Zhangqiu County continued to increase labor input into the construction of small blast furnaces and the smelting of molten iron. The whole county is in a sensation, wheat, sorghum, sweet potatoes, no one can take care of it, smelting steel is a serious thing, and it is much more cost-effective.

With the continuous production of molten iron, Chen Wanxin and others are even more crazy. Successively, Zhangqiu County invested more than 60,000 people to build more than 2,000 small blast furnaces.

But the good times didn't last long, and after so many small blast furnaces were established, Chen Wanxin, the magistrate of Zhangqiu County, and others suddenly received a report, because there were too many small blast furnaces, and the raw materials for ironmaking such as iron ore collected everywhere were seriously insufficient!

In desperation, Chen Wanxin could only mobilize tens of thousands of people in the county to look for minerals, and everyone went crazy day and night to find ore and coal, and also discovered many new ore sources, but more of them were inferior iron ore that could not be used. Seeing that the thousands of small blast furnaces that had been built were not operational, Chen Wanxin had to mobilize more people to search for mineral sources in the wilderness, and at the same time urgently appealed to the Jinan prefect for help, requesting that iron ore be transported in order to continue to maintain ironmaking.

In the spirit of asking for iron and not dying, he put forward some slogans and practices to the people that transcended reality, and would rather not sleep or eat, complete the task of steel production, and not find ore raw materials. Now that he had to do this, he found that he had no way out.

Because of the struggle to make iron, and the need to build blast furnaces everywhere, there was not so much cement for a while, so they replaced it with earth, and they directly leveled the wheat seedlings that were about to bloom, and let these places be used to build small blast furnaces, and the wheat seedlings were used to build walls with mud. And even if some of the wheat seedlings are not trampled, they are overgrown with weeds because they are untended, and many sweet potatoes are used by people looking for shelter to temporarily satisfy their hunger. More fields were left uncultivated, because there was no one to take care of them, and almost everyone who could work was sent to concentrate on steelmaking.

In addition to wheat and sweet potatoes in Zhangqiu County, there are a lot of cotton fields, this time is the time to plant cotton seedlings into the field, but because most of the strong labor force has entered the steel regiment, the family has left some old, weak, sick and disabled to support, naturally can not take into account, this has formed the cotton field in Zhangqiu no one planed, cotton seedlings no one planted, cotton seedlings grow up day by day, has missed the best time to transplant, destined this year's Zhangqiu cotton is almost out of harvest.

In addition to looking for iron ore, some iron-making corps were too radical, believing that some people's whole families came to make iron, and the corps provided food and shelter, and there was no need to fire at home or do other livelihoods, so they collected almost all the things with the "surname" of iron, including scrap iron pots, shovels, iron locks and other iron tools that were not needed in people's homes, were pulled to small blast furnaces to melt into molten iron in order to increase production.

While looking for the source of minerals, there were also many desperate characters in the iron-making corps, some of whom fought hard for 4 days and nights without closing their eyes for a moment, some of whom were injured by the molten iron of the small blast furnace, and some who were seriously injured by falling into the ravine in search of the source of ore.

However, in less than two months, more than a month later, one day, Chen Wanxin, the magistrate of Zhangqiu County, received an urgent notice from the prefect of Jinan, ordering that while making steel, it was necessary to implement "two modernizations" and "five determinations".

"Two modernizations", that is, all large-scale iron-making movements must be factory and base. The "five determinations" mean that all iron-making movements must be standardized in terms of scale, funds, equipment, personnel, and quantity, and that we cannot carry out concentrated movements in a hurry, and we cannot press down all the people, withdraw the army and build factories, and approve the scale of iron-making on the basis of the amount of iron ore that can be collected at present, and we cannot blindly build small blast furnaces in disregard of reality, wasting manpower and material resources and actually not being able to produce them.

As a result, Zhangqiu County soon abolished the original six iron and steel regiments, and on this basis, established the "Zhangqiu County No. 1 Iron-making Plant" in Mingshui Town, the "Zhangqiu No. 2 Iron-making Plant" in Puji County, and established the "Zhangqiu Iron Mine" in Hushan Zhangjiazhuang between the two, and the "Zhangqiu Coal Mine" in the north of the county, so as to cooperate with each other and just realize the supply of raw materials.

However, there are only 30 small blast furnaces left, and the two ironworks are also preparing to integrate their small blast furnaces into slightly larger blast furnaces, and also prepare to build a small open-hearth furnace for steelmaking to save fuel and iron ore consumption.

Although the iron output of Zhangqiu County has been reduced from the expected annual output of 100,000 tons to only 1,000 tons per year, which is equivalent to a hundredfold reduction, it can smelt 300 tons of steel, which is much more reasonable than the original pig iron. Moreover, the original expectation of 100,000 tons was based on the fact that there was no unlimited supply of iron ore, but in fact, there was a shortage of iron ore in Zhangqiu County.

However, after that, the 200,000 people who participated in the large-scale steel smelting in Zhangqiu also returned to their hometowns one after another, rushing to replant crops, and finally recouped some losses. Zhangqiu's steel-making movement also came to an end.

In fact, five days ago, the governor of Shandong, Yamen, received an urgent telegram from the Shengjing Telegraph Office, which was an urgent message from Emperor Feng Yunshan.

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On that day, in the northwest corner of the Shengjing Imperial Palace, a royal academy of sciences covering an area of more than 20 acres, it was originally a little quiet, but suddenly a roar spread, startling away a large number of birds above the woods in the academy. Immediately after, a cheer came: "Success!" ”

Feng Yunshan was sitting next door, discussing the railway with Cheng Hengsheng, vice minister of communications, when he suddenly heard a commotion, and was wondering, when he suddenly saw Xu Shouxing, vice minister of science and technology, running over and reporting to him: "Great joy, Your Majesty, great joy!" ”

"The technicians in the Academy of Sciences, as well as those foreign engineers, worked together for several months, and finally built the internal combustion engine like a perpetual motion machine that His Majesty said! I have just tested the engine speed of the machine can exceed 200 rpm! ”

Although Feng Yunshan was very happy, he was not too surprised. In fact, he had already expected it in his heart.

Half a year ago, he had a whim, so in the northwest corner of the palace, more than 20 acres of gardens were separated, isolated from the palace and the capital, built several attics and workshops, fully enclosed and walled, and established a so-called royal academy of sciences. He also collected some scientific and technological talents of this era that he could know from Western Europe and the entire Chinese Empire, invited all of them, arranged for food, housing and life to live in the Academy of Sciences, and listed some topics and projects, so that some scientific inventors of this era could conduct research in them.

Of course, in fact, the biggest reliance is the knowledge that he knows in his own head beyond this era, the so-called Academy of Sciences, on the one hand, can rely on the power, on the other hand, it is just a cover for him. Otherwise, wouldn't he, an emperor, invent and study things all day long, be noticed?

After the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, it was not a shame, and under his "inadvertently" inspiration, he successively invented several technologies and equipment beyond this era, which surprised Feng Yunshan. Because of this, Feng Yunshan almost didn't pay much attention to the affairs of the empire, and has been immersed in the Academy of Sciences. And the invention of the internal combustion engine, which made Xu Shou extremely excited, is an important topic that Feng Yunshan has recently overcome, and Feng Yunshan has already expected that this internal combustion engine will succeed in the near future.

Thinking about it, if it doesn't succeed again, Feng Yunshan is only afraid that he will directly hand it over to himself for guidance. The original basic principles and key points have been "revealed" by Feng Yunshan to those foreigners by asking for advice, and among these foreigners, there is Otto, a Prussian who invented the four-stroke internal combustion engine in history.

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