Chapter 156: For a Heavy Reward
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The so-called Hades is easy to provoke, and the little ghosts are difficult to deal with.
Emperor Lao Tzu is also a human being, as long as he is a human being, he will have a cruel and cute side, and occasionally make some innocuous jokes, in fact, it is okay.
Zhu Di is a martial artist, the biggest characteristic of a martial artist is that he likes good knives and horses, and the object of Hao Fenglou's bet is not only to compete with the Japanese people, in a sense, it is actually a bet with Zhu Di.
Zhu Di hopes that Hao Fenglou can open his eyes, he is very fond of good knives, but as a pragmatic person, the kind of treasure and sword that exhausts the treasures of heaven and earth, and spends countless artificial swords, he doesn't like it, in his eyes, this kind of blade can not be popularized, it is useless to use, and the decorative significance is greater.
It's just that Hao Fenglou has repeatedly surprised him, and he has some expectations in his heart, hoping that this Hao Fenglou will give him a big surprise.
So although he knew that he was deceived, Zhu Di still blew his beard and glared: "You draw up a charter, and I will do it." ”
Hao Fenglou made a lot of money, and he hurriedly drew up a charter, a hundred skilled craftsmen, in addition to a large amount of coking coal, and a number of ready-made utensils for various construction bureaus.
These craftsmen are all selected in the Nanjing Fabrication Bureau, and their craftsmanship is excellent, but Hao Fenglou explained in advance that once these people follow him, they will be able to get rid of their craftsman status, eat and live, and take their families to go, but the conditions are also there, that is, they must not come out again in the future, and they will obediently work for Hao Fenglou from now on.
The whole bureau is like an explosion, and the work is supervised here every day, and most people are numb and want to change. And now this Hao Qianhu has given them a chance, but how good it is. They don't know, but being able to get rid of their craftsmanship is attractive enough for them.
The management of the Imperial Court was very chaotic, and the officials were greedy for their rations, which was commonplace, and in order to cope with the Imperial Court, the tasks were also heavy, and they were called to work every day with whips. The hardships can be imagined, and what is even more terrifying is that he almost did slave labor, not to mention, with the identity of this craftsman, his children and grandchildren are like this, and it is chilling to think about it.
It doesn't matter if your fate changes or not, but for most people. Whether future generations can change their fate is what they are most concerned about, so those who are willing to go with Hao Fenglou account for seventy percent, Hao Fenglou picked some experienced craftsmen and sent them directly to the camp.
As for the coking coal used for ironmaking, it was as much as it wanted, and the eunuchs of the Nanjing Manufacturing Bureau could not ask for it. I wish Hao Fenglou had taken it all. Because there is a lot of oil and water in the purchase of coking coal, how much Hao Fenglou pulls away, they will have to purchase it at that time, and they can fish it again.
Some other tools, Hao Fenglou didn't choose much. There are even fewer who can enter his eyes, but there are enough cars.
Followed by. Hao Fenglou hurriedly ran to the Qianhu Office, and explained to Zhou Fang, Zeng Jian and others, saying that he had something important to do, and he was afraid that he would not have much effort to come this month, so let them do a good job, and report the news to his house if there was anything.
Immediately returned home, did not explain the truth to his parents, but said that he had a secret mission to go on a long trip, and said goodbye.
As soon as he was ready, Hao Fenglou, who had a few changes of clothes, set off for his future and the dream of changing the world so little bit as a traveler.
"Actually...... Hao is still quite noble......" Hao Fenglou thought obscenely, and he was happy.
"This is the spirit of ownership, although it is for the sake of fame and profit."
When they arrived at the camp, Hao San was arranging for the new craftsmen, these craftsmen had arrived in the new land, and their families had been promised to pick them up in a few months, at first, they were a little uneasy, but when it was time to start the meal, they saw the white rice, as well as the broth and spoonful of dishes, all the worries were thrown out of the clouds, there was nothing to say, rob it.
Only when eating, these guys can be so hot, for the craftsmen at this time, with food, can eat, is happiness, if you can still eat well, it is simply the ancestral tomb smoke.
"I'm here to stay here for a month, hey, it's too dirty and messy in the camp, uh...... Don't mind squeezing it. ”
Hao Fenglou carried his bedding on his back and came to Zhu Zhiling's residence half a mile away, which was very fine, with blue bricks and white tiles, and the inside was also cleaned, and white ash was sprinkled outside in order to prevent mosquitoes.
Zhu Zhiling's first reaction was silence.
After hesitating for a long time, he finally said, "You sleep in the outer room, and I sleep in the inner room." ”
Hao Fenglou said with tears streaming down his face: "At first, I thought that the beautiful sister would protect me and let me sleep in the back room. ”
Zhu Zhiling knew that he was a person full of nonsense, so he took his quilt and made his bed.
You can't eat and live here for nothing, Hao Fenglou remembered his mission, and when Zhu Zhiling asked him about his origin, Hao Fenglou said it 1510.
