The smelter, formerly the blacksmith's shop, has slowly turned into a bottomless pit that burns money.

However, most of the output here is used for infrastructure, such as parts and ironwork for various workshops.

Most of these earnings are invisible, and they can't even be shown on the internal books, which creates the image of the gold-swallowing monster in the smelting workshop.

However, Zhao Hengyi is very sober, he is familiar with the importance of the smelting workshop, and it can even be said to be a decisive role!

No matter how many times Miao Xiaoyu and the other stewards had come to him in front of him, Zhao Hengyi had never cut the funds of the smelting workshop!

On the contrary, Zhao Hengyi is still sending people around to recruit blacksmiths, and he is also constantly cultivating young apprentices who are willing to enter the smelting workshop.

Zhao Hengyi is not a pure businessman, and he doesn't even care if he has profits to make, as long as all the industries cooperate with each other, communicate with each other, and can continue to develop, he is very satisfied.

What Zhao Hengyi wants to build is not just a simple variety of workshops that can make money, what he wants to create is a whole and an industrial cluster!

From the beginning for self-preservation, to now his words and deeds can determine the lives of thousands of people, Zhao Hengyi's mentality is constantly changing.

The cognition of modern people made him subconsciously guide the industry of Yushu Bay towards diversification, and even began to secretly reserve talents and production capacity.

The entire industrial cluster is like a tank that is constantly rampage, and the smelter is the engine of this tank.

Zhao Hengyi knows this, but he will never say it.

Even if the government of the Great Yan Kingdom is corrupt, there are still some things that cannot be touched.

For example, mineral iron.

Hengtong business can go south and north and operate everywhere, relying not only on Wei Linglan, the county lord of Xiangcheng!

Even if she is the aunt of today's official family, she can't do it!

In fact, doing business in Dayan Country and competing for profits with the country is not a big deal, and at this time, no one cares.

However, there are invisible barriers to everything that is related to the lifeblood of the country and the people's livelihood.

Vested interest groups do not allow others to set foot rashly, and provoking them is much more serious than provoking the laws of the Great Yan Kingdom!

The reason why Wei Linglan's Hengtong business name was able to flourish and make countless people blush was because her father, Lu Guogong, who loved his daughter and felt guilty, paid a great price at the beginning!

To put it mildly, the silver money earned by Hengtong Firm for 100 years may not be worth the price that Lu Guogong paid at the beginning!

Under such circumstances, even if the smelter had mastered the technology far ahead of its time, it would not be possible to produce goods on a large scale.

This is the same reason that Zhao Hengyi dared to burn glass, but did not dare to dig the salt mines in Daqing Mountain.

As for farm tools such as hoes and firewood knives, with the strength of the smelting workshop, it is indeed possible to beat all the blacksmith shops in the Great Yan Kingdom that manufacture such products, but the profit of that thing is too low, the cost of the channel is too high, and the most important thing is that the smelting workshop does not have so many manpower at all!

There are still too few people and too many labor gaps!

Moreover, the infrastructure construction of Yushu Bay has not stopped for a day, and even similar projects have begun to radiate to nearby villages, and in Zhao Hengyi's plan, several nearby villages will eventually be included in his own industrial zone.

Marked by the burning of the Zhou ancestral hall, Zhao Hengyi has freed the nearby labor force from the fields as much as possible, but this is not a long-term solution.

The prerequisite for the great development of industrialization is the increase in grain production and the great abundance of food.

The industrial scale of Yushuwan is still small, and even in the future, Dangyang County will be completely built into Zhao Hengyi's industrial area, which is not a burden on Dayanguo at the food level.

After all, there is no food to eat, and they are hungry every day, and they can only rely on wild vegetables and grass seeds to satisfy their hunger, but they are ordinary people.

In the warehouses of grain merchants, there is no shortage of white rice and white flour like snow.

As long as there is money, the grain merchants will continue to mobilize sufficient rice and noodles from Jiangling City to supply Zhao Hengyi.

But in the long run, there are still hidden dangers.

Even Zhao Hengyi himself didn't realize that he was already subconsciously thinking about how to rebuild the civilization and kingdom of the Han people after the collapse of the Great Yan Kingdom.

Before Zhao Hengyi left Jiangling City, he had already asked Wei Linglan to help find overseas crops, no matter what kind of crops, whether it was grain or others, as long as there were seeds and physical goods, they would ask Hengtong Firm to collect them on their behalf.

At this time, the Great Yan Kingdom was not forbidden to the sea, and the sea merchants were rumored to be rich enough to rival the country, presumably if they could pay enough price, they should be able to collect overseas crops.

Zhao Hengyi had the idea of fighting for luck, once he could get high-yield crops from overseas, then not only would the people have something to eat, but I am afraid that even those gentry and those families would have an irrepressible change in attitude!

The new cave built in the Daqing Mountains began to burn the kiln, and the ten people who were carefully selected by the steward who reported the news built a wooden house next to the new kiln, and ate and lived here directly.

These people are innocent, there is absolutely no problem with loyalty, and the most rare thing is that all of these people have good grades in night school.

"That's the recipe, these utensils sent by the smelting workshop are all specially made, you guys burn them according to what I said first, there must be something that needs to be improved."

Zhao Hengyi habitually writes and draws on paper, and the person who stands in front of him and desperately remembers everything on the paper is Liu Sijiu, the master who discovered Liuli before, "You are the master of the process improvement, and if the equipment is useless, go to Zhang Daniu, and the smelting workshop will give priority to meeting the needs of the new kiln." ”

"Owner, I'm going to try to burn it first, this thing is much easier than burning porcelain according to the process you said!"

Liu Sijiu's originally cloudy eyes shone brightly, as if they could shine, "Our Liu family has burned the kiln for several lifetimes, and we never thought that something so precious as colored glass would be burned like this!" ”

Zhao Hengyi smiled slightly, things in this world are like this, how many things that seem to be magical, once they are broken, everyone will feel ordinary.

But before it was revealed, it was a secret that was enough to destroy the country!

After failing several times in a row, Liu Sijiu gradually found the doorway.

The experience of a master like him who has been burning kilns for generations is not comparable to that of a guy like Zhao Hengyi, and it only took three days for Liu Sijiu to successfully fire transparent and colorless glass!

A large iron plate of character was placed in front of everyone, flat and smooth, covered with a thin layer of glass......

Add a little process to make a huge dressing mirror!