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Two hundred and fifty-four chapters open hearth steel

The reason why they don’t get a set of coins alone is Hong Tao who thinks it is unnecessary. The Song Dynasty will not play a currency war with him because they don’t understand this. Instead of spending half a day to get a set of currency system alone, they have to promote it everywhere. It is better to add icing on the cake based on Song coins. At first glance, for Jinhewan, the demand for copper is actually greater than that of gold and silver. The most useless one is gold and silver. Now it is just turning waste into treasure. Copper coins are used from Song Dynasty, and gold and silver are produced from Jinhewan, complement each other, and complement each other in all directions!

In addition, Hong Tao doesn't understand the economy very well. He does not know how to save trouble. He doesn't learn from a system that has been in operation for hundreds of years and has to create a new one. He can't see where the profit is, nor can he see whether he will suffer or take advantage of the future mutual trade. This problem has to be slowly pondered in the future. Now he has no time or energy to think about those things. Every day he has to spend various meetings, listen to reports on the reform of various departments, and then solve the problem with everyone. When he really encounters a difficult problem, he has to continue thinking about it. He tells others not to be anxious, take it slowly. In fact, the most anxious thing is him, often staying for a night.

Since the board of directors passed the proposal of Hong Tao to become emperor and Jinhewan to Jinhe Empire, two 6 team members stood at the gate of Hong Tao's courtyard. These were guards arranged by Cixi for Hong Tao. He said that the emperors had a lot of guards, and the emperors of Jinhe Empire could not be too miserable. They had to make up for the numbers. After his brother trained the police from the Interior Bureau, they would be replaced with full-time guards. These two 6 team members were not just decorations. Anyone who wanted to enter Hong Tao's courtyard had to be informed first and could only enter after they were allowed. Cixi said that this was a basic etiquette. The imperial emperor's family could not enter the same as the vegetable market. If this was reported, it would be laughed at by people from other countries.

This time, Cixi's proposal was unanimously agreed by the cabinet members and parliament members. They also believed that the emperor should look like an emperor, because Hong Tao was not only Hong Tao, but also represented the entire people of the Jinhe Empire, and there must be some necessary considerations. There were even two Han members from the northern part of the Han Dynasty who suggested to make a set of royal palace regulations similar to the Song Dynasty, which was actually approved by many parliamentarians. They did not think about so many legal documents, but this proposal was first sent to Hong Tao, the Prime Minister, who wanted him, the Prime Minister, to submit it to the parliament for discussion and approval. First, a set of laws and regulations for the emperor.

Of course, Hong Tao would not make this thing, his intentions would be punished! This is a different way to torture himself and his descendants, dreaming! Hong Tao firmly detained this proposal and ordered Cixi to tell his brother to keep an eye on these two members of the parliament. Once they find that they are engaged in gang alliances in private, report immediately. Such people cannot be kept, especially in the parliament, which is a disaster!

"Prime Minister Qi is asking for a meeting outside." Early in the morning, Hong Tao had just come to run for breakfast and sent Minister Bo Zhubo, who was so busy that he was not touching the ground, had his butt on the chair before he could sit on the hot seat, and the knocking sounded. The guards at the door shouted at the top of their voices as if they were on the ship.

"Shush a few more times, and the neighbors around him should move. It's not at sea, I can hear it. By the way, are you two having breakfast? Do you want to try the cake skills of the Prime Minister's wife and queen?" Hong Tao did not dare to hesitate for a moment, and rushed to the door in two steps, opened the door and put his finger on his mouth and made a move to silence. It was too disturbing to the public.

"Director Ci said he wouldn't let us disturb Mr." This 6-team member was a young man from Li. He obviously wanted to eat, but he didn't dare to say he wanted to.

"You know who you are. You are Team 6. What do I say Team 6 belongs to the Ministry of Supervision? You are soldiers of the Ministry of National Defense, why should you listen to him? I am the Minister of National Defense. I said that if you can eat, you must be able to eat. Go to the kitchen to take it away. I don't like leftovers. You have completed the order and helped your minister, Prime Minister, and the emperor solve the big problem. By the way, you invite Minister Qi over there. What about others?" Hong Tao cannot do without the brother Cixi, who is the brother Cixi. Sometimes he is very annoying to them. Otherwise, the brother Cixi is the most difficult job. It is really an offensive to people from all sides and several jobs that are angry. It is difficult for the spy chiefs of all dynasties to be good. I hope that the brothers will not force themselves to that point and kill Ma Su.

"Minister Qi said you were asked to go to the foundry to find him, and then rode the horse and ran away. This stall of horse manure was pulled by his horse. His horse did not bring his bag!" Another 6th team member answered Hong Tao's question and also told Qi Zu. With the establishment of Jinhe City, the places that could be reached by strolling around now seem a bit far away, so some people had the idea of ​​horses, with good legs and feet and fast learning, and Qi Zu was one of them. However, for the sake of the tidyness of the city, Hong Tao once announced a decree that horses entering the city must bring their bags of manure, otherwise they would be arrested and swept the streets.

