After Zhao Ziliang and his party arrived in Xilin to guard the capture, Bo Lehan and others welcomed them out of the city.
They had a simple lunch in the city and then immediately rushed to the steel plant in the south of the city.
The large number of manpower made the construction of the steel plant very fast.
It had only been about a month.
Zhao Ziliang and others had not yet come close.
Not only did they see a wall more than three meters high surrounding the entire steel plant, they also saw the steel plant.
Several houses were built inside the factory.
There are tall chimneys erected on the roofs of the two houses on the far right, which should be the iron-making factory and the steel-making factory.
Before reaching the gate of the steel plant, Zhao Lin and Zhao Hu, the directors of the steel plant, brought Liu Tianci and Liu Hongyi, who were in charge of iron and steelmaking, and many craftsmen to greet them at the door.
There were many soldiers around and on the walls. guard.
Seeing Zhao Ziliang and others galloping towards this side on horseback, Zhao Hu whispered to Zhao Lin beside him: "Don't call my second uncle by his name when you meet him later.
It will be very rude.
Although my second uncle will not follow You are generally knowledgeable, but what will other people think of you?
You have to address yourself as general in front of outsiders.
Don’t let others laugh at our Zhao family for not knowing etiquette."
"Uh."
Zhao Lin reacted, touched his face in embarrassment, and said, "But I'm used to calling him by his name, so it's a bit awkward to suddenly change my name."
Zhao Hu said coldly: "You have to get used to it even if you are not used to it, otherwise you should stop hanging around here.
I ask you, do the emperor's relatives call the emperor's name?
Do they dare to call the emperor's name?"
Zhao Lin opened his mouth and said, "Don't you dare to call the emperor by his first name?
You will be beheaded."
"You also know that this is a crime of beheading.
The principle is the same.
Directly calling Shangguan by his name is a crime of disrespect.
Do you understand?"
Cold sweat broke out on Zhao Lin's forehead, and he nodded repeatedly: "I understand, I understand, this must be changed."
While the two were talking, they saw Zhao Ziliang riding his horse at the front and had already arrived, so he called on everyone to come forward and bowed together: "Welcome General" Zhao Ziliang jumped off the horse, handed the horse to the followers behind him, walked up to Zhao Lin, Zhao Hu, Liu Tianci, Liu Hongyi and others, raised his hand and said with a smile: "No need to be polite."
At this time, Bo Han, Gao Shi, Cen Shen and others also dismounted and came over.
Bo Han said: "The general heard that the steel plant has been basically completed and can be used for iron and steel making, so the general is here today."
Those of you who came here to watch the iron and steel making process, how are you preparing?"
Zhao Lin immediately said: "Everything is ready.
We can start the furnace as soon as the general arrives."
Zhao Ziliang nodded, "Then why don't you wait and go in?"
"General please" Zhao Ziliang took the lead and walked at the front.
Zhao Lin and Zhao Hu led the way on the left and right sides.
Zhao Lin introduced Zhao Ziliang as he walked: "General, here are the guards.
There are defense towers on the left and right, and there are archers deployed. , there are people standing guard day and night.
Next to the westernmost wall is the residence of ordinary craftsmen, with toilets, washing and bathing halls, boiling water rooms, and clothes drying rooms.
The two rows of houses in front of the room are pig iron block warehouses, and the two rows of houses in the back are steel block warehouses.
There is a large open space next to it.
If the production volume is increased in the future, more warehouses can be built.
To the east are iron-making plants and steel-making buildings.
If you want to add a furnace in the future, you can build a factory inside the factory.
There is a lot of free space, and you can build another factory on the open space next to it. " Zhao Ziliang watched as he walked, nodded from time to time after listening to Zhao Lin's introduction, and said: "This place is very well planned, everything is in order, the buildings are built according to the functions and needs, the production areas, living areas The area, raw material storage area and finished product area are all separated, not bad, not bad, who planned this?"
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Bo Lehan pointed at Gao Shi and said: "It was planned according to Master Gao's vision.
We are all rough people, how can we understand this?"
Zhao Ziliang looked at Gao Shi and praised: "A tall man and a great talent."
Gao Shi quickly raised his hands and said humbly: "The general is so complimentary."
Everyone walked into the iron-making workshop while talking.
A tall iron-making furnace was erected in the workshop.
The craftsmen were already ready.
The raw materials of charcoal and hematite ore had been piled in the material preparation area in baskets, because they were nearby.
No coal mines have been discovered yet, so the fuel can only be replaced by charcoal.
These charcoals are all high-quality charcoal, flammable, resistant to burning, and have high firepower.
They were originally large hematite stones, but they have been crushed by this time.
Baskets of debris hit the frame.
Zhao Ziliang observed a circle around the iron-making furnace.
He had to say that the wisdom of the ancients must not be underestimated.
Under extremely simple conditions, these people were able to burn refractory bricks in a kiln in such a short period of time, and then use refractory equipment.
It is not easy to build this iron-making furnace.
Zhao Ziliang pointed to the craftsmen around him and asked Liu Tianci: "Do these craftsmen all know their responsibilities?"
Liu Tianci replied: "Yes, the general and the villains have given them some training in the past month.
They all know what they should do and what they should not do."
"Very good" Zhao Ziliang affirmed and instructed: "Let's get started."
"promise" At Liu Hongyi's order, the craftsmen began to perform their duties.
A craftsman who was responsible for the switch of the furnace door immediately opened the furnace door.
