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Chapter 1130 The Dalun Mountain Tragedy

As for steel, if it were replaced by the old one, the steel output in the north of Ming Dynasty would not be enough to fight wars. If someone proposed to use steel to spread the ground, even the emperor would probably be sprayed to death.But now it is better, the north has basically been calmed down, and the military demand for steel is not as urgent as before.

In addition, steam equipment is used in mines, which can not only continuously extract the accumulated water in the mine, but also increase the speed of ore transportation from the mine. In addition, the grinding of ore is also much easier with the help of new equipment .Iron and steel production has not yet really exerted its strength, but the production has already increased significantly.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen recalled a material about steel from later generations.The distribution of iron ore in Huaxia is Liaoning, Sichuan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shandong, Anwei and Hubei.The most famous of these are the eight major iron mines.

The Anshan Iron Mine with the largest reserves is now under the control of Daming; the second is the Benxi Dataigou Iron Mine, which is also under the control of Daming; the third is currently the most important iron ore in the north The place of origin is Qian'an Iron Mine, located in the northeast of Hebei Province.The area around Qian'an and Luanxian is one of the four super-large iron ore belts in my country, with abundant reserves.It has been proved by later generations that the reserves are about 50 billion tons, and the burial is shallow, so it is easy to open-pit mining.The fourth is the Baiyun Obo Iron Mine, not far to the north of Baotou, which is now under the jurisdiction of Baotou governor Yang Sichang.Several other large iron ore deposits are not in the north.

Steel is the foundation of industrial development. It seems that the next focus of Daming is to carry out large-scale steelmaking.The technical arrangement and research and development work related to steelmaking must be done systematically.

Thinking about these things, Emperor Chongzhen entered the discussion group of the Wenhua Palace, and sent out the decree, asking the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies to start working on this matter, and the specific regulations were discussed and reported to him.

Regarding the minerals in the Northeast, Emperor Chongzhen also informed the Governor of Liaodong Lu Xiangsheng of the situation through private chats with Wei Mulan, and asked him to send skilled craftsmen to step on the spot. The development of Liaodong can pay equal attention to agriculture and mining and steelmaking.As for the matter of the Shengli Oilfield, Emperor Chongzhen felt that there was no need to tell him now, so he didn't mention it.

After finishing these things, Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the achievement value in the lower left corner of the chat group, and it showed that there were more than 1 points left.From tens of millions of achievements, the land is only more than 1 points, which is actually less than a month.This time going south, it would be better to earn more achievement points.

Thinking of my itinerary, Ying Tianfu should be able to harvest a lot of achievement points!Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen clicked the add button, and the journey was idle and boring, so he added people to have fun.

Randomly added ten people, both men, women and children.After the addition, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the main chat area and the self-introductions of the new group members.

Basically, the newly added people have no special characteristics, and the names of the people are quite satisfactory, and they are Han Chinese at a glance.In the self-introduction, only one person spoke, which aroused the interest of Emperor Chongzhen.

The ID of this person's chat group is Barber Zhang, and he introduced himself in the group: "Hello everyone, the villain's surname is Zhang, Zhang Wu is the fifth eldest, and he is already forty-six this year. The villain's ancestral craftsmanship, In Nanyang..."

That's all he said, but he stopped.Emperor Chongzhen saw that his profile picture was darkened. Looking at it like this, he should have quit the chat group suddenly, probably because someone disturbed him.Chinese in Nanyang?
After reaching this conclusion, Emperor Chongzhen was suddenly a little interested. Could it be that the system knew that he was going to manage Nanyang, so he started to join the members of the chat group over there?
He guessed right, at this moment, at a hair shop far away in Nanyang, the bamboo curtain was thrown open, and a few Xiyi entered the shop loudly while banging on the door, which immediately surprised Zhang Wu from the chat group. out.

Zhang Wu was standing behind the counter, and his two apprentices rushed to greet him first, but unexpectedly, he was kicked one by one by those two Xi Yi, and fell to the ground, muttering in his mouth, as if he was still very dissatisfied.

Zhang Wu's heart tightened when he saw it, and he hurried out of the counter, with a smile on his face, bent over, and said "Oula".

But those two Xiyi didn't give up. They grabbed Zhang Wu by the collar and dragged him to walk. Then they sat on the barber's seat before letting go, and pointed at Zhang Wu again and said the birdsong .