"This time, I'm going to refine a magic weapon to open their eyes."
Zhu Zhiling couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that he is still a blacksmith." ”
Hao Fenglou scratched his head and said, "I know everything, I know a little bit." ”
To settle those new craftsmen that day, Hao Fenglou didn't go to the camp to join in the fun, so he stayed here with Zhu Zhiling, he lay on the bed, pillowing his head with both hands, the bed was built temporarily, two benches were set up with a wooden plank, and when he turned over, he creaked, the lights in the inner room went out, and Hao Fenglou suddenly said: "Sister beauty, are you afraid?" ”
There was no movement.
Hao Fenglou coughed.
At this time, the person in the back room said, "What are you afraid of?" ”
Hao Fenglou said: "Actually, I'm a little scared, when I came to Nanjing, I always had trouble sleeping, and I always felt that everything was like a dream. ”
"Hmmm......"
Hao Fenglou said: "But with you by my side, I am much more relieved, the sky is falling, and you are ...... Belch...... I'm in the way. Hao Fenglou shook his head, feeling that he was quite stupid, closed his eyes, and went to sleep.
When he woke up the next day, Hao Fenglou began his iron-making plan.
When he arrived at the camp, he summoned all the blacksmiths and said, "Why do you use charcoal instead of coking coal to make iron?" ”
Hao Fenglou knows that coking coal has been widely used for a long time, and the use of coking coal to make iron can improve efficiency and reduce costs on a large scale; After all, charcoal is not easy to obtain, and it needs to be burned into charcoal, which costs a lot of manpower.
An old craftsman stood up and said, "Young master, it's not just coking coal, in the Zuo Bureau, the villains use coke to make iron. ”
Coke......
Hao Fenglou was stunned for a moment, he didn't think that this was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty that had begun to popularize coke ironmaking, you know, in the West, the British invented the coke ironmaking method more than two hundred years later, and even in later generations, many people concluded that the invention of coke ironmaking had a great causal relationship with the British Industrial Revolution, and if it were not for the emergence of the coke ironmaking method, the Industrial Revolution would not have been so smooth.
"Damn, the ancestor is so powerful, now there is coke?" Hao Fenglou didn't think back for a while, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, because the so-called 'innovation' he thought he had mastered seemed to have been popularized in this era, but in this case, why don't you use coke to make iron?
Hao Fenglou said to the old craftsman: "Dare to ask the old man's surname." ”
The old craftsman said: "The villain Huang Ting." ”
Hao Fenglou said: "Uncle Huang, since there is already a coke iron-making method, why do you use charcoal to make iron, this is unreasonable." ”
Huang Ting understood that this young master was a half-baked person about iron smelting, so he had to explain: "The drawings laid out by the young master have extremely high requirements for iron quality, and if coke is used for smelting, it will produce a lot of impurities, and the iron that is practiced is very inferior and easy to be brittle." ”
Hao Fenglou was stunned, because in his knowledge, coke ironmaking is a method that has been widely used even in later generations, and everyone is still using it after five hundred years, how can the quality of the iron smelted be worse than that of charcoal? It's not scientific.
Hao Fenglou didn't say anything, just said, "You go and get some coke." ”
When someone brought coke, Hao Fenglou only glanced at it and couldn't help laughing.
Finally know the crux of the problem, because this coke is simply a semi-finished product, simply put, coke is made of coking coal, and its refining method is similar to that of ironmaking, all of which are fired at high temperatures, and finally the coking coal is refined into coke. However, once the combustion is not sufficient and complete, the impurities in the coke cannot be removed, which leads to the low quality of the coke.
Therefore, the craftsmen preferred to use charcoal rather than coke to make iron, because in their consciousness, the iron smelted from coke was of inferior quality and could not meet the needs of Hao Fenglou's sketches at all.
Hao Fenglou couldn't help sighing, obviously he had created the most advanced method in the world, hundreds of years ahead of others, and completed a world-renowned innovation, but unfortunately, he did not continue to study in depth after the innovation, and he still missed this subversive creation after all.
Hao Fenglou said: "Go and get coking coal, make a furnace, and re-refine coke." ”
He summed up the reason, the reason why he can't practice good iron is because the coke is inferior, and the coke is inferior, to put it bluntly, the temperature of smelting coke is about 1,200 degrees, which is about the same as the best temperature for smelting iron, but Hao Fenglou estimates that it is difficult for ordinary blast furnaces and bellows to raise the temperature to this amount, and it is good to have 900, so the key to the problem is fire.
In a shed, the newly improved blast furnace has begun to fill with coking coal, this blast furnace is higher than the current blast furnace, sealed with a fireproof layer, and a special tuyere, which is Hao Fenglou according to the memory of later generations to make some improvements, although there can be no leapfrog progress, but it is obviously much more high-end than this era.
Of course, whether it can be useful or not needs to be tested.
(To be continued)