As soon as Liu Zheng heard Old Man Sun say, such a steel knife can be beaten more than 100 times a day, which is really fun. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

So he asked anxiously: "Old man, how is our iron ore mining, can the ore keep up with the supply?" ”

Old Man Sun pondered for a while before replying: "If you strictly follow the mining method that the general said, I'm afraid it won't work, but if you follow the old rules, dig holes from the surface and dig downward, and forge 10,000 such steel knives, it will only take two or three months." ”

As soon as he heard this, Liu Zheng's fiery heart cooled down as if it had been poured cold water, and it would take two or three months to hit 10,000 steel knives, so that his plan would be slashed, after all, he planned to recruit about 20,000 troops.

If you want to go according to the plan, you have to increase the number of people in mining, but now there are not many people who are willing to go to the mine, and now the thousands of people in the mine are still forced by him, if this persecution is done again, I am afraid that it will cause instability in the people's mind.

But if you want people to mine willingly, you have to improve your salary, and you have to spend money to improve your treatment, but now the money in his hand is almost dry, what a penny is a hero.

Liu Zheng pinched his chin and thought to himself: "It seems that the raids on the landlords in various counties are going to speed up!" ”

After thinking for a while, Liu Zheng spoke again: "Old man Sun, if I select a group of strong and healthy people from the army to fight, and at the same time increase the number of miners on the iron mine, can you give me 10,000 such steel knives a month?" ”

Old Man Sun thought for a while and said, "That old decay needs at least five hundred starts, and at least three thousand more people need to be added to the mine!" ”

Good fellow, if five hundred men are to be attacked, three thousand more people will be added to the mine, and the mine will suddenly become three thousand five hundred, and if five taels of silver a month are made as promised, it will cost seventeen thousand five hundred taels of silver a month.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Zheng suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Okay, old man, I'll do it for you!" Don't say 3,000 people, I'll get you 5,000 people! ”

Isn't it just a small 20,000 taels of silver, this is fucking life-saving money, let's give Chen Zeng's dead eunuch 100,000 taels of silver as soon as he shoots, and it only costs 20,000 taels to save his life, why don't you do it? Done!

"Since you have General Liu's words, then the old man is not hypocritical, if you can't make 10,000 steel knives a month, you can take the old man!"

"Old man, there's no need to be like this, how much you can fight, it's still important to your body, but you're my treasure, if you want to do something good with this treasure, I won't be able to play this mess!"

After laughing and laughing for a while, Old Man Sun said again: "General Liu, since you want to fight weapons, it is better to move part of this blacksmith shop to the left guard camp, and when the knife is punched, it will be sent to the soldiers, so that you can save this piece of transportation!" ”

Liu Zheng thought about it, not only did he save the effort of transporting it, but he could also keep it secret, and he could also ensure the personal safety of the blacksmiths, otherwise there would be an accident or something, and it would be too late for him to regret it, after all, this is also a military factory.

"Okay, just do what the old man wants, move these blacksmiths to the Zuowei camp as soon as possible, so that the old man Xu happens to be there, old man Xu, you quickly arrange people, go to the left guard camp and put the stove up first, well, the place, the place is located in the open space outside the northeast corner of the camp!"

As soon as Old Man Xu heard that he had his own task, he was about to leave after accepting it, but Liu Zheng stopped him again and said, "Old man, don't go in a panic first, I have other things to do!" ”

"Oh? What else does the owner command? ”

"That's the case, aren't we getting a few new counties? I want you to give the apprentices in your brick factory a point, let them go to these new counties to open a brick factory, and change the thatched houses in those county towns! After all, our Fucheng side has almost changed, and the rest can be done slowly, so you see, how many people can be divided from your side? ”

Xu Lao Craftsman laughed and said: "Owner, this matter is simple, our brick factory is not a technical job, it is very simple, it is a person who learns, now there are more than 3,900 people in the brick factory, I don't say that these 3,900 people will learn one by one, at least six or seven percent of the people in it will!" ”

Wow, good guys! Old craftsman Xu's opening almost startled Liu Zheng, he didn't pay these people wages, originally Xu Lao Craftsman opened more than a dozen brick factories, he just gave rations according to the number of people every month, and the person who sent the rations was not him, he was managed by Neng Feiyu, and Neng Feiyu didn't report to him, so I couldn't imagine that it would grow to such an extent silently.

This also reflects from the side how low the technical content of this brick factory is, or it can be said that in the future, this brick factory can be found in every village, and every village can do it.

"Okay, then in that case, let's do this, leave 900 people, divide 3,000 people, scatter them to the counties, and set up the brick factory first, but it is almost time to be busy with farming, these people can not only send rations, but also give the start money, so that each person will have one or two silver per month, and let these people specialize in this line in the future!"

Old craftsman Xu was very shocked when he heard that each person was one tael of silver a month, three thousand people were three thousand taels of silver a month, which is not a small amount.

Liu Zheng guessed what the old craftsman Xu was thinking, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, if you put in so much silver, although you can't see any return in a short time, but in the future, the return will be bigger and bigger, do you remember the lime kiln I taught you to build at the beginning?" ”

Old craftsman Xu nodded and said, "Remember, how can you not remember, but what do we want lime for?" ”

Liu Zheng smiled and said, "Burn cement!" ”

"Cement?" Old craftsman Xu looked at Liu Zheng puzzled.

In fact, what Liu Zheng has to do is a very early cement, this kind of cement is called Portland cement, this kind of cement is very simple to do, it is made of limestone and clay, this thing is not difficult, in Qingzhou, especially in the Taiyi Mountains in the south of Qingzhou, there is more limestone, in the later generation of Qingzhou, the sand field, stone field, lime kiln can be said to be everywhere, this is a source of pollution, these pollution sources and Linzi chemical plants together, created a later Qingzhou, Linzi two years of perennial air pollution index for moderate pollution, When the air is good, there are very few times.

Liu Zheng wants to make cement, as long as he sends someone to the mountains to quarry limestone, and then goes to the Zihe River in the dry period to dig sand, burns limestone with clay and blast furnace slag to make cement, and also burns lime with lime, mixes cement with lime and sand, pours water to stir, and what comes out is a very low-grade kind of concrete.

"Yes, it's cement, cement is amazing...... Liu Zheng muttered about the characteristics of cement and how to make it, and told Xu Lao Craftsman roughly about it.

After hearing this, Old Craftsman Xu's eyes lit up: "Build a city in one day and one night?" Is there really such a thing? ”

Liu Zheng nodded very seriously, not to mention building a small city in a day and a night, those great gods in Guangzhou in his mother's future life, build a skyscraper for you in a week.

Old Craftsman Xu left happily, and Liu Zheng looked at Old Man Sun again and said, "Old man, how are you doing with the graphite crucible I said?" ”

Old Man Sun's face darkened suddenly, to be honest, he really didn't know how to get this thing.

Liu Zheng saw this, and also understood, he didn't look forward to this much, after all, it was not until 1742 in the later generations that someone made this thing, and he himself didn't understand this knowledge at all, Liu Zheng pinched his chin and groaned, and suddenly he thought of a term, ceramic crucible!

So is the graphite crucible fired like a ceramic? Thinking of this, Liu Zheng said: "Old man, you are like this, you find Old Man Xu, and ask him to use the water mill in Xiemazhuang to press all the graphite ore into powder for you, and then stir it with clay, and use the same way as burning porcelain to see if it can be burned!" ”

"Then you put all the iron you have practiced into this crucible to burn, see if you can burn it into molten iron, if you can burn it into molten iron, then try forging and forging!"

Old Man Sun nodded and said, "Okay, I'll try!" ”

"Don't be afraid of trouble, don't be afraid of failure, try a few more times, anyway, there are more in this graphite stone Laizhou! Once it's done, we're going to make a fortune! ”

……

The recruitment work is not going very smoothly, the reason is that it is about to enter the busy season of farming, those people who were originally near Qingzhou Mansion want to go home to farm, and those people who are far away from the city also want to go home to see, after all, the homeland is difficult to leave, and the most important thing is that they have stayed under the roots of this city during this time, and they have got a lot of news, especially the news of this year's exemption from land tax, which is even more popular.

But these people are also very contradictory, want to go home at the same time, but reluctant to such a good house here, and the job that is very good, especially in the brick factory, I heard that in the future to pay monthly silver, or a month or two, really make these people reluctant, go home to farm, only one harvest a year, about one acre of three stones, according to the normal price of grain, one stone is only two taels of silver, a family of more than six acres of thin land, even if this year tax exemption is only 36 taels of silver, but this tax exemption is free of official land, Most of them are renting the fields of the gentry and landlords, and these people will not give them free rent, and the amount of rent they should pay will not be less at all, and at the end of the year, at most there will be a dozen or so taels of silver left, and after the expenses are removed, the balance of five or six taels is a good New Year's Festival.

But now, stay here, no matter what you do, as long as you go to work, you will pay monthly profits, take care of food, and have a better house than the landlord's family to live, a person in addition to adding clothes, nothing else needs to spend money at all, at least a balance of ten taels, two people can have a balance of at least twenty taels, and then have a half-sized child, a family of three can have a balance of thirty taels, which was not dared to think at all before.