Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 71 Layout
"Students, we have to see the essence of everything through things, and don't be deceived by appearances. Although the weather is dry and many rivers have stopped flowing, groundwater is still very rich. As long as you find the right location, you will definitely be able to hit the water. Water. With water, can’t crops grow? Of course, it’s not enough to make them grow. We also need to make them grow taller and faster! How can we make them grow taller and faster? It is very simple, fertilization. Where does the fertilizer come from? This is even simpler, manure and rotten vegetation can be used as fertilizer. Of course, this is not enough, and phosphorus fertilizer is needed. There is sulfuric acid. If you want to produce sulfuric acid, you must have equipment that can produce sulfuric acid. This is another cost-intensive project. Who can afford it? If you can afford it, I, a thousand households, let him do it well. .That’s right? Many people are powerful! Tens of thousands of taels of silver are put here, and the problem will be solved if you allocate a sum at will. With sulfuric acid and phosphate fertilizer, is it still far from a good harvest? With these...Na Ni? You don’t know what phosphate fertilizer is? Are you from the caveman tribe? What? You haven’t heard of it? That’s my negligence, but now I can’t explain to you what phosphate fertilizer is, anyway. Good stuff, and I can make it!"

"There is also an iron mine under Zhang Qianhu's name, right? I heard that he made a lot of money selling iron sand. Ten times more than selling iron ore! When I arrive in Wuyang, I will make the iron ore bigger and stronger. Not only will I increase the output of iron ore, but I will also build a blast furnace for steelmaking... Comrades, steelmaking is not difficult! With iron sand and enough fuel, as long as the method is right, a group of farmers can smelt steel, it just depends on the quality! I think steel with poor quality is better than iron, or how can I hate it? Why can’t iron be made into steel? It just costs a lot of money, how about it? It’s been said that many people are powerful, right? There are tens of thousands of taels of silver here, so it’s not easy and pleasant to make steel!”

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Yang Menglong was so excited, he eloquently, eloquently, gesticulating, and spitting all over the place, his eyebrows were beaming, and a series of new terms such as joint venture, shareholding, and dividends popped out of his mouth, converging into a hail of bullets. Everyone was beaten to pieces.Everyone has been defeated under his carpet bombing, and they can't tell the east, west, north and south, but they still figure out a few points:
First: Putting tens of thousands of taels of silver together is ten times more effective than putting it in the hands of hundreds of people!
Second: General Xiao Yang intends to take out the iron ore and share dividends with everyone!

Third: General Xiao Yang wants to gather all the military fields together to form a collective farm, and after paying the tax, everyone will share the surplus food!
The first and third are nothing, the most important thing is the second point.The iron ore in Zhang Qianhu's hands has attracted many people's eyes. The iron ore produced there is of good quality and can be smelted into high-quality iron. Zhang Qianhu has made a lot of money from this iron ore!The amount of iron ore that can be mined is quite large. If you are lucky and come across a large iron mine, it may not be able to be dug out in 200 years, and iron ore is always a best-seller. The demand is too great. As long as it can be mined, Don't worry about not making money!Zhang Qianhu's assets are inherited by Yang Menglong, and of course the iron mine has also become his asset. He is willing to share it with everyone. But the guarantee of harvest from drought and flood is much more insured than farming!

Yang Menglong saw everyone's faces were happy and knew that they were moved. He said with a smile: "You all know the benefits, right? I don't think you have understood what I said, but it doesn't matter. In less than two years, you will all understand. . But don’t laugh too early. High investment means high risk. If these plans fail, these tens of thousands of taels of silver will really be wasted, and there won’t even be a splash! So! , I won’t force you to participate, it’s all in the form of stock participation, 20 taels of silver per share, if you want to participate, you are welcome, if you don’t want to participate, just take your share of the money and go back and enjoy it, it’s that simple!”

Hearing that high investment means high risk, everyone’s heart shuddered, isn’t it? How can there be no risk if tens of thousands of taels of silver are involved and all aspects are involved?If they screw up, they're screwed!Thinking that the tens of thousands of taels of silver might be wiped out, everyone hesitated.Although only a small part of the tens of thousands of taels of silver belonged to them, they were terrified at the thought that it might be lost, because they had sacrificed their lives for this sum of money!The reason is simple: when you see your cow eating someone else’s barley, you may not feel anything, but when you see that damned cow eating your own barley, your first reaction will definitely be to rush over and give it a slap Suddenly.

The atmosphere is a little dull.

Yang Menglong said: "I should have a few thousand taels of silver to my name. Except for a few household items, I have put them all out here. If you don't do it, I will do it myself!"

