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When Master Ge and Blacksmith Liu heard Gu Zhenhua's words, Master Ge frowned first, and couldn't help but ask, "Grandpa Guo, are you saying that you want to heat the charcoal, just like burning bricks?" ”

"Pretty much, there are impurities in the charcoal, and when it is heated, it will be reduced."

"I've heard of this!" Blacksmith Liu slapped his head and couldn't help but say: "Grandpa Guo, there are people in the Jiangnan area who have used it like this, but they seem to have just burned stinky charcoal." The quality of the charcoal in Guide is good, so we simply used it directly, and we didn't expect this. ”

Stink?

I'm afraid it contains a lot of impurities. Gu Zhenhua didn't think much about it, and hurriedly said: "In this case, is there anyone in the factory who knows how to work?" ”

"Yes, Zhang Gang, a craftsman from Nanjing, has done this."

"Come here, please."

Gu Zhenhua gave an order, and a craftsman in his forties was led over not long after. This person is not tall, his face is full of burning pockmarks, pitted bags, and his face is full of honesty.

After seeing Gu Zhenhua, Zhang Gang hurriedly bowed to the ground: "The villain has seen Grandpa Guo." ”

"Hurry up, please!"

After Gu Zhenhua asked him to get up, he said, "Master Zhang, I heard that you know how to burn, I don't know if you can tell the method?" ”

Zhang Gang was stunned for a moment, and Blacksmith Liu said on the side: "It is to burn the smelly charcoal into charcoal." ”

"This, this ......"

"Don't do this or that, since you understand, just say it quickly, don't you see that we are all in a hurry here?" Blacksmith Liu said impatiently.

Zhang Gang's eyes rolled, revealing a look of embarrassment: "Grandpa Guo." It's okay to let the villain burn, but this method really can't be said, and the craftsman points to this to eat. I still want to go to the heirloom! ”

Master Ge's face was also very ugly, "Zhang Gang, Grandpa Guo said it himself, what else do you want?" Besides, how much steel has been scrapped these days, why don't you know how heavy it is? ”

Zhang Gang lowered his head when he was reprimanded, but this stubborn guy didn't mean to back down at all, if he didn't say it, he didn't say it!

Gu Zhenhua suddenly smiled and said, "I am clear about Craftsman Zhang's concerns. I'd rather give up a gold ingot than teach a mouthful of spring. Skill is the cost of your meal, and this lord can't ask for it in vain. However, how to give this money still needs to be discussed. ”

"Discuss something." Blacksmith Liu was anxious, and couldn't help but say: "Grandpa Guo treats us well, and the salary is several times more than before. There are bonus allowances for well done. You still want more, it's just not greedy! ”

"Didn't I want more, shouldn't the cubs in the family leave a way to live, everyone will learn in the future, what are you doing with us?"

Zhang Gang argued loudly, and these words also pierced the minds of many craftsmen present. Chinese craftsmen are all passed down orally, and there are many things passed down from father to son. The old master would rather bring it into the coffin than stay. As a result, there is often a fault in the inheritance of technology, and it is impossible to form a system.

Take coke as an example, in fact, it has been used in the Southern Song Dynasty, but after hundreds of years, most craftsmen still do not know the role.

"Zhang Gang, you contribute the technology of coking, and for every load of coke you refine in the future, I will allow you to pay a penny."

"It's only a penny!"

"Hahaha, this is a lot, in the future, large-scale steelmaking and ironmaking, the need for coke is hundreds of thousands of quintals, or even millions of quintals. A penny is valid for 30 years, what do you think? ”

Zhang Gang's eyes lit up suddenly, and he counted with his fingers, but he still couldn't figure it out, but he knew that this was definitely a lot of money, but he was still a little hesitant, "It's only been thirty years, little cub, and by then it will be my current age!" ”

"Confused!" Master Ge couldn't help but scold on the side: "Fool, one million quintals, there are 1,000 taels of silver a year, and for thirty consecutive years, it is enough to build a silver mountain." When it comes to this, your cub is still pointing out the craft to eat, so you just find a dung pit to dig into! ”

At this moment, Zhang Gang's head turned around, and he couldn't help but smirk: "One thousand taels a year, one thousand taels a year, ...... a year"

Blacksmith Liu pushed him even harder: "Don't be stupid, go and burn the charcoal, if you can't burn it well, throw you into the furnace!" ”

"Hey!" Zhang Gang hurriedly agreed, turned around and ran.

Gu Zhenhua also looked at all the craftsmen present, and said with a smile: "Benjue knows that everyone has a lot of housekeeping skills, and he is not willing to sue others lightly. From now on, there will be a rule that whoever comes up with a new process and proves it effective will be rewarded, and whoever designs a new weapon will be able to raise money from it for every piece produced in the future. How much money should be paid, you guys will discuss it, formulate a rule, and then hand it over to Benjue for finalization. Everyone remembers, the ideas and ideas in your heads are all valuable, don't cherish yourself in the broom, the craftsman can get more! ”

"Thank you, Grandpa Guo!"

