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Li Baltimore was waiting for news about his nephew by the beach, but the news he waited for was very different from his original expectations: Li Gang did not come, nor was it Li Dashu rejected his invitation, but Li Yanzhi planned another plan to make money! Li Baltimore heard about Li Yanzhi's plan from Li Jie, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Li Jie asked: "Second uncle, what's wrong?"

Li Baldou sighed and said, "Your brother is really the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang! I thought he understood this, but I didn't expect that he was better than you and me in business!"

Li Jie asked: "Then do you think this is feasible?"

Li Balding said: "Of course it's feasible! This matter is decided according to what the third brother said! I am responsible for overseas transactions, and you are responsible for transportation within the province. Since Sanzai can say such a good story, if the third brother is the ghostly spirit in his hometown, he will definitely not be able to make mistakes!"

To realize Li Yanzhi's industrial and commercial plan, it requires several conditions to be supported.

The first is demand. If you have this, you almost don’t need to consider it. As long as the product can be used, you can sell as much as you can.

The second is transportation. Li Baltimore is responsible for overseas transportation, so Li Yanzhi doesn't have to worry about it. As for domestic transportation, although Yanping is located in a mountainous area, there are two main transportation roads connecting it with the provincial capital of Fuzhou: one is the waterway of Minjiang River, and the other is the land route connecting Jianyang, Shaowu, Shunchang and even Fuzhou - this is the infrastructure laid during the reign of Emperor Hongwu of this dynasty, and it is also one of the most important business roads in Fujian. Jianyang's paper, Youxi's silver, Wuyi's tea, etc. all travel through this business road. After the goods arrived in Fuzhou, there was an official road that could connect to Quanzhou in the south, Zhangzhou and turn to Wuyu into the sea, or go north to Zhejiang, and connect from Ningbo Shuangyu. The domestic trade is legal. As long as the relationship between the government is connected, it can be done as much as possible. As for the serious crime of overseas trade, Li Baltimore takes the initiative to bear it!

After the demand and transportation are resolved, the rest is the production problem. There is no need to worry about start-up capital. Not to mention that Li Baltimore has accumulated some capital in the past two years, even the half-cellar of silver at home is enough for them to use! The labor problem is not a problem. During the Jiajing period, China's unemployed population had reached a point that affected social security (although the government did not count), and Fujian was even a province with few lands and many people! Even if it was just a meal, there would be a lot of people rushing to work!

After a round of investigation, Li Yanzhi found that his family was going to run a handicraft factory at this time, and everything was ready and was just waiting for construction! But what was produced? Yanping was called a remote place, but the word "poverty" was based on agricultural standards. In fact, there were many resources in this place! Those who were not needed for the time being would not need to count it. Just talk about four things: silver, copper, iron, and tea!

After a round of rectification by Xu Jie, the silver mine has now been included in the surveillance of the government. The Li family can get its own profits here, which is a stable source of income. However, there are too many people watching, and it is a completely resource-oriented industry. It cannot play with added value and has little future development. Therefore, Li Yanzhi focused his attention on tea and iron first.

Youxi is one of the most important iron production areas in southern China. It not only has rich mineral resources, but also has an amazing scale of smelting! Not only does it include small private workshops, there are as many as 24 large iron smelting blast furnaces! Such a scale of iron smelting is only a handful of them even if it is placed in the whole world!

However, most of these iron fields, whether public or private, have their own power, and their forces are entangled, and they cannot be easily moved! Li Yanzhi did not intend to do this thankless thing. He knew that a person could not swallow the entire industrial chain. Anyway, the local iron price was low, so he only planned to buy iron materials to produce iron tools with iron pots, iron needles and agricultural tools as the main products, and then handed them over to Li Jie to export to the beach.

After the plan was settled, Doctor Jia went to buy the first batch of iron materials. Chen Feng smiled and found a place to work as an iron factory. Li Gang recruited dozens of young people. Li Dashu also prepared the iron furnace, firewood, etc., and just waited for the master to start construction as soon as he arrived.

Unexpectedly, the local iron tools master refused to come! Why? It turned out that the Li family made a fortune after overthrowing Yu Santian this time. In the eyes of the locals, they were just nouveau riche! They had never done iron tools business before, and the iron wrought iron masters all thought that they would close sooner or later, so they refused to come. Although Li Yanzhi was known as a child prodigy, he didn't know how to do iron pots and iron needles.

Li Baltimore had originally planned to go to Japan, but when he heard about this, he stayed in Wuyu for another half a month to help find masters and craftsmen. In this era, people who went to sea to trade were very diverse, from monks to Taoists, scholars to fishermen, and all kinds of people. As for the reasons for going to sea, for money, those who escape famine, those who avoid revenge, and those who escaped crimes, they could not explain clearly. Among the maritime merchants in Wuyu, there happened to be two good craftsmen, but they were both masters from Foshan, one of whom was surnamed Ding and the other was surnamed Xu. Li Baltimore spent a lot of money to hire them to Youxi to guide the production of iron tools. After both of them agreed to go ashore, Li Baltimore set sail north to Japan. As soon as these two masters arrived in Youxi, Li Dashu announced that the iron plant would be opened!

