As for steel, if it were the past, the steel production in the north of the Ming Dynasty would not be enough for war. If someone suggested to use steel to lay it on the ground, even the emperor would probably be sprayed to death. But now it is better. The north has basically been pacified, and the military demand for steel is not as urgent as before.

In addition, steam equipment used in mines can not only extract the accumulated water in the mines continuously, but also increase the speed of ore transportation from the mines. In addition, the grinding of ore ground is also much easier with the help of new equipment. The steel output has not yet been really put into effect, but the output has been significantly improved.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen recalled a later generation of information about steel. The distribution of iron ore in China is Liaoning, Sichuan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shandong, Anwei and Hubei. The most famous of them are the eight major iron ores.

The Anshan Iron Mine ranked first in reserves, which is now under the control of the Ming Dynasty; the second is the Benxi Dataigou Iron Mine, which is also under the control of the Ming Dynasty; the third is the most important iron ore production area in the north, which is Qian'an Iron Mine, located in the northeast of Hebei Province. Qian'an and Luan County are one of the four super-large iron ore belts in my country, with rich reserves. Later generations have proven that the reserves are about 5 billion tons, and are shallow in burial and easy to be mined open-pit. The fourth is Baiyun Obo Iron Mine, not far north of Baotou, and is now under the jurisdiction of Baotou Governor Yang Sichang. Other large iron ore are no longer in the north.

Steel is the foundation of industrial development. It seems that the next focus of the Ming Dynasty is also to carry out large-scale steelmaking. The technical organization and R&D work of steelmaking must be systematically organized.

Thinking of these things, Emperor Chongzhen entered the Wenhua Hall discussion group and sent the decree to the cabinet and the literati supervisor to start the matter. The specific constitution was discussed and reported to him.

As for the minerals in the Northeast, Emperor Chongzhen also told the situation of the Liaodong Governor Lu Xiangsheng through a private chat, and asked him to send skilled craftsmen to scout the site. The development of Liaodong can give equal importance to agriculture and mining and steelmaking. As for the matter of Shengli Oilfield, Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was necessary to tell the matter now, so he did not mention it.

After doing these things, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the achievement value in the lower left corner of the chat group, showing that there were more than 10,000 points. From tens of millions of achievements, the land used was only more than 10,000 points, but in fact it was only less than a month. This time, I had to earn more achievements.

Thinking of his itinerary, he should be able to reap a lot of achievements in Yingtian Mansion! Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen clicked the button to add people. The journey was boring and he would play with it.

Ten people were added at will, both men, women, and young. After adding, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the main chat area and the self-introduction of the new members.

Basically, the newly added person has no characteristics. The average name of the person is known to be a Han person at a glance. In the self-introduction, only one person's speech aroused the interest of Emperor Chongzhen.

The chat group ID of this person is called barber Zhang. He saw him introduce himself in the group and said, "Hello everyone, the villain's surname is Zhang, Zhang Wu, and he is ranked fifth. He is already forty-six this year. The villain's ancestral craftsmanship is in Nanyang..."

That's all he said, but it was broken. When Emperor Chongzhen saw that his avatar was dark. He looked like this, he might have suddenly withdrawn from the chat group. It was probably someone who disturbed him. Chinese people in Nanyang?

After reaching this conclusion, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly became interested. Could it be that the system knew that he wanted to manage Nanyang and started to join the chat group members in Nanyang?

He was right. At this time, a bamboo curtain was lifted by someone in Nanyang. Several Western barbarians smashed the door and entered the shop yellingly, which immediately shocked Zhang Wu from the chat group.

Zhang Wuzheng stood behind the counter, and his two apprentices hurriedly met him first. Unexpectedly, they were kicked to the ground by the two Western barbarians, and they were murmured and seemed to be very dissatisfied.

Zhang Wu felt nervous when he saw it, and quickly left the counter, with a smile on his face, bent over, and said "Ola".

But the two Western barbarians did not sell their accounts. They grabbed Zhang Wu's collar and grabbed him and walked. Then they sat in the haircut position before letting go, and pointed at Zhang Wu again and said bird singing.

