- The winter morning light shines on the blue-gray Dongchuan Castle. The iron wheels of the carriage creaked against the same blue-gray concrete road, mixed with the shouts of the coachmen, the neighing of the horses, and the inevitable cursing. The smell of steaming fresh horse manure mixed with the heat from the steamers laid out earlier on the side of the road, and the whole street was filled with a strange smell.

The copper smelters, who were about to go to work, yawned and walked out of the house to the 'public toilet' on the side of the street to relieve their hands...... Every street in Dongchuan City has a public toilet. And 'no open defecation' is a ban repeatedly reiterated by the inspectors, and after whipping dozens of guys who dare to be a deaf ear, the people of Dongchuan City have developed a good habit of 'going to the public toilet'.

There are more than 100 public toilets in Dongchuan City, which are located in every corner of the city, and there is clean water for washing. Best of all, it's free.

Of course, there is no privacy in this type of toilet, and people sit next to each other, all sitting on a marble slab. There are gourd-shaped holes in the board, and below is a deep ditch where the flowing water takes everything away...... People sit on it, greeting and chatting with vulgar words, showing off the results of yesterday's gambling and prostitution, or telling some meat jokes to make everyone laugh.

But here, you won't see officials and wealthy businessmen, whose homes are equipped with private toilets, so you don't have to mingle with these vulgar people. All in all, having a separate restroom is a status symbol.

After relieving themselves, the people went to the sink outside. A row of bamboo pipes on the wall, bubbling out of the water, is falling in the sink, and then flowing down the pipe at the bottom of the trough into the gutter.

Dongchuan City is like spring all year round, even in winter, the water is not biting, although there are hot soup sellers outside, but the workers are directly washing things with cold water. After solving the problem of personal hygiene, as soon as they came out, there were food stalls selling soup cakes, fried liver, rice noodles, and boiled eggs. It's not exquisite, but it's really full.

The income of the factory is three times that of the Mainland. But the bad thing is that the price of goods in Dongchuan City is also three times higher than that in the mainland...... It takes more than a dozen dollars to buy a meal that is quite hearty early. After eating, I went to work. Most of their destinations are located in the Dongchuan Prison Camp Copper Farm in the south of the city. The scale of this copper field is so large that the entire southern city is its territory, and thousands of truckloads of charcoal are transported in every day. The smoke and dust wafting from the field can cover the entire city...... Of course, there's nothing to brag about.

And out of the workshop, in addition to slag and cinder, there are also heavy copper, silver and gold ingots. Every day, 100,000 catties of copper, 10,000 catties of silver, and hundreds of catties of gold were smelted, and under the escort of the army, they were sent to the water transportation wharf in the east of the city. Board the boat there. Thousands of miles to the mainland.

According to estimates, in less than three years at most, the copper and silver produced here will exceed the sum of all the money prisons in the Great Song Dynasty!

This is today's Dongchuan Castle, which is rough, dirty, and unbeautiful, but full of vigorous vitality. and civilization that people are not yet aware of.

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"I actually wanted to build one, where power and beauty coexist. Let the barbarians in the southwest experience the charm of the Celestial Empire! "Lower the curtains. Chen Ke, who inspected Dongchuan City for the last time, said depressedly: "Who knew that it would be such an ugly look." Sure enough, the cement concrete, the big chimney of the factory, are all killers of beauty......"

"Be content." Su Song, who accompanied him, said with a smile: "Without cement concrete, the gods would not be able to build such a big city in two years." If there is no big chimney in the factory, where did it come from this day in the South Copper Capital? ”

"Well, sure enough, there is a dilemma in this matter." Chen Ke sighed.

"And it won't affect your planning." Su Song comforted him and said: "After all, for most people, being able to earn money and live a convenient life is far more important than a beautiful environment. ”…,

"If only you could think so." Chen Ke smiled: "I'm afraid that you will also be ugly here, and you will follow in my footsteps and go back." ”

"How is that possible? This Dongchuan City was planned by me street by alley and built brick by brick. Su Song shook his head and said: "There is a way that children are good at home, and I like it no matter how I look at it." ”

"There must be a variety of trees, copper mining and copper smelting are inseparable from wood, and the cost is too great." Chen Ke instructed: "Now some mines have been shaved heads. It's too harmful. ”

"Without the protection of trees, mudslides are prone to occur." Su Song nodded.

"It's not just mudslides, it's very harmful!" Chen Ke said with a solemn face. To put it bluntly, he regrets Zhang Luo's Dongchuan copper mine, the harm to the environment is too great! But if there was no copper mine, how could the imperial court agree to send troops to Dali? How to solve the money shortage in the Great Song Dynasty?

So I can't figure out this confused account, so I can only continue to be confused...... After the big deal, it will not be a scourge in your own land.

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While talking, the carriage drove into the copper yard, and the two got out of the car, and a steward of the workshop hurriedly greeted them and invited them into the main hall to rest.

"I'm tired in the morning." Chen Ke waved his hand and said, "You guys are busy, Master Su and I will go around casually." ”

His prestige was so high that the stewards did not dare to say more, and bowed down.

Chen Ke and Su Song climbed the watchtower in the center of the factory, and the eight major workshops of the entire copper field were in full view. The first is the sorting workshop, where the workers re-sort the ore and sort it by grade...... This workshop is the most lively. In the process of beneficiation, the head of the mine will be present, and there will be endless disputes about the grade of the ore and the workers who pick it, because it is related to their income, and the higher the grade, the higher the income. On the mining side, it is not just to reduce costs, different grades of processing processes are different, this is not sloppy.

