In fact, the Song Dynasty had some tall buildings, and several tall towers also reached more than 60 meters, and the legend said that Wu Zetian built a Ming Hall in Luoyang, with a height of 300 feet. I don't know if it's true or not. But it's not a tower, it's not a hall, it's not a tall building, and it will make people feel higher visually.

Some officials looked at it, and their hearts were mixed, thinking, is it really made?

Lu Yuqing asked worriedly, "Song Jiu, will it be safe?" ”

This person has to lower his head to see the top when he stands below, and it is not very big, Lu Yuqing is very worried that it will fall down at any time, but he can't ask directly, he can only ask the question in his heart euphemistically.

"Lu Xianggong, it is absolutely safe, it can stand for at least a hundred years, if there is a problem, I am worried that the bricks will crack, then the problem is not big, you can use lime to make up. Solidity is not in the brick, in fact, without the brick, it can also stand. The reason for the use of bricks is the closedness. ”

"No bricks, no trouble?"

"Lu Xianggong, there is no brick but it will be stronger, it is a reinforced concrete structure, just such a big furnace, thirty-two reinforced concrete, if there is no other reason, it can be achieved by standing for five hundred years." Everyone obviously didn't understand this, and Song Jiu didn't want to talk about it, so he said: "Either some small problems will be found in the future, but even if there are problems, it will not be too big, and it can be improved one after another in the future." ”

It's a fact.

It is estimated that in three or four hundred years, no one else will dare to propose major changes to this kind of iron smelting and steelmaking. Unless it is a miracle, there is another more learned traverser. But Song Jiu still had a purpose in saying this, with this, as long as the Song Dynasty needed steel, he would be safe.

Zhao Pu asked, "How much iron can it smelt in a day?" ”

Song Jiu calculated in his heart and replied: "Because of the limitations of the technique, it can produce about five or six thousand catties, not more than ten thousand catties." It also has a flaw, once the furnace is opened, it is better not to shut it out for a long time. ”

Song Jiu said that it is still practical, it is impossible to calculate accurately, it can only be roughly calculated, and the blast furnace is not small, but this is still a product of backward science and technology, and it is impossible to do steam engine blasting, not to do closed furnace tops, not to add flux to sintering raw materials, and even some imperfections in its own technology, and China's iron ore is mostly poor iron ore, not rich iron ore, the daily output will be about three tons, at most four tons, and I am afraid that it will not work.

But after saying that, he couldn't help but shake his head and laugh.

The others smiled wryly together.

Song Jiu is right, such a big blast furnace, I don't know how much money the court spent on it, and the manpower is not costly, if it is higher. Its output is pitiful, and the daily output of blast furnaces in later generations is hundreds of tons or even thousands of tons, what is this output?

However, the amount of iron in the entire Song Dynasty is only two million catties, and if it cannot be extinguished, then at least seventy percent of the iron ore of the entire Song Dynasty must be transported to smelt. Thinking of this, Song Jiu couldn't help but bend down and laughed out loud.

This will give the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty a headache, the first is how to transport, and the second is what to do with those small stoves.

"Why can't you put off the fire?" Zhao Pu asked.

"It's okay to really turn off the fire, but because every time the furnace is preheated, it will increase a lot of costs, and it is often extinguished, the heat and cold are uneven, and the furnace body is also harmful, if you want to be safe, you must keep the low temperature air burning, especially the coke oven, although it is not as tall as the blast furnace, once it starts, it can not be extinguished, otherwise the furnace will really crack because of the uneven heat and cold, so that the furnace body will be wasted. And because it is easy to expand when heated, it needs to protect the furnace, and its life span is only about 20 years. The same is true for blast furnaces, which will not collapse, but after being used for a long time, they will be distorted by thermal expansion and eventually cannot be used. But with a large amount of steel, the technology will be more mature in the future, compared to the cost savings, with a large number of high-quality steel, the construction cost is very low, almost negligible. ”

Xue Juzheng said: "Song Jiu, why didn't you say it earlier." ”

This is a big trouble, and a large amount of iron ore must be transported immediately, otherwise it will be transported in a hurry, which may meet the needs of the blast furnace?

"Xue Xianggong, there is gunpowder, and I am afraid that I will not get iron ore. I've been teaching them for a long time, and it's time to make gunpowder in large quantities. The Song Dynasty's steel leap will start from this. Song Jiu said righteously.

In fact, the appearance of these three things is of great significance. It's just that the people who value it don't know what the road is, and Song Jiu, who knows the way, doesn't think about it at all, just thinking that once the construction starts, he can get a lot of barely qualified steel in the future.

"Boy, then you have to say it earlier," Li Chongju shouted, a few prime ministers are a little better, aren't you kid cheating me?

"Envoy Li, you see I'm busy, so do you have so much to think about?"

I really can't blame Song Jiu, he is really busy, he has been busy for the past six months. After seeing it, Junchen and his entourage hurried back. There are many things to do, first of all, to make gunpowder on a large scale, not only to transfer back some officials and craftsmen who have studied, but also to transfer the students who are studying glass in Song Jiu 21 to gunpowder.

