With 200 employees, United Steel seemed to be an incredible behemoth in the eyes of Duke and others, but it was nothing compared to the later giants United Steel, which had tens of thousands of employees during the Great Depression, and even compared to the private iron foundry in B.C. China.

In the story of Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, who is talked about by many literati, the father of Zhuo Wenjun as a background character, Zhuo Wangsun, the richest man in the southwest, his ancestors were originally Zhao people who were professional iron smelters. The husband and wife built a furnace to cast iron, and after a few generations, by the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they were already super-rich people with "eight hundred servants (domestic slaves)" and "the joy of hunting in the field pond, intended to be the king of people"!

Compared with Zhuo Wangsun in BC, Luo Yi's "United Steel" in the Middle Ages is still a big distance......

Therefore, this is actually not some alien black technology, but an ordinary workshop that is a thousand years behind the East.

But there is no Zhuo Wangsun and his family's iron-smelting workshop, let alone United Steel.

Therefore, Luo Yi was ashamed to name his ironmaking workshop United Steel, wrote the words "factory" and "central factory" everywhere on the wall, and did not hesitate to give the workers of the crash course to get rid of illiteracy with the titles of "chief engineer" and "master", and there will be no second iron casting guild in the entire Neustrian kingdom, and she is not alone in her decision!

Don't be afraid of comparison, just look at who you compare with.

The young bishop of Tournest has now grasped this truth acutely, and he once reviled at the practice of digging according to the map, and after working overtime to sweep the streets and bless thousands of people in succession, he deeply remembered the comfortable life of practicing digging and weaving baskets.

After a few days of walking in the backwoods to hold fan meetings, wrongly, sending blessings to poor villagers, he deeply missed the time when he swept horse manure on the streets of Tournest late at night.

Although he was tired of sweeping horse manure overnight, he could still enjoy dumplings and meatball noodles filled with honey and fat after working overtime, and in the countryside where he walked......

Once you've been there, it's easy to see why the previous bishop never set foot in those areas!

Many of the land that had been cultivated in the imperial era was abandoned because of the endless struggles of the nobles, and the noble knights who stayed in their homes honestly were not so much transformed into landlords, but rather robbed everything that could be grabbed nearby, and there was nothing left to grab, so they could only barely farm and make a living. There is a scholarly view that the origin of the European feudal system was that the king could no longer grab the spoils of war to pay his men, so he could only give each of them a piece of land and tell them to farm for a living. These nobles were apparently quite dissatisfied with this deception, and when they had to live as landlords, they lost their loyalty to the central monarch, who could not lead them to plunder.

No wonder everyone from the king to the peasants, hearing that the East is rich and can be robbed, they all mortgaged and sold their land and country, and they couldn't wait to run thousands of kilometers just to grab a handful!

Faith is secondary, and the most important thing is that for this group of Europeans, who had to be peasants and landlords, they were more accustomed to robbery than farming......

Moreover, they are really not very good at farming, and all their points are added to robbery, and there are really very few added to farming.

A plot of land was rented for seven carts of firewood, three hundred loaves of bread, and ten geese per year...... After listing seven or eight items in detail, Luo Yi can understand how poor the landlords are when they look at this lease, and they prefer to abandon the theoretically higher income sharing rent and adopt a fixed rent.

This is a kind of lease that is quite unfavorable to small tenants, but quite beneficial to powerful large tenants.

In the famine years, small tenants with no savings could not afford to pay the rent, and if they were forced to pay the rent according to the usual lease, they would go bankrupt, so they would rather pay more rent in the good years and adopt a share-type lease, which is equivalent to paying insurance. For large tenants who have the strength, especially the skills and capital to improve their land, the share-based lease allows the landlord to enjoy the benefits of land improvement for nothing, while the fixed rent allows them to enjoy the rich return on their investment in land.

After discovering this, Luo Yi immediately couldn't wait to take advantage of this vulnerability.

After following the bishop around the four villages, she signed many leases in one go, and doubled the land under the direct control of the church of Tournest with a pile of burnt earth and sand as collateral.

The blast furnaces of Union Iron and Steel were in continuous operation, and the red-hot molten iron was poured into the iron fan (which improved the casting accuracy even more than the pottery fan) to produce new agricultural implements that followed in the footsteps of the bishop and flowed like a torrent of iron into the countryside of the diocese of Tournest.