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Chapter 1603 The first furnace of steel

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    As we all know, unlike the Mongolian nomads, the Jurchens are a fishing and hunting nation and also engage in some agricultural production.

    ¡°But the Han people in the Liaodong border wall are still unable to be self-sufficient. The Jianzhou Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens still live in the Changbai Mountains in northeastern Liaoning. There is less land for farming and their livelihoods are more difficult.  It had to be constantly oppressed and plundered by the Mongols, so it could not develop.

    "However, when times come, the world and the earth are united." Li Chengliang came out of Liaodong and beat the Mongols to the point of dying, but he adopted a supportive attitude towards the weak Jurchens and gave them valuable room for development.

    The reason why Li Chengliang changed his attitude towards the Jurchens was due to complex factors. One of the most important reasons was that he could make a fortune in this way.

    After the Longqing switch, a large amount of overseas silver flowed into China. Rich people had more money in their hands, and a large number of wealthy industrial and commercial classes appeared in the Jiangnan area.  The surge in luxury in society has brought strong demand for high-end local products such as ginseng, mink skins, tiger bones, and deer antlers from outside China.

    The supply of these local products soon exceeded the demand, and the prices soared, making Li Chengliang, who monopolized foreign trade, make a fortune.

    And these local products are basically in the Changbai Mountains, outside the border wall, on the territory of the Jurchens!  If the Jurchens can bring wealth to Li Chengliang, of course they will be looked at in a different light.

    Therefore, the Jurchens ushered in an excellent historical opportunity - they found that they could rely on the horse market trade between Liaodong and the Yalu River to maintain the survival of the entire tribe, accumulate wealth, and buy everything they wanted, such as blunderbuss and gunpowder.  ,armor.  This provides the material conditions for becoming bigger and stronger and creating greater glory.

    Therefore, after the beginning of spring every year, men from various Jurchen tribes would form teams into the mountains to dig ginseng, hunt and hunt in units of "Niulu". They did not go out of the mountains until the beginning of autumn.

    This transformed them from a bunch of scattered sand into a powerful militarized tribal group.

    It can be said that it was the Age of Discovery that gave the Jurchens the opportunity to rise, and it was the power of commerce that made them strong.  It's just that the people involved, whether it was the foolish Ming Dynasty who was so arrogant to his enemies, Li Chengliang who enriched himself by feeding the bandits, or the Jurchens who became stronger in a daze, never realized this.

    Fortunately, Zhao Hao knows this very well.  And after ten years of hard work, he has become one of the players in the Age of Discovery and a leader in Ming Dynasty business.

    So he has the ability to wean the Jurchens, and he can use commercial means to interrupt their evolution process.  He also hopes to take care of the Northeast King at the right time. This depends on the Northeast Company to cut in and lay out the plan, and it can only be done when the time is ripe.

    Of course, it¡¯s still early to say this now, let¡¯s wait until Northeastern Company has established a foothold in Liaodong.

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    No matter what, Mr. Zhao completed the task assigned by his father-in-law and used one million taels to organize the engagement ceremony of Emperor Wanli beautifully.

    This made Zhang Juzheng very happy, so he took advantage of the emperor's engagement to reward his whole family.

    Zhao Hao was promoted to the third rank of Jiayi doctor. He was still the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and the admiral of Siyi Pavilion. He was also in charge of shipping affairs and other maritime affairs.

    Zhang Xiaojing was awarded the title of Second-grade Madam for her achievements in completing a global voyage, visiting overseas fairy mountains, and presenting auspicious turtles.

    Jiang Xueying, Ma Xianglan and Fang Qiaoqiao have also been promoted to one level each. Jiang Xueying is a fourth-grade Gongren; Sister Ma is a fifth-grade Yiren; Qiaoqiao is a sixth-grade Anren.

    Because Li Mingyue is a princess, and she will be a princess if she is promoted, she only gets two hundred dan.

    Originally, Mr. Zhang said he wanted to provide his sons with official positions, but since his own grandson was not born yet, Zhao Hao was too polite and would discuss the matter later

    As for why he is a grandson and not a granddaughter, Bu Gu is so confident!

    At this time, Zhao Liben finally returned to Beijing.  As soon as he arrived in Beijing, the old man started organizing the Sixth Chuiwan Invitational Tournament of the ¡®Northeast Company Cup¡¯ without stopping.

    Mr. Zhao¡¯s family also moved to the manor in Qilizhuang, so that the old man could enjoy the family happiness of entertaining his great-grandson after playing games.

    During the day, he watched a group of children running wildly on the grassy hillside. At night, he played cards with his grandfather, gossiped with his father, and took the opportunity to sleep in. Zhao Hao felt that his body and mind were greatly relaxed.

    But a piece of good news came from Tangshan, which made Zhao Hao unable to stay in the manor any longer.

    This is an exploration report.

    Since last year, miners from Xishan Group and researchers from the Iron and Steel Research Institute have jointly conducted a comprehensive survey of the Kaiping area in Tangshan.

    It took the exploration team a year and a half to finally determine that the Kaiping area is indeed as "presumed" by Mr. Zhao, with both rich coal mines and rich iron ores.

    Although groundwater is abundant, it is difficult to exploit.  Moreover, Kaiping coal has a soft texture, is difficult to form lumps, and has relatively high ash content.on the converter.

    "Add molten iron!" Wang Yingxuan, who was as thin as a stick, ordered loudly.

    The skilled workers opened the blazing blast furnace, and the molten iron slowly poured into the low converter mouth from the outlet at the waist of the blast furnace.

    After all the 700 kilograms of molten iron in the blast furnace were poured into the blast furnace, Wang Yingxuan wiped his thick glasses and said with a trembling voice: "Blast!"

    The workers quickly pulled the bellows to blow the air through six 'ji'-shaped pipes and from the six air blast holes at the bottom of the converter!

    The reaction in the furnace was very violent, making a loud banging sound like a volcano erupting.  Soon, brown smoke rose from the furnace, which was the oxygen of manganese and silicon in the molten iron.

    Ten minutes into the blast operation, the combustion in the converter suddenly intensified, producing a large amount of white flames, which was the decarburization of molten iron.

    Countless sparks spurt out from the upper furnace mouth of the converter, like fireworks, dazzling and dangerous!

    Zhu Shimao and others who came to join in the fun were so frightened that they backed away, fearing that the molten iron in the converter would burst out and drizzle themselves all over.

    Then it will directly burn into white bones

    Only researchers from Institute 01 such as Zhao Hao and Wang Yingxuan still stood on the high observation platform, watching the reaction at the furnace mouth intently.

    Even if they were wearing sunglasses, the incandescent light still made them shed tears.  But they were still looking anxiously at the furnace mouth. As the flames suddenly stopped, decarburization was completed.

    The first furnace of steel in Kaiping was smelted.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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