Today is the day when the slag in the furnace pond is released, and a few apprentices are doing it. Sun Dalu squatted in front of the furnace room, grabbed a handful of charcoal slag, and twisted it to take a closer look.

The charcoal slag is going to be pulled out to pave the road, it is as black as dog shit, Sun Dalu can see it with relish, and there is an old craftsman with a white beard next to him, who is beside him, laughing at him: "Why don't you stick out your tongue and lick it, taste it, it's more fragrant than the shit you eat?" ”

Sun Da Lu proposed to build a new furnace, which was quite recognized by the above, and a new kiln was specially built for trial. Sun Da Lu became the head of the furnace, not to mention that the moon silver doubled, and two masters were also assigned to listen to him.

The old craftsman who laughed at him was an old craftsman of his father's generation, and from time to time he talked about this, saying that Sun Dalu had eaten shit luck, and he was only over thirty years old.

For these craftsmen, the master craftsman can be said to be the ultimate goal of life, and a figure like Ge Fu who can become a court engineer can be regarded as a legend. Ge Siyu is better than his Lao Tzu, but it is also thanks to his Lao Tzu's grace that he whitewashed the craftsman household, and was admitted to the Jiangning Ministry of Industry as the director.

Sun Dalu was not annoyed, grinned, raised the slag in his hand, and said: "You are always an old craftsman, you see the difference between this slag, I always feel that I can't hold it and don't work hard!" ”

The charcoal material is piled up in the furnace chamber to burn, the slag can hold the strength, will not burn halfway to collapse, good ventilation, easy to supply air, full combustion, high furnace temperature, the iron quality of the smelted is good, and the charcoal can be saved.

There are a lot of things that can be pondered in this Shanghai slag alone, and Sun Dalu squatted in front of the furnace pond, thinking that he could try to change the method of piling charcoal in the pond, and maybe the charcoal material should be different.

The old craftsman inherited the craftsmanship, and was quite dissatisfied with Sun Dalu's indiscriminate alteration of the craftsmanship passed down from his ancestors, frowned, and said, "What the hell are you turning around?" Don't want this furnace to be smaller, no better than the three blast furnaces, just one furnace of iron here burns out, and you will eat for several years, you really think that you are easy to grow this furnace! Be careful to get your dad out of the grave. ”

"Sun Da Lu, Sun Da Lu, which is Sun Da Lu!"

Someone shouted outside the cellar, Sun Dalu and the old craftsman stood up, and looked out, but it was the little apprentice who brought a small colonel with a saber to call him.

"General, the small one is Sun Dalu," Sun Dalu bowed, and came out of the half-buried cellar, only to see that there was a team of soldiers outside and occupying the stockyard outside, "What are the instructions of the general?" ”

"The adults are going to come and see the furnace, and you have made everyone who has nothing to do avoid it......" said the little school.

"Which adult is coming?" Sun Dalu asked suspiciously, "Lord Hu doesn't let the field clear every time he comes back, there are no irrelevant people here." ”

The old craftsman said to Sun Dalu next to him: "Which adult should be asked by you?" Let Tian Mouse leave a few turtle eggs, and the others are unrelated to people, and the slag will be left until tomorrow before it is too late......"

"Tomorrow is tomorrow." Sun Dalu said.

"Your father is also brainless, no matter how good his skills are, he won't turn a corner, offended Master Chen, got a full meal, and went before he survived half a year. When I come to you, why can't I learn to turn a corner? The old craftsman hated that iron could not be made of steel, and said, first clean up the material yard, and let the laborers leave the furnace first.

Sun Dalu sighed helplessly, threw the slag in his hand aside, and looked outside worriedly, which adult came over. A large group of people crowded over one after another, and Sun Dalu knew very few people, except for Hu Zhicheng, the furnace chief of the other three furnace yards, the masterpiece of the iron workshop and the masterpiece of the ordnance workshop, no one else knew him.

"Ah, it's the envoy of the capital to come over," the old craftsman said happily, patted his mouth again, and changed his course, "Now it's the envoy, but it's an official who is several levels older than the county master, I didn't expect that the lord just returned to Chongzhou for two days, and he came here......"

