King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Zhu Tan smiled and said, "That's what it should be!"

Done.

Everyone walked inside talking and laughing.

Zhu Di couldn't help but asked curiously: "Old Shi, why do you suddenly appear here?"

In fact.

Zhu Di had already received the imperial edict.

Zhu Tan is now the auxiliary prince.

Zhu Yuanzhang made it very clear in the edict.

Those who assist the prince are selected from the feudal princes and other clans based on merit.

Responsible for assisting the emperor in handling government affairs.

The status is above that of the vassal king.

He also has the privileges that were given to Zhu Tan long ago.

You can leave the domain at will and travel around the country.

Although he has this privilege, it does not mean that Zhu Tan will use it at will.

He must have a purpose for coming to Yongping Mansion.

not to mention.

Zhu Tan was also accompanied by Togu Si Timur!
When Zhu Tan heard this, he did not avoid it.

He just smiled and said, "Fourth brother should have read the Di newspaper, right?"

When Zhu Di heard this, he was about to ask about the newspaper.

But I thought about it again.

Doesn't this make you look uneducated?
In fact.

These days, he has been obsessed with hunting and has no time to read any newspapers.

Zhu Diqian smiled and said: "The Di newspaper? Of course I read it."

Zhu Tan nodded and said: "My father ordered me to send King Guiyi back to the grassland, and I just wanted to stop by to see the iron smelting workshop.

King Guiyi happened to be interested, so he came together. "

Zhu Di nodded and said, "That's it."

Then his eyes widened suddenly.

He lost his voice and said: "What? King Guiyi is going back to the grassland now?"

Zhu Tan naturally knew when he saw Zhu Di's reaction.

I guess my fourth brother didn't read the Di newspaper at all.

He sighed and said: "Fourth brother, sometimes you still have to read the newspaper. Otherwise, you won't even know about national affairs! If the imperial court orders you to do something, you still don't know what's going on!"

Zhu Di smiled sheepishly.

Then he said to Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and others: "It's all my fault, Monk Daoyan! This guy reads the Di newspaper before me every day! When he sees something related to me, he comes to explain to me! It's so hard that I don't even know what to do now. Why are you reading the newspaper? Are you feeling timid this time?"

Zhang Yu and others looked at Zhu Di with complicated expressions.

Your Highness, you are kind-hearted and think of yourself as a donkey.
the other side.

Zhu Tan was a little sour.

What?
Seng Daoyan still cares about this matter?
That’s great, right?

He looked at Shi Yin Shao, the left chief of the palace next to him, and frowned: "Yin Shao! Look at my fourth brother's subordinates! Then look at yourself! Besides being obedient, what else do you do?"

When Yin Shao heard this, his face was filled with grievances.

I have also read the Di newspaper and want to discuss it with His Highness.

However, I can’t keep up with His Highness’s thoughts at all!
Those things you mentioned are unprecedented!
How can I explain it to you!

Zhu Di couldn't help but ask: "Why did my father suddenly remember to send King Guiyi back?"

Jituo Gusi Timur looked at Zhu Di with a somewhat unkind look.

Zhu Diqian smiled and said: "I mean, King Guiyi lived in Yingtian for ten days, right? It would be too hasty to send him back like this!"

Zhu Tan laughed and said, "Then Monk Daoyan reads the newspaper every day and doesn't even tell Fourth Brother about such an important thing?"

Zhu Di shook his head and said: "I have been hunting a lot recently. I asked him to come out with me, but he didn't come out."

After saying that, he snorted and said, "This monk said he couldn't bear to see us killing animals!"

Hearing this, Zhu Tan couldn't help but be speechless.

Can't bear to see you killing animals?
If he hadn't traveled through time and influenced this era.

In the future, I'm afraid the old monk will instigate you to a crazy civil war!

At that time, he was probably the one who killed the most.

Zhu Tan explained: "There are now millions of people in need of resettlement on the grassland, and there are so many things at once. With the grace of my father, please King Guiyi return to the grassland to lead his subjects and help them return to normal life as soon as possible!"

When Zhu Di heard this, he couldn't help but frowned.

Isn’t this the return of the tiger?

What's more, the relationship between Ming Dynasty and these grassland people is not that good, right?
Why did you help them return to their normal lives instead?

They'd better not live!
However, at this time, Zhu Di saw that Tuogu Si Timur was beside him and did not want to ask further.

If I continue to ask, I'm afraid I will become an enemy.

He immediately changed the subject and said: "Let Fourth Brother see your iron-making workshop first! It's such a large scale that I've never seen it before!"

