Chapter 156 Settling Accounts After Autumn (16 More)

"Ah..." Zhang Hao stretched fiercely, looking at the gorgeous...er... thick dark clouds in the east, it was another refreshing morning.

Yesterday, Zhang Hao and the city lord Liu Jingming discussed all night, and finally the two sides reached an agreement.

The Zhang family will build a factory for the country, and the factory is expected to be completed in half a year—but if there are external disturbances, such as war, the actual situation shall prevail.

It is estimated that after the completion of the factory, it can produce 500 tons of 60% black iron per day. In addition, the factory will adopt mechanized operations, including mechanical forging equipment, and can produce black iron with a purity of more than 90%.

In the factory, mechanized equipment such as steam turbines and some simple stamping machines will be used.

Zhang Hao promised that the technical level of the factory would not be weaker than that of the current Black Iron Guild. As for the technical level of the Zhang family... keep it secret!

The factory is expected to invest 200,000 top-grade spirit stones; Liu Jingming and the state have no money, so they can only use mines and land to pay.

Facing such a factory, Liu Jingming is also yearning for it. A factory that can produce 500 tons of black iron per day is enough to support the national needs of the entire Qixia country—in principle!

This alone made Liu Jingming's heart flutter. So in the process of bargaining, Liu Jingming gave Zhang Hao, that is, the Zhang family, a great deal of leniency.

The Zhang family's land area expanded from five towns to seven towns; in addition, Zhang Hao also obtained a lot of "abandoned mines" from Liu Jingming. In these mines, there are exhausted spirit stone veins and abandoned black iron veins—but these are all identified by Zhang Shengde and where oil was discovered.

There's even a copper mine - it should be called a cuprite.

Unlike iron, copper naturally has more neutrons than protons. So in theory, in this world, as long as it is pure copper, it can be regarded as a spiritual material.

However, most of the copper ores in this world contain other impurities and some associated ores that are difficult to sieve. After smelting, they will form 'brass' - and what practitioners need is red copper; to put it bluntly, it is pure copper. However, there are very few excellent pure copper mines.

Copper deposits containing associated ores cannot be mined with current technology. In particular, the copper content of copper mines is often very low, some even less than 10%, and in the current environment, there is no mining value.

In fact, before electrolytic copper technology, it was difficult for humans to obtain pure copper.

"This is really a rich harvest!" Zhang Hao smiled.

Now the Zhang family owns a fief in the area of ​​seven towns, almost 3,000 square kilometers! It occupies almost one-twentieth of the area of ​​Ninghe County, and the west of Ninghe County has become the Zhang family's private land.

This night, Liu Jingming actually "struggled" many times. However, as the saying goes, a penny can't beat a hero. Now Ninghe County has no money, and the treasury has no money, so he has no choice but to sell the land.

But when it was almost dawn, Zhang Hao talked about the Xuantie Guild with the city lord Liu Jingming again, and Master Zhang Hao also did something to sell his teammates—sold the Xuantie Guild!

The price is - Liu Jingming's favor!

At this time, Zhang Hao was in a good mood, and he had finally gained a firm foothold in this world, and was changing the surroundings according to his own will.

Walking out of the city lord's mansion, Zhang Hao went through all the things, and then sneered on the corner of his mouth: There is something that needs to be settled after autumn!

This matter is what Zhou Bo told the Zhang family's preferential price for domestic black iron to Wei Zirong, the young teacher of the prince of the Kingdom of Jinyang! In fact, this matter is not big or small; but Zhang Hao is going to make use of it.

Zhang Hao did not go directly to the Xuantie Guild, but went back to the Zhang Mansion first, and asked someone to tell the Xuantie Factory to mint 500 tons of Xuantie coins, the sooner the better, and send them to the City Lord's Mansion.

Then Zhang Hao greeted the busy members of the Artifact Refining Guild. More than half a month later, the headquarters of the Artifact Refining Guild has been completed and is now moving.

After that, Zhang Haocai and Feng Zhiling came to the Xuantie Guild.

The entrance of the black iron union is very lively, and the vehicles are still flowing continuously. Thanks to the advancement of technology and the emergence of patent regulations, the price of black iron in the black iron union keeps dropping.

But on the other hand, a large number of people surrounded here and confronted the guards here. The faces of the people were full of anger. Among the people, there were many representatives of small families, shopkeepers of shops, etc., and they denounced the Black Iron Guild's "outrageous behavior".

But the guards of the Xuantie Guild looked at these people coldly, the weapons in their hands were shining coldly, and the armor on their bodies was also shining with precious light. Thanks to the advancement of black iron smelting technology, the guards of the black iron guild have all put on new clothes.

The appearance of Zhang Hao and Feng Zhiling immediately attracted the attention of the guards, and the captain of the guards immediately ran in to report.

Zhang Hao walked forward unsteadily with his hands behind his back; when he didn't want to, a guard stood in front of Zhang Hao: "Deacon Zhang, please wait a moment, we have already notified the vice chairman."

Zhang Hao smiled brightly: "Very good, really good!"

Zhang Hao's smile made the guard feel uneasy, but he clenched his teeth and stood in front of Zhang Hao. In fact, everyone understands that although the Xuantie Guild, the Xuantie Factory, and the Zhang family still retain some identities, they exist in name only.

The Zhang Family and Xuantie Factory have already established a separate branch.

After a while, guards came out and proudly invited Zhang Hao and Feng Zhiling in.

With a smile on his face, Zhang Hao walked into the Black Iron Guild very calmly without any anger.

The Black Iron Guild is still so busy. Almost a month has passed, and the Black Iron Guild without the Zhang family has developed very rapidly; however, Zhang Hao feels that the word 'barbaric expansion' should be used to describe it better.

During this period of time, the expansion of the Black Iron Guild was irrational, they were only instinctively chasing interests. But this planted the root of disaster for the Black Iron Guild.

When the Zhang family was still there, they tried their best to protect the value of the black iron coins; but now the black iron guild doesn't care about this at all.

They took advantage of the superiority of technology to crazily amass money, exchanged the flood of low-grade black iron for precious survival resources in the society, and even caused the currency to depreciate greatly, causing great panic.

In this way, it has already aroused the murderous intent of the city lord.

In order to prevent chaos in Ninghe County and ensure the rapid development of the Zhang family, Zhang Hao had no choice but to come and clean up the mess!

Zhou Bo sat right above the lobby of the Black Iron Guild, which was the chairman's seat. But now Zhou Bo was sitting on the chairman's chair, looking down at Zhang Hao, without getting up.

There were quite a few people from the Black Iron Guild all around, also sitting in their seats, looking at Zhang Hao lazily and with arrogance.

Seeing Zhang Hao, the smile on his face became even wider. Standing at the door, Zhang Hao didn't go in, and said directly: "Zhou Bo, on behalf of Zhang Shengde, the chairman of the Xuantie Guild, I officially announce:

We will exercise the one-vote veto once a year to revoke your status as the vice chairman of the Black Iron Guild! The reason is that you have acted 'treasonous'! "

As he spoke, Zhang Hao took out the jade slips, which were recorded by Wei Zirong, the young master of the Prince of Jinyang Kingdom.

(Good night. I can’t control my fingers anymore, I’m tired. Crying for a monthly ticket, recommendation ticket, subscription. ┭┮﹏┭┮)