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As for steel, if it were in the past, the steel production in the north of the Ming Dynasty would not be enough to fight the war. If anyone proposed to use steel to spread on the ground, even the emperor would probably be sprayed to death. But things are getting better now. The north has basically been pacified, and the military demand for steel is not as urgent as before.

In addition, steam equipment is used in mines, which can not only continuously extract the accumulated water in the mines, but also increase the speed of transporting ore from the mines. In addition, the grinding of ores is also much easier with the help of new equipment. . Steel production has not yet really exerted its strength, but production has increased significantly.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen recalled a piece of information about steel from later generations. The distribution of iron ore in China is in Liaoning, Sichuan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shandong, Anwei and Hubei. The most famous of them is the Bada Iron Mine.

The top one in terms of reserves is the Anshan Iron Mine, which is now under the control of the Ming Dynasty; the second is the Benxi Dataigou Iron Mine, which is also under the control of the Ming Dynasty; the third one is also the most important iron ore in the north. The origin is Qian'an Iron Mine, located in the northeast of Hebei Province. Qian'an and Luanxian areas are one of the four largest iron ore belts in my country, with abundant reserves. It has been proven later that the reserves are about 5 billion tons, and they are shallowly buried and easy to be mined in the open. The fourth place is the Bayan Obo Iron Mine, not far to the north of Baotou, and is now under the jurisdiction of Baotou Governor Yang Sichang. Several other large iron ore deposits are not in the north.

Steel is the foundation of industrial development. It seems that the next focus of Ming Dynasty is also to carry out large-scale steelmaking. The technical arrangement and research and development work related to steelmaking must be carried out systematically.

Thinking of these things, Emperor Chongzhen entered the Wenhua Hall discussion group and sent out this edict, asking the cabinet and the Supervisor of Ceremonies to start working on this matter. The specific regulations were drafted and reported to him.

As for the mineral resources in the Northeast, Emperor Chongzhen also informed the governor of Liaodong, Lu Xiangsheng, about the situation through a private chat with Wei Mulan, asking him to send skilled craftsmen to inspect the areas. The development of Liaodong can focus on both agriculture and mining and steelmaking. As for the matter of Shengli Oil Field, Emperor Chongzhen felt that there was no need to tell it yet, so he did not mention it.

After finishing these things, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the achievement value in the lower left corner of the chat group, which showed that there were still more than 10,000 points. From the tens of millions of achievements to the value of only more than 10,000 points, it actually takes less than a month. This time going south, it would be nice to earn more achievement points.

Thinking of my itinerary, I should be able to gain a lot of achievement points at Yingtian Mansion! With this in mind, Emperor Chongzhen clicked the add button. He was bored during the journey and wanted to add someone for fun.

Ten people were added casually, including men, women, and children. After adding them, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the main chat area and watched the self-introductions of the new group members.

Basically, the newly added people have no special characteristics. They have decent names, and you can tell that they are Han Chinese at a glance. During the self-introduction, only one person's words aroused Emperor Chongzhen's interest.

This person's chat group ID is Zhang, the barber. He introduced himself in the group: "Hello everyone, my surname is Zhang. I am Zhang Wu. I am the fifth oldest. I am already 46 this year. I have passed down my craftsmanship from my ancestors. In Nanyang..."

That's where his words ended, but he stopped. Emperor Chongzhen took a look and saw that his profile picture was darkened. From the looks of it, he must have suddenly quit the chat group. Someone probably disturbed him. Chinese in Nanyang?

After reaching this conclusion, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly became interested. Could it be that the system knew that he was going to visit Nanyang, so he started to join the chat group members there?

He guessed right. At this time, in a hair shop far away in Nanyang, the bamboo curtain was opened. Several Xiyi entered the shop while banging on the door, which immediately shocked Zhang Wu from the chat group. Got out.

Zhang Wu was standing behind the counter. His two apprentices hurriedly came over to greet him. Unexpectedly, they were kicked to the ground by the two Xiyi, who were muttering in their mouths and seemed to be very dissatisfied.

Zhang Wu felt nervous and quickly walked out of the counter. With a smile on his face, he bent down and said "Euler".

But the two Westerners didn't give in. They grabbed Zhang Wu by the collar and dragged him along. Then they sat down in the hairdressing position and then let go. They pointed at Zhang Wu again and said birdsong. .

