Shen Shuren said to the subordinate officials, "The great affairs of Fuji must be people-oriented", and there is no element of showmanship.

Because he knew that only the literati could understand these words, and the miners and coolies could not understand them at all.

These people can only truly agree with the benevolence of the ruler after they have actually received benefits, and this will need to be tested by time.

Fortunately, the safety production measures advocated by Shen Shuren have achieved immediate results.

Originally, Daye Iron Mountain was not allowed to have one hundred and eighty fatal accidents every year? Considering that there are thousands of people working in the entire Iron Mountain, it is not an exaggeration to say that one person dies in two or three days, and it is spread out that there is a probability of a few ten-thousandths of an accident per person per day.

The rectification requested by Shen Shuren was implemented only a week later, at least no one died within a week, and the miners also saw it, gradually noticed this, and finally realized the benefits of safe production.

Moreover, the other promises made by Shen Shuren are also being fulfilled one by one.

For example, he said that "after changing the ramp and vehicle ore transportation, the technology of the ramp and vehicle can also keep pace with the times and continue to improve", which is really done.

According to the original plan, in the first week, only a little smoothing of the slope and the pit wall were needed to test the effect. In the process of practice, it was found that this kind of rubber column drum was not helpful enough to improve efficiency, so everyone worked together and slowly adjusted in practice.

In the end, Shen Shuren allocated thousands of catties of iron, and laid two circles of rails in the flat area at the bottom of the mine, and put on the cart made of cast iron wheels that were round enough, and there was the prototype of the "rail trolley".

In Western history, railroad tracks were used to transport ore in mines, and later with the steam engine, trains were developed.

Therefore, the carriage of the train evolved from the pit rail cart, and the difference is only the different power source.

For Shen Shuren, it is not difficult to think of the idea of a mining rail cart, after all, he has watched so many westerns and anime in his previous life.

When he first came up with this idea, he was opposed by his staff and assistants, including Song Mingde, mainly because everyone felt that it was difficult to go uphill on the slide rail with this kind of heavy cart, and once the manpower of the cart was not good, it was easy to slide backwards and down, but there was a big accident.

However, Shen Shuren insisted on his train of thought and encouraged everyone to find a way to optimize together, so he came up with the final plan - that is, "only lay rails on the flat ground at the bottom of the pit, and do not pursue climbing with rail minecarts".

Originally, miners carried loads to climb the steps of the pit wall to transport ore, so it was also very laborious to walk on the flat ground at the bottom of the pit. Now at least the labor of carrying heavy burdens on the flat ground can be freed, and the human and animal power only need to focus on solving the problem of "climbing/lifting".

As long as the track does not drop, the rail car does not have to worry about gravity slipping, and can give full play to the advantages of small friction between the rail and the iron wheel, which is conducive to pushing heavy goods with less force.

A cart on the rails, relying on one person alone can push thousands of catties of ore, and it is very flexible to push and stop at any time, and the transportation efficiency is dozens of times higher than that of the original burden.

After this problem is broken down, various solutions to other inefficient links can also be thought of together.

For example, Shen Shuren was in Suzhou and Huangzhou, and he had been engaged in the reform of wharf operations for two years, and the Shen family had sufficient experience in the use of lifting machinery, and then with the emergence of rails, some people thought of using cranes to cooperate with rails to lift ore between different layers.

There is no need for Shen Shuren to even think about this, just the Qianzong Lu Datou, who was sent to Shen Shuren's side and was in charge of the security of Tieshan, came up with this idea.

Lu Datou also had the courage to offer advice, and suggested that squirrel cage cranes and treadmill cranes should be set up at the junction of the layers of mines. Who made him a dock worker leader in Huangzhou last year, who personally experienced the Shen family's chamber of commerce to carry out dock transformation, and personally pedaled and operated a squirrel cage crane to lift heavy objects.

Shen Shuren is also eclectic in employing people, who can help him come up with ideas and really use them, regardless of his background or whether he is knowledgeable or not, he will be rewarded.

On the day he adopted this idea, he publicly summoned all the officials and assistants in the mine, announced that Lu Datou would be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and verbally praised him.

When I heard that Lu Datou was a hard-working dock worker last year, the miners present felt a great encouragement.

Even Wang Tiezhu, the miner leader who was whipped by Lu Datou because he complained about the reform behind his back that day, has a kind of empathetic pride.

Several miner leaders who were powerful and energetic when they were originally miners, and climbed the pit wall and rocks like walking on the ground, but now after the reform, they are feeling useless because "the safety factor of the new mine is improved, and you can safely mine without too strong martial arts".

Seeing Lu Datou's deeds, they all moved their minds: In the future, we don't need people with good skills in mining, then we can also go to be a soldier for Lord Daotai!

The dock workers in Huangzhou Mansion on the other side, because they did a good job, kept discipline and fought bravely after joining the army, they all did a thousand things, and they could be praised by the Daotai Lord in person when they came up with ideas, what a big face!

Dock workers can be soldiers to kill the enemy, why can't miners! I heard that Grandpa Qi recruited the Qi family army back then, so he specially asked for miners and hunters!

Within a few days, there were many people with relative advantages in physical strength and martial arts, and they wanted to inquire about how to join the army, because after Shen Shuren arrived, he did slowly fill up the number of guards left by Zuo Liangyu before, so a large number of people were needed.

After inquiring, the news that these miners got was also very clear: before the completion of the Iron Mountain Renovation Project, all the miners were not allowed to leave, but those who performed well, worked hard, and abided by discipline in the renovation project could choose the best to join the army after spring plowing next year.

And from now on, the performance in the mining project, will also be included in the score, after a winter, high points and good performance, as long as you pass the physical assessment, it is possible to become an officer directly after the army, in charge of other miner recruits.

