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Chapter Twelve The Consultation Between the King and the Minister

Qin Hui smiled and said, "This is natural, but I am just a small official from the Ministry of Rites. I can't see the official monk father. I don't know if my words can be passed on. Please forgive me for the envoy Ouyang!"

At this time, Qin Hui was very proud. As the Infernal Affairs sent by Master Wen to Tokyo, he cooperated with the internal and external forces to connect Neo-Confucianism.

Although Qin Hui was a rebellious man, and was famous for his friends and his reputation was notorious. However, he successfully became a direct force under the command of Master Wen Da.

Although he is not at a high level now, he is still a small Junwailang. He has only transferred from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Rites. However, Qin Hui understood that this was just letting him hide from the limelight.

Because of his outstanding performance of Qin, thousands of low-level officials, students, and some merchants and monks joined forces to jump out and be beaten up. Outside Tokyo, for several months, there were no one who was exiled outside the Lingnan Frontier every day.

I don’t know how many people hate him Qin Hui to the core, even those neutral factions and the Tianshi factions secretly dislike him Qin Huizhi’s character. But Qin Hui didn’t care at all, time would dilute others’ bad impressions of him.

The most important thing is that he gained the trust of Shangfu. This is more important than anything else. Just think about it, when Shangfu got married last time, he used him to arrange the concierge, and this time he was also hosting the envoys of the Liao Kingdom, so he knew what Wen Fei thought of him.

What made Qin Hui most proud was that Shang's father and the princess had him arrange the concierge when they got married. It seemed that it was just something that the butler did, and it was somewhat insulting the identity of the imperial court's official.

But then again, the civil and military ministers in the court did not want to sit in the position he was at that time? Qin Hui dared to promise that Master Wen Datian said, asking the Minister of Rites to do this job for him, ensuring that this hypocritical old man would run over to work quickly.

I didn't see that since that day, the guys who were originally afraid of him, now don't want to smile when they see him? Even the Shangguan he should be in charge, and those ministers and ministers, should they exchange greetings when they see him?

Why? It’s not because Master Wen Datian asked him to do this position, but he didn’t regard him as an outsider. Even a little jealous guy secretly said that Qin Hui was a slave in Shang’s father’s house. Qin Hui was not angry at all when he heard this. Just kidding, he was eager to let everyone in the world know. If it were you, I would think of Shang’s father’s house as a slave? Will Shang’s father want you?

Thinking of this, Qin Hui became more and more proud. However, he was still a little cautious in his heart and knew that he had to do what Master Wen Da Tian had told him. Master Wen Da Tian and the official family did not see Mr. Ouyang at this time, which was not to express that he did not pay attention to this guy. On the contrary, he attached great importance to it. He attached great importance to it very much.

Gen Yue was not built in the end, and it was only half built, with a slight trace of the mountain. However, it could not be desolate all the time. So they planted some flowers and trees and built some buildings. Now it seems that it is quite wild.

However, the few people who were traveling around the mountain actually had no thoughts on this mountain, and it was the matter of Mr. Ouyang.

This is the intersection of mid-winter and early spring. A snow just happened. Although the snow in the city had melted, there were still a lot of residue on the mountain. The wintersweet was blooming brightly, and the delicate red flowers spit out from the dark pig iron-like branches, which became more and more intense.

Not long ago, the unlucky Wang Fu stood in the wrong team. As the prime minister, he wanted to join forces with those forces opposing Wen Da Tianshi. Naturally, he was in a big trouble. He was going to Lingnan to eat lychees. However, this guy offended too many people and was not bad at taking advantage of the situation, but the guy went to the northwest frontier outside.

In Lingnan, although it is called a miasma place, there are many tigers, leopards, wolfs and insects, there are still lychees to eat. However, outside the border, there is even a yellow sand desert, so I am afraid that I can only eat sand.

Although the prime minister of the Song Dynasty is still Cai Jing, this guy is completely confused. He sat at the court meeting and could fall asleep and drool in less than a few minutes. Now he is just occupying a seat.

Therefore, the real prime ministers are the ones in front of you. One is Zhang Bangyan, and also Zhao Ji's good friend. The other is Zhang Shuye. These two young and strong figures.

In addition, Fang Qiong, Minister of War, and Minister of Revenue Nie Chang, two others. No one else, but they are all in the core department of the court.

And in that man-made valley, there is a large group of people busy.

A small steel-making blast furnace was erected. It began to emit rolling yellow smoke, polluting the originally clean and clean air, turning the originally cold and clear air into infinite turbidity.

