Yang Fan thought about it 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 the entire steel north of the Huaihe River.
After Yang Fan came, he brought open-hearth steelmaking technology. The previous earthen blast furnaces could not be compared 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.
The steel businessmen who can establish themselves in Zunhua basically have a backing. Some are backed by Governor Shuntian. Some are personally affiliated with the Zunhua Guard Commander. Some are members of 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, territory and army below. Wei Dugong can bring down the enemy and he can fight with Donglin. They can afford to offend him. If they offend Yang Fan, throw them into Jin Yiwei's prison.
Go, but it's all over.
Yang Fan's steel plant dealt 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 dressing 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 ores could be found. As for the large iron ores, basically none was found.
The current Yang Fan is no longer the same as he used to be. Buying some desolate mountains and ridges doesn't cost much. It's not a big deal 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 white sugar, chemical fertilizer, and woks to create more powerful explosives. This kind of explosive is used on gas tanks and mortars on the Syrian battlefield.
It has been widely used 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 methods. In this era, firewood was first used to burn, then cold water was poured, and then steel drill hammers were used to smash. This kind of primitive
This method is uncompetitive compared to Yang Fan's method.
Their mineral processing technology is not good either. Not only is it expensive for Yang Fan to buy their mineral sand, but it also requires secondary mineral processing, 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 the machine to crush ore, pump water from the mine, and remove gas from the coal mine. It consumes coal and is less efficient.
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It can be said that Yang Fan’s Xinghe Iron Works destroyed the entire industrial chain of Zunhua.
At this time, Yang Fan already understood why the little fat man came to find him. Moreover, he still looked worried. He could understand the little fat man's entanglement.
After all, Wei Bancheng also owns a lot of iron ore and some smelting workshops. Of course, the Wei family is a comprehensive industrial family. It also owns a large amount of commercial real estate and land in Zunhua. Most of the businesses it opens are in the commercial and service industries.
superior.
In the past two years, Yang Fan's steel industry has developed greatly, which has attracted several times more customer traffic than before. Zunhua is actually more prosperous than before. The Wei family's commercial and service shops have made a lot of profits. In fact, they are generally still
Earned more 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 in Zunhua and Yang Fan who could talk to each other were the Wei family. If not him, who would they be?
Yang Fan was a person who was valued by the emperor. His official position in the local government was about to reach its 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 the governor of Shuntian, he was from Donglin, and it was even more impossible for him to humiliate himself by being such a leader.
Yang Fan pondered, this matter is actually a good thing.
This is an opportunity to plan for the northern steel industry.
If you want to change the Ming Dynasty, you can't rely on violent means to confiscate the gentry and landlords' homes, 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 did no good to the country and the people, but did more harm to the country and the people. That is because the development model is wrong. They should expand externally instead of inwardly.
Only by giving the people the ability to consume 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 is speechless when the Ming Dynasty is like this.
Already.
"After arriving in Zunhua, we will stay in Zunhua for one day. I will meet the shopkeepers in the steel industry and have 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 ask 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 that these words are like those in "Ancient and Modern Virtue". This book was written in the Wanli period. It was not published very young and is not well-known. The master actually lived through it. He is really knowledgeable. This kind of miscellaneous book
I also dabbled in it.”
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! 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 previous part of this passage is, when people are united, the mountains will move. It is difficult to walk with one foot, and it is difficult to sing with a single palm. The rising tide lifts the boat, and the firewood is strong.
.Three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. One brick cannot build a wall, and one 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 increased much.
Improvement. The people have been lacking food and clothing for thousands of years. That is why they feel that the total wealth of the world is constant."
"But our current technological progress, whether it is increasing the yield per mu of grain or increasing the output of mining and smelting of steel, 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, in the history of thousands of years, 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."