Chapter XXXVII: The Development of Industry
Early the next morning, Zhao Jun came, Tang Hua let Zhao Jun into the house and said to him: "Brother Zhao, I'm going to trouble you again, you should have heard about my wine, but I don't have time to get it myself, and the Zhen family in Jizhou will come to pick up the goods next month, so I can only ask Brother Zhao to help me." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
After hearing this, Zhao Jun smiled and said: "An Min, you don't have to be polite, you just have to pay for anything." ”
Tang Hua looked at Zhao Jun's loyal and honest face and said: "Brother Zhao, that's the case, I have a new method of brewing wine, which can produce very good wine, but I am afraid that the technology will be learned by others, then the Zhen family will not cooperate with us, and once it is learned by others, the price will not be so high." So I want to teach you that you are responsible for producing and managing this brewery for me, and I will give you a share of it, but you have to promise me that you will not teach it to anyone, not even your relatives, not your brothers and sisters, and as for the manpower, I will go to Berda and ask for twenty or thirty slaves, who will be slaves for life anyway, as long as we don't allow them to go out, let them eat and dress well, and they should be content. ”
After hearing this, Zhao Jun said seriously: "An Min rest assured, I will never tell anyone about the techniques you teach me, let alone others, but I am afraid that outsiders will come to peek at night after knowing about this, which is a bit difficult." ”
Tang Hua laughed and said: "This Brother Zhao, don't worry, I let the soldiers stand guard day and night around the winery, if that kind of thing happens, I will find trouble with those soldiers on duty, they dare not guard well." ”
Zhao Jun said: "Then there is no big problem. ”
Then Tang Hua took Zhao Jun to see the factory, and the factory was built when Tang Hua arrived in Jizhou, and it has already been built. It took a few days to teach Zhao Jun, and asked the blacksmith to help Tang Hua build some brewing equipment and guide them to install it.
Zhao Jun began to brew wine, at the beginning to produce the wine that the Zhen family wanted next month, he could only buy some sour wine for purification and distillation, and only the future wine had time to brew it with grain.
After the winery was processed, Tang Hua went to the furniture factory to see how they made the process, Tang Hua was very satisfied after seeing it, Tang Hua made a series of design drawings, so that they can produce a variety of later generations of panel furniture, so that the transportation is also more convenient, the installation is also very simple, the furniture they produce is novel, beautiful shape, and solid wood furniture, there should be no problem with sales.
The most important thing is that Tang Hua asked the furniture factory to produce more than 6,000 wooden sleds and hundreds of dog sleighs, and gave guidance in various key places, and the carpenters did not know what to do. Tang Hua said that it was useful, and they didn't ask much, Tang Hua just wanted them to produce it as soon as possible.
After Tang Hua arrived at the ceramic factory, he did it, but the finished product rate was too low. After communicating with the master ceraster, Tang Hua found that the problem is that the temperature cannot be controlled, and it is completely dependent on the experience of the craftsman to master, how can this work. It seems that the thermometer must be made in a way, otherwise, these kilns for producing ceramics are not easy to control, and the cost is too high.
After analyzing with the craftsmen, Tang Hua suddenly remembered the local method of firing pottery products of the Dai people in later generations, without any kiln, as long as the products are stacked together, and the grass, fine firewood, branches, and leaves are placed on the top and bottom of the products, and then paste all the mud again, there can be no air leakage, and then buckle a small hole after doing it, light the fire, and it will be on the line after a few days.
I saw it on TV, I wonder if it works? Now there is nothing to be done, there is no thermometer, so I can only let the craftsmen experiment.
A few days later, the master craftsman happily came to Tang Hua and said that the clay method had succeeded, saying that the pottery products fired were all in good condition, and the quality of the products was relatively good, and the method of firing was simpler and more practical than before.
Tang Hua knew in his heart that if he wanted to produce better ceramics, this kind of soil method would not work, and he must have a thermometer, in the past, the temperature of burning ceramic products was too low, and now after Tang Hua switched to burning coal, the temperature is up, but the temperature cannot be controlled, which is a bottleneck.
