"I didn't expect that Lord Li was still in this remote place on Xuanfu North Road, and he could build such a majestic city, and Dingguo really admired it!" Li Dingguo looked at the golden soup city in front of him showing his majestic posture under the morning sun, with a look of surprise and joy mixed with joy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiao's face was also full of smiles.

Li Xiao sent Tian Wei, the commander of the Chifeng Battalion, to lead all the infantry and firearms troops to return to Chifengwei by ship from Dongjiang Town, but ordered Li Dingguo, the deputy commander of the Chifeng Battalion, to take the cavalry to Jintang City with him, and also had a mind to let him meet Jintang City with himself.

Li Xiao saw that this 16-mile-long majestic city was surrounded by a moat ten meters wide, and the overall appearance was uncovered with bricks, showing a pale yellow with a great sense of history under the rising sun.

In the whole city, only the east gate and the north gate are opened, and on the city wall, the urn city, the lookout hall, the suspension bridge, the corner tower, the fort tower, the pheasant moat, the female wall, the horse road and other facilities are all available.

When he walked quickly to the east gate of Jintang City, Li Xiao noticed that not far from the east gate, there were already more than 30 shops operating here, and the sound of selling and shouting was endless.

Seeing that Jinjiazhuang Fort, which he was defending that day, had changed from a deserted border fort to a prosperous city in front of him, Li Xiao felt an indescribable sense of pride in his heart.

Soon, a group of people through the commercial street outside the city, came to the east gate of Jintang City, with the report of his soldiers, immediately the east gate of Jintang City was opened, the commander of the Golden Wolf Battalion Duan Shidi, the deputy battalion commander Liu Wenxiu, and the head of Jintang City An Qian came out to greet them.

Seeing Li Xiao come in person, Duan Shidi Anqian and others were very happy, and Liu Wenxiu and Li Dingguo, who were both Zhang Xianzhong's sons, were separated for several months, and they chatted very warmly.

"Manager An, this Jintang City has been built to my liking, but you have to be the first to take this credit." Li Xiao patted An Qian's hand affectionately and said.

"Lord Li, thanks to your design and planning, and there are enough funds and manpower to provide this Jintang City, we will build it according to the plan, how dare we take credit." An Qian saw Li Xiao's praise, his face was happy, and he immediately made a request for extension: "Outside the city is not a place to chat, and please follow me into the city." ”

Li Xiao and the others followed An Qian into the city, and what they saw made him feel more and more comforted.

After the group entered the city, Li Xiao and the others immediately noticed that the entire urban area was the same as Chifeng City and Iron Dragon City, all of which were wide and conspicuous crossroads.

The urban planning of the entire city is exactly the same as Li Xiao's design at that time.

The Northeast is a huge wool textile production base, such as spinning mills, weaving mills and other textile factories.

In the northwest, half of the area was used as a textile base to expand the scope for the construction of more spinning mills and gauze factories. The other half of the area has been built as a residential area.

In the southeast area, large-scale coking plants, sulfur extraction plants, wool degreasing plants and other factories have been established.

In the southwest, a number of huge special warehouses were established to serve as storage places for coal mines, coke, sulfur, wool, woolen products, and all kinds of goods transported from the south.

Li Xiao ordered Duan Shidi, Liu Wenxiu and others to take Li Dingguo and his cavalry into the Jintangcheng military camp to rest, while he and two guards, accompanied by An Qian, checked the operation of the entire city.

At this time, Li Xiao's eyes were quickly attracted by the neatly built spinning mills and weaving mills on both sides of the straight and wide alleys in the northeast area.

Li Xiao saw that these factories had a brand new appearance, and they should have been newly built not long ago, with a total of three spinning mills and five weaving mills.

From time to time, workers would push carts full of wool and cashmere from the wool warehouses in the southwest into the spinning mills.

From time to time, workers push wagons full of rolled rolls of stacked wool thread into the weaving mill.

At the exit of the weaving mill, the finished woolen wool is completely woven, which is loaded by the workers and transported to the warehouse in the southwest area.

An Qian saw that Li Xiao was so interested in those spinning mills and weaving factories, and hurriedly said: "My lord, these two rows of factories were completely built in the first two months, and the equipment was also purchased from Beizhili and other places. Because the supply of wool and spare funds were still not much, only these few were built first. If you are interested, you can enter the factory to have a look. “

Li Xiao smiled: "Very good, please lead the way in front of Mr. An." ”

Soon, Li Xiao and Li Dingguo, under the leadership of An Qian, entered a spinning mill on the left to visit.

Entering the factory, in the noise of the running machines, Li Xiao saw that there were about forty spinning machines inside, and on each machine, there was a woman nervously loading silk and drawing threads.

