On the afternoon of 10 June, a large boat was moored in the river, and a large group of people were on the boat, unloading boxes from the boat, loading them into a carriage, and transporting them to the residence of Chen Feng and his wife. Lin Sancheng was registering one by one in the warehouse at this time. On the way, two teams of nurses were fully armed to escort the convoy. The neat team followed the convoy back and forth, which made Chen Feng and the others feel excited. Nema finally had her first team.

In the evening, Li Quan and Li Xiang were called to the room to make a report. Li Quan coughed for a moment, and then arched his hand and said, "Two adults, during your departure, a total of 2,170 taels of silver were spent. The workshops were finished, and the necessary materials were prepared, but the blacksmith's objects were not finished. There are 30,000 catties of iron ore and 90,000 catties of coal. Now the preparation and concentrator room has been working for two days, and the recruits are processing the coal and iron ore according to the requirements of the adults. There are 60 people in total, and 100 people have been recruited to mine in the manganese mine in Huangwutun, and now 50,000 catties have been mined and transported back. The monthly money is one tael of silver for the material preparation and beneficiator, and 1 tael or three silver for the manganese miner. ”

"Well, that's good." Leave your ledger for us to see.

"Yes"

"Li Xiang talked about you," Chen Feng said.

"Yes, two adults. During the time the adults left, they had been training them according to the training syllabus of the two adults. Now the team has mastered everything listed by the two adults, and the ten-mile run every day has never stopped. Now it only takes an hour to finish. ”

"Very good, there are two Lao."

"I am willing to serve the two adults." The two replied in unison.

After doing this, the two began to put the expansion of the army on the agenda.

Early the next morning, Chen Feng and the others called all the people to a meeting. The maids rearranged the entire lobby. The hall is the rostrum. Below are 4 rows of tables, each with a capacity of 10 people. Name tags are also placed in the first row so that the main characters can be seated. The names of the name plate from left to right are: Li Quan, Lin Sancheng, Li Er, Li Xiang, Ban Zhong, Su Xin, Su Ren, and there are too many people behind them so they are not listed one by one.

After everyone was seated, the maids prepared pen, ink and paper for Li Quan and Lin Sancheng to record.

Chen Feng took a sip of tea and said, "You guys now have a big business in our family. It's time to re-promote some talent, and your salary should be increased a little more. ”

After hearing this, the congregation was discussed.

Chen Feng pressed his hands lightly and said, "Everyone, calm down, what I want to say next is that our family business must have a name in order to pave the way for future development." After the discussion between the two of us, we will be called Pacific Company in the future, and we will be called Pacific Commercial Bank to the outside world. The top leaders of the company are the president, and my two brothers serve as the top leaders. And there is the general manager below, and now it is composed of Li Quan and Lin Sancheng. In the future, we will see who has the ability to slowly bring it up. There are ministers from various departments, but there are no suitable people to appoint them for the time being. In addition, the workshop manager of each workshop will not be appointed, so it will be up to you to see your ability later. And Li Quan and Lin Sancheng each received 20 taels of monthly money. "There are also Chen Ziyun, Long Dahai, and Carlo, who we brought back from Guangzhou Mansion, appointed as consuls to help Li Quan and Lin Sancheng manage. Receive three or two months' money.

After that, there is another big discussion.

"Everyone, be quiet, and now I want to make personnel transfers to the nursing team. Everyone, listen up, Li Er, Li Xiang was appointed as the general flag and received 10 taels of money, Su Zhong was appointed as the small flag of the night and received 8 taels of money, Su Xin was appointed as the small flag of the artillery team and received 8 taels of money, and Su Ren was appointed as the small banner of the pro-guard team and received 8 taels of money. Huang Jiu, Chen Zhongxin, Zhao Erwen, Zhong Dafa, Sun Shangwu, Li Daniu, Zhu Liu, the seven of you are Xiaoqi and receive five or two months' money. and Hu Jiangong received 20 taels of money for the captain. And the trained institutes receive 2 taels and 5 coins of silver, and the new entrants receive 1 tael. The artillery team does not collect money at night, and the guards and crew receive three or two months' money. You have since become officers and soldiers along with my two brothers. ”

At this point, everyone's faces were full of smiles, but no one talked about it this time. Instead, wait for something to be said. It wasn't until Chen Feng said that after the announcement was completed, everyone said together: "Thank you to the two adults, may the two adults wait for all generations and enjoy wealth forever." The two of them smiled smugly.

