Regarding the rust prevention issue that Zhao Ran asked about, Yang Cunxin was well prepared and immediately took Zhao Ran to a house. From a distance, Zhao Ran smelled the fragrance of osmanthus.
The building is very large, consisting of more than ten connected rooms. Inside, three Huangguan monks from Taixuan Pavilion are facing a set of strange-shaped alchemy furnaces, constantly producing various magic formulas and ingredients.
After watching for a moment, the three monks extinguished the alchemy fire, and a thick transparent glue-filled liquid flowed from a bamboo tube at the bottom of the alchemy furnace. They filled nine cans in a row before calling it a day and getting up.
Yang Cuxin introduced that this is Jiuhe lacquer refined by Taixuan Hall. It is made from lacquer sap, which is a specialty of Taiping Mountain in Yuanzhou, and is refined with more than ten auxiliary materials such as cinnamon ore. The fragrance you can smell is,
Osmanthus was specially added to it to cover up the pungent smell of Jiuhe lacquer. When she was refining rune steel just now, she added a little Jiuhe lacquer. After adding Jiuhe lacquer, it would be difficult for the rune steel to produce.
rust.
Yang Cunxin said: "This is a nine-liter clay pot. One furnace of nine-layer lacquer can produce eighty-one liters. Our Taixuan Pavilion can make one furnace per month."
This trip to Taixuan Pavilion really opened Zhao Ran's eyes and gained a lot, but people's hearts are not satisfied, and the same is true for Zhao Ran. After solving the problems of the cable stay and the Zhu Keel, he went one step further,
Want to solve the steel plate problem.
This batch of steel plates used to lay bridges does not require complex Taoist techniques like rune steel plates and steel plates. The only requirement is large quantity.
"Can Taixuan Pavilion refine a batch of ordinary steel plates?"
"Ordinary steel plate?"
"It doesn't need such complicated functions. It's just ordinary. I use it to lay the bridge body of the bridge. It doesn't need to be carved with runes, it doesn't need to be extremely hard, it doesn't need to be particularly resistant to high temperatures or severe cold, as long as it can prevent rust, that's it.
Jiuhe paint.”
Yang Cuxin frowned: "You can ask someone outside to make such a steel plate. As far as I know, many private blacksmith workshops can make it. As for anti-rust, I can give you some Jiuhe paint after you collect it.
You just need to refine it and add it once."
Zhao Ran said: "No, I need a lot of it."
"It's also a hundred thousand catties?"
"The first batch is 100,000 jin, and from now on it will be more than one million."
Yang Cun thought carefully and said: "Such a steel plate is easy to make. It has a single consumable and few refining steps. It shouldn't be difficult to make 100,000 kilograms. But the problem is that it requires too much ore and I don't have time to mine it."
Zhao Ran said: "What I'm worried about is whether the Qibao Mountain you just mentioned has so much iron ore."
Rong Niang said: "Xiao Cunxin, take us to Qibao Mountain to have a look."
Qibao Mountain is not far away from Jiuxian Grottoes Mountain. Yang Cuxin took Zhao Ran and Rong Niang to a cave at the foot of Qibao Mountain. There were obvious traces of man-made excavations at the entrance of the cave, which was enlarged.
Entering along the cave, there is a straight path inside the cave. From time to time, you can see small magic circles with talismans on the top or on both sides of the cave. Without Yang Cuxin's explanation, Zhao Ran saw it at a glance. It is the most basic earth magic circle.
, it can be composed with three or five earth-fixing charms, which are used to stabilize and harden earth and rocks to prevent cave collapse.
Zhao Ran has been studying various earth magic formations recently. The several earth magic formations he prepared for building the bridge are much more complicated than the ones set up here, and the cost is of course much higher, so he walked around and looked at them.
While thinking about it, I planned to learn from the earth-fixing magic circle here to see if I could reduce the cost.
Monk mining is very precise in searching for mineral veins. This mine in Qibao Mountain is like this. It penetrates directly into the richest mineral vein in Qibao Mountain. At the end of a few forks, you can dig it out with a hoe.
