Song Jiu's three brothers-in-law, the fifth brother-in-law is in the inner city, because it is far away, they are in charge of a small inn, at this time the Song Dynasty is not very peaceful, the business is not very good, you must be careful to operate, let alone dare to invite many guys, what is like the eldest sister to do it yourself, more busy, less contact. The eldest brother-in-law can't say how evil it is, about the eldest sister is much subsidized, and the previous Song Jiu was stained, and then he had some complexion.

Song Jiu can understand and be conscious, but understanding is understanding, and it is impossible to dig out his heart. Therefore, it is the seventh brother-in-law who is really close.

However, this time Song Jiu did not make a sound, Yuping gradually won the heart of the eldest sister, and also won the hearts of the seventh sister, maybe some small means were used in the middle, but for a long time, the means are secondary, and you have to pay the heart, in fact, Song Jiu also thinks that Yuping is really good. The nature of his work is just an artist in his previous life, that is, an artist in his previous life, how many people can roll around in that happy field and keep their innocence? The character is extremely gentle, sometimes he doesn't look at his appearance, this kind of gentle personality makes Song Jiu a little moved.

But at this time, a bright and moving figure appeared in his mind, and he scratched his head and said, "Brother-in-law, this time is busy, let's talk about it later." ”

"People are not small."

Zhu San also has this problem, he wants to be admitted to the Jinshi, this year's Quan Zhigong is Lu Duoxun, only seven Jinshi were selected, hundreds of lifters, only seven people were selected, and it is not a vague name system, how much to look at the relationship between the door, where did Zhu San get it? Fortunately, Song Jiu is in the south, otherwise it would have been even worse to go to the imperial examination this year.

The family affair he ordered couldn't afford to delay, and the woman urged it vigorously. In fact, Zhu San's age can't be considered old, and his fiancée can't be considered old, but this is an era of early marriage, men are a little better, crowned at the age of twenty, and women can get married at the age of fifteen, so they can wait until they are in their twenties to get married, Song Jiu said helplessly: "Brother-in-law, this time is too busy, let's talk about it when it's over." ”

The seventh brother-in-law is not good to persuade again.

I'm really busy, I don't know how many things I have to wait for Song Jiu to do. I washed my feet, didn't think about anything, came back in a hurry all the way, was too tired to do it, and lay down and fell asleep. The Lord wants him to come to everything, and if in five or six years, his twenty or so students will grow up, and it will be a little better.

The next day I had to teach.

This can't be put down, I touched the bottom yesterday, and knowing the progress of each student, Song Jiu had a lot in his heart, and began to speak, talking less, and asking students to ask questions. This is the most progressive place in Song Jiu's education, Edison did not meet Song Jiu, otherwise he would not have dropped out. After Song Jiu left, the students also communicated with each other, and the key students did not understand much, including the outstanding students, and they could not explain their doubts one by one, resulting in serious inconsistencies in progress. Through asking questions, the doubts in their minds are explained one by one, and the progress of students is forcibly pulled.

By noon, twenty-one students were called to the back, drawing and explaining that the test had to be done without stopping. There are some small dangers in the process, which must be explained one by one. Then he instructed them to take the time to calculate the accounts on the river island and the accounts of the eldest sister's Ping'an Society, and when he came back, he would make up the money one by one.

Then he rode to the steel prison.

The first is the steel supervision, the quality of steel output, and the raw materials of Song's cement, all of which must be released from this steel supervision.

It is still being commissioned, and even stopped the blast furnace for a time to renovate the internal facilities. This is not the whimsy of officials, they don't have the guts, the output of iron smelting in a blast furnace is almost seventy or eighty percent of the original Song Dynasty's iron volume, who dares to call the shots? It was ordered by Song Jiu, not that the furnace would be safe and sound, and there should be some arrangements inside, this is not a modern blast furnace, but a blast furnace modeled after the seventeenth century in Europe, at most there is a reinforced concrete reinforcement, so he drew some drawings, what will appear if there is a deficiency, Song Jiu returned to the capital, the blast furnace is being commissioned, there are indeed many deficiencies, the officials discussed, Song Jiu had left the capital at that time. It happened that the heavy snow sealed the door, the iron ore couldn't keep up, and Zhao Pu couldn't transport it no matter how good he was, so the craftsman slowly lowered the fire according to Song Jiu's instructions, getting smaller and smaller, and it took several days to slowly extinguish the furnace fire. Then after discussion, a transformation was carried out according to the instructions and drawings left by Song Jiu.