When Master Ge heard this, he fell to the ground in tears, and so did the other craftsmen. For thousands of years, craftsmen have been rigidly pressed to the bottom of society, regarded as a strange skill, and the life of craftsmen has become even more embarrassing. It is precisely because of this embarrassment that they cherish themselves more and regard technology as life, and the more this is the result, the more good things are lost.

In later generations, when archaeology, I am often amazed by the whimsy of the ancestors, but it is a pity that these wonderful ideas have not been widely spread and passed down, and in the final analysis, it is still the drawbacks of this master-apprentice inheritance.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Ben Jue said, whoever can make An ** stronger, who is a useful talent, you craftsmen are responsible for the weapons of soldiers, and you can't be arrogant. In the future, craftsmen can be awarded, they can be officials, and they can make a lot of money, and there is only one requirement, that is, to produce better things! ”

"Yes!"

All the craftsmen present shouted loudly, one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and even some people directly gathered around Master Ge, actively proposing their housekeeping skills.

"Let's be honest first, the top priority is to refine good steel, speed up the production of swords, and put the rest aside for the time being."

……

Five days were fleeting, but in these five days, Zhang Gang, Ge Craftsman, and Liu Blacksmith almost didn't have much rest.

In order to ensure that the best coke is made, they first made a coke oven urgently, and Zhang Gang carefully supervised the whole process, and then he carefully put the selected coal into it and heated it.

The furnace temperature is rising little by little, and the coal inside is undergoing complex chemical changes, of course, these outside craftsmen can't understand it, Zhang Gang just pays close attention to the furnace temperature, for fear that something will go wrong.

Sweat crackled down, Zhang Gang just kept drinking water and didn't leave a single step. Finally, after about eight hours, the first furnace of coke was finally practiced.

Blacksmith Liu They were all waiting, and after it came out, just after the first glance, Blacksmith Liu slapped his thigh excitedly.

"It's done!"

Indeed, the appearance of coke is better than that of ordinary coal, with a black and bright luster, full of pores, and the effect of burning must be good!

Master Ge was even more excited, and he hurriedly ordered the use of this fresh coke to make steel, and worked for a whole day and night before the first batch of steel was forged.

These craftsmen were all huddled together, and when they looked carefully, there was almost no difference in hardness from those bought in Japan, and everyone was overjoyed and hurriedly reported to Gu Zhenhua.

After Gu Zhenhua got the news, he was overjoyed. Coke breakthrough, that means more efficient ironmaking and better quality. With enough steel, An**'s guns are equivalent to a green light all the way.

Gu Zhenhua personally encouraged all the craftsmen, and promoted Zhang Gang to serve as a senator of the arsenal, specifically responsible for the production of coke, and Gu Zhenhua also asked Zhang Gang to explore how to produce the best quality coke. Zhang Gang is extremely positive, not only did he get a stable income, but also became an official, he couldn't have imagined that there could be such a good thing in the past!

Not only him, but also other craftsmen were encouraged, and with an abundance of high-quality steel, the arsenal was immediately up and running. According to Gu Zhenhua's request, the output of guns should first be increased to 100, and the production of artillery should also be put on the right track.

Of course, in addition to these, Gu Zhenhua also asked for the urgent production of 50,000 long guns, which can be discounted in quality, but the quantity must not be less.

After getting this strange order, Master Ge even suspected that the order was given by mistake, how could Gu Zhenhua, who had always been strict with him, allow the quality to be discounted!

But he didn't dare to ask more, so he could only urge everyone to finish it, and also outsource all things such as guns and red tassels.

Of course, Gu Zhenhua is not confused in doing this, he has his own reasons, in the past few days, tens of thousands of refugees have poured into Guide. There are crowds of people fleeing the famine everywhere, they are basically running from village to village, and people are constantly joining along the way, some hundreds, many thousands, helping the old and the young, and there is almost no edge in sight.

The homeless people were basically unclothed, just a simple piece of linen, with a wooden staff in their hands and a broken bowl. There was not a single or two pieces of flesh all over the body, all of them were craggy bones. His eyes are dull, and he has no luster at all, like a group of zombies in action.

The officials in charge of resettling the displaced people everywhere were all scared silly, no matter how much food An ** gave him, he couldn't feed so many mouths. Seeing that the granary is shrinking day by day, more people are still pouring over, and no one has a score in their hearts.

"Big guy, listen, from today onwards, only one porridge a day, everyone line up, don't mess up!" Zhou Yingjie shouted at the top of his voice.

Gu Zhenhua and Xu Fang just rushed over, looking at the huge crowd from a distance, Xu Fang smiled bitterly: "Grandpa Guo, this is the reason why the Liukou are constantly killing, a natural disaster, how many people can be sent to them." When there is no porridge, I am afraid that these people will rebel! Grandpa Guo, you really have to come up with an idea, otherwise we won't last long. ”

"Hahaha, what Xu Shengsheng said is right, I think the plan for the future is to follow Li Zicheng's example, turn the homeless people into homeless people, and let them go out to grab things!" (To be continued......)