It is approaching the end of the year, and this is the happiest time for the officials of the Great Song Dynasty. Of course, the higher the official, the happier he is, because someone gives gifts.

If the official is low, he is not so happy, because he sends more and receives less.

However, Fang Zhixian of Teng County is very happy this year, he gave out a lot, but received more.

The second son of the folded family came to visit in person, and brought a car of gifts and money. (In the Song Dynasty, Qian Zhen talked about car pushing, you can take a look at the Qingming Shanghe map, there is a whole cart of money.) ）

This made Fang Zhixian very satisfied. Hello, hello, everyone, this is the unspoken rule of the Great Song Dynasty officialdom. Don't bother anyone.

Tengxian coal, now has become Weishan Lake Coal Mine, this matter Fang Zhixian saw in his eyes, and his heart was not steady. Because this change is too huge, it is beyond the scope of Fangzhi County's acceptance.

He had also been to Weishanhu Town, but he couldn't get into the gate of the coal mine.

Don't look at him as a local parent official, but this coal mine belongs to the Zhe family, and the two of them said that the area of Weishan Lake is under the management of the Zhe family, and the county should not cross the line.

Therefore, Fang Zhixian did not know all kinds of fresh equipment in the coal mine. Of course, he won't care if he knows it, after all, he's even seen an artifact like a laptop, so will he still be in a daze with electric lights?

It's just that Fang Zhixian's decades of life experience told him that this Weishanhu town is not simple, and it always seems a little weird. As for where the weirdness was, he couldn't say for a moment.

But his doubts were quickly dispelled.

Money can pass through the gods and immortals, do you still have any doubts?

This car's belongings are enough to buy a house, and the county magistrate has shut up.

In fact, even if there is no such valuable gift money, Fang Zhixian does not plan to reflect the situation in Teng County. It's useless.

The bandits in the south of the Yangtze River and the bandits in Liangshan did not commit crimes for a day or two. From the very beginning, the local officials sent a memo to the imperial court to reflect the local banditry.

But without exception, Zhao Ji didn't see all of these twists and turns, and they were all stopped by Wang Huang.

He was the prime minister of the dynasty, and there were problems in the local area, and he didn't look good on his face. Therefore, there is no difference between such a twist and turn in the local area, and the officials can't see it anyway.

and went on a twist, which made Wang Hao hate himself.

Fang La's matter, in the end, couldn't be hidden, and Tong Guan told Zhao Ji.

Of course, Fang Zhixian knew this, so he didn't report the good news at all, and he didn't mention a word about the Weishan Lake Coal Mine.

Anyway, it's digging charcoal, it used to be dug and now it's also digging, but it's just digging more. Could it be that the second son of the fold pulled the flag and rebelled? No, people just dig coal to make money with peace of mind.

It is precisely because the current officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty is such a situation, so don't look at the Weishanhu Coal Mine has turned the world upside down, but the entire Great Song officialdom does not know at all.

They don't need to know, anyway, they have a lot of money every month, and they live a good life, so why do they have nothing to do for themselves?

It's going to be very tiring.

Now Qin Mu is very tired.

After the congress, he immediately flew back to the Weishanhu Coal Mine. To go to Liguojian has to pass through Weishan Lake, there is Meifeng there to pave the way in the early stage, Qin Mu can ignore it for the time being, and take care of the Weishan Lake Coal Mine first.

Qin Mu's steel plant was built in this part of Weishan Lake. Liguojian Iron Mine only produces raw materials, that is, iron ore, clay and so on. These raw materials will be loaded onto ships and transported to Weishan Lake in a steady stream.

Although Qin Mu did not set the steelmaking plant and other supporting facilities, as well as the attached or extended factories, to build the Weishanhu Coal Mine in this area, he had already planned enough land. Now it's just the right time to use it.

The Weishan Lake Iron and Steel Plant is closer to the shore of Weishan Lake. This makes it easier to transport.

This steel mill is a completely new thing in the Great Song Dynasty. Although there are iron-making workshops in this time and space, even Li Guojian's workshop is still ahead of the existence of this time and space.

But those things, compared to the steelmaking plant on Qin Mu's drawings, are completely ants compared to elephants, not at the same level.

Not to mention converter steelmaking, even blast furnace ironmaking is different.

There are also blast furnaces for ironmaking in this time and space, but the highest blast furnace is far inferior to the blast furnace designed by Qin Mu.

Because now there is no technology to really build a blast furnace. The small blast furnaces of the Great Song Dynasty, including the blast furnaces of the Liao Kingdom and the Western Xia, can be regarded as high, and they are all built by the mountains - otherwise they cannot be built.

