The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 74 Master Ye's talent makes Zhu Yuanzhang feel sad and happy (seeking more)
The iron smelter who found out that he had taught the wrong person could be said to be cursing by pointing at Zhu Yuanzhang's nose.

But even though his voice was loud, he didn't attract much attention in this noisy ironmaking workshop.

But even so, Ye Qing and Wu Yong, who were always paying attention to Zhu Yuanzhang, had a panoramic view of everything.

In fact, they were standing outside the workshop window, the distance was quite far, and they couldn't hear what they were cursing at all.

They only saw the iron-making master pointing at prisoner No. 88 through the iron-making furnace and iron-frying furnace and scolding them, and they could only see the appearance of prisoner No. 88 and the cold-eyed expression of the iron-making master.

"My lord, why is Lao Yang so angry?"

"Although the lower officials couldn't hear what they said, it seems that Lao Yang said a lot to him just now. How can he change his face when he changes his face?"

"Although this old Yang is such a gunpowder pot that ignites at one point, he hasn't been provoked!"

Ye Qing just pointed at his prison uniform and said, "This outfit has provoked Lao Yang."

Hearing this, Wu Yong recalled that Lao Yang changed his face directly because he noticed his clothes of a labor camp prisoner.

Thinking of this, even if you can't hear what they said in detail before, you can still get a rough idea.

It must be this No. 88 reform-through-labor prisoner who is not yet sure whether he is a Beiyuan spy or an imperial envoy, and he did something that fits these two identities again!
That is to take advantage of Lao Yang's serious work, and use his technical words!
Lao Yang felt that he had been tricked by a labor camp prisoner, so he immediately became angry from embarrassment!
Just when Wu Yong just wanted to understand, Mao Xiang, who had always kept a distance from Zhu Yuanzhang who could escort him at any time, rushed over at once.

But before Mao Xiang could react, Ye Qing saw the guy wearing No. 88 prison uniform, with the name 'Guo Rui' written on the road guide, he grabbed Mao Xiang's hand and gave it back to him. He has an 'unmovable' look in his eyes.

Immediately afterwards, he dragged Mao Xiang and left there in despair, continuing to push the rickshaw forward.

Seeing this, Ye Qing also nodded generously, and gave him an appreciative look.

Even if he is really a Northern Yuan spy, Ye Qing will not be stingy with his praise, after all he has been a general for several lifetimes, so he still has some courage.

He saw that prisoner No. 88 was just pushing the cart away in silence, but there was also a hint of fierceness in his eyes, and he really gritted his teeth and endured it.

Just because he was able to endure so far for the goal in his heart, he deserves a little praise.

Although there are environmental factors in it, even if he doesn't want to endure it, he has to endure it!
But when he was faced with sudden anger, the first thing that came to his mind was the word 'forbearance', which is already very rare.

Folk custom is a barbaric Beiyuan, so there is such a talent?

There must be, but it is too rare!
Does the imperial court have such talents?

Not to mention that there are a lot of them, but they are definitely not rare!

Therefore, it can be seen from here that the possibility of them being imperial envoys is greater than the possibility of being Beiyuan spies!
Thinking of this, Ye Qing's eyes also had some unsatisfactory meaning.

Ye Qing hopes that they are Beiyuan spies, anyway they are under his control, there is no chance to escape, and he can even find a way to make these people use by Yanmen.

More importantly, if they were Beiyuan spies, it could basically prove that Zhu Yuanzhang did not send someone to secretly investigate the process first, he just had to wait for the death edict to come.

It can even prove that he can't wait for long!
Of course, it doesn't matter even if they are imperial envoys, they just have to wait a little longer!
But Ye Qing has lived an ancient life for hundreds of years, he really doesn't want to stay here for a day!
Just when Ye Qing secretly hoped that their next performance could prove that they were the Beiyuan spies, prisoner No. 88 suddenly stopped and couldn't leave.

in the workshop,
Zhu Yuanzhang saw another strange machine that he had never seen before!
Zhu Yuanzhang only saw a diversion channel beside the river outside the window of the workshop, leading the water to the direction of the workshop.

This kind of water diversion layout is not uncommon. He has a military workshop under the Military Weapons Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, and even some larger private workshops that make kitchen knives and axes for the common people also have this layout.

The purpose is to drive [Vertical Wheel Water Blower] and [Horizontal Wheel Water Blower].

But the layout corresponding to this station is not to drive these two machines, but a machine that uses hydraulic hammer to forge iron.

He only saw the master hammer and blacksmith holding the clamp, turning red semi-finished iron materials there, but he didn't forge the material with a hammer!

Just because there is a machine that uses water power to make the big hammer hammer continuously, which perfectly replaces the manual hammer forging!

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was fascinated immediately!

"Yes!"

"In such a huge Ministry of Industry, why didn't anyone come up with such an idea?"

"You can use hydraulic blowing, why can't you use hydraulic hammer forging?"

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Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately thought of the importance of hammering.

In fact, before the Song Dynasty, charcoal was used to make iron. It was only after the Song Dynasty that coal was used to make iron.

Coal ironmaking has greatly increased the output, but greatly reduced the quality!
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know why, he only knew that it was all black carbon anyway, but the iron smelted from coal was worse than the iron smelted from charcoal. sentence.

Not only is the sword not as good as the Tang knife, but even the guns will explode in a short time. In order to reduce the chance of the guns exploding, the only way to increase the thickness of the barrel is to increase the thickness of the barrel.

But this not only made the guns more cumbersome, but also wasted a lot of materials!
But there is no way, I really dare not overuse charcoal, if this continues to be used, the green mountains will become bald mountains!

Of course, it is not impossible to solve the adverse effects of coal and iron smelting, and the method is not difficult, that is, to increase the hammer forging of semi-finished products.

But in this way, it will be labor-intensive and time-consuming!
Generals like Xu Da can do this with armor customized by generals, but it is impossible for ordinary soldiers to do so!

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed immediately when he saw this machine with interlaced gears that 'uses hydraulic power to continuously hammer and forge'.

"If only we had this machine in our arsenal!"

After having such an idea, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to ask in a questioning tone: "Master, who invented this hydraulic forging machine?"

Like the master iron smelter, the master hammer and blacksmith also looked at the matter in hand, and said, "Who else?"

"Such a complicated and ingenious machine must be our Master Ye!"

Hear this,

The corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth trembled unconsciously, and the expression on his face also had the meaning of "combined sorrow and joy".

"It's him?"

"Why is it him again!".
(End of this chapter)