A happy event, Lu Qian was only idle for three or five days. Before the red silk and red lanterns in the palace were taken off, he had already beaten his horse to catch up with the ordnance supervisor in the north of Yidu City.

This place is dominated by the leopard Tang Long, with more than 300 craftsmen of all kinds, skilled craftsmen, and two battalions of guards.

The only use of this place is the development of iron and steel metallurgical technology.

"The metallurgical institute has taken a long time, and it is really that Tang Long has no face to see the king. Fortunately, the king is happy today, so that I am also contaminated with a king's joy here, and I finally have to break through. Tang Long's words were full of heaviness and happiness. It's been so long, and it's finally a result. Otherwise, he would be too embarrassed to reach out and ask for money.

The importance of steel to ancient warfare is undeniable. When Liang Shanjun's plate armor was in trouble because of material problems, how to break through this bottleneck became the focus.

Lu Qian didn't know anything about iron and steel metallurgy, so he vaguely remembered a crucible for steelmaking, as if iron and scrap were together, so that there could be steel. But he didn't even know if the cauldron was closed or open.

His 'guidance' advice is not only not helpful to the Golden Leopard, but it is called 'R&D' in a predicament. Lu Qian also helped a little bit with this, one is the hot gas blowing furnace, he doesn't even know if he said it, he only knows the general meaning, that is, to pour hot gas into the refining furnace to increase the temperature, and the other is to get oxygen and hydrogen. Of course, the oxygen has turned into yang, and the hydrogen has turned into yin. Do you follow the local customs?

Anyway, he knew that, and he thought it was useful. But Tang Long has experienced countless failures, such as the scrap pig iron in the crucible is not melted, and later generations of people who know how to make steel should know that the heat of crucible steelmaking is more than 1600 °. At that time, China's refining furnaces could not reach such high temperatures.

By the time Tanglong gave them the existing smelting furnace, that is, the small blast furnace, the technical level was almost the same level as the small blast furnace in the era of 'big steelmaking' in later generations. If you join this blowing system, the technical level may be surpassed.

Then Tang Long and the others saw the scene of the crucible exploding, because the furnace temperature went up, but the material of the crucible was not good, and it could not withstand high temperatures.

In short, Lu Qian's 'guiding opinions' have caused great trouble to the entire R&D process.

In this way, Tang Long and they still returned to the steel filling method. In today's era, China's steel filling method has been inherited for hundreds of years, just like Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings": "The so-called iron and steel in the world are bent with soft iron, but they are trapped in the middle of it with pig iron and sealed in mud." The forging order is in, which is called group steel, also known as steel filling. ”

The so-called "soft iron" is "wrought iron".

It is far from the modern steelmaking method of later generations, but in this era, it is definitely the best in the world.

Tanglong they use wrought iron to beat into thin slices, such as the finger is wide, half an inch long, with iron bundles and clamps, pig iron placed on it, the furnace drum, when the fire is up, the pig iron wants to flow, then the pig iron is on the wrought iron, rub into it. In fact, this is to increase the contact reaction surface of raw and wrought iron, teach it to increase oxidation inclusions, improve the strength of carbon-oxygen reaction, and enhance the ability to remove slag. In addition, part of the ferrous oxide can also be reduced, which improves the metal yield.

None of the people present knew the reason, Lu Qian just watched the pieces of steel bars being beaten out by the craftsman, and then listened to Tang Long's words: "The steel obtained by this method can be increased by three percent compared with the former, and the price is two percent lower." ”

Then there are some tips. First, when smelting wrought iron, the molten iron flowing out of the iron-making furnace flows directly into the iron-frying furnace to fry the mature iron, which saves the process of condensing the molten iron into pig iron and then melting the pig iron into mature iron. Second, the continuous smelting of the iron-making furnace uses the method of plugging the tapping mouth with soil after the molten iron flows out, and the blast continues to smelt iron, which greatly shortens the iron-making time.

