"I know it's iron smelting, but."

Ning Guogong turned his head to look at Huo Jingzhi, and Huo Jingzhi's face was also a little dignified at this time.

whispering; "Daughter, don't you know that folk iron smelting is illegal?"

Iron and salt, that is strictly controlled by the imperial court.

You can't sell it casually, although the scholars will also sell some, but they are behemoths, and even if the court knows, they can only swallow their anger and turn a blind eye.

As long as they don't go too far, they won't take the initiative to take care of it, otherwise the scholars will make a fuss, and the country will not be stable.

Besides, if the scholars sell some of it, as long as they don't smuggle it to other countries in large quantities, they will satisfy the domestic market, which is also a good thing for the imperial court.

After all, the output of the imperial court is not high, and so many people in the world can't be satisfied at all, and the scholars get some, as long as it is not excessive, it can be regarded as helping to stabilize the demand, and the imperial court will naturally not ask too much.

"I know, but it's not illegal for me to buy iron ore, I smelt iron for my own use, and I don't sell it outside, who can say anything?"

"If those officials dare to trouble me, I will dare to lift the fig leaf of the scholars and those noble and wealthy gentry, or don't play with everyone."

Iron smelting is a crime, but the nobles can do it, why can't she?

If the scholars want to make trouble, then everyone should not play.

Now she has the capital to flip the table in her hands, who is afraid of whom?

At this point, Huo Jingzhi was silent, and Ning Guogong smiled and gave Huo Junyao a thumbs up; "My niece is right, if you don't play, don't play, uncle supports you."

"Come, Dad, Uncle Cheng, look at the iron I made, what is the difference between it and your common iron."

Afterwards, Huo Junyao took them to the iron front that had already made the finished product.

As a general, Ning Guogong often dealt with iron, and Huo Jingzhi, as the secretary of the Ministry of Works, naturally dealt with iron in the capital.

Naturally, at a glance, they noticed that the iron was different from what they used.

"Uncle Cheng, look here."

Huo Junyao picked up a firewood knife made by a blacksmith from the side and handed it to Ning Guogong.

"This iron, good, very high-quality."

"Then Uncle Cheng will try it with your saber."

Hearing this, Ning Guogong was a little reluctant, after all, his saber was also a treasure knife, and the iron of this chai knife was obviously better than the iron used in his treasure knife.

"Don't worry, if something goes wrong, I'll have someone build a new one for you when the time comes."

"Okay."

Then Ning Guogong tried it, and his cherished treasure knife was directly cut out of a big gap.

Looking at the wood knife, there was a slight gap, almost negligible, and it could be recovered after a little sharpening.

"Tsk, good iron, good knife."

"Niece, you have to get Uncle a treasure knife made of this iron."

"That's nature."

At this time, Huo Jingzhi stood on the side, and also noticed that in the iron-smelting furnace, it was not charcoal, but stone.

He was very keen to grasp the key.

"Daughter, the biggest use of this stone you said is to smelt iron?"

"Yes, the firepower of this coal mine is relatively fierce, and it can drive out more impurities from the ore species in the process of iron smelting, and because the temperature is higher than charcoal, the efficiency will be very high."

"The efficiency is high, the number is large, all because of the use of this thing, you say that if this thing is exposed, will the court use this instead?"

At this point, the two of them still didn't understand what Huo Junyao meant.

This is not only the imperial court, but also the people, I am afraid that many people will need this thing.

"Aside from that, look at the cinders over there, this thing is the residue of the coal mine after it has been burned."

"This thing can be used to pave roads, but it's much more reliable than dirt roads."

Now the two of them have nothing to say, this stone is indeed a good thing.

It's just poison or something, they have been standing by the iron-smelting stove, and they don't feel unwell at all, obviously the poison of this stone nirvana has been disposed of by Huo Junyao.

Without poison, this thing is a golden pimple.

"Hahaha, okay, okay, I never thought that my old Cheng would have a day to get rich."

"Niece, that, can you tell Uncle about this method of expelling the toxins of the stone nephrasium?"

"Don't worry, Uncle is not in vain, how about my two mines, how about giving you a hundred percent of the income in the future?"

Although Ning Guogong is a Pixiu in the eyes of many people, there is no way, he is short of money.

Now that he has such a good opportunity, he also knows in his heart that this expelling toxins can turn waste into treasure, which is the key to it, so he asks others for it in vain.

He really couldn't pull down this face, so he simply gave it to Yicheng, so that both parties would not suffer, and he also took the lion's share.

"That's fine."

If you can have one more, then you can have one more, Ning Guogong is a person, she also thinks it is very good, and she is upright and righteous.

Then she took the two of them directly to the place where the coal was washed, and there were a lot of coal mines that Mama Xi got from there, and they have been transporting them here one after another recently.

Simply, he carved out a coal mining site in a remote area of her territory.

After taking the two of them to visit, she said with a smile; "It's as simple as that, of course, this is just the most of the expulsion, and the remaining ones, when burning coal, as long as you pay attention to ventilation, there is no problem at all."

Both of them were silent, no, this thing was too simple.

It's just that after such a simple step, this stone nirvana can be turned into a treasure, it's simply.

At this moment, they have a feeling that they have lived in vain for so many years.

A few people returned to the main hall, and Ning Guogong asked with a smile; "Niece, when your father and I came just now, we saw that the city wall was being repaired outside, do you still need manpower?"

"Yes, uncle, do you have someone in your hand?"

"Yes, I won't tell you the truth, my uncle has a lot of old brothers who followed my uncle to the battlefield at the beginning, and it's not good to continue to stay in the army when they're old."

"And they are more or less disabled, and Uncle doesn't care about it, so he arranged for them to be in the village, and they can barely have a bite to eat, but there are more and more people, and Uncle is also a little stretched."

"If you need this, Uncle will choose some ones with quick hands and feet when you go back, don't worry about those who are disabled, Uncle will definitely not let them come over to trouble you."

Hearing this, Huo Junyao pondered for a moment and said; "In this way, uncle, I need a lot of people on my side."

"It's okay for the disabled, you see when you have time, bring them all over, I also have a lot of workshops behind me, some of the work is relatively light, and when the time comes, you can arrange their personal situation and make arrangements, what do you think?"

After the workshop she planned, Zhou Shi would take the assembly line, so even if she was disabled, as long as it was based on her personal situation, it was not impossible to arrange it.

"Really? That doesn't bother you, does it? You don't want to make it difficult for you to do it for the sake of your uncle's face. ”

"No, I already have some plans, you can take the time to bring them over when the time comes, I will take a look at the situation at that time and make arrangements."

"Cheng, that uncle will bring them over another day."