Maria smiled and said, "Xia, don't be nervous, I heard Baozhu and Jade say that the ownership of your maids here belongs to the male host, and as long as you want, any one of them can become your woman." Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info According to my understanding, this kind of woman should be a wife with a lower status and no legal status, and there is more than one in number. So, this kind of behavior of you towards the maid is normal, not to mention, you are just talking about it, and you are not putting it into action. ”

Summer Nan is about to burst into tears, where can I find such an understanding sister on paper? Although they didn't learn the three virtues and the four virtues, they quickly mastered the essence of our country's wife and concubine system.

Before he could finish his delight, Maria continued, "But dear Natsu, you are the perfect gentleman in my mind, and I don't want this ancient custom to ruin your image in my heart......" She winked playfully at Natsunan, "at least, until you become a legal husband and wife with a beautiful and kind lady in the future, I want you to keep your purity!" ”

This is a naked declaration of sovereignty! Is there anyone else in this beautiful, kind lady besides Miss Maria in front of her?

Summer Nan was speechless. Maria's expression of her heart is tantamount to confessing to him that this relationship of encountering the beauty of the hero is almost the harvest season, and then she just needs to wait for the moment when the water is complete. But no one knows how long it will take at this moment, is it ten days? One month? Or a year and a half? Maria made it clear that before becoming a legal couple, one must remain pure.

Getting married to a British aristocratic lady is not a simple matter, it must be agreed by her family, and there is a series of red tape, even if she is only a runaway daughter in the family. What's even worse is that Qiongzhou is so far away from London, it takes more than half a year to come and go, and if you want to talk about marriage with Maria, you don't have to think about it for a year and a half.

As soon as he thought of this, he had to guard himself like jade before, and he couldn't touch the hot British girl and the delicate maid every day, and his face turned green in summer, and he waved his hand weakly: "I suddenly remembered that I had something urgent to deal with, so I won't take a walk with you......" dragged his steps out of the yard.

Out of the hospital, Xia Nan lamented his misfortune in his heart, it was not as good as Lin Weiye, although people looked at the two maids and didn't dare to eat, but at least there was a lark-like Fu Nanying. As a standard rich and handsome in the old time and space, he had more than one girlfriend, like a fish in water, and he crossed into the feudal society of three wives and four concubines, but he was restrained, which is really a great irony!

was secretly sad, Tan Shan hurriedly ran over: "Master, I'm looking for you, Liu Quan is back, several big ships, I heard that the people and things you want have been shipped back!" ”

This is good news, Nan is in good spirits in the summer, men have careers in addition to women, and their feelings are not enough to make up their careers, so focusing on their careers can alleviate their sadness a little.

When I arrived at the Bofu Wharf, I saw four cargo ships with a displacement of nearly 100 tons moored in the distance, unloading the goods. Liu Quan saw Xia Nan and trotted over.

"Master, the villain has fulfilled his mission and brought back the things and people you wanted."

Xia Nan looked at Liu Quan, he had tanned a lot, and he was also a little haggard, and he could see that he had suffered a lot from running around in Guangzhou during this time. He encouraged: "You have worked hard, this time you have made a great contribution, and the master remembers you well!" ”

Liu Quanlian said that this is what should be done. He introduced the results of his trip to Xia Nan: 20,000 catties of pig iron, 2,000 catties of brass, 500 catties of saltpeter, 200 catties of sulfur, 52 iron-making craftsmen, 45 apprentices, 41 blacksmiths, and 63 apprentices.

The purchase of these materials, together with the money that was first issued to the craftsmen, cost most of the seizure of Hujiazhuang, and this was still Zhang Mingli's family relationship, otherwise he would not have been able to do it with money - pig iron and brass, saltpeter and sulfur were all forbidden by the government to buy and sell privately.

With these materials and craftsmen, the shelves of the steel mill and the arsenal can be erected. Now that the silver is being spent, earning more and spending more, Xia Nan is calculating the funds needed for several major factories, and must find a way to increase new profit points before the balance of payments is out of balance, so as to change the current situation in which expenditure exceeds income -- even if the shipyard is built, it is impossible to establish a maritime trade route immediately, and there are still many difficulties and opponents to face.

After serving as a textile technical consultant, business negotiator, English translator, and foreman of a small cement workshop, Lin Weiye finally waited for the opportunity to perform in his true colors, and steelmaking and ironmaking were his profession, and he devoted himself to the construction of the steel plant without hesitation. As for the arsenal, it will not be officially operational until the steel plant is put into operation.

The shipyard, the wharf, and the steel mill were launched at the same time, and Xia Nan had no time to sigh the story of Maria and the maid, and he spun like a spinning top.

According to Xia Nan's original plan, the first thing to carry out is the low-carbon steel project, after smelting qualified low-carbon steel, start the flintlock pistol production line of the arsenal, as for the gray cast iron required for casting cannons, it will be included in the second phase of the steel plant's plan, if small-caliber artillery is needed, it will be dealt with first by annealing process.

In July of the third year of Chongzhen, the infrastructure of the first phase of the Bairentan Iron and Steel Plant was completed, and a blast furnace close to the founding period of the People's Republic of China, a steel-making furnace similar to a modern open-hearth furnace and a large simmering furnace were erected by the Wenlan River.

Considering the use of water power, Lin Weiye chose a place close to Bairentan, which was a famous local attraction in Lingao in the old time and space, which is also the origin of the name of the steel factory. The blast furnace of the first phase of the project is prepared for the future refining of iron ore to obtain pig iron, and at present, the purchased pig iron is directly used to make wrought iron, that is, low carbon steel, and the simmering furnace is prepared for the future annealing and casting cannons.

Because there is no coke, the steelmaking furnace uses the Pudling method, a smelting method for the mass production of wrought iron in the Middle Ages, which is the same principle as the ancient Chinese frying method, also known as the churning method.

The construction of the Pudling furnace is similar to that of the steelmaking open-hearth, except that there is no lower regenerator. The long flame formed after the combustion of the fuel is sent into the furnace, and the pig iron is heated by the reflection of the top of the furnace, and the carbon and phosphorus in the pig iron are oxidized and removed due to the excess oxygen in the flame and the large amount of oxygen in the bottom of the furnace.

However, the furnace temperature of charcoal as fuel is not enough, the metal can not be melted into a liquid, and it is in a semi-solidified state, so it is necessary to rely on manpower to stir with steel rods to make the smelting continue, and through stirring, the solution of the whole furnace can contact the air, so that the decarburization is more thorough, and the carbon content is reduced to the composition range of steel and wrought iron.