Forget the advertisement of what car, happy life, start with a car! For Wang Hou, a happy life starts with cement!

With cement, the first thing to be built is the ironworks!

No tricks, Wang Hou also wants to be the first to build a house for himself, but if a city wants to rise, it must have its own characteristic industry, and Wang Hou's first characteristic industry in Rizhao is steel.

First of all, there is no surplus of steel in this era, there is only a shortage of steel, and the weapons of the Zangba army that are close to it are insufficient. The second is to be able to get a steady stream of cheap minerals from the area of Taishan County.

And as the nominal best governor of Qingzhou County, he also killed two birds with one stone, with the intention of producing mines to constantly exchange for food, the bandits in Taishan County lost their aggressiveness and sent around to rob other states and counties, but the smelting base could not be placed in Mount Tai, on the one hand, to prevent them from directly sitting on sophisticated weapons and then going around to rob, making it uncontrollable, on the other hand, it was also to provide convenience for Wang Hou to build this Rizhao port.

The port is so important! How did the British rule the world? It is to drive the pirate ship to a place where birds don't, first build a port anchorage, and then the merchants go to the island to collect special products, attracting a steady stream of merchant ships, and the open sea trade also stimulates ambitions, and the British continue to infiltrate and plunder the birds without in the process of commerce, and finally it took decades to completely turn this land into a colony of the British Empire.

Before the crossing, a whole look at this history on the Internet, Wang Hou was aggrieved, why did those Western monkeys seize this marine opportunity, in the Ming and Ming dynasties, China's navigation activities were also magnificent, why was it eliminated, and there was no competition with Western monkeys?

did not listen to Jia Xu's advice to develop in Luzhong, but chose the particularly desolate seaside sunshine in this era, Wang Hou is because of this depression in his heart, he finally has the right, can he make the Han into a maritime nation in advance when the barbarians in the West are still squatting in the Germanic forest as monkeys? Even the slightest hint of it is fine!

But what does the future hold for this port? After the cement construction of the iron-making workshop, for the more than 20,000 pioneers who reclaimed land by the sea, the most important change was that their homes became warmer.

In later generations, the heating of Wang Houjia's community came from the waste heat of the steel company! All the steel-making furnace chimneys in Wang Hou's iron-making workshop were connected by him, and the bricks were built into flues, and then the buttocks of the batch of wooden houses built by Jia Xu were poked in, and the family built a fire kang to bring in the hot smoke, and it was cold and shivering outside, but the buttocks were hot when sitting on the kang, and the wooden houses that leaked on all sides also had the appearance of a warm little home.

Wang Hou: This can be regarded as a precedent for central heating! Entering November, there is a light snow falling outside, at this time, it is estimated that with a stick, you can't beat away these captive Qingzhou refugees, it's so fucking cold!

The iron-making workshop was repaired, and Rizhao, a city without even a city wall, began to enter the busy life of office workers, and in the morning, the iron clock hanging in the residential area rang like a chicken coop in the skin, and then a large group of people wearing large or small ill-fitting "factory clothes" yawned reluctantly out of the warm wooden house of their homes.

Two thousand men were assigned to the iron-making workshop, thousands of square meters of iron-making workshop has spread to the river, a piece of steel-making on the riverbank, with sufficient manpower, Wang Hou built a total of twelve steel-making furnaces, but now only six have been opened for the time being, and the rest will have to wait for the next batch of raw materials produced by Mount Tai to arrive.

The workers were divided into three shifts, people did not stop the furnace, pushed the door open, a new wave of workers pushed the cart full of coal and iron ore in, a burst of cool air through the door, but the workers in the room who had stayed up all night were comfortable to meet the air conditioning and stretch their waists.

In the cold winter wax moon, it is really too hot!

Not to mention the steel-making clay stove that is oxygenated with a leather blower at any time, while frying the steel and solidifying the pond, the vicinity is as high as dozens of degrees, and the workers can't wear clothes in it, they can only be bare-chested, and sweat continues to flow down their chests.

