Dong Hu was a little dissatisfied with Dong Mao and his wife, but he especially liked the lively and cute little Dong Bai. After reading the letters in the little girl's pocket, he couldn't help but look in the direction of Hanyang County...

"Tiger……"

Kuwa was a little worried, and it seemed that Dong Hu just smiled at her.

"It's nothing. I guess another Liangzhou Baku has emerged."

Kuwa is not sensitive to these things, but she can still feel the worries in her man's heart.

"It's not a big deal. People are confused. Only after the chaos, they are in trouble and are not good, will they yearn for calm farming. The days of sheep grazing are sometimes not a bad thing..."

"Oh by the way, Bai'er's parents have gone to Luoyang. You are her aunt. You just treat it as your own child. Don't let Bai Yat suffer grievances."

When Kuwa saw him stand up, he quickly picked up a cloak and nodded in agreement.

"Um."

...

Kuwai still doesn't know how to speak, but he can understand his words. As soon as the couple got out of the cart, they saw two big and small dolls outside playing...

"Uncle Tiger Boy..."

"Dad..."

Dong Bai was very sensible and ran to the front with his younger brother's hand. Dong Hu held his trouser legs twice and squatted down, while taking out malt sugar from his arms to coax the child, and stuffed one piece of it to each person.

"Wait rinse your mouth after eating candy."

"Uh-huh……"

One big and one young, they are all childlike innate. After grabbing the candy, they ran to play. Dong Hu carefully explained to Kuwa, and then took his group to the iron-smelting blast furnace, which is the real iron-smelting blast furnace.

There were many types of iron-smelting furnaces in the Han Dynasty, and even iron-smelting "blast furnaces" appeared. However, this kind of "blast furnace" was just like a blast furnace in later generations, like a chimney, more than one person tall, and the blast furnace built by Dong Hu was much taller.

Lianxian has very good iron ore, the best coal, and the top refractory brick and soil used to manufacture blast furnaces. It has all the conditions for building blast furnace iron. However, it has never really started large-scale iron smelting, but it just let people mining. The main reason is the safety issues around the three counties of Hetao.

If a child does not want to attract others' attention, the best way is to hide in a messy corner and turn himself into a mud monkey and a dirty baby. But if a big doll holds a big gold nugget in his hand, it is to seek death on his own.

Dong Hu entered Bingzhou for a short time, and his foundation was unstable. Not to mention, there were also Huns and Xianbei, a powerful tribe. Although the two major tribes were divided and fought against each other, they were not unable to gather together when they faced temptations that were difficult to refuse.

Before Dong Hu killed the Huns, before he severely damaged the Xianbei people, and before he created a basic security environment for the internal situation, no matter how huge the Hetao counties were, he could not easily touch them, blast furnaces could not be built in large quantities, salt fields could not be developed in large quantities, and the people could not be scattered...

But now he can free up his hands and concentrate on building his Hetao Pearl!

The person who built the blast furnace was a forty-year-old Han man named "Laodian". His name was very simple. He was a prisoner captured by Dong Hu from Xia Quyang. He had been an iron smith before and had experience in making "blast furnaces" to smelify iron. However, the blast furnace built by Dong Hu was not much the same as what he had built before. I don't know how tall he was, and he was a little confused whether he could calcinate iron juice.

Seeing Dong Hu’s arrival from afar, Lao Nian brought a group of craftsmen with old and young people to greet him. After the two sides gave him a greeting, Lao Nian was a little worried and spoke.

"Lord, for such a big stove, Lao Nian doesn't know if it will blow up the stove, nor is he sure if he can burn out the iron juice."

Dong Hu was more kind to craftsmen. He didn't care how others viewed him. He casually hugged the old man who was a big head shorter than him.

"Can iron juice be burned? One reason is that the iron ore contains insufficient iron content. After calcining ore with insufficient iron content, it is just a pile of useless slag. Another reason is whether the furnace temperature is enough. As for whether the furnace can withstand high temperatures... this is a trivial matter. It's amazing that we will build the furnace thicker."

Lao Nian and the old men looked at each other and smiled bitterly, but they also understood that the truth was that, there are two most important conditions for burning iron juice. One is whether the raw ore has iron, whether the iron content can reach the level of iron production, and the other is whether the firepower is enough and whether the iron can be burned out of the stone.

Most of the furnaces in the Han Dynasty selected soil first, sifted the soil finely, added water to make soft mud bricks and circles around the furnace. They were carefully applied with mud outside, and gradually made a stove with a wide bottom and narrow top.

There are many types of iron smelting furnaces in the Han Dynasty, but the difference is almost the same. They are made when the adobe has not yet dried. However, the refractory bricks used in Dong Hu's furnace were made in advance, similar to firing bricks. However, for comparison, two sets of comparisons were conducted in advance. One type of soil used in the refractory bricks was not calcined, and the other was crushed and screened after calcination.

After two types of adobe refractory bricks made of soil, they will be cooled and dehydrated for a long time and baked slowly... gradually adapt to the flames of higher temperatures. Any bricks and stones that are damaged by high temperatures will be eliminated. Just one refractory brick is a meticulous task, and then fifteen blast furnaces of different sizes are built just like building a house.

