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

Chapter 89 Plan
"You are my little apple, I can never love you too much~"

Such a happy singing voice, coupled with Yang Menglong's incoherent and funny way of dancing and dancing, is simply mouth-watering, which shows how excited he is now.He is so happy, none of the minerals that are very important to him are here, and there is nowhere to find them, and it takes no effort to get them!The miners all looked at him in surprise, he didn't pick up any gold, how could he be so excited?

In fact, the reason is very simple. Some things are garbage in the eyes of some people, but they are precious resources in the eyes of others!Phosphate rock is useless to most people, but it is a matter of life and death for Yang Menglong. Only by finding phosphate rock can he try to make phosphate fertilizer. With phosphate fertilizer, there will be more food; pyrite It's annoying enough, the sulfur content is too high, and the iron produced can only pretend to be gold to deceive those fools who have never seen the world. The molten iron in the furnace was destroyed.But Yang Menglong is interested in its sulfur content, which can be used to refine sulfuric acid; not to mention manganese ore, which can be refined into manganese steel by adding more than 13.00% manganese to iron. This is an application Extremely wide steel, impact-resistant, extrusion-resistant, and wear-resistant, the sword made of it is extremely sharp, cutting iron like mud!The miners hate manganese ore so much because it is very cheating. The ratio must reach more than 13.00% to produce good steel. If the ratio is lower than this ratio, the whole piece of steel is not much stronger than adobe, and it can be smashed with a hammer.Since manganese ore is associated with iron ore, the iron ore is more or less doped with some manganese ore. This amount is far from reaching the ratio necessary to smelt high manganese steel. The iron smelted is naturally terrible. Can you Hate it?But for Yang Menglong, this thing is a treasure more precious than gold. With it, his troops can completely say goodbye to those weapons that are about to be scrapped after being hacked a few times!
The excited Yang Menglong was invited by Wu Shan to stay in the shack and eat with the miners.The miners washed their bodies with two buckets of water at will, and started eating without washing their hands.The food is very simple, with green vegetables, pumpkins and black steamed buns, without any oily stars. This kind of food is really hard to swallow, but the miners gobble it up, fearing that if they are slow, they will be gone.It's not bad to have a bite to eat these days, so there is no room for picky eaters!Yang Menglong was the immediate boss, so naturally he couldn't accompany everyone to eat the pig food. Wu Shan killed a chicken and cooked a pot of soup. The miners twitched their noses while gnawing on the black steamed buns, sniffing the smell of chicken soup greedily, and their Adam's apples moved.This chicken was considered a rare delicacy, but in Yang Menglong's eyes, it was too thin, and he had no interest in eating it, so he just ate two chicken wings and it was fine.The two little kids timidly slid over to pick up the bone he threw on the ground, stuffed it into their mouths, and gnawed until it rattled. Dazed for a moment, he snatched it quickly, and ran away without waiting for the adult to make a sound. While running, he stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it desperately, with such vigor that it seemed that he could even chew the bones and swallow them.

"Do you eat these things every day?" Yang Menglong pointed to the pot of pumpkins not far away that was being wiped out quickly, and asked.

Wu Shan said: "Yes!"

Yang Menglong frowned: "You guys are doing physical work, you eat this every day, how can your body handle it!"

Wu Shan said: "In this world, it's good to have something to eat. Who cares about picky eaters? Haven't you seen so many refugees starving to death on the roadside?"

Yang Menglong said: "This is not acceptable. You are my workers. If you are exhausted, who will work for me? I will allocate a sum of money to you later. You can buy some pork for everyone to eat every few days. How can it be done without any oil or water!"

Wu Shan was overjoyed: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!"

Yang Menglong pondered for a moment and asked, "How many people are there in the mine?"

Wu Shan said: "Originally there were about 300 people. Later, when Zhang Qianhu entered King Qinqin, he pulled over [-] people to make up the number, and there were only about [-] people left."

Yang Menglong frowned again: "Take the miners to top up?"

Jiang Zheng said: "He was so hungry that there were only more than 600 people left in the whole thousand households, and the commander of Chen Du forced him to pull out 800 people. There was no way, so he pulled 300 people from the mine. Over the past, 800 people have been assembled."

Yang Menglong angrily scolded: "That bastard!" These miners have never even touched a knife. If you drag them to fight, doesn't that mean they are going to die?This kind of disregard for human life is really outrageous!But Zhang Qianhu was already finished, and there was no point in scolding him. He pondered for a moment and made up his mind: "The size of the mine will still be expanded!"

Wu Shan said: "Isn't that right? We are short of manpower during this period and we are so tired that we almost vomit blood..."

Yang Menglong said: "I will find a way to recruit 1000 people for you later."

Wu Shan's jaw almost fell to the ground: "One... 1000 people!" He has been digging all his life, and he has never led such a large team, which is really frightening.

