The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 187 Attracting People
Seeing that Zhang Zhiji was eager to try, Huang Sheng was afraid that they would move around to make gunpowder, which would deviate from his original intention, and emphasized:
"There is a premise here. The Huang family only looks for the gunpowder produced by Wang Gong Factory, and will not accept any gunpowder made in other places."

Zhang Zhiji had already become a little blind to Huang Sheng, and he couldn't help but disbelieve his words, so he pinched his fingers and made up his mind.

He said: "If Brother Yu buys one hundred thousand catties of gunpowder from Wang Gong Factory, will Brother Yu have to give Brother Yu a hundred pieces of real-grade slaves?"

Huang Sheng smiled and said: "Brother's account is not wrong, it is true, but the younger brother must get the gunpowder before May [-]st of this year, and we will not wait when it is overdue!"

If the honorable family wants to promote the promotion of their children, it is the easiest and most effective way to obtain military merit, and the military merit with the highest gold content is the head of the Dongnu, followed by the northern captives, that is, the Mongolian Tartars, and the third is the southern Japanese. The heads of thieves and bandits are not allowed to appear on the stage.

Zhang Zhiji was a little excited for a while, he had too many honorable friends, he didn't know how many favors he would get if he offered such a price, how much face he had!
He is a high-ranking official, he has no concept of making money, and he just likes the feeling of being sought after.

At this time, Huang Sheng said again: "The Huang family received the gunpowder and delivered it to the head of Jiannu before the end of the year. If it fails, how about the Huang family paying one tael of silver per catty of gunpowder to everyone?"

"Brother Yu believes you. You used [-] catties of gunpowder this time to get the head of the little four hundred real slaves. You should be confident, right?"

Huang Sheng said coquettishly: "Of course, my brother will keep what he says. When will we let go of the empty gun?"

"Deal, brother Yu will definitely let those brothers get the gunpowder from Wang Gong's factory. As for how much is uncertain, it should not be too little anyway. Our nobles are not in the capital for nothing."

It was a last resort for Zhang Zhiji to call on the nobles to exchange the gunpowder of Wang Gong's factory for military exploits. Anyway, the Huang family now has the strength for World War I. If you want to train a strong army, you can't do it in the training ground.

Soldiers must be constantly fought and won, so that soldiers can be tempered, and soldiers who have experienced the baptism of war can grow into fierce soldiers, and only then can there be generals who stand out and become famous generals.

Anyway, he will use Jiannu to practice his hands. After the long coastline, the Jin army is hard to defend. The strength of the Huang family is not what it used to be.

It doesn't matter whether you can repay your merits, as long as the Huang family can get benefits, it can develop, and if you have strength, you don't need others to reward you, you can reward yourself.

Huang Sheng then told Zhang Zhiji that he planned to borrow his family's manor to hold a trade fair on May [-]rd, two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, and there would be large-scale singing and dancing performances and entertainment.

The little father-in-law didn't care about other things, such a trivial matter as Huang Sheng borrowing the place was not worth mentioning, so he agreed immediately.

The only one who was interested in the fighting scene in Huang Sheng's mouth asked, "My dear brother, are you asking everyone to roll the dice to bet?"

"What's the point of throwing dice? My little brother's fighting game will attract hundreds of thousands of people to play, and let most of them win."

"Ah? There is such a big fight? Brother Yu doesn't believe it, and most people can win, Brother Yu doesn't believe it even more."

Huang Sheng is going to sell lottery tickets to get most people in the capital to participate. The goods produced by the Huang family are all huge profits, and it is impossible to use them as prizes.

According to the market price, those who get it think they have earned it.

For example, the first prize is a four-wheeled carriage, which is also a car, and the market price is 5000 taels, which cannot be bought with silver, while the cost of the luxurious decoration of the Huang family is only 500 taels.

The fifth prize is a large porcelain bowl and other civil porcelain. According to the retail value of the capital, the retail value is [-] or [-] renminbi, and the cost of the Huang family is only [-] renminbi.

For the second prize, dozens of huge dioramas, that is, dressing mirrors, cost only a dozen taels of silver. There is no place to buy these things in the capital. Who can say for sure how much they are worth?
The third prize is a gift box of soap, Jingshi has become a household name, and everyone knows that the price of 30 taels of silver can only be purchased through a relationship.

The canned sea fish used as the fourth prize is naturally suitable for all ages, and even ceramic jars are regarded as treasures by ordinary people.

The lottery ticket is very cheap, only [-] Wen coins per ticket, and the probability of winning the fifth prize is [-]%. In theory, you can get a piece of household porcelain worth [-] or [-] Wen for [-] Wen.

Of course, except for the unlucky ghosts who are too unlucky, there may be someone who bought dozens of lottery tickets as a thank you for your participation.

Ordinary people will feel that it is worth the money, and the Huang family has a gross profit of [-] cents in it. After using this money to subsidize the deficit of the first to fourth prizes, there will be a lot of profit.

The printing technology of the Huang family is fine. They started to print the textbooks of the servants themselves as early as the year before last. Now they have been updated five times, and the quality of the internal magazines published by the Huang family is even better than that of Daming Mansion Newspaper.

Huang's family members were all literate. In order to encourage everyone to learn, Huang Sheng regularly organized a periodical with the outstanding essays of his family members, and rewarded the selected essays as a reward, so as to encourage the soldiers to think hard and love to write.

