Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 307, open the furnace

"Hey yo~ hey yo~"

The huge blast furnace was billowing with thick smoke. Next to the blast furnace, the workers of Miyun Iron Works were shirtless, working in full swing, shouting neat numbers, and sweating profusely.

If it weren't for the thick cotton-padded clothes of the melon-eating crowd watching the excitement from afar, it would really make people think that it is a scorching summer day.

Carloads of iron ore, limestone, coke, and dolomite were continuously poured into the blast furnace from the inlet at the top of the blast furnace, and the huge blower next to it was whistling loudly as it was pulled by dozens of strong men.

"Tsk tsk, it looks a bit like it, but I don't know how much steel can be produced from this furnace."

Zhu Houzhao looked at the lively scene in front of him, and his whole person became radiant. He liked this kind of thing the most. Of course, as long as it was not related to learning to be an emperor, he was very interested.

"Let's go, go back and have a good meal, we'll find out in the afternoon."

Liu Jin turned around and walked to his place of residence, because it was the first furnace, so it took a while to wait slowly.

"Go, go, I'm really hungry."

Zhu Houzhao touched his stomach and said.

"Go and eat, I can't eat, I can't eat until I see the first furnace of steel come out, it's all piled up with money."

The British public Zhang Mao shook his head, looking a little anxious.

The blast furnace in front of him, in its words, was really piled up with silver, and it took more than one hundred thousand taels of silver to build it. If Liu Jin didn't believe in it, he would really be reluctant to spend such money like water.

"Brother Xu, let's go, let's have a good meal, and we can turn on the stove in the afternoon."

Liu Jin pulled Xu Guangzuo and Zhu Houzhao up, and the three of them went to have a big meal together shoulder to shoulder.

Only Zhang Mao and Huang Jinquan were left here. Although Zhang Mao, a traditional feudal nobleman, had made a lot of money with Liu Jin, it was still difficult for him to adapt to this industrialized operation mode.

With such a large-scale investment and the recruitment of so many people, how will the funds be managed?
How should this iron factory be managed?
If there are too many products produced, how can it be sold?
At this time, Zhang Mao fell into such a kind of confusion. Of course, this is not just Zhang Mao. As Liu Jin, a butterfly, flaps his little wings, he has brought too many, too many things to this era. great influence.

Many coal workshops, cement factories, etc. have been set up in Tianjin and Beijing. As the business is getting better and better, the scale is also getting bigger and bigger. Cost control and so on.

It is difficult to adapt to the increasingly large scale of enterprises if we only rely on traditional inherent methods to operate and manage. Therefore, more and more people are thinking about the way of management and sales.

After all, most of the traditional workshops are mainly handmade, and the scale is limited. It is very good to be able to employ dozens of people. However, cement factories and coal factories, even if they are labor-intensive industries, need to hire at least a few people casually. Hundreds of people.

How to manage if there are too many people, how to save costs, and produce as many products as possible, these are all testing emerging capitalists like Zhang Mao.

That's right, although Zhang Mao was a great aristocrat in the feudal era, following Liu Jin to make money, he has gradually transformed from a traditional feudal aristocrat to an emerging capitalist.

In the former British government, its main financial income came from the rent collection of the huge land under its command. All the rent collected was grain. Although the amount of grain was very large, it was actually not much when converted into silver. .

In addition to renting, there are also a small amount of income from store operations, business industries, and mining. This part is not a lot of income, and the proportion is not high.

If the calculated income of the British government family is converted into silver, it may only be tens of thousands of taels. Of course, tens of thousands of taels of silver is no different from an astronomical figure for ordinary people, but compared to the salt merchants, tea merchants, and grain merchants in the Jiangnan area Wait, it's nothing at all.

The wealth of people like Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu, and Xu Guangzuo is actually accumulated by their ancestors from generation to generation, and every generation is like this, so no matter if they are princes, nobles, gentry landlords, or ordinary people, as long as they have money, the first The first thing is to find a way to buy land, which also reverses the slow concentration of land, and finally the change of dynasty.

But it’s different now, because following Liu Jin’s step-by-step taste of the sweetness, Zhang Mao bought a huge industry, mining coal, building a cement factory, engaging in ocean fishing, ocean-going trade, and even set up an iron factory with Liu Jin Wait, the profits of each industry are very high, far exceeding the profits that can be brought by the huge land under his command.

So he began to slowly sell the huge land in his hands to raise funds to continue to expand production capacity, which was the transformation from a feudal aristocrat to a new capitalist.

