Early the next morning.

Looking at the bayonets mounted on the flint rifle, Qi Jiguang didn't say anything for a long time. Unlike Zhang Pengju's excited gesture with the flint rifle that was seven feet long after being mounted on the bayonet, he just stared at Shi Yiwen.

"How is Zhiyuan, can you think clearly?"

Looking at Qi Jiguang, Shi Yiwen was stunned. What are you thinking? You three have never drank last night!

"As long as you can solve the problem of the unbearable use of the Northern Iron and the price of flints is appropriate, I guarantee that you can buy no less than 30,000 from you, and no less than 10,000 per year. Then I will help you contact the Ministry of War. At that time, at least 50,000 or 60,000 flints per year will be fine."

Faced with Shi Yiwen's confusion, Qi Jiguang directly threw out temptation.

"I don't have craftsmen, so I can't make it."

"What's the difficulty of finding craftsmen? Depei, you go back two days late. Today, you go to Wanggong Factory in the city to find hundreds of craftsmen who are good at making guns and craftsmen, pay them for the craftsmen and let them come here. Zhiyuan, what do you think this is the case?"

"But, Shuai Qi, is my Ming Dynasty's sanctioned privately built soldiers?"

"Emperor Gao decided that only armor and strong crossbows were banned when the "Da Ming Law" were banned. When did bird guns be banned?"

Uh... this is OK. Faced with Qi Jiguang's undeniable attitude, Shi Yiwen smiled bitterly.

"Shishuai Qi is a tough guy!"

Qi Jiguang did not explain, but bowed.

"I have worked hard to make peace for the nine borders and for the people of the Ming Dynasty."

How can you refuse such a trust?

It was originally the end of the New Year. Shi Yiwen, who had just finished his work, went to Zunhua with Zhao Shizhen. It was the center of Northern Zhili Iron Smelting. There were more than ten official and private iron plants. After three days of ice and snow, the group finally arrived in Zunhua. As soon as he arrived at the place, Shi Yiwen saw a continuous iron smelting furnace, which was spewing thick smoke.

"The boss, that iron factory is our iron factory."

Before Shi Yiwen arrived in Zunhua, he had already asked Wu Cai to come over and bought an iron factory directly.

"Zhiyuan, you are preparing to show your skills!"

When he came to the iron factory and looked at the two iron smelting furnaces that could at least refine one or two thousand kilograms of iron, Zhao Shizhen couldn't help but sigh. For him, who was "assigned to the chief clerk of the Honglu Temple with a good letter", he was a little envious of Shi Yiwen's busyness. After all, he was just a idle job in the Honglu Temple.

"Shiji, weapons focus on raw materials. The raw materials are excellent, and the weapons are naturally excellent. Besides, it is related to the safety of the nine borders, so I can't help but take them seriously."

When he said this, Shi Yiwen didn't know what he was facing. Originally, he only thought that he only needed to make coal into coke and then directly refined iron. He had already prepared for this and copied a book "Tianzhi Coke" in the library.

Coking is not just about building a coking furnace, but starts with coal preparation, selecting the right coking coal, and then checking the quality of the coal, and even washing coal. This process is not difficult. There is a big pot and water.

Fortunately, the local coal of Zunhua is of good quality and is suitable for coking.

After the coking furnace was completed and when the furnace was sealed and coking began, the gunsmiths who passed by the capital also arrived in the iron factory. In fact, Zhang Sixi should have gone to Shitaizhuang. Because when he went to Zhuangzi, Shi Yiwen had already arrived in Zunhua, so he would follow him all the way.

When he saw Shi Yiwen, he looked very respectful. Although he was a craftsman in the officialdom, he could operate it freely as long as he paid 6 yuan of craftsmanship every month without having to serve in craftsmanship. Someone would be willing to pay craftsmanship for them, but he was a little unhappy. After all, he earned more money by working.

"I'm really sorry for you to come so far."

Seeing that Zhang Sixi had chased after him for hundreds of miles, Shi Yiwen naturally wanted to be more polite.

"Young Master Shi, in fact, the young man came here this time to return the good intentions of the young master for everyone."

"oh?"

Shi Yiwen's brow jumped and looked at him in confusion.

"Young Master may say, I don't know the good intentions. After all, the young master paid the craftsman's silver for us, but I don't know that there seems to be a lot of craftsman's silver worth 6 yuan a month, but it only takes three months for four years, which is less than two taels of silver. If we work in our own shops, we can earn at least five or six taels of silver a month. So I'm grateful for the good intentions of the young master."

Listening to Zhang Sixi's explanation, Shi Yiwen has come back to the point. They feel that they earn less money for their work. This craftsman is not the same as an official slave. It seems that they have misunderstood it.

"Boss Zhang probably misunderstood."

Shi Yiwen looked at him and said with a smile.

"I'll ask you to come and work, and you will pay according to the workforce. So, is it all you can count on the money for the workforce department?"

When he heard that he was paying for the worker, a smile immediately appeared on Zhang Sixi's face, who was originally determined.

"Young Master, the work of making bird guns was calculated by the Ministry of Works and paid according to the price. Each gun used twenty kilograms of iron, two qian of silver; one hundred and seven qian of charcoal, seven qian of silver, three cents of silver; six qian of embryo-making and making plates, one qian of silver, nine cents of silver; six qian of rolls, two qian of silver, and one qian of silver, and one qian of pincers..."

Listening to Zhang Sixi's explanation, Shi Yiwen's brows slowly tightened, not because of other things, but because of the unreasonable working hours and wages.

"...It takes thirty-four labor to build a gun, and the labor price is three taels and two cents and five cents, of which the labor price is two taels and three cents and two cents."

When Zhang Sixi mentioned these wages, Shi Yiwen smiled and said to him.

"In this way, Master Zhang, you go down and rest first. Let's talk about the wages clearly."

"Young Master, these are all wages calculated by the Ministry of Works."

Before leaving, Zhang Sixi specifically emphasized.

"I know, Master Zhang, please rest first."

Shi Yiwen from the modern era is extremely sensitive to costs, especially the cost structure. In his opinion, this cost is obviously inappropriate. After Zhang Sixi left, he looked at Zhao Shizhen and said.

"Shiji, what do you think?"

Zhao Shizhen was a firearm expert in the Ming Dynasty. Although he is only new to firearms now, he does have his own expertise in this regard.

"I think Zhiyuan is expensive?"

"How can it be not expensive? A bird gun in the Ministry of Industry is less than three taels. If we sell three taels and five coins, we may not be able to make money. The things made by the Ministry of Industry are not profitable, so we can't do it."

Wu Cai said casually from the side and then smiled.

"Young Master, do you think if we drive a flintstone of four or two, will Qi Shuai agree? After all, we have a lot more things."

"Six liang, we can definitely negotiate, after all, things are different."

Zhao Shizhen interrupted, and asked again when he saw Shi Yiwen not speaking.
Chapter completed!