Zhou Mengchen said: "I have something to notify you. How many dozens of iron furnaces do you have in total?"

Ling Yunyi said: "There are forty-three seats. Each furnace produces 3,000 kilograms per day."

Zhou Mengchen said: "How much can you produce in a year?"

Ling Yunyi said: "In fact, there have been no more than ten iron furnaces before. Just supply iron materials to the prison, and the rest are only available for purchase. But since last year, did the adults hope that Shuozhou Supervision can be self-sufficient? This is why it has increased the production of steel. It took half a year for purchase of iron materials to expand so many iron furnaces. I estimate that the output this year will be more than 30 million jin, and it is not clear how many jin will be. After all, it depends on the specific situation."

Zhou Mengchen felt a clear mind after hearing this. He said in his heart: "Thirty million pounds."

This number is not too much.

If Zhou Mengchen built three thousand kilograms of cannons, it would only be enough to build ten thousand doors. But it is not a small amount. It should be noted that there were only more than 18 million kilograms in the Hongwu period. Of course, all kinds of waste were first developed during the Hongwu period. But the problem is the statistics of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the authenticity of the Hongwu period, which is hard to say later. However, even if Zhou Mengchen mastered the national iron course in the Ministry of Works to estimate it, the annual steel output of the Ming Dynasty was between 200 million kilograms and 300 million kilograms. Of course, in Zhou Mengchen's view, this number still has a lot of room for expansion. The reason is very simple. The tax collection ability of the Ming Dynasty court and many taxes cannot be collected.

Iron Class is the same, who is the real big guys paying taxes?

Is it good to be joked about?

The Ming Dynasty has always had accurate economic data.

But even so, the annual output of 30 million accounts for one-tenth of the Ming Dynasty.

Good guy, he can be compared with Foshan at once.

Zhou Mengchen even confirmed the idea of ​​selling these iron furnaces. It was nothing more, the output was too great.

Indeed, the blast furnace technology developed by Zhou Mengchen in Beijing was not groundbreaking. It was just an integration of various iron smelting technologies today, which may not be much better than the technology in Foshan in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that when Foshan was the most prosperous, a furnace could produce 6,000 kilograms per day, which was better than the iron furnaces in Shuozhou today.

However, Zhou Mengchen's biggest breakthrough was the introduction of coking technology, which separated steel production from the wood and lifted the biggest restrictions.

However, from a commercial perspective, Zhou Mengchen is not afraid of not being able to sell the production in this way.

Zhou Mengchen naturally knew that both the official and the Democratic Progressive Party were short of iron, two or three billion kilograms, and he heard a lot, but in the conversion, it was only between tens of thousands to more than 200,000 tons. These outputs were not as good as the output of a steel mill in a later generation.

But the problem is that market development and consumption habits require time to cultivate.

Such explosive production will probably be unsalable for a period of time.

During the British Industrial Revolution, there was also a king of steel. He devoted his life to one thing, which was to promote the use of iron, and even when he died, he built an iron coffin for himself. Think about what forced a businessman into this situation. It wasn't it the contradiction between the explosive steel output and the public's previous view of steel as valuables and the fact that it would not be easy to consume.

As an official of the court, Ling Yunyi never had this string. He had not paid attention to the purchase of steel before. Now that he was in financial difficulties, Zhou Mengchen called on him, Ling Yunyi immediately took the instructions of his leader as the highest order and continued to expand his production capacity. While trying to please Zhou Mengchen, he gave up a lot of profits to Zhou Mengchen's relatives.

This is really not what Zhou Mengchen wants.

And Zhou Mengchen also knew that Ling Yunyi was actually very good. At least he said that he would expand the capacity and really expand the capacity. He was good in terms of execution. He did not cause any accidents. If he changed to other officials, he might not be as good as Ling Yunyi.

It is even more difficult to find a Chinese enterprise leader in Zhou Mengchen's mind, or it is not.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Leave Thirteen Bars, part of which is for Shuozhou Supervisor to use by himself. The rest should continue to study the methods of smelting steel. As for other places, iron furnaces are ready to be sold. By the way, we have to find some old craftsmen to guide one or two."

