"Come on.n∈," Sun Jingting said helplessly: "I have already been there before, and I say bluntly that you are devoted to major events now, and let the relationship between men and women be kept first. Anyway, you will explain something to Yu Niang!"

Zhang Han said with a bitter face: "Did you really say the last sentence?"

"Dare you dare to lie to the account?" Sun Jingting said furiously: "When you told Yu Niang that there would be an explanation, I was there!"

"Okay..." Zhang Han responded with a wry smile.

...

Han Laoliu squatted in front of the furnace room, staring at the stove he created with a smile.

There were several members of the Iron Field Guards holding swords and guns around, and they also looked at the furnace room with nervous expressions. All the idle people were driven away. Until Han Laoliu left the furnace room himself, people could come to me.

A truckload of slag was pushed out of the furnace room. From the appearance, the furnace room was no different from the old ones, with almost no changes, making it impossible to see the bottom.

"Lao Liu, you want it."

"Lao Liu, don't forget me, please drink."

"Who is your god? When I was in the iron field, you were still holding your mother's breasts at home. You turned into me."

A group of people joked about Han Laoliu, but Han Laoliu was not annoyed, but his mouth was not soft. He could eat other losses, but he would not eat any losses in his mouth.

"It's not easy for Lao Liu to say." A thin middle-aged man looked at Han Lao Liu and said, "I was first taken to Xinpingbao, and then I thought about the idea and put it back. I really asked him to make trouble."

Another person continued: "I heard that Master Zhang is very generous. Last time, a craftsman made a new bird gun, saying that he could make a fire by himself, so he didn't have a fire rope. Master Zhang rewarded him with a thousand taels of silver. Be good, Lao Liu, this time you are really."

Everyone fell silent. One thousand taels of silver, for miners who earn about ten taels of annual income, was an astronomical figure that they could not even imagine.

Han Laoliu laughed, and he grinned and said, "Don't be jealous. I'll do this, I don't sleep all day and night, thinking about the matter of this furnace room. I haven't had a good sleep in the past few months, and my body has lost about ten kilograms of meat. In addition, we are a veteran of more than ten years, so we have done this. If you want to get this reward, you will also think about it yourself. Zhang Dongzhu is a generous person, hehe."

Han Laoliu felt that he had already obtained the silver reward. He stayed in Xinpingbao for a long time. He knew Zhang Han's character and He Yusheng's strength. Since Wang Debang could get one thousand taels, he would definitely get one thousand taels.

At this time, Han Laoliu's wife, son and daughter-in-law all rushed over, and everyone stood around Han Laoliu.

Han Laoliu's wife was in her early forties and was already dry and chaotic, with a yellow face. She said timidly: "Chief, can you get the silver reward?"

Han Laoliu said: "I haven't seen everyone waiting for the boss to come, why are you anxious?"

The daughter-in-law didn't look at her father-in-law very much and curled her lips, "I've seen hail falling from the sky, but how could I see silver?"

Han Laoliu's son scolded: "What are you talking about? At least you won't give our father a few dozen taels!"

Han Laoliu's grandson was still a little boy, and he pestered his grandfather to ask for sugar beans. This was what his parents taught him before leaving home. Han Laoliu was entangled by his grandson. He was originally confident in his heart, but he was also a little panicked at this time. If the boss only praised him for not giving the reward for silver, he would be embarrassed.

Fortunately, the iron farm has been paying monthly salary. Han Laoliu has been busy with the furnace room business recently. Besides, the iron farm is not allowed to gamble too much. He has saved some and made up his mind to use his private money to beat his son's family if there is no silver reward in a while.

"Here, the boss is here."

Someone called out, and the people in front of the iron yard and in the yard seemed to be a group of chickens with pinched necks, and they all fluttered all of them, and the long neck stretched out to look outward.

The road leading to the official road in the Iron Farm has been well repaired, and the abandoned slag has not been wasted at all, and it has been used on paving roads. Cai Jiu did not save money and labor in this matter. After a few months, several roads leading out of the mountain were built flat and straight. The slag was paved and then flattened with a mill. The entire road was wide and hard, and could accommodate two to three vehicles driving side by side.

Zhang Han was at the center of the horse, Jiang Kui was in front with several guards, and there were still about twenty guards in the middle to the cavalry team. Zhang Han had a great family recently and was fighting a business war with the Fan family. He Yusheng did not do any external moves, but he was determined to be defensive. He wanted to prevent others from dealing with him. The guard power, that is, the members of the special service team and the defense level were greatly increased.

In the eyes of Han Laoliu and others, Zhang Han, surrounded by dozens of riders, is not the young owner who created this iron field in my memory by hand. Zhang Han is also wearing a short gray robe, a felt hat on his head, a fine iron sword on his waist, and a cowhide leather belt. He is full of energy and exudes the obvious aura of a superior.

Even though the guards were wearing the same robes as Zhang Han, the breath on Zhang Han's face could not be concealed. Even some new miners who had never seen Zhang Han, when they saw Zhang Han rolling over and dismounting in the crowd and walking forward with a smile, these people knew that this young man was the owner of this iron field.

A miner whispered: "You always say that the boss is young, I think he is less than twenty?"

The other person said nervously: "Who knows this? But although the boss is young, he is also very powerful. Do you know what the Han family is doing..."

At this time, someone whispered: "Stop talking nonsense, Dong is the main person."

