Destiny Only Han

Chapter 126 Dahan Coal and Iron Trading Company
Hanzhong County, Chenggu County.

"The empress is a beautiful tree, and the tangerines are served; if you are ordered not to move, you will be born in the southern country..."

Liu Ying recited a new Song of Chu he had learned, and walked in the wilderness in the north of Chenggu County.

In front of him was an engineer from Chenggu County, and behind him were Pangong and a dozen Mohist disciples, as well as Ji Xin who held a hunting fork, pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, and looked around Chongda.

Without him, there were many wild animal thieves in this period, and it is said that not long ago, there was a tragedy of a leopard attacking humans here.

Well, the leopard attacked a village girl who went into the mountains to pick mushrooms, but she was killed instead...

The power of a village girl is so terrifying!
Liu Ying came here this time to choose a suitable place as the first factory site of the 'Dahan Coal and Iron Trading Company'.

He looked around and saw that the north was connected to the Qinling Mountains, the mountains were rolling and rolling, and there were countless towering trees growing. In the east, the Han River was a tributary on the left bank. It is Chenggu County, not far to the west, and it is the Tudao connecting Nanzheng.

"This is a great place!"

Liu Ying nodded, looked at the engineer of Chenggu County beside her and said, "I want to be here? Well, are you sure that the land of this generation is unowned wasteland?"

In this era of sparsely populated land, he didn't want to be infamous for robbing people's land.

The engineer said affirmatively: "I'm pretty sure that most of Guishou in Chenggu live on the southern plains. It's close to the forest and there are many wolves, tigers and leopards. So no one would buy property here."

Pan Gong approached Liu Ying and asked, "Is this place too desolate? From what he said, if we build a workshop here, I'm afraid the safety of the craftsmen will not be guaranteed, right?"

Liu Ying shook her head: "Beasts are good. When there are too many people here, they will naturally flee to the mountains in the distance. As for the remaining stunned youths, they will organize soldiers from Orion in the army to bring locals and hounds into the mountains to encircle and suppress them." Just a moment."

Pangong nodded: "It makes sense."

Liu Ying went on to say: "The reason I chose this place is to go up the river, it is an abandoned iron mine, and on the other side, it is said that there is coal dug out, which is Shi Nie."

Pan Gong smiled and said, "That's why you named the workshop Coal and Iron Trading Company?"

Liu Ying turned her head and replied: "Yes. If a worker wants to be good at his work, he must first sharpen his tools. No matter what he wants to do, he always needs a lot of high-quality and cheap iron tools, and the efficiency of smelting iron tools with coal is far Far better than burning wood."

Pan Gong nodded again: "That's right, the reason why the Koreans are the best in the world in smelting iron is that they have mastered the secret of Shi Nirvana."

Liu Ying pointed to the rushing water and said, "Do you still remember the water wheel picture I drew before?"

Pan Gong pondered for a while: "I remember, but isn't that used to carry water?"

Liu Ying said with a smile: "If a gear and a crank are connected to the rotating wooden shaft, a large stone mill or hammer can be driven. Isn't it easy to crush ore?"

Pan Gong suddenly realized that he thought that Liu Ying chose this place to facilitate the workshop to get water, but he did not expect such a purpose.

He nodded and said:
"It's so wonderful! When I was in Yangdi's smelting workshop, I discovered that the most labor-intensive aspect of smelting metals is to smash large and hard ores so that they can be melted easily. If there is an easier way, It is also a blessing to the common people.”

Liu Ying continued: "There is another advantage of choosing this place, that is, the ore mined upstream can be loaded on a boat and drifted down the river, which can also improve a lot of efficiency."

"But before that, whether it is logging, shipbuilding, mining, or even making bearings, a batch of good steel is needed."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the engineer of Chenggu County beside him.

The reason why he chose Chenggu County to establish a workshop was that according to the archives obtained from Hanzhong County, Chenggu County had an iron-smelting workshop, and there were a considerable number of blacksmiths.

By recruiting these people, there is no need to train workers from scratch.

As for the future, it is natural to use modern means to train qualified assembly line workers, that is, to divide a whole set of processes into several links, and each worker is only responsible for one link.

In this way, their proficiency will increase rapidly, and ultimately improve the efficiency of the entire assembly line.

It's like skipping the opening title from left to right, so familiar...

Beside Liu Ying, the engineer scratched his head and said with a lack of confidence: "To tell you the truth, the blacksmiths in our county can make a little Lei Lei and other agricultural tools, but if they are asked to make those bearings, cranks and so on, I am afraid they will do it. less than..."

Pan Gong said with a smile: "I don't need to bother the engineers in the county. The dozens of people behind me are all experts in iron smelting. They only need the iron ingots provided by the county, and they will complete the specific forging. "

Liu Ying said: "Don't rush to make iron, I'm going to arrange people to dig some coal and make a batch of coke."