Lu Qian was overjoyed when he heard this, increasing the cost by 30% and reducing the cost by 20%, which was a big contribution. In the future, when the improvement of gunpowder is successful, he suspects that it is the purity of saltpeter and sulfur, and makes his great gun business abandoned, and has organized manpower to study it, but the progress is still small, the development of iron and steel metallurgy technology will bring the most solid foundation to the gun technology.

For example, Lu Qian greatly rewarded the metallurgical institute with official positions, money, and so on. This generation works for him, and with this achievement, Lu Qian does not care about his official position and money.

Everything in the world is a transaction, and what Lu Qian has felt since he crossed over to this day is a "law of conservation of mass" between human beings.

The Sanruan brothers, Liu Tang, Li Kui, etc., were loyal to Lu Qian, because Lu Qian also gave them enough "things" to die for without regrets.

This 'thing' is not only an official position and a good thing, but also not just ease, dignity, and kindness, but a synthesis of everything.

For example, the Ruan brothers, the three brothers were originally small fishermen in Shijie Village, and they lived a poor life. But now they are Lu Qian's henchmen, in charge of most of the internal and external sailors, and this success is one of them; And the second is Lu Qian's support, appreciation, and kindness to them.

And compared to the first, this second is more important. For the three heroes of the Ruan family, Lu Qian's friendship is heavier and more meaningful than official wealth, and it is accompanied by the end of the matter, mixed with the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, this is the hardcore die-hard loyalty that cannot be changed for life and death.

Then Li Kui is like this, otherwise his blood can be bought by the deputy governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion? If he really wants to attach importance to his official position, will he still call Lu Qian "brother" arrogantly?

Look at Liu Tang, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, etc., and look at everyone, even Zong Ze, Xu Guanzhong, etc., they are all like this.

Therefore, there is still fairness in the 'human world'.

Just when Lu Qian went to the Metallurgical Institute, the cabinet office, Zong Ze went to the ministry, and happened to see Zhao Mingcheng with a sad face coming out, he saw Zong Ze and squeezed out a little smile, Zong Ze looked at him and knew that Wen Huanzhang had given him another task. With the end of the imperial examination, Lu Qian's 'reform' that has been brewing for a long time is about to be launched.

As he said earlier, the name of lifting people and showing talents will be useful in the future. That refers to the present.

In the future, under his rule, the country opened a branch and the first person was called "Jinshi"; The provincial government opened a branch to take scholars and the first person said to "lift people"; The state capital opened a branch and the first person is called "Xiucai".

Those who show talents can be state and county officials, and those who raise people can be officials of provincial and state officials, or they can be awarded the status of Jiupin officials, and the lower counties can be township officials; Those who enter the scholar are eight-rank officials. The latter is at least a cadre, but they all have a period of observing politics, that is, an internship period.

In this way, it can be said that the power is delegated to the local government.

Although Lu Qi lowered the pity of lifting people and showing talents, he was able to enter the public gate. You must know that Qi Guo does not care about the distinction between officials, and will not regard officials such as copywriters, charges, baozheng, lizheng, household heads, and township scribes as "service" like Zhao and Song. This is a world of difference from the hard labor of ordinary people.

The service laws of the Northern Song Dynasty included errand service and husband service. The latter is the labor of the common people, while the former is the service of the landlord to the court. Including the current civil and military officials and the history of the state and county, in this regard, the officials are integrated, as well as the situation household and the official household. The wealthy family is called the situation household, and the family members of the officials and their descendants are called the official household. Wang Anshi's exemption law stipulates that situation households and official households enjoy the privilege of exemption from military service. The errand service is fulfilled by the first, second, and third class households in the main household, that is, large and small landlords like Chao Gai and Song Jiang.

But now, Lu Qi has a legal system, and the people of the whole world do not care about stratification and ranking, and they should all serve. Those who are unwilling to serve should pay for two battles.

Under Lu Qian's rule, officials had no way out, and officials were like the Qin and Han dynasties. Such a legal system is a great blessing to the likes of 'Song Jiang'. It is impossible for the world to be full of 'Song Jiang and Song Gongming', but there are always pearls left in the sea.

