Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 404 Condolences to Workers
No matter how intense the discussion between Sun Xiangfu and his wife was whether they should label themselves as saints, early the next morning, they both dressed up and boarded the carriage to Weinan. The discussion last night did not finalize the result. Today, Yu Xiuer will enforce it.

"Xiu'er! Even if you record your husband's words and deeds, there is no need to follow him to Weinan, and Zhang Ke and the others will tell you later."

"Their memories are unreliable. Besides, you are resisting this matter now, husband, and you will definitely find a way to avoid them."

"I, if I don't resist, can't I do it?"

"But your expression and tone told me that you still resisted."

It is said that a woman who has a child will become fierce. Sun Xiangfu has realized it now. Since they got married, the two have never had such a big disagreement. The implementation of this matter made Sun Xiangfu really angry. For a while, he couldn't understand why a woman born in an aristocratic family paid so much attention to family inheritance after she had a child. Going overboard, saint, is not so easy to do.

"You must have a sore throat and want to sing on stage, so you did it on purpose."

The atmosphere in the carriage was not right, Sun Xiangfu found a blunt reason to change the topic.

"Compared to my husband's great cause of becoming a saint, this concubine's hobby is nothing. Even if I don't sing in the future, I will be willing to do so." Yu Xiu'er said with a straight face, not at all liar.

"Xiu'er, let's not be like this. People live for a lifetime to be happy, especially for an optimist like your husband and me. If you are not happy, I will not be willing to be an emperor."

"Optimist? Is this a new term for your husband? Does it mean indifferent to fame and fortune? I will record it now."

Sun Xiangfu covered his forehead and said with a gloomy expression, "I am so noble as a husband. In fact, I also like fame and fortune very much. I just know that those fame and fortune can be obtained, and those fame and fortune cannot be obtained. Optimists, in fact, just be happy. the meaning of."

"But I just feel that it should mean being indifferent to fame and fortune."

"God, please let me go..."

Sun Xiangfu arrived in Weinan with a look of grief on his face. He felt that Yu Xiu'er was suffering from postpartum boredom and delusions, and he should find something for her to do. Isn't there a folklore about a three-year-old woman who was pregnant for three years?Her brain cells should be activated as soon as possible to return to a normal state.

So, as soon as he got out of the carriage, Sun Xiangfu took Yu Xiuer straight to the performance venue, and appointed Yu Xiuer as the chief director of the show, and asked Li Xiangdie, Yao Hongxiu and others to ask her for instructions no matter how big or small they were, and then, he I hurried to the inspection team headed by Li Shimin, and inspected various construction sites with him. They were all men, but it was difficult for Yu Xiuer to follow, and the performance would be held at night. There were really a lot of things to do on the stage.

Compared with when Sun Xiangfu first visited here more than half a month ago, the setting of the smelter has undergone a major adjustment. The eight super-large workshops at the gate have become warehouses. Walking inside is a long walk. The forging workshop has already begun to install equipment, and the smelting workshop further inside has also set up various furnaces. It seems that they have been tested.

At present, it is impossible to reach the level of smelting in large boilers like the iron and steel factories of later generations. However, dozens of furnaces are turned on at the same time, and the output is unmatched by any smelting workshop in Datang.

After Li Shimin and a group of ministers walked into the smelting workshop, Ma Zhou, who had been prepared for a long time, introduced, "Your Majesty, after the entire smelting plant starts production, there will be eight smelting production workshops, each corresponding to different types of needs, output For steel materials, each production workshop has [-] large smelting furnaces, and the daily output is expected to reach [-] jin."

One hundred thousand catties, that is, about fifty tons. If the daily output is fifty tons, the annual output will be about [-] to [-] tons after excluding some rest days. In terms of output, just the operation of this smelting workshop is equivalent to about three times the total output of Datang Iron and Steel.

Eight workshops, almost [-] times more, plus the increase of smelting workshops in Shanyang, the total output is almost capable of surpassing that of the Song Dynasty in history, but in fact, it will take many years to achieve such a high output .

Because, there are coking coal furnaces and smelting workshops, and if you don’t have so many workers and mines, it’s useless.

With Datang's current mining capacity, even in summer and autumn when the mining volume is relatively large, it is already considered the limit to allow the three production lines to produce at full capacity. Then the overall output can reach a little more than ten times the original, which is enough for now Datang used steel wherever it needed to be used in various aspects. After all, Datang did not have as many people as the Song Dynasty. If there is excess production capacity, it will only lead to cheap outflows.

Of course, this is only based on the current market demand. If Datang wants to build more reinforced concrete buildings in the future, even if this output is increased tenfold, it may not be enough. The output of any listed steel company in the future will be This number is many times higher, and the infrastructure of this country has not been completed to a very high level. The country is too big and the population is too large. Even if all the ore is mined, it may not be enough, and future generations will also rely heavily on it. Only by importing ore can we slowly advance infrastructure projects.

When Li Shimin and all the ministers saw the relatively huge smelting furnaces in this period, and heard the data from Ma Zhoubao, they were all amazed. They could produce [-] jin of steel materials a day, which was unprecedented for them in the past. Things you can't even think about.

"Have you already started the trial? Is the output accurate?"