"He? You have good eyes, haven't you looked away? Sun Dalu was quite puzzled, and said that the adults were young, but when they saw the real person, they really felt that they were young and surprising.

"You've only been in Chongzhou for eight months, and you haven't seen an adult," the old craftsman said with a cocked beard, "I've seen an adult three times, can you see it?" You're really lucky to eat shit, maybe Master Hu will tell the adults about your offering, and then come here to walk around. Otherwise, this small place can be compared to those three blast furnaces? When you are happy, you may be rewarded with thirty or fifty taels of silver, and you remember to remember that I have a meal. ”

The Guanyintan Iron Smelting Workshop has built three blast furnaces, all of which are old-fashioned single furnaces, which can produce 100,000 pounds of refined iron and 600,000 catties of old iron a year. This scale is already the first in Hailing Mansion, and it is not much smaller than the iron yard of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry.

The people who take care of such a blast furnace are the best craftsmen in the industry.

"You bluff me, how can there be such a benefit?" Sun Dalu didn't believe it.

The old craftsman didn't explain, so Lin Tie and everyone walked into the furnace here, and Sun Dalu and the old craftsman ran up and kowtowed.

"You're the one who built the double furnace?" Lin Jian stared at Sun Da Lu, who was standing in front of him and didn't dare to raise his head, he had spent too much time in the scorching furnace, his skin was a little peeling, his face was red and black, and his stature was not high, unlike other sturdy blacksmiths, he was much thinner, his eyes were calm, and he was a little calm.

The temperature in the furnace pond was high, and it was late autumn, and Sun Dalu came out wearing a short shirt.

"The small one is Sun Dalu." Sun Dalu replied.

"Tell me, then, what would you do if you were to be in charge of the entire ironworks?" Lin Jian asked.

"Three blast furnaces, stop one first, change to two furnaces. After the change, stop the other two and then change it. The small furnace was left, and the fire test was ...... "Sun Da furnace is real, and there is no stage fright, only when the double furnace refining method he offered is recognized, he talked about it a lot, and he didn't think about personnel management at all."

"Okay, then I'll let you take care of this ironworks from now on!" Lin Jian said.

"......" Sun Dalu was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Lin Jian meant.

The old craftsman turned his mind quickly, pulled the placket of Sun Dalu's clothes, and said: "My lord, you are a masterpiece, don't kneel down and thank you, your grandson's ancestors are smoking, and there are not many masterpieces of your age in the entire industry!" ”

"It's not a masterpiece," Hu Zhicheng said, "Sun Dalu, my lord wants to recommend you to the imperial court to be an official." It's not an engineering official, it's a formal civil official with a grade, a deputy supervisor of metallurgical supervision, and the director of the same Ministry of Industry. ”

"......" Sun Dalu was even more stunned and didn't know how to come back to his senses, even the old craftsman was stunned. Ge Fu and Ge Siyu father and son are in their craftsman's household, and they are like legends, Ge Siyu was still admitted to show his talents, and he was mixed in the Jiangning Ministry of Industry for more than ten years before he became the main officer. Who would have thought that Sun Dalu, an iron-smelter, could be the same deputy supervisor as the director of the Ministry of Works?

The master of the workshop and several furnace masters on the side were stunned.

After a long time, Sun Dalu shuddered and replied with a crying face: "Only a small big character can know a basket, and he can't be an official!" ”

"You can make iron, you can take apprentices, and you have a good brain, this official is easy to do, not as difficult as you think!" Lin Jian smiled, patted Sun Dalu's shoulder encouragingly, turned around, faced everyone, and said, "Sun Dalu has dedicated a new method of ironmaking, which has been confirmed, and it is very useful." The workshop should promote this new method, and the good iron produced every year can be greatly improved, and Sun Dalu is a meritorious person. Sun Dalu was familiar with this new law, so I recommended him to the imperial court to be the deputy supervisor to preside over the promotion of the new law of ironmaking. In addition, Sun Dalu offered a new method of iron-smelting, and rewarded 2,000 taels of silver......"

Can Sun Dalu be an official? Many people were shocked and shocked, and they still had question marks in their hearts, and some were disdainful, wanting to see Sun Dalu mess up.

Reward 2,000 taels of silver at once, as if another boulder smashed into the lake, setting off a huge wave.