The two young apprentices were very angry when they saw how the two Xiyi treated their master, and they wanted to rush forward and block their master from behind. When the other Xiyi saw it, he immediately pointed with his finger and spoke viciously.

When Zhang Wu saw this, he quickly turned around and scolded his two apprentices, then turned around, nodded and bowed to the two Xiyi, and quickly picked up the hairdressing tools.

Seeing him starting to cut his hair in person, the two Xiyi stopped having further attacks. The two apprentices looked angry and unwilling, but had no choice but to listen to the master's instructions and went to the backyard to bring tea and cakes to serve another Xi Yi who was waiting for a haircut.

After being busy for half an hour, Zhang Wu finally finished cutting the hair of the two Xiyi people. Seeing that the two Xiyi people were satisfied, he respectfully sent them to the door.

"Master, they haven't paid yet!" a shorter apprentice reminded with a hint of anger.

Zhang Wu seemed to have not heard anything. When the two Xiyi walked away, he turned back, looked at the two apprentices, and suddenly let out a long sigh.

Seeing him like this, the short apprentice misunderstood a little and said quickly: "Master, don't be afraid. I'll find a few people to stop them. I don't believe they won't give you money! There's really no way to do this!"

Hearing this, Zhang Wu quickly stretched out his hand and said: "Are you crazy? You are still talking about the king's law here? They are the king's law, do you understand?"

After asking this question, he felt that his two apprentices probably couldn't figure it out, so he sighed again, and then ordered: "Forget it, close the shop first!"

After saying that, he seemed a little tired and turned back to the backyard.

The two young apprentices looked at each other, a little confused. However, he still followed his master's instructions, closed the door of the shop, and then returned to the backyard.

When the two of them arrived in the backyard, they saw Zhang Wu sitting on a Taishi chair, bending over and drinking Kung Fu tea. When the tall apprentice saw it, he quickly walked a few steps, took the tea set from Zhang Wu's hand and made tea. The other short apprentice also quickly stepped forward to help.

When Zhang Wu saw it, he let them go, while he lay on the Taishi chair with his eyes closed as if he was resting or recalling some bad memory. The expression on his face was not good-looking.

After the two apprentices, tall and short, made Kung Fu tea, seeing Zhang Wu like this, they couldn't help but look at each other again, feeling a little puzzled in their hearts.

"Master, would you like some tea?" the short apprentice finally lowered his voice and reminded him.

After hearing this, Zhang Wu opened his eyes, looked very tired, waved his hand and asked the two apprentices to sit down, and then said in a low voice: "I thought for a while and decided, you two, let's go! "

When the two apprentices who had just sat down heard what he said, they immediately stood up from their chairs with shocked expressions on their faces. They felt a little incredible. The short apprentice immediately asked loudly: "Master, why? Just because of that?" Those two Westerners?"

"Yes, Master, why?" The tall apprentice also asked in confusion, "Is it possible to be so cruel and rude and not pay the money? Besides... besides, we didn't do anything in the end. Why are you driving us away?”

Seeing the two apprentices so excited, Zhang Wu stretched out his hand and shook it, still lying there and said: "This is for your own good, leave early, maybe you can avoid disaster!"

"What are you talking about to avoid trouble?" the short apprentice shouted immediately, "They are so cruel and rude and don't pay us, do they still want to retaliate against us afterwards? Is there any justice in this?"

The tall disciple was also very excited and said: "Yes, we are not afraid of shadows when we are upright. How can we be afraid of them?"

After listening to the words of the two apprentices, Zhang Wu suddenly sighed, first motioned the two apprentices to sit down, then he sat up straight, looked at the two apprentices and said: "In this Manila, these Spaniards are the gods, they can Acting lawlessly and recklessly is the law of nature. How are they here? Although you two have only arrived in Manila not long ago, you must have seen them a lot, right?"

"We are still afraid of them. We Ming people have at least 30,000 people in Manila, right? How many of them are there, two thousand? At most, 3,000 are too many, right?" the tall apprentice said a little dissatisfied.

The short apprentice also nodded and said: "That's right. Besides, Liu Da's family also has many warships. We Ming people also have many forces in Nanyang. Why are we afraid of these Spaniards?"

Zhang Wu heard their conversation and recalled what happened before. He couldn't help but sigh and said: "You are still young and don't know the cruelty of these Spaniards! Don't be excited. Sit down first and I will tell you. Before!"

