Daming: I was exposed by Zhu Di's Sims life!

Chapter 142 If you rob me of Kong Shan, I will rob you of Jiangshan!

The coke from the Kongshan coking plant was directly transported to the newly built steelmaking plant in Kongshan without any further stops.

Zhu Gaoxuan wanted to build an industrial city in Kongshan, and the steelmaking plant was indispensable.

In ancient steelmaking, the ore with high iron content was mined first, then the ore was heated with charcoal made by burning in the sky, and then the heated ore was thrown into cold water. The purpose was to make the hard ore pass through heat. After expansion and contraction, the ore is made brittle, and then the treated ore is crushed, and the iron part is left after washing with water, and the iron sand is heated and melted in an earthen steelmaking furnace, and waits The molten steel is cooled.

The steelmaking technology of the Ming Dynasty was quite mature and advanced, far ahead in the world.Even Britain, which was the first to carry out the industrial revolution, could only catch up with the steel output of the Ming Dynasty in the nineteenth century.

The biggest shortcoming of the steelmaking technology of the Ming Dynasty was that the temperature was not enough. Because of the insufficient temperature, the smelted steel was only in a mushy state, not in a liquid state.If you want to smelt liquid steel, you have to reach at least more than 600 degrees, but the steelmaking temperature of more than 300 degrees in the Ming Dynasty was already the limit.

The biggest reason for this problem is that charcoal was used in ironmaking in the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Gaoyi had coke, so he didn't have to worry about the temperature being insufficient.

Unlike traditional steelmaking, Zhu Gaoyi adopted blast furnace steelmaking.

This method has a relatively simple process, high yield, and low labor requirements.

In addition, adding a small amount of alkali while smelting with this method can also solve the problem of dephosphorization.The disadvantage of Kongshan’s steelmaking plant is that it takes a long time to smelt. Each furnace takes about one day. However, due to the large melting pool, each furnace can produce two thousand catties of molten steel. The output is extremely high and the quality is also high.

The molten iron that boils like magma in the steelmaking furnace, after the furnace material is melted, when the molten pool is heated to the specified temperature, ore can be added for refining, and the alkalinity of the slag can be increased at the same time.

After the process is complete, the uneven layer of brown iron ore becomes bright high-quality steel.However, there will be a dedicated trolley to pull the steel away and transport it to the warehouse.

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At Prince Qi's mansion, Zhu Gaoxuan was giving instructions to his little secretary Su Wu: "In terms of purchasing iron ore, you need to be more urgent. The Kongshan Steel Plant is working well, and I plan to continue to expand it."

Su Wu was a little confused: "My lord, two new steel-making warehouses have been built in Kongshan, but these two new ones are almost full. We have smelted so much high-quality steel, so we just put it in the warehouse for watching? "

Zhu Gaoyi shook his head and said with a light smile, "Don't worry, someone will come to buy it."

"Who will buy such a huge amount of steel?" Su Wu was a little tired, "If we can't find a stable export, our series of steelmaking lines in Kongshan may go bankrupt."

Zhu Gaoxuan neither used nor sold the steel he smelted. Such a huge amount of steel can only be used for forging weapons.But steelmaking and forging weapons are two different things. Zhu Gaoxuan smelted the steel and put it in the warehouse. No one cared about him. He dug coal in Kongshan. The emperor has been watching the matter, but has not spoken, who dares to take care of it?

But if you use this steel material to forge weapons, well, you don’t even need to wait for death, just die suddenly on the spot!
At this time, Ah Qi, the shadow attendant who appeared elusively, came out from nowhere, and said to Zhu Gaoxuan indifferently: "There is news from the palace, the emperor wants you to have an audience."

Zhu Gaoyi looked at Su Wu with a smile: "See, the buyer is here."

Only then did Su Wu suddenly realize, and exclaimed in admiration: "My lord, Gao!"

Zhu Gaoxuan never thought of earning too much money by making steel. He only wanted to build a Ming industrial city in Kongshan.And this requires the support of the emperor. The best way is to invite the emperor to join the group, but if you want to bring the emperor in, you have to pay a sufficient price.

It is impossible for him to spend a lot of time and energy to build Kongshan Industrial City and hand it over to the emperor.This is indeed a huge boost to Daming's future industrial development, but to him, it is a complete loss-making business, and Zhu Gaoxuan is not a second-hand man, so he can't do this kind of thing.

So Zhu Gaoxuan's initial plan was to get Kong Shan out and sell it to the emperor. As for how much he could sell, it depended on how much the emperor was willing to pay.

If the emperor didn't want to pay, he could just snatch Kong Shan over. He was the biggest emperor, and Zhu Gaoxuan had no choice.But the old man would not do this. Although His Majesty the emperor is sometimes a rascal, Zhu Di still can't do this kind of thing.

If the emperor really roguely snatched Kong Shan away, Zhu Gaoxuan would not care. Unless Zhu Di killed him directly, Zhu Gaoxuan would definitely prepare to rebel.

You rob my Kong Shan, and I rob your Jiangshan!
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Xuanwu Lake, with Zijin Mountain in the east and Ming City Wall in the west, belongs to the royal garden.During the Hongwu Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Gao chose Xuanwu Lake as the storage place for the central government of the Ming Dynasty to store the national household registration, tax and labor records and the yellow records of the farmland files.From then on, Xuanwu Lake became a forbidden area, isolated from the outside world.

