May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. Dragon boat festival.

Shouhan teased Erya for a while with zongzi, colorful threads, and wormwood, so that this chubby little girl would smile for a while, and then go to A-Niang to complain.

Yan Mei'er, who was sitting on a bamboo chair in the sun while drinking tea, looked at the expenditure accounts of the inner house, and whispered from time to time to discuss the expenses in the house with Mei Shan and Sister Shilin, and needed to give Li Muhua and the fifth aunt too thrush, oh, it was Li Xiuxiu's maid, Shouhan was angry at the crown because of Xiuxiu's death, and found a reasonable and legal reason to destroy the Zheng family, and came back to see this woman who had gone to Wushan with Xiuxiu, after greeting Li Peilin, was recognized by Li Peilin as a righteous sister, and Shouhan took over the house, but the ranking can only be very aggrieved in the two sisters Yan Meier, Mei Shan, and Shilin, and after Li Muhua, she became the fifth aunt.

Mei Shan held her slightly bulging lower abdomen, while carefully talking to Yan Mei'er, while looking at Li Shouhan who was playing with Erya on the grass with a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes. Shi Lin, who was sitting under Yan Mei'er's drooping hands, also had a slight bulge in her lower abdomen.

This is the result of the inauguration of the Crystal Palace on the same day, and Shouhan took the Siamese sisters to spend some time experimenting inside.

This should be the last solar term that Shouhan spent in Ha Jing Mansion.

After repeated calculations, studies, discussions, and even quarrels, the high-level leaders of the South Central Army had to admit that Ha Tinh is indeed a bit remote here, and for the development of the entire strategic pattern, the transmission and circulation of industrial and agricultural products, various materials, and information are all great drawbacks, and at the same time, they are not conducive to the development of the new area. For this reason, it was decided that institutions at all levels would begin to move to Hue, the old capital of the Nguyen family, and Ha Tinh Province would become the industrial base of the South Central Army.

To use a less apt analogy.

In the future, Ha Tinh Province is the heart of the South Central Army, providing a strong impetus and fresh blood for the development of the South Central Army, and the new administrative center of Hue is the brain of the South Central Army.

After more than a month of relocation, new offices and capacities have been formed in Hue, and the various institutions are gradually starting to operate. After all, it used to be the core of a local government, whether it was from the city or the streets, temples, and official pavilions, it was more profound than the previous Hejing, which was just a thousand households.

However, others can go to Hue first to fight the front station, but Shouhan must stay here in Ha Tinh and hold out until about the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In addition to political considerations to stabilize the morale of the people and the army, it is because the construction of the second small blast furnace has entered the final stage.

Compared with the first small blast furnace, the second blast furnace was designed with hot blast furnace technology in mind, and the furnace temperature can be heated in advance, although there is no industrial thermometer for blast furnace, but with reference to the parameters of the first blast furnace, Shouhan roughly estimated that the temperature should reach 1000 degrees Celsius. It can be inferred that the original utilization coefficient was increased from 2 to 3.5, and the coke ratio was reduced from 1 to 0.75 to 0.6, which increased the output of the blast furnace and reduced the coke consumption.

Next, there is the question of the longevity of the blast furnace.

The design life of the first blast furnace, which is also a steel furnace shell, should be about five years, although after several technical transformations, Shouhan estimates that its life will not exceed ten years. There is no other way to think about it, the fate of the small blast furnace itself is like this.

Smelting smoke and dust, a large number of toxic waste gas, waste residue and waste water have a greater impact on the surrounding environment, the small blast furnace that only has a volume of 100 cubic meters, and there are no flue gas purification measures, pollution is strict, the equipment is backward, belongs to the absolute elimination of the industry. Not to mention anything else, the "three wastes" emissions alone exceed the standard. Inefficient use of heat and waste of energy are charges that can make Li Shouhan cry until dawn in the EPA's office.

However, you are talking about the 21st century, and Shouhan is in the 17th century. A furnace with a volume of 100 cubic meters is definitely an alien technology, and a furnace can produce hundreds of tons of steel, such a technology can definitely make workers like Su Laosi proud and proud! I forgot to mention that Su Laosi is already the director of the No. 2 blast furnace.

