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Shijingshan is in the upper reaches of Lugouqiao Town, which was later known as Shijingshan District of Beijing. Now, a huge workshop has been erected on the flat ground.

The newly built workshop was walled high, and it took ten months to build hundreds of houses in the middle of nowhere, in addition to the usual dormitories, canteens, shops, and hospitals, which were part of the production area.

And these, especially the towering blast furnaces, are impressive.

For later generations, the world of the Ming Dynasty is both a familiar world and an unfamiliar category. The familiar is a vivid character, and the unfamiliar is not aware of the details of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, did the Ming Dynasty already lag behind the West?

If you want to compare in an all-round way, the Ming Dynasty is naturally far superior to the West at the moment in terms of civilization. But to be more detailed, compared with the achievements in industry, it is naturally a pity.

The reason why we don't need to be discouraged but regretful is because the China of the Ming Dynasty far surpassed the West in terms of the overall level of civilization, but in the long game of history, the China of the Ming Dynasty began to gradually fall behind.

Even in the turmoil at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the ignorance of the change of dynasty into the Qing Dynasty, this backwardness also lies in the fact that the development of practical technology is becoming more and more sluggish.

In general, China is a rich man with a very superior foundation, and at the moment it has been passed down for hundreds of generations, and he has taken over a loser.

Fortunately, the former loser has been driven away by Zhu Cihong. Now, he is about to change the trend of China falling behind in this East-West race. For example...... The development of the steel industry.

For later generations of China, what they are thinking about is how to reduce production and carry out supply-side reforms.

For the history of steel development in Daming, there is also such a history.

In other words, Daming's steel manufacturing industry is still the world's first in terms of output.

During the Jiajing period, the number of iron classes of the Guangdong Provincial Government Department alone was estimated to have an annual iron output of 6,127,500 catties. According to the habitual nature of government tax collection, there is a gap between the iron tax that should be levied according to the tax rate and the iron tax that is actually levied, and this gap is often due to the fact that the secretary can receive less iron tax. Obviously, 6,127,500 catties is just a conservative bottom line number, and the real output will obviously be higher.

Before the 17th century, the rest of the world did not have statistics on steel production at all. Until the late 17th century, Russia produced only 2,400 tons of iron per year. In the early years of Yongle, Daming's iron output was already 9,700 tons. In the thirteenth year of Jiajing, that is, when Russia's output reached 2,400 tons, it still did not exceed the iron production of Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty two hundred years ago, which was 3,108 tons.

In contrast to the rapid expansion of production, another problem has arisen.

The question is quality.

As mentioned earlier, this figure speaks of the amount of iron. Obviously, steel steel, this is actually a difference.

Iron is divided into pig iron and wrought iron. Wrought iron, steel, and pig iron are all iron-carbon alloys, which are distinguished by the amount of carbon. Generally, the carbon content is less than 0.2% is called wrought iron or pure iron, the content is 0.2-1.7% is called steel, and the content is more than 1.7% is called pig iron. Wrought iron is soft, good plasticity, easy to deform, low strength and hardness, and is not widely used; Pig iron contains a lot of carbon, is hard and brittle, and has almost no plasticity; Steel has two advantages: pig iron and wrought iron, which is widely used by human beings.

Therefore, although the iron production has been extremely high in the Ming Dynasty, there are few high-quality steels and too many low-quality ones. This makes the people reluctant to accept the reality of using iron products, but for the army, it is helpless.

In the past, the Ming army had no choice but to accept this kind of shoddy and indiscriminate weaponry. However, since Zhu Cihong took power, the Guards Legion would rather lack than abuse, and would never put up with such shoddy ordnance.

Therefore, from the beginning of Shandong Town to the later Guards Regiment, the ordnance was only selected from the best of the existing ordnance, and it was used by the officers and soldiers of the army after repeated repairs.

This situation was not solved until the establishment of Qiming City, and later after Zhu Cihong entered Beijing, the Beijing Ordnance Workshop was established, which gradually alleviated this problem. The advent of the ZTE rifle is an example of this.

It's a pity that the ZTE rifle is also hindered by the bottleneck of material technology and has not been able to break through the constraints of production for a long time.

Therefore, the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant appeared.