The next day, the two got up early and ordered work, and the two asked Lin Sancheng to go into the city to recruit some readers and people who could count to come back to enrich the company's management team, because there were too many things to manage. And Li Quan was called to put all the newly recruited craftsmen into the workshop to work, and he had to take the newcomers for internship. At the same time, it is necessary to find a place to build a training ground and build housing for the people. Chen Feng and the two of them couldn't accommodate so many people in their mansion. After arranging these two men, they went to see the training of the army. At this time, there was no real field, and training was only on a 5-acre vacant land.

The two arrived at the venue, and each small flag was choosing people. Chen Feng and the others decided last night to have 20 people per small flag, personal guards, artillery teams, except for the night. At the same time, there were 7 old people who did not have a small flag, all of whom were put on the boat to train and study together, and the money was also raised to 5 taels. Like any other flag.

After a while, each small flag selected people and lined up in line. 7 small flags with a total of 7 teams of 140 people, while the artillery team is 30 people. Twenty small flags and twenty pro-guards were not collected at night, a total of 210 people. The number of people reached 200 households. It's just that the officers didn't go over. After watching for a while, the two went to see the crew again. At this time, the crew included a total of 87 people who were bought, recruited and inserted. After Chen Feng and the others went there, they divided the crew into 7 teams. The 7 veterans are 7 squad leaders. Zhao Xiang of the left artillery team had 12 people and three 4-pounder Furlong cannons. Right artillery team Wu Tianyun, 12 people with three 4-pounder Furlong cannons. The surface artillery team consisted of 12 men, two 8-pound pound furlong cannons and four carrying guns. Chen Fubao's bird team of 10 people. Zhang Tang stormtroopers 10 people. Wei Ercao has 20 people in the fleet and 10 people in Zhongxing's maintenance and logistics team. A total of 87 captains were chartered.

After watching the team, there was no need for two people to train, so the two began to divide the work. At this time, Chen Chun went to recruit the displaced people to come back and reclaim the military fields, so he sent people out to publicize that someone outside Qinzhou had opened a porridge farm. Then he went to negotiate with the city to help collect all the feces, urine and garbage for free, and recruited all the more than 30 homeless beggars in the city to poop and collect grass and wood ashes. At the same time, a piece of land outside the city was cleared for piling up manure, etc.

Chen Feng went to see his steel mill again. The main body of the factory was completed for some time, and the blacksmiths worked most of the parts day and night, when the gas pipes began to be laid. Those small ladles also began to be refractory. The ladle car was also made, but the rails were not completed. The material preparation and beneficiation workshop is in production, and the workers crush the ore, and then through washing, drying, and sintering to obtain high-quality iron ore that removes impurities, sulfur, and phosphorus. It is then placed next to the blast furnace over the slope for use. Coal, on the other hand, is crushed into fist-sized chunks in order to be scorched.

Walk to the coke kiln, where the pipes have been laid. Chen Feng began to let the workers test the kiln. It took an hour to pack the coal and seal the kiln. Then Chen Feng ordered someone to light the fire, and the first kiln was officially put into production at this time. However, it will take several days to find out if the output will be usable. After burning for an hour, gas began to be discharged from the pipe, and when Chen Feng saw that there was gas, he asked someone to pass the gas into the kiln, and increased the air blast, and the fire turned from yellow to blue at this time. It made Chen Feng excited.

