After thinking for a while, Lin Yiyang shook his head and said: "Regarding the matter of military power, I'm afraid Xiong Wencan won't have too many ideas, although the court and the government will be afraid of the matter of the lord in charge of the army, but they also know that these soldiers are brought out by the lord, even if they want to take the lord's military power, they have to weigh and weigh, whether they can control these soldiers!" And if they do this, the lord will not agree!

Because the lord's foundation is on the sea, if the government is pressed for this, the lord will lead the army and leave, and then they will not lift a stone to shoot themselves in the foot?

So if Xiong Futai wasn't a stupid person, he wouldn't have done this, and maybe he would find a way to help the lord and expand his military strength! Now for Xiong Futai, recruiting the lord to stabilize the lord is more important than a big thing, and the student thinks that he will not dare to do this! ”

Yu Xiaotian nodded: "It should be good to say this, Xiong Wencan is not a stupid person, he should be able to think of the stakes!" And what about the rest of the things about the status of places like Tamsui City? What does Mr. Lin think? ”

After Lin Yiyang heard this, he laughed: "Hehe! Taiyuan Island has not been under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty since ancient times, otherwise Nanfutai would probably not have agreed to let the red-haired people leave Penghu and retire to Dayuan! Xiong Wencan wants the coastal pacification of Fujian, not to expand the territory, so as long as the lord does not agree, who dares to forcibly accept Taiyuan Island as the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty?

Even if he made this request, whether he agreed or not was in the mind of the lord! If you don't promise him, there is no way, if you agree, it is estimated that this is a big gift!

Even if the lord agrees, what can the court do if he appoints officials to come here? It's just a little more tax to the court every year! Whose is it or whose is it here! ”

Yu Xiaotian's face stretched slightly at this time, so he also laughed with Ha Lu Ha Da Lu, and in Xiao Tian's outer study, there was a burst of laughter at this time.

With the completion of the earth blast furnaces, the coke also began to be fired out of the coke ovens, and then it was transported to the area of the earth blast furnace group in batches, just waiting for the earth blast furnace to be opened.

Yu Xiaotian also had no idea about the construction of these earthen blast furnaces, but only provided some general guidance to his subordinates, and the rest of the things needed to be solved by the craftsmen themselves.

And there are really a lot of iron-making craftsmen in the sea wolf, because there are iron yards in Fujian and Guangdong, and there are more than 100 large and small iron yards together, and there are always some iron yards in these iron yards that will go out of business because of poor management, and the craftsmen in the iron yards will naturally go out of business with the iron yards that originally made a living, and lose their way to make a living.

Therefore, over the years, Yu Xiaotian has been arranging people to secretly search for such craftsmen in the closed iron field, but he has collected no less than fifty iron-making craftsmen.

In the past two years, after being recruited under the banner of the sea wolf, they have not been idle, and have been arranged to work in a small iron yard, most of whom have temporarily worked in cannons or guns.

Outside of Tamsui City, Seawolf built a small iron-making furnace for these craftsmen to make a small amount of iron to keep their craft from being wasted, and also used a small amount of steel to produce small quantities of steel for use in the production of guns.

Therefore, among these people, there are many experienced craftsmen in ironmaking, who have provided some valuable suggestions for Yu Xiaotian to build an earthen blast furnace this time.

Although few of these craftsmen were literate, they were passed down from generation to generation, and they accumulated a lot of experience in effective ironmaking.

When they learned that Yu Xiaotian was going to build a steel-making furnace, these craftsmen began to be very curious, they had heard of the steel frying method and the steel-filling method, but they didn't believe it when they heard that Yu Xiaotian was going to use this kind of furnace to make molten steel, because these craftsmen also knew very well that steel was much more difficult to melt than pig iron, and the furnace temperature of the furnace was not enough to melt the molten steel.

But now the people of the sea wolf have a blind trust in Xiaotian, and no one dares to say that it will definitely not work, so they can only wait and see if it will succeed.

In this regard, when Yu Xiaotian proposed the concept of earth blast furnace, these craftsmen were also quite devoted, and they all put forward some ideas based on their experience.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian has some ways to increase the furnace temperature, such as heating in front of the furnace for air intake, which can effectively increase the furnace temperature, but there is no way to increase the furnace temperature at this time, so the construction of the earth blast furnace has not become an insurmountable difficulty.

After just two or three months, a number of clay blast furnaces of different shapes were built one after another, and the craftsmen also used wood and wrought iron to create a batch of fan-blade style blowers according to the design drawings provided by Yu Xiaotian, replacing the original iron furnace with those bellows or animal power to blow horse or water rows.