For the rest of the day, Tang Hua was mixing in the factory every day.
After Sima Lang found out, he also lodged a serious protest with Tang Hua, and came to talk to Tang Hua several times, saying that Tang Hua was not doing his job properly and was doing some strange and obscene skills all day long.
Tang Hua didn't bother to pay attention to him, but now it's okay, he moved Tian Chou, Mai Zi, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, and Zhao Yunquan over, ready to criticize Tang Hua strictly.
Tang Hua was already mentally prepared in his heart, just listening to them turn over in turn, you say a word, I say a word, what kind of plaything is discouraged, stay away from strange and obscene skills, cheap, damage reputation, and say a few big cars.
Tang Hua asked them to talk enough, and after speaking, they were white foam, and they spoke well. Dry. Tongue. Dry, they didn't hear Tang Hua's voice, they were really tired, so they all looked at Lu Ning and waited for Tang Hua to make a statement.
Tang Hua glanced at them and said, "That's it, since you're done, now it's my turn." I'll just ask you a few questions, and as long as you answer them honestly, I'll be fine. ”
Sima Lang said: "Lord, if you ask, we will definitely answer truthfully." ”
Tang Hua smiled and said, "Who made the weapons and swords in your hands?" ”
After hearing this, Zhang He replied without thinking about it: "Lord, do you still need to ask, of course it is the blacksmith master." ”
Tang Hua continued to ask: "Boda, who produced the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone you used by you literati and Confucian scholars?" ”
Sima Lang replied, "Of course, it is also produced by craftsmen. ”
Tang Hua asked seriously: "Then where did you all get food, clothing, housing, and transportation?" ”
Now they felt that something was wrong, and at first you looked at me, I looked at you, Sima Lang still said: "It's also a craftsman." ”
Tang Hua laughed and said slowly: "Oh, so that's the case, I thought you made it yourself." If you don't have these craftsmen, how would you live, and what would you do with food, clothing, housing, transportation, and use? Don't we all have to rely on craftsmen, so why should we despise craftsmen?
Without craftsmen, we can't move an inch, you don't keep opening your mouth and closing your mouth, it's not good. Wouldn't it be better for us to respect artisans from all walks of life, improve their treatment, and let them produce more and better products. The furniture I supervised and produced, you have also seen it, and also used it, is it much easier to use than before, more refined than before, much more beautiful than before, is it not easy for you to use.
The wine I make is not good, and the paper that I produce is not good. The craftsmen's invention and creation are said by you to be strange and obscene, which is completely the bullshit of those rotten and sour Confucians. Besides, we are now instructing them to engage in inventions and creations, just like you, for the time being, let's call them strange and obscene techniques! If we make our things more refined, will the sales increase, and the merchants from other places will come to buy them, will our county government have more taxes? Is the county government richer?
If the county government has money, can it resettle more disaster victims and refugees, build more roads for the common people, build more water conservancy facilities, build more public welfare places, and do more practical things for the common people, so that the treatment of soldiers will be improved, the equipment of soldiers will be updated, and the combat capability of soldiers will definitely be improved.
You all know that Qin Shi Huang unified the whole country and eliminated the six countries, what did it rely on, I think one of them is understandable, that is, the other six countries at that time were all made of copper weapons, and the craftsmen of the Qin State invented black gold, which is what we now call pig iron, iron is harder than copper, everyone knows the common sense, using iron weapons and people holding copper weapons, I think everyone should know what the result is.
Therefore, I said that reading should be done by living, not reading dead books, dead reading, reading yourself as a nerd, reading as a nerd who can't use your brain, and use your brain. We must learn the scriptures, history, children, collections, and spring and autumn, and we must learn well, and we must abide by the way of Confucius and Mencius, but we are not blindly copying! We have to study in combination with reality, and we can't just say everything Confucius and Mencius, they have been dead for hundreds of years or thousands of years, and they can know what kind of development has become now.
