Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 48

[Chapter 48 Ironmaking]

“Okay.”

Zhao Xu and Liu Fu looked at each other, both smiling.

For him, although he paid some silver, he got the land.

In the Hao family, land is just a tool for profit.

But for him, the land is the guarantee for the people of Yan County to support him.

Therefore, his wealthy family can abandon the land for silver, but he cannot.

“Your Highness, you are so clever, you have given up small profits to see righteousness. With the acquisition of hundreds of thousands of acres of land, more than half of the land in Yan County is in the hands of the Wangfu.” Liu Fu was excited.

As for the rest of the land, it is still in the hands of the Zhang family and several powerful families.

But this does not affect the overall situation.

Set the matter.

Zhao Xu asked Liu Fu to fetch the contracts, and asked the rich to sign them one by one.

It can be regarded as proof of their participation in the chamber of commerce.

After they all signed the agreement, Zhao Xu continued: “It is a great righteousness to hand over the land this time. From now on, the king will not treat you badly. In the future, the palace will still have profitable business, and then there will be odd jobs for you. ”

“Thank you, Your Highness.” Everyone smiled.

This promise is nothing to the Dong family, Yang family, and Lu family, they have already benefited from the palace.

It is incumbent to support the palace this time.

They were also the first to sign the contract just now.

After all, there was no turning back for them.

As for other wealthy families, they have long been envious of several businesses.

The palace now sells a lot of wine, and the wine jars it needs are also huge, which is a lot of money.

Then, he discussed the establishment of the chamber of commerce with everyone.

Yanjun Commercial Bank was jointly established by the nobles of Yanjun.

Every chamber of commerce has to contribute.

This time the rich family participated in the share, so he had to hand over the sale of fine wine from the Palace to the chamber of commerce, and the chamber of commerce would count the quantity of wine sold, so as to be transparent.

Other than that, it’s the same as making ice.

The rich family still needs to send someone to be responsible for sales, and the responsibility of the royal family is only for production.

In addition to the original share, if each family can sell additional wine, they can also get a commission.

“Commission, this is a new word.” Dong Yuan stroked his beard and smiled.

King Yan proposed this method, which was exactly what he wanted.

The Dong family has a large number of people, and without land, they can just let them sell wine.

The bigger the chamber of commerce, the bigger their profits.

After deciding this matter, everyone looked at Zhao Xu slightly differently.

At this moment, besides being King Yan, Zhao Xu is also their parents.

They can only follow King Yan.

Busy until noon.

Zhao Xu asked the palace to set up a banquet for the wealthy families to have a feast.

Different from the past, this time it is more like a banquet for the establishment of a contemporary company.

What the wealthy clans were discussing was not romance, but how to make the chamber of commerce bigger and sell more goods from the chamber of commerce.

After drinking for an hour, most of the wealthy families left drunk.

Zhao Xu was also slightly drunk.

Back in the bedroom, Luan’er was about to serve him to sleep.

At this time Feng Er came in.

“Your Highness, I’m afraid you won’t be able to sleep anymore. The head of the Military Division sent someone to ask His Highness to watch the iron smelting.” Feng’er laughed.

Luan’er caressed Zhao Xu’s back lightly, pouted and said, “What’s the use of making iron?”

Zhao Xu heard that, most of the time he was sober, he nodded Luan’er’s head, “You little girl understands. What, this is the most important weapon of the country.”

Jumping off the bed, he went to the Military Division without stopping.

“Your Highness, over here.”

Knowing that Zhao Xu was coming, Wang Ying came out from the Military Division.

It’s just that Wang Ying didn’t wear official robes, but ordinary bunts, and his face was swarthy.

But at this time, Wang Ying was full of fanatical excitement and anticipation.

Follow Wang Ying into the Military Division.

In the backyard of the Bingzhang Division, Zhao Xu saw two tower-like buildings more than three meters high.

This is the indigenous blast furnace.

