Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

"The Laiwu Iron Mine was originally a large mine in the north."

The old shopkeeper is worthy of having been in business for decades, and has been in contact with various businesses. He frowned and said: "It's just that the official mine was not established decades ago, and the mine veins everywhere are almost destroyed. The miners are also displaced. Now only some small private mines are still in operation. In Shandong, 10,000+ catties of iron come from Laiwu a year. Most of them are hoes and farm tools, and a small part is used to make weapons. This amount is far from enough, so this The output of the first mine is really too low."

10,000+ catties, this figure sounds like a lot at first glance, but compared with the total output of more than 2 million catties in the Yongle period, and the output of [-] million tons in later generations, it feels like a drop in the bucket.

Shandong is a province with a population of tens of millions. The farm tools needed are at least hundreds of thousands of catties of iron a year. There are also places where iron is used for pots and stoves. A mine produces 10,000+ catties of iron a year. Even a whole city in Shandong Province is not enough.

There is a lack of iron in the local area, which can be seen from the farm tools alone. [

A plow weighs several tens of catties, and a large iron pot weighs more than ten or twenty catties. In a village, which household does not need pots and plows?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was too little iron to meet the needs of the people. In many places, stone plows could only be used to plow the land, which was heavy and uncomfortable.

In addition, there is no need to use iron for making furniture with large carts, mule carts, or even wheelbarrows.

During the Yongle period, the iron output was more than 2 million catties. Now it is feared that even Yongle’s iron output is less than half. In addition, the frequent wars, the sharp increase in iron consumption, and the lack of iron among the people have not only occurred in one day.

"It's a good idea to open a mine by yourself. But you must hire a good master, find ore veins, set up dens, and set up a furnace. You must be very precise and steady... The old man happened to know a skilled master, and he also set up a furnace. He often sold I have come to Lifengxing, and I have been friends for more than ten years. Now I write a letter to you, and take it to find him. mine."

Zhang Shouren was overjoyed when he heard the words, he stood up and crossed his hands, and said with a smile, "Thank you, old shopkeeper."

"It's just a little thing." Old shopkeeper Li dismissed it, waved his hands and said, "But I hope you will erect the iron mine quickly, so that the people in Shandong will benefit a lot."

Lin Wenyuan interjected with a smile: "The main reason we open iron mines is for the needs of the military."

"Qi, Guohua is doing things, old man, I have figured out the way. Do a good job in advance, invest a lot, and produce a lot, and your vision is not rigid... You are indeed for the needs of the military, but if the output is enough, There is a shortage of iron among the people, and iron is used everywhere, which is a huge source of income, and you General Zhang would not have thought of this level?"

After the old shopkeeper sneered, Zhang Shouren was embarrassed by the boss.

It was indeed for Fushanying to mine and produce iron at the beginning, but after getting acquainted with the iron shortage situation in the local area, and also knowing that the iron production is mainly in the south, and it is in the hands of the great gentry in Nanzhili, his I really have plans in my heart, not just for military use.

The old man in front of him also saw through him.

Zhang Shouren does things like branches and tendrils, he seldom climbs up alone, but spreads and climbs, so that everyone has something to do and is profitable, so that it is easy to get help.

Those narrow-minded people only want to take advantage of themselves in everything, but they don't think about it. What is the meaning of the truth that those who are enlightened will be helped more, and those who are unjust will be helped less.

People's hearts are self-interested, and those who really know how to grasp people's hearts must grasp this kind of self-interested psychology of people, and this is the only way to talk about grasping people's hearts.