The huge fleet is relatively rare on the canal, but because of the banner of Dinghai Hou, it has not been embarrassed much, Dinghai Hou, such a marquis, in the entire canal, is still quite bluffing.

Zhao Xin's fleet did not stop at the Daimyo's Mansion, and when they approached the Daimyo's Mansion, they received news from Wang Song's fast horse, and the address had already been chosen.

This is not next to the city, but close to the canal, where the traffic is slightly more convenient, and it is difficult to do all this in the Daimyofu, the territory of the Daimyofu is limited, and in the vicinity of the Daimyofu, and even in the prefectures, such a place, but according to one grasp, there are too many.

Wang Song was in the Daimyo's Mansion, through the divine soldiers and business, a lot of people were enveloped, almost every county, close to the canal, and the place that could be opened up as a blacksmith's workshop, was opened for him to choose, and among the almost a dozen or so sites, a site was finally selected.

This site is about 25 miles away from the Daimyo's Mansion, a little south of the Daimyo's Mansion, and the distance from Nanle is not far, the reason why I chose this place, all aspects of the situation here are necessary conditions, and the location is also a very important consideration.

Baozhou City is in the north of the Daimyo's Mansion, but when a large number of residents and craftsmen leave, Miaojiazhuang has been abandoned, and can only be used as a farm.

In the future, the core of Zhao Xin is in the Dinghai Navy, although the current Dinghai Navy is still a poor and white desert island, but now is, not necessarily in the future, the Dinghai Navy is in the south, and it is easier to contact the Dinghai Navy here, even if it is less than dozens of miles, it is also less.

The Daimyo's Mansion is already the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and the most elite area is a little closer to the north, so the layout is more reasonable.

The fleet crossed the daimyo, which made some people who wanted to contact Zhao Xin a little disappointed, but these well-informed people knew that more than 30 miles south of the daimyo's mansion, a very large workshop was being built, I heard that it was a blacksmith workshop?

When did a founding marquis actually get involved in blacksmithing, although it is said that the Northern Song Dynasty had considerable control over weapons, it is not impossible for large-scale blacksmith workshops to get involved in weapons a little.

They didn't think that Zhao Xin could rebel, and if they wanted to rebel, they would have already run into the poor countryside, and rebelled in the Daimyofu, the core place of the northern Northern Song Dynasty, wouldn't it be too long?

When the fleet arrived, on a temporary small wharf, simply docked, standing on the tall ship, Zhao Xin could also see the fruits of Wang Song's labor.

This should be a turn on the canal, there is just a flat saline-alkali land, if it is replaced by fertile land, these low-level officials may hesitate, after all, to destroy the fertile land, which is not consistent with the usual practice, but the saline-alkali land is easy to say, besides, Wang Song did not ask for it in vain, the saline-alkali land has taken out Zhongtian's money, which makes it easy for the people below to accept, and even does not use the way of government oppression, a simple handover, the money can be reached.

However, there is a lot of work to be done, and there are many parts that need to be built, and so far, it is only beginning to take shape.

Zhao Xin saw the success of Wang Song's labor, very satisfied, from the location, this location is very good, the terrain is open, there are not a large number of woods and the like, and there is convenient transportation, there is a path about 500 meters long leading to the bank of the canal.

The point is, at the end of the path, there is also a small town with a port.

Although the port is not large, it is different from the current port in that it is a fixed port, not a temporary port, where more ships can be docked.

Zhao Xin's ship will stop directly at this temporary port because Wang Song wants to surprise Zhao Xin and let Zhao Xin see how this huge project is doing, but it is more convenient to visit that port.

On the canal, there is a port and there is no port, which is completely two different concepts. The canal is very convenient, but it is limited by the port, although the port cannot determine its upper limit, but it can determine its lower limit, and the lower limit is the most important.

If the canal is the highway of later generations, then the wharf is the entrance of the expressway, and the quality of the expressway determines the upper chord of the entire traffic capacity, but the position of the opening, the number of openings, determines the lower limit, and in many cases, the lower limit is the decision of everything.

A small port, docking a large number of ships, but this is not something that can be bought, it is okay to borrow temporarily, and there are some problems when you buy it.

Zhao Xin didn't care, he didn't care whether he controlled the ownership of the port, but he had to have a certain influence, just around the port, near the bank of the canal, there was a piece of land about 100 acres, Zhao Xin thought about it, and asked Wang Song to fight to buy him.

