County government office.

Chu Tianxiu went to the mine in the morning and summoned the blacksmiths to prepare for the steelmaking. He ran outside for a day before returning to the county government to rest in the evening.

Zuer immediately made tea for him and served him delicious and hearty meals. He was afraid that the chef in the county government would not do it, so even the chef was brought from the Pingwang Mansion.

Princess Li Yu asked with concern: "Husband, how is the situation in Danyang County?"

It is more of her fiefdom, so I still have to ask about it.

Chu Tianxiu drank tea and said, "Danyang County is guarding a golden nest, but eating dry steamed buns. Danyang County cannot be poor like this. You have to hurry up immediately and do it very hard."

"Oh, what do you mean? Are there many copper ores?"

Li Yuqi said.

"There are not many copper ores, so we can only earn some copper coins to spend it ourselves.

The real Dafu Mine is still an open-pit iron ore, which is developed. It is enough for the people of Danyang County to eat a mouth full of oil and eat it for hundreds of years."

Chu Tianxiu shook his head and said, "But the problem is that there is only a small iron smelting workshop in Danyang County, with only dozens of blacksmiths, and the daily output of only a few hundred kilograms of pig iron, and the inferior iron tools created are only a few dozen.

The iron smelting technique in this county is too backward, and the iron tools they made were not sold to other places, so they were sold to farmers in the county. A large iron ore was wasted, and it was all stone lumps placed up the mountain.

Since I, the magistrate of Danyang County, want to make the people of the county rich, I naturally have to start with this iron ore. Danyang County needs a large number of blacksmiths to make steel. Yu'er, do you know where there are blacksmiths?"

Li Yu thoughtfully said: "There are a large number of excellent blacksmiths in the court. Those who were recruited from all over the country are under the jurisdiction of the Taiwei Mansion, but they are only responsible for building weapons and armaments for the imperial army and cannot be mobilized privately. They can only go to other counties to recruit some. Husband, what are you going to do?"

"I plan to build an improved large steel mill in Danyang County, and strive to recruit a thousand blacksmiths to produce large quantities of steel farm tools and various iron tools. Then sell them to various places in Dachu."

Chu Tianxiu said.

"Is there any steelmaking technique?"

Li Yu was confused and didn't understand very much.

Chu Tianxiu told her carefully.

The new steelmaking method he made seemed very advanced and mysterious.

Water conservancy blower, after using water conservancy, can be as strong as dozens of strong men, with strong wind and sufficient firepower, and it will continue day and night.

This "steel-making" technique that has been tempered for thousands of times is also extremely strong and sharp.

But in fact, these are the steelmaking methods invented by blacksmiths in the Western Han Dynasty and Eastern Han Dynasty in history, and have been invented for a full 2,000 years.

The Han Dynasty's iron-making technology was so high that it was actually incredibly strong. A blast furnace group could have as many as 200 blast furnaces, and a blast furnace could produce one ton of "fried steel" at a time, which was unprecedented.

So, this is not a modern steelmaking technique.

Chu Tianxiu just took out the hundred-sharp steelmaking one or two hundred years in advance. In this small place in Danyang County, you can make it by digging a soil stove and making iron, and repeatedly forging it.

The blacksmiths of Dachu could do this by taking out this set of techniques.

There is actually only one real problem - lack of money.

It takes a lot of investment to build various earth blast furnaces and recruit a large number of blacksmiths to smelite iron.

Chu Tianxiu was about to take the lead by himself and first invested 10,000 taels of silver.

But in fact, this little money is very small.

You should know that it costs 3,000 taels of silver to build a papermaking workshop, and the Shen family even costs 1,000 taels of silver to build a papermaking workshop. What's more, it's a large iron smelting workshop.

He wanted to build Danyang County into a large steelmaking base, and a mere ten thousand taels were naturally far from enough.

Ten thousand taels of silver are only enough to build ten new blast furnaces. The number is not large. It can be done with improved technology with dozens or hundreds of blacksmiths.

Small investment and slow results.

It is estimated that it will take 100,000 taels of silver to build a large number of small blast furnaces to operate this large project, allowing all the people of Danyang County to enter this steel industry, and "rumbling" big strides into the steel era.

"Invest ten thousand taels of silver first?...Okay."

