"If you have any use in the lower place, please tell me."

"A banquet will be set up a few days later. Please be sure to enjoy the scenery when you are here."

Everyone said goodbye. Zhang Han and others went out of the restaurant, but did not go to the prepared residence, and planned to go directly to Dongshan... It was the mining area, and the stand-up furnace must also be on the mountain.

Zhang Xuezeng said: "I won't go anymore. I'm a little tired, so go and rest first."

Zhang Xuezeng managed these things for Zhang Han in the city, but he felt that the effect was not very good, and he was quite ashamed. This also shows that the brand of Zhang family in Puzhou was becoming less and less effective, and it was also called Zhang Xuezeng a little sad. When he was young, when the Zhang family was still prominent, he was always in every way. Local officials heard that the direct descendants of the Zhang family in Puzhou had arrived, so they would definitely invite them to live in the government office, or at least convene a decent banquet to let the gentry in the city know the pros and consort them. As a result, he has been here for many days and only saw the magistrate, and received a promise and gave gifts. However, the magistrate did not intend to invite Zhang Xuezeng and Zhang Han, which also made Zhang Xuezeng feel sad.

Zhang Han saw Zhang Xuezeng’s thoughts and comforted him: “The third uncle is free to go up the mountain and set up a furnace, which is originally a hard work. The third uncle just needs to be in charge of the city.”

Zhang Xuezeng nodded and said, "Now the magistrate in the city is the magistrate who just sits on the ground to score points. Each family will definitely benefit him. Han Tong has the strongest power, the darkest heart, and the strongest wrists. He is our strong rival. Li Dayong wants to instigate Sun Anle and use our strength to fight the Han family. It is not a good material. Wenlan, you are used to self-discipline. I just said that you need to be more careful."

"Don't worry, third uncle." Zhang Han nodded with some emotion: "I know in my heart that I will never let these people overturn the ship."

"Um."

Zhang Xuezeng nodded, pulled his horse back and went back to his residence in the city. A servant quickly followed. Zhang Han thought about it and asked Liang Xing to send two more people to take care of him. It is conceivable that there will be more trouble in the future. It is better to be more careful in everything.

Zhang Han also sighed in his heart that the business environment of the Ming Dynasty was indeed not ordinary. In addition to some self-made merchants in the southeast, well-known Shanxi merchants undoubtedly had backgrounds with officials and gentry. Jing, most of the well-known Shanxi merchants in the Qing Dynasty were imperial merchants. After the war, the international and domestic environments were relatively relaxed. In this era, either the official and gentry families like the Zhang family in Puzhou, or the "maritime merchants" who were pirates like Zheng Zhilong. If a real good merchant wants to grow, it is really difficult to get bigger, except for a wealthy place like Su Song. With the strength of the Zhang family in Puzhou and Zhang Han, it is so difficult to open an iron field. It is conceivable how difficult the situation of small and medium-sized merchants is.

Dongshan is not very far from Lingqiu City. After a few quick horse turns, I saw the rolling mountains after walking for more than ten miles. I didn’t realize it when I saw that when I got closer, I saw that these mountains were mostly bare, with large pits everywhere. The trees on the mountain were cut down. Except for the low shrubs and grass, there were no green at all. Several mountain roads of different widths meandered in. There were many donkey and mule carts on the road, and there were either food and daily necessities or a whole truck of coal, and trucks were transported to the mountains.

The mountain range of Lingqiu contains a large amount of iron ore, which is also the basis for the numerous iron farms here. However, essential items such as coal have to be bought from other places where coal is produced. This is also the reason why the roads in Lingqiu are still good. No matter how hard each family is, the big households have to raise money to build roads every year. The government only takes the lead. The affairs of each place depends on the actual needs. If it really takes the lead, the gentry must take the lead.

It is easy to go into the mountains. Just follow these cars. Zhang Han and his group are particularly eye-catching. They have attracted many gazes along the way.

Zhang Han also looked at the miners. Most of them had dark complexions and had a lot of iron slag on their hair. At that time, men also had long hair. These people had no time to clean and take care of them. They got used to the messy hair. The robes on their bodies were mainly short and brown. Few people came here wearing long gowns. Everyone had a good figure and grew up with their hands and feet. They were used to hard work. The weather was hot, and many people took off their robes and beat them bare. It was obvious that they were full of strong muscles. This was all exercised by doing hard work over the years.

From the perspective of eyes, the expression is more lively than those of military households and farmers. After all, workers often gather, and thousands of people gather, and all kinds of people have it. Information exchange is much more developed than those who have worked in the village for many years. With more knowledge, there is also more spiritual energy in their eyes, and they are much more energetic than those who are too dull. But from the expression on their faces, they are mostly people who work hard and work hard. People who are not honest can't bear this hardship, so they have already gone down the mountain and left for other business.