After finishing these, it was getting late, and the two went home to have dinner with their wives. During the meal, Yingniang said: "Ying'er and I have gone to ask Mr. to watch the day, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the wedding day for you and me." August 19 is the wedding day of your brother and Ying'er. What do you two think. ”

"It's up to you, I'm too busy to take care of it now."

"Me too, whenever you say it."

After eating and taking a shower, the two fell asleep before their hair dried due to being too tired. Yingniang and Ying'er sighed and went back to the room.

On July 1, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Chen Feng was guiding the workers in preparations. Everything is ready. Workers are transporting the things they want to use to the cloth table on the top of the stove, first putting the trained coke into the cloth hopper and filling the bucket. Six people shake the cloth handle, driven by the gear, the cloth machine in the hopper evenly distributes the coke from the top of the furnace to the bottom of the furnace, and has been distributing more than 13,000 catties, and then mixing 1,000 catties of iron ore and 5,000 catties of manganese ore after processing, and distributing the material in the same way. Finally, there is a mixture of cloth limestone, fluorite.

After finishing the work, close the material opening, and when the workers came down, Chen Feng poured a small barrel of tung oil into the stove, and then threw a torch into it. The fire was lit, and after a short while, the fire ignited the coke, and Chen Feng ordered the wind to blow. Three people shake the crank of the blower at the same time. A sound of "black ~ black" sounded, and with the increase of the wind, the fire in the furnace made a "huh ~ huh" sound. At this time, carbon monoxide began to be produced in the furnace, and it was continuously sprayed out from the reserved small tube hole, because the temperature was too high to hit the air and burned, Chen Feng ordered someone to connect the pipe, so the gas passed into the stove, and a more violent fire ignited. Until an hour or so, molten iron flows continuously from the water outlet. At the outlet of the iron water, an iron pipe thicker than a person is smeared with thick refractory mud to lead the molten iron to the site ten meters away, and the site is filled with troughs made of iron sheet and refractory mud, each of which is five meters long, ten centimeters wide and ten centimeters deep. A larger horizontal groove catches the molten iron on it, and then diverts it to each small groove through each outlet hole, and the molten iron continues to flow out. Each time, 5 groups of small grooves are divided, and the second group of ~~~~ is diverted after the small grooves are full. When the molten iron is full, there are workers who take the refractory board, which is a piece of iron sheet in the middle, and the refractory mud is smeared on both sides. Divide the molten iron in a tank into 5 parts.

After an hour of busyness, the small trough on the ground was almost filled with molten iron, and there was no molten iron flowing out of the blast furnace before the fire stopped. The slag is removed from the slag discharge port at the bottom of the furnace with a tool.

The next day, Chen Feng went to the steel mill again, and at this time the workers took out the cooled iron ingots and weighed them, but Chen Feng knew that these were not iron ingots but manganese iron ingots, which were important raw materials for smelting close to modern steel, and also one of the main raw materials for manganese steel. Finally, 3,500 catties of ferromanganese were smelted yesterday.

Today, Chen Feng wants to smelt molten iron, and yesterday because the material was not spread to the design amount, this time Chen Feng wanted to lay 20,000 catties of coke, 10,000 catties of iron ore and 6,000 catties of limestone and fluorite mixture. It is divided into two paving, that is, the first time, a mixture of 10,000 catties of coke, 5,000 catties of iron ore, and 3,000 catties of limestone and fluorite. Then resurface it again.

