The plot of farming is here again, and there are some technologies on the soil method. I hope it won't be offended by everyone.

Many people who grew up in Ha Tinh recall their childhood and talk about the sweet smell that fills the air every winter. That's because the mill starts a season, and a large number of sugarcane are crushed by the steel rollers, and the last bit of juice in the body is drained.

The children in the school who were on vacation to prepare for the New Year rushed to follow the smell, and outside the high walls, greedily breathed in the free sweet fragrance.

The older children gathered next to the school yard to watch the training of the newcomers, some of whom were holding bamboo sticks of different lengths, imitating the movements of the newcomers on the playground, and occasionally laughing at the sluggishness of the newcomers' reactions and clumsiness and mistakes.

The sky above the city is filled with the sweet smell of sugar, the strong smell of rice, and the aroma of all kinds of smoked food, rice wine, and sugar cane wine.

However, after a while, the immortals will notice a burst of discordant smell.

On the school field and the shooting range, there was a burst of murderous energy, and the shouts of killing were endless, soaring into the sky; In the distance, close to the mountainous area, it is a firelight, day and night, and the smoke and dust carried in the firelight are enough to choke the gods to cough and cry.

"This is our test blast furnace!"

After several months of construction and testing, the experimental blast furnace of the Craftsman Association has been running relatively smoothly, and a few days it is specially to invite Shouhan to come, so that he, the director of the Craftsman Association, also comes to watch the results of his hard work.

"Lord, according to your suggestion, we have designed the coking pool with this blast furnace, so that the hot gas generated by coking can also be used for furnace heating and waste utilization, killing two birds with one stone."

Ling Zheng, the director of the metallurgical workshop, always talks about things in his industry, and it is always easy to get into a state of self-forgetfulness. This seems to be a common problem of technicians, but Shouhan is also not surprised by this, and sometimes, he quickly enters into this state, and starts heated arguments and even quarrels with these people.

"This furnace, now a furnace can produce 600 tons, it is really capable, and it is hundreds of times stronger than a crucible. However, he is also a big-bellied man. As if talking about his own son, Ling Zheng described the small blast furnace in front of him in front of him in a doting tone, which is the target of absolute crackdown and banning in the 21st century.

"We have calculated that for every ton of steel, it takes one ton of coke to consume seven, and if you count the coal consumed during coking, almost every ton of steel smelted consumes two tons of coal. In comparison, it is still cheaper than crucible steelmaking. However, if you want to develop this blast furnace skill, first, the number of miners will increase several times, second, the daily consumption of coal will increase the import, and third, the craftsmen and technicians on each furnace will increase. Calculated from this furnace alone, each time the steel produced is enough for the military and civilians in our southern and central regions. ”

"However, what the subordinates don't understand is that since there are more than ten varieties of Jiuzhuan Steel, which can meet all kinds of needs from casting artillery, armor and swords in the barracks to civilian kitchen knives, why do you need to spend so much time on steelmaking?"

In front of many people, Ling Zheng still had some words not to say, in addition to these, he also received a letter from Shouhan, asking him to calcinate and sort the ore from the Gaoping Mountains of Mojiakong zhì, and test the obtained in the steelmaking process.

What Ling Zheng didn't know was that on the remnants of the Mo family, another commander of the Annan capital, there were manganese ore reserves of more than 100 million tons, and what manganese was doing, of course Shouhan knew it, otherwise, he would not have used the sword and spear armor made by Jiuzhuangang to trade several mines in the Chongqing area of Gaoping with the Mo family.

After sorting the transported ores, Ling Zheng and his colleagues divided the ores into three types: soft, hard and black, and then sorted and calcined these three types of ores. The ores that are labeled as soft are calcined in the furnace to obtain the famous manganese dioxide. And it's almost 70% pure manganese dioxide!

After a few crucibles to make steel, Ling Zheng had to admit that the lord had got another good thing. The calcined material is combined with molten iron according to the ratio of one or three to one, and the steel obtained is harder than that of nine-turn steel, and both toughness and ductility are much stronger. (Just kidding!) This is high manganese steel, second only to tungsten steel, can the effect be poor? In this era, it is definitely a divine weapon! ）

After getting the complete process flow and proportion, Ling Zheng quietly struck while the iron was hot, mixed iron ore, manganese dioxide, and coke, trying to get a more crazy manufacturing process, and even saw the signs of success.

