Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 13 Steel

At this time, Erdaogou Village is undergoing class education.

Due to the serious loss of senior students, Zhang Qingfeng had the idea of ​​continuing to accept students.

As soon as the news came out, parents from all over the world began to send their children to study and read.

This made Zhang Qingfeng's students suddenly exceed the limit, reaching as many as three to four hundred.

The reason why there are so many students is mainly because Zhang Qingfeng has more than a dozen students who have become officials outside.

In order for their children to be successful in reading and writing, many parents would be able to become officials, and they would not hesitate to carry hundreds of catties of food and walk dozens of miles of mountain roads to send their children to school. This is why Zhang Qingfeng has so many students.

With so many students, it would be impossible for Zhang Qingfeng to teach alone. Fortunately, he has taught many students in the past few years.

Especially female students, now many of them can replace Zhang Qingfeng to teach new students.

For this enrollment, Zhang Qingfeng divided the students into ten classes and six grades.

The first level contains the basic Chinese and mathematics knowledge of the first to third grades of later generations.

The second level is the knowledge of the third to sixth grades of later generations.

The third level is the knowledge of the first and second grades of junior high school.

The fourth level is the knowledge from the third year of junior high school to the first year of high school.

The fifth level is the knowledge points of senior two and senior three.

The sixth level is university knowledge points.

Students study and study, and only when they have reached a relative level of knowledge can they be promoted to a higher level. Otherwise, they will not be able to upgrade after ten years of repetition.

In order to teach and educate people more systematically, Zhang Qingfeng also spent a lot of time writing textbooks.

Compared with the textbooks of later generations, the textbooks he compiled deleted a lot of things and kept more things that can be realized in this era.

If it takes more than ten years to learn the knowledge learned by later generations from the first grade to university graduation, but the knowledge that was greatly deleted by Zhang Qingfeng can be learned in only seven or eight years. It is not impossible to finish school in one year.

Enrolling so many students at once, the previous school couldn't accommodate it, so Zhang Qingfeng had to build a new school.

Fortunately, more than 300 students, their parents, and the people in the village came to help.

The new school, including classrooms and student dormitories, was completed in just one month with the efforts of hundreds of people.

The name of the school is "Taihang Academy". It is built with bricks, stones and mud tiles. There are fifteen large classrooms and offices, and twenty student dormitories.

The school was built without spending a penny from Zhang Qingfeng. The building materials are everywhere in the mountains. Hundreds of people helped to build the school. Zhang Qingfeng didn't have to pay a penny of his wages. What's more, the food was provided by the parents themselves. with.

One month later, everything was on the right track. Zhang Qingfeng spread the knowledge he brought from more than 800 years later to this era, and he didn't know what changes and influences it would bring to this era.

Just when Zhang Qingfeng was sowing the seeds of cultural knowledge in the depths of the mountains, Luping County was bustling with excitement.

On the official roads from Luping County to the surrounding counties, you can see horse-drawn carts or ox carts full of goods passing by from time to time.

In addition to chariots and horses, there are more porters, and there are endless official roads.

In addition to porters, occasionally some boats can be seen transporting goods on the Chaohe River.

It is undoubtedly faster and cheaper to transport goods by ship, but in this society, not everyone can own a ship, and most people still can only earn a living by carrying it on their shoulders.

In this war-torn era, labor is the least valuable.

A porter who carries hundreds of catties of goods to a place dozens of miles away can only earn sixty or seventy Wen for one trip a day.

Luping's soybean oil is cheap and delicious, and the wholesale price is only 23 yuan per catty. After the reputation spread around, countless grain and oil merchants came to buy immediately.

At first it was soybean oil, and not long after that, a kind of exquisite porcelain appeared in Luping, and this kind of porcelain was not expensive. A bowl only cost [-] yuan, a plate [-] yuan, and bottles like porcelain only cost [-] yuan. money.

As soon as such porcelain was on the market, it was immediately snapped up by rich people.

Some merchants purchased porcelain for thirty or fifty renminbi, and after transporting it to Youzhou, they sold it for two to three hundred renminbi each.