"Then you don't catch him. Now you tell me that it's useless. Can I still hold horse manure and go to him? He has become the minister. Don't you dare to catch him?" Hong Tao had no horses and wanted to have them, but he was not at home all year round. There were several horses he hadn't grabbed, so he could only hold his legs. Before leaving, he didn't forget to complain to the 6 team members who complained.

"My sister works as a drawing worker under the minister." This 6-team member is a northern Han Chinese and has really troubles.

"Then I warn you, when the law is announced in the future, if you don't arrest him, and let Director Ci's subordinates appear and sue the Ministry of National Defense, you will be arrested. It is not a death sentence to betrayal for personal gain, but it is certain that you will deduct your salary for several months and be in prison for several months. After you come out, you have to be fired from the army. Let your sister support you!" Hong Tao was just a joke, but he didn't expect that he would be accurate, so he simply stopped and warned the 6th team members. Looking at his confusion in his eyes, he walked towards the dock with his hands on his back and walked with his crab steps.

Now almost all the original forests within one kilometer of the south bank of the Jin River have been cut down. The soft soil has been re-filled, and some of the volcanic ash has been stirred in, which has become semi-cement hardened ground. The two factories are built here, and they have been deep into the woods for a few kilometers. From south to north, there are foundries, smelters and forging plants. The north is the forging plants and smelters. They are very different. There are three huge water trucks on the river bank, which are the source of power for forging hammers. The smelter only has one water truck for blowing the wind, but four earth blast furnaces emit thick smoke all day long. At this time, a rectangular house is being built on a newly opened open space. It is another monster of the era that Qi Zu pieced together according to the fragments in Hong Tao's memory, an acidic blast furnace!

Hong Tao saw this thing more than once in a steel mill where his father worked to transform, and his father told him more than once more about the general principles of this thing. In addition, he also came into contact with this knowledge after going to school. He could still remember some working principles and main structures. After all, he was a college student who was trained on steel. He was embarrassed to graduate if he didn't learn anything related to steelmaking. But memory is still memory. Not to mention experiments, he had never even touched it with his own hands. It was just a talk on paper.

But Qi Zu and the others don’t think so. They think that the master is leading the way to practice. Hong Tao is a master, so there is no need to teach everyone everything step by step. In this way, he cannot show his ability to be a master. He only needs to have a feasible idea or idea, which is very enough. The remaining stage of realization is completed by their disciples, which is also a test for the disciple. Being able to complete means that you have the capital to be Hong Tao’s disciple, but not being able to complete means that you are not talented enough, and the achievements of this life are here.

If he had changed to a master, craftsmen like Qi Zu would not have been so hard to figure it out, because there was nothing to think about it. Everyone had the same set of things, and no one could be better than anyone else. But Hong Tao was different. He didn't say it, but he was just a thing that no one had seen before. Pig iron crust was crispy? He put it into his hand and poured it with whale oil into a roast. He could steam the pig iron crust not crispy. Who has ever heard of this thing? Is it hard to punch iron? He changed his hand and a thousand pounds of iron hammers flying up and down by a water truck. You can't keep up with the forging hammer if you don't have a quick hand and foot. The bronze was played with by others, but when he got into his hand, he made a trick and could actually cast cannons with iron tires. Although the yield rate was very low, the cost was much cheaper.

With so many achievements, I will teach you everything without any concealment. Will the other things he said be wrong? No one would think so. Now, even if Hong Tao can make steel in the river, everyone believes that the open furnace is one of the several well-founded ideas that Hong Tao gave to Qi Zu, but he only has a few sketches and a large section of principle explanations, and there is no other details. However, Qi Zu led a group of blacksmiths to prove the importance of the experiment again. They tried again and again, and they closed it and removed it.

The steelmaking of the open furnace was made. The effect was very successful. With this open furnace, the molten iron from the blast furnace no longer had to wait for solidification to become pig iron ingots, and directly entered the melting room covered with limestone in the open furnace. The blower driven by the water truck blows air and heavy oil inward from the top of the furnace. After six hours, all the good steel comes out. Although the carbon content is difficult to control, the output cannot be carried out. One furnace of steel is two tons, and at least one furnace a day. If necessary, it can be increased to two furnaces. Over time, several good furnaces will always appear.

Another feature of the open furnace is that it is not picky about food. Scrap steel, steel ingots, and selected iron ore can be stuffed into it. As long as the combustion surface temperature in the furnace is sufficient, there is no problem. Later generations usually use gas or natural gas to spray into the furnace to burn directly. Hong Tao has no place to find gas and natural gas, and he can't get it if he finds it, but he has another thing to replace it, heavy oil! It is the waste left when distilling and mixing oil. Now they are reborn, not only can they not be thrown away, but they also have to be well preserved. When the Frenchman Martin Ming used heavy oil as fuel, it was just suitable for Jinhewan and waste utilization.

(To be continued.)
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