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Chapter 110 Merchant Tian Jia!There are traitors around Emperor Wu

The iron smelting place of the imperial court is actually relatively simple.After all, in the Han Dynasty, ironmaking technology was not very good.

In addition, it is a government-run organization.

Adding up all kinds of circumstances, these iron-making things are actually just like that.

When Huo Guangyi asked for the slag from iron smelting, Da Nong Ling Yan Yi couldn't help being curious, and asked, "Huo Yilang, what do you want these slag for?"

"Cough, let's fill in the road. I recently dug some clay, and fired some things in a blast furnace. Dig a big hole in some land, so I have to fill it in!" Huo Guang said.

only.

It's okay not to explain.

Once explained, Yan Yi was even more confused.

He asked very incomprehensibly: "Dig the clay? This is the end of the digging. Do the holes left behind need to be filled?"

"Isn't it necessary?"

Huo Guang shrugged and asked, pretending not to understand.

However, Yan Yi said: "Of course there is no need. If the pit you dug is small, as time goes by, the mud flow will naturally fill it up under the washing of the rain."

"If you dig a big hole."

"The rainwater from God will also fill it into a pond. After a long time, fish, loaches and other things will grow in the pond."

"If you can't keep the water, it's just a low-lying road!"

"so."

"Why artificial filling?"

"Uh..." Huo Guang was confused by Yan Yi, an honest man, so he didn't know how to explain it, so he changed the subject and said, "That's all I said, not as much as you think. By the way, the Da Nong Order, here in the ironworks, usually smelting Is the slag produced after iron making thrown aside so casually?"

"Will it be too much?"

"It seems to me that no one has cleared and transported you away!"

Hearing Huo Guang's question, Yan Yi also nodded and replied: "Yes, there are too many slags. Those who have a daily production requirement of iron are busy producing iron, so how can they have time to manage these slags?"

The ironmaking technology of the Han Dynasty was not good enough.

And the imperial court has requirements on the weight of iron produced every day.

This leads to a problem in the ironworks.

In order for the production of iron to meet the standard, it is necessary to increase the mining of iron ore every day, and use a larger amount of iron ore to refine the required amount.

And those in power take a look.

Yo?
Isn't this an easy goal?
Row!
ramping up production next month!

Hence.
A vicious circle begins.

The imperial court gave the production weight requirements. In order to achieve the target, the iron smelting plant was too lazy to improve the iron smelting technology, and directly and roughly increased the mining of iron ore to produce the set target with more volume.

Those in power looked at the weight of production done and went on to increase iron production.

One to two to go.

Since the Yantie official camp, the amount of slag has been increasing day by day.

This is for the ironworks.

Not to mention cleaning up, as long as the slag doesn't block the road, you can throw it anywhere.

It's been a long time.

There will always be someone from above to clean it up.

And this so-called top is the Da Nong Ling Yan Yi.

only.

He also has a headache for these iron slags. If he had a way to clean them up, wouldn't he have cleaned them up long ago?

Why are you still here!

then.

Hearing Huo Guang's question, Yan Yi immediately sighed and said, "To tell you the truth, I'm also trying to figure out a way! I planned to clean it up in a few days, but there is such a large amount of iron ore slag, how can it be so easy to clean it up?" .”

Seeing Yan Yi's distressed appearance, Huo Guang was very satisfied.

But on his face, there was a look of worrying for Da Nong, and he said: "Well, it doesn't matter whether you need to fill the hole or not, within the scope of my ability, I will share part of the cleaning work of the slag for you. Yes."

Yan Yi immediately stopped doubting Huo Guang, and said with a smile, "I can't be more grateful!"

But talking.

The big farmer made Yan Yi suddenly change the subject, and warned: "Huo Yilang, thank you, but I can warn you, don't try to use these iron slags to make iron again."

"If His Majesty knows about this."

"Your head and mine have to be moved."

Ironmaking?

Huo Guang had thought about this before, but he hadn't thought about it since Yantie's official camp.

Now is not the time.

As for the slag?

Ah!
Although a lot of iron can still be smelted in it, who cares about the leftovers from these people's households?
immediately.

Huo Guang laughed and said, "Don't tell me you're joking. Why do I want to smelt iron privately? Using this kind of slag to smelt iron is purely looking for trouble. Don't you think I'm in a hurry?"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Upon hearing this, Yan Yi felt that Huo Guang was right, and immediately said with shame: "It's me who saved the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

Huo Guang smiled and waved his hands, saying: "It's okay, it's okay, the Da Nong Order is right to be cautious."

"How about this!"

