Yun Zhao finally arrived at the Silver Factory.
Just after standing at the door and taking a look, Yun Zhao lost interest in continuing to read.
Simple, primitive, dirty, messy, dilapidated, and wild... this was the message that this glance brought him.
He had no way of imagining that it was a place like this that supplied Lantian County with more than 200,000 jins of crude copper, 1,200 taels of gold, and 4,300 taels of silver every year.
The ore mined here needs to be manually crushed, then poured into a huge stone mill and ground into powder, and then poured into a water tank for flotation. According to the different proportions of gold, silver and copper, After obtaining concentrates from different locations in the water tank, smelt them.
Finally, crude copper, crude gold and crude silver are obtained and then sent to Yushan smelting plant for re-purification.
Lantian County’s annual profit from the silver factory exceeds 50,000 taels of silver.
No matter how simple and crude, or even in a harsh working environment, with such a big contribution, Yun Zhao certainly knows where the money comes from.
The blood and sweat of more than two thousand people...
There are many places like this for the Yun family, such as the copper mine in Hanzhong, the lead-zinc mine in Guizhou, the cinnabar mine in Sichuan, The salt wells in Sichuan, the iron factories and smelters in Yushan, and of course there are weaving workshops of all sizes throughout Lantian County...
Together they form the basis of Lantian County's prosperity, which is why Lantian County's current population There is no reason for the sudden increase.
After a poor place solves its food problem, if it wants to continue to be prosperous, it can only develop industry and commerce.
This is clear to Yun Zhao. He also knows how to develop and which direction to break through.
There is nothing difficult about these things. The most difficult thing is to get the first money. With this first money, you will use the money to make money very quickly.
Yun Zhao didn't even think much about this matter. He knew what good resources there were in that place, and he just sent the Yun family's powerful bandits and prospecting craftsmen to search there.
If you find it, you can organize the people of Lantian County to mine it. This is already a very mature process for the people of Lantian County.
There are screams coming from the deep mine!
Yun Zhao stood at the entrance of the mine, listening to what was going on inside with a gloomy face.
Staying in a deep mine for a long time is a very scary feeling. Yun Zhao only stayed in the mine for half an hour. When he came out of the mine, he felt like he had narrowly escaped death. Feeling of luck, at that moment, even the blazing sun seemed extremely kind.
Yun Zhao didn’t understand why these people hid in the mine. This place should be a place of death. If the situation outside was not worse than the mine, Yun Zhao thought these people would not do such a thing. choose.
Xu Wu thought that if there were no pockmarks on his face, he would be a handsome young man.
At this moment, this handsome young man stood beside Yun Zhao, saying nothing.
Yun Zhao walked a few steps at the entrance of the well and said: "Are you sure you already know all the information you need to know?"
Xu Wu thought: "The Jin Yiwei are recruiting bandits. , They also need money to train swordsmen and reorganize the government in Gansu after the rebellion.
It just so happens that the thieves also need it."
Yun Zhao said: " What about the local wealthy families?"
"They are reaping the benefits."
"Can I understand that the Jinyiwei, thieves, and swordsmen are the first to know about the silver factory? A group of people?"
"Yes, we knew it a little late."
Yun Zhao looked at the miners standing in the distance, and the craftsmen whispered: "They. We still don’t know the real cause of the mining disaster, right?”
Xu Wuxiang nodded and said, “Yes, if they know the real cause, things will become uncontrollable.”
"Is this a partial understanding that the people can follow but cannot know?"
Xu Wuxiang's face changed drastically and he said hastily: "Your Majesty, you can't say it."
Yun Zhao chuckled and said: "What can't be said? We in Lantian County are the victims. We care about the lives of every miner and craftsman. We will not easily use the lives of good people as bargaining chips to achieve our own goals. Purpose.
It’s just that in this world, there are too few good people and too many bad people, which makes us more murderous.”
“This is the beginning of our cooperation with the Gao family.
Yun Zhao said with a smile: "I hate our family. Back then, Wu Zetian wasted all the strength of nine cows and two tigers and suffered eternal infamy to make our family disappear. Now that we are here, what do you think we have?" What is the reason for allowing those wealthy families to continue to thrive?
As the old saying goes, a dog can only live for eight years and a chicken can only live for six years. No matter how long it lives, it will become a spirit.
For the Zhu Ming Dynasty. He said that an existence like the Yun Sect is a great disaster. I don’t want the Gao Sect to become a great scourge to my Yun Sect many years later.
If this really happens, it will be the cyclical retribution of heaven. I’m unhappy!”
Xu Wuxiang hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly: “Aren’t we going to unite with our families in the future?”
Yun Zhao nodded and said, “We are coming to the family. It’s just like toilet paper, you have to throw it away after use.”
“If we do this, we will have no friends in the future.”
“We will have more friends in the future. "Look, aren't there more than two thousand friends here?"
