In the evening, when the Xuantie Guild was about to close, Ouyang Sicai returned to the Xuantie Guild again.
The hall was brightly lit. After sitting down, Ouyang Si got straight to the point: "You can ask for Luanci Mountain, but Luanci Mountain is the largest black iron mine in Ninghe County and is one of the best in the country. Your request is too much."
Zhang Hao took out a document: "Prime Minister Ouyang, Luanci Mountain is one of the largest black iron mines in the country. I wonder if you have ever personally explored Luanci Mountain?"
"Just returned."
"Excuse me, how many families are mining in Luanci Mountain?"
Ouyang Si is the prime minister, how could he follow Zhang Hao's language trap. Therefore, he directly said: "There is no inevitable connection between whether there is family mining and your desire to chaos Cishan."
"No, there is a connection, and it's very connected! Today, I want to use actual data to discuss it with Prime Minister Ouyang."
Zhang Hao pushed gently and the document floated to Ouyang Si, "Prime Minister Ouyang, this is our on-the-spot investigation.
If calculated using general smelting methods, for every ton of black iron with a purity of 60% smelted in Luanci Mountain, 100 spirit stones will be paid based on the current market price."
"100 spiritual stones to pay? Impossible!" Ouyang Si refused to believe it.
Zhang Hao smiled: "Smelt one ton of black iron with a purity of 60% using normal methods;
It requires 100 kilograms of low-quality crushed spiritual stones, worth 10 spiritual stones.
It needs to mine about 15 tons. This requires 10 strong workers to work for a day. The minimum wage is 2 spiritual stones.
The crushing, screening, and smelting processes require 50 craftsmen to work for a day, and the minimum wage is 20 spirit stones.
Dark iron needs to be forged. 15 tons of ore can produce 6 to 7 tons of crude iron. The black iron content of crude iron is about 10%.
If ground fire is used for heating, three excellent craftsmen can only purify one pound of 60% black iron in one hour.
Taking into account the fatigue of the craftsmen, three craftsmen can forge 2.5 kilograms of black iron in one day.
To forge six or seven tons of crude iron into dark iron with a purity of 60%, at least 1,200 craftsmen are required to work hard for a day. The minimum wage is 500 spirit stones.
This requires 1,260 people to work hard to produce one ton of black iron a day. The above cost alone is as high as 532 spirit stones.
In addition, more than 60 people are needed for transportation, cooking, cleaning, etc. Even based on the minimum wage, 12 spiritual stones are needed.
There are a total of 1,312 craftsmen, and they still need to eat and drink. Even if one person is calculated as 5 black iron coins per meal, they need 20 spirit stones of food a day.
These already cost 564 spirit stones."
"If it is mined and smelted in Luanci Mountain, the transportation cost of 100 kilograms of crushed spiritual stones is one spiritual stone. The transportation cost of one ton of black iron is at least two spiritual stones.
The spiritual energy of Luanci Mountain is thin and chaotic, making it difficult to practice. So if you want the craftsmen to work, you must set up a spirit gathering array.
And because the spiritual energy in Luanci Mountain is thin, the efficiency of the spirit gathering array is extremely low. Preliminary calculations show that in order to meet the minimum practice requirements of 1,312 people, at least 100 spiritual stones must be consumed a day."
"This is 667 spiritual stones."
"Also, the quality of the surface ore in Luanci Mountain is not high, and the cost of mining the deep-seated ore is extremely high. It is expected to increase by 50% or even higher. The mining cost will increase by 10 spiritual stones."
"For 1312 craftsmen who do manual labor, each person has 1 kilogram of food per meal, which is 1.3 tons, or 3.6 tons per day. Counting baskets, baskets, and baskets, the transportation volume is at least 4 tons. The transportation cost of food is at least 7 yuan.
stone."
"Only for the above, a total of 684 spirit stones are needed. This is the minimum calculation. In actual production, an increase of 10% is normal. Not to mention management costs, production losses, injuries to craftsmen, etc.
If it's cloudy or rainy, the transportation cost will even double."
Prime Minister Ouyang Si was blinded after hearing this. It was the first time that someone negotiated with him like this and listed all the data.
As soon as Zhang Hao finished speaking, Ouyang Si immediately said: "Even if the cost increases by 20%, it will only be 753 spirit stones."
"But we have not yet calculated the construction costs and road repair costs. To smelt black iron, we need a site, we need tools, we need carriages and horses for transportation, and we need to dispose of waste materials. There are also management costs that we have not calculated.
When doing business, welcome and delivery are indispensable.
There are also injuries to craftsmen and so on."
"There are also taxes, one tax per twenty, which is a big expense."
"Finally, the current price of black iron. The wholesale price of 60% pure black iron has dropped to 900 spirit stones."
"After our actual calculations and inspections, if we use ordinary smelting methods to develop Luanci Mountain, we will pay 100 spirit stones for every 60% of a ton sold!"
Ouyang Si looked at the thin piece of paper in his hand, and suddenly felt it was as heavy as a thousand pounds. Looking at the certain data on it, even though there were thousands of words and countless beautiful words in his heart, he was speechless.
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In the face of these boring numbers, the once gorgeous chapters and sentences and brilliant rhetoric have become eclipsed.
Facts speak louder than words!
What these numbers show is an irrefutable fact.
In fact, not to mention Ouyang Si, even everyone in the Xuantie Guild looked at Zhang Hao with surprise. It turned out that negotiations could still be carried out like this.
Ouyang Si took a few deep breaths and looked at Zhang Hao with burning eyes: "If this is the case, why is the Black Iron Guild still messing with Cishan?"
Young Master Zhang spoke righteously: "It is stated in the imperial edict that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. The Black Iron Guild should do its best to support the country!"
It would be weird if I believed you!
Ouyang Si decided not to talk to the little fox. He turned to look at Zhou Bo: "Vice Chairman Zhou..."
"What Zhang Hao said is what we want to say!" Zhou Bo interrupted Ouyang Si's words directly and simply.
Ouyang Si glanced around and found that everyone had this look.
After thinking about it, Ouyang Si lowered his attitude and said, "My dear nephew, tell Uncle Ouyang why you did this?"
Zhang Hao resisted the urge to roll his eyes: "Uncle Ouyang, this is what we think. Get this mine first, and then study it slowly.
There are always more solutions than problems, right?"
"There are always more solutions than problems?" Ouyang Si nodded silently, "Okay, I generally agree with your proposal, but your proposal is still a bit excessive.
Nephew, what do you think of this: Luanci Mountain and a 20-mile radius around it, plus 20 years of tax exemption. What do you think?"
"Okay!" Zhang Hao agreed straight away, "Since 'Uncle Ouyang' has spoken, my nephew is free to do it."
Luanci Mountain itself has a radius of 20 miles, plus the surrounding 20-mile ring area, it is a radius of 60 miles, 30 kilometers. The area is about 700 square kilometers, the area of a large town.
Ouyang Si clicked his tongue, this little naughty boy. This call of "Uncle Ouyang" was not for nothing. But it must be said that at this time, Ouyang Si had already begun to appreciate Zhang Hao.
Heroes since ancient times... bah, since ancient times little foxes have given birth to young boys~
As for Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao felt a little proud in his heart: from now on, the Zhang family has at least one person who can help speak in the court:
If a situation like Han Yue's evil intentions arises again, Ouyang Si can at least speak for the Zhang family in a fair situation, instead of being silent as in the past and ignoring the matter as it does not concern him.