After talking about business, several masters of Mingyuezhai set out a square table and began to chat while eating. Liu Sheng, who was rectum, scratched his head a little when he thought of Li Xiang.

Liu Sheng couldn't help but say, "What is the origin of this little master Li?" A strange knowledge, no one in the village can see his roots, it is really strange and strange! ”

People with rich social experience, outstanding eyesight and comprehensive thinking can judge a person's basic situation from temperament, clothing and manners, which is to look at the roots, similar to modern psychological portraits.

"It should be the heir of a family, and most people don't have so much knowledge. It doesn't matter where he comes from, I think this kid has basically given up the idea of going home. Liu Chengdong expressed his judgment based on experience, how could he have thought that Li Xiang was not a person from the Great Zhou!

"And this kid is also very particular about doing things, good things are always close to the cottage babies first, as long as the heart is clear, there is no problem. As long as we seize the opportunity this time, we will return to the official army, and there must always be someone who everyone can rest assured to watch the village. Liu Chengliang told the deepest secret of Mingyue Village, and several masters nodded again.

"The weather is getting colder and colder, and this year's harvest is fine, but I'm afraid that next year... Fortunately, we have Li Xiang in Mingyue Village, so we don't have to worry about the family starving after leaving. ”

"I heard that Jiangnan was hit by a disaster this year, and the White Lotus Sect rebelled and captured Hangzhou. The puddles in Liangshan are also noisy, and the people who suffer are the common people! ”

"Don't worry, the dynasty has millions of soldiers, and it will be wiped out soon..."

The general trend of history is rolling forward, but it has little to do with Li Xiang at present.

Time flies really fast, in a blink of an eye, the winter solstice has passed, benefiting from the export of iron products and cold-proof clothing, Mingyue Zhai villagers rarely eat a meal of dumplings. Individual families actually ate minced meat, which was unimaginable before, and many elderly villagers couldn't cry silently.

Just after the winter solstice, Li Xiang, who had just completed the reform of Mengxue and the youth camp, was not idle, he was holding books such as "Heavenly Creations", standing with several blacksmiths such as Lei Blacksmith, and overcoming the problem of the earth blast furnace bare-chested.

In fact, Li Xiang was completely pretending, how could he know about the ironmaking problem in this era. It's just a combination of the impression of visiting the earthen blast furnace in high school and the basic knowledge taught in high school, and using the technical books of Da Zhou, to give these illiterate craftsmen some guidance.

Li wanted to discover a key question, "Lei Lao, Cao Lao, look here." The predecessors of our Great Zhou Military Weapons Supervisor said here that the higher the furnace, the more material is added, and the blast must keep up. Is something wrong here? I happen to know a fan, let's take a closer look..."

It turned out that more than 100 years ago in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there was a great Confucian who summarized the primitive earth blast furnace, but fortunately it was not much different from what Li Xiang said, otherwise it would be a shame.

Books like "Heavenly Creations" record a lot of advanced technology, but why have these craftsmen basically never heard of it? The Great Song Dynasty of the original time and space is also like this, is it so bad in the promotion of new technologies? Li Xiang frowned slightly.

Reaping the gushing reverence of the craftsmen around him, Li Xiang, who was embarrassed, began to explain to them the importance of the propeller and air heating in advance to the earthen blast furnace. Ahem, since you people can't read, then let's watch me pretend.

In the next ten days, Li Xiang kept an eye on the study and training of Mengxue and the youth camp and improved the training plan; While developing the foreign trade of Mingyuezhai, using Liu Chengliang's channels, the production of Mingyuezhai gradually accumulated fame in Xunyang Fucheng; From time to time, he worked with craftsmen led by Lei Blacksmith to build an earthen blast furnace, and the research and development of new blowers and preheating blast outlets took a lot of energy.

Li Xiang, who had a constant cold and gradually lost his physical strength, couldn't support it, and began to put the pinyin literacy of the craftsmen on the agenda. If this continues, Lao Tzu will be squeezed dry by you old men before he has a cave room......

The Spring Festival is approaching, but the villagers of Mingyue Village are cheering for another thing, what kind of soil blast furnace improved by Li Xiaofuzi is about to produce molten iron! Concerning the financial resources of Mingyue Village and the welfare of everyone, many people, including the owner of the village, came to watch.

Lei Cheng was very nervous, although he was usually called Lei Blacksmith, but these craftsmen were not valued by the top management of Mingyue Village at all. It was only after Li Xiaofuzi rose in the village that everyone found out that it was these craftsmen who were the easiest to create wealth.