Zhang Han was angry and felt in his heart. At this time, Li Shenming also came over and said with a smile: "Wenlan, you are looking for people to be escorts elsewhere, why not find some here? Speaking of which, miners are the first-class soldiers. Of course, the treatment of the border troops is insufficient to attract these people to join the army. However, your escort business, if you say you are recruiting people, you may be able to line up a long line of thousands of people."

At that time, Qi Jiguang also recruited Dongyang Mine soldiers and trained the Qi family army that was powerful in the country. His military strategy also included recruitment and training methods. Zhang Han also read it carefully. Qi Jiguang was a natural commander, who knew almost everything and knew everything. Until hundreds of years later, the training techniques of Hunan generals such as Zeng Guofan, including provoking soldiers, forming camps, and fighting were mostly inspired by Qi Jiguang's military books. The ready-made prescriptions learned, a famous general, not only affects his own life, but also affects hundreds of years behind him. It can indeed be said to be a genius.

"It's true." Zhang Han smiled and said, "When the stove is ready, the people are almost the same, and then I will find some people who are brave and willing to come to the escort business."

"It may not be said that you have to be in the back at the beginning, Jing Le's hometown." Li Shenming gave him an idea: "Your mate must also protect the stove here. At the beginning, he said he would look for the guards in the iron field. Of course, people should have more skills. Practice here for a few months, and with constraints, you will have the final say where to transfer it at that time."

Li Shenming did a lot of tricks when doing things. Zhang Han smiled and said that, but it was not urgent. I will talk about it later.

"The boss is here!"

At the bend of a mountain road, it is also the entrance of a flat valley. Cai Jiu led thirty or forty people in his head, looking forward to it. He saw Zhang Han and others riding horses from afar. Cai Jiu was in front and the rest were behind. After shouting, everyone knelt down and kowtowed.

Zhang Han stopped the horse, turned over, and had a smile on his face. He reached out to help Cai Jiu and a few middle-aged people around Cai Jiu... I thought these were all people like small leaders, and then he laughed loudly: "Everyone is up. I am just a boss, not a magistrate. Why do you kneel down? I am a boss, only rules. As long as you abide by my rules, do your job according to your duty, and do not cause trouble, you will face me with your face, and I will not be angry. If you always cause trouble for me, even if you kowtow every time you see me, I will drive you out of here. That's all my words, everyone will get up first!"

Liang Xing and others laughed when they heard these words. Everyone knows that what Zhang Han said was true.

The owner now has more than a thousand people under his command. In terms of the business, it is simply the first-class big business. There are not many shopkeepers in any business. It is a large scale. Even if it is a big porter, it is only 200 or 300 people. Naturally, they would not know that Suzhou in the same era already had a large silk weaving factory with a large number of people over a thousand people. In Jiangnan, a boss without a thousand numbers would not be able to make any big deals. In northern Jin, Zhang Han was only under those super big merchants, that is, some big families of officials and gentry for generations, and they had more tenant farmers than Zhang Han's subordinates.

With so many subordinates, Zhang Han has almost no change except for adding a few guards and buying some maids and servants in his mansion. He still acts in a simple and clear manner every day, speaks simple and clear, doesn't like to put on airs, and makes trouble for the whistleblowers. Almost all people under Zhang Han have developed the habit of talking about the serious things first, explaining a few words clearly, recording before and after doing things, and finally writing and archiving. Those shopkeepers, including the head of the escort team, have to learn to make reports, record the changes in daily expenses, and report them regularly. Zhang Han will read them every day. If there is any problem, he will point out immediately. He will not scold others, but he will not give anyone face. People who have cultivated this way will naturally become more and more useful. This is also the use of Zhang Han's efforts to support his subordinates... If you just ask someone to kowtow, what's the use of raising a group of kowtow bugs?

Since the bandits in Daliangshan, even the discipline of the escorts has been daily and standardized. Liang Xing and others know what the "rules" mentioned by Zhang Han are, which is to standardize eating, drinking, and garages on food, drinking, and urging in everything, and abide by the details of the rules. Now the escorts joke that the rules of the escort business have been stricter than military discipline, but they are not subject to any reduction in execution, and there is no punishment.

Of course, the miners are not as good as yard men, and the rules are not as heavy as that. Just looking at the crowd with confused expressions on their faces, Liang Xing and others couldn't help but smile with gloating.

Cai Jiu also understood Zhang Han, the owner of the proprietor. At that moment, he took his head first, and the men next to him also followed him. Thirty or forty people stood in a semicircle in a sparse manner. Everyone looked at each other, feeling quite confused. Although Cai Jiu had already mentioned the difference between his proprietor and other families before, it was a bit surprising that he was different from this.

Zhang Han nodded to Cai Jiu and asked, "Where is the location of the furnace?"

Cai Jiu reached out, held Zhang Han's horse, and said, "Please follow me."

When the two met like this, they didn't even say anything politely, and immediately said the serious matter. Many miners found by Cai Jiu realized that the young owner in front of him was indeed a powerful character who was decisive and powerful.

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Chapter completed!