Chapter 056
The iron needs to be struck while it is hot, and the same is true for vertical cold casting to produce seamless steel pipes. As long as there is no problem in the first well, there will be no problem after the mold is completely preheated by the molten steel.
After the steel pipe production in the first well was completed, these craftsmen set up the molds as quickly as possible, and before the molten steel in the blast furnace was exhausted, production started again in the second well.
After the production of steel pipes in the four wells, there is no chance at all. The high-manganese molten steel in the blast furnace has been exhausted. It will take the day after tomorrow to make another furnace of steel.
As the blast furnace began to be successfully put into operation, the production of armed equipment of Cheng Shijie's Ordnance Bureau, Armored Crossbow Bureau, and Guns and Artillery Bureau was completely revitalized, and it was no longer possible for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
"Master Guards, should we build another blast furnace?"
"One house is not enough!"
Cheng Shijie pointed at the blast furnace and said, "At least ten!"
“But we don’t have that many craftsmen!”
"Then recruit refugees!"
"Food prices have risen now. One stone of grain now costs seven denarius!"
Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said: "We will not be short of money. These two iron mines are like golden chickens that can lay eggs!"
Now a blast furnace can produce almost 150,000 kilograms of steel a month. According to the current iron price, that is an output value of 15,000 taels of silver.
In addition, there are furniture factories, carriage factories, briquettes factories, stove factories, textile factories, quilt factories, and agricultural tool factories. As long as domestic demand is met, they can make profits. Cheng Shijie, who owns iron ore, can completely lower the price to seize Shandong's market. Iron market.
A big businessman like Gu Shizhang could exchange iron for food. Although wars broke out frequently in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the south was relatively quiet because the impact of the Little Glacier weather was limited.
"Pa bang..."
A new day begins with the beating of Zhang Huairen in Sanshan Mountain.
The beatings during this period finally made Zhang Huairen become honest. Sure enough, Zhang Huairen was just pretending to be a tough guy. His toughness only meant that the beating was not harsh enough.
Just when Cheng Shijie used Zhang Huairen to stretch his body and whipped him dozens of times, he went to have breakfast.
The backyard of Ning Haijun's garrison mansion now has a larger population. In addition to the two adopted daughters Cheng Jingjing and Cheng Anning, as well as the two adopted sons Cheng Shi and Cheng Hu, plus Chen Guodong, Jin Qiaoer and Xueer, naturally there are also It depends on Yang Yunniang who refuses to leave.
At first, Cheng Shijie really wanted Yang Yunniang to leave. After all, it was nothing to have a charlatan by his side.
However, the problem is that as soon as this matter is mentioned, Yang Yuniang will jump into the river with Jiaxin in her arms, although it is not sure whether Yang Yuniang will actually commit suicide. Later, Cheng Shijie discovered that Yang Yuniang was actually literate, but Cheng Shijie had no one to use.
He just made do with letting Yang Yunniang manage his internal accounts. She never thought that Yang Yunniang was very keen on numbers. In just three days, she found more than a dozen problems in dozens of account books, some of which were caused by the accountant trying to steal Cheng Shijie's money. , and some are due to work negligence.
In this way, Cheng Shijie kept Yang Yunniang.
Anyway, Cheng Shijie positioned Yang Yunniang as the accountant. Even Jin Qiaoer, who was roughly literate in Braille and knew some simple calculations, became Cheng Shijie's accountant, and Jin Qiaoer became Yang Yuniang's assistant. Xueer became the new cook, and Cheng Shijie paid them a salary.
Yang Yuniang was given ten taels of silver per month, Jin Qiaoer was given five taels of silver per month, while Chen Guodong, the bodyguard, was given the same five taels of silver, and Xue'er, the cook, and his four adopted children were each given two taels of silver per month.
"Father, please have a meal!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng Jingjing and said, "Jingjing, call An Ning here too!"
