The first blasting test looked very successful. Xin Qiji was happy and took a piece of ore with a golden luster handed over by Wang Linshan. Even outsiders could see that the ore should have a high grade, mostly green, and particles with a golden luster should be natural copper.

Xin Qiji put the ore in his hand and rubbed it for a while, thinking that it would be great if every blast could achieve such an effect.

When Xin Qiji saw Li Ziyong looking for ore everywhere, there was already a pile in his arms, so he smiled and said:

"Ziyong, what do you think of the grade of these copper ores?"

Li Ziyong poured the ore in his arms to the ground, then picked up two pieces and said:

"The left hand has a high taste, and the right hand has a little worse taste, but it is quite acceptable. According to the official's opinion, you can choose one and you can use the furnace to smel copper."

"Oh, that's good!"

The evaluation of ore is based on the mouth of Li Ziyong who has been immersed in this way for many years, and Xin Qiji is even more accurate. However, it is not yet time to be blindly optimistic, so he turned around and said:

"This time the blasting is very lucky, but I don't know if you can have such good luck every blasting. Wang Linshan, has the other hole been dug? If it is dug, blast it again and see how it is?"

In addition to doubting whether high-grade copper ore can be mined in any place underground, Xin Qiji has another question, which is whether every blast can achieve such a huge blasting effect.

"Sir Xin, that pit over there, oh, that hole has been completed, just let Brother Fu blast it again."

A hundred steps away was another cave. Fu Gui looked at it and it seemed that the cave was still deep, so Fu Gui filled another large bag of gunpowder that had been prepared into the bottom of the cave again, pressed the soil tightly, and then detonated again. Similarly, after a huge explosion of landslides, a large pit with a depth of seven or eight feet and a radius of three or four feet was exploded.

"Sir Xin, you're lucky this time. Master Xin, you see, these copper ores are good!" Wang Linshan held several stones with golden light and copper-green in his hand. Looking at his joyful appearance, it seemed that he had picked up a treasure.

"Ziyong, what do you think?" Xin Qiji was also very happy, but it was still necessary to ask professionals for their opinions.

Li Ziyong looked at the copper ore, and even used a magnifying glass. After seeing it, he nodded:

"Mr. Xin, the ore is of good quality, and the mine output from one blast is also quite impressive, many times stronger than manpower mining. With this blasting method, there is no need to worry about not being able to mine the copper ore that was difficult to mine before."

Before this, the cost of mining ore was increasingly high. In recent decades, few people have mined ore, and most of them collect gall water seeping out of the rock during the rainy season to smelt copper with gall water.

The cost of copper smelting in galls water is low, but the disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of iron. Moreover, the purity of copper smelting in galls water is relatively low. The copper smelting contains iron, so it is difficult to remove the iron in it. This is also a solution. After all, iron is much lower than copper, and the price of copper casting in the Song Dynasty is not so particular about the purity of copper. Therefore, for decades, copper smelting has become popular.

Given that Mao Geng has a huge demand for pig iron, the demand for iron in the Special Administrative Region is like a bottomless pit, which is the premise of Mao Geng controlling the use of iron. If he builds a real iron ship according to Zhao Han's idea, or uses steel concrete for open use for construction, the demand for iron in the Special Administrative Region is even more astronomical. Therefore, Zhao Han wrote to the court, requesting the suspension of copper smelting of copper. In addition, the copper smelting method cannot be compared with the copper smelting method in terms of purity, while Mao Geng has a high requirement for the purity of copper material. With these two points, the copper smelting method has to be temporarily abandoned. For a considerable period of time, there is only the only option for copper smelting - using the copper smelting method to smelting copper.

For copper smelting by fire, being able to mine copper ore of good grade means half of success.

Wang Linshan thought he had made a contribution, so he took the speech and said:

"According to such a blasting method, the last general, oh, according to the official, there will probably be no less ore mined in a day. If ten thousand people come to mine, three thousand people dig gunpowder pits, ten thousand people select ore, transport soil and stone, and two or three thousand people smelly smelting copper, I'm afraid that more than 20,000 kilograms of copper will be refined in a day."

Xin Qiji thought about it and it seemed that what Wang Linshan said was very reasonable. Before, it was assumed that 20,000 kilograms of copper were smelted a day, but now it seems that if you take the method of blasting multiple pits, it might be possible to 30,000 kilograms of copper a day. Moreover, with this blasting method, it seems that there may not be so many people.