Li Yu rubbed his forehead.

She naturally took out the money, and the money she earned in the paper workshop was almost enough for ten thousand taels.

Even if you lose all the money, you will only lose all the money you have made before.

Chu Tianxiu is preparing to raise funds for the remaining 90,000 taels of silver.

The investment in a large iron smelting workshop is too huge, so of course it cannot be paid by one by one. Otherwise, if any problems occur in the middle, the bottom of the pants will be lost.

Let’s start with our county first.

Although Danyang County is poor, there are still some big landlords, gentry and wealthy families. They give these landlords and gentry a chance to make a fortune.

They would complain in the future that Xiaohunhou, the master of Qingtian, would not give them a chance to make a fortune.

...

The next morning.

"Clang, Clang, Clang~!"

The county magistrate Zhao Hu and the official Jiang Gang received the order of the county magistrate.

He helpedlessly brought more than a dozen soldiers and yamen runners to beat drums and drums on the streets of Danyang County, raising a huge sum of money for this large steelmaking workshop of the county magistrate.

"Friends and gentry, take out their own money and invest it in the iron smelting workshop~!"

"The county magistrate said that he wants to lead everyone to make a fortune, build iron smelting workshops, and after earning a lot of money, he will give it to everyone!"

"The county magistrate said that this is a once-in-a-century opportunity to make a fortune in Danyang County. If you miss it, you will be gone! In the future, the iron smelting workshop will earn a lot of money. Don't blame the county magistrate for not reminding you!"

The two of them shouted and their throats were smoking.

As a result, every household closed its doors and windows in Danyang County... On the streets of the county town where people used to come and go, there was no sign of a bird, let alone money.

The gentry and wealthy families of each household hid behind the door of their own large yard, blocked the door, and watched the movement outside through the crack of the door, "Bah~! Xiao Hunhou has just taken office for one day, and he can't wait to make a name and start plundering the people's money! Yesterday he said he wanted to bring the people into wealth, and today he will start checking cash!"

"These old people and gentry are just like guarding against thieves, guarding against our county magistrate!"

County lieutenant Zhao Hu was helpless.

The official Jiang Gang had no choice.

This method can't raise money at all unless it is forcibly collected.

Unfortunately, the county magistrate said.

voluntary!

You must be voluntarily and do not force rich households to raise money.

As a result, no one responded voluntarily.

The county magistrate and Dian Li were forced by the county magistrate and each took out 100 taels of silver, which was a small investment in one of the blast furnaces.

This made them both feel quite painful.

The two little officials were helpless!

Other county magistrates go to plunder people's wealth and ointment.

But our county magistrate plundered the county magistrate and the official magistrate as soon as he came.

The two of them dare not refuse to give it.

In addition, I raised dozens of taels of silver, but the blacksmiths took out the money under the pillow and collected it.

The blacksmiths thought that the county magistrate's steelmaking technique was mysterious and seemed to have some skills. They threw a little bit and gave it a try.

...

County magistrate Zhao Hu and Dian Lie Jiang Gang traveled all over the county town and the countryside, but couldn't find the steelmaking workshop of the county magistrate who was willing to take the initiative to invest.

They had no choice but to return to the county government office and report to the county magistrate with the raised money.

"Forget it, mosquito meat is also meat."

Chu Tianxiu shook her head.

One Danyang County, the county magistrate, the official, and a group of blacksmiths raised a total of more than a hundred taels of silver.

The rest are rich, and they have not yet released any money.

Danyang County is still too poor!

Of course, the vision is not good. The rich families, squire and landlords all guard their own money and refuse to let go, for fear of being cheated by him.

Chu Tianxiu didn't force them to give it to him either.

Give them a way to make money, don’t want it yourself. Don’t blame him, the county magistrate, for not reminding them to make a fortune.

When he returned to Jinling City, he would go to the big house.

Jinling Imperial City, an imperial capital that gathers wealthy families in the world, has many wealthy people, thousands or tens of thousands of taels of silver. The wealthy and nobles did not take it seriously at all.

According to later generations, we must attract investment.

"Li Gannian, do you invest in money or not? My son-in-law will take you to eat big meat!"

Chu Tianxiu shouted.
To be continued...