Chapter 735: Dockyard

Farming is actually quite well arranged, Cai Jing, Jia Kang, and the governors of various states are very familiar with this business, and they can only grasp the industrial stuff themselves.

Therefore, the grain collection work had just begun, and Su You left Hangzhou and appeared in Moling Town.

Shi Tong sent a letter, the first line of Gushan Mountain in the south of Moling, and the mining area was discovered! Iron ore, pyrite, and gold were found in the mining area. Non-metallic mineral deposits include gypsum, limestone, bitter soil, alum, porcelain clay and other mineral deposits.

In the upstream Chizhou Tongling area, in addition to copper ore, there were iron ore, gold ore, silver ore, manganese ore, and lead-zinc ore. And the rest of the non-metals, there are sulfur ore, coal mines, dolomite, limestone, clay, phosphate rock......

Therefore, just a coal dry distillation industry and wet copper production are blind, and we have to expand the scale of production capacity......

Su You is angry, first rectify the explosives factory! How to expand production capacity without explosives?!

Moling Town is very rich in water resources, and when Su You came here, Shitong had already refined several furnaces of molten iron.

Shi Tong regretted: "It's a pity that the sulfur content of Yongfengjian's coal is high, and even after it is made into coking coal, the iron is not as good as Erlin Steel." ”

Su You rolled his eyes: "I didn't let you compare with Erlin Steel Shangzhou Steel, and the Great Song Dynasty is not a good product everywhere, isn't there manganese?" What are the properties of manganese steel? ”

The supervisor of Yongfeng Prison hurriedly said: "No, the refined steel refined by Shi Envoy is already a rare good steel in Jiangnan." ”

Su You said to one of the entourage: "Botong, Jiangnan Steel, take your hometown as the most, try?" ”

This person's name is He Zhizhong, a native of Longquan, Liangzhejiang Road, Xining's six-year Jinshi Jiake Gaodi, and now he is just thirty years old, and he was a judge in Taizhou before.

Taizhou is contemptuous, and Zhizhou Zeng Gong has nothing to rely on after his arrival, all relying on He Zhizhong's shrewdness and ability, and he supported the scene by himself.

There is a demon prison in Taizhou, and a group of cultists have been arrested, but there is no legal offense, and it has dragged on for a long time.

He Zhizhong secretly observed and found that these people did not say "horns" when they said that the horns of ox and sheep did not say "horns", but "shares", so he asked the officials to ask the reason.

The cultists were all distracted, and they were frightened, so He Zhi concluded: "These people must be the remnants of peace!" They're avoiding Zhang Jiao! ”

Cultists "prostrate and lead ambushes."

Jiang Zhiqi served as Jianghuai, and once praised him for "one state and six yi, relying on Juner!" ”

Now he is serving as the magistrate of Haiyan County, and in just a few months, he has completed the task of cracking down on salt barons, rectifying salt farms, and improving production capacity as required by Su You.

Su You was shocked, by the way, he felt that he had attached great importance to talents, and he even missed such a fierce person under his rule, so he hurriedly promoted him to his side.

This baby was lifted by Su You, and there was no way to repay it, so he took the ancestral sword and prepared to present it to the benefactor.

As a result, Su You returned it to him a few days after receiving it, saying that the sword was not well maintained, so he disassembled it and cleaned up the dirt again, maintained it, and replaced the nails and braided ropes.

The scabbard was re-attached with glue to the flying skin, and some of the worn areas were re-patched with fish skin, and then the distressed paint color was adjusted to make up for it seamlessly.

He Zhizhong was stupid, so he had to take back the sword, and came down to inquire with Zhang Qiyi, only to know that the benefactor was originally an expert in playing weapons, and now the precious Erlin feather pattern flower steel of the Liao Kingdom of the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia was the invention of the benefactor when he was a child.

He Zhizhong smiled embarrassedly: "Ming Gong said that he laughed, the Longquan Sword is now also compared to the Erlin Sword." ”

Su You said with a smile: "From the point of view of practicality, in fact, the Longquan Sword is similar to the Erlin Knife, but the Erlin Knife is better in steel, and the heat treatment is more refined. ”

He Zhizhong took the scribe's folding knife given to him by Su You and pressed it open, and gently pressed the Moling Steel: "Xialongquan Steel is first-class, but it's not bad." ”

Longquan Iron is smelted with a type of iron ore called "bright stone", which is screened out by local craftsmen through magnets.

