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- Wei Shang and Zheng Qu both committed suicide in prison out of fear of crime, which made Yang Yi feel bored. After ordering the expulsion of both families, the case was transferred to the Huainan West Road Criminal Division for trial;
This matter will definitely cause a great shock in the court, but Yang Yi has reasonable grounds and has a large amount of illegal evidence of Wei Shang and Zheng Qu. No matter how the court officials view this matter, Yang Yi will not Too much trouble.
This incident was completely an accident. He originally planned to keep a low profile when he came out of Beijing. He would just watch and report any problems he found to the court, and the court would deal with them. But Wei Feng used the knife against him, which was tantamount to touching his reverse scales, and that's why he made this thunderous strike.
After handling the matter vigorously and resolutely, Yang Yi stopped staying in Bozhou and suddenly turned east and headed straight for Xuzhou.
Yang Yi went to Xuzhou mainly to inspect the smelting industry here.
The smelting industry in the Song Dynasty was unprecedentedly developed. The imperial court always attached great importance to the mining and smelting of gold, silver, copper, iron, and lead. This is evident from the data Yang Yi has:
In the early Song Dynasty, there were 201 mining and metallurgical sites in the country.
During the reign of Emperor Yingzong, the number increased to 271.
During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the imperial court received 15,095 taels of gold and 219,829 taels of silver every year.
The copper used to make money is strictly controlled by the government. During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the annual harvest was 5,100,834 jins.
During the reign of Emperor Yingzong, it increased to 6,970,834 jins.
During the reign of Shenzong, it increased to 14,605,969 jins.
Copper coins require a mixture of lead and tin to be cast. During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the annual output was 98,151 jins of lead and 330,695 jins of tin.
During the reign of Emperor Yingzong. Lead increased to 2,098,151 jins, and tin production increased by more than 1 million jins.
During the reign of Shenzong. The amount of lead increased to 9,197,335 jins, and that of tin to 2,321,898 jins.
And as the top priority, iron management industry. Not to mention, there are hundreds of iron mining and smelting sites across the country. During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the country produced 7,124,100 kilograms of iron every year. When he arrived at Yingzong, more than one million kilograms were added.
The Liguojian in Xuzhou is currently the largest metallurgical and iron metallurgical prison in the Song Dynasty, with a total of thirty-six smelters and more than 10,000 miners.
Followed closely by Yanzhou Laiwu Supervisor and Anhui Fanchang Supervisor.
Of course, these rankings are only temporary. After Liaodong was recovered, the imperial court opened several large-scale iron smelting supervisors in Liaodong;
Among them, the Liaoyang Prefecture area was originally the largest iron and steel smelting base in the Liao Kingdom. After the Song Dynasty took over, it expanded the smelting scale several times and passed on the advanced smelting technology. In less than two years, the output rankings of the major smelting and iron supervisors will definitely be reshuffled.
" If we want the industrial revolution to come early, the importance of the steel industry is self-evident. As the largest iron supervisor in the Song Dynasty, it is impossible for Yang Yi not to check it carefully.
He suddenly appeared in Li Guojian, which shocked the prisoner Wang Qi. He hurriedly came out to welcome him, stood tall and bowed, saying, "Taifu Yang has come a long way. I'm sorry to hear you come from afar, but I hope Taifu Yang will forgive me."
Yang Yi looked him over. Wang Qi is gentle and elegant, his clothes are neat and tidy, and he doesn't look like someone who cares about iron and steel. On the contrary, it was a professor from the Imperial College. Yang Yi's first impression of him was unavoidable.
"Wang Jianzheng, you don't have to be polite. I patrol the sky on behalf of the hunter. Salt and iron are related to the lifeblood of the country. Naturally, I have to come and check it out. You can just take me in and have a look. You will be exempted from the reception banquet and the like. .¡±
"Yes, yes, Mr. Yang, please follow me."
Yang Yi followed Wang Qi into the smelting area and saw huge iron smelting furnaces from a distance. The furnaces were round and stood beside the river. The water on the river was flowing happily, driving the waterwheel to keep turning, and the waterwheel then brought power to the furnaces. The big blower at the mouth of the furnace continuously sends wind into the mouth of the furnace. The chimney of the furnace has billowing black smoke rising straight into the sky.
Wang Qi kept introducing to Yang Yi: "Taifu Yang, our Liguo Supervisor currently produces more than 8 million kilograms of steel per year. The steel smelted with coal is of high quality. It is mainly provided to the Ordnance Supervisor for making weapons. The sword is extremely sharp.¡±
Yang Yi just listened without asking. When he arrived at a blast furnace, he saw an old craftsman instructing the workers to add something to the blast furnace. Yang Yi immediately said: "Wang Jianzheng, it's late and I'm a little hungry. So, Well, there is no need to prepare a banquet, just prepare a few side dishes for me to fill my stomach, and let this old craftsman accompany me to walk around."
Wang Qi understood that preparing meals was a lie. Yang Yi was just trying to get rid of him. He didn't say anything. After bowing, he called the old craftsman over and ordered him to take Yang Yi on a tour before he left.
The old craftsman was frightened and wanted to kneel down to salute. Yang Yi supported him with a smile and said: "You don't have to be polite, old man. I don't know what to call him."
"Taifu Yang has ruined the little old man. The little old man's nickname is Zhu Or. I'm lucky enough to see Taifu Yang today. It's the old man's ancestral grave that has smoke rising from it."
Yang Yi laughed and said: "I don't know whether the ancestral graves in Zhu's hometown are emitting green smoke, but under the command of Mr. Zhu, it is true that all the blast furnaces are emitting green smoke."
