Chapter 259: Prelude to the Storm, A Song of Steel and Fire

Relying on the means of yin and spicy, Funing County was able to get rid of almost all the burden at the end of September.

Now everything is being prepared, travel light. Until one day they put on their armor and reloaded in steel and flames.

At the beginning of October, under the rapid and efficient coordination and command, the Beishan mining area has been fully reopened. They are owned by the new joint-stock enterprise "Northwest United Investment Bank".

The rumors spread by the little bell among the people have been fulfilled in the first phase, and the county government is not intervening, and the joint investment bank has recruited the first batch of regular workers to reopen the mine in the form of an enterprise, and the salary is not high, but it is very different from the previous "service".

That's not all. For the first time, Wang Yan formulated a "retirement policy" as the chief treasurer of the United Investment Bank. That is, anyone who has worked in an investment bank for 20 years, regardless of gender, age or age, can retire and enjoy a pension of half of the salary.

This is definitely a super bombshell in the Great Song Dynasty, because this treatment is not even available to public servants, and only the official officials of the Great Song Dynasty really enjoy this treatment.

Under the effective propaganda of the official navy and the "spy little bell", when the majority of the people of Funing County have initially trusted the government, even if this policy is a pie, it is far from visible. But confidence is everything, and compared with the previous slave treatment, Funing County is basically bloody. There was an unprecedented grand occasion, and all the empty alleys of 10,000 people poured into the county office, turning all the public servants on their backs; no one could be found before, but now everyone who can walk, and even children under the age of 10 have come to sign up, crying and shouting to go to the coal mine to work.

However, the first batch of jobs was limited, since it was a mining industry, young men were preferred, those who had experience in mines were preferred, and so on.

The underlying information for the specific implementation of these comes from their resumes, as well as the news of the recent visits and results of the small bell in Berlin, which people are suitable for working in the mines, not to mention absolutely accurate, but they can still make the best use of them.

Among them, there are many old miners, under their advice, combined with the technical team from the capital and the advice of Lao Luo's father, they are also in full swing to rectify and strengthen the mine to achieve relative safety.

There is a shortage of people in Funing County, so it is necessary to use equipment as much as possible. At present, the Great Song Dynasty is still very backward in this regard, but the coal yard in the capital has been at the forefront in these aspects. In the early stage, Wang Yan spent a considerable amount of investment in technology research and development, and put forward a lot of brainstorming ideas, so he developed and manufactured more types of instrument prototypes, but they were not sold for the time being. Because there are too many crazy profiteers, there is no shortage of people in the inland of the Great Song Dynasty, and the wage is low, even the little uncle is unwilling to "upgrade the industry".

Now Funing County has come to take the lead, the left hand is down to the right hand, and the first batch of equipment that has not been sold to Funing County has been sold to Funing County, and these equipment have now arrived. Under the coordination of the Beijing technician, the workers are organized to adapt to the learning operation rules and debug by the way.

After application, there are many imperfections, which should be despised in the opinion of Lao Luo, saying that such materials will make the service life low. In the eyes of Lao Luo, an expert artist, the materials and processes in many key places of these equipment are completely replaceable and qualitatively improved.

However, it does not mean that he is the top existence of materials science, he must be right. Wang Yanzhen spent a day listening to his experience and suggestions, and some places do make sense and can be adopted, but on the whole it is.

"You don't know anything about power."

This is in front of the little bell, Da Yan criticized Lao Luo's father.

In fact, the ultimate goal is to industrialize mass production, as long as it can be used, pull and walk, and slowly modify the process of the most balanced plan, which is called industry.

Of course, those things of Lao Luo's father will be art, and they can be used in high-tech fields at special times, but when Wang Yan asked what the output was, he scratched his head. If he had used his material processing process to make mine equipment, he would probably only be able to afford the coal produced in that way, and the conclusion was that it would have been a no-brainer.

After receiving such a reply, Lao Luo's father was depressed for a while. Originally, Lao Luo, who had heard a lot of stories, thought that the county magistrate had spent so much effort to Zhao'an his own family, and it was almost a situation where Wolong went out of the mountain, and there should be a response to requests, and he would be treated as a guest.

The result is: in Wang Yan's eyes, no day and no one is particularly important.

In the future, all the equipment and equipment ordered by Funing County, using experience and data, will continue to feed back to the coal yard in Beijing, so that they can provide after-sales service at the same time, which is equivalent to providing the direction and basis for improvement. This business will be like Wang Yan's feed formula, continuous improvement, 1 point 1 version to 9 point zero version......

In early October, Wang Yan and the relevant leading comrades of the county government waited in a group on the periphery of the newly built round kiln, waiting for the first batch of coke from the Great Song Dynasty official to be baked.

That's the significance of the milestone.

Wang Yan always believes that coke has been applied in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is an era of continuous refreshment of technology and experience, and coke technology is 500 years earlier than Europe.

However, in fact, after coming to the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Yan had never seen real coke, at least not officially.

The Great Song Dynasty was a society where secret recipes prevailed, and coke technology was indeed available among the people. For example, Zhanzhao's knife and Bai Yutang's sword are said to be made by top folk foundries, but it is better to say that they are made by people with coke. Wang Yan is sure that relying on coal and charcoal, he will not be able to hit such a "heavenly knife". That's the secret ingredient.

This secret recipe is very simple, using charcoal can basically solve the problem of high phosphorus and sulfur content, but the temperature is not enough, it is easy to use to build general weapons but not to cast heavenly knives. If coal is used, the problem of phosphorus and sulfur can directly seal the highest-end forging technology.

