It may be Xu Ning's stimulation that made Wang Ben desperate, no longer thinking about it, and submitted the charter on the second day.

Zhu Gaochi waved his hand, accurate.

When building a house, it is not slow, but the slow work in the early stage of the construction site and the detailed work are laborious and time-consuming.

The engineering team has been running in for several months, and it is a professional team, whether it is a general worker or a handyman, they are familiar with their work.

The coke refinery had already completed its preliminary work, so when the construction of the kilns began, it was very fast.

"Let's tell you a story."

Zhu Gaochi said at the meeting.

"Yesterday we had to drink tea, the kettle had to be washed, the teapot and teacup had to be washed, the fire of the honeycomb coal stove had been lit, and the tea had been made, what Zhang Quan had to do next can be summarized into three types."

on the whiteboard.

Zhu Gaochi wrote three schematic diagrams with charcoal.

"Method A: Wash the kettle, fill it with cold water, and put it on the fire; While waiting for the water to boil, wash the teapot, wash the teacup, and take the tea leaves; Wait for the water to boil and make tea to drink. ”

"Method B: Do some preparations first, wash the kettle, wash the teapot and cups, and take the tea leaves; Everything is ready, pour water and boil water; Sit back and wait for the water to boil and make tea. ”

"Method C: Wash the kettle, fill it with cool water, put it on the fire, and wait for the water to boil; After the water boiled, I hurriedly looked for tea leaves, washed teapots and cups, and made tea to drink. ”

"What's the best way to save time?"

The stewards have buried their heads in hard thinking, no one is stupid, since the little nobleman has carefully proposed it, it is definitely not a simple matter.

Many smart people saw the Tao at a glance, and said: "Method A is the best." ”

"Yes."

Zhu Gaochi patted the schematic diagram on the whiteboard.

"All of us can see at a glance that the first method is good, and the last two methods are all good. This is a small thing, but it is an introduction, and it is worth pondering. ”

"The steam engine factory has proven that the division of labor and cooperation is much better than the work of a swarm of bees, or each doing its own work."

"Whether it's efficiency, or the technical requirements for workers, it's the best way to do it."

"Coke refineries should also work together."

"Divide all the processes, set up a shift for each of them, and then don't fire at the same time in each kiln, but stagger the time."

"How? According to this logic, that is, the production of the kiln cannot be affected, and it is necessary to ensure that each shift must be lived. ”

The stewards suddenly realized.

Zhang Quan, who was outside, heard his name, looked inside, and heard the follow-up words of the eldest prince, he lowered his head and pondered.

How stupid would he be in the eyes of the eldest prince?

He is not a fool, of course he does things according to the A method, and he has to talk to the eldest prince when he goes back.

Coke refinery.

The new kiln, under the direction of Wang Ben, used the same green bricks and lime according to the technique of the open flame pool.

It is fifty-six feet long, eight feet wide, and two feet high, with sixteen doors on both sides and eight chimneys on the top of the furnace.

Because the preliminary work has been completed and the materials are complete, the kiln construction speed is very fast.

Drawing on the experience of the steam engine factory and Zhu Gaochi's requirements, the coke refinery was divided into major processes.

From the silo class, to the coal picking class, the coal washing class, the coal beating class, the pond loading class, the pond enclosure class, the fire watching, the pond pulling ......

Finally, we arrived at the coke refinery to test the furnace.

According to the new method, each kiln can hold up to 30,000 catties of coal, and each furnace burns the required coal, which is about 2,000 catties.

This is no longer something that a small workshop can afford.

The workload of loading 30,000 catties of coal into the coal furnace alone has exceeded the capacity of the small workshop.

Wait until the day it comes out.

Everyone panicked.

There were several big bubbles on the corners of Wang Ben's mouth, which made people feel panicked when they saw it.

"Pull out the pool."

The foreman shouted.

More than a dozen workers rushed up, shoveled the dirt off the top of the stove, set up shelves, and looked busy, but they didn't know what they were up to.

Steam pumps pump water from the river and transport it in iron pipes to a pool next to the coal stove.

The water is poured continuously on the top of the furnace and down the water.

……

"Whoa."

A continuous stream of voices rang out.

The foreman personally used the tip of the slender bamboo chisel to either pull it open or poke open the scorched seam, and if he found that there was still a small fire, he let people continue to splash water.

Until there was no more sound.

After the work.

The rest of the workers went up to help move the bricks, stacked the green bricks on the furnace wall, and stacked them neatly.

At last.

The recycling rate of the kiln was as high as 60%, and the workers cheered.

Yes.

The recovery rate of sixty percent must be extremely unqualified in later generations, but it was already a high yield in ancient times.

And it is also a large kiln, under the condition of tens of thousands of catties of a furnace.

Wang Ben showed a pleased smile, and all the craftsmen stepped forward to congratulate Master Wang with a smile, and no one dared to argue in front of him anymore.

In this battle, Wang Ben won completely.

The new coke was soon put to trial.

Final conclusions.

Whether it is moisture, ash, strength, sulfur content and other aspects of evaluation, it is better than that of outside workshops.

