"Wow..." When Zhu Biao and Zhu Lang walked towards the cafeteria together, they smiled a little as they looked at the black smoke coming out of the blast furnace on the side.

Zhu Lang was also surprised by this blast furnace, because Zhu Lang originally thought that there would be no blast furnace in the Ming Dynasty. When reading novels, many time traveling stories made a fortune by making money by using blast furnaces, salt, cement and glass. However, it was only in the Ming Dynasty that it would be unlikely if the protagonist wanted to make a fortune in the Ming Dynasty based on his skills.

Let’s talk about this blast furnace.

Many protagonists made their fortunes with the civil blast furnace in the late 1950s. The civil blast furnace is actually not a blast furnace, but just a kind of vertical furnace. However, this method of getting rich is basically only applicable before the Song Dynasty. The shape of the iron-making vertical furnace in China has been very close to that of modern blast furnaces. There are already changes in the different inclinations of the waist of the furnace body furnace and the waist of the belly furnace, and it is even more like a blast furnace than the so-called civil blast furnace. If there is any difference between it and a blast furnace, it is basically

1. The refractory bricks are not good enough (in fact, they are already very good, both carbon-based and silicon-based refractory bricks, but the materials are not as pure as those in modern times)

2. The furnace body is not high enough (before the Song Dynasty, charcoal was mainly used. The charcoal strength was not enough, and it was not suitable to build too high furnaces. There were too many impurities in coal and more slag-making agents were needed, which was not conducive to the use of blast furnaces. To build blast furnaces, coke must be included. According to the records in Fang Yizhi's "Physical Knowledge" (this is a book from the late Ming Dynasty, I don't believe it and check it myself), large-scale coking had occurred in the Ming Dynasty for metallurgy, and the final obstacles to blast furnaces have basically been cleared. If the development of capitalism is in line with the development of capitalism, it is natural for blast furnaces to be invented in Chinese style)

3. The blower equipment is not good enough, hehe, this can still be improved. It is okay to preheat it before the drum is in, but it is really really a matter of trying to form a technical advantage based on this point... There was no such thing as technical property rights in ancient times.

What? Slag-making agents improve the quality of pig iron? Stop dreaming. What slag-making agents can you think of? Limestone? Fluorite? These slag-making agents have been put into use for a long time. If you can find better slag-making raw materials than ancient blacksmiths, you must be studying minerals, at least I don’t know a few.

The ancients had another method of iron smelting, the crucible method. This method has a wider application scale than a vertical furnace, but both output and quality are problems, but it can be met for the daily needs of the ancients. If you cannot find steel consumers, it is estimated that it will be difficult to even promote a vertical furnace. After all, the crucible method is cheap.

All the blast furnaces in Dengzhou were made by Ming Dynasty people, and Zhu Lang did not make any suggestions.

Let's talk about salt

Salt drying was also invented in the Song Dynasty. Salt fields require a large area. Unless you are in charge of salt affairs in the government department, it is best not to try it. Not to mention that the steps of salt drying are complicated and far from simple as imagined. Just salt and iron are enough to crack down on private salt.

I don’t know why the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties did not dry salt on a large scale. I don’t know why the ancients did not promote it to the present.

In addition, even modern salt only supplies some salt, and a large amount of salt is obtained through salt lake refining and rock salt mining. Speaking of rock salt mining, it seems to be a bit similar to well salt, so I would like to solve the problem.

Fine salt and fine salt are also good ways to get rich, but fine salt needs to be washed away the bitter brine, filtered off the mud and sand, and making large quantities of fine salt also requires a large amount of soda ash. It is difficult to batch produce soda ash of certain purity in ancient times. It is basically obtained by crystallization of the salt lake. The so-called lipid alkali is mainly obtained by Zhangjiakou Ma City from the Mongolian tribe.

Although the amount of soda ash is used for small amounts of refined salt is small, can you be sure how much to add? At that time, there was no hydrochloric acid for you to use, so it would be wrong to add too much soda ash.

Zhu Lang and Zhu Biao came to the canteen together. Zhu Lang thought of it first. During the reign of King Cheng of Chu, the monarch once invited the ministers around him to have a dinner together. This also shows that the shadow of the canteen had begun to appear in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but this method was not particularly fixed, and it was limited to some ministers.