"A few days later, I sent someone to clean up part of the slag for Da Nong Ling. It also helped Da Nong Ling reduce some of his burden, and he could concentrate on dealing with the matter of Bai Diezi."

As soon as the words came out.

Yan Yi "understood" Huo Guang's real intention even more.

he thinks.

Huo Guang mistakenly thought that he was distracted by the affairs of the Yantie official camp, which made him negligent about the planting of Bai Diezi.

It was because of this worry that he came to help him relieve the burden.

Thinking of this.

Yan Yi was even more convinced that his guess was correct, so he said with a smile: "Huo Yilang, don't worry, although human energy is limited. But since His Majesty has arranged for me to plant Baidizi with you, I will not Delayed."

"So good."

Seeing that Yan Yi already believed his words, Huo Guang nodded with a smile.

Now that the goal has been achieved.

Later time.

He and Da Nong Ling Yan Yi didn't have a long chat, and then they left.

just.

Although he is gone, Sang Hongyang is still here.

Seeing Huo Guang leave, Sang Hongyang walked up to Yan Yi immediately and asked, "Dare to ask Da Nong Ling, what is this Huo Yilang doing in the ironworks?"

Yan Yi waved his hand and said with a smile, "Huo Yilang is a good man. He saw that there was too much slag in the ironworks, so he decided to send someone to clean up some of the slag for me."

Clean up the slag?

Sang Hongyang didn't believe it, so he said directly: "Danongling must be careful. I checked the slag beforehand. If you refine the iron carefully, you can extract a lot of iron from it!"

But the Da Nong Order said: "Don't you know what a crime it is to smelt iron privately?"

"rest assured!"

"This Huo Yilang is a smart man, he won't do such a thing."

"As for why you helped me clean up the slag?"

"I read."

"I guess I don't know what someone said. Recently, I have been focusing on the Yantie official camp most of the time."

"He was afraid that I would delay the planting of Baidiezi because of this!"

"People are a little bit selfish."

Seeing what Yan Yi said, Sang Hongyang didn't say anything at once, so he nodded slightly and said nothing more.

just.

His eyes were still fixed on the direction where Huo Guang left, as if he was thinking about something.

the other side.

After Huo Guang was persuaded to take away the iron ore slag at Da Nong Ling, he came back and began to greet his servants, recruiting a large number of working farmers and disaster victims who fled from the northwest.

That is, recruitment!

As the autumn harvest season approached, farmers were not easy to recruit, but refugees were still easy to recruit.

With workers.

Huo Guang started to survey the places with limestone, and began to excavate a large amount of clay, gypsum and other substances.

After the iron ore slag is shipped back.

Then he ordered people to crush the three materials, iron slag, clay, and limestone evenly, and mix them together in a certain proportion to form the so-called raw meal.

after that.

Put it into an earthen furnace for calcination, and when it is almost burned, there will be clinker.

things behind.

It is to add gypsum stone, grind it into fine powder, and mix it together according to the proportion.

This is how cement is made.

It looks simple.

However, the trial process is extremely difficult. In the steps, the temperature of calcination must reach at least 400 degrees. It is difficult to burn such a high temperature with the small earthen furnace designed by Huo Guang at the beginning.

no way.

The calcination temperature is not enough, Huo Guang can only change the clay furnace first.

gradually.

The original low earthen furnace, with repeated revisions, became taller and taller, and became a blast furnace.

Calcination temperature is sufficient.

The latter is to try the mixing ratio of several materials of cement, which is also very important.The proportion is wrong, and when it is used later, it will not be strong when it solidifies.

Huo Guang was the first to produce cement.

After solidification!
He can even break it apart with his hands like a hard clod, and some of them can't even solidify, and they become powder with a kick.

Such cement?
It's not as good as glutinous rice juice and grass ash. What's the use?
then.

Without knowing the mixing ratio, Huo Guang could only lead the workers to try blindly.But it took him a lot of time to experiment again and again, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.

During this month, I have gradually figured out some brows about the cement mixing ratio.After refining the cement later, he used it to build a wall.

Looking at the wall made of cement, Huo Guang arranged for the workers to kick it in turn, but did not knock the wall down.

Only then was Huo Guang satisfied.

of course.

After coming up with the cement formula, Huo Guang didn't rush to build houses at the first time. Instead, he led the workers to place the cement factory, the brick kiln factory, and the land in the northern circle outside Chang'an City, among the three. Build a concrete road.

Purpose!
First of all, it is natural for workers to learn how to use cement skillfully.

Simultaneously.