Xu Gong suddenly stood up and said: "Damn, risk, why don't you have risk? Even if you go to the toilet, there is a risk of being crushed to death by the house falling down. If you are afraid of risk, then you don't have to do anything! Little General Yang , We seized a lot of silver in the previous battle in Hei Linzi, you divided me a few hundred taels, and I took all of it to invest in shares!"

Qi Hu said: "I also got a few hundred taels for the old man. Except for keeping the 50 taels for use, I used all the rest as shares."

Everyone gasped again, these few people really risked their lives, and they all smashed down thousands of taels!With them at the front, what are you afraid of?When the sky falls, the tall man will be crushed to death first!Jiang Zheng said: "Little General Yang, I will keep more than a dozen taels of silver to pay off the gambling debts, and take 20 taels to invest in shares!"

Li Yong said: "I...I won't go to Xiaohong anymore, I will save a few taels to subsidize the family, and all the rest will be invested in shares!"

Everyone expressed their willingness to buy shares. They felt that the risk was not as great as they thought. As long as the iron sand can still be mined, they can get a share of the money. With this iron ore as a guarantee, what are you afraid of!

Seeing that everyone agreed, Yang Menglong said happily: "Very well, thank you for trusting me so much, I assure you, you will find out in two years' time that you have made the most correct choice in your life!"

Qi Hu asked: "What if those military households are unwilling to buy shares?"

Yang Menglong glanced at those officers: "I'll give you half a month to do the work of handling those military households, and bring over everyone who is willing to invest!"

The officers licked their lips: "No problem!"

Yang Menglong could think of what kind of idea they were playing on his knees, and said sharply: "But please remember, you are not allowed to use coercive methods, and you must ensure that every penny they invest in is voluntary! If you let me know you Force them to hand over the money, and I'll screw your heads off!"

The chiefs suddenly turned bitter, and called: "Little General Yang, this is too difficult! Those military households are short-sighted, and they value that little profit more than anything else, and they are required to take dozens of taels of silver to risk it." , might as well take their lives!"

Yang Menglong snorted: "Of course I know it's hard to convince them! But, if it's not difficult, what do I want you to do?"

The gang of officers were absolutely devastated.

Yang Menglong emphasized his tone: "Respect is mutual. You can show your teeth and claws at ordinary military households, and I, who is several levels above you, can also screw your heads off! Personal property is sacred and inviolable, unless that person commits the crime of ransacking your home." Otherwise, no one has the right to deprive him of his personal property. Everyone should abide by this rule, including me! Otherwise, today you can force the military households to take out the money to buy shares, and tomorrow I can swallow your shares Funds, and the day after tomorrow, my boss can also find a fault and tell me to leave the house and go home! Only when everyone abides by the rules of the game can the game go on, understand?"

Of course everyone doesn't understand.Everything in the Qianhusuo is the private property of Qianhus, and he can do whatever he likes. Similarly, everything in the Baihusuo, including the soldiers, is the private property of Baihus, not to mention what is in the hands of the soldiers. Money, even the lives of soldiers, belong to the boss and can be taken away at any time. It has always been like this, and they have long been used to it.But now, Yang Menglong suddenly told them that everyone's private property is inviolable, I will not touch your property, and you are not allowed to seize the property of those military households, otherwise I want you to look good!This seemed to be against the rules, and everyone couldn't react for a while, but it didn't prevent them from guessing vaguely: as long as they didn't touch the private property of those soldiers, General Xiao Yang would not touch their own property!Well, it must be so!
Yang Menglong knew that they still didn't understand, but there was nothing he could do about it. The generation gap was too big. The principles that three-year-old children in the 21st world generally adhere to now are simply deviant and shocking.Okay, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, just do it.He said: "It will take me about ten days to go back and forth. During these ten days, you have to make two preparations. One is to pack your luggage and prepare to return to Wuyang. The other is to persuade the military households to buy shares. I will set off back to Wuyang as soon as I come back, and I can't delay for a moment. In addition, I have some special tasks to assign... Jiang Zheng!"

Jiang Zheng got up: "The villain is here!"

Yang Menglong said: "Take a few people back to Wuyang to see the iron mine, don't let them do anything!"

Iron mines are related to everyone's welfare, Jiang Zheng dared to neglect, and responded loudly: "The villain understands!"

Yang Menglong added: "Also, you must find out whether there is phosphate ore in the iron ore. These two kinds of ores are often associated... What is phosphate ore? I can't tell you clearly. Ask the miners to understand! "

Jiang Zheng responded and sat down.

Yang Menglong called again: "Zhang Zilong!"

Zhang Zilong responded: "The villain is here!"

