Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 443

For a happy event, Lu Qian was only idle for three or five days.Before the red silk lanterns in the palace were taken off, he had already rushed to the military supervisor in the north of Yidu city.

This place is led by the leopard Tang Long, with more than [-] craftsmen of various types, skilled craftsmen, and two battalions of guards.

The only use of this place is to develop iron and steel metallurgy.

"Metallurgy has been exhausted for a long time, and it really makes Tang Long feel ashamed to meet the king. Fortunately, the king is happy now, so that I am also tainted with a piece of the king's joy, and finally have a breakthrough." Tang Long's words were heavy and fortunate. .After such a long time, it finally got a result.Otherwise, he would be ashamed to reach out and ask the household department for money.

Gein, the importance of steel to ancient warfare is beyond doubt.When Liang Shanjun's plate armor was in trouble due to material problems, how to break through this bottleneck became the focus.

Lu Qian didn't know anything about iron and steel metallurgy, so he vaguely remembered making steel in a crucible, as if combining iron with scrap steel, so that steel could be produced.But he didn't even know whether the cauldron was closed or open.

His "guidance" opinions are not only useless to the leopard, but also called "research and development" into trouble.Lu Qian also needs to help a little bit with this, one is the hot air blowing furnace, he doesn't even know if he said that, he only knows the general meaning, which is to pour hot air into the furnace to increase the temperature, and the other one is Get oxygen and hydrogen.Of course, the oxygen has become yang, and the hydrogen has become yin.Do as the Romans do?

Anyway, that's all he knew, and he said everything he thought would be useful.However, Tang Long has experienced countless failures, such as the scrap steel and pig iron in the crucible are not completely melted, and those who understand steel smelting in later generations should know that the heat of the crucible for steelmaking is above 1600°.At that time, China's smelting furnaces could not reach such high temperatures.

When Tang Long and the others gave the existing furnace, that is, the small blast furnace, the technical level was almost the same as that of the small blast furnace in the later "big steelmaking" era.Adding this blowing system, the technical level may have to be surpassed.

Then Tang Long and the others saw the scene of the crucible bursting, because the temperature of the furnace went up, but the material of the crucible was not good enough to withstand high temperature.

In short, Lu Qian's "guidance" brought a lot of trouble to the entire research and development process.

If so, Tang Long and the others returned to the method of pouring steel.In today's era, China's steel pouring method has been passed down for hundreds of years, just like Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan" said: "The so-called steel forging iron in the world uses soft iron to bend it, but pig iron is trapped in it and sealed with mud. That. The forging order is combined, it is called group steel, and it is also called pouring steel."

The so-called "soft iron" is "wrought iron".

It is far worse than the modern steelmaking methods of later generations, but in this era, it is definitely the number one in the world.

Tang Long and the others used wrought iron to make thin slices, as wide as a finger, and half an inch long. They were clamped with iron sheets, and the pig iron was placed on it. , rub it in.This actually increases the contact reaction surface of raw and wrought iron, and increases the oxygen-containing inclusions, which can increase the intensity of carbon-oxygen reaction and enhance the ability to remove slag.Moreover, part of the ferrous oxide can also be reduced, which improves the metal yield.

No one present knew the reason behind it. Lu Qian just watched pieces of steel rods being hammered out by the craftsman, and then heard Tang Long say: "The steel obtained by this method can be increased by [-]% compared with the former, and the price is [-]% lower. .”

Then there are some little tricks.First, when smelting wrought iron, the molten iron flowing out of the ironmaking furnace flows directly into the wrought iron furnace to fry the mature iron, which saves the process of condensing the molten iron into pig iron and then melting the pig iron into mature iron.Second, the continuous smelting of iron-making furnaces uses the method of blocking the taphole with soil after the molten iron flows out, and blowing air to continue smelting iron, which greatly shortens the time for iron-smelting.

