Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 190 Willow's Steel Workshop

On the other hand, the prince's mansion was closed, and Li Jiancheng was indeed unable to come out or see anyone, but his concubine Zheng took Li Jiancheng's handwritten letter and went to Zheng's mansion in Chang'an in Xingyang in the name of returning to her natal family.

Zheng Yuanxuan of the Zheng family sat in the first place. He was a high-ranking official in the former Sui Dynasty.

During Li Yuan's rebellion against the Sui Dynasty, he surrendered the city and is now Taichangqing, a senior official of the third rank.

Sitting in the first guest seat under Zheng Yuanxuan was Cui Junsu, the Cui family of Qinghe, who is currently the Minister of the Ministry of War.Further down is the Cui family of Boling, and Cui Dunli is currently a member of the provincial governor.

The other guests are Wang Junju from the Wang family in Taiyuan and Li Yanshou from the Li family in Longxi.

Further down, there are juniors headed by Cui Yiye.

"Wang Junkuo is originally a bandit. He used to be a member of Prince Qin's residence. There is something strange about this matter." It was Wang Gui who spoke.

"But, why did Wang Junkuo kill King Qi?" Cui Dunli asked.

Wei Zheng, who was sitting at the bottom, stood up: "It may not be that Wang Junkuo killed it, it is possible that someone else killed him together with Wang Junkuo."

"But the imperial army saw with their own eyes that Wang Junkuo was fighting fiercely with His Royal Highness King Qi, and after checking the corpse, it was indeed Wang Junkuo's personal soldier, and he indeed died at that time." Zheng Yuanxuan asked rhetorically.

Wei Zheng wanted to say something more, but Wang Gui stopped him: "What is the result of His Royal Highness Qi's death?"

"You still have to ask this question, the prince needs to bear this responsibility. On the surface, the prince just doesn't investigate, but because of the death of His Royal Highness King Qi, it means to cover up the facts, which makes His Royal Highness very passive." Cui Dunli said Everyone agrees.

Only then did Wang Gui say: "This is the conspiracy of the Qin Palace. No matter who it is, whether it is Wang Junkuo or someone else, the result will remain the same."

At this time, a scribe sent the third edict.

After Wang Gui looked at it, he held the longest man, Zheng Yuanxuan, in front of his hands: "Duke Zheng."

"It turned out to be like this." Zheng Yuanxuan was taken aback.

Without waiting for everyone to ask questions, Zheng Yuanxuan said: "Liu Mu is a common man, but he directly joined the official position under the fifth rank. Either it is a great grace, or he has extraordinary achievements. Just because I married a princess, I think it is not enough to be a fifth rank Next. Since the first year of Wude, the promotion and demotion in the court have been extremely fair."

Everyone spread the edict, and they all secretly praised it.

"Then what is this miraculous achievement?" Wang Gui was not asking everyone, but himself.

"Let's see." Zheng Yuanxuan's words meant, wait and see, this matter will definitely have a result. Since it is a holy decree, such a promotion needs to be filed, so there must be a reason.

The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is not in Chang'an right now, so this record filing can be postponed, but it is definitely not unacceptable.

"Tiance Mansion, he really belongs to King Qin." Wei Zheng said with emotion.

"Go and find out if the King of Qin has asked for a title for him." Zheng Yuanxuan said to Wei Zheng, because Wang Gui is going to be demoted outside of Chang'an right now, and everyone is trying their best not to be demoted too far.

At the moment, the representatives of these old nobles continued to discuss the impact of the current Qin Dynasty's supervision of the country and the strategies to deal with it.

Wei Zheng is in charge of verifying Liu Mu's affairs.

In a ravine somewhere in Huayuan County, Yaozhou.

Li Dejian has lost the demeanor of a noble son. He is wearing stone velvet cloth, which is also called Huo Huan cloth.It has been recorded as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and it has been widely used in the Han Dynasty.

The purpose of this cloth is to prevent fire.

When Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty arrived, Li Dejian was still shouting at the craftsmen with his brass trumpet.

Li Yuan signaled not to disturb, and let Liu Mu and Peng Hai stand beside him and watch the workshop from afar.

"This is a Chinese-style blast furnace." Li Yuan was very knowledgeable, and he could see the essence of this furnace at a glance.Liu Mu explained beside him: "The sage just looks like an elephant, but the inside is different."

"How is it different?"

"The furnaces of the Han Dynasty used clay, but this furnace uses a kind of earth-fired brick, which is a specialty of Huayuan County, called refractory bricks. The bricks will not be burned when iron is turned into molten iron. And the furnace What must be in the house is the special feldspar here, cut the feldspar into strips and put them in the furnace."

"En." Li Yuan nodded and continued to watch.

Liu Mu is not a man of engineering, he does not have detailed engineering drawings, simple ones are okay, but Liu Mu is not good for such high-tech things.

But Willow knows, coke, feldspar, and refractory bricks.

Two old blacksmiths kept observing the stove on the high shelf next to it. One of the old blacksmiths raised the flag in his hand, and the other was still watching. After a few minutes, he also raised the flag in his hand.

"Hanging the cable..." Li Dejian was so focused on the stove that he didn't even notice that the Emperor of Tang Dynasty had arrived.

Two on the sides, two on the back, and one on the front.

Under the strength of dozens of people, the four cables made the furnace tilt slowly, and the molten iron flowed out of the furnace, and it was one sand mold after another, and the molten iron could not be poured into the sand molds.

After about a quarter of an hour, all the molten iron in this furnace was emptied.

The little worker started to clean the hearth, and new feldspar and crushed ore were also pulled in front, as well as a large amount of coke that had been prepared long ago.

"Weighing." Li Dejian eagerly asked for weighing.

He really wanted to know how many came out of this furnace, and what was its quality?

Then use another furnace to practice again to remove impurities.Then switch to the last furnace, it can be turned into molten steel.

Those who can enter the last workshop are those who have signed the death contract. Even Li Dejian cannot go to the last workshop, where the top assassins are responsible for guarding the surrounding area.

Because Liu Mu said, the purest is wrought iron, and the impure is pig iron.Steel is wrought iron with a very small amount of carbon smelted from carbon.

The iron bars taken out of the sand mold were still dark red. The craftsmen were as anxious as Li Dejian. They couldn't wait for the iron bars to cool down. They clamped them together with large pliers and placed them on a graphite tray. Iron blocks with a weight of [-] kg, and then according to the weight change, the standard weight of a coin is used to counterweight.

"You don't need to count the decimals, just count how many there are." Li Yuan said.

The craftsmen didn't know who Li Yuan was, but they knew Liu Mu.

Looking at the clothes of the Tang emperor, it is very gorgeous.Those who still wear silk in this workshop are definitely noble people.And judging from the standing position, it seems to be taller than Liu Mu, the biggest figure.

But Li Dejian came to his senses, and he knew that it was the Emperor of Tang Dynasty who came just by looking at his clothes.

Li Dejian stepped forward to salute, Tang Emperor Li Yuan waved his hand: "Excuse me, stand aside."

An iron bar weighs five catties, and there are 71 and a half in a quick count.That is, this furnace weighs 350 jin.

"Very good." Li Yuan nodded in satisfaction and asked, "How long does it take for a furnace?"

"Returning to you, saint, this furnace will take about an hour."

　The third update, pre-save release.

　　I hope that there will be normal electricity during the day tomorrow, and I can code.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)