Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 17
"Brother, with such a big order, you can make some money if you make money, but there is no raw material for production." Hearing the big order brought by Li Bai, Yang Shen suddenly complained.

"Is there any difficulty?" Li Bai asked Yang Shen.

"We now have ten steelmaking furnaces. One steelmaking furnace can make more than 1000 catties of steel at a time. Ten furnaces can make [-] catties of steel a month, but we don't have that much coal."

Yang Shen said: "The steelmaking here has brought down the price of coal from three Wen a catty to seven Wen a catty, but it's still not enough. Steelmaking consumes too much coal."

"If there is no more coal, how much steel can we smelt in a month?" Li Bai asked.

"Thirty thousand catties is the most, and we need to stop all our ironware business." Yang Shen said.

Thirty thousand catties is equivalent to fifteen tons, which was not a small number in ancient times.

"It seems that we must get more coal." Li Bai thought for a while, but there was no better way.

At this time, Yang Shen on the side said: "Brother, the civilian men recruited last month should have already transported all the supplies for the army, why don't you find some people to transport coal for us, what do you think?"

"Hey! You can have this, and we can also pay them to increase their enthusiasm." Hearing Yang Shen's words, Li Bai's eyes lit up immediately.

"That's it, let's send a group of folks to Youzhou to transport coal."

At the command of Li Bai, the commander, five hundred civilian husbands were immediately transferred out.

He Laosan is from Luping County, Youzhou. He is 29 years old, and the eldest of the three children is ten years old.

This year, the entire Youzhou was raging with war. This time, it was the second time he was recruited by the government to become a civilian husband.

More than half a month passed, the task of transporting grain and grass was finally over, and he could go home soon, but he was arranged by the county magistrate to transport coal to Youzhou.

From Youzhou to Luping, you have to walk [-] kilometers on the official road, and it takes several days to go back and forth.

But fortunately, the leader gave me money for transporting coal this time. It cost three cents to transport one kilogram of coal. If I brought back one hundred kilograms, I could earn three hundred yuan.

In order to make more money, He Laosan walks dozens of miles more than others every day. Although he is tired, he is very happy to make money.

Now, he has seen that his wife, children and parents are no longer suffering from cold and hunger, and they have clothes to wear every day.

"My lord, this is the small coal shipment."

He Laosan sent the coal to the coking workshop, where a young official would weigh him and calculate the money.

"He Laosan, transport coal 150 three catties, settle 450 nine qian, this is your money, you take it."

"Thank you sir, thank you sir."

He Laosan received the money and thanked him quickly, his dark face smiled happily and turned into a chrysanthemum.

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Steel workshop.

"It's true that money can make all the difference, senior brother, we have no shortage of coal now."

In the steel-making workshop, Yang Shen happily said to Li Bai: "We are now planning to build ten more steel-making furnaces. As long as the materials are supplied, there will be no problem in making 20 kilograms of steel a month."

"That's great, just tell me what you need here, and I'll make arrangements for you." Li Bai said.

"By the way, brother, there is a shortage of manpower at the mine, why don't we hire some folks to start the mine, or I'm afraid that when we have coal, we won't have enough iron." Yang Shen said.

"No problem. Many of the peasants who are transporting grain, grass, and supplies to the front line have already been idle, and they can just come over to do things for us. As long as we give us money, I believe they should be willing." Li Bai said.

As the workshops here are operating at full capacity, more and more people are following the profits of the workshops.

Mining, iron smelting, coking, transporting raw materials, making ironware, etc., all require a lot of manpower.

There are also oil-pressing workshops, and the purchase of soybeans has benefited many farmers.

There are hundreds of oil extractors, even more oil transporters, and merchants who buy and sell oil, all of which can make money.

There are also porcelain workshops, which also require a lot of manpower.

According to Mr. Lingling's rough calculation, the number of people who have benefited from a few workshops is probably in the tens of thousands.

Among these industries, steelmaking workshops are undoubtedly the ones that make the most money. Even if a catty of steel is wholesaled at a price of 150 yuan, the workshop can earn fifty or sixty yuan after deducting the cost.

Li Bai got an order of 600 catties of goods from Xianyufu. After the completion, the workshop can earn [-] million yuan, which is like stealing money.

Of course, the most profitable thing is to make a lot of money by turning steel into weapons and selling it. A pound of steel can earn as little as [-] yuan. This is a money grab.

Don't look at Li Bai's group of talents who came to Luping for five or six months, but their reputation in the local area is very good.

Both ordinary people and landowners and gentry were very satisfied with them.

The common people are satisfied that they can make money by growing soybeans and selling them to workshops, and they can also buy cheap oil.

Landlords and gentry were satisfied that they could also grow soybeans and sell them to Li Bai's oil press workshop to make money.

At present, Li Bai's oil-pressing workshops have blossomed everywhere in Luping, and many people have made a lot of money.

A month later, Li Bai successfully handed over [-] jin of steel to Xianyufu's mobile phone, and also made millions of dollars.

After the orders here were handed in, the workshop continued to work at full capacity every day, and tens of thousands of catties of steel were smelted every day.

After so much steel, Li Bai began to sell it to the market at a price of two hundred Wen per catty.

Immediately, businessmen from all over the world came one after another.

In Youzhou, the price of [-] steel smelting is five or six hundred yuan per catty. As long as the rough and flat good steel is shipped out, it will be doubled and sold for huge profits.

Lu Weiran was originally a grain merchant, but two months ago, he became a soybean oil merchant.

Today, he is a steel merchant again.

A few days ago, he bought [-] catties of good steel from Luping in one go, and hired hundreds of people to help him transport it.

After the steel was transported to Youzhou, it was immediately divided among the blacksmith shops in Youzhou at a price of four hundred yuan per pound.

When he comes again this time, he plans to buy another [-] jin of good steel.

Unfortunately, when he came to Guangping again, he was told that Guangping's steel was no longer for sale.

In fact, it wasn't that Li Bai didn't want to sell, and he was stopped.

Li Bai's steelmaking workshop made a lot of money during this period, but the matter of producing 20 catties of good steel a month was also exposed.

Such news directly alarmed Cao Cao, the biggest boss.

It is now August, and Cao Cao has led his troops to suppress Huo Nu's peasant uprising, and is now leading his troops north to support Yuyang.

On the way, when Cao Cao heard the news that there was a steel-making workshop that could produce 20 jin of steel a month, which was comparable to hundred-smelting steel, he couldn't sit still.

Afterwards, he simply abandoned the army and marched lightly with thousands of people, arriving in Luping in just a few days.

After Cao Cao arrived at Junping, he naturally inspected Li Bai's steelmaking workshop immediately.

It's no wonder that Cao Cao attached great importance to this steelmaking workshop.

In the Han Dynasty, due to the backwardness of steelmaking methods and the low output, most soldiers' weapons were made of better pig iron.

Hundreds of steel-making is a strategic material in the eyes of any force. When he learned that Li Bai was selling the strategic material, Cao Cao of course stopped it immediately, and he wanted to monopolize it.

However, for ordinary pig iron, there are many private iron-making workshops, so there is no need to worry about it.

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