Chapter 77 Ironmaking 1

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

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

"You go and carry the pig first, give it to the room, and tell them to eat stew tonight." Zhang Yang commanded them.

" OK, we'll go right away!" Everyone spoke with one voice.

Everyone has the same idea: go to the room first, and you can steal a few more pieces. I haven't smelled the meat for days! On the boat, I just want to cut a piece of meat with a knife to taste it.

Although everyone has exhausted their strength and carried the fat pig, they are walking vigorously.

Zhang Yang looked at their backs, shook his head and smiled. Eating meat every day may be their dream life, right?

He also secretly made up his mind: he must not treat his class of brothers badly. Everyone picked up firewood and the flames were high. Without this class of life-and-death brothers, they would not have their own today.

The sunset had already gone down in the west, and Zhang Yang immediately went to the dock and walked north. Here is what he is most concerned about: How is 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 frame next to it. When feeding, it is poured from the top. It should have used a conveyor belt, but here, it is more suitable for manual labor!

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

It's just that Li Bosheng's understanding is a little inadequate, or his own drawing is a little out of proportion. Originally, she should have been a middle-aged leftover woman full of mature charm, with a plump body, but now she has been built into the image of a boss with a big belly, and her stomach is a little too big!

Li Bosheng is directing people to smash large pieces of iron ore into small pieces. People have done this job more skillfully. A few days ago, they smashed sulfur and saltpeter, which had to be smashed into pieces. A batch of tools were scrapped before they were crushed as dust.

Moreover, Li Bosheng also encouraged: "Let's work harder and try to smash all these iron ores today. Everyone has a large piece of meat to eat at night!"

At the thought of being able to eat meat, everyone was excited, and their hands and feet worked harder. With one hammer, the stone broke in response, as if it were not a hard stone, but a piece of tofu.

It seems that eating meat is very powerful for everyone. Anyway, I have money now. In the future, every time I go to the island, I can bring back a few pigs, and these people will work more vigorously.

"Bersheng!" Zhang Yang shouted.

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

Sure enough, Zhang Yang said, "Well done. In these days, I can complete the task I was assigned so neatly. Thank you for your hard work!"

"Wherever you are, the eldest brother has a good plan." Li Bosheng said that you can't put more credit on yourself. With credit, you have to thank the leaders first. This is the essence of China's five-thousand-year cultural tradition.

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

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

I really chose the right person. This alchemist has studied burning charcoal and bricks. Since these can be burned, do you need this to turn your coal into coke?

"Bersheng, you did a very good job!" This time, Zhang Yang liked it from the bottom of his heart: "Tomorrow, I will also burn the coal I brought this time here."

"This..." Li Bosheng hesitated: "I know that this wood can be burned into charcoal. What can this coal become when it is burned in it?"

"Turn into coke!" Zhang Yang seems to teach a lesson to a child who can't write: "After wood is processed, it becomes charcoal, and it burns more vigorously. After coal is processed, it becomes coke, which burns more vigorously and can make iron better."

"So that's it!" Only then did Li Bosheng suddenly realize: Why didn't he know? The reason is so simple.

The reason is simple, but few people are willing to try it. Wood is worthless. This coal is much more expensive. Who is willing to burn it into coke? Only Zhang Yang understands this principle. It is much more appropriate to use coke to make iron than coal. If you want to turn iron ore into fine iron, it requires a high temperature of 1,200 degrees.

"How is the processing of saltpeter and sulfur going?"

"It has been all processed, and even the charcoal has been ground into powder. I'm waiting for the eldest brother to come back and mix it in person."

"That's great. You're really efficient at work."

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

Suddenly, a smell of meat floated over and permeated the air around.

"Wow, there's really meat!"

"That's right, as soon as I smelled the meat, the roundworms in my stomach began to scream!"

"Hist your voice, don't make people laugh."

"What are you laughing at? Don't you want to eat meat? Look, your saliva is flowing out.

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

"It smells good. What does it taste like?" Zhang Yang also smelled meat.

