Daming: I was exposed by Zhu Di's Sims life!

Chapter 143 What else can you do besides make me spit all over?
"How much steel can Kongshan produce in a day?" Zhu Di asked impatiently.

Zhu Gaoyi raised a finger and smiled without saying a word.

Zhu Di asked suspiciously, "One thousand catties?"

The figure of one thousand catties is already very high.After all, the quality of the steel produced by Kong Shan is of the highest quality, and the higher the quality of the steel, the more time and cost it takes to cast it.

Zhu Gaoyi said calmly: "No, it's ten thousand catties!"

His Majesty the Emperor gasped, really wanted to pry King Qi's head open to see what was inside!
Ten thousand catties!

Zhu Gaoxuan is really not bragging. There are five steelmaking furnaces in the Kongshan Steelmaking Plant, and each furnace has a daily output of [-] catties. If the steelmaking plant continues to expand, this output will be even higher!
Of course, if you want to expand the steelmaking plant, you need to expand the coal mining, coal washing and coking, and the purchase of iron ore. This is an assembly line project. If there is an imbalance in any link, the remaining links All will be affected by the fish pond.

Zhu Di asked again: "Can Kong Shan's steelmaking technology be implemented in other steelmaking plants?"

What the old man cares about is not Kong Shan's steel production, he cares about whether Kong Shan's steelmaking method can be popularized.

From Hongwu's 28th year's imperial edict: "Iron smelting everywhere is ordered to stop, so that the people can mine and smelt themselves, and the courses are lost every [-] cents every two years", the government-run iron mines have decreased, private iron mines have increased, private-run iron mines Iron ore is taxed at a rate of one-fifteenth.

The opening of private iron ore mining, although the annual output of steel has increased several times, and the revenue of the treasury has also become much richer, but this also means that the government has weakened, and the court has gradually lost its interest in steel smelting. control.Zhu Di is a far-sighted emperor, and he is well aware of this.

In fact, this is exactly the case. In the first year of Yongle, the taxable amount of private iron mines was 8 catties, and in the ninth year of Xuande, the taxable amount of private iron mines was 56 catties.According to the tax rate of iron, the output of private iron mines in the first year of Yongle was 120 million catties, and in the ninth year of Xuande it was 833 million catties.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the government-run iron mines had been completely backward, and the private iron mines had developed rapidly, contributing to the main force of steel production. The taxable amount of the private iron mines in Yangcheng County, Shanxi Province was 50 to 60 jin, and the output was estimated to be 800 jin. Ten thousand catties is only the iron production of a county, which is equivalent to the total output of private iron mines in the country during Xuanzong's period.

By the Jiajing period, the taxation of private iron mines could be paid in silver. After conversion, the taxable amount of pig iron in the whole country was 500 million catties, which was equivalent to an output of 7500 million catties.

And if Kong Shan's steelmaking method can be popularized, it only needs to be popularized to the government-run system first, so that the government-run and private-run systems can reach a balance, and the impact of the private-run system can be curbed.The government-run system does not need to completely cover the whole country. As long as it can become the leader of the private system, it is enough for the imperial court to have a monopoly in steelmaking.

This is why Zhu Di values ​​Kongshan Steel Works!
In the expectant eyes of the old man, Zhu Gaoxuan said slowly: "Yes! Kongshan Steelworks can be popularized!"

The steelmaking technology of Kongshan Steelworks is actually not too difficult. Whether it is coal washing, coking, or steelmaking, the most difficult technical links, the Ming Dynasty has already had a good foundation, which is why The reason why the steelmaking technology of the Ming Dynasty was far ahead of Europe by 400 years!
It's a pity that such a rich heritage was completely abandoned in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty did not think about making progress, and relied entirely on the technology left over from the Ming Dynasty to make money, and even went backwards!

During the Jiajing period, the steel output was 9000 million jin.But in the Qing Dynasty, iron mines were further privatized, and many iron mines were abandoned. The output of iron in the Qing Dynasty was 4000 million catties, which was 5000 million catties less than that in the Ming Dynasty!
At the same time, Britain in the [-]th century had completed the industrial revolution. After hundreds of years, it finally caught up with the steel output of the Ming Dynasty, driving steel warships and blasting the gates of the Qing Dynasty with artillery.

Is this something that humans can do? !

Zhu Di couldn't help but take a deep breath when he thought of the prospect of Daming Steelmaking in the future.

But he quickly calmed down: Kong Shan's steelmaking technology was not his, but King Qi's.

This also made Zhu Di love and hate King Qi, and he loved King Qi's brilliant idea that even the wasteland of Kongshan could turn waste into treasure and create unlimited benefits.

But what irritated Zhu Di was that King Qi was disobedient, very disobedient!
Zhu Di almost couldn't hold back the bandit nature in his bones, and directly ordered to snatch Kong Shan over. He is best at this kind of business without capital.If you ask who is the biggest bandit in the world, it must be Zhu Di, who robbed his younger brother's Duoyan Sanwei and his nephew's Daming Jiangshan.

