However, the problem arises here. Although they are very motivated and confident, they are not professional iron smelters and lack the guidance of professionals. They are all relying on their passion to do things. The result can be imagined.

They don’t know that the furnace temperature control, iron ore selection, coal impurities removal, operation procedures and other operations are a miracle.

Kong Youde's idea was actually to use this kind of blast furnace to make steel. He already knew the structure. The general steps are found in the high school chemistry textbook. He also had some impression that it was not a problem to build such a blast furnace.

He doesn't know the specific operation, but he still knows the general process. At worst, let the people below keep experimenting. He has manpower, material resources and financial resources. If he doesn't succeed once, he will have two times, and if he doesn't work twice, he will have three times. As long as he does a good job of recording and summarizing experience every time, he will always succeed once.

Once the first furnace is able to produce the qualified steel, the second furnace is the first thousand furnace, it is just a matter of time.

After thinking through these things, Kong Youde began to write about steelmaking methods based on memory, including the structure of the blast furnace and the materials needed for steelmaking.

Of course, it is just a guiding idea and cannot be treated as a specific operation. As for how to make steel, blacksmiths like Zhao Yi and Wang Jiang need to study it themselves.

He also recorded some methods for improving success rates, such as breaking iron ore, not using large pieces of iron ore, and replacing coal with coke. The Song Dynasty had the technology to make coke since the beginning of the Song Dynasty. There was no need to worry about this, and there were other things he could think of.

The next morning, just after Kong Youde finished breakfast, Zhao Yi, Wang Jiang and Lu Xingchu came to the General's Mansion as they were yesterday's instructions.

Kong Youde gave these things to Zhao Yi, Wang Jiang and others, and gave them a reward. As long as they could successfully produce steel, a total of 500 taels of silver would be distributed by Lu Xingchu.

Kong Youde didn't plan to participate in the subsequent events. What he knew was just theory. He also recorded some useful things, so he should give them the actual operation to the people below.

It is almost destined to refine steel, of course it is unlikely to succeed in one go, and it will take not a day or two, so there is no need for him to wait in the smelting workshop. Just let him know after practicing it.

After explaining these things, several people from the smelting workshop went to the house with gratitude, and he also prepared to go to Dengzhou Prefecture School, which is also a very important place for him.

"Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Feng, Chen, Zhu Wei, Jiang, Shen, Han, Yang, Zhu Qin..." Zhang Yida, while carrying a literacy textbook, looked at the things hanging side by side with the bronze bell in the distance, and couldn't help swallowing.

"Damn it, I forgot again! What's behind Zhu Qin?"

"Yu Xu!"

Lu Xiaobu, who was rubbing his clothes with soapcorns, smiled and reminded him.

"I said Lao Zhang, are you thinking about that again?" Lu Xiaobu pointed to the wax pig legs hanging high on the wall with some jokes.

"Go! It's like you don't want it!" Zhang Yida's face turned slightly red, and he spat and continued to recite the letter.

After taking down Dengzhou City, Bai Mulin successfully persuaded Geng Zhongming to open the city gate. He made great contributions. Kong Youde arranged him to Dengzhou Prefecture School and served as the vice principal. As for the position of principal, Kong Youde naturally took over, although he was not in charge of the matter.

Kong Youde was not used to the previous positions of priests, sergeants, teaching edicts, etc., and changed them directly to the names of later generations. It sounded much more comfortable. Anyway, he was not prepared to continue to work within the system and did not have so many concerns. As long as he could defeat the imperial court's quelling rebellion army, these were nothing, and no matter how he could not win, he would not end up doing anything.

Zhang Yida and Lu Xiaobu were both outstanding elements selected by Bai Mulin from the Liao people according to Kong Youde's request.

According to Kong Youde's conditions: be familiar with farming and sericulture affairs, the age should be under 20 years old. The most serious thing is to read, count, and have no physical disabilities.

This made Bai Mulin difficult. There were not many people who understood these, but if they had them in one person, there would be fewer one.

There is no way, Kong Youde has to relax the conditions. It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t know the words, but he has to know how to settle accounts and count them.

At least, you must know how to recite Xiaojiujiu.

Among the shorts, Zhang Yida, Lu Xiaobu and others were selected among the nearly 100,000 refugees in Liaodong, and the group of students from the Political Affairs Hall of 155 people were selected.

As for the scholars, students, students, and the priests in this school, they were driven away by Kong Youde. The Confucianism they are now deeply rooted and difficult to reshape. Instead of wasting that effort, it is better to recruit some refugees and start again.

This political affairs hall was the foundation laid by Kong Youde for his future rule. The people recruited all the Liao people, and they naturally got along with him, a general from Liaodong. During the education period, they trained them to be loyal to themselves, and then they cultivated a group of direct troops.

Of course, the new Political Affairs Hall will know that it is not a military academy, but it is for the purpose of handling future local affairs, to allow power to reach the grassroots level, and to make your future rule more stable.

The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty only reached the county level and never went downward again, so there was a saying that the imperial power did not go to the countryside.

It was not just the Ming Dynasty that he went to the imperial power and did not go to the countryside. In fact, even during the Republic of China, Brother Kaishen nominally unified the country, but his power did not reach the grassroots level. Then, he was subverted from the grassroots level by Taizu and others.

All of this is for a reason. China's land area is too large and its population is too large, but the proportion of educated people is very low. It is almost impossible for the ancient centralized government to infiltrate state rights into regional society like modern countries.

On the other hand, the unique centralized system of the feudal dynasty can basically maintain the stability and development of the country, so the government has little intention and motivation to penetrate rights into grassroots society.

Although the word "official" is connected, in fact, there is an insurmountable gap between officials. Officials must pass the imperial examination, while officials do not need it. They are basically held by locals, and many of them are hereditary.
Chapter completed!