Chapter 144: Great Iron and Steel

What's more, Yang Tingjian, who confiscated the silver, didn't ask for a penny, and gave it all to the court and the emperor, and the world went there to find such a selfless official. On the surface, this is the case, but in fact, the officials of the Ming Dynasty all know that Yang Tingjian must have reaped a lot of benefits from copying his family, because this is a common practice, and everyone knows each other tacitly.

Since there is no imperial historian to bother Yang Tingjian, a little shrimp, Yang Tingjian is also happy to be quiet, and the battle between Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren is also white-hot, and all forces in the court are choosing to take sides, and they have no time to pay attention to Yang Tingjian's "little shrimp".

After Yang Tingjian got the official document on the establishment of the Jinyi Wei Tiger Army, he immediately sent people to Tongzhou to ask Lu Jianxing to recruit soldiers to expand the army, and the people in this cabinet are not fools, they gave Yang Tingjian's Tiger Army the same establishment as Lu Xiangsheng's establishment, with a quota of 20,000 people.

Yang Tingjian, who had nothing to do, immediately rushed to Huairou Qian'anling, Huairou County is more than 100 miles away from Jingshi, this Qian'anling is located in the remaining veins of Yanshan, the whole terrain is also that kind of hilly area, there are rolling hills everywhere, the high mountains are only 500 meters, and the low mountains are only dozens of meters.

Yang Tingjian only brought a few guards and the chief manager Liang Cai to Qian'anling this time, and there was still an official road to Jingshi from Huairou, but this official road was too dilapidated, and there were potholes everywhere. Beizhili is so tattered, the official roads in other places can be imagined, the Ming Dynasty has been fighting in recent decades, and there is no money to maintain the official roads.

Riding a horse on such an official road, the speed is not too fast, and the horse will lose its front hooves if you are not careful. When Yang Tingjian was about to arrive at Qian'anling in Huairou, several ox carts suddenly appeared on the official road in front. One of them had already sunk into the pit, and several people were helping to push the cart:

"Ala alas!!" The sound of the trumpet came and went, and the "barbarian" cow bark and the human voice were mixed together.

"Appeal ......"

Yang Tingjian strangled the war horse under his crotch. Asked:

"Do you have any help with that?"

When the civilians who were pushing the cart saw that it was a brocade-clothed guard official wearing a red flying fish suit, they hurriedly knelt down tremblingly, and one of the leaders hurriedly reported to work:

"My lord, the villain didn't mean to block the adult's way, but this official road is too dilapidated, and the villain's ox cart is stuck in the pit, please forgive the adult."

In ancient times, the people were always in awe of the government. This is also the result of the rule of thousands, which is not so easy to change.

"It's okay...... Let's go down and help with the cart......"

Yang Tingjian jumped off his war horse and beckoned the guards who followed him. Now those civilians were dumbfounded, when did the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty be so sympathetic to the people, but facts speak louder than words, Yang Tingjian really came to the side of the ox cart with a few personal guards:

"What are you still kneeling there for! …… Let's push the cart together! ……”

"Yes...... Adult ......"

"Alas...... Yo yo ...... "More people is more power." The ox cart pulling the coking coal creaked. Pushed out of the pit. The civilians who were driving the car were about to kneel down to thank them again, but Yang Tingjian hurriedly waved his hand to stop them:

"You don't have to do that, Raul with your hands raised...... The official still has important things to do, so he will take the first step, so please ...... you."

Yang Tingjian rode away on a war horse, and the war horse under Yang Tingjian's crotch at this time was a bloody horse, which was originally Jinong's, and now belongs to Yang Tingjian. Yang Tingjian also gave this sweaty BMW a very attractive name...... "Benlei".

Several people who were driving the car looked at Yang Tingjian who was going away, and they all muttered to themselves:

"Good officer!"

"Yes! If only all the officials of the Ming Dynasty were like this. We're having a better time. ”……

Yang Tingjian and Liang Cai go hand in hand, Yang Tingjian is looking for Liang Cai to discuss this official matter:

"Manager Liang, you see that this official road is so dilapidated, it is a big trouble for our steelmaking and transportation, do you want to find someone to repair this road."

"My lord, if you just fill it with mud and gravel, it won't cost much, and the small one is estimated to be more than 10,000 taels of silver, and there are a lot of homeless people in Jingshi, as long as we give us food, we can recruit people."

"You can recruit displaced people to help build the road, but the salary must be sufficient, two taels of silver per month, and you can pay a month's salary in advance."

Yang Tingjian is really a bodhisattva, according to the meaning of Liang Cai, just eat, but Yang Tingjian insisted on paying each worker, and he could also pay the wages in advance.

After Yang Tingjian arranged the problem of repairing the road, his mind had already flown to the firing cement and glass, these two things are not high-tech, modern society has detailed information and step instructions, it should not be difficult to tinker with these two things, this Yanshan Mountain Range is full of limestone, and the materials for firing cement and glass are inexhaustible.

After Yang Tingjian arrived in Qian'anling, he did not send someone to call Duan Jinsheng, but went directly to the earthen furnace to check, this earthen furnace is not large, but the shape and function are almost available, if it is put into modern times, it can only be regarded as the scale of a private earthen furnace.

After a while, Duan Jinsheng ran out of breath to confess:

"My lord, I don't know that my lord is coming, please punish my lord."

This man who was once forced by life to sell his children and daughters has now regained his self-confidence, although his whole body is a pitch-black ash at this time, but his confident expression tells Yang Tingjian that he Duan Jinsheng can also live with dignity with his ability.

"Get up! Duan Baihu, you have done a good job in this steel plant, what is the specific situation, you can tell this official carefully. ”

Yang Tingjian said while helping Duan Jinsheng up, Yang Tingjian has now developed a habit, as long as he is particularly useful to himself, Yang Tingjian is very friendly, but Duan Jinsheng doesn't think so, that is the trust of adults in him, that is grace, that is kindness, Yang Tingjian's unintentional move made Duan Jinsheng grateful.

"My lord, this clay open hearth was built according to the drawings given by the adults, and in the construction of the little people did not understand something, they gathered everyone to figure it out, and finally lived up to the trust of the adults, and built this earthen open hearth.

The steelmaking effect of this earthen open-hearth furnace is really good, and the villain now organizes workers to practice four furnaces of steel every day, with 1,500 catties of steel per furnace and 6,000 catties of steel per day.

Now the villain and some foremen have completely mastered the method of making steel from this open-hearth, so the villain asks to build a larger open-hearth, and that steam blower still needs one. ”

The Ming Dynasty was the world's leader in steelmaking technology, but it did not form a huge scale, and they were able to master open-hearth steelmaking in such a short period of time, thanks to their previous technology accumulation.

"The official is approved, although you expand it, you need people and silver to directly take charge of the beam, and the official of the steam blower will also send it to you, you can do it boldly and boldly, the official will support you unconditionally."

…… (To be continued......)

ps: Brothers, about burning glass and cement, the fallen leaves will not be carefully explained, there are too many descriptions of this scene in other travel novels, and the fallen leaves will be carefully written, so I'm sorry for the brothers' subscriptions, these places to climb the science and technology tree, the fallen leaves are just simply explained, can you, if you have different opinions, you can leave a message in the book review.