All are high-quality ores.
After taking Zhao Ran and Rong Niang to look around, Yang Cun said in his heart: "Taixuan Pavilion has been digging this vein for three hundred years. In the future, it will be dug for another three hundred years. A thousand years will not be a problem."
It sounds like three hundred years or one thousand years, which seems very bluffing, but after careful calculation, the actual mining volume is not much. The annual steel-making volume of Etai Xuan Pavilion is only 30 million kilograms of iron ore in three hundred years.
Zhao Ran quickly compared the concept of tonnage that he was more familiar with in his mind, and it was tens of thousands of tons in total. This kind of mining volume would not be completed in another three hundred, one thousand, three thousand, or thirty thousand years.
But from today on, everything will be different. Zhao Ran will use huge purchases to put Taixuan Pavilion on the fast track of Ming Dynasty development.
"If I find people to mine and provide Taixuan Hall with a steady stream of ore, how much ordinary steel can you make in a day? Well, it is equivalent to the so-called hundred steel smelting in the folk."
"This kind of steel is very easy to refine. For my own sake, it is not difficult to refine a thousand catties for you in one day. Twelve fire eyes can refine it at the same time. Ten thousand catties can be produced in one day, and three million catties can be given to you in one year.
The premise is that you can ensure a steady supply of ore."
"Will it delay the cultivation of monks from your sect?"
"Controlling fire and making steel is cultivation. The more you practice, the faster your cultivation will improve."
Zhao Ran praised: "The cultivation method of your sect is the same as the Wudang Great Sage Nanyan Palace, and it is the Tao method that is most in line with the times!"
After praising, Zhao Ran asked again: "Occupying twelve fire eyes may delay the refining of special effect steel. Are there any other fire eyes?"
Of course, there are other fire eyes in Taixuan Pavilion, but they are closed because they are not needed.
Zhao Ran suggested that three new fire eyes should be specially opened and three new pill furnaces should be set up. Each furnace could hold ten times more capacity than the other furnaces, so that one furnace could produce a hundred kilograms of steel and increase the efficiency of steelmaking.
Efficiency saves manpower in steelmaking. Three blast furnaces are refining at the same time, and ten thousand kilograms can be produced in one day.
The dispute with Yang Cunxin was mainly about the mines in Qibao Mountain. Taixuan Hall was reluctant in his heart to open the mines and let outsiders enter. Zhao Ran could also understand this, and the method he gave could only be
It's a huge profit transfer.
Zhao Ran promised that as long as Taixuan Guan handed over the management of the Qibaoshan Mine to Jimingguan, Jimingguan would fund the establishment of the Qibaoshan Mining Bureau to recruit one hundred miners, with a salary of two taels of silver per person per month.
The excavated iron ore is sent directly to Taixuan Hall without any charge from Taixuan Hall.
The ordinary steel plates refined by Taixuan Hall were fully purchased by Jimingguan at the price of one tael of silver and thirty kilograms.
Yang Cun thought about it and was immediately moved. Just from refining ordinary steel plates, as long as Taixuan Hall refines three million kilograms of steel every year, he can earn one hundred thousand taels of silver, and the trivial work of mining is no longer needed.
If you do it, it can also improve your cultivation. Why not do such a good thing?
She immediately asked Zhao Ran and Rong Niang to wait while she discussed with several elders of Taixuan Pavilion. After that, she flew Fu Fu Yang Zhenren and explained the conditions for Zhao Ran's offer.
Yang Zhenren quickly agreed and replied: "Zhao Zhiran will soon be a member of our Gezaoshan lineage. This is another matter of sending money to Taixuan Pavilion. There is nothing wrong with it."
Therefore, Yang Cunxin signed an agreement on behalf of Taixuan Pavilion and Jiming Temple on behalf of Zhao Zhiran. When the agreement was signed, Zhao Ran waved his hand boldly: "From today onwards, the steel output of Ming Dynasty will reach tens of millions."