The workshop is not just a matter of picking, the stones are hammered into crushed stones, and the soil is washed before they can be transported to the next roasting workshop. In the roasting workshop, the ore is piled up on the flat ground like a hill, and the surrounding firewood is roasted, and the scene is like a fire during the sacrifice of the mountains and rivers, which is unforgettable.

The ore grade is different, and the number of roasting is different, some are put into the furnace after one time, and some are put into the furnace at most three times...... But mostly twice, six days and nights.

Wait until the ore cools down and transfer it to the smelting workshop. The ore is fed into a large cyclone furnace, which is ignited, and then the hydropower-driven blast equipment is started to smelt for three days and nights.

If it is a high-grade ore, it can be directly smelted into raw copper. But most of them are made in furnaces. It's just matte copper, or even poor matte copper...... Matte copper is copper with low purity, which will be broken when it is cold. Like ice. The purity of ice-poor copper is lower, and it needs to be mashed into granules, mixed with quartz stone and smelted to form slag, and the underlying is matte copper.

on matte copper. It is roasted and smelted again until it is made of raw copper...... Raw copper contains gold and silver, and if it is not refined, not only can it not be coined, but it also destroys the heavens.

So in the smelting workshop number four. Raw copper and lead continue to be smelted to obtain refined copper and lead liquid containing gold and silver. In the refining workshop, copper ingots containing more than ninety and five percent of copper are obtained. Liquid lead can be made into gold and silver ingots by sootblowing in the refining workshop.

In addition to pyrometallurgical copper smelting, there is also a bile copper workshop for water copper smelting, which deals with the lowest grade ores that cannot be refined by pyrometallurgical copper smelting, and truly makes the best use of materials. Eliminate waste......

These eight workshops have a strict division of labor. Tens of thousands of workers are in good order, and this scene alone is incomparable to all dynasties and generations. You must know that the mining area has always been a source of trouble, and the displaced people have left the land and traveled all over the world, and most of them are able-bodied. Or desperate, come here to make a living, chaotic management, relaxed constraints, harsh exploitation. It's going to be a big disaster! …,

The Han and Tang dynasties did not have this scale, and the mining area was very harmful. It has already shaken the society. As for the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, it is a history of miners' riots, warlords, and eunuchs, which is simply a history of chaos.

The industrial and mining industries of the Song Dynasty were unprecedentedly developed, but there were almost no major riots, which naturally were inseparable from effective management, responsible officials, and relatively high labor remuneration. Although the situation in the Dongchuan mining area is far more complicated than that in the mainland, it is inseparable from the three magic weapons of the housekeeper, but Chen Ke is playing an enhanced version.

Between the eight workshops of the copper field, the key is side by side, the guard is strict, and there is a watchtower like a watchtower in the center. Standing on the tower, it is enough to grasp the overall situation, and any movement of anyone is under surveillance. Nature can prevent problems before they happen. He also formulated detailed rules and regulations, in addition to the eight workshops, such as the material warehouse, the treasury, the office and other key departments, there are certain rules, who is responsible, who supervises, who keeps accounts, all are clear, if something goes wrong, do not think of prevarication.

For the officers and men guarding the copper field, he also formulated a set of rules and regulations for inspection, inquiry, and inspection, and as long as they act according to the rules, there is absolutely no possibility of omission or negligence.

The reason why those stewards were so afraid of Chen Ke was because he would never allow any violation of the rules. One of his words was, 'Unreasonable regulations can be changed, but before they can be modified, they must be followed!' ’

"In the past two years, the rules and regulations of the copper field have been revised more than a dozen times, and they have been basically improved. However, no matter how perfect the rules and regulations are, they must be strictly enforced. He instructed Su Song in a serious voice: "The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in a hole, don't make an exception!" ”

"Don't worry, I'll do a good job of Cao Shen." Su Song nodded.

"That's the regulations." Chen Ke said with a smile: "In terms of production technology, we still have to be bold and innovative. The current method of copper smelting is too uneconomical. I know that you and Brother Cun Zhong have a lot of ideas, just try boldly, even if you fail a hundred times, as long as you succeed once, we will make a lot of money. ”

"Huh." Su Song reminded as if jokingly when he heard this: "When you return to the capital, don't always put the word 'profit' on your lips, so that you don't want to see it." ”

"Pick up the bowl and eat, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother!" Chen Ke snorted and said: "Then let's talk about it, I personally sponsor you 100,000 yuan, and your idea of the water transport instrument can start tinkering!" ”

"That's what you said, don't feel distressed when the time comes." Su Song was overjoyed when he heard this, this was his long-cherished wish.

"Don't delay your business." Chen Ke smiled: "If it's not enough, just write to me, and I'll add it to you!" ”

"Thank you, thank you." Su Song clenched his fists, said curiously and smiled: "But speaking of which, how much money does your brother have?" ”

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Segmentation –

In the Song Dynasty, the local administrative divisions were divided into prefectures, prefectures, supervisors, and military ...... Except for the Fu Comparison Cow, the rest are all at the same level, but the nature is different. Generally speaking, the war zone is the army, the mining area is the prison, and the ordinary is the state. It can also be regarded as a special state.

Dongchuan set up the Dongchuan Prison, not Dongchuan Prefecture. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )