"The new teacher of the 'Cantone and the 20th Lane of the Sixth Street in Qianhou Street, and after the arrival of the new teacher of the 'Cantonese Teaching Department' will open a teaching school here..."

Well... This is the area of ​​the teaching area. Even if you don’t buy a property here, you must rent a house here?!

After all, if you come here to study with your children from Yangcheng, how early will the child get up?!

As for the famous teacher... I'm just kidding, didn't you say that this is the new teacher of the "Empire Preface Teachers' Department"?!

For a moment, these gentry and merchants thought about it and began to calculate gains and losses.

Even Butler Xiao Zhou had finished introducing them, they refused to leave. They stopped eating and whispered around the sand table.

I still have some chicken feather rice, have you never eaten?!

This is related to everyone's future ways of making money, and it may even be more than ten years or decades of development!

This meal was directly eaten at the willow branches on the moon, and to be more precise, it was talked about the willow branches on the moon.

Then he reluctantly said goodbye. Fortunately, butler Xiao Zhou smiled and told them that they could continue to see them tomorrow.

But the registration time is not long, and the dock will be closed at most for five days.

At that time, the dock will start recruiting workers, handing them over to the masters of the Construction Department of the Ordnance Construction Bureau for training and then starting to work according to the plan.

Before getting on the bus, the gentry from various families shook each other.

There is no need to make a special agreement and they know that everyone will definitely get together tomorrow...

Butler Xiao Zhou really didn't have time to pay attention to them because he had something else to do tomorrow morning.

Lianhua Mountain in the vast corner of the suburbs of Yangcheng is an ancient quarry in Yangcheng.

It began in the Western Han Dynasty and has been collected from this day, and even the stones used in the tomb of Wei Tuo, the King of Wu of Nanyue, were collected here.

Therefore, this place has been an official quarry for all generations, but in the Ming Dynasty...

The rising gentry and wealthy families began to divide the quarry here, but fortunately, there were not many people quarrying because the profit was not large.

Xie Yutian was responsible for investigating these gentry and businessmen, and Butler Xiao Zhou was responsible for inspecting the location of the quarry.

The governor and the inspector all signed a contract, and just buying land would make the governor and the governor of northern Guangdong be fed.

Butler Xiao Zhou is now visiting the installation of gravel, stirring, baking, etc. in the quarry, which are all created by the foundry department.

In addition to the officials of the Ministry of Revenue, there was also a central official who was under the jurisdiction of the imperial palace treasury.

After all, this Imperial Mining was jointly invested by the Royal Treasury, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Zhang family.

Seeing that all the projects were in progress and after understanding the progress, Butler Xiao Zhou turned around and headed to "Ji Hua Zhongyi Township".

Ji Hua Zhongyi Township is recently called "Foshan".

The smelting and casting art began in the late Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, and the iron art flourished in the Jin Dynasty and the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

By the Song Dynasty, it was even a major product that was released from the port. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, "Foshan Iron Pot" was a famous product in the world.

Qu Laipu, the three masters of the Later Lingnan, wrote "New Words on Northern Guangdong" and recorded: "After the iron of all furnaces is completed, they will all be defeated by the ports of Foshan."

Don’t underestimate the castings obtained by Foshan. During the Jingtai period, the statue of the Northern Emperor of Foshan’s ancestral temple weighed more than 5,000 kilograms, and it was cast and molded in one go.

According to historical records, since the fourth year of Xuande, there have been many private workshops in the area of ​​the Foshan Ancestral Temple!

At that time, the furnaces were smelted together, and the fires soared into the sky, which was a grand scene in the world.

The biggest one was Li Guangcheng, who moved to Foshan in the Xuande period. Guangcheng was learned from the Lishui River and passed down to his descendants and practiced for generations.

In addition to the Li family, there are also families such as the Xian family in Heyuan, Xian family in Dongtou, Huo family in Foshan, Shitou Huo family and Shiwan Huo family in iron smelting industry.

In Chenghua and the current Hongzhi year, most of Foshan's residents were engaged in iron smelting industry to make a living.

The most important reason why so many people are engaged in the industry is that their profits are strong and their demand is huge!

Even smuggling is done for this, starting from three cents of silver for a Foshan iron pot.

However, when I arrived in Fusang, I could sell it for as much as one tael of silver!

Even before the industrial casting pots in the 19th century, Foshan iron pots were still the flagship product for export.

I rushed all the way and finally arrived at the big town before dark.

However, Foshan had not yet fully flourished at this time, and it had flourished in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Foshan, Zhuxian, Hankou and Jingde were also called "Four Towns in the World" and "Four Gathers in the World".

"Don't be so polite, I can't bear it..."

At the ancestral temple, Li Guangcheng's descendant, the head of the Li family, led a group of people behind him to welcome the housekeeper Xiao Zhou.

Behind the old man included the Xian family in Heyuan, Xian family in Dongtou, Huo family in Foshan... and other eight largest workshops in Foshan.

"Sir, I came from afar, and I suddenly felt the glory of my heart..."

Don’t blame this old Li for being trembling. After all, the person here is the governor and the censor.

The county magistrate all came with him, saying that the butler of the famous Yuchihu Gongzi's family in the court was coming.

Even though Lao Li and his group were far away from northern Guangdong, they had heard of the name of Jade Chihu.

Foshan is not far from Yangcheng, and it is also considered a Dashang Town.

Therefore, the profession of storytelling and journalist will naturally be known as a storyteller. With the spread of the Empire Times, the name of Jade Chihu is naturally well-known.

"Sit and sit... Please sit first, all the virtuous people."

Butler Xiao Zhou's current demeanor is much more than that of the magistrate Niu Pi who came with him.

Of course, Butler Xiao Zhou is not the kind of powerful servant who pretends to be arrogant when he sees other officials.

So when it comes to the issue of the main position, he first humbled the flattered magistrate, and was refused repeatedly before he was willing to sit down.

"Today, we call the Lord's Virtue to come here for your Majesty, the court and my young master."

Butler Xiao Zhou smiled and waved his hand first, and asked someone to bring the best coal transported from the capital.

There is another hand-cranked turbine-state small blower, which puts a few pieces of honeycomb coal in a small yellow mud furnace and then puts it on the coal burning.

There is a crucible on it, with small pieces of copper placed inside it.

"First of all, I would like to give you all the virtuous people, and this Southern Artist expert, a look at the latest craftsmanship of the Foundry Department of the Imperial Ordnance Construction Bureau..."

Lao Li and others are also veterans of smelting. They are all iron smelting for generations. Naturally, you can tell at a glance that the yellow mud stove and crucible are all good things.

But everyone is still confused about the smelting effect.

Even several people are confident in their craftsmanship and feel that even if they are powerful, they have their own strengths.

When the "Woooooooooooooooo~~" sounded the sound of the hand-cranked turbine fan sucking the air, the expressions of these old craftsmen were different.

They are people who have been around the smelting furnace for many years and know the importance of air intake in the bellows to increase the furnace temperature.

But they don’t know how to state this matter, they just pass on their experience to their descendants little by little.

But as the "Woooooo~" sounded, the yellow mud stove quickly turned red!

The crucible, which could be seen with the naked eye, began to turn red quickly, and the old blacksmiths on the scene immediately took a breath!
Chapter completed!