Chapter Ninety-Five: A Treasure Trove of Talents

For those soldiers, Zhang Zhimu did not hold a meeting together, but interviewed them one by one, so that he could also understand the temperament and temperament of each of them. The basic meaning of the conversation is, you are doing it with me now, and I will not treat you badly. I know you, I know you, and the mistakes you have made are basically political, and they have nothing to do with your personal character. I don't care about politics, but I respect you talented people. Now it is a great chaos in the world, and we have contributed to the imperial court, and we have offended the thief Li Zicheng, and Li Zicheng will never let us go. Now Li Zicheng is dealing with the King of Qin in Shaanxi, and the next one is our Shanxi. But now up and down Shanxi, no one thinks about these things except for the idea of making money. In order to protect themselves, all our employees in the kiln gang have to undergo military training. You're all people with military talents, and I'd like to ask you to come out and help train the team so you don't have to rock here. Even if you stay here, you have to take up a position and help manage these prisoners, because I have a lot of trust in you, and you are different from the other prisoners here.

Zhang Zhimu asked Li Dong to pick out the old and infirm among these prisoners and let them do some low-labor work, such as driving a carriage, being responsible for greening, and cleaning. The remaining prisoners were also divided into groups and managed by the former officers.

All prisoners are rewarded and punished. For these officers who are responsible for participating in the management, as long as the personnel under their management have not had a major liability accident within one year, they can enjoy the treatment of kiln employees. At that time, the salary will be paid on time. These prisoners, who obey the arrangement within two years, can complete their work on time and in full, and after two years, they can also enjoy the treatment of kiln workers.

In this way, from among these officers, fifty young and experienced officers were selected to join Liu Yun's ranks. Let them help Liu Yun train the team. Twenty more officers of the original navy were selected to join Fan Chengkun's fleet.

Although Liu Yun and his sisters are strong in martial arts and have rich practical experience, they are not strong in management training after all. The addition of these people this time has greatly improved the level of training management. Liu Yun also respected these people and didn't treat them as prisoners at all. Zhang Zhimu's idea is to make them forget that they are prisoners, and let them integrate into this team as soon as possible. These prisoners, who have already died once, cherish this opportunity to be reborn, not to mention that now they can live a dignified life every day, and they have all used their skills.

Fan Chengkun also welcomed these experienced officers who were sent over. The arrival of these people has also greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the naval army. This is because a naval officer cannot be trained in a short period of time, it takes a long time to practice.

Before leaving, Zhang Zhimu rejected the coke oven plan designed by Li Dong and his colleagues at the smelter. Li Dong and a few people said that we used the ancient method of coking, and our ancestors used this method to coke.

Zhang Zhimu said: "We can't completely refine the current coke according to the methods of our ancestors. Your coke ovens use a large chimney to exhaust all the gas, which pollutes the air and wastes resources. There are still several problems with the coke oven you built, one is that the scale is too small; Second, the contact surface between coal and air is too large. In this way, the focal rate is too low, and it is good to reach 50% of the coul, so it must be improved. Moreover, I not only have to make coke, but also recover coal tar and ammonia. This coal tar and ammonia are treasures. ”

Then, Zhang Zhimu redrew a sketch for them with a pencil.

First of all, the location of this coal coke oven was chosen by the river, because it is convenient to use water when washing coal. When cooling gas, it is also convenient to extract water from cooling water. Moreover, a waterwheel can be built, and the waterwheel can be used as a power to pump gas, so that the extraction rate of coal tar is much higher. Judging from the appearance of the coke oven, Zhang Zhimu designed the coke oven without a chimney, but using a steel pipe to draw the gas out from the top of the furnace, and then enter the three cooling towers three times in a row. This cooling tower is actually a large iron box, which is coiled into a spiral shape with iron pipes, and the cold water pipes flow through the inlet, so that the hot gas entering the box is cooled down by these coiled water pipes, and the coal tar and water in the gas are condensed. In this way, after three condensations, most of the coal tar and water are condensed down, fall to the bottom of the cooling tower and flow into the water-oil separator, and the final gas is washed in a large iron tank and released.

In the oil-water separator, coal tar floats on the top, and ammonia water on the bottom. The water that washes the gas is also ammonia. Coal tar and ammonia can be stored separately. The large jar pulled to the smelter is ready to store coal tar and ammonia.