Don't mess with the glass, the country's business matters.

Manpower is tight, not only to make gunpowder, but also to go to the mines to give guidance, just these 40 people understand, the rest of the people don't understand, what if something happens?

Then the quota system was improved, and most of the pit mines, mainly iron ore and carboniferous mines, were operated by the government, and convicts were sent to work as miners. Restore to the system of the Tang Dynasty, this will definitely not work, the first will be inhumane, and as soon as the second official intervenes, corruption and bribery will inevitably occur repeatedly. The system still needs to be changed, but time is pressing, and we have to replace it with this backward system.

The second is to immediately transfer a large number of coal and iron ore to the new steel superintendent.

From Dongfu to Sansi, he was so busy that he was beating chickens and eggs.

Song Jiu was also busy, and its actual output was pitiful, with an annual output of less than 1,000 tons, although this was almost eighty or ninety percent of the Song Dynasty's iron production. But the quantity is really pitiful, and a large river ship can load all the iron produced in a year.

But although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs, from coking to iron smelting to steelmaking, this is a one-stop production, there must be many supporting facilities, or it is inseparable from Song Jiu's guidance.

However, the number of tourists who came to see it also increased.

Gao, come together to see the strange, and not far from the capital, if you get up a little early, come over to take a look, go home before it gets dark, it is just a slow day journey. So many people came to see the excitement. There are smart people who think of one thing.

Those houses in Song Jiu look weird, and many people think that they can't be built, it's difficult, and there is glass. Glass seems to be being developed, and now that this oversized chimney has been built, which houses will still be a problem?

Housing is not a problem, and there will be unlimited business opportunities in that river. And there are not many people who know the content of the gambling contract, and those who know the Tao don't dare to talk nonsense, and they don't know that there are four million behind the road. It's cranky.

But the first fish that was hooked was unexpected by Song Jiu, not the group of second ancestors who often messed with him, but the three Yanai who had never dealt with each other.

They may not be very famous, but their father is very famous, two are Shi Shouxin's son, Shi Baozheng, and his second brother Shi Baoji, who is only ten years old, who came to play, and the other is Gao Chugong, the son of Zhao Kuangyin's brother-in-law Gao Huaide.

Song Jiu is not a young brother who just came to the Song Dynasty, and he often hears some Yanai talk about the situation of the generals in the army, so he knows that the romance Gao family in his memory will be wrong, and Gao Huaide's descendants are likely to be unknown, but Gao Qiong, another general in the army, began to stand out, one is from Changshan, the other is from Mengcheng, not a family. In the future, the famous Gao family is about Gao Qiong's lineage. The specific Song Jiu is also not clear.

According to rumors, three years ago, Zhao Kuangyin used Zhao Puji to summon Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide, Wang Xianqi, Zhang Lingduo and other generals, released the military power with a glass of wine, dismissed the military post, and remotely led the Jiedu to make the post. Song Jiu faintly felt that it was not the same thing, and it was not that simple.

But three years ago, nearly 10 generals were indeed relieved of their military powers.

Zhao Kuangyin is good to them, rewarding them lavishly, and also officially sealing their descendants, such as this Shi Baozheng, at the age of fourteen, he made up for the worship of the official, and moved to the deputy envoy of Shangshi in the second year, which was sealed by Chai Rongfeng, and had nothing to do with Zhao Kuangyin. In fact, it is to give Shi Shouxin face.

Released the military power, give it wealth, so these generals began to accumulate wealth, Shi Shouxin just a few years, accumulated huge wealth, according to Fu Zhaoshou evaluation of the family of huge wealth, I don't know how much money there is, so in Luoyang built a luxury Chongde Temple, but the housekeeper did not do well, using the prestige of the master, recruiting people to make a tile wood, driving urgency, and not to pay or deduct wages, the people were not convinced, so they went to Luoyang Mansion, and the court did not ask.

The Gao family is also not bad for money, Gao Chugong is the child of Gao Huaide's ex-wife, she also died early, Zhao Kuangyin's two sisters, the eldest sister also died early, the younger sister and Mi Ford got married, unfortunately her husband died, Zhao Kuangyin thought of a good brother, and made do with it and let them get married. But you can't ignore Zhao Kuangyin's little sister, who is a fierce girl who uses a rolling pin to catch Zhao Kuangyin. She got married, can the Gao family still use the money?

And the two are relatively well-informed, so they can't think about the right anymore, so they have to think about the money. So there was a group of three.

But there is still a story behind the scenes, and Song Jiu can come up with it.

The servant was playing with Shi Baoji, and Shi Baozheng, Gao Chu Gong and Song Jiu sat down to chat.

After chatting for a while, Shi Baozheng took the initiative to lead to the river island and asked, "Jiulang, does it cost a lot of money to build that river island?" ”

"yes."

"I don't know ......"

"I'll raise some of the deed shares." Song Jiu said straight to the point.

"How?"

"If you have money, you can join, regardless of the family."