Although he was arrested, Wang Hou was also paid, working in the steel mill, an adult man gave a stone of wheat a month, and gave a piece of clothes, although it was uncomfortable, but it was more than the previous farming under the command of the Qingzhou family, and they said hello to each other, and the workers who got off work put on their coats and went out of the cement workshop, and those who just went to work wrote their numbers with lime on the blackboard on the side, and then shoveled the coal into the steelmaking furnace with a shovel, calculated that the temperature was about the same, and suddenly opened the upper furnace, Molten steel poured out of the hole in the air.

What is the most profitable illegal trading in later generations, except for the white powder death that costs people's lives, it is also the most profitable munitions, and there is no such thing as poisoning people in this era, so munitions are the most profitable! Half of the workshop was made of high-quality fried steel, and the second half was immediately taken to the forge by the river.

Two thousand workers, more than 1,400 are gathered here, because the manpower that can be replaced by machinery in this era is really limited, and most of them still need manpower to build a knife and spear, and when you enter the workshop here, it is like entering a heavy metal band, with hammers ping pong everywhere, and a stove is also steaming.

The most high-tech can be regarded as a few water hammers next to the river, and the lotus river that flows slowly to the sea outside pushes the huge waterwheel, and the waterwheel alternates and reciprocates, and hundreds of pounds of heavy hammers are lifted violently, and then as the crankshaft falls suddenly, the mold pressed on the cutting board immediately presses inward, and the large cuirass heart shield cast out of shape is suddenly thinner under the heavy hammer blow.

On the other end, Wang Yuan is also shirtless, but he is taking this small hammer, and a new apprentice on the opposite side takes turns with a big hammer to play shifts, his small hammer knocks twice, facing the position he knocked, the apprentice directly turns the big hammer to smash a hammer, the two take turns to smash down, a steel bar that is not good-looking is formed and thinned, and finally after falling on the body I don't know how many gorgeous hammer marks, it was made into a standardized steel ruler appearance.

"Lord, it's done!"

In Wang Hou's somewhat anxious waiting, he worked for half an hour, and in the middle of this iron ruler, after grinding four holes with pig iron drills on both sides, he was covered with sweat and muscles, and Wang Yuan respectfully handed over this thing to Wang Hou.

Weighing in his hand, the half-meter-long iron ruler was enough to weigh a few catties, he shook his head a little helplessly, picked up the hammer, Wang Hou personally nailed this thing to a section of wood.

A bowstring made of several thin steel wires was pierced into the holes on either side of the iron ruler, and with the sound of squeaky metal as it was pulled and bent hard, a crossbow was finally assembled.

The size of this crossbow should be about the level of a crossbow, but even if it is light and a crossbow, Wang Hou has to step on both feet and pull, and in the sound of creaking metal, the crossbow string is stuck in the crossbow machine, lifted, facing the dead tree on the other side of the Lianhe River, Wang Hou pulled the crossbow machine violently, and with a bang, the three-edged arrow cast in this workshop roared out and flew out, with a loud bang, and the trembling arrow entered the wood and approached.

But the workshop was less than thirty meters away from the other side of the Lian River, and this performance was not outstanding, and then Wang Hou jumped again, and aimed at the tree fifty meters away from the other side of the river, and shot out again, and there was a bang, and the arrow shaft was still stuck into the wood.

Playing with his heart, he opened the steel crossbow for the third time, facing the farthest tree in the dead forest on the other side of the river, Wang Hou pulled the trigger, but this time, he saw the arrow flying out, but he couldn't see the landing point, and Wang Hou, who was watching, finally shook his head helplessly.

The effective range of this steel crossbow is about 50 to 55 meters, and he has also used the Han army's standard crossbow, and the effective range is about 65 to 70 meters, and his own thing is 15 meters shorter.

However, disappointed and threw down the crossbow arrows, Wang Hou still turned his head and ordered.

"Build a thousand first!"

"The villain obeys!"