I saw that the technicians of the smelter were there. Zhang Zhimu directly taught these people a lesson. In addition to the problem of this coke. They were also briefed on smelting and steel.

Zhang Zhimu said: "The 'iron' we usually talk about is divided into two types: 'pig iron' and 'wrought iron', in fact, including 'steel', it is an alloy based on two elements, iron and carbon. Generally, the carbon content of wrought iron is less than 0.05%, the carbon content is 0.05% to 2.0%, and the carbon content is between 2.0% and 6.67%, which is called pig iron. The higher the carbon content of steel, the harder it is. Pig iron has a high carbon content, so the hardness of pig iron is very high, but because the carbon content is too high, pig iron also becomes very brittle and lacks toughness; The carbon content of wrought iron is too low, so it becomes very soft and has good toughness, but the hardness is insufficient; Only steel has a moderate carbon content, so the toughness and hardness are good. The rigid iron we practice is actually adjusting the ratio of iron and carbon. Different proportions have different properties, and in the future, I will design measurement equipment for you to measure hardness and toughness, and then we will also develop different standards for the hardness and toughness of metals such as steel. Now when we make steel and iron, we should observe more about the difference between different situations and the steel smelted. ”

Li Dong and the others still can't fully understand what Zhang Zhimu said. But to control the hardness and toughness of steel, they know. It's just that this hasn't been thought about theoretically. Now they will know the direction when they make steel again. So, they all started talking to each other.

Zhang Zhimu continued: "In the past, we used charcoal to make steel. There are advantages and disadvantages to this. The advantage is that the large block of charcoal means that the gap between the raw materials in the furnace is large, and the wind is easy to blow in, which is conducive to combustion; In addition, there are fewer impurities such as sulfur in charcoal, and the brittleness of steel is less when there are fewer impurities. But charcoal also has a disadvantage, that is, its low calorific value. It is also less hard, which limits the further expansion of the ironmaking furnace. Later, we used coke to make iron, and these advantages and disadvantages were reversed. This requires all of us to re-examine iron-making technology and iron-making methods. The advantage of coke steelmaking is that it can greatly increase the furnace temperature and produce good steel that could not be made in the past when using charcoal to make steel. ”

When Zhang Zhimu finished speaking, Li Dong and the others turned around. We are iron and steel makers, so it's strange why this one seems to know more about these things than we do.

No matter what these people were thinking about here, Zhang Zhimu knew it was time to go back to the headquarters. Because of the officers who were singled out, joining Liu Yun, their team did not move here. Joining Fan Chengkun, they have already been sent over. Zhang Zhimu decided to take these literati back to Yaogang this time. But just when Zhang Zhimu and the others were about to get into the car, Li Jing came over and said to Zhang Zhimu that he wanted to pick a few people to take away.

Zhang Zhimu said: "If it's useful, you can bring it." ”

It turned out that a few days ago, Zhang Zhimu had opened all the handcuffs and shackles of the prisoners, and Liu Yun was afraid that someone would really use this to escape, which would not affect it. Send someone to watch over it. Moreover, Liu Yun, who is very scheming, is loose on the outside and tight on the inside. On the surface, there are not too many people to take care of it, but in fact, in the dark, many people are arranged.

There are really all kinds of people in this prisoner. Among them are a few snitches who are very good at light skills. In fact, Li Jing has been thinking about what Zhang Zhimu told him. In the future, he was asked to organize a special forces unit where everyone had special skills, so he came to the smelting factory and began to observe these prisoners, wanting to see if there were any people with special skills, and by checking the files of these people, he found out that several of them were prisoners who had repeatedly escaped from arrest. After locking them in, Li Jing began to observe them. These people are definitely very sensitive, and they all found that Li Jing was observing them. However, these people didn't think of the good, and they all thought that the new guard was not kind to them. Fortunately, the handcuffs and shackles have been opened, and after a few days of eating, my body has gained strength. The men moved together one night and began to flee. In fact, Li Jing also felt that these people were going to make a move with her sensitivity. He asked Liu Yun to help block a few passages, leaving an opening. Li Jing and Li Wei took Liu Jun and others and quietly waited outside this mouth. Li Jing repeatedly said to Li Wei that these people must not be killed or injured, I want to subdue them. Li Wei said: "What are you doing with so much effort? If you want to come over to Mr. Zhang, you have to come. Li Jing said: "You don't understand, if you don't subdue these people, they can't obey you, and if you don't obey, you won't be able to control it in the future." So today they must be convinced. ”