After hearing this, the two apprentices looked at each other and knew in their hearts what the master was going to say. However, they were young and had only been in Nanyang for a few years. They did not know much about the past, so they listened to the master's words and pressed I lost my temper and listened to the master's words.

Zhang Wu's face seemed a little sad, and he said slowly: "In total, thirty-two years have passed. At that time, it was still the Wanli period, and Manila was also ruled by the Spanish. At that time, they only had a thousand taels in total. There are more than a hundred people, while we Ming people have 30,000 to 40,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 merchants alone. It can be said that at that time, we Ming people were doing business in all of Manila, and all transactions had to go through our Ming people. Human hands..."

After hearing this, the two apprentices looked at each other, feeling very similar to what they were feeling now.

"...At that time, the Ming Dynasty was suppressing the Japanese pirate rebellion. The great pirate Lin Feng took his men and fled to Nanyang. He was powerful enough to compete with the Western Yi, just like Liu Xiang now. Therefore. , the Spaniards are obviously wary and suspicious of us Ming people. They have few people, and they are afraid that we Ming people will rebel and seize their rule in Manila."

At this point, Zhang Wu suddenly sighed, and then said: "At this time, another thing happened. Zhang Ni, a Fujianese in the Ming Dynasty, reported to the court that Lu Song Ji Yi Mountain, where golden beans grow by themselves, sent people to harvest them. , you can get a huge fortune. Therefore, the then Emperor Wanli heard this and sent Shihe, the Prime Minister of Haicheng County, and Yu Yicheng, a hundred households, to Luzon to mine gold. However, when they arrived in Luzon, they found that it was Zhang Ni's nonsense. He will return home immediately..."

The two apprentices were young. Although they had heard about the past events, the specific details were not clear. Hearing this, the short disciple couldn't help but be surprised and said: "Such a thing seems to be similar. When I came to Nanyang from Guangdong, I heard such words, saying that the money in Luzon is very easy to make! Who knew that after coming here, Then I realized it was a lie!”

"That's right, our Ming Dynasty still pays thirty to one tax, but the Spaniards here pay ten to one tax. This tax alone is three times heavier!" The tall apprentice also nodded in agreement.

After hearing this, Zhang Wu did not say anything about it, but still said slowly: "The Spanish have always been worried that we Ming people will seize their rule because there are too many Ming people, so they use this as an excuse to spread rumors that we Ming people are about to rebel. , to cooperate with the Ming army’s invasion. Thus, our Ming people’s nightmare on Luzon Island began..."

At this point, he was silent for a moment, as if he was still feeling very uncomfortable at this time. When the two apprentices saw it, they couldn't help but fell silent.

After a while, Zhang Wu continued to say in a low voice: "The Spaniards and the natives surrounded us, then mobilized artillery to bombard us, and then sent troops to come in. That was to cut down and kill everyone on sight, as long as they were The Ming people, no matter the elderly or children, were spared. They kept killing until rivers of blood flowed. We Ming people were almost extinct here! Nearly 30,000 lives were slaughtered by them in just a few days. Their ferocity , you have never experienced it, so you don’t know. When I was young, I was hidden in the cellar by my parents and escaped death. Alas..."

At the end, he sighed heavily.

The faces of the two apprentices showed anger. Only then did they understand what happened back then. It was unbearable to think that their compatriots were massacred by Westerners and natives just because of an unfounded crime!

"Isn't there someone who will make the decision for us, Mingren?" The short apprentice roared angrily after hearing this.

After hearing this, Zhang Wu smiled sadly and said: "Who will make the decision for us? Pirates? Will they care about our life and death? The court? Haha, the Spaniards finally returned some of the looted property casually and handed back a few people. They did not care about the court. We have already made an explanation. To the imperial court, we are people who go to sea to do business, and we are of low status. The imperial court itself is too busy with domestic affairs, so how can it still devote itself to our affairs? "

"No, it's impossible, right?" After hearing this, the tall apprentice shook his head and wanted to refute the master's words, but he was interrupted by Zhang Wu, "The imperial court only verbally threatened the Spaniards. Alas, who Let us be humble!"

At this point, seeing that his apprentice wanted to speak again, Zhang Wu shook his head and said with a slightly more serious expression: "The current situation is very similar to the situation before the massacre. Do you understand?"

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