This is the second time Su Hao has heard such advice after traveling through time. The previous time was when Dai Qi, the clerk in the workshop, said it to him after some gangsters harassed Lu Xiuer. At that time, he just thought of making a province.
Chai Zao's method of earning some pocket money in the name of a workshop aroused inexplicable jealousy, forcing him to rush to pay tribute to various officials, so that he could stay safe.
Su Hao has many skills, which can be turned into wealth, but he lacks the ability to protect these wealth. This makes him like a child walking in the busy city with gold and silver in his arms. Anyone who becomes greedy can
Even if you think about it, you can go up to him and snatch his things, and then beat him up violently.
Before opening the coal kiln, Su Hao accepted Dai Qi's advice and gave part of the shares in the coal kiln to the magistrate Han Wen and several other officials in exchange for the peace of the coal kiln. The construction of the telescope relied on Jiangxi
The price Su Hao paid was to agree to train a group of scouts capable of drawing maps for Deng Zilong's tribe.
Now, Su Hao has developed this magical high manganese steel. In Su Hao's view, this high manganese steel is actually nothing special. It is just a very common alloy steel in later generations. He is a little stronger than Gu Ru.
He just knows what manganese ore is, and he also knows that manganese can improve the performance of steel. But in Hao Yizong's eyes, this high-manganese steel represents a massive amount of wealth, which will bring great benefits to himself and Su Hao.
Endless trouble.
Taking the price of iron as an analogy, Hao Yizong believes that this kind of high manganese steel can be sold for more than one tael of silver per pound, while ordinary pig iron on the market is only worth more than 3 cents of silver per pound. There is a price difference of nearly 30 times.
.If according to what Su Hao said, the manganese veins he discovered can support the need to smelt hundreds of thousands of kilograms of high manganese steel, then this alone can earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver profit.
Such a high profit is enough for all kinds of monsters and ghosts to extend their evil hands.
"Uncle Hao taught you the right lesson." Su Hao figured this out, bowed to Hao Yizong, and then asked: "Then, in Uncle Hao's opinion, our method of making steel is
Can we only hide it deeply and never see the light of day?"
Hao Yizong twirled his beard and smiled and said: "Otherwise, the rich businessmen in this world who make millions in profits can also be safe and sound. There is only one reason, and that is that they have a backer. If my nephew wants to see this skill come to fruition,
You must find a backer big enough to protect you. Do you have this backer now?"
Hao Tong interjected: "Uncle, can't this Du Si be regarded as our backer? Isn't it because of his protection that we built the telescope?"
Hao Yizong said: "The cost of building a telescope is only 20,000 taels of silver. How much profit there is, it is not clear to outsiders for a while. In addition, this telescope is purely ordered by the military, and the money was paid from the Nanjing Ministry of War.
, so we are not very coveted yet. If this method of smelting strong steel is spread, there will be more than one or two jealous people, and Zhang Dusi will not be able to protect us by then."
Su Hao nodded and said: "What my uncle said makes sense, but my nephew is really too naive. Zhang Dusi took care of us because of the telescope thing, just to ask for help from my nephew. If there are other things, I'm afraid Zhang Dusi won't be too lazy to take action.
Helpful."
Hao Yizhong said: "Speaking of Zhang Dusi, I remembered one thing. Zhang Dusi promoted you and promised to purchase 200 telescopes, but you haven't thanked him yet. Now, since we have refined this high
Meng Gang, why don’t you present a fine steel knife to Zhang Dusi as a token of your gratitude?”
"Uncle, you promised me this knife a long time ago. I don't want Su Baihu to take it as a gift." Upon hearing this, Hao Tong quickly hugged the knife in his arms tightly, for fear that Hao Yizong would take it away.
Hao Yizong smiled and said: "What are you talking about San'er? How can you get back what your uncle promised you? What I mean is, let's smelt another furnace of steel, make a few steel knives, and give one to you."
The brother named Deng Kui asked Su Xian's nephew to present one to Zhang Dusi. I think Zhang Dusi is a soldier in the army and must be very fond of this good weapon."
"Well, then I'll trouble Uncle Hao." Su Hao said. From his heart, he was very disgusted with this kind of behavior of giving gifts to his boss, but he had to bow his head when he was under the eaves. If he didn't follow the crowd, I'm afraid
It will be difficult to move forward in the future.
He still has to find a way to become an official, Su Hao thought secretly in his heart. Even if he just wants his knowledge to benefit the people, he must find a better background. After the training of the scouts is over,
Do you want to resign from the military as soon as possible, go to the academy to study hard for a few years, and then take the exam to be promoted to a Jinshi or something like that? Thinking of spending several years or even more than ten years studying the Four Books and Five Classics and writing eight-legged essays, Su
Hao couldn't help but feel depressed.
After another exchange of techniques for smelting high manganese steel with Hao Yizong, Hao Qing and his son, Su Hao said goodbye and went home. Hao Tong also declined Hao Yizong's offer to keep him for dinner, and returned to the survey team happily holding a steel knife.