The two young apprentices were very angry when they saw the two Westerners treating their master like this, and they wanted to rush forward to stop the master behind them.Seeing the other Xiyi, he immediately pointed with his finger and spoke viciously.

When Zhang Wu saw it, he quickly turned around and scolded his two apprentices, then turned around again, nodded and bowed to the two Xiyi, and quickly picked up the hairdressing tools.

Seeing that he started cutting his hair himself, the two Xiyi didn't continue to attack.But the two apprentices looked angry and unwilling, but they had no choice but to obey the master's order, and went to the backyard to bring tea and cakes to serve another Xiyi who was waiting for a haircut.

After busying for half an hour, Zhang Wu finally finished cutting the two Xiyi's hair. Seeing that the two Xiyi were satisfied, he sent them to the door respectfully.

"Master, they haven't paid yet!" A shorter apprentice reminded with a hint of anger.

Zhang Wu acted as if he didn't hear it. He waited for the two Xiyis to go far away before turning around and looking at the two apprentices, he suddenly let out a long sigh.

Seeing him like this, the short apprentice misunderstood a bit, and said quickly: "Master, don't be afraid, I will find a few people to stop them, and I don't believe that they won't give you money! There is really no law!"

Hearing this, Zhang Wu quickly stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Are you crazy, and you are still talking about the king's law here? They are the king's law, do you understand?"

After asking this question, he felt that the two apprentices probably couldn't figure it out, so he sighed again, and then ordered: "Forget it, you guys close the shop first!"

After he finished speaking, he seemed a little tired and turned back to the backyard.

The two young apprentices looked at each other, a little puzzled.However, according to the master's instructions, the door panels were installed on the shop, and then they also turned back to the backyard.

When the two of them arrived at the backyard, they saw Zhang Wu sitting on a grand teacher's chair, bending over and drinking Kung Fu tea.When the tall apprentice saw it, he quickly walked a few steps and took the tea set from Zhang Wu's hand to make tea.The other short apprentice also hurried forward to help.

Seeing Zhang Wu, he let them do it, while he lay on the grand master's chair, closed his eyes as if he was resting, and seemed to be recalling some bad memories, with an ugly expression on his face.

After making kung fu tea, the two apprentices, tall and short, couldn't help but look at each other again when they saw Zhang Wu like this, feeling a little puzzled in their hearts.

"Master, how about some tea?" The short apprentice finally lowered his voice and reminded.

Zhang Wu listened, opened his eyes, looked very tired, waved his hands, let the two apprentices sit down, and then said in a low voice: "I thought about it for a while, and decided, you two, let's go! "

When the two apprentices who had just sat down heard his words, they immediately stood up from their chairs, their faces were shocked, and they felt a little unbelievable. The short apprentice immediately asked loudly: "Master, why, because just now Those two Xiyi?"

"Yeah, master, why?" The tall apprentice also asked in puzzlement, "Is there such a thing as being so ruthless and rude, and still not giving money? Besides... besides, we didn't do anything in the end, did we?" Why did you drive us away?"

Seeing that the two apprentices were so excited, Zhang Wu stretched out his hand and shook it, he still lay there and said, "It's for your own good, leave early, maybe you can avoid disaster!"

"What do you want to avoid disaster?" The short apprentice immediately yelled, "If you are so rude and don't give us money, do they still want to take revenge on us afterwards? Is there any reason for this?"

The tall apprentice was also very excited, and said, "Yes, we are not afraid of the shadows slanting when we are upright, how can we be afraid of them coming?"

Hearing what the two apprentices said, Zhang Wu suddenly sighed, first motioned the two apprentices to sit down, then he also sat up straight, looked at the two apprentices and said: "In Manila, these Spaniards are gods, they can It is the law of nature to run amok and act recklessly. How are they here? Although you two have only been in Manila for a short time, you should have seen it more or less, right?"

"I'm afraid they won't succeed. There are at least 3 Ming people in Manila, right? How many are they, two thousand? Three thousand at most?" the tall apprentice said a little dissatisfied.

The short apprentice also nodded and said: "That's right, besides, the head of the Liu family also has a lot of warships. We Ming people also have a lot of influence in Nanyang. What are these Spaniards doing?"

Hearing their conversation, Zhang Wu couldn't help but sighed when he recalled what happened before: "You are still young, you don't know the brutality of these Spaniards! Don't get excited, just sit down first, and I will explain to you Before!"

