Lu Ming

Chapter 153
After the two brothers of the Lin family came out of the mobile room of the Port Authority, they looked at each other, and they could see the excitement and excitement in each other's eyes.

Professor Luo loaned out pearls and silver with a total price of about 5000 taels at a low interest rate. This sum of money immediately solved the urgent needs of the two brothers.In this way, it will be much easier for them to raise funds after they go back. As long as they go to Fuzhou and sell the pearls, the brothers will get rid of their family shackles and own their first self-employed dream of a cargo ship. La!

The Lin brothers' views on this group of Kun people have also changed a lot. If their buttocks are crooked, their views will naturally be crooked.Now, in the eyes of the two, Professor Luo has become Song Gongming's elder brother who donated righteousness and donated money, and Chikan New District has also become Liangshanbo where good people gather together. Apart from short hair, these people have no shortcomings.

After going back to make up their minds, the two found that everything had been settled, and now they were waiting to go to the kiln area for a visit, and then go home by boat in a few days.

The goods brought by the Xing'an Ping have already been delivered to the warehouse, and the four kinds of crude goods that the senior officials can export at the moment, Lin also purchased two of them as appropriate for the return journey.

These four kinds of crude goods are: wood, red bricks, salt, and earth cement.

The Brick Lin family doesn't need it, as green and red bricks are produced locally in northern Fujian.Although the red bricks produced by Dayuan are straight and tidy, which are of higher quality than local adobe bricks, northern Fujian is a poor mountainous area on the [-]th line. There are not so many wealthy households consuming luxury goods, and transporting bricks is far less cost-effective than transporting salt.

Not to mention timber, during the Ming Dynasty, the fir timber produced in Fujian was the most important source of construction and ship materials in the Jiangnan area.

Lin Baoquan chose salt and cement.

The salt goods produced in the kiln area are being loaded today.A small part of the salt cargo is coarse salt produced in the salt field, and the rest is fine salt produced in the kiln area.

Regardless of coarse salt or fine salt, the quality is far superior to all kinds of miscellaneous salt that the brothers are used to seeing.The industrially produced fine salt is no different from the supermarket salt in small bags of later generations. It is white and delicate, free of impurities, with a pure salty taste and a sweet aftertaste.After Lin Baoquan tasted the salt cargo sample for the first time, he decided to fill the warehouse with salt bags on the return journey.

However, after wandering around Chikan for two days, he suddenly found that the soil and cement on the construction site were also easier to use, so he added a little more cement to the warehouse.

Soil cement is actually not much soil, and all the ingredients including lime, clay and slag are the same as those of later generations.Mineral resources in the Tainan Plain are scarce, and the only thing that can meet the industrial mining standards in later generations is limestone resources.The cement ingredients of Chuanzhong are actually quite conscientious, and the lime ratio must be higher than the products of the small cement factory of the county magistrate's brother-in-law.

However, no matter how good the ingredients are, it is useless if the equipment cannot keep up.The rotary kiln, which is used to roast cement in later generations, rotates like popcorn, and the Ministry of Industry does not plan to import it right now-it is too large and there are too many supporting facilities.

Without a rotary kiln, the old-fashioned lamination method can only be used for roasting. In this roasting method, the raw materials are heated unevenly, so the effect of the finished product is not satisfactory.

Of course, even the old-fashioned cement, the effect is enough to shock the natives like Lin Baoquan, so when the Xing'an Ping returned, it would take dozens of bags of soil cement back to the port for sale.

These crude goods plus matchlock guns and two small cannons have completely exceeded the expectations of the brothers.In addition, the Liangshan heroes are training some crew members on the Xing'an Ping in a surprise attack these days. The gunpowder left by the Dutch is used to shoot cannons and fire guns, and train the students how to kill people and set fire. To be honest, the thoughtful service of the transmigration forces is not worth it. who.

Two days later, the Lin brothers finally got their wish and were allowed to visit the kiln area.

The effect of the visit is naturally quite strong. It was the first time for the old man who sang Qin opera to watch Aunt Li Zhenxian's fan dance, and the shock was nothing short of it.

There are loud roars and sharp whistles everywhere, craftsmen with cloth covers on their faces, grinding wheels spewing sparks, and large logs cut instantly by big chainsaws.

There is also the steelmaking workshop that looks like a hell. The huge iron furnace devours the iron material, the iron claws slide above the head, the red molten iron spit out by the iron furnace, and the blue steel ingots.
The ancient ironworks needed a lot of workers: "There are mine diggers, charcoal burners, and stove fanners. There are also dozens of people who patrol the stove, transport mines, sell rice, and sell wine. Hundreds of people."

The Lin brothers couldn't understand this mysterious method of refining fine steel ingots without adding carbon, stirring the furnace, or pulling the bellows, and only a few idlers who seemed to be doing nothing.The two brothers came out of the steel workshop with weak legs - the combination of the wild steelmaking process and the extremely rare furnace workers made them feel weird and terrifying.

Professor Luo, who accompanied the visit, was considerate and hurriedly took the brothers to a less shocking brick kiln to relax.

