Win the Ding 1617

() The plot of farming is coming again, and there are some indigenous technologies.Hope it doesn't offend everyone.

Many people who grew up in Hejing recalled their childhood, and would say that every winter, the air was filled with bursts of sweet smell.That's because the mill started a season of crushing, and a large amount of sugar cane was crushed to pieces by steel rollers, draining the last bit of juice in the body.

The children in the school who were preparing for the New Year's holiday came after the smell, and greedily breathed in the free sweet smell outside the high wall.

The older children gathered next to the school grounds, watching the training of the newcomers, and some held bamboo sticks of different lengths in their hands, imitating the movements of the newcomers on the playground, occasionally laughing at the actions of the newcomers. Unresponsiveness and clumsy, wrong movements.

The sky above the city is filled with the sweet aroma of sugar, the strong aroma of rice, and the bursts of aromas of all kinds of smoked food, rice wine, and sugar cane wine. If there are gods in the past, they will definitely be attracted by these aromas, and then stop not before.

However, after a while, the gods will find a discordant smell.

On the school field and the shooting range, there were bursts of murderous aura, and the shouts of killing were endless, and they went straight to the sky; while in the distance near the mountainous area, there were flames that blazed into the sky, non-stop day and night, and the smoke and dust entrained in the fire was enough to choke the gods. Crossflow.

"This is our experimental blast furnace!"

After several months of construction and testing, the experimental blast furnace of the Craftsman Association has been running relatively smoothly. For a few days, Shou Han was specially invited to come, and let him, the director of the Craftsman Association, also come to watch the fruits of his hard work.

"My lord, according to your suggestion, we have designed the coking pool together with this blast furnace, so that the heat generated by coking can also be used to warm the furnace, and the waste can be used to kill two birds with one stone."

Ling Zheng, the head of the metallurgical workshop, always tends to enter a state of ecstasy when talking about his own industry.This seems to be a common problem among technicians, but Shou Han is no stranger to this. Sometimes, he also quickly enters this state, and has heated arguments and even quarrels with these people.

"This furnace can now produce 600 tons per furnace. It is really capable. It is hundreds of times stronger than the crucible. However, it is also a big belly man." As if talking about his own son, Ling Zheng described the situation in front of him with a doting expression. This small blast furnace is absolutely targeted for crackdown in the 21st century.

"We have done some calculations. Almost every ton of steel needs to consume one ton of coke. If the coal consumed in coking is included, almost two tons of coal are consumed for every ton of steel produced. Calculated, the same as the crucible Compared with steelmaking, it is still cheap. However, my lord, if you want to develop this blast furnace technology, firstly, the number of mining personnel will increase several times, secondly, the daily consumption of coal will increase in imports, and thirdly, each furnace will need to be imported. We need to increase the number of craftsmen and technicians on board. Based on this furnace alone, the steel produced each time is enough for our Nanzhong soldiers and civilians to consume."

"However, what my subordinates don't understand is that since Jiuzhuan Steel has more than ten varieties, which can meet various needs from casting cannons, armor swords and swords in military camps to civilian kitchen knives, why it takes so much trouble to refine steel?"

In front of many people, Ling Zheng still had some words to say. Apart from these, he also received a letter from Shou Han, asking him to calcine the ore he picked from the Gaoping Mountain controlled by the Mo family. , sorting, and the resulting material is tested in the steelmaking process.

What Ling Zheng didn't know was that on the remnant site of the Mo family, another Annan governor, there was a reserve of more than 1 million tons of manganese ore. Of course, Shou Han knew what manganese was for, otherwise, he wouldn't have used the nine-turn The sword and spear armor made by the steel traded with the Mo family for several mines in the Chong Qing area in Gaoping.

After classifying the imported ores, Ling Zheng and his colleagues divided the ores into three types: soft, hard, and black, and then sorted and calcined these three types of ores.And those ores marked as soft, after calcination in the furnace, they get the famous manganese dioxide.And it is almost manganese dioxide with a purity of about 70.00%!

After several experiments of making steel in a crucible, Ling Zheng had to admit that the lord got another good thing.Combining the calcined product with molten iron at a ratio of [-]% or [-]%, the steel obtained is harder than Jiuzhuan steel, and is much stronger in both toughness and ductility. (Just kidding! This is high manganese steel, second only to tungsten steel, can the effect be worse? In this era, it is definitely a magic weapon!)