Now that the artisan household camp has just been established, Lei Blacksmith, He Minjiang, Zeng Carpenter, etc., have all become the heads of the artisan household camp. Lei Cheng was very worried about what was wrong with this earthen blast furnace, and the opinions of the owner and the villagers were just that, for fear of affecting the little master.

Although I have done a few small earthen blast furnace experiments before, and I have produced molten iron a few times, the suppression and enslavement of the craftsman class by the scholar class for thousands of years has made it difficult for the craftsmen of the Great Zhou Dynasty to be proud.

As if seeing Lei Cheng's worries, Li Xiang comforted: "Don't worry, there should be no problem, at most, the quality of the iron is not good." ”

Li Xiang took the "Hundred Works" and several other technical books, not worried at all about what would go wrong with this simple iron furnace, and his heart was full of reverie.

Liu Sheng, who used to go out a lot before, bought some books from Xunyang Mansion City and Shiyan Prefecture City, mainly in miscellaneous studies. As a result, Liu Sheng ate Li Xiang for a meal, patted his chest and promised that Li Xiang would be satisfied, and then directly led people to rob two bookstores and several gentry.

Several of the gentry who were robbed were frightened, what the hell is it that you don't want to ask for books? Are you still village bandits, who come to our house at night and don't want gold and silver antiques, or women, and ask for books? Although my Da Zhou is said to have a prosperous literary style, has Lvlin also begun to learn culture......

Ahem, but the few sets of books he brought back really made Li Xiang overjoyed. It is worthy of the so-called prosperity similar to the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty of this time and space is the culmination of the previous dynasties in terms of culture and technology, and the Chinese civilization is exerting unprecedented brilliance, radiating from all directions.

This kind of book represented by "Heavenly Creation" can be regarded as an encyclopedia, but it is a pity that there is so much advanced production experience in it, and there is no opportunity to promote it in a society where the gentry control everything.

If this kind of blast furnace can really make iron ten times as much as the previous furnace, then at least there is no need to worry about the livelihood of Mingyue Village, Xiong Dachun thought in his heart.

Liu Yuan thought about how much he could take in this big iron furnace and how much dowry he could save for his daughter. Liu Sheng's mind was relatively simple, and he was estimating how much molten iron this big guy could produce at one time, and how many weapons he could make, but he couldn't figure it out, so he had to ask a few craftsmen depressedly.

Liu Chengdong and Liu Susu approached the nearly 5-meter-long earthen blast furnace and opened their mouths wide. There were also two large animals next to it, which were only used to push the "winch propeller blower".

Liu Chengdong was very pleased, but Liu Susu glanced at the material from time to time, and looked at Li Xiang from time to time, looking shy.

Seeing his daughter looking at Li Xiang intently, Lord Liu Zhai snorted in his heart, and he didn't know whether it was right or wrong to hand over his daughter to Li Xiang.

"Open the gates, tap the iron!" At this moment, with Li Xiang's loud roar, the discharge port was opened by Lei Blacksmith and Zeng Carpenter together. The red heat flow flowed out along the slide, and the temperature at the scene rose sharply, and people's eyes were filled with molten iron.

After a moment of silence, the scene erupted in a shocking cheer. Lei Blacksmith and the others burst into tears, it was really a rare good molten iron!

Lei Blacksmith cooperated with several apprentices to punch a dagger on the spot and hand it to Master Liu Zhai. After Liu took the knife, he slashed at the prepared stake, and the stake broke in two.

"Good iron, good knife, good craftsmanship!" Liu Zhai gave the first knife to his daughter, and then left with Liu Yuan, Liu Sheng and others, and was really not interested in these things that he couldn't understand.

Li Xiang was very excited, although the iron ore reserves in the mountains were very small, it should be enough for more than a thousand people to spend a period of time. This frees up some of his time to do other things without worrying about the financial resources of his education and youth camps.

Lei Blacksmith, Carpenter and others were even more excited, and Li Xiaofuzi gave them three percent of the shares of these craftsmen, and the other three percent went to the leaders, three percent went to the public middle school, and one percent went to the Mengxue camp.

Li Xiang didn't want to take a few more percent, but the previous Yudao and youth camp things were already very eye-catching, and Li Xiang decided to give up the idea of eating more and occupying more after careful consideration. After all, there are many opportunities in the future, and the most important thing is to grasp the hearts of the people of Mingyuezhai as soon as possible and keep your own safety.

Helping the craftsmen in the craftsman camp to fight for shares can be regarded as a favor, but this move has made almost all craftsmen and their families grateful to Li Xiang.