Chapter 77 Iron Smelting (1)

Shi Xin moved the money box and followed Liu Ruohan back. Zhang Yang looked at Liu Ruohan's back as he left, and a strange feeling surged in his heart: Ruohan, I hope you can live up to my expectations!

Looking back, everyone had moved all the coals to the warehouse on the shore.

"You go and carry the pig first, hand it over to the kitchen, and tell them to eat stew tonight." Zhang Yang directed them.

"Okay, we'll go right away!" Everyone said in unison.

Everyone has the same thoughts: go to the kitchen first, and eat a few more pieces secretly. I haven’t smelled the aroma of meat for many days! I want to use a knife to cut a piece of meat to taste.

Although everyone had exhausted their strength, they were carrying the fat pig, but they were walking as fast as they could.

Zhang Yang looked at their backs, shook his head, and smiled. It may be their dream life that can eat meat every day?

He also made up his mind secretly: he must not treat his brothers badly. Everyone has high fireworks. Without these brothers of life and death, he would not have been the same today as him.

The sunset had already set, and Zhang Yang immediately stepped to the dock and walked north. Here is what he was most concerned about: How was Li Bosheng going?

After turning half a circle, I saw a building that had emerged from the ground, a small blast furnace, which had begun to take shape.

The height is just right, and there is a wooden rack next to it. When loading the material, it is poured from the top. It was supposed to be a conveyor belt, but here it is more suitable for manual labor!

The discharge port, the blower port, the huge bellows, and everything is available.

However, Li Bosheng's understanding is a bit inadequate, or his drawings are a bit uneven. He should have been a middle-aged leftover woman full of mature charm, and he just has a full body, but now he has been built into the image of a big belly boss, and his belly is a bit too big!

Li Bosheng was directing people to smash large pieces of iron ore into small pieces. People are already more skilled in this work. A few days ago, they had to smash sulfur and saltpeter, and they had to smash it into pieces. A batch of tools were scrapped before they crushed the things into dust.

Moreover, Li Bosheng was cheering: "Everyone work harder and try to smash all the iron ore today, and everyone will have large pieces of meat to eat at night!"

When everyone thought of eating meat, they felt excited and their hands and feet worked harder. With one blow, the stone shattered as if it was not a hard stone, but a piece of tofu.

It seems that eating meat is very tempting to everyone. Anyway, I have money now, and every time I go to the island, I can bring back a few pigs, so these people will be even more excited to work.

"Bosheng!" Zhang Yang shouted.

Li Bosheng pretended to turn his head, saw Zhang Yang, and shouted in surprise: "Brother!" In fact, he had known that Zhang Yang was here for a long time, so he deliberately pretended to be praised.

Sure enough, Zhang Yang said: "I did a good job. In just a few days, I can complete the task I assigned so cleanly. Thank you for your hard work!"

"Everywhere, the elder brother has a good plan." Li Bosheng said that this credit cannot be worn too much on his head. If you have credit, you have to thank the leaders in advance. This is the essence of China's 5,000-year cultural tradition.

"What is this next to it?" Then the red light of the sunset glow, Zhang Yang discovered that there was a cave-like thing on the hillside to the south.

"This is a kiln, and the bricks used for burning charcoal and blast furnaces are all carried out in this kiln." Li Bosheng said.

I really chose the right person. This alchemist has studied burning charcoal and bricks. Since all these can be burned, then I have to turn my coal into coke.

"Bosheng, I did a very good job!" Zhang Yang liked it from the bottom of his heart: "Tomorrow, I will also burn the coals I brought here."

"This..." Li Bosheng hesitated: "I know what can this wood be burned into charcoal. If this coal is burned inside, what can it become?"

"It turns into coke!" Zhang Yang seemed to teach a lesson to a child who knows how to write: "After processing, wood turns into charcoal, burns more vigorously, and after coal processing, it turns into coke, burns more vigorously, and can smelify better."

"So that's it!" Li Bosheng suddenly realized: Why don't he know? The truth is so simple.

The reason is simple, but no one is willing to try it. Wood is not valuable, so coal is much more expensive. Who would have to burn it into coke? Only Zhang Yang understands this principle. Using coke to make iron is much more suitable than using coal. To turn iron ore into refined iron, it would require a high temperature of 1,200 degrees.

“How is the processing of saltpeter and sulfur going?”

"It has been processed all, and even the charcoal has been ground into powder. I'm waiting for my elder brother to come back and prepare it myself."

"That's great, you're really efficient at working."

The sun gradually set and the surroundings became dark, but with Zhang Yang here, everyone was embarrassed to leave.

Suddenly, a smell of meat wafted over and filled the air around.

"Wow, there's really meat!"

