The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 101 An annoying life event!
"Can you sell two thousand catties of iron every month? Is the iron you want to sell out pig iron or wrought iron?" The price of two thousand catties of pig iron is about 20 taels of silver, but if it is wrought iron, it can be as high as 50 taels of silver .What Wang Jinxiong is more concerned about is whether the business can make money.

"The iron materials sold outside are naturally wrought iron, or even steel materials. Pig iron is worthless, and it is not worth selling directly." In this era, it takes a lot of labor to smelt pig iron into mature iron, and the price difference between wrought iron and pig iron is huge. Song Yingkui naturally knew about it.If you have the conditions to make mature iron, why not sell it outside after making mature iron?If the freshly smelted iron is directly decarbonized, the cost is relatively low, and it does not take much effort.

"If that's the case, your business can be accomplished. How about this, Mr. Wang won't participate in the shareholding. Mr. Wang will directly give Mr. a deposit of 200 taels of silver, and you will be able to sell all the wrought iron that Mr. Wang smelted within a year to Mr. Wang."

Working in partnership with an official, Wang Jinxiong doesn't want to get involved. In his opinion, a pure business relationship is more reliable.The official word can say up and down that he may not be able to get back all the money he put in.It's not that Wang Jinxiong doesn't trust the character of Song Yingkui alone, what he doesn't trust is the character of all officials in Da Zheng's officialdom.In such a general environment, could Song Yingkui be a special case?

It was originally intended to recruit shareholders, but it turned into a pre-sale, but no matter what, the start-up capital for the construction of the ironworks has been secured.With Wang Jinxiong's advance payment of 200 taels, plus his own savings of more than 100 taels, the preliminary work can be carried out first, and the remaining funds can be worked out as they go.

If we want to reorganize the ironworks, the current manpower is not enough.There are about two hundred people in the ironworks alone, so we can't let all the people in the ironworks go to ironmaking, right?After careful consideration, the current method of employing personnel regardless of military industry is not reliable.Seeing that two things have been done with a wave of people, in fact, it is possible that they can't understand one thing at all.

"Adjutant Yang, the main project of building the city will be finished in a while. After the city is built, the garrison will have to be officially put into operation. I thought about it for a while, and there must be a certain amount of standing soldiers in the garrison. It is said that there are about 200 soldiers, but in fact there are not many serious guards available. My idea is to have [-] regular soldiers in the station, and then use the wheel factory and the ironworks workers who are about to be built as reserve assistants. Soldiers are usually not involved in labor, and workers are not involved in the military." Song Yingkui came to Yang Shunan and expressed his idea of ​​​​separating military and industrial.

"Specially raise two hundred soldiers? My lord, can our income support the military pay of so many people?" The expense of raising two hundred soldiers is not small, and Yang Shunan is a little worried that his income is not enough to support so many full-time soldiers.

"Based on the current military salary expenditure, the income of the wheel factory can support so many people. When the iron factory is in operation, the income will be more. However, the current military salary is a bit low, and it will be gradually increased to the brothers in the future. In terms of their treatment, generally speaking, if the industry in the institute operates well, it should be no problem to achieve a balance of income and expenditure."

Both the wheel factory and the ironworks are heavy physical labor, and the monthly salary of five hundred cash is too low, so it is difficult to hire people normally.To keep these two factories running normally, the average monthly salary for each worker is about one or two taels of silver.The wages of the workers were around one tael, and if the wages of the soldiers in the camp did not increase, who would still want to be a soldier in the camp?
I haven't earned much money yet, and the pressure of expenses has already come. It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to be an industrialist who needs to raise soldiers and develop industries.Fortunately, in this era, the profit margins of steel and wheels are still considerable. Otherwise, this kind of thinking of raising more people will not leave people with underwear.

Although Song Yingkui's actual profit may not be much after the industry is established, it should be meaningful.At the very least, there will be five or six hundred people who rely on themselves to feed themselves. In the small Yuyuan County, his power will be a top-level existence, right?

Building forts, building wheels, and building ironworks, many of these things required Song Yingkui to do it himself, and he felt so busy every day that he couldn't touch the ground.In May, I finally survived the busiest cycle.After the Guanbao was built, the iron furnace began to tap iron, and more than 300 workers and more than 200 soldiers were fixed.

Seeing that Shiping Pass, which was a rocky beach a few months ago, has turned into a rough and small industrial area, Song Yingkui is in a good mood. This is the most fulfilling event he has done after crossing.

However, his good mood soon disappeared, his career was going smoothly, but his personal emotional life was not going well.Since becoming the leader of the village protection team last year, Ding Degui's family has changed their attitude towards their marriage with Ding Yumei.

However, I thought that after the Ding family was settled, there would be no problems with my marriage, but I never expected that there would be a moth in my house.Song Yingkui originally thought that after returning from the battlefield, he would let his father go to Ding's house to propose marriage.

But after coming back, when the old man heard that he was going to the Ding's house to propose marriage, he shook his head repeatedly, saying that no matter what he did, he would never go to the Ding's house to suffer that anger.It's fine if the father refuses to propose a marriage, the key is that the grandfather, grandmother, and mother are very clear in their opposition to marrying Ding Yumei.

They said that Song Yingkui is now an official, and marrying a country girl with a bad reputation is not in line with her status.Not to mention marrying Ding Yumei, even taking a concubine will not affect her well.

Isn't his reputation bad because he got into Song Yingkui's bed?The logic of the family is also touching enough.

Regarding the attitude of the family members, Song Yingkui originally thought that he should not talk to her. Marrying a wife is his own business.

As a result, the old lady who had always had a bad temper actually broke out this time.She threatened Song Yingkui that if her son dared to marry Ding Yumei in on his own initiative, she would hang herself on the beam. Anyway, if there is her in this family, Ding Yumei cannot be there, and Ding Yumei cannot have her.

What is this called? My old lady even cried, made trouble, and hanged herself. How could she marry Ding Yumei into the family?
Is it so hard to marry an ordinary country girl?Song Yingkui was very helpless.Why is it so easy for my second uncle and third uncle to get married?When it came to me, first the woman's family put on face, and then my own family made a fuss.

Let's make a fuss, if you are so noisy, we are not in a hurry to get married and start a family. Let's see when you make a fuss, Song Yingkui intends to use procrastination tactics to deal with the family.

However, if I can hold it off, Ding Yumei can't hold it off, and I can't wait for Song Yingkui to come to propose marriage.This daring girl ran away from home with a small burden and went to Shiping Pass to find Song Yingkui.

"Brother Kui, this time I'm here and I won't leave. If you don't want me, I'll die and jump into the river!" When they arrived at Shiping Pass, Ding Yumei gave Song Yingkui another trick to prepare to jump into the river.

My wife is going to hang herself, and my fiancée is going to jump into the river. Why did all this kind of shit happen to me?Can it make people's ears clean!
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