"So, if we process a piece of wood into countless small sticks, and then attach this thing that you call a flame to the head of the stick, and then supplement it with rubbing skin, can it be combined into a very convenient ignition tool?" Jiang Feng worked tirelessly.

Deng Guinian is not the kind of rigid character who eats the ancients, and he can be mixed into a character in the Daliang Daozang Academy, and he knows the elegance when he hears the strings, knowing that during this period of time, the county prince is extremely keen on developing some new goods, and for this reason, he also has a special guidance in the Daozang Yuan (Huzhou Daozang Institute has been officially renamed Huaiyou Wuning Daozang Yuan) put forward a series of guiding opinions and ideas, which also caused a lot of controversy in the Daozang Academy.

However, Deng Guinian is very clear about his own family affairs.

The Daozang Academy has invested a lot in the past two years, which was achieved with the support of Jiang Feng, especially after the merger with the Caiguan Institute, which means that almost all the needs of the Daozang Academy are met with the big hat of military needs.

Even if Huaiyou (Wuning) had some savings in Shouzhou, and caught up with the great drought in the north, a good opportunity to bring high food prices, the continuous military operations basically exhausted Huaiyou's accumulation.

Although it has achieved great success, Xu Si and the two states have started, and even the three states of Yanyun and Yi have been added, but the situation in these five states is not optimistic, but it is in front of us, and it cannot be compared with Shouzhou and Luzhou, which are basically undamaged by the war, in a short period of time.

Jiang Feng's reliance basically relied on the loans of the Hu merchants, but the loans of these Hu merchants were not without collateral, in addition to taxes, it was more about Jiang Feng's credibility, so if Jiang Feng wanted to maintain his reputation, he had to give the Hu merchants a convincing proof.

"Jun Gong, this flame is also an unintentional work, but later everyone thought that this thing might be able to be used for other purposes, plus the cost was not large, so it was taken out, and today it was said by the county duke, and the Year of the Turtle also felt that it had some meaning. Deng Guinian stroked his beard under his chin and said with a smile: "At this moment, almost all the people are angry with flint and velvet, and there are also candles sold on the street, but this candle is made to soak in sulfur, which is not only toxic and damaging to the body, but also very flammable and difficult to control, so it is basically eliminated, but if it is made according to the words of the county prince, although this flame is made by friction, but there is also a choice for rubbing the skin, as long as the flame is isolated from the skin, it is not easy to catch fire." ”

"Hmm, Year of the Turtle, do you think this thing is a good business?" Jiang Feng is not sure if this thing has commercial value, in fact, this thing is somewhat similar to the safety matches of later generations, but when the commodity society was not yet popular, it is difficult to say how large the market capacity was.

"Jungong, the cost of this thing is very low, and if it is produced on a large scale, it must still be quite profitable. ”

Deng Guinian had to comfort Jiang Feng in this way, this county prince ran to the Daozang Wood Official Courtyard for three days during this time, and he was anxious to urge the construction and experiment of the new charcoal smelting furnace and the improved iron-smelting furnace on the side of Liguo, and it was estimated that he was also forced by those Hu businessmen.

"Well, that's all there is to it. Jiang Feng was also pondering, if the matter of the charcoal smelting furnace and the iron smelting furnace could not come up with a decent eyebrow before the agreed time limit, his gold-lettered signboard of Pengcheng County Gong would be a little precarious, and it was really not good, so he could only take out this match to fool those Hu merchants, I hope they can accept it.

"Don't worry, the improvement of the charcoal furnace and the iron-smelting furnace has been slow in the early stage, but after several instructions from the county prince, the recent progress is very smooth. ”

Deng Guinian knew what Jiang Feng valued most, so he mentioned the right thing.

"The charcoal furnace has begun trial production, and there are several furnaces of 'hot coal', and as everyone becomes more and more experienced, the furnace efficiency is getting higher and higher, and a group of apprentices with good conduct have been specially recruited according to your requirements to operate. ”

The charcoal is obtained after the coal is heated in a closed manner, which is actually the coke of later generations, but it is named the charcoal in the Daozang Temple, and Jiang Feng is too lazy to correct it.

He simply instructed the people in the Taoist Tibetan Material Bureaucracy, and he also hand-drew a general figure, but how it was, Jiang Feng didn't count it himself, after all, he was a typical liberal arts dog, that is, when he was studying history, he roughly knew the history of the emergence of this soil method coking, and now he is making do.

I have to admit that after the merger of the Taoist Institute and the Material Office, there have been some changes, and some talents who are proficient in design and management have become the bridge between the two families.

In Jiang Feng's view, these guys are probably similar to the role of engineers in later generations, they can combine some principles of calligraphy or science, and then design and plan according to needs, and produce something unexpected.