When reading "Records of the Grand Historian", you will find that when Zhang Yi went on a mission to Chu State, in order to express his grandfather's honor, King Huai of Chu invited noble ministers to celebrate with Zhang Yi in the court. It can be said that everyone was like a team building together at that time, and they were very happy with each other. In the lively atmosphere of the court, they talked about cooperation with Qin State and severing diplomatic relations with Qi State.

From this we can see that the State of Chu is very common for dinner and joy. As long as there are important things, all civil and military officials can eat with the emperor.

But unfortunately, this canteen in the agency is not fixed and has no systemic nature. Moreover, it is a celebration with the purpose of welcoming the sincerity of the outside world. It is a bit of a canteen to say that it is a canteen.

However, the shadow of the government canteen that appeared back then did not disappear, but was constantly evolving and began to take shape in the Han Dynasty.

After Emperor Wu of Han became the dominant, he began to reuse some particularly important loyal ministers, including Zhufu Yan, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, and Li Guang. Mr. Sima Qian believed that during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, in order to distinguish it from the external courts, he began to establish an internal dynasty system.

After the internal dynasty system in the village, since everyone often had to gather urgently and make specific judgments on external things, Xiang Weiqing and Zhufu Yan often had to gather urgently at the emperor without having time to eat. Over time, it also caused great inconvenience for them.

However, for Wei Qing and others, they were absolutely loyal to the emperor and dared not say much, so they just obeyed Emperor Wu's arrangements honestly. However, Emperor Wu of Han was a person who loved his ministers very much. Therefore, he directly allowed Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Zhufu Yan and others to have dinner in their court and also opened a canteen for him.

It can be said that this is a sign of the formation of the canteen of the government in the Han Dynasty, but this canteen is only suitable for officials in the inner court, and it is a small canteen. For Wei Qing and others, this is the supreme honor, but for other officials, it is also envy, jealousy, and therefore, the canteen of the government is further developing.

After the Tang Dynasty,

In the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, not only did the severe drought in Guanzhong, but there was also a threat from the Turks. More importantly, the law on martial ethics was particularly disordered and needed to be re-formed urgently.

Under such a background, Emperor Taizong of Tang began to seize these important officials around him, and started to work before dawn every day, and then left the court until very late. When we read "The Emperor of Zhenguan", we can see some clues. Emperor Taizong called everyone over very early, and then frequently and fiercely debated. Regarding the revision of national laws, everyone was so quarreled that they had no water or food. Seeing that their subordinates were so tired that they could not bear it, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were even sick, Emperor Taizong decided to open a canteen in the court.

However, according to records at that time, Emperor Taizong was only responsible for making breakfast, and Chinese and dinner were not included. Therefore, everyone rushed over to court before dawn and could discuss national affairs with Emperor Taizong while having dinner. Of course, when everyone was very quarreled, there were wine and water, and other supplies for everyone to use, but there were no Chinese and dinner.

So since the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong had already set the canteen of the government office, but everyone could only eat breakfast. It can be said that Emperor Taizong was a little stingy, and these officials in the Tang Dynasty were indeed a bit hard, but later the canteen of the government office was further developed, and officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties lived a prosperous life.

In order to ensure the efficiency of officials, Zhu Yuanzhang actually set up a canteen in the government, and breakfast, lunch and dinner can be included.

However, we should not think that Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement is something that makes everyone happy, because the "Records of the Ming Taizu" records that Zhu Yuanzhang's so-called canteens are to reduce the time for dinner to work further. Moreover, these canteens in the Ming Dynasty were very complicated. There are arrangements for officials to eat, and officials pay attention to the process of eating, and officials also need to divide the food levels.

It can be said that the development of government canteens in the Ming Dynasty was relatively complete, but it was too complicated, so that the Ministry of Rites later wrote a letter to suggest that Zhu Yuanzhang abolish the government canteen system. However, it was restored again during the Zhu Di period, and the treatment of government canteens became better, and officials were able to begin to enjoy formal subsidies.

Zhu Lang’s canteen is the best. A group of people lined up here equally, waiting to get the meal. Today’s recipe is also very good. Apart from meat, the most is fish, and who made Dengzhou by the sea?

There are also crabs, conchs, lobsters, etc...!

Zhu Biao was very satisfied with this meal. After eating, Zhu Lang took Zhu Biao to another place, which was the alchemy place here. Basically, the gold mines dug from foreign countries would be sent here to alchemy. When the alchemy was over, they would transport them to the sky again by land and water.

