Villager of Daming

Chapter 817 Everyone is busy and lacks production

Zhu Yuanzhang, who held a small court meeting for the ministers, asked people to bring in the question books and took the elders to correct them together.

Other ministers are arranged according to the positions of the prime minister and the six ministries. Each ministry is a building. The minister, minister, and doctor read the local title books or give feedback on the decrees issued by the headquarters.

Chen Ning, the imperial censor, sat bored. He had nothing to do and could not find anyone to impeach. Everyone worked hard and were not greedy or afraid.

Before Zeng Lu was with him, Zeng Lu went to the library to help Wei Su compile the Hongwu Canon. He knew many things.

The reference book Dihai has been completed and is being printed. The dictionaries are being packaged and then sent to each village. There must be more than ten copies in one village for everyone to learn and use.

Dictionaries hardly make any money. They were used to help people in the Ming Dynasty learn to read. Then they would make money by selling newspapers and earn money from businessmen.

Newspapers are great!You can paste up walls, go to the toilet, practice calligraphy with a brush on them, start a fire to burn firewood, wrap vegetables and meat, and prevent insects...

The four Zhu Feng brothers were in Xiaqiu Village with their account books, which looked the same everywhere. The most cumbersome thing there was not Jubiqi, but the department store.

Department stores have the functions of supply and marketing cooperatives, collecting and selling things, reporting in advance when they are about to be out of stock, and sending reports just in time when the collected goods are delivered to Nanjing.

The best-selling item is soap, which people use to wash their hands and clothes. Soap is too expensive, so buy a piece and keep it at home, and use it when needed.

In addition, the sales of glycerin and skin cream are also good. Even the weather in the south of the Yangtze River can hurt the skin in winter. Apply something to ensure that your mouth is not cracked and your hands and face are not chapped. It is really comfortable, at least it does not hurt.

In the summer, glycerin becomes hard to sell. At that time, mosquito coils and cattail fans are sold, most of which are made of reeds.

There is no other place where a normal plant leaf is like a fan. That is palmetto. In the very south, it is lighter than a fan made from reeds. The key is that it is easy to weave. Reeds have to be weaved slowly, which takes more time.

Palmetto leaves are ready-made. Just remove the surrounding area and use twine to tie the edges. One person can make hundreds of these in a day.

Fans made of reeds are not as efficient, so we have sent people there to find people to make them and pay them ten cents a penny.

If you make [-] jobs a day, you can get [-] coins, which is a very high income for local people. They are not people in Nanjing.

They need to plant more palm palms. If you plant palm palm seeds, you can make palm fans in one year, which is very cost-effective.

Department stores need transportation, and a ship can carry a lot. After being sent to various places, they sell for one to two cents. The nearest one will naturally cost one cent, and the farther away will add one cent.

If you are reluctant to part with one or two articles and think it would be more cost-effective to compile one yourself, then you won’t buy it.

Anyway, now wherever there are department stores, people will buy them. They use their time to make money and can buy several handles.

Department stores also sell pretty good needles and threads. They are all made of steel needles, and the needle making speed is countless times faster than before. A box of twenty large and small needles only costs five cents in total. People are willing to buy it, it is cheap, and there are also Give me an iron thimble!

"The nearby iron mine called Ma'anshan has made great achievements. When department stores everywhere open, people will buy steel supplies first."

The youngest Zhu Xi has learned a lot now. He knows what the people need most. He used to be short of iron.

"Blast furnaces and open-hearth furnaces are great. The industrial zone has installed new blast furnaces and open-hearth furnaces in Ma'anshan. The original blast furnaces are gradually being dismantled. They produce less iron and have more consumables, making it difficult to control the quality of the iron. The new large-scale furnace group, one furnace There are hundreds of earthen blast furnaces on top of the original. If there is iron, there will be steel. Scrap iron can also be used to make steel.

In some places, wooden plows and stone plows were used. It was strange that they could plow the land quickly. They happened to be sold, but they couldn't be used on credit first. "

Zhu Di began to think about the matter of credit. People in remote areas could not afford complete sets of steel supplies. They should be given to them first and then paid back after they make money.

He learned about the output of new blast furnaces. When the People's Republic of China was first founded, the annual output of iron was 800 million kilograms, which is now the output of a new blast furnace in two months a year.

The key point is that there are more than 30 new blast furnaces there. As long as the ore and coal are supplied, the total output in ten days will be that of the previous year, and they will continue to be built!
It is said that there will be bigger ones later, and then the smaller ones will be dismantled and sent to other places to smelt iron, such as their own fiefdoms.

Zhu Fan saw that his two brothers had finished speaking and quickly said: "It's quite scary. The steel produced in one year is enough for the people's daily use. The rest depends on the speed of mining.

Our fiefdom needs to provide coal and iron ore for the Ming Dynasty. Does my brother’s fiefdom have iron?Still very good.

What else did you say last time?It’s a lot anyway, what’s the use of so much steel? "

This time it was Zhu Xi's turn: "Gun barrels, mortars, steam engines, trains are good, but they need a lot of rails. The rails are very heavy. I don't know how much they will be used to lay them from here to Ma'anshan."

When we engage in other industries, we cannot put them all in Ma'anshan. We need to transport steel from there. People can't pull it, and ships can't carry much at a time.

They just hope that there will be a railway track to connect them. Seeing what Xiaqiu Village wants, they want to lay the railway tracks all over the Ming Dynasty.

The current production is obviously not enough. It is too different. We have to produce [-] tons a day. Mining cannot keep up, and neither can coal. "

"Alas!" The four princes sighed at the same time. Slowly, the production is increasing too slowly. Ming Dynasty needs more steel.

I used to think that there was too much iron and steel to use up, but now I know there is a huge difference!
Shipbuilding, steam engines, other equipment, and then the very convenient train. You can take a lot of things from the village to Xihuamen, and you can get there very quickly by taking a small train.

According to the speed of the train, it would only take a few days to travel from Peking Province to Nanjing. That would be a lot of cargo!Crossing the river is a problem, I don’t know if it’s possible by boat.

They were discussing things, and the chief was wandering around the kitchen, making delicious lunches for the children. For babies with bad teeth, the most delicious thing must be braised pork.

It takes a long time to cook so that it melts in your mouth and is not greasy at all. Adults also like to eat it. Now the villagers can't eat it because it is too oily, so they can only make it better.

Like the braised pork sold by someone outside, which makes me want to vomit when I look at it. Su Dongpo said the method of making meat, why didn't he pass it down properly?
"Is the pot pork all fried?" The manager came to the place where the pot pork was being made. The tenderloin had been battered and deep-fried and was left there.

"I fried it three times in total. I will make the sauce when it's time to eat." The villager responsible for making this dish responded.

The chief nodded and walked to the place where the twice-cooked pork was being made. The meat had been cooked and sliced, and the only step left was to recook it.

There is not much to say. The next task is to chop the stuffing and make steamed lion head. In fact, this lion head is not very qualified. There is cabbage in it, in order to supplement vegetables for the children, otherwise it is all meat.

Stir-fry cabbage alone, the children won't eat it, and force them to eat it?
The best way is to make stuffing, and then steam the lion head soup without putting steamed vegetables in it, but cut it into foam. This requires the child to drink it and the child can accept it.

(End of this chapter)