Chapter 122 New Hope, New System
Yun Zhao finally arrived at the Silver Factory.
Just standing at the door and looking at it, Yun Zhao was no longer interested in continuing to watch.
Simple, primitive, dirty, messy, shabby, and wild... is the message this glance brings to him.
He had no way to imagine that it was such a place that supplies more than 200,000 kilograms of crude copper to Lantian County every year, 1,200 taels of gold and 4,300 taels of silver.
The ore mined here needs to be smashed manually, then poured into a huge stone mill to grind into powder, and then poured into the sink to flotation. According to the different specific gravity of gold, silver and copper, the concentrate is obtained from different locations in the sink and then smelted.
Finally, the crude copper, crude gold and crude silver were obtained and then sent to the Yushan smelter for repurification.
Lantian County makes more than 50,000 taels of silver every year from the silver factory.
No matter how simple and simple or even harsh working environment is, Yun Zhao certainly knows how this money comes about.
More than two thousand people's blood and sweat...
There are many such places in Yun family, such as the copper mine in Hanzhong, the lead-zinc mine in Guizhou, the cinnabar mine in Shuzhong, the salt well in Shuzhong, the iron factory in Yushan, and smelting plants. Of course, there are also weaving workshops all over Lantian County...
Together they form the foundation for the prosperity of Lantian County, which is also the reason why Lantian County has soared its population but has no idle people.
After solving the problem of eating in a poor place, if you want to continue to be prosperous, you can only develop industry and commerce.
This is clear to Yun Zhao. He also knows how to develop and knows which direction to break through.
There is nothing difficult about these things. The most rare thing is to get the first amount of money. With this first amount of money, the speed of using money to make money will be very fast.
Yun Zhao didn't even think much about this. He knew that there were any good resources in that place, and then sent the powerful Yun family robbers to find the mine prospecting craftsmen there.
After finding it, people from Lantian County will be organized to mine it. This is already a very mature process for people from Lantian County.
Screams kept coming from the deep mine!
Yun Zhao stood at the entrance of the mine, listening to the movement inside with a gloomy face.
It was a very terrifying feeling after staying in the deep mine for only half an hour. When Yun Zhao went down the well, he felt a sense of luck of escaping from death. At that moment, even the hot sun seemed extremely friendly.
Yun Zhao didn't understand why these people hid in the mine. This place should be a dead place. If the situation outside was not worse than that of the mine, Yun Zhao thought these people would not make such a choice.
Xu Wu thought that if there was no pockmark on his face, he would be a pretty young man.
At this moment, this handsome young man stood beside Yun Zhao without saying a word.
Yun Zhao walked a few steps at the wellhead and said, "Are you sure you already know all the news you should know?"
Xu Wu thought: "The Jinyiwei is recruiting bandits, training swordsmen, and restructured government officials in Gansu after the thief chaos. They also need money.
Just so happens, the thieves need it too.”
Yun Zhao said: "Where are the local tribes?"
"They are taking advantage of the situation."
"Can I understand this way, Jinyiwei, thieves, swordsmen, and local tribes are the first group of people to know the reasons for the Silver Factory?"
"Yes, we know a little late."
Yun Zhao looked at the miners standing in the distance, and the craftsmen whispered: "They still don't know the real reason for the mine accident, right?"
Xu Wu wanted to nod and said, "Yes, they know the real reason, and things will become uncontrollable."
"Is this the partial understanding of the people who can make it through, but not know it?"
Xu Wu wanted to change his face and said hurriedly: "County Master, I can't say anything."
Yun Zhao laughed and said, "What can't be said? Our Lantian County is the victim. 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 goals.
It’s just that in this world, there are too few good people and too many bad people, which makes us more murderous."
"Our cooperation with Gao begins now."
Yun Zhao smiled and said, "I hate the great aristocratic clans. Wu Zetian lost the power of the nine ox and two tigers and carried the eternal infamy to make the great aristocratic clans disappear. When we come to us, what reason do we have to let those great aristocratic clans continue to be glorious?
As the old saying goes, dogs only last eight years, chickens only last six years, and their lifespan will become sperm.
For the Zhu Ming Dynasty, the existence of the Yun clan was a big disaster. I don’t expect that many years later, the Gao clan became a big disaster for my Yun clan again.
If it really becomes like that, it will be a cycle of retribution for the heavenly way of heaven!”
Xu Wu wanted to hesitate for a moment and said uncertainly: "Will we join forces with our family in the future?"
