A big advance in technology, in which every small step is silent.

Wang Ben stared at Xiao Jiu fiddling with the new steam dish, which was still operating normally, but Xiao Jiu suddenly pulled his hair fiercely.

"What's wrong?"

Wang Ben asked with concern.

"Failed again."

"It's good that something failed." Wang Ben looked around the steam dish a few times, but couldn't see why.

The blower of the coke refinery will not be replaced by a steam engine, which Wang Ben knows.

In his mind, it was so difficult to use the same thing in the mining area and in the coke refinery.

I didn't think that Xiao Jiu's skills were not good, but I only sighed that the interlacing was like a mountain.

"Look, it's deformed."

Wang Ben couldn't see anything in the direction of Xiao Jiu's fingers, and he was confused in surprise.

"What went wrong?"

"The wrought iron practiced by the master is not good." Xiao Jiu said bluntly, if Wansan is here, it will be a few more falls.

"Better wrought iron is needed."

Wang Ben didn't understand much, so he didn't dare to interject easily, and reassured him with his own experience: "Sometimes the best materials are not the most suitable, take your time, Master Xiaojiu, don't be too anxious." ”

"Click!"

Xiao Jiu was shocked in his heart, and looked at Wang Ben in a daze.

"Hey, hey." Wang Ben thought that he had said the wrong thing, so he laughed dryly, thinking about whether to apologize, this is a red man in the eyes of nobles.

"I was wrong."

"Huh?"

"I made a big mistake."

"Not so much!" Wang Ben waved his hand again and again, and he couldn't understand Xiao Jiu more and more.

"I tried to use wrought iron at the beginning, and I have used several iron smelting, but the result is not good, I complain that the master's craftsmanship is not good, the master scolds me, and I am still not convinced."

Xiao Jiu suddenly hugged Wang Ben, "Fortunately, Master Wang reminded me, who said that you have to use the best materials!" ”

"Wrought iron is harder than pig iron, and it has more sex, and everyone knows that wrought iron is better than pig iron."

"Wrought iron can be malleable and cast, while pig iron can be cast but not malleable."

"But pig iron also has a benefit that wrought iron does not have, and this benefit is not commonly used, but it is suitable for steam dishes."

"Why am I so stupid, such a simple question has bothered me for a long time, or Master Wang woke me up, otherwise I would have to be confused."

Throwing away a burst of inexplicable words, Xiao Jiu just ran away, leaving Wang Ben in the mess.

"If you don't go crazy, you can't live, no wonder the nobles value Xiao Jiu, and the future is terrifying."

Although he didn't understand what Xiao Jiu understood, Wang Ben knew that Xiao Jiu would definitely succeed, and he also knew why the nobles trusted Xiao Jiu so much.

It seems that Xiao Jiu's problem has been solved, what about his own.

Wang Ben shook his head.

There are some things that he doesn't know in his heart.

……

"A few masters were not convinced, and they had some conflicts with Master Wang, but before they got into trouble, Master Wang subdued them in a few words."

"It just shows that Master Wang is more skilled than them, so as not to convince a group of people." Zhu Gaochi said with a smile.

"It's good that the craftsmen are upright, but sometimes it's hard to manage." Zhou Shifeng sighed.

The coke refinery occupies the workshop of the iron smelting plant, which has the disadvantage of needing to be rebuilt, and the advantage is that it saves time.

It takes a lot of time to build a house on vacant land, just to level the land.

Therefore, the coke refinery was built very quickly, the engineering team was greatly expanded, and there were many old foremen.

"Before Wang Ben came, he had invited several masters, and although he was famous, it always made people feel that there was a little less fire."

"We asked Wansan, and even he agreed with our idea, so the leading craftsman has not been determined, although we have not urged you, in fact, I have been uneasy."

What Zhu Gaochi wants is not a slippery head that brags about patting horses, but a talent who can calm down and work hard.

is the so-called pro-gentleman, far from the villain.

Compared with Zhang Dehui's respect, although Zhou Shifeng's performance was not as good as Zhang Dehui at the beginning, after getting acquainted with it, he focused on hard work, rather than focusing all his energy on pleasing himself, which won Zhu Gaochi's satisfaction.

To please him excessively does not mean that he is loyal to him, but rather that he asks for a lot and is not strong-willed.

As a helmsman, Zhang Dehui is not suitable to stay in his own team.

With Zhu Gaochi's delegation of power and trust, Zhou Shifeng was in the factory, and his words were heavier than his predecessors.

"The scale of the steam engine plant is not as good as that of the coke refinery, and it is like a blank sheet of paper, but it is easy to manage, unlike the coke refinery, everything is difficult to determine, and there are no more important things than two things at present."

"The first thing is that the regulations of the coke refinery have not yet been decided, and Master Wang has not yet given a word on how to do it."

Zhou Shifeng hesitated: "Although I invited this person back, I still don't know the bottom in my heart, such a big factory, if it is smashed by him, how can it be good." ”

"We are very satisfied that you can have this worry, but you can't give up food because of choking, and you can do anything without risk." Zhu Gaochi reassured: "As long as you do things seriously and do something wrong, we are not afraid, learn a lesson and make persistent efforts." ”

The more you read, the more you know.