The engineer at the side was stunned. He had always felt that he was in a dream since the morning. He understood every word that the Prince of Han and the black-faced old man said in front of him, but after combining them, he I can't understand it at all.

Not only him, Pangong was also a little confused.

Liu Ying explained: "The quality of pig iron smelted with charcoal is better than that of pig iron smelted with firewood, right?"

Pan Gong and Gong Shi nodded slowly.

Liu Ying went on to say: "Then if you use coke for smelting, the quality of the molten iron produced is much better than that of coal. The temperature is higher and the impurities are less."

Well, the method of coking is actually very simple, just find a flat ground, pile up a large amount of coal, and then use firewood to ignite the fire, and you can get coke a few days later.

In addition to polluting the environment and consuming too much resources, it is simple and rude, and easy to operate.

Pan Gong was full of doubts: "How did you know such a thing?"

Liu Ying smiled brightly: "If I say, it was taught by that old man with white beard, would you still believe me?"

Pan Gong nodded vigorously: "I believe it!"

He plans to squat near Liu Ying for a period of time in the future, trying to catch that old man with white beard alive!

After all, he is the leader of the Mohist family, so there is no reason to teach the child in front of him instead of him?

Liu Ying thought for a while and looked at the engineer and said: "I still need to find a group of people to dig some clay and make brick embryos and put them around the coking pit."

During the coking process, a large amount of waste heat will be generated. This waste heat is exhaust gas with a temperature as high as [-] to [-] degrees, which is just used to burn refractory bricks.

In this way, a vertical blast furnace with sufficient high temperature resistance can be built next.

Well, don't ask why you know, the system gives it to you!
In fact, unlike what many people imagined, bronze weapons were still dominant in the early Qin and Han Dynasties. In fact, it has long been a fight between iron weapons.

As early as 600 BC, the ancients had mastered the technology of refining sponge iron, that is, the technology of refining wrought iron by block smelting.

During the Warring States period, the production of ironware reached a new level.

For example, in the tomb of Chu in Changsha, Hunan Province, agricultural tools such as shovels and iron mouth hoes were dug up. As for the later tombs of the Warring States Period in Huixian County, nearly [-] pieces of iron were unearthed, including many agricultural tools.

As for the bronze weapons used by the terracotta warriors, it is more likely that the first emperor used them to show off his wealth.

Well, similar to the solid gold toilets in Dubai hotels...

Bronze ware was not covered with copper rust in the age of its birth. The well-maintained bronze ware is so golden and dazzling!

On the bank of the Nanshui River, after waiting for the civil servant behind the engineer to record Liu Ying's request, the preliminary planning for the coal and iron trading company has been completed.

The construction of the waterwheel for crushing ore and the water drainage that provides stable blowing for smelting can be carried out simultaneously with refining coke and firing refractory bricks.

As a civil engineer, it is Liu Ying's strength to turn the original linear project into a parallel project, and to be able to carry out more projects simultaneously.

Thanks to the fact that Hanzhong County is not the main battlefield of chaos in the world, the grassroots organizations here have not been destroyed. still.

This means that he can get a large number of grassroots personnel who can execute his plan almost perfectly.

Seeing the orderly manner of the civil servants around the engineer, Liu Ying had a bold idea in her heart.

He plans to use the construction of the coal and iron trading company to absorb and train a large number of executors for his use.

for his personal use.

These will be a good helper for him to stabilize his position as successor.

In the original historical line, why did Lao Liu want to replace Liu Ying and make Liu Ruyi the crown prince? Didn't he know that Liu Ruyi, a child, was far inferior to Liu Ying?
After all, there is a huge gap between the ages of the two parties and the interest groups involved behind them.

Obviously, he knew, but he couldn't help it.

Because in the matter of conquering Yingbo, almost everyone is saying that the prince is useless.

At this time, not only did he relapse from a serious illness, but he was also injured again, so although the conquest of Yingbo was successful, Lao Liu felt depressed.

So there is the feeling of "Andre the warrior guards the Quartet".

Therefore, the idea of ​​wanting to abolish the crown prince is very simple. What Lu family, what hero, what beloved son, are all secondary, that is, Lao Liu simply thinks that his son is useless and not enough to support his hard work A family business founded by painstaking efforts.

Thus, Shangshan Sihao appeared.

According to these four old men, it is "the prince is benevolent and filial, respects his loved ones, and everyone in the world wants to be the dead prince, so the old ministers will wait for you."

Zhang Liang's strategy is very simple, that is, to tell the hesitant Liu Bang that the prince who he thinks is incompetent can still continue to rule the world, and a lot of people's hearts in the world have already belonged to the prince.

Therefore, the position of the prince is as stable as Mount Tai.

Nowadays, although Liu Ying doesn't have to worry about this, it is still very important to cultivate a large number of reliable people.

(End of this chapter)