Beiping Zhending Mansion.

The price of agricultural tools is getting lower every year, and after all, the price is more than three times lower, and the variety is becoming more and more abundant.

The people's enthusiasm for buying farm tools has been stimulated, and more and more people are willing to buy a large number of farm tools.

In the city, there are more vehicles transporting honeycomb coal, and citizens are accustomed to using honeycomb coal to make fires.

Surprisingly, the price of honeycomb coal is getting cheaper every year, and it is twice as low as the cost of buying firewood.

Many people from Zhending Prefecture went to Beiping to work, and their annual wages were more than those in the farmland.

Fifteen acres of land for a family.

In addition to the tax burden and servitude, as well as the living expenses of the whole family, there can be three or five taels of silver left, which is already a saving and saving.

When you get sick and get married or funeral, you will have no savings for a few years.

If you work part-time, a person will have a salary of about ten taels a year, and saving money is equivalent to doubling the family's income.

caused a huge change in the Calm House.

In a family, someone has to go out to work.

At the end of the year, the family has enough food and clothing, and can afford to buy firecrackers to set off in front of their own door, and it is a good day to be prosperous.

And the family who still stays in the field and lives on the harvest of the field can only look at their neighbors with envy.

Even if you are a person who is afraid of society, you can only bite the bullet, ask your neighbor to introduce you to a way, and take him or your own son to work together.

As for the factories opened by Chung Hwa Heavy Industries in Zhending, such as farm tool factories, paper mills, railway stations, engineering teams, including the honeycomb coal factories established by the Honeycomb Coal Association, etc., it is naturally best for the locals to stay and work in the local area.

The available jobs cannot be absorbed, and can only reach 23 out of ten, so most of the surplus labor still needs to go to Beiping.

The common people have money in their hands, and the goods on the market are also abundant, forming a virtuous economic circle.

This is the inevitable after industrialization.

Unconsciously.

In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, from spring and summer to autumn, the most time-saving labor of the year began, and many workers came back from the factory to harvest the wheat or rice in the field in the fastest time.

Because of the different crops, the time of the autumn harvest varies from August to October.

Everyone has farming tools in their hands.

A large number of durable and cheap machines that can threw grain made by China Heavy Industry have been welcomed by the people.

Although there was a rice threshing machine very early, because of the cost and promotion problems, many people still use the method of hand-making rice.

This farm work can be said to be the most feared, time-consuming, and hard-headed farm work that women can only do, and often makes the half-grown children cry bitterly.

Now there is no such trouble, just pour the grain into the machine, and people use the handle to turn it to drive the parts in the machine.

There was a rumbling sound, and what came out was a steady stream of white rice after the shell rice was separated.

What used to be a painful farm work that took several days a month all year round has become a farm work that can be done in just one day and is still fun for children.

A variety of agricultural tools represent a variety of technologies, shorten the cost of agricultural production, and liberate manpower.

The larger the industrial scale, the cheaper the cost.

The underground mine resources, with the current reserves of the earth, can be said to be "unlimited" for the Ming Dynasty.

As long as the level of satisfying the population to have enough to eat, that is, on the basis of the original agriculture, the upper limit of development is unlimited.

This is the essential difference between an agrarian society and an industrial society.

There is a limit to the output of land, and no amount of people can make the land grow more food, but more people can be invested in industry to create more industrial production.

As long as three meals a day are guaranteed, industry can absorb countless people.

This is the era of human beings from the era of firewood to the age of coal, heralding the unheard of great change into industrialization.

People 1,000 years ago ate rice, and 1,000 years later, people eat the same rice, but the number of goods used by each person has changed qualitatively.

"Jingle bells."

On the platform of Zhendingfu, a large number of people came down from the carriages of the railroad carriages, and as the number of part-time workers increased, the number of passengers on the railroad skyrocketed.

It's no longer like when it started, with only a handful of passengers on the platform.

Of course.

The Jindingfu Railway platform is a large station, which is also the reason for the large number of passengers.

More than half of the people who got out of the carriage wore the uniforms of China Heavy Industries, and people were accustomed to it and took it as the norm.

Because of the regulations of China Heavy Industries, ready-to-wear stores do not dare to sell China Heavy Industries' overalls to the outside world, but they can sell them to children.

So on the street, many children wore children's clothes that imitated the overalls of China Heavy Industries, and even embroidered a swallow on their left chest.

Two workers wearing Zhonghua Heavy Industry uniforms, carrying yellow briefcases, walked towards the city with many people.

"Is it Zhang Qianhu's family?"

The two knocked on the door, and after a while, the gate of the courtyard was opened, and a woman asked curiously, seeing the stranger.

"Who are you, and what are you looking for us to do?"

"Hello, Mrs. Zhang."

An older worker bowed his hand politely and said politely: "We are from the Research Department of China Heavy Industry." ”

The two introduced themselves and only said that they were looking for Zhang Qianhu, but did not disclose what they were going to do.

A few people were talking.

A mother-in-law and a maid, holding a baby and a child, walked back, looking at the woman curiously.

