Chapter 145

When Duan Jinsheng heard Yang Tingjian say this, he quickly knelt down and thanked him:

"Lord Xie trusts, and the villain is full of liver and brain to repay the adult."

"Duan Jinsheng, this official is reminding you, you are a hundred households under this official, not a villain, but a humble position, understand?"

"Adult, little ...... Humble duty understood. ”

Yang Tingjian took a group of people to look around, the iron ore in Anling is basically an open-pit iron mine, and the taste of iron ore is also extremely high. Of course, there is no awareness of environmental protection at this time, and you can make steel as much as you want.

(At this time, the population of Daming is only more than 100 million, and the cultivated land is only 1.5 billion mu at most, except for the forest coverage rate in the northwest region is not high, the vegetation in other places is still good, and the worst and largest for the forest is 58 years of national steelmaking.) ）

Yang Tingjian's steel production does not have much impact on the surrounding environment, and is basically negligible.

When Yang Tingjian left, he called Duan Jinsheng and Liang Cai to him, pointed to the mountain pass outside the steel mill and said:

"Duan Jinsheng, the site you chose is good, this is a mountain pass, only a mountain pass less than five hundred meters in front can be entered and exited, so you have to recruit people to build the city wall of the mountain pass in front of you, and twelve Shenwei cannons are arranged on it, and then the official is sending people to send 1,200 Shenwei muskets, 3,000 halberds, 1,200 sets of plate armor, and you can build some of the insufficient parts yourself.

All miners must learn to use muskets and halberds, and our Ming Jingshi is not peaceful. There are always Jiannu who come to plunder, so you must help the official to guard this place, as long as anyone dares to attack the idea of this steel factory. Kill it directly, and the sky will fall and the official will carry it. ”

When Yang Tingjian said this, he immediately changed his amiable face, but his face was full of murderous energy, as if as long as someone dared to come to his idea of attacking his steel factory, he would kill other people's entire families.

War is fought with steel, and without steel, you can play with eggs! Therefore, this steel plant is very important to Yang Tingjian, and the steel plant cannot have any mistakes.

Liang Cai immediately stepped forward to report:

"My lord, the steel mill is now starting to make a profit. Because half of the steel in the steel mill is used to make agricultural tools, etc., because the steel we refine is of good quality, so many people buy it. Even some of the blacksmith shops in Jingshi are competing to buy our steel.

The funds for the expansion of the steel plant do not need us to continue to invest, and the 300,000 taels of silver given by the adults last time are enough for the normal operation and expansion of the steel plant. ”

Good steel is definitely a best-selling item in Daming, and this steel mill can make a profit with only half the output. It's a good business.

Yang Tingjian thought for a while and said:

"In that case. Then 200,000 taels of silver will be allocated to the steel mill, and it is not a bad thing to have more silver, and the workers needed for the expansion will be recruited among the displaced people, hey...... Let's solve the problem of dragging the family first! If you are really in difficulty, you can advance your salary. ”

"Adults are really pizza-hearted...... Humble admiration is so much that he throws himself to the ground. ”

After Yang Tingjian inspected the former Anling Iron and Steel Plant, he threw everything to Duan Jinsheng, Yang Tingjian is delegating power, but don't think that Yang Tingjian doesn't care about the steel plant at all. That would be an absolute mistake.

The management of the steel mill designed by Yang Tingjian is similar to that of a modern company, and Duan Jinsheng has the right to decide most things. However, there is one right that is restricted, and that is the financial authority, all the accounts are delegated by the treasury, and the audit is the responsibility of the inspection section of the intelligence department.

It can be said that the management system of the steel plant is quite perfect, and it is impossible for anyone to reach out indiscriminately in it, once it is verified, this corrupt person will mysteriously disappear in the intelligence department.

After Yang Tingjian left the steel mill with the people, he did not go back directly, but continued to walk along the Yanshan Mountains for a while, most of which are dark gray limestone, which is the kind of stone used to burn cement.

The Yanshan Mountains are extremely rich in mineral resources, and Yang Tingjian came to the Yanshan Mountains this time because he had another important task, that is, he carefully checked the minerals in the Huairou area on the mobile phone he brought with him last night.

Yang Tingjian came to find quartz stone, quartz is one of the most widely distributed minerals on the earth's surface, and its uses are also quite extensive, and the associated ore of quartz stone is feldspar. Yang Tingjian looked for these minerals to burn glass.

In fact, firing glass is very simple, and these minerals are easy to find, but the purification of these minerals is more troublesome, otherwise the transparency of fired glass is not high, and the method of burning glass is like this.

1. Pre-processing of raw materials. The bulk raw materials (quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, etc.) are crushed to dry the wet raw materials, and the iron-containing raw materials are treated to remove iron to ensure the quality of the glass. 2. Preparation of batch. 3. Melting. The glass batch is heated at a high temperature (1550~1600 degrees) in the pool kiln or crucible kiln to form a uniform, bubble-free liquid glass that meets the molding requirements. 4. Molding. Liquid glass is processed into products of the desired shape, such as flat plates, various utensils, etc. 5. Heat treatment. Through processes such as annealing and quenching, the internal stress, phase splitting or crystallization of the glass is eliminated or generated, and the structural state of the glass is changed.

Although the process is only a few steps, it is not easy to let the people of Daming burn out the very transparent glass according to this recipe, and Yang Tingjian can only provide them with the formula, and then let them explore it themselves.

Yang Tingjian walked out of the steel mill for more than ten miles, and found quartz stone, this quartz stone is really not a rare mineral, his associated ore feldspar also has, that is, the color is a little blue, the purity of milky white feldspar is high, this cyan feldspar needs to be crushed and cleaned.

Yang Tingjian dismounted and carefully looked at these quartz stones, and then said to Liang Cai, who followed:

"You immediately recruit dozens of craftsmen who can fire porcelain, and we should have one of the artisans under our management, and then build a furnace for firing porcelain in the steel mill."

"Do you want to make porcelain? But this kind of quartz stone can be used to make porcelain! ”

"You don't understand this, you just do what Master Ben says."

Of course, Liang Cai couldn't figure out what Yang Tingjian was going to do, and Yang Tingjian had no experience in firing glass, so he could only provide the recipe and related information to those craftsmen who burned porcelain, and let them explore it by themselves, money and manpower were not a problem.

Yang Tingjian went out for four days, he wandered around the nearby mountains during the day, and lived in the wooden room of the steel factory at night, and at the same time copied the recipe for firing glass and related purification materials from the mobile phone encyclopedia.

…… (To be continued......)