The towering iron smelting furnace, rolling smoke, huge water wheel fan pages, and the loud bang of the forged hammer hitting hard, formed a three-dimensional picture in front of Qin Feng, vividly drew it into a lively picture of Daye City.

Standing at a high place, watching the track cars that crisscross and without disturbing each other, with a certain slope, whistling one after another, and finally heading towards their own different points of ownership. Some of them were loaded with ore, some were loaded with cast iron and steel ingots, and some were loaded with dark Jiao Media.

On the mine further away, miners as small as ants were desperately waving the iron rods, crowbars, and shovels in their hands, digging out piles of ore, loading them into railcars, and watching them go away.

It is not just the ore, but also their future and hope.

"How are the naturalization of the barbarians here?" In the factory, rail cars were also installed to transport Jiao Media and the iron and steel ingots and steel ingots they refined. A horse could easily pull several carriages and walk to their destination under the guidance of a worker. In the factory, rail cars leading to different directions were densely packed, which made the roads for people to walk a little cramped.

"Your Majesty, it's going well." Jin Jingnan said: "In addition to the families of prisoners of war, there were tens of thousands of barbarians assigned to our Taiping County, but most of them were old, weak, women and children. According to the requirements of the court, we equipped them with houses and simple labor tools, and loaned them the necessary living supplies and seeds for a year. After two years, these barbarians have basically taken root."

"All the barbarians cannot live together, but are assigned to different villages, towns and other places. At the beginning, they still had some conflicts and frictions with the locals, mainly because of their different living habits. But in the past two years, they have basically been in peace. There are also many barbarian women who have married local men. You also know that among the tens of thousands, there are too many widows and women. Finding a man to rely on is the best shortcut for them to change their lives. There are not many other people in Daye City, but the men who are bachelors are caught in a lot of people!"

"Intermarriage is indeed one of the best ways to assimilate." Qin Feng said with a smile.

"Those barbarians' children, as long as they are under ten years old, must be enrolled for school." Jin Jingnan continued: "This is also one of the national policies of our Ming Dynasty. The barbarians have their own language, but they do not have their own writing, which saves us a lot of trouble. At first, the barbarians resisted this matter very much, but when they went to school, they not only did not have to work, but they could also eat free meals, learn well, and get scholarships. Such resistance was gone. After all, when they first came, the lives of those barbarians were quite difficult. Leaving a mouth to eat would be a huge burden for them. Your Majesty, I dare say that in another ten or eight years, the barbarians may still exist, but they will be the same as those of me, the Ming people, in other words, they will no longer have any threats to me, the Ming people."

"You are right. Don't underestimate this matter. It is the most effective way to make our Ming Dynasty last forever. It is also silent and silent. It is easier for people to surrender than swords and guns, but it only takes a little longer." Qin Feng said: "No matter which country or nation it is, as long as it becomes a part of our Ming Dynasty, this is the first thing to advance. Children are the easiest to be assimilated. It is also the easiest to make them identify with the Ming Dynasty."

"Your Majesty is very true. When I first implemented this matter, it cost a lot and many people criticized it. The facts prove that Your Majesty is far-sighted. After these people from foreign races or other countries came in, they soon melted into a part of us." Jin Jingnan said in admiration.

"By the way, is there still no barbarian or Qi Chu's refugee in the smelter?" Qin Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, smelting iron and steel training is the core secret of my Ming Dynasty. So far, only the people born and raised in the Ming Dynasty are in danger of leaking the secrets." Jin Jingnan Dao.

"You can recruit a few outsiders who are loyal to me and the Ming Dynasty to a limited extent!" Qin Feng shook his head and said, "There are so many horse bones in Qianjin City that can make people see the rise channel. Even if you promote a few such people to become officials, it is OK. If you block the rise channel, it will be easier to get things done in a short time, but in the long run, it will be more and more people from outside. But in the future, it will be more and more."

"Since Your Majesty has given the order, I will discuss this matter with Ge Qingsheng in the future." Jin Jingnan nodded. "It doesn't matter to promote them to be a small official, but I think it's better to be cautious in the core technology. Let them work hard for a few more years. When Your Majesty unifies the world, it's not too late to promote them again! At that time, the shore of the land is the king's land. They have no other choice except to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing Jin Jingnan's insistence, Qin Feng just smiled. He just made suggestions. As for what to do is the best, perhaps these officials who do practical things know the most.

