British Mansion.

"What's the matter, I've just left and come back."

In the study, Xiao Han was still holding on to the Ming industry, and completed the Ming economics, and in the face of such a thing as industry, Xiao Han was also a little difficult.

After all, the principle of industrial technology is a little worse, and it may be a world of difference.

There are many things that Xiao Han remembers very vaguely, even if he just needs to write a rough one, it seems very difficult.

At this time, Zhu Biao, who had left on the front foot, actually came back.

"As you expected, there's news from Lancang."

"The old man of King Faon is dead."

"Mo Sentai, the prince of Lancang, announced the execution of the last order of King Faang, sent an envoy to our Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, and announced that Faang would be filial piety for three months, and no outsiders would be seen."

Zhu Biao said to these Xiao Han.

"Oh?"

"It seems that this Mosentai is quite smart, knowing that if he directly ascends the throne and shows up, those red-eyed clans will definitely find a way to kill him."

"So I just used the excuse of keeping filial piety to my father, and I didn't see anyone directly, so that even those people wanted to kill him, and they couldn't find a chance."

"Their mission just came out?"

Xiao Han smiled.

"Well, this is the news that the members of the Jinyi Guard who infiltrated over there saw and sent back urgently, and I am afraid that they have not even left their borders at this time."

"However, hearing you say this, I'm a little worried, you said, those clans saw that they couldn't kill Mosentai, would they have the idea of robbing and killing the mission."

"After all, as long as this mission can't deliver the credentials to us, Mosentai won't be canonized by us, and they still have a chance to attack Mosente."

Zhu Biao said.

"Huh."

"I've thought of this a long time ago, and I've already made arrangements before, if the Lancang royal family sends an embassy from our Ming Dynasty, I will do my best to protect it."

Xiao Han chuckled.

He didn't receive this news, mainly because he didn't want to receive it, because he had already arranged the relevant matters, so why bother tracking it in real time?

As a result, what I didn't expect was that Xiao Han didn't want to follow, and Zhu Biao ran over to follow Xiao Han's passive news.

"Ahh

"I see, I said that there was no reaction at all here, it turned out that he had been prepared."

Zhu Biao shook his head helplessly.

On the contrary, he thought too much, and Xiao Han was really still a stable horse.

"By the way, how did you arrange the Jinyi Guard in the north market?"

Xiao Han turned to Zhu Biao and asked.

"It has been arranged, and the leader is Mao Xiang, who I transferred from the army."

Zhu Biao said to Xiao Han.

"Mao Xiang, it's him."

Xiao Han's eyes narrowed slightly.

The first commander of the Jinyi Guard in history, he killed a lot of people during his reign, but he died quite miserably in the end.

After all, he is not the Prince of Daming, and if the material of Jinyiwei's knife is not good, it will be shattered.

"How?"

"What kind of friendship does Fengxue have with him?"

Zhu Biao was slightly surprised.

Mao Xiang's record in the army is not conspicuous, and it stands to reason that he can't reach Xiao Han's level.

"Nope."

"The main thing is that there are not many people transferred from our Ming army, and I generally pay attention to it."

Xiao Han said.

To be honest, he didn't expect that in this kind of Jinyi Wei that was modified by him personally, Mao Xiang would gradually get out of the way.

"I plan to promote him in the future, let him guard the north for a long time, infiltrate Mengyuan and guard the mutual market, what does Fengxue think?"

Zhu Biao asked.

"It should work."

"Those who go out of our Ming army should be trustworthy."

Xiao Han nodded slightly.

Mao Xiang, Xiao Han remembered that in history, it seemed that he was in the same stream as officials, accepted bribes, and was then executed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, after all these years of deep understanding of the gang of goods in the court during the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Han didn't think that things would be so simple.

After all, Jin Yiwei is the sword of the royal family, and Xiao Han knows Zhu Yuanzhang well, since he dares to hand over power to the commander, he will definitely be able to control it.

It's hard to say who the emperor will be, but Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, is definitely fine.

What happened inside Jinyiwei, Mao Xiang didn't know as fast as Zhu Yuanzhang.

Nine times out of ten, Mao Xiang really offended too many people, and Lao Zhu finally had no choice but to give up.

After all, Mao Xiang cut more than 30,000 people, but they are all of the elite class, and none of them are not related to their relatives, and none of them are fuel-efficient lamps.

Such a person, placed in the north, can also be reassuring.

Moreover, for the Northern Yuan, it will not offend the powerful families of the Ming Dynasty too much, as long as Mao Xiang doesn't think about it himself, sharpens his head and wants to climb to Ying Tianfu, he should be able to end up with a good death in this life.

As for being killed by Beiyuan, this possibility is actually not very large, after all, he is not responsible for fighting with Beiyuan.

"It doesn't seem to be going well for you to write about the Ming Dynasty recently."

Zhu Biao turned to Xiao Han and asked.

"Hmm."

"Engineering is the most practice-oriented thing, and I write it myself on a blank sheet of paper, and I don't know how to write a lot of things clearly."