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, five people quietly slipped out of the shack where they were sleeping and went out. However, they found that there were levels everywhere, and the levels were filled with two dark sentry posts. Finally found a weak link, these people were overjoyed, thinking that the guards were also negligent, and they could be regarded as finding a way out. Then they don't think it's a pocket. As a result, as soon as he came out of this mouth, he was blocked by Li Wei and Li Jing. After some comparison, three were caught. The other two relied on their light skills and ran outside quickly, and Li Jing and Liu Jun chased them until dawn before they were arrested.

The few people who were captured had to admire Li Jing and Li Wei, and Li Jing and Li Wei also felt that these people's kung fu was too good. What made these five arrested people feel strange was that after they were caught, the beating they had been preparing for a long time was gone. Li Wei and Li Jing also put on the wine and food and drank with them, and several people chatted about the things on the rivers and lakes, and the older they were, the closer they became. As soon as Li Wei and Li Jing introduced their experiences, especially what happened after they arrived at Yaogang, these five people were very envious. Then he sighed, and one of them said, "If I were not a prisoner, I would like to ask you to introduce me to the kiln." Live your life like yours too. The others sighed in agreement. When Li Jing saw that the time had come, she asked, "Do you really want to join the kiln?" There are many rules in the kiln, can you stand it? Several people said it was fine. Li Jing said: "You don't know how capable our Mr. Zhang is, I will beg Mr. Zhang for you and let him find a way to get you out." I'm really optimistic about your skills, and I think it's really a waste in it. One said, "That's great." As long as we can come out, absolutely follow the rules, especially obey your arrangement. However, we have four brothers who are all about the same level as us, so please come up with them. ”

Li Jing said: "It's not early, you have to go back now, see those brothers, ask them, do they think the same as you." Tell me the results tomorrow. "When it was dawn, they all wanted to come out together.

After listening to Li Jing's words, Zhang Zhimu said: "This is a good thing, you can arrange it." But these people can't all be put together, they all have to be separated. ”

Li Jing said: "Got it." ”

Zhang Zhimu's carriage can finally start. The jinshi, lifters, and showmen who sat in the steel spring carriage knew that they could finally really leave this hellish place. Zhang Zhimu put a Jinshi named Fan Jinfu, who had been a doctor in Taizhong, into his carriage. Doctor Taizhong is an official in charge of discussion, which is equivalent to engaging in public opinion work in his previous life. It belongs to the four products. Because he was framed by political enemies, he was imprisoned for writing. The men in the family are in the army, and the women are slaves and maids.

However, this strange man, despite such adversity, was still impassioned and indignant when he talked to Zhang Zhimu in the car about the disadvantages of the DPRK and China. Zhang Zhimu thought to himself, this person is really material for public opinion work, and he can be asked to set up a newspaper in the future to supervise public opinion. said: "The emperor may not know what you said, and as a result, you were moved by these traitors." In the future, if conditions permit, you can set up a newspaper to carry out public opinion propaganda, arouse the people, and let the emperor know what you have to say. ”

Fan Jianfu said: "The Beijing Palace has a newspaper, but it can't write what I said. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "So if we have the conditions, we can run our own newspaper. ”

"This is a difficult matter, the imperial court will not allow private newspapers."

Zhang Zhimu said: "The court won't let you out, won't you come out too?" There is nothing in this world that no one can't do, only people who can't do it. If you don't work hard, you will never succeed. ”

Fan Jianfu stared at him and didn't know what to say. I felt very strange in my heart, I used to be very able to speak, and I have always been good at good arguments. But why didn't he have anything to say in front of Mr. Zhang.

Back in Yaogang, Zhang Zhimu introduced these literati to Lu Bingyi, and everyone introduced each other one by one. I have already received the news that Lu Bingyi has already assigned these people's offices. Lu Bingyi's arrangement is that whether you are a jinshi or a xiucai, like your colleagues in their department, each person is a big desk and a chair. The desks are equipped with office supplies such as the four treasures of the study. There are also pencils, dipping pens, etc., that they are not familiar with. These people, when they sit at their desks, have tears that are too shallow in their eyes and can't stop falling.

