I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 57
Chapter 056

It is necessary to strike while the iron is hot, and the same is true for the production of seamless steel pipes by cold casting in shafts.As long as there is no problem with the first well, after the mold is fully preheated by molten steel, there will be no problem.

After the production of steel pipes in the first well was completed, these craftsmen set up the molds as quickly as possible, and before the molten steel in the blast furnace was finished, the second well began to produce again.

After the production of Sijing Steel Pipe was finished, it was completely over. The high-manganese molten steel in the blast furnace had already been discharged, and it would take the day after tomorrow to smelt another furnace of steel.

With the successful commissioning of the blast furnace, the production of armed equipment in Cheng Shijie's Ordnance Bureau, Armored Crossbow Bureau, and Firearms Bureau has been completely revitalized.

"Master Garrison, shall we build another blast furnace?"

"One is not enough!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the blast furnace and said, "At least ten!"

"But we don't have so many craftsmen!"

"Then recruit refugees!"

"The price of grain has risen now, and now a stone of grain costs seven silver coins!"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "We won't be short of silver. These two iron mines are golden chickens that can lay eggs!"

Now a blast furnace can produce about 15 catties of steel a month. According to the current iron price, that is an output value of 5000 taels of silver.

In addition, there are furniture factories, carriage factories, coal pellet factories, stove factories, textile factories, clothing factories, and agricultural tool factories. As long as domestic demand is met, they can make profits. Iron Market.

Guarding a big businessman like Gu Shizhang, he could exchange iron for food. Although the Ming Dynasty had frequent wars in the north, the south was relatively quiet because it was limited by the weather of the Little Ice River.

"Clap clap..."

A new day begins with the beating of Zhen Sanshan and Zhang Huairen.

The beating during this period finally made Zhang Huairen become honest.Sure enough, Zhang Huairen was just pretending to be a tough guy, his toughness just showed that the beating was not hard enough.

Just when Cheng Shijie used Zhang Huairen to move his body and whipped him dozens of times, he went to eat breakfast.

The backyard of Ning Haijun's garrison mansion is now more populated. In addition to the two adopted daughters Cheng Anjing and Cheng Anning, and the two adopted sons Cheng Shi and Cheng Hu, plus Chen Guodong, Jin Qiaoer and Xueer, there are naturally more people. It depends on Yang Yunniang who won't leave.

At first, Cheng Shijie really wanted Yang Yunniang to go, after all, it's nothing to be accompanied by a charlatan.

However, the problem is that as soon as this matter is mentioned, Yang Yunniang will jump into the river with Jiaxin in her arms, although she is not sure whether Yang Yunniang will really commit suicide.Later, Cheng Shijie discovered that Yang Yunniang could read and write, but Cheng Shijie had no one to use.

I just let Yang Yuniang manage his internal accounts. I never thought that Yang Yuniang was very sensitive to numbers. In just three days, she found more than a dozen problems in dozens of account books. , some are work negligence.

In this way, Cheng Shijie kept Yang Yunniang.

Anyway, Cheng Shijie positioned Yang Yunniang as the accountant, and even Jin Qiaoer, who could barely read and understand simple calculations, became Cheng Shijie's accountant, and Jin Qiaoer became Yang Yunniang's assistant.And Xueer became the new cook, and Cheng Shijie paid them salaries.

Yang Yunniang gave ten taels of silver a month, Jin Qiaoer five taels a month, while Chen Guodong, the guard, also gave five taels of silver, and Xueer, the cook, and his four adopted children each received two taels of silver a month.

"Father, please eat!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Cheng An Ning and said, "Quiet, call An Ning over!"

Not long after, Cheng Anping and Cheng Anning came hand in hand.

"Meet foster father!"

When Cheng Anjing and Cheng Anning were adopted by Cheng Shijie, both of them were skinny, but as their nutrition kept up, they both gained a lot of flesh.

Especially An Ning, who has a fat-prone physique, and now she has a double chin.

Cheng Shijie said: "Sit down, let's have dinner together!"

"This……"

"We are family!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "Today I will discuss something with you two!"

"Please give orders!"

Cheng Anning and Cheng Anjing stood up.

"Don't be nervous, it doesn't have to be so formal!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You are not very old!"

Speaking of this, Cheng An Ning looked at Cheng An Jing beside her, and she puffed out her chest proudly.

Cheng Anjing lowered her head with a little inferiority complex.

"I can!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You still have a long time in the future. If you are illiterate and unreasonable, you will suffer a lot in the future, so I want you to study!"

Cheng Jingjing was a little puzzled: "Women can also read books!"

"OK!"

"What's the use of studying for a woman? You can't take the imperial examination, and you can't be an official!"

"Is the goal of studying only to become an official?"

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "If you think this way, you will fall behind. Reading and studying is first of all to increase your knowledge!"

"But where are we going to study?"

"This house is very big, then open a girls' school in the backyard!"

Cheng Shijie pondered: "Let Yunniang teach you how to read and write first, and in the future, foster father will find a man who can read and write!"

Bandits like to plunder the female relatives of rich families, perhaps to satisfy an indescribable sense of accomplishment. Among the women rescued from Zhen Sanshan, three of them came from official families, and one of them is the daughter of an official in Qingzhou Prefecture. It's just a pity. The woman was rescued and wrote a letter to her family. After receiving the letter, she became depressed and hanged herself while others were not paying attention.

Right now, Ning Haijun is suppressing bandits on a large scale and can rescue some educated women.

"I would like to follow the arrangement of my adoptive father!"

