After Yang Jia threw this bombshell out, Baigong's reaction was even more surprised and unbelievable than expected, the audience 'buzzed' and made endless noises, and the ruddy eyes of Zhou people looked at each other in disbelief, tears and snot continued to flow down from the sallow face, and the sound of hitting the ground with his head 'bang' could be heard, and the rough fingers propped on the ground had already been caught in the soil, because the hard nails had already been broken, and everyone seemed to have never noticed the pain, and their mouths kept chanting Yang Jiazu's great kindness.

Yang Jia, who was standing on the high platform, looked at the excited crowd with a smile, not at all worried that if the craftsman was relieved of his slave status, the craftsmen of Qiaojun would take the opportunity to escape, and the weapon forging of the Northern Expeditionary Army would slow down the progress. Since Yang Jia will help the craftsman to remove his slave status, he will naturally take the forging of weapons into account, and he can't delay the Northern Expedition because of the identity of the craftsman.

The solution is also very simple, at present, let the craftsmen forge weapons for the army, and then try to improve the status of all craftsmen in Jiangdong in the future, so that there is naturally no need to worry about no one forging weapons so deliberately, and I am afraid that someone will rush to become craftsmen at that time.

After Yang Jia's speech was finished and the craftsmen were grouped, everyone couldn't wait to rush to the furnace shed, and Yang Jia also came to the furnace with everyone.

See the young craftsman who had been beaten in front of Yang Jia before. Benefactor's Yang engaged in personally supervising the work, smiled at Yang Jia gratefully, and pulled the bellows even more energetically, and after a while, he was sweating profusely, but the speed of pulling the bellows did not slow down at all, Yang Jia did not say any hard work and other encouraging words, smiled and walked to the eldest craftsman in the group, the young craftsman saw Yang Jia go away, secretly wiped the sweat particles on his forehead, and then got busy, the output directly affected today's reward, and the young craftsman did not want to affect the reward because of his laziness.

The physical strength and endurance of the old craftsmen here are obviously not as good as those of the young people, the gray beard and the loose hair have long been stuck together, but the victory is experienced, and he still maintains an orderly breathing, Jincheng is not much different from those young craftsmen, but this is just the beginning, and the more you go to the back, I am afraid that the gap will be bigger. The old craftsman had been focusing on forging weapons, but he didn't notice that Yang Jia was standing beside him, and suddenly heard an irresistible voice say: "You put down the work in your hands first, I have other things to arrange." The craftsman looked up and found that it was Yang Cheng who immediately threw away the work in his hand, stood up and waited for Yang Jia to speak, "What is there to worry about!" Although we have known this Yang for less than two days, when did he beat us up and scolded us? He just wants me to do whatever he wants, and he won't hurt me, an old bone. ”

"You go find some straw and soft loess, remember to find more."

Although he didn't understand what this meant, the old craftsman still took a step and ran outside, and after a while, he brought enough straw and fine loess, Yang Jia nodded with satisfaction, clapped his hands and stopped the craftsmen of this furnace: "I know that you are working hard to forge weapons and want to receive food and cloth, but I want to requisition this furnace and smelt new iron. Speaking of this, the faces of the craftsmen around Yang Jia showed stunned expressions, and they finally had the opportunity to receive grain and cloth, but they didn't know what Yang was doing to smelt new iron, doesn't this mean that we don't have the opportunity to receive grain today? However, due to the disparity in status and the influence of Yang Jia's affection, everyone only kept their anger on their faces, and did not exchange their heads and ears, and expressed their dissatisfaction one after another.

Seeing the dissatisfaction on everyone's faces, Yang Jiana still didn't understand the worries in the hearts of the craftsmen, and hurriedly added: "As for smelting new iron, you, the furnace craftsman, will reward the most grain and cloth in the past few days. Hearing this, the craftsmen around them burst into tears and laughed, and looked at Yang Jia gratefully. Yang Jia was bitter, and he didn't know if he could make steel? The "Artifact Spectrum" in my memory only explains the general method of decarburization with straw and loess, and does not have specific operations and precautions, and the dosage of straw and loess is not involved. You have to figure it out on your own.

"You first poke it with straw, then mix it with the loess, and sprinkle it into the furnace continuously, so that the iron (slag) will come out on its own."

Everyone said yes, and they were busy with their own division of labor, and suddenly heard the old man and craftsman ask: "Master Yang, how much straw is used to poke fine, and how much loess is mixed with it?" ”

Yang Jia rubbed his forehead in distress and said, "Just use one-tenth of the straw of the iron pulp in the furnace, and the amount of loess is the same as the amount of straw." And remember to call me Yang in the future, you craftsmen are already free bodies, no longer slaves. ”

"Yes! Master Yang, ah no, Yang is engaged. ”

"After the iron comes out, smelt it to fifty percent of the heat, use loess and pulp, and pour the straw into the furnace for a night."

"Yes!" After a 'whin' sound from the bellows, everyone finally smelted the iron ore into five fires, and several people hurriedly filled the straw into the furnace. I don't know what to do next, so I have to look at Yang Jia.