After obtaining the complete technological process and proportion, Ling Zheng quietly struck while the iron was hot, mixing iron ore, manganese dioxide, and coke, trying to obtain a more crazy manufacturing process, and even saw signs of success.

These newly obtained steels have not been officially named, but only a few important figures in the Craftsman Association know that the steels produced are quietly made as tool steels and distributed to capable craftsmen for use as various tools.

"Mr. Ling, you don't know that when our army was fighting against the traitors in the south, we found that they were also equipped with nine-turn steel equipment. If we don't develop some new skills and surpass the bandits, our strengths will change forever." It has become a shortcoming, so what should I do?" Shou Han himself knew that these old gentlemen might not understand concepts such as technical reserves, so he could only use words that they could understand.

"My lord, if we must open a blast furnace, it will inevitably increase coal imports, which will cost a lot!" Ling Zheng still looked at the problem from his own perspective.

"Sir, you only know one thing but don't know the other." Zheng Quanfang, who was in charge of farming and land reclamation, argued with a smile. "Now, I only hope that the sir can use more coal and produce more coal ash."

Ling Zheng, who was deaf to what was going on outside the window, was immediately puzzled by Zheng Quanfang's words, "This? Mr. Zheng, please don't make fun of a certain family. A certain family is worrying about each furnace of more than a thousand tons of coke. You say such things."

Zheng Quanfang was full of complacency, "Ling Gong, do you know what is the price of rice this year? What is the price of oil? What about the prices of wine, meat, and vegetables derived from this two prices?"

"The old wife in the family is responsible for these things, and the general affairs in the factory are in charge, but a certain family doesn't know." Ling Zheng answered Zheng Quanfang's question very honestly.

"Don't make fun of Ling Gong, Xin Yuan, Ling Gong is a kind person."

"Ling Gong, everyone, after the coal is coked, the coke and iron ore are burned together, and the result is coal ash and other residues besides steel. After mixing, calcining for three-quarters of an hour, the resulting product is called precious manure. It is the most fertile field, but it is especially used to deal with barren land. More than [-] million acres of wasteland have been opened up. Not to mention the original land, how can rice, oil, meat, and vegetables not be cheap? Also, hundreds of thousands of acres of dry land have been used to grow sugar cane , all because rice grains are cheap, some people want to plant some sugarcane and other things. It is the merit of this thing!"

"How much do you need to sow per mu of land?" Ling Zheng was also a person who had farmed and starved, so he naturally knew the truth that food is the first thing in the world.

"If you want to make base fertilizer, you need at least [-] catties per mu of land, and if you want good results, you need [-] catties. Therefore, I say that no matter how much coke you consume here, it will not be enough." Zheng Quanfang After adjusting her clothes, she bowed deeply to Ling Zheng, "Quan Fang would like to represent the hundreds of thousands of farmers, thank you Ling Gong!"

"Brother Xinyuan! The old man dare not accept this courtesy, it's all thanks to your lord." Ling Zheng hurriedly returned the gift to Zheng Quanfang.

Although it is said that he is obsessed with technology, Ling Zheng is not a dead-headed person. He suddenly remembered something, "My lord, when you make coke in the sun, except for coke, the product you get is tar. This thing has always been used by Tonghe dyeing workshop to make fuel. , printing and dyeing cloth. A few disciples on the coking pool in the past conducted the secondary fractionation of the obtained tar, and obtained another product. The disciples used it for experiments and found that it was actually similar to fierce fire oil, and the burning effect was quite good , I don’t know where it can be used.”

"Huh? Could it be that the deep processing of coal tar came out down there? Then light oil was born?" Shou Han's left eyelid couldn't help but twitch. "If this is the case, there will be another source of fuel in the future. Don't worry about those guys in Myanmar not selling me Menghuo oil!"

"Okay! Later, after seeing this furnace of steel, I'll go and have a look at the oil you mentioned. If it's useful, let those apprentices from the coking pool transfer to the chemical workshop to manufacture this thing .”

"My lord! What about coal imports and manpower?" Regarding his own question, Ling Zheng still refused to let go.