Containers like porcelain vases have been fired up to five hundred yuan, which is simply huge profits.

Now, as soon as the rough porcelain comes out of the oven, it will be snapped up by merchants from all over the world.

Outskirts of Luping County.

Li Bai took several juniors to the steelmaking workshop they ran.

Here, several steelmaking furnaces have been built.

In order to run this workshop, they hired hundreds of workers, built houses and furnaces, bought coal for coking, and bought pig iron and wrought iron. They spent no less than 30 yuan, most of the money they earned from soybean oil this year.

Today is the day when the steelmaking workshop is officially opened.

"How about it, can we produce good steel this time?" Li Bai asked Yang Shen, who was in charge of steelmaking.

Like the leader of the inspection, he went through the entire workshop, and there were people making various introductions beside him.

"It's definitely possible. This time we have figured out the best ratio, and the molten steel produced must be better than last time." Yang Shen said with certainty.

"Then turn on the furnace and have a look," Li Bai said.

"I'll let someone turn on the stove." Yang Shen nodded.

Following Yang Shen's instructions, soon, with the cooperation of several workers, the exit at the bottom of the steelmaking furnace was opened.

Immediately, the dazzling incandescent molten steel flowed out from the bottom of the steelmaking furnace, and flowed along a ditch into the prepared molds of various shapes.

Then, while a group of people waited, the molten steel was slowly cooled into steel ingots.

"Try these pieces of steel into knives and see how it works." Li Bai ordered several blacksmiths to say

"Good."

After hearing Li Bai's instructions, several blacksmith masters quickly agreed, then picked up a few solid steel ingots and started to make them.

After repeated heating and forging, in less than half an hour, several steel knives were formed.

In the end, several blacksmiths quenched the steel knives in water, and then some craftsmen put handles on these steel knives. Afterwards, they only need to polish the front, and then they are considered finished products.

"Let me try the power of this knife."

Li Bai asked someone to find an iron plate. He took an unpolished steel knife from a craftsman, raised it above his head, and slashed at the iron plate fiercely.

There was only a bang, and after the sound of gold and iron, everyone came forward to watch curiously.

I saw that the sharp corner of the iron plate had been cut into a half-finger-deep gap by the steel knife.

Afterwards, everyone looked at the steel knife in Li Bai's hand, which was intact.

"There is no shortage, great, good steel has finally been smelted." Yang Shen, who was in charge of the steelmaking workshop, almost jumped up happily.

Later, everyone tested several other steel knives, and also changed a few strong people to use the knives to chop the iron plate.

The result of chopping was that the iron plate was cut with countless gaps, but the steel knife was intact.

"Hurry up, try to sharpen these knives." Yang Shen ordered several craftsmen to say.

Under Yang Shen's order, several workers began to sharpen the steel knives.

Everyone used the method of grinding stones by hand, and it took an hour for the craftsmen to grind out the steel knife.

"Get some logs."

Soon, someone found wood.

Yang Shen ordered a piece of wood the thickness of a thigh to be put away, raised the knife to unload it, and when he heard a bang, the steel knife cut in half.

Pulling out the knife, he turned the wood over with his foot, and Yang Shen chopped again.

There was another bang, and the wood was split directly by the heavy steel knife. This is wood with thick legs.

After the two knives cut through the wood, everyone looked at the knives again, and the blades were still as sharp as before.

"Good knife, really good knife."

Seeing such a situation, everyone was amazed.

And the yamen servants who followed Li Bai as a few Cao soldiers looked at the steel knife with bright eyes.

They are all soldiers under Cao Cao. They have followed Cao Cao all the way to the north and south in these years. They have seen countless weapons, but they have never seen such sharp and strong weapons.

Perhaps the Hundred Steelmaking of this era can achieve this effect, but the price of Hundred Steelmaking is too expensive, and only a few people can afford it.

"Yang Shen, you can chop this iron plate with a knife again." At this time, Li Bai said to Yang Shen.

(End of this chapter)