Not long after, Cheng Anjing and Cheng Anning came hand in hand.
"Meet the adoptive father!"
When Cheng Jingjing and Cheng Anning were adopted by Cheng Shijie, they were both skinny and skinny, but as their nutrition kept up, they both gained a lot of weight.
Especially An Ning, who is prone to obesity, and now she has developed a double chin.
Cheng Shijie said: "Sit down, let's eat together!"
"this……"
"We are a family!"
Cheng Shijie muttered: "I'm going to discuss something with you two today!"
"Please give me your foster father's orders!"
Cheng Anning and Cheng Jingjing stood up.
"Don't be nervous, it doesn't have to be so formal!"
Cheng Shijie said: "You are not very old!"
Speaking of this, Cheng Anning looked at Cheng Jingjing beside her, and she puffed up her chest proudly.
Cheng Jingjing lowered his head with a sense of inferiority.
"I can!"
Cheng Shijie said: "You still have a long life ahead. If you are illiterate and ignorant, you will suffer a lot in the future, so I want you to go to school!"
Cheng Jingjing was a little confused: "Women can also study!"
"OK!"
"What's the use of studying for a woman? She can't take part in the imperial examinations or become an official!"
"Is the goal of studying just to become an official?"
Cheng Shijie said seriously: "If you think this way, you will fall behind. Reading and studying is first of all to increase your knowledge!"
"But where are we going to study?"
"This house is very big, so let's open a girls' school in the backyard!"
Cheng Shijie muttered: "Let Yun Niang teach you how to read and write first. In the future, my adoptive father will look for a literate gentleman!"
Bandits like to rob the female relatives of wealthy families, perhaps to satisfy the indescribable sense of accomplishment. Among the women rescued from Zhensanshan, three of them came from official families, and one of them was the daughter of an official in Qingzhou Prefecture. It's just a pity. The woman was rescued and wrote a letter to her family. After receiving the letter, she became depressed and hanged herself while others were not paying attention.
Ning Haijun is currently suppressing bandits on a large scale and can rescue some educated women.
"I would like to follow the arrangements of my adoptive father!"
Cheng Shijie found Yang Yuniang again and discussed with her about opening a girls' school.
But Cheng Shijie didn't notice that Cheng Aning was somewhat disappointed.
After Cheng Shijie left, Yang Yunniang sighed: "You two... are really awesome!"
"Don't talk about me, you are not the same!"
Cheng Anning lowered his head, feeling a little guilty.
Yang Yunniang looked at Cheng Jingjing and said, "Jingjing, go and call Qiao'er and Xue'er over!"
As Qiao'er and Xue'er arrived, Yang Yuniang coughed and said, "I've called you here today to tell me something."
In Cheng Shijie's backyard, Yang Yuniang unknowingly became the boss. Not to mention Zhou Yandong mistakenly thought that Yang Yuniang was Cheng Shijie's wife and concubine, and even Jin Qiaoer and Xueer also caused such misunderstandings.
Yang Yunniang is so deceptive. She holds Jiaxin in her arms, is luxuriously dressed, has an extraordinary aura, and her aura is even more powerful.
Although the misunderstanding has now been resolved, Cheng Shijie asked Yang Yunniang to serve as the accountant and Jin Qiaoer as his assistant to follow her arrangements.
"My boss's family business is getting bigger and bigger, but my boss..."
Yang Yuniang smiled bitterly and said: "Aren't we women looking for a good husband in this life? With the identity and status of the boss, there is no hope for you to become step wives. Being a concubine is also a fortune. Once the mother is as valuable as the son in the future, The opportunity is in front of you!"
Cheng Jingjing said timidly: "But the foster father..."
"It's not a close relationship, so what's the problem. You also crawled out of the dead and came to the Cheng family. What kind of life did you live? Do you still want to go back to the past?"
"Absolutely not!"
"That's right, it's up to you whether you can seize this wealth!"