Lu Qian was delighted when he heard the news. The cost increase by [-]% and the cost reduction by [-]% were a great contribution.In the future, when the improvement of gunpowder is successful—he suspects that it is the purity of saltpeter and sulfur, which will ruin his great gun industry. Bring the most solid foundation.

In this case, Lu Qian greatly rewarded the metallurgical institute, officials, money, and so on.People of this generation worked for him, and with such achievements, how could Lu Qian care about his official position and money.

Everything in the world is a transaction. As Lu Qian has felt since time travel, there is a "Law of Conservation of Quality" between humans.

The three Ruan brothers, Liu Tang, Li Kui, etc., were loyal to Lu Qian because Lu Qian also gave them enough "things" for them to die for them without regret.

This "thing" is not just official positions, wealth, nor convenience, dignity, and kindness, but a synthesis of everything.

Take the Ruan brothers as an example. The three brothers were originally small fishermen in Shijie Village.But now they are the confidantes of Lu Qian's subordinates, in charge of most of the domestic and foreign naval forces. Their fame is one of them; and the second is Lu Qian's support, appreciation, and kindness to them.

And compared to the first, the second is more important.For the three heroes of the Ruan family, Lu Qian's friendship is more important and meaningful than his official position and wealth. He is a die-hard loyalist who will never change life and death.

The same is true of Li Kui, otherwise his blood can be bought by the deputy governor of the capital governor's mansion?If he really wanted to attach importance to his official position, would he still call Lu Qian "brother" carelessly?

Look at Liu Tang, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, etc., look at everyone, even Zong Ze, Xu Guanzhong, etc., they are all like this.

Therefore, there is still justice in the 'world'.

Just when Lu Qian was going to the Metallurgical Institute, the cabinet office, Zong Ze went to the official department, just saw Zhao Mingcheng came out with a sad face, he saw Zong Ze, smiled, Zong Ze knew Wen Huan from his appearance Zhang gave him another task.With the end of the imperial examination, the "reform" that Lu Qian has been brewing for a long time is about to be launched.

He has already said in the previous article that the title of juren and scholar will be useful in the future.That refers to the present.

In the future, under his rule, those who passed the national examinations and passed the examination were called "jinshi"; those who passed the provincial examinations and passed the examinations were called "juren"; those who passed the state examinations and passed the examinations were called "xiucai".

Scholars can be officials of prefectures and counties, and candidates can be officials of provincial and prefecture offices, or they can be awarded as officials of the ninth rank, and can be appointed as township officials when they go down to the county;The latter has at least the status of a cadre, but they all have a political observation period, that is, an internship period.

This can be described as delegating power to local governments.

Although Lu Qi pitifully underestimated the scholars and scholars, he was able to step into the public office at least.You must know that the Qi State does not care about the distinction between officials and officials, and will not regard officials such as copywriters, escorts, Baozheng, Lizheng, household heads, and township scribes as "service" like Zhao Song.This is a world of difference from the labor labor of ordinary people.

The labor law in the Northern Song Dynasty included official labor and husband labor.The latter is the labor of the common people, while the former is the service of the landlord to the court.Including the current civil and military officials and Xu Shi of the prefectures and counties, this aspect combines the officials and officials, as well as the status and official households.The wealthy family is called the situation household, and the family members of the officials and their descendants are called the official household.Wang Anshi's exemption law stipulates that status households and official households enjoy the privilege of exemption from military service.The servants are borne by the first, second, and third-class households in the main household, that is, big and small landlords like Chao Gai and Song Jiang.

But now, under Lu Qi's legal system, all people in the world are required to serve in the military regardless of stratification.Those who are unwilling to serve will be paid for two services.

Under Lu Qian's rule, there was no separation between officials and officials, just like in Qin and Han Dynasties, officials and officials were connected.Such a legal system is a great blessing to Song Jiang and his ilk.There can't be "Song Jiang, Song Gongming" everywhere in this world, but there are always leftover pearls in the vast sea.

