Chapter 1302 Hot Springs

In order to solve the urgent need for fuel for the army, Su You directly mined coal and iron in Lanzhou, Youzhou, Yincheng and Weizhou, and started the coal and iron industry.

Just because the Xia people can't make use of these resources doesn't mean that the Song people can't do it now.

Lanzhou's silver, platinum, lead, zinc, coal, rich reserves, Shi Yong in Lanzhou's Xia people's warehouse, found a lot of platinum ingots that were used as silver ingots by the Xia people.

It is also rich in ferrosilicon, which is an important mineral deposit to improve the quality of steel, and the famous Qingfeng steel is from high-quality coal and its addition.

Youzhou is rich in coal, salt, and miscanthus salt, which is crucial in the leather processing and manufacturing industry.

Yincheng is even more exaggerated, where it is Shenmu, the largest coal county in China in later generations. In addition to coal, there is also iron ore, with an iron content of up to 60%!

In addition, there is a high-grade quartz sand, which can be used to make refractory bricks, porcelain and glass.

The same is true in Weizhou, in addition to coal, there is also a place that makes Suyou feel comfortable - Warm Bone Spring.

Zeng Xiaokuan looked at these huge coal storage pits and couldn't help but sigh: "How much coal does this have...... What's that over there? ”

Wang Zhongzheng said: "It is a steam boiler, which can use coal and water as raw materials to produce any power, crush coal into powder, and then mix it with clay, straw and other ingredients to make ......."

Zeng Xiaokuan has already understood: "Honeycomb briquettes have been used in Bianjing City." ”

"Uh...... It's pretty much the same, but it's not that complicated, it's more like what the kids in Beijing eat...... Bubble tubes. ”

"Look at it."

In fact, this place is only the place where coal is most coarsely processed, but it has already made Zeng Xiaokuan breathtaking.

The steam-powered pulverizer and mixer produce a large amount of formula pulverized coal at a very fast speed, and the workers sprinkle the pulverized coal with water, and then send it into the hopper of the coal rod machine, and from the other end, it is the hollow coal rod that has been processed and formed.

The foreman's blue cloth overalls looked like a four-way background, and he came to greet the two officials, and he wanted to give a salute, but his hands lit up, and they were all black oil, so he had to be perfunctory.

Zeng Xiaokuan didn't care, just looked at the coal cylinder that the coal rod machine was spitting out: "How much can you produce this in a day?" ”

The foreman replied: "It can produce 17,000 catties of coal cylinders a day." After the coal is processed into a coal cylinder, the gas passing performance in the furnace is better, not to mention coal saving, and the calorific value is higher. ”

Zeng Xiaokuan couldn't help but sigh: "The ability of science and engineering is ......."

The foreman said: "Grandpa Guo said that in order for the sergeants to be able to eat stir-fried vegetables, to shorten the cooking time, it is necessary to have high firepower, and fuel that is convenient to use......"

Zeng Xiaokuan's brows suddenly frowned: "It's for stuttering again?" ”

This foreman is clever, and when he heard that the tone was wrong, he hurriedly said: "But later we found out that this thing is used for coking, which is more economical, and the coking coal cylinder is used for iron smelting, and the efficiency is much more powerful than that of directly using coking coal......

This kind of prevarication can't hide from a capable minister like Zeng Xiaokuan: "Then your factory should be built next to iron smelting." ”

"This ......" said the foreman with a blushing face and an idea, "uh...... In fact, it is better to build here, and the iron smelting of the Song Dynasty today uses a lot of water. The Balwei River can be transported by boat to pull the iron ore here to produce, and the beneficiation and washing are more convenient, and the products can be sent directly down the river to Fenglingdu. ”

Zeng Xiaokuan sneered: "I'll listen to it seriously and tell Su Mingrun that since he harmed the old man to be the transfer envoy of the Jiuyuan Road, he has to give me a few more sets of such things." ”

After speaking, he turned around and said to Wang Zhongzheng: "It seems that Du Guan has done a lot of civil work." ”

Zeng Xiaokuan's style of governance is "justice", when Zhao Xuan ordered Zhang Dian to investigate the Zeng Bu City Yi Wu case, Zeng Bu once raised objections, saying that there is a gap with Zhang Dian and will definitely not get justice.

Zhao Ji's reply to Zeng Bu at that time was: "With Zeng Xiaokuan here, the matter is not necessarily straightforward even if he is sent to prison." ”

Wang Zhongzheng heard Zeng Xiaokuan say this, and he was secretly relieved in his heart, but he heard Zeng Xiaokuan say: "I heard that you have more than 70,000 horses and more than 90,000 cattle? ”

"No, no, no......" Wang Zhongzheng waved his hand again and again: "No...... So many, more than 50,000 horses, more than 70,000 cattle. ”

"Hmm." Zeng Xiaokuan nodded: "Then don't worry about it, let's transfer it to the transfer department." ”

Wang Zhongzheng is stupid, this is ...... Is this a special robbery?

