Today is the day when the slag is released from the furnace pond, and several apprentices are working on it. Sun Dalu squatted in front of the furnace room, grabbed a handful of charcoal slag, and twirled it carefully.
The charcoal was about to be pulled out to pave the road. It was as black as dog feces. Sun Dalu watched it with great interest. There was an old craftsman with a white beard standing next to him and laughed at him: "Why don't you stick out your tongue and lick it to have a taste?"
Doesn’t it taste better than the shit you eat?”
Sun Dalu proposed building a new furnace, and the superiors recognized it, and even built a new kiln for testing. Sun Dalu became the furnace director. Not only did his monthly silver double, he also assigned two master craftsmen to do his bidding.
The old craftsman who made fun of him was an old craftsman from his father's generation. From time to time, he used this to make excuses, saying that Sun Dalu had bad luck and was only over thirty years old.
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For craftsmen like them, being a great craftsman can be said to be the ultimate goal in life. A person like Ge Fu who can become a court official is considered a legend. Ge Siyu is more promising than him, but he is also
Thanks to the kindness of his father, he cleared his trade as a craftsman, passed the scholar examination, and then joined the Jiangning Ministry of Industry as a director.
Sun was not annoyed when he was making the stove. He smiled and held up the slag in his hand and said, "You are an experienced craftsman. Look at the difference in this slag. You always feel that you can't hold on and it's not strenuous!"
The charcoal material is piled in the furnace chamber for burning, and the slag can hold up and will not collapse halfway through the burning. It has good ventilation and easy air supply, and the combustion is sufficient. The furnace temperature is high, and the iron produced is of good quality and saves money.
Charcoal material.
There are a lot of things that can be studied in this slag. Sun Dalu squatted in front of the pond, thinking that he could try a different method of stacking charcoal in the pond, and maybe the charcoal materials should be different.
The old craftsman inherited the craftsmanship and was quite dissatisfied with Sun Dalu's random alteration of the craftsmanship passed down by his ancestors. He frowned and said, "What the hell are you thinking about? This furnace is not smaller. It is no better than those three blast furnaces. Just here."
A furnace of iron is burnt out, and you have to eat it for several years. Do you really think that your furnace is easy to grow? Be careful and make your father rise from the grave."
"Sun Dalu, Sun Dalu, which one is Sun Dalu!"
Someone shouted outside the cellar. Sun Dalu and the old craftsman stood up and looked out, but it was the young apprentice who came to call him with a small schoolman armed with a sword.
"General, the youngest is Sun Dalu." Sun Dalu bowed and emerged from the half-buried cellar. Only then did he see a group of soldiers lined up outside, occupying the pile outside.
Stocking yard, "What are your instructions to the general?"
"The adults want to come over to look at the furnace, but you have made all the irrelevant people avoid it..." the principal said.
"Which master is coming over?" Sun Daluo asked doubtfully, "Master Hu didn't clear the place every time he came over. There are no irrelevant people waiting here."
The old craftsman said to Sun Dalu next to him: "Which adult is coming over? Is it your business to ask? Let the field mouse leave a few turtle eggs, the others are irrelevant, and the slag will be left until tomorrow to clean it up..."
"There is still tomorrow," Sun Dalu said.
"Your father is also stubborn. He is so good at craftsmanship that he can't turn a corner. He offended Mr. Chen, got a beating, and left within half a year. Why can't he learn to turn when he comes to you?
"The old craftsman said, hating that iron could not become steel, he said that he should clean up the stockyard first and let the laborers leave the furnace yard first.
Sun Dalu sighed helplessly, threw the slag in his hand aside, and looked outside to see which adult was coming. A large group of people crowded around, and Sun Dalu knew few people except
Hu Zhicheng, the furnace director of the other three furnaces, the master of the iron workshop and the master of the ordnance workshop, no one else knew him.
"Ah, it's the governor of the capital who is here," the old craftsman said happily, clapped his mouth again, and changed his words, "Now he is the envoy of the governor, but he is an official several levels higher than the county magistrate. I didn't expect that your Excellency has just returned.
I came here after two days in Chongzhou..."
"He? You have good eyes, didn't you see anything wrong?" Sun Daluo was quite confused. They all said that the master is young, but when he saw the real person, he really felt that he was young, which was surprising.
