The towering iron-smelting furnace, the billowing smoke, the huge waterwheel fan pages, and the roaring sound of the forging hammer slamming down constituted a three-dimensional picture scroll in front of Qin Feng, vividly hooking and painting a vibrant picture of Daye City.

Standing on a high place, watching the rail cars crisscrossing but not disturbing each other, with a certain slope, roaring one after another, and finally towards their different belonging points. Some of them were loaded with ore, some with iron ingots that had already been cast, and some with swarthy coke.

Farther afield, ant-like miners are desperately wielding their iron drills, crowbars, and shovels to dig out piles of ore, load them into railcars, and watch them go.

It's not just the ore that's loaded, it's their future and hope.

"How's the naturalization of the barbarians here?" In the factory area, rail cars are also loaded to transport coke and smelted iron and steel ingots, and a horse can easily pull several carriages to their destination under the traction of a worker. In the factory area, there are dense rail cars leading to different directions, which makes the road for people to walk a little cramped.

"Your Majesty, it's going well." Jin Jingnan said: "In addition to the families of those prisoners of war, there were tens of thousands of barbarians assigned to our Taiping County, but most of them were old and weak women and children, according to the requirements of the imperial court, we equipped them with houses and simple labor tools, and at the same time loaned them the necessary living materials and seeds for a year, these barbarians have basically taken root after two years." ”

"All the barbarians can't live together, but are assigned to different villages and towns, at the beginning, there were still some conflicts and frictions with the locals, mainly because of the difference in living habits, but in the past two years, it has basically been peaceful. There were also many barbarian women who married local men. You also know that there are too many widows and women among those tens of thousands of people, and finding a man to rely on is the best shortcut for them to change their lives. And Daye City, there are not many others, but the man who beats the single, that's a big handful! ”

"Miscegenation is indeed one of the best ways to assimilate." Qin Feng said with a smile.

"Those barbarian dolls, as long as they are under the age of ten, must be forced to enroll." Jin Jingnan continued: "This is also one of our Ming policies, the barbarians have their own language, but they don't have their own writing, which saves us a lot of trouble. At first, the barbarians were very resistant to this, but when the dolls went to the school, not only did they not have to work, but they could also eat free meals, and if they studied well, they could also get scholarships, and this kind of resistance was gone. After all, when they first came, the life of those barbarians was still quite difficult, and one less mouth to eat was a great burden for them. Your Majesty, I dare to say that in another ten or eight years, the barbarian nation may still exist, but they will be the same as my Ming people in terms of language and habits, in other words, they will no longer have the slightest threat to my Ming Dynasty. ”

"You're right, don't underestimate this thing, he is the most effective means for us to be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time, and it is easier for people to surrender than knives and guns, but it takes a little longer." Qin Feng said: "No matter which country, which nation, as long as it becomes a part of my Ming Dynasty, this is the first work to be promoted, and children are the easiest to assimilate." It is also the easiest for them to identify with Daming. ”

"Your Majesty is absolutely right. When this was first carried out, it cost a lot of money, and many people criticized it, but it turned out that it was Your Majesty who was far-sighted, and after these people of other races or other countries came in, they quickly melted into our part. Kim Kyung-nam admired the authenticity.

"By the way, isn't there a single barbarian or Qi Chu refugee in the smelter?" Qin Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, iron smelting and steelmaking, this is the core secret of my Ming Dynasty, until now, only those who can access these core technologies are still people who were born and raised in my Ming Dynasty, and there will be a danger of leaking secrets." South Gyeong-do.

"I can recruit a few outsiders who are loyal to my Daming to a limited extent!" Qin Feng shook his head and said: "Qianjin City horse bones, there are so few, you can let people see the upward channel, even if you promote a few such people to become officials, it is okay." If you block the ascending channel, it will save you trouble in the short term, but in the long run, the gains will outweigh the losses. It's just that when it comes to censorship, it's a little harder. In the future, there will be more and more outsiders. ”

"Since Your Majesty has ordered it, I will discuss this matter with Ge Qingsheng when I go back." Jin Jingnan nodded. "It doesn't matter if they are promoted to be petty officials, but in terms of core technology, the minister thinks it is better to be cautious. Let them work hard for a few more years, and when Your Majesty rules the world, it will not be too late to promote them at that time! At that time, the shore of the land is not the king's land, and they have no other choice but to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty. ”

Hearing Jin Jingnan's insistence, Qin Feng only smiled, he just made suggestions, as for what to do best, maybe these officials who do practical things know best.