Wen Huanzhang is the second assistant in the cabinet, and also serves as the official of the Ministry of Personnel. Because he is in charge of Zhao Mingcheng in matters of recruiting people and talents, who can say that the current Minister of Rites is not good enough.

Although the local government presides over the scientific examination, the Ministry of Rites will also send out academic officials, but God is pitiful, the Ministry of Rites has so many academic officials there now.This needs to be extracted from other places, but this will cause waves to rise elsewhere.

Recently, Fan Rui avoided Wen Huanzhang when discussing matters in the cabinet.Zhao Mingcheng was even more so.

Zong Ze stopped to ask about the situation, and Zhao Mingcheng probably said it.He is already doing this, but it is easier said than done to draw out so many senior officials in a short period of time.Moreover, there is also a dispute between the local government and the Ministry of Rites on the subject of the scientific examination.It's still a mess anyway.

"Zhao Mingcheng is better than the Taiping officer. Why did Wen Xianggong push him too much? As for the official of the Ministry of Rites, do you not know?" Sitting down opposite Wen Huanzhang, Zong Ze said leisurely.

Wen Huanzhang looked up at Zong Ze, and snorted, "Has he complained to you? It's not fast to do things, but it's too fast to complain. Dozens of academic officers have been transferred. How long has he been? If you don't put some pressure on him, let me drag you on. "

In Wen Huanzhang's view, the scientific examination of Juren and Xiucai is really a good thing.One can get scholars, and the other can be An Shilin.Implementing it one day earlier will bring a little help to Lu Qi.

Entering September in this way, Qilu and Huainan have already spread two nouns: Juren and Xiucai.

What arrived like a commotion in Shilin was a flying letter from Nigu Village, but since the end of August, the refugee population on the other side of Nigu Village in the Khitan territory has increased sharply.

This is also understandable.North-South mutual trade, a large amount of food, ironware, cloth and other items were sent to the north, in exchange for a large number of qualified war horses, leather, cattle and sheep for the Liangshan Army.After the Liao Kingdom got the food and silk, although some of them were distributed for disaster relief, compared with the refugees in the entire Nanjing Road, this was too little.

More importantly, a large number of these refugees were people in exile from Liaodong.Although some young men in the latter were trained as resentful troops, this is the old skill of Zhao and Song Dynasties.Isn't the huge army of the latter obtained by choosing young and strong as the army when natural disasters come again and again, so as to calm the people?

However, following the previous defeat, this strategy was rejected by the upper echelons of the Liao Kingdom.

Because the combat power of the resentful army is too weak, but it has to consume so much food.You can lack them in your armor, but you can't still lack them in your rations.Tens of thousands of people is not a small number, and their performance in the war is extremely bad.Even a major factor in the defeat of Tribulus Mountain was that someone in the resentment army was unstable.

Although this cannot be blamed on the Resentful Army. In such a cold season in the North, the tens of thousands of Resentful Army could not even wear warm clothes. It is strange that they can be stable.But the topic returned to the old issue, complaining that the army wasted resources.

The Khitan nobles are more inclined to use the only precious materials they have to settle the grassland so that they can train a mighty cavalry composed of Khitan people in the remaining time.Only when the Khitan clan is strong can the Liao Kingdom be truly powerful...

You can't say that people's considerations are wrong, but this has caused hundreds of thousands or even more homeless refugees on Nanjing Road to suffer.

But generally speaking, the gains and losses of the hearts of the people in the north and the south, the ups and downs of the country's power, the country is really fair and just.This world is full of countless injustices and injustices, but the general trend of this world is full of great justice.

Just like that Confucianism looked down on craftsmen, who for thousands of years denounced them as strange and obscene skills, but was finally crushed into scum by industry; Zhao Song used literature to control martial arts, emphasized literature and suppressed martial arts, but was finally blown away by nomads with the force of Hongguoguo .

This is, a drink and a peck, is it pre-determined; orchid cause and fruit, there must be a reason.

(End of this chapter)