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Chapter 1617 Big Breakthrough

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    Just when Li Zhongyi was happy to have a young son, another piece of excellent news came unexpectedly from the weapons inspection department in charge of Li Hu.  As a result of the fierce competition between ten groups of steel-making craftsmen, they actually came up with a new steel-making method hundreds of years in advance.  Actually, this is mainly Li Zhongyi¡¯s problem.  He himself was not a metallurgist, so he concentrated on how to make steel, but he gained little.  "However, Li Zhongyi can often draw inspirations from others.  Li Zhongyi has a good habit of immediately recording sudden inspiration with pen and paper, and then transferring it to the relevant craftsman group for experimentation.  The emperor stared at him from time to time to give him ideas. How could the craftsmen dare to slack off?  After Li Zhongyi became the ruling king, the craftsmen in the Ordnance Supervision completely got rid of their status as labor slaves.  They have extremely high incomes, and everyone has a house in Kaifeng, where land is at a premium.  With one person working, it is easy to feed the whole family and it is more than enough.  Not only that, as long as you become famous, you can also become an official, and even become a marquis.  What is craftsman spirit?  Give craftsmen an income higher than the average social level, allowing them to live comfortably and have a high social status, and the spirit of craftsmanship will naturally emerge.  ¡°In particular, excellence in work leads to officialdom, which completely breaks the stereotype that only education is good, and greatly stimulates the subjective initiative of craftsmen.  This is the true spirit of craftsmanship!  The income is so low that they can barely make ends meet, and their status is so low that they have become labor slaves. They have to kneel down when they see anyone, and the guards can beat and scold them at will. How can craftsmanship be possible in this?  In the past ten years, the level of steelmaking has not improved significantly, and Li Zhongyi is also helpless.  The quality of the steel produced by the Bailian Fried Steel Method is indeed excellent.  However, the output is too low. There is not enough to make gun barrels, let alone gun barrels.  Li Zhongyi is considered a member of the old system. He knows deeply that no matter how good the treatment of state-owned enterprises is, if there is no competition, the efficiency will never be high and the waste will be extremely serious.  In the past, when Li Zhongyi was the vice president, the strategy of multiple professional medical groups working together was widely implemented in the business departments he was in charge of, and achieved good results.  The logic is very simple. Monopoly is stronger than tiger, and competition will produce achievements.  Even the tobacco industry dares to lose money, which fully exposes the shortcomings of monopolistic state-owned enterprises.  Steelmaking technology is one of the most basic fields of industrial civilization.  After Li Zhongyi realized that there was no breakthrough in steelmaking technology for a while, he took decisive action and expanded the number of craftsmen studying steelmaking to ten groups.  Li Zhongyi publicly declared that whichever group makes a breakthrough first, the core craftsmen of that group will all be knighted, and at worst they will all be viscounts.  Now, after ten years of hard work, a breakthrough has finally been made.  Li Zhongyi touched the first steel ingot produced by the converter, as if touching a rare treasure. He touched it over and over again, reluctant to stop for a long time.  Li Hu, who was standing below, finally understood that the emperor was really a technical maniac.  Otherwise, who would have the time to spend so much energy and money to support a bunch of craftsmen with no results for ten years?  "Why did you suddenly build a converter?" After Li Zhongyi touched enough steel ingots, he raised his head and asked Li Hu.  Li Hu had already expected what the emperor would ask. He said without hesitation: "Back to the emperor, I don't know exactly how it was done. So, I brought all the craftsmen here.  Waiting outside the palace gate." Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, he liked Li Hu's honest and serious attitude.  He does not take credit for his mistakes, does not hide his faults, is down-to-earth and willing to work hard, and will do everything he is told to do with concentration. There is no more suitable military supervisor than Li Hu.  "Very well, please invite them all to come in." After Li Zhongyi gave the order, he added, "Come, prepare a banquet and fine wine in Chui Gong Hall, and then send someone to invite the most famous storytellers, comedians, and comedians in Washi.  Jugglers, puppet performers, dancers, etc., all are invited. Oh, by the way, I'm happy to tell you to go on. As long as everyone comes, everyone will be rewarded.  "One hundred thousand coins." Li Hu couldn't help but be stunned. Even the newly formed army successfully suppressed the rebellion of Korea, and the emperor had never been so happy.  Today¡¯s emperor¡¯s inner treasury is much richer than the imperial treasury.  Li Ji Royal Bank was not conspicuous at first and no one cared about it.  As time goes by, banks are opening up everywhere, and more and more people are saving, exchanging and borrowing money.  After so many years, everyone has come to understand that the ability of royal monopoly banks to make money is much greater than sending troops to rob.   Li Zhongyi did not have the airs of an emperor at all. He summoned the craftsmen into the Chui Gong Hall, and everyone sat in a circle regardless of whether they were emperor or ministers.  After everyone¡¯s heated collective discussion, Li Zhongyi figured it out.  