Poor family mother and son

Chapter 59 Huang Zhong's Can't Wait

Ministry of Industry, workshop.

"It's done! It's done!" Usually, the well-dressed adults were all wearing big aprons for workers, and some even had black handprints on their faces, but they yelled without hesitation. The emotion is beyond words.The craftsmen around couldn't help but peek.

It's no wonder that these adults are so excited, the three-day deadline is up, and the emperor will have to ask them about the results in the early morning court.They were already extremely uneasy.

Huang Zhong's clay furnace proposal made it less time consuming and less expensive to build a blast furnace.But for two days and two nights, there has been no molten iron.They even felt that the craftsmen were not dedicated enough, so they rolled up their arms and sleeves and went to the battle to fill coal and fuel.

just!The molten iron finally gurgled out just now, which was obviously different from the usual iron slurry.It was already midnight at this time, but everyone was tireless. Fortunately, they finally completed the inspection task within the time limit given by the emperor.

Old Huang Zhong frowned: "No!"

"What?" Everyone was surprised and looked at Huang Zhong.

"It clearly said that iron should be turned into water in the early ten hours, but we spent two days and two nights." Huang Zhong said.

"That's right! Can it be that fast? I'm afraid this person is eager to claim credit and exaggerate?" Someone was skeptical.

"It may also be because we don't have the No. [-] brick." Some people also explained it this way.

"Judging from the structure of the furnace body, it is far better than our shaft furnace. And the molten iron comes out, which is already a remarkable creation." Some people are very satisfied.

After the court was over the next morning, a group of officials from the Ministry of Industry gathered in the Imperial Study Room to report to the emperor with the smelted iron ingots.

The emperor looked at the iron ingot, and another official presented an iron ingot smelted in a shaft furnace, explaining the difference between the two to the emperor.The final conclusion is that Daxuan Kingdom should replace the shaft furnace with this kind of blast furnace.

After listening to all the reports, the emperor nodded his approval: "It seems that this blast furnace is really good. Your Ministry of Industry should follow suit."

"But your majesty," Huang Zhong bowed forward and said, "We haven't achieved the effect of melting iron into water within a day." All the officials looked at Huang Zhong, and even the minister of the Ministry of Industry accused him.

No wonder everyone is unhappy.I finally finished the task, and it's good that the emperor didn't get angry. Are you still rushing to scold me?

Huang Zhong did not notice the reactions around him, and continued: "Your Majesty, although the ministers do not have the so-called No. [-] bricks, the mud materials used by the ministers are also made according to the drawings. It should not be the main reason. The furnace body only needs to be able to withstand the high temperature of smelting. The old minister can't think of a reason."

"I request that the old minister be allowed to go to Jizhou City. The old minister wants to ask the man who made the blast furnace for advice!" Huang Zhong finally said.

"That's it..." The emperor knew that this old Aiqing was about to dive into technology again.This is what the emperor admired most about him, and it was also what he felt was irreplaceable.This old Huang Zhong can devote all his energy to a skill or a craft, forgetting to eat and sleep.If all the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty have such spirit, why not worry about the prosperity of the Daxuan, and the prosperity of the country and the people of the country!
Baolu Group.

Chu Qing led a group of servants to neatly stack trays of crushed beans tied in straw bags on a one-foot-high platform built of bricks.There is a long oil guide groove under the brick platform, and there is a gap in every section of the oil guide groove, and there are earthen jars under the gap.

Layers of bricks are placed on top of the bean buns, and the bean buns are pressed into flat bean cakes.When the bricks are stacked to seven or eight layers, soybean oil can be seen slowly oozing out of the bean cakes and dripping into the oil guide groove.Clearly ask them to record the oil output after stacking ten layers, and then ask them to stack five layers of bricks every half day and record the oil output.

In order to eat vegetable oil, Chu Qing didn't spend much effort.The [-] catties of soybeans purchased are selected and crushed after being removed from impurities, and then poured into a large pot made of Baolu No. [-] steel and stir-fried. After stirring, they are packed in specially woven small straw bags and placed under the bricks. press.

Five hundred catties of beans produced less than fifty catties of oil, and more than 370 catties of bean cakes.Chu Qing leaned the bean cakes against the courtyard wall to dry.

