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But if you really want to do it, Yang Feng found that it is not so simple.

The first is the raw materials.

Coal is good to say, Kailuan Coal Mine is under his control, and this coal mine itself produces high-quality coking coal, and the rest is nothing more than digging out to build coke ovens, which is very easy to solve, in fact, there are already people mining coal there.

But iron ore is not easy to solve.

Although he controls one of the most important iron ores in the country, and he will theoretically not be able to use up the iron ore in Qian'an, Luanzhou, Qinglong and other places in several lifetimes, but the problem is that these iron ores are all poor ores that need to be processed for primary processing, and even the best Xingshan mine is only 50% grade. This thing can't be used without a series of crushing magnetic separation and sintering, but this crushing magnetic separation and sintering requires machinery, even if the most primitive flat blowing, it also needs a blower, at least he doesn't think that pulling the bellows can replace the blower, but if you play with the blower, it will at least have to be over to the era of the steam engine!

Not to mention the smashing.

You can't knock this with a hammer, right?

There is also magnetic separation.

You can't let the workers suck it with a magnet, right?

Belch?

Maybe it does.

Why not?

He didn't say that he was expecting an annual output of several million tons of steel, but it was amazing that he could produce hundreds or thousands of tons a year in this era. For example, he found out the iron ore, and then opened it to the common people who like to dig who digs, dig back and crush it themselves, those ordinary people who have nothing to do in the slack season can do this, and he can buy the crushed ore directly with silver, he doesn't believe that there is money to be made, and those ordinary people will not do it, at this time, the ordinary people are called abject poverty, and he guarantees that someone will do it for ten pennies a pound.

The two places of Qian'an Luan County have a combined population of more than 100,000 people, even if an average of one person knocks him a pound a day, it is hundreds of tons!

These ore fines are then transported to Shanhaiguan.

In the same way, he mobilized the people of Shanhaiguan to receive these mineral powders, and after returning home, they used magnetite for magnetic separation, or simply carried out visual mineral processing, especially those women who were idle at home anyway, and selected a pound of concentrate powder to give them ten cents for sure they would also do it, this work is not to say heavy labor, even if it is a bunch of old men and old ladies basking in the sun and bragging and farting, they are still capable, anyway, there is money to be made, and it is very glorious to do errands for the emperor, so that the link of magnetic selection is solved.

The concentrate powder from magnetic separation can be sintered.

Or simply not sintered.

Directly add water briquettes to bake, so that it is nothing more than more impurities, no matter how much better than throwing iron ore directly into the furnace, everyone played like this before the twentieth century, and there is no need to pursue too high-end.

Solve the raw material in this way.

Of course, this involves a series of quality control systems, it is still very troublesome to calculate, but fortunately it can solve the problem, and the rest is the specific operation, which is not to be taken care of for the time being, and the coke and iron ore are left to be a steel plant, this steel plant must be built in Shanhaiguan, and the safety cannot be guaranteed in other places, in case the Qing cavalry raid is destroyed, it will be troublesome, but Shanhaiguan does not have to worry about this.

In this way, it is directly located in Xiluo City, Shanhaiguan.

This small castle attached to Shanhaiguan was built a city gate before, and the only few buildings when Li Zicheng attacked Shanhaiguan were also destroyed in the war, which can be used as a future industrial area, especially next to it is close to the Shihe River, and it is not possible to build a steel factory without water.

In this way, the site of the steel plant was determined.

Then the rest is the specific technology, iron-making of course, needless to say, at this time the pig iron smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty has matured, which is nothing more than limited by the quality of the ore, and the square lump ore is definitely stronger than the ore directly filled in the furnace at this time, so the pig iron smelted by the same blast furnace must be better. As for steelmaking, it is still a bit too exaggerated to use steelmaking furnaces, after all, it is impossible for Xiaoqian to find a converter that can be transmitted, with her transmission ability, how can she send those modern converters that are the same as Xiaoshan, and even if they are sent over, they will blow pure oxygen, where can Yang Feng find oxygen supply? But it is also unrealistic to make the converter by himself, that thing also needs a blower, and he doesn't expect to blow the molten iron with the bellows, so the only thing he can choose at present is crucible steel.

Graphite crucible is not difficult, graphite plus clay only, the former's main deposits are in the Shandong Peninsula, but Fujian also has them, in fact, he has Jinzhou in the north, this amount is very small, you don't have to worry too much.

But crucible steel can't play with output.

This can also be used to make high-end parts such as springs, and then to make some tools or something, which is basically no different from carrying a bag of scrap steel.

Therefore, what can really be used for large-scale production is still to use the old Pudlin method to produce stirred steel, at most he made a regenerative chamber under the furnace, so as to increase the furnace temperature to have the effect of an open hearth, even if it cannot make real steel, it can also make high-quality wrought iron. And wrought iron is enough, whether he makes smoothbore guns or develops steam engines to build all kinds of machinery and equipment, and even railways, the British rely on this thing until they get into a crow! At least in this era, it is already possible to ensure that he is invincible.

