This harvest is really "huge"! There are more than 6,000 taels of gold alone, in addition to 2,000 taels of silver and more than 500 copper coins! As Xiao Ming said: a huge fortune!

Gu Shouzhen looked at the gold and silver, and was so excited that she didn't know what to say!

Xiao Ming was very satisfied with his expression, took a sip of tea and said to Gu Shouzhen: "Brother Gu, you can take all this, now you can make a big show, right?" Ha ha! ”

Gu Shouzhen turned around and bowed down: "Brother Xiao, you should take the lion's share of this wealth!" How dare my brother covet it. ”

"Hurry up, Brother Gu, what are you doing?"

Xiao Ming thought about it for a while, and felt that this was also something that could not be helped, on the one hand, he still wanted to return to modern society, but he always felt that there was little hope in his heart, if he wanted to stay in the Song Dynasty, then he would always settle down, and it was the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he would soon experience troubled times, Xiao Ming didn't want to lose his life in the troubled times.

Although he made a fortune, but the gold and silver add up, hundreds of kilograms, how much can he carry with him? He studied economics and finance, and according to professional thinking, wealth can only be invested and then recycled, which is the habitual thinking formed over the years.

So he thought of Gu Shouzhen, it can be said that Gu Shouzhen's blacksmith workshop is actually the prototype of a steel manufacturing enterprise, the iron coal production during the Song Dynasty is equivalent to the iron coal production at the end of the British Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, for this sunrise industry, it can be said that investing in the steel manufacturing industry is the best way to achieve high returns at the moment, but for some deep-rooted thinking in the traditional concept of the Song people, Xiao Ming decided to find another way to achieve the goal, Xiao Ming felt very confident in this point.

"Brother Gu, that's the case, I want to make a stake in all the gold and silver here, of course, there is also a condition, I don't know if you agree?"

"Brother, but it doesn't matter, my brother will promise you everything."

Xiao Ming scratched his scalp and took off his hat, he was now a little used to the cute character of the Song Dynasty.

"Hehe, Brother Gu, my conditions are actually very simple, the blacksmith refinery still listens to you technically, but listens to me in terms of business development, I want to develop your workshop into the largest workshop in the Great Song Dynasty in just a few years, and make him the Great Song Iron Factory."

This cake is not small, Gu Shouzhen heard that it was full of little stars, and this was not over, and then listened to Xiao Ming continue to spray.

"We want to build the largest blast furnace in the Great Song Dynasty, refine the best steel, produce the best ironware, and set up branch ...... in Yanzhou, Jingxiang, Sichuan and Shu."

"But the imperial court has always levied heavy taxes on coal and iron!" Gu Shouzhen was still a little worried.

"What if our coal and iron are necessary for the military? …… Don't understand? It is what we produce that is necessary for officers and men to fight wars. ”

Gu Shouzhen suddenly said, "Oh, oh! You mean building weapons."

Xiao Ming nodded, "Do you remember the desulfurization iron tool you refined according to my method?" That thing is the best material for making bows and crossbows, we need to improve it, and then build it in large quantities, listen to me, Brother Gu, the Great Song Dynasty will definitely go through a big mess in the next few years, and there will be a lot of orders for the bows and crossbows we make. ”

"What the brother is talking about, is it going to start a war with the Western Xia Kingdom?" Gu Shouzhen asked.

"Otherwise, even now, we are actually going to raise a sword army, and now the Demon Sect is rampant, and there will definitely be an incident soon, and the southeast will be chaotic, we must seize this opportunity."

These words inspired Gu Shouzhen a lot, and he patted his head.

"Brother, you wait, I'll come when I go, I'll show you something" Gu Shouzhen looked excited, and turned to go out.

After a while, Gu Shouzhen came back, holding a dark and faint thing in his hand.

"Brother, look" Gu Shouzhen handed the thing to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming took it in his hand and observed carefully, a long half-inch iron plate, a four-layer composite iron plate reinforced with iron nails in the middle, a wooden card slot, a horizontal wooden bracket, and a handle, it was obviously a bow and crossbow, but it was not equipped with a bowstring.

"This ...... This is? Xiao Ming looked at Gu Shouzhen puzzled.

Gu Shouzhen smiled and said: "Last time, thanks to my brother for telling me the method of iron smelting and desulfurization, I have improved it again during this time, and later found that the forged iron plate has excellent elasticity, which can be used as a bow and crossbow, so I took the time to make one, but it has not been completed, and I don't know how powerful it is." ”

This makes Xiao Ming a little impressed by Gu Shouzhen, thinking that a craftsman at the bottom of society like Gu Shouzhen has no culture, but he has a lively brain, is willing to ponder many things, and can often draw inferences from one another, and his creativity is amazing.