Zeng Xiaokuan looked at him: "What, do you still want to keep it?" ”

"No, not keep!" Don't look at Wang Zhongzheng, Tong Guanzhi and his ilk are arrogant and domineering in front of ordinary civil officials and military ministers, but in front of big guys like Su You, Zeng Xiaokuan, and Fan Chun, they are as well-behaved as their grandsons.

The eunuchs of the Northern Song Dynasty were, to put it bluntly, the emperor's dogs, although the emperors repeatedly fought for power for their dogs, but the civil officials were not vegetarians.

Wang Zhongzheng and his ilk seem to have great power, but in fact, the emperor wants to govern them, which is just a matter of an edict, ensuring that civil officials will be happy to see it.

Therefore, what the eunuchs feared the most was the minister who held the power of tantric music in his hands.

It's good to die or not, and now the new three-way bosses, including Su You, have them.

Zeng Xiaokuan is the initiator and promoter of Wang Anshi's "Horse Protection Law" and "Household Horse Law", and has a unique set of views on Ma Zheng: "The kind of horse breeding method engaged in in Xiangzhou, Hebei Province is very convenient. With these 50,000 horses, with the breeding method, with excellent pasture, plus Jiuyuan's unique excellent pasture, I want to push the "Household Horse Law" again, so that from now on, the Great Song Dynasty will never be short of horses! ”

After speaking, he looked at Grandma Wang, who was interested: "Congratulations, I can't run away from your share of this credit." ”

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Weizhou, Nuanguquan, Su You, Fan Chunren, and Fan Chunchun are being honest with each other.

It's really honest, because the three of them are soaking in the hot spring pool.

Weizhou is known as the "Pearl of the Dry Sea", the west of the city is Daluo Mountain, located in the center of Helan Mountain and Liupan Mountain.

Because the bottom is thick, and then suddenly pulled up into a mountain peak, shaped like a large snail, hence the name.

This area is not only rich in water and grass, beautiful scenery, but also very pleasant climate, the Tang Dynasty once placed the Tuyuhun tribe in Liangzhou here.

Liang Zuo once wanted to follow Li Yuanhao's example, make this place his own palace, and build city walls, temples, and floating maps in Weizhou, but before he had time to build the Warm Bone Spring Palace, the country would not be able to do it.

To this day, even Weizhou has fallen into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.

Fan Chunren is the most knowledgeable person in the Fan family, and he is also the elder brother and mother of the Li family, who dreamed that a child fell from the moon and was born in a skirt. Zhengpai Jinshi has the highest status in the family.

After Fan Chunren was admitted to the examination, he did not go to the post and insisted on staying with his father to take care of him.

Fan Zhongyan has an opinion on his son doing this, but he can't resist him.

It wasn't until after Fan Zhongyan's death that Fan Chunren really came out.

From the beginning of his career, he became the vanguard of opposition to Wang Anshi in addition to Sima Guang.

Fan Chunren is different from Zeng Xiaokuan, and his governance style is "lenient and loyal".

In addition to the deeds of opening a warehouse in Gyeongju for disaster relief and returning grain to the warehouse day and night to avoid their parents being investigated, Fan Chunren's release of "bandits" in Qizhou a few years ago has become a new "anecdote".

The people of Qizhou are fierce and strong, and it is common for the people to steal and loot.

Someone once advised Fan Chunren: "In this situation in Qizhou, even if the law is severe, it can't be stopped, and the prince still wants to be lenient, I'm afraid that the chaos in Qizhou can't be exhausted." ”

Fan Chunren replied: "Tolerance is out of human nature, and cruelty is bound to not last. Using harsh and unsustainable methods to manage the violent and fierce people is itself the cause of the people's stubbornness. ”

When he arrived in Qizhou, he found that the prison was full of prisoners, so Fan Chunren asked the general judge: "Who are these people?" ”

The verdict said: "They are all butchers and traders who have committed theft, and they are imprisoned here to make compensation." ”

Fan Chunren asked: "Why don't you let them pay compensation after they are released on bail?" ”

The general judgment said: "If these people are released, they will cause chaos again, and the government will lock them up here to let them die in prison due to disease, which is to eliminate harm for the people." ”

Fan Chunren was very angry: "According to the law, they are not guilty to death, but now they are killed in this way, isn't this a vain of the law?" ”

So these "criminals" were called to the government court, and they were reprimanded to correct their mistakes, become new people, and then all of them were released.

A year later, the social security conditions in Qizhou were greatly improved, and the number of thefts was reduced by more than half.

Although Fan Chunren is the second in the family and Fan Chun is the fourth in the family, the two brothers are twenty years younger, and they have hardly seen each other naked in their lives, and at this moment both of them are full of a feeling of embarrassment.

However, Su You was very comfortable, with a handkerchief on his forehead: "I like to take a bath, everything else in the army is easy to say, taking a bath is too luxurious, you don't know how I came over in the past two months, I am dreaming in the middle of the night, I am rubbing dry......"