4bY&%T^|6+to>A+x;/~Z2X5NmT From the beginning of preparing to march into Xuzhou, Jiang Feng was already thinking about some problems.

Raising war with war is the only thing that Huaiyou can do at present, Huaiyou is not as good as Daliang, nor as good as Li Wu, and even not as good as Caizhou, talent reserves, material reserves, and money and silver reserves are far from enough, and fighting a war is actually the consumption of these.

If it is said that the absorption of talents can be achieved by victory, and the recruitment and recruitment can solve a considerable part, at least in the battles of Luhao, Huaibei, and Yanyunyi, but not in terms of materials and money.

Needless to say, if there are material money and silver reserves, Zhu Mao will not automatically leave the north to Jeju, the combat effectiveness of the Taining army is not weak, if there are enough materials, money and silver, Huaibei may not be an opponent.

Now Yanyunyi can only rely on Huainan grain to help, otherwise it will become a state of almost no man's land, Jiang Feng can't allow this phenomenon to happen, so he can only rely on eating the original to accumulate that little bit of food.

Huaibei looks slightly better, but if it was a few years ago, it would have been good, but in recent years, it has been tossed and poisoned enough by ant thieves, Yingbo Erzhou was taken away by Caizhou Yuan, Haizhou was still occupied by Pinglu, leaving Xuzhou and Sizhou, which can only be said to be unsatisfactory, but a few years of drought, the people have not been able to meet the expenditure, and Huainan has to transport food to help, otherwise it will have to trigger a large wave of people fleeing south.

The only better ones are the two states of Luhao, the two states of Luhao are the land of the Huainan Plain, at least the grain is rich, and it has not been ravaged by ant thieves, and it is also the biggest harvest of Huaiyou to take the two states of Luhao without war.

However, it is obviously not enough to rely on the harvest of Luhao and Yanhao to support the entire Huaibei and Yanyunyi, especially when Jiang Feng is still facing the increasingly urgent crisis situation in the north, so he has to plan for the situation as soon as possible and find another way.

Traditional fundraising methods are no longer able to make up for the huge gap, and the only thing that can support Jiang Feng is Xuzhou's rich coal and iron resources.

Xuzhou itself is one of the major iron smelting centers, and there are already considerable conditions, and the only thing that restricts Xuzhou from further breaking through the rut is, of course, the improvement of iron production capacity and quality.

Whether it is military demand or civilian demand, the demand for iron is extremely huge, and similarly, the difference in quality will also make the price difference of the same weight of iron huge, which is the goal of Jiang Feng.

Xuzhou's Liguo has long been an iron ore rich place, easy to mine, Xuzhou's coal resources are as rich, and at the same time the ancient Bianhe River comes from the west, where it meets with Surabaya, and the water transportation is convenient, so everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

"How is it?" Jiang Feng looked at Luo Zhen, who had lost a lot of weight but was in good spirits, and said with some heartache: "Boshan, you also have to pay attention to your body, there are things that everyone can do together, there are so many people in the Daozang Institute and the Caiguan Institute, there is no need to bow down to everything." ”

"Hey, I love doing this. Luo Zhen rolled his eyes and said with emotion: "I don't know how Erlang, you have a seven-trick heart or what, how can you figure out so many ways?

Jiang Feng snorted, "Haven't you heard of the term Tianzhong Wizard?" Sometimes some people are born to point the light for you ordinary people, how about it, do you think that a word wakes up people in their dreams?"

Luo Zhen nodded honestly, " Indeed, what you said is to use the method of sealing and refining the charcoal, well, what is it called, refined charcoal, the effect is indeed not ordinary, refining molten iron, not only the temperature is high, the water is fast, and the more important thing is that the quality of the iron is particularly good, almost can be used directly, and then there is no need to refine and hammer, it can be called good steel, those people in the Daozang Institute are still testing fire, they are ready to strengthen the fire technique, and then combine the refined charcoal with some auxiliary materials to calcin, it is said that the flame temperature will be higher, and the quality of the molten iron will be better. ”

Jiang Feng rubbed his jaw, "Did the people from the Ruijin Hall consider adding some other ores to it for calcination and smelting?" ”

"They have experimented, some seem to work well, some do not respond, they say that it may take a long time to experiment, and how much to add, when to add, there are all particulars, very complicated and troublesome. Luo Zhen shook his head, and seemed to be a little annoyed, "There is also the problem of this smelting furnace, you only told me a general principle, how to design it, and I have to think about it for a while, but with the direction, I think there should be a breakthrough, anyway, there are ready-made masters, there is no shortage of people, just test a few more times." ”

"Don't worry, the problem of mixing other ores with mixed firing can be slowed down, it is a long-term process, but you have to pay attention to the problem of the smelting furnace, I will see the results in three months, I have a lot of use." ”

Jiang Feng had to admit that the liberal arts dog was a shortcoming in this regard.

