Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 77 High School Club
Just when Wang Daoqiu was busy in Nanjianhe, it was February 27, the tenth day after the end of the examination.The list of Jinshi candidates for the Jinke examination was sent to Emperor Jiajing's imperial records on time, waiting for Emperor Jiajing's imperial approval.

Picking up the list of Jinshi Jinshi sent by the Ministry of Rites, Emperor Jiajing was delighted to see it.Because the first line of this list is: No.1: Wang Daoqiu

Wang Daoqiu is the Huiyuan of Jinke. This result is so exciting.So Emperor Jiajing took the list, raised it to Lu Fang beside him, and asked, "Have you read this list?"

"When I return to the emperor, I have already seen this list."

"I've seen it, it's great! I didn't expect that that boy is really a genius. He knows everything and even passed the Huiyuan exam. Okay! Okay! This is really a gift from God to me! By the way, is that guy still at the Nanjianhe construction site?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. Since the end of the examination of this subject, Yang Jinshui's servant asked Hui Yuanlang for help in building the iron smelting furnace. After Hui Yuanlang drew the blueprints, he has been living on the construction site and guiding the craftsmen to build the iron furnace. Stove. According to the news from the inner palace supervisor this morning, it said that a large furnace was built yesterday, and the furnace was already fired in the furnace last night. They will prepare to load the material at noon today, and start to burn it first. Give it a try."

"Okay, okay! Work hard! Lu Fang, call Lu Bing and Yan Shoufu this afternoon, and let's go together to witness how the molten iron flows out of the furnace that smelt hundreds of thousands of kilograms of molten iron. If something happens It’s done, I will personally deliver this good news of Huiyuan to that boy. If things get messed up, then the boy will go to the third crane tail!"

"Yes, the slave will arrange it now."

After answering Emperor Jiajing's words, Lu Fang hurriedly went out to make arrangements.After Lu Fang left, Emperor Jiajing smiled and picked up the imperial pen and wrote "accurate performance" on it.Just now he said in front of Lu Fang that if the furnace built by Wang Daoqiu failed, he would not give the Huiyuan. That was just a joke to Lu Fang.

After all, ever since Wang Daoqiu entered the world of Emperor Jiajing, the honeycomb coal business in one winter had helped him earn more than 30 taels of silver.Pharmaceuticals and glass-making helped Baiyunguan earn nearly one million taels of silver.Now to practice Taoism, it is no longer Emperor Jiajing who gives the Taoist sect money, but the Taoist sect pays him 10 taels of silver every month.

It can be said that in just these few months, Emperor Jiajing has successfully escaped poverty thanks to Wang Daoqiu.If the steel plant is built again and the millions of taels of silver are received every year, Emperor Jiajing will be financially free from now on.

The current Wang Daoqiu is the God of Wealth to Emperor Jiajing.Therefore, Emperor Jiajing would not deny "Huiyuan" to Wang Daoqiu just because of a trivial matter!What's more, the last time Wang Daoqiu passed the decree to Heaven in Baiyun Temple, Emperor Jiajing still remembered all that information. If all that came true...

So now Wang Daoqiu is very important to Emperor Jiajing, and he must try his best to win over him.

After having lunch in Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing, Lu Bing, Lu Fang, and Yan Song, dressed in casual clothes and escorted by hundreds of Jinyi guards in casual clothes, arrived at the construction site of the Nanjianhe Steel Plant.

As soon as he arrived here, Emperor Jiajing saw a blast furnace that was two stories high. There were craftsmen pouring raw materials into the furnace through a special passage. Wang Daoqiu was walking around the furnace at this time. Circle around and feel the effect of the furnace temperature on the furnace wall.

Seeing Wang Daoqiu's serious look, Emperor Jiajing was very pleased. He smiled and asked Lu Fang to call Wang Daoqiu over to talk.

