In the following time, Zhou Huaian began to travel to Nanhai County and other workshops, and began to lay the foundation and start guidance for a new round of industrial layout and long-term planning.

In any case, only by gradually accumulating a large amount of surplus of agricultural and sideline products with the addition of collective production model and relatively advanced agricultural technology (especially after getting rid of the blood-sucking of chickens and eggs from most of the rebels' army unilaterally killing chickens and getting eggs), can it be possible to support more non-agricultural populations or correspondingly detailed practitioners.

Not only for the labor force in the army or workshop, but also for all kinds of people's livelihood and service personnel from all walks of life, is a healthy social structure.

For Zhou Huaian, based on the experience of later generations, the best soldiers are actually not those farmers who can be seen everywhere, but industrial workers who have been influenced and shaped by a certain environment, have the foundation of simple vocational education, and have a natural collective concept and organizational degree.

According to his ideal state, these early industrial workers and their related practitioners had to reach at least twice the scale of the active-duty army to be considered more reasonable and suitable. However, in the Lingdong area under his rule, the total number of registered workers in the factory and mines in front, back and forth are only more than 40,000 or 50,000.

Only a few of them are skilled craftsmen with experience and skills. The others are just ordinary laborers in the usual sense; and the specific production capacity is even one of the "five small industries" that were eliminated in later generations.

Therefore, the first thing he considered was to make big strides in iron making and steelmaking technology based on sufficient sources of high-quality coal. At this time, the popular technology was the steel filling method, steel frying method, and steel making that were passed down from the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Although it can be considered high in quality compared to the general level of the entire era, it is a flaw in achieving economies of scale. Usually, it can only be slowly accumulated by the personal experience and craftsmanship cycle of skilled craftsmen.

So this time, Zhou Huaian planned to skip the graphite crucible steelmaking method directly, and directly use the small blast furnace steelmaking with higher cost performance, which is the type of modern large-scale steelmaking era. It is a relatively simple straight-tube furnace built with refractory bricks from kaolin. In addition to the output of the furnace at one time, it can also effectively collect waste flue gas through ceramic pipelines.

You should know that the most common pyrite/iron sulfide in this era, sulfide (mainly iron disulfide) steam is released under high temperature smelting, and after being introduced into the reaction tower of the side ceramic inner liner, it is concentrated sulfuric acid with more impurities called green vanadium water by the ancients; then after precipitation, filtration and impurities adsorption, a relatively pure liquid sulfuric acid and further extracted smoked sulfuric acid can be obtained.

This original green vanadium water has also become the mother of the catalyst in the chemical industry; because it can also be used to directly replace with saltpeter to obtain nitric acid; and the replacement reaction with crude salt (sodium chloride, potassium chloride) is to obtain the original hydrochloric acid (hydrochloric acid);

Then there is the sodium carbonate called baking soda in later generations. This is the simplest, burning dried seaweed into ashes, which is a natural high-purity finished product. In fact, in the modern North Atlantic coast, a large number of people have been engaged in the occupation of collecting seaweed and burning ashes for a long time. In addition to the alkaline oars in the north, there are also a large number of wild seaweed along the coast of Canton.

Even more suitable for some crystals that are directly distilled with wood ash solution, so sodium carbonate is also called alkali ash; it can be used in additive ingredients of flat glass, glass products and ceramic glaze.

The more troublesome one is called caustic soda and sodium hydroxide of pyrosine; however, with batches of baking soda (sodium carbonate), there is no big problem. The filter solution after reaction with ripe lime (calcium hydroxide) and soda ash solution, the crystallization after evaporation is ready-made caustic soda/sodium hydroxide. Caustic soda has more widespread uses and can be used for papermaking, soap, dye synthesis, cotton fabric processing, coal tar product purification, etc.

In addition, there is an important related product - halogen sand, namely ammonium chloride (inorganic salt), which was a very common thing in this era. In "Tang Bencao", it is an auxiliary material for digesting food accumulation, relieving phlegm and relieving cough in Chinese medicine. Therefore, it is both a medicinal material and a metal melt welding adhesive.

Then you can also react with green alum water at high temperature to obtain ammonium sulfate, which is the common nitrogen fertilizer (commonly known as Feitian powder) in later generations; and anhydrous hydrogen chloride (concentrated hydrochloric acid); there is another branch of compound here, which is to react with nitric acid to obtain ammonium nitrate; this thing is amazing. In addition to Feitian, it is also the main component and source of professional explosives between World War I and World War II in modern times.

In this way, three acids and two alkalis and some related chemical and industrial by-products have initially had the possibility of small-scale output, such as nitro-cotton launchers and nitro explosives, which are the future advancement direction of the black gunpowder technology tree.

Then there is a closed distillation tower transformed from a brick kiln, which mainly distillation and separation of high-quality white carbon mined from Annan. The key products required for steelmaking - coke, as well as coal tar at different temperature differences stages as by-products; among them, the earliest distilled out of the runway collector was low-temperature coal tar, and the last evaporated and condensed through the ceramic pipeline was high-temperature coal tar.

