On the same day, the Smelting Bureau harvested the first iron candle mold they had made.

Although it was already time at this time, all the craftsmen were very happy, because not only did they make the first iron mold, but also His Royal Highness King Su, who had visited the process of making the iron mold, and because their two hundred people worked very hard, they promised an additional reward of ten taels per person, and as for the thirty or so craftsmen who worked by the stove, the reward was doubled, twenty taels.

According to Zhao Hongrun's explanation of this, this is called a subsidy, and it is specially issued to these craftsmen who work in dangerous environments.

What makes the craftsmen even more ecstatic is that this subsidy is not limited to today, and any dangerous errands in the future will be subsidized by the Smelting Bureau.

This made the craftsmen of the Zhuye Manufacturing Bureau more supportive of Zhao Hongrun, you know, how much is their monthly salary?

Even if Zhao Hongrun became the head of the Smelting Bureau and ordered the monthly salary of officials and craftsmen in the entire Metallurgical Bureau to be doubled, the highest monthly salary of the craftsman was only one hundred and sixty taels, in other words, the subsidy for ten days was equivalent to their monthly salary for one month.

In this regard, Wang Fu, the director of the Smelting Bureau, muttered a little, although he knew that Zhao Hongrun had 300,000 taels of silver in his hands, but even so, he couldn't withstand the "squandering" of His Royal Highness King Su so generously.

Ten taels a day subsidy? The craftsmen on the edge of the stove are even more subsidized by twenty taels?

According to estimates, wouldn't the more than 200 craftsmen cost His Royal Highness King Su more than 20,000 taels of silver in just ten days?

What's even worse is that His Royal Highness King Su also personally promised that in the future, the Smelting Bureau will issue corresponding high-risk subsidies for dangerous work, which is not a small amount of money!

However, Zhao Hongrun is very open to this. If he hadn't had to hand over a large sum of money to the Construction Department of the Ministry of Industry this time, otherwise, he would have inevitably increased the amount of the subsidy, after all, in his opinion, the conscientious craftsmen in the Smelting Bureau were worth paying for it.

"Rest assured. It won't be long before the candles produced by our Smelting Bureau occupy the market share, and there will be a steady stream of money pouring into our Smelting Bureau, do you still care about the twenty or thirty thousand? ”

As the owner of the financier, Zhao Hongrun persuaded Jucheng Wang Fu in turn, which is also a strange thing.

After listening to Zhao Hongrun's words, Wang Fu thought about it carefully, and then stopped talking.

In fact, in the final analysis, he is also thinking about Zhao Hongrun. After all, the more than 300,000 taels of silver that Zhao Hongrun said during the Chuwei Campaign, except for less than 20% of the left squire Meng Kui of the Ministry of Industry to renovate the Suwang Mansion, the rest of the expenses were used for the construction of the Smelting Bureau, which not only increased the monthly income of the personnel in the Smelting Bureau, but also rebuilt those simple sheds into brick houses, and also asked the Construction Division to build several hearths outside the city for the Smelting Bureau to burn fire bricks and smelt iron ore in the future. Don't look at the smelting bureau's appearance has changed dramatically, but this. It was all piled up with silver by the king of Su.

Sometimes even Wang Fu couldn't figure out why His Royal Highness King Su was so willing to spend money in his smelting bureau, and he still invested no less than 200,000 yuan in silver.

By the time they returned to Daliang City with the iron mold, the city gate had already been closed, and the guards stationed at the city gate hurriedly came down to open the city gate after seeing Zhao Hongrun's group clearly.

Although these guards may not recognize Zhao Hongrun. But how could he not recognize the bureau of the Smelting Bureau, after all, among the six departments and twenty-four divisions of the imperial court, many of them often had to work until late at night before returning to Daliang because of the special relationship between the affairs they were responsible for. Sometimes they even worked until the early hours of the next morning, so the guards at the city gate were already surprised.

By the time the iron mold was transported back to the smelting bureau, it was already past the time of the subsession, but the bureau Cheng Wang Fu obviously had no intention of letting the craftsmen go home to rest, and they still had to do some processing on the iron mold.

After all, the iron mold at this time is really just an iron mold, and the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau have to file the inner wall of its groove to make it smooth and smooth as much as possible, and in addition, some accessories must be added.

For example, create a wooden frame of corresponding specifications and install this iron mold; Another example is to create a push plate and install it at the bottom of the shelf, otherwise, how do they take out the candle after the candle has solidified in the groove of the iron mold?

These follow-up work were busy until the second day, when the rooster crowed.

It may be that Zhao Hongrun gave a high subsidy, although these craftsmen worked for nearly a day, they did not feel tired, but seemed to be in high spirits, so that after successfully making a mold for making candles, everyone present did not have the intention of going home to rest, but excitedly began to boil candle oil, trying to try to make candles with new techniques.

Just do it, two hundred people, take a few cauldrons, follow yesterday's candle oil recipe, boil a few pots of candle oil, and wait for these candle oils to be poured into the iron mold, everyone present, including Zhao Hongrun and Shen Yu and several other Zong Wei, stared with wide eyes.

"Tick-"

"Tick-"

A trace of candle oil flowed down the gap between the iron mold and the wooden frame, which made the craftsmen present frown.

