The blue sky, a few snow-white clouds floated in it. Although there are no tall trees in Guanshi Mountain not far away, there are many shrubs that are tall for one person.

The grass on the ground has already sprouted, desperately chasing the footsteps of spring.

In a little-known workshop, a few thick black smoke are a little different from the blue sky.

As a heavy industry, no matter what era it is, the working environment in steel is not very good.

The iron-making workshop of the Chu Wangfu is naturally no exception.

Environmental measures?

What is that?

Needless to say, there is no such thing in the ironmaking workshop.

All gases are discharged directly into the air without any treatment.

It can be said that this iron-making workshop in the Chu Wangfu is more cottage than any workshop-style steelmaking plant in later generations.

However, as long as the steel can be smelted, Li Kuan feels that everything is tolerable.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Xue Li and Xi Junmai continued to split each other a few times in surprise.

"How? I just said that these two knives are similar, and the steel made in our workshop is no worse than the steel made by others. ”

Dai Quan saw that Xue Li and Xi Junmai still refused to believe the facts, and couldn't help but sigh unhappily.

Like Dai Quan, the only eighth-level worker in the new craftsman hierarchy, his status in the Chu Palace's palace is still quite high.

Otherwise, they wouldn't dare to scold them.

Xue Li looked at the horizontal knife in his hand, although there were a few gaps, but he originally thought that it would break into two for the first collision, but he actually stood up.

"Lord Wang, if this horizontal knife is really made of stainless steel that has been directly smelted, then this meaning is really too extraordinary."

As a military general, Xue Li naturally knew very well the significance of a large amount of stainless steel to Datang.

As for Dai Quan's slight complaints, what is it?

If you complain once, you can have such a surprise, then Xue Li is willing to be complained about every day.

"That's nature. With this steel production technology, the most important link in the palace's industry has been supplemented. ”

Li Kuan looked at the blast furnace in front of him, although it was completely incomparable with the scale of the steel plant he visited in later generations, but this was also a historic breakthrough.

"Lord Wang, this steel has been smelted, should it start large-scale production immediately?"

Dai Quan, as the most versatile craftsman in the Chu Palace, naturally knew how much steel had been constrained by the various industries of the palace.

Not to mention anything else, when Nanshan Construction Engineering built Daming Palace, the beams of the roof, if there was enough stainless steel, there was no need to use giant wood at all.

"How many of the furnaces in the workshop can be used directly to smelt steel?"

After waiting for so long, he finally waited for a technological breakthrough, and Li Kuan naturally wanted to increase the output of stainless steel as quickly as possible.

Whether it is weapons, equipment for various workshops, or various agricultural tools, if they can be made of steel, it is definitely much better than wood or iron.

And now a good piece of steel is much more expensive than iron, and it is even more expensive than wood.

"Lord Wang, the workshop where the furnace in front of you is located can continue to start steelmaking today, and there are two other furnaces in the workshop, change it slightly, and you can use it in a few days. However, if there are still a few of them, it is estimated that they can only be used for ironmaking. ”

Speaking of things in the workshop, Dai Quan is naturally the head of the road.

For steelmaking, in fact, the previous process is ironmaking, and the molten iron is oxidized to remove excess carbon to obtain molten steel.

Therefore, in order to develop steelmaking technology, in this workshop of the Chu Wangfu, a production line was placed in one workshop, and several workshops were built in succession.

And some workshops, although it seems that there are several furnaces, but because of the design, even if they are refined in the furnace several times, the steel that comes out is not what everyone wants.

It's better to renovate these workshops and use them all for smelting iron.

Anyway, there are so many workshops under the palace, although the steel is good, but the iron material is not completely without demand.

"Okay, let's start making steel. At the same time, a number of workshops will be built next to it to increase the production of stainless steel as much as possible. ”

Li Kuan did not directly say that he would build several more steel-making furnaces at one time.

The craftsmen in the workshop need a process of learning and training, if you say it directly, you should first go to ten stoves.

When the time comes, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no quality or safety problems, which is not the result you want to see.

Now that there is a shortage of steel, in recent years, various workshops have suffered a lot of losses from the ironmaking workshops of the eldest grandson's family, and it is almost time to collect interest.

If something goes wrong at the critical time, it's better to be a little later.

After all, there are still a lot of things involved in steelmaking, and it takes a lot of effort for craftsmen to put in the materials of the furnace just to accommodate the hot molten iron.