Yang Yi made a joke, and the atmosphere suddenly relaxed a lot. Zhu You was no longer so reserved. Yang Yi asked casually: "Mr. Zhu, I just saw you adding something to the stove. I wonder what you added?"
Zhu Or immediately replied: "We were just adding charcoal to the furnace. I'm afraid Taifu Yang didn't know that smelting iron requires adding some charcoal, so that the quality of the smelted steel will be better. In the past, charcoal was added to the iron ore to smelt it together." Now they have added charcoal, and just now Taifu Yang saw that I was waiting to add lime powder."
The lime in Zhu Or's mouth is coal. After listening to his words, Yang Yi suddenly remembered something.
"Mr. Zhu, I heard that there is another way, which is to add coke to the smelting furnace. It is not difficult to make coke. It is to coke ordinary pebbles at high temperature under air-isolated conditions, and then dry, melt, bond, solidify, shrink, etc. stage, ultimately producing coke;
When smelting iron, adding coke can produce steel with better quality. I hope you remember this method and explore it slowly. Well, I will explain this to Wang Jianzheng later. I wish you always remember that this matter can be done for the best once. Even if you don't get it right the first time, try again and again. Don¡¯t give up because of one failure. "
I wish I didn¡¯t expect that Yang Yi also had unique insights into iron smelting. While I was secretly surprised, I didn¡¯t dare to neglect it and kept Yang Yi¡¯s methods in mind.
Next, he introduced the situation of Qi Guojian to Yang Yi in more detail, because Yang Yi seemed to be an expert. For an expert, why don't you take it seriously?
"Taifu Yang, please see, we used to use chestnut firewood as fuel, but now we use coal. This coal is a good thing. Use it as fuel. It has strong firepower and high fire temperature. In addition, we have a water wheel blower. , the smelting speed is much faster than before;
The quality of the steel produced has also improved a lot, especially in recent years, when the imperial court made guns and cannons, which required a large amount of high-quality steel. The imperial court had orders, so Wang Jianzheng had no choice but to organize old iron smelting craftsmen to continue to explore. Adding coal to iron ore was discovered last year. Mr. Yang, please take a look. The stove here has also been renovated! "
Under Zhu You¡¯s guidance, Yang Yi saw a blast furnace with a slightly different shape on the opposite side of the stream, somewhat like a vertical bowling ball.
I wish you could take Yang Yi across the stream. When he came to this new smelting furnace, he introduced it with a cheerful face: "Taifu Yang, please take a look. This new smelting furnace is divided into hearth, furnace belly, furnace waist, furnace breast, furnace throat and other parts, and there is another furnace at the top. stove top facilities;
There is a tap hole at the bottom of the hearth. There is a slag outlet at an appropriate height above it, but the two outlets are not on the same vertical line. On the upper part of the furnace bed, a circle under the lower edge of the furnace belly is evenly surrounded by six tuyere openings and connected to the hot air duct of the hot air furnace;
The number of tuyere depends on the inner diameter of the hearth. The center of the tuyere is about five feet. Above the furnace throat is the furnace top, which is equipped with a double-layer bell-shaped furnace cover and hopper to prevent gas leakage in the furnace and enable the raw materials to be evenly distributed in the furnace;
Near the bottom of the furnace cover, there are four top gas exhaust pipes around the furnace wall. These four exhaust pipes finally merge into a downflow pipe outside the furnace;
This kind of furnace has a higher temperature, a larger amount of iron, and a smelting speed that is 40 to 50% faster than before. When all the furnaces are renovated, Li Guojian's annual steel production is expected to reach 24 million kilograms, nearly It is three times the original size, and the steel produced is of higher purity and superior texture.¡±
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After listening to his introduction, Yang Yi couldn't help but be fascinated. The annual steel production in the Song Dynasty is now close to 100 million kilograms. If the smelting furnaces in various places are modified accordingly, and several large-scale iron smelting supervisors are newly opened in Liaodong, Da Song will be Song's steel output is expected to make a huge leap, and it is not impossible to increase its annual output to one billion pounds within a few years.
In addition, once the coke ash steelmaking technology is clearly explored, the quality of steel will also make a huge leap, from quantitative change to qualitative change, which will eventually be realized.
What does this mean? You must know that in the original history, Britain, which was the first to start the industrial revolution in the West, only reached 10,000 tons of steel production in the 19th century.
Needless to say, the importance of steel to a country. Since ancient times, steel production in past dynasties has been mostly controlled by the government. Without enough steel,If you don't even have a farm, how can you develop production? Even like the grassland tribes, several families share a broken pot, making it difficult to cook.
Yang Yi wanted to bring about the industrial revolution in the Song Dynasty, and steel was absolutely an indispensable important material.
From Zhu He¡¯s mouth, Yang Yi also learned about Li Guojian Zheng Wangqi¡¯s personality. Although he was gentle and gentle, he was absolutely capable in terms of organization and coordination.
As for whether Wang Qi was corrupt, Yang Yi would not ask at all. Under Wang Qi's leadership, Li Guojian spawned so many new technologies that made the smelting industry of the Song Dynasty a qualitative and quantitative leap. Even if he was corrupt, After paying millions of dollars, Yang Yi also accepted it.
Today is the happiest day for Yang Yi since he left Beijing. He decided to pay for it himself and treat all the craftsmen and officials involved in technology research and development in Li Guojian to a feast.
He took out three thousand guan and asked people to buy pigs, sheep, wine, and cook delicious food. Taking advantage of this moment, he wrote a memorial to the court, asking the court to promote Li Guojian's new smelting technology as soon as possible, and provide Wang Qi with A group of officials and craftsmen who participated in technological innovation requested credit and petitioned the imperial court to give them special commendations. They vigorously publicized it and established Li Guojian as a role model for technological innovation.
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