mountain roads of different widths and narrows meander in, there are many donkey carts and mule carts on the road that are difficult to move forward, the car is either food and daily necessities, or the whole vehicle is loaded with coal, Truckloads were carried to the mountains.

Lingqiu mountain range contains a large amount of iron ore, which is also the basis of many iron yards here, but necessary items such as coal have to be bought from other places where coal is produced, which is also the reason why the roads here in Lingqiu are still good, each family is reluctant to pay, every year the big families have to make up the silver to build the road, the government is only the lead, the local affairs have to depend on the actual needs, really to do it, but also the gentry to take the lead.

It's easy to go to the mountains, just follow these cars, Zhang Han and his party are freshly dressed and angry, which is particularly eye-catching, all the way up the mountain, I don't know how much attention they have attracted.

Zhang Han also looked at the miners, most of them were dark-faced, and even there were a lot of iron slag cinders on their hair, and the men at that time also had long hair, and these people had no time to clean and take care of them, and the messy hair was also used to it, and the robes on their bodies were mainly short brown, and there were few people who wore long shirts to come here, everyone was capable, their hands and feet grew up, and they were used to doing hard work.

Judging from the eyes, his expression is more lively than that of those military households and peasants, after all, the workers often gather, the crowd gathers several thousand, and there are all kinds of people, etc., and the exchange of information is much more developed than that of those who have been doing farm work in the village for many years, and they have more knowledge, and there is more color and aura in their eyes, and they are much more energetic than those who are too wooden. But judging from the look on his face, most of them are people who have worked hard, and they are also honest, and those who are not honest can't bear this hardship, so they have already gone down the mountain and left to do something else.

Zhang Han looked at it for a while, and secretly sighed in his heart, at this time, Li Shenming also came over, and said with a smile: "Wenlan, you are looking for someone to be a dart master elsewhere, why don't you find some here?" Speaking of which, miners are first-class soldiers, of course, the treatment of the border army is not enough to attract these people to join the army, but it is your dart line, talking about recruiting people, I am afraid that you can discharge a long queue of thousands of people. ”

At that time, Qi Jiguang also recruited Dongyang mining soldiers, and trained into the Qi family army in the Megatron Sea, his art of war also includes the way of recruiting and training, Zhang Han also looked at it carefully, Qi Jiguang is a natural handsome talent, almost everything knows, everything, until hundreds of years later, Zeng Guofan and other Hunan generals The training methods of Hunan generals, including picking troops, forming a village, and fighting, are mostly inspired by Qi Jiguang's military books, and the ready-made recipes learned, a famous general, not only affects his body, but also affects hundreds of years behind him, and he can indeed be said to be a genius.

"Yes, indeed." Zhang Han smiled and said: "When the furnace is set up and the people are almost the same, then find some miners who are brave and willing to leave their hometowns and enrich them into the dart shop." ”

"At the beginning, I didn't necessarily say that I had to leave my hometown." Li Shenming came up with an idea for him: "Your dart master also has to protect the stove here, and at the beginning, he said that looking for the guards of the iron yard will naturally be much easier to recruit." After practicing here for a few months, with constraints, it's not up to you to decide where to transfer when the time comes. ”

Li Shenming does have a lot of tricks to do, Zhang Han smiled when he heard it, and it was okay, this matter is not urgent, and he will talk about it later.

"The proprietor is here!"

At the bend of a mountain road, which is also the entrance of a flat valley, Cai Jiu led thirty or forty people who were looking forward to it, and saw Zhang Han and others riding horses from a distance, Cai Jiu was in front, and the rest were behind, and after a shout, everyone knelt down and kowtowed.

Zhang Han stopped the horse, turned over, had a smile on his face, and reached out to help Cai Jiu, as well as a few middle-aged people beside Cai Jiu...... I expected that these were all small bosses and other people, and then laughed loudly: "Everyone get up, I'm just a proprietor, and I'm not a magistrate, what do you kneel down to do, my proprietor has no shelf, only rules, as long as you abide by my rules, do your duty, and don't cause trouble, you will see me with a face raised, and I won't be angry, if you always make trouble for me, even if you kowtow every time you see me, I want to get you out, that's all I say, everyone get up first!" ”

Liang Xing and the others laughed when they heard these words, and everyone knew that what Zhang Han said was true.

The proprietor now has more than 1,000 people, in terms of business, it is simply a first-class big business, there are not a few companies with so many guys, the general business from the shopkeeper to the size of the guy has a hundred or so people is very large-scale, even if it is a big porter line, at most two or three hundred people, they naturally will not know, the same era of Suzhou has a large number of people more than 1,000 people in the silk weaving factory, in the south of the Yangtze River, a proprietor does not have a thousand number of men can not be called a big deal, here in the north of Shanxi, Zhang Han was already only under those few super big merchants, that is, some generations of official gentry, and the number of tenant farmers could be more than Zhang Han's.

There are so many subordinates, Zhang Han in addition to adding a few guards, in his own house to buy some maids and small servants, almost no changes, every day is still like that to see people to do things, speak concisely and brightly, do not like to put on a shelf, make a fuss, in Zhang Han's hands for a long time, almost all develop the habit of meeting first to say the right thing, a few words to explain clearly, before and after doing things, and finally write the habit of filing, those shopkeepers, including the head of the dart division, have to learn to make reports, record the changes in daily expenses and personnel, and report them regularly, Zhang Han will read it every day, and point out any problems immediately, don't scold people, but he won't give anyone face...... If it's just asking people to kowtow, what's the use of raising a bunch of kowtow worms?

Liang Xing and others know what Zhang Han said about the "rules", that is, to standardize the thatched houses for eating and drinking, report everything, and abide by the details of the rules in everything.

Of course, the miners are not as good as the dart masters, and the rules will not be so heavy, but looking at the group of people with blank faces on their faces, Liang Xing and the others still couldn't help but laugh gloatingly.

Cai Jiu is also a person who understands Zhang Han, the proprietor, at the moment he got up with his head first, and the men next to him also followed, thirty or forty people stood in a semicircle, everyone looked at each other, quite a bit confused, although Cai Jiu had already said in advance that his own proprietor was different from other families, but it was not like this, which was also very surprising.

Zhang Han nodded to Cai Jiu and asked, "Where is the location of the furnace?" ”

Cai Jiu stretched out his hand, led Zhang Han's horse, and said, "Please come with me." ”

As soon as the two met like this, they didn't say a word, and immediately got down to business, and many of the miners found by Cai Jiu realized that the young proprietor in front of him was really a powerful character who was resolute and resolute-

I'm sorry it's late.