Chapter 229: Improvement of Iron Smelting
Miao Yuan had solved this problem before Zhao Xin arrived, which made Zhao Xin very satisfied, in fact, after it was proposed, the entire migration began to be prepared, and after Zhao Xin arrived, it entered a substantial state.
In feudal society, the population flow is not large, unless it is a large-scale immigration organized by the imperial court, otherwise, the vast majority of the people will spend their lives in their hometowns, unless they become scholars or merchants.
The large-scale migration of thousands of people even has to carry the necessary items, which requires a lot of preparation, and even has to be reported, otherwise, the passing army may kill you as a rogue.
Baozhou is close to the Haizhou water system, connected with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and Haizhou, which is quite close to the Hongze Lake at the end of the Huai River.
When he came, Zhao Xin was ready, and along the way, he ordered people to rent a large number of ships in the Daimyo's Mansion and the ports along the coast, almost more than 2,000 ships, according to the fact that one ship can accommodate two families, at most two trips, and all these people can be transported to Hongze Lake.
This short distance after Hongze Lake is much simpler, you can walk slowly, or you can settle down in the local area first.
Zhao Xin is also in the letter, applying for a wharf in Hongze Lake, for the temporary jerk of immigration, as well as the future, the sales plan of goods, this request has been approved by Renzong, it can be said unceremoniously that Renzong is obedient to Zhao Xin's current situation.
Don't say it's a legitimate request, even if it's an improper request, it doesn't matter.
Busy Miaojiazhuang, everyone knows that they are about to leave, and the future is full of unknown possibilities, they know that with Zhao Xin, with Zhao Xin's dazzling money-making methods, they will definitely gain a lot, but the feeling of leaving their hometown is really sad.
Unconsciously, it was already 1044, June of the fourth year of Qingli, and it was about 10 months since then, and Zhao Xin finally got rid of the previous embarrassment of being hunted down and killed, and really went deep into the historical time and space of the Northern Song Dynasty.
I have to say that this time and space is the entire feudal dynasty, the Wenzhi reached its peak, countless writers, Confucians, and even the characters who were sealed on the altar, and these characters are the same era, which is a rare blessing.
A few months of personal experience made him truly realize the wisdom of the ancients, if he was trapped in this era, if he didn't take a step back and withdraw from Zhao Xin's identity, he didn't dare to guarantee whether he could go smoothly, live to adulthood, and inherit the much-anticipated throne.
From the perspective of later generations, there are many in the Northern Song Dynasty, he didn't expect, or even say, a better place than he imagined, but more, the Northern Song Dynasty is a feudal dynasty, a prosperous place, very prosperous, not prosperous, not prosperous, but also quite unprosperous.
How to develop them is a key, and Zhao Xin's ability needs to be studied, but Zhao Xin is very confident in all this, and he can earn enough money while developing.
In the midst of intense preparations, only some of them did not pack their bags, they were still preparing, and they were doing experiments.
When steamed buns cannot be promoted on a large scale, and soap still needs time to become a necessity recognized by people, iron has become the only choice.
There are a group of blacksmiths in Miaojiazhuang, some of them are old blacksmiths near Miaojiazhuang, and there are those who used to belong to the logistics force of the forbidden army, and after understanding the treatment of Miaojiazhuang, they are willing to follow Miaojiazhuang and Zhao Xin.
This part is also quite a lot, after all, for blacksmiths, according to the standards of Miaojiazhuang, it is higher than the workshop, some of the poor, you can get more than 150 Wen every day, and the better ones are basically 300 Wen.
This is not a small amount, nine guan a month, maybe it can't be compared with Zai Fu, Han Qi's amount is more than 300 guan per month, but it is not a lot for ordinary officials, and even the jinshi who was elected as an official just after the imperial examination.
What can 9 guan do, the income of 2 guan is enough for a few people in a family, and they can live comfortably for a month, 9 guan is enough for many people to complete the upgrade.
Zhao Xin's next plan is even more so, many people are under Zhao Xin's teaching, especially a series of guidance, to adjust their production methods.
I have accumulated considerable experience before, and I know the approximate carbon content of which kind of pig iron, and now it is to expand its scale, unlike the sword, it is necessary to ensure that the outside is steel, to ensure sufficient toughness, and the hardness in it.
Steel blocks are not used, and can even be smelted, mixed, and then a small part of impurities are removed.
Some of the methods of later generations, some of which were only seen in the consultation but never used, made Zhao Xin here, and incidentally, made a simple transformation of the traditional steelmaking furnace.
Sealing the box, the degree of sealing is higher, there is no cheap sealing items such as rubber, but some fish glue and the like, can barely be used, strengthen the sealing performance, improve the utilization rate of fire, these are done to the extreme, the temperature of the furnace has also increased a lot, and the efficiency of steelmaking has also been improved.
In the end, the success rate of more than 9 percent, especially next, Zhao Xin is an iron block to build, not a weapon, which improves the efficiency even more.
Steel is fast, easier to build than weapons, and some people go to study the practice of clamping the blade, which is a basic skill of a blacksmith, as long as you are familiar with some characteristics of steel, it is very good to do all this.
Some can even make this blade become one with itself, and there is no difference between it.
At the beginning, there were only a dozen or so blacksmiths who could successfully smelt steel, Zhao Xin asked them to sum up their experience, and carried out standardized and systematic control, which was soon popularized, and on the tenth day when Zhao Xin returned to Miaojiazhuang, that is, the first batch of personnel in Miaojiazhuang was about to get on the ship and go to the stall in Haizhou, and more than 80 people could complete it.
These people will be an important foundation for his next money-making plan, Wang Song is currently opening up a site in the Daimyo's Mansion, making some necessary preparations, and at the same time hiring a large number of blacksmiths, according to a skilled blacksmith can have 3 furnaces a day, each furnace is 50 kilograms, he must reach about 1,000 people, and then assist some blacksmiths who make tools, in the future, this large-scale smelting workshop will accommodate at least 9,000 people.
Just a salary, may be close to 50,000 yuan a month, but the output will be very amazing, his smelting method, so that from iron to steel, the increase in cost is less than 50%, the future large-scale smelting, there will be a certain reduction, when the cost is not higher than 30%, this profit, but quite high, as long as it can be successfully promoted, this blacksmith workshop, will continue to provide him with funds, a large amount of funds.