Went to the camp. That night, Hao Tong and Deng Kui took turns cutting down trees in the camp with the steel knife. So early the next morning, the soldiers found that the trees around the camp were scarred and thought they were haunted.
There is no need to mention this scandal.
According to military regulations, if there is no reason, Su Hao must spend the night in his own military camp. However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the discipline of the Ming army was lax, and there was no discipline at all in the garrison in the interior. Who could
He would not investigate such a trivial matter. Besides, Su Hao's Hundred Household Office was originally set up temporarily for the purpose of training scouts. It was covered by Jiangxi Dusi and Nanchang Wei. As his direct boss, Xiaogang Thousand Household Office naturally did not want to investigate.
He would look for trouble and find fault with Su Hao. In this way, Su Hao would run home and spend the night, and he would not be involved in Qian She.
Su Hao stayed at home for a night and listened to Lu Xiuer's report on the coal mine's revenue and expenditure and profitability, and Su Xiaohu's report on going to Nanchang to sell briquettes. This kind of coal mining and selling business is not so profitable that it causes
The senior officials and government officials were jealous, so there was no trouble for now. When Lu Xiuer said that the coal mine had earned hundreds of taels of silver, her eyes were shining with excitement, which made Su Hao feel very disdainful in his heart.
Su Xiaohu's trip to Nanchang to sell briquettes went relatively smoothly. The briquettes' mold and coal stove were both proposed by Su Hao and designed and developed by Wu Da, the furnace maker. The use of briquettes is easier than ordinary coal stoves, and the fire is also lighter.
It was very popular, so once it was launched, it was favored by some wealthy families. Since the market in Fengcheng was too small, Su Xiaohu took a few people to Nanchang and opened several shops specializing in briquettes and stoves, and the business was very prosperous.
This young farmer was dull in the countryside and only knew how to work hard by farming. After becoming the second shopkeeper of Su's Trading Company, his business potential was actually stimulated. When Su Hao heard Su Xiaohu talk about business,
, so clear and logical that I couldn’t help but be impressed.
Early the next morning, Su Hao dressed up and went to the county government office to meet Han Wen. After all, he still had the title of master and needed to ask the county magistrate for instructions on his work from time to time.
Before he walked into the county government office, Su Hao felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere. The government servant guarding the door had a solemn expression, as if something important was going on. When he walked into the county government office gate, there were those who usually wandered around in the yard to chat.
None of the officials could be seen. They were all hiding in their huts, pretending to be doing official business.
Su Hao didn't understand what was going on for a while. He walked straight to the lobby as usual. From a distance, he saw two soldiers standing outside the lobby door. They were wearing Feiyu uniforms.
In addition to going to the battlefield, the Ming Dynasty sergeants usually wore a fat jacket that was longer than the knee and had narrow sleeves. This fat jacket had two colors on the inside and outside, and could be worn inside out, so it was called the Mandarin Duck War.
Jackets. However, the clothing of one unit is different from other units. The clothes they wear have flying fish patterns on them, which look very gorgeous. This unit is the Jin Yiwei, known as the emperor's personal army.
The flying fish suit and the embroidered chun knife are the two major symbols of Jin Yiwei. The two soldiers standing at the door of the county government hall happen to possess these two symbols.
The reputation of the Jin Yiwei was so great that Su Hao had already heard about it without having been to the Ming Dynasty. But after traveling so long, this was the first time he saw the real Jin Yiwei. According to his impression, wherever the Jin Yiwei appeared, it was usually
It's not a good thing, so it's no wonder that the usually careless officials in the county government suddenly became as well-behaved as sheep.
"Whoever comes here can't get in!"
Just when Su Hao stopped and hesitated whether to continue walking to the lobby, one of the two Jinyi guards spoke in a low voice. There was a threatening tone in his voice, and he unconsciously or unintentionally supported Xiuchun with one hand.
On the handle of the knife.
Su Hao had no choice but to take two steps forward, bowed his hands and said, "Two military masters, my student is the master of the county government, and he is planning to go to see the county magistrate."
He did not say that he was a member of the Nanchang Guards, mainly because he did not want to be related to the Jinyiwei. The Jinyiwei is also a branch of the army in name, but its functions are completely different from those of the ordinary army. It can even be said that the Jinyiwei has the same relationship with the ordinary army.
Some people with hostile relationships were under the direct leadership of the emperor and used to supervise the officials and a spy organization of the army. Su Hao only said that he was the master of the county government. He believed that such an identity would not arouse the interest of Jin Yiwei.
.
Sure enough, the Jin Yiwei soldier paid no attention to a county government official. He waved his hand like a fly and said to Su Hao: "Our Eunuch Chang is talking to your county magistrate, so don't disturb him when you are free."
"Oh, the student is being presumptuous." Su Hao's heart trembled, but his face remained silent. He saluted the two Jinyi Guards soldiers and returned to the workshop.
In the workshop, Dai Qi and six or seven government officials were quietly lying at the window, looking at the two soldiers in uniform at the entrance of the lobby, with a look of worry on their faces.