"After each furnace was erected, the old smelter tried a furnace. According to the smelting time and the amount of iron, there is no problem. It's just that there are not enough skilled smelters to operate all the furnaces at the same time. It will take about a month for the previously recruited apprentices to actually operate, and before the Spring Festival, the first smelting workshop should be able to operate."

It is now November, and there is still more than a month before the Spring Festival. The reason why Ma Zhou said that he has more time is because the forging workshop that is matched with the smelting workshop is also short of manpower. Although the steel filling technology used in the smelting workshop , is a new steelmaking method invented by Qi Wuhuaiwen during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, which can reduce the number of repeated folding and forging, and is easy to operate and easy to master.

But theoretical training is always theoretical training. Workers who have never done this industry before have no practical operation for a month or two. In the initial stage of the industry, some processes must be experienced to accumulate experience.

"Very good. If all the workshops can be put into operation, I, a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, will be equipped with iron armor. Who else in the world will dare to compete with him?"

Li Shimin's dream is good, but, as a more pragmatic minister, Ma Zhou had to keep him awake.

"Your Majesty, it is difficult for the smelter to operate at full capacity unless the speed of ore mining is increased by more than ten times."

Hearing this, Li Shimin was stunned and said, "Didn't you have already asked you to auction the mine and let the folks organize mining by themselves?"

According to the news he had received before, the mine had sold a lot, and it had withdrawn a lot of funds for the imperial court. At least a quarter of the more than 2000 million military purchases would come from the income from selling mines.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, some of the mines have been sold, but the output will not be able to be effectively enlarged for a while. The mining technology of ordinary people is very limited. In addition, the winter is cold, and transportation is not a good solution."

When it comes to mining technology, Li Shimin turned his attention to Sun Xiangfu. Among the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, he was the only one who was skilled.

"Uh, that, Your Majesty, the minister is not omnipotent. Since there are technical problems, Your Majesty should organize manpower research to overcome these technical problems. The reason why so many engineering students are selected in the current imperial examination is not to let them come to the factory to work as workers. In addition to managing workers, various industrial technology research groups must be established to study and solve the problems encountered in all industrial production in Weinan."

Hearing this, Li Shimin nodded, turned his head and said to Yan Lide, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, "Did Lide hear Zhengming's words! I will ask the Ministry of Industry to build an industrial research institute in Weinan as a place for all industrial technology research. You let those skilled craftsmen and Jinke's engineering candidates set up multiple research groups to collect and study the technical problems encountered in these industrial developments. Whoever can find a solution to the problem will be promoted and rewarded by the imperial court. "

"No, after the minister goes down, handle it immediately."

Yan Lide took Li Shimin's new task, but Sun Xiangfu answered from the sidelines, "Your Majesty, the imperial court actually only needs to be promoted, and the rewards can be offered by the owners of these factories themselves. In this way, these researchers The imperial court does not need to spend the required research funds, and if there are many research results, it may bring high benefits to the imperial court.”

Many scientific research institutes in later generations seek sponsorship from businessmen, and then share scientific research results with these businessmen. Although industrial technology research in this period is far from scientific research, the nature is the same. I want to do one thing for a long time. , then, it is very important to keep it profitable and not become a burden on the court.

Otherwise, once one of Li Shimin's descendants is short of money to spend, they may cut off such departments that only spend money from the court. At that time, the road to technological research and development may be cut off again.

Of course, the theme of this inspection is not to check the construction progress of Weinan Industrial New City, but to cheer up all the workers involved in the construction of Weinan, let them overcome difficulties, and complete the construction of related industries before the imperial court and Goguryeo start the national war. Export ordnance and weapons for the army.

The last door of the smelter is the ore warehouse. Here, there are a lot of workers busy. In addition to moving the ore, they also have to break the larger ore as much as possible for easy smelting. The arrival of Li Shimin and a group of ministers , interrupting the workers who were working in full swing.

"Fathers and folks, you have worked hard, and I have come to see you specially."

Just a word, all the people who were working hard just now stood there in a daze, looking at Li Shimin with a look of awe and admiration that was a little unbelievable.

"Your Majesty, at this time, if you go up and shake hands with them and pat the dust off their bodies, the effect will be better."

Sun Xiangfu gritted his teeth and whispered in Li Shimin's ear with a very small voice.

Li Shimin didn't realize it, and walked into the warehouse full of ore without even looking at Sun Xiangfu. Then, as Sun Xiangfu said, he took the rough palm of the first worker and looked at it. Looking at the cracked wound on the back of his hand, he stroked gently, "Thanks for your hard work, you have bled and sweated for the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Neither I nor the country will forget your contribution."

Worker A, who was trembling with excitement after being caught by the hand, was filled with a great sense of happiness in his heart at this moment, and almost fainted.

"Grass people don't work hard, grass people don't work hard..."

Worker A held back for a long time, and only this sentence came out. Li Shimin smiled and patted his shoulder lightly, and continued on the ore pile, shaking hands with the second worker, and the third worker. Soon, many The workers took the initiative to extend their hands, and Li Shimin quickly shook hands with the workers one by one.

They didn't think the dust on their hands was dirty, and while holding them, they said with a little shame, "I'm a bit late, and your hands are frostbitten and bruised from work. It's because I didn't think carefully enough, but in the future Don't worry everyone, I brought you warm and comfortable cotton gloves, and cotton socks that can protect your ankles, gentlemen, hurry up and join me in distributing gloves and cotton socks to these folks... "..."

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