Dong Hu had his own blacksmith workshop in Lintao and also refines a small amount of iron ore and scrap iron, but these were all refined on the original technology, and it was nothing more than improving the removal of impurities. He had never made a blast furnace before, and he had no bottom in his heart. He didn't know the optimal ratio of the diameter, height and thickness of the blast furnace. He could only make a few more furnaces for comparison.

The furnace was built, and the proportion of iron ore crushing, coke, and limestone... Lao Nian has rich experience in iron making, but he only relied on his original experience. Dong Hu knew more or less some of the principles of iron making, and was more willing to promote the progress of iron making technology, and intervened in iron making matters.

Dong Hu came to Lian County in name to avoid the entanglement of the little princess. He could lend food to the Wuwan people, but he was unwilling to let the Wuwan people's agriculture go further. Unless the Wuwan people are willing to completely integrate into the Han Dynasty and become a member of the Han people, he would rather use economic means to tie up the Wuwan people tightly and completely destroy everything that the Wuwan people have in their original state.

There are some dark things he doesn't want to tell others, and he doesn't want to be fooled with a little girl who doesn't know anything.

It was obvious that he was avoiding the little princess, but Lu Zhi actually came to smelify iron and dry salt, and really spit out gold and silver from the three counties of Hetao!

It seems that Dong Hu will ignite the filler when he comes, but in fact it takes two years to prepare. Tens of thousands of people have prepared for two years, mining, ore crushing, screening of refractory soil, and blast furnace construction...

A blast furnace has been prepared for two years.

"ignition--"

With Lao Nian roaring, countless people began to move. The fifteen blast furnaces lined up were almost at the same time. The herdsmen, dozens of miles of miles, all looked up at the direction of the blast furnace...

"Gouwazi, what's wrong there? Could it be that there was a fire?"

When the old man asked, he couldn't help but turn around when he was owing his feet to look at the direction of the smoke.

"There is the direction of the big stove... Maybe it's the tiger's king who wants to burn iron..."

The old man was speechless. He had been grazing sheep in Lian County for a year. He knew that big stove, but who had ever seen such a tall stove? Because of this incident, many people kept muttering in private that smelting iron is a good thing, but can such a large stove be refined into iron?

The people did not dare to mutter from front of Dong Buyi, who had made the name of "Tiger Baby" and could only mutter to each other that the unreliable "tiger kids" were messing around.

After muttering a few words, the old man thought that after the sheep was full, he rushed back. He wanted to see if the "tiger kid" could make up something, but it seemed that he suddenly remembered something.

"Dog kid."

The half-grown doll looked back at the old man.

"Ahon, what's wrong?"

Listening to the grandson's impatient words, the old man felt a little dissatisfied and picked up a lump of earth and threw it over, but it did not hit the doll.

"What's wrong... The day before yesterday, your third uncle said that the tiger widow king was going to be a fool again, saying that the tiger widow king was going to teach the baby in Pingcheng. Ah Weng thought about it... Although the tiger widow king was a little bit stupid, his ability to fight was not worse than that in Sanming, Liangzhou. Tomorrow, you will go to find your third uncle and ask your third uncle to talk to Lord Hei Niu, maybe you can go to Pingcheng and learn the skills of the tiger widow king..."

"Aweng, are you talking about it? Let's look for Uncle San..."

"The sheep have not yet rushed back to the village!"

When Dong Hu came to Lian County, there were the Han Min Young Army Cavalry, who was only 12 or 300 years old for five hundred years. Dong Hu was not a stingy person. He and his brothers could wear more rags, but the armor and equipment he made for the young army was the best in the entire army. It was practical and not practical, and I would not mention it. But one thing was that it was to be cool enough.

Tailored soap black small leather armor, red tassel helmet, white cloak, and swords, bows and arrows, they look like heroic young generals.

When Dong Hu entered Lian County, Gouwa was extremely envious of the young cavalry. After listening to the old man's words, how could he sit still? He had to go to the infantry camp to find his third uncle. Until the old man was so angry, he remembered that the cattle and sheep had not yet returned to the ranch village, so he hurriedly carried a whip and wanted to drive the sheep back...

"What are you anxious about? The cattle and sheep are not full yet!"

The old man scolded him, but the dog was a little nervous.

"Aweng, we...we are ranch tenants, tiger kid king...will we accept it?"

The two men were from the ranch. Cai Yong, the prefect of Beidi County, borrowed grain. Many elderly, weak, women and children mortgaged them to Dong Hu as protons. Some of them became miners and some were farmed in Fuping and Lian County. The real elderly and weak could only become shepherds in the ranch. The two men were talking were one of the 20,000 people mortgaged to Dong Hu by Beidi County.

The old man listened to his grandson's concerns, smacked his lips twice before knocking on the little round head that was stretched over.

"Aweng has asked your third uncle carefully. Your third uncle said that King Huwa is from our Liangzhou. Although he killed countless people, who are they killed?"
Chapter completed!