But Zhu Di finally suppressed the bandit thoughts in his heart, and told himself rationally: If he dared to rob King Qi’s Kong Shan, he would never even think about getting King Qi to do things for him in the future!
King Qi and Kong Shan, which one is more important, Zhu Di still has some ideas in his heart.

He wished so much that he could tame King Qi and let this boy be his honest son, but obviously this was impossible. King Qi was like a snow-white lotus flower on a mountain cliff, which could only be seen from a distance but not played with. Yan, if Zhu Di wants to use his power to force King Qi to submit, it is not impossible, but it means that the last bit of family relationship between father and son is completely broken.

King Qi: "You can get my body, but you can't get my heart. What else can you do except make me spit all over?"

What Zhu Di needs is the unconstrained wisdom in King Qi's mind, not a walking corpse. He can't use too rough methods against King Qi, so he can only go slowly and slowly.

So this happened: the emperor wanted to fool King Qi, and King Qi also wanted to fool the emperor, you fooled me and I fooled you... fooling and fooling, the King of Han is gone.

"Tell me, what do you want?" Zhu Di's voice was a little hoarse, trying to suppress the excitement in his heart.

Zhu Gaoxuan said righteously: "What does the emperor mean by this? The emperor wants to die, and the minister has to die. The emperor wants Kong Shan, so how can the son ask for something in return?"

Zhu Di scolded the little bastard in his heart, but on the surface he said with satisfaction: "I am very relieved that you have such filial piety. But there is no reason in the world for a father to rob a son. If you don't say what reward you want, then I will give you a reward." It can only be given to you by force."

Zhu Gaoyi sighed, showing his fox tail: "I want to ask my father for a piece of land, I wonder if my father will allow it?"

"Huh? Where do you want?" Zhu Di was a little curious, "Tell me, as long as it's not the capital, I can give it to you."

Zhu Gaoxuan said with a smile: "Waguo."

Zhu Di hesitated for a moment: "Would you like to listen to what you are talking about?"

You call this asking for a place? !

Zhu Gaoxuan also confessed: "As long as the father promises to hand over the governance of the Japanese kingdom to the son-in-law, the son-in-law will hand over [-]% of Kongshan's shares to the father!"

[-]% shares!
The [-]% shares are of course deducted from the shares of Kong Shan held by Zhu Gaoxuan. In this way, the emperor will hold [-]% of the shares of Kong Shan, and the British government and Chengguo government will each hold [-]% of the shares. , Qi Wangfu holds [-]%.

King Qi's Mansion, the founder of Kongshan, became the one with the least shareholding in the end.

But Zhu Gaoxuan thinks it's a good deal. Even if he holds [-]% of Kongshan's shares, what benefits can he get from holding this steelmaking system firmly in his hands?
It’s nothing more than a little gold and silver. Without the support of the court, Kong Shan’s upper limit has also been locked. If it is exhausted, it can bring Zhu Gaoxuan an annual income of 10,000+ taels. Is Qi Wang’s mansion short of this silver?

But if the 10,000% shares are traded to the emperor, the benefits that can be obtained are not only the [-] + taels! !

After the emperor took control of Kong Shan, with the support of the imperial court, Kong Shan would usher in a rapid promotion. With only 10% of the dividends, he could bring at least several [-] taels of income to Zhu Gaoxuan every year!

From the very beginning, Kong Shan was just the capital that Zhu Gaoxuan planned to use to negotiate with Zhu Di.

"It's not that I don't want to give it to you, it's just..." Zhu Di hesitated, and then said, "It's not like you don't know that although the Wa country bowed down to my Ming Dynasty, the Wa country is not within the rule of the Ming Dynasty."

In the early days, Ming Dynasty and Wa Kingdom were in the relationship between the tributary country and the tributary country.

The trade relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese kingdom was extremely complicated due to the harassment of Japanese pirates.Several emperors in the early Ming Dynasty had hoped to suppress the invasion of Japanese pirates through diplomatic channels, so they implemented a policy of restraint against the Japanese country, awarded Kanhe, and allowed them to enter the Ming Dynasty.

However, because the two sides have different understandings of "tributary", Daming wanted to use it as a means of "restraint" to eliminate "problems"; All are pinned on the tribute.Therefore, the famous names and temples in the Japanese kingdom often competed fiercely for the tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and finally a fighting incident in Ningbo-"Battle of Tribute" was caused.

After that, the Ming Dynasty changed its trade policy towards the Japanese country, stopped the ships, and interrupted the trade relationship with the Japanese country.After the Japanese invasion was basically pacified, although the Ming Dynasty announced the opening of sea trade in Yuegang, Zhangzhou, it still implemented a strict prohibition policy on the Japanese country, and the two countries never resumed normal trade relations in the Ming Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Di actually didn't have any good feelings for the Wa country. This is an unfamiliar wolf cub. He had long wanted to send troops to attack and destroy this small country of ants.But launching a war depends on the income. If the income obtained from the war is lower than the consumption of launching the war, is this a fart?

But Zhu Di couldn't see any benefits worthy of sending troops to the Wa country.

(End of this chapter)