Soon the security team was dispatched, and the neat team drove into Qiaojiagou, and the team blocked the valley mouth, and posted a notice saying that the county lord had come to clear the bandits in the mountains, and no one was allowed to go up the mountain or enter or exit the valley.

There is only one village in Qiaojiagou, and the largest landlord in Qiaojiazhuang is Master Qiao. At this time, Master Qiao was hiding in his own hall and was crying loudly, there is really no reason in this world, how can such a group of strange thieves descend from him, claiming to be sent by the county lord everywhere, but everyone knows that this group of thieves is the group of people who killed people and set fire in the area of Guanzhuang Village. In the past, although the mountains and forests in the ravine were not Qiao's family, in recent years, Master Qiao has established a good relationship with the people of the county government through continuous movement with the government, and in fact occupied all the income in the ditch, and other villagers did not dare to go to the ditch to collect firewood and hunt. Originally, the villagers had no way to complain, but now these thieves blocked the mountain pass and forbade them to enter and exit, and directly robbed the mountain and forest, and they couldn't swallow anything about this evil breath. After crying and scolding for a long time, Master Qiao stopped. Tell his subordinates to call the two confidants' family members and order them to go out and find out what the thief is doing.

Zhang Chu personally took Deng Qingnian and other craftsmen to investigate the place where the iron ore was found in Qiaojiagou, and found that there was a partially exposed iron ore vein, and I don't know how much there was in it. As long as it can be used, what the security team urgently needs now is iron, and Zhang Chu ordered the iron mine project in Qiaojiagou to start.

Another group of homeless people who could not eat were tempted by food to Qiaojiagou to start their mining careers, although they did heavy physical work every day, and could only live in temporary grass huts, but the miners were still in full swing, and it was not easy to find such a job in this era when people were everywhere and even cannibalism occurred in some places. The foreman here is kind to people, and he pays attention to the rules, according to the workload of each person, and the daily grain and rice are distributed, as long as they work hard, they can eat enough. And listen to the leader of the captain who said that in the future, the treatment of the miners will be improved, not only can they eat but also can support their families, so although the miners are tired from work, they cherish their work very much. The ore has been dug out, and the mine has been stretched underground.

Master Qiao got a report from the family sent back, saying that he had taken a look at the situation in the mountains closely, and it seemed that the thieves were going to mine in the mountains. The thieves are really bold, the minerals are monopolized by the government, and those who catch the illegal mining will be punished. And these thieves did it so blatantly. The displaced people built a row of straw huts in the mountains to live, and ate and lived there every day. After hearing these situations, Master Qiao had an idea, if you don't let me get rich, I will make you feel bad.

The sun was setting in the west, everything was shrouded in night, the miners had fallen asleep in the grass huts after a day's work, snoring and the insects in the valley, the moon had only a small tooth hanging in the sky, and the shadows of the trees in the mountains and forests were sparsely reflected on the ground. Three dark shadows came out of the grass and quietly touched the grass hut where the miners were resting, they were Master Qiao and two family members. Master Qiao was secretly happy while touching forward, it seems that the thieves are too tired, and they don't even have a sentry, as long as they get close to the grass shed and light a fire, the thieves will definitely be in chaos, and if they can't burn the thieves, they can't work with peace of mind, so it's best to burn them to death.

Master Qiao's wishful thinking didn't last long, and three crossbow arrows flew out from behind them and accurately nailed them to the legs of Master Qiao and his family, and Master Qiao was arrested.

It turned out that Zhang Chu had watched too many movies in his later life, and he saw too many people who were attacked and touched sentry, so he changed the habit of setting up sentry posts in the open, and arranged secret sentry posts around the camp.

The next day, the villagers of Qiaojia Village were all recruited into the empty field in the village, and the members of the security team stood in front of them in front of them with knives and guns. Master Qiao, who was already half frightened to death, and his two family members were brought up. Zhang Chu announced that Master Qiao and his two family members intended to set fire to kill people and should be sentenced to death. and displayed the tinder and other items carried by Master Qiao and others in public. After the announcement was completed, the six team members put the three people aside, and with an order, the cold light of the three big knives flashed, and the three heads fell to the ground. The people in Qiaojia Village were so frightened that their faces were blank. Then it was announced that Master Qiao's family was sent to Guanzhuang Village to dig coal to atone for their crimes, and the family property was confiscated. He also asked the people of Qiaojiagou to immediately register the population with the security team, and if anyone entered, they should report it immediately, otherwise they would be guilty of the same crime, and everyone left with fear.

This episode did not stop the mining process, and everything is still in progress. At the same time as the miners were mining, Zhang Chu and the craftsmen also found a suitable address to start building an iron-making furnace, the iron-making technology of the Ming Dynasty has been very mature, only one foot away from the door to achieve modern iron-making methods, one is that the furnace temperature is low when iron-making, so the efficiency is poor, on the other hand, due to the use of charcoal, the support of charcoal is poor, and the blast furnace iron-making can not be realized. Then there is the problem of air supply, due to the weak air supply capacity, resulting in insufficient combustion, which also affects the quality of iron. Zhang Chu used to like to read historical novels, and he also asked his classmates who studied metallurgy about various iron-making, and some of the methods were really feasible. Zhang Chu decided to learn from the experience of the great gods of the starting point historical novel to transform the iron-making furnace. Zhang Chu ordered people to build a preheating furnace to heat the air, and then the hot air was blown into the style of later generations of local steelmaking to build a small blast furnace. The blast furnace is hoisted with a pulley to fill the hopper, and the fuel is also replaced by charcoal and coke that has just been successfully tested. Blowing problems with the use of hydraulic blowers. This blower was made by Zhang Chu with the water wheel that used to pound gunpowder, adding more iron components, and using several iron gears made by craftsmen, and driving a fan of later style behind it, for which a stone dam was built on the stream, raising the water level, and the fan driven by the water wheel is much more powerful than manpower, and the air supply effect is particularly good. Everything was ready, Zhang Chu gave an order: "Ignite!" "The blast furnace is on fire. Smoke rises from the high chimney of the blast furnace.

People are constantly observing the changes in the furnace by the blast furnace, and they are constantly praying in their hearts, may God bless us with success. Waiting is the most difficult person, everything is unknown, Zhang Chu knows that this is the door to the new world, which country in the world is in the forefront of steel production, which country is the world power, so there is a slogan of catching up with the United States in the future, but to the era in which Zhang Chu lived before was already "the world's steel production ranking: China first, Hebei second, Tangshan third" when the joke began to spread, I can't remember the difficulty of starting a business at all.

At last it was time to receive the results, and when the door of the furnace was opened, molten iron flowed out, and the fatigue of the long wait was swept away, and everyone began to work, and a square pool of refractory material was built not far below the taphole, and the pool was slightly lower than the taphole, and a low wall was built to protect the pool. The molten iron flowed into the pool, and immediately several craftsmen stood on the low wall with willow sticks, another quickly sprinkled the molten iron with the prepared fine soil surface, and the others quickly stirred it with willow sticks, and the molten iron became wrought iron. The willow sticks are burned little by little, and when they become shorter and cannot be used, they are replaced with new ones. When the molten iron cools, it can be taken out to make utensils.

This crucial step has finally come to the fore. Zhang Chu couldn't help but increase his pride, Ming Dynasty, you are waiting for our security team to give you a new era.