Hutou Village Temple.
Sitting around the long table were Liu Heng and several other important leaders of Hutou Village.
Li Shuheng said: "In the coming year, we will increase the number of iron furnaces and expand the iron yard guard team. Our money will be very tight. The self-generated fire gun in Zhaojiayu has been studied for more than two months, and a lot of money has been spent. No results have been achieved. Now it is To develop the waterwheel, five hundred taels were allocated to the weapons factory as funding. In addition, the consumption of armor, especially fire blunderbuss, was fired every day. A batch of new fire blunderbuss and gunpowder needed to be replenished every once in a while. It also consumes a lot of money, and money is needed in all aspects.”
Chen Xunping said: "It's better not to train the fire blunderbuss. This can save the consumption of fire blunderbuss and gunpowder. Also, our current fire blunderbuss is very easy to use. I don't think we should waste money on developing some self-generating fire blunderbuss." The waterwheel does not need to be used. The Xu family village did not have a waterwheel before, but it is still fine. Without these expenses, we should be able to save a lot of money."
"Xunping is right," Li Shuheng said. "Even the frontier troops don't train every day. We don't need to train every day. We can train every three days or every five days. This way we can save money on food." Some."
Liu Heng tapped the table with his fingers and said: "The reason why our Hutou Village is stable is because we have these strong soldiers from these brigades. They train every three days and every five days. What is the difference between that and the army? Time Over time, the people below will inevitably become inert and gradually become like the soldiers at Lingqiu Camp. Next time the government troops come to Hutou Village to suppress bandits, what will we do to resist them?"
After a pause, he continued: "Do you think that our Hutou Village is now stable? We have defeated the army and can be regarded as the number one force in Lingqiu. Let me tell you, we are far from it. As long as we show our weakness for a moment. , those evil wolves in Lingqiu will pounce on us and eat us up."
"Don't be angry, Boss. Captain Li and Captain Chen are also trying to save some money." Zhao Yutu said, "Now our Hutou Village has a lot of expenses. Captain Li is really under a lot of pressure. The iron field sent All my money was spent like water before I could get my hands on it."
Liu Heng looked at the man sitting at the back of the long table and said, "Daqing, please tell me about the intelligence collected by the intelligence team."
"Yes." Chen Daqing said, "Since the battle between us and the army, the iron yards in Dongshan have temporarily become more honest and have stopped doing those little tricks against our iron yards. However, this is only temporary. According to the information collected by the intelligence team The three owners of the Xu, Li and Yang iron yards are joining forces with the Xu family to lobby other owners of the iron yards in Dongshan to discuss the establishment of a rural warrior group training."
Liu Heng looked at the other people and said: "The proprietors of the Iron Factory in Dongshan, the gentry who occupy more than half of Lingqiu, are still thinking of destroying us. It can be said that we are still surrounded by dangers."
"Master." Chen Xunping said, "Why don't you ask your subordinates to take people to Dongshan to kill all the owners of the iron farm? Who dares to propose the establishment of a rural warrior group to train?"
"Stupid." Liu Heng said angrily, "As long as we dare to kill the gentry, we will completely break up with the gentry class in Lingqiu, and all the efforts we have made before will be in vain. Otherwise, why do you think I let the Xu family deal with me several times? , but Xu Youcai never moved."
Picking up the big teapot, taking a sip of water, he added: "We are still too weak now, and Datong's frontier army can wipe us out, so we must not kill the gentry in Lingqiu, even if we want to kill them, We can’t let anyone suspect that it was our people from Hutou Village who did it.”
"How angry!" Chen Xunping slammed the table hard.
Li Shuheng on the side said: "Then we will just watch them set up a rural warrior group to practice and eventually use it against us?"
"I don't care about the Xiangyong group training and the like." Liu Heng said, "As long as the strength of our several teams remains unchanged, Xiangyong or group training, there is no threat to us at all. What we need to do now is to find ways to divide and win over The proprietor of the Iron Factory in Dongshan has isolated the Xu family, which is the most powerful."
"It's difficult!" Li Shuheng frowned.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "It's not too difficult. I'm going to set up a chamber of commerce similar to the Dongshan Association. As long as you join our chamber of commerce, you can use our coke ironmaking technology."
Originally, he wanted to join the Dongshan Association to replace Xu Youcai as the president of the Dongshan Association. After thinking about it several times, he felt that the Dongshan Association was too rough, so he might as well start a new one by himself and exclude the Xu family directly.
The reason why we want to target the Xu family in this way is that on the one hand, the Xu family iron farm is the strongest in Dongshan and has the deepest conflict with their Hutou village. Especially since they just recently robbed a village of the Xu family, the conflict between the two parties cannot be resolved. It was impossible for him to spit out the meat and return it to the Xu family.
"The boss wants to use coke ironmaking technology to win over the owners of the iron yards in Dongshan?" Zhao Yutu's eyes widened.
Li Shuheng said with a worried look on his face: "The method is feasible, but it is difficult to ensure that any of the owners of the iron yard will get the coke iron-making technology and transfer it to the Xu family. By then, with the number of iron furnaces the Xu family has in Dongshan, it will be completely possible." Counter us."
Liu Heng said: "A technology cannot be used for a lifetime. If you want not to be caught up by others, you must always develop newer things. Now that the fireproof bricks we build iron furnaces have been improved, we can continue to increase the temperature of the iron furnaces." , even if we hand over the existing coke ironmaking technology, we will still have the technical advantage."
"And..." Liu Heng continued, "The chamber of commerce we set up will manage all the iron yards in an integrated manner. The proprietors of the small iron yards will be arranged to become directors and enjoy the right to share dividends, while the proprietors of the large iron yards can become directors. Permanent directors not only enjoy dividends, but also give them certain rights.”
He had pondered over and over again about the Chamber of Commerce.
Compare all the iron yards in Dongshan to a company. He is the chairman. The owners of the large iron yards can serve as directors and enjoy voting rights, while the owners of the small iron yards are small shareholders and only enjoy the right to dividends and do not participate in specific affairs. .
"I'm afraid the owners of the iron yards in Dongshan will not agree to this condition." Li Shuheng frowned.
According to the method Liu Heng said, the proprietors of those small iron yards would lose their own iron yards, so how could they agree to such a request.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "As long as we win over the proprietors of the big iron yards, it doesn't matter whether the proprietors of the small iron yards agree or not. If we go against each other, we can only be annexed by the iron yards of the Chamber of Commerce, and then we will receive dividends." No chance."
This is just like in later generations, when large companies annex small companies, when the size is large enough, it is difficult for small companies to resist, and they will either go bankrupt or accept annexation.
And he believed that as long as the proprietors of those big iron yards were not stupid, they would definitely agree to his conditions.
Because of the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, on the surface, they lost their own iron yards, but they had the management rights of all the iron yards in Dongshan, and their rights became greater. Only the owners of the small iron yards were really harmed. On the surface, they lost their own iron yards. Control of the iron yard, but this loss is only temporary. With the coke ironmaking technology, the dividends received will be more than the money earned by managing the iron yard.