"You have only been in Chongzhou for eight months and have never seen the master," the old craftsman said with his beard raised. "I have already met the master three times. How can you be mistaken? You are really lucky. Maybe Mr. Hu will
I came here to walk around after I told you the method you suggested. Otherwise, how could this tiny place be comparable to those three blast furnaces? When I am happy, I might reward you with thirty-fifty taels of silver.
But remember to remember to have a drink with me."
Guanyintan Iron Smelting Factory has built three blast furnaces, all of which are old-fashioned single furnaces. They can produce 100,000 refined iron and 600,000 kilograms of old iron a year. This scale is already the first in Hailing Prefecture and is bigger than Jiangning Works.
Our ironworks workshop is not much smaller either.
The people who take care of such a blast furnace are all top craftsmen in their profession.
"If you try to bluff me, how can there be such a benefit?" Sun Dalu didn't believe it.
The old craftsman did not explain, so Lin Fu and others walked into the furnace yard. Sun Dalu and the old craftsman ran up and kowtowed.
"Are you Sun Dalu, who built the double furnace?" Lin Fu stared at Sun Dalu who stood in front of him and did not dare to raise his head. He spent too much time in the hot furnace, and his skin was peeling a lot, and his face was peeling.
His coat is red and black, and he is not tall. Different from other strong blacksmiths, he is much thinner, his eyes are calm, and he has a calm air.
The temperature in the furnace pond was high, and it was already late autumn. When Sun came out from the furnace, he was still wearing a short collar.
"The younger one is Sun Dalu." Sun Dalu replied.
"Then tell me, what would you do if you were asked to take charge of the entire iron smelting workshop?" Lin Fu asked.
"There are three blast furnaces. First, stop one and make it double. After changing it, stop the other two and continue to change it. Keep the small furnace for testing fire..." Sun Daluo really has no stage fright, just treat it as his gift.
After being approved of the double-furnace mixing method, we started talking about it without thinking about personnel management at all.
"Okay, then I'll let you take charge of this ironmaking workshop!" Lin Fu said.
"..." Sun Dalu was stunned, not understanding what Lin Fu meant.
The old craftsman's thoughts were changing quickly. He pulled Sun Dalu's lapel and said: "My lord promoted you to a big job, why don't you kneel down to thank me? Your ancestors of the Sun family are smoking. In the whole industry, there are no people of your age."
There are not many masterpieces!”
"It's not a masterpiece," Hu Zhicheng said, "Sun Dalu, my lord wants to recommend you to the imperial court to be an official. You are not a work official, but a formal graded civil servant, Deputy Superintendent of Metallurgical Supervision, Director of the Workers' and Workers' Department, Mr. Ge
I only had this official position before, but it is under the control of the Production and Construction Envoy, and all the major works in the ironworks are under your control!"
"..." Sun Dalu was even more stunned and didn't know how to come to his senses. Even the old craftsman was also stunned. Ge Fu, Ge Siyu and his son were considered legends in their craftsmen's shop. Ge Siyu was still
He was admitted as a scholar and worked in the Jiangning Ministry of Industry for more than ten years before reaching the position of supervisor. Who would have thought that Sun Dalu, an iron smelter, could be the same deputy supervisor as the director of the Ministry of Industry?
The master of the workshop and several furnace directors nearby were stunned.
After a long time, Sun started to shiver while working on the stove, and replied with a crying face: "Youngster can only read a bunch of big characters, and he doesn't know how to be an official!"
"You know how to make iron, lead apprentices, and have a good mind. This job is easy to do, not as difficult as you think!" Lin Fu smiled, patted Sun Dalu on the shoulder encouragingly, turned around, and faced everyone.
, said, "Sun Dalu presented a new method of making iron, which has been proven to be very useful. If workshops and workshops want to promote this new method, the quality of iron produced every year can be greatly improved. Sun Dalu is a meritorious person. This
Sun Dalu is familiar with the new method, so I recommended him to the imperial court as the deputy supervisor to preside over the promotion of the new method of iron-making. In addition, Sun Dalu will be rewarded two thousand taels of silver for his meritorious service in presenting the new method of iron-making..."
Sun Dalu can become an official? Many people were shocked and still had doubts in their hearts. Some were disdainful and wanted to see Sun Dalu mess up.
The reward of two thousand taels of silver was as if another huge boulder had hit the lake, causing a huge wave.
