Li Jiyan stayed in the Phoenix Mountain Hot Spring Manor for five days, and probably figured out the operation of the manor.

Very rich!

This is the deep impression that the royal manor brought to Li Jiyan, even including ordinary villagers, whose income is basically similar to that of the upper family with more than 100 acres of fertile land in Guanzhong. The people in the manor have healthy and ruddy faces, and most of them have comfortable and satisfied smiles on their faces, even in the face of a town like him, they can be neither humble nor arrogant.

Only people who live relatively affluent and have self-confidence can have this kind of calm mentality.

Later, at his strong request, Lu Yan reluctantly accompanied him to visit the ironwork workshop in Gujiao.

The Fen River Dam in Gujiaoxi is under construction, and this is the first time that Jinyangjian has built a dam on the main course of a large river. The whole Fenhe dam is more than seven zhang wide, more than 20 zhang high, except for the flood discharge culvert, the diversion culvert is concrete, the main body is still the earth-rock dam foundation, and the earthwork quantity of the whole dam is not small.

The outside of the dam is supported by a concrete layer as thick as one and a half feet, for which four large cement kilns were built in Gujiaocheng to supply the construction of the dam and the iron-smelting workshop.

At this time, around the construction of the dam, the banks of the Fen River became a huge construction site. When the dam is fully completed, it will be home to a huge hydraulic iron-smelting workshop spanning miles on both sides of the Fen River.

Due to the winter, construction on the dam has stopped, but the scale is still impressive......

Several huge red brick chimneys rising from the ground are particularly eye-catching, and white smoke rises from the chimneys, reaching into the blue sky. Li Jiyan didn't know that this was polluting the environment, but thought it was spectacular.

The chimney of the No. 1 iron-making furnace, which is more than 20 zhang high, should be the tallest building in the world, except for the pyramid. The iron-making furnace next to it has a strange shape, and it looks like a huge night pot from a distance. When Li Jiyan came to him, he found that the outer walls of this huge iron-making furnace were all made of steel.

How much iron does this have to use?!

Underneath the furnace, four huge blowers nearly a man tall whined, driven by the turbines, and the foliage inside turned rapidly, blowing air into the inside of the blast furnace. There seems to be a stove built under the ventilation ducts, and I don't know what it is used for.

The accompanying master explained that this was to heat the air, and through such heating pipes, the blower would blow hot air into the furnace, which would keep the furnace at a higher temperature.

It only took most of the day to refine a furnace of molten iron. Driven by a hydro turbine, the gantry crane with a huge ladle slowly moved to the taphole. The tap hole on the top floor of the iron-making furnace opened, and a stream of hot molten iron gushed out of the furnace mouth and flowed into the ladle, splashing a puff of steel flowers.

The ladle is filled with most of the molten iron, about three tons, and is directly sent into the steelmaking furnace by the gantry crane, which continues to ventilate, increase alkaline materials such as lime, soda ash, dolomite, etc., and more than a dozen workers operate high-temperature resistant ceramic stirring rods to stir and slag in the molten steel. About an hour, the ladle was lifted out of the steelmaking furnace and transported to the casting site, where several workers hung the steel hook on one side of the ladle, and then pulled the winch, under the pull of the wire rope, the ladle was slowly tilted, and the molten steel was cast into the mold.

There are about 13 tons of molten iron in a furnace, and the steelmaking furnace can only smelt about 3 tons of molten steel at a time, so there are three such steelmaking furnaces in the workshop on the side of the No. 1 ironmaking furnace.

In order to smelt spring steel, it is necessary to mix crude steel plate and wrought iron plate into the furnace and re-smelt it.

However, the weapons and agricultural tools made of this crude steel are already better than the so-called hundred steels, but due to the lack of toughness, they cannot draw the steel wires used to make wire ropes and chain mail.

Li Jiyan watched the entire iron-smelting and steel-making process, during which the chief manager Li Mao also introduced to him that this iron-making furnace alone can produce 6 million catties of steel in a year. This made Li Jiyan gasp, and after a long time of silent calculation in his heart, he calculated that the value of these steels was about 800,000 or 900,000 yuan, which was more than the annual annual endowment of several states under his jurisdiction.

Regardless of the heat, he struck a freshly cast steel plate with a hammer and sighed: "I have long heard that His Majesty advocates the study of things, juxtaposing craftsmen, merchants and Shinong, and I was a little unimpressed, but now I know that the wonder of ingenuity has the power to steal the sky, and from now on, I will definitely be fully promoting the doctrine of Jinyang Academy." ”

After hearing this, Lu Yan smiled and said: "Your Majesty often says, Shi Nong Industry and Commerce, no agriculture is unstable, no work is not prosperous, no business is not rich, this country is rich and the people are strong, all count on these people to lay the foundation, and Shi people are deployed to manage the world, all of which are indispensable." This scholar despises business and commerce, but it is the most undesirable thing. ”

Leaving the busy iron-smelting workshop, Li Jiyan only felt that the trip was worthwhile, and in just a few days, he seemed to have discovered many secrets of getting rich in Jinyang. In particular, the iron-smelting workshop in Gujiao shocked him the most.

He suddenly felt a little excited, after all, this kind of workshop production should also be able to be promoted in Guanzhong.

After returning to Jinyang, Li Jiyan told Li Qi that he was going to promote Jinyang's production method in Fengxiang.

After hearing this, Li Qi said: "Guanzhong water conservancy and irrigation are also complete, but it will cost more than 100,000 yuan to build a dam, and I plan to promote Tuntian in the vicinity of Jingzhao next year in accordance with the way of Jinyang, is my brother willing to do this?" ”

Li Jiyan thought for a moment, and then arched his hand and said, "The minister is willing to be His Majesty's Ren Jun." ”

He is talking about Ren Jun, the general of Cao Wei's pawn peasant in the Three Kingdoms period, who was the executor of Cao Cao's implementation of the tuntian system in the areas of Xudu, Luoyang and Nanyang. It was precisely because of Ren Jun's outstanding contribution that the supply of grain was ensured, and the strength of Wei gradually increased, and finally it was able to unify the whole country.

Li Jiyan meant that he was willing to be the executor of Jinyang's implementation of the tuntian system in Guanzhong.

This made Li Qi feel a little surprised, he looked at Li Jiyan and said seriously: "If this is the case, my brother can give up the Fengxiang Festival envoy, is it possible to be willing?" ”

Li Jiyan said: "This kind of thing has been discussed with my father before the first emperor on the table, since Huangchao, dozens of festival envoys in this world have died, and most of them have not died well." My father had long lost his ambition and converted to Buddhism, and it was often said that if he killed too much karma back then, there would be retribution. Since my family has returned to the Tang Dynasty, I will never rebel, and now I only want to be able to be rich and rich. In this case, what difference does this festival make when it is not appropriate? ”

Li Qi heard him say this, so he also readily promised: "Since my brother is like this, I will ensure that the Fengxiang Li family shares the wealth." However, in this southern expedition to Hanzhong, the armies of Jinyang and Shanbei must beware of Luoyang's counterattack on Hebei, and they must not move lightly, which is the foundation of my life in this world, and I dare not take risks easily. When the battle is over, I will go to Guanzhong in person to help my brother plan how to make a fortune......"

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