My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 1226: Do you know that you are so awesome?
The ministers cheered, but Ying Zheng remained silent.

No king likes potential threats that are far beyond his control, and Ying Zheng is no exception.

The reason why the Qin Dynasty collected weapons from all over the world and gathered them in Xianyang when it unified the world and cast twelve golden men was not for sacrifice or seeking immortality, but to eliminate social instability factors and prevent local forces from causing chaos!
So when the ministers were cheering because the Qin Dynasty's steel was about to gush out, Ying Zheng had already begun to think about a realistic problem.

If any rebel seized the Lantian Workshop, he could use the blast furnace and converter of the Lantian Workshop to cast a large number of weapons and armor overnight. As long as he had enough manpower, he could quickly raise an armed force and then attack Xianyang City directly!
Could Xianyang City hold out at that time? !
Even if the rebellious party did not seize the Lantian Workshop, the large amount of steel flowing out of the Lantian Workshop might be collected by interested parties and reforged into armor and weapons, thereby causing trouble in the original Xianyang City.

How much strength did the Qin Dynasty need to expend to suppress those rebels with steel armor, steel helmets and steel swords? !

Seeing that Ying Zheng was speechless, the ministers quickly put down their hands and began to speculate on Ying Zheng's thoughts.

Only Ying Chengjiao didn't care what Ying Zheng was thinking. He just looked at Fu Qiong, his eyes full of shock and confusion as he asked: "How on earth did you do it?!"

Fu Qiong bowed to Ying Chengjiao with eyes full of admiration and said, "After Your Majesty takes command and goes to war, we will continue to study the drawings and techniques that Your Majesty has drawn carefully."

"Although there were many difficulties, because the blueprint was drawn by the king, none of the craftsmen gave up."

"Thanks to your guidance, we have finally forged this treasure that can turn molten iron into molten steel!"

Ying Chengjiao ignored Fu Qiong's heartfelt praise and asked in depth: "How did you solve the problem of converter heat resistance?"

"The refractory bricks I developed for the blast furnace cannot withstand the heat of molten steel!"

Fu Qiong immediately replied: "Chang'an Jun once left the problem of heat resistance as a lesson for the students of the Artisan School."

"Qi Ai, the chief of the Daqin Artisan School, leads the teachers and students of the Daqin Artisan School to develop more heat-resistant refractory bricks every year."

"At the end of last year, the refractory bricks obtained by the teachers and students of the Daqin Artisan School were able to perfectly withstand the heat of the blast furnace. It was difficult to measure their limit. Therefore, Qi Artisan School Chief asked me for help. When I heard about it, I decided to lay these refractory bricks in the trial converter. I thought that even if it didn't work, I could use this to test how much heat it could withstand."

"I never thought that the refractory bricks made by the Qin Artisan School could withstand the heat of the converter!"

"I immediately asked the craftsman to help make a large number of refractory bricks for this furnace."

Ying Chengjiao's head was buzzing.

The fundamental purpose of Ying Chengjiao in establishing the Daqin Craftsmen School was to train a large number of workers with high knowledge and technical levels in order to meet the increasing demand for labor in blast furnaces and other craftsman-made products.

As a result, Qi Ai forcibly upgraded the Daqin Craftsmen School into the Daqin Research Institute, and even gathered the strength of the world's skilled craftsmen to break through the refractory bricks that had troubled Ying Chengjiao for more than a year!
Ying Chengjiao never expected that a seed he casually sowed three years ago would bring him such a harvest today!
Ying Chengjiao nodded stiffly and said, "Then, you all took advantage of the situation to break through the refractory air nozzle?"

Fu Qiong smiled and said, "What we did was indeed within Lord Chang'an's expectations."

"The key to refractory air nozzles is to be able to withstand high temperatures!"

"Now that we have learned the method of making refractory bricks, we can ask the Great Qin craftsman to make bricks according to the drawings drawn by Chang'an Jun. We can select the best ones and polish them, and then put them at the bottom of the converter to supply gas into the furnace."

Ying Chengjiao heaved a sigh of relief, finally accepting the fact that his craftsmen had secretly broken through the technical bottleneck while he was away. However, Ying Chengjiao still had a lot of doubts in his mind, and couldn't help asking: "I see that this steel is quite hard, and it is not something that will break at a single blow. Did you find a way to make this steel harder, or did you find it by accident?"