You can give yourself a direction, but never point fingers at specific methods of doing things, as that will be bad.

As we watched and walked, the group soon arrived at the back mountain. There was a large artificial reservoir, and on both sides of the downstream of the reservoir, there were dense water truck forging workshops. Some fans were huge, while others were much smaller.

"Your Majesty, that's the biggest one, mainly cutting. Cut iron plates, iron ingots, etc. into rough shapes according to the requirements. And those small ones are mainly forged. There are some special steels that need to be tempered for a longer time to achieve the flexibility we want."

"Let's go and have a look!" Qin Feng pointed to the largest water truck.

Before he walked in, the rumbling sound vibrated his eardrums. On the workbench, iron rods were placed horizontally on top of the head, and a huge cutter shone with a faint cold light. As a worker pulled down the mechanism on one side, the huge cutter fell heavily with a whistling sound, like cutting the iron rods into short rods.

On another workbench, there were hammers, iron ingots, and steel ingots slowly flattened under the violent blow of the hammer. The workers below kept adjusting the flattened iron sheets to make them beaten evenly. To achieve this, it all depends on the workers' own skills.

"That kind of cutting knife is quite expensive!" Jin Jingnan shook his head and said, "In order to create this thing, the masters tried their best. However, I recently heard that a craftsman made something called a sand wheel. After he rotated it at high speed, he could cut steel and break iron while watering it. However, it was not possible to replace this large cutting tool. The masters said that the sand wheel could be used for some more fine processing. They have already asked for me for the craftsman. Because they were too busy during this period, I did not ask about it in detail, and I didn't know whether it had passed the acceptance. Once it was considered effective, the craftsman could also have an official position."

"If you do fine cutting, you will be more suitable for the workshops in Taiping City." Qin Feng said.

"Yes, Your Majesty and the masters have also seen this, so the first one has been sent to Taiping City, and the craftsmen there will be experimenting with how he is!" Jin Jingnan smiled and said, "Your Majesty, these workshops are too noisy. You might as well move to that side. There are some special needs steels. Many weapons in our Ming Dynasty are unique in the world, but they cannot do without their hard work."

Compared with these large workshops, the sound of these workshops on the other side is much smaller, but it is more dense. When you step into these workshops, Qin Feng saw a worker holding a red-hot iron block with iron pliers and placing it on the iron felt, but it did not require anyone to hit it. On his head, a small hammer was falling down at a certain speed. What the worker had to do was to constantly adjust the position of the iron block, and sparks were splashing everywhere on the station.

There are dozens of such workstations in a workshop, and every worker gathers to work in God.

Once the knock is almost done, the iron block will be burned red again and moved to another station. Here, the iron block will be shaped into a cylinder. After it burns red again, they will be placed in a special round hole. Other workers began to shout and turn the winch on one side. Qin Feng was surprised to see that when the iron rod stretched out from the other side of the round hole, it had become thinner. Then the thinner iron rod penetrated into the next smaller round hole. When it walked all the distance from the long workbench, it had become only as thick as a little finger.

"It's really amazing!" Qin Feng walked to the end and looked at the final finished products.

"This is the best steel." Jin Jingnan Road.

Qin Feng reached out and picked up a steel bar that had been completed earlier and gently stole it. The steel bar naturally bent into a circle in his hand. "The toughness is so good." He said astonished.

"Your Majesty, in the last step of steelmaking, the craftsmen seem to have added something to it. I don't understand it, but I don't need to understand it. As long as I know, the quality of steel is getting better and better, this is enough. What I can do is to ask for me for these craftsmen." Jin Jingnan smiled and said, "How to do it is their business. The craftsmen are working hard and thinking hard. The craftsmen in Daye City have naturally differentiated and are specialized in research. Since I discovered that adding some other minerals can improve the quality of steel, those people have experimented like crazy, constantly adding some strange things to it, and also refined some strange things. If Your Majesty has time, you can go and take a look."
Chapter completed!