The reason why he didn't get a set of coins alone, Hong Tao thought it was unnecessary, the Great Song Dynasty would not play a currency war with himself, because they didn't understand this, rather than spending half a day trying to make a separate set of currency system, and they had to promote it everywhere, it was better to put the icing on the cake on the basis of Song money. And for Jinhewan, the demand for copper is actually greater than gold and silver, the most useless is gold and silver, and now it is just turning waste into treasure, copper coins are used in the Great Song Dynasty, gold and silver are from Jinhewan, complementary, all-round complementary!

In addition, Hong Tao doesn't know much about the economy, how can he save trouble and how to come, put a system that has been running for hundreds of years and don't learn from it, he has to create a new set of his own, he can't see where the interests are, and he can't see whether he will suffer or take advantage of each other in the future mutual trade. This problem has to be pondered slowly in the future, and now he has no time or energy to think about those things, and every day he has to soak in various meetings, listen to the reports of various departments on the restructuring, and then follow everyone to solve the problem. If you really encounter a problem, you have to take it home to continue pondering, he said to others don't worry, take your time, in fact, he is the most anxious, and he often stays up for a night.

Since the board of directors passed the proposal of Hong Tao to be the emperor and Jinhe Bay to be transformed into the Jinhe Empire, two marines stood at the gate of Hong Tao's small courtyard. This is the guard arranged by Cixi for Hong Tao, he said that the emperor has a lot of guards or something, and the emperor of the Jinhe Empire can't be too miserable, so he has to come to two to make up the number, and wait for his brother to train the police of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and then replace them with full-time guards. These two marines are not just decorations, all those who want to enter the Hongtao courtyard must be notified first, and they can only enter after getting permission. Cixi said that this was a basic etiquette. The Emperor's house can't be the same as the vegetable market, whoever wants to enter it. If this gets out, people in other countries will laugh at it.

This time, Cixi's proposal was unanimously endorsed by the members of the cabinet and the parliament. They also think that the emperor should be a bit of an emperor, because Hong Tao is no longer just Hong Tao, he also represents all the people of the Jinhe Empire, and the necessary attention must still be there. There were even two Han Chinese parliamentarians in the north who suggested that a set of royal court regulations similar to the Great Song Dynasty should be made, and they were actually approved by many parliamentarians, so many legal documents they didn't think about, but this bill was first sent to Hong Tao, who was the prime minister, on his desk, wanting him, the prime minister, to initiate the proposal. After submitting it to the parliament for discussion and approval, he first made a set of laws and regulations for the emperor.

Of course Hong Tao won't do this thing, his heart is punishable! This Nima is changing the law and wants to torture himself and his offspring, dreaming! Hong Tao resolutely withheld this proposal, and then ordered Cixi to tell his brother to keep an eye on these two councilors, and report them immediately if they found out that they were secretly engaged in gang alliances or something. Such people cannot stay, especially not in the parliament, scourge!

"Prime Minister. Minister Qi asked to see ...... outside, "Early in the morning, Hong Tao just came back from running and finished breakfast. Minister Bo Zhubo, who was too busy to send him off, had not yet sat hot on the chair when there was a knock on the door, and the guards at the door shouted at the top of their voices as if they were on a ship.

"Shh......h Shout a few more times, and the neighbors should all move, this is not the sea, whisper that I can hear it. By the way, did you two have breakfast? Would you like to try the cake craftsmanship of the Prime Minister's wife and queen? Hong Tao didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, took three steps and made two steps to the door, opened the door and put his fingers to his mouth to make a silent movement, which was too disturbing to the people.

"Director Ci said not to let us disturb Mr. ......" This Marine is a young man from Li, obviously wanting to eat, but he doesn't dare to say it.

"You first find out who you are, you are the Marine Corps, why did I say that the Marine Corps belongs to the Ministry of Supervision? You are soldiers of the Ministry of Defense, why should you listen to him? I'm the Minister of Defense, and I said that if you can eat, you have to be able to eat. Go to the kitchen and take it yourself, take it all, I don't like leftovers, you have completed the order, helped your minister, prime minister, and emperor solve big problems, and by the way, invited Minister Qi over, what about others? "Hong Tao is inseparable from the two brothers Cixi, and sometimes he is very annoying to them. Not to mention that the Cixi brothers are the most difficult to do, it is really a job that offends people on all sides, and several people are angry. It is difficult for the spy leaders of all dynasties to be good, I hope that their brothers will not force themselves to that point to tears and kill horses.

"Minister Qi said to let you go to the foundry to find him, and then he rode away...... This stall of horse manure is his horse's, and his horse has no pocket! Another Marine answered Hong Tao's question and sued Qi Zu by the way. With the establishment of Jinhe City, the place that used to be accessible by walking around now seems a little far away, so some people have the idea of horses, and those with good legs and feet and fast learning have already ridden, and Qi Zu is one of them. However, for the sake of the cleanliness of the city, Hong Tao once issued a decree that horses entering the city must bring dung pockets, otherwise they will be arrested and swept the streets.

