Shi Gao and the others went back, their family background was strong, and Gao Chugong's stepmother was the emperor's sister, so she could go directly to the palace to ask what was going on. is my sister, and Zhao Kuangyin is not easy to say about betting. To put it vaguely, Song Jiu promised to pay 4 million yuan to the imperial court.

That's right.

Actually, I saw that Song Jiu threw a lot of money down, and the momentum became big, but he only saw that Song Jiu was making a noise, and he didn't mention the money, and the money of the land deed of the people of Hezhou was given less than half, and Song Jiu didn't take the white wolf from a group of Yanei who dealt with him, and the Zhao brothers also hurt. In addition to Bocai making the brothers noncommittal or not, the others also hope to appear, the beauty of the capital is also their brilliance, and in the future, paying so many taxes will also increase the income of the imperial court. But now the income brothers are gradually looking down, and they value all kinds of skills. Only when this river island is successfully developed, this money-hungry boy will have the motivation to continue to study, and the imperial court will get more and more skills.

So the brothers coincidentally created some momentum for Song Jiu behind their backs, and then the two Gao Shi families were tempted and started.

Still not really invested, it depends on whether Song Jiu can send people to the sky, can, plus gunpowder, this kind of new steel, everything is possible on Hezhou, and you can buy shares at that time.

Song Jiu also knew that he didn't think much about it for the time being, and he rarely even went back, and wrote some textbooks for students to study on their own, Dr. Yan and Dr. Zhang were anxious, and they couldn't say anything, thinking about whether to extend the semester again. Song Jiu is still mainly based on this steel prison, but in fact it is still a primitive steel mill, and the level of technology can only be equivalent to the level of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. Maybe the technical content is not high, but it can be handed over to one person to preside, and that person will be tired.

However, in the future, things on the river island will be more complicated, and the money is not so easy to make.

Ten days later, the scaffolding was removed, and the wood and mud inside were hollowed out, but the inside still had to be laid out, and after four days, the warm-up began. The weather is colder, and the water is officially freezing. Song Jiu has been going around several kilns in the past few days, afraid that he will make mistakes with this kind of cement. Fortunately, maybe there were bonfires around to maintain the temperature, maybe its cold resistance was better than Song Jiu expected, maybe it was not the coldest moment yet, in short, there was no problem.

In the middle, many officials came to inspect one after another.

After the official smelting of iron, Zhao Kuangyi rushed over again. I have done so many things and spent countless money, one is iron, and the other is steel. Iron is the key, and without iron, there is no steel.

Not far from the time of baking, Zhao Kuangyi looked at Song Jiu's face and did not ask again. It was a confident and somewhat proud face, and when he asked, he had to rub his face and bargain with himself. said lightly: "Song Jiu, will you make a wooden cart and a horse?" ”

Song Jiu also heard about this matter, and many people came to watch, including a group of idle Yanei, including Wang Quanbin's child Wang Xianjun, and Song Jiu learned a lot of information about the imperial court from their mouths. At the beginning, Zhang Tingwei, an official of Later Shu, persuaded Wang Zhaoyuan, a member of the Privy Council, and Wang Zhaoyuan believed his words and persuaded Later Shu Mengchang to send Sun Yu, Zhao Yantao, and Yang Yan to the Northern Han Dynasty with wax bullets and silk books, and asked the Northern Han to jointly send troops to attack the Song Dynasty. The three of them pretended to be businessmen, swaggered and detoured some roads, came to Tokyo City, and then prepared to go to the Northern Han Dynasty, at this time Zhao Yantao didn't know what to think, maybe he saw that the Song Dynasty was stronger than he thought, maybe it was the same surname Zhao, and secretly dedicated this silk book to Zhao Kuangyin. Another Sichuan medical officer called Mu Zhaosi as the imperial court Hanlin medical officer, Zhao Kuangyin saw the silk book and called Mu Zhaosi to ask about the situation in Sichuan, Mu Zhaosi replied: "Jingnan is the gateway to Xichuan, Jiangnan, and Guangnan. With this silk book again, Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said: "I am famous in the west." ”

If you want to deal with me, then it's not to blame me for dealing with you, this is the righteousness of sending troops.

Let Wang Quanbin be the commander-in-chief, Cui Yanjin as the deputy marshal of Fengzhou Road, Wang Renzhen as the capital supervisor, Liu Guangyi as the deputy marshal of Guizhou Road, Cao Bin as the capital supervisor, Shen Yilun as the transfer envoy, Cao Han as the southwest transfer envoy, and the 60,000 troops of the two roads are ready to enter Houshu. In order to punish Li Zhiyun's ring, he also issued an edict to have a capable township to guide the army, provide food for the soldiers, lead the people to surrender, and those who come to surrender from the city should be rewarded. Wherever the camp goes, there is no need to burn down the houses, plunder the people, develop the Qiu tombs, cut down mulberry trees, and the violators will be engaged in military law.

He also governed a mansion on the north bank of Bianshui in the right gate, more than 500 rooms, for all kinds of utensils, and prepared to settle Meng Chang, the lord of Houshu. The army has not yet been launched, and Meng Chang's house is ready, how confident he is.

Of course, self-confidence is a good thing, but logistics can also be a headache.

