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Chapter 941 - Inadvertently Invented Stainless Steel (1)


After the founding of the Western Qin Dynasty, Zhao Ziliang did not focus all his energy on military affairs, foreign wars and political affairs.

In fact, he had already determined the general direction in government affairs.

The specific details and implementation were naturally completed and implemented by the Government Affairs Council.

In terms of military affairs, , the military affairs of the Western Qin Dynasty also changed with the changes of time and situation.

At the beginning, the territory of the Western Qin Dynasty only consisted of Beiting, Sogdia, and Tochara, so the Western Qin army's army was maintained at about 120,000.

Later, considering the need to maintain local stability while also dealing with external threats, the Western Qin Army formulated The compulsory soldier system was established, and about 30,000 conscripts were added throughout the Western Qin Dynasty.

As the compulsory soldier system matured, the number of soldiers once increased to about 100,000.

Because it is not a standing army, it will retire in three years. , and the cost was not high, so this number was maintained for several years.

Even after Tianzhu was defeated, the number of volunteer soldiers did not increase again, because there were too many young people who had grown up in the past few years, and all the young people could not be allowed to do so.

Everyone joins the army, and they can only be recruited if they meet the requirements.

In this way, the quality of the conscripts of the Western Qin Army is getting higher and higher, and the overall combat effectiveness of the army has been improved.

Under the rule of Zhao Ziliang, the Western Qin Dynasty not only vigorously developed the military and improved the governance level of officials, but also paid special attention to cultural education and academic research.

The newly built Western Qin Library has been completed.

This library covers an area of ​​2,000 acres.

It not only collects works from various schools of thought in the Central Plains, but also collects a large number of books from India, Dashi, the Eastern Roman Empire and Italy. stored there for scholars to read and study According to research, the books stored here cover many subjects, such as astronomy, geography, arithmetic, religion, philosophy, military, politics, poetry, agriculture, forestry, hydrology, navigation, etc.

There are even a large number of books that are considered heretical by the Western Vatican.

Books on physics and chemistry.

The royal family of the Western Qin Dynasty also provides research funds to scholars from all walks of life who are engaged in the research of various academic thoughts.

If scholars want to engage in research in a certain academic field, they can provide detailed research ideas and ideas as well as previous works to apply for funding.

If they are awarded With royal approval, funding can be obtained.

The relaxed religious policy has made the religious atmosphere in various parts of the Western Qin very harmonious.

There is no terrible situation where the Dashi Kingdom and the Western countries are either believers of the same faith or heretics.

However, the government does not ignore the belief.

The government has a specialized agency to deal with it.

Various sects in the country carry out administrative management, and at the same time invite respected people from each sect to join them and jointly participate in management.

This allows each sect to supervise itself.

Zhao Ziliang also attaches great importance to the spiritual entertainment activities of his people.

Before the founding of the Western Qin Dynasty, local governments organized Jucu teams.

Competitions were held locally every year, and the winning team was selected and sent to Xinjing to compete.

The Cu team was renamed the football team, and the government had a special Yamen to manage it.

Organize and organize various competitions, and formulate and improve detailed competition rules.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, football teams in various places became private under the instructions of Zhao Ziliang.

The government sold the football teams to private businessmen, and the people managed them by themselves.

The official was only responsible Organizing competitions and adjudicating various disputes.

After the football team was formalized, various folk entertainment competitions sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, such as calligraphy contests, poetry contests, composition contests, singing contests, Huqin and other musical instrument contests, wrestling contests, Fighting ring competition, sword fighting, archery, equestrian, mounted archery, etc.

Chen Qingying and Nie Sanniang are both loyal fans of the royal football team.

The biennial National Football League has begun again.

On this day, they dragged Zhao Ziliang to accompany them to watch the game.

The arrival of the king, queen and princess made the audience excited and the whole audience applauded.

The players who had just entered the field were also very motivated after hearing the news.

The Xinjing Football Stadium has an auditorium specially provided for royal family members and ministers.

Zhao Ziliang and others were sitting here.

After the game started, Chen Qingying and Nie Sanniang both watched with gusto.

They got angry from time to time and even cursed someone for not doing so.

It should be played like this.

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Zhao Ziliang seemed a little absent-minded.

He was worried about the situation in Dashi's country, and at the same time he was worried about the situation of the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

This afternoon, he had discussions with the leading figures of various sects who came from all over the Western Qin Dynasty to discuss the regularization of each sect.

Management things.

After finally watching the game, Zhao Ziliang returned to the palace and saw Zheng San waiting outside Xuanwu Fort.

Zheng San saw Zhao Ziliang's chariot coming back and quickly stepped forward and saluted: "See you, Your Majesty."

Zhao Ziliang asked: "Why are you here?"

Zheng San said: "I have something urgent to report to the king, but I was told that the king is not in the palace, so I have to wait here."

Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the eunuch of the Royal Household Office: "Give Mr.

Zheng a badge.

From now on, whether the king is in the palace or not, he can enter the palace and wait."

"Yes, Your Majesty" Zheng San immediately followed Zhao Ziliang and others into the palace.

After the women entered the inner palace, they went to the side hall of Qinzheng Palace and sat down.