Shi Baozheng paced a few steps and asked, "I don't know if I might become a shareholder?" ”

"Yes, but I declare first, my deed shares are six million yuan, I don't know how much money Dalang can pay?"

"What six million!" Shi Bao is in a hurry, isn't this nonsense, there is no family in the entire capital that can come up with six million.

"I don't believe it, you can ask your fathers to ask His Majesty and the two kings, one is the court money, and the other is the technical and technical shares, I said that six million is less," Song Jiu said. Six million taels can also be said, if in terms of technique, six million is not much, if from the tax he owes, it is too much, that is to drag it back, it is more than 4 million, but ignoring the depreciation and interest, calculated at the annual interest rate of 10 percent a year, in fact, at this time, only need to pay more than 400,000 yuan, that is, excluding the interest rolling, it can only be regarded as more than 600,000 yuan, that is, the low interest rate of 10 percent of the rolling interest can be handed over to more than 4 million yuan in the future as long as 400,000 yuan, and it is only 600,000 yuan if it is not rolled.

However, this kind of algorithm is more circumventing, and only Song Jiu will calculate it like this, and ordinary people can't get around it at all.

"Imperial court money?"

"Yes, unlike the deed shares, as long as you invest, you will wait for dividends in the future, and I will have to repay the debts of the imperial court every year in the future, and also, it is ten years of development, and the real unprofitable ones are the bridges, academies and docks, and the money will be paid by the imperial court, and the others will be profitable. Even if it was a hundred taels of money invested before, the annual profit dividends could be rolled into thousands of taels after the most deed, but because my deed shares are complicated, I will not roll with it, and the sooner I invest, the more cost-effective. ”

"Could it be that the imperial court will lend you money......" Gao asked respectfully, apart from the imperial court, which family would lend so much money to Song Jiu?

"The secret of heaven cannot be revealed, and one more thing, it only has a period of fifty years, except that those residences are sold to the people permanently, and all of them will be handed over to the imperial court after fifty years."

"Fifty years."

"Shi Dalang, I have been secretly happy for fifty years, I originally thought that it was only thirty years and forty years."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I'll just talk about three examples, the first thing is gambling, there are a few households in the capital that don't gamble, large families gamble thousands of times a year, and ordinary people also have a few dollars of gambling, so many households in the capital, and many foreign merchants, how big will this number be? You're all well-informed, I have a gym in it, how much does it earn a year? Let me talk about the main store, that kind of environment, that kind of building, that kind of facilities, not only the food, but also the wine in the future, how much money can you make in a year? I'll talk about colored glass again, you have also seen a piece of colored glass, how much can it be sold for if the workmanship is fine? And I'm going to study better, bigger and bigger, how much money does it bring in a year? There are more, that gold shop is even more of a gold hole, it's still early, I will definitely join forces with the court in the future, otherwise the minister of the court and the central government will tear me up because of his red eyes. Besides, that heavenly thing, I charge 500 or 1,000 for one person, which is reasonable. ”

The two choked to death, and said respectfully: "Is it reasonable to say that it is so expensive?" ”

"This is the only one, I can go to the sky, I can jump down from the sky, I can collect 2,000 yuan, if you fall in love, no one will go up."

"That can really go to heaven?"

"You'll be able to see it in twenty days. In short, if it is fully implemented, the money earned in a year will be piled up into mountains of gold and silver, not only in fifty years, but I am afraid that in thirty years, I will automatically pay more money to the imperial court, otherwise it will not be able to keep it. And you have heard that the amount of six million yuan is very large, but you don't know the rolling word, even if you invest 10,000 yuan, this year is one, next year is two, the year after next year is four, the year after next year is eight, and then sixteen, thirty-two, ten years roll down, it will be hundreds of thousands of principal. Won't it be your two families, there will be countless families throwing money into it to buy shares in the future, my share deed will be gradually diluted, and even one percent will be insufficient in the end, and I will have to pay off the huge debts of the imperial court, too much? ”

In this way, it is reasonable for Song to have 96 million deed shares.

In fact, it went around in the middle again, and it was right to roll up, Guan Jian rolled to the back, where do you need so much principal, they are all the second ancestors, who is afraid of whom. Song Jiu's shares must be diluted, and it is impossible to dilute them to 10 percent, but these are some strange math problems. Maybe Song Jiu's large-scale education, ten years later, there will be more people who will learn mathematics, so they will not be bypassed, but not now, few people can completely figure it out.

Shi Baozheng looked at Gao Di Gong, with their family property, it is not uncommon to take out 10,000 and 20,000 yuan, if it is as Song Jiu said, it can be rolled into hundreds of thousands in ten years, then it can also be said to be considerable. Although it is not as many as Song Jiu's shares, one needs to repay the debts of the imperial court, and the other does not need to be repaid, and the nature is two different things. And those eccentric and strange fame halls are also inseparable from Song Jiu. I can't have the power, and I can't conjure it up.

Shi Baozheng stood up and said, "Excuse me, Jiulang." ”

After saying that, the three of them hurried back with the servants, but Song Jiu looked at their backs and thought in his heart that the fish was basically hooked.