In the following time, Zhou Huai'an began to travel to Nanhai County and other places where factories and workshops gathered, and began to lay the foundation and start guidance for a new round of industrial layout and long-term planning.

In any case, only with the addition of the collective mode of production and relatively advanced agricultural technology, and the gradual accumulation of a large surplus of agricultural and sideline products (especially after getting rid of the unilateral blood-sucking style from the majority of the rebel army), can it be possible to support a larger non-agricultural population or a correspondingly refined number of workers.

It is not only for the labor of the military or factories, but also for all kinds of people in all walks of life and services related to people's livelihood and services, which is a healthy social structure.

For Zhou Huai'an, according to the experience of later generations, the best soldiers are not those peasants who can be seen everywhere, but industrial workers who have been nurtured and shaped by a certain environment, have the foundation of simple vocational education, and have a natural sense of collectivity and organization.

According to his ideal state, these early industrialized workers and their related employees must be at least twice the size of the active army to be considered a more reasonable and suitable existence. But now in the land of Lingdong under his rule, the total number of registered people in the factories and mines before and after is only in the early 40,000 or 50,000.

Only a few of them are skilled craftsmen with experience and craftsmanship. The others are just ordinary labor in the usual sense; And the specific production capacity is not even comparable to one of the "five small industries" that were eliminated in later generations.

Therefore, the first thing he considered was a big step forward in the ironmaking and steelmaking process. At this time, it was still popular to pass down the classical techniques such as the steel filling method, the steel frying method, and the hundred steel making method that were handed down in the Wei and Jin dynasties; Although the quality is relatively high compared to the general standard of the entire era, in order to achieve the scale effect, it is difficult to achieve a hard time, and it can only be slowly accumulated by the personal experience and skill cycle of skilled craftsmen.

Therefore, this time, Zhou Huai'an plans to directly skip the graphite crucible steelmaking method of soil steelmaking, and directly go to the more cost-effective small blast furnace steelmaking, that is, the kind of modern large-scale steelmaking era, which is stacked with kaolin refractory bricks to form a relatively simple straight cylinder furnace; In addition to the output of the furnace at one time, it can also effectively collect waste flue gas through ceramic pipes.

It is important to know that the most common pyrite/iron sulfide in this era, under high-temperature smelting, sulfide (mainly iron disulfide) vapor is released, and after the condensation of the reaction tower introduced into the side ceramic liner through the pipeline, it is the concentrated sulfuric acid with more impurities called green vanadium water by the ancients; Then, after precipitation, filtration and impurity adsorption, you can obtain relatively pure liquid sulfuric acid, and further extracted oleum oleum.

And this primitive green vanadium water has also been called the mother of catalysts in the chemical synthesis industry; Because it can also be said to be used to react directly with saltpeter to obtain nitric acid; The displacement reaction with crude salts (sodium chloride, potassium chloride) is to obtain the original hydrochloric acid (hydrochloric acid);

Then there is the sodium carbonate known as baking soda in later generations, which is the simplest and directly burned sun-dried seaweed into ashes, which is a natural high-purity finished product; In fact, in the modern North Atlantic coast, a large number of people have been engaged in the occupation of collecting seaweed ash for a long time. In addition to the alkali penny in the north, there is also a large amount of wild seaweed along the coast of Quang Province.

It is even more improvisable to make up some crystals after direct distillation with plant ash solution, so sodium carbonate is also called alkali ash; It can be used as an additive in flat glass, glass products and ceramic glazes.

The more troublesome is the sodium hydroxide known as caustic soda and caustic soda; However, with a batch of baking soda (sodium carbonate), it is not a big problem, and the filtration solution after the reaction of hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) and soda ash solution is ready-made caustic soda/sodium hydroxide after evaporation. The use of caustic soda is more extensive, which can be used for the synthesis of paper, soap, dyes, cotton fabric treatment, purification of coal tar products and so on.

In addition, there is an important related product - brine sand, that is, ammonium chloride (inorganic salt), which is a very common thing in this era, and is used as an excipient in traditional Chinese medicine to digest and accumulate food, dissolve phlegm and relieve cough. Therefore, it is not only a medicinal material, but also a binder for metal welding.

Then it can also react with alum water at high temperature to obtain ammonium sulfate, which is the common nitrogen fertilizer (commonly known as fertilizer field powder) in later generations; and anhydrous hydrogen chloride (concentrated hydrochloric acid); Here there is another branch of compounds, which is to react with nitric acid to obtain ammonium nitrate; This thing is amazing, in addition to flying into the sky, it is also the main ingredient and source of explosives for meritorious deeds between World War I and World War II in modern times.

In this way, the three acids and two alkalis and some related chemical and industrial by-products have the initial possibility of small-scale output, such as nitrocellulose propellants and nitro explosives, which are the future advanced direction of the black powder technology tree.

Then there is a closed distillation tower converted from a brick kiln, which mainly carries out high-temperature distillation and separation of high-quality white charcoal mined from Annam. The key products required for steelmaking, coke, and coal tar at different temperature stages are by-products; Among them, the first distilled flow channel collector was low-temperature coal tar, and the last evaporation and condensation through ceramic pipes was high-temperature coal tar.