After doing this, the ignition of yesterday was repeated, and the coke was started at the same time. After an hour, the molten iron will begin to be produced, and the molten iron will be sent to the ladle parked on the ladle car, which can load about 1,000 catties at a time, and the five ladle cars will be parked on five rails. The first one on the left was loaded first, and in about thirty minutes, the first one was loaded. The second car began to be loaded, and the loaded ones were pulled by manpower to the designated place to make steel. The ladle truck is parked on a dock that resembles a dock, and workers mix gas and air with an iron pipe sealed with refractory mud (the pressure of the air is raised by a human blower). Then the molten iron was introduced, a burst of smoke and fire rose under the gas inflow, and the molten iron turned from orange to bright white in about two minutes, and the temperature at this time was just right for steelmaking, so Chen Feng asked people to remove the trachea and began to pour in some scrap iron and 50 catties of ferromanganese and 50 catties of charcoal powder. Then stir with a refractory stick, stop stirring after 5 minutes, and then throw in two bags of quicklime and 10 catties of silica. Then pull the ladle out of the dock. Enter the continuous casting, there, the worker uses a hook to buckle the button of the water outlet at the bottom of the ladle, and the iron block that seals the water outlet has no support, so it is automatically opened, and the special refractory sand flows out, but because there is a part of the bonded steel, it is necessary to use the prepared long hook to poke through the outside of the ladle, about 5 minutes, it is pierced, and the molten steel flows from the water outlet to the refractory groove, and then diverts to form a steel ingot.

When the second package of molten steel came out, Chen Feng asked the workers to put 200 catties of ferromanganese and 30 catties of less toner. See if you can train manganese steel.

After making these first ladle of molten steel, what is left inside is steel slag, at this time the ladle car leaves the continuous casting, turns on another rail and walks out of a small dock parallel to the car, and then ten people lift the ladle and put it into a bag pit, and the bag ears just hang. Then use the simple crane on the roof to pull the ladle upside down to pour out the steel slag, and then reset. Carry the ladle away, then sleep the ladle under the stage, and start to open the water outlet while it is hot, and burn it through with gas and air. Then install the buckle iron, put the refractory sand, and block the water inlet, and it can be used. On this day, a total of 600 catties of manganese steel ingots and 2,000 catties of high-carbon steel ingots were obtained. Chen Feng was so happy that he was happy, but these steels are not available in this era, and they will never be blown up when used as firearms. I am the only one who can cut down other people's knives, but no one can cut me down. "Hahaha" Chen Feng couldn't help laughing for a while in his heart.

In the evening, Chen Feng went back and began to design the rolling production line. I was busy until late at night and didn't have a clue. I had no choice but to sleep.

On July 3, Chen Feng did not go to work because of the fatigue of last night. Chen Chun's side has reclaimed all the land, with a total of 1,500 acres of paddy fields and 2,300 acres of dry land. And the sweet potatoes planted for the old tenant farmer have grown a large number of sweet potato vines due to fertilization, which makes Chen Chun, who has planted at home, happy, Nema, these sweet potato vines are enough to plant 5 acres of land. The collected feces and urine, household garbage and plant ash are piled up in three piles. At least thirty cubic meters. And it continues to increase.

At the same time, Chen Chun built a farm on a small island of almost 1,000 acres near Crane Island, which now raises 300 piglets, 200 ducklings and 200 chickens. Twenty women from the displaced people were taking care of them. At the same time, workers built a simple pier and fence on the island. Since there are endless fish and shrimp on the river and sea, Chen Chun also hired people to make more than a dozen small fishing boats, so that the displaced people can go out to sea to catch boats when they have time. Chen Chun finally bought small fish and shrimp at a price of one penny and one catty. The valuable ones are unified with three cents and one catty, while the small fish and shrimp are used to dry and beat into powder, and then make feed together with bone meal and bran rice. The factory building is to cross the water, and the number of displaced people has reached 200.

Lin Sancheng also recruited 60 literate and arithmetic people, and after these days of work, these people are basically qualified for their jobs. And the few people brought by Li Quan also mastered the way of doing things for Chen Feng and the others. The training on the side of the army was also successfully completed according to the outline.

Li Quanxiu's two training grounds were also completed. It's just that the people's homes are still being planned. However, the required materials have basically been decided.

Chen Feng slept until the afternoon before waking up, and after listening to some people's reports, he decided to hold a meeting tonight.