Laizhou, Qian Dafu looked at the busy slave and took a sip of water. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He shouted all morning, his voice was hoarse, and he had been directing the slaves to build all kinds of buildings in the mines.

In order to get tungsten ore powder to be sent as soon as possible, some slaves are already digging tungsten ore, and some slaves are sifting and enriching tungsten ore powder mixed with soil.

"Second uncle, Your Highness has come down." At this time, a young man ran over and said to Qian Dafu.

"Your Highness is here?" Qian Dafu almost jumped up from his chair, and he said to the young man: "Qian Gui, don't talk nonsense when Your Highness comes down later, and I will tell Your Highness about letting you go to Bowen Academy." ”

"Second uncle, I listen to you." Qian Gui couldn't help but nodded, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

Some cavalry wearing armor appeared in the mining area at this time, these cavalry looked very brave, not to mention that they were also guards guarding Xiao Ming.

When Qian Dafu saw it, he immediately stepped forward, and he had already seen Xiao Ming who was surrounded by cavalry in the middle.

"Your Highness, this big man, why did you come here in person." Qian Dafu greeted him with a smile all the way.

When Xiao Ming saw Qian Dafu, he smiled and said, "Come and take a look, by the way, I will send you the slaves that Liang Dahai brought from the grassland, five thousand people, it is enough." ”

Qian Dafu glanced at the slaves guarded by the cavalry, and said with a smile: "Yo, this Liang Dahai has finally grown a little brain, and all the slaves he bought here are sturdy slaves, enough, enough, these 5,000 people are worth the previous 10,000 people." ”

"If you don't have any more brains, this king will let him go home and farm." Xiao Ming dismounted as he spoke.

He looked past Qian Dafu at the slaves who were digging at the bottom of the pit.

Since ancient times, mining has been extremely arduous, and without modern machinery, it is only possible to rely on slaves, chiseling, and digging, and a metal mining area often stretches for miles.

Now these slaves only dug about five meters of the surface layer, and the tungsten ore powder content in this layer area is very thin.

"Your Highness, this mine is wolframite."

Qian Dafu took a white and black stone to Xiao Ming, this ore looked a little like coal, if it weren't for the ore showing that there were some transparent crystals, he would definitely suspect that this was a coal mine.

Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction, this scheelite ore is widely distributed, but it is generally a poor ore, and wolframite is less distributed, but it is generally a rich ore, and wolframite is a combination of tungsten and manganese two metals, finding wolframite is equivalent to finding manganese, while scheelite is calcareous ore.

After padding tungsten ore, Xiao Ming's heart came with a burst of joy, the reason why he asked Qian Dafu to deliberately find wolframite was because he needed tungsten and manganese at the same time.

After watching the slaves digging ore, Xiao Ming went to see the place where tungsten ore powder was screened, and was very satisfied with Qian Dafu's work efficiency, which had already achieved results in a few days.

However, this was also at the cost of the slaves' food and sleeping, because the entire mining area now has not a single complete house, only a few tents.

"You've been sleeping in a tent for the past few days?" Xiao Ming's heart was touched, Qian Dafu can really be elected as a model worker in modern times.

"There's no way, the cement and bricks in Qingzhou still have some days to come, and now we can only pay attention to it, but fortunately, it's not cold now, or nothing, the slaves are all carrying quilts, and it's not cold for a large group of people to live together."

"Hey, I've worked hard for you, I'll be tired for a while, and after a while, the king will let the government come to treat you." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Qian Dafu laughed honestly, and then he suddenly sounded the nephew beside him, saw Qian Gui pull it out, and said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, his name is Qian Gui, and he is the nephew of the old slave." ”

"Expensive money? Is that your nephew who was enslaved by the government? ”

"That's right, Niang Niang is kind, not long ago I pleaded with the emperor and forgave his sins, and he came back from Chang'an to join the old slave, His Royal Highness also knew that he was the only one of the old slave's relatives in the reincarnation, and the old slave was like this, and the Qian family's incense could only count on him, so he thought about treating him as his own son."

Qian Gui also bowed to Xiao Ming at this time and said, "Qian Gui has seen His Highness. ”

Speaking of Qian Dafu, he is actually equivalent to the Yellow Gate in the palace, unable to have children for a lifetime, Xiao Ming naturally knows the importance of this only remaining nephew to him.

In the past, Qian Dafu rarely made requests to him, but now when he says it, he must be anxious.

He glanced at Qian Gui, but it was a little similar to Qian Dafu, Concubine Zhen specially pleaded with Xiao Wenxuan, it seemed that it was also a reward for Qian Dafu over the years.

So he said; "Looks like I'm loyal to you."

"Your Highness, our Qian family's family style is like this, this can't be wrong." Qian Dafu laughed, "Your Highness, see if Qian Gui can go to Bowen College to learn something instead of the old slave, so that the old slave can concentrate on running the mining area, and he can go out to find mines instead of the old slave, otherwise the old slave will really not be able to bear it." ”

"Well, you have a point." Xiao Ming glanced at Qian Gui again, and he said, "Since that's the case, let him go to Bowen College to study for a while." ”

"Your Highness." Qian Dafu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

Speaking of which, even if it is not for the sake of Qian Dafu, he has to cultivate a few mineral exploration talents, after all, Qingzhou's talents can be counted on their fingers, and a group of young talents are urgently needed to support the future industrial development.

After inspecting the mining area, Xiao Ming returned to Qingzhou with three tons of tungsten ore powder that had been mined by the slaves.

With tungsten ore powder, he went directly to the equipment department.

"Your Highness, how should this spring be produced?" Song Changping sniffled, he had a cold recently.

The research of the flintlock pistol was put on the agenda, and he naturally wanted to gather the most powerful research team in Qingzhou, and all the talents of the former equipment department were reassembled.

However, Xiao Ming did not let them study the flintlock pistol together, but assigned them their respective tasks, and Zhang Liu and others were responsible for the production of tungsten steel knives and barrels.

According to Xiao Ming's plan, Chen Qi was responsible for artillery matters in the future, and Song Changping was responsible for the research and production of firearms.

Although the barrel has not yet landed, the production of small steel balls and the research of the bolt can be carried out, and these steps can be completely synchronized, after all, Xiao Ming is not starting from scratch, but has the means of production of various types of firearms.

"How to extract tungsten from this tungsten ore powder." Zhang Liu added.

These two problems are technical difficulties, the need to solve the elasticity problem of steel, and as for the purification of tungsten at the current level, Xiao Ming can not guarantee the purification rate, but even if it can be purified by 20%, it is enough.

"Come one by one, Zhang Liu, you go to deal with the mold first, Song Changping, you stay, this king will tell you about the structure of this bolt."

(To be continued.) )