No, who gave it to you? Aren't you just waiting to starve to death?

Moreover, Yancheng has regulations, and people with complete hands and feet are not allowed to beg. Child? Then send it to school, anyway, such children are also accepted in school, and when they are old, they will go to be soldiers, and they will be old?

First determine if there are any relatives alive, and if so, if there are still relatives alive. It depends on how well you can support you, and if you really can't support it, send it to a nursing home.

Of course, the old people living in nursing homes are not just waiting to eat, after all, the current environment is like this, and they will definitely not be able to do this.

But at least one thing can be done, and that is to be able to feed them and put on their shirts before they can do what they can.

As for worrying about the homeless people doing their work, will they cheat and cheat? There was no need to worry about this, because Fu Yanqing sent fifty soldiers to watch.

With these armor guarding here, unless these homeless people are crazy, they won't think about anything else.

With that, the mining officially began.

Because it was just the beginning, Fu Yanqing also participated, hoping to see the first batch of ore being collected with his own eyes.

With the ardent anticipation of so many people, the first batch of ore was finally collected. The ore that can be collected is still unusable, and the iron ore inside must be refined.

To put it simply, it's ironmaking. After all, in addition to iron oxide, there are also a lot of waste rocks in iron ore.

This waste rock is called gangue and is mainly composed of silica with a small amount of alumina. Gangue is mixed with the iron that is smelted, which affects the quality of the iron and must be removed. Limestone decomposes into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide at high temperatures.

Calcium oxide can combine with silica to form calcium silicate with a relatively low melting point. Calcium silicate is less dense than iron and becomes slag in the lower part of the blast furnace, floating on top of the molten iron and separating from the molten iron.

The first is reduction, with carbon monoxide, and the second is slagging, so that the useless gangue in the ore is turned into slag and removed. These two processes are carried out in iron-making furnaces known as blast furnaces, which are tens of meters high and are therefore called blast furnaces. The iron it smelts is called pig iron, which generally contains 2~4.5 carbon, so pig iron is actually a kind of iron and carbon containing gold. (Baidu's)

This is not a small project, if you just want to refine a little bit of iron, it will be a breeze. But now it's different, so Fu Yanqing plans to build an iron-making factory.

But these are fast, you just need to find some builders to come over and build according to the design drawings that Fu Yanqing took out. It's just that if you want to build an ironworks, it still takes a lot of time, and you need a lot of materials.

Fortunately, Fu Yanqing can still take out the materials he needs, but if he wants something better, to be honest, Fu Yanqing doesn't know if he can take it out.

As for this first iron-making, it was also done by Fu Yanqing himself, and the main thing in iron-making was to train the molten iron.

But where was it so easy in the beginning? After waiting for a day and a night, there was no molten iron, and it was almost about to make Fu Yanqing doubt his life.

Could it really be that I was mistaken? It's impossible, but I learned it according to the skill book. It is a fact that you can't practice molten iron.

Fu Yanqing only had to check the skill book carefully again, and then he could see the problem.

The problem is that the fire is not fierce enough, so Fu Yanqing only needs to increase the firepower. Under the fierce fire attack, the molten iron finally came out.

Several people who followed Fu Yanqing to refine iron also had smiles on their faces, and if they couldn't practice it, they felt that the city lord was probably going to eat them.

Fortunately, their luck was not bad, and they finally practiced this molten iron.

With the molten iron, Fu Yanqing handed over the skills to them and let these people continue to make iron. She's going to find a blacksmith now, or a craftsman. It's time to start making iron pots!

But molten iron alone was not enough to satisfy Fu Yanqing, what she really wanted to make was steel.

: Steel is an alloy of iron with a carbon content between 0.02% and 2.04%. Steel is harder than iron and corrosion resistant than iron. All in all, steel is much stronger than iron.

But if you want to make iron into steel, you have to have carbon.

If you want carbon, this is really embarrassing Fu Yanqing. This iron mine is the first mine under Fu Yanqing's rule, as for carbon mines? So far, I really haven't found it yet.

But without carbon, trying to make iron into steel is basically a pipe dream.

So Fu Yanqing just wandered around the mall again, wanting to see if he could find carbon or related information.

It can be regarded as the emperor's worthiness, and he was really found by Fu Yanqing. Not the news of carbon mines, but the fact that someone is willing to sell coal.

Fu Yanqing took a serious look, it should be from another plane.

This made Fu Yanqing a little shocked, although she knew that she couldn't be the only traverser. But it was the first time she had seen someone from another plane in the true sense of the word.

Well, didn't meet, just got the information. But this is enough to surprise Fu Yanqing, and what surprised Fu Yanqing the most was that this person was able to sell 100,000 catties of coal at one time.

Thinking about himself and looking at others, Fu Yanqing left tears of envy.

Of course, after seeing the price, Fu Yanqing also knew why. I didn't expect it to be used in silver, one tael of silver can buy fifty catties of coal, and one hundred thousand catties of coal needs two thousand taels of silver to be bought.

Now everyone's common currency is copper coins, and there are really not many people who use this silver anymore. As for gold, this thing is hard currency, and it can be used at any time.

In fact, even silver is the same, but the value of silver is not as high as that of gold, so if you want to store it, it must be better than gold.

As for those that are really worthless, they are antiques, calligraphy and paintings. These things were sought after in the heyday, but it would be different if they were in troubled times.

Fu Yanqing decided to see how many silver taels he had before making plans, but when he opened Yancheng's warehouse, he found that Yancheng had unknowingly accumulated 50,000 gold, 200,000 silver, and 500,000 copper coins.

This made Fu Yanqing a little shocked, she hadn't paid attention to these for a long time. I didn't even find that today's Yancheng can be regarded as a small product.

Congratulations! I have the money to buy coal, so I don't have to worry. But it's a pity that people only sell 100,000 catties every month, and after Fu Yanqing's discussion, he said that he could give priority to providing coal to Fu Yanqing in the future. But the premise is that Fu Yanqing must buy it in time, and the other party does not pay it on credit, and the full amount is settled.