"That's right, as soon as I smelled the meat, all the worms in my stomach started to scream!"

"Speak quietly, don't make people laugh."

"What are you laughing at? Don't you want to eat meat? Look at your drooling."

Everyone stopped their work and looked at Zhang Yang and Li Bosheng who were still studying the blast furnace.

"It smells so good, what's the smell?" Zhang Yang also smelled the meat.

"It should be the meat stewed!" Li Bosheng said.

Zhang Yang patted his head, "Look at my memory, it's getting dark, everyone stop doing it, go back and eat meat!"

Everyone ran back as if they had a general amnesty. Looking at his agile skills, he was not like a laborer who had been working all day, but like a vigorous young man.

"Go back and eat meat!"

A few large pots have been placed on the open space in the living area, and the torches are illuminated everywhere. Regardless of men, women, young and old, each of them has moved a small stool, holding the large flower and porcelain bowl in their hands, sitting next to them, staring at the meat in the pot with a long eye.

The pot was steaming broth, and pieces of fat meat were churning up and down in the pot, and the leaves of the vegetable rolled along.

The seductive fragrance spreads everywhere, and everyone feels that their stomachs are never hungry.

When you are very hungry, there is a large pot of braised pork in front of you. You can only see and not eat it. What a tragic thing it will be!

"Mom, Ah Mao wants to eat meat."

"Wait, Uncle Ershicheng is back later, let's eat again." A female voice said.

When Zhang Yang came from the north, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. What were the more than 150 people on this base waiting for? Why don’t you eat such delicious meat quickly?

"What? The meat is not cooked yet?" Zhang Yang stood in front of the big pot, Liu Ruohan and Liu Tongyu holding the iron spoon.

"No, it's already cooked." Liu Ruohan said.

"Then why don't you eat it?" Zhang Yang was a little curious.

"Everyone is waiting for you!" Liu Tongyu said. Under the light of the fire, the old man Liu Tongyu seemed a little excited and his face was red.

"What are you doing when I'm doing? You'll eat it when it's cooked!" Zhang Yang said disapprovingly.

"Liu Tongyu said a few words." Liu Tongyu said, "We were still hungry a month ago. Now, not only can we eat a full meal every time, but we also eat meat today. Whose credit is this?"

"Of course it's Brother Zhang!" Everyone said in unison.

Although Zhang Yang did not say it clearly, everyone vaguely guessed that this place was built by Zhang Yang.

"That's right, our good days are given by Shicheng. I'll express my opinion here. Our Liujia Village people have followed Shicheng, going up to the mountain of swords and sea of ​​fire. There are no cowards in our Liujia Village!"

"There are no cowards in our Furong Village! Follow Brother Zhang!"

Even the boatman who came first was full of excitement: "Follow Brother Zhang!" As if he had forgotten how he came to the island.

Zhang Yang looked at Liu Tongyu gratefully. This energetic old man is really an excellent grassroots cadre who does mass work. It seems that he will have to make more use of his spare time in the future.

"Shicheng, please tell everyone a few words!" Liu Tongyu seemed to have become the host's role.

"Brothers and sisters." Zhang Yang cleared his throat, "Since everyone has come to this island, I, Zhang Shicheng, and I, Zhang Shicheng, have a meal, and everyone. Not only do we have to have enough food every day, we will also have meat every day in the future. In order to achieve this goal, please work with me!"

Zhang Yang paused, waiting for the applause.

There is no response below.

What's going on?

It turned out that everyone was shocked by Zhang Yang's words and could eat meat every day. I couldn't even think about this kind of life. Now that I can eat a full meal every day, it feels like heaven. I can eat meat every day. Isn't that the same life as the landlord's family?

After a while, everyone realized it. Suddenly, the crowd became even more excited.

Only then did Zhang Yang press his palm with satisfaction and made a gesture, and everyone slowly calmed down.

"Before eating meat, I announced something. After eating, everyone went to my house to get wages. Everyone who worked was 20 yuan a day. In addition, each household received another tael of silver for settlement."

Hearing this sentence, the lower part was in a panic.

"What? What does the Anjiafu mean?"

"I don't understand this, but each family will give another tael of silver as a deposit."

"I haven't understood after talking for a long time. What is the settlement fee?"

"Don't say it." This time Zhang Yang didn't even make gestures. The bomb was thrown out too hard. One tael of silver was a considerable amount. Many families could not make so much money in a year.

People finally calmed down.

"Next, I announce that everyone has officially started eating meat!"

"Boom!" People surrounded.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, everyone has it, please eat with full food." While maintaining order, Zhang Yang took an iron spoon to serve everyone's meat.

It seems that the pork in the pot is more popular than everyone else. Zhang Yang thought secretly.
Chapter completed!