Xianggui

Chapter 143 Baotie
Ding Sifu got along happily with Mrs. Gong in the shop and worked very hard.He got fatter and taller again, and he dressed decently, all the clothes Gong made for him.

Ling'er is also very considerate of this little junior brother, and when she comes to visit her mother, she often buys him some delicious food.

Ding Sifu often laments that he can be so happy.He misses Ding Pandi who has not been heard from even more, and wonders how she is doing now, whether she is still alive.

The only thing that makes people uncomfortable is that occasionally the Wang family will have some troubles.She asked Ding Sifu for money, but Ding Sifu still gave her fifty cash a month.Seeing that her son was well dressed and there were snacks and candies in the room, she couldn't believe that he only took such a small amount of money.

Ding Sifu told her, "My master made the clothes for me, and the snacks and candies were bought by my senior sister yesterday."

Mrs. Wang wrapped up the food and took it home, and asked him to tell his master that life at home was difficult, and it would be a pity to make these fabrics for children. It would be better to give them to adults, which would also show his filial piety.

Ding Sifu shook his head unwillingly, and was pulled by the ear by Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang had the cheek to complain to Mrs. Gong again.

Gong said with a cold face, "It was the leftover ruler from the sale. If it couldn't be sold, I put together some clothes for Sifu."

Don't talk to her anymore.

After Mrs. Wang left, Ding Sifu went to apologize to Mrs. Gong, blushing with embarrassment.

Gong said with a smile, "I know you are a good boy."

At the beginning of April, Ding's new courtyard, that is, the east courtyard, was completely built.Ding Zhuang also hired eight carpenters to build furniture in the east yard. After the furniture was finished and the yard was dry, he could move in.

For the furniture in Ding Xiang's boudoir, Ding Zhuang not only bought a few pieces of high-quality beech wood, but also asked the carpenter to carve flowers and birds.

Ding Shan also rented a shop in the county seat, named Ding's Cloth Shop.It cost more than 220 taels of silver to rent a shop, furnish it and add goods. Ding Zhao borrowed them 150 taels.

Ding Qin took his daughter-in-law Zhao and son Ding Daniu to live in the shop, and Ding Daniu also went to a private school in the county seat.

Half of the time Ding Shan went out to buy goods, and half of the time he lived in the countryside, looking at the fields and houses in the countryside with Mrs. Xie.Now that the family is rich, the fields are rented out to tenant farmers, and they even bought a woman to do housework.

Ding Zhen was completely relieved. Apart from learning how to read and write with Ding Xiang, she just did needlework.

Xia Er's family also took down Ding Shan's grocery store in the town, and Xia Dahe went to guard the store during the day.

At Ding Xiang's suggestion, Ding Zhao bought a mule.

The mule is beautiful, as majestic as a horse.The mule is used as the family's car, and the old scalper is rented out to tenant farmers or villagers for farming in turn.

Ding Zhuang made a few of his family's honey fat incense pendants, and Ding Zhao, Zhang's, and Ding Lichun brothers handed them over to Ding Zhao for safekeeping, and they will wear them later.He kept his and Ding Li's, and gave Ding Xiang the small gourd.

The small gourd is only the size of a clove's thumb, dark red and shiny, with curved golden lines, exuding a sweet fragrance, and it is threaded on a red silk thread.

Lilac loves it very much.

I really want to wear it.

Ding Zhuang smiled and said, "Coincidentally, a piece of fragrant wood has gold lines in this area, and black lines in other places. I know that you are wise early, so I leave this thing to you for safekeeping. You can't wear it now, and don't be caught by it." People can see it. When you grow up, when your father says you can wear it, you can wear it again."

Ding Xiang took it back and hid it.

One day at the end of April, Ding Zhao brought back good news that Li's foundry could no longer operate.

"No accident, it will be bought in two days. After buying it, I will buy five acres of land next to it to build an iron shop, and Ding's iron shop will move there."

The daughter is right, the two places are next to each other, the iron billets are cast on the other side, and the iron is forged here, which is convenient.

Ding Xiang said, "Five acres is too small, buy ten acres."

Five acres is only enough to build an iron shop. In the future, there will be an office area and a rest area for employees when there are more people.

Ding Zhao absolutely listened to his daughter and readily agreed.

On the third day, Ding Zhao bought Li's foundry for 320 taels of silver.Although the place there is relatively large, it is outside the town and the land is cheap.

Ding Zhao bought another ten acres of wasteland nearby.

Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao didn't know about casting, but they liked anything related to iron. They were happier buying a foundry than opening Jiulu Weaving and Embroidery Pavilion at home.

Casting and blacksmithing are both related to iron. After discussing for a long time, they came up with the name "Ding's Iron Workshop".

Ding Xiang disagreed, and she felt that using a surname would limit her development.

The name Dingxiang has been thought of for a long time, and it is called "Baoqing Iron Works Manufacturing Co., Ltd.", or "Baotie" for short.

When the steel was smelted, it was called "Baoqing Iron and Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd.", or "Baosteel" for short.

Only Ding Xiang understands the meaning of these two words.Building the largest steel factory in the Dali Dynasty was her lifelong goal.

Baoqing Iron Works Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has two institutions.Of course, it cannot be called a workshop or a branch factory, but a foundry workshop and a forging workshop.

As soon as she mentioned the name, not to mention Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao, Ding Liren and Ding Lilai also liked it.

Everyone thinks this name is high-end and elegant.

Ding Xiang also told Ding Zhao's father, "We must keep good casting craftsmen, and the monthly money will be added to their satisfaction."

Ding Xiang knew in her previous life that the ratio of molten iron to rare earth was [-]%, but the rare earth used for molten iron in her previous life was refined.The ratio of this unrefined rare earth depends on the craftsman to grasp the degree through trial and error.

In addition, Ding Xiang also knows a way to improve the quality of ductile iron, which is to use low-temperature graphitization annealing process, put the cast iron parts into the kiln, heat the temperature to about [-] degrees, and then turn off the flame and naturally cool it down to [-] degrees Left and right, and then pulled out to the air to cool to room temperature.

The cast iron treated in this way can produce ferrite matrix and more round spherical graphite, similar to steel, which improves the strength and toughness of iron, and the casting is not easy to be brittle and cracked.

When the cast iron is heated until the surface is dark brown, the temperature reaches about [-] degrees.When the surface color of the cast iron is cherry red, the temperature reaches about [-] degrees.The higher the heating temperature, the brighter the surface of the iron piece.

In the previous life, there were infrared thermometers and other temperature measuring instruments, but in this era, there are no such instruments, and these rely on the visual inspection and experience of the craftsman...

A good craftsman is very important.

The next morning, Ding Zhuang and Ding Zhao took Ding Xiang to the "Baoqing Iron Works Factory" by mule cart.

"Bao Tie" is two miles away from the town and not far from Heilong River.If it takes half an hour to walk from Beiquan Village, it will take more than two quarters of an hour to take a mule cart.

This is a rough road in the country, and it will save time if it is easy to walk.

The old foundry factory covers an area of ​​more than [-] acres, plus the [-] acres bought later, the total is more than [-] acres, Ding Xiang thinks it is still small.

Jiulu Weaving and Embroidery Pavilion is just a side dish, and "Baosteel" is the future support of the Ding family, and even has a far-reaching influence on the Dali Dynasty.

Ding Xiang looked at the dilapidated place standing in a piece of wasteland, and proposed to buy another [-] mu of land.

(End of this chapter)