"Remember that early tomorrow morning, put the iron in the loess slurry, put it aside for half a day, take it out and refine it again, and the next iron-making firepower must be outside the ten fires. I'll have an overseer tomorrow morning, okay! Now that it's all right, you can take the food and cloth back and rest. ”

When the craftsmen heard this, they clapped their hands and laughed, and it was good to follow Yang Cheng, so they didn't work for half a day, they could go back to rest, and there were grain cloths to take, and everyone happily took the grain cloth home, leaving Yang Jia in the forging shed.

The craftsmen of several other furnaces watched the departure of several people with envy on their faces, and their hearts were not good, Yang Jia had to pretend that he couldn't see it, and now he didn't know if he could smelt steel, if he hastily stopped all the furnaces, he was afraid that the forging would be delayed in entering the city, and now he could only take one furnace experiment first, and the other furnaces were still smelting the old iron, just waiting for the success of the new iron experiment, and immediately transform and smelt the new iron.

Yang Jiajiang, who returned to his residence in the evening, slept all night, and when the morning light just appeared on the horizon, Yang Jia immediately turned over and got up, and pulled yesterday's craftsmen down the furnace shed to smelt new iron.

According to Yang Jia's instructions yesterday, everyone put the iron in the loess slurry and left it for half a day, and then threw it back into the furnace for smelting, while Yang Jia kept pacing back and forth beside him. After a heat wave, the iron ore in the furnace was finally completely refined, and the craftsmen prepared to export the iron slurry according to their experience, pour it into the mold, and plan to cast it. I didn't want Yang Jia to stop it: "Don't be in a hurry to cast, turn off the fire first, and let the iron slurry cool into a solid state." In the incomprehensible gaze of everyone, the iron slurry finally cooled down, and Yang Jia immediately commanded: "You guys take out the iron and put it on the ground." You go find the rod scale. Weigh the iron. ”

"Yu Yang is engaged, it weighs twenty-two pounds!"

Hearing this, Yang Jia turned his head and asked the old craftsman next to him: "How much does the iron taken out of the loess slurry weigh in the morning?" ”

"Back to work, I didn't weigh it, and I don't know how heavy it is, but it looks like it weighs more than fifty pounds." The old craftsman affirmed in his words this time, approaching to engage in smelting for a lifetime, and this is still certain.

Listening to the old craftsman's affirmative reply, Yang Jia smiled helplessly, and sure enough, he failed, Yang Jia remembered very clearly that in the "Artifact Spectrum", 'ten catties of pig iron, one catty of refining, can be said to be ripe (Chenggang)'. The smelting step is correct, it seems that there is a problem with the dosage of straw and loess. Yang Jia clenched his fists and stood up and said, "You go and arrange for everyone to re-smelt new iron." Add a little more straw loess to use this time, and remember that you have to write down the amount of straw and loess used every time. The iron ore used this time is the same as last time, and the new iron smelted tomorrow must be about ten catties to be considered successful. ”

When the old craftsman heard this, he gradually understood that the problem of the unqualified new iron was the amount of straw and loess, so he nodded and ran to the furnace and began to work on it.

The crowd quickly took out the iron, used loess as pulp, and poured the straw into the iron pulp. The next thing is to wait for a night, with yesterday's precedent, everyone is sitting in place as a scoundrel, waiting for Yang Jia to send a message to get food and go home to rest. Yang Jia in the distance frowned and saw the craftsmen in such a posture, and walked quickly towards the furnace shed with anger.

Before he had walked a few steps, he suddenly heard the old craftsman who had just talked to him shouting, "What are you doing sitting on the ground?" Think you'll be able to rest? Are you boars? Just sit and wait for the food! Yang is engaged in rewarding us to smelt new iron, not to let us fool people with grain. Go! Start again, go to a furnace and pour the same amount of iron ore, this time I will change the amount of straw loess. ”

The old craftsman is not a supervisor, and there is no whip in his hand, naturally some people are not willing to listen to the old craftsman's scolding, a few young craftsmen may have thought of Yang Jia's 'kindness', and restarted with a guilty face, and there are also a few middle-aged craftsmen in their thirties with sallow faces who are still standing in place, among which there is a craftsman with a slightly strong body, a long face, and a haircut who shouted: "Old slave, you are a mountain boar!" Yesterday, Yang engaged in arranging for us to do this, today we are doing this, what's wrong" Before the words were finished, someone suddenly pulled his cuffs, and the middle-aged craftsman turned his head to look and found that he was standing alone, and the people who were standing with him just now in the 'consent camp' had already run to start work, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Yang Zhi in his mouth standing at the mouth of the furnace shed and watching, and in a hurry, he ran to the furnace, squatting down and pulling the bellows of 'humming and humming'. Since Yang Zhi did not interrupt the old craftsman's proposal, it was naturally acquiescing, wasn't he looking for death? Contradicting Yang engaged!

Yang Jia saw that everyone started smelting again, and nodded approvingly at the old craftsman, this can indeed shorten the time, smelt a few more pig iron samples today, and wait until tomorrow to open the furnace, refining one by one, and find qualified steel