This bean cake is delicious.Sometimes the servants were hungry at night, Chu Qing would take them to the brick kiln to try bean cakes, they were very hungry and delicious.Sometimes for lunch in the afternoon, Xiaobao would choose to eat baked bean cakes.

Chu Qing didn't let him eat more, this food can be used as dry food, and after a while it will be the turn of his long-term workers to go to the mine to work hard, so they can take it with them to fill their stomachs.

The current situation is that Chu Qing bought soybeans again and continued to extract oil.Chu Qing felt that this was also a profitable business.The oil yield of beans can barely reach ten percent.However, there are still 70.00% five bean cakes, so the loss rate of soybeans is not large. After all, there is still water evaporated during the frying process.

This time, Chu Qing asked Bai Jiaxing and the others to go to the surrounding villages and counties to purchase, and they collected five thousand catties for the time being.Chu Qing is preparing for Baolu Group's third business project - Soybean Oil Factory.

The aroma of fried beans attracted the noses of many villagers who came to work, and the delicious fried twist that Xiaobao ate made many children cry.Seeing the piles of soybean cakes pouring oil like rain under the newly built sheds on the field, the villagers were envious.

Soybeans can extract oil!This cognition makes everyone very novel.But I am also worried about spoiling soybeans.Soybeans can be used to make miso, and when there are no vegetables in winter, it can also be used as a vegetable for dipping in the scallions stored in winter.When you want to improve your food, you go to the mill to exchange for tofu.When the food is not enough to eat, they cook beans for rice.

There is no oil in these soybeans when you pinch them with your fingernails, and they are dry even if you crush them. How much oil can be produced by pressing this way?Although every family is short of oil to eat, but if you don't eat oil, you won't starve to death.But wasting beans is equivalent to wasting food.

Xiaobao was in the blacksmith shop, watching Master Lu lead people to press iron pots with molds.The sizzling molten iron is poured into a layer of molds, and the workers hold down the molten iron with another layer of molds.After a period of time, separate the two layers of molds, and there will be a big iron pot inside.

Someone nearby pried out the pot and took it for polishing.The mold is so meticulous that even the ears of the pot are pressed out, and it is formed at one time.Xiao Bao stood watching from a distance.Because Chu Qing taught, it’s okay to look at, but stay away, in case the molten iron splashes out, it will burn big holes in the meat.

Xiaobao stuffed baked bean cakes into his mouth while watching. He loved eating this recently and thought it was better than dim sum.Now is the time for lunch, you can eat a piece of bean cake the size of a palm.

I don't know who's child next to me is a little girl with disheveled hair and a dirty face. Her face is red from the cold, and she sucks the snot from the cold from time to time. She is looking at the baby in Xiaobao's hand cake.Finally couldn't bear the disturbance from the glutton, and timidly asked Xiaobao: "This...is it delicious?"

Xiaobao looked at the young lady in front of him.Other children in the village would sometimes lie to him to eat, for example: "Xiaobao, your dim sum seems to be broken, and it smells wrong. Let me try it for you." , That's why I lied to him like this, and I will give them a piece.

But these children push forward, and use this method every time, wanting to get more.Xiaobao didn't give them a third chance.Chu Qing once said, do it again and again, you can't do it again and again.So Xiaobao only let them succeed twice.

But the little girl in front of him had never tricked him into eating, and now she just asked if it was good.Xiaobao broke off the part he had bitten off, gave her more than half of the rest, and then walked home.The little girl shouted from behind: "Next time I will wrap your leggings for you!"

Xiaobao couldn't wrap his leggings well by himself, and when he jumped into the pit, he often let go of his leggings and fell over.The little girl saw it.

Chu Qing is not very friendly with the villagers, and will not get together and chat like other village women.She is not good at chatting with others about Zhang's parents and Li's family, and she doesn't like it.So always busy with your own business.

Xiaobao also ignored those children.He has a lot to do every day.It depends on the production of bricks from the brick kiln, the smelting of coke, master Lu making hoes and pots, jumping into pits, and... busy.

As a result, the villagers didn't dare to talk to Chu Qing, and they didn't dare to fool Xiaobao.But children are different.There are always older children who come to Xiaobao's place to cheat for food and drink while adults are not paying attention, or want to bully and bully Xiaobao.

People have always had some inexplicable hostility towards people who are different.Including small children.No, seeing that the little girl could easily get Xiaobao's delicious food, they stopped Xiaobao.

(End of this chapter)