The brick kiln works well, at least the electric-driven brick-making machine is not noisy. Watching the workers shovel brick mud into the brick-making machine at one end, and spit out neat bricks at the other end, Lin Baoan really couldn't hold back his doubts. : He wants to know now, how do these mechanism irons move?

Naturally, it is impossible for Professor Luo to introduce Comrade Faraday to the two of you. When encountering this kind of ambiguity, he can only explain it with the tried and tested method of Dongfang Tianyuan immovable as a mountain - pointing to the sky with one hand, smiling mysteriously, and shaking his head slightly.

Oh. Now the Lin family understands it in no time. It seems that this method of automatic iron without wind is a secret of the Kun people. I can't blame the Kun people for opening a mountain and setting up cabinets here. It turns out that there is a secret method in hand!
The observation perspectives of Lin Baoquan and his clan brother have always been different. The clan brother is from the microcosm, while he is from the macrocosm.So when the clan brother was asking about the secret method of the family, Lin Baoquan had already run to the side, looking with emotion at the wheel kiln that was constantly producing bricks, and the endless stacks of red bricks on the brick yard.

In Lin Baoquan's eyes, the huge wood that is sliced ​​every minute in the woodware factory will be warships in the future; the fine steel that can be smelted in half an hour in the iron yard will be guns in the future
His thoughts drifted far away at this moment, and now he finally understands why Master Xiong from Hangzhou and Master Luo from the senior officials always look indifferent when they lend him money. How can you live here?This generation will definitely gather troops to leave the mountain in the future, who would dare to owe them money at that time, wouldn't they be afraid of confiscating their family and destroying their clan?

Lin Baoquan's thoughts were clear at this moment, and he no longer had any doubts. He turned his head to look at the back of his clan brother who had already gone to visit the salt boiling pond, smiled slightly, and followed.

Four days later, the Xing'an Ping, fully loaded with cargo, departed from Taijiang.

The Xing'an Ping set off with the team led by the Dog Eye. After passing through the fleet, it finally returned to Hangzhou without an empty cabin. Except for salt, wood, red bricks and cement are now exported.

The Lin brothers stood at the bow and kept waving.In fact, when they came to Dayuan this time, they got something far beyond the value of the goods themselves. These things are not only goods, but also loans and something more important: hope.

No aborigine would be indifferent after seeing the steel factory, and the Lin brothers were the same. At this moment, they stood on the bow of the Xing'an Ping, looking at the fading Dayuan Island, feeling more and more complicated.

When someone goes, someone comes.A few days after the Lin family brothers' fleet set off, the girls that Wan Lang had been eyeing finally arrived.
In this era, there is no such thing as divorce in two places. It is too common for a man to go out to study for a job in a business and become an official. It is too common for a few years to return to his hometown. , but received the ashes of men brought by fellow countrymen, it is equally common.

Nearly half a year has passed since passing through the occupants.During this period of time, the girls who were purchased from Hangzhou by the traveler in the early stage stayed in Tangzhuang all the time.It's just that they don't learn from female celebrities, they learn to count.

Most of the girls are bought from Hangzhou People's Market. There are no free girls among the refugees. In other words, before they become refugees and beggars, the family will sell the girls. This is at least a way to survive.

In fact, most of the "high-end population" needs to buy.This includes girls, children, and some local craftsmen who are pawned as slaves. Hangzhou station needs to buy them first--vagrants and beggars who don't want money will only be bankrupt farmers.

In order to cooperate with this population transfer work, which is always at the "highest level", the comrades at the Hangzhou station not only poisoned two official teeth, but also spent a lot of money to buy dental stickers from the Chief Secretary's Yamen to help their own people to be promoted. To buy some "high-end population".

After these girls from poor families are bought by the transversal crowd, a short video showing their body and appearance will be recorded, and then the hard disk will set off with the fleet.There is now a "Hualiu Community" dedicated to displaying the image of girls on the Dayuan Forum, and each time traveler has a chance to use his "concubine funds" to choose a girl.

Every once in a while, a small video of a new girl will be uploaded. If someone takes a fancy to a certain girl, they can use their only "concubine funds" to make a decision.If someone is interested in the same girl at the same time, then if the negotiation fails, the cruel ROLL sieve mechanism will be activated to resolve the dispute.

Since the day it was founded, the Hualiu community has been one of the forums with the highest attention, and people comment on the forum every day.Whenever there is a situation where many people are vying for a certain girl, it is a show that everyone loves to see, and it will immediately attract a large number of dog-headed military advisers to comment, boo, and abuse.

Including Master Miaoshu, the initiator of the "concubine fund", some people who traveled earlier and bought a girl in the early stage have no chance to choose a new girl: each person has only one concubine fund, and now resources are tight. Only monogamy is allowed. So these people are more depressed.

Newcomers are also having a hard time, and they often get into a painful kink: people feel like a better girl will show up in a few days.

While telling themselves to wait, they were also afraid that after the girl got lucky, if they hadn't found a satisfactory one at that time, wouldn't they have to go to the neighbor's house in the middle of the night to listen to the corner?

This entanglement ceased to exist after the big office officially announced that the next wave of fleets would depart for girls.

Overnight, all the undecided girls on the forum were swept away.

(End of this chapter)