In addition, the refining of coke is also an innovation, and to what extent can it best meet the needs of steelmaking, which is also a science.

To put it mildly, just taking out the things from the ironmaking workshop of the Chu Wangfu can support the research of an academy in the Guanshishan Academy.

"Lord Wang, rest assured, at the end of this month, our workshop will be able to produce more than 5,000 catties of steel, and by the end of next month, I am confident that it will reach 10,000 catties a day.

Dai Quan said confidently.

Over the years, while organizing the improvement of the steelmaking process, he has also been thinking about the problem of mass production, and now he is just turning the plan into a real thing.

"10,000 pounds a day?"

"10,000 pounds a day?"

Li Kuan and Xue Li raised questioning voices at the same time.

It's just that Xue Li's question is full of surprise and disbelief, can there really be so many?

And Li Kuan's question is a little surprised and dissatisfied, only that's it?

However, thinking of this era, the total annual output of steel in the entire Datang is only 10 million catties, and this daily output of 10,000 catties seems to have nothing to dislike.

You must know that most of the output of more than 10 million catties is iron, and what Dai Quan is talking about is steel.

To put it mildly, this steel output is definitely the crown.

It was no wonder that Xue Li made a surprised sound.

"Lord Wang, 10,000 catties is not impossible to improve. But it will take time to build a new workshop, but you can rest assured, by the middle of this year, it will not be a problem to produce 20,000 catties per day. ”

Dai Quan looked at Li Kuan's reflection and knew that he had not yet met his expectations.

The vision of the prince is really not comparable to the craftsmen like me.

I'm still too complacent.

I thought this workshop was already the most powerful in the world.

It seems that we will continue to work hard in the future.

The six departments of Shangshu Province are all located in the inner city, next to the Taiji Palace. Although Li Shimin had moved to the Daming Palace, central institutions such as Shangshu Province, Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province also followed to work on both sides of the Xuanzheng Palace.

However, there has been no change in the location of the six departments.

Early this morning, Hou Junji, the secretary of the Ministry of War, came to the Ministry of Industry in a vigorous manner, and sprayed Yan Lide violently.

"Yan Shangshu, why did you clearly say that there were 10,000 horizontal knives, but only 8,000 were delivered to the military department? Does the Ministry of Industry even want to be greedy for money for this kind of weapon to save the lives of soldiers? ”

Hou Junji is the former minister of the Qin Palace, and the hero of the Xuanwumen Change, in Chang'an City, no one is used to it.

Yesterday, as soon as he heard that the following people came to report that the Ministry of Industry was supposed to deliver 10,000 horizontal knives, but only 8,000 were given, he immediately became angry.

As for the Ministry of Works, a yamen who deals with all kinds of craftsmen every day, how dare he bully the Ministry of War like this, do you really think that you are muddy?

If you don't take this opportunity to give the Ministry of Industry some colors to see, I wonder if the armor, bows and arrows of the Ministry of War will be deducted in the future.

"Hou Shangshu, you have to be responsible when you speak. What is the money of the Ministry of Industry to make weapons? Which eye did you see? ”

Yan Lide is also a good one, and now he is blocked by others in his own yamen and scolded, so naturally he will not stop there.

"Responsible? Hehe, I, Hou Junji, are responsible for every word I say. The 10,000 horizontal knives that the Ministry of War wanted, this is what the Ministry of Household has already allocated money and food, why are there only 8,000 now? It's not that someone is greedy for ink, so what is it? Hou Junji snorted coldly, "What? Could it be that 10,000 has become 8,000, and it is already your Ministry of Industry to show mercy? Are you all used to giving 10,000 horizontal knives and making 5,000 knives? ”

Seeing Hou Junji swearing like this, Yan Lide also beat a drum in his heart.

Could it be that someone really coveted the money and food used by the military department to make horizontal knives this time?

This kind of thing can't be said to have happened in the past, but it's not usually as obvious as this one.

As soon as Hou Junji made a fuss here in Yan Lide, some other high-level people from the Ministry of Industry immediately surrounded him.

As for whether to watch the excitement or prepare to support his own book, I don't know.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Yan Lide is a master craftsman, and his technical level is absolutely nothing to say.

But if you want to talk about the level of officials, it is not necessarily very satisfying.

In other words, many times, he is too rigid, so that some subordinates are not satisfied.

"Steward Du, did you really tell Hou Shangshu that there were only eight thousand horizontal knives handed over to the military department yesterday?"