Lu Fang went to the stove and blocked Wang Daoqiu's path around the stove.Wang Daoqiu was walking and touching the furnace wall when he suddenly felt that someone was blocking his way. He raised his head in displeasure and was about to teach someone!Seeing that it was Lu Fang, the boss of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, he quickly changed his angry face to a smiling face and asked with a smile: "Eunuch Lu, why are you here?"

After listening to Wang Daoqiu's question, Lu Fang smiled and pointed in the direction of Emperor Jiajing and the others, and then said in a low voice, "Go and answer."

Following the direction of Lu Fang's finger, Wang Daoqiu saw Emperor Jiajing, Lu Bing and Mr. Yan Ge.Seeing that the most powerful bosses in the Ming Dynasty today were all here, Wang Daoqiu hurriedly saluted Lu Fang, and then walked quickly towards Emperor Jiajing and the others.

As soon as he approached Emperor Jiajing, Wang Daoqiu didn't even have time to salute. Emperor Jiajing asked, "How is it? There is nothing wrong with the stove?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, everything looks good so far. We finished the oven an hour ago and started loading materials. Now we have added millions of kilograms of coke and iron ore, and the furnace temperature is now normal. Congratulations Your Majesty, if nothing unexpected happens, this iron-smelting furnace can be made."

"Hahahaha, that's great! I heard from the Supervisor of Ceremonies that your furnace can smelt 30 kilograms of molten iron at a time. And you are also planning to build a furnace that can smelt millions of kilograms of molten iron at a time."

"Yes, Your Majesty, what I have discussed with the Inner Palace Supervisor, Eunuch Yang, is to build three small furnaces that can smelt 30 kilograms of molten iron each, and build two large furnaces that can smelt hundreds of kilograms of molten iron each. In this way, one furnace can be smelted every day. The furnace can smelt four furnaces of molten iron, and the five furnaces combined can produce about 200 kilograms of iron in one day."

An iron smelting plant can produce 200 million kilograms of iron in a day, which made Emperor Jiajing, who always liked big things, very happy.But it shocked Yan Shoufu, who was currently in charge of the daily work of the Ming Dynasty.The Chief Assistant hid his relationship with Wang Daoqiu, pretending not to know Wang Daoqiu, and said coldly: "Young man, the emperor must be strict when he replies before the emperor, otherwise it will be the crime of deceiving the emperor. An iron-making workshop can be made in one day. How is it possible to be able to smelt 200 million jins of iron? Did you know that the official iron collected by our Ming Dynasty court in a year is only 800 million jins. The output of your iron smelting workshop in one and a half days is equal to that of our Ming Dynasty court. One year's official iron collection! Young man, are you lying?"

"Hahahaha, Fenyi, don't underestimate this little boy in front of you. Fenyi, let me tell you the truth. In the past few months, the honeycomb briquettes that have appeared on the market in Beijing are crystal clear and translucent. The sulfur glass and Baiyun Temple's panacea that can cure all diseases were all created with the help of this little young man in front of you. And just before I came here, the list of Jinke Jinshi submitted by the Ministry of Rites, the one in front of you This little boy, he is the No.1 club member. And that list has already been approved, and it will be released tomorrow."

Emperor Jiajing called Yan Shoufu after Yan Shoufu's hometown, Fenyi, Jiangxi Province, to show his cordiality, and told Yan Shoufu about the "great achievements" Wang Daoqiu had done in the past few months, as well as what is now today. Science and technology matters.

This made Yan Shoufu shocked when he heard that his nephew, who was an academician in Zhejiang Province, had made an appointment with a disciple for himself in advance, but he actually made an appointment with such a monster.To be honest, as soon as Wang Daoqiu arrived in Beijing, he went to meet Yan Shoufu and confirmed the status of master and apprentice between them.

Through the only conversation between the two parties, Yan Shoufu knew that Wang Daoqiu was a genius and might even be the one who could save his Yan family in the future. However, he never expected that Wang Daoqiu would be so evil that he knew how to make iron. Make sulfur glass and make medicine.If he is proficient in so many things, is he still a human being?

