Chapter 313: Sacrificial Furnace

Those natives understood that Li Xiang meant that as long as you listen to our words of the Great Song Dynasty, they will give you a good life. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info is that you have been wronged for the time being, and you don't have much time, and when the court sends officials to govern you, they will make decisions for you. But those who resist can only take killing. They all knelt, and now they have learned to show respect whenever they see someone kneeling. An indigenous man said indistinctly in the newly learned Chinese: "We are obedient." ”

The people around them burst into a heartfelt laugh.

Li Xiang said to the Buddha again, "I have heard what happened to you. But this official tells you again that there are also good people in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are more good people, like you natives, there are also good people and bad people. I've also heard that you natives eat human flesh and eat the corpses of your elders when they die. ”

Li Xiang's words are a bit too much, so that cannibalism is only a few after all, and it has appeared in Australia, Africa, and America in history. But it was all forced by poverty and hunger, and now the Song people have set foot in that place. These indigenous people are also relatively civilized.

Thinking he was talking nonsense, he snorted hard. But the soldiers who were immediately executed slapped with two big ear scrapers, and even their teeth fell out. At this time, all the Kaifeng people who watched were all oh ah, cannibalism? What a horrible thing.

Li Xiang ignored him and continued: "You are very smart, since you can learn our language in such a short time, why don't you take a look at the system of our Great Song Dynasty, why don't you tell the Holy Lord your grievances." Trying to use force to use the mantis arm as a car is really beyond my strength! ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiang took out a big knife from the hand of the executing soldier and stunned the soldier, thinking that noon had not yet arrived, could it be that this little sage was really angry and wanted to cut this Buddha with his own hands?

Li Xiang said loudly again, only this time to the audience, he said: "Everyone, you all know that my house has been robbed by the villagers, but my grandmother also ordered the officials to plead with the saint. That's just related to Xiaguan's own small family. However, once the interests of the entire nation are at stake, no one can spare them. ”

"Master Li, that's a good point."

At this time, Li Xiang took the soju used for the execution from the soldier's hand and cut a cut on his wrist with a knife, which frightened the executioner on the side, and he quickly took the big knife and said, "Master Li, you are crazy." ”

Li Xiang smiled and said, "It's hard for my mind to go crazy. ”

"Yes, yes," thought the executioner, who was the smartest man in the world, nodded yes.

Li Xiang put the blood flowing from his wrist against the wine bowl, let the blood drip into the wine bowl, and then looked at the imperial city from afar, bowed three times, and then bowed three times to the sky and the earth, raised the wine bowl and said: "I, Li, swear to the sky, swear to the earth, and swear to the emperor that as long as there are ministers in one day, I will faithfully help the saint, help my father and fellow villagers of the Great Song Dynasty, and build a prosperous and powerful glorious country." Anyone who offends my Song people, even if I Li has a lifetime, even if I am far away in Europe, I Shi someone will help me to punish the Huanghuang Heavenly Dynasty. ”

As he spoke, he took a long sip of the blood wine and splashed it on the ground.

These ordinary people were even more excited to tears, some of them lay on the ground and couldn't cry, and some even raised their arms and shouted: "Anyone who offends my Song people will be punished even if they are far away!" ”

If there were to be an official here for military service at this time, the table would be filled with enthusiastic people. The natives were even more frightened.

Li Xiang waited until everyone calmed down before he said to Ji Tuo with a look full of disdain: "You are just a little ant, and you are also trying to block the wheels of our Great Song Dynasty's rolling forward?" It's funny. ”

As he spoke, he threw the bowl to the ground and walked away.

The surrounding audience was once again aroused. Many people raised their arms and shouted, "Long live the Great Song!" "Long live the saint!"

It's just that this slogan is also mixed with discordant voices: "Master Li is 100 years old!" ”

100 years old! Li Xiang, who had just said his heartfelt words, almost fainted.

There were also some girls who took advantage of the chaos and shouted, "Master Li, I like you!" ”

Immediately, this solemn atmosphere came to naught, and there were bursts of laughter and scolding.

Of course, it was impossible for the Emperor to come to this bloody execution ground, and he and the Empress would have to wait until after the execution was over. The steel he wants to see, after all, what kind of molten steel will come out of such a blast furnace, everyone is very curious.

However, after listening to Li Xiang's words, there was an old man in the crowd whose eyes shone brightly, and he sighed on his chest: "It's really my first wonder in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

A very beautiful girl beside him snorted unconvinced, but her eyes were bright and bright.

The sun gradually reached the middle of the day, and the executioner waved his hand and shouted: "Execution!" ”

The fire in the blast furnace ignited as the people screamed in horror and a dozen heads rolled to the ground.

A large cloud of black smoke rose from the top of the tall furnace, which was clearly visible for dozens of miles. The natives knelt down at the sight of this.

The onlookers also knelt down with tears streaming down their faces.

The old man, who was very dignified in appearance and temperament, also knelt down and prayed: "Heaven bless me with eternal prosperity in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Looking at the thick billowing smoke plunging into the desert sky, Li Xiang's eyes also had a line of moisture.

Unlike the people of his time, he knew the true meaning of steel for a country. When the blast furnace was built, he also built a relatively complete sintering system, coking system, rotary kiln system, shaft furnace system, and coal injection system. Even the coke oven produces gas that he uses through the pipes he built. In addition, he also hired all the skilled masters of several steel mills in Kaifeng City through the emperor's decree to negotiate, whether it is blowing, smelting, etc., it can be said that this set of blast furnaces is the crystallization of the highest scientific and technological content under the existing conditions. The only regret is that he hasn't made oxygen yet. Coal ballast had to be added to remove the carbon content from the molten iron.

At this time, several huge hydraulic blowers rotated the fan blades, coupled with the gas sent by the coke oven, and the extremely tall body of the blast furnace, so that the temperature in the blast furnace reached an unprecedented level in this era. After a long wait, even Emperor Lizong, Empress Liu, Zhao Ji, and the princess came, not to mention the civil and military officials, and finally the first batch of steel was released. In order to test the quality of the steel, the workers also made a steel knife, compared with the previous hand-made steel knife, the test results of this one-time production of steel knives reached or close to the sharpness of 50 steelmaking knives.

This surprised Emperor Rijong and his ministers once again. Fifty refinements? That's a lot of hard work. However, Li Xiang had a gloomy face, maybe this kind of steel would make the Song Dynasty Wenwu happy, but it was still very far from the goal he needed.

You must know that this is not the afterlife, there are repair factories all over the world, and the machine can be repaired anytime and anywhere if it breaks, and once the machine is installed on the ship, it will have to be relied on for a long voyage, and the target can also be said to be very distant in the future - North and South America, once damaged, the ship is equivalent to being scrapped. (To be continued.) )