Printing lottery tickets is too simple, but it needs to be considered that most of the people in Ming Dynasty are illiterate, and the content of the winning lottery is replaced by animal patterns.

The scratched part is covered with raw lacquer, and it is impossible for anyone to be able to make a fake lottery ticket within a few days. Huang's lottery tickets are all printed on Huangjiashan Island, and the craftsmen have studied for a month.

The lottery tickets were shipped directly from the sea hundreds of miles away from the capital. The artisans who produced the lottery tickets had no idea of ​​their uses, and no one came to the capital, so the possibility of cheating was zero.

The lottery is conducted in the form of scratch-off games. People buy and scratch immediately to redeem the prizes. The young musketeer who maintains order explained to everyone that the people should not leave the scene to prevent being misunderstood and cheating. It is estimated that no one would dare to disobey discipline.

Such an arrangement is seamless, unless Huang Sheng guards himself and cheats himself, but great talents are unwilling to do this. It is harmless to deceive high-ranking officials and nobles, but it will be a terrible death to deceive poor Shengdou ordinary people. Huang Sheng has a moral bottom line.

It must bring a fair, open and just fight to Daming.If it succeeds, not only will the Huang family not suffer, but it seems that they will be able to recruit a lot of talents quietly.

Huang Sheng [-] told the little father-in-law, a country bumpkin, how to fight, and he was fascinated by it, and his eyes stared into little stars.

This kid is not in a hurry for anything else, he is anxious to see if the prize prepared by the Huang family is genuine.

Fortunately, Huang Sheng brought a lot of targeted things, and everything was for the publicity, so he personally made a small advertisement with the British prince and his entourage.

The things as prizes are so good, they are all rare things, the little father-in-law likes them all when they look at them, of course he dismisses civilian porcelain like big bowls.

Those attendants knew the value, and knew that if they were lucky, they could get a large bowl worth 5000 or [-] taels for [-] renminbi. A car with a price but no market.

Huangjiashan Island is producing ceramics, steel, and cement, which not only provides job opportunities for its own people, but also increases financial resources for Liaodong generals. Over the past year, the Huang family has purchased a large amount of coal, pig iron, limestone, clay, and pottery clay.

The cement factory on Huangjiashan Island can only be regarded as a cement kiln. In a vertical kiln similar to burnt lime, a certain proportion of raw materials are calcined into clinker, and then ground into cement.

The cement made by mixing lime and clay in a ratio of [-] to [-] has the best performance, and then adding a certain proportion of iron-making slag and appropriate amount of gypsum to finely grind together to obtain ordinary Portland cement similar to later generations.

How to properly match reinforced concrete with cement?Huang Sheng also taught Zhao Shimin and a group of master plasterers. He himself built his own house in the 90s, and later managed the infrastructure projects of his unit. He has only a half-knowledge about the construction process.

This is enough to point out the direction for those experienced masters. In their labor practice, more ingenious ways of using them emerge in endlessly, and more reasonable ratios continue to appear.

It is all due to the fact that increasing the temperature solved the big problem, the extensive use of coal, and the advancement of air temperature technology have made it easy to obtain the 450 degrees required for firing cement, and the steel downdraft furnace has reached [-] degrees.

It only needs to fire glass at about [-] degrees. The Huang family only has two glazed kilns similar to the Daming Dynasty on Huangjiashan Island to produce glass with wind and temperature technology. The raw materials are too easy to obtain.

The glass produced by the Huang family is ordinary silicate glass, which is ground and mixed with quartz sand, soda ash, feldspar and limestone as raw materials.

The workers in the Huang family who have no skills but only stupid strength are also very busy at work. They can also earn more than one tael or five dollars a month while taking care of the meals.

Because Huang's family doesn't have a big pot of rice, they are all piecework workers who work more and get more. The workers work tirelessly every day to get rich.

There are too many animal power, wind power, and human mills on Huangjiashan Island. Many raw materials have to be smashed first and then ground into powder. The workload is too great. In later generations, a machine and three people can solve the problem. In this era, hundreds of people are needed. .

The Huang family needs too many big animals like cows, horses, mules, and donkeys, because there is no firepower and electricity in this era, and Huangjiashan Island has no water power to use, only negligible wind power, and large-scale production must rely on animal power and manpower.

The manpower and animal power pulverizer designed can hardly be regarded as a machine. It uses a pulley block to lift a large steel hammer weighing [-] kilograms and let it fall freely along the established track to hit the raw materials to be pulverized.

Because they are all made by hand, the output of steel, glass, cement and other products produced by Huang's family is too low, and they are far from enough for their own use and never sold outside.

In such a state, the Huang family would immediately arrange jobs for them no matter how many people they took in. Of course, the jobs of reform-through-labor prisoners were heavy physical labor.

The coal mines, iron mines, and gypsum mines in Jiangmen, Liaodong, were almost unsustainable due to the sharp decline in population due to the turmoil. Now they not only increase the number of manpower, but also start to open new mines. They are actually providing raw materials to the Huang family. More than 1 people have obtained job opportunity.

They used the court's chariots, ships, and laborers to make a fortune for themselves. Before, they couldn't find a buyer, but now they had a large purchase from Huangjiashan Island, and they made a lot of money from ear to ear.

In this era, it is very convenient to do business on the island, because in the backward ancient times, water transportation was the most efficient existence. Nowadays, official ships and private boats all go to and from Huang’s island to increase income, and even the white copper in Yunnan is continuously transported by water. to Huang's house.

(End of this chapter)