Shocked by Wang Daoqiu's talent in his heart, Yan Shoufu still pretended not to know Wang Daoqiu, and pretended to speak soft words: "Then this is an old man who is ignorant and ignorant, Hui Yuanlang is a great talent!"

Yan Song was his teacher in name, so Wang Daoqiu did not dare to accept his soft words.So he hurriedly bowed his hands to Yan Song and gave him some face-saving words.

Wang Daoqiu and Yan Song were exchanging polite words there. Emperor Jiajing became impatient. He interrupted the politeness between Wang Daoqiu and Yan Song and said, "Okay, okay, Wang Aiqing is also Huiyuan now. After the palace examination, I will let Wang Aiqing enter the Hanlin Academy and serve in Xiyuan. From now on, the chief minister and Wang Aiqing will have many opportunities to be polite, so leave this time to me today! By the way, Wang Aiqing, how long will it take for your furnace to produce molten iron?"

"Well, to answer your Majesty's question, this furnace has been burning for more than an hour. It will be turned on in another hour at most."

"Oh, it will take another hour! In this hour, Aiqing will introduce to us the plan of this steel plant!"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In the next hour, Wang Daoqiu took Emperor Jiajing and others to visit the factory area, while introducing to Emperor Jiajing and others what would be built here and there in the future, as well as the functions of various projects.

The last group of people came to the Nanjian River Dam, which was as high as a five-story building. Wang Daoqiu pointed to the water under the dam and said to Emperor Jiajing and others: "This dam is about six feet high. We plan to store water for five meters in normal times." If the height exceeds five feet, the water channels on the mountainside on both sides of the dam will be opened to release floodwaters to the Yongding River. Usually, the water gates on the Yongding River side of the water channels on the two mountainsides are closed, and the water in the channels flows down from the mountains for supply. Factory production and daily use.”

"There are also two large gates in the middle of the dam. They are connected to the two canals in the factory area. These two canals in the factory area will be equipped with the kind of kowtow machine that the emperor mentioned. Your Majesty, look at this dam. The water level is planned to be five feet, so the water level on the dam will be more than three feet higher than the factory area below the dam. Then the force of the water pouring down from the dam will be sufficient. With such Motivation, the kowtow machine will naturally kowtow at the other end, and it will also be very diligent..."

"Hahahaha"

"Hahahaha"

Wang Daoqiu said that the other end of the kowtow machine would kowtow very frequently. Thinking of that scene, Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing couldn't help but burst out laughing.However, Yan Shoufu and Lu Fang did not laugh at this time. Lu Fang did not laugh because Yan Shoufu, a courtier, was present, and he, a servant of the inner court, had to pay attention to his status.Yan Shoufu didn't laugh because he didn't even know what a kowtow machine was.

So Yan Shoufu, who didn't know what the kowtow machine was, asked Wang Daoqiu in a low voice what the kowtow machine was.As a result, Yan Shoufu's question immediately made Emperor Jiajing and Lu Bing laugh again.Then Lu Bing explained to Yan Shoufu that he went out to play with Emperor Jiajing when he was a child. Emperor Jiajing saw the hydraulic rice pounding machine and pounded rice with his head up and down, and then he gave the hydraulic rice pounding machine a "kowtow machine" nickname.

When Lu Bing explained what this "kowtow machine" was and told Yan Shoufu that Wang Daoqiu did not use this "kowtow machine" to pound rice, but instead used this "kowtow machine" to pound iron instead of the blacksmith.

After hearing this, Yan Shoufu also suddenly realized, wonderful!If the rice is replaced by cast iron under the kowtow machine, wouldn't the pounding of rice become forging iron?Moreover, striking iron in this way is not only stronger than that of a blacksmith, but it can also be continued without getting tired.This trick is too high!

(End of this chapter)