Clumps of wool were rolled up from the spindle shuttles, and as the women stepped on the footboards, white and shiny woolen yarns were magically woven from the hands of the women. Finally, it is coiled into a cylindrical stick, and after reaching a certain number, the woman tears it off and reinserts it into the stick.

Li Xiao noticed that the spinning machines used by these women only had four to five spinning spindles on each loom, and they were still primitive horizontal shuttles, because they were made by pure hand, so the wool yarn produced was not fast and the quantity was small.

It immediately occurred to him that this spinning technology was too backward compared to the Jenny spinning machine that appeared in England a hundred years later.

You know, after the improvement of the Jenny machine, each machine tool up to 80 vertical spinning shuttle, not only high efficiency, but also spinning yarn quality is much better than the original machine, at that time, the whole of the UK has a total of more than 20,000 Jenny machines, is the world's first textile country.

However, Li Xiao immediately thought that everything could not be done in one hurry, and it took more than ten years for Jenny Machine to be fully formed from the beginning of production. If we can first imitate the prototype of the Jenny machine, that is, the original Jenny machine with 8 vertical shuttles, and design and produce it first, it can be said that the current output and efficiency will be at least increased several times!

You know, James the inventor of the Jenny machine. Hargreaves, after developing this prototype Jenny machine, even led to great anger among the leaders who were also spinners because of the great increase in production and efficiency. They linked, broke into Hargreaves' home, forcibly smashed his machine, and some even set it on fire, setting Hargreaves' house on fire. The brutal revenge of his neighbors made it impossible for Hargreaves to stay in his native Lancashire and forced him to flee.

"An Qian, in my opinion, you have asked the craftsmen to try to change the horizontal shuttle of the spinning frame to the shuttle, and the spindle has also been changed from the current four or five to eight or nine, so that the efficiency and speed of the yarn will be greatly accelerated." Li Xiao drew a simple sketch, and then instructed An Qian.

An Qian looked at the drawings carefully, and although he didn't quite understand, he immediately said to Li Xiao: "Okay, don't worry, my lord, I will then go to the craftsman to improve this spinning machine." ”

Li Xiao and the others then followed An Qian out of the spinning mill and into a weaving factory on the other side of the alley.

Entering the factory, the endless clicking of machines echoed in his ears for a while.

Li Xiao saw that there were about 60 looms in this factory, and each machine was also operated by a woman.

This kind of loom is the Ming Dynasty loom recorded in the "Tiangong Kaiwu", it is a weaving operation with 8 healds and 4 treadmills, the shuttle that is pressed back and forth to weave, a total length of 1 foot 2 inches, it can use the weft weight flat organization and the weaving method through the warp and weft, can weave all kinds of simple patterns such as normal and twill.

And piece after piece, with a strong woolen smell, was woven piece by piece.

When the length of the wool had reached the size of a piece of cloth, the woman cut it with scissors, and a man next to her rolled it into a cylindrical shape, stacked it on a cart, and when the cart was full, it was pushed out of the factory and stored in the warehouse.

Li Xiao came to the cart and pulled out a piece of woven wool to look at carefully.

He saw that these woolen velvets, thick and tight, white and soft, and felt good, although there was still a gap with the quality of large-scale hydraulic industrial production in later generations, but in this late Ming era, the quality was quite good.

Li Xiao was quite satisfied with the quality of the cloth, and he thought to himself that when the funds were more sufficient, he would start wool dyeing, so as to produce more patterns of wool wool, so as to make it more popular in the market.

Li Xiao and others, as An Qian walked out of the factory, at this time, a south wind blew, and a pungent smell came into the nose, and the eyes of Li Xiao and others were immediately attracted by the two large wool degreasing factories in the southeast area.

An Qian saw that Li Xiao and others were interested, so he immediately took him to visit.

Li Xiao saw from a distance that from time to time workers pushed piles of white and greasy wool into the factory. The fishy smell wafted out of the factory with the wind.

Because this kind of factory is dirty and smells bad, An Qian didn't want to take Li Xiao and others in, so Li Xiao insisted on going to see it, but An Qian couldn't, so he had to follow him.

After the three of them entered the factory, Li Xiao saw that in each factory, there were four large square-shaped waxing pools, which were filled with a fishy dark yellow liquid.

A large number of male workers broke up the wool that was transported, pressed it into this dark yellow liquid, and then stirred it up with a stick to scrub it, so that the wool would stand in it and not clump.

"If the official guessed correctly, it's all human urine in it."

Li Xiao's words made An Qian stunned, and he nodded hurriedly: "Exactly, the technician invited at that time said that each batch of fresh wool needs to be soaked in urine for two hours, stirred and degreased, and then soaked in the wax and oil on the wool, and then fully washed and dried, to remove stains, and after it is dried, it can be used to spin wool yarn." ”

Li Xiao sighed, and didn't say much, he didn't learn to weave, since this soil method can solve the problem of degreasing and oiling, let's use it like this first.

