When he came out of An Daoquan's Royal Medicine Garden, Zhao Huan was filled with joy.

It's one thing to have a prescription, it's another thing to turn a prescription into a medicine that can be used directly, and it's another thing to mass-produce a medicine.

In this era, the average life expectancy of human beings is generally only about 50 years old, in addition to war, plague, cold, poisonous sores, gastroenteritis and so on are the main causes of population consumption, and the mortality rate due to disease is much higher than the war mortality rate.

"Dying without illness" can be regarded as one of the five blessings in Chinese culture, which shows how common the phenomenon of "death from illness" is in this era.

Before Zhao Huan left, he exchanged other medical skills with An Daoquan, such as how to make distilled liquor and use it to treat wound infections, and how to prepare for the establishment of a medical school as soon as possible. This matter has long been put on the agenda, but An Daoquan has always been obsessed with the development of the five major medicines, so Wen Huanzhang has always been dealing with it, and it is almost completed, and soon An Daoquan and the imperial doctor in the hospital will teach.

In the end, Zhao Huan ordered the hair washing pill and Tiannan Baiyao to be distributed to the generals, and left here.

Now, he is going to another manor, called the Armory Courtyard, which is located on the side of the Bianhe River, covering an area of more than five hundred acres, and I heard that there are more than a thousand acres. It was the first time Zhao Huan had come here.

Before Zhao Huan went south, he handed Wen Huanzhang a drawing that marked the location of the iron mine, copper mine, gold mine, and silver mine in the Great Song Coal Mine, as well as a set of steelmaking and forging methods, which was another lifeblood of the Great Song Dynasty, and he must also pay attention to it.

And when he came to the outside of the armory, he found that the wall here was very high, as high as two zhang, almost a military fort.

Outside the gate, Tang Long heard that Zhao Huan was coming, so he waited here early, he took Zhao Huan into the garden, and when he entered it, it was a scene, in addition to the large piles of ore, it was a piece of iron ingot, which was not commensurate with the beautiful scenery outside.

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As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Huan was drowned out by the sound of hammering iron blocks one after another inside, and under the leadership of Tang Long, he went straight to the central area, where there were more than a dozen circular brick towers five or six people high.

Zhao Huan was overjoyed, he finally knew why Tang Long brought him here directly, and he also knew why the wall of the armory courtyard was so high.

"You built a blast furnace?" Zhao Huan asked excitedly, "How is it?" Can iron be smelted? ”

The blast furnace and coke iron-making methods were all given to him by Zhao Huan, but Zhao Huan didn't know if he could implement it, and he was really bottomless in his heart; But now look at Tang Long's expression, you can know that it is reliable!

Blast furnace ironmaking, that is the ironmaking technology five hundred years later, is the core force of the European Industrial Revolution, if it can be done in this era, the Great Song Dynasty will no longer lack iron!

He has crossed over and has the help of the system, and there must always be the vision of the times reflected in him. I didn't expect to be able to make bugs like steam engines, airplanes, bullets, and generators, but things like blast furnaces, coke, waterwheel forging, plate armor, cement, and the like could be completely realized with the technology of this era, and they were all things that were in short supply in the Great Song Dynasty, so why didn't I use them?

Fools don't need it!

Tang Long next to him quite understood Zhao Huan's excited mood at the moment, you must know that when he made these things, he cried and laughed excitedly, and many times his friends and colleagues were worried about whether he would go crazy because of this.

He said to Zhao Huan: "Official! This blast furnace was built according to the drawings given by the officials; At the same time, there is no problem with using coal to make coke, there are a large number of coal mines in Ruzhou, and there is no shortage of coke in our Great Song Dynasty. The molten iron produced by the blast furnace and coke together is much higher than the previous iron in terms of toughness and hardness, and what is even more rare is that the blast furnace ironmaking method is not difficult to achieve, as long as the method is strictly followed, and the output is very high. After this method matures, the Great Song Dynasty will no longer lack iron, and the armor and weapons of the Great Song Dynasty will also improve a lot! ”

Tang Long pointed to the piles of iron ore and coke next to him, and while introducing it to Zhao Huan, he told the process of leading the officials of the Ordnance Institute to realize this law.

After finishing speaking, he pointed to one of the blast furnaces not far away: "The molten iron in this furnace can be released, Your Majesty, please look!" ”

Under the operation of four or five craftsmen, the fiery red molten iron slowly flowed out, and Zhao Huan's eyes were also hot.

"Good! Good! ”

Zhao Huan praised repeatedly, took Tang Long's arm and whispered: "This method must be kept secret!" Don't be taught by the enemy! ”

Tang Long said: "The official family can rest assured, these craftsmen have been here for generations, and they are usually supervised by the imperial court when they go out and contact with people, and these secret methods cannot be passed on!" ”

Zhao Huan sighed: "I just wronged you!" ”

Tang Long shook his head: "All dynasties and dynasties have treated craftsmen like this, the court can treat us well, there is no shortage of food and clothing, it is already a great kindness, and it is not wronged!" ”

Zhao Huan said: "To train more excellent craftsmen, there can be only one armory institute, I think that in Shuzhong, Jingzhou, Nanzhong and even Jiaozhou and other places should build armory institutes, iron-making institutes, where close to the mining area, and convenient for hydraulic forging, when the time comes, those who have both ability and political integrity can be sent to various places as the head of the official." ”

"I understand! When it comes to hydraulic forging, it is indeed fast and good, saving a lot of manpower and time, so please come with me. ”

Tang Long took Zhao Huan and others to the edge of the Bianhe River and pointed to a row of dozens of waterwheels: "The Bianhe River just passes through the Ordnance Courtyard, which provides us with great convenience for improving the waterwheels." ”

He pointed to the small sheds on the side of the waterwheel, and in each shed there were many hammers, which were driven by the waterwheel and smashed down one after another.

According to the official drawings, each iron plate will be forged thousands of times by the hammer, until the thickness of the iron plate is reduced to about sixty percent of the original, and the defense power of this iron plate will reach the limit. It's the secret of the cold broken armor of Western Xia! ”

"Before there were no water wheels, the Ordnance Institute was expected to only forge a thousand sets of cold-forged armor per month; But with this waterwheel, forging day and night, you can forge six or seven thousand sets a month! ”

Zhao Huan hurriedly asked, "What if it is replaced with plate armor?" ”

Tang Long thought for a while and said, "We have also forged several sets of plate armor, and we have also tested it, the defense of this plate armor is really strong, but it is also relatively difficult to make, according to the current situation, we can only forge a maximum of one hundred sets of plate armor a month!" ”

Zhao Huan looked at him with blazing eyes: "I want to get three thousand sets of plate armor in three months, is there a way?" ”

"If this is the case, the minister suggested that the official family is now in the military arsenal and watermills in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the Jingzhou generation. Now there are 5,000 craftsmen in the Ordnance Academy, as long as 500 waterwheels are built, 5,000 craftsmen and all the iron ingots of the Great Song Dynasty are separated, and all efforts are made to cast plate armor and cold-forged armor, the minister estimates that after three months, he should be able to get 3,000 sets of plate armor and 50,000 sets of cold-forged armor, and even those spears, shields and other things that the officials want can be made into tens of thousands of sets. But once the ingots run out, the speed slows down. ”

"Immediately inform Taishi Li, Taifu Wen, and Taiwei Xu that they will start expanding the Ordnance Institute now, and the local governments and garrisons will fully cooperate......"

Zhao Huan decisively ordered.

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