Chapter 41 Blast Furnace Iron Flow

Long Zexi's feelings for Yu Xing were very complicated, and he was caught in Mangbe. I glanced at Yu Xing in my heart, but when I saw Yu Xing's scattered march all the way, I suddenly felt in my heart that it was nothing more than that. Look at Yu Xing on iron smelting, find another way. Long Zexi is seriously looked down upon.

said that Long Zexi was a master of iron smelting, but naturally not.

But there were many such blacksmiths under him, so that he could supply Manbe with two thousand catties of iron.

Many blacksmiths said they couldn't understand what Yu Xing was going to do.

So Long Zexi felt that Yu Xing was just fooling around.

As a result, but as a result, the iron ore mined by so many people, but a day or two of hard work, was used up, and the wood was gone.

Iron was paved all over the floor.

How does he believe this result?

Many things, from an outsider's point of view, are quite ordinary. Only people in the industry know how powerful it is, for example, someone stepped on his left foot and flew into the sky. Generally, people who are just brains don't have any reaction, and those who study physics will shout directly: "My quick-acting heart pill." ”

Long Zexi feels like this.

He didn't dare to have any other thoughts about Yu Xing at the moment. Instead, he quickly went through all the things he did in front of Yu Xing, and found that he was not respectful enough in front of Yu Xing. I'm particularly worried about how Yu Xing has an opinion about him, what should I do?

It's not too late to make amends.

Naturally, he had to try to get closer to the organization.

Yu Xing secretly said in his heart: "This is my negligence. He said, "Please, then." ”

Long Zexi immediately saluted and said: "It is a blessing for subordinates to do things for Duke Yu. ”

So, with the efforts of Long Zexi, all the surrounding Yi people participated in it to provide fuel for iron smelting. However, even so, the entire blast furnace, which did not burn for half a month, produced a total of more than 100 tons of iron.

Iron ore is completely out of supply.

Yu woke up before thinking about the problem, but never thought that the problem was here.

However, it is reasonable to think about it.

After all, social production is an interrelated system, and improving the production efficiency of one link alone will inevitably lead to problems in other production links.

It's just that Yu wants to look at this little person under his command.

But it also understands that any increase in productivity is based on the corresponding basis, not to mention anything else, at least human resources must be sufficient. He has a total of more than 10,000 strong men, just such a small number of people, what else do you want to do?

Don't think about anything anymore.

"Envoy," Long Zexi said respectfully: "I don't know if there is one thing, whether to talk about it or not." ”

Yu Xing said: "But it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

Long Zexi said: "I found people from the Shuixi clan around. ”

Yu Xing smiled slightly and said, "Brother Long, are you willing to tell me about the Shui Xi'an clan at this time?" ”

Long Zexi "pounced", knelt down, and said: "Duke Yu, the villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, but he has never colluded with the Shuixian clan, and he also asked Duke Yu to learn from it." ”

Yu Xing grabbed Long Zexi and helped him up, and said, "It's okay, now Brother Long is willing to talk to me openly and honestly about what the Shui Xi'an clan has done?" ”

Yu Xing never thinks about what people think, he only looks at how people do it.

Long Zexi has been under his nose for a while, and the one staring at Long Zexi is his old acquaintance Lu Dangdang. No matter what Long Zexi thinks in his heart. Now he has made it clear that he is willing to talk openly and honestly. Yu Xing naturally has to accept it.

And it's not like he hasn't done anything for a while.

He also sent people to explore the details of the Shuixi clan, Qixingguan is the western border of the Shuixi clan, and to the east all the way to Guiyang, it is the territory of the Shuixi clan. The number of people is several times that of Mangbe. How many people and horses can be used is difficult to find out for a while.

But it's not like they didn't inquire at all.

For example, during this period of time, the Shuixi clan transferred troops from many places to the west. That is, the direction of Manbe.

Long Zexi's words confirmed the news: "Duke Yu, Shui's Xi'an clan, like the Lu clan, is the title of the Han people. There are forty-eight Miao villages and fourteen streams under An's. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be used, which is the only part of the nine Muzu divisions in the Luodian Kingdom. ”

As if afraid of scaring Yu to wake up, Long Zexi immediately added: "However, the Shuixi clan and the Shuidong Song clan are separated by a water, and there are many problems, and there is also the Banzhou Yang clan in the northeast, and his mind is mostly not in Mangbu." Only a small fraction of what has been mobilized has been transferred. More than a month ago, the Shuixian clan had already sent someone to find me and asked me to switch to the Shuixian clan. Title me the lord of a village. ”

Yu Xing said: "Then why don't you throw yourself into the water?" ”

Long Zexi said: "Envoy, it's funny. I grew up in Mangchang, and what connections do I have in Shuixi? Shui Xi'an's reputation -----" Long Zexi didn't know how to describe it for a while, but simply said: "It's a little bad." I'd rather stay in Mangbe. Now I have seen the great talent of the envoy and know who is the Allah of the Mandate of Heaven. I am willing to give thousands of mud troughs to the envoy, and I only ask the envoy to accept it. ”

Yu Xing said: "Why do you need to do this, I said it. This place should be yours or yours. ”

Yu Xing was sincere, because he felt that this place was a chicken rib.