In the past, he was a man who was afraid of his wife in the eyes of everyone, but suddenly he became the director of a blast furnace, with hundreds of people under his command, as well as thousands of official slaves and more than 40 carriages at any time, and this kind of impact was huge for the iron and steel workers. In addition to promotions, what people see is the change in economic status, Su Ji's big canteen has opened the semicolon to the door of the steel mill, and there is an endless stream of workers who go there every day to enjoy three meals a day and supper, as long as they take out the waist card of the steel mill, there is an egg to give. In the face of such a huge change, none of the workers secretly held back their strength, hoping that they would become the next Su Laosi. There is already gossip circulating in the factory that after the lord has built a second blast furnace, a third blast furnace will be built. People who think they have better brains are starting to think about how to improve efficiency, reduce losses, and produce the most steel with the least loss and the least time. If I feel that my skills are not bad, I continue to practice my skills and strive for excellence. In the words of the Shouhan, who are measured by habitual numbers, they all speak in meters, catties, and seconds.

In the construction of the coal-iron complex with the iron and steel plant as the core, with Shouhan's almost frantic investment in labor, the ash-burning road leading to the coking plant and the Stony Brook iron ore mine was widened, allowing five four-wheeled carriages to run in parallel.

While many people were still sweating at this crazy act of the lord, merchants with a keen sense of smell were already trying to establish business contacts in this steel mill, whose output was almost half that of the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Zhongkang, one of the proprietors of the hitchhiker, had just revealed some rumors in the Liangguang area, and some people flocked to it. "Hu Dadong, as long as you can sell me pig iron, I can give you five hundred mules and horses for nothing, and sell you a thousand mules and horses, and at least five hundred mules and horses will be sold to you every year in the future!"

Hu Zhongkang was overjoyed to have such a high roller, and it is not surprising to think that the profits of the iron trade in this era were beyond people's imagination, and since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there were merchants from the north who went south to sell pig iron, iron tools and other goods, often driving thousands of cattle and horses for transportation at a time.

According to the calculation of the steel production price in the Wanli period, each ton of pig iron is about 20 taels of silver, and according to the production plan of Shouhan, even if all the production is pig iron for export, it is 1.8 million taels of silver. What's more, according to Mao Yuanyi's record in "Wubei Zhi", during the Apocalypse, a catty of Fujian iron cost almost one penny and six cents and six millimeters of silver, the steel used to make a leaf was two dollars of silver per catty, and the steel of a good knife was three taels of silver per catty. High-quality steel is already measured in catties. Compared with the iron mills in the mainland, Shouhan has three major advantages, one is the cost of raw materials, after the establishment of the coal-iron complex, iron ore, coal and coke are used as steel production links, which guarantees production to the greatest extent and compresses costs. The second is the output brought by small blast furnaces. The use of air thermal technology to preheat the blast furnace can ensure that the whole process of filling, smelting, production, and slag removal of a furnace of steel can be completed within three days, and this process will have at least 600 tons of steel production. The third is coke. Shouhan uses coke made from fine anthracite coal to smelt steel, which is basically guaranteed to be of the same quality as steel made from charcoal as fuel, or even slightly better!

When the situation in the business intelligence room was summarized and sent to Shouhan's desk, he handed this document to the assistants to circulate, "How is it?" As I said, you won't be unable to find a place to go. Isn't there anyone who comes to our door with money now? ”

After eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine, on the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Shouhan received a letter from the director of the steel plant Ling Zheng, the second blast furnace furnace has been completed, and the inner wall installation will be carried out soon.

Leader ribbon-cutting?

Shouhan was a little dumbfounded, but it was a tradition to think about the fact that the owner had to give the golden lion the finishing touch and put flowers on the red before the opening of each business.

"Don't ignore quality, safety and other factors in order to catch up with the schedule, I will definitely go to congratulate when the official smelting is made."

The iron and steel mill, as well as its parent company, Han Yuan Firm, if strictly speaking, are all bought and sold by Shouhan, and the rest of the people either pay funds to buy shares, or because of technical and management contributions, and obtain a certain amount of shares, but the largest owner is undoubtedly Li Shouhan himself.

However, thinking that a pound of wrought iron can be sold for a penny of silver in the future, Su Laosi, who is already a shareholder of the steel plant, wakes up with a smile in his dream, and only supervises his squad leaders and apprentices every day, as technicians and construction units, and supervises those officials and slaves to complete the construction of the second blast furnace together with the people of the construction plant.