Ling Yunyi was shocked and said, "Sir, this is not good. I don't know how many people are consuming on this iron stove."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Don't worry. I won't talk about it this year. But in the next two years, I will change all the troops in Datong Town at one time. At least 100,000 flintlock rifles, 800 small cannons, 300 heavy cannons, landmines, hundreds of thousands of thunder in the palm of the hand, etc. After a while, let the General Office give you a list. This is all what you need to do. You can prepare it now. And I want a new model. As for iron smelting, it is not what you should do."

Ling Yunyi wanted to say something. But seeing Zhou Mengchen's tone was decisive, he didn't dare to say anything more.

Just agree.

Zhou Mengchen and Yang Jisheng asked Yang Jisheng while visiting Shuozhou Supervisory. They said, "Brother Yang, do you know why I did this?"

Yang Jisheng said: "But to redeem people?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "This is one of them. The second is the misfortune of the family." He told Yang Jisheng about the actions of the Yin family and the Fengcheng Hou family. He said, "Although I didn't ask, I think Yin Zongyi had no talent for business before, but now he jumped up and became a wealthy businessman with a family capital of 100,000. It is not my disciple of Zhou Mengchen, how could Yin Zhengmao's son do it? The Fengcheng Hou Mansion is not only my in-laws, but also the general Li Ru, and the Fengcheng Hou who is in charge of the Beijing camp in Beijing, cannot be asked."

"I just have to prevent the problem from getting worse. Now I can still turn back after I hit them. They are doing business honestly, and I don't ask more questions. But after a long time, I'm afraid I can turn back after I hit them. Today is a waste of firewood."

"And if I sell these iron furnaces, it won't be a one-time deal. Taizu Iron Class, 15 taxes and one tax. I can pay iron materials."

"But what is the situation today? You know too. I want to draw an industrial area here in Shuozhou."

Yang Jisheng said a little strangely: "Industrial area?"

"Yes, a place with a intensive labour is specially established. It can be regarded as a new path for the Ming Dynasty. You also know that the Ming Dynasty's taxes are almost entirely based on land taxes. In addition to land taxes, there are only millions of salt taxes. Compared with the previous Song Dynasty, my annual income in the Ming Dynasty was pitifully less. The method of plundering the previous Song Dynasty was too much. I didn't take it, so I had to find a compromise." Zhou Mengchen said.

It is said that the Song Dynasty was a commercial civilization. But if you really want to be a businessman in the Song Dynasty, you would just die. How to say it? Among the taxes of the Song Dynasty, the commercial tax exceeded the agricultural tax. But this does not mean that the Song Dynasty is larger than the Ming Dynasty's economic scale. Instead, the Song Dynasty inherited the accumulated problems of the Five Dynasties and used everything in tax collection, which was simply crazy.

Needless to say, there are various monopoly services. There are venues everywhere, what are they doing? Tax collection. If you look at the map of the Song Dynasty, you can know that the venues in the Song Dynasty were so dense. It can be said that the country was a complete market in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. But it was not because of this separation of tax policy.

Maybe some people think that I'll find a little small business store, such as opening a store.

Very good, but any better shop is an official store. I heard that if you want to open a store, the county government will take the initiative to give you the official store. You must pay high taxes according to regulations. What, do you think it is not cost-effective? Don’t want to do it anymore? May I ask, are you a scholar? No. May I ask, do you have an official in your family? No. May I ask, do you think the yamen is a vegetarian?

Since it is not, you have to pay the tax honestly. If the business is not enough, the family will make up for it. If the family is not good, the family will not have enough money? Sell the house and sell the wife and daughter.

If you can't squeeze out oil and water, you will let go.

If he was a scholar in the Song Dynasty and had an official position, he would naturally be very good. If he had no official position, he would be in hell.

As for other taxes on excess hair, I don’t need to be explained in detail.

After hearing this, Yang Jisheng paused slightly, and was also very interested, and said, "I wonder how Brother Zhou is going to win the favor?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "What I want to collect is not just iron tax, but commercial tax. Generally speaking, it must be divided into commodity tax, asset tax, and circulation tax."
Chapter completed!