These newly obtained steels have not yet been officially named, but a few important figures in the Craftsmen's Guild know that the steels are quietly made as tool steels and distributed to skilled craftsmen as tools.

"Mr. Ling, you don't know, when our army was fighting against the southern rebels, we found that they were also equipped with the equipment of the Nine Turns of Steel, if we don't engage in some new skills and surpass the thieves, over time, our strengths have become weaknesses, how can this be good?" Shouhan himself knows that about concepts such as technical reserves, I am afraid that these old gentlemen will not understand, so they can only use words that they can understand.

"If the lord must open a blast furnace field, it is bound to increase coal imports, which will cost a lot of money!" Ling Zheng still looked at the problem from his own perspective.

"But the gentleman only knows one thing and doesn't know the other." Zheng Quanfang, who was in charge of the reclamation of Tuntian on the side, refuted with a smile. "Now, I only hope that my husband can use more coal and produce more coal ash here."

Ling Zheng, who didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, was suddenly confused by Zheng Quanfang's words, "This? Mr. Zheng should not make fun of a certain family, a certain family is worried about the more than 1,000 tons of coke in each furnace. And you say something like that. ”

Zheng Quanfang's face was full of pride, "Ling Gong, do you know what the price of rice is this year?" What about oil prices? What about the price of wine, meat, and vegetables derived from this two prices? ”

"These things are undertaken by the old wife in the family, and there are general affairs in the workshop who are in charge, but a certain family does not know." Ling Zheng answered Zheng Quanfang's question very honestly.

"Don't tease Ling Gong, Xinyuan, Ling Gong is a kind person."

"Ling Gong, Rank, after the coking of this coal, the coke and the iron ore are burned together, and the obtained thing is not only steel, but also coal ash and other residues. What bothers Ling Gong is that it is precisely the treasure below, after the fly ash is mixed with soda ash, calcined for three-quarters of an hour, and the obtained thing is called precious fertilizer by the lord. It is most fertile, however, especially for the land where the land is grown. After the advent of Guifei, we have made rough calculations that the newly opened up wasteland will reach more than 4 million mu. Not to mention that those original fields have such sharp weapons, how can rice, oil, meat and vegetables not be cheap? In addition, hundreds of thousands of acres of dry land have been used to grow sugarcane, all because rice and grain are cheap, and some people want to plant sugarcane and other things. That's what it does! ”

"How much should be sown per acre?" Ling Zheng is also a person who has farmed and starved, so he naturally knows the truth that everything in the world comes first.

"If you want to make bottom fertilizer, you need at least 50 catties per mu of land, and if you want to have a good effect, you need 100 catties. So, I said that no matter how much coke you consume here, it will not be enough. Zheng Quanfang straightened his clothes and bowed deeply to Ling Zheng, "Quanfang respectfully represents hundreds of thousands of reclamation people, thank you Ling Gong!" ”

"Brother Xinyuan! The old man didn't dare to accept this gift, thanks to the work of the adults. Ling Zheng hurriedly returned the salute to Zheng Quanfang.

Although it is said that he is addicted to technology, Ling Zheng is not a brainless person, and suddenly remembered something, "My lord, in the past, in addition to coke, the thing obtained was tar, which has always been used by the Tonghe dyeing workshop to make fuel and print and dye cloth. A few days ago, several apprentices on the coking pond carried out secondary fractionation of the obtained tar and obtained another thing. The apprentices used it to test it, and found that this thing was similar to the fierce fire oil, and the burning effect was quite good, and I don't know where it could be used. ”

"Huh? Could it be that the deep processing of coal tar has been made below? And then gave birth to light oil? Shouhan's left eyelid couldn't help but jump. If this is the case, there will be one more source of fuel in the future, and there is no need to worry about the group of guys in Myanmar not selling it to Lao Tzu! ”

"Good! Later, after seeing the furnace steel, I'll go and see the oil you mentioned. If it is easy to use, let the apprentices of the coking pool go to the chemical workshop to specialize in manufacturing this thing. ”

"My lord! What about coal imports and manpower? Regarding his own question, Ling Zheng still didn't let go.