But what kind of wooden cart will Song Jiu make? It seems that in his previous life, he heard that people had also imitated it, but Song Jiu didn't see the real thing, so he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhao Kuangyi said: "It seems that you are not as good as Zhuge Liang." ”

"Second king, how many Zhuge Liang have been produced through the ages, where does Weichen dare to compare with him." Song Jiu felt very depressed.

"Don't you know how to learn physicism? It seems that physicality is not omnipotent. ”

"One minister can't do it, but if ten thousand people can, it's omnipotent."

This sentence is quite meaningful, and Zhao Kuangyi said with his forehead: "Your Majesty and the official also attach great importance to this, otherwise why let the prince go to where you to study?" ”

A simple sentence made Song Jiu confused, the Song Dynasty's heavy literature and dethronement of martial arts was done by Zhao Kuangyi, but after this period of time, Song Jiu faintly found that it was wrong, Zhao Kuangyi's idea was not conservative, on the contrary, it was a little radical, and he didn't take Confucianism so seriously. What went wrong, could it be that the impact of the Battle of Gaoliang River was so far?

Song Jiu couldn't figure it out.

It's out.

The weather is cold, it cools down quickly, you can make a comparison, first cast a device, try its toughness and hardness, it still has many defects, but it is definitely better than the iron smelted in the Song Dynasty I don't know how many times. And the waste rate is also less, faster, more efficient, and the cost is slightly reduced. Zhao Kuangyi breathed a sigh of relief and finally made the same. For it, the entire court was in turmoil, and I didn't know how much money it spent, watching the molten iron flow calmly out of the notch, Zhao Kuangyi said: "It's also a great achievement." ”

"Second king, I don't want a reward from the court, and ask the court to dredge the water."

"If you don't say this, you don't know what to do? As long as there is good steel again, there is no need for you to say it, and this official will also be an adult beauty and fulfill you. ”

Send Zhao Kuangyi away, and the next step is steelmaking. This not only requires furnaces, from coking to iron smelting to steelmaking, all kinds of ore release methods are also very exquisite, but their principles are not too complicated, compared with the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, perhaps some details are not as good as them, but they may not be able to have the Song Jiu principle to know clearly, but also lead to some details must be inferior to Song Jiu. There will be advantages and disadvantages, neither good nor too bad.

Layer the iron rod and charcoal and start the fire.

Send the people back first. But there are still things, what will be left will be the future prison workers, officials, Song Jiu must explain, not only the precautions, the operation process, but also the principle, if you don't know the principle of the road, you will come nonsense.

Song Jiu also said one thing clearly, that is, to continuously improve the technique.

The difference in materials, the difference in temperature, and the change of various details will produce different qualities of steel, which Song Jiu can't figure out, and must slowly explore in the future and constantly improve the technique in order to be perfect.

In other words, the original steel and iron still had problems of one kind or another, although its quality would have been many times better than that of steel before the Song Dynasty.

Together, these circumstances were reflected in the imperial court.

Everyone can understand this, Song Jiu was just lucky to meet a good gentleman, and he was not a god, he was omnipotent, including his stunned hearing the wooden cart and the horse.

A few days later, a snow fell outside the capital, and the cold winter really came.

The new steel is finally out.

The prince came again to inspect it.

That's a big deal in these days.

After removing the slightly thicker steel rod, start hammering. Song Jiu has also explained this before, the so-called 100 steel refining is getting lighter and lighter, not to remove impurities, that is a wrong statement, the real impurities are very few, there will be an oxidation process in every hammering process, and it is iron oxide that is knocked out. It's good steel, but it's wasteful.

Everyone suddenly believes and doubts, whether this is the case, can be verified with this new steel comparison.

The steel rod also has to be hammered when it comes out, and the reason why it is thick is that part of it is oxidized, part of it is carburized into it, and there are some other reactants. The front and back must be hammered off. But it is not seriously wasted, at least ten catties of iron can be turned into seven or eight catties of steel.

There are craftsmen and tools, so they hit a simple knife in their hands. He drew out the swords of one of the guards and slashed at each other, and a gap appeared in both knives, which was about the same size.

Song Jiu was a little disappointed, no matter how the Pu knife in the hands of the guards was made, if it was made of charcoal, the temperature was not enough, and the quality would definitely not be able to keep up, if it was made of coal, the sulfur content would be frighteningly high, and the toughness would not be able to keep up, unless it was really made of steel, it was impossible. Could something have gone wrong?

I can't figure it out.

has made the monarch and ministers happy, first of all, Song Jiu said that it was wasted several times, iron ore was wasted, steelmaking was hammered repeatedly, and the amount of iron wasted was far higher than this steelmaking method, and labor was also wasted. The second is efficiency, which is fast and can be mass-produced, and the efficiency has been significantly improved. There was also the use of gunpowder, which would increase the steel production of the Song Dynasty by a leap forward.

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said, "Song Jiu, this time you have made a great contribution to the imperial court. ”

"This is what Wechen should do."

"If you have merit and punishment, let me reward you for something, you are young and not very good for promotion, I will reward you with 10,000 silks."

This reward is the best, the official-based thinking is strange, and some Confucian ministers still think that it is a small way, and it will be wordy if they are promoted, but it doesn't matter if the reward is money. And what Song Jiu lacks most now is money.

Song Jiu was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

The affairs here are also over, and the rest is officially taken over by the imperial court.

When Song Jiu went home, he had to get something out, and that was something from heaven. But there was another thing that worried him.