Two thousand taels of silver, converted into copper coins, weighs nearly 30,000 catties, can pile up a room, for ordinary people, it is an unimaginable wealth.

At that time, the world was too pressed on the miscellaneous skills of craftsmen, and Lin Jian had to use more drastic means to pull it out.

Among the scholars who were promoted to the imperial examination, there were not no peerless talents without specialists.

In the south, there is Zhao Shuhan, who presided over the compilation of the "Craftsman's Scripture", and in the north, there is Jiang Yue, the young eunuch of Si Tianjian who built the water transportation instrument and elephant platform, all of whom are top figures with expertise in craftsmanship and miscellaneous studies.

Speaking of Jiang Yue, the young eunuch of the Si Tianjian, the first-hand information on the Heishui Ocean route obtained by Lin Jian was given by Chen Jintang, the director of Jiang Yue's Ministry of Trusteeship.

However, the proportion of such figures in the group of scholars is too small, and under the current system, there is no room for them to display their talents.

Zhao Shuhan was high-spirited except for junior high school jinshi, and then he was depressed for nearly ten years.

Jiang Yue is Chen Xinbo's protégé and niece-in-law, and his official career is quite flat. Even after the Western Qin Party lost power, it was because of his dull temperament and indisputable nature that he did not suffer much impact. But the biggest role he can play in Si Tianjian is to compile almanacs with a group of officials.

Jiang Yue presided over the construction of the water transport instrument elephant platform, and the daily timing was exactly the same. Lin Jian couldn't understand the principle for a while, and according to other people's descriptions, he guessed that it might be the childish shape of the astronomical clock, but he could achieve the accuracy of daily timing, Jiang Yue's achievements in machinery can be said to be unprecedented, and the latter is difficult to follow.

The main timekeeping tools in the world are sundials and drips, and the vast majority of people look at the sun to act, so they have the saying that the sun is at the corner and the sun is down.

The timing error is so large that Lin Bin's head is incomparably bigger.

At that time, he was able to use Sinan and astrology to navigate, but Sinan indicated the direction, and astrology could only identify latitude, and there was no effective means to identify longitude in the world.

When Lin Jian heard that Jiang Yue and the water transport instrument platform he presided over to build, what he thought of was not timing, but subconsciously thought that after the water transport instrument platform was miniaturized, he could measure the difference in longitude.

Lin Jian has lived thousands of years later, and knows that the reason why there is a time difference between different regions is because of the difference in longitude. As long as you have an accurate timekeeping tool, you can accurately identify the longitude by calculating the time difference.

Only by being able to identify latitude and longitude can we accurately identify the direction on the vast sea.

From Chongzhou to Danluo Island, everything is very smooth, and it only takes about two days and three nights to arrive. However, it is often because of the large error in the direction of astrology, and it takes several more days to walk the wrong road.

Fortunately, thanks to the astrological technique, otherwise I am afraid that eight out of ten times I will not be able to find out where Danluo Island is.

Perhaps it will take hundreds of years and generations to transform the observatory into a real astronomical clock that can be used for navigation; It may take longer for a wristwatch to be worn on the wrist for generations to come, but it is certainly the right direction.

As long as a nation walks in the right direction and takes fewer detours, it will not suffer so much humiliation.

It's a pity that Zhao Shuhan has been unwilling to give up his political ambitions, and Lin Jian didn't have the opportunity to meet Jiang Yue at this time.

For a bigger goal, there must be stronger forces.

Many people present were still shocked by the two thousand taels of silver that Lin Jian had promised, and Sun Dalu was a little trembling. These two incidents collided too much with him, and his mind was blank, and he didn't know how to react to it.

Lin Jian thought about many other things, came back to his senses, and said to Hu Zhicheng and others: "The soldiers fight bravely to kill the enemy, and they can produce generals and marshals, and craftsmen should naturally produce big people; Even if you plant the field well, you are also a champion, you can be an official, and you can also be rewarded, and the reason in this is the same. Whoever comes up with a new way to make things good and cheap should be rewarded. Of course, there are some problems that cannot be solved for a while, or the existing manpower is not enough, and you can also put up a reward. There are countless talented people in the world, and we can't underestimate the heroes of the world! ”