I just simply put forward a request to them, and then gave them a crude figure, but I never thought that in less than a month, there were three or five different forms of soil coke ovens to be built, as for the effect, the only way to let them survive the fittest.

However, on the issue of the iron smelting furnace, Jiang Feng spent some more effort.

After all, the scale of this iron-smelting furnace and steel-making furnace is too large, which is also required by Jiang Feng, to let the Hu businessmen willingly take out real money and silver to themselves, and not give them a little shocking thing, so such as refractory bricks, regenerators, induced draft fans and hydraulic blast principles, these must be well dialed, and then there must be a special cooling water tower and casting tank, which can be regarded as a basic steelmaking blast furnace process.

Due to the scale of this iron-making furnace and steel-making furnace is really not small, Jiang Feng even had to withdraw part of the newly formed Xuzhou garrison to participate in the construction, this furnace in order to make the best use of hydraulic blast, it was also built on the edge of Surabaya, and it will be convenient for transportation in the future.

It seems that the production of charcoal is relatively smooth, and now the key is to see whether the coke can successfully smelt iron ore into steel.

However, Jiang Feng also found that there are indeed a lot of talents in this era in his dealings with these guys in the Daozang Material Official Academy during this time, especially these guys who have quite a lot of thinking concepts have a strong ability to touch and bypass, and they are very shameless to ask questions, and their hands-on ability is also very strong.

As long as they guide themselves a little, these guys will be like gluttony smelling fragrance, persistently questioning, and they have to put on what they know and even make a fool of themselves.

Just like the refractory bricks, after mentioning it a little, these guys took the initiative to start combining the ingredients of the refractory bricks, not only experimenting, but soon came up with the best combination, and even they couldn't figure out the main ingredients.

"Well, I'm looking forward to it, and when this furnace is built, I'm going to let you see the power of science. Jiang Feng couldn't help but wipe his mouth and smiled.

"Jun Gong, what is this science, I don't know in the Year of the Turtle, but I know that although this is the plan proposed by the Jun Gong, but our magic has played a big role in it, and the material official is also a lot of trouble, as for the so-called science, that is, the county duke is just one person. Deng Guinian retorted with some dissatisfaction.

"Hehe, the Year of the Turtle, a certain does not want this false name, and a certain also knows that your Dao Tibetan Material Officials have a lot of trouble, and as long as there is an output at that time, they will not treat the Dao Tibetan Material Official, or that sentence, what the Dao Tibetan Material Official's Academy needs, it must be the first priority guarantee. Jiang Feng said happily: "In addition, if the new things can be profitable, there must be a member of the Taoist Tibetan Material Bureau." ”

Deng Guinian laughed at this time, he is not the kind of person who wants to be famous, but there are hundreds of people in the Great Dao Tibetan Material Official, and its scale is still expanding, if it is only supported by the Jiedu Embassy, his own family has no income, and it is difficult to say that it is difficult to say, the meaning revealed by Jiang Feng today seems to be going to open an opening for the Dao Tibetan Material Official's Court in the future, which is of course a great good news.

As the sun set down, the woman sat on a brocade bench in a small pavilion in the garden, feeling a faint warmth.

It's already late autumn, the weather is getting a little colder, and I don't know if it's because of an extra evil obstacle in the abdomen, and the woman feels that she is also a little chilly.

Putting on the cloak of the outer cover, the woman's heart was full of sorrow, but she didn't know what to do, looking at the belly that had gradually revealed her pregnancy, and even couldn't hide it at all, the woman was a little stupid for a while.

This is already an ugly thing that cannot be hidden.

After returning home for a few months, the Yang family in Luzhou did not react at all, and even sent a letter of resignation later, which is enough to explain everything.

Zhou Rui hid at home and didn't dare to go out for half a step, she didn't know if the gossip outside would swallow her up.

With some difficulty getting up, Zhou Rui walked out of the pavilion and slowly returned to the room with the support of the maid.

"Miss, Miss!"

"What's the matter, Qing Ying?" Zhou Rui asked with a little tiredness on her waist.

"The lord and Lang Jun are discussing things, I heard that it is related to the county prince. The personal maid Qing Ying ran in happily.

"Huh?" Zhou Rui was startled, and her body trembled, "Father, do they have to decide?"

In fact, after Jiang Feng was named the Duke of Pengcheng County and concurrently served as the envoy of Huaiyou and Wuning Jiedu, the Zhou family had already made a clear decision, and the piece of meat in his daughter's belly became a strange commodity, and the only thing that was a little uncertain about whether the daughter was in the belly was male or female, if it was a boy, it would be of extraordinary significance.

Jiang Feng has no heirs so far, even if it is a concubine, it is also the eldest son, if the court wants to give Feng Meng, this eldest son is also likely to get Feng Meng, and with Jiang Feng's current trend, it is inevitable to get a higher Feng Meng in the future.