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes at him: "Is 1000 people a lot? I'm afraid it's not enough?" He counted on Wu Shan's fingers: "The task I want to give you is very heavy! Everything in the iron ore mine remains the same. What you have to do now , that is, go all out to mine phosphate ore, manganese ore, and pyrite! Phosphate ore is the top priority. You have to arrange at least 500 people to mine as much of it as possible; manganese ore is second, 300 people are enough. The remaining 200 people are responsible for mining pyrite. I ask you to mine 1000 stones of phosphate ore and [-] stones of manganese ore for me every month. The mining of pyrite is easier, [-] stones! Do the math, is [-] people enough?"

Wu Shan couldn't close his mouth: "Why...why didn't you go all out to mine iron ore? These ores are useless at all!"

Yang Menglong said: "It may be useless to you, but it will be of great use to me. What about it? Can it be done?"

Wu Shan said: "Of course there is no problem if there are enough people, but there are not many other things now, but there are many people. As long as you go to the county and shout, there are many people who are willing to come and work, but..."

Yang Menglong said: "No but, do as I say! Well done, your wages will be doubled. If you don't do well, pack up and leave. I will give you a pair of broken shoes as farewell!"

Hearing that the wages can be doubled for a good job, Wu Shan's eyes immediately brightened.Zhang Qianhu is too stingy, even after selling his life for so many years, he is reluctant to give him a little more wages. It is this Yang Qianhu who is generous, and doubles as soon as he opens his mouth. Working for Yang Qianhu is really a bargain!

After eating, while it was still dark, Yang Menglong mounted his horse and returned to Qianhu Station.Along the way, this guy's eyes were rolling around, he was muttering incessantly, and he almost took the wrong path several times. No one knew what he was thinking.

He was thinking about how to spread the stall.

He had nearly 4 taels of silver on hand, and he spent a lot along the way, leaving a little more than 3 taels left. More than 3 taels of silver sounds scary, and if used to show off, it would be enough to make him famous for a while, but if it were thrown into agriculture or industry, he probably wouldn't even make a fuss.Money is limited, but there are many things to do. You must find the key points. If you just mess around, you will only kill yourself in the end.

So where is the point?
Phosphate fertilizer is very important. Whether crops can increase production depends on it, and the method of making phosphate fertilizer is relatively simple. As long as you are not a nerd, you can use sulfuric acid and sulfur ore to make phosphate fertilizer after studying high school chemistry. It depends on the amount of production.He has phosphate rock, but not enough sulfuric acid, far from enough!If you want to make enough phosphate fertilizer, you must have enough sulfuric acid; if you want to make enough sulfuric acid, you must have equipment for refining sulfuric acid, but what about the equipment?Where is the device?You can't build a few alchemy furnaces like an alchemist, and then put alum or pyrite in it for refining, right?If he really wants to do this, even if he is exhausted to death, he won't be able to get much sulfuric acid!If you want to mass-produce phosphate fertilizer and sulfuric acid, you will spend a lot of money. Where can you get so much money?It seems that we have to dig out the salt mine in Mengzhai Town, but the damned salt is buried so deep. With the current technology, I don’t know if I want to dig it out. The capital required to mine salt mines is only more terrifying than refining sulfuric acid and phosphate fertilizer!If the salt mines are mined, there will be no money for farming, and people will starve to death and still pick eggs!

Only by producing enough food to keep Wuyang County stable can we free up our hands to mine salt and iron mines and earn a lot of money; only by investing a lot of money can we produce a lot of phosphate fertilizer and produce enough food... a One is the chicken and the other is the egg. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?Thinking about it made his head ache, and it was only now that he realized how absurd the plan he thought was perfect and feasible. Without the foundation of modern industry, most of the knowledge he had learned in school became nothing. The dragon slaying technique is useless!

Fuck it!
Depressed, Yang Menglong really wanted to scream loudly: "Give me a set of omnipotent props, God!" Unfortunately, it is the Ming Dynasty, and God will not send him a doraemon. There will be omnipotent props.

An unknown insect flew over and almost hit his eye.He rubbed his eyelids and cursed fiercely: "Damn bed bugs, I will kill you sooner or later!"

Qi Hu sighed from behind: "It would be great if we could destroy them. If we destroy them, at least [-]% to [-]% of the harvest can be kept..."

Yang Menglong shouted: "How difficult is it to destroy them——" His eyes suddenly bulged, and a flash of lightning flashed in his mind, cutting through the fog, and all his thoughts became clear. He slapped his thigh, The cheers shouted: "I know what to do, I know what to do, yo ho—" clamping the horse's belly, the horse galloped wildly, cheering all the way, and almost turned somersault on the horse's back with joy.

Chen Baihu looked at Qi Hu: "What is he crazy about?"

Qi Hu said: "Who knows? Let's follow!" A group of people rode their horses and chased after them. A dozen or so riders rode swiftly like the wind, galloping towards Wuquan Town under the night.

(End of this chapter)