But these officials all had their hearts hanging, just when Song Jiu came, they immediately surrounded Song Jiu, reacted to the situation one by one, and asked if the transformation was right, Song Jiu also listened carefully, and then thought about it carefully, the actual principle is a reaction process and a temperature gathering process, but it will be very complicated to implement, and Song Jiu is difficult to say whether it is right or not, only ask about the effect after the transformation.

The official said that it was a little better than before, and Song Jiu said: "Okay, these knowledge should be mastered by you, and you can't ask me." What if something happens to me, doesn't the Great Song Dynasty smelt iron? ”

"Jiulang, laugh, laugh," said a small official, he said in his heart, you are only twenty years old, and you don't go to the front line to fight, if something happens, you can live to be fifty or sixty years old if you have a short lifespan.

The other is the amount of iron ore mined in various places.

The officials of the steel prison don't know how many roads there are, but there is one thing, the ore transferred from Hebei by the imperial court is gradually decreasing, and most of it is ore from Shandong and Xuzhou. This involves a problem of road expenses, it turns out that the Song Dynasty smelted iron, for what to smelt iron on the spot, the weight of iron ore far exceeds the weight of iron, even if it is smelted out of crude iron. From the map, Cizhou looks closer than Xuzhou, but it has to be transported step by step from the mountains to Zhangshui, and then from Zhangshui to Yongji Canal, and from Yongji Canal to the Yellow River to the Sanhui Canal, which was dug just last year in the east of the capital. It looks close, but this freight is more expensive than the shipping cost from Hangzhou to the capital. Or by land, then don't think about it, pull it to the capital by car, it will be an astronomical freight.

However, in general, the molten iron from the first blast furnace is of good quality, and the second blast furnace has more iron and less waste, which is enough to make up for the loss of freight. However, if there is iron in Xuzhou, is it from Xuzhou to transport iron ore, or from Cizhou to transport iron ore?

This is the official's statement.

But Song Jiu entered the third division last year, and knew more insiders, which shows the effect of gunpowder, whether it is iron ore in Shandong or Xuzhou, if there is no gunpowder, the output is very small, including more distant places in Shandong, Laizhou and Dengzhou, together the amount of iron in a year is less than one million catties. It is with gunpowder that iron ore can be dug deep and fine, so it gradually gets rid of Hebei's class iron.

It cannot be said that the Sanhui Canal has been dug in vain, and with the permission of the people, as long as there is a canal, it will have its positive significance in this era. So Song Jiu asked about the iron pit again. The officials in the steel prison didn't know much, but they only heard that an accident happened to an iron pit and several prisoners died, and the emperor was angry and dealt with several officials involved. Song Jiu didn't make a sound after hearing this, in fact, he said it in detail enough, listing many relevant precautions. But the above said, the following may not be implemented, the nature is very similar to Wang Anshi's reform, coupled with corruption, and the fierceness of gunpowder, it has to be done. The imperial court was forced to reform the iron pit system, first, to continue to use the contract system of the Song Dynasty, and second, to restore the prisoner system of the Tang Dynasty. Neither system is well suited, especially the latter. It has nothing to do with Song Jiu, how to change it is Zhao Pu's business, Sichuan and Hunan have had accidents one after another, not necessarily caused by Zhao Pu's conspiracy, but Zhao Pu is indeed in power now.

Ask the amount of iron smelted again, the spring is warm, the gunpowder is used extensively, the source of iron ore is not worried, last year the coke did not stop and did not worry, coupled with repeated debugging, now it can smelt nearly 8,000 catties of iron a day, and the highest day once reached more than 9,320 catties of iron.

It was this yield that several prisoners died, and not a single officer said a word.

It was better than Song Jiu expected, Song Jiu asked for a while, and went to see the steel, this kind of steel is relatively simple, so the imperial court issued an edict to expand the steel kiln, and all the iron smelted in the steel prison was made into steel. Four steel kilns were rebuilt and some commissioning was done, but not much progress was made.

The monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty were very happy, and the officials were also happy, but in fact, Song Jiu was not too happy. After it is baked, it has been carefully forged, and it is only about the same as the ordinary guard Pu knife, not the guard Pu knife is not steel, but it is impossible to use the hundred steel, it is steel, but it is a steel of relatively poor quality.

That is, this European steelmaking method of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was still not very advanced. However, Song Jiu had no choice, he wanted good steel, converter, the technology involved was too high, he didn't have that ability, he had that ability, he couldn't do it in the Song Dynasty, there were too many restrictions.

Then I asked about steel production.

After asking, I thought seriously for a while, and after dinner, I summoned the officials and said some ideas. Not yet, we have to continue debugging. After speaking, he rode back to the capital. At this time, it is indeed very convenient to have horses and ride horses, otherwise Song Jiu will have to stay and rest.