Wen Huanzhang is the second assistant of the cabinet, and he also serves as the heavenly official of the Ministry of Officials, because of the matter of lifting people and showing talents, he is connected with Zhao Mingcheng up and down, who calls the current level of the Ministry of Rites is not enough.

Although it is the local government that presides over the scientific examination, the Ministry of Rites also has to send scholars, but God is pitiful, there are so many scholars there in the Ministry of Rites now. This will be taken from somewhere else, and so it will cause waves to rise elsewhere.

Recently, in the cabinet meeting, Fan Rui is avoiding Wen Huanzhang. Zhao Mingcheng is even more so.

Zong Ze stopped and asked about the situation, and Zhao Mingcheng probably said. He is already doing this, but how easy is it to draw out so many scholars in the short term? Moreover, there was also a dispute between the local government and the Ministry of Rites over the subject of the scientific examination. In short, it's still a mess.

"Zhao Mingcheng is better than the peace officer, why did he force him too much. The official of the Ministry of Rites, do you still know? Sitting down opposite Wen Huanzhang, Zong Ze said leisurely.

Wen Huanzhang looked up at Zong Ze and snorted, "Did he complain to you?" If you don't do things quickly, you can sue quickly. Dozens of academic officials were transferred, and he was dragged for many days without putting some pressure on him. ”

In Wen Huanzhang's view, the scientific examination of lifting people and showing talents is really a good thing. One can be a scholar, and the other can be Ansly. If it is implemented as soon as possible, it will bring a boost to Lu Qi as soon as possible.

In this way, entering September, the land of Qilu and Huainan has been spread all over the two terms: lifting people and showing talents.

However, the commotion in Shilin generally came, as well as a flying letter from Nigu Village, but since the end of August, the refugee population of the Khitan border on the other side of Nigu Village has increased sharply.

This is understandable. A large number of grain, ironware, cloth and other goods were sent to the north to exchange for a large number of qualified war horses, leathers, cattle and sheep for the Liangshan army. After the Liao State got the grain and silk, although a part of it was distributed for disaster relief, compared with the refugees in the entire Nanjing Province, this was too little.

More importantly, a large number of these refugees are exiles from Liaodong. Although some of the latter young people were trained as resentful soldiers, this is to learn the old skills of Zhao and Song. Isn't the latter's huge army just the choice of its young and strong army when natural disasters come again and again, so as to reassure the people?

But with the previous defeat, this strategy was vetoed by the upper echelons of the Liao State.

Because the combat power of the resentful army is too weak, but it has to consume so much food. You may have a shortage of them in your armor, but you must not have enough of them in your rations. Tens of thousands of people are not a small number, and their performance in the war is extremely bad. Even one of the major factors in the defeat of Tribulus Hill was the instability of some people in the resentment army.

Although this can't be blamed for resenting the army, in the cold season of the Northland, tens of thousands of resentful troops can't even guarantee warm clothes, and it's strange that they can be stable. But the topic then turned back to the old problem, complaining about the cost of the army.

The Khitan nobles were more inclined to use the only precious materials they had to settle the grassland, so that they could train a mighty iron cavalry composed of Khitans in the rest of the time. Only when the Khitan people are strong is the real strength of the Liao State......

You can't say that people are thinking wrong, but this has hurt hundreds of thousands or more of the homeless refugees on Nanjing Road.

However, from a general point of view, the gains and losses of the hearts of the people of the north and the south, the rise and fall of the country's strength, the country is really fair and just. This world is full of countless injustices and injustices, but this world is full of great fairness and justice.

Just like the Confucianism looked down on craftsmen, and denounced them as obscene skills for thousands of years, but in the end they were completely crushed into slag by industry; Zhao Song used literature to control martial arts, emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts, but in the end, he was completely defeated by the nomads with the force of red fruits.

That is, a drink and a peck, it is not predetermined; Lan cause flocculent, there must be a cause.