After hearing this, Fu Qiong looked at Ying Chengjiao with even more respect, and became more and more convinced that the technical difficulties Ying Chengjiao mentioned were just a test for them.

After all, the converter had not been built before Ying Chengjiao went on the expedition. How could Ying Chengjiao know how porous the steel produced in the converter would be?

Fuqiong lowered her head unconsciously, and answered carefully as if she was answering a teacher's question: "When the converter was first completed, I immediately picked up a pen and wrote a letter to tell Chang'an Jun the good news."

"However, the steel produced by the converter shatters at the first blow, just as Chang'an Jun said! I hurriedly chased the messenger back and continued to discuss solutions with the craftsmen." "Craftsman Ying Pan believes that this is not the fault of the converter, but the fault of the ore. It should be adjusted by adding other ores as when smelting copper."

"I think this is not the fault of the ore, but the fault of the converter. It must be because I did not fully understand the drawings drawn by Chang'an Jun that the steel produced is so vulnerable!"

"After verifying it over a hundred times, we finally determined that adding limestone after the molten iron enters the converter can solve this problem!"

"I should commend Ying Jiang for his contribution!"

Upon hearing this, Ying Le couldn't help but smile and stroke his beard.

Just because Ying Pan is Ying Le’s great-grandson!

Now Ying Pan has made great contributions in the important converter steelmaking, and it is an honor for him as the great-grandfather!
Ying Chengjiao, however, was not interested in the growth of the Qin royal family members. Instead, he asked in surprise, "You only added limestone, but didn't replace the refractory bricks in the furnace lining?"

Fu Qiong was even more shocked than Ying Chengjiao: "We actually need to replace the refractory bricks of the furnace lining?!"

Ying Chengjiao closed his eyes, waved his hand and said, "No need, I'm just asking."

It would have been fine if the Lantian craftsmen had secretly broken through the technical bottleneck and developed the Bessemer converter without my knowledge.

These craftsmen happened to avoid the problem that had troubled Bessemer for twenty years and directly adopted alkaline lining refractory bricks. After adjusting the material ratio, they made a breakthrough to the Bessemer-Thomas converter in one fell swoop!
Ying Chengjiao really didn't know how many surprises these craftsmen had waiting for him, and he couldn't help but ask questions one after another.

Fuqiong did not show any impatience, nor did she have the slightest bit of her usual weird temper of only liking to do research. Instead, she lowered her hands respectfully and answered in detail.

Mozi said: If all people in the world were to believe in ghosts and gods and be able to reward the virtuous and punish the violent, then how could the world be in chaos?

Fu Qiong could not understand this sentence when she was a child. Although she understood it when she was a teenager, she sneered at it.

If everyone in the world believed that ghosts and gods could reward the virtuous and punish the evil, how could the world be in chaos?
Yes, Mozi is right. If all people in the world believe that ghosts and gods can reward the virtuous and punish the violent, then the world will certainly not be in chaos. But why do people in the world believe that ghosts and gods can reward the virtuous and punish the violent? If ghosts and gods can really reward the virtuous and punish the violent, how can the world be so chaotic!

But today, Fu Qiong completely believed what Mozi said.

If ghosts and gods can really reward the virtuous and punish the evil, everyone in the world will surely believe that ghosts and gods can reward the virtuous and punish the evil.

Because Chang'an Jun is a god! The converter is a reward from Chang'an Jun to craftsmen like Fuqiong, and Qin's rulers and ministers like Ying Zheng!

Only the gods can guide them to create such a magical object as the converter!

So now the gods are asking him technical questions?

Do not!
It was obvious that the gods were testing his understanding of the treasure bestowed by God, in order to determine whether he was a talented person worthy of a generous reward!
It was not until Ying Chengjiao's questioning speed slowed down that Fu Qiong looked at Ying Chengjiao devoutly and expectantly and said, "Does Chang'an Jun think that I have passed Chang'an Jun's test?"

"May I ask if Lord Chang'an is willing to teach me other craftsmanship?"

Fu Qiong didn't know that at this moment, Ying Chengjiao was looking at Fu Qiong as if he was looking at a god.

You are so awesome, does Mozi know? !

(End of this chapter)