Yang Fan thought for a moment and realized that since he came to Zunhua, it has had a great impact on the local pillar industry, the steel smelting industry.
In the past, Zunhua was the only iron smelting center in the north, supplying steel to the entire north of the Huaihe River.
After Yang Fan arrived, he brought open-hearth steelmaking technology. The previous earthen blast furnaces were not comparable to open-hearth steel in terms of output and quality.
A large number of merchants who came to Zunhua for purchasing from all over the country came to Yang Fan. The number of customers in other workshops gradually decreased, and now they are basically in a state of survival.
The quality of their steel is poor, the cost is high, and the price remains high. Moreover, their transportation costs and mineral processing costs cannot be reduced.
Everyone must be anxious now.
After Yang Fan came to Zunhua, he didn't have much contact with his colleagues except the little fat man and his son.
Businessmen in the steel industry who can establish themselves in Zunhua basically have a background. Some are backed by Governor Shuntian. Some of them are personal papers from the commander of the Zunhua Guard. Some of them are from the governor of Jiliao.
But their background is enough to deal with ordinary small businessmen, but not enough to deal with Yang Fan.
Yang Fan has the Holy Scroll above, and the territory and army below him. Wei Dugong can bring him down, and he can even fight with Dong Lin. They can afford to offend him there. If Yang Fan is offended and thrown into Jinyiwei's prison, it will be all over.
Yang Fan's steel plant had a devastating blow to those workshop-style iron-making enterprises. In front of open-hearth steel, those pig iron and wrought iron were simply garbage.
And this has a direct impact on the mining industry. The rotten iron cannot be sold, and no one buys the ore with extremely poor processing quality.
Yang Fan owns iron ore and usually doesn't purchase their ore much.
Yang Fan directly bought several of the largest iron ore mines based on their location.
Because the prospecting technology was extremely backward at this time, only some shallow iron ore could be found. As for the large iron mines, basically no one has been found.
The current Yang Fan is no longer his former identity. It doesn’t cost much to buy some wild mountains. It's not a thing at all.
Currently, all the major iron ore mines in northern Hebei have been bought by Yang Fan in the name of purchasing wasteland.
Even if it is not developed for the time being, let some disaster victims graze sheep on it, or plant some sparse crops, and then occupy it first.
Yang Fan has fertilizer and explosive technology. And Yaoguang is still researching more advanced formulas. The Syrians used sugar, fertilizer, and woks to create more powerful explosives. This kind of explosive has been widely used in gas tank mortars on the Syrian battlefield, and its explosive power is four times that of TNT.
The efficiency of mining with explosive blasting and tunnel support is far beyond that of earth mines that rely on explosive blasting. In this era, firewood was first used to burn, then cold water was poured in, and then hammered with a hammer. This primitive method has no competitiveness compared to Yang Fan's method.
Their mineral processing technology is not good either. Not only does it cost Yang Fan a lot to buy their mineral sand, but it also requires secondary beneficiation, which is very uneconomical.
They all use manual mineral processing, so the cost is not high.
Yang Fan now has a Newcomen steam engine. Although it is not as useful as Watt's reciprocating steam engine, it is still very useful for driving machines to crush ore, pump water from mines, and remove gas from coal mines. It just costs coal and is less efficient.
It can be said that Yang Fan's Xinghe Iron Works destroyed the entire Zunhua industrial chain.
Yang Fan now understood why the little fat man came to find him. And he still looked worried. He could understand the little fat man's struggle.
After all, Wei Bancheng also holds a lot of iron ore. There are also some smelting workshops. Of course, the Wei family is a comprehensive industrial family. At the same time, it owns a large number of commercial properties and land in Zunhua. Among the businesses opened, the majority are still in the commercial and service industries.
The great development of Yang Fan's steel industry in the past two years has attracted several times more merchant traffic than before. Zunhua is actually more prosperous than before. The Wei family's commercial and service shops have made huge profits. In fact, they are still making more money overall than before.
However, it is estimated that Wei Bancheng cannot withstand the pressure from steel industry bosses. These people have backers behind them.