When the two young apprentices saw the two Westerners treating their master like this, they were all very angry and wanted to rush up and stop the master behind them. When the other Westerners saw this, they immediately pointed at him and said viciously.

When Zhang Wuyi saw this, he quickly turned around and scolded his two apprentices, then turned around, nodded and bowed to the two Western Yi, and quickly picked up the haircut tools.

Seeing that he started to cut his hair personally, the two Western barbarians did not continue to have anger. The two apprentices looked angry and unwilling, but they had no choice but to listen to the master's instructions and go to the backyard to serve another Western barbarian who was waiting for the haircut.

After half an hour of busyness, Zhang Wu finally finished the treatment of the two Western barbarians. Seeing that the two Western barbarians were satisfied, he respectfully delivered them to the door.

"Master, they haven't paid yet!" a short apprentice reminded with a hint of anger.

Zhang Wu seemed to have not heard it. When the two Western barbarians walked away, he turned around, looked at the two apprentices, and suddenly sighed deeply.

Seeing him like this, the short apprentice was a little misunderstood and hurriedly said, "Master, don't be afraid. I'll find a few people to stop them, but I don't believe that they won't pay them! There's really no king's law!"

Hearing this, Zhang Wu quickly reached out and stopped him, "You are crazy, and you are still talking about the king's law here? They are the king's law, do you understand?"

After asking this, he felt that his two apprentices probably couldn't figure it out, so he sighed again, and then ordered: "Forget it, you can close the shop first!"

After saying that, he seemed a little tired and turned back to the backyard.

The two young apprentices looked at each other, a little puzzled. However, as the master's instructions, they put the door panel on the shop and then turned back to the backyard.

When they arrived at the backyard, they saw Zhang Wu sitting on a Grand Master chair, bent down and drinking Kung Fu tea. When the tall apprentice saw it, he quickly took a few steps and took the tea set from Zhang Wu to make tea. The shorter apprentice also rushed forward to help.

When Zhang Wu saw this, he let them do it. He lay on the Taishi chair, with his eyes closed as if he was resting, and seemed to be recalling some bad memories. The expression on his face was not good.

After the two apprentices of tall and short, they had a good time to make kung fu tea, and when they saw Zhang Wu like this, they couldn't help but look at each other again, and they were a little puzzled.

"Master, have tea?" The short apprentice finally lowered his voice and reminded.

When Zhang Wu heard this, he opened his eyes and looked very tired. He waved his hand and let the two apprentices sit down. Then he said in a low voice: "I thought about it for a while and decided that you two should go!"

When the two apprentices who had just sat down heard what he said, they stood up from the chair, shocked and felt a little incredible. The shorter apprentice immediately asked loudly: "Master, why, because of the two Western barbarians just now?"

"Yes, Master, why?" the tall apprentice asked in confusion, "So cruel and rude, don't pay money, is there such a thing? Besides... Besides..., why should we drive us away in the end?"

Seeing the two apprentices so excited, Zhang Wu reached out and shook his hand, still lying there and said, "This is for your own good. Leaving early, maybe you can avoid disaster!"

"What can I avoid disaster?" The short apprentice immediately shouted, "I'm so cruel and rude that I won't pay. Are they still thinking about taking revenge on us afterwards? Is there any reason?"

The tall apprentice was also very excited and said, "Yes, we are not afraid of being slanted by the shadows. How can we make sense to be afraid of them coming?"

Listening to the words of the two apprentices, Zhang Wu suddenly sighed, signaling the two apprentices to sit down, and then he also sat upright, looked at the two apprentices and said, "In Manila, these Spanish people are heaven, they can act rampant and act recklessly is the law of heaven. How are they here? Although you two have just arrived in Manila, you should have seen it some, right?"

"I'm afraid they won't succeed. We Mingren have at least 30,000 people in Manila, right? How many of them are there? Two thousand? At most three thousand, right?" The tall apprentice said a little dissatisfied.

The short apprentice also nodded and said, "That's right, Liu Dazhan also has many warships. We wise people have many forces in Nanyang, so why are these Spanish people afraid of these things?"

When Zhang Wu heard their conversation, recalling what had happened before, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "You are still young, I don't know the cruelty of these Spanish people! Don't be excited, just sit down first, I'll tell you about the past!"