"Coal, Zheng Zhang, the emissary of the Zheng family, has already stated his position. His family will supply as much as I want, as long as I use steel swords and armor to offset the payment. In addition, last month, didn't we sell to 20 in Guangxi? Wanshi japonica rice? I got 10 taels of silver. I have written a letter to Guangxi according to my lord’s order, asking them to buy coal from Zheng’s family and transfer it to me. According to my lord’s wishes, my Nanzhong must have enough coal to guarantee half a year’s consumption. Coal reserves are enough." Li Peiting, who is in charge of trade with Guangdong and Guangxi, is shaking an ivory bone folding fan in his hand, very proud.

"My lord, I heard that Guangxi transported a thousand fruit horses? It is said that this horse is particularly strong and good at pulling carts?" Seeing that the coal matter had taken shape, Ling Zheng began to care about the transportation capacity again.

"That's right, there are a thousand horses, two hundred horses, and eight hundred horses. However, don't make any decisions about these horses for the time being! I want to use them."

"My lord! I don't want more! Give me fifty horses, and I can save hundreds of people!" Ling Zheng still didn't give up.

"Xin Yuan, tell all the gentlemen what you saw and heard during your trip south." Shou Han was a little too lazy to explain one by one by himself, and nodded to Zheng Quanfang to come to the group of capable generals who were eyeing these horses.

"Everyone, in October, I was ordered to go south to the Xialiao area to observe the farming and mulberry affairs. Thanks to the great power of the lord, and the bravery and skill of the soldiers, this place is in my hands, with a radius of tens of thousands of miles! Except for the fields. In addition, there are mountains, grasslands, etc. The lord has ordered people to transport thirty stones of corngrass seeds to the south of Fulang Mountain, and hand them over to Hu Licheng's family who are raising animals there. Soon, these horses will also go south to graze in Fulang Mountain. Breeding. The lord's request to the Hu family is that before the end of the seventh year of the apocalypse, at least [-] horses must be handed over! Also, in addition to the fields in Xialiao, the lord also ordered me to try planting tea trees and Fulang machines here. The teardrop tree. Xinyuan believes that this place will be another cornucopia in the near future. My lords and gentlemen, you might as well go home and discuss with the head of the house, take some money, and arrange for your nephews and brothers to go there.

After hearing this, the principals of the various workshops immediately fell silent like deflated pig urine bubbles.Yes, the lord wants to breed horses. Who can resist this reason?

"It's time for the fire!" There was a shout in front of the furnace, obviously the molten steel was about to be released soon.

"My lord and all the adults, please wear glasses to prevent damage to eyesight!" Several servants of the metallurgical workshop held a wooden tray with a pair of black goggles inside.

Kiln firing, forging, metallurgy and other things have always caused damage to the eyes in addition to physical damage. In order to protect their eyes, kiln workers in many places specially enshrined the Eyesight Empress, praying that she would protect the eyesight of the believers from damage. less damage.

At the beginning of the establishment of metallurgy, ceramics, glass and other workshops, some of the principals forwarded the matter that the kiln workers asked to build temples for sacrifices. As a person who has accepted modern industrial production, Shou Han himself naturally would not believe what he saw Mistress Xiang, however, labor protection measures for workers are a must.

At the beginning of glass production and manufacturing, in addition to the requirements for decolorization and transparency of the glass, another requirement of Shou Han is how to produce black glass.

It is not difficult to fire and decolorize the glass. Under the reminder of Shou Han, the craftsmen added potassium nitrate, which was precipitated after boiling plant ash and old toilet soil, as a decolorizer for the glass. When it is fired into a liquid state, keep stirring to remove the air bubbles, and then add the decolorization agent potassium nitrate to complete the decolorization process through oxidation. (The old earthen products of the latrine mentioned earlier have other great uses. They are not used to make gunpowder, but they are used here.) According to this technology, although the optical glass made is not as good as the products of the 21st century, in the 17th century, It is also an amazing technology!

The glass windows that Huashan Jiugao, Zheng Zhang, Guan Baoqiong, Hu Yongwen and others saw were made through this process.Such a low cost, but in vain let our pig feet be the scapegoat of the prodigal and the king of subjugation.