This mountain is not a big mountain, but a hillside. It is to set up a small blast furnace along a hillside, and then people can go up the hillside and discharge material from the top of the furnace.

This doomed the blast furnace to not be very large. First, if the blast furnace is too high, the material will not be able to keep up. Second, without a steam engine as a blower, relying only on the manpower bellows, a large amount of air could not enter, and iron could not be made.

Therefore, the technology of building blast furnaces in this time and space can only be used as a limited reference, and it cannot play a big role.

The real technology was all brought by Qin Mu from later generations. This set of things was also designed by Director Jiang according to local conditions - as much as possible to meet the low technical level of aliens.

Modern blast furnaces need to be made of steel plates as the furnace shell, and the shell is lined with refractory bricks.

In the case of refractory bricks, because Qin Mu has already won the lonely mountain of Liguojian, there is the best clay, which can be said to solve the problem of raw materials for refractory bricks.

But the steel plate is not there yet.

It's like a chicken-and-egg issue.

Steel plates are needed to build a blast furnace, but steel plates need to be supplied by steel mills. Without a steel mill there is no steel plate, without steel plate there is no blast furnace, and without a blast furnace, there is no steel mill.

It's an endless loop.

Therefore, as a last resort, Qin Mu had to build an earth blast furnace and make steel first.

Fortunately, Ma Qing had built a small earth blast furnace in order to build a steam engine before, which could make steel. It's just that the iron ore was not enough at that time, so now Qin Mu doesn't have much usable steel in his hands.

Fortunately, now that I have taken down the Li Guojian, I will first pull the inventory of the Li Guojian and use it.

Zhao Ji estimated that he would never have imagined that he asked Qin Mu to produce ten times more iron, but Qin Mu pulled the little iron he had left over and used it himself.

Fortunately, there are discounts that can be saved back and forth, so that Zhao Ji's repayment career has not been interrupted.

Zhe Ke Cun directly pulled out the money from Xiang Jia, went around outside, and then pulled back to Bianliang to show Zhao Ji - of course Zhao Ji would not see it in person, he arranged for Lin Lingsu to supervise this matter.

After Lin Lingsu finished reading it, the money was returned to the treasury of the Xiang family.

This circle, there is no need to disturb the iron of Li Guojian, which gives Qin Mu room to move.

It is now approaching the end of the year, but the Weishanhu Coal Mine does not have the slightest atmosphere of the New Year. Everybody is working hard.

Coal mines, steel mills, are labor-intensive—at least in this space.

Coal production, coking, steelmaking, refractory bricks, etc., etc., each of which cannot be delayed, and things are complicated.

But even though he was so busy, Qin Mu had to find time to arrange another thing: training workers for the steel plant.

This matter must be done in advance, otherwise the steel plant is built, how can a group of untrained workers get to work? It wasn't the first day that the stove burned out.

In that case, not to mention that the steel plant could not operate, or that the blast furnace was all garbage, and it was difficult to dismantle it.

The matter of training workers cannot be done by others, and Qin Mu has to go into battle in person.

Fortunately, Qin Mu had prepared enough teaching materials, manuals, and so on. He thought of everything he could think of.

It's the physical model, he built three.

The complete process of the entire steel plant can be simulated with this model. A model is placed in the preparatory office of the steel plant, and the two chief engineers, Ma Qing and Wu Xiaomei, often come to study it; Another model is Qin Mu's textbook.

With this teaching material, students can intuitively understand steel production. The remaining one is a backup, which is stored in the warehouse in case of emergency.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. This Dongfeng is actually the most troublesome, that is, Qin Mu does not have so many qualified workers at all.

In the coal mines, because there has been no fundamental technological transformation, the workers are illiterate and can make do. But steel mills are different, and if the workers are illiterate, there is really a big problem.

Where to find so many literate workers in this time and space?

At this time, the importance of Jiang Yuenu is reflected. The first batch of students of North China University of Technology can already be used to some extent - if you can't, you have to be able to catch ducks on the shelves.

These students, basically all of them were sent from the northwest, they already had a certain foundation, and received a new education in the school, and now they have come to Weishan Lake, just in time to take the next step of education.

With them, Qin Mu was somewhat confident. These people can be used as cadres and used at key nodes.

The rest of the workers, even if they are illiterate for the time being, can do some manual work and get the process up and running first. Of course, security must always be a concern.

This is not the safety of personal life, but the safety of blast furnace converters. Once something happens to the furnace, the steel plant is finished.

