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The Manchus strictly forbade private mining, because mining meant gathering people to make trouble, and it meant that the masses had the iron tools needed to open the mines. The ban on iron ore is the most important thing, and the ban on iron ore ensures the overall superiority of our Manchu Qing in military control.

Yan Xueyi's construction of a steel mill requires the mining of iron ore, and private mining of iron ore is strictly forbidden by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which cuts off Yan Xueyi's idea of buying steel plant equipment from Western merchants through the Yan firm, and fortunately, Linyue County is under the control of the Yan clan and is in the border area with the ethnic minority residence.

Iron ore can be mined, but how to make iron and steel?

If you don't have iron-making equipment, then create it yourself, and query the information in the quantum computer, Yan Xueyi found a way that doesn't work.

In the 50s of the 20th century, China shouted the slogan of "taking steel as the key link and making an all-round leap forward" to carry out large-scale steelmaking, and local steelmaking came into being.

Steelmaking is to use clay and bricks to build a small blast furnace at the foot of the mountain, use the iron items at home as raw materials, and burn the wood on the mountain into charcoal, so as to remove the excessive carbon in the iron, and the carbon content is reduced to become steel.

However, because the production conditions are too simple, the steel produced contains a lot of impurities, the standards of carbon are different, there are no professional tools, the bubble content in the steel is too large, the structural strength is low, and it is far from meeting the application requirements.

In Yan Xueyi's view, the soil method of steelmaking is indeed not suitable for steelmaking, but under the current conditions, it is suitable for ironmaking, even if there are a lot of impurities in the iron, but it is also iron, it is much better than the current national collection of steel is not much better, as long as there is iron, Yan Xueyi has room to play, with this impurities of iron to make simple equipment, to smelt iron with less impurities, maybe it will not take long to make good steel.

It has been decided to use the soil method to make steel, Yan Xueyi still has to make some preparations, the most important thing is to restrict the flow of people in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone and prevent Yan Xueyi's iron-making from being revealed to the outside world.

Linyue County is the sphere of influence of the Yan clan, but it does not mean that the Yan clan covers the sky with one hand, and any news is spread out, as long as there is a flow of people, sooner or later the information will be accidentally known by the outside world, and the Yan clan, which does not have much force at that time, will be wiped out.

Nowadays, the number of workers employed in several factories in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone has reached 2,000, although the workers live in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, but they have to go home every month, so it is impossible to avoid the situation in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone being known to the outside world, the only way is to restrict the workers from going home, but this will have unpredictable consequences, the best way is to move the relatives of the workers to live in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, so as to solve the problem from the root.

However, the old problems have been solved, and new problems have come, the workers used to be farmers and lived on the land, and now if they move to live in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, it means that they will have to give up their land, and if there is no land, the workers' wages may not be able to support their families, and there is not enough housing in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone to house 2,000 families.

If there are problems, they must be solved one by one, the wages of the workers cannot support their families, so increase the wages of the workers, anyway, the income of the Yan family is very high, and it is nothing to raise the wages of the workers, so that their wages can not only make the family have enough to eat and eat every three or five times, but also wear new clothes, so that they will hold on to the land? Those tenants who did not own their own land must have been the first to agree to move their families into the Yuanhe Industrial Zone.

If there is not enough housing, build a new brick house for every family, so that they will still remember the dilapidated old home?

Most of the problems were solved, and Yan Xueyi recruited Yan Xuecai, the manager of the current Yuanhe Industrial Zone.

Yan Xuecai is already regarded as his own person, and he absolutely obeys Yan Xueyi's orders, Yan Xueyi wants to build a steel plant, and Yan Xuecai will also obey orders.

So Yan Xueyi handed over the matter of moving the homes of all the workers in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone to the Yuanhe Industrial Zone to Yan Xuecai, and I believe that Yan Xuecai, who is not weak, will be able to handle this matter.

The money needed to solve the problem, Yan Xueyi has, the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is basically Yan Xueyi's industry, the Yan family rarely interferes in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, don't you see that the managers of the Yuanhe Industrial Zone are Yan Xueyi's people?

Now half of the income generated by the Yuanhe Industrial Zone is basically handed over to the Yan family, and the remaining half is in the hands of Yan Xueyi, in addition to the cost of continuing to build the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, the remaining silver has been accumulated, and now the workers' homes are moved to the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, in fact, it will not cost too much silver, there are 20,000 taels of silver is enough, and the average cost of each household is ten taels of silver, which is already a very large amount.

It's just that all of this will take time, and it is estimated that it will take a month to resettle about 10,000 people from 2,000 households.

The relocation of 10,000 people, fortunately, Linyue County is a county with a large population, there is no impact of war, Linyue County has a population of more than 200,000, and only 10,000 people are relocated, which is equivalent to one-twentieth of the total population of Linyue County.

A month later, the relocation of 15,000 people was completed, 5,000 more than planned, because the new steel plant also needed a large number of workers, so more than 1,000 more workers were recruited in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, and even their families were relocated to the Yuanhe Industrial Zone.

Then the Yuanhe Industrial Zone was officially closed, and workers and their families were not allowed to enter and leave the Yuanhe Industrial Zone at will, and the entrance and exit of the Yuanhe Industrial Zone were guarded by guards, and there were also guards patrolling around the Yuanhe Industrial Zone.

It should also be mentioned that the number of guards in the Yuanhe Industrial Zone has also increased, basically recruiting one member for every ten extra workers, and now the number of guards has reached 350.

Yan Xueyi's steel plant officially began construction, the planned steel plant area, with cement and turn to build a small blast furnace one by one, some workers were also arranged to go to the iron ore location that has been found to mine iron ore, and then transported back to the steel plant for smelting, in order to facilitate the transportation of iron ore, as the manager of the Yuanhe Industrial Zone, Yan Xuecai has begun to plan to build a cement road, perhaps this is the first cement road in China.

On the other hand, the coal mine near Linyue County has already been mined by the Yan's trading firm, which is then continuously transported into the Yuanhe Industrial Zone for iron ore smelting.

Soon, the first furnace of the steel mill was born, which contained a large amount of impurities.