The port belongs to the town, he can borrow, he can sign a contract, and even rent some warehouses, this side needs to be built separately, docking with the port, expanding the capacity of the port, in the future, this blacksmith base, the cost is huge, the future output is also large, and a good port is needed.

In the future, there will be a certain expansion on the basis of this port, and this project has already started when Wang Song was there, and Wang Song went to buy the land after getting Zhao Xin's request.

Following Zhao Xin for more than half a year, Wang Song felt Zhao Xin's heart quite accurately, since he had already decided something, it could not be changed, and it must be completed without discounting, otherwise, it would be a scolding.

Wang Song didn't want Zhao Xin to scold, more importantly, as a slave, his fate has been combined with Zhao Xin as a whole, and Zhao Xin's status represents his status, just like the recent situation in the Daimyo's Mansion.

Land is important, for all times, but it is not important, it sounds paradoxical, but in reality, it is not contradictory at all.

Valuable land is expensive, no one is willing to give it up, and no one is willing to give it up, and it is cheap if it is not valuable.

If you say that the land near the port is placed in the Daimyo's Mansion, it is definitely very valuable, and the Daimyo's Mansion is expensive, but if it is placed here, even a certain distance from the port, it is not too valuable.

Wang Song was very generous, bought them at the price of Nakata, and then began construction.

For the ports of this era, especially the ports above the canal, it was not difficult to build.

Unlike the harbor, there is no need to shelter from the wind, nor do you need a large number of berths, a flat place where you can moor ships, plus some warehouses.

In fact, the warehouse was the most numerous and the first to be built, and by the time Zhao Xin arrived, the warehouse in the blacksmith's workshop had already begun to be built, and after some of the wood had been cut down, the port side would also be built.

In the future, this piece of land will become the smallest of 20 ports with 200 stone berths, which is the largest port in addition to a few large nodes on the canal.

Unfortunately, this is not enough, in the future, if possible, Zhao Xin even hopes that this will become a large river port with an annual throughput of more than 200,000 tons, and it will become the largest smelting base in the Northern Song Dynasty in the future.

This base is mainly smelting, because there is no way to set up a steelmaking furnace, which requires continuous testing and improvement, and is temporarily ready to return to Dinghai to do it, which is still a traditional smelting equipment, but the amount is quite large.

In the future, there will be 1,000 smelting platforms, and these smelting platforms are still in the traditional way, but Zhao Xin will modify these platforms, and after a slight modification, after improving efficiency and reducing energy consumption, it can produce 400 catties of iron per day.

It doesn't sound much, but when this 400 catties are multiplied by 1000 this number, it means that the daily output can reach 400,000 catties, which sounds very fantastic, because in the later Qing Dynasty, there were only tens of thousands of tons a year, and a single workshop could reach 70,000 tons, which was a bit incredible, but the output of this single unit was verified in Miaojiazhuang.

A single blacksmith as the core, assisting several helpers and labor, in about 14 hours, you can produce 400 catties, if Zhao Xin implements the shift system of three shifts and four shifts here, this number may be more, maybe it can reach 600 catties.

The output of iron in the Northern Song Dynasty is more than 150,000 tons, which is not a joke, but really exists, relying not on large-scale steel-making furnaces to strengthen production, but on these ordinary, tiny small blacksmiths and small iron-making platforms.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, in a relatively peaceful environment, blacksmiths used orders that could be made once a day, so there was a great waste.

Building a farm tool at once and building something else are two different concepts entirely.

Zhao Xin uses a one-time molding method, and sometimes, the relationship between iron and liquid is used to make abrasive tools.

Although it is said that the smelting of the Northern Song Dynasty has not yet reached the level of making a liquid made of iron, the temperature of about 1500 degrees is very difficult, plus the seal, plus some additives and catalysts, it should be able to improve a little, but on the steel, it is very easy, the melting point of the steel is only 1200 degrees, which greatly reduces the premise of sealing and a series of means to achieve, so that smelting and casting become possible, which greatly increases the efficiency.

It's just a few small areas, but it makes the whole efficiency increase. 1,000 tables can produce a large amount of iron every day, and then cast into various items, and even unceremoniously said, if you want, it can last 24 hours a day, and you can even double it if you change people and equipment.

At this time, the smelting workshop was a mess, from the determined location, only the leveling process was completed, the workers hired from the surroundings, plus the blacksmiths who arrived in the early stage, were working intensively, and some of the first blacksmith platforms to start construction were almost completed, because the conditions were limited, not even a house, just a shed. 10