So Zhanzhao's Heavenly Sword must have been forged by a certain master with coke.

The hero sees the same thing, Wang Yan's point of view has been "certified" by Lao Luo's father in Funing County. Lao Luo Dad said that Wang Yan is an understanding person, Zhanzhao's heavenly knife came from the eastern region of Guang 1, and the person who cast this knife was Lao Luo's fellow brother, a person with coke technology.

Coke technology Lao Luo Dad also has. So on this issue, Lao Luo's father can solve practical problems and make Wang Yan's brain holes and ideas practical. This round kiln was built by Lao Luo's father.

Everyone is useful, Wang Yan has some scorching ideas in later generations, but if there is no old Luo Dad, it is impossible for this coking workshop that belongs to the joint-stock enterprise to be built concretely, and it will take countless detours, fail countless times, and burn countless money to succeed.

The layman looks at the excitement, and now a large group of people are just waiting for this super huge round kiln to come out with a batch of coke. They all heard that coke was powerful, but they didn't know what it was.

As for Lao Luo's father, he was speechless, I don't know why Wang Yan was so desperate and built such a huge coking workshop? A special furnace can produce half a ton, such a scale, in the idea of the secret recipe, a small amount of high-quality products in the Great Song Dynasty idea seems crazy.

This young man is ambitious to cast the "Heavenly Sword" of the whole army and turn the whole of Funing County into Zhanzhao. Old Luo Dad is stupidly thinking so.

In fact, Wang Yan despised people including Lao Luo's father again, and they knew nothing about power. I don't know that my cement workshop has been built, and without a large amount of coke, it will be difficult to burn cement, and then, in the future, it will not be possible to refine qualified steel in batches.

Wang Yan doesn't need a heavenly knife, a knife like Zhanzhao can be pretended, but in the future, the armament of the Funing Army needs to be formed at one time by using abrasives, and the quality cannot be lost too far to the manual forging in the ordinary state, this is okay, this is progress.

In mid-October, the coking process was basically stabilized, which was improved under the command of Lao Luo's participation.

However, in the current process, it takes about seven days for coke to be baked, and only half a ton of coke is produced in one furnace. In other words, according to this estimate, only two tons of coke are available in January, which is not enough to support the current industrial start-up in Funing County.

So "make one generation, apply one generation, and develop the next generation at the same time". After only a few releases, combined with various data and experience, coupled with the improvement on paper, the construction drawings of the "second-generation round kiln" of the Funing County United Enterprise have been prepared.

The planned second-generation round kiln is really awesome, combined with the existing technical experience, Wang Yan's requirement is to design a capacity of two tons, and the process requirements are increased to five days to bake.

This is a problem and a challenge for Lao Luo's father, but he is really involved in it. Little Bell's father was born for these, not for anything, as long as there is this soil environment, he will devote himself to it just like Su Shi studying literature and Zhanzhao studying martial arts.

What's more, after Wang Yan promised "as long as I live for a day, I will take care of the little bell for a day", Lao Luo's father did not have any worries and hidden thoughts, and began to dedicate his life's experience......

It was worth enduring the more than 20 prison escapes of Little Bell's family at the beginning.

Lao Luo's fine craftsmanship was finally used. This is a threshold that cannot be bypassed when burning cement, and in order to be efficient, it is directly necessary to challenge the foundation of materials science.

Limestone and ironstone pulverizers can improve efficiency, but many previous attempts have failed, limited to the existing process of Dasong, the wear and tear of the core crushing parts is too great.

So in this key place, Lao Luo's father personally created two sets of "Heavenly Sword Wheels", which are of comparable quality to the Heavenly Knife in Zhanzhao's hands. These two high-cost equipment are one of the core equipment for mass production of cement.

Zhan Zhao and Mu Guiying walked around these two core devices with bright eyes and drooling every day, but the equipment looked cold but actually a baby. They all agree that the delinquent boys are tyrannical creatures, this kind of magic weapon that can make the heroes of the rivers and lakes crazy, but the big bird has turned them into gravel equipment used by low-level workers.

With these two equipment, it only solves the problem of basic materials for cement.

But the second core technology is the temperature control of calcination.

Now no one knows what Wang Yan wants to make, this is the blank of the Song people. No one knows the specific temperature required for this thing called muddy water, and even if they do, it is not the same, because Da Song has no way to measure it specifically, let alone have automatic temperature control.

So it's all about experimentation and accumulation, and the mud workshop has been in trial production since it was built, while recording the process and data.

Fortunately, in this regard, Lao Luo's father participated in the command research. When it comes to the experience and ability of fire control and temperature control, it can be said that even the capital can't find someone who can compare with Lao Luo's father. In this regard, the little bell and his father have an advantage every day.

If you just grasp the temperature point required by cement, then in a simple experimental environment, this difficulty should have been overcome by Lao Luo's father.

The biggest problem is that it is difficult to take care of the existing furnace scheme, to take care of the simplicity of the output and production process, the reproducibility, the cost factors, etc., and to combine all of these and achieve a balance point to produce the kind of ash that Wang Yan needs.

It's difficult, Wang Yan instructed: If it's easy, why do you want you to do it, master, I came to the northwest with so much money, do you really think it's a show? Give me a job, the experiment is in the experiment, the improvement is in the improvement, the cement progress, we must cooperate with the first three-year construction plan of Funing County, before the first month of next year, we must not be afraid of hardship and tiredness, unite as one, overcome this technical difficulty, and open up the situation for the future construction.

Faced with the Hitler-like management of the Great Hitler, all the disgraced workers took the oath of integrity, and their eyes lit up......