Looking at the mine carts coming from afar, from time to time, those who watched the cart jumped up mischievously when the slope was large and down the slope, Du Zhongxiao sighed. In fact, he did not plan to work hard to build a train and build a railway, but wanted to use this road for transporting ore as a test line. After the new steam engine was built, he would try it here first. When it matured, he would build the coal mine and connect to Xuzhou.

But my plan missed a little, which is the sales of iron produced by the Iron Supervision. The world is short of iron everywhere, but it is not easy for the iron supervisor to be sold to them. The information spread in this era was too slow. The iron supervisor in Ye County has been open for so long, and there are still too few iron vendors coming from the news. Except for the Western Beijing Luoyang and Tokyo Kaifeng, there are very few iron vendors in other places. Even if Du Zhongxiao uses the Transportation Department to make the prefectures and counties proclaim the list everywhere, there is not much change. A few days ago, several iron vendors came to Jiangling Prefecture, and even alarmed Du Zhongxiao and personally welcomed them.

The iron production exceeded Du Zhongxiao's prediction. At first, it was thought that 70 million jin a year would be awesome. According to the current situation, the output will inevitably exceed 200 million jin next year. In the next two or three years, the output will continue to grow rapidly. There are high-quality iron ore and coal mines here. As long as you can sell it, will it produce a lot of 100,000 tons of steel per year? Later generations tried hard to control the output and could still produce nearly 10 million tons.

But the problem is that the production cannot be sold. One is that it is inconvenient to transportation, and the other is that there is no sales channel. How much steel can be sold by iron vendors alone? The so-called big businessman is extremely powerful for thousands of piles of iron a year, and it is a drop in the bucket for the iron supervision.

This railway really has to be built. If it can be built to Xiangzhou and connect the Yangtze River water system, everything will be different. At this time, the Jinghu area has not been developed yet, and the Jiangnan iron is short of iron, which is a huge market. If the iron regulator manufactures a large number of iron tools and has a road to Jinghu, it can greatly promote the development of the two lakes and quickly expand the market.

At this time, there were actually conditions to develop the Two Lakes area, but the lack of population and the imperial court had no motivation. Traditionally, the population generally migrated from north to south and developed successively. From Lianghuai to Liangzhe, the Two Lakes were opposite Jingxi Road. But now Jingxi Road is insufficient, so there is no extra manpower to go to Liangzhe. Later, the densely populated Dongting Lake was sparsely populated, and there were a large number of barbarians. Many areas were still slash-and-burn. Just as the sheep raised in the north were sold in large quantities of the Central Plains, the same was true for cattle in the Two Lakes area. Because there was a lot of idle land there, the cattle were free-range, and the cattle were released in the mountains and swamps. When sold, they were introduced into the pen and sold in large quantities to the Central Plains. The price of cattle was astonishingly low.

For a thousand years, the migration route of the population in central China has extended the central axis connecting Ye County. From Hedong Road to the Central Plains, especially around Luoyang, after the population increased, the road from Luoyang to Nanyang was extended and the road from Luoyang to Nanyang was extended. The late Tang and Five Dynasties were wars in the Central Plains, and the population of Hedong Road and the Central Plains decreased, and it has not yet been filled. The surrounding areas of Luoyang, including Ruzhou, where Ye County is located, have a large number of people migrated from Hedong Road in the early Song Dynasty.

Many of the northerners in later generations were said to have come from the big locust trees in Shanxi. In fact, this migration did not start from the Ming Dynasty, but lasted for more than a thousand years to the Song Dynasty. As for Hedong, which is the Shanxi Province in later generations, the reason is very complicated. In short, when the troubled times ended, the population moved out from Shanxi Province and first went to the Central Plains. The population of the Central Plains grew, and then moved south to the Nanxiang Basin. The Nanxiang Basin was full, and continued to move south to the Lianghu area.

