After Handan was overcome, for most ordinary people, there was no big problem, but the rations at home were all robbed.

According to Zhao Yan's instructions, Han Sheng restrained the thieves below, and did not set fire to or push the wall after entering the city.

In general, the vitality is still relatively well preserved, plus the people who came along the way, the people of Handan reached 130,000, including men, women and children, and there were about 40,000 young and strong.

Handan contains a wide variety of mineral resources, later generations is China's famous coal and high-grade iron ore production area, with rich "two black" - coal, iron resources, coal and iron ore reserves reached 4 billion tons and 550 million tons respectively, known as the modern "steel city", "coal capital". Among them, the coal reserves are abundant, the coal types are complete, and the coal quality is good; The iron ore has high grade, few harmful impurities, and a good surname.

There is coal and iron, and the iron ore is of high taste, which is definitely an ideal smelting base. Most of China's iron ores are of low taste, and there are very few iron-rich ores.

The staff who came with the army began to settle those people in full swing, and Zhao Yan took people to inspect the mining area, 90.8% of Handan's iron ore was concentrated in Wu'an, and the rest were distributed in Shexian County.

Zhao Yan inspected the iron ore mine in Wu'an, which is a small county, which has been conquered by thieves for six years and has become extremely depressed, and the miners in the mining area have also been pulled away by thieves, and Zhao Yan has directly occupied it.

After three days of shopping in Wu'an and Shexian County, Zhao Yan identified seven mining areas, all of which are easy to mine iron ore, five in Wu'an, two in Shexian County, and three coal mines in Handan.

In these eight mining areas, young people were arranged to go to mining, and each person was given one or two silver per month, which made the hundreds of thousands of people concentrated in Handan sign up very enthusiastically.

In the end, 20,000 young people were selected and assigned to the mining area to open mines. It is conceivable that Handan will be a good place for labor reform in the future, and so many iron mines and coal mines will require a lot of labor.

Mining is directly blown up with gunpowder, which can improve mining efficiency. The blast furnace with a simple process for ironmaking was everywhere during the Great Leap Forward era, and there was no need for any technical surname.

Coking with a seriously polluting soil method, later generations every day in the strict crackdown on the soil method coking, but there are still many people refining, the economic benefits seem to be very high, is a good way for the people to get rich and get rid of poverty, but there is a risk of being banned at any time.

In terms of steelmaking, Zhao Yan has not yet developed the conditions for open-hearth, which is not made of coke. Therefore, Zhao Yan can only use the Pudelin method, also known as the steel frying method.

Before the advent of open hearth, the first to develop was the British steel frying method, some people say that China appeared this technology as early as more than a thousand years ago, I don't know whether it is true or not, but it is true that it has not been popularized on a large scale.

Pudling method: A smelting method for the mass production of wrought iron in the Middle Ages. It is also known as the churning method. The construction of the Pudlin furnace is similar to that of the flat hearth, except that there is no lower regenerator. The long flame formed after the combustion of the fuel is sent into the furnace, and the pig iron is heated by the reflection of the furnace top, and the bottom of the furnace is masonry with iron oxide, and the carbon and phosphorus in the pig iron are oxidized and removed due to the excess oxygen in the flame and the large amount of oxygen in the furnace bottom. However, the furnace temperature is only about 1400 °C, and after the carbon in the pig iron is removed to a certain extent, the melting point exceeds the furnace temperature, and the metal is in a semi-solidified state.

However, due to the extremely high iron oxide content in the bottom and slag, the carbon can be removed to a very low level to become wrought iron; Then after repeated forging, the iron oxide slag in the wrought iron is extruded and then made into a material for use.

The Pudelin method was the main production method before the advent of the modern steelmaking method, and it had reached a considerable production scale, and in the middle of the 18th century, more than 70,000 kilometers of railways were built with Pudelin wrought iron in Europe and the United States. However, due to the fundamental weakness of semi-condensed solid smelting, poor labor conditions and poor quality of wrought iron, the Pudling method was quickly eliminated after the birth of the Bessemer method.

The frying method is to first train wrought iron and then forge it into steel by hand, so it requires a lot of manpower. Although the Bessemer method is better than the fried steel method, it needs to add manganese, and Zhao Yan's chemistry is average, and it is okay to teach students, but if he wants to find manganese, his eyes are definitely black.

Anyway, Daming has a population of nearly 100 million, and there will always be no shortage of manpower.

As long as these technologies are implemented and Handan is built into a steel base, it will definitely make Zhao Yan's strength take a qualitative leap.

Plate armor can be built directly out of steel, and the defense can go up a step.

Before the advent of open-hearth steel, the steel cannon could not be used as cannon steel, mainly because it was easy to break.

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Just when Zhao Yan was planning the steel base, suddenly the soldiers below came to report that Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, was coming, and Zhao Yan was so frightened that he ran out.

The thieves have all disarmed, what is Lu Xiangsheng doing here? Zhao Yan hurriedly ran out to make arrangements, thinking in his heart.

Lu Xiangsheng's arrival made Zhao Yan extremely weak, and hurriedly called Han Sheng over, and the two of them were in a good position, so he hurriedly took a hundred guards to meet Lu Xiangsheng.

In the distance, a team of people appeared in sight, Zhao Yan picked up the binoculars and looked, only to see a man in the army in his thirties, wearing the governor's regular uniform, riding a horse, it should be Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng can be said to be the most capable and daring civil official in the late Ming Dynasty, but it is a pity that he was alone, and finally died in isolation.

Facing such a great man in history, Zhao Yan was a little nervous, and he was more afraid of arson.

But if you think about it, there's nothing to be afraid of, goofs are generally unlikely, and even if you are seen to have any clues, you can deny it.

If you have money and food, you don't need to be afraid of the court, you can be more unrestrained.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yanxin calmed down slightly.

Five or six minutes later, the army in the distance came not far from Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan led people to ride their horses to meet them, and the army suddenly stopped.

"The general soldier of Xiaguan Denglai will see the governor." Zhao Yan dismounted and handed over.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the young man in front of him on the horse, and couldn't help but look at it again and again, a little dazed, and only said in a half-loud voice: "You are Zhao Yan?" ”

"It's Xiaguan." Zhao Yan replied.

"Geometry this year?" Lu Xiangsheng asked again.

"Nineteen."

"I didn't expect to be so young, I heard that you were born in Xiucai, why did you give up your pen and follow Rong?" Lu Xiangsheng felt a little incredible, how could he pull up a team of soldiers and horses at such a young age.

"My father was killed by Kong Youde's rebellious soldiers, and he read the sage book for ten years, but he had no power to destroy the thief, and he felt helpless. had to abandon the pen and follow Rong, and train the township soldiers to protect the territory and the people. Zhao Yan immediately made up an excuse, could he still tell him that the imperial court was going to be finished, the Manchu Qing was about to enter the customs, and he trained some soldiers and horses to protect himself......

"Hmmm! It is good to abandon the pen and follow Rong, and it is not to talk about it, and sit and draw promises. Lu Xiangsheng nodded, and then asked, "What is your expression?" ”

"The governor of Shandong gave the lower officials a firm expression." Zhao Yan said.

"When the official heard that the sky-turning monkey had invaded Handan, he set off on the nineteenth day and hurried at night, but the road was far away, and he was finally a step late. I don't know why Zhijian is also a step late? Lu Xiangsheng asked suddenly.

"This ...... The soldiers and horses in the Xiaguan army were the first to fight in Shandong, and many of the soldiers were not accustomed to the water and soil, and there was nowhere to supply along the way, and the baggage they carried was too cumbersome, so they were one step late. Zhao Yan said vaguely.

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