After hearing this, the two apprentices looked at each other and knew in their hearts what the master was about to say. However, they were young and had only been to Nanyang for a few years and did not know what happened before. So they listened to the master's words and pressed their temper and listened to the master's words.

Zhang Wu's face seemed a little sad, and he said slowly: "Thirty-two years have passed. At that time, it was still in the Wanli period, and in Manila, it was also ruled by the Spanish. At that time, there were only more than 1,200 people in total, while there were 30,000 to 40,000 people in our Ming people, and there were more than 10,000 merchants alone. It can be said that at that time, the entire Manila was all the Ming people doing business, and all the business had to be passed by our Ming people..."

Hearing this, the two apprentices looked at each other and felt that they were very similar to the moment.

"...At that time, the Ming Dynasty was suppressing the Japanese pirate rebellion. The pirate Lin Feng fled to Nanyang with his men. His power was very strong and enough to compete with the Western barbarians, just like Liu Xiang now. Therefore, the Spanish were obviously wary of our Ming people. They were few, and they were afraid that our Ming people would rebel and take their rule in Manila."

Speaking of this, Zhang Wu suddenly sighed and then said, "At this moment, something happened. Zhang Yi, a native of the Min Ming Dynasty, reported to the court that Luzon Jiyi Mountain, where golden beans were born, and people could take it, which would lead to a huge amount of millions. Therefore, when the Emperor Wanli heard this, he sent the Haicheng County Magistrate Wang Shihe and a hundred households to Luzon to collect gold. As a result, after they arrived in Luzon, they found that it was Zhang Yi's nonsense, so they immediately returned to their country..."

The two apprentices were young. Although they had heard about the past, the specific details were not clear. When they heard this, the short apprentice couldn't help but say in surprise: "It seems that such a thing is almost the same. The apprentice came from Guangdong to Nanyang and heard such words, saying that the money in Luzon is very profitable! Who knew that after coming, they realized that it was a lie!"

"That's right, our Ming Dynasty still has thirty taxes. The Spanish here are 10 taxes, and the tax alone is as much as three times heavier!" The tall apprentice nodded and agreed.

After hearing this, Zhang Wu did not say anything about it, but said slowly: "The Spaniards have always been worried that too many people in the Ming Dynasty would seize their rule, so they used this as an excuse to spread rumors that our Ming Dynasty was about to rebel and cooperate with the Ming army invasion. So the nightmare of the Ming people on Luzon began..."

Speaking of this, he was silent for a while, as if he was still very uncomfortable at this time. When the two apprentices saw it, they couldn't help but feel silent.

After a while, Zhang Wu continued to surround us and said in a low voice: "The Spanish and the natives surrounded us, then mobilized cannons and sent troops to kill us. That was to chop everyone and kill everyone. As long as it was Ming people, no matter the elderly or children, they would not let go. We Ming people were killed in a river of blood. We Ming people were almost extinct here! Nearly 30,000 lives were slaughtered by them in just a few days. You have never experienced their cruelty, and you don't know. I was young and hid in the cellar by my parents, so I escaped a disaster. Alas..."

At the end of the day, he sighed heavily.

Both disciples showed anger on their faces. Only then did they understand what happened back then. Thinking that their compatriots were massacred by Western barbarians and natives just because of a false charge, it was unbearable!

"Isn't anyone going to make the decision for us Mingren?" The short apprentice roared angrily after hearing this.

After hearing this, Zhang Wu smiled desolately and said, "Who will make the decision for us? Pirates? Will they care about our lives and death? The court? Haha, the Spanish finally returned a little of the stolen property and handed over a few people, and gave it an explanation to the court. For the court, we are people who go out to do business in the sea and are a lowly family. The court itself is too busy with domestic affairs, so how could it be that we can do our best to do our best?"

"No, it's impossible?" The tall apprentice shook his head and wanted to refute the master's words. But he was interrupted by Zhang Wu after he said something. "The court just verbally threatened the Spanish. Oh, who made us a cheap man!"

Speaking of this, seeing his apprentice wanting to speak again, Zhang Wu shook his head, his face slightly serious and said, "The current situation is very similar to the situation before the massacre. Do you understand?"

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