After firing the glass into a liquid state, through the gravity of the glass itself, the concave and convex lenses made quietly became the clairvoyance in the hands of officers at all levels, and also became the lenses of microscopes.By the way, the famous Leeuwenhoek is a lens made of gravity, deceiving the whole world that he obtained it through grinding. Such a simple method has deceived the world for hundreds of years!

However, it is easy to take off the color, but how to add the color makes it difficult for everyone!Various methods have been tried countless times, but the glass has never been able to regain its color.

Finally, under the reminder of Huang Qiying and Lin Arong, the two principals and shareholders of the ceramic workshop, people remembered the Zhu Ming material used to color the porcelain when firing the porcelain.

The craftsmen carefully added various pigments such as patina, black material, etc., and sure enough, the glass began to show different colors, which were basically the same as the pigments added.

In this way, everyone knows what's going on in their hearts!The easiest way to get black is to mix all kinds of pigments together!

Soon, the first batch of black goggles came out.

As for the origin of the goggles, the principals of these various workshops have also heard about it, but they don't quite understand the mystery. They only know that the lord is sympathetic to his subordinates and ordered people to make this thing with great effort.Moreover, they are registered and numbered one by one by the craftsmen, and are stored in the personal locker as a treasure.

"Get ready to start the furnace!" With a hoarse shout, everyone hurriedly put on their goggles and stared at the blast furnace in the distance without blinking.

Several strong men opened the furnace door with iron hooks, and a wave of heat rushed towards them. Even though everyone was far away, they were sweating profusely all over.

With the opening of the furnace door, steel flowers were dazzling and sparks splashed everywhere. People didn't care to marvel, but just stared at the eyes, which was something that they never dared to dream about in the past.

Pieces of steel ingots that were still smoking were carried to the crowd, "My lord, gentlemen, this is this furnace of steel!"

"What do you guys think about blast furnace steelmaking?" At the banquet celebrating the success of the metallurgical workshop, Shou Han held his wine glass and looked at the people around him with a smile.

"My lord is wise! I can't wait!" The Master Craftsman's Association, the Han Yuan Company, Tonghe Dyefang, and others are the big shopkeepers of Fengshun Lianhe, the only successor of the Ruan family, and Ruan Fuming, who is currently building roads in the south of the Yangtze River. Also toasted and laughed.

"Hey! Don't brag, Shou Han is covered in steel ingots, how many nails can he drive?"

"My lord, I have an idea, and I would like to share it with my colleagues." Wang Quan, who was in charge of building the ship, stood up and raised his wine glass to toast the guard.

"That is, my lord's words, those who understand should be executed, and those who don't understand should be executed even more. During the execution process, they will be understood!" Wang Quan drank his wine glass, turned it over and took a drink for everyone. "On that day, my lord ordered me to lay a layer of brass below the waterline of the Fubo. To be honest, I didn't think so in my heart! I think my lord is a godsend! Use good brass to cover the bottom of the ship! But, In the past few days, we have carried out inspections on the ships of the navy. The main ship basically has no shellfish attached to the bottom of the ship, let alone the growth of aquatic plants! Such a ship can sail at a constant speed in the water! And other ships, to be honest, have to The old man’s life is over, I’m going to take the big guy and clean up those nasty guys attached to the bottom of the boat bit by bit! Calculated, the cost of money and food is no less than cladding copper on the bottom of the boat! And it needs to be cleaned every year! "

"Old Wang, you've been rambling on and on for a long time, do you want the lord to give you money and food, so that you can cover all the naval gunboats with copper?"

"Of course!" Wang Quan drank a cup happily.He looked at Li Shouhan on the main seat with piercing eyes. Not only was he watching, but the naval officers present were also looking forward to it.

"As long as it is something that can be solved with money and food, it is not a problem!" Shou Han's words made the naval generals present cheer, yes!Everyone knows that what Nanzhong does not lack nowadays is money and food.

"Everyone, listen to me. Don't say that I am wise. I just dare to think more than you. Therefore, you can also be wise people. As long as you dare to think! Dare to experiment, I think everyone is too Wise man! There is no waste that cannot be used, only uses that we do not know!"

One month later, in the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Fengshuling Laboratory of Nanzhong began to lay the foundation stone.

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