After the three of them left, Jiang Wei thought about what to do with cement? First of all, it is certain to build yourself a modern villa, and then what? Do you want to be a shopping mall for a commercial complex? It's called Datang Commercial Plaza?

Or build a 30-story building first?

Wouldn't it be an exaggeration?

But that's all for later, let's get the cement out first.

In the afternoon, the first one to come back was Li De, thirty people had been recruited, Jiang Wei asked Li De to continue recruiting people until three hundred people were recruited. It was Li Wu who came back at noon the next day, contacting a coal merchant named Song Jinmin.

Jiang Wei thought for a while,

"You tell him that tomorrow at three o'clock in the morning, see you at the Spring Festival Teahouse. When the time comes, everything will be discussed in person. ”

Li Wu nodded,

"What else does Childe need to command?"

Jiang Wei sighed, he had said many times that he didn't need to be so polite, but these people in Yunling Village just didn't listen, and in the end he gave up.

Jiang Wei has never made coke, he only knows the principle, and it will definitely take a period of time to experiment with coking carbon, and the most important thing is toluene, which is his goal.

He has no experience in building a stove, and maybe he will need to borrow someone from his uncle Xu Xiaode at that time.

I have an uncle from the Ministry of Works, which is very good.

In the evening, Jiang Wei came to his uncle Xu Xiaode's study again, and when he came to the study, he saw Xu Xiaode teaching his cousin Xu Hui to practice calligraphy.

Xu Hui glanced at Jiang Wei, lowered his head and continued to practice calligraphy, but his heart was not on calligraphy.

"What's the matter this time?"

"Uncle, my nephew is here today to ask my uncle.

Xu Xiaode glanced up at Jiang Wei, and to be honest, he was a little happy in his heart. He prides himself on being talented, but he has always felt bottomless about this nephew, not only because his nephew is too popular, but because he is too smart. As for those truths, they were reported to the Ministry of Industry by the Ministry of Industry, which once attracted the attention of the Ministry of Industry. But he was stunned to listen, feeling like a student who had just entered the threshold, everything was ignorant, and it sounded very reasonable.

Xu Xiaode nodded and motioned for Jiang Wei to continue,

"Uncle, may I ask Datang Steelmaking, how do you make steel?"

Although Xu Xiaode didn't quite understand the meaning of Jiang Wei's words, he thought about it and replied,

"Steel-filled method."

Jiang Wei nodded and understood.

The so-called steel filling method is the steel filling technology invented during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which is to bend the wrought iron bars and coil them, embed the pig iron blocks between the coiled wrought iron bars, seal the furnace with mud and smelt them, and then add forging after smelting, and exercise them together, which is called "group steel", also called "steel filling". This is actually fake steel, relying on the hardness of pig iron, and after two or three more smelting, the pig iron will be matured and become soft iron. People all over the world don't think there's anything wrong with this, because they don't know what real steel is.

The steel in the iron is like the gluten in the dough, and the gluten is only revealed when the soft surface is constantly washed, and steelmaking is the same reason.

Jiang Wei thought about it, took out a blast furnace design drawing, and said,

"Uncle, my nephew has a method of steelmaking, and I am here to dedicate it to my uncle."

Xu Xiaode listened, his heart was a little moved, he took the design drawing, looked at it for a while, only to hear Jiang Wei continue to speak,

"This is a blast furnace, if this furnace is used to make steel, and then coke calcined, whether it is the amount of steel or the smelting speed of refined iron, it will be several times faster."

Although Xu Xiaode is a Langzhong of the Ministry of Works, he is helpless and is not very clear about these works, but he also has a concept. And he has a kind of mysterious confidence in this nephew, perhaps because of the plow he offered earlier. Or maybe it's because this distant nephew always brings him many incomprehensible miracles.

After thinking about it, Xu Xiaode suddenly asked,

"What is coke? Why haven't I heard of it? ”

Jiang Wei smiled,

"Coke is a kind of steel that my nephew has made to make steel, and my uncle has certainly not heard of it. It is made from charcoal, and although the price is two and a half times that of charcoal, the degree of burn resistance is two to three times that of charcoal. If the Ministry of Industry needs coke, my nephew is planning to build a factory to smelt a large amount of coke for the Ministry of Industry's steelmaking. ”

Xu Xiaode thought for a moment,

"Okay, I'll hand this picture to the Ministry of Industry and ask for credit for you."

Jiang Wei smiled bitterly,

"Uncle, my nephew really has no intention of becoming an official in the court, and I ask my uncle to be considerate of my nephew. Moreover, the nephew also has a condition, that is, in the future, the waste slag that comes out of the blast furnace hopes to be sold to the nephew at the reserve price. ”

Xu Hui, who was writing on the side, listened to it and couldn't help but want to speak, but because her father was on the side, she finally held back.

Xu Xiaode also sighed, he didn't force it, but thought of the rumors about this nephew in the outside world, as well as those truths, and gave up.

"Uncle promised you, but he also wants you to think more about yourself. If you encounter something that you can't decide, you can come and ask your uncle, and if you need your uncle's help, you don't need to be polite. That's all my uncle can say. ”

Jiang Wei could see that Xu Xiaode said these general words out of sincerity, and his affection for him gradually increased. Before, Jiang Wei just regarded this uncle as a tool man, and he had no feelings. In the past few days, Xu Hui's family has taken care of himself, not only has he never had any gossip, but also taken good care of his brother and sister, which has moved him very much, and he has also developed a feeling for his aunt's family.

"Nephew and Uncle Xie are very loving, by the way, uncle, nephew has one more thing to ask for."

"What?"

Jiang Wei cheekily said,

"I don't know if my uncle knows about the abandoned charcoal ash in the steelmaking room of the Ministry of Industry? The nephew wanted to buy the carcoal ash. ”

Xu Xiaode really didn't understand the brain circuit of this nephew, as an official of the Ministry of Industry, he had also been to the steel-making house, and he remembered that all the charcoal ash was discarded in the ravine not far from the steel-making room. It's just that he doesn't understand what this nephew wants to do with that useless charcoal ash. But he didn't ask,

"This is a trivial matter, you need to go and get it directly, come to me tomorrow afternoon, and I'll take you there."

Jiang Weiwei was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that he could get it without spending money, so there would be a shortage of plaster, so he thanked Xu Xiaode again.

Leaving the study and looking at the moon in the sky, I inexplicably remembered that if I built a villa in the future, would I really want to leave here? I thought about it.

Here, after all, it is the home of his uncle and aunt, not his, and when he understands this, his heart is no longer entangled.

In this world, he needs a home that belongs only to himself and his sister.

Early the next morning, Jiang Wei got up early, and after exercising, he ate something casually, and then rushed to the Spring Festival Teahouse with Li Wu to attend the meeting.

Because it was still early morning, there were not many people in the teahouse not long after it opened, and the first time Jiang Wei walked into the teahouse, he saw a woman sitting by the window, and behind her stood a middle-aged man with a mustache.

Jiang Wei looked at Li Wu with some doubts, wasn't the coal merchant Song Jinmin? Why is there only one woman here? Or did Song Jinmin not come?