"Then if you don't catch him, now tell me that it's a fart, and I can still go to him with horse manure? He became a minister, don't you dare to arrest him? Hong Tao doesn't have a horse, he wants to have one, but he is not at home all the year round, and he didn't grab a few horses, so he can only hold his legs, and he didn't forget to take the complaint to the marines before leaving.

"My sister worked as a draftsman under the minister...... "This Marine is a Han from the north, and he really has a hard time.

"Then I warn you, when the law is announced, if you don't arrest him, let Director Ci's subordinates find out and report to the Ministry of Defense, then you will be arrested. Bending the law for personal gain is not a capital crime, but it is certain that you will be deducted from your salary for a few months and imprisoned for a few months, and you will have to be expelled from the army after you come out, so you can go home and let your sister raise you! Hong Tao was originally joking, but he didn't expect it to be accurate, so he simply stopped and warned the marine viciously, looking at the confusion in his eyes, and then he was satisfied and walked towards the dock with a crab behind his back.

Now, the primeval forest within a kilometer of the south bank of the Golden River has been cut down, and the soft soil has been re-turned, stirred in some of the volcanic ash, and turned directly into a semi-cement hardened ground. Two factories were built here, a few kilometres into the woods, with foundries, smelters and forges from south to north. The northernmost part is the forge and the smelter, which are well distinguished, and there are three huge waterwheels on the bank of the forge that power the hammers. The smelter has only one waterwheel for blowing air, but four earthen blast furnaces emit smoke all day. At this time, a rectangular house was being built on a newly opened vacant land, which was another era monster that Qi Zu pieced together according to the fragments in Hong Tao's memory, an acidic open hearth!

This thing Hong Tao saw more than once in the steel mill of his father's labor reform when he was a child, and his father told him more than once about the general principle of this thing, plus he was also exposed to this knowledge after going to school, and he can still remember some working principles and main structures, after all, he is a college student of Shougang Daipei, and he is embarrassed to graduate if he does not learn something related to steelmaking. But memory is memory after all, let alone experiments, I haven't even touched it with my own hands, it's completely just on paper.

But Qi Zu didn't see it that way, they felt that the master led the door into the door to practice in an individual. Hong Tao is a master, there is no need to teach everyone everything by hand, that does not show the ability to be a master, he only needs to have a feasible idea or idea, it is very sufficient, and the rest of the realization stage is completed by their apprentices, which is also a test for apprentices. If you can complete it, it means that you have the capital to be Hong Tao's apprentice, and if you can't complete it, it means that you are not talented enough, and your achievements in this life will end here.

If you change to a different master, Qi Zu and these craftsmen will definitely not be so hard-working, because there is nothing to ponder, everyone is such a set of things, and no one is better than anyone else. But Hong Tao is different, he doesn't say it, he doesn't say it, and when he says it, it's something that no one has ever seen. Pig iron is crispy, right? In his hand, he poured whale oil into the enlarged iron box and roasted it, and he was able to steam the pig iron sheet to a point that was not crispy, who had ever heard of this thing. It's hard to strike iron, right? In his hands, it changed again, thousands of pounds of sledgehammers were carried up and down by the waterwheel, and you couldn't keep up with the speed of the forging hammer if your hands and feet were not sharp. The bronze was all rotten, but in his hands, he conjured up tricks, and he could actually cast cannons with iron tires, although the yield was very low, but the cost was much cheaper.

There are so many achievements, and everything is taught to everyone without concealment, so what else he said will be wrong? No one would think like this, and now everyone believes Hong Tao even if he says that he can make steel in the river. The open-hearth was one of several well-founded ideas that Hong Tao had given to Qi Zu, but he only had a few sketches and a large explanation of the principle, and no other details. But Qi Zu and a group of blacksmiths once again proved the importance of experiments, they just experimented again and again, and tirelessly covered and dismantled the covers, and forcibly got the open-hearth steelmaking out. The effect was very successful, with this kind of open hearth, the molten iron from the blast furnace no longer had to wait for solidification into pig iron ingots, and went directly into the limestone-covered smelting chamber of the open hearth, and the blower driven by the water wheel was used to blow air and heavy oil from the top of the furnace, and after six hours, all good steel came out. Although the carbon content is not easy to control, but the output is not large, a furnace of steel is two tons, at least one furnace a day, if necessary can be increased to two furnaces, there will always be a few furnaces of good steel after a long time.

In addition, the open-hearth stove also has a characteristic, that is, it is not a picky eater. Any scrap steel, steel ingots, and selected iron ore can be stuffed into it, as long as the temperature of the combustion surface in the furnace is enough, there is no problem. In later generations, gas or natural gas is generally sprayed into the furnace to burn directly, Hong Tao has nowhere to find gas and natural gas, and he can't get it back if he finds it, but he has another thing to replace, heavy oil! It is the waste left over when distilling mixed oil, now they have a new life, not only can not be thrown away, but also have to be well preserved, when the Frenchman Martin invented the open hearth furnace, it was used as heavy oil as fuel, just suitable for Jinhewan, waste utilization.

(To be continued.) )