Zhao Xin didn't tell anyone about these things in the future, and Wang Song didn't know either, he only saw the present, the workshop in full swing, and saw the terrible orders and the results of the daily progress.

However, the orders of the Northern Song Dynasty alone could not sell all the products of the blacksmith's workshop, and he asked for so many people, not to expand production.

It's inconvenient to tell Wang Song about all this, it's not a matter of vision or anything, it's just that it's meaningless.

If you run the Northern Song Dynasty and tell a person that you want to build a modern, tens of millions of people, with an output value ten times or even hundreds of times that of the current Northern Song Dynasty, I am afraid that no one will believe it, and only by doing it step by step can people believe it.

Miaojiazhuang is like this, before the steamed bun soap appeared, some people would think that these few simple things can make so much money?

Before the blacksmith workshop was built, or even before it was standardized and upgraded, some people thought that this large blacksmith workshop could supply iron materials for the entire Northern Song Dynasty?

Things have to be done step by step, with the vision of future generations, Zhao Xin knows where the future of industrialization is, and he will also develop step by step.

After hitting a wall in Zhao Xin's place several times in a row, Wang Song still didn't give up, and took advantage of the blacksmiths' fluctuating thoughts to come to Zhao Xin's side.

This matter has been reported once, but the last time it was only sporadic, this time, it was the vast majority of blacksmiths.

Looking positive, there is only no Great Leap Forward, Wang Song, Zhao Xin couldn't help laughing, this Wang Song is really good and forgets the pain.

Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, Wang Song seems to have forgotten that he had a headache because of the mass production of steel.

That's right, the current blacksmith workshop has the strength to expand wildly, and even the limit can be extended to 11 million catties a day.

He dared to think that even if it was the original, the average production capacity of 4 million catties exceeded the capacity limit of the Northern Song Dynasty, and overall planning and mathematics were a very simple matter, but he was only confused by the eyes, and he would not calculate that even if it was an output of 4.5 million catties, the total output of a year would exceed 1.6 billion catties, that is to say, the court and the daimyo's mansion only consumed less than a quarter of the output at most.

If there is not a fixed navy poking in the back, Zhao Xin will definitely set this figure at about one-third, that is, about 1.5 million catties per day, with a daily output of about 750 tons.

Even if one-third of the output, 210,000 tons a year, exceeds the total output value before the Northern Song Dynasty, the increase is not too high, which is also the result of taking into account the large-scale construction of fortresses in the northwest.

In feudal society, iron has not yet been able to spread through all channels of production and life like modern society, and it is only the simplest use.

For example, knives, weapons, farm tools, and some other aspects of a small number of applications, the opening of larger scales has not yet started, such as the construction industry, such as the transportation industry, large bridges and steel houses.

Under the premise that the productivity is extremely backward and there are not enough tools, the steel structure is not to think about it, which is much more expensive than the ordinary construction of the house, which will discourage everyone.

Industrialization brings efficiency, and the small peasant economy of feudal society is slow, picking chrysanthemums to the southeast, leisurely seeing Nanshan, is the main theme of this era, and efficiency, speed and industrialization, is another idea, the collision of the two, will produce interesting sparks.

In Zhao Xin's plan, Dinghai was a well-established, super-large port city, and like Shanghai in later generations, it shouldered the heavy responsibility of manufacturing.

Then population is the top priority, whether it is these manpower of the Daimyo's Mansion, or the future Bianliang, or even the various disaster victims of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, as long as he has the ability, he must receive as much as possible, population is the top priority, and in order to accept so many people, the traditional Northern Song Dynasty houses are not very suitable.

Taking Bianliang as an example, the East and West Erfang and the Imperial City, which are the central axis, are densely packed with many neighborhoods, to a certain extent, the legend of Bianliang's million population has long been known, and it has also brought a lower population density.

An island, excluding the mountains, is suitable for the construction of ports and seashores that are not suitable for habitation, and if it wants to accommodate enough people, it must be buildings, and even in the future, if there is a chance, there will be high-rise buildings with more than 7 floors.

Steel became the basis of these buildings, but it was enough to eat the crazy growth of steel.

Take an ordinary six-story unit building as an example, 12 households consume about 30-40 tons of steel, and if calculated according to the average household of 3 tons of steel, the per capita is 1 ton.

In the future, the entire Dinghai Navy will be positioned with 2 million people in the initial stage, and it may reach 5 million in the later stage, or even 10 million, if it is a ton per capita, it is conservatively estimated that when the Dinghai Navy is formed, the main house may consume 10 million tons of steel.

With the maximum output of the blacksmith's workshop, an annual output of 2 million tons, it will take 5 years.