Some craftsmen carried the frame and poured raw materials into the furnace mouth, and some craftsmen poured fuel into the combustion chamber. .
Soon, everything was ready, and Liu Hongyi reported to Zhao Ziliang: "General, everything is ready, just waiting to be lit."
The charcoal in the combustion chamber was drizzled with kerosene, a torch was thrown in, and with a "boom", all the charcoal burned instantly.
The temperature around the iron-making furnace also quickly began to rise.
Zhao Ziliang and others had to retreat to a certain level.
Due to the distance, the craftsmen who add fuel at the door of the combustion chamber can only work naked.
Under the command of Liu Hongyi, the craftsmen pour baskets of charcoal into the combustion chamber continuously, causing the temperature of the combustion chamber to continue to rise.
When the temperature in the furnace reaches more than 1,000 degrees, the iron ore begins to slowly melt.
Ironmaking is actually a process of deoxidation and impurity removal.
This process requires multiple processes to complete.
When all the previous processes were completed, Liu Hongyi climbed up the stairs to the height of the iron-making furnace to check the situation of the molten iron, and immediately instructed to prepare grinding tools to contain the molten iron.
The craftsmen holding the molds were already on standby, and the person responsible for operating the iron-making furnace was A dozen big men immediately used pulleys to pull up the furnace, and then an iron chain pulled the furnace tilted under the force of the pulley, and the red molten iron flowed out of the furnace.
The mouth is poured into a funnel-shaped container.
The molten iron flows from the bottom of the funnel-shaped container into a visible long groove channel, and then flows down the long groove channel.
In the groove channel At the end, the red molten iron flows into the small molds that have been prepared long ago.
After these small molds are filled with molten iron, they are immediately removed and placed in a ventilated place to wait for cooling.
Zhao Ziliang walked to the place where the molten iron was collected and watched the craftsmen taking away the small molds filled with molten iron, and asked: "Where did these small molds filled with molten iron come from?"
Gao Shi replied: "The main material is sand, which is made of clay and water as a binder.
In order to prepare for the construction of this steel plant, we built a kiln not far from the steel plant to bake square green bricks and steel.
The factory walls and building are made of square blue bricks fired in the kiln.”
This gave Zhao Ziliang a big surprise.
He did not expect that these people would come up with a way to bake green bricks and molds.
He quickly asked: "How could you think of using fired green bricks to build factories and walls?"
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Firing adobe bricks into green bricks is not a simple process.”
Liu Hongyi bowed his hands and said: "General, a villain is not talented.
When I was a master craftsman, I accidentally dropped a piece of clay into the combustion chamber of the iron-making furnace.
After the combustion chamber went out, the craftsmen cleaned up the slag.
At that time, he took out a blue stone.
The villain knew it was a lump of soil that had fallen into it by looking at its shape.
Unexpectedly, the stone turned out to be so strong after being fired.
The villain then thought that if the clay chunks were made into a square, Couldn't it be used as the main material for building city walls?
You must know that soil is everywhere.
Later, after dozens of experiments, the villain finally figured out the temperature control and process of firing it.
After getting this result, The villain was about to dedicate his craftsmanship to the imperial court, but something happened at that moment.
Both the villain and Brother Liu were sent to the Western Regions, so there was no chance for the craftsmanship of firing green bricks to be presented to the court."
Zhao Ziliang nodded, patted Liu Hongyi on the shoulder and said: "No problem, I am very interested in your technique of firing green bricks.
In the past, I also ordered people to build kilns and bake bricks in Hexi, but If the craftsmanship is not up to standard, the quality of the fired bricks will not be very good, but they can also be used to build cities and houses.
If you use the green bricks fired by your craftsmanship to build city walls, they will definitely be strong and strong."
Liu Hongyi said quickly: "Later, the villain will write down the firing process in a book and present it to the general.
I hope the general will use it to benefit the people."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Don't worry."
While talking, a craftsman came over with a mold and reported: "Sir, the molten iron in the mold has cooled and turned into hot iron."
Liu Hongyi quickly ordered: "Quickly pour it out and take a look."
When the two craftsmen heard this, they immediately turned the formwork over, and a large iron block fell from the formwork and hit the ground with a muffled sound.
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Is the iron still hot?"
"It's not hot anymore.
After the molten iron cooled and solidified, we poured it with cold water again."
Zhao Ziliang squatted on the ground, picked up the iron block, looked up and down, looked up at Liu Hongyi with great joy, and asked: "Mr.
Liu, how do you like this iron block?"
Liu Hongyi took it and knocked it with a hammer.
After listening to the sound, he said: "The impurities contained in it are already within the expected range.
This is pig iron.
It seems that the iron content of this hematite is very good, otherwise the sound would not be like this."
If the sound is dull, it means there are still a lot of impurities in it.”
"That means it can be used to make steel."
Liu Hongyi said: "Yes, General" Zhao Ziliang was overjoyed, grabbed Liu Hongyi's arms and said: "Okay, okay, Mr.
Liu is a great talent.
Come here.
Mr.
Liu is good at practicing raw iron.
He will be rewarded with a thousand guan.
The remaining craftsmen in the iron-making workshop will be rewarded with ten guan and five guan respectively according to their levels.
Guan and Liang Guan have waited for a while, and I will find a way to exonerate you and make you a free person.
As long as you do well, I will give you an official position."
Liu Hongyi burst into tears for a moment.
How had the craftsmen ever received such attention?
Under the leadership of Liu Hongyi, all the craftsmen in the ironmaking workshop knelt down and thanked him
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