Early in the morning, the three grandchildren of the Wu family, plus a few men, pushed the cart and went to the vegetable market in the north of Qihuan Town, where the Wu family rented a shop.

Naturally, the contents of the cart are fish and shrimp that need to be sold.

Now China is in the period of grain control, and the genus of fish and meat is not within the scope of control, there are many people in order to save food stamps, will try to reduce the consumption of staple food, and instead buy a large number of meat, fish and shrimp such supplementary food, which also caused the prevalence of fishing and hunting, as long as you can catch fish, absolutely do not worry about selling.

The group set off before dawn, not because the road is far away, they need to hurry as soon as possible, but a habit, do their business, whether it is a fish seller, a meat seller, a vegetable seller, are used to getting up early and feeling dark, they need to make a lot of preparations in advance, it is very hard.

In fact, the small fishing village is less than four miles away from the Qihuan vegetable market.

However, fish and shrimp are not in the grain control, there are advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is that the business is good, and the disadvantage is that there is naturally one less channel to obtain food stamps, and the most important thing is that ordinary people want to accumulate food stamps, and the fishermen represented by the Wu family also want to.

People like them, who are not eating public meals, have a certain share of food stamps every month according to the number of people, which can be exchanged for Huaxia coins at local banks, but the share is extremely limited, and basically the staple food consumed by a family in a month will be better.

So for a long time, they can proudly say that they are about to vomit when they eat fish.

After entering the market, there were already people busy in the market at this time, and the group pushed the cart to the door of their shop and parked it, Wu Ying took out the key and stepped forward to open the door, and the others began to unload.

As the sky gets brighter and the number of people in the market increases, the sound gradually becomes noisy, and unsurprisingly, the smell in the market becomes less friendly, but fortunately, everyone who does this business is used to it.

"Uncle, Brother Zhao is here, I'll go exchange for some meat and come back. Suddenly, Wu Xiong, who was laboriously carrying a bucket into the shop, had his eyes lit up and shouted at the shop.

People can't stand eating fish all the time, and in the same way, it is impossible for the meat seller at home to eat meat all the time, so the vegetable vendors in the market often exchange food with each other.

"Well, if any of you want to change the meat, tell Xiong'er and let him exchange it together. Wu Ying just snorted at Wu Xiong lightly, and then said to a few guys who were busy working.

"Give me two catties of pig's head meat..."

"I want a big row..."

"I want two pounds of pork belly..."

The guys are obviously very enthusiastic, and although the pork is not cheap, it is still acceptable to exchange it.

"Okay, Shaojian, you go with me, and by the way, I will come back with some vegetables and fruits. Wu Xiong directly twisted up a bucket and beckoned Cai Shaojian, who played with him best, to go with him.

"Okay!" Cai Shaojian hurriedly put down the work in his hand and happily agreed.

......

In Beishou Town, the newly established Rongshou Iron and Steel Plant officially began to put into production, and the first director Xia Shifeng.

"This is a coking plant..."Xia Shifeng first took Li Kang to a factory next door to the steel plant, pointed to it and introduced Li Kang, "The smell here is not very good, the air is a little rushed, if you want to see it, you need to wear a mask first." ”

Li Kang nodded, coking under such conditions now, it must not be high-tech, it is normal to pollute the environment, Li Kang will not be nitpicky, but it is still free to go in and take a look.

"There's no need to go in, you just need to introduce us. Li Kang said.

"No!" Xia Shifeng responded, "The main thing is to ignite the coking coal in the kiln first, and rely on the ......heat of the coking coal after it is burned."

"But this method is a bit wasteful!"

Li Kang didn't care, in this situation, waste is allowed, and everything is based on possession.

"Have you ever tried to isolate the air, heat it directly from the outside, bake the coking coal, let it decompose at high temperatures, and thus get coke?"

"Isolate the air? How is this possible? Isn't the air everywhere?" Xia Shifeng looked confused.

Li Kang just mentioned it, and he also knew that it was difficult, and since the other party didn't understand, he didn't bother to explain more.

"And if you want to heat it to a high temperature, you have to use coke. Xia Shifeng went on to say that he would always be a little awkward, using coke to heat coking coal, and then get coke, which felt weird.

"Actually, if you directly burn the energy block for heating, the effect is better!" Li Kang couldn't help but say.

"Your Majesty, is that really the case?" Xia Shifeng said with surprise and joy.

"Will I lie to you?" Li Kang said angrily.

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister doesn't mean that..."Xia Shifeng hurriedly said, "Your Majesty means that since the energy block is better than coke, why not just use the energy block to make steel?"

"......" Li Kang was silent, but it was a good idea to pay attention, but the cost was too great, the cost was too high, in a word, the poor could not afford it.

It's just that he didn't know how to refuse, originally he was just talking, but he didn't know that he dug a hole for himself all of a sudden.

"The energy block is not enough for the time being, and there is no way to apply it on a large scale!" explained lightly, Li Kang immediately changed the topic and said, "I heard that you have tested a new steelmaking method outside of the blast furnace?"

This is also the same reason why Li Kangte came here.

"You don't need to tell me too many technical terms, you just need to say what you have gained!" Then, Li Kang added, he didn't understand much about the coking method just now.

"Your Majesty..."Xia Shifeng opened his mouth, but he still didn't say the sentence 'The blast furnace is actually iron-making', he was afraid that Li Kang would write it down in a small notebook, so he decisively followed Li Kang's meaning and said: "In fact, on the basis of generating pig iron, the pig iron is melted into molten iron, eliminating the need for forging." It is also commonly known as the 'tempered' step, and as for the improvement of the furnace, it is still being tested. ”

"Oh, how do you want to improve the stove?" asked Li Kang curiously.

"It is nothing more than two aspects, one is the style of the furnace, whether it is a single furnace, a double furnace, or a string furnace, and the other is the form of a furnace, such as a hearth, a blast furnace, a shaft furnace, and the like. Xia Shifeng said.

Li Kang understood in seconds, and then he said: "You can try an open hearth or a converter, don't ask me about the specific situation, I don't know, I just remember these two terms!"

It's not just Xia Shifeng, in fact, many scholars and ministers hate Li Kang's scumbag nature, once in Baoshan, but he returned empty-handed, and he didn't pretend to be something in his head.

Li Kang didn't want to, he was also desperate, he didn't have the ability to predict the future, he knew that he would cross, and he wouldn't just take the home delivery to cross!

"Well, I remember that it seems that these two steelmaking methods need to use oxygen, and they have to urge Xu Shou and them to come up with a way to obtain oxygen as soon as possible. Li Kang muttered, "Let's not talk about it, let's take us to visit the steel mill first." ”

"No!"