"Coal, Zheng Jia, the envoy of the Zheng family, has already expressed his attitude, as much as I wait, his family will supply as much as I want, as long as I use steel swords and armor to offset the payment. In addition, last month, didn't we sell 200,000 stone japonica rice in Guangxi? The 100,000 taels of silver I received have written to Guangxi on the orders of the lord, asking them to buy the Zheng family's coal on behalf of me and transfer it to us. According to the meaning of the lord, I must have coal reserves that can guarantee half a year's consumption. Li Peiting, who was in charge of the trade between the two Guangzhous, shook an ivory folding fan in his hand, very proud.

"My lord, I heard that Guangxi has transported a thousand fruits to dismount? It is said that this horse is particularly powerful and good at pulling carts? Seeing that the coal matter had an eyebrow, Ling Zheng began to care about the transportation capacity again.

"Yes, there are a thousand horses, two hundred horses, and eight hundred horses, but don't make up your mind about these horses for the time being! I want the use of the faction. ”

"My lord! I don't want much! Give me fifty horses, and I'll save hundreds!" Ling Zheng was still a little unrelenting.

"Xinyuan, you tell all the gentlemen what you have seen and heard when you go south." Shouhan was a little too lazy to explain them one by one, and nodded to Zheng Quanfang to come to this group of capable generals who were staring at these horses.

"Ranked, in October, I was ordered to go south to the Xialiao area to observe the affairs of agriculture and mulberry, relying on the majesty of the lord and the heroic fighting of the soldiers, this place has been in my hands, a radius of tens of thousands of miles! In addition to the fields, there are also mountains, forests, grasslands, etc. The lord has ordered someone to transport 30 stone corn grass seeds south to the Fulang Mountains and hand them over to Hu Licheng's family, who are carrying out animal husbandry there, and in the near future, these horses will also go south to graze and breed in the Fulang Mountains. The lord's request to the Hu family was that by the end of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, at least three thousand horses should be handed over! Also, in addition to the fields, the lord also ordered to try to plant tea trees and tear trees brought by the Buddha machine in Xialiao. Xinyuan believes that in the near future, this place is bound to be a cornucopia again, and the lords and gentlemen may wish to go home and discuss with the inner master, take some money, and arrange for the nephews and nephews to go. ”

Hearing this, the directors of each workshop were suddenly speechless like deflated pig urine bubbles. Yes, the lord wants to breed horses, this reason, who can resist it?

"It's time for the fire!" There was a shout in front of the furnace, obviously the molten steel was about to come out.

"Please wear glasses to prevent damage to your eyes!" Several servants of the metallurgical workshop held a wooden plate with a pair of black goggles inside.

Historically, kiln burning, forging, metallurgy, etc., in addition to physical damage, is the injury to the eyes, many local potters, in order to protect their eyes, specially worship the eye Niangniang, praying that she will bless the believers' eyesight from or less damage.

At the beginning of the establishment of metallurgy, ceramics, glass and other workshops, there were principals who turned the potter's request to build a temple to worship, as a person who had accepted modern industrial production, Shouhan himself naturally did not believe in what kind of eyes, but the labor protection measures of workers are necessary.

At the beginning of glass manufacturing, in addition to the requirements of glass decolorization and transparency, another requirement of Shouhan was how to make black glass.

Under the prompting of Shouhan, the craftsmen added the crystals precipitated after boiling and cooling the grass ash and the old soil of the thatched toilet - potassium nitrate, as a decolorizing agent for the glass, and stirred constantly when the glass was fired into a liquid state, stirred the bubbles out, and then added the decolorizing agent potassium nitrate, and completed the decolorization process through guò oxidation. (The old clay products mentioned above are of great use, and they are not used to make gunpowder, so this is where they are useful.) According to this technology, although the optical glass made is not as good as the products of the 21st century, it was also an amazing technology in the 17th century!

The glass windows that Huashan Jiugao, Zheng Gong, Guan Baoqiong, Hu Yongwen and others saw were made by such a process. Such a low cost has made our pig's feet fall into the black pot of the loser and the king of the dead country in vain.