Cheng Shijie found Yang Yunniang again and discussed with her about opening a girls' school.

It's just that Cheng Shijie didn't notice that Cheng Anning was somewhat disappointed.

After Cheng Shijie left, Yang Yunniang sighed: "You two... are really clubs!"

"Don't talk about me, you are not the same!"

Cheng Anning lowered her head, feeling a little guilty.

Yang Yunniang looked at Cheng Jingjing and said, "Quiet, go and call Qiaoer and Xueer over!"

With the arrival of Qiao'er and Xue'er, Yang Yunniang coughed and said, "I called you here today to talk about one thing."

In Cheng Shijie's backyard, Yang Yunniang became the boss unconsciously, let alone Zhou Yandong mistook Yang Yunniang as Cheng Shijie's wife and concubine, even Jin Qiaoer and Xueer had such a misunderstanding.

Yang Yunniang was too deceitful, she hugged Jiaxin, dressed luxuriously, with extraordinary momentum, and her aura was even stronger.

Although this misunderstanding has been resolved now, Cheng Shijie asked Yang Yunniang to be the accountant and Jin Qiaoer as an assistant to follow her arrangement.

"My master's family business is getting bigger and bigger, but my master..."

Yang Yunniang smiled bitterly and said: "We women have been looking for a good husband all our lives? With the identity and status of the master, you have no hope of becoming the second wife. Being a concubine is also a fortune. The opportunity is right in front of you!"

Cheng Jingjing said timidly: "But foster father..."

"It's not a relative, so what's the matter. You also crawled out of the dead. When you came to Cheng's house, what kind of life did you live? Do you still want to go back to the past?"

"Absolutely not!"

"That's right, it's up to you whether you can grasp this wealth!"

Cheng Shijie didn't know that several women were thinking about him.

"Congratulations, Master Defense, we have won a big victory!"

"Oh!"

When Cheng Shijie saw the victory report, he saw that it read: "Destroy the subordinates of Lin Jingzong, Zhuanlin Bao, and kill Lin Jingzong's subordinates, a total of 460 three levels."

Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and said, "Where are the prisoners?"

"No... no prisoners, this battle was too miserable, nineteen brothers were wounded and two died, so..."

Cheng Shijie naturally knew what was going on. In the past, he did not intentionally keep the rewards for the captives, because he was only a thousand households, and it was already very difficult to feed the more than [-] people in the thousand households. The method takes into account the life and death of the bandits.

Although it is said that some of the bandits are good people who have been kidnapped, the problem is that these good people are coerced or voluntary. If they kill someone, they have committed a crime. It cannot be said that those who are forced can be released without charge.

"In the past, our defense was negligent. We didn't set a reward for the captives. We immediately notified the whole army. If the bandits surrendered, they needed to be screened, and the nearby people were called on the spot to find out who suffered. Yes, regardless of whether they voluntarily surrendered or not, they will be beheaded, and the captives who voluntarily surrender will be sent to the mine for labor reform!"

"Yes!"

"The supplies have been seized!"

"It has been shipped back. There is not much food, only 1000 taels. Zhuan Linbao is a poor ghost. He only seized less than 1 taels of silver and rescued 53 women who were robbed!"

"Notify the whole army that we, Ning Haijun, need prisoners. One prisoner will be counted as one and a half grades of decapitation, and he will be rewarded with fifteen acres of land!"

Cheng Shijie has more than 300 million acres of land reclamation authority, and the land is enough for the present. Only when the reward goes on, the land that belongs to the soldiers will take care of it carefully.

The 630 mu of land was rewarded according to the method of rewarding military exploits, and there were two soldiers who died in battle, each with [-] mu, and another Tuntian village could be established.

Cheng Shijie summarized the battle report and sent it to Dengzhou City.

"Great news, Ning Haijun wiped out the gangster Drilling Linbao and Lin Jingzong's department, and beheaded 460 Level [-]!"

"Great news, the Ning Navy wiped out Xiao Li Guang and Li Kang's troops, beheaded 350 people, captured 590 people, and rescued 150 people who were robbed!"

"Success, the Ning Navy wiped out Sun Tianhua's troops on Cao Shangfei, beheaded 780 people, captured [-] people, and seized a batch of supplies!"

Just as Sun Yuanhua was looking at the good news in front of him, he received a report from the porter: "Master Futai, the Zhang family in Laiyang has replaced the pleading paper!"

"Paper, what paper?"

"The Zhang family in Laiyang sued Ning Haijun for guarding the Tumin."

Sun Yuanhua didn't believe Cheng Shijie's massacre of the people at all. Qin Wuneng was wiped out by Cheng Shijie with a mere thousand-man guard, and the strength of Zhen Sanshan, Drilling Forest Leopard, and Cao Shangfei was weaker.

What's more, if Cheng Shijie really wanted to slaughter good people and pretend to be meritorious, it would not be beheading hundreds of levels, but thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Even if it is to kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, it is to catch the refugees and kill them, so that the local government will not take care of them, and no one will care about the life and death of the refugees. Even if they are not killed, it is not easy for the refugees to survive on the way.

Sun Yuanhua frowned slightly: "When did this Cheng Shijie offend the Zhang family?"

Xu Dacheng shook his head: "The students don't know, but there may be some misunderstanding!"

"The real one can't be fake, the fake one can't be real, the Zhang family in Laiyang has to give face, how about this, let someone inform Cheng Shijie, ask him to come to Dengzhou City, and explain to the Zhang family!"

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