After the carriage got on the official road in western Beijing, the speed became faster, and the bumps were much lighter at this moment. Different from the narrow bluestone road in the city, the official road leading to Shijingshan in western Beijing is flat and solid.

And this is due to the rapid development of material technology. At that time, Liu's plaster workshop, which was only a dozen family handicraft workshops in Qiming City, developed rapidly after receiving the investment of Hengxin Commercial Bank, and became a large workshop with thousands of employees and products all over the world.

Seeing that Liu's plaster workshop has made a fortune, various cement workshops have also sprung up, and more and more new processes have been registered in the patent book of the craftsman's compound.

This thing, which is similar to the patent right of later generations, greatly stimulated the development of cement technology by the people. And this, there is also a flat cement avenue from Beijing to Shijingshan District.

Looking at the small saplings that had just been planted on the side of the road, Zhu Cihong followed his gaze and saw the momentum of the road, a black smoke rising violently.

Black smoke from Shijingshan rose from the ground like the arms of a giant and soared into the sky. Such black smoke can only win the disgust of countless people in later generations.

But now, this piece of green mountains and green waters has long been unable to arouse Zhu Cihong's emotion. Looking at the black smoke, it made Zhu Cihong's heart surge.

The convoy stopped at the gate of the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant.

Zhu Cihong slowly got out of the carriage, while Ning Wei registered with the doorman a little anxiously. Obviously, Zhu Cihong's arrival was not announced in advance.

At the same time, in the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant, the factory director's office was full of people and noisy.

Fang Yizhi held his head, listening to the noisy nest of people in the house, and a trace of doubt rose in his heart: Is his choice right?

Looking at these people, he couldn't help but recall the excitement when he saw the recruitment notice of Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant in the Jingshi Times office some time ago.

As the fourth son of the Restoration Society, Fang Yizhi has a great reputation. In later generations, there are no fewer opportunities to show your face. This is not only because of the aura of the fourth son of the Restoration Society. In fact, the more this kind of false name goes to the back, the less important it is. There are talented people from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. In fact, the name of the fourth son of the Restoration Society is already not good now.

The revival society has long been buried because of Zhu Cihong's out-of-the-box birth, and the names of the four generals of the army school and the four heroes of the country are even louder.

can make Fang Yizhi always well-known, but it lies in Fang Yizhi's erudition. Fang uses the wisdom of the family to learn from the origins, learn from others, advocate the combination of Chinese and Western, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. He wrote more than 400,000 words in his lifetime, many of which are scattered, and dozens of surviving works with a wide range of contents, including literature, history, philosophy, geography, medicine, and physics.

His representative works include "East and West", "Physics Knowledge", "Cutting Rhyme Sound", "Medical Association Tong", "Deletion and Supplement of Materia Medica".

Seeing this, you may be able to react.

That's right, Fang Yizhi, a liberal arts tyrant, is still a science generalist.

Among them, "Physics Knowledge" is a very important technical work. For example, the solution to the high sulfur content in the ironmaking process is in this "Physics Knowledge". That is: coke refining.

Relying on this technology, when Fang Yizhi saw that Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant was recruiting a factory director, he was ambitious and signed up for the job.

Not long after, Fang Yizhi came to Shijingshan and witnessed the rise of a behemoth. Similarly, when the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant had some eyebrows, it was also a month after the start of production, and a big trouble came.

That is, after random inspections by officials from the Ordnance Department of the Privy Council, only one-third of the iron produced by the Jingshi Iron and Steel Works was accepted. The other pig iron was all rejected.

When this news came, the workers and suppliers of the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant were in an uproar. Suppliers are worried that Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant will default on the final payment, and workers are even more worried that they will not be able to get their wages.

The most important thing is that the owner of the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant has shaken its original firm belief. At this point, all the old diseases of the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant broke out.

And this has to start with the history of Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant.

The Ming Dynasty was not without large-scale steel smelting. The reality is even earlier than imagined. Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant did not rise out of thin air overnight, in fact, it has a predecessor. This predecessor is Zunhua Iron Smelting (YE) Plant.

Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant is the largest state-owned iron plant in the Ming Dynasty, with a history of 200 years. Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant is located in the west of Zunhua County, Jizhou, Beizhili. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Industry, and has successively set up the director of the Ministry of Industry and Langzhong in charge of factory affairs. After Yongle moved the capital, the amount of iron used increased greatly, and the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant developed rapidly. When the Ministry of Industry of Xuande made weapons, it was ordered to take 200,000 catties of Zunhua iron. Eight years after Jiajing, more than 400,000 catties of wrought iron were smelted every year.