The two apprentices listened and glanced at each other, knowing what the master was going to say in their hearts, but they were young and had only been in Nanyang for a few years, so they didn't know much about the past, so they listened to the master's words and followed suit. I lost my temper when I listened to the master.

Zhang Wu's face seemed to be a little sad, and he said slowly: "According to calculations, 32 years have passed. At that time, it was the Wanli period, and Manila was also ruled by the Spanish. At that time, there were only 1000 or 4 of them. , and we have 1 to [-] Ming people, and there are more than [-] businessmen alone. It can be said that at that time, the entire Manila was full of our Ming people doing business, and all transactions had to go through our Ming people's hands... ..."

Hearing this, the two apprentices glanced at each other, feeling very similar to the present.

"...At that time, the Great Ming Dynasty was suppressing the Japanese pirate rebellion, and the great pirate Lin Feng fled to Nanyang with his men. He was powerful enough to compete with the Western Yi, just like Liu Xiang now. Therefore Well, the Spaniards are vigilant and suspicious of us Ming people. They are few in number, and they are afraid that we Ming people will rebel and take away their rule in Manila."

Speaking of this, Zhang Wu suddenly sighed, and then said: "Just at this time, another thing happened. Zhang Yi, a Fujian native of the Ming Dynasty, reported to the court that the golden beans on the Jiyi Mountain in Lu Song Dynasty grew by themselves, and sent people to take them. Therefore, the Wanli Emperor at that time heard this and sent Chengwang Shihe of Haicheng County and Yu Yicheng of a hundred households to Luzon to mine gold. After they arrived in Luzon, they found that it was pure nonsense of Zhang Yi. Immediately return home..."

The two apprentices are young, and although they have heard about the past, they don't know the details.Hearing this at this time, the short apprentice couldn't help being surprised and said: "This kind of thing seems to be the same. I have heard such words when I came to Nanyang from Guangdong, saying that money in Luzon is very easy to earn! Who knew that after coming here, Only then did I know it was a lie!"

"That's right, our Daming still pays one tax per [-], but the Spaniards here pay one tax per ten, and this tax alone is three times heavier!" The tall apprentice also nodded in agreement.

Zhang Wu heard this, and did not say anything about it, but still said slowly: "The Spaniards have always worried that we Ming people will seize their rule, so they used this as an excuse to spread rumors that our Ming people are about to rebel. , to cooperate with the invasion of the Ming army. Thus, the nightmare of our Ming people on Luzon Island began..."

Having said that, he was silent for a while, as if he was still feeling very uncomfortable at this time.When the two apprentices saw it, they couldn't help but also fell silent.

After a while, Zhang Wucai continued to say in a deep voice: "The Spaniards and the natives surrounded us, and then mobilized artillery to bombard us, and then sent troops to kill them. That is to chop and kill everyone. Ming people, no matter they are old people or children, they will not be spared. They have been slaughtered to the point of blood flow, and our Ming people are almost extinct here! Nearly [-] lives were slaughtered by them in just a few days. Their brutality , You have never experienced it, and you don’t know. When I was young, I was hidden in the cellar by my parents, so I escaped unharmed. Sigh..."

At the end, he sighed heavily.

Anger appeared on the faces of the two apprentices. Only at this moment did they understand what happened back then. Thinking about how their compatriots were massacred by Western barbarians and aborigines just because of a trumped-up charge, it was unbearable!

"Isn't there no one to make decisions for us wise people?" The short apprentice roared angrily after hearing this.

Zhang Wu heard this, and said with a sad smile: "Who will decide for us? Pirates? They will control our lives? The court? Hehe, the Spaniards finally returned some of the stolen property casually, and returned it to a few people. There will be an explanation. For the imperial court, we are people who go to sea to do business, and we are of humble origin. The imperial court itself is too busy with domestic affairs, so how can it be possible to do our best for our affairs?"

"No, it's impossible?" The tall apprentice shook his head and wanted to refute the master's words, but he was interrupted by Zhang Wu, "The court only threatened the Spaniards verbally, alas, who Let us be cheap!"

Having said that, Zhang Wu shook his head when he saw his apprentice wanted to speak again, and said with a slightly serious face: "The current situation is very similar to the situation before the massacre. Do you understand?"

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