Chapter 42 Steelmaking
Since the election of the Laoshizi Federation of Industry and Commerce, no matter who you support or whether you are neutral or not, this political incident has obviously attracted the attention of most officials. The Ming Dynasty's group of officials who are accustomed to commenting, accusing and insulting now have new targets, and the four major candidates have become their new targets for venting. However, this target is a mobile target, because these critics seem to have killed the target, but in fact the target uses the method of shifting the universe, and you have not hurt him at all. However, the candidates will burst out some new information in a few days, so professional critics - or insulting, are busy organizing new firepower, so they temporarily let go of the target of the emperor.
The Emperor is a tumbler. He hurts himself even if he doesn't do it well. These censors are not fools. They are not intentionally seeking death. They just want to attract attention. They are also just blamed that the political life of the Ming Dynasty was too monotonous and that no one would pee you if he didn't talk to the emperor! Now a campaign drama is suddenly staged. These great gods who use pens as guns are strongly stimulated. It can be said that heroes have a place to use their skills. So they picked up the pens in their hands, and devoted themselves to this vigorous campaign battle carefully directed by the Emperor.
Chongzhen was so leisurely that he set up a small wine in the palace and chatted with Wang Chengen. These days, he was busy with his own things. Occasionally, he was a group of people discussing matters or others were by his side, so he hadn't had a happy chat for a long time.
Wang Chengen took a sip of wine and said:
"Your Majesty, what do you think of the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty?"
"Of course it's a team of censors! I've got a headache when I see the memorials of these people! It's really hard to get rid of them! I can't help but kill them, and I can't be afraid of them. They're picky all day long. After quoting and citing a few bullshits, I'll put aside your braids, and you're not upset?"
"Now with this election of the Federation of Industry and Commerce, the emperor can finally be clear about his ears. The censors are now divided into four major campaign camps. Their guns are pointed directly at other camps, and they will never be merciless and fight very lively! There are only a handful of people who are neutral. Even if they remain neutral, it will not prevent them from firing at any party. These articles that attack each other in Ming Pao made me want to laugh!" Wang Chengen said with a smile.
"This is exactly the same as the special period of later generations, and the random labels are being put on. Hello! Do you want to say that I launched this 'Ming Dynasty Cultural Revolution'? Do you still think that the election of the Chairman of the Federation of Industry and Commerce is ahead of schedule? It is not worth the loss?"
"I am just worried that if this set of Western elections from later generations will threaten the emperor's centralized leadership in advance."
Chongzhen laughed and said, "This, as long as the army is not in chaos, there is nothing wrong. Therefore, the election charter stipulates that any active-duty officer, no matter how many rank he is, will not participate in the election. Grasp the gun well and let him do whatever he wants. You are afraid of a lot of fighting! If you don't let go, let them fight each other, they will fight with me in turn. After finally transferring the firepower of these fighters, Amitabha! It's really a lot easier now. The royal clubs that ran from Beijing to Nanjing have some of them, and the majority of them have been digested in the campaign. After all, I can finally become an emperor with a pure ear. I really don't know how Chongzhen survived his 17 years in Beijing!" Thinking about how poor and being entangled by a group of unreasonable guys, Chongzhen couldn't help but shake his head.
"What the emperor said is right. Didn't Hitler also elected? He still acted as a dictator!"
"I want to be a dictator, but I don't even dare to mention the industrial and commercial tax, for fear of not being able to pass it. Think about it, the emperor, I am really a coward!"
Wang Chengen hurriedly comforted: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Take it step by step and open the stock exchange first. After the election of the Federation of Industry and Commerce is over one or two months, the Royal Institute has also trained many brainwashed county-level grassroots officials. At that time, the matter of discussing industrial and commercial tax will be natural. At least, now four royal joint-stock companies have set a precedent for paying 10% industrial and commercial tax. Subtle influence, coupled with the emperor's current eloquence, it should not be difficult to pass the industrial and commercial tax!"
"Have I fooled me? I did practical things! Don't you say that guy Guo Yunlong is really good at fooling me. This guy didn't read a few words, but he is really a genius of fooling me! I wondered if he is a specialty for fooling me in Liaodong. This guy Guo Yunlong is really good at saying that I just gave some advice. His example teaching was so wonderful. Not only the students loved to listen to me, but even I admired me after hearing it. In his mouth, how is the Qing soldiers savagely and powerful, how is the Liaodong army strong, how is it fighting alone, and what about the group confrontation? It's just like storytelling, how is it fighting? As soon as I finished talking about some tactical terms, this guy was selling it in a very good way."
"How did Wang Fuzhi perform in the first phase of the military academy?"
"I am active in the tactical theory class in class, but my usual training is average. This is indeed a talent. As the chief of staff, I can't see it in combat. The battle requires decision-making on the momentum and strong military command ability. This can only be seen in the future. My goal is to prepare to train him to enter the Marine Affairs Office, and lead the troops first. Later generations always lead the troops first and then go to the General Staff. According to the method of discovering sports seedlings in later generations, there are a few good seedlings, and maybe two of them can lead the troops."
"Huang Zongxi teaches well at the Royal Military Engineering Academy. Among the three people, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu, who originally wanted to "play martial arts", went to do economics, Huang Zongxi took education, and Wang Fuzhi, the thinker, started military affairs. Among these three people, the biggest variable may be Gu Yanwu. Haha!"
"Don't underestimate the heroes in the world! Guo Yunlong opened my eyes."