"It's still in politics class, and the teacher is right! The people are the driving force behind promoting social development and creating social wealth! Xiao Ming couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

Seeing Xiao Ming's surprise, Gu Shouzhen couldn't help but feel a little proud, and insisted on letting Xiao Ming give advice.

Xiao Ming did not shirk, proposed that the composite method is suitable for recurve bows, although the power is great, but the fatigue of the metal will go up, this point of process needs to be improved, the crossbow body itself is made of wood, the handle is too short, it will cause top-heavy, difficult to control. Is it lengthened, Xiao Ming described a shoulder rest style to Gu Shouzhen, which can increase the stability of the crossbow, and since it is a wooden crossbow body, in order to increase the stability of the crossbow arrow's flight, it is best to be able to cut a slot, so that the crossbow arrow can be pulled out of the arrow hole at the front end, on the one hand, it increases the stability and range of the crossbow arrow, and on the other hand, it has become very convenient to fill the crossbow arrow, such a design has actually become a modern sniper crossbow, just like Xiao Ming saw a toy at the home of a military fan classmate.

Gu Shouzhen was shocked when she heard this, and immediately described Xiao Ming's description and design with pen and paper, claiming that it would be reformed today.

Next, Xiao Ming and he focused on discussing the next step, the key work direction of the blacksmith workshop, first of all, the funds, send people to Yanzhou to buy good iron ore and coal, the iron ore and coal mines in Shandong can not be compared with Henan at present, the current proven and mined very little, but the reserves are rich, and the quality is very high, but Shandong belongs to Jingdong Road, and Henan and Hebei belong to Hebei Road and Hedong Road, which belongs to the core area of the Central Plains, and the coal and iron industry has always been very developed, in the long run, Xiao Ming suggested that we should gradually set up strongholds and refinery branches in Yanzhou and Denglai areas, so as to facilitate local materials, and at present, relying on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal can quickly obtain the raw materials needed by the refinery.

Of course, the bulk of the capital investment is the construction of blast furnaces, and some specialized talents need to be found in this regard. But the shelves have to be put up in advance.

Due to the preliminary carbon proportion casting technology that the workshop has mastered, the next step should be to create a batch of high-quality knives, guns and weapons, make a name for themselves in the Hangzhou Garrison Mansion, reduce the creation of some daily ironware, and determine the model of the first-class bow and crossbow, and make more in a short period of time.

Gu Shouzhen has a lot of problems about the construction of the blast furnace, Xiao Ming is actually not clear, but he gave an idea, that is, to start with the casting of large bronze devices, and to absorb the experience of the kiln of folk firing porcelain, Song Dynasty porcelain is the pinnacle of porcelain development, the five famous kilns are well-known in the world, the kiln for firing porcelain, the internal temperature control can reach 2,000 degrees, and the technology is quite high.

Gu Shouzhen nodded in agreement, the casting technology of bronze is already very mature, and now it can refine brass with high purity, but how to start still needs to be carefully studied.

Xiao Ming thought to himself: "How do you know that I want you to cast a cannon when the time comes!" ”

In modern society, only military enterprises are the best enterprises that live, and there is never a shortage of orders, which is the same at home and abroad.

As for arranging manpower, recruiting craftsmen, buying land, expanding the construction workshop site and a series of other issues, Xiao Ming discussed with Gu Shouzhen, Xiao Ming was full of energy and didn't feel tired at all, and Gu Shouzhen was also in a state of excitement, the two kept talking about the three poles of the sun, and when it was nearly noon, they heard a thunderous grunt in each other's stomachs, it turned out that they were hungry!

The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing......

The plan specified by the conversation between the two this time, Xiao Ming privately called it the Great Song Dynasty Survival Plan, but said to Gu Shouzhen: The Great Refining Workshop Development Plan! Gu Shouzhen admired Xiao Ming's plan and fully implemented it.

In the next few days, Xiao Ming and Gu Shouzhen were put into a tense busyness, Gu Shouzhen's initial blacksmith shop, although the workshop was good, but the accounts have been a problem, I wanted to find a bookkeeper, and now the things on the accounts are also in the hands of Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming graduated from the economics and finance major, accounting is a compulsory course, naturally not a problem, just a simple use of a double-entry accounting method to solve all the problems, Gu Shouzhen is simply going to Xiao Ming's five bodies.

