When Shi Gao and the other two went back, their family had a strong background. Gao Kuonggong's stepmother was the emperor's sister, so she could go directly to the palace to ask about the truth. Even if she was a sister, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't tell the bet. To be vague, Song Jiu had promised to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the court.

That's right.

In fact, seeing Song Jiu spend a lot of money, the momentum was made, but only seeing Song Jiu was creating momentum and not mentioning money, the people of Hezhou gave less than half of the money for the land deeds. Song Jiu did not make a fuss from the group of yamen who dealt with him, and the Zhao brothers were also furious. In addition to letting the two brothers not argue or not, they also hoped that the beauty of the capital would be their glorious. Moreover, in the future, the number of payments of so much taxes will be paid in detail, which will increase the court's income. However, now the two brothers are gradually taking this income indifferently and value various technologies. Only when Hezhou successfully develops, this greedy boy will have the motivation to continue to study and the court will obtain more and more technologies.

So the two brothers made some noises for Song Jiu behind their backs, which made Gao Shi and his family start.

There is still no real investment. It depends on whether Song Jiu can send people to heaven. Yes, plus gunpowder, everything is possible on Hezhou. At that time, you can invest in the stock.

Song Jiu also knew that he didn't think much about it for the time being, and he rarely went back. He wrote some textbooks for students to study by themselves. Dr. Yan and Dr. Zhang were anxious and couldn't say anything. He was thinking in his mind whether to extend the semester. Song Jiu still focused on this steel supervisor. In fact, it was still a primitive steel mill, and his technical level could only be equivalent to that of the 16th and 17th century in Europe. Perhaps the technical content was not high, so he could be left to someone to preside over it, and that person would be tired.

However, things on Hezhou will be more complicated in the future, and this money will not be so easy to make.

Ten days later, the scaffolding was taken down, and the wood and mud inside were also hollowed out, but it had to be arranged inside. After four days, it started to preheat. The weather was colder and the Bian River began to officially freeze. Song Jiu has been spinning by several kilns these days, afraid that cement such as him would make mistakes. Fortunately, maybe a bonfire rose around to maintain the temperature, maybe its cold resistance was better than Song Jiu expected, maybe it was not yet the coldest moment, and in short, nothing went wrong.

Many officials came to inspect it one after another.

After formally smelting of iron, Zhao Kuangyi rushed over again. After doing so many things, he spent countless money and silk, one was iron and the other was steel. Iron was the key, and there would be no steel without iron.

Not far from the time of the release, Zhao Kuangyi looked at Song Jiu's face and did not ask again. It was a confident and somewhat proud face. After asking, he had to bargain with himself. He said lightly: "Song Jiu, can you create wooden traffic and horses?"

Song Jiu also heard about this. There were many people who came to watch, including a group of idle yamen and Wang Quanbin's child Wang Shenjun. Song Jiu learned a lot of information from the court from them. At the beginning, Zhang Tingwei, an official from the Later Shu, persuaded Wang Zhaoyuan, an official from the Privy Council. Wang Zhaoyuan believed his words and persuaded Meng Chang of the Later Shu to send Sun Yu, Zhao Yantao, and Yang Shi to the Northern Han to bring wax and silk books to the Northern Han to jointly send troops to attack Song. The three of them dressed as merchants, swung around and took some roads to Tokyo, and then

He was preparing to go to the Northern Han Dynasty again. At this time, Zhao Yantao didn't know what he was thinking. Maybe he saw that the Song Dynasty was stronger than he thought, or maybe he was the same surname Zhao, secretly presented this silk book to Zhao Kuangyin. Another Sichuan medical officer named Mu Zhaosi was the Hanlin medical officer of the court. After Zhao Kuangyin saw the silk book, he called Mu Zhaosi to ask about the situation in Sichuan. Mu Zhaosi replied: "Jingnan is Xichuan, Jiangnan, and Guangnan gateway. Now that he has overcome this, he can go to Shu by land and water." After getting this silk book, Zhao Kuangyin laughed and said: "I have a reputation for going to the west."

If you want to deal with me, it’s not my fault for dealing with you. This is the righteousness of sending troops.

Wang Quanbin was appointed as the commander, Cui Yanjin was appointed as the deputy commander of Fengzhou Road, Wang Renshan was appointed as the chief supervisor, Liu Guangyi was appointed as the deputy commander of Guizhou Road, Cao Bin was appointed as the chief supervisor, Chen Yilun was appointed as the transfer envoy, Cao Han was appointed as the southwest transport envoy, and 60,000 troops from two sides were prepared to advance to Houshu. In order to punish Li Chuyun's warning, he also issued an edict to guide the army in the village to provide food for the soldiers and food, and lead the people to surrender. Those who come to the city should discuss preferential rewards. Wherever the camp goes, they should not burn the houses, beat officials and people, develop the tombs of the Qiu, cut down mulberry japonicus, and violate the military law.

There was also a mansion on the north bank of the Bian River in Youyemen, with more than 500 rooms, which were used to provide some utensils and utensils, and was preparing to resettle the Lord of Later Shu Meng Chang. Before the army was launched, Meng Chang's house was ready. How confident was this.

Of course, confidence is a good thing, but logistics is also a headache.

But what kind of wooden carriages would Song Jiu create? It seems that people have imitated it in their previous life, but Song Jiu did not see the truth, so he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhao Kuangyi said: "It seems that you are not as good as Zhuge Liang."

