"Write a letter to the Li people? They are illiterate. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Liu Man asked suspiciously. Liu Yao once again showed that signature mysterious smile, and turned around with the translator and his daughter to go to the house to get ready. There were some saltpeters stored in the Liberty Mountain workshop, which Li Jiangong bought from Qiongzhou Mansion and even Guangdong Mansion, and basically stored them in Tang Zuoxiang's gunpowder workshop, and Liu Yao kept some ore samples in his own home. The letter delivered to the leader of the Li people this time was a bamboo tube of salt and a piece of saltpeter wrapped in leather, and the two things were tightly tied together with a rope. Liu Yao used a balance to weigh saltpeter as much salt, then removed half of it and put the other half in a bamboo tube. This process deliberately made the translator see it clearly, so that he could clarify the weight relationship. The letter is simple and straightforward, and anyone can understand it at a glance: saltpeter for half the weight of salt. Coupled with the instructions of the translation, it is sure that there will be no misunderstanding. Liu Man looked at the letter with great admiration, and noticed that the translator was very careful to put the letter in his pocket, and she added: "Other stones can also be changed." ”

The translator rubbed his head in embarrassment and said, "This, there is." For the rest, go and find it. There is no one left. ”

Liu Man asked, "How many of you are there?" What are you doing? ”

The interpreter found a place to sit down, apparently intending to say, "Temple, burn down." Shen ...... "He made a gesture of lifting up, which was a gesture that Liu Yao and Meng Ga used to refer to the former chief on that terrible night. Liu Yao nodded, indicating that he understood. The interpreter goes on to say, "God, without a temple, you will die." The temple burned, and the god died. Liu Yao and Liu Man glanced at each other and said, "Probably saying that the gods must protect the temple, and the temple burns the gods, oh, the chief, there is no legitimacy to govern?" The big house that burned down that night was the temple? ”

The interpreter then said, "The temple has been burned, and Mengga is the god now." God does not have a temple, but wants to build a new one. It's bigger and better than the original. Liu Man laughed and said, "Jiao Huang has made a great contribution." Liu Yao hurriedly interrupted her and said, "This information may harm that Mr. Feng Shui, do you know?" Liu Man stuck out his tongue and hurriedly changed the topic and said, "So many of you went to build a temple?" The translator nodded.

Liu Yao said to the translator: "Now, you have won the battle against others, ask others to pick stones, and give one or two salts." The translator nodded, grinning in satisfaction. Liu Yao didn't care about his proud appearance of taking advantage, nor did he say that he was also picking stones, and then said: "If you give people a pound of salt, you don't have to win, people will pick it." ”

The translator scratched his head and didn't figure it out. Liu Yao took a handful of stones and gestured on the table: "You, come over the stones, two catties of salt." The translator nodded. Whoever wins the battle, the stone comes, and a salt or two passes. The translator nodded again. Liu Yao took the third stone and said, "Your friend, come over the stone, I will give you two catties of salt, one catty for your friend, and one catty for you." The translator pondered for a long time, and seemed to understand a little, and muttered a lot of Li language. Liu Yao spread his hands and said, "I don't understand." You've got to get this to the bottom of it. You're going to have to do it. If you do it, I'll give you two catties of salt every day. The translation of the last sentence was understood, and he nodded and said, "Some people understand Chinese." I'm going to call it. As he spoke, he stood up, bowed to the two, waved his hand, and turned to walk towards the mountain.

"This hard-working translator, I hope we can help him turn over this time." Looking at his thin back, Liu Yao said to his daughter with emotion.

"After all, he is still from Li Zhai, we can't help him, right?" Liu Man also looked at the Li people walking on the mountain road and said worriedly. The two Li people pressed their empty basket on the translator's shoulder, as if this was a very natural thing.

"There will be a fundamental change. The world has always been capitalist, and we are tantamount to making him an agent. This would essentially change his strength. Liu Yao said with confidence.

"Didn't capitalism emerge after the Industrial Revolution? How do you say it's always been capitalism? Yao Ying happened to come to find the two of them to go back to dinner, and just happened to hear this. Liu Man also said: "Yes, that's what we said when we were in school. ”

Liu Yao laughed, took the shoulders of the two and walked towards home, and said: "Let me tell you, the difference between me and others is that I never believe in concepts that I didn't come up with. I think the basic point of capitalism is nothing more than trading. Trading is a thing that has existed since the beginning of mankind. Even, probably from the time of the apes. Gorillas trade, and they certainly didn't learn it after the Industrial Revolution. ”

"Is capitalism a transaction?" Liu Man asked curiously.

