In the afternoon, Liu Guangzheng led a crowd out of the city to take a look at the construction status of the blast furnace outside the city.
The imperial court has a Ministry of Works, which specializes in civil engineering work. People from the Ministry of Works are responsible for repairing palaces and city walls. As long as a palace is maintained regularly, there will be no problem for hundreds or thousands of years.
This shows that the Ministry of Industry has many skilled craftsmen.
Throughout the dynasties, the emperor has never wronged himself in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
And these craftsmen were asked to repair the blast furnace. Even if Liu Guangzheng only provided a rough sketch, the skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry still only spent more than a month to add hundreds of millions of details to the drawings and officially
Construction started, and now, most of the blast furnace has been built.
The blast furnace was built next to the Grand Canal outside the capital, but it was intended to use water power to drive the blower to increase the temperature of the furnace.
As for the blast furnaces, two were built. One was used to desulfurize coal and distill it into coke to prevent iron sulfide from reducing strength. The other was a furnace.
As for the traditional furnaces of this era, they are simply unable to reach the temperature required to melt iron. Smelting good iron is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also has extremely low output, but iron is the basis of industrialization.
According to Liu Guangzheng's estimation, if this single large furnace is completed, its annual iron output may be comparable to 30% of the national output.
This is just the first one, it is a pilot project. Once the iron is smelted and some of it is sold, more blast furnaces can be built and more iron produced.
As for the original unemployment problem of blacksmiths, he wanted to industrialize and there was a shortage of workers. The former blacksmiths could directly transform.
After looking at the blast furnace, only Liu Guangzheng looked at the gold bricks used to build the blast furnace.
The so-called gold brick is of course not real gold, but the sound of the brick being struck is crisp and clear, like gold and iron.
This brick is not only durable, but also because it is a clay brick, it is very fire-resistant, with a melting point as high as 1,700 degrees. To burn good iron, a temperature of 1,500 degrees is enough.
And this is also the most refractory material that Liu Guangzheng has found so far.
As for the source of this material, it was a ready-made material that he procured directly from the floor tiles in several halls of the palace.
In Nanhuang, Zhao Chengjian's blast furnace was made of clay bricks fired in large quantities, but some refractory clay was mixed into them, so it barely met the requirements.
The floor tiles in the palace were not easy to make and were of high quality, so they met the requirements.
After all, these bricks are all engraved with the names of the craftsmen. If the bricks are broken, people will die, and even the three and nine tribes will die. In this case, naturally no one dares to be careless.
Liu Guangzheng naturally knew that lifting floor tiles from the palace was not a long-term solution, so he had already sent people to study the method of firing refractory bricks.
Boom!
Liu Guangzheng tapped the gold bricks with his fingers, and the sound was clear and crisp. They were indeed good bricks, and no one would pass them off as inferior.
However, his mind changed and he immediately ordered to go to the south of the construction site.
As soon as these words came out, the team immediately headed south in a mighty manner, but at the end of the team, someone told his men to hurry up and prepare.
Because the bricks pried out from the palace are all good bricks, the kind that are valuable but not marketable. As for the marks on the bricks, just let people rub them away.
As for the things that flowed out of the palace, some wealthy businessmen were very superstitious about this, thinking that there was dragon energy on them, and the floor tiles were believed to contain the virtues of the earth and contained the virtues of the earth.
It's just that in the past, no one had the ability to pry bricks from the palace.
This time Liu Guangzheng took the initiative to open his mouth, which naturally gave opportunities to those who were interested.
This is mainly because the power of the imperial court is not as powerful as before. Even if it is something that the emperor values very much, there are still people who dare to pass it off as inferior.
Now, in fact, most of the bricks have been sold and replaced with inferior gold bricks.
When it comes to the firing of gold bricks, one usually chooses one of four, that is, the best one is selected from the four, and the rest is directly destroyed.
It's just that in the last years of the dynasty, those defective products are generally not destroyed, but only have their marks worn off, and then flow into the market.
Regarding this matter, everyone in the court, except for the emperor, probably knew about it, but the people below had enough money, so they all turned a blind eye.
Facing Liu Guangzheng's inspection, these officials also made several preparations.
There is a batch of bricks, but they have been put on the car and are on standby. Wherever the emperor goes, this batch of bricks will be sent to that place and stacked on the outermost layers of the defective products.
The emperor's time for traveling was limited, and it was impossible to really uncover the bricks layer by layer and examine them.
Therefore, a group of officials did not panic at all.
But halfway along the road, Liu Guangzheng suddenly ordered to stop, and then directly ordered to go to the west of the construction site.
As soon as these words came out, everything was completely silent. Many people broke into cold sweat, but they never expected that such a thing would happen.
Afterwards, the few people at the back did not panic at all, as if this was indeed the case.
About an hour later, a group of people came to the west side of the construction site. A large number of gold bricks were piled neatly and their sheen was visible.
It turned out that the person who ordered his men had long expected that Liu Guangzheng would play the trick of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, so at the beginning, he asked his men to prepare for the west.
Only Liu Guangzheng let out a long sigh. He has special powers and can sense emotions. He could clearly detect the emotional changes of some officials when he said he went to the south.
Obviously, there is something fishy here.
Inexplicably, most of the joy of seeing the blast furnace built disappeared completely.
Indeed, he had the intention to save the world, but he had no choice but his men, who tried their best to hold him back, and felt complacent because they had deceived him, the emperor.
Don't those people know that today's Zhao thief has only one word for the powerful and wealthy, kill?!
If that day comes, they will never end well.
They all know it, and they also know that no eggs are left unbroken when the nest is overturned, but they always feel that they are just a little bit greedy. The imperial family has a great cause and is not less than this little, so everything will be fine.
It's not scary for one person to think this way, but the scary thing is that everyone thinks this way.
Liu Guangzheng couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. Although he became the emperor as soon as he traveled through time, there were too many pitfalls at the beginning.
"Someone, please uncover this gold brick layer by layer!"
On boarding the car, Liu Guangzheng waved his hand and slowly closed his eyes. Following this order, an old official at the back of the team suddenly covered his heart, and then fell directly to the ground. He was actually hit directly.
Scared to death.
Immediately, there was a panic in the venue.
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Two hours later, an imperial edict came out of the palace. The next day, more than a hundred officials, big and small, were beheaded, six tribes were annihilated, their homes were confiscated and their families were exterminated. Suddenly, a bloody storm broke out in the divine capital.
This chapter has been completed!