Datang: An eight-year-old master of the bar, he gave everyone a blow at the beginning

Chapter 259 Trial Planting Sweet Potatoes in Zhongzhou

In the next few days, Yu Chihuan inspected the iron workshop and coal mine as usual!
Five days later, the government-run ironmaking workshop in Xi County was finally remodeled!
And the staff dormitory that Yuchihuan ordered Chu Suiliang to build was also completed!

The staff dormitory in front of us is a brick-and-wood structure house with black bricks and black tiles. It is not afraid of wind and rain, and its safety is much higher than that of a wooden shed.

Moreover, the wooden shelves where the craftsmen in the iron-making workshop slept were also replaced with single beds, and the beds were equipped with warm quilts. The living conditions in the dormitory were greatly improved!
The craftsmen in the iron workshop are grateful to Yuchihuan.

Yu Chihuan was very satisfied with Chu Suiliang's work efficiency, and then ordered the craftsmen to test the furnace to make iron!
Soon, the furnace in the iron workshop started to ignite, and waves of heat came from the ground.

The flame in the furnace instantly melted the iron ore powder in the crucible into a red solution!

In less than half a stick of incense, the entire dustpan-sized steel ingot is cast!
The craftsman then poured water on the steel ingot to cool down!
After the steel ingot is cooled, the craftsman begins to weigh it!
The weighing results of the steel ingots surprised these craftsmen. They never imagined that the crucible could smelt five hundred catties of steel ingots at a time!

This is because Chu Suiliang did not dare to fill the crucible with iron ore powder for safety reasons!
If the crucible is fully loaded, wouldn't it be possible to smelt a thousand catties of steel in one pot?

"Little Governor Yuchi, the trial of the graphite crucible is complete, and the first pot yielded five hundred catties of steel!"

Surprised and delighted, Chu Suiliang immediately reported the steel ingot data to Yuchihuan!

Yu Chihuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Chu Suiliang, as long as there is no problem with the crucible!"

Chu Suiliang then ordered the craftsmen to operate the crucible with full load.

As Chu Suiliang expected, this time they obtained a thousand and eight catties of steel, which was almost the same as the design data!
Yu Chihuan made sure that there was nothing wrong with the crucible in the iron-making workshop, so he went to inspect the local farming in Xi County.

Due to the drought in the East River, only some places near the river can grow wheat and sorghum rice in Xi County this time!
Other mountain dry fields lack water, so they can only grow potato seeds distributed by the Tang Dynasty.

The potatoes were given to Li Er by Yu Chihuan, so he is most familiar with them.

The potato seeds distributed by the Tang court to Zhongzhou are only five hundred stones, which can be used to plant a thousand acres of official land!

In the future, the potatoes in Guantian will have a good harvest, and they will be distributed to the local people for planting!
By analogy, it is estimated that it will take three years in Zhongzhou to allow all the common people to plant potato seeds.

There is still a ton of potatoes in the system space of Yuchi Ring, and these potatoes have also been planted by Yuchi Ring.

At present, a total of [-] acres of potatoes are planted in Zhongzhou!
This is far from meeting the needs of the local people in Zhongzhou!
In the end, Yuchihuan had to give the sweet potato seeds in the system space to ordinary people for planting.

Sweet potatoes can be planted using sweet potato branches, and the expansion speed is much easier than that of potatoes.

Yuchihuan took out [-] tons of sweet potatoes for everyone to plant this time!
There are [-] stones in total!

Every household in Zhongzhou distributes sweet potato seeds!

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the people in Zhongzhou to grow sweet potatoes, Yuchihuan also held a competition for the production of sweet potatoes!
All farmers with an output of more than [-] shi per mu can get a consistent reward of silver!

In order to increase the yield of sweet potatoes, the people in Zhongzhou simply use human dung and cow dung as base fertilizer!
In this way, even if the sweet potatoes are no longer fertilized in the future, they can have sufficient fertilizer to supply nutrients.

In five days, five thousand acres of sweet potatoes were planted in Zhongzhou!

After Yu Chihuan finished farming in Zhongzhou, he began to take Cheng Chumo and the others to inspect other counties under Zhongzhou's jurisdiction.