Zhao Ziliang asked: "Why are you so urgent?"

Zheng San put the brocade box he had brought on the table, opened it, took out two pieces of metal and asked, "Your Majesty, look at the difference between these two pieces of steel."

Zhao Ziliang picked up two steel blocks in confusion and weighed them in his two hands: "The weight is about the same, but the one on the right hand seems to be smoother."

Zheng San nodded and said: "Yes, this piece of smoother steel has a special function.

It will not rust.

Even if you soak it with acidic things, it will not melt easily.

But this ordinary piece of steel on your left hand only needs It will rust after a few days, and it will not be able to withstand acidic corrosion.”

"What is this, stainless steel?"

Zhao Ziliang shook his hand and almost dropped the steel block.

He stood up involuntarily in surprise and asked quickly: "Where did it come from?"

Zheng Sandao: "The Suiye City Weapon Forging Factory accidentally poured a basket of ores of different colors into a pot of molten iron when it was smelting it.

This is what the resulting steel block looked like."

Zhao Ziliang immediately shouted to the outside: "Here comes, prepare immediately, I am going to Suiye City to inspect" "yes" On March 18, Zhao Ziliang and Zheng San hurried to Suiye City with a small number of guards.

To the east of Suiye City and to the west of Daqing Pond, there was a steel smelting plant that had been established for ten years.

When he took over as the Protector of Beiting, he moved from Xilin Protector.

The Suiye City Steel Smelting Plant is heavily guarded and has an extremely high level of confidentiality.

It has a dedicated army of soldiers and horses responsible for security guarding.

The craftsmen and craftsmen who are engaged in work and research in the steel smelting plant must go through it every day when going up or down.

After a body search, they are not allowed to bring anything in or out.

Their families live in a nearby family area, and a strict access control system is implemented in the family area.

Relatively speaking, the wages and benefits of the craftsmen and craftsmen working here are very high, which is also a kind of compensation.

After receiving the news that the king was about to visit the steel smelting plant for inspection, the officials in charge of the iron plant and the captain responsible for security guards quickly rushed to the door with some craftsmen and soldiers and lined up on both sides of the door to greet him.

The steel smelting plant belongs to the military department, so Zhao Ziliang came here on horseback, fully clothed.

When the officials, craftsmen and soldiers saw Zhao Ziliang running over on horseback surrounded by a large group of Dragon Guard soldiers, they all bowed down and said, "Greetings to the king." , I sincerely welcome the king to visit the steel plant for inspection.”

"Let's all get back together."

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and jumped off the horse after saying that.

Behind him, there were guards from the Dragon Guard Army leading the horses away.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

The officials, craftsmen and soldiers stood up one after another.

At this time, the gate of the iron factory was wide open.

Zhao Ziliang was welcomed in by officials and craftsmen.

The soldiers of the Dragon Guard followed behind to protect him.

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The garrison soldiers of the steel factory were on guard outside.

The gate of the iron factory was rarely opened once in several years.

Even if When the officials from the Duhufu came, they only opened the side door to greet them.

Usually, internal officials and generals used the small door next to them to go to work.

Guided by the officials and craftsmen of the steel plant, Zhao Ziliang, Zheng San and others visited various production workshops and production processes and links of the steel plant, and visited the craftsmen at work.

When visiting the No. 1 steelmaking workshop, Zhao Ziliang asked: "I heard that you accidentally made a rust-free and corrosion-resistant steel block."

The steel mill official replied, "Yes, my lord."

"Tell me how to make this rust-free and corrosion-resistant steel block."

"Yes."

The steel mill official agreed and introduced: "Your Majesty, a batch of iron ore was transported from the Kimak Protectorate on the sixth day of last month.

These iron ores are mixed with some bright red ore.

This kind of bright red ore is It is similar to but slightly different in color from the iron ore we know.

At that time, we used Because it was the same type of iron ore, I didn't pay attention to it, so I used it for smelting.

However, after smelting a furnace of molten iron and cooling it, I found that there was lead in the iron.

Lead is relatively common, and any craftsman with a little experience will know this. , so we learned that this ore not only contains iron, but also lead.

We can only use acid to melt the iron block and precipitate the lead in the iron block.

However, the melting speed of the iron block becomes extremely slow, which we have never seen before.

But when we filter out the lead, But we were surprised to find that the molten iron had color.

When the molten iron cooled, it turned into iron blocks. , and it is brighter than a handful of iron.

After decarburizing it, we conducted various performance tests and found its differences, which made us believe that there is something we don’t know about the ore with different colors.

Metal, or metal never seen before, that’s what happened.”

Zhao Ziliang knew that this metal was named chromium in later generations.

Steel with a certain proportion of chromium has the physical properties of being rust-free and corrosion-resistant.

He told the officials and craftsmen: "In addition to gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead, there are In addition to this unknown metal, there must be other metals, but We haven't discovered their existence yet.

You must be more careful when encountering metal ores.

Also, see if you can find a way to extract this unknown metal separately.

Since the metal containing it is stainless and corrosion-resistant, properties, that means it has a wide range of functions.”

The officials and craftsmen agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty, we will find a way to refine it

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