As if watching his children grow up day by day, the construction of the second blast furnace was finally completed in anticipation of everyone.

In June, after several masters carefully looked at the yellow calendar and feng shui, and after making strict calculations, it was decided to smelt the virgin of the second blast furnace on June 17.

In the sound of firecrackers, Erya's little hand pulled down a red silk, the waterwheel at the end of the red silk slowly rotated, the waterwheel provided power to the blower next to the blast furnace, and the eccentric wheel on the blower turned the rotary motion into reciprocating motion, driving the high-temperature hot air to pour into the furnace room like the tide of the Qiantang River.

Through the peephole opened next to the furnace, Ling Zheng squinted his eyes and keenly noticed that the temperature in the furnace had reached the optimal value, and he pushed the lead plate of the peephole back into place. "That's it! Stopped the hot air! Ignition! ”

When you land, the fireworks fill the world, and the red star shines in the sky!

The people who sat in the tent built with reed mats and bamboos from afar, even if they were far away, also felt the heat wave from the shop, and Shouhan was afraid that the heat would burn his baby daughter's little face, and he didn't want his daughter to accept the baptism of the three wastes at such a young age. handed Erya to the nurse, and motioned her to take Erya to play somewhere else, if the eldest lady was a little tired, she simply took it back to the house.

The people present didn't care to pay attention to the nanny and the nurse left first with the eldest lady, and they just stared at the small blast furnace in the distance.

Su Laosi and Ling Zheng stood in the peephole on the side of the blast furnace with vigor, looking at the changes in the furnace with professional goggles from the steel plant.

Under the combined action of coke and lime, the iron ore in the furnace has begun to gradually turn into molten iron, slowly turning orange-red, and slowly molten iron and dregs begin to appear, on top of the molten iron, the dregs appear and disappear with the movement of molten iron. At this time, people naturally didn't know what pearlite was and what austenite was, but with the accumulation and inheritance of experience for many generations, Ling Zheng and Su Laosi knew that this blast furnace was already a success, and the next thing was to continue to heat it, and when the heat was enough, the furnace could be turned on.

With such good news, naturally the two supervisors should report to Shouhan as soon as possible. When the two of them hurriedly trotted all the way to Shouhan and told him such good news, Shouhan praised them very much.

"Lord, if nothing else, the first furnace of this No. 2 furnace can produce more than 600 tons of wrought iron!"

My goodness! 600 tons of wrought iron, if this is changed elsewhere, it is Foshan, which is famous for its iron industry, I am afraid that it will take the blacksmiths of Foshan to work for several months to achieve the output, and here, it is only the output of one furnace.

That's the power of technology! Shouhan pretended to be very pretending in his heart.

The small blast furnace with a capacity of 100 cubic meters was an industry that was absolutely to be banned in its own time, but here, it was enough to be proud of the world. Even if it is calculated with a lower coefficient of 3.5, 600 tons is also held in hand.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have also seen how the colleagues in the steel mill make steel today, and the next thing is that they turn these molten iron into iron ingots, so we don't want to make trouble for Director Ling here. Let's go back to our posts! ”

Sending off the ribbon-cutting team led by Shou Han, Su Laosi couldn't help but let out a long breath. glanced at the table clock, then looked at the color of the molten iron in the furnace, discussed it with Ling Zheng and the others, and then Ling Zheng ordered, "Prepare to open the furnace!" ”

At the sound of the order, all the people became nervous, and the people finally checked the cotton jackets and pants that were used as labor protection equipment, as well as the cotton armor on the upper body, to prevent the steel molten iron from splashing on the body and causing injury.

Someone opened the door with a long-handled iron hook. Suddenly, a scorching stream of iron gushed out. Along the trench made of burnt ash, the molten iron flowed forward, and the officials and slaves used the long-handled spoons in their hands to scoop up the dregs floating on the surface of the molten iron, and some of the large pieces were intercepted by the horizontal plate attached to the trenches, and the officials and slaves used the long-handled iron spoons from time to time to fish out these dregs to prevent them from blocking the way out of the molten iron.

At the other end of the trench is a mold waiting for the molten iron to cool down. A mold was 100 kilograms, and hundreds of slaves lined up at the exit of the trench to meet the arrival of molten iron.