Zhu Tan smiled and said: "It just so happens that King Guiyi and I have just entered the workshop, so let's take a look again!"

Zhu Di nodded and looked around the inside of the workshop curiously.

Enter the workshop.

Everyone was first shocked by the neatly paved cement road.

Although they were not aware of this material, its hard and smooth texture and light gray color were completely different from soil or slate, giving it a novel and rigorous feeling.

The pavement of the entire workshop looked extremely clean and tidy, and every board was laid accurately without any misalignment.

Walking on it is very flat.

Take a look at the buildings inside the workshop.

The appearance of these buildings is plain and simple, lacking any gorgeous decoration. Each one strictly follows the horizontal and vertical principles, with unified shape and neat lines.

The style was completely different from the smooth curves and intricate details of classical architecture they were familiar with.

It gave everyone a feeling as if they were in another world.

Zhu Di couldn't help but ask: "What's going on with this road surface? I've never seen a road surface made of this kind of material?
It shouldn't be a whole stone, right?
What kind of mud was used to pave it? "

Zhu Tan nodded and said with a smile: "I call this thing cement! Haha, I happened to build a cement factory near the iron-making workshop! The waste from the iron-making workshop happens to be the raw material for making cement!"

Zhu Di looked at the gray-white buildings not far away and couldn't help but ask: "Are those buildings also coated with this kind of cement?"

Zhu Tan nodded and said with a smile: "Exactly!" Zhu Di asked curiously: "Is this thing easy to use? Is it strong?"

Zhu Tan smiled and said: "It's very strong! It's stronger than any material you know so far, Fourth Brother!"

Zhu Di thought for a while and said: "When we were building the side wall, I saw the city wall reinforced with glutinous rice lime mortar! That kind of thing is already very hard! Is your cement stronger than that thing?"

Zhu Tan nodded and said: "Not bad!"

Zhu Di frowned and said: "What's the cost? Is it very expensive? In fact, glutinous rice lime mortar is very expensive, and the raw materials are not easy to obtain.

Since this cement is so strong, it must be more expensive! "

Zhu Tan smiled and said: "Much cheaper than glutinous rice lime mortar! The current production is not very large, so the price is about half of that of glutinous rice lime mortar. When the output increases in the future, the price will be negligible compared with glutinous rice lime mortar. "

Hear this.

Zhu Di's eyes suddenly widened.

"Doesn't that mean that our Great Wall and our palace walls can be repaired however we want? This is too economical!"

Hear this.

Next to them, Togu Si Timur's eyes were also straight.

God!
Now the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty is built ruthlessly enough!
Over the years, the tribes on the grassland have been almost blocked to death!

You get such cheap and easy-to-use materials again.

At that time, I'm afraid that the entire Ming Dynasty will become monolithic, and the grassland people will die of oppression!

Then I thought again.

Isn’t Zhu Tan pushing for the lifting of the ban?

You don’t have to worry too much!
Zhu Tan was speechless when he heard Zhu Di's words.

For a moment, I didn't dare to answer.

Let cement be mixed into ancient buildings?
To be honest, Zhu Tan was extremely reluctant.

Even if I am a time traveler, I know that the knowledge I possess can make this era more advanced and developed.

But, is it necessarily better to be more advanced and developed?
Think about the Forbidden City being paved with cement and the walls are all gray and white, what should we do?

Think again that the blue bricks of the Great Wall are also covered with cement, it would be too ugly...

Doesn't this ruin a good thing abruptly?
Zhu Tan shook his head and said: "The current use of this cement is to build new things, and the old buildings should maintain their original style!"

As he said that, he looked at Togu Si Timur in front of him with deep meaning.

"In the future, there will be cooperation between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, and there will be no need to build so many Great Walls."

Zhu Di was confused when he heard this.

However, due to the fact that Togu Si Timur was beside him, he did not continue to ask.

Just nodded.

Everyone continued to walk into the workshop.

The scene that then came into everyone's sight was too spectacular.

There are rows of tall furnaces, which are dozens of feet high and have huge and complex structures. The base of the blast furnace is made of thick stone and iron blocks, so strong that it seems to be able to withstand any heavy pressure.

Above the furnace body are circles of iron brackets, supporting the entire furnace structure. Each blast furnace is connected to a series of complex pipes and mechanical devices to transport raw materials and discharge waste gases.

The blazing flames in the blast furnace illuminate almost the entire area, and the firelight reflects the focused and nervous faces of each worker.

Wearing protective clothing that reveals no trace of flesh, workers hold long hooks and shovels, constantly adding coal and iron ore to the furnace. After being heated at high temperatures, these coals and ores gradually melt into liquid molten iron, which flows out from a special opening in the furnace into a prepared casting mold.