For example, in the ordinary world, Sun Shaoan wanted to upgrade the brick-making workshop to a factory, and he suffered a big loss and almost went bankrupt, just because the master he invited was a parallel import.

But he did not regress because of this, but learned a lesson, invited a famous teacher to go out of the mountain, and then moved from failure to success.

Regarding Zhou Shifeng's worries, Zhu Gaochi knew very well in his heart that part of the reason was because of his identity.

Looking at history, the same noble people, some succeed and some fail in doing things, and the general reason is nothing more than that the successful can accept failure, and the loser cannot accept failure.

Blindly asking subordinates not to make mistakes, rather than exploring the reasons and learning lessons, will inevitably lead to panic in people, but will not help and deepen the cracks.

Even if the coke refinery fails, it will suffer the consequences, and with the blood replenishment of the steam engine, you can start all over again.

But this failure must be a correct failure, not a man-made failure, such as human superfluity and so on.

"Interlacing is like a mountain, but most of the people who can go to the top of the industry are somewhat similar, and Master Wan can recognize it, which shows that Master Wang has real skills."

"Eliminate all difficulties, concentrate on work, Shopkeeper Zhou doesn't have too many scruples, are you still afraid that we are not reasonable people?"

Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhou Shifeng with a smile.

"I used to be afraid of the little prince, but now I am not afraid, but I like to talk to the little prince, every time I talk to the little prince, I can have more confidence in my heart." Zhou Shifeng said sincerely.

"In this case, the matter of the coke refinery, Shopkeeper Zhou is more troublesome, we believe that you can handle it well, and you must also trust us more."

Zhou Shifeng was in high spirits and his heart was warm.

It's not that there are nobles who are kind to the people, but it's rare to be as approachable as the little prince.

"The second thing is the matter of coal."

"Many people propose to cooperate with Zhou Dongjia to buy coal from Zhou Dongjia's mine, although the idea is good, it's just ......" Zhou Shifeng's face was embarrassed, and he was stumbling.

"You can rest assured, we don't doubt your character."

"Zhou Dong's family has a lot of business, and his family does not worry about selling coal, and the price may not meet the requirements of the coke refinery."

"You're right."

Zhou Shifeng reminded right, but he was negligent, he only thought about maintaining friendship, and neglected the actual situation.

If you really let the outer cabinet find Zhang Dehui and quote the purchase price of the coke refinery, I am afraid that Zhang Dehui will also be embarrassed.

Sell it, he loses money.

Don't sell it, the faces of the two families are not good-looking, and they hurt some harmony.

"What are your plans?"

Seeing that the nobleman was not angry, Zhou Shifeng breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said: "There are more and more mines around Beiping, although the demand for coal has increased several times, but there are always trade routes that are not good, and many mines are more or less backlogged. ”

"We work with these mines to provide high-volume, long-term orders, and they sell them to us at the cheapest price."

Talking about the details of the business, Zhou Shifeng came to his fingertips and said the truth.

"They can solve the backlog and open the mine with confidence, and we can produce at the lowest cost."

"And we don't make a quotation, let the deacons in the outer cabinet contact each family, and each family will quote by itself, and the lowest price will be won."

"In order to ensure our production, we also need to sign a business contract to stipulate how much coal to provide each year."

Zhu Gaochi shook his head, Zhou Shifeng didn't know where he said something wrong, and looked at him in a daze.

Zhu Gaochi said with a smile: "Everything else will be done according to what you say, but the purchase price cannot be as low as possible, and it is necessary to ensure that the mine owner can obtain more than 20% of the benefits." ”

Have a clear understanding of your own positioning.

He is the formulator.

It is the distribution of social benefits, not businessmen.

The two core technologies of the industrial revolution have brought huge benefits to the coal bosses, and created the first and huge industrial chain for the modern era of the West.

This emerging big cake.

The factory owners, who were born out of a large number of aristocratic and landlord classes in the West, ate with a mouthful of oil and a big belly, while countless ordinary people were still being sucked blood.

The coal mining industry is too big for Zhu Gaochi to swallow, and he doesn't dare to swallow it alone.

But I won't let it go.

In the industrial revolution that he directed, as the ruler of the distribution of benefits, he must be inclined to the common people.

This is the inevitability of the development of civilization.

And if the coal bosses can't make a profit, what can they do to improve the treatment of workers?

This is the difference between a businessman and a manager.

Capitalists are not scary.

What is terrible is the capitalists who have no reins to control.

Like the modern capitalist society in the West, the opposition between capital and the common people is very illustrative, and these problems are not human problems, but distribution problems.

Therefore, more advanced ideas were born, which raised the people to the status of masters of the country, and solved this problem from the core.

Zhou Shifeng was dumbfounded.

The idea of a noble person is really different from that of a businessman, where would anyone think that he would make more profits?

"The coke refinery is still small now, but in the future, it will be a huge collection of factories, and whoever controls the coke will control the coal and smelt the iron."

"One or two coal yards can't meet the needs of coke refineries, and as the formulator of the industry charter, we can't be too short-sighted."

"Regarding the process of the coke refinery, has it been worked out?"

Since he talked about the charter, Zhu Gaochi thought of the process and asked with concern.

The most important part of the Industrial Revolution was the coal industry.

As soon as the coke refinery came out, he controlled the market of the coal industry, and the price was all determined by him.

(End of chapter)