Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 65 Impeached Again

Guo An didn't know that Zhu Laosi's title of prince of merchants directly put him in front of Lao Zhu, showing a wave.

Moreover, it was Jin Yiwei who he was most wary of, which allowed him to avoid the wrath of the tyrannical old Zhu.

This time, he was still concentrating on leading the ten old craftsmen, running directly and frequently between the Iron Smelting Institute of Shangzhuang Village and the Wanping County Government.

The biggest hobby of a man is his interest, which is to study various things, money, food, machinery, women...

And once you start researching, you can't stop at all.

Now, Zhu Di assigned him ten old craftsmen and one guard of hundreds of households. He was at his disposal. What kind of stove he wanted and how much iron ore he wanted could be satisfied immediately.

And Guo An only needs to brainstorm. For Guo An, who has always been lacking in hands-on ability, it is nothing more than seeing heaven.

Most importantly, Guo An was also surprised to find that although it was only in the early Ming Dynasty, the iron-making efficiency of the blacksmiths at Zhu Laosi Iron Smelting Institute was also very high.

However, the only pity is that these blacksmiths still have some habit of working, and they like to use open iron-making furnaces. With such a big hole, although it is easy to blow air into the iron-making furnace, the heat in the furnace must not be gathered.

Therefore, Guo An asked a group of veteran craftsmen to seal up a big hole in a furnace.

Later, Guo An discovered that these blacksmiths actually used coal to smelt iron directly, and the quality of the smelted iron would also decline due to the presence of tar.

Therefore, Guo An asked a group of craftsmen to start building a large coke oven for baking coal. After the temperature was high and soft dehydrated and degassed coke was produced, it was sprinkled with water, and it was good. of coking coal.

However, Guo An then discovered that although the amount of iron smelted is larger and the quality is somewhat better, it seems that it is not enough for the steel in his impression.

Continue to transform the iron furnace!

Add a hole so that the wicker can be stretched in, and the wicker can be used to hit molten iron to make steel?
Add two, three...

Or, directly insert a pig iron plate from the mouth of the furnace, clamp it with tongs, melt it, and then slowly pour it into the wrought iron in the furnace and keep turning it, as if uniform steel can be obtained.

Or, use a stove to melt the pig iron, then pour the molten iron into the wrought iron, let the two fall in love, and then beat it repeatedly with a sledgehammer to make it blend together...

Anyway, Guo An seems to have encountered a fun toy, and immersed himself in it all day long.

At first, Zhong Huo, the steward of the iron smelter, and the ten old craftsmen thought that Guo An, a nobleman, had nothing to do in his spare time and was messing around in the iron smelter.

Just play around with him.

Even Zhu Di shook his head slowly after hearing what Guo An had done in Tieye all day, and then he didn't pay much attention.

However, with the gradual improvement of the iron-smelting furnace, Zhong Huo and those old craftsmen were shocked to find that under Guo An's whimsical transformation, the iron-smelting speed became faster and faster.

Moreover, the most unbelievable thing is that sometimes what is smelted is not pig iron, but hard steel, even as strong as refined iron, and sometimes even more than refined steel.

Therefore, Guo An was surprised to find that these old craftsmen, as if they had taken some rejuvenation pills, were full of motivation and energy all day long, and they were more active in research than him.

At the same time, under the arrangement of Zhong Huo, all the craftsmen in the iron mine of Shangzhuang village began to subconsciously learn some operations of Guo An.

Guo An didn't mind Zhong Huo's stealing.

Anyway, sooner or later, these will have to be handed over to the iron smelting station of Shangzhuang Village.

……

And just when Guo An has been going back and forth to the Iron Smelting Institute in Shangzhuang Village.

Several memorials were sent to Yingtian Mansion.

In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang handed the few memorials in his hand to Zhu Biao with a gloomy face.

"Biao'er, look, the inspector of Beiping Mansion began to impeach Guo An, that bastard again, for not being his magistrate, he followed the hundreds of households around the fourth son every day, and kept digging into the iron mine.

Moreover, the bastard, the fourth child, even assigned ten old craftsmen to Guo An, a thief. What are they going to do? "

"Right now, in the court, some officials have already begun to play, although it is not impeachment, but the intention is to feel that Guo An's son often goes out of office and neglects his duties.

Colluded with the fourth brother, opened a barbecue shop, opened a farm, and now started to intervene in iron mines, and competed with the people for profit..."

Hearing this, Zhu Biao's expression moved slightly, and he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "Father, Beiping Prefecture is the fourth feudal state. What does the fourth oldest want a small magistrate to do? Which small magistrate can resist?
Did Guo An offend someone?Or did the fourth child offend someone? "

Zhu Yuanzhang looked impatient, "Hmph, how do we know? I asked Jiang Yu to investigate, but after so long, I still haven't found a clue!"

"Then what does dad mean?"

Zhu Biao asked tentatively.

"We are going to spend a few days, let Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu and other generals lead the Jingwei soldiers to Beiping, and gather all the Taoist soldiers to practice ditchside."

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Since Lao Si, the King of Yan, and Guo An, the county magistrate, are so fond of iron making and have been sued, let them prepare iron tools for us to use in an army of [-].

In this way, the mouths of those officials in the DPRK can also be blocked. "

"hiss……"

Zhu Biao couldn't help taking a deep breath, "Father, the fourth son has only been to Beiping Mansion for five years, and there are still three guards in Yanshan to support him during this period. Can the fourth son spend so much money?"

"Hmph, we don't care!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "The fourth son doesn't have that much wealth, so he can go buy it. We heard that he only ransacked the homes of a few corrupt officials in the palace a few days ago, and he copied more than [-] taels of stolen silver.

Now, we heard that the barbecue shop of the fourth child can still earn more than 1 taels of silver every month.

Damn it, the fourth son is starting to get rich now! "

"If that's the case, then listen to Dad. But, is Dad planning to conquer Beiyuan?"

……

Wanping County.

Guo An, the magistrate, brought Wang Zhen, the official historian, and a group of scribes to stand at the gate of the county government office.

"Wanping county government welcomes Zong's experience!"

"County Guo is respectful!"

Beiping chief envoy experienced Zong Zhi hastily returned his salute to Guo An, but he didn't dare to play tricks on the county magistrate, the confidant of King Yan.

"Zong experience please!"

"Guo magistrate, please!"

Although surprised by the politeness of the chief envoy, Guo An didn't think too much, but politely welcomed Zong Zhi and the two officials behind him.

As for the scribes in Wanping County, they looked curiously at the two middle-aged men behind Zongzhi from time to time.

They had heard the news a long time ago that the two would be the new assistant officials of their Wanping county government, the county magistrate and the master.

It seems that His Royal Highness King Yan personally went to the chief envoy to come!

……

(End of this chapter)