Yun Zhao nodded and said, "For us, the big family is like toilet paper, and they will be thrown away after using it."
"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 2,000 friends here?"
Xu Wu wanted to look in the direction of Yun Zhao's finger, but only saw a crowd of people.
"Farmers, craftsmen, small businessmen, independent literati, are our good friends, and they are absolutely capable of helping us overturn this world.
So, tell them the truth and see how they react.”
Yun Zhao slowly went down the hillside, and at the same time told Xu Wu that the people hiding in the mine were fully handed over to the miners and craftsmen here to deal with.
Xu Wu wanted to say in despair: "Who should I tell them?"
Yun Zhao looked back at Xu Wu and thought, "Gao Zhengmao, he is now an official in Lantian County. He is the most concerned about this matter. Shouldn't he tell the truth about the people here?"
Xu Wu wanted to watch Yun Zhao go away, stomp his feet hard at the entrance of the cave, and then left the entrance of the cave, constantly practicing his conversation with Gao Zhengmao in his heart.
Gao Zhengmao is a branch of the Gao clan, and the main clan of the Gao clan also seems to have the intention to replace him because of the lack of population.
However, he was already very old and was summoned to become an official in Lantian County. Judging from his own county magistrate's mind, this person probably had to die in Guanzhong.
Through this incident, the fragmentation of a huge Gao family is indeed of great benefit to future rule.
Xu Wu wanted to see the whole process of dealing with this matter, which would have too much reference significance for his future implementation of Yun Zhao's ideas.
Eating is the most common thing, and it is also the most obvious way of behavior.
Yun Zhao led everyone to conduct a very grand memorial ceremony at the burial place of 63 miners and craftsmen.
Then, just like an ordinary family holds funerals, they use a sumptuous banquet to entertain their neighbors.
Memorial services are done 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 Baiyin Factory.
After all, the wronged and dead people were not dug out from the deep mine, and the enemy's heads were buried in the mine by the angry miners. The miners expressed a simple attitude and believed that after these people went to the underworld and met the miners who were killed by them, some fantasy stories should happen.
The sumptuous banquets in the countryside of Longzhong are very limited even if they are rich.
There are mutton, pork, wine, Lantian County's specialty vermicelli, plus countless kinds of dried vegetables, sauerkraut, potatoes, cabbage, and a large bowl of oily sauce noodles, which makes this banquet that people in Tiaocheng miss for a long time.
So many people, when they missed the sixty-three miners buried underground for many years, would also think of the delicious food that Lantian County Master had with them. When Yun Zhao's identity reached its peak, Tiaocheng people would hold a grand banquet every year to commemorate the sixty-three dead... Later, people only remember that one big man came to Tiaocheng and the Baiyin Factory that day, and forgot the sixty-three miserable people.
"Young Master, the Silver Factory has resumed work."
Yun Fang stood in front of Yun Zhao and knelt humbly at his feet.
Yun Zhao looked down at the thin Yun Fang and sighed, "You've suffered."
The gate of Yun Fang's emotions was suddenly opened by these four words, and she hugged Yun Zhao's calves and burst into tears.
Yun Zhao stood there quietly. He knew that he was now the spiritual pillar of the entire Yun clan. Letting him cry with his legs in his arms was the best comfort for him.
Yun Fang cried for half a stick of incense, slowly stopped crying, and embarrassedly pulled the hem of his wrinkled robe for Yun Zhao.
Yun Zhao handed him a bowl of tea ceremony: "Drink, are you feeling happy?"
Yun Fang took the tea bowl and said, "I feel much more open."
"Give you a choice, either go back to the village with me to be a manager, or stay here and continue to be your senior official."
Yun Fang said firmly: "Stay here not to be a senior official, but to contribute to the family.
I heard Xu Wu want to say that the young master is going to do an experiment here and to promote the management system that the Silver Factory has just built. I must watch it with my own eyes and not let the craftsmen manage themselves and make any mistakes."
Yun Zhao laughed: "Your choice is right. You can really live a happy life when you get home, but it's boring to do that. Stay here, as long as the craftsmen and miners choose the managers who can really play a role and manage themselves successfully.
This is of great significance to our Yun family, and you will have a bright future."
Yun Fang nodded heavily and said, "I must remember the words of the young master and do my best to improve everything in the Silver Factory. If you can use new tools, use new tools. If you can improve, we will find a way to do it if you can't improve it.
We must use the silver factory as a point to drive the people nearby, make everyone feel grateful for the kindness of my Yun family, and eventually become our people."
Chapter completed!