With this letter, everyone finally started working hard.

……

"My lord is really benevolent and righteous, and it is really unbelievable and unprecedented."

"Although I haven't used any new technology recently, the production of this mine has also become several percent higher out of thin air, and the officials have visited in-depth, and they all say that the craftsmen are working harder, everyone is willing to work hard, and the skills of adults to control the people can be called superb."

After seeing that everything was going smoothly in the transformation of the mine and everyone was using their lives, the assistant staff around Shen Shuren were also completely convinced.

Not only Song Mingde has long been convinced, but even Liu Minsheng, the magistrate of the county who previously felt that "these illiterate rough people cannot be reformed", has reversed his attitude by 180 degrees.

This is called teaching without class!

Shen Shuren was not complacent at all, before the results came out, he had already firmly believed that the transformation of the mining link would inevitably achieve a comprehensive victory, so he had already invested his energy in the next link of industrial transformation in advance.

In the last few days, he has been pondering how to improve the ironmaking process and make small improvements to the stove and materials.

In the face of Liu Minsheng's praise, he just said lightly:

"The people can be happy, but they can't start with it. As long as our generation believes that what we are doing is beneficial to the people, even if the people do not understand it for the time being, we can implement it first. When they taste the benefits, they will naturally understand. What does this have to do with having a class of teaching? ”

As soon as he said this, Liu Minsheng was immediately speechless, and he didn't know how to answer at all.

He was originally willing to come to pat himself on the back, and felt that the education work of Lord Daotai was done well.

"There is no class in teaching", that is the Analects. Wei Linggong's words;

But Shen Shuren boasted that "the people can be happy, but they can't start worrying", which is what Shang Ying's law and beasts said in the "Book of Shang Jun".

Liu Zhixian also reads sage books, how dare he accept such rebellious and unreasonable words?

Shen Shuren didn't bother to talk nonsense with such a pedantic and useless person, and directly asked him not to bother, and today he had to inspect and study the improvement of the smelting furnace with Song Mingde.

Liu Minsheng knew that he couldn't please him, so he hurriedly stepped back to relieve the embarrassment, and he became more and more incomprehensible to his boss.

He couldn't help but secretly think in his heart: "A few days ago, I said that 'Fuji's major affairs must be people-oriented', which is the Book of Shu. Words from the Biography of the First Lord. Today, it is also 'the magic of Shen and Shang', which is the "Book of Wei. Emperor Wu's Chronicles.

This Shen Daotai is really both good and evil, unfathomable strange person, how can anyone in the world have both Liu Bei's benevolence and Cao Cao's spells? ”

……

After driving away the mediocre talents who don't do their business and focus on sycophants, Shen Shuren can finally concentrate on the next serious thing.

He and Song Mingde have been pondering iron-making stoves and processes for several days, and now they finally have some ideas.

A while ago, after the mine rectification was arranged, when Shen Shuren first switched to the war and inspected the ironmaking workshop, he was quite surprised.

Although he had read Joseph Needham's "History of Chinese Science and Technology" in his previous life, he also knew that there were actually iron-making blast furnaces in ancient times (not the same thing as modern times, and the process formula structure is also different, but at least they all have relatively tall furnace cavities)

But after observing the blast furnace of the Ming Dynasty up close, Shen Shuren was quite surprised by its size and scale.

The blast furnace of this Daye Iron Mountain is already more than two zhang high, and it takes about several days to produce a furnace of molten iron, and the reaction speed is much slower than that of modern furnaces - if a modern blast furnace is fast, it can produce a furnace of molten iron in six hours.

Shen Shuren was a liberal arts student in his previous life, and of course he didn't know much about the details of the process structure, and his understanding stayed at the level of "History of Science and Technology".

So after observing for a few days, he found that he really couldn't improve the furnace structure and process flow, and he didn't understand.

The only idea I could think of was to let the craftsmen figure out how to make the furnace higher – until modern times, the higher the blast furnace, the easier it was to respond fully, which also helped to improve production efficiency and quality.

Shen Shuren didn't understand how to make it higher, but he could still do it if he set the requirements, and the specific methods could be discussed slowly.

In addition to having the craftsmen make the heights, all he could think of was to improve the fuel—the current blast furnaces still use charcoal as fuel, and there are also coal-fired ones.

Shen Shuren, out of the inertia of the traverser, of course recommended the use of coal, but Song Mingde and the craftsmen of the tube smelting furnace persuaded that the molten iron smelted by charcoal had fewer impurities and was more suitable for further steelmaking, while coal ironmaking was only cheaper, and coal could be dug up and used directly, but the quality was not as good as that of charcoal.

When Shen Shuren first heard this, he was also stunned, and after thinking about it for a day or two, he recalled that it was estimated that the quality of coal in the south was not good, and there were more phosphorus and sulfur impurities.

Now that the army is in chaos, it is impossible for him to use Shanxi's high-quality anthracite, and even if he can find it, it is impossible to use the transportation cost of the Ming Dynasty.

After thinking about it, a few days later, Shen Shuren suddenly recalled an idea: according to Joseph Needham's "History of Chinese Science and Technology", the modern blast furnace appeared in Europe in 1707, and one of the main differences was that coke was used to smelt steel.

Although the quality of coal in the south is poor, it can also be burned and processed in the same way as when wood burns charcoal, and many organic impurities and sulfur-containing components are removed, and then smelted with coke, which can be similar to the principle of modern blast furnace.

It is now 1641, and there are actually 60 years away from 1707, and there was no technological generation difference between the East and the West at that time.

So Shen Shuren doesn't have to worry about the structure at all, he just needs to understand the idea of changing fuel, and the rest of the technicians can handle it themselves.