There are not many people in the mud trough. Dingkou thousands. Men are Ding, and women are mouths. That's only a few thousand in total. It's not as good as a village in later generations. If you talk about it, you have to send someone to take care of it, and now that there is a shortage of talents under you, how can anyone be sent here to take care of it. If you let Long Zexi manage, what is the difference from before. And got a bad reputation.

Yu Xing also has to consider the impact, Mangbu is not as good as Shuidong, and there are also four major streams outside. This is just a mud trough, these streams are also useful outside, at least if the enemy wants to fight the mangbu, it is impossible to bypass these streams.

Yu Xing is not because of the mud trough of one chicken rib, but because of the other streams.

It's a small loss.

Moreover, this time the blast furnace iron smelting made Yu Xing sure of one thing, that is, this place is not a place to stay for a long time, even if there are iron mines and coal mines, but it is sparsely populated and the transportation is inconvenient. It cannot be a place of foundation.

Yu Xing is not so concerned about operating here.

Long Zexi listened, handed over the account book more actively, and said: "Envoy, this is my sincerity, the account book is here, so that you can immediately send someone to divide the field to recruit troops." ”

Yu Xing looked at Long Zexi, seeing that he was really sincere, his heart moved, returned the account book to Long Zexi, and said: "I will appoint you as the head of the mud trough, and you will be recruited according to the Dunzhou system." ”

"I'm not familiar with the mud trough place, Long Zexi, but what plan do you want to offer me?"

Yu Xing has always been very wary of others' extraordinary enthusiasm for himself, and he must ask for something when he is courteous to others, and he sees that Long Zexi is also a life that asks for something.

It stands to reason that Zexi is an official position, and now Long Zexi has been reappointed as an official position in the Great Song Dynasty. It shouldn't continue to be called Zexi, but the name of Long Zexi is too indecent. Yu Xing simply took this as the name of Long Zexi.

Long Zexi was hit by Yu Xing. The embarrassment on his face flashed, and he said: "As far as you know, this iron is in the mountains, but it is a hard currency, six veins and nine parts, and even other tribes, all lack iron. Among them is a big profit. If the envoy agrees, his subordinates are willing to sell all the iron in the shortest possible time for the envoy to do this thing. ”

Yu Xing said secretly in his heart: "Sure enough." ”

Salt and iron were great profits in ancient times, and everyone who touched their hands was rich in oil, and Long Zexi would rather give up his original territory, just if he wanted to get his hands on it, there would be countless benefits. After all, a few acres of land in a ravine can be worth a few dollars?

Yu Xing felt that Long Zexi had actually run an iron ore business before, otherwise he would not dare to pack tickets.

It doesn't matter.

Who is not selfish?

Yu Xing never cared about this, he only cared about whether this thing was beneficial to him.

With Yu Xing's foothold in Mangbu and the change of Mangbu to Dunzhou, after the people's hearts were attached, Yu Xing did more and more, and the expenses became larger and larger, relying on the generous funding of Aji before, but the accumulation of several generations of Azi could not withstand Yu Xing's extravagant expenses.

Although the fiscal crisis has not yet appeared, it is already lurking.

It would also be a great thing if we could make money on iron.

Yu Xing said: "Brother Long is really talented, I will reappoint you as the iron supervisor." Supervise this place, be responsible for the sale of iron, and you will manage the households here. However, now is not the time to sell iron. ”

"My subordinates, thank you for your trust." Long Zexi said: "I don't know what concerns the envoy has? ”

Yu Xing said: "Money is moving, and you always have to be prepared. The first batch of iron was the first to build weapons. ”

In fact, Yu Xing knew that the quality of the first batch of steel was not stable, after all, it was the first batch, and there were many things in it, such as exchanging coal for wood. In the future, the quality of steel in blast furnaces will be much better.

But the human heart is sinister and prepared. You can't sell steel to someone else without your own equipment.

Long Zexi smiled: "It is my wealth obsession that makes Jun Ming know thousands of miles, and it does not make Jun think thoroughly." ”

Yu Xing secretly said in his heart: "This is too much like the Han people." It's a sycophant. ”

It's just that Yu Xing didn't know that he actually said a prophecy.

At the foot of Qixing Mountain, there is a person who is also asking about this side at this moment.

His name is Ann Arno.

He is the head of the Shuixian clan, Shuixi and Mangbe have been neighbors for many years, how can he not pay attention to the situation of Mangbu, as soon as he hears that Mangbu has changed, he will get ready.

It's just that the mountains are high and the road is far away. From getting the news, to mobilizing the troops and horses, and sending people to win over the people of Mangbu in advance, this set of actions took a little more than two months.

It's not slow for this era.

But for Yu to wake up, it was too slow.

It can only be said that the time of modern people and ancient people is not on the same beat at all.

Modern people are eager to break a day into minutes, but in ancient times, people generally did things by the day.

In two months, thousands of elites of the Shuixi clan have pressed the realm, and Yu Xing has already controlled the entire Mangbu in his hands.

This makes Ann very uncomfortable.