After the glass was fired into a liquid state, the concave and convex lenses made by the gravity of the glass itself quietly became clairvoyants in the hands of officers at all levels, and also became the lenses of microscopes. By the way, the famous Leeuwenhoek is a lens made of gravity, deceiving the whole world that he obtained it by grinding it, such a simple means has deceived the world for hundreds of years!

However, it is easy to decolorize, but how to add color is difficult for everyone! Various methods have been tried, but they have never been able to make the glass color.

Finally, at the suggestion of Huang Qiying and Lim Ah Rong, the two directors and shareholders of the ceramic workshop, people remembered the Zhu Ming material used in the firing of porcelain to color the porcelain.

The craftsmen carefully added various pigments such as patina and black material one by one, and sure enough, the glass began to show different colors, and it was basically the same as the pigment added to it.

In this way, everyone knows what to expect! One of the easiest ways to get black is to mix all kinds of pigments together!

Soon, the first black goggles appeared.

As for the origin of the goggles, the directors of these various workshops have naturally heard of it, but they don't understand the mystery very well, and they only know that the lord sympathized with his subordinates and ordered people to make this thing with great effort. Moreover, they are registered and numbered by the craftsmen one by one, and they are stored in their personal lockers.

"Ready to open the furnace!" With a hoarse cry, the bluffing crowd hurriedly put on their goggles and stared at the blast furnace in the distance without blinking.

Several strong men opened the furnace door with iron hooks, and a wave of heat rushed towards them, Rao is everyone was far away, and they were also sweating profusely.

With the opening of the furnace door, the steel flowers were dazzling, and the sparks were splashing, and people couldn't care about the amazement, just staring at the things in front of them, which they didn't dare to think about in their dreams.

Pieces of steel ingots that were still smoking were carried in front of everyone, "My lord, Mr. Lie, this is this furnace of steel!" ”

"What does Mr. Rank think of blast furnace steelmaking?" At the banquet to celebrate the success of the metallurgical workshop, Shouhan held a wine glass and looked at the people around him with a smile.

"The lord is wise! I can't wait! "The Craftsman Association, the Han Yuan Firm, the Tonghe Dyeing Workshop, etc., are the big treasurers of the Fengshun Lianhao, the only heir of the Ruan family, and Ruan Fuyu, who is currently building roads in the south of the Yangtze River, is also toasting and laughing.

"Huh! Don't brag about it, Shouhan is covered in steel ingots, how many nails can he make? ”

"My lord, my subordinates have a lesson and I am willing to encourage you and colleagues." Wang Quan, who was in charge of shipbuilding, stood up and toasted Shouhan with a wine glass.

"That is, the words of the lord, those who understand will be executed, and those who do not understand must be executed, and they will be understood in the process of implementation!" Wang Quan drank the wine glass, turned it over and shone it to everyone. "On that day, the Lord ordered a layer of brass to be laid at the waterline of the Fubo. To be honest, I don't think so! I think the lord is a gluttonous thing! Use a good brass to clad the bottom of the boat! However, the ships of the Navy Division have been overhauled recently, and the main ship's seat is basically free of shellfish attached to the bottom of the ship, not to mention the growth of aquatic weeds! Such a ship does not lose speed in the water! And the other ships, to be honest, are going to kill the old man, and I'm going to take the big guys and clean up the nasty guys attached to the bottom of the boat little by little! Calculated together, this cost no less money and food than copper at the bottom of the ship! And it has to be cleaned up every year! ”

"Lao Wang, you talked for a long time there, do you want the lord to allocate money and food to you, so that you can wrap all the sailors' gunboats in copper?"

"Yes!" Wang Quan drank very happily. His eyes were blazing looking at Li Shouhan on the main seat, not only was he watching, but the officers of the Navy Division present were also looking forward to it.

"As long as it is something that can be solved with money and food, it is not a thing!" Shouhan's words made the sailors and generals present thunderous, yes! Everyone knows that what is not lacking in Nanzhong today is money and food.

"Everyone, listen to me, don't say I'm wise, I'm just more daring to think than the ranks, so the ranks can also be wise, as long as you dare to think! Dare to go to the truth, I think, all you are also wise people! There is no waste that cannot be used, only the use that we don't know! ”

A month later, in the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the foundation stone of the Maple Ridge Room in Nanzhong began to be laid.

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