Subsequently, Li Xiao saw that some workers took out the soaked wool, washed the soaked wool with a large bucket of water in another factory, and then spun it off to dry it in a large drying field outside the factory.

After seeing the wool degreasing plant, Li Xiao and others went to visit the coking plant and sulfur extraction plant in the southeast area.

At the coking plant, Li Xiao saw that a large group of workers were continuously bringing in crushed and washed finely crushed coal from outside the north gate, stacked in a temporary warehouse outside the coke factory, and spread out to dry.

Workers also sent dried coal into a coking kiln that looked like a charcoal kiln.

After the refined coal is dried, it enters the kiln, and under the condition that the air is not isolated in the kiln, the refined coal stacked in the kiln is ignited with the help of the ignition hole on the side wall of the kiln, and the coal is heated layer by layer by the combustion heat of the refined coal itself, which is direct heating. Subsequently, the exhaust gas produced by coal combustion and the hot gas flow formed by a large number of unburned coal cracking products continue to burn through the fuse channel on the side wall of the kiln chamber, and part of the heat is transferred into the kiln, which is indirect heating.

After two direct and indirect heating, a high-temperature gas stream of 800 degrees Celsius is discharged into the atmosphere from the opening of the kiln roof with unburned coal pyrolysis.

Generally speaking, this process lasts eight to ten days before the coke can be made, at which point the workers will inject water from the artificial ignition hole to quench the coke, and after the kiln has cooled, open the door to remove the prepared coking coal.

After leaving the coking coal plant, Li Xiao and others came to the sulfur plant, and Li Xiao saw the whole process of sulfur purification and production for the first time.

Li Xiao first saw that a large number of workers had transported a large number of ground sulfur mines from the north gate in four-wheeled carriages, and that the sand and gravel had been manually picked out and transported into the sulfur extraction plant.

You must know that raw sulfur contains a lot of sand and gravel, because the density of sulfur is similar to that of sand and gravel, there is no good way to remove it, and the most primitive way of grinding first and then manually sorting out the sand particles can only be used.

Next, Li Xiao saw the workers pushing these raw sulfur mines into a factory building where there were many wide-mouth iron pots inside, and in each pot, it was poured into the pot according to the ratio of ten catties of butter and one catty of sesame oil, and then the finely ground raw sulphur was slowly poured into the pot, and then the bottom of the pot was continuously stirred with a large wooden lift.

After the raw sulphur melts in the boiling oil, after a period of stirring, the workers use very fine grates to remove the scum and dirt.

Wait until the sulfur has melted away, and remove the pot from the firewood. When it is cooled to the point where it is still slightly hot, it is strained through a fine linen cloth and then poured into a large magnetic cylinder to cool slowly to separate the oil from the sulfur.

The principle of this practice is that because the specific gravity of the oil is light, it can float on it, and the sulfur ratio is large, so it sinks at a low level. In this way, the oil is filtered out, and then the sulfur is finely ground and dried, and the finished sulfur with high purity is obtained.

After Li Xiao and others visited the sulfur extraction plant, Yu Neng, the director of the coke plant, who was originally directing the workers outside, and Song Da, the director of the sulfur extraction plant, both hurried back from outside the city with sweaty faces, and immediately bowed to Li Xiao.

"The two of you work hard, and you can quickly get rid of it." Li Xiao hurriedly helped the two of them up, and praised them: "If it weren't for the two of you who sent coke and pure sulfur to Shandong in time, it would have been difficult for our army to make firearms." ”

"We have to work hard for adults, it's not worth mentioning, as long as we can ensure my military degree, I will be satisfied." Song Da and Yu Neng, who were praised by Li Xiao, stood up, both of them with happy faces.

Li Xiao comforted the two of them again, then asked them to retreat, and visited the warehouse in the southwest area with An Qian and others, and the residence of the residents of Jintangcheng in the northwest district.

Subsequently, Li Xiao followed An Qian into the inner city, and saw the golden wolf general soldiers who were training neatly in the military academy, and Li Xiao was very happy in his heart.

"Lord Li, this Jintang City can have the scale it is today, and it has become a bright pearl on Xuanzhen North Road, all of which are the credit of your lordship."

At this time, the banquet to welcome the wind had been set up, and on the way to take Li Xiao into the mansion for a banquet, An Qian said to Li Xiao with a smile.

The pearl of the North Road?

This sentence is really good.

"Manager An, the achievements of this Jintang City are not the work of Li Xiao alone, but the results of everyone's concerted efforts." Li Xiao patted An Qian's shoulder and replied with emotion.

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