When Jingxi Road is in the field, a large number of boatmen have opened idle fields, and they will inevitably expand to the Xiangzhou area. Du Zhongxiao estimated that this time will not be too long. With the process of replacing boatmen by vehicles and ships, the next year will be the next year and the later one year will be the longer, and he will go to Xiangzhou. In order to facilitate the future landing, this road must be built. With the iron supervisor, at least iron tools must be popularized.

When building roads, sales channels must be built. Relying on private merchants is far from enough, and there must be official channels. Du Zhongxiao, the whole country, has no authority, and at least one can establish sales channels on Jingxi Road first. The iron supervision cannot store iron, and backlog is a waste. Ores are turned into iron, or sold directly, or made into iron tools, and then turned into money. Only by using money to build infrastructure, increase production, and unimpeded development can it be guaranteed.

When laying a railway, it uses too much iron and the cost is too high, but for today's iron supervisors, it is just right. If the iron cannot be sold after smelting, what is the difference between it and soil? Not to mention that the railway has great significance, it is meaningless. It is necessary for the iron supervisor to use up the produced iron. Only in this way can production continue and develop.

Looking at the thick smoke rolling in the chimney not far away and the surrounding forests were covered with snow, Du Zhongxiao sighed. He originally thought that even if the train and railway construction would be not easy in the future. When he thought of the railway tracks using a lot of iron and the huge amount of funds spent, he felt it was difficult. Only when he really started mining and smelting iron, he realized that it was not the case at all. The iron production grew too fast, and the market was far behind. If he was not used like this, what would the produced iron piles do? Many things were not planned before.

If nothing unexpected happens, the iron produced in this iron prison can only be built in railways for many years. Without this purpose, too much iron is produced, and the scale of the iron prison can only shrink. Apart from this method, where is there a huge steel market? There is no use to build weapons at all.

Production promotes consumption, and consumption stimulates production, and it is far from the right time to cycle.

In the Qingyu Building, Mr. Zhu saw Mr. Qian coming over and said, "Please sit down. Today, we are brothers, please drink a few glasses of wine."

Qian Yuanwai looked at Zhu Yuanwai, Jian Yuanwai and Wen Yuanwai, and said coldly: "The three are big families in the city. I am just a rich man in the countryside. How dare you eat your invitation?"

Mr. Zhu said: "Brother Tai's words are out of the blue. If you had made some sense in the past, you still made some sense now. How many households are there in Ye County? How many households are there in the Iron Supervisory? If you really want to talk about it, Brother Tai is the city's people, and this is the city."

Qian Manwai snorted coldly, sat down at the table, and said, "However, although my family is here, you have snatched away the money-making business? I have spent countless efforts to build a furnace, but it has not sold much money. I just met you picking iron from the slag and losing money in vain!"

Mr. Zhu smiled all over his face: "This is a personal experience. There is no way. Mr. Zhu should not keep it in his heart. As long as the Iron Supervisor is here, I am still afraid that there will be no money to make money? For such a large population, everyone receives money and food every month, which is a mountain of gold and silver."

Qian Manwai said with a cold face: "No need to say these sweet words, if you have anything to do, just say it straight."

Mr. Zhu glanced at his companion and said, "I'm not hiding it from my brothers. Recently, because the price of vegetables and meat has risen, the Iron Bureau wants to open fields to grow vegetables and hire people to raise some livestock and poultry. The three of us are not talented, so we took over the business of the Iron Bureau and wanted to grow vegetables for them. Most of the good land here belongs to my brothers. Growing vegetables is not as good as growing other things. The more cooked the land, the better. How about selling some land to us for a price?"

Qian Yuanwai sneered: "You are thinking of a good thing! Some days ago, Mr. He told me that you three are looking for him to sell vegetables here. He is my own brother and did not agree to you. I opened the furnace and lost my capital. Now I am saving money by growing vegetables. You three are here to take my business again! I know, let's say it for you, don't say you have bought my land, even the shops nearby are all my customers, and you can't take it away!"
Chapter completed!