Running around like this, the iron man can't bear it.

When he returned home, the eldest sister waited for him at home, and when she met him, she said, "The money is calculated." ”

"How much?"

"More than 900,000 yuan, more than 1,300 pieces of silk, and some other property, Qin Wazi has calculated, and it is converted into more than 3,300 yuan." The eldest sister said that it was very painful, and it would take how many years it would take her small wine shop to earn it back.

Cui'er said: "Jiulang, go to Kaifeng Mansion to sue him." ”

"What to sue, Zhou Shizong can win when he is here, but he may not be able to win at this time." Song Jiudao. Buddhism is not useless, teaching people to go to good and evil, Song Jiu also went down to see, the people in many areas live very hard, with religion there is a support, at least give them the courage and confidence to live, but to be honest, Buddhism is far more harmful than its positive side, politics has made some ministers play a thick black history, Buddhism has made some great monks play a history of greed and bloodsucking. Chai Rong is the right one to destroy the Buddha, but Zhao Kuangyin is different, his name is a little empty, and he needs religious support. Therefore, after he ascended the throne, he was not averse to religion, especially Taoism, I don't know what the inside story of Lu Dao and Chen Tuan, or Chen said that he was the true son of heaven, and Zhao Kuangyin was very much in favor of Taoism. Therefore, he said: "Sue is not a way, that Master Zhang Long'er said that I have repaired the temple, will the temple be demolished?" On the contrary, the people in the capital laughed at the eldest sister, and they should spend money to eliminate the disaster. ”

"But it's more than 3,000 yuan."

"More than 30,000 can't do it, how much did Shi Shouxin's family spend to repair the temple? Eldest sister, forget it, there are many places to use money in Hezhou, it will be millions of dollars, and if you calculate carefully, you can save the money. ”

"Hezhou has so much money ......"

"Eldest sister, I said, you don't have to worry. The emperor is not worried, what kind of heart do you have? But if you know that your heart hurts, I won't worry. "Song Jiu is telling the truth, religious brainwashing is particularly powerful, Song Jiu is most afraid that the eldest sister will let this Zhang Long'er brainwash. But he pondered in his heart, this Zhang Long'er is angry, is there really any background, should he let Zhao Kuangyi secretly check it? I don't know if there will be taboos in the road.

"In the afternoon, there are many people looking for you."

"That's for sure," Song Jiu smiled, and he began to prepare to repair the bridge, and these yamen would definitely hear about it. However, Liuli gave him a headache, but he wouldn't say it to the eldest sister, and then said: "You talk, I'll go and rest first." ”

When I got up in the morning, I still taught first, there was no need to go to the steel prison today, Song Jiu got the two account books in his hand after class, and the money was not in the Song family, but in the Gao family. But at this time, Zhu Yanei came one after another, Song Jiu finished teaching a class, and said hello to Zhu Yanei, but he didn't see Gao Zhigong, and said to the big guy: "Let's talk later, I'll go to Gao's house first." ”

You have to withdraw a sum of money first.

The door of the Pan family is difficult to enter, and the door of the Gao family is even more difficult to enter, Song Jiu handed over the sticker, and after a while, the subordinate came out of it and said, "Jiulang, please." ”

entered through the corner door, this is Song Jiu's status, even if he is the founding man. In fact, this is a bit sluggish, it is unlikely to open the middle door, at least the middle door can be opened a crack, but the cow, it is the master who uses a rolling pin to pick up Zhao Kuangyin, what can Song Jiu say.

The subordinates led the way in front, and along the way, Gaofu was very luxurious and extravagant, which was also expected by Song Jiu. The first is that there is Zhao Kuangyin's bullish sister, the second is Gao Huaide himself, the third is that Zhao Kuangyin generously rewards these generals who have removed their military power, and the fourth is that the population of the capital is not too dense at this time, and there is enough place for them to build mansions. Circling around, take to a guest room. In the room sat a middle-aged lady, dressed in gold and silver, very luxurious.

The servant said: "Jiulang, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is invited." ”

Song Jiu didn't come to see the eldest princess, but she wanted to "invite", so Song Jiu had to go in and give a salute: "Weichen meets Her Royal Highness the princess." ”

"You're Song Jiu?"

"Wechen exactly."

"You handed me a sticker?"

"Something to discuss."

"I've heard about that small sandbank, and I've heard that you've gathered dozens of yamen to run a partnership."

"There's such a thing."

"This palace asks you, the snake can't be headless, since you group want to run that river continent, who is the leader?"