It was when the furnace was turned on, and red iron flowed out, carrying high temperatures like magma. The best iron craftsmen in the Northern Song Dynasty saw it and cheered and screamed in amazement.

"Mius, wonderful, really wonderful!" Zhao Ji kept making a marvelous sound, as if he was still enjoying the industrial waste gas discharged from the blast furnace. This made Master Wen shake his head!

He originally wanted to put the blast furnace in the suburbs, but when Zhao Ji heard about it, he would put the blast furnace on the edge of the palace no matter what. He also made a verbal statement: "This is a military artifact. If I don't put it in front of my bed, I can't even sleep!"

Whether it is the craftsmen in the valley or the king and ministers of Zhao Ji, they are all smiling happily. Even the industrial waste gas is hundreds of times better than ambergris when they smell it.

This kind of blast furnace that has long been eliminated is a treasure that Wen Fei spent so much effort to get. Modern times have been cracked down on and banned, and the energy consumption is high in the pollution of the environment.

But in this modern time and space, it is a perfect magical tool. One furnace can produce 300 tons of iron, which is simply a dreamy number for these blacksmiths in the Northern Song Dynasty.

You should know that the annual steel production of the Song Dynasty was only more than 3,000 tons.

(150,000 jin is a popular data on the Internet, only about 75 tons. But if you think about it, you will know how big the problem is. Such a large country and tens of millions of people... After I searched the data again, the steel production in the Northern Song Dynasty should be around 3,500 tons per year.)

But now the furnace of iron has almost achieved one-tenth of steel production in the Song Dynasty in a year. How come this is not a magical tool?

This is only possible for the treasure that is only available in the upper realm. Only the refining furnaces of the gods can be so powerful.

Although this kind of thing is that even the private enterprises in townships do not look down on such a small blast furnace that has long been eliminated and lagged behind. However, in the time and space of the Northern Song Dynasty, it is already a killer to enrich the country and strengthen the army and suppress luck.

"Congratulations to the officials and congratulations to the officials!" Nie Chang laughed and said, "With this magical artifact, my Song Dynasty will be invincible from now on!"

"I am congratulating you for your Majesty!" The two priests looked at each other and shouted and danced. This is something that truly increases the strength of the dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to see it.

With this magical artifact, a steady stream of weapons, armor, and even agricultural tools will emerge from there continuously. Together with those well-trained soldiers, form the iron and blood of the Song Dynasty!

The most important thing is that the appearance of this small blast furnace will not be like gunpowder. It will cause backlash in space and time. After all, this is a "device" rather than a "Tao".

Gunpowder is "Tao", something that can change time and space. And even if such a small blast furnace produces an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel, it is still a "device" and cannot bring about essential changes in this time and space.

The improvement of steelmaking technology belongs to the category of Tao. Although it is not as extreme and intense as gunpowder, it will still moisten things and silently change the entire time and space of the Song Dynasty.

This is the most important thing that Master Wen brought before he decided to give up the jade pendant.

In Wen Fei's opinion, other things may be disposable. Only this blast furnace can continuously produce steel, which is the most important thing.

No wonder Zhao Ji was worried about putting it outside the city. In fact, if Master Wen hadn't said a few words, Zhao Ji even wanted to lock this thing in Yanfu Palace... and put it in front of his bed...

"Don't be too happy too early," although Wen Fei didn't know much about industry. He had never eaten pork, and had seen pigs walk: "This kind of blast furnace requires coke to make steel. It cannot be made of ordinary coal, that is, charcoal!"

Bacterium coal is heated to 950-1050℃ under the condition of isolating air, and finally becomes coke after drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, solidification, shrinking and other stages. This process is called high-temperature coking (high-temperature dry distillation).

Only this kind of coke can be used to make steel. It is not possible to make ordinary coal that has not been refined.

Steelmaking is actually to remove excessive carbon from the iron, reduce the carbon content and become steel. Ordinary coal can only be used if you hear the name. Only this kind of coke can be used for steel after high temperature coking.

In ancient China, this problem was never understood at the beginning. Therefore, although coal was used to refine steel, it was not large. Especially as a weapon, steel can only be refined with charcoal.

The iron-smelting blast furnace uses coke instead of charcoal, laying the foundation for the large-scaleization of modern blast furnaces and is a major milestone in the history of metallurgy.

Although Wen Fei brought a lot of information from modern time and space, it is not very certain that these things can help the craftsmen of the Northern Song Dynasty successfully refine coke.

He also had a slight understanding of these things. It seemed that no ordinary coal was made of coke. Moreover, it seemed that coke had to be divided into three major categories, and it seemed that the ones that could be used to make steel seemed to be just one of them.
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