Yang Menglong said: "I'll give you 500 taels of silver, and I'll go buy vitriol right away... Oh, by the way, you call it green vitriol, the kind used by alchemists to refine green vitriol oil. There are many such things in copper mining areas. , It can be found everywhere in abandoned copper mine pits, your task is to collect all of these gallstones for me, as much as you can, [-] catties is the bottom line, the more the better!"

Zhang Zilong also knows that there are a lot of green alums in the copper mines. It looks very beautiful, but it is actually useless. It is worthless to ordinary people except to coax children. Going back to refining alchemy or refining green vitriol, the miner would not care about it, just go and pick it up. As long as he asks a price, the miner will be happy to send all the vitriol over. This task is very easy.Listening to Yang Menglong's tone, it seems that he has collected enough [-] catties, and the rest of the money is his?It's really hard to find such a good thing.He asked puzzledly: "Little General Yang, I know green powder. It looks very beautiful, but in fact it is of no use to the common people. It is worthless. Why do you want so much?" His eyes lit up: "I heard that Green alum can smelt copper, so General Yang probably wants to smelt copper, right?"

Yang Menglong said: "Smelting copper with alum? Which idiot came up with such a bad idea? If there is sulfuric acid, I want to use copper to smelt copper! Cut down the nonsense, and collect as much as you can. If you don't have enough money, just ask me for it, if you can't get any money, I'll screw your head off!"

Zhang Zilong said: "General Xiao Yang, don't worry, green... no, bile alum is not uncommon, you can easily receive a lot of it!"

Yang Menglong said: "That's the way it is!" Scratching his head, he said: "It takes a lot of time to recover the courage, I can't afford it, Chen Lei!"

Chen Lei stood up.He was elbowed by Yang Menglong on the head during the martial arts competition, and the wound has not healed yet. Fortunately, he didn't have any concussion, otherwise he would have no way to do things for Yang Menglong.

Yang Menglong said: "I'll give you 500 taels of silver. You can find a way to buy a batch of green alum oil for me. I want as much as you want. You must get it for me!"

Green vitriol oil is also sulfuric acid, a by-product unintentionally produced by the Fang family warlocks when they made alchemy. It can be traced back as far as the Tang Dynasty, and sulfuric acid has already appeared.As for how this thing appeared, I have to mention a group of guys who are not doing their jobs properly and are whimsical.

This group of idle, whimsical fellows are alchemists.These guys don't study or farm, let alone do business or join the army. They spend all day meditating on books with yellowing handwriting and riddled with holes eaten by insects, trying every possible means to refine elixirs and offer them to the emperor. , in exchange for glory and wealth.Few of the emperors didn't want to live forever, so alchemists were very popular in most dynasties.In that distant era, these guys who stayed in front of the alchemy furnace for many years, using all kinds of strange things to try to make elixirs, were the oldest chemists. Many great inventions were born in their hands, such as ,gunpowder.Of course, there are also more ruthless ones. It is too difficult to refine the elixir and offer it to the emperor's family in exchange for glory and wealth. Why not just refine gold?Many alchemists are superstitious about turning stone into gold. They throw pieces of ore into the alchemy furnace and try to make gold. The most common method is to throw pyrite into the alchemy furnace. It is too difficult to turn stone into gold. It's only one letter away from gold, so it should be easier, right?As a result, they really refined gold——unfortunately, it was fool's gold.That's right, because of their persistence and whimsy, Huang Tie has since been called "Fool's Gold", which really makes people laugh out loud.However, hard work will naturally pay off, it depends on whether you want the reward or not.The sulfur content of pyrite is very high. During high-temperature smelting, a large amount of acid gas, namely sulfur dioxide, is emitted. When sulfur dioxide dissolves in water, it will generate sulfurous acid. When further oxidized, it will generate sulfuric acid, which is a good thing.This thing is even more useful than gold. Unfortunately, everyone does not appreciate it. They hate it and gnash their teeth, complaining that this sour and unpleasant liquid burned out their alchemy furnaces.No one researched it, and the sulfuric acid has never been used in the right place, so it was buried like this.

The trend of alchemy in the Ming Dynasty was also quite strong, especially in the Chenghua and Jiajing dynasties. The two emperors wanted to become immortals and were crazy.There are more people making alchemy, and naturally more people are making sulfuric acid. At this time, everyone has gradually discovered some uses of sulfuric acid, and they no longer just throw it away like before, but try to sell it for money.To put it bluntly, the sulfuric acid that was once hated by Fang family warlocks has been used to a certain extent, and some people have started to refine it, but everyone still doesn't realize its great value.

Mathematics, physics and chemistry are passable, at least Yang Menglong, who has never skipped class, knows the value of sulfuric acid very well. He wants to turn waste into treasure. I believe it will not take long for this extremely corrosive thing to surprise everyone!
(End of this chapter)