In the era of agricultural civilization, all technological breakthroughs were basically achieved in the hands of craftsmen who were on the front line of production. 【Reading.com】【To read the latest chapters of this book, please search 800】

The Zhang family of Huangzhou Weijiang household has been accumulating production practice for hundreds of years, so once there is a more caring person in the Zhang family, then the breakthrough of Zhang's steel production technology is possible.

As the youngest son of a craftsman's family, Zhang Zhaohuan's child is indeed a little different. When he was a child, his status in the family was very low, and he was almost a dispensable person who was not valued by his family.

The family life of the people at the bottom in ancient times was by no means idyllic and warm. In the eyes of ordinary people, all the work of a family revolves around how to survive. So, in this case, the person who can go out to work and earn money through work has a very important position in the family.

It is for this reason that in Blacksmith Zhang's house, Blacksmith Zhang and Blacksmith Zhang's eldest son are the most important people in the family. This is not because of the influence of the Confucian idea of filial piety, but purely because Zhang Blacksmith and his eldest son are the only people in the entire Zhang family who can go out to work and make money. The survival of the whole family depends on these two people.

Naturally, no matter what aspect it is, Blacksmith Zhang and his eldest son are taken care of in every way. There was some dry food at home for the two of them to eat. There are two pairs of serious pants at home, which are also worn by the two of them. Whether it is Zhang Zhaohuan or Zhang Zhaohuan's second brother who is a tenant for the lord of a hundred households in the health center, he has no status in the family.

The two blacksmiths, or two blacksmiths with average skills in the guardhouse, were able to go out and find some work to do, but in fact there was not so much work for them to do. 8> Therefore, the money that Blacksmith Zhang and his eldest son can earn back from the outside is also very limited.

How difficult was the life of the Zhang family? From the fact that Blacksmith Zhang's old and weak father and his mother, who was only in her forties, all died of hunger strikes by themselves.

Like all children from low-level families, Zhang Zhaohuan's main feeling since he was born was hunger. Unlike children who would run out to play even when they were hungry, the young Zhang Zhaohuan loved to watch his father and brother at work, and in order to dispel his physical hunger, he often diverted his attention by thinking about making iron.

In this way, years of observation and thinking made Zhang Zhaohuan apply an idea he came up with when he was 14 years old when he first carried out ** iron smelting. He used the iron-making furnace and the iron-frying furnace in series, and put the molten iron flowing from the iron-making furnace directly into the iron-frying furnace to fry wrought iron at one time.

Ironmaking in a furnace does not seem to be a very remarkable breakthrough in the eyes of later generations. However, for Zhang Blacksmith, a real front-line worker, this practice not only saves man-hours, but also directly saves the cost of the second heating and smelting. In Blacksmith Zhang's view, such a technological breakthrough can directly save him a lot of costs.

The success of Zhang Zhaohuan's attempt at ironmaking not only directly improved the ironmaking technology of the Zhang family, saved a lot of costs for the Zhang family, brought more profits to the Zhang family, and directly changed his status in his own family.

Zhang Zhaohuan has gone from drinking gruel by the stove with his second brother and mother in the past to eating dry rice with his father and eldest brother in the room.

What's more, Zhang Zhaohuan's attempt at iron-making technology was officially recognized by his father Zhang Blacksmith. In the following years, through a lot of practice, Zhang Zhaohuan finally figured out the technology of using pig iron and wrought iron to "fill steel". Although only three of the ten furnaces of molten steel can be successfully produced, this technology still has an advantage over other blacksmiths in Huangzhou City.

Of course, the Zhang family in Huangzhou was born at an inopportune time. "Zhangjiagang" has only been famous in Huangzhou for five or six years, and Wang Shuhui's iron and steel complex in the Zhijiang area has been built.

After that, the blacksmiths in both the Huangzhou area and the entire Huguang area were directly faced with the comprehensive crushing of modern steel products of the Fuxing Society with low prices and high quality.

Fortunately, the Zhang family is relatively crisis-conscious. Long before this happened, Blacksmith Zhang used the money earned in the previous two years to buy a few acres of land in the countryside. After all the blacksmiths in the Huguang area were unemployed by the steel products of the Fuxing Society, the Zhang family was able to survive with a few acres of land.

After the Renaissance Army took over the entire Huangzhouwei, it first carried out a comprehensive arrest of all the officials and family members of the Huangzhouwei. After that, the Renaissance Army carried out a comprehensive registration and reorganization of the population of all the guards belonging to the entire Huangzhou Wei.

In the principle of registration of the Renaissance Army, anyone with a skill will receive special attention from the Renaissance Society. As for the artisans in the various military guards, the Revival Army will register them specifically.

Zhang Blacksmith's family, as the artisan household of Huangzhou Wei, was naturally also concerned by the Fuxing Army.

After a simple reorganization, the task of setting up a temporary camp for all the military households fell to the artisan households of Huangzhouwei. Their task was to build a temporary camp for the "Huangzhou Production and Construction Corps" under the leadership and guidance of the engineering corps of the Renaissance Army, using the machinery and materials brought by the renaissance army.

The roaring steam saw, the rumbling steam excavator, and the huge steam crane suddenly attracted Zhang Zhaohuan, who was less than 20 years old.

Unlike his father and other craftsmen, who would feel extremely panicked and frightened when they saw this kind of machinery beyond common sense, Zhang Zhaohuan had the feeling that a young man had seen the lover of his dreams with black smoke, a lot of noise, and often problems in operation.

Although I don't know what it means to be love at first sight. But it is obvious that Zhang Zhaohuan and the steam engine have formed a beautiful relationship like first love.

Unlike those indigenous craftsmen who tried to avoid these devilish steam machines, Zhang Zhaohuan would get close to the Renaissance Army engineers who operated the steam machines whenever he had time and opportunity.

The engineers are also young men. Naturally, they would also like this young man who always had a flattering smile and was careful to deal with them for knowledge of the steam engine.

Soon, Zhang Zhaohuan got along with the engineers of the Fuxing Army. After the construction of the temporary camp was completed, the clever Zhang Zhaohuan was already able to skillfully operate the construction machinery of the Renaissance Army. Even, Zhang Zhaohuan has mastered a lot of knowledge about the maintenance of steam engines