"One of the basic definitions of capitalism is the private ownership of assets, and then on the basis of this, people use assets to produce products and trade with each other, and from this there is a division of labor and a market. It's just that private ownership is often not very thorough, because the norm of human rights and interests in history is that there is no guarantee. If I am not mistaken, it was in the thirteenth century, when the English signed the Magna Carta, that the history of human protection of individual rights began. It's 400 years now, and when we came, it's 800 years. But now, or even in the world 800 years later, people with guaranteed rights and interests are in the minority. ”

"So, people's rights and interests are not guaranteed, how can he keep his assets private?" Liu Man asked strangely.

"Just because there is no legal guarantee on paper does not mean that there is no other way. Natural law has always existed in this world. For example, you can't take away all the tools that a person needs to survive or the last bit of rations. Although in the absence of the protection of written law, whoever has the power of his fist can deprive others cleanly and may not receive punishment, but in this way the expropriator loses the labor force that he has deprived clean. This is why, after the Mongols ruled China, they did not let the Han people become slaves with no property at all, but continued to let them own the land and property, and continue to work efficiently. ”

"Because if the Chinese can't own land and property, they will really fight with you." Yao Ying said with a sneer, pulling the two into the house to eat.

Liu Yao picked up the chopsticks and said: "So I think that capitalism has always existed and is the norm in this world. The Industrial Revolution just gave it a powerful impetus. Of course, it was not so dominant before the Industrial Revolution, and it was on a par with other economic forms. ”

"Understood. So you're going to make that translator a big capitalist and change his fate forever. After Liu Man finished speaking, he buried his head in a big mouthful of rice. The younger brother Liu Ze watched with a blank eye as the adults just talked and didn't eat, and kept swallowing saliva, and when he saw his sister starting to eat, he also lowered his head and ate heavily, and his face was full of rice grains on the table. Yao Ying reached out to pick up the fallen rice and ate it, and said with relief: "This is the biggest gain, we don't have to worry about the two children when they eat." ”

"Isn't that the method I've been talking about a long time ago? When you're hungry, you eat it, unless you're not feeling well. Liu Yao also had a mouth full of rice and said vaguely. Don't talk nonsense, what's not in good health. Yao Ying interrupted her husband's words tabooly. Dr. Yao, why is he so chattering? How can the villagers of Meijia Village trust you to take care of their health? Liu Yao joked with a smile.

The family was eating, and a person rushed in from outside the door, shouting as he ran: "Sir, this iron ore is very good!" "Listening to the voice is like Yu Chaoqin. The figure rushed to the dining table, and sure enough, it was the chief blacksmith. The gentleman held a piece of Lamsensen's steel ingot in both hands, and had no hands to wipe his tears, so he let it flow all over his face.

Liu Yao hurriedly took the steel ingot and put it on the ground, and asked Yao Ying to bring a towel. Yu Chaoqin took the towel and sat down at the dining table, snoring and wiping his face, and then took the tea brought by Liu Man, drank it with a bang, and said thank you to Mr. Liu, before shaking his sleeves and saying: "Sir, these ores you found are really very good." There is a lot of tapping, and the steel quality is also very good. ”

"Old Yu, if I said that I would have known a long time ago, would you believe it or not?" Liu Yao asked with a smile, handing over a pair of chopsticks: "Just eat something here with me, right?" Liu Ze saw it, hurriedly leaned in, scooped up a piece of meat from the dish and put it in his bowl, and continued to eat. Liu Man couldn't help laughing and said to Yu Chaoqin: "Mr. Yu, you eat slowly, I'll fry two eggs for you." ”

Yu Chaoqin thanked him again and again, and said to Liu Yao: "Sir, your girl is really knowledgeable, and she can go out of the hall and enter the kitchen." Liu Yao squatted on the ground and looked at the steel ingots that still had residual warmth, raised his head when he heard this, and asked with a smile: "Are you here to be a matchmaker or a matchmaker?" ”。 Yu Chaoqin lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "I won't say anything about steel, you can see it yourself later." ”

The furnace was full of people, but they were all people concerned, and the crowd had long been uninterested in the molten iron. According to the old father of the executive's family: "Now you are doing it one by one, and there is no momentum." "It's about the molten iron flowing into the pre-set ingot tank after it comes out of the oven. In order to facilitate handling, the ingot groove was made into a discontinuous grid, instead of being inexperienced like the first time, and turned into a huge steel rod, which I am afraid only Sun Wukong can handle. Of course, in this way, the flow of molten steel has become slow and peaceful, and there is indeed no momentum.

Several of Yu Chaoqin's apprentices squatted on the ground and wrote and painted with branches, and Wang Daixi held his hands in front of his chest and stood aside without saying a word, holding a hardcover book and a pencil in his hands. Liu Yao walked over and took the pencil and looked at it, it was a very rough but genuine pencil: two pieces of wood were made into a circle, and a black refill was sandwiched between them. Liu Man grabbed the pencil and exclaimed in surprise: "The pencil has been made!" Wang Daixi also said happily: "If it weren't for the method you wanted, how could we have such a useful thing." Liu Yao was very excited and asked, "Xiaoman, did you make this for you?" Liu Man said proudly: "That's right." I looked at the method and asked Wang Daixi and a few little girls to do it. Wang Daixi hurriedly explained: "We made the refills, and the carpentry work was all done in Qian Er's workshop, and the later assembly was also done in the workshop." ”

When the blacksmith heard the voice, he noticed that Liu Yao and his party were coming, and hurriedly stood up to say hello, Liu Yao nodded to everyone, and continued to ask Wang Daixi with interest: "Then how do you make the thickness of the hole in the refill and the pencil consistent?" ”

"We made a mold." Wang Daixi saw that the blacksmiths were waiting, and hurriedly said with a red face: "Qian Er has a master named Zhang Heng, he made a few refills out of wood to make molds, let's use this mold to test the holes drilled in the wood, squeeze the wet refills out of these holes, and the size will be the same." This is also used to test the grooves cut out of the wood chips. ”

"Yes, you guys have a lot of ideas, and the pencils are all made." Liu Yao was very happy about this. A couple of blacksmiths also came up and said, "This thing is really easy to use, we can use it if we write numbers on the ingots." It's a pity that there are too few. ”

"If you all want to use it, we can do more. But we definitely have to sell it for money, and we can't use it for nothing. Wang Daixi took over the conversation in a soft voice and looked up at the blacksmith.

"Of course you have to sell it for money. You know better than me about pricing, you set the price yourself, and then you can sell it. Liu Yao smiled and whispered to his daughter again: "Do you remember the pricing method I told you?" One is pricing from cost and the other is pricing from demand. You can ask the blacksmiths how much they are willing to pay for it. Maybe the latter price is much higher than the previous one. Liu Man's eyes lit up, and he pulled Wang Daixi aside to discuss.

Yu Chaoqin saw that the episode of the pencil came to an end, and said to Liu Yao with a smile: "This batch of iron ore is very good, just now I took Xi to help us calculate, and the iron content is more than sixty percent." ”

"And tapping is good! This steel is better than any other! A young blacksmith continued excitedly.

Liu Yao knew in his heart that the taste of Shilu iron ore was high in the world, so it was inevitable that the ore steelmaking brought by the Li people was very smooth. He continued from the topic just now and said: "If the ore is good, you will produce more steel and good steel." Is there enough ore to be shipped now for your continuous production? ”

"Enough, not only is the ore enough, but there are many. The charcoal had to be burned by more people, about five more people. Yu Chaoqin knew it in his heart, and said it clearly: "If I can add twelve more people to burn charcoal and transport, add another furnace, and let the Li people send more ore, even if I don't increase the number of people here, I can double the output." ”

"Let's not add a stove just yet. Even if it is the current output, we can't use it up, so we can't sell the ingots directly, which is not cost-effective. What's more, Zhao Shilu's side is still very short of manpower. Liu Yao said in a deep voice, and beckoned to Wang Daixi, asking her to join the discussion: "Daixi, how much iron ore can be left every day?" ”

"Iron ore has only been shipped for three days, and it is difficult to estimate the stability and instability. If we could all get it at this rate, we would have an extra furnace of ore every five days or so. Wang Daixi can report the numbers without looking at the book in his hand.

"In other words, if the Li people send us a month, and then they don't send it, then I will last for five or six days at most, and there will be no ore to use. Let's start with the current production and see what happens. ”