This time's success was a result of a blind cat catching a dead mouse and a stroke of luck.  There have been no results for a long time, and the craftsmen are also very anxious.  However, Li Zhongyi has always encouraged them to mess around. As long as they think of a way, they can just spend money on it.  This group of craftsmen, in the spirit of fooling around, actually designed a new steel-making furnace, which is about one foot high and is a vertical furnace.  There are actually six air inlets in the lower part of the furnace, which can add about 350 kilograms of molten pig iron.  In the middle of the night, the craftsmen guarding the stove were a little lazy and fell asleep.  When the fire was about to go out, they were woken up. In their panic, they forgot to add coke and pushed the blower hard.  According to past experience, blowing air into the furnace without adding coke will cause the molten iron to solidify in the furnace.  ¡°However, after air was blown in from the bottom of the furnace, the situation was unexpected.  First, the manganese and silicon in the molten iron are oxidized to form brown smoke and escape. During this period, the carbon in the molten iron is also oxidized into carbon dioxide.  The temperature of the furnace suddenly rose to an extremely high temperature, and the reaction was very violent, like a volcanic eruption.  The whole process lasted about two quarters of an hour before it was discovered by the craftsmen.  At this moment, the craftsmen were collectively shocked.  In the steel-making furnace, there is no need for any fuel, just a strong blast of air, and a furnace of top-quality steel can be made.  This is not a major breakthrough, so what is a breakthrough?  After Li Zhongyi heard the whole process of getting lucky, he couldn't help but smile.  When we are engaged in scientific research and no one knows the right direction, we can only continue to burn money and wait to try our luck.  Many scientific and technological advances in history were actually based on perseverance and sudden inspiration.  For example, an apple hit Newton's head and caused the force of gravity.  Li Zhongyi recalled that when he followed the leader to inspect the steel-making workshop, he found that the steel-making furnace could be tilted to one side to pour out molten steel, so he emphatically mentioned this idea.  Soon after, the first steel-making converter in history was born in the capital of the Han Empire.  In fact, no one expected this group of craftsmen to come up with any tricks. They were too young.  However, just because they are all young, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers and dare to think and do anything. Instead, they have great luck and achieve fruitful results.  After entertaining them with a feast, Li Zhongyi went to the steel-making workshop in person and stayed with the craftsmen for more than ten days.  Finally, it was confirmed that the steel produced was indeed super steel that far exceeded the current level.  "Hey, have you heard that a group of vulgar craftsmen were all knighted?" "Hey, brother, how could you not have heard about such a big thing? The lowest rank is viscount. Not only that,  Their group leader was actually granted the title of Marquis. How many people in the Forbidden Army have been granted the title of Marquis? Isn¡¯t this too easy? It¡¯s said that it took ten years of hard work.  What a major breakthrough.¡± ¡°Damn, I¡¯ve been studying for so many years before I became a seventh-rank official. It¡¯s better for them to get a title in ten years.¡±  "Yes, yes, it's good luck." "Humph, the King of Chu is so slim, so many people in the palace are starved to death."  " "Oh, brother, be careful what you say, be careful of what comes out of your mouth." "I'm afraid I've read the book in vain" There was a commotion inside and outside the court, but Li Zhongyi seemed not to hear it.  Went into the artillery shop again.  After the new steel was released, it was first used in artillery. This was mainly because the cost of bronze cannons was too high and the weight was too heavy to be carried in the field.  A steel cannon of the same caliber can be several times lighter than bronze, and the barrel is much more durable.  In Li Zhongyi¡¯s monocular telescope, the 12-pound steel cannon placed in the distance is much lighter than the 6-pound bronze cannon.  If the experiment succeeds, its strategic and military significance will be absolutely self-evident.  "Li Hu, do you think it can be successful?" Li Zhongyi became more nervous than ever before.  Li Hu knew that the emperor had asked five times, obviously hoping to succeed.  "However, in the weapons prison, they don't believe in tears, they only value the experimental results.  "Back to the emperor, I also hope to achieve great success."??.  However, you once said that in scientific research, failure is the mother of success.  "Li Hu's dry words made Li Zhongyi feel that he was very annoying for the first time. "The old rules of the experiment were that all the craftsmen hid in the bunker. After the artillery team loaded the ammunition, they pulled up the long fuse. After the fuse was ignited,  Li Zhongyi stared at the experimental steel cannon nervously, as if he was in a family that favors sons over daughters. His wife suddenly became pregnant and was afraid of giving birth to a daughter. After who knows how long, the fuse finally burned into the medicine room  "Boom" With an earth-shattering roar, Li Zhongyi held his breath involuntarily and stared nervously at the steel cannon that was shrouded in white smoke. At this time, a breeze blew over the test cannon.  At the scene, in Li Zhongyi¡¯s shot, smoke was still lingering from the muzzle of the steel cannon. ¡°Okay, okay, okay, the steel cannon was successful!¡±  Li Zhongyi was so happy that he hugged Li Hu and kissed him hard on his thick black face.
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