When the ammonia and carbon dioxide in the coke oven gas react in another collection tower, ammonium bicarbonate with more impurities can be prepared, which is also the main raw material for food additives and fertilizer components.

Based on the water wheels and water mills of this era, the improved hydraulic internal rotary ball mill can grind the cement raw materials before calcination. It can also be used to process and crush the struvite (natural organic phosphorus fertilizer) mined on the island for further synthesis and treatment.

In this way, with the acquisition of primitive potassium carbonate from the wood ash, the basic categories and branches of the technological tree of later fertilizer industry and related agricultural production will be alive. Of course, with a sufficient amount of catalyst, glass and cement will no longer be the castles in the sky in their dreams.

You should know that since Egypt in 4,000 BC, ancient people had already used quartz sand to burn not-so-pure glazed balls of paper. Quartz sand, soda ash, limestone, feldspar, etc. were ground with hydraulic balls and then fired at high temperature to obtain pure and transparent glass; then coated with mercury and tin film to make it ready-made mirrors, poured on the melted tin liquid floating in the mold and cooled, and you can get natural and smooth flat glass.

Cement is even simpler. The earliest primitive cement was a mixture of volcanic ash and lime, which often appeared in Roman buildings; then there was clay and lime, which were grinded into fine powder after calcination in a standing kiln according to three to one;

Although there was no ready-made volcanic ash available in the Lingnan generation, open-pit iron alumina as refractory bricks and ceramic glaze was widely used in Heyuan, Longchuan and others, which were developed in the pottery industry. It was used to replace ordinary clay to fire cement, and it has advantages in high temperature resistance, anti-freeze cracks and acid-base corrosion resistance.

It is said that it can solidify under zero. It is widely used in military projects in World War II. Then it is added with appropriate amounts of gypsum and coal powder to improve the glueability and strength, and special cement of different uses can be developed.

Of course, except for a few directly produced raw materials, most other theoretical finished products produced in laboratory environments are completely different from the cost and cycle of mass production in construction factories; some require exploration and attempt to find the best cost-effective steps and cycles.

Moreover, compared with early production projects such as steel, cement, glass, etc., these chemicals have still invested huge in the early stages, and it is difficult to see direct results. Only after the final large-scale production and the linkage effect between the product and raw materials is formed, many additive effects that focus on mutual capacity gain and profit ratio will be reflected.

Therefore, during this period, Zhou Huaian had to learn from Dayu, who had been away from home, either inspecting everywhere or staying somewhere. It was mainly to avoid detours and to think about it safely. Zhou Huaian needed to teach and teach and guide step by step in detail; and even based on some experiences and lessons and examples from later generations, standardize the corresponding operation details and formulate regulations on rewards, punishments and pensions;

Despite this, bloody accidents and accidents cannot be avoided; because even if he has assisted the auxiliary system in retrieval and data recording, he is still only one person after all. In most cases of having a theory, he really cannot fully cover every detail, or avoid deviations and fallacies under the discussion on paper.

Poor people have successively suffered from bursts and leaks due to invisible defects in construction or minor negligence in the operation process, and dozens of people have died and disabled one after another. Only in the pilot workshop have summarized and summarized a relatively reasonable and safe ratio and process operation process.

But no matter what, after having a ready-made system template and operating specifications, it will be much easier to promote it through the relevant newly established vocational education system.

Of course, as another collateral influence, the bloody lessons and the worship and awe of unknowing mysticism made these craftsmen extremely cautious and helped extreme dogmas by step, and also began to secretly arise a complex of worship for Zhou Huaian, "born to know" and "all-encompassing" that was unexpected to him in the future.

Although the land of Lingnan is full of mountains and hills and rivers, it is certainly unfriendly to large-scale agricultural production; one thing is quite beneficial, that is, the relatively abundant hydraulic resources brought by rivers everywhere can be fully utilized to block the terrain drop to create the impact force of the water flow, driving and providing the power required for production of larger-scale factories, and saving and liberating more manpower from manual work.

Therefore, the hydraulic industry also has a broad expansion space and potential here, such as steelmaking and forging, textiles and dyeing, pottery making and mining, etc.; it can be said that before the invention of the steam power of coal burning, small and medium-sized industrial production of hydraulic transmission was part of the pre-instance of the industrial revolution.

However, the premise is to produce enough transmission components first, so the main goal is to return to the iron smelting farm and wooden workshop itself, and the production tasks and processes have suddenly increased. Fortunately, it is already the slack season, and a large amount of labor in the farmhouse can be organized for a fee and filled into these places as alternate laborers working overtime and shifts.

In this busy life that has forgotten the day and night and time, Zhou Huaian received news that Chai Ping had failed in the battle, which happened more than a month later.

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"The thief on the ridge is Chi, and the demon monk Yuanxuan is the first priority. He is good at military strategy and can confuse people's hearts. Officials and noble families cannot control it. He likes to create strange and ingenious things, and destroys all the mountains, forests, waters and waters."

"There are also white-headed thiefs under his command. They call the Chai Demon Head. They are violent and bloody and kill, and their sons are frightened and stopped crying. They like to use monks as blood to eat...

"The Ridge of the Ridge" by Sima Yu Bing of Lianzhou.
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