After Huang Taiji learned about Zheng Zhilong’s plan, he thought about it and realized that Zheng Zhilong had received Lin Chunhong’s permission.

For the small Qing court, as long as Lin Chunhong was involved, they had to be careful and be sure to understand the intention behind Lin Chunhong. This is a lesson learned with blood.

Liaodong is extremely short of food and steel. Why did Lin Chunhong desperately restrict the flow of grain into Liaodong but allowed Liaodong to build its own steel smelting furnace?

When Huang Taiji was hesitating and unable to make a decision, Fan Wencheng was awakened by Lu Shaofei's words: "The Qing Dynasty was extremely short of iron!"

Huang Taiji immediately realized that the Qing Dynasty established a country with force. As long as there are soldiers who are good at fighting, hard weapons, and sharp weapons, what can any conspiracy do to me?

Huang Taiji no longer hesitated and asked Fan Wencheng to personally contact Zheng Hongkui to discuss cooperation matters.

Fan Wencheng is cunning and cunning, and is not comparable to Zheng Hongkui, but Zheng Hongkui held a few bottom lines, leaving Fan Wencheng with no chance to play.

Zheng Hongkui proposed that grain would never be sold; 70% of the steel smelted from Nanfen would be sold with the Zheng group; the Qing Dynasty was responsible for dredging the Prince River and the Liaohe River waterways and establishing the Liaohekou cargo warehouse.

Fan Wencheng felt bitter. It seemed that Zheng Zhilong knew that the Qing Dynasty could not refine the fine steel, and seized this point and extorted it hard.

"Yes, but the annual output of Nanfen iron ore smelting must exceed 3 million kilograms. Otherwise, the Qing Dynasty would never be able to sell 70% of the steel!"

Three million kilograms are roughly one-seventh of Daye's annual output, which is almost half of Yuzhou's annual output. Although Fan Wencheng didn't know what the steel output in Daye and Yuzhou was, he spoke very much, just to make Zheng Hongkui retreat when he saw the difficulties.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Hongkui was not worried but happy, and replied happily: "No problem, 5 million kilograms a year is okay. However, this requires Shenyang to provide enough manpower."

Fan Wencheng was surprised and silently calculated the calculations. He had a steel output of 5 million kilograms a year. Even according to the general standards of steel one and four, Liaodong could still leave 300,000 kilograms of fine steel.

With 300,000 kilograms of fine steel, it is enough to fundamentally solve the dilemma of lack of steel for manufacturing soldiers!

In the end, Fan Wencheng and Zheng Hongkui reached an agreement. In the first three years, 300,000 kilograms of fine steel produced in Nanfen Steel Workshop could be left to the Zheng Group. Three years later, 70% of the output would be sold.

This agreement is just a framework. Next, both parties need to send professionals to continue negotiations under the framework to determine all the details of the steel workshop.

When Fan Wencheng and Zheng Hongkui were quarreling, Lu Shaofei received an order from the Military Information Department. The order was written in secret, with only a few words, but the number zero or one was added at the end!

Lung-one means that this order was personally drafted by Lin Chunhong, which made Lu Shaofei inexplicable. What's more, Lin Chunhong highly praised Lu Shaofei's work in the order and instructed Lu Shaofei to contact the insider as little as possible in order to avoid exposure. Moreover, in order to ensure Lu Shaofei's absolute safety, Jingzhou will change the contact person in the near future.

Lin Chunhong also instructed that given that Lu Shaofei's status within the Qing Dynasty was already very high, his work direction needed to gradually change from conveying intelligence to guiding the Qing Dynasty's decision-making.

"Look at the overall situation and make a big decision!" Lin Chunhong's requirements for Lu Shaofei were very simple and very general, which made Lu Shaofei a little confused.

However, if you can't figure it out, you can slowly figure it out. What Lu Shaofei can be sure of is that promoting the Manchus to accelerate the Chineseization, this is definitely the overall situation in the overall situation.

Lu Shaofei had time and could wait for the opportunity to come. Until one day, he saw Fan Wencheng's brows tightly, as if he had encountered something difficult.

He moved closer to Fan Wencheng intentionally or unintentionally, trying to attract Fan Wencheng's attention and let Fan Wencheng take the initiative to discuss matters with him.

Sure enough, when Fan Wencheng was at a loss, he saw Lu Shaofei appear and asked casually: "The annual output exceeds five million kilograms, and at least more than 10,000 workers are needed. Now the farmers who grow grain are still insufficient. How can they draw so many? What good plans do the attendant Lu have?"

Lu Shaofei has always regarded himself as an outsider of the Qing court from the bottom of his bones. As the saying goes, bystanders are clear and those in the authorities are confused. Lu Shaofei's thinking is broader than Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng. He thought for a moment and then came up with a countermeasure, but he did not mean to say it directly. Instead, he deliberately seemed surprised and asked: "The Qing Dynasty has a population of more than two million, and it will be difficult to draw more than 10,000 workers?"

Fan Wencheng sighed: "It's really a dilemma. In the Qing Dynasty, there were about 700,000 Manchus and Mongols. The strong men were basically used to raise horses, hunt and fight. There were more than 1.3 million people left, and there were about 800,000 to 900,000 local Han people in Liaodong, of which almost half of the strong men were sold. The remaining strong men also needed to hunt, grazed and plant food. More than 400,000 were migrated from the northern Zhili area. They were basically coated and owned by Beile and Beizi. How could they seize food from these people?"