Among them, Shilou County and Wenquan County have received the attention of Yuchi Ring!
There is a large iron mine in Wenquan County, and this iron mine is in Yuanwang Mountain!

And this iron mine has not been discovered by the local government yet!

When Yu Chihuan led the craftsmen to dig out the iron ore in Yuanwang Mountain, the local civil and military officials were shocked. They didn't expect that they were sitting on the Silver Mountain without knowing it!

Next, Yuchihuan ordered Chu Suiliang to arrange miners to mine the Yuanwangshan Iron Mine!

The income from Yuanwangshan Iron Mine belongs to Wenquan County!

The Zhongzhou Governor's Office will not compete with the local county government for profits!
This also made the county magistrate of Wenquan County grateful to Yuchihuan!
There is also an iron mine in Shilou Mountain in Shilou County!
Yuchihuan sent Chu Suiliang to mine the iron ore in Shiloushan again, but the officials of Shiloushan were frightened again!

The profits from the iron ore mined from Shilou Mountain also belonged to the Shilou County Government.

Shilou County officials have greatly increased their favor towards Yuchihuan.

The official iron-making workshop in Xi County has two mines, Yuanwang Mountain and Shilou Mountain, to supply iron ore, which can fully meet the needs of the iron-making plant to expand production!
Chu Suiliang no longer has any worries!

At present, there are three large iron mines in Zhongzhou.

One of these is the Kongshan Iron Mine in Daning County, a major source of iron ore for state-run ironworks.

The other two iron mines are the iron mines of Yuanwang Mountain and Shilou Mountain.

With sufficient sources of iron ore, the iron workshop can continue to expand in the future!

As for the coal needed to smelt steel, don't worry!

Because the coal reserves of the entire Xi County exceed 100 billion tons!
Due to the sharp increase in steel and coal production in Zhongzhou, merchant ships were not enough, so Yuchihuan finally used five-toothed ships to transport steel ingots!

In less than half a month, the revenue of Xi County's ironmaking workshop and coal mine exceeded [-] guan, with a profit of [-] guan!

Among them, the profit of the iron-making workshop is [-] guan, which is [-] guan more than the profit of the coal mine!

This is half a month's revenue and profit of the ironworks and coal mines!

If it is full term, the monthly revenue will reach [-] guan, and the profit will be more than [-] guan!
Xi County's annual income is conservatively calculated to be close to [-] yuan!

However, most of these incomes need to be handed over to the Ministry of Accounts!
Because the Tang Dynasty implemented a salt and iron monopoly policy, all profits from the iron-making workshops had to be handed over to the Ministry of Accounts!
After Chu Suiliang calculated the profits of the coal mine and ironworks for the month, he reported to Yuchihuan.

"Little Governor Yuchi, according to the regulations of Tang Law, the profits of our iron-making workshop need to be handed over to the household department!"

Chu Suiliang continued: "The profit of the iron workshop this month is [-] guan, of which [-] guan is the profit of the last half month!"

Yuchi Huan was dumbfounded and said, "Is the profit of the iron workshop so high?"

"Little Dudu Yuchi, according to the estimates of the officials, the daily profit of Xi County's iron-making workshop is more than 170 guan, and at least [-] guan a month!"

Chu Suiliang was very frank to help Yu Chihuan clear up his doubts!

Yu Chihuan said solemnly: "There are many places where the imperial court needs disaster relief. You can arrange for Liu Rengui to escort the [-] Guan back to Beijing tomorrow!"

"Subordinate to obey!"

Chu Suiliang then took orders to leave the Zhongzhou Governor's Mansion.

……

Early the next morning, Liu Rengui led five five-toothed boats to escort the [-]-guan iron-making workshop in Xi County back to Beijing!

This time, in addition to carrying taxes back to Beijing, the five-tooth boat also carried [-] shi of coal and steel ingots to Chang'an City for sale!
Steel is a government-run business, so it can only be transported to the Ministry of Industry to be supervised for sale.

Coal can be sold at will!

Yu Chihuan brought the civil and military officials from Zhongzhou to the pier of Xi County to bid farewell to Liu Rengui!
(End of this chapter)