Su Youming has inspected that it is a fairly pure iron oxide, and it is smelted locally with pine charcoal, so the sulfur content is not comparable to that of Moling steel made from coke today.

Shi Tong expressed regret: "The sulfur content of the coal mine in Tongling is a bit high. ”

Su You said: "High also has high benefits, at least the materials prepared by the three acids are available." There are always more pros than cons. ”

The products of coal mine dry distillation are now very finely divided, and the exported furnace gas can produce coke oven gas, ammonia, and crude benzene; The finished product is obtained from coke for steelmaking; The remaining part includes coal tar, asphalt, and toner.

Coke oven gas is used in metallurgy and coking; Ammonia is used in the production of nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, fire nitrate; Coal tar and toner are used to make inks, gunpowder; asphalt paving; Crude benzene is used in medicine, anti-knock additives for gasoline and metal degreasers.

Black powder and nitrifying explosives have been limited by the production and preparation of nitric acid and nitrate, and after 20 years of development, the Great Song Dynasty has now begun to take shape in the chemical industry, and there is no need to collect manure for refining.

The nitrate boiling process has become a thing that the people refine for their own use.

Su You said with a smile: "No matter what, the steel needed by the military and civilians of the Liangzhejiang Road, Moling manganese steel can also be used." This autumn, you can harvest a batch of trial cotton in Kunshan, and all of them will be allocated to you for making nitrocellulose mines! ”

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Tongling, from the Spring and Autumn Period, the people of Jiangnan smelted copper here.

Several pits metallurgy, the thickness of the slag reached one meter, and the radius was several square kilometers.

The slag brought a lot of pollution, and a lot of the rainwater collected into the pit lake, where no life could grow, because it was full of bile water.

Bile water is a solution of copper sulfate.

With the bile copper leaching process, copper farmers did not need to be taught, and soon found a way to use bile water and sulfuric acid to pour ore and slag to produce and concentrate bile water.

As of the end of July, the copper obtained by Liangzhejiang Road in a quarter has accounted for more than two-thirds of the output of previous years.

The direct beneficiaries are the inferior copper households, who used to only hand over the ore to the large households to start the furnace, but now they can directly hand over the copper mud, and the income will go up at once.

The copper mud still needs to be smelted into copper ingots by large households, but the simplification of production steps and the use of coking coal kilns have allowed them to reduce production costs, improve output and quality, and also obtain a lot of profits.

Su You has no intention of buying at a reduced price, what he needs is output.

In Tongling, I got on a big ship to transport iron nails and rivets and other workpieces to Shanghai for business, and went down the river, 1,200 miles of waterway, and could arrive in three days.

Shanghai's Wusong River Estuary, formerly a small fishing village, is now used as a shipbuilding industrial base, and has built two huge docks.

The dock was dug out on the slope of the river, and when viewed from the waterway, there are two large holes, and from the land road, it looks more like two large holes.

Each large dock can accommodate two of today's largest Hangzhou-type schooners, the Zhang San, and the Milk Lion is now undergoing meticulous maintenance here.

The big ship sailed into the dock, lowered the sluice plate to close the water inlet, and started the waterwheel to send out the water in the sluice, and the big ship rested on the base of the dock.

On the slope on the top of the dock, on one side is the material yard, and on the other side is the living quarters of the workers.

Workers emerge from the living quarters and descend the steps carved out on both sides of the dock to the dock, where they can maintain the giant ship.

Above the dock, there is a tower crane, which can transfer workpieces and materials.

On the other side and in the other dock, there are three Hangzhou-type large ships that are about to be completed.

It was built by Sitong Firm for the cooperation of the Qian family and the Yao family, in addition to giving money, but also to provide craftsmen and stewards.

Sitong firm provides drawings and technical personnel.

A huge maritime group is slowly taking shape in Liangzhejiang Road.

The two also paid three other costs, one was to provide books for the West Lake Printing Company presided over by Qin Guan to copy and copy; the second is to provide a team of actuaries to provide computing support to the theoretical research team chaired by Zhao Zongyou; The third is to experiment with cotton and wheat intercropping on newly purchased land.

The whine of sawing machine work, the screeching of metalworking lathes, the clanging of banging, the neat trumpet sound of workers, and the whistle directing the hammock to place the keel make up the magnificent movement of this large construction site.