Xuanwu Lake is close to the surface of a lake at the west foot, named Zhonghu. His Majesty the Emperor became interested today and sat by the lakeside of Zhonghu to fish.

The dikes and bridges between the continents are connected to each other, and they are integrated into one. There are mountains and waters everywhere, and the mountains are different, and the scenery is picturesque all year round.Fish are raised in the lake and lotus is planted. In summer and autumn, the water surface is green and pink lotus is hidden among them. The lake is full of fragrance, elegant and clean.

However, His Majesty the Emperor did not enjoy this purity for long, and was destroyed by some little beast.

Holding the fishing rod, Zhu Gaoxuan strode up to Zhu Di and asked, "How long has Father been fishing here?"

Zhu Di glanced at the bamboo fish basket beside him. There was nothing in the basket except a basket of clear water.

"Just came." Zhu Di said calmly.

In fact, he has been sitting here fishing for more than two hours, and he has not caught a single fish so far.

As the saying goes, a fisherman will never be in the air force, and he will never admit that he is in the air force. Zhu Di will never admit that he is in the air force.Don't ask, it means "just arrived"!
Zhu Gaoxuan put on the bait and flicked the rod violently, stirring up waves on the calm lake.

Zhu Di frowned slightly: "Go away, I won't catch you if I don't fish, I finally got the mood to throw a shot, and you little bastard ran over to spoil the scenery?"

"Hey, Father, that's not what you said." Zhu Gaoyi said carefreely, "I don't know how to fish. The worse my fishing skills are, the more capable I am by standing next to you."

Zhu Di thought it was true, but he still pretended to be displeased: "If you like to fish, you can fish, if you don't fish, you can get out. I still need you to set off?"

Zhu Gaoyi smiled, but did not speak.

……

Half an hour later, the goose feathers floated slightly on the lake, and the fishing rod in Zhu Gaoyi's hand trembled slightly. It was obvious that a fish had bitten the hook.But he didn't lift the pole, instead his forehead was covered with fine sweat.

Because Zhu Di was watching him with murderous intent.

"Lifting the pole, why don't you mention it?" Zhu Di gritted his teeth, "It's obvious that the fish won't lift the pole. Are you fishing or feeding the fish?"

Zhu Gaoxuan had no choice but to lift the pole, and a splash of water suddenly bloomed on the surface of the lake. A fat mandarin fish clung to the hook and refused to let go.He didn't even dare to copy it by hand, so he hoped that this plump mandarin fish would break its pole and escape, so as to save Zhu Di the last bit of face.

Unexpectedly, the mandarin fish jumped out of the water, jumped into Zhu Gaoxuan's fish basket, and threw himself into the net.

Zhu Gaoxuan's fish basket had already exploded, and a dozen big fish crowded the fish basket to the brim, in stark contrast to Zhu Di's empty fish basket.

The Air Force is not scary, what is terrible is that the Air Force has been discovered.What is more frightening than being discovered by the air force is that when you are in the air force, the people next to you explode.

Zhu Gaoxuan: "..."

Zhu Di: "..."

"Fishing ass!"

Zhu Di was so angry that his liver hurt, and he was about to throw the pole away, but found that the pole and fishing line suddenly became taut, and it was obvious that the hook was bitten.

"Huh?" Zhu Di was pleasantly surprised, "Finally did the fish take the bait?"

Even if only one fish is caught, one!It can also allow Zhu Di to retain his last face!

Zhu Di hastily grabbed the pole, but he always felt something strange and had an ominous premonition.

The pole broke through the water and came out, but what was hanging on the hook was not a big fish, but a ball of aquatic plants.

Zhu Di: "!"

"Ahem..." Zhu Gaoxuan suppressed himself from laughing out loud.

"I'm still fishing!"

Zhu Di was furious, broke the pole directly, and threw it into the lake together with the group of aquatic plants.

It's just that he was still angry, His Majesty kicked the empty fish basket into the water!

After fishing all afternoon, I just caught a bunch of aquatic plants!

I am also angry!

Sensing the majestic killing intent on the old man's body that was about to condense into substance, Zhu Gaoyi quickly changed the subject: "My son brought something, please take a look at it!"

This is to give Zhu Di a step down, so as to divert Zhu Di's embarrassment of incompetence and rage.

Zhu Di was very satisfied with King Qi's understanding, and waved his hand: "What did you bring? Bring it!"

Zhu Gaoxuan took out a thick and long steel ingot from his sleeve and presented it to the emperor.

Zhu Di took the iron ingot, touched the texture, and couldn't help but admire: "Good steel! It's the best steel, and it would be perfect if it can be used to forge weapons!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxuan sharply again: "Is this the steel you made from Kong Shan?"

This is the purpose of summoning King Qi!

Zhu Di didn't pay much attention to Kong Shan at the beginning, but he realized something was wrong after hearing that King Qi was building a steel factory in Kong Shan.

Then he hurriedly sent people to investigate Kong Shan secretly, only to find that King Qi had set up a whole steel-making assembly line in Kong Shan for mining raw coal, washing coal and burning charcoal, purchasing iron ore, and smelting steel!
We only need more detailed information. Due to the short time, Zhu Di did not check too much detail for a while. He only knew that the Kongshan Steel Plant not only had a high output, but also the quality of the steel produced was top-notch!

Zhu Gaoxuan cupped his hands and said, "Just as Father said, this steel ingot came from the Kongshan Steel Plant."

(End of this chapter)