Maybe no one will realize this, even Liu Jin has not realized this, but if history continues to develop like this, it will definitely be written in the future history.

With the rise of a series of emerging investments in the early stage, the traditional feudal aristocrats continued to divide. Some people tasted the taste of emerging industries and gradually transformed into emerging big capitalists. The most representative of them was the British public at that time. , Cheng Guogong, Ding Guogong and others.

Of course, Zhang Mao didn't think about this at all. He was waiting anxiously, waiting for the first batch of steel to come out.

When it was time to apply in the afternoon, Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao and Xu Guangzuo slowly came to the steelmaking blast furnace again.

"Old Zhang, have you eaten yet?"

Liu Jin looked at Zhang Mao and asked with a smile.

"Eat, eat, I have never seen such a prodigal like you, how good is the food for this worker?"

"I always eat with the workers at noon."

Zhang Mao looked at Liu Jin and said, curling his lips, he finally understood how the investment of two million taels of silver was spent. Liu Jin's food for the workers in the steel factory was just three meals a day. It’s okay to eat three meals a day, but the key is to eat meat every now and then. This landlord and rich man doesn’t have such a luxury.

"Eat enough and eat well to have the strength to work. Look at all the hard work, and the wool comes from the sheep. When you turn on the stove next time, you won't feel sorry for the little food."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head.

"Master, can you turn on the furnace?"

Here, Huang Jinquan has not rested all the time, and has been directing on the spot. The iron ore, coke, etc. piled up on the side of the hills have all entered the huge belly of the blast furnace. As for the situation inside, there is no change now. people know.

"Almost, let's turn on the stove."

Liu Jin calculated the time, nodded and said.

"Ready to open the furnace~"

As soon as Huang Jinquan heard this, he hurried to get busy. While shouting loudly, he also generally said to his subordinates.

Following Huang Jinquan's words, the scene became even busier. At the same time, everyone became anxious and began to look forward to the moment when a miracle would appear.

"Group 1 is ready~"

"Group 2 is ready~"

"Group 3 is ready~"

Next to the blast furnace, the manager of the division of labor said loudly.

"Open the furnace~"

Seeing that everyone was ready, Huang Jinquan yelled loudly, and as he yelled, a strong man beside him began to strike a bronze bell.

Well, the ancient people still paid great attention to the sense of ritual, and now all workshops, cement factories, etc. are learning this.

"Clang~clang~"

Accompanied by a loud bell, everyone's eyes turned to the water outlet.

"Hey, hey~"

With the ringing of the bell, the two teams of strong men on both sides of the water outlet began to shout neatly, pulling the winch continuously, and pulling away the huge iron plate of the water outlet.

"Crash~"

Everyone looked at the water outlet, and as a gap appeared, a dazzling white world was revealed. The inside of the blast furnace was ablaze, and then a stream of molten iron flowed out of it, making a clattering sound.

"Out of the water ~ out of the water ~"

Someone shouted excitedly.

But this was just the beginning, and soon the huge valves were all opened. The moment they were opened, it was as if a reservoir had been opened to release water, and a fiery red torrent rushed out.

"Zizi~"

The bright white molten iron surged out, making a sizzling sound with the cold air outside, and at the same time the molten iron began to cool down quickly.

"Wow~"

Zhu Houzhao's small eyes are wide open. Anyone who sees this scene for the first time will be deeply shocked by this scene. The molten iron gushes out like a torrent, as if a big river broke its embankment, and it seems like a flood. The red molten iron, Terrible high temperature and sizzling sound.

Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzuo, Huang Jinquan, and everyone at the scene were stunned, watching the torrent continuously surging out in front of them, flowing along the passage that had been paved long ago.

Because there is no large-scale lifting equipment, the molten iron is out of the furnace. Liu Jin also specially laid very long and very long waterways. The specifications of these waterways are different. Some are used to make steel bars in one step, while others are There are standard iron ore in this era, and there are long iron plates, all kinds of things.

The molten iron was poured into it, and while the dazzling white molten iron was flowing, there were also a large number of sparks constantly beating, and at the same time, groups of molten iron splashed out were burning with raging flames.

"How much iron is there in this furnace?"

Some people widened their eyes, looked at the crimson torrent, and their minds were full of white silver, because in the field of vision, a large area of ​​the water outlet here was covered by the rolling molten iron, like a piece of water. Blazing world.

　I just watched the video and it's really shocking~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)