When the woman saw that the members of the family had returned, she invited them to sit down.

The woman asked a neighbor to help her run errands, and an hour later, Zhang Wu, who was on duty at the yamen of the guardhouse, rushed back.

After greeting a few people, Zhang Wu hurriedly led the two to his study.

Zhang Wu was originally a hundred households of Yanshan's right guard, and later when the little prince supervised Beiping Mansion, he was transferred by the little prince and came to Zhendingwei as a thousand households.

Now the Beiping Zhuwei has changed a lot.

Many of Yanshanwei's generals were sent out, and many of the generals outside were transferred to Yanshanwei, and this kind of transfer was very frequent.

"Because it's true for the first time, the family is simple, and I invite two Haihan." Zhang Wu learned that the two people in front of him were not only the identities of China Heavy Industry, but also the identities of Sheren, and his face looked very polite.

"Zhang Qianhu and we are not outsiders, the family does not speak two words, we came to harass Zhang Qianhu this time, because Zhang Qianhu was included in the list, and invited Zhang Qianhu to the Miyun Stone Box Camp to participate in the evaluation of new firearms."

New firearms should be equipped in the stone box camp, and Zhang Wu, as a general who came out of Yanshanwei, not only won the trust of the prince, but also was valued by the little prince.

And Zhang Wu also knew that the little prince was not simple.

It seems that the mutual transfer of the generals of the Beiping Guards is a common thing, but Zhang Wu can see that the generals sent from Yanshanwei are the generals who do not support China Heavy Industry or resist it.

Most of the generals who were transferred to Yanshanwei were refrigerated, and a few were really important, and Zhang Wu was very convinced of the little prince's means.

"When did you arrive at Camp Stonebox? How many days are you going to stay there? Zhang Wu asked in detail.

When he first came, he couldn't take care of the affairs of his family, and he was focused on the guard, which was a critical period, and he didn't want to leave for too long.

The two hurriedly explained with a smile, "If Zhang Qianhu can't spare time, it doesn't have to be Zhang Qianhu to go." ”

The two of them have different attitudes towards different generals.

Zhang Wu belongs to the kind of root and Miao Hong, if he can make friends, he must be friends, and if he can't be friends, he can't be easily offended.

"Zhang Qianhu is the last stop we invited, so the time is very urgent, it is set for three days later, and the time to participate is probably about three days."

Zhang Wu thought about it after listening to it.

The capital of Zhending Prefecture, which was later Shijiazhuang in Hebei.

From Zhendingfu to Miyun, there is probably less than 800 miles of travel, and when the railway carriage is transported for long distances, the big station will have a reserve of horses to replace it to ensure the health and longevity of the horses.

Limited by factors such as the railway environment, stops along the way, and the amount of horse savings.

At the current speed of the railroad carriage, it takes two days and nights, which means that he still has one day to settle down.

Zhang Wu agreed to the invitation, agreed to go to Miyun, and offered to stay with the two, and the two thanked Zhang Wu for his kindness, but did not stay.

The two did not use the Kanhe of the palace to go to the post station, but used the name of China Heavy Industry to rest at Zhending Station.

The two of them need to take a railway carriage back to Beiping early tomorrow morning and submit the confirmed list.

Zhu Gaochi led people to inspect the No. 5 coke refining plant located in Baoding Prefecture.

"To refine 100 catties of iron, only the demand for coking coal is 50 catties, not to mention the exponential rise in the demand for iron in various industries in Beiping, the railway construction plan of the three provinces in Guangsan Province uses as much as 70 million catties of iron, that is, at least 40 million catties of coking coal."

"Counting the demand of the entire market, as well as the preparation of next year's plan, the annual output of coking coal will reach 30 million catties this year."

Wang Ben is becoming more and more like a shopkeeper, as for the original technology, this person has changed his path and is no longer a pure technician.

Zhu Gaochi thought that the plan proposed by Wang Ben was appropriate.

In Britain in the first industrial revolution, the population and area were barely equal to one Shandong plus Beiping, and the development was not regulated, and there were many deficiencies.

At that time, the coal production of Britain was more than 50 million catties.

And now not only Beiping, but also Shaanxi and Shanxi, as well as the cooperation with the southern market, just one railway plan, and the development of the original British Industrial Revolution is fundamentally different.

Large infrastructure and large industry represent large investment.

Only the participation of national forces can support it, and even the British environment in the first industrial revolution cannot afford it.

"Not only to meet the production of coke, but also to pay great attention to the appendages in the coke refining process."

Zhu Gaochi added.

Not to mention kerosene, coal black, etc., the fertilizer after distillation of ammonia is also valued by Zhu Gaochi.

Each furnace produces 30,000 catties of coal to produce 18,000 catties of coking coal, and in the production process, 720 catties of ammonia can be obtained every day.

In the process of refining 50 million catties of coal into 30 million catties of coke, millions of catties of ammonia can be produced, and the role of agriculture is self-evident.

This is also one of the important sources of confidence for Zhu Gaochi to dare to make great strides and promote the construction of large infrastructure.

(End of chapter)