In the iron smelting plant, the iron furnace used for ironmaking is one foot and two feet deep, and the iron is minted four times a day, and it can make steel in addition to pig iron and wrought iron.

It's a pity that due to the backward craftsman system of the Ming Dynasty, the Zunhua Iron Smelting Factory had to cut craftsmen from the first year of Wanli, and nine years later began to reform officials.

In addition to the remaining Zunhua Mountain Field, the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant has disappeared and become history. The craftsmen went home and looked elsewhere.

Fortunately, the Ming folk smelting industry is as prosperous as it is at this time. During the Zhengde period, Zhan An of Haiyang County became rich with iron smelting. During the Jiajing period, Zheng Ci, the governor of She, started with iron smelting.

Therefore, after the closure of the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant, those civilian and military craftsmen who worked in the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant quickly found a new place. Among them, quite a few have also opened iron farms in their respective hometowns, and they have also become rich people.

After the victory of the Zunhua Campaign, one person contacted everywhere, gathered the owners of the iron yards in North China to Jingshi, took over the Zunhua Mountain Field, inherited the qualification and reputation of the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant, gathered the craftsmen who were originally dispersed from the Zunhua Iron Smelting Plant, and finally ran the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant.

Thinking back to the fatigue of the past few months, Fang Yizhi gradually calmed down, he quietly listened to the noise outside, and said in his heart: I must not let these people burn my efforts in the past few months!

"In that case...... Just cheer up. Fang Yizhi got up and slowly walked towards the conference room outside.

At this moment, dozens of people were sitting in the conference room. These dozens of people are dressed differently, but they are roughly divided into three groups. One is the bosses. On the other hand, there are a few old men who are quite old with their eyes closed and meditating, who are the technical backbone of the iron factory. The last category, which is the loudest at the moment, is the upstream suppliers.

The bosses slapped the table, their faces were pale, and they looked angry and depraved as they watched several veterans guarding the factory director's office.

"Listen to Lao Tzu! This iron field is a part of my Zhan family, and I am the proprietor here! If you want to go in to see Fang Yizhi today, do you dare to stop it, don't you want to do it? The owner at the beginning was a man in his thirties, panting in a blue robe, and his forehead was sweating in the cold: "When my ancestors were smelting iron in Haiyang, that Fang Yizhi was not born!" To this day, I, as the owner, want to teach him a few words, but I still dare not see him? ”

"I think, this Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant is really upside down!" On the other side, another person had a calm face and said, "My Zheng family's property, I can't even see a shopkeeper." Does Fang Zhizhen think that he can be unruly if he has a few literary names? I waited for the shopkeeper to come back after spending the shadow, but I became an uncle! ”

For a while, several upstream suppliers were dumbfounded.

They exerted their strength to find the owner behind the Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant, thinking that they could recover the money in advance. Unexpectedly, these owners came forward and were sent by the factory director Fang Yizhi!

"Is this Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant a mess?"

"The court doesn't want their steel, and these proprietors are also annoyed...... It can be seen that Fang Yizhi, what should we do with the payment? ”

"It seems that these two owners are not making a show. What kind of gourd is this Fang Yizhi selling? ”

……

At this time, suddenly an old man stood up, looked at the door of the flower hall, and exclaimed, "Mrs. Tian is here?" ”

As soon as the old man opened his mouth, the two proprietors who were still showing off their might just now looked at each other. This old man is the most senior master craftsman in the entire Jingshi Iron and Steel Plant: Sun Tiedong.

In these years, the life of a craftsman is much better. Thanks to the myth of wealth created by the craftsman compound in Qiming City one after another through technological innovation and opening workshops, the craftsmen who have unique skills in their hands have become the treasures in the hands of each workshop.

Sun Tiedong called Mrs. Tian is Tian Yingqi.

Tian Yingqi entered the flower hall, took a few breaths of breath slightly, and was slightly relieved to see that there was no one in the room who was expected.

However, when Tian Yingqi learned about the recent troubles in the iron factory, she quickly frowned. (To be continued.) )