After all, the only people Zunhua and Yang Fan could talk to were the Wei family. If you don't look for him, who should you look for?
Yang Fan is a person who is valued by the emperor. Local official positions are almost at their peak.
The commander of the Zunhua Guard was not easy to use with Yang Fan, and he had no face to speak of. As for Governor Shuntian, he is from Donglin. It is even more impossible for him to humiliate himself and become the leader.
Yang Fan pondered, this matter is actually a good thing.
This is an opportunity to map out the steel industry in the north.
If you want to change the Ming Dynasty, you can't rely on violent means to confiscate the gentry and landlords' homes and exterminate their families and redistribute wealth.
That was the method of Li Chuang and the Eight Kings. They only destroyed but did not produce, so they were doomed to fail.
What Yang Fan has to do is guide them to the right path.
Now, the reason why the gentry of the Ming Dynasty is not good for the country and the people is actually more harmful. That's because the development model is wrong. They should expand outward, not inward.
Only if the people have the spending power can they make more money. If the people are poor, they cannot afford to buy things, which is of no benefit to industry and commerce. Sitting on the largest consumer market in the world in this era, Yang Fan was speechless when Ming Dynasty was reduced to this.
"After arriving in Zunhua, we stayed in Zunhua for one day. I met the shopkeepers in the steel industry and had a good chat with them." Yang Fan put down the letter and said.
"Master, they asked the Wei family to find you, most likely to get you to reveal some benefits. It's probably not good." Xiao Niangpi said with a frown.
Yang Fan smiled and said: "A fence has three stakes, and a hero has three gangs. A bamboo pole is easy to bend, but three hemp ropes are difficult to break. A flower blooming alone is not spring, but the garden is filled with thousands of purples and reds."
Lin Yueru said: "Sir, I remember these words are like those of "Ancient and Modern Sages". This book was written in the Wanli period. It was not published very early and is not well-known. The master actually lived through this time. He is really knowledgeable. This kind of miscellaneous book I also dabbled in it.”
Yang Fan said: "I think this book is very good. It talks in plain language, but it is also a wise saying in life."
Xiao Niangpi also said: "This book is good, you can understand it at a glance. I have also read the passage that the master said. The preceding sentence is: When people unite, the mountains will move. It is difficult to walk with one foot, and it is difficult to sing with a single hand. The rising tide lifts the boat, and the firewood is strong. .Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. A brick cannot build a wall, and a piece of wood cannot build a house."
Yang Fan laughed heartily: "My wife is indeed an expert in reading. She has actually read such a niche book."
Seeing Yang Fan put aside the matter of the victims, Xiao Niangpi became happy again and very happy.
She said: "Master, generally speaking, the wealth in this world is fixed. If you earn more, others will earn less. Master, do we really want to give some benefits to those businessmen, industrial and mining owners?"
Yang Fan took a sip of the soup, put down the bowl, and said: "The wealth of the world is not constant. This is because for thousands of years, the increase in agricultural output has been limited, and clothing mainly comes from agricultural products such as mulberry and hemp, and the output has not been large. Improvement. The people have been lacking food and clothing for thousands of years. That’s why they feel that the total wealth of the world is constant.”
"But our current technological progress, whether it is food that increases the yield per mu, or steel that increases the output of mining and smelting, is equivalent to increasing wealth. In fact, industry is divided into heavy industry and light industry. We should concentrate on heavy industry and light industry. Let others do the work, which means we provide the steel raw materials. The peripheral workshops use our steel to make various practical tools and daily necessities."
Xiao Niangpi suddenly realized: "Master, what you mean is that not only will this not cause us any losses, but it will actually expand our steel production."
"Yes, we can build a complete industrial system based on steel. Let more gentry invest in opening various downstream workshops to produce various things. This will form a group that relies on steel to get rich."
Lin Yueru also said: "Master, I understand that in China, throughout the thousands of years of history, there is no weak group. The weak ones have always been individuals. As long as a group of people agree with the master's ideas and rely on the master to make a fortune. Groups will greatly enhance our power. They are the power we create. The bigger this power is, the more stable we will be."
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