Warring States Eagle

The workshops of Luo's family are mainly built in the mountains near Anyue Mountain City.And on the main road into the mountain, a spacious marching avenue has also been built at this time.

A checkpoint has been set up at the entrance of the road into the mountain, and some recruited farmers and soldiers are in charge of guarding it day and night in shifts.On the avenue after entering the mountain, you will encounter some patrolling peasants and soldiers from time to time along the way, and occasionally you can see the black eagle ninja who can show up beside the road to let Zhengliang know their existence (in case the guards around Zhengliang Misunderstood that someone was going to attack Zheng Liang).

The real workshop is located in an open valley in the mountains, which is almost equivalent to a small basin.Due to the frequent earthquakes in the country of Wa (since Zhengliang came here, he has experienced no less than ten small earthquakes before and after), and mudslides are prone to break out in the mountains and forests, so for the safety of these workshops and the technicians in them, the Zhengliang faction After several explorations, people finally gathered all the workshops that were originally scattered throughout the mountains into this small basin that can prevent disasters caused by earthquakes and prevent mudslides.

After several years of development, this small basin has formed a small town with a mixture of workshops and residential buildings (called Workshop Town by the locals).A large number of artisans, workers and their families live here.It is also quite convenient to live here, and it is completely self-sufficient, and there are two commercial houses, Luo Shi House and Shen House, which are specially allowed to settle here.

In order to keep some of the technology of the territory secret, the residents here almost have to get the approval of the intelligence cabinet and Zheng Liang before they can leave this huge mountain range (the nest of the black eagle is nearby, so that they can monitor the surrounding mountains).

In order to appease the craftsmen, workers and their families who settled here, Zhengliang not only paid them generous salaries.They were even exempted from taxes.So on the terms here.It is almost equivalent to a paradise, and the local people are completely satisfied with this kind of life (at this time, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Wa Kingdom, there are scenes of wars and chaos everywhere, and people can live here quietly, and all living materials are guaranteed. Children can also learn cultural inheritance skills, and they can also develop their own talents, so what else can they complain about).

After arriving at the small basin where the workshop is located.Zhengliang first received everyone in the meeting hall in the center of the basin.

The retainer present this time was Togo Heiji. As the ruler of the territorial cabinet, he must be present.Moreover, among several important ministers around Masara at this time, Kakukuma Ishimune is sitting in the Bungo country at this time to deal with the situation around the Bungo country.Akabane Shinnosuke is in the Chikuzen country, and is doing his best to deal with the power of the Ouchi family, and at the same time leading the diplomatic negotiation battle with the Ouchi family.As the ruler of the Territorial Intelligence Cabinet, Kansuke Yamamoto will naturally be in charge of the work of the Integrated Intelligence Cabinet in Kishigake City, assisting Daimyo Masara in monitoring the entire Luo family territory and the situation abroad.As for the retainers of other military, internal affairs, logistics and other departments, each of them has their own specific tasks to be busy.Therefore, only Togo Heiji, who is in charge of the Cabinet in charge of the various workshops in the territory, needs to accompany Masara.

Except for Togo Heiji.In addition, there are iron wares made of iron by Chujiro, weapons forged by Liu Ye, iron cannons and large cylinders forged by the National Friendship Guards, large cylinders by Prussia, ores by Li Hongfei who is in charge of detecting mineral deposits, and ore smelting by Tian Xiangyu.

Tian Xiangyu was a native of the Ming Dynasty. He and Chen Tianjie, who was in charge of the Luo family at this time, both followed Wang Hai's smuggling fleet and brought their families to the Luo family's territory to settle down in 1544.Soon after settling down.Chen Tianjie took advantage of an opportunity to deal with the southern barbarians in Zhu Qinfeng's fleet, and showed his skills in familiarizing with the language and culture of the southern barbarians, so he was appreciated by Zheng Liang, and gradually grew into the sole official of the Luo family. .

After being reused, Chen Tianjie recommended his friend Tian Xiangyu to Zhengliang.The ancestors of Chen Tianjie and Tian Xiangyu were both noble gentry in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, and they made their fortunes by doing business with the Nanman people.After the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, their family gradually declined.And some gentry who rose up through collusion between government and businessmen and even Japanese pirates took the opportunity to erode their interests, and finally forced Chen Tianjie and Tian Xiangyu to bankruptcy ten years ago.In desperation, the two turned to Wang Hai, trying to use smuggling to make a fortune again, but because they touched the interests of other people, they were jointly attacked by the local gentry and bureaucrats who had been doing smuggling business for a long time, and finally they were forced to take their families with them. He defected to Zhengliang.

