Iron Dynasty

In the evening, the delicious chicken in the ground pot satisfied everyone in the palace.

Xiao Ming asked the servants of the palace to eat their leftovers. It really wasn't an insult to them, because in this era, materials were scarce, and it was common to eat leftovers.

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

What's more, the delicacy of ground pot chicken is still the only one in Da Yu country. Thinking of the thousands of delicacies in the technology library, Xiao Ming is secretly proud. The days after this are still long, and there is time to present the exquisite dishes one by one. .

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

After Ding Wanquan, people came to visit him in the palace in the next few days. All the things that he did were a matter of overturning the car, and Xiao Ming paid the price of three hundred taels of silver.

Some merchants are wealthy, but they don't care about the money and buy it painfully. Some merchants are hesitant. Some merchants simply give up and go back to their old waterwheels.

These days, Wang Shijie and others have been pondering overturning the power of cattle, but in the end they brought the silver and chose to buy it.

When things have developed to this level, Xiao Ming basically has a solid understanding of the current technology level of Dayu Kingdom. It seems that they can't imitate his rolling bearings.

His Royal Highness, these rolling bearings have been ordered around 5,000 sets in total. The equipment company is really busy with such a large number. I suggest to build another hydraulic lathe workshop, but if you want to produce another set of lathes, the craftsman will Can't get it out.

After Chen Wenlong returned, Chen Qi went to the Bowen Hall every three to five classes.

On this day, Xiao Ming had just finished his class when 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 briquettes, but also to provide Zhang Liang's shipyard with accessories for the Galen ship, and to produce steel, coke, and waterwheel parts. The order for multiple bearings naturally made Chen Qi very entangled.

Xiao Ming is also thinking about this problem in class these days. He feels that low-end technology cannot occupy too much current resources. For example, the production of this coal ball furnace is not very profitable, but it also needs to occupy some craftsmen. Not worth it.

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

Now he has to have a choice.

So, how many craftsmen are currently in charge of producing coal ball furnaces? Xiao Ming asked.

Currently, at least 300 briquettes are produced a day, and there are about 50 craftsmen working on it, Chen Qi said.

Xiao Ming nodded, Now you have transferred all fifty craftsmen to produce grinding machines, 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 was only 1,000, and the rest Half of the 2,000 people were assigned to steel production. Now Xiaowei Lu had money in his hand, and he had a lot of money. He shouted that he wanted to use the money to buy armor from this king. The king promised to produce a new set of armor for him. God, I will teach the craftsman myself.

The new armor? Chen Qi was also interested, Your Highness, I will also be able to scale the armor.

It's not scale armor, you'll know when the time comes. Xiao Ming smiled.

Chen Qi scratched his head, scratching his ears and cheeks, 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 be on his own.

Noticing Lu Tong's expression, Xiao Ming said, Don't worry, this king also has time to give it to you, so it can be considered as practice.

Really? Your Highness. Lu Tong immediately said excitedly.

He is very clear that only if he can do things like Chen Qi can do with King Qi, can he 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.

For the past few days, he has been teaching these teenagers to read, and now it is time to teach them about 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 by chemical methods, and future gunpowder also needs the support of chemical systems.

The most important thing for 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.

Naturally, it is true. Tomorrow, the king of Japan will teach you the production of 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 asked the equipment department to take off a lot of burdens. Chen Qi was naturally the happiest. He said, His Royal Highness, then I'll go back and make arrangements, but what did the Wang family say?

This is what Wang Hui told the Wang family. Xiao Ming said, he was going to sell the technology of briquettes production in a package. Anyway, the technology of briquettes was given to the Wang family, so he wouldn't delay one of the briquettes.

At the end of today's teaching, Xiao Ming checked the learning situation 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, teach them basic chemical symbols, and then he will take them to the workshop area to start building a chemical industry.

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

In the evening, Xiao Ming asked Wang Shijie to come over and told them about the coal pellet stove. The Wang family was naturally very happy that Xiao Ming would package the gas stove production technology to them, and Xiao Ming asked for a low price, but only 50,000 yuan. two silver coins.

But in this way, they really control all the industrial chains of coal ball furnaces in the six states.

His Royal Highness, Yudi has something to report to His Highness. Recently, our Wang family's businessmen in Cangzhou found that there were businessmen from other places smuggling horses, but these horses only stayed in His Royal Highness's fief and went to Wei Wang's fief. Wang Shijie said .

Smuggling horses? Xiao Ming frowned, he looked at Wang Shijie, Have your Wang family been concerned about this for a long time?

Wang Shijie said: His Royal Highness, the merchants who poured into Qingzhou are mixed, not everyone has a good heart, and the foolish brother is also for His Highness's sake, so he will stare at these businessmen for His Highness.

Xiao Ming had long anticipated that local wealthy families would reject foreign businessmen. Wang Shijie's words were beautiful, but they also betrayed the mentality of the Qingzhou families.

What kind of means did they smuggle this horse? Why didn't anyone in Cangzhou tell this king about it. Xiao Ming's voice contained anger.