With access to roads, it can also reduce the workload in the future.

There is a way.

He is not worried that the houses he will build in the future will not be sold, even if they are outside the city, Huo Guang firmly believes that the new-style houses built with cement and red bricks will definitely attract attention.

After all, there is this house.

The effect of keeping out the cold is more direct than a simple cotton-padded quilt.No matter how cold the cold wave is in the coming year, the people living in this house can survive the winter.

Wait for these to get through.

The money Huo Guang wants to earn is not just as simple as selling a house.

Businessmen reap profits.

Seeing Huo Guang making money like this, will they not learn from it?

definitely will!
But if they want to build houses like Huo Guang's, they first need materials.

Such as cement, red brick and so on!
Where there is desire, there will be demand, and if there is demand, Huo Guang can make money, making money from those merchants.

As long as others need it, Huo Guang can sell it to them.

of course.

The recipe does not sell!

If they can steal it, that's their skill.

But all of this is just a bud in Huo Guang's mind. Who knows what will happen in the future?

It's still early!
One thing is certain, a month later, the road was built.

Stepping on the concrete road that was two meters wide and more than ten centimeters thick, Huo Guang was quite excited.

Regardless of the surprised eyes of the workers!
He lay directly on the cement road, and after feeling the long-lost intimacy, he couldn't help shouting loudly: "Haha, I made the first cement road in the Han Dynasty!"

The workers around who paid for him all looked at him after hearing the voice, with curious eyes in their eyes.

seem.

In the eyes of these ancients.

Huo Guang is a strange person, a person with very strange words and deeds.

In the eyes of the workers, Huo Guangming is obviously the son of a prince and general, but he seems so out of tune with the surrounding affairs.

While he was lying on the concrete floor.

Someone suddenly clapped his hands and praised: "Huo Yilang is really a strange man, he can make such a miraculous thing to pave the road, making the road smooth and smooth, just like the surface of a windless lake."

"only."

"Don't Huo Yilang think it's a bit of a waste to use such a magical thing for road construction?"

Suddenly hearing someone talking to me in such a tone, I couldn't help being curious, raised my head slightly, and saw that the person who came was actually a wealthy businessman from Chang'an City, so I didn't bother to stand up again, and continued to lie on the cement road, saying calmly: "Who am I? It turns out to be Zhang Gong's retainer, Tian Jia!"

Huo Guang was no stranger to this person.

When raising funds for disaster relief last time, Tian Jia was one of the few merchants who took the initiative to donate money.

He used to be one of Zhang Tang's disciples before he became a royal doctor.

Unfortunately behind.

As Zhang Tang began to attack the merchant business, the two had conflicts.Different ways, not conspiring with each other, can be regarded as parting ways.

just now.

When Tian Jia heard Huo Guang say this deliberately, his face changed for a while, but soon he recovered his expression, and said with a smile: "Tian has no malicious intentions, why does Huo Yilang run on people like this?"

"Running people? Huh!" Huo Guang sneered, as if revealing that you are not worthy of my running, but after thinking about it, he still said: "You just accused me of using this thing to build roads and waste it, so it depends on what you want , what should I fix?"

Tian Jia immediately said: "Floods often occur in the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin. Once the banks of the rivers burst, the wealth and lives of the people on both sides will be threatened."

"Why doesn't Huo Yilang use this miraculous thing on the defensive dikes of the two rivers?"

"If it is done."

"It can't help but be regarded as a great merit!"

Hearing Tian Jia's eloquent talk, Huo Guang smiled contemptuously and said, "A great merit? Hehe, Brother Tian is standing on the commanding heights of morality. He doesn't do anything, but directs me to build the project of flood-damaged dikes. It's easy to say!"

Tian Jia frowned slightly, and said, "Why did Huo Yilang say that?"

Huo Guang smiled and didn't speak.

With his head resting on his arms, he looked extraordinarily comfortable under the scorching sun.

Seeing this, Tian Jia smiled and said, "It seems that Huo Yilang is dissatisfied with what Tian said just now, so it's just nonsense."

"but."

"It is said that Huo Yilang is going to build four cities near Chang'an City to defend Chang'an."

"Tian is very curious."

"Huo Yilang made this magical thing, is he going to use it on the four cities to be built?"

When Tian Jia said this, Huo Guang stood up suddenly, looked directly at this loyal and strong businessman, and asked curiously: "The matter of building four cities in the enclosure is the responsibility of me and Your Majesty." The plan to tell is not mentioned in front of outsiders."

"Tian Jia!"

"How does a person like you know about the affairs of the court?"

(End of this chapter)