Zhu Biao looked at the gold here and it was almost blinding his eyes. Today, about one ton of gold was transported from sea to sea by flying scissors to respond to the sky. But what he didn't expect was that this ton of gold was actually targeted.

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When it comes to the role of pirates, we are familiar with them. "Pirates of the Caribbean" created by Uncle Depp is a memory of many people born in the 1990s. However, in my impression, pirates are generally in the Americas, and the land structure is basically inland China. The most common thing I hear about is bandits, and the title of pirates is rare.

However, there was such a pirate leader in our country during the Ming Dynasty. He disrupted the maritime order for decades. Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, was furious and fired the head of a heavy reward for him. He was Chen Zuyi, the pirate king of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Zuyi's family was originally from Chaozhou, Guangdong. There were constant wars in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. In order to maintain their lives, Chen Zuyi's family relied on the sea to make a living. Years of wars made Chen Zuyi not receive a complete and systematic education since childhood. Later, after his family went to Nanyang, they even got into a group with local gangsters and gangsters and did evil in Nanyang.

Although Chen Zuyi was fishing, he had an ordinary level of serious work and outstanding organizational leadership skills. At the beginning, he just recruited a few brothers around him to rob the past tourists and vendors and extorted some living expenses.

Later, as he became famous, he had more and more followers under his command and more money from extortion, and he would kill people who could not satisfy his appetite.

In this way, after continuously annexing and winning over several other pirate gangs around him, Chen Zuyi became the strongest pirate leader in the Nanyang area at that time. At its peak, the entire team had dozens of warships and tens of thousands of pirate troops, and was equipped with weapons and equipment such as cannons and hard crossbows.

Under Chen Zuyi's powerful force, many nearby countries and ship vendors were persecuted. According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 50 nearby towns captured by Chen Zuyi, and the real money and silver obtained exceeded 10 million taels.

Although he did a bad job, Chen Zuyi was indescribable to treat his subordinates and his brothers. Not only did he often send all the gold and jewelry he got without reservation, but he also had clear rewards and punishments, and rewarded them according to merit.

Chen Zuyi, who is loyal and wise, was regarded as a god by his brothers. Not to mention that he would not betray him, few people say bad things about Chen Zuyi behind his back.

However, Chen Zuyi's rampant behavior soon reached the ears of the Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order directly to order Zhu Lang's sea dragon army to wipe out pirates, maintain the order of surrounding merchant ships and surrounding waters, and offer a reward of 500,000 taels of silver to ask Chen Zuyi for the head.

At that time, Chen Zuyi was not very strong. Under the encirclement of the Hailong Army, Chen Zuyi hid in Tibet and was full of ugly appearances.

He took the remaining pirates for a while and joined a small country called Bolinbang with more than a thousand remaining pirates. Seeing that Chen Zuyi's soldiers were strong, the local king tasted delicious food and drinks, and expressed his willingness to let Chen Zuyi be the general here. The simple king did not know the little tricks in Chen Zuyi's belly.

Chen Zuyi, who found a shelter, quickly won over his power in the local area. When the time was right, he assassinated the king, seized power and became king.

Chen Zuyi, who became emperor, did not stop there. He knew that it would be difficult to compete with the powerful Ming Dynasty alone. In order to accumulate strength and avoid head-on conflicts, Chen Zuyi distributed time to the Ming Dynasty every year.

Especially after Zhu Lang became the King of Qin, Chen Zuyi also sent an envoy to send a large number of gold, silver and jewelry to show his loyalty, but these gold, silver and jewelry were not his, but intercepted.

It turned out that every time Chen Zuyi offered sacrifices to the Ming Dynasty, he always sent an empty ship to rob the waters along the way or on the land where he settled.

He offered whatever he got on the road, which was equivalent to leveraging other people's hands to perform a gift. Whether it was a merchant passenger ship or a foreign envoy, he was tragically killed.

Because of this, Chen Zuyi is getting stronger and stronger now, but what Chen Zuyi doesn’t know is that Zhu Lang turns a blind eye to him, not because he is good at offering sacrifices. In fact, Zhu Lang is raising pigs.

Zhu Lang has always raised Chen Zuyi in order to make Chen Zuyi rob foreign merchant ships everywhere. He then waited for Chen Zuyi to get fat and then ate it. But what Zhu Lang didn't expect was that Chen Zuyi was going to attack him first, and he actually fell in love with his flying ship that transported gold.

This really corresponds to the saying, if there is a way in heaven, if there is no way, if there is no way in hell, you will come and surrender!
Chapter completed!