"According to your opinion, it seems that 15,000 people are enough. The court sent us 20,000 people, which seems to be more, right?"

Xin Qiji has outstanding business talents and is very proficient in finance. To create good benefits, Wumin Holdings must of course try to control costs. If the personnel can be reduced, it will not only reduce the monthly salary, but also have the advantage that it can build less houses, because the Song Dynasty, whether it is the imperial guards or the wing army, they are responsible for building houses for them, and Wumin Holdings is no exception.

If there are 5,000 people missing, there will be even more room for profit.

After hearing Mr. Xin's words, Fu Ziyun suddenly remembered the experience of the Special Administrative Region and interrupted:

"Mr. Xin, in fact, the female relatives of men can also be hired to do work, such as mineral processing and some work that does not require too much effort. Women's family can be hired to do it. With the monthly salary of women, the family's family will have a much higher income. According to the practice of the Special Administrative Region, the monthly salary of women's family is one-third lower, and the company is cost-effective, and the family of women's family is also cost-effective."

Fu Gui saw Fu Ziyun talking about the experience of the Special Administrative Region. Fu Gui was not old and could not hide his words. He immediately added:

"No, it should be possible to hire one or two thousand female relatives. When it comes to carefulness, I am afraid that the female relatives will be better. For example, it is good for female relatives to go to the cafeteria."

"Cain?" Wang Linshan was a little confused.

"Oh, that's right. Everyone eats three meals in the SAR. This meal is eaten in the cafeteria at noon, so that every household can cook at noon, so that the women can free up their hands to work. Mr. Mao said that those who work should eat three meals, no, in fact, everyone should eat three meals."

Xin Qiji was very diligent in studying the newspaper and was well aware of Mao Geng's advocacy of the three-meal system. In fact, Xin Qiji's family had already had three meals a day. The same is true for unified dining in the canteen and unified dining in wartime. Of course, it has great advantages in saving manpower.

"In this way, women can do some light work, but they don't necessarily need 20,000 troops." Li Ziyong saw the power of blasting technology today. If the women were asked to work, he thought that he would be afraid that 15,000 and 6,000 people would be enough.

However, after all, it has not been rolled out yet, and I don’t know if there is really no need for 20,000 people, what if there is not enough people!

"I think 15,000 people are enough!" Wang Linshan just spoke according to his own ideas.

"No, 20,000 people want it. Even if there are too many people smelting copper, we still have to smelify zinc. Zinc is a treasure! The more you have, the better, I think it makes more money than copper."

Xin Qiji was now in the idea of ​​"Han Xin's army will be better." The resources assigned by the court to him were not easily introduced.

Now Xin Qiji asked his disciples Fan Kai and Yuan Fu to lead a group of reliable mining and smelting craftsmen to build zinc smelting furnaces. After zinc smelting is normal, we can open several branches in other lead and zinc mines. Didn’t Mao Geng say that there are zinc ores where there are lead ores!

After hearing Xin Qiji's words, Fu Gui looked at Fu Ziyun again. Fu Ziyun understood and said:

"Mr. Xin, if there are many people, Mr. Mao actually said that he could mine manganese ore, next to the character "manganese" and on the right is the character "Kong and Mencius". This time we also brought a sample of manganese ore, which is a black stone. After mining manganese ore, we can smelize iron manganese---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Iron-manganese alloy.", support interface.

"Yes! Iron-manganese alloy. According to Mr. Mao, this iron-manganese alloy is a rare and good thing."

Xin Qiji thought to himself that Mao Geng was providing himself with a new treasure, and immediately asked:

"Mr. Mao must know where this manganese ore is available, right?"

"Yes, according to Mr. Mao, there is Tanzhou on Jinghu South Road. Just wander up the Xiangjiang River in Changsha for seventy or eighty miles. As long as you release the wind and ask the people to find black stones, you will definitely find it."

Xin Qiji was very excited when he heard this. He was the commander of Jinghu South Road in the past and also served as the prefect of Tanzhou. If there was manganese ore in Tanzhou, it would be a piece of cake to mobilize the people to find it!

"Telecom Chief Executive Mao is so arrogant, okay! There will be a squad in Tanzhou to join the Wumin Company, so let them find some manganese ore to see if they can dig up treasures."
Chapter completed!