Steel Dynasty - Chapter 64

[Chapter 64 Moving forward together]

The delicious ground pot chicken in the evening satisfied the craving of everyone in the palace.

Xiao Ming’s decision to let the palace’s servants eat his own leftovers was not really to offend them, because in this era of scarcity of supplies, eating leftovers was commonplace.

Sometimes he would inevitably eat leftovers, not to mention that the ground-pot chicken was served in a large iron pot, which was no different from eating at a table.

What’s more, the delicacy of ground pot chicken is still the only one in Great Chongqing. Thinking of the thousands of delicacies in the science and technology library, Xiao Ming is secretly proud. There are still many days to come, and there is plenty of time to present the exquisite dishes one by one. .

But now is not the time to think about luxurious life, the most important thing is to make money.

After Ding Wanquan, people came to visit him in the palace one after another in the next few days. All the things they did were Niu Li’s overturning, and Xiao Ming paid them all for three hundred taels of silver.

Some merchants were wealthy and did not care about the money and bought it with pain. Some merchants were hesitant. Some merchants simply gave up and went back to using their old waterwheels.

These days, Wang Shijie and others have been thinking about Niu Li’s overturning, but in the end they chose to buy it with their free money.

When things have developed to this extent, Xiao Ming basically has a grasp of the current technological level of Dayu. It seems that they cannot imitate his rolling bearings.

“Your Highness, a total of about 5,000 sets of rolling bearings have been ordered these days. The equipment company is really overwhelmed with such a large quantity. I suggest building another hydraulic lathe workshop, but if you want to produce another set of lathes, the craftsmen will have to wait. I can’t take it out.”

After Chen Wenlong returned, Chen Qi went to Bowen Hall for classes every now and then.

On this day, Xiao Ming had just finished his lecture, and Chen Qi stepped forward and suggested to Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming frowned. Now the Equipment Department has a lot of things to do. Not to mention the briquette furnace, it also needs to provide Galen ship accessories to Zhangliang’s shipyard, and it also needs to produce steel, coke, and waterwheel parts. Now here’s what it’s all about Ordering multiple bearings naturally made Chen Qi very entangled.

Xiao Ming is also thinking about this issue when he is in class these days. He feels that low-end technology cannot take up too many current resources. For example, the production of this briquette stove is not very profitable, but it also requires a part of the craftsmen, which is very important. Not a good deal.

It also affects the layout of the industrial base. The focus now should be steel production. In modern times, the symbol of a country’s strength is often steel production.

Now he must make a choice.

“So, how many craftsmen are currently responsible for producing briquette stoves?” Xiao Ming asked.

“Now the briquette furnace has to produce at least 300 briquettes a day, and there are about 50 craftsmen working on it.” Chen Qi said.

Xiao Ming nodded, “Now you transfer all these fifty craftsmen to produce grinders, boring machines, drilling machines, milling machines, planers and other hydraulic lathes. In addition, the last batch of slaves purchased by the local people in Qingzhou only have one thousand, and the remaining Half of the two thousand people were assigned to the steel production. Colonel Lu now had money in his hands and became rich. He asked me to use the money to buy armor from the king. The king promised to produce a brand new set of armor for him. In two days, I’ll teach the craftsmen myself.”

“New armor?” Chen Qi also became interested, “Your Highness, I know how to do scale armor.”

“You will know when the time comes.

Chen Qi scratched his head, as if scratching his head and ears. He was anxious again.

Lu Tong was very envious on the side. Chen Qi was about the same age as him, but now Chen Qi was able to stand alone.

Noticing Lu Tong’s look, Xiao Ming said, “Don’t be anxious. I have time to leave it to you. It’s considered practice.”

“Really? Your Highness.” Lu Tong immediately said excitedly.

He knew very well that only if he could do things for the king like Chen Qi, he could be reused in the future.

Xiao Ming nodded. He trained Chen Qi and Lu Tong differently. Chen Qi’s focus was on mechanics and physics, while Lu Tong’s focus was on chemistry.

These days, he has been teaching these teenagers how to read, and now it’s time to teach them chemistry.

In this way, chemistry and physics can be carried out at the same time. After all, rare metals and alloys need to be extracted and synthesized using chemical methods, and future gunpowder also needs the support of a chemical system.

The most important thing to him is materials science, because only qualified materials can support qualified products, so from now on, these two hundred people will be responsible for the research of chemistry and materials.

“Of course it’s true. Tomorrow the king will teach you how to produce alkali. This is the first project you are responsible for.” Xiao Ming said.

Lu Tong nodded, but was very confused, because they still didn’t understand what “alkali” was.

Xiao Ming let the equipment department relieve a lot of burdens at once. Chen Qi was naturally the happiest. He said: “Your Highness, what about me?” I went back to make arrangements, but what did the Wang family say?”

“I told the Wang family about this,” Xiao Ming said. He planned to package and sell the briquette furnace production technology. Anyway, the briquettes technology was given to the Wang family. Delay this briquette stove.

At the end of today’s teaching, Xiao Ming checked the learning status of Lu Tong and others. Now they have mastered more than 300 common words.

Xiao Ming is very satisfied with this situation. His basic requirements now are to make these people literate and teach them basic chemical symbols. Then he will take them to the workshop area to start establishing a chemical industry.

The current workshop area is divided into two, one half belongs to Chen Qi, and the other half is reserved for Lu Tong.

In the evening, Xiao Ming called Wang Shijie over and told them about the briquette stove. The Wang family was naturally very happy that Xiao Ming packaged the gas stove production technology to them, and Xiao Ming’s asking price was not high, only 50,000 yuan. Two silver coins.

But in this way, they truly control all the industrial chains of briquette furnaces in the six states.

“Your Highness, I have something to report to Your Highness. Recently, our Wang family’s merchants in Cangzhou discovered that businessmen from other places were smuggling horses, but these horses only stayed briefly in His Highness’s fief and then went to the Wei King’s fief.” Wang Shijie said. .

“Horse smuggling?” Xiao Ming frowned and looked at Wang Shijie, “Has your Wang family been concerned about this matter for a long time?”

Wang Shijie said: “Your Highness, the merchants pouring into Qingzhou are a mixed bag. Not everyone has good intentions. It is for the sake of His Highness that I keep an eye on these businessmen.”

Xiao Ming had already expected that the local wealthy families would exclude foreign merchants. Wang Shijie’s words were beautiful, but they also betrayed the mentality of these families in Qingzhou.

“What method did they use to smuggle this horse? Why didn’t anyone in Cangzhou tell the king about this?” Xiao Ming’s voice was full of anger.

(End of chapter)