"There's a bit of an oil leak here...... Third Brother Liu, you can't hit the ground with this wooden frame. ”

"Fart! I sharpened repeatedly with a planer, how could it be! …… It's still a mold relationship. ”

"Nonsense, when we kneaded the clay mold, it was measured with a ruler repeatedly......"

"Don't argue, don't argue, go back and make up for it."

There was some blame among the craftsmen, all due to their tendency to excel.

In fact, in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, this is not a matter at all: with the current process of their Great Wei, making this kind of candle technology that can be used for thousands of years, what is a big deal about leaking a few drops of candle oil?

The craftsmen waited with wide eyes, waiting for the candle oil inside the iron mold to cool down.

During this period, due to the anxiety of the ground center, many craftsmen came up with the idea of improving this mold.

"Just waiting for the candle oil to cool and solidify is too slow, and it makes people feel anxious. …… You said, what if we made another sink under the iron mold, and the two ends could be filled with water and water to cool down? ”

"It's a good idea, but you have to make sure that the candle oil in the grooves in the iron mold doesn't flow into the sink......"

"Then it depends on Third Brother Liu......"

"It's none of my business, it's an iron model!"

Zhao Hongrun watched with a smile as the craftsmen were noisy there. But in his heart, he couldn't help but marvel again.

The wisdom of the ancient craftsmen is really not to be underestimated, even if he has not yet proposed to use water to quickly reduce the temperature of the candle oil in the iron mold, so that it can quickly condense, these venerable craftsmen. I've thought of it myself.

"Write down the names of those craftsmen, go back and give them additional rewards, their ideas, this king has adopted." Zhao Hongrun whispered to Wang Fu.

"Alas! His Royal Highness King Su is going to throw money again......

Wang Fu sighed silently and nodded.

After waiting for about half an hour, the candle oil cooled and solidified, and at this time, several craftsmen from the smelting bureau drilled under the iron mold and carried the push plate on their shoulders. Pushing upward, in an instant, in the groove of the iron mold, a row of ten, a row of ten candles, a total of 100 candles, were pushed out in unison, neatly presented in front of everyone's eyes.

Looking at this scene, many craftsmen present were moved.

And they succeeded!

And they succeeded!

"Whoa, whoa!"

As many as 200 craftsmen, they shouted in a hurry, which frightened Wang Fu of the Smelting Bureau.

Joke!

You must know that at this time, Daliang City was silent. Many people are still asleep, and their voices are at this point. Can't wake up the people who live nearby?

Stirring people's dreams, this is quite disgusting!

Fortunately, those craftsmen immediately realized it, scratching their heads and teasing each other's gaffes.

The craftsmen then took out the candles that had been molded one by one, and some of them continued to refine the mold. Hopefully, they could add the idea of a sink that would allow the candle oil to cool and solidify quickly, while others began to stuff wicks into those candles.

These candles, because there has long been a space for the wick to be placed, therefore. The craftsman used the new candle wick proposed by Zhao Hongrun to dip some candle oil that was not very hot, and easily stuffed the candle wick into the candle.

And all of this is due to the strict wick standards, those candle wicks that are produced according to specifications, neither big nor small, just fill the hollow inside those candles.

"It worked!"

When one of the craftsmen lit the first candle that was successfully made, all the craftsmen present cheered again.

And this time, Jucheng Wang Fu didn't bother to stop it, because he knew that these people were too excited.

On that day, a few craftsmen were left behind to carefully record the specifications and standards of the iron mold, wooden frame, and sink, and the rest, including Zhao Hongrun, dragged their tired bodies back to rest.

After that, after another nine days, the Metallurgical Bureau further refined the process of casting iron molds, and once again melted nine iron molds, and these ten iron molds in total were added with water tanks that could quickly cool and solidify the candle oil.

It has to be said that with the creativity of the sink, the speed of making candles with this new candle process is far behind the old methods in the past.

In this regard, Lang Guan Xunxin of the Smelting Bureau calculated: ten molds start processing at the same time, can produce a full 1,000 candles at the same time, as for the time, as long as the temperature of the candle oil is properly controlled, the manufacturing time of a batch of candles only needs half an hour.

What does this mean?

This means that in one hour, the Smelting Bureau can make 4,000 candles!

4,000 candles in one hour, and a conservative estimate of 40,000 candles in twelve hours a day, what a terrifying number!

This terrifying output will make Great Wei, no, any candle workshop in the world desperate!

Of course, only if there are enough raw materials.

If there is not enough animal fat, even if the smelting bureau adopts a new process, the production of candles will not increase.

But I have to say that when the news reached the Yu Ministry of Education under the Ministry of Industry, Zhou Peina, the director of the Yu Ministry, was stunned and pale.

"Four thousand candles in one hour? The Smelting Bureau is going to force all the candle-making workshops in my Great Wei country to death!"

Zhou Pei, the commander of the Yu Department, who heard the news, rushed to the Smelting Bureau in a hurry.

After all, the candles sold in the market of Dawei belong to the highest market share occupied by the Yu Department.

Therefore, once the Smelting Bureau used a new process to make candles like crazy, the first to suffer was Yubu. (To be continued.) )