Since the ancestors of these two people had close contacts with the Nanman people, the two who received the influence of the Nanman culture since childhood had a very rich knowledge of the Nanman people, and Tian Xiangyu's family was even more secretly engaged in mining, and they were also very good at smelting technology. OK.After getting the opportunity to show his talents, he quickly showed Zhengliang the smelting technology such as the "Amargam method" of the Nanman, and then combined the local smelting methods of the Ming and Wa countries to establish a complete set of smelting techniques. The smelting method has greatly improved the smelting efficiency of Luo's family's gold, silver, copper and other minerals.

Later, he even combined with Li Hongfei, the ore master, to integrate excavation methods such as shaft excavation and tunnel excavation, which greatly improved the Luo family's mine excavation technology.Because of his great contribution to the Luo family, he was directly promoted by Zheng Liang from a craftsman to the smelting director of the Luo family just last year.

In the meeting hall of the workshop town, after everyone saluted, Togo Heiji, who was in power as the cabinet, first introduced the recent situation of the workshop town, and then Li Hongfei, the territorial mine owner, presented an account book kept in a wooden box to the Zhengliang.

This is about the situation of various ores discovered in the Luo family's territory in the past ten years.Since a lot of information about these ores is confidential (except for a few important figures including Zheng Liang, even ordinary retainers may not know the situation of the ores in various parts of the Luo family), so Li Hongfei did not report them in public. It is submitted to Zhengliang in the form of account books.

Zheng Liang took the account book presented by Wu Xianjian, a small citizen, and immediately opened it to read.According to the information in the account book, the situation of Luo's family at this time is as follows:

In terms of gold mines, only one gold mine with a huge content has been found at the Odaira Mine in the Bungokuni area.In addition, no other gold mines have been explored in the territories of Hizen, Chikugo, Higo, Chikuzen, and Hyuga.However, relying on the Odaira Mine in the Bungo region alone is estimated to be able to increase the income of the Roche family a lot.

In order to keep the Luo family's unique smelting technology secret, after the gold ore is excavated at the Odaira Gold Mine, the ore will be initially smelted in the local smelting workshop using the smelting technology generally known in Japan, and then separated. The smelted gold mines and waste slag (actually it also contains part of the gold) are transported in batches and in sequence to the main workshop near Hizen Kishizan Castle for the final step of smelting, striving to maximize income.

In terms of silver mines, a rich silver mine was discovered on Yunye Mountain in the Beizhen Mountains of Kanzaki County, Hizen Country, named Yunye Silver Mine; Mine, named Shicut Silver Mine.The above two silver mines were explored by the Luo family after they occupied the local area, and they are currently being mined.

In addition, the Miyahara Silver Mine in Higo and the Odaira Silver Mine in Bungo were discovered not long ago by the Otomo family. Now they have been occupied by the Luo family, and the local mining work has returned to normal.

Also for the purpose of keeping the smelting technology secret, these silver mines will first be smelted locally, and then transported to the Hizen General Workshop for final smelting for silver extraction.

In terms of copper mines, two new copper mines were discovered in Shiraishi Mountain in Matsuura County in Hizen and Kukuzang Mountain in Nanhizen (the small copper mine discovered by the Luo family on Ye Gao Mountain had already been mined), and the reserves are very rich. , they were named White Stone Copper Mine and Void Copper Mine respectively.

In addition, there are copper mines originally occupied by local wealthy families in Higata Mountain in Chikugo and Xiyue Mountain in Higo.At this time, these copper mines also belong to the Luo family, but these are small copper mines, and they have been mined for a long time, so the reserves are running out.

It is worth mentioning that there are quite a few associated iron ore in the above-mentioned copper mines, which slightly eased the demand for iron ore in the territory.Of course, the bulk of the demand for iron ore still needs to rely on imports.

In terms of rare ores, lead ore and tin ore have been found only in Odaira ore in Bungo country.The Cabinet of Ministers will start mining these two mines after the autumn harvest, and it is estimated that their reserves should be able to fully meet the needs of the Roche family for the use of lead and tin mines.

The gold mines, silver mines, copper mines, lead mines, and tin mines mentioned above are smelted first in the local area and then transported to the Hizen Main Workshop for final smelting.Among these minerals, lead and tin mines will be reserved for their own use, and gold mines, silver mines, and copper mines will be jointly mined with Ming businessman Wang Hai and Nanman Zhu Qinfeng, and some will be reserved for the Luo family's own use. Some of them are reserved for Wang Hai and Zhu Qinfeng to earn higher profits (the Luo family will send people along with the ship to participate in the whole transaction process, and increase their navigation knowledge by the way).

Coal.Coal mines have been found in several mountain ranges in Chikugo, and it is estimated that there may be a huge coherent coal mine underground.After discovering these coal mines, Zheng Liang once took the time to inspect the local area and preliminarily determined that these coal mines were residual coal mines.Now these coal mines discovered in Chikugo country have been mined and supplied to Hizen General Workshop.With the continuous increase of its output, Zhengliang plans to promote the daily use of coal mines to other workshops and folks in the next step, so that the local people are not limited to using charcoal for heating in winter. (To be continued..)