Li Yu ordered Di'er to take the guards of the Prince Ping's Mansion to clean the yamen and pack up a few rooms that could be lived in the Danyang County Government so that the county magistrate could live in.

She, Princess Danyang and Chu Tianxiu, the little marquis, were born into princes and nobles, and both grew up in the royal palace.

I am used to the rich and luxurious clothes and food in Jinling City, and I am used to living in the royal palace, and I am not used to the shabby and dilapidated Danyang County Government.

But since you are here, let's stay for a few days.

She has been named Princess Danyang, and she rarely comes to Danyang County.

Just be a patrol of your own fiefdom.

When my husband, the county magistrate, took advantage of the "rain" farming in the past two days, he would take care of Danyang County, and rectify it, and then return to Jinling City.

...

County magistrate Li Gannian and old county magistrate Li Fu went to hand over the inspection of various documents and accounts and the money and grain in the warehouse.

Chu Tianxiu was worried and went over to take a look.

I saw piles of copper coins strung together with straw ropes in the warehouse of the county government. One thousand cited money is equivalent to one tael of silver. It is very heavy and inconvenient to hold the copper coins in your hand.

The county government office book is still a bamboo slip, and has not been replaced with a paper book.

It records the household registration, the number of cultivated land, the income and expenditure of money, grain, etc.

In total, the county government's account has a total of 1,000 taels of silver and 100 s of grain. One stone is 100 kilograms, that is, 100 kilograms of grain. On average, it is less than 1,000 kilograms of grain.

In addition to money and grain, Danyang County Government also has a small amount of iron farm tools and hundreds of plowing oxen, which are used to rent to some poor farmers in the county.

Chu Tianxiu looked at the warehouse and just wanted to vomit blood.

This is the entire start-up capital of Danyang County. Basically, no project can be obtained. Not to mention overhauling water conservancy, it is difficult to build a county government!

It seems that I can only find a way out by myself.

...

The next day.

Early in the morning.

Chu Tianxiu, the county magistrate, took Li Gannian, county magistrate Zhao Hu, and Dianjian Jiang Gang, and excitedly went to Ma'anshan in Shangdanyang County.

At the Nanshan Mine on Ma'anshan, a large group of miners were busy, waving shovels and digging hard.

This is an open-air surface mine. The veins are directly exposed to the mountain or buried shallowly. There is no need to dig a mine cave, just dig down the ground.

The most profitable thing in Ma'anshan is a copper mine on the mountain. The copper mine dug is made into copper coins.

The copper mine dug was sent to the county town for refining into copper, and then cast into copper coins.

Mining, refining, and casting require a large number of workers. In order to accelerate the digging of copper, this copper mine alone hired hundreds of miners, and the rest were refining and casting.

The copper coin minting industry is also a major industry in Danyang County.

The supervisor of the worker in this mine was an old man from the Pingwang Mansion. He was the boss of the mining area to prevent any theft.

"The villain has seen his son-in-law!"

When Mr. Li saw that Xiaohunhou had arrived, he hurriedly bowed.

Chu Tianxiu asked, "How long can this copper mine be dug?"

"It's hard to say, I guess it will take decades! The young man has recruited a large number of masonry workers from the county town and is digging copper quickly... That is, this iron tool is not enough, and the progress of digging copper is slow."

Manager Li shook his head and said.

"oh!"

Chu Tianxiu took it and looked at the miner's mining shovel.

To dig copper ore, first smelte iron.

This is a necessary production tool.

The iron ore in Ma'anshan is actually much more than copper ore. It is a giant iron ore area. The largest iron ore area in the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, it is a unique open-pit mine.

From this we also know that the terrifying iron ore reserves in Ma'anshan is more than enough to satisfy the iron use of "agricultural, military, and labor use" of the entire Great Chu Dynasty.

There are also iron smelting workshops in Danyang County that can smel iron and produce various iron farm tools and shovels.

However, Danyang County's iron smelting technology seems to be very weak, and the iron ore they create is often prone to breaking and cracking.

Is it pig iron?

Many broken shovels in the mining area have to be taken back to the county town and returned to the furnace forging.

The quality is too low!

"What is the amount of iron smelting in Danyang County?"

Chu Tianxiu frowned and asked.