When ammonia and carbon dioxide in coke oven gas are reacted in another collection tower, ammonium bicarbonate with more impurities can be produced, which is also the main raw material for food additives and chemical fertilizer components.

On the basis of the waterwheel and water mill of this era, the improved hydraulic internal rotation ball mill can grind the cement raw materials before calcination. It can also be used to process and crush struvite (natural organic phosphorus fertilizer) mined from those islands for further synthesis.

In this way, together with the original potassium carbonate obtained from the ashes of plants and trees, the basic categories of chemical fertilizer industry and related agricultural production and the branches of the technology tree were also revitalized. Of course, with a sufficient number of catalysts, glass and cement are no longer the dream of the sky.

You must know that since Egypt in the fourth millennium BC, ancient people have already used quartz sand to burn not very pure glass balls. Quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, etc. are crushed by hydraulic ball milling, and then fired at high temperature to obtain relatively pure transparent glass; Then it is coated with mercury and tin film to make a ready-made mirror, which is poured and cooled on the molten tin liquid that floats in the mold to obtain a naturally smooth flat glass.

Cement is even simpler, the earliest primitive cement is a mixture of volcanic ash and lime, often found in Roman buildings; Then there is clay and lime according to three to one, calcined in a vertical kiln and then ground into fine modern cement;

Although there was no ready-made volcanic ash available in the Lingnan generation, open-air bauxite as a refractory brick and pottery glaze abounded in Heyuan and Longchuan, where the pottery industry was developed. It is used to replace ordinary clay to burn cement, which has advantages in high temperature resistance, frost crack resistance and acid and alkali corrosion resistance.

It is claimed that it can solidify at zero and early hardening cement, and is widely used in military engineering and emergency repair projects in World War II. Then add an appropriate amount of gypsum and pulverized coal to improve the gluing and strength, and develop special cement for different purposes.

Of course, with the exception of a few raw materials that are directly produced, the cost and cycle of mass production in a factory are completely different from the cost and cycle of mass production in a laboratory environment. Some of them need to explore and try to figure out the most cost-effective steps and cycles.

Moreover, compared with steel, cement, glass and other early production projects; The upfront investment in these chemical things from scratch is still very huge, and it is difficult to see direct results; Only after the final large-scale production and the linkage effect between products and raw materials is formed, will many additional effects of mutual capacity gain and profitability ratio be reflected.

Therefore, during this time, Zhou Huai'an also had to learn Dayu, who had passed through the door and did not enter, either patrolling everywhere or staying somewhere. Mainly for the sake of avoiding detours and for the sake of safety, Zhou Huai'an needs to teach and help him in every detail; and even according to some lessons and examples of later generations, standardize the corresponding operational details and formulate provisions for rewards and punishments;

Still, bloody accidents and accidents cannot be avoided; Because even if he has the assistance of the auxiliary system in retrieval and data recording, after all, there is only one person, and in most cases where there is no theory, it is really impossible to completely cover every detail, or avoid deviations and fallacies on paper.

Burns, scalds, poisoning, and explosion injuries caused by bursts and leaks have caused burns, scalds, poisoning, and explosion injuries due to the construction or the subtle negligence in the operation link.

But in any case, after having a ready-made system template and operating specifications, it will be much easier to push it through the relevant new vocational education system.

Of course, as another side effect, the bloody lessons and the worship and awe of the unknowable mysticism, while making these craftsmen extremely cautious and step-by-step to help extreme dogma, also began to secretly rise a certain kind of worship complex for Zhou Huai'an, "born to know" and "omnipotent", but he did not expect it in the future.

Although the land of Lingnan is mountainous and full of rivers, it is certainly not friendly to large-scale agricultural production; However, there is one point that is advantageous, that is, the relatively abundant hydraulic resources brought by the rivers everywhere can be used to make use of the terrain difference to cause the impact of the water flow through simple sectional damming and interception, to drive and provide the power required for the production of those large-scale workshops, and to save and liberate more manpower from manual work.

Therefore, the water industry also has a broad space and potential for expansion here, such as as a new driving force for most workshops and workshops such as steelmaking and forging, textile and printing and dyeing, pottery and mining; It can be said that before the invention of steam power for coal-burning, the small and medium-sized industrial production of hydraulic transmission was a part of the precursor to the industrial revolution.

But the premise was that enough transmission components had to be produced first, so the main goal returned to the ironworks and the carpentry workshop itself, and the production tasks and processes increased suddenly; Fortunately, it is now a period of slack farming, and it is completely possible to organize a large number of laborers in the tuntians to fill these places as alternate laborers who work overtime and shifts.

In this kind of hectic day and night and time, Zhou Huai'an received the news that Chai Ping's troops had lost the battle, that is, more than a month later.

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"The mountain table is blazing, with the demon monk Yuanxuan as the first priority, the good army is strategic and can confuse people's hearts, and the official eunuchs and wealthy families cannot be controlled. It is good to make strange and strange things, and the mountains, forests, and rivers are all destroyed and destroyed. ”

"There is a white-headed thief under his command, who is called the firewood devil, who is violent and murderous. so that the monks can be fed on blood. ”

"The Fall of the Ridge Table", Lianzhou Sima Yu.

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