Cheng Shijie didn't know that several women were thinking about him.
"Congratulations, Lord Guard, we won a big victory!"
"oh!"
When Cheng Shijie saw the victory report, he saw it read: "Kill Lin Jingzong's subordinates and kill Lin Jingzong and below, a total of 463 levels."
Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "Where are the prisoners?"
"No... no prisoners. This battle was too tragic. Nineteen brothers were wounded and two died, so..."
Cheng Shijie naturally knew what was going on. In the past, he did deliberately not leave any rewards for prisoners, because he was only a thousand-household person, and it was already very difficult to feed more than 14,000 people in a thousand-household house. There was no reward at all. The method takes into account the life and death of the bandits.
Although some bandits are good citizens who were held hostage, the problem is that whether these good people were coerced or voluntary, they committed a crime when they killed someone. It cannot be said that those who were forced can be acquitted.
"In the past, I was negligent in guarding and did not set rewards for prisoners. I immediately informed the entire army. If the bandits surrendered, they needed to be screened. The nearby people were summoned on the spot to identify the perpetrators. After the screening, as long as they committed a trick and massacred the people, Regardless of whether they surrender voluntarily or not, they will all be beheaded, and prisoners who surrender voluntarily will be sent to the mines for labor reform!"
"yes!"
"The supplies were seized!"
"It has been brought back. There is not much food, only 1,200 taels of silver. Zhuan Linbao is a poor man. He only captured less than 10,000 taels of silver and rescued fifty-three robbed women!"
"Inform the entire army that our Ning Navy needs prisoners. If you capture one, you will be rewarded with one and a half degrees of decapitation, and you will be rewarded with fifteen acres of land!"
Cheng Shijie has the authority to reclaim more than three million acres of land. For now, the land is enough. Only when the land is rewarded to the soldiers and belongs to them, will they take care of it carefully.
Four thousand six hundred and thirty acres of land will be rewarded according to the method of reward for military merit. If there are two soldiers who died in the battle, each of them will have one hundred acres, and another farming village can be established.
Cheng Shijie summarized the battle report and sent it to Dengzhou City.
"Good news, Ning Haijun has wiped out the ruthless bandit Zhuan Linbao and Lin Jingzong's tribe, beheading level 463!"
"Good news, Ning Haijun destroyed Xiao Li Guang and Li Kang's troops, beheaded 351 people, captured 595 people, and rescued 156 people who were robbed!"
"Victory, Ning Haijun destroyed Caoshang Fei Sun Tianhua's tribe, beheaded 405 people, captured 783 people, and seized a batch of supplies!"
Just when Sun Yuanhua was looking at the good news in front of him, he received a report from the concierge: "Master Futai, the Zhang family of Laiyang has replaced the petition!"
"What kind of paper?"
"The Zhang family in Laiyang sued Ning Haijun to guard and massacre the people."
Sun Yuanhua didn't believe Cheng Shijie's massacre of the people at all. Qin Wu was completely wiped out by Cheng Shijie with only a thousand guardsmen. Zhen Sanshan, Zuolin Bao, and Cao Shangfei were even weaker.
What's more, if Cheng Shijie really wanted to massacre good people and take credit for killing good people, it would not be beheading hundreds of people, but thousands, or even tens of thousands.
Even if they kill good people and take credit for their crimes, they will only catch the refugees and kill them. In this way, the local government will not care about them, and no one will care about the life and death of the refugees. Even if they are not killed, it will be difficult for the refugees to survive on their way to wandering.
Sun Yuanhua frowned slightly: "When did this Cheng Shijie offend the Zhang family?"
Xu Dacheng shook his head: "Students don't know, but there may be some misunderstanding!"
"What is true cannot be fake, and what is false cannot be true. The Zhang family in Laiyang must give face to the Zhang family. Let's let someone notify Cheng Shijie and ask him to come to Dengzhou City and explain to the Zhang family!"
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