The molten iron shows a dazzling orange-red color at high temperatures, and the flowing molten iron makes a harsh hissing sound. This is the result of the contact between the high-temperature molten iron and the air. Workers need to precisely control the flow of molten iron to ensure that every drop of molten iron enters the mold accurately. Subsequently, the molten iron gradually cools and solidifies in the mold, becoming an iron block or iron bar of a predetermined shape.

The entire workshop was filled with the sound of rumbling machinery and continuous hammering.
People inside felt deafened.
at this time.

Everyone who entered it was completely shocked by this huge iron-making workshop.

Noisy, huge, orderly amid chaos
The blast furnace stood in front of them like a giant. The blazing fire and flowing molten iron were like rivers in hell. The heat and light were almost impossible to look at.

Zhu Di, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and even Qiu Fu are all battle-hardened figures.

I’ve seen too many big scenes.

But the power of this industrial blazing fire and molten iron still left them in awe!
It’s so grand and spectacular!
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the huge machine and the continuously flowing molten iron with curiosity, and couldn't help but ask: "Why are these fires so big? It's so hot! Why does iron turn into water?"

Zhu Tan laughed and said: "Iron will melt at high temperatures, and after melting, it will turn into water!"

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said, "If Uncle Ten is exposed to high temperatures, can he melt?"

Zhu Tan:.
You have experienced this feeling in parallel time and space, so you should ask him when you have time.
Zhu Di frowned and said: "Don't talk nonsense! People are cooked when exposed to high temperatures! How can they melt!"

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but ask: "Is it ripe? Does it smell good?"

Zhu Di nodded and said: "It smells good! During the Northern Expedition a while ago, countless artillery pieces fell on the battlefield! Some people were blown to pieces! The smell of meat is the same as barbecue!"

Hear this.

Zhu Tan's face condensed.

Almost vomited!
Fourth brother, this is too disgusting
Togu Si Timur's expression even changed wildly.

What King Yan said
Isn't it that terrible battle?
And those meaty aromas.
Most of them are from their own tribe.
Think of this.

Togu Si Timur even felt a little sad
He looked at the terrifying blast furnace in front of him. It was a magical creation that should not belong to humans.

Togu Si Timur's understanding became clearer and clearer.

That is.
The Mongols may never be as good as the Ming Dynasty!
Mongolian iron smelting is a small furnace, where craftsmen hammer and hammer for a month, and they may be able to produce a piece of inferior but valuable iron.
And what about in front of you?

Countless amounts of iron can be smelted in a blast furnace!
How many pot weapons and armors that the prairie people urgently need can be produced!
If the workshop in front of you is moved to the grassland, it will definitely be able to meet the iron needs of all Mongolians!
but
According to His Royal Highness King Lu.

He plans to build hundreds of such workshops in Daming!
The gap between this was so big that Togu Si Timur completely gave up and despaired!
The era of prairie people has come to an end
Zhu Di suddenly asked: "Old Shi, how much iron can this iron workshop smelt in a year?"

Zhu Tan thought for a while, frowned and said: "According to the current scale, it's about 10 jins a day. It's only million jins a year! It's not much, just so-so!"

When Zhu Di heard this, his eyes widened and he asked in a trembling voice: "How much more?"

Zhu Tan said: "Thirty-six million catties."

Zhu Di said with a face full of shock: "You said it as if it was easy! Do you know what our iron output will be next year?

I saw the paperwork at the Ministry of Industry the year before last!
The annual output of the government-operated iron-making workshop is 1800 million kilograms! Private, 2000 million catties! you
Your workshop is as powerful as thousands of workshops in the Ming Dynasty! "

Zhu Tan laughed dryly.

If Zhu Di's statement is followed, the output is indeed very large.

But in fact, Zhu Tan thinks it’s not that big!

This is in Yongping Mansion!
Tangshan in later generations!
The steel output is only tens of millions of kilograms, which is too little!
I feel sorry for this Feng Shui treasure land!

And the other side.

Togu Si Timur was shocked on the spot.

tens of millions of kilograms
God!
this number
Isn't it terrible?
How did Ming people do it?
It’s so scary!

With the visit to the iron smelting workshop completed.

Zhu Tan smiled at Zhu Di and said, "Fourth brother, I have to send King Guiyi back to the grassland. How about we say goodbye?"

Zhu Di was stunned when he heard this and said: "What? Do you want Fourth Brother to accompany you to the grassland?" (End of Chapter)