Manager Li was very familiar with these and immediately said: "There is an iron smelting workshop in the county town and three iron smelting furnaces, which produce about 300 kilograms of iron a day! Then the blacksmiths forged pig iron into iron tools. Half is used for farming and half for mining areas."

Chu Tianxiu felt a toothache after hearing this.

A daily yield of 300 kilograms?

It only takes dozens of pieces to make it into iron. Such a low output cannot meet the iron needs of a county town at all.

Chu Tianxiu could not tell at a glance what level the quality of these shovels reached. But it was so easy to fold and crack, and it was definitely not much higher.

It is far from the hard "steel".

Low-quality ironware cannot be sold at a good price, so naturally there is no profit. It is only used by farmers and miners in this county, but it cannot be sold in other areas.

The focus of the Ma'anshan mining area is on digging copper and directly minting copper coins, which is open to the world. This is faster than smelting iron.

Chu Tianxiu looked through the various ores they dug out.

In addition to copper ore and iron ore, there is also a very good companion ore, gray phosphate phosphate!

Chu Tianxiu's expression was uncontrollably surprised.

This is a good thing!

Phosphorus ore can be used to make phosphate fertilizer, which is a super killer for increasing farmland production. However, people of this era still have no idea about the use of phosphate fertilizer and phosphate ore.

Danyang County is a small county with three thousand households, where poor birds do not shit. In the future, they will rely on iron ore and phosphate ore to make a fortune.

The current imperial court not only does not prohibit the casting of copper.

Even iron smelting is allowed to be privately smelted and built.

...

Chu Tianxiu went to the mining area and returned to Danyang County in the afternoon to an iron smelting workshop in the county.

The backwardness of the iron smelting workshop and insufficient iron tools have seriously delayed the speed of mining copper mines.

Whether it is for snatching copper coins or for the purpose of smelting iron itself, we must start immediately and build a giant iron smelting workshop to smel “steel” on a large scale.

Not bad, just make "steel".

He doesn't want to waste time slowly.

He wanted to build the largest iron smelting farm of the Great Chu Dynasty and transform Danyang County into an iron smelting industrial base.

Danyang County has a Ma'anshan, which is a unique and huge advantage. If you don't make good use of it, it will be a huge waste.

As long as it is technologically advanced, the steel produced can be sold all over the country.

The profits of steel far exceed those of agriculture.

Agriculture and other things, let it develop slowly.

Once the strong steel production capacity comes up, sharp and strong steel plows are used in the ground, and the arable land capacity is more than enough, and no amount of land is enough to plant it.

Chu Tianxiu gathered all the workshops, iron smugglers and blacksmiths in Danyang County. Not many, only a few dozen people, many of them were in one family and one iron shop.

They themselves have the fief of Princess Danyang, and they can be regarded as Princess Danyang. People in this era cannot be separated from their household registration for generations.

"This young marquis first invested 10,000 taels of silver to build a new iron smelting workshop."

"All blacksmiths in the county town have entered the iron smelting workshop of my little marquis and hired them with high salaries. The master and blacksmith will expand to 1,000 people within a year!"

"I saw your original iron smelting workshop. It was too small. Some were one person and one household, and the other was only three or five. Although there were blowers, the wind was too weak!"

"Build a large iron smelting furnace and convert it into a water conservancy and horsepower blower! The wind power is at least ten times greater, greatly increasing the temperature of the iron smelting furnace."

"Most of the iron you make is pig iron, and very rarely is cooked iron. You have to make it mature iron, or steel."

"Fry the cast iron into ripe iron and fry it into steel!"

"And your forging is too weak. Make a heavy hammer weighing one or two tons to beat it, and make it harder and make it harder, and make it harder and make it harder, and make it harder, and make it harder, and cut off gold and jade, and cut iron like mud."

"Don't you understand? It doesn't matter. I will write "Water Conservancy Blowing and Iron Smelting", "Iron Frying", and "Hundred Steel Making" and draw it into a picture album to teach you how to do it! If you still don't understand, I will find a literate gentleman to teach you."

Chu Tianxiu said.

The blacksmiths were illiterate and could only understand the sketches a little, which made him feel a little trouble. The school education could not keep up, and if he earned money in the future, he would have to spend a lot of money on education.

When the blacksmiths heard this, they were shocked and nodded desperately.

Water conservancy blower?

Fried steel?

Water conservancy heavy hammer?

Steel making?

Almost all of them had heard of them, and they were dizzy.
Chapter completed!