Qin Mu's steel plant, this technical content, in this time and space, is even far beyond the chip processing factories of later generations.

This steel plant can be said to be built on a technological desert, and it is too difficult. Although the chip factories of later generations were more technological, the technical support at that time was sufficient. It's like now, there is nothing, even the workers are illiterate.

Qin Mu is now very grateful to Zhe Keqiu and Jiang Yuenu. Without their foresight, the steel plant would not have been able to operate even if it had been built.

But this is also his overestimation. At that time, how did he know that Qin Mu was going to be a steel factory, these students, he trained them for himself, but now that he has entered Qin Mu's new system, everything is subject to distribution and command, and he will not go back.

Therefore, after hearing this, he could only immediately select personnel from his own territory in the northwest and send out a second wave of students - he also needed a large number of new talents.

Wu Lu was now sitting in the spacious and bright classroom, listening to Young Master Qin's lecture.

"The blast furnace body is divided into five parts: throat, body, waist, belly and cylinder from top to bottom. Blast furnace ironmaking technology has the advantages of good economic indicators, simple process, large production capacity, high labor production efficiency and low energy consumption. ”

Wu Lu can't read and write, originally this time the steel factory recruited workers, he was not up to standard. However, limited to the actual situation of this time and space, Qin Mu's rule was to give priority to literacy, rather than requiring that he must be literate—then he would not be able to recruit enough manpower at all, so Wu Lu took advantage of himself as a representative of the workers, and successfully became a worker in the steel factory.

When he returned to the coal mine, he showed the workers the certificates and prizes.

From the captain down, there is no one who does not envy him.

Not to mention how glorious it is to hang that award certificate at home on weekdays, even these two prizes, they have never seen them.

Enamel washbasins, there are so many uses. Washing your face, holding water, mixing noodles, mixing dumpling filling, what can't you do? When it rains, you can still cover your head from the rain!

And this enamel cup, which is not as delicate as it is used for drinking water, it is like a family heirloom.

Of course, if each of them has an enamel cup and uses it to make tea from now on, then in ten years, it can really be used as a family heirloom.

But they don't have it yet, so they can only envy Wulu. At this time, everyone secretly made up their minds to work hard, and I have to be the workers' representative next year!

Fortunately, they didn't see the towel - the towel was taken away by Duan Huisi for his own use as soon as possible, otherwise they would be even more jealous.

There are always alternatives to pots and pots, but this silk ring towel, Da Song really doesn't have it.

After Wujiazhuang's baptism, Wulu now dares to speak more.

He explained to his co-workers: "Young Master Qin said that as soon as the steel factory is built, there will be enamel basins, enamel cups, and enamel bowls. There will be everyone at that time. ”

It was precisely because of the presence of the delegates, their words and the prizes that greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the workers, so the recruitment of workers in the steel plant went smoothly.

Wu Lu and half of his eighth squad had become workers in the steel factory, and now they were sitting in the classroom, listening carefully to Young Master Qin's lectures.

"The raw materials used in blast furnace smelting are mainly composed of iron ore, coke and limestone. Coke is produced by the coking kiln of our coal mine, and most of the people here have seen it. By now everyone should understand that it is for steel mills. ”

Only then did Wu Lu know what the mountain of coke was for, and he thought that Young Master Qin was too wasteful, and he didn't need to put a pile of coke in it. Now he understands that it is not that Young Master Qin is wasteful, but that his level is too low and he does not understand the true use of coke at all.

Only that huge blast furnace can eat so much coke – probably not enough.

On the podium in front of Qin Mu, there were models of steel mills from later generations.

The level of model manufacturing in later generations is a miracle in this time and space. This blast furnace can not only be opened in the shape of a cross-section, you can see the specific hierarchy inside, but also can simulate the entire production process.

Of course, instead of using real iron ore coke limestone, we use granular powder of different colors, which are put in from the top of the blast furnace, and then the slag outlet tap iron mouth comes out with another color of powder, representing slag and molten iron.

If there was no such prop, Qin Mu estimated that he would not be able to explain it to the students for half a year. However, with this model, each student can intuitively understand the production process and raw material changes in the steel plant.

They have now been assigned a desk - of course, it is also a hard assignment, and there is no time for assessment, so they can study more diligently for the part they are burdened with.

In this way, the effect of doing more with less is achieved.

Qin Mu can be said to be desperate day and night. But no matter what, the end of the fourth year of Xuanhe came on time.

Chinese New Year! Qin Mu also has to give everyone a holiday, this is the most important day of the year for every family.

Not only are the workers going back to their families for reunions, but he himself is also going back to his old nest.

There, it's his home!