Emperor Wu is great enough, he keeps saying that he respects Confucianism, but in fact, he himself practices Taoism and law, and Confucianism is just something he asked Dong Zhongshu to make up blindly to fool all his natures, and it is for him to serve the Han Dynasty. There are many things that make people look even more stupid, the people are stupid, of course the emperor is happy, and the people will not rebel. A lot of my words today are out of control, I didn't want to talk to you about this, but I think you have read a lot of books, but you have more problems in your head, you all think about it, don't think I'm talking nonsense, no.
Confucianism should be combined with the study of reality dialectic, and Confucianism has many good things, but there are also many wrong things. As long as you keep in mind one thing: theory is combined with practice, theory can guide practice, practice can test theory, and only through repeated theory, practice, theory, and practice can the truth be finally derived, and truth always comes from practice, and practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Of course, there will be no practice without theory, the two are inseparable, and the two are mutually communicative. ”
Shocked, absolutely shocked, Sima Lang, Tian Chou, Zhang He, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and others, none of them are not shocking! They were all stunned by Tang Hua's words, and they were all stunned.
Tang Hua was slowly drinking tea, watching their own expressions, it was not easy to scare them all together. Seeing them scared like this, they know that they can't talk about anything anymore! I took the guards to the brick-burning factory, and looked at the bricks that were fired were not bad, especially the refractory mud in Bingzhou, and the refractory bricks fired were also very good. Tang Hua studied science and design and manufacturing, which is not very difficult for building a small steelmaking plant.
Tang Hua first built a small blast furnace, which can produce seven or eight hundred catties of iron at a time, Tang Hua has to do various tests before he can build a larger blast furnace, and he also has to test various steel samples through a small steel furnace to find a more useful way from it, after all, although Lu Ning knows, he has not actually done it.
Tang Hua still came from a young age, and when he can smelt high-quality steel billets, it is not too late to increase the output, and the quality of steel made by college graduates who want to study science by themselves will definitely be many times stronger than that of the current dynasty.
In order to keep it secret, the steel mill is also heavily guarded, and Tang Hua, the blacksmiths, also gave a certain amount of shares, they should keep it secret, and only Tang Hua knows many key things.
Tanghua's steel mill was also the first to use coal to smelt steel, and now it generally uses firewood, charcoal, and the like. Through intense efforts, the first batch of iron came out, Tang Hua took a look, the quality was still too poor, but for those craftsmen, it was the best iron they had ever seen, and they were excited to be able to produce so many good irons at one time.
Tang Hua couldn't be happy, knowing that this was still too far from the requirement. But there is no way, I can only summarize it slowly, and try various excipients again to see what is good.
Of course, in order to smelt good steel, it is not only the temperature issue, but also the combination of various raw materials is also very important. These things are not known to Tang Hua, he has only seen a little bit on some networks in later generations, and Tang Hua does not know what they actually are, and he can only rely on the craftsmen to keep moeving in practice.
The iron processing factory, of course, is currently mainly building weapons, armor, and shields, as for agricultural tools, Tang Hua does not have the strength to build it now, first of all, he must equip his own soldiers, which is the top priority at present.
Now, the equipment of Tang Hua's soldiers is completely captured, and it looks like there are all kinds of weapons, so that although they are elite soldiers, they look like a ragtag army.
The equipment of soldiers was very important in ancient times, especially the swords in the hands of soldiers, which directly affected the combat effectiveness of soldiers. In the era of cold weapons, good swords and armor were important factors in determining the combat effectiveness of soldiers, and could even determine the outcome of a battle. It must be changed, so that the enemy will be terrified at the sight of it, and first of all, it must overwhelm the enemy in momentum. Tang Hua designed new sabers, long qiang, short knives, long knives, short spears, swords and helmets, armor, large and small shields for his own soldiers, and Tang Hua had to replace all the bows and arrows with compound bows, so that the lethality was greater.