As soon as the coke refinery came out, all the workshops were dumbfounded.

Whether it is the output or the purchase cost, the quality of the product crushes the coke of the workshop.

In particular, the cost of procurement.

Because of the lower procurement cost and high yield, the coke in the coke refinery is twice as cheap as the coke outside, and the quality is better and the firepower is more sufficient.

Here's what the people in the cabinet are doing.

Zhu Gaochi specially organized the guys in the outer cabinet to study.

On stage.

There are two pieces of Quyuan pear, one is made of wood, and one pear head is made of more than ten catties of iron.

"There are two pears here, obviously the latter is better than the former, but why do people still use the former in large quantities."

Zhu Gaochi sighed in his heart.

I didn't think that I would also be a teacher one day, so I almost had a teaching stick in my hand.

"Because the latter is expensive."

Compared with the factory managers, the guys in the outer cabinet are more active and bold, and everyone dares to speak.

Those who rush to intimidate should make a good impression in front of the nobles.

Daming's coal production and iron production are amazing every year.

But after the Industrial Revolution, the coal and iron production of Western countries caught up, but exceeded China's output in the same period.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Britain's iron production reached six million tons.

There are two reasons for this.

First.

Coke technology has allowed coal to replace charcoal as the fuel for the iron smelting industry, solving the problem of fuel scarcity.

Timber is a scarce resource not only in China, but also in the West.

If wood is still used as fuel, the demand for wood will reach a suffocating level.

If this problem cannot be solved, it will be impossible for the iron-smelting industry to make a qualitative leap.

Second.

Because coke is not only cheaper than charcoal, but also has a stable material source, the cost of iron-smelting fuel has plummeted under the large-scale factory model.

The reason for the birth of the British railroad was that the coal yard owners could not sell the mountain of iron ore, so the waste utilization indirectly discovered the benefits of the railway.

It also proves that iron ore is worthless, and it has reached the point where coal yard owners treat it as waste.

Therefore, the biggest cost of the iron-smelting industry is fuel, which has always been an unavoidable obstacle to the traditional iron-smelting industry.

The revolution of fuel has made iron tools in huge demand in the market.

The same thing.

Now that the coke in Beiping is available, it will definitely become the fuel for all the iron-smelting workshops in Beiping.

Zhu Gaochi has this confidence, it does not mean that others will have confidence, many guys in the outer cabinet are not confident.

Seeing this phenomenon, Zhu Gaochi wanted to tell the guys in the outer cabinet.

Let them know how much energy this industry contains, so as to boost their morale and lead the industry quickly.

"The whole wood of the Quyuan pear is not easy to use at all, but it is better than nothing, so the people use it."

"The same use of ploughing oxen, the iron curved plough turns the soil more smoothly, the people save effort, and the speed of ploughing is also fast, but because the price of the iron curved plough is expensive, so it is abandoned."

"If the price of the iron quyuan plow is reduced to the extent that the people can accept it, it will be even cheaper than the wooden quyuan plow."

"So, guys, what do you think will change?"

The guys' eyes widened.

A curved plow uses five to ten catties of iron, or even heavier, which is counted as ten catties, and 10 million quyuan ploughs are 10,000,000 catties. ”

"The plough is just one of the many farming tools of the common people."

"Wood is burned into charcoal, and the price is three cents and five cents per 100 catties, while coal is burned into coke, and the price is three cents per 100 catties."

"Do you know the truth of this?"

"Many coal mill owners are reluctant to smelt iron, and iron ore cannot be sold, and some of you say that there is too much iron smelting in this dynasty."

"But in our opinion, it's because there are too many restrictions, and private iron smelting can't buy a stable source of firewood, and the price is high, and you can't buy it with money."

"Because of the high cost, the price of iron tools is high, and the people would rather use laborious wooden farming tools than time-saving and labor-saving iron farming tools."

"Our coke refinery can solve these drawbacks, and not only will the price of iron tools get lower and lower in the future, but people will also use a lot of iron tools."

"Now our coke refinery has just started, and the scale is still small, and even Beiping has not yet stepped out, but you must believe that the scale of the expansion of the coke refinery must be beyond all of you imagined."

"In the future, not only coke refineries, but also iron smelting factories will be directly facing the people, and it is up to you to win the business to facilitate this."

"Don't be afraid of the factory's lack of capacity, and after a month, you will come back and find that the factory has been turned upside down."

A brainwashing conference, and the guys in the outer cabinet are full of energy.

Who doesn't want to be the second Xu Ning.

The guys in the outer cabinet are running around outside, seeing more of the world, their minds are more active, they dare to think and fight, and they are completely different from the rest of the people who have never seen the world and are honest.

The price of coke is cheaper than charcoal, and the fire power is better than charcoal, and it is longer.

Plus who doesn't give face to Yanwangfu in Beiping Mansion?

The eldest son's China Heavy Industry is well known in Beiping.

On the whole, it was very stable, and all households in Pei Binh Province began to switch to coke.

(End of chapter)