The iron factory of the Li family adopts a joint-stock system, with the big head being the Li family, accounting for 60%, Zheng (Qingyun) family accounting for 15%, Huang (Zhuo) family accounting for half, and the remaining 20%, one is given to the three elders in the township, and one is shared by all employees. These 20% of the shares are in-service shares. The villagers are in charge of the employees, and employees can hold shares and pay dividends when they enter the factory. When the villagers leave, the employees need to return them when they leave the factory. This setting is naturally Li Yanzhi's arrangement. He gave Zheng and Huang shares to them as protective umbrellas and to give the three elders shares in order to do things in the future and to give employees shares to encourage morale. This iron factory is just the first industry that Li Yanzhi wants to run. If he wants to run a factory in the future, he plans to do this.

Of course, the only ones who really invested in this iron plant were Li family, Zheng Qingyun and others, but Zheng Qingyun had limited business vision and could not see the bright future of the iron plant at this time. He didn't care much about it. He was also worried that Li Yanzhi would miss his studies because of this. But he had good intentions and was not easy to refuse. On the day of opening the factory, he wrote a couplet to give it to him. Li Yanzhi quickly asked someone to frame it, and asked the stonemason to carve it into a monument and erect it at the gate of the iron plant.

"Open the furnace!"

The Lijia Iron Factory opened so vigorously, but after only two days of opening, something happened! And the matter was with the two masters.

The two Foshan masters had real skills! The master named Ding had a good temper, and the master named Xu had a bad temper! In less than two days, the master named Xu started to make a fuss. It turned out that the factory rules set by Li Yanzhi were linking their remuneration with the benefits of the iron plant, which was slightly different from what Li Baltimore promised at sea. If he did well and the iron plant could increase the output, the two masters would have more remuneration than Li Baltimore promised, but if the iron plant had too little output, the money they could get would be very good!

When the two masters first arrived, they saw that the iron factory was so big and there were so many people, so it was not difficult to reach the number specified by Li Yanzhi, so they all agreed. Unexpectedly, when they started working, they realized that all the young people under their command were nonsense. Although they had the strength, they didn't know anything next to the iron furnace! Even if they were instructed, they made mistakes! So Master Xu started to make a fuss and shouted that he was deceived, saying, "If you continue like this, you won't be able to make a single shot in a month!"

Li Gang was responsible for managing the iron factory and advised in a good voice: "Everyone doesn't understand, master, just teach me, isn't it enough to teach me?"

Master Xu sneered: "Teaching? How to teach? Three years of apprenticeship and ten years of teaching! Even if I have this patience, can you wait for ten years?"

Li Gang felt that he was too tricky and picky, and he was a little dissatisfied. The young people next to him were annoyed by him and started arguing!

Li Yanzhi was preparing a tea factory at this time, planning to be managed by his mother and Su Mei. When he heard the news, he rushed over and asked what happened. Li Gang said, "He is not capable, but he blames others!"

Master Xu said furiously: "No ability! Who is not capable? With such a bunch of new players, even if the gods come! Humph! I quit!" Before leaving, he threw another sentence and said: "Unless you recruit a group of experienced players, if this iron factory is successful, I will write my name upside down!"

A group of young people also roared and shouted, "Who cares about you! If you are missing, the iron factory will do whatever you want!"

Master Xu was even more annoyed by them. He left the day after packing the package. Ren Li Dashu's family refused to stop no matter how he persuaded him.

When Li Yanzhi saw everyone angrily leaving the master, he said coldly to everyone: "What do you think, what should you do now?"

Although he is young, he is a scholar and a boss after all, so when he tells him, the younger generations are not easy to talk to. One said, "We have a Master Ding."

Then several said, "Yes! We have Master Ding!"

When Li Yan went to see Master Ding, he saw that he was working honestly, not yelling or taking people, but just doing it himself. Seeing that he was like this, he planned to make a fuss by himself.

Li Yan shook his head secretly and thought to himself: "It's so skillful to see how he looks, but how many pots can he produce in a year when he does this?" He had no choice but to go forward and say, "Master Ding, you can't just bury your head here without saying a word, at least you have to teach everyone."

"Teaching? It's difficult." Master Ding said: "Old Xu is right. Although these young students are strong, they are all newbies. If I continue to explain this job, they will do three things wrong, so I might as well do it by myself."

Li Yan said straight: "I don't understand if I make mistakes once, but I will be familiar with them if I make mistakes more often?"
Chapter completed!