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One day, Gu Shouzhen found Xiao Ming and asked him to watch the launch test of the latest design and manufacture of the crossbow, the current crossbow is not simple, the whole body is painted black, the whole shape is not much different from Xiao Ming's design, the crossbow string is made of cow tendons, and the aiming device is installed above the crossbow body, also called: "Wangshan", the crossbow arrow is fired using a trigger device, also called: "hanging knife", arc design, suitable for finger movement.

Gu Shouzhen and Xiao Ming each shot a few arrows, and they felt very satisfied, the penetration of this crossbow is very strong, the longest range can reach four or five hundred steps, and within one hundred and fifty steps, it can shoot through two layers of raw cowhide several inches thick, and within eighty steps, it can shoot through an inch-thick iron plate, which is extremely powerful.

"Haha, such a strong crossbow can't be sold for less than five taels of silver!" Xiao Ming said.

Such a strong crossbow, made two samples, Xiao Ming decided to start mass production, first of all, to decompose the crossbow, the specifications and dimensions of the main parts are all determined, and then according to the set size, first mass production parts, and finally in assembly, this is the prototype of modern assembly line production, in this way, a large number of finished products can be manufactured in a short time.

"Brother Xiao, we can make it in large quantities, but how can we get the government to place an order?"

"Don't worry, Brother Gu, I have a way, you just need to arrange for people to make it."

In fact, Xiao Ming thought of a person, he thought of Yang Zhen, since the last separation, Xiao Ming has not seen this person, but he knows that this person is now working in the Hangzhou Garrison Mansion, it seems that he is a judge of the Beijing Mansion, who saved him and the official Luo Dingbang last time, and they are gracious, this time he can ask him for help.

After making up his mind, Xiao Ming decided to go to Yang Zhen.

According to Xiao Ming's requirements, a three-dimensional painting method was adopted, and the overall structure of the bow and crossbow was described in detail from three intuitive aspects, just like the mechanical drawing method of later generations, and there was a style drawing of the correct launch of the crossbow bow, which Xiao Ming called the rendering.

Xiao Ming and Gu Shouzhen went out together and headed to the north of the city.

Not long after the two of them went out, they saw a carriage suddenly galloping on the street behind them, the people driving in the car were well-dressed, the carriage was also luxuriously decorated, the angry horses were galloping, the bell rang wildly, and in a blink of an eye, they ran behind Xiao Ming and them.

Hearing the sound behind them, Xiao Ming and Gu Shouzhen glanced back and stepped aside, wanting to wait for the carriage to pass. I think that the people of the rich family of the official family have urgent matters, and they don't care about the pedestrians on the road, and they drive wildly on the street.

The carriage was not far behind him, and suddenly heard the "——! With a bang, the Luan bell stopped abruptly, the car stopped, Xiao Ming and Gu Shouzhen glanced at each other, and looked at the people who got off the carriage very suspiciously.

The person who got out of the car was an old man, dressed like a big housekeeper, and the man ran to the front in a few steps and looked at Xiao Gu and the others.

"Dare to ask the two of you, are the shopkeeper Gu and Mr. Xiao Ming of the Chengxi Refinery?" The old man asked.

Gu Shouzhen nodded and said, "It's us, may I ask my husband, what are you looking for with the two of us?" ”

"Great, two gentlemen, our lord has something urgent, just now I went to the Guibao to look for the two, and I heard the guy say that the two of them just went out, so I chased after them."

This matter is a bit strange, Xiao Ming said: "Dare to ask your lord's surname, I don't know what to do with us?" ”

The old housekeeper said: "My lord's surname is Su, and I am looking for two people to come here under the guidance of others." ”

Seeing that Xiao Gu and the others were still hesitating, the old man hurriedly said: "I'm sorry for the two, 100,000 is urgent, human life is at stake, please get in the car first, and the little old man on the road will explain to the two of you, okay?" ”

Xiao Ming thought about it for a while, seemed to understand a little, nodded in agreement, Gu Shouzhen grabbed him, and said in a low voice: "Virtuous brother should not be reckless, it is better to be careful." ”

Xiao Ming smiled and pointed to the fluttering flags hanging on both sides of the carriage, which had three big characters on them: "Richanglong"

Gu Shouzhen still didn't figure it out, but at this time she had been pulled into the car by Xiao Ming.

The old butler was overjoyed, and immediately beckoned to the handlebars, and immediately drove on the road, and ran towards the north of the city......