"The two kings, how many Zhuge Liangs have been produced in the past years? How dare I compare with him?" Song Jiu felt very depressed.

"Aren't you good at learning the object? It seems that learning the object is not omnipotent."

"If only one person can do it, if ten thousand people can do it, then it is omnipotence."

This sentence is quite meaningful, and Zhao Kuangyi said in the first sentence: "Your Majesty and I also attach great importance to this, otherwise why would you let the prince go where to study?"

A simple sentence made Song Jiu confused. The Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and military affairs was created by Zhao Kuangyi. However, after the fight during this period, Song Jiu vaguely found that something was wrong. Zhao Kuangyi's idea was not conservative, but on the contrary, he was a little radical and did not value Confucianism so seriously. What went wrong? Is the impact of Gaoliang River so far?

Song Jiu couldn't understand.

Out of the forum.

It cools down very quickly. If you can make a comparison, you can cast a device first and try its toughness and hardness. It has many defects, but it is definitely many times better than the iron produced in the Song Dynasty. It also has less waste rate, faster speed, higher efficiency, and slightly lower cost. Zhao Kuangyi breathed a sigh of relief and finally made it out. For it, the entire court was in agitation, and I don’t know how much it cost. Seeing the iron flowing out of the groove calmly, Zhao Kuangyi said: "It is also a great achievement."

"Two kings, I don't want the imperial court to reward you, and I ask the imperial court to dredge the Bian River."

"If you don't say it, I won't know what I know? As long as you come out again, you don't need to say it. I will also become a beautiful person and make you successful."

After seeing off Zhao Kuangyi, the next step is to make steel. This not only requires a furnace, from coking to iron smelting to steelmaking, various ore release methods are also very particular, but their principles are not too complicated. Compared with the Europeans in the 16th and 17th century, some of the details may not be as detailed as them, but they may not be able to know the principle of Song Jiu clearly, which also leads to some of the details being inferior to Song Jiu. They will have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they will not be good or too bad.

Put the iron rod and charcoal layer by layer and start raising the fire.

Send the civilians back first. But there is still something left. What will be left behind will be the future workers and officials who are in charge. Song Jiu must explain. Not only are the precautions, the operation process, but also the principles. If you don’t know the principles, you will do whatever you want.

Song Jiu also clearly said one thing, that is, constantly improving technology.

Different materials, temperatures, and changes in various details will produce different quality of steel. Song Jiu can't figure it out. He must slowly explore and continuously improve the technology in the future to make perfect.

In other words, the initial steel and iron have problems, although their mass is many times better than that of steel before the Song Dynasty.

These situations were reflected in the court.

Everyone can understand this. Song Jiu was just lucky enough to meet a good gentleman, not a god, and could do everything, including his shock when he heard the wooden carriage and horses.

A few days later, a snowfall fell outside the capital, and the cold winter really came.

New steel is finally released.

The king and his subjects came over to inspect again.

This is a big deal in this era.

After taking out the slightly thicker steel rod, he began to hammer it. Song Jiu had also explained this before. The so-called "Senior steel is getting lighter and lighter as it is not to remove impurities. That is a wrong statement. There are very few real impurities. There will be an oxidation process during each hammering process. The one that knocks off is iron oxide. If it is really refined, the last ten kilograms of iron will not be left with one kilogram of iron, and the remaining nine kilograms of iron will be wasted in the slag. It is good steel, but it can be unbearable to waste it.

Everyone believes and doubts whether this is the case. You can verify it by comparing this new steel.

The steel rod must be hammered when it comes out. The reason why it is thick is that part of it is oxidized, part of it is caused by carbon seeping in, and some other reactants. Both of them must be hammered off. However, it is not seriously wasted, at least ten kilograms of iron can be turned into seven or eight kilograms of steel.

There was a craftsman and a tool, so he hit a Park knife with his hand. He pulled out a guard's Park knife and slashed each other. There was a gap between the two swords, which was about the same size.

Song Jiu was a little disappointed. No matter how the Park knife was shot in the guard's hand, if it was shot with charcoal, the temperature was not enough and the quality would definitely not be able to keep up. If it was shot with coal, the sulfur content would be so high that it would be afraid of people and the toughness would not be able to keep up, unless it was really made of steel, that would be impossible. Is there something wrong with something?

A little confused.

The emperor and his ministers were already overjoyed. First of all, Song Jiu said that there were several wastes, iron ore wasted, and steelmaking was repeatedly hammered, and the amount of iron wasted was far higher than this steelmaking method, and labor wasted. A simple knife was hammered multiple times, which required a few labors, rather than forming in one go. Secondly, efficiency, fast speed, large-scale production, and significant improvement in efficiency. Also, the use of gunpowder will increase the output of steel in the Song Dynasty by a leap forward.

Zhao Kuangyin laughed and said, "Song Jiu, you have made great contributions to the court this time."

"This is what the empress should do."

"If you have merits, you should be rewarded, and if you have ever been punished, what can I give you? If you are young and you are not very promoted, I will reward you with ten thousand pieces of silk."

This reward is the best, but because the official-oriented thinking is a big deal, some Confucian officials still think it is a minor path, and they will be long-winded when they are promoted, but it doesn’t matter if they give money. What Song Jiu lacks the most now is money.

Song Jiu was very happy and said, "Thank you for your Majesty."

The affairs here were also over, and the rest was officially taken over by the court.
Chapter completed!