Not to mention, ports, roads, public buildings, and some workshops that produce steel structures to save time, these are places where a lot of steel is consumed.

It is precisely because of the Dinghai Navy as a backing that Zhao Xin is so calm.

But Wang Song came over again and again, more or less, which made him irritable, so he simply said everything straight to the point, expanding production, this is nothing, under the premise of having enough manpower, as long as a few days, a batch of blacksmith stations can be built, but how about the product.

Zhao Xin left Wang Song a few figures, which were the daily output of various items, and then gave an order for about a year, and told Wang Song that he would know after calculating.

Simple multiplication, but with the addition of huge numbers, immediately made Wang Song unable to turn, he almost the whole day, put on this, fortunately, with the help of some mathematics knowledge, he got a few numbers.

160 million catties a year, 1.6 billion a year, and 16 billion.

Next, he was dizzy, these three numbers are very different, if Zhao Xin is here, he will definitely help him point out that this is the difference between the numbers, it may be an order of magnitude or zero with one more and one less bit.

This often appears in the mathematical poor, but Wang Song is entangled at this time, if it is 160 million, then the overall production capacity of their blacksmith workshop cannot support the order at all, a daimyo's mansion will occupy half of it, and the Privy Council will occupy half of it.

It's hard to give up all of that, so that it is necessary to expand production, but where to find so many skilled craftsmen?

The total number of craftsmen in the blacksmith workshop has exceeded 50,000, and the number of craftsmen in the blacksmith workshop has increased by three or four times, that is, hundreds of thousands.

Wang Song knew that among the data he calculated, 160 million should not be very reliable, because before, in 4 days, an order of 15 million catties was completed, ten times that of 40 days, which is a good calculation.

Even if the math is not very good, maybe 1.6 billion is the most correct number, then it is terrible, Wang Song's brain, some can't turn around, the terrible order of 400 million catties is just filling a quarter of the output, what to do with the rest.

Before the squeeze, once again surged into my heart, it was hundreds of thousands of catties a day, and under the premise of no sales, how much squeeze was generated on the funds.

At that time, it was only hundreds of thousands, but now it is ten times as much, and all of a sudden, Wang Song's head can't turn.

Wang Song, who found Zhao Xin again, looked pale, Zhao Xin knew that he had calculated the result the moment he saw Wang Song, and smiled slightly, the balance between industrialization and supply and marketing, that is a big topic, for Wang Song, who grew up in the palace and had a little contact with general affairs, it is really difficult for him.

This is the case in many large industries, when sales are not smooth, or when they are squeezed, losses will arise.

Some people are very strange, obviously the production is like a money printing machine, why don't you stop the two, because if you stop, you will lose more.

The cost of steel, sometimes, is only iron ore, but in the whole process from production to sales, countless people are involved in it, and the production is an increase in social wealth, and in order to ensure social stability, it is really not suitable to reduce.

After stopping, it is difficult to turn it on again. In the era of three years of pain in '97, a large number of enterprises went bankrupt and a large number of workers were laid off.

However, it will be difficult for an enterprise that was originally prosperous and has huge output to recover after a difficult period.

The team of experienced industrial workers, because of a few years of desertion, some of them had a little accident, the death of the dead, the change of careers, the lack of such a group of industrial workers, coupled with the damage and degradation of machinery and equipment, in the end, the original prosperous field, became a piece of scrap iron.

"Your Highness, what should I do, why didn't I think of this, or else, lay off people!"

Watching Wang Song suddenly, from one extreme, to the other, Zhao Xin also couldn't laugh or cry, about industry, about the Dinghai Navy, these are not convenient to talk directly to Wang Song, Zhao Xin sighed for a while, and said: "Wang Song, the order of the imperial court is just a foundation, to ensure that our blacksmith workshop can operate normally, you don't have to worry about manpower matters, I have other uses for some things, you think about it, how to sell the product, at least to the extent of the current imperial court order!" ”

Sales, again a strange concept, but also to reach the level of the imperial court orders, the Northern Song Dynasty's demand for iron, including the largest weapons procurement, that is the real head.

Wang Song never thought that there was a sale, which could be compared to the imperial court's order, not to mention, even if he could sell this, it would only maintain the balance of the entire blacksmith workshop, what about the rest?

And what about the remaining half of the iron? It's still a problem, a huge problem.

Zhao Xin knew from the mention that Wang Song couldn't think of an answer, and later generations also explored for many years before he put forward the saying that channel sales is king, relying on channel sales and becoming the mainstream.

He used to focus more on production, and it will be the same in the future, so he tried to open a channel in the bustling Daimyo's mansion, which would be a good choice at that time.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xin casually picked up an iron tool next to him and said, "What do you think this is?" ”