Huang Yukun has already arranged the residence of these people. But after these people had seen the bunks in their rooms, they could not stay in the rooms. All come out and look everywhere.

It is no wonder that some outsiders go to the kiln to do things, and they all look everywhere before they start to do other things. And these people who have just come out of the cage. These people really feel new to everything. In particular, the big windmill that was whirring around, carrying water from the well and pouring it into the ground, made these people feel even more incredible. Along the way, the steel spring carriage made these people feel amazing, but they didn't expect there to be such a magical thing here.

Back at the kiln, Zhang Zhimu was also very happy. I've done everything I've arranged.

The first one, Li Yunhe said: "The thermometer was successfully made, and now ten thermometers are made, and ten thermometers are used to measure the same temperature, all of which are the same, and they are all very accurate." However, checking the thermometer has run out of ice in the cave. Zhang Zhimu said: "With these ten thermometers, there is no need for ice for the time being." ”

Second, the bath has been repaired, and the water and sewer pipes of the entire kiln have also been repaired. It's just that the switch is not turned off, and I don't dare to release the water.

Thirdly, a hundred muskets have been made, and the others are in full swing. It is estimated that the more you do it, the faster it will be, because the novices who come have slowly become familiar with the work and become familiar with it.

The fourth news is that Saihu has eight puppies. As soon as Zhang Zhimu heard this, he immediately went to Saihu's nest to see Saihu, although Saihu and Zhang Zhimu were very friendly, but when Zhang Zhimu approached Saihu's nest, Saihu's nose still made an unfriendly whining sound. Zhang Zhimu discussed with Saihu for a long time next to Saihu's den, and Saihu didn't let Zhang Zhimu touch his cubs.

It turned out that when Zhang Zhimu went to kill Hukou, Saihu suddenly disappeared, and everyone searched everywhere but couldn't find it. Because they heard a wolf howling at night these days, everyone thought that Saihu had never beaten a wolf, and asked the wolf to eat it. Unexpectedly, Saihu came back two days later. Before Zhang Zhimu went south, Saihu was a little wilted and sleepy, Xiaoqing and Xiaohu asked Zhang Zhimu if Saihu was sick. Zhang Zhimu looked over, touched Saihu's belly again, and said: "Saihu is not sick, he is going to be a mother." In the future, I will feed Saihu something delicious. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that the dog's pregnancy time should be sixty-three days, but the difference of seven days before and after was normal. So in terms of time, it is appropriate for the tiger to give birth to cubs now. It's a great event. Saihu is the hero of the kiln.

The fifth thing was that Huang Yukun brought a small pot of sticky rubber.

Before leaving, Zhang Zhimu taught Huang Yukun how to extract rubber by flotation, and Huang Yukun was ingenious and extracted all the rubber in the rubber grass that the women got back according to Zhang Zhimu's method.

Seeing this amount of rubber, Zhang Zhimu said to Li Yunhe: "I can make a rubber mat tomorrow, your faucet will not leak, and the sewer and bath can be used." ”

Looking at this sticky rubber, Zhang Zhimu suddenly remembered that this thing can be made into sticky cloth. It's a good thing when it comes to bandaging wounds. Thinking of this, he immediately called Zhang Bingchen over.

In front of Zhang Bingchen, he first used a thick white cloth and cut it into strips of cloth with scissors, and then gently coated a thin layer of thin rubber on the strips of cloth. When the surface of the glue was dry, he took Zhang Bingchen's hand, put a small piece of cloth on Zhang Bingchen's hand, and then picked up the strip of cloth coated with glue, and stuck the small piece of cloth on his hand with a cross. Zhang Zhimu asked Zhang Bingchen: "Do you understand what I mean?" Zhang Bingchen didn't understand it all of a sudden.

Zhang Zhimu, who was angry, said: "You stupid, if your hand is injured, won't it be bandaged like this?" Zhang Bingchen suddenly realized and said, "Oh my God, this is amazing, in this way, it will be much easier to deal with the wound." You can also make this tape a little bigger, it would be very useful. It's great if you can make more adhesive tape now. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Not this year, when the rubber grass I plant next year grows up, I can make a lot of adhesive tape for you." I want to make this rubber into a rubber pad, which is for the faucet. ”

Huang Yukun didn't expect this rubber to be so useful, and said next to him: "I have a way, I can get some more rubber." ”