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

Zhang Yang patted his head and said, "Look at my last name. It's dark. Don't do it. Go back and eat meat!"

Everyone ran back to the amnesty. Look at the agile skills, not like a laborer who has worked all day, just like a strong and energetic young man.

"Go back to eat meat!"

In the open space of the living area, several cauldrons have been placed, and the torches are shining brightly everywhere. Regardless of men, women and children, at this moment, everyone moved a small stool, held the large porcelain bowl in his hand, sat around, and stared at the meat in the pot.

In the pot is steaming broth, pieces of fat meat are tling up and down in the pot, and the vegetable leaves are rolling with it.

The seductive fragrance is scattered everywhere, and everyone feels that their stomachs have never been hungry.

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

"Mom, A Mao wants to eat meat."

"Wait, when Uncle Shicheng comes back, let's eat later." A female voice said.

When Zhang Yang came from the north, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. What were 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 cauldron, Liu Ruohan and Liu Tongyu holding an iron spoon.

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

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

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

"What are you waiting for me to do? Eat it when it's cooked!" Zhang Yang said disapprovingly.

"Listen to me for a few words." Liu Tongyu said, "A month ago, we were still starving, but now, we can not only have enough to eat every meal, but also eat meat today. Everyone said, whose credit is this?"

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

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

"That's right, the good days we have now are all given by Shicheng. I'm here to make a statement that our Liujia Village have followed Shicheng, going up to the mountain of knives and going down to the sea of fire. There are no bastards in our Liujia Village!"

"There are no bastards in Furong Village! Follow Brother Zhang!"

Even the first boatmans were full of excitement: "Follow Brother Zhang!" It seems that I have forgotten how I got to the island at the beginning.

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 has to give full play to his enthusiasm in the future.

"Shicheng, you can say a few words to everyone!" Liu Tongyu seems to have become the role of the host.

"Brothers, sisters." Zhang Yang cleared his throat and said, "Since everyone has come to this island, we are a family with Zhang Shicheng. With me and Zhang Shicheng, we will have everyone. We should not only be able to eat enough food every day, but also eat meat every day in the future. In order to achieve this goal, please work hard with me!"

Zhang Yang paused and waited for the applause.

There is no response below.

What's going on?

It turns out that everyone was stunned by Zhang Yang's words. Can they eat meat every day? I can't even imagine this kind of life. Now that I can eat enough food every day, I feel like heaven. I can eat meat every day. Isn't that the same life as the landlord's family?

After half an hour, everyone reacted. Suddenly, the crowd became more excited.

Zhang Yang pressed his palm with satisfaction and made a gesture. Everyone slowly calmed down.

"Before eating meat, I announced one thing. After eating, everyone went to my house to get the money. Everyone who works worked paid 20 yuan a day. In addition, each household will receive another one or two silver for the settlement fee.

Hearing this sentence, the bottom immediately exploded.

"What? What does the resettlement fee mean?

"I don't understand this, but each family will give another one or two of silver as a family fee."

"I haven't understood it for a long time. What is the cost of the family?"

"Don't talk about it." This time, Zhang Yang didn't even use gestures. This bomb was thrown out too fiercely. One or two taels of silver, which was not a small amount. Many families could not make so much money in a year.

People finally calmed down.

"Next, I announce that everyone is officially starting to eat meat!"

"Boom!" People gathered around.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, everyone has it, eat enough." While maintaining order, Zhang Yang held an iron spoon to serve meat for everyone.

It seems that the pork in the pot is more popular than myself. Zhang Yang thought secretly.

(Today's fourth update is delivered, 3,000 words. Thank you for your support for Anti-Yuan, and many book friends have put up valuable opinions, which makes me more grateful and encouraged, and also has a heavy pressure. I will try my best to write this book well and live up to everyone's hopes for me. There will be recommendations next week. I will speed up the coding and break out from time to time.)

Friends who like war scenes, please wait for Zhang Yang to develop for a few more months, and it will be a shocking flag uprising, which is guaranteed to be wonderful.