Several members of the Ding family lived in the princess's mansion until Xun Xiang's health basically improved, that is, they left three days later.

During this time, several happy events happened in the family.

Xun Yibo was admitted to the upper house of the Guozijian and was still the first. Ding Liren and Xun Yitang were admitted to the inner house, ranking eleventh and sixteenth respectively, belonging to the upper middle level. The son of the fourth room, Xun Yihui, was also admitted to the outer house.

Because of Xun Xiang's illness, the original banquet was set up to celebrate, but there was no celebration.

Xun Xiang's gift had already been prepared for people to send over.

On this day, the girl from Zhenhai Hou's Mansion came to see Xun Xiang, and Mrs. Sun gave Xun Xiang a jar of Buddha made by the chef in the house to jump over the wall.

The girl smiled, "Our eldest lady said that these ingredients are the best, and the sea cucumber is made of red jade ginseng from Beisong seafood......"

Xun Xiang thanked her and gave the girl a purse.

After the girl came out, she quietly asked Jin'er where Feifei had gone and why she hadn't been to their house for so long.

It was Sun Youmu who asked her to ask.

Sun Youmu was very depressed, the days without Feifei were difficult, and it was difficult to send a letter to Xiangxiang.

Jin'er said, "Feifei hasn't been home these days, and we're in a hurry." ”

After the Sun girl left, Jin'er came to tell Xun Xiang.

Xun Xiang said, "Feifei may have gone to a distant place to play." It's smart enough to get into trouble. ”

Jin'er was not at ease, "Otherwise, the slave maid will go to Beiquan Village, will Feifei go to Fushan to play?" ”

Xun Xiang said, "No need. If it does go back, it will play for as long as it wants, and it will be enough to know that it will come back. ”

She believes that Feifei can't let go of her, and will come back after playing for a while.

The Buddha jumping over the wall sent by Zhenhai Houfu tasted very good, and Xun Xiang, who had no appetite, ate a big bowl, which made the next person smile and squint.

Xun Xiang saw that there were a lot of them, and they were full of cans. said, "Send one cup each to my grandfather of the Ding family and the ancestor of the Xun family." ”

Xun Xiang lived a peaceful life, and the court did not calm down with Dong Yiqi's departure, on the contrary, it became more lively.

The call for the establishment of a prince is growing louder and louder, and now the king of Qi has left the seven princes far behind by an overwhelming margin.

Many of the ministers who supported the Seven Princes before were biased towards King Qi, thinking that he was elegant and diligent, benevolent and loving to the people, and would be a Ming monarch. King Qi does not only know how to read books like before, and will often discuss national policies with ministers, and his views are very unique.

Several ministers who supported Duanwang ignored it.

Let the excerpts of the prince fly into the palace like snowflakes, and let the ministers shout out their throats, the emperor just doesn't say anything.

Many people think that the emperor is waiting for the Seven Princes to grow up, and he is too emotional.

Only Xun Xiang knew that he was waiting for the Eighth Prince to grow up.

Xun Xiang felt that the emperor had eaten a lot of good things from Jitou Peak, and if nothing happened, it would be no problem to live for another ten years.

After Xun Xiang's body recovered, he began to be busy with a major event, which was "Baosteel".

At the beginning of the ninth day of the first month of May, Xun Xiang, Ding Zhuang, Ding Zhao, and Zhang went to Ding Mansion in Hexian County, and brought a black baby.

Her words to them were, "I have something very important to talk about when I get there." Daddy has to go. ”

Ding Zhao absolutely listened to his daughter's words and took a day off in the yamen.

Her words to the pony father were, "It's boring in the house, and I want to go outside to relax." ”

Xun Yuma is a twenty-four filial father, and his daughter goes out to play for two days when he is bored.

It was already late noon when they arrived at Ding's house, Zhang went to Zhang Luo for dinner, and Xun Xiang and Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao went to the study.

Xun Xiang said solemnly, "When I was sick and unconscious, I went to a place. There are two fairies there, I think they are Grandma Ruyi and Grandma Ruyue. They took me to a steelmaking house......"

Ding Zhuang's mouth opened in shock, "You dreamed of Ruyue and your aunt, and they took you to the steelmaking room?" ”

Ding Zhao's mouth couldn't close in surprise.

Xun Xiangxu nodded matter-of-factly, "They not only led me there, but also explained to me how to make steel directly from molten iron." ”

Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao were even more surprised.

They all believed in Xun Xiang's dream, especially this time, she was inexplicably unconscious, and inexplicably awake, maybe there was really some adventure.

Ding Zhao asked, "How to make steel directly?" ”

Xun Xiang said, "Using the frying steel process, 'frying' is the stir-frying of vegetables. It is to smelt the pig iron first, then heat and melt the pig iron to a liquid state, and use a blower to blow the liquid iron while stirring.

"Decarbonization is achieved by chemically reacting the oxygen in the air with the carbon in the liquid pig iron to produce carbon dioxide. When the carbon content in molten iron is less than about two percent, iron becomes steel.

"The strength, toughness and other properties of steel are better than that of ductile iron, and the service life of steel knives, steel swords and gun barrels made of steel will be multiplied.

"Although this process can mass-produce steel in large quantities and does not require rare earths, it is expensive and cumbersome, and can only be used in the most high-end manufacturing. Private factories could not produce weapons, so they produced small quantities of fine kitchen utensils and some fine machinery and tools used by craftsmen.

"If you get it out, the imperial court will definitely be interested, and it can be regarded as a contribution to Dali. In the future, 'Baotie' will be called 'Baoqing Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company', referred to as 'Baosteel'. ”

Xun Xiang finished in one breath. There were many new terms in it, and Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao were dizzy to hear it.

Ding Zhao hurriedly studied the ink, picked up the pen and said, "Xiangxiang will say it again." ”

Xun Xiang said it again.

Ding Zhao wrote it down, pointed to a few nouns such as "oxygen", "liquid", "chemical reaction" and "carbon dioxide" and asked, "What do these words mean?" ”

Xun Xiang explained in as much language as they could.

"I also asked the two fairies, and they explained. ' 'Liquid' means water, and liquid iron is molten iron. 'Chemical reaction' refers to the process of transformation between substances under certain conditions.

"For example, copper and iron objects can chemically react with moisture and other substances in moist air to form copper traps and rust."

Ding Zhao is the fastest to accept new things, although he heard the word "substance" for the first time, he knew before and after association that it meant an object or something.

He suddenly said, "It turns out that copper and iron rust is a chemical reaction." ”

Xun Xiang nodded, and said, "'Oxygen' and 'carbon dioxide' are very small substances, which exist in air, water and other things, and are invisible to the naked eye. Let's not dwell on these words, just do it in this way. ”

At this time, Zhang took the girl into the house and came in with a few bowls of egg noodles.

A few people talked while eating noodles.

Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao asked again about some things they didn't understand.

Xun Xiang took out the transformation drawings of the furnace and blower that he had drawn, "Ye has been busy in 'Baotie' during this time, first renovating the plant and these two equipment, and then testing steelmaking. This difficulty is more difficult than that of ductile iron and annealing, and it may take longer. ”

Ding Zhuang was worried that he had nothing to do, and he came to this errand again, not to mention tinkering with the steel he had liked all his life.

He laughed and said, "Master knows, this is called 'tackling key problems'." Conquer this pass, our 'Baotie'...... No, it's 'Baosteel', and our family's 'Baosteel' reputation will be even louder." ”

He now wants fame, not money.