The propeller-type blades were still absolutely new in this era, and in the past, the iron furnace blowers were made of leather and wood, either by manpower, or by animal power or even water power, to drive the reciprocating movement of the bellows to the iron furnace blower.

However, after the use of the blade-type animal power blower, this stupid large blower can effectively improve the efficiency of the blast furnace blast furnace, after all, this blade-type blower, can provide the first wind power is uninterrupted, with the blade rotated, the air will be blown into the furnace uninterruptedly, and the air volume conveyed is much larger than the old type of bellows.

If you use the previous kind of bellows to blow air to such soil blast furnaces, don't look at these earth blast furnaces are very small, but also far larger than those small iron furnaces, can feed several tons or even more than ten tons at a time, and need several large horse rows or water rows to meet the needs.

However, after replacing this impeller type blower, an earth blast furnace only needs two or three such blowers, which can meet the needs of the earth blast furnace.

At first, the craftsmen did not believe that this strange blower could blow the air, but after the first impeller blower was built, the wind began to blow from the vents, which immediately silenced the skeptics.

With their knowledge, of course, they can't understand why such a few blades can produce such a large wind force when they turn up, but the facts speak for themselves, Yu Xiaotian's method is indeed effective.

It's a pity that they haven't made a bearing yet, the friction of the fan blades of this blower is relatively large, the concentricity is not very good, the vibration is very large, and the wear is also relatively bad, and it is necessary to keep repairing to ensure the operation.

Therefore, they had to give each soil blast furnace two more blowers as a backup, which saved problems when using them, resulting in insufficient furnace temperature.

However, Yu Xiaotian is not worried about this now, the bearing is not very difficult to produce, as long as he can manufacture high-carbon steel in the next step, then he can manufacture bearings, as long as the bearings are produced, it will greatly promote the development of machinery here.

In the next step, he will continue to invent gears, and as long as these problems are solved, then some modern machine tools can be developed gradually.

As long as the first batch of working machine tools are developed and manufactured, Seawolf can produce a variety of special machine tools in batches in the future, and continue to develop, not to mention electricity, at least it will not take too long, the steam engine may be developed, so that it can play a strong role in promoting the development of Seawolf's industrial technology.

The construction speed of the earth blast furnace is still quite fast, after all, this kind of thing is all on the soil method, there is not much high technology content, and the materials used are also easy to solve, but the refractory bricks took a little effort, but this problem was finally solved.

After the completion of the earthen blast furnace, under the "guidance" of Yu Xiaotian, the craftsmen began to bake the furnace, and after the oven lasted for two days, they began to feed into the furnace, and after batches of raw materials were put into the furnace, the blower began to run at full speed, blowing a large amount of air into the furnace through the preheating furnace.

Smoke billowed from the blast furnaces, and the feed port at the top began to spew out flames as the blowers ran at full capacity.

Yu Xiaotian smacked his lips, feeling a little pity, when the furnace was making steel, it should also produce a lot of useful by-products, such as gas and sulfur, but unfortunately now with the level of technology he has mastered, there is no way to effectively recycle, so he can only discharge it like this to pollute the atmosphere.

Fortunately, it is not yet the time of the industrial revolution, and the pollution he caused will not have much impact on the entire environment for the time being, but it will not take a few decades to continue, and it is estimated that the sky in this area will not be as blue as before, and the water will not be as clear as before.

This is probably a process that human beings must bear in the development of industrialization, and it will be solved slowly and step by step in the future!

In order to speed up the transportation of various materials, Yu Xiaotian even built a wooden track in the area of the earth blast furnace group, specializing in transporting various raw materials, this wooden track was directly repaired to a special wharf by the Tamsui River, and all kinds of raw materials were transported here by ship, and the unloading could be loaded onto a rail car immediately.

Each trolley can be loaded with hundreds of pounds of raw materials, although these simple wooden rail cars are very rudimentary, and do not use bearings, but they are still much more powerful than chicken carts pushed by human power or ox carts powered by animal power.

When driving on wooden tracks, these rail cars can be connected in a string, pulled by several oxen, and the weight of materials transported at a time is far more than that of ordinary ox carts many times, which also makes many people feel very surprised, and children run to see the excitement when they are free.

Yu Xiaotian himself looked at such a scene, and felt very gratified, this is the prototype of industry! Just like a chick, as long as you nurture it, sooner or later, there will be a large industrial area here.