Wang Chengen smiled and said, "Congratulations to the emperor, King Ding is also a rare talent. Now he is simply a steelmaking expert!"
"Oh, how has this kid been making steel?"
"Ha, King Ding is not like King Yong. If you have some achievements, come to the emperor to offer treasures. King Ding has been successful in making steel, but King Ding is not satisfied with the current level and is still improving!"
"Oh, let's talk, I've been busy training officers for a while, but I don't care enough."
"Steelmaking should have been made a long time ago, and this is mainly my fault. At the beginning, I limited steelmaking to steelmaking on open furnaces, but when I actually built a open furnace, I found that the design and production of the heat storage chamber was a problem. The gas can be made of blast furnace gas, but the gas pipeline is also a problem. Cokes must be refined well. In short, the open furnace is too complicated, and it is really difficult to put on a open furnace in a hasty way. Later, I thought, I should build a converter first. When making large steel, isn't that kind of converter made of a small converter made of a gasoline barrel? You can do one in a day.
The converter is just to add a conical hole-shaped lid on the top of the gasoline barrel, apply refractory mud on the inner wall of the barrel, weld two iron pipes on both sides, and then open four air inlet holes on the other side, weld a bellows. The bellows are connected to the blower through one of the iron pipes on both sides, and add a shaking hand to the other iron pipe, and then make a small converter that can be shaken while blowing the air. Our first small converter is a replica of this small converter. Haha, I didn’t expect that the Great Leap Forward to make a steelmaking method in the Ming Dynasty that year was copied to the Ming Dynasty. It’s so damn funny!”
"Even the civilized steelmaking method of the Great Leap Forward is 10,000 times stronger than the steel pouring at this time. With just this converter, how many kilograms of steel can be refined a day?"
"Your Majesty, don't underestimate this converter. After three shifts, you can make 6,000 kilograms of steel. Six such converters have been made, three are put into production, and three are spare, and the daily output is 18,000 kilograms. However, there is no oxygen, so you must preheat the converter with molten iron first. The first two furnaces cannot be used to make steel, and it can only be blown to the third furnace. The other is the power issue. We are now using the third-level blower, and the first level is the big one! Don't worry about these. First, make the steel well. After making the steel well, it will focus on seamless steel pipes. Now there is glass. Whether it is two-roll oblique rolling or hot extrusion, you can try both methods. Which one is faster?
Of course, in the end, it is mainly based on two-roll oblique rolling. With seamless steel pipes, rifles can be produced in large quantities, and with the trainees trained by the Royal Military Academy who master advanced tactics, they can immediately form a new army and be invincible. When the gun is truly grasped in the hands of the emperor, they will be more confident in everything they do. As for technology, products, they will definitely not disappoint the emperor! Now the students of the Military Engineering Academy can also help. I will arrange to try making baking soda, try making biscuits and bread, and then let Guang Shiheng release biscuit investment information at the Royal Club. The cookies do not have any technical content. If they are fast, they can be put on the market next month."
When Chongzhen heard this Guang Shiheng, he felt funny. This guy was fucking bad for Chongzhen's good deeds in the south. Afterwards, he ran to Li Zicheng to act obediently and wanted to be a Dashun official. As a result, he had a hot face and cold ass. Li Zicheng looked down on this person at all. He had no choice but to run to Nanjing with shameless face. When Chongzhen saw this guy, he wanted to slap him a few times, but of course it was not worth it. I don't know who this guy asked to enter the Royal Club. Until Wang Chengen found out, this guy had already started investment under Wen Tiecheng's arrangement.
The reason for attracting investment is that I was too busy and accidentally let a treacherous minister sneak into the team. I was about to find an excuse to open this guy, but I didn't expect that Guang Shiheng's investment promotion performance was great. Under the instigation of Guang Shiheng, those county officials below the ninth rank and below who came to train not only expressed their investment on the spot, but also promised to attract several investors after returning to the county. After achieving unprecedented success in the IPO of "Tsinghua Soap Industry Co., Ltd.", they continued to work hard on the IPO of "Guanghua Coal Co., Ltd." and were oversubscribed.
Chongzhen and Wang Chengen looked at each other in a daze. It has to be said that since ancient times, treacherous ministers have usually had two tricks, and they must not become treacherous ministers without any ability.
As expected, no matter what the joint-stock company that makes biscuits is called "What is Hua" company, it is still popular in Guang Shiheng's hands. Let this guy worry!
After that, Chongzhen was curious about this converter steelmaking, and decided to take a look at the converter suspected to be a natural steelmaking method in later generations.
When he arrived at the steelmaking plant, accompanied by Ding Wang, Chongzhen saw a pot of molten iron pouring into the converter, then pouring out, pouring another pot of molten iron, and pouring out again. Ding Wang introduced that pouring over and over is to preheat the converter. When the third furnace of molten iron is poured into the converter, and then pouring in additives such as soda powder, the three people on the other side began to shake the third level blower vigorously. Here an operator shook the converter left and right. After a while, the steel flowers at the mouth of the converter splashed and blew it for about twenty minutes. After the steel flowers at the mouth of the furnace were no longer visible, a furnace of steel was blown, so he turned the furnace and cast the steel ingots. Chongzhen looked at it, shook his head, nodded again, and then touched Ding Wang's head, his eyes full of praise.
When the steel mill was left, he encouraged King Ding again. Chongzhen felt great comfort in his heart, and there were steel and reserve talents. To build a new Ming Dynasty, this is the foundation.
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Chapter completed!