Two thousand taels of silver, converted into copper coins, would weigh nearly 30,000 kilograms and could fill a room. For ordinary people, it was an unimaginable amount of wealth.
At that time, there was too much pressure on craftsmen and miscellaneous students, so Lin Fu had to use more drastic means to pull it out.
The scholars who were promoted through the imperial examination were not without their unique talents.
Zhao Shuhan, who presided over the compilation of "The Book of Craftsmanship" in the south, and Jiang Yue, the young eunuch of Si Tianjian who built the water transport ceremonial platform in the north, were both top figures with expertise in craftsmanship and miscellaneous studies.
Speaking of Jiang Yue, the young eunuch of Si Tianjian, the first-hand information about the Blackwater Ocean route that Lin Fu obtained was given by Chen Jintang, the head of Jiang Yue's entrustment department.
However, the proportion of such figures in the scholar community was too small, and under the current system, there was no room for them to display their talents.
Zhao Shuhan was very high-spirited when he was a Jinshi in junior high school, but he was depressed for nearly ten years after that.
Jiang Yue was Chen Xinbo's protégé and niece-in-law, and his official career was relatively smooth. Even after the Western Qin Party lost power, it was because of his dull temperament and aloofness that he did not suffer much impact. But he was able to exert his talents in Si Tianjian.
The greatest role is to lead a group of officials to compile almanacs.
The water transport instrument platform built by Jiang Yue was actually accurate every day. Lin Fu couldn't understand the principle for a while. Based on other people's descriptions, he guessed that it might be the rudimentary form of an astronomical clock, but it could keep time every day.
The accuracy of timekeeping is absolutely perfect. Jiang Yue's mechanical achievements can be said to be unprecedented, and it is difficult to catch up with the latter.
The main timekeeping tools in the world are sundials and hourglasses. Most people work by looking at the sun, so they have the saying of sunrise time and sundown time.
The timing error was so large that Lin Fu's head was huge.
At that time, Sinan and the Star-pulling Technique could be used for navigation quite well, but Sinan pointed out the direction, and the Star-pulling Technique could only identify the latitude. There was no effective method to identify the longitude at that time.
When Lin Fu heard about Jiang Yue and the water-borne telescope built by him, he didn't think of timekeeping, but subconsciously thought that by miniaturizing the water-borne telescope, he could measure the difference in longitude.
Lin Fu has life experience thousands of years later and knows that the reason why there is a time difference between different regions is because of the difference in longitude. As long as you have accurate timing tools, you can accurately identify the longitude by calculating the time difference.
Only by being able to identify latitude and longitude can you accurately identify your position on the vast ocean.
From Chongzhou to Danluo Island, everything goes very smoothly, and it only takes about two days and three nights to arrive. However, because of the large error in identifying the direction of the star-drawing technique, it often takes several days to walk in vain.
Fortunately, I have the star-finding technique. Otherwise, I might not be able to find Danluo Island eight out of ten times I go to sea.
Perhaps it will take hundreds of years and generations of efforts to transform the waterborne instrument platform into a real astronomical clock that can be used for navigation; it may take even longer for future generations to have a wrist watch that can be worn on the wrist, but this
It is undoubtedly the right direction.
As long as a nation walks in the right direction and takes fewer detours, it will not suffer so much humiliation.
It is a pity that Zhao Shuhan has been unwilling to give up his political ambitions, and Lin Fu did not have the chance to meet Jiang Yue at this time.
For a larger goal, stronger forces are needed.
Many people present were still shocked by the reward of two thousand taels promised by Lin Fu. Sun Dalu was trembling a little. The impact of these two things was too great for him. His mind went blank and he didn't know what to do.
The response was applause.
Lin Fu thought about many other things, came back to his senses, and said to Hu Zhicheng and others: "Soldiers fight bravely to kill the enemy, if they can produce generals and marshals, and craftsmen create things with their heart, naturally they should also produce great people; just cultivate the fields well,
The No. 1 scholar can also be an official and receive rewards. The principle is the same. Whoever comes up with a new method that can make things of high quality and low price should be rewarded. Of course, some difficult problems can be solved in a short time.
If it cannot be solved, or if the existing manpower is insufficient, we can also post a list and offer a reward. There are countless capable people in the world, and we cannot underestimate the heroes of the world!"