In the afternoon, Liu Guangzheng led the crowd out of the city to take a look at the construction of the blast furnace outside the city.

The imperial court has a Ministry of Works, which specializes in civil work, and usually repairs the palace and repairs the city walls, all of which are done by the people of the Ministry of Works, and a palace, as long as it is maintained from time to time, exists for hundreds of thousands of years, and there is no problem.

It can be seen that there are many skilled craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry.

In all dynasties, in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, the emperor has never wronged himself.

And these craftsmen, let them repair the blast furnace, even if Liu Guangzheng only provided a rough sketch, but the skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry still only took more than a month to add hundreds of millions of details to the drawings, and officially began construction, so far, the blast furnace has been built for the most part.

The blast furnace was built next to the Grand Canal outside the capital, but it was intended to use water power to drive the blower to increase the temperature of the furnace.

As for the blast furnaces, two were built, one was used to desulfurize the coal and dry distill it into coke to prevent the iron from vulcanizing and reduce the strength, and the other was a furnace.

As for the traditional furnaces of this era, they could not reach the temperature of melting iron at all, and it was not only time-consuming and laborious to smelt good iron, but the output was extremely low, but iron was the basis of industrialization.

As far as Liu Guangzheng estimates, if this melting pot is built, the annual iron output will be comparable to three percent of the national output.

This is only the first one, it belongs to the pilot, and when the iron is smelted and the part is sold, more blast furnaces can be built and more iron can be produced.

As for the original blacksmith unemployment problem, he wanted to industrialize, and there was a shortage of workers, and those blacksmiths in the past could be directly transformed.

After looking at the blast furnace, only Liu Guangzheng checked the gold bricks used in the construction of the blast furnace.

The so-called gold brick is naturally not real gold, but the sound of this brick striking is crisp, like gold and iron.

This brick is not only durable, but also because it is a clay brick, it is very refractory, with a melting point of up to 1,700 degrees, and if you want to burn good iron, the temperature reaches 1,500 degrees.

And this is also the most refractory material that Liu Guangzheng has found so far.

As for the source of this material, it was a ready-made material that he directly obtained by warping the floor tiles of several halls of the palace.

In the Southern Wilderness, Zhao Chengjian's blast furnace was a large number of fired clay bricks, but part of the refractory soil was mixed in it, which was the only way to barely meet the requirements.

The floor tiles of the palace are not easy to fire, and they take the high-quality route, which is to meet the requirements.

After all, these bricks are engraved with the names of craftsmen, bricks are broken, and even the three and nine clans are happy, in this case, naturally no one dares to be sloppy.

Liu Guangzheng naturally knew that relying on the floor tiles from the palace was not a long-term solution, so he had already sent people to study the firing method of refractory bricks.

Boom!

Liu Guangzheng is tapping the gold brick with his fingers, his voice is crisp, it is indeed a good brick, no one is shoddy.

However, he had a change of mind and immediately ordered to go to the south of the construction site.

As soon as these words came out, the team immediately marched southward, and at the back of the team, someone ordered his subordinates to hurry up and prepare.

Because the bricks that were prying out of the palace were all good bricks, the kind that had no price, and as for the marks on the bricks, it was enough for people to grind them off.

As far as the things flowing out of the palace, some wealthy businessmen are very superstitious about this, thinking that there is dragon energy on it, and the floor tiles are even more that the earth is virtuous, and there is the virtue of the earth in it.

It's just that in the past, no one had the ability to pry bricks from the palace.

This time, Liu Guangzheng took the initiative to open his mouth, which naturally gave people with a heart a chance.

This is mainly due to the fact that the prestige of the imperial court is not as good as before, even if it is something that the emperor values very much, there are still people who dare to be shoddy.

Today, in fact, most of the bricks have been sold and replaced with inferior gold bricks.

For the firing of this gold brick, it is generally one of the four, that is, from the four, pick out one of the best burned, and destroy the rest directly.

It's just that in the last years of the dynasty, those defective products are generally not destroyed, but only rubbed off the marks and then flowed into the market.

Regarding this matter, the whole court, except for the emperor, knows about this matter, but the money below is enough, so they all turn a blind eye.

In the face of Liu Guangzheng's inspection, these officials also made several preparations.

There is a batch of bricks, but they have been placed on the car and are on standby, where the emperor goes, this batch of bricks will be sent to where they are, and stacked on the outermost layers of those defective products.

And the emperor's travel time is limited, and it is impossible to really uncover the bricks layer by layer.

Yes, a group of officials, did not panic at all.

It's just that halfway through the road, Liu Guangzheng suddenly ordered to stop, and then, directly, went to the west of the construction site.

As soon as these words came out, there was silence all of a sudden, and many people broke out in a cold sweat, but they never expected that there would be such a thing.

After that, the last few people didn't panic at all, and they looked like this was the case.

About an hour later, the group came to the west of the construction site, a large pile of gold bricks, neatly stacked, shiny and shiny.

It turned out that the person who ordered his subordinates had long expected that Liu Guangzheng would play with the east and attack the west, so at the beginning, he asked his subordinates to prepare the west.

Only Liu Guangzheng let out a long sigh, he has a special ability, he can sense emotions, and he can obviously perceive the changes in the mood of some officials when he said that he went to the south before.

Obviously, there's something wrong with this.

Inexplicably, the joy of seeing most of the blast furnace built disappeared directly.

Indeed, he has the heart to save the sky, but helplessly, the people under him are desperately dragging their feet, and they are complacent because they have deceived him, the emperor.

Don't those people know that today's Zhao thief has only one word for the rich and powerful, kill?!

If that day comes, it will be difficult for them to end well.

They all know it, and they also know that there are no eggs under the nest, but they always feel that they are greedy for a little bit, and the court family has a big business, and it is not so bad, it must be fine.

It's not scary for a person to think like this, but it's scary for everyone to think so.

Liu Guangzheng couldn't help but be a little frustrated, although he became the emperor as soon as he crossed over, there were too many pits at the beginning.

"Come on, uncover this gold brick layer by layer!"

Luan drove, Liu Guangzheng waved his hand, and slowly closed his eyes, and with this order, an old officer at the back of the team suddenly covered his heart, and then fell directly to the ground, and was directly scared to death.

Immediately, there was a panic in the field.

……

Two hours later, a holy decree went out of the palace, and on the second day, more than 100 officials of all sizes were beheaded, the six clans were wiped out, and the families were exterminated.