Xu Wu wanted to look in the direction of Yun Zhao's finger, but saw only a dark crowd.
“Farmers, craftsmen, small businessmen, and independent literati, these people are all our good friends, and they are absolutely capable of helping us overthrow this world.
So, let’s put things in perspective Tell them the truth and see their reaction."
Yun Zhao slowly said.He walked down the hillside, and at the same time told Xu Wuxiang that the people hiding in the mine would be left to the miners and craftsmen here to deal with them.
Xu Wuxiang said in despair: "Who should tell them?"
Yun Zhao looked back at Xu Wu and thought: "Gao Zhengmao, he is me now The officials of Lantian County are the most concerned about this matter, shouldn't they tell the people here the truth?" Xu Wu wanted to watch Yun Zhaoyuan go away, stamping his feet at the entrance of the cave? , left the cave entrance, constantly rehearsing the conversation between himself and Gao Zhengmao in his mind.
Gao Zhengmao is a side branch of the Gao family, and the main family of the Gao family is also short of population, so this guy seems to have the intention of taking his place.
However, he was already very old, and he was recruited to be an official in Lantian County. Based on the thoughts of his own county magistrate, it was estimated that this man would only die of old age.
Through this incident, breaking down a huge Gao family into pieces will indeed be of great benefit to future rule.
Xu Wuxiang really wanted to see the whole process of handling this matter, which would have many reference points for him to implement Yun Zhao's ideas in the future.
Eating is the most common thing, and at the same time, it is also the most egalitarian behavior.
Yun Zhao led the crowd to conduct a very solemn memorial ceremony at the burial places of sixty-three miners and craftsmen.
Then, just like an ordinary family holding a funeral, they entertain the neighbors with a sumptuous banquet.
This kind of memorial service is for living people to see. After all, compared to a bunch of unconscious dead bodies, living people have various feelings.
At this time, it was already three days after Yun Zhao arrived at the Silver Factory.
The people who died unjustly were not dug out from the deep mines after all, and the heads of their enemies were buried in the mines by the angry miners. The miners believed with a simple mentality that these people had gone to the underworld. In the underworld, after meeting the miners who were killed by them, there should be some fantasy stories happening.
The sumptuous banquets in the Longzhong countryside, no matter how sumptuous they are, are limited.
There are mutton, pork, wine, vermicelli noodles, a specialty of Lantian County, plus countless kinds of dried vegetables, sauerkraut, potatoes, cabbage, and a big bowl of oily noodles. This banquet has made people in Tiaocheng miss it for a long time.
So many people, many years later, when they miss the sixty-three miners who were buried underground, they will also think of the delicious meal that the magistrate of Lantian County had with them. When Yunzhao's status reached its peak, the people of Tiaocheng would hold a grand banquet every year on this day to commemorate the sixty-three dead souls... Later, people only remembered that a big shot came to Tiaocheng and the silver factory on that day. Forgot those sixty-three miserable people.
"Master, the silver factory has resumed work."
Yunfang stood in front of Yun Zhao and knelt humbly at his feet.
Yun Zhao looked down at the thin Yun Fang and sighed: "I'm sorry for you.”
Yunfang’s emotional floodgates were suddenly opened by these four words. She hugged Yun Zhao’s calf and cried loudly.
Yun Zhao stood quietly. There, he knew that he was now the spiritual support of the entire Yun clan, and letting him hold his legs and cry was the best comfort to him.
Yunfang cried half a stick of incense. After a while, he slowly stopped crying and awkwardly pulled at the hem of Yun Zhao's wrinkled robe.
Yun Zhao handed him a bowl of tea and said, "Drink it. Are you feeling happy? "
Yunfang took the tea bowl and said: "My heart is much brighter. "
"Give you a choice, either follow me back to Zhuangzi and become a steward, or stay here and continue to be your official.
Yunfang said resolutely: "I stay here not to be a high official, but to contribute to the family."
I heard what Xu Wu wanted to say. The young master wants to conduct an experiment here. He wants to promote the management system that has just been established in the Silver Factory. I must see it with my own eyes and cannot let the craftsmen themselves. Manage yourself to make even the slightest mistake.
Yun Zhao smiled and said, "You made the right choice. You can indeed live a happy life when you return home. However, it is meaningless to do that. If you stay here, you will only be the craftsmen and miners of the silver factory." The elected stewards can truly play a role and manage their own success.
This is a great contribution to our Yun family, and you will also have a bright future. "
Yunfang nodded heavily and said: "I will definitely remember the young master's words and do my best to improve everything in the silver factory. Use new tools if you can. Improve what can be improved and what cannot be improved. Let's find a way.
We must use the Silver Factory as a starting point to inspire the people nearby and make everyone appreciate the kindness of my Yun family and eventually become our subjects. "
When Yun Zhao heard this, he couldn't help laughing. It seemed that Xu Wu wanted to understand his thoughts very well.