In another line of work, at least I understand how to design and guide simply, and at least I can avoid many detours, but I am a liberal arts dog, I really only know one general principle, and the others are just black eyes.

Fortunately, the magicians and craftsmen in this era are more powerful than they imagined, especially after they have provided them with some route guidance, the speed of exploration is still very fast, and more importantly, there is no shortage of people and materials, which provides a great boost for the research of these "scientific" maniacs, and the progress is also very fast.

"Three months, isn't it too fast?" Luo Zhen frowned, "You have a lot of use? Even if the experiment is successful and one or two furnaces are built, but it will take at least a year or two to really roll them out, right? It will cost a lot to build a furnace, and it seems that you must not know how simple it is to build ten or eight, so how much silver does it cost?" In addition, now everyone is proficient, and it's okay to do one or two, but if you want to build dozens of them, the number of skilled hands needed is too large, and there are not so many at all, and if you don't get the raw hands right, you have to have an accident,......"

Jiang Feng as Luo Zhen said naturally understood that he did not expect to build Xuzhou into a large-scale smelting base in three or five months, what he needed was one or two furnaces that could successfully smelt qualified molten iron, so that Sogdian merchants could see and understand, so that they could rest assured about the next step of investment, and were willing to invest more money and silver in themselves.

As long as the three Hu merchants succeeded in tying the Persian Hu merchants and the Sogdian merchants to their chariots, then their future conquest road would be much smoother, and they knew that if they failed, their investment might be wasted.

Jiang Feng is even thinking that if he wins Yangzhou one day, then the maritime merchant group, which is dominated by big food and Hu merchants, will be another "partner" that he can pull in.

The strength of the maritime merchants was not much inferior to that of the Sogdian merchants, especially in places such as Yangzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou.

It's just that he doesn't have the power yet.

"For three months, I only asked for one or two exemplary stoves to be built, so that everyone could deeply feel this breakthrough in the name of change. Jiang Feng said word by word: "This must be done." ”

"Oh, I see, you're going to use this to coax people into taking the bait. Luo Zhen immediately understood the thoughts of his childhood friend, which was also a routine.

"It's a bit ugly to coax people to take the bait, is the iron-making furnace you made a fake? Is it a leap forward in output and quality from the previous iron-smelting furnace? If this is true, does it mean huge benefits?" Jiang Feng laughed, "These are all true, how can you talk about coaxing people to take the bait? It's just to attract people with vision to invest in advance." ”

Luo Zhen didn't bother to pay attention to Jiang Feng's explanation, and he didn't have the heart to ask about this, he had his own concerns.

"Okay, no one cares how you coax people, Deng Guinian went back to Huzhou and discussed with me, he thinks that the Huaiyou Daozang Institute is not suitable for the current Huaiyou situation, he thinks that the Daozang Institute can be set up in Shouzhou or Xuzhou, depending on your opinion, although the talents of the three states of Xu Sihai are not as good as Huainan, but after all, the population of these three states is large, and there are already many talents living in seclusion in the countryside, so Brother Guinian hopes to be able to take advantage of the conditions of Xuzhou to attract more talents, he has now arranged several groups of people to visit in Xuzhou and Sizhou to find talents, it is estimated that the personnel of the Daozang Institute will usher in a big increase, first talk to you。 ”

Jiang Feng has never returned the requirements of the Daozang Institute and the Material Official, and he knows very well that when there is still a gap between his own background and strength and other strong domains, he must find a way to make up for it in these aspects, so Deng Guinian's requirements in this regard, he almost unconditionally satisfied.

Of course, the Daozang Institute and the Caiguan Institute did not disappoint him, and these ideas he put forward could have a more satisfactory result.

"I think it's set in Xuzhou, Huzhou can be used as a branch base, Xuzhou communicates with the Central Plains and Hebei, and the Central Plains and Heshuo and Pinglu don't pay much attention to the magic together, which can just make our Daozang attract talents. Jiang Feng expressed his attitude with certainty.

"That's okay, in addition, the carriage improvement you proposed, there are also some new breakthroughs on the side of the material office, it is estimated that it will come out in a while, mainly because the processing of some materials is very labor-intensive, and how to expand large-scale production, so that everyone can afford to use it, well, as you said the promotion, this is the key. Luo Zhen couldn't help but chatter: "Also, Xiao Jing has been in Huzhou, well, you don't plan to go back? Or you should also take them over, in addition, Xu Ning, what do you plan? You don't marry, and you're not afraid of delaying others? I don't mean anything else, I just remind you." ”

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