Yan Lide saw that the steward in charge of the production of these horizontal knives was also beside him, and immediately called him over.

But Hou Junji watched coldly from the sidelines.

The money and food of 2,000 horizontal knives is definitely not a person who dares to be greedy for ink.

Nor is it a steward who has the ability to be greedy for ink.

He wanted to see how Yan Lide wanted to shake the pot.

This time, I must take the prestige of the Ministry of Industry, and in the future, there will be endless people pinching the neck of the Ministry of Labor.

"Yan Shangshu, it is true that only eight thousand handfuls were delivered."

Na Du was in charge, and secretly regretted in his heart, why was he so curious, what did he come to join in?

Yan Lide was expecting his subordinates to be able to give a better blow to Hou Junji's arrogance, but he didn't expect it......

Hou Junji on the side was also a little surprised, but he didn't expect this Du Steward to dare to admit it.

Is this emboldened and not taking the military department seriously at all?

Or is it that there is a big man in the DPRK and China behind the scenes of this ink corruption case, and people are not afraid of themselves at all?

"What do you mean? Do you think that this official can't take off your hat? ”

Although Yan Lide usually has the image of a good man in the Ministry of Industry, he is also a little angry today.

"Wronged, Yan Shangshu, Hou Shangshu, the lower officials are wronged. This Ministry of Industry to build a horizontal knife, every link of money and food expenditure, are traceable, are recorded, I just ate the bear's heart leopard gall, and I don't dare to be greedy for a penny. ”

Steward Du was a little depressed, feeling that he was responsible for supervising the construction of these horizontal knives, which was really unlucky.

I don't dare to say that I haven't gotten a penny of benefits, but I am really wronged to say that I am greedy for ink.

"Wronged? Hehe, this is the biggest joke of Zhenguan's eleven years. ”

Hou Junji looked at Steward Du with disdain.

"If you have something to say, just finish it in one breath, don't be there dripping, the urine is not the same."

Yan Lide was also very dissatisfied with Steward Du, and even speaking became difficult to sound.

Steward Du saw that the two bigwigs were looking at him unhappily, and he was also depressed, so he quickly explained.

"Yan Shangshu, the money and grain allocated by this household department arrived last summer. At that time, it was indeed prepared according to the cost of 10,000 horizontal knives, but this horizontal knife was the most time-consuming, and we only completed it a few days ago.

But the steel used in the forging of this horizontal knife has risen since last summer to the beginning of this year, do you know how much it has risen? ”

There was no one in the field to answer Du's voice, so he had to continue to explain.

"Horizontal knives need to be made of fine steel, and these steel ingots, in the past six months, have risen by more than three percent, and if you count from the beginning of last year, it will rise by five percent.

The price of our steel ingots is expensive, but the money and grain allocated by the household department will not increase, to be honest, we can create 8,000 horizontal knives, which are already made up by our subordinates after working hard and moving around. ”

Hou Junji didn't mean to be moved at all when he heard it, "Hehe, according to your meaning, our military department still has to thank you?" ”

"Don't dare to be! However, our Ministry of Industry has absolutely not made any greedy moves in the construction of horizontal knives. ”

Hearing this, Yan Lide's eyes at Steward Du finally softened a little.

It's good to have a reason, as long as it's not really greedy for ink, the rest is a.

has been immersed in officialdom for so many years, even the most iron-headed people know how to rip off.

"Hou Shangshu, you also heard what Steward Du said. It's not that our Ministry of Industry doesn't care, and it's not that anyone is greedy for money and food, it's all caused by the rise in steel prices. This kind of thing is not something that our Ministry of Industry can control at all. ”

"That's right, Hou Shangshu, according to the current steel price, not to mention 8,000 horizontal knives, it would be good to have 6,000, if you really want to talk about it, our Ministry of Industry is really not only not at fault, but has merit."

"That is, the price of stainless steel has risen, and the money and grain allocated by the Ministry of Household have not increased, and the Ministry of Industry naturally has no way to build 10,000 horizontal knives according to the original plan."

The waiter of the Ministry of Works and the staff outside the staff next to him also began to talk one after another.

"Fart! I don't care what your reason is, anyway, the military department wants 10,000 horizontal knives, and now I have only received 8,000, if you don't make up for the 2,000, don't blame me for being unkind! ”

Hou Junji took care of so much, and after leaving a cruel sentence, he brushed his sleeves and left.

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