Bingzhansi’s blast furnace is made of clay for ceramics.

Because this is a natural refractory brick.

The upper mouth of the blast furnace has a cover, and there are two holes below, one hole communicates with the blast furnace, and the other is used to flow out molten iron.

“Your Highness, the coke and limestone have been prepared by the officials. The coke is smoldering in the kiln, and the limestone is hewn from Yanshan Mountain.”

After receiving Zhao Xu’s iron-making method, he thought about it all night. I pondered all night.

On the second day, people built the blast furnace and collected materials at the same time.

After everything was ready, he notified King Yan.

“Then let’s start.” Zhao Xu was also a little excited.

In his opinion, the ancients were not stupid.

Some exquisite craftsmanship cannot be replicated even in modern times.

They just lack a guide to lead them on the right path.

And there is no doubt that he is the leader now.

Therefore, in this iron smelting, he can only give Wang Ying an on-demand broadcast, and let him figure out the rest.

The fact is just as he thought.

Wang Ying did a good job in the previous preparations.

“Light up the stove first.” Zhao Xu ordered.

He hasn’t told Wang Ying the specific process of making iron.

That’s why Wang was so anxious to find him.

Obtaining his order, the craftsman ignited the briquettes in the air-heated furnace and pulled up the bellows.

Then, Zhao Xu asked the craftsmen to put iron stone, limestone, and coke into it according to the proportion.

After finishing these, Zhao Xu and Wang Ying stood aside and waited for the result.

“Your Highness, what is the pool below used for?” Wang Ying asked.

Zhao Xu looked at the pond in front of the blast furnace.

The molten iron from the blast furnace will flow into this pool after flowing out.

Beside the pool stood three craftsmen with sticks.

He said: “Iron is divided into pig iron and wrought iron. The iron that has just been smelted is pig iron, which has a lot of carbon in it. At this time, stirring it while it is hot can make the impurities in the iron burn, so that the molten iron will become wrought iron after cooling. This method It’s called pouring steel.”

Wang should understand the concepts of pig iron and wrought iron.

But what he doesn’t understand is that iron is raw and cooked because there is carbon in it.

Hearing this statement for the first time, he couldn’t help being very surprised.

“It turned out to be so.” He exclaimed.

Zhao Xu nodded and continued: “Afterwards, steel can be obtained by smelting wrought iron graphite crucibles.”

“Graphite crucible?” Wang Ying’s face was full of question marks.

He used to boast that he knew all the world’s skills, but now he has no confidence in Zhao Xu’s few words.

“There is a kind of inkstone made of black stone, the cheapest, and the black stone is graphite.” Zhao Xu continued to explain.

Once the wrought iron comes out, the whole set of steelmaking procedures is basically completed for him.

Just take out this graphite crucible, and that’s it.

The knowledge in his mind told him that there were graphite inkstones in ancient times.

For those who study, paper, ink, pen and inkstone are indispensable.

Therefore, it is easy for Wang Ying to understand directly.

Wang Ying was suddenly stunned when he heard the words.

Then Zhao Xu told Wang Ying how to make a graphite crucible.

The two were chatting.

In less than an hour, the craftsman suddenly called out.

I saw a fiery red thin line flowing out of the blast furnace.

Wang Ying immediately stepped forward to check and was overjoyed.

“Really, iron has really turned into water.” Wang Ying looked at a loss.

The craftsmen were also dumbfounded.

Originally, they still didn’t believe it, but now that they saw it with their own eyes, they were convinced.

Zhao Xu was much calmer.

The ancients could not smelt molten iron because the temperature of the fire was not high enough.

It takes more than 1,500 degrees to melt iron. He put coke on it, and set up a wind-heating furnace to blow hot air in, and then raised the temperature.

Amid the exclamation of everyone, the thin wire of molten iron became thicker and thicker.

The gurgling flowed into the pool below.

The red flame made Wang Ying’s face turn red like iron.

(end of this chapter)