Fan Wencheng was anxious for a moment and actually forgot that Lu Shaofei in front of him was also Dorgon's rogue. When he realized that he had already spoken, he hurriedly comforted him: "Of course, Lu servants are outstanding people, and they are beyond ordinary rogues."

Lu Shaofei smiled faintly and said, "Banqi is coated, what's the secret? If you do things for the emperor, coated should have a day to stand out."

"Doing for the Emperor?" As if a ray of light suddenly appeared in the fog, Fan Wencheng's thinking suddenly became clear: his daring to snatch the coat from Beile's hands does not mean that Huang Taiji dared not!

Lu Shaofei then muttered again: "Even if a Korean can do his best to do his best to serve the emperor, he should have a day to make a comeback!"

Yes, it’s good to recruit North Koreans!

Fan Wencheng fell into deep thought and almost forgot about Lu Shaofei's existence. A smile appeared on the corner of Lu Shaofei's mouth that ordinary people could not detect, and he walked away from Fan Wencheng silently and began to work on his own affairs.

Lu Shaofei knew very well: Baoyi was controlled by Beile, Beizi, and Lord. His life and dignity could not be guaranteed at all, and would only slide further and further towards the barbarians. It could allow Baoyi to get rid of Beile's control and become a slave to the Qing court, and at least protect the right to life and pitiful dignity. As long as there was a trace of dignity, these Baoyi would never forget that he belonged to the proud Huaxia tribe!

As for the introduction of Koreans, the Koreans admired Chinese civilization and the sinicization was already very serious. A large number of Koreans entering Liaodong was obviously beneficial to the sinicization of the Manchus.

When Fan Wencheng woke up, he looked at Lu Shaofei with admiration again, and he became more determined to attract Lu Shaofei as a helper. As for the matter of snatching the coat from Beile, Fan Wencheng thought it would be better not to touch their cheese, otherwise he would not know how to die in the future.

Fan Wencheng's ability to practice Tai Chi was first-class, and he directly submitted a memorial to Huang Tai Chi to report on the human difficulties faced by Nanfen's mining.

The most critical point is not here, but at the end of the memorial, Fan Wencheng also reported on the grain production of the coat slaves.

After Huang Taiji took over this problem, after Fan Wencheng Ruowuuuuu, he thought about it for a while and then focused on Baoyi and the Koreans. Huang Taiji was a strategic expert. After further thinking, he immediately realized the beauty of bringing Baoyi back to the country.

Take the example of packaging and cultivation of grain. All the harvested grains were not at all handed by the court and were directly included in the hands of each flag, which obviously weakened the power of the court.

Once the coating is nationalized, the land is distributed by the court and the grain produced is owned by the court. This temptation made Huang Taiji unable to refuse!

Huang Taiji thought of doing this and immediately ordered the flags to hand over all the coats. While winter was approaching, the land was redistributed and the land was handed over to the coats and farmed. It was stipulated that except for leaving enough rations for the coats, all the excess food belonged to the court.

The flags resisted this greatly and were willing to object, so they were unable to turn the world back, so they had to hand over the coat.

Huang Taiji was quite suspicious of the management ability of Beile and Beizi, and ordered Han Chen Ningwan to manage all the free coats.

Ning Wan, I immediately discovered the loopholes in Huang Taiji's policy and suggested that Huang Taiji imitate the Ming Dynasty to collect grain by mu, encourage land reclamation, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm for coating.

Since then, almost 70% of the grain produced by the coating was collected by the court, but they basically got rid of their slave status and became self-cultivated farmers in the Qing court, and gradually formed villages dominated by Han people of all sizes.

At the same time, Huang Taiji allocated more than 15,000 coated men to Fan Wencheng, allowing Fan Wencheng to speed up the construction of the steel smelting furnace.

When Zheng Hongkui came to Liaodong again, Zheng Hongkui brought more than 400 craftsmen with him.

Fan Wencheng was not at ease with these more than 400 craftsmen and interrogated them one by one, for fear that Lin Chunhong would take the opportunity to penetrate the stakes. The results of the interrogation made Fan Wencheng quite satisfied. Although most of these more than 400 craftsmen came from Guangzhou, they had very limited knowledge of the powerful relationship between Jingzhou, Anping and Shenyang.

No matter where the craftsman comes from, as long as he can build a blast furnace and make molten steel, what does it matter if the Military Information Department has installed someone?

So, more than 10,000 workers braved the autumn cold and devoted themselves to the vigorous construction of the steel workshop. Fan Wencheng took advantage of the dry autumn water and organized thousands of workers to dredge the Taizi River and Liao River, hoping to walk ships with a load of more than 500 stones.

Among the craftsmen Zheng Hongkui brought, there are talents who are proficient in management and financial planning. Under the management of these talents, the labor efficiency of more than 10,000 workers is quite reasonable.

Persible efficiency is naturally the standard in Jingzhou, but in the eyes of Fan Wencheng and Huang Taiji, this efficiency is like a whip.

Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng were amazed and immediately organized some talented people who could see each other every day to follow the craftsmen to work, hoping to learn the essence of craftsmen's work.

Later, some Manchu and Mongolians were interested in each other, and they slowly gathered around the Nanfen Workshop to observe carefully how Han craftsmen do things.

By the end of the year, after the first furnace of steel was released, at the insistence of Han craftsmen, this batch of steel did not use it to make weapons, but began to lay iron ore and rail roads from coal mines to smelting furnaces.
Chapter completed!