A few days later, a polished and shiny wrought iron ingot was sent to Shouhan's table.

The total output of wrought iron produced in the first furnace period was 612 tons, which greatly exceeded Shouhan's expectations, and probably had something to do with the new furnace.

"That's it! The two furnaces work in turn, even if they are not running at full capacity, it should be more than enough to ensure 90,000 tons of steel a year. ”

Shouhan leaned back very proudly. With enough steel, plus gunpowder contributed by nitrification fields, and endless rice, it is not possible to compete for the world, and it is always enough to be a strong and powerful party.

At present, smelting a furnace of steel requires about one and a half to two tons of ore, plus about 500 kilograms of coke, as well as some lime, and other additives are added according to the requirements of the smelting variety. In addition to smelting steel, those waste residues can also be used as raw materials for silicon fertilizer to reclaim fertile fields.

In addition to silicon fertilizer, another by-product has given Shouhan a bad reputation.

Among the slag produced after steelmaking is calcium carbide produced by the decarburization of quicklime due to high temperatures, which is also called calcium carbide.

It turns out that Shouhan also used to make calcium carbide, but the output is less and cannot be popularized, but today, the two blast furnaces have a lot of products every day, so what are you waiting for, just use it!

As a result, various factories, mines, and industries, as long as they are not places with particularly strict taste requirements, use carbide lamps as night lighting tools. Some people with flexible brains began to play the idea of working at night.

The better ones are paid according to the working hours during the day, and the worse ones are paid at a discount, and those who have no discipline are sent away by a supper, and the one that has a negative number is simply nothing.

"We will be surprised to find that the ruler of the East is the ruler of the East who is responsible for the extraction of the surplus value of the laborer by means of such means as prolonging the hours of labor and increasing the intensity of labor. Li Shouhan gradually established and perfected his basic industrial system, and then dumped his various products everywhere, and the consequences of his behavior were disastrous for people who were still in a natural economic state! ”

-- Carl. Heinrich. M's speech at a protest against factory owners for their extended working hours in Hyde Park, London.

What others say, Shouhan naturally didn't know, he just comfortably cocked his feet high, leaned back, and suddenly, the top of his head seemed to touch a soft object.

"Huh?!"

But it's the pretty face of Sister Mei Shan. (Don't get me wrong, the reason for this is because they're twins.) ）

"Xianggong," Mi Shan thought about how to phrase it as she massaged Shouhan's shoulders and back with a pair of green fingers.

"Grandma came to a letter, I am very happy to know that my sister and I have your flesh and blood, she plans to come over to take care of us for a while, I don't know if it is okay?"

The cheap mother-in-law wants to come over to help her wife through the pregnancy, this kind of thing naturally can't be stopped, it's just a few more people to eat.

"It's okay, reply to the past, eh! No! You discuss it with your sister Mei'er, send someone directly from the house, and pick up your grandma in Dacheng! ”

"One more thing."

Mei Shan has some time to be Ai Ai.

"Grandma's letter said that Abba wanted to ask, can you sell him some good iron? It doesn't take too much, 100,000 catties a month is enough! ”

"100,000 a month? It's too much," Shouhan deliberately straightened his face, muttering in his mouth.

"If the Xianggong is in trouble, the concubine will immediately write to her father, and tell him to be righteous, so that he should not be delusional, or honestly plant the tear tree that the Xianggong gave him in his own field." Seeing that the momentum was not good, Mei Shan immediately prepared to turn the rudder and retract the sails.

"Hey! Don't bother with what I mean! I mean, my father-in-law's 100,000 catties a month is not enough for his old man to sell! In this way, when you send someone back to pick up your mother-in-law, you will send a letter back and say that I said that you can sell 200,000 catties of wrought iron to your father-in-law a month! Ask him if he can eat? ”

"Lord, Pei Ting has a letter from Guangzhou, and he has found a big buyer for us. It also costs hundreds of thousands of catties of wrought iron! ”

Li Peilin, who was happy, also came to Shouhan with his brother's family letter to report the good news.

(It was a shameful discovery that the output, volume, and time of the small blast furnace were confused.) The cyclic addition has been turned into a single furnace output. However, calculated in this way, the total output of a small blast furnace of 100 cubic meters in three days is still around 600 tons. We look forward to your continued support. ）

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