The miners who were not on duty gathered in the center of the courtyard, and even many people came out of the living area, and they still had a lot of feelings for their boss miners.

The entire Lingqiu Mining industry can be said to have undergone subversive changes due to Zhang Han's appearance. The miners' residences have all become rows of tiled houses, which are good in living and eating. The benefits are more than a hundred times better than before, and their wages have increased a lot. While everyone is working hard, they are also grateful to Zhang Dongzhu who created these things.

People are not without conscience, but are easily influenced or exploited. At least in Lingqiu, Zhang Han's image is extremely tall under deliberate publicity.

Zhang Han did not have a long discussion. He looked at Han Laoliu and nodded and said, "Laoliu, you can correct your mistakes, and you will be able to return to your mistakes. This time I made a contribution. It's very good. I will reward you very much."

Han Laoliu's face turned red and he slowly replied: "Master, I don't know that Master, you are good to us on the battlefield. Even if you don't have any rewards, I will do this in a decent manner."

When the Han family heard Han Laoliu say such things, they were all anxious. Han Laoliu's son wanted to go up and cover his father's mouth.

Zhang Han listened and smiled and said, "Go to see the furnace room first."

Of course everyone followed, Cai Jiu and several deputy officers came over, briefly talking about the recent situation in the iron field.

In the entire western mountain range, almost all places where iron ore are easily produced were bought by Heyusheng Iron Field, stretching into pieces, and the places with sight are already part of the iron field.

There are also eleven furnaces, five large blast furnaces and six small furnaces. Each large furnace can produce 5,000 kilograms of molten iron and 3,000 kilograms of small furnaces. There are only five furnaces in the iron yard in this place, and the iron yard on the new site has a total of eleven furnaces.

In recent months, the number of miners used in iron yards has gradually increased to nearly 3,000. There are those used directly on blast furnaces, including logistics personnel, sales and buying personnel, and more loggers and furnace workers. In addition to accounting and management personnel, there are about 10,000 miners in Lingqiu. Zhang Han’s Heyusheng Iron Farm has more than 30% of the workforce has exceeded 30%.

A considerable number of small iron farm owners have transferred their iron farms, and most of their old furnaces have been pushed down and rebuilt. Although it has consumed a lot of labor, effort and costs, the charcoal fire and ICBC saved are enough to slowly recover the previous investment.

The work area and living area have been expanded several times. In front of Zhang Han, the blue brick and tile houses stretched out in pieces and were well planned. There are spacious roads in the living area, and thousands of people eat every day. There are dozens of donkey carts for delivering vegetables alone. Every morning, food and vegetables are delivered in.

Cai Jiu said, handed a water hyacinth to Zhang Han, and smiled and said, "This is the mountain spring water that is drawn. The clear stream is at its bottom. The owner will try it."

Zhang Han took a sip and praised: "It's really clear and sweet. Cai Jiu, you've done a good job."

Cai Jiu's face was full of joy. He was no longer the young and timid young man a year ago. After such a long time of experience, he was indeed much more mature than before.

It is difficult to reflect these things in the report. The profits of the iron market on the accounts are also very ordinary. From the standpoint to now, a total of about 3 million kilograms of iron were sold. The price of Jintik is incomparable to that of the iron in the south. That is, because the iron production of Heyusheng Iron Field is much purity and has fewer impurities. The original image of Jintik was very poor, and it has been recovered a little recently, but it is difficult to increase the selling price. After all, pig iron has not changed essentially, it is slightly better than before, but it has more sales channels, but the price is still very low, not only far lower than Fujian Iron, but also pig iron in other places.

According to Cai Jiu and others, iron is short of iron everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. Not only is it because the people use iron very short, but the imperial court uses iron even more short.

Since the mid-Ming Dynasty, the court saw that it was not cost-effective to open an iron farm, with more labor, high costs and less iron production, so it closed many iron farms.

The official mines in the Ming Dynasty were like state-owned enterprises in later generations, with very low efficiency and amazing waste.

The government office changed to an official purchase, which saved a lot of money from the court, but the problem of iron deficiency has not been solved.

Now the mainstream in the north is Nantie. Ma'anshan and Fujian are both major iron producers. Fujian has hundreds of iron farms and fifteen counties produce iron. Most of these irons are purchased in the north for special purposes.

The imperial court's armor, weapons, bird guns, and cannons were mostly made of Fujian iron, and at least southern iron.

These can be seen in the records of the officials at that time, and Jin Tie was completely unable to compete with Fujian Tie on this area.

Due to the two reasons of casting and transportation, the price of Fujian iron becomes very expensive after arriving in the north, and the price is more than ten times that of Jin iron.

Zhang Han always wanted to fight with Fujian Iron. He planned to smuggle iron tools to the grassland, but it did not include the fine iron. Because Jiannu also had iron ore and iron fields, and he always attached great importance to the construction of weapons. The Eight Banners used the best iron on weapons, and then armor. Bai Zhuyala's armor was carefully made iron armor, which was extremely solid. The cotton armor worn by ordinary armor was better than the Ming army. However, Jiannu was trapped in manpower and financial resources, and there was no way to wear armor for all soldiers. This gap was not made up until the Chongzhen period. By the time the Eight Banners warriors entered the pass several times, they were far ahead of the Ming army in armor and weapons.
Chapter completed!