You can give directions, but don't dictate specific ways to do things, that's bad.

While watching and walking, soon, the group arrived at the back mountain, where there is a large reservoir built artificially, and on both sides of the downstream of the reservoir, there are dense waterwheel forging workshops one after another. Some fans are huge, while others are much smaller.

"Your Majesty, that's the biggest, and the main thing is cutting. Cut the iron plates, ingots, etc. into a rough shape according to the requirements. And the small ones, which are mainly forged, have some special needs of steel, where they need to be tempered for a longer period of time to get the flexibility we want. ”

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Qin Feng pointed to the location of the largest waterwheel.

Before he could walk in, a loud rumbling sound shook his eardrums. On the workbench, iron rods are fixed horizontally, and above the head, a huge cutter flashes with a faint cold light. As a worker pulled off the mechanism, the huge cutter fell with a whistling sound, cutting the iron rods into truncated rods one by one.

On the other workbench, there was a hammer, iron ingots, which were slowly flattened under the violent blow of the hammer. The workers below are constantly adjusting the flattened pieces of iron so that they are beaten to a uniform thickness, and this is achieved by the skill of the workers themselves.

"That kind of cutter is quite expensive!" Jin Jingnan shook his head and said: "In order to create this thing, the masters have tried their best, but recently I heard that a craftsman made something called a sand wheel, and after he rotated it at high speed, he could cut it while watering, and he could also cut steel and iron." However, it is not a substitute for this large cutting tool, and the master craftsmen say that the sand wheel can be used for some more delicate processing. They have already asked for credit for this craftsman, and because they are too busy during this time, the minister has not asked any more specifically, but they don't know if they have passed the acceptance. Once deemed valid, the craftsman can also have an official status. ”

"If you make a fine cut, it's more suitable for the workshop on which side of Taiping City." Qin Feng said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the masters have also seen this, so the first one has been sent to Taiping City, and the craftsmen over there will experiment with him!" Jin Jingnan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, these workshops are too noisy, you might as well move to that side, there are some steel forged with special needs, and many of our weapons in the Ming Dynasty are unique in the world, but they can't do without their hard work." ”

Compared with these large workshops, the sound of these workshops on the other side is much smaller, but it is more dense, stepping into these workshops, Qin Feng saw that a worker used iron tongs to clamp a piece of red-hot iron and placed it on top of the iron felt, but there was no need for someone to knock it, on his head, the small hammer was constantly falling at a certain speed, and what this worker had to do was to constantly adjust the orientation of the iron block, and the sparks splashed everywhere on the station.

Within a workshop, there are dozens of such workstations, and every worker gathers to work with God.

Once the beating is almost done, the iron will be burned red again and moved to another station, where the iron will be molded into the shape of a cylinder, and after it is burned red again, they will be put into a special round hole, and some workers will start shouting and turning the winch on one side, Qin Feng was surprised to see that when the iron rod stretched out from the other side of the round hole, it had become thinner, and then the thinner iron rod probed into the next smaller round hole, when it had walked all the distance from the long workbench, It's the thickness of a little finger.

"It's amazing!" Qin Feng walked to the top and looked at the finished products that were finally completed.

"It's the best steel." South Gyeong-do.

Qin Feng reached out and picked up a steel bar that had been completed earlier, and with a slight stroke, the steel bar naturally bent into a circle in his hand. "Resilience is so good." He stammered.

"Your Majesty, in the last step of steelmaking, the craftsmen seem to have added something to it, and the minister doesn't understand, but the minister doesn't need to understand, as long as the minister knows that the quality of steel is getting better and better, it's enough, and what the minister can do is to ask for credit for these craftsmen." Jin Jingnan said with a smile: "How to do it, that's their business, the craftsmen are very desperate, and they are also very brainy, the craftsmen in Daye City have naturally diverged, and there are special people who study this." Ever since they discovered that adding some other ore would improve the quality of steel, those people have been experimenting like crazy people, adding some strange things to it, and refining some strange things. If Your Majesty has time, you can go and see it. ”

"It's meant to be encouraged." Qin Feng laughed and said, "Let them tinker, even if only one of the hundred pieces is successful, we will earn it." ”

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