"It seems that this Ming industry has to be split up, originally I was thinking that I would first get the theory out and then practice it all, but I found that I overestimated myself as soon as I wrote it."

"It seems that you still have to walk on two legs, one step of theory, one step of practice."

"Let's do it, let's build a batch of iron-making blast furnaces on a large scale, and take this as the first step in practice, and upgrade our Daming's steel industry to a higher level.

Xiao Han rubbed his eyebrows slightly.

"Ironmaking?"

"Iron-making, our Ming Dynasty is actually very short of steel now, farm tools need to be used, and it is necessary to use them to maintain the combat effectiveness of the soldiers."

"In this way, I'll ask Shan Anren to gather the best blacksmiths from our Daming."

Zhu Biao agreed to speak.

"Blacksmith..."

"It's okay, I should need their help later."

Xiao Han nodded slightly.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the technology of ironmaking has been quite mature, but the difference is still a problem, basically all small workshops of the blacksmith shop, and there is no large blast furnace iron.

On the one hand, there were no blowers during this period, and the most advanced way to blow air was to use water power to drive the blow.

This technology has been proposed as early as the "Book of Agriculture" in the Song Dynasty.

However, hydraulic power must be limited by water, and the greater the amount of water required, the turbulence of water must be required.

And where the water is turbulent, there are generally not many people, and naturally no one will run there to strike iron for the sake of water power.

This has led to the blacksmith's craft, which is in a rather embarrassing situation, can only rely on a small furnace, and even many times have to pull the bellows by manpower, firepower, wind power, are not very sufficient, and follow-up processing can be used.

The state of blacksmiths also gave wealthy merchants a sense that ironmaking was based on craftsmanship, not a large-scale profitable business.

In this state, it is naturally impossible to drive the development of blast furnaces and mass production of steel.

However, Boss Xiao Han Xiao doesn't care about this, he can make it big if he wants to.

"Where are you going to ask for land this time?"

Zhu Biao continued to ask Xiao Han.

"Well, this time I don't want to respond to Tianfu."

"The flow of the Yangtze River in Yingtianfu is too slow."

"I want to choose a place where there is plenty of water to set up a large-scale blast furnace for ironmaking."

Xiao Han said.

If you want to do it, you must do it in one step, directly increase the hydraulic power, abandon the way of pulling the bellows, and pull the furnace temperature up, saving trouble and effort.

"Huh?"

"Choose such a place to strike iron, ah no, iron smelting?"

"It's very inconvenient to transport raw materials and finished products."

Zhu Biao hesitated.

"This..."

"It's really going to have to be well designed, actually... It doesn't have to be the Yangtze River, but other smaller rivers are also OK. ”

"I think so, let's dig a small river parallel to the downstream turbulent section in the relatively gentle flow of the water, ship to this section, and specially use bamboo rafts to intercept the iron ore from the top with a net, so that the water power of the river is not small, which can not only be used to transport raw materials, but also directly used to make iron, and then we send the finished products through the river."

Xiao Han thought for a moment and said.

It is indeed not easy to build a blast furnace on a large scale, mainly because there is no motivation to come and it is too embarrassing.

In fact, Xiao Han had the idea of making a steam engine, but the steam engine was somewhat exquisite, even if he knew that the drawings were not so easy to make, Xiao Han studied it twice, but he couldn't study it, so he went to do something else.

"You... It's not a small project. ”

"According to your design, if you want to build more, if you want to be able to supply such a large waterwheel side by side, I am afraid that you will need at least ten meters wide of the river."

"If we build more blast furnaces, we will have to divert more rivers, and we will have to dig canals."

Zhu Biao picked up Xiao Han's drawings, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

For the first time, he felt that Xiao Han's decision was a bit unreliable.

"But it's not a big problem, these days the northern mutual market does make a lot of money, and it should be enough for construction, but it shouldn't be able to build a lot."

Zhu Biao thought about it and said again.

In the end, he still chose to believe in Xiao Han, mainly because Zhu Biao felt that if the blast furnace could really exist in batches, Daming's steel output would be doubled, so this wave was worth investing in.

Of course, this has to be done by Xiao Han, and if there is another person, Zhu Biao will probably beat people out directly.

The blast furnace is very useful, but if you pay for this big project, I will cooperate with you, thank you.

"Let's take the money we can mobilize now and calculate it and see how large a hydroelectric blast furnace plant can be built."

"This is the income of the two industrial chains of the British government."

Xiao Han said helplessly, and turned out the accounts on his side, this time it seems that the two of them can only do it together.

He had already made the furnace as small as possible when designing, but the investment still made people's scalp tingle, which was directly equivalent to a big project.

Moreover, because of the instability of the hydraulic force over time, it may be necessary for a blacksmith to patch it later.

It can only be said that the effect will be better than that of a small furnace, and it can save a lot of effort, but in the absence of a blower, it is still completely less than the level of the industrial period.

(End of chapter)