The Empress’s Gigolo

The next morning, he went out at 8,000 to join the Tong Zhenye, accompanied by the Ordnance Secretary Air Throat, and the Ordnance Secretary Shao Qing Zha Hongbo, and his team led the guards to the outside of the city.

Ren Baqian rides a horned ox, the most common mount on the Da Yao Plain, and is mixed with the crowd. From time to time, it seems that there are nails underneath. .

However, riding a mountain bird in the crowd requires great courage. Not to mention the immediate sense of sight of BMW people mixing into an Alto, the odor that is faint but drills directly into your nose is enough to remove most of the People pushed far away.

It ’s the first time for Renbaqian to go to the east gate of Lancheng. After leaving Dongcheng, go forward two pillars and turn north. For half an hour, you can see a small mountain bag. You can see the black smoke from there. When I walked closer, I saw a wall surrounded by rocks with a height of one person in front. There was a gate directly in front of it. This was Jingtian Furnace.

The iron ore in Liucui Mountain is generally smelted first in a small town outside the mountain, and then transported here like the iron ore in Damo Mountain.

The guard always opened the door when he saw a group of people. After entering, they could see a large vacant lot of sparsely piled iron ore, copper ore after smelting, and a large pile of dried wood.

And the ore that Ren Baqian saw in the Ministry of Industry yesterday was also transported over and piled aside, and someone was crushing it.

Several big-faced big men put the limestone ore on an iron plate, and then slap it down. It turned into a bunch of small pieces. A short while, a pile of rubble appeared on the iron plate, and then Someone transported it to the iron plate on the other side, and there was a huge stone mill on it, just like the light mill in front of the roller. Two people pushed the huge stone mill left to right and directly to the gravel. Pressing it turned into a bunch of smaller end of the year, and then pushed back.

Several times when the iron plate came down, a piece of stone powder and a small amount of debris were added. Then someone received it and sifted it out with a sieve.

When everyone turned around and watched their crushed stones turned into powder, the people in the Ministry of Industry hurried out and took the people and walked in.

It is said to be an earthen kiln. It is better to say that it is a cylinder made of earth, two meters in diameter and three meters in height. After placing iron ore in it, a large amount of firewood is placed to melt it. Adding a relatively rare kind of firewood called wood burning can push the temperature to the point where it can melt the iron.

The molten iron then flows down a slot below.

The iron obtained in this way is very soft and has a lot of impurities in it. It also requires the craftsman to beat out the impurities with a lot of time after heating.

It can be said that such a molten iron forging method is rather inefficient, not to mention time consuming, and the consumption of firewood is also extremely large.

Ren Baqian nodded and understood as he walked while listening to Jingtian Furnace officials from the Ministry of Industry.

However, when Ren Baqian walked in, he saw a large one-person box beside several iron melting furnaces, and someone kept pushing the wind into the iron melting furnace.

It was the bellows that Ren Yaqian and Fenghou said last time.

"With this bellows, the temperature in the furnace has increased a lot, and the speed of ironmaking has also been much faster. Thanks to Ren Fuyu." The wind throat nodded and said to Ren Baqian.

The Ministry of Industry official listened to this and looked at Renbaqian. From the words of the wind throat, he heard that the blower was proposed by him?

"When will the other bellows be ready?" Feng Hou asked the Ministry official again.

"It will be fine in two days." The Ministry official answered quickly.

"Is the cement raw material in proportion?" Ren Baqian asked the copper earthquake field. The copper earthquake field looked at the wind throat, the wind throat looked at Zhe Hongbo, and Zhan Hongbo looked at the official again.

"Master, are those stones that were delivered yesterday? They have been matched as said." The official said quickly.

Ren Baqian scanned the eyes of several people, watching each of them looking at one, thinking that he might as well ask this official at the beginning.

"What's it called?"

"Master Fu Xia, Xiaguan is Jingtian Furnace Supervisor. Call me Tiemu. I can ask Xiaguan if there is anything I don't understand." Tiemu Baoquan said. The husband-in-law chosen by the emperor is the only one in the entire dynasty who is not of the ancient ethnic group.

Not to mention the official in Lancheng.

"Bring the cement raw material." Ren Baqian nodded. "Look at the effect of burning out."

Next, someone brought the cement raw powder. Ren Baqian took a look. The powder was sifted out.

Then find an empty furnace to add firewood, and then the hollow core pillars made of clay with fine holes are filled with cement raw materials and put into the empty furnace. After a while, the heavy smoke blew from above the earth furnace. Arise, and spread around, and everyone retreated to a distance.

In order to make the temperature reach the requirement of any eight thousand, another person covered his nose and pulled the bellows in the thick smoke, coughing twice from time to time, and then someone changed him down.

"How long will this burn?" Tong Zhenye asked.

"It shouldn't take long before the temperature is reached." Ren Baqian wasn't quite sure. The only information he got was what kind of changes the cement had at a certain temperature, but he did not say how long it would take to burn.

"Try to burn the bricks again," Ren Baqian said, looking at the empty earth furnace around him.

Originally, I prepared a brick-burning furnace after the cement was burned, but now I look at this earthen furnace, Ren Baqian, I can try it. Anyway, I am idle.

They have also taken those clays back for a while. Although they have not been aired, they have also weathered long enough. Burning bricks should be enough.

Then the craftsman of Jingtian Furnace started to pour the clay powder into the trough and add water to the mud, followed by his instructions. Then he squeezed out a piece of brick embryo, placed a circle around the wall in the clay stove, and then added wood in the middle Calcined.

"I'm afraid this will burn for about ten days, don't cut off the fire in the middle." Ren Baqian said to Tiemu, and Tiemu quickly wrote down.

Until now, he didn't know what these big guys would do to burn the mud. Anyway, they arranged what to do. Now Jingtian Furnace has nothing to do, and they have to spend at least half a month in a month.

The cement burned quickly. It was turned off and cooled quickly before dark, and then the clay pot was taken out and the cement inside was poured to the ground. It had been sintered into a block ~ www.readwn.com ~ and fell into small pieces when it fell to the ground.

Everyone took their eyes to see Ren Qianqian. Is this what he said is almost the same as stone?

Ren Baqian squatted beside the pile of clinker and grabbed it with his hands. Some crystals like glass were added to his hands, which were sintered at high temperature just now. ,

"Oh? This is a gem?" Wind Throat was surprised first, and then a look that revealed the secret of Tianda appeared on his face.

When it was just sent in, it was obviously soil, but how could there be gems inside? Although it is small and very small, and not very valuable, it is also a gem. It is more valuable than this earth.

Although things did not burn to stone as Ren Baqian said, it would be a great improvement if gems could be burned from the soil.

But everyone immediately began to imagine.

Where was the soil dug? Someone will dig tomorrow.

"It's glass, or a crystal similar to glass." Ren Baqian squinted his eyes and looked at the crowd. His lack of culture was scary.