The rest of the steelmaking furnace is a matter for later.

But he needs talent!

He needs a large number of talents who know at least the basic knowledge of steel smelting, otherwise it will be difficult to start these projects in vain!

"Your Majesty, Na Tian Jianxiu has arrived."

Liang Cheng walked up to him and said.

Wang Chengen is now in Ningyuan, and Zheng Chenggong, who has just arrived there, is responsible for the resettlement of those Tan people from Fujian, Yang Feng got them an additional batch of modern gill nets, to help them first get the traditional fishing industry, although there is no machine boat, trawl this kind of big killer can not play a power, but modern large gillnets can still be used, it is said that those Tan people are thanking the emperor for his grace, Yang Feng gave them Ningyuan City and the center right to live in, these Tan people do not understand agriculture, for the time being, they can only let them fish, Anyway, there is no shortage of fish in Liaodong Bay.

This work can only be done by Wang Chengen and Zheng Chenggong, the former is Yang Feng's number one loyal dog, and the latter is familiar with the language and customs.

"Let's go, just let them turn in their names!"

Yang Feng stood up and said.

Three days later.

Zunhua, Baiyezhuang.

"Master Jun, Master Jun, she's still young!"

In front of a dilapidated thatched house, an old man hugged the leg of Li Fu, a soldier of the Han Army with the Yellow Flag and cried.

The latter took a little girl's braid in his hand, and kicked the old man away in annoyance as she cried out hoarsely.

"Ma, Lord Niu Lu has taken a fancy to your girl, it is your ancestral grave that is smoking, and I will arrest you and punish you as a bandit!"

Li Fu said.

After speaking, he suddenly remembered, took out a handful of copper coins from his arms, threw it at the old man's feet and said: "Don't say that Lao Tzu robbed your daughter, the master gave the dowry, you are content, if you rush over, the master would have chopped you with a knife, this is not what the Rui prince said, pay attention to the feelings of the Manchu and Han, what is this, the master has to give the slave money, it is simply unreasonable......"

His words came to an abrupt end.

In the mountains and forests ahead, countless figures with weapons in their hands came out, and the leader was holding a bow and arrow, aiming at him less than twenty paces away.

"There are thieves ......"

Li Fu drew his knife and screamed in horror.

But at the same time, the bowstring in the man's hand was released, and a feathered arrow was instantly nailed to his head, and he fell without hesitation on his back, and several of his companions were just about to draw their swords, and then one sharp arrow after another was nailed to them. However, their shouts still alarmed the defenders in the barracks behind, and a Niu Lu's Zhenghuang Banner Han soldiers poured out, but soon they were dumbfounded, and in the surrounding mountains and forests of this workshop, countless strong men dressed in Shun military uniforms poured out, and countless sharp arrows whistled at them, and then they fell one by one, and then the surging Shun army drowned them.

"Quick, hurry, take all the people here!"

Tian Jianxiu stood beside the old man, looking at the iron-smelting furnaces in the town in front of him and the craftsmen who were looking at them in horror.

"The general is the one who broke into the king?"

The old man asked tremblingly.

"King Chuang?"

Tian Jianxiu sighed.

"We are the emperor's people."

He said quietly.

This is their name, this mountain town is the largest steel plant in the Ming Dynasty, dozens of iron furnaces, more than 2,000 craftsmen, with an annual output of up to 830,000 catties, pig iron, wrought iron and even steel can be produced, the largest blast furnace can be loaded with a ton of iron ore, almost all the steel used by the Ming Ministry of Industry to manufacture weapons comes from this town, Yang Feng wants steelworkers to of course have to empty here.

"Your Majesty, alas, the Emperor and the Tartars are the same for us craftsmen."

The old man sighed and said in disappointment.

"Who said that the emperor is the same as a Tartar."

Then he heard a man beside him speak.

The latter wore a silver-gray iron armor full of scratches and marks, and wore a helmet of the same color on his head, and did not hold any weapon in his hand, and stood there with his hands behind his back to watch the soldiers fight with the remnants of the Qing army.

By this time, the rest of the soldiers had begun to gather the craftsmen.

Although these craftsmen were very panicked, they had to come out with their families under the threat of knives and guns, and the craftsmen belonged to the inferior people, only a little better than those untouchables, and they belonged to the hereditary inferior people, and they were not even qualified to participate in the imperial examination, for them there was indeed no difference between the emperor and the tartars.

"I promise you that your future will not be the same in the future!"

The man said with emotion.

"Who is the General?"

The old man asked cautiously.

He didn't notice the guy's self-proclaimedness.

"I am the emperor!"

Yang Feng said lightly.

(Thanks to the book friend Song of Fierceness, Zizhu 150, HA1846, and Evil Stujone for the tip.) ）