Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 336
Afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng stayed in Yikun Palace to heal his injuries. According to the imperial physician, according to his injury, it would take at least a year and a half.

Therefore, Zhang Qingfeng temporarily handed over the management of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau to the Admiral Eunuch of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

Zhang Qingfeng single-handedly promoted the eunuch of the Admiral Machine Manufacturing Bureau, so Zhang Qingfeng was quite at ease.

After this incident, Concubine Zheng's attitude towards Zhang Qingfeng improved a lot, and she regarded Zhang Qingfeng as her true confidant.

A person who is willing to commit suicide for you. If such a person is unreliable, who is reliable?

The dozen or so eunuchs and maids of Jingyang Palace were also released after Emperor Wanli spoke.

Concubine Zheng has no way to arrange her people to go to Jingyang Palace for the time being, but after this incident, Concubine Gong's life may not be as easy as before.

When Zhang Qingfeng was recovering from illness, Fu Wang Zhu Changxun also visited him several times to show his respect for Zhang Qingfeng.

Zhang Qingfeng belonged to Concubine Zheng, and was valued by Emperor Wanli, and Concubine Zheng wanted her son Zhu Changxun to become the crown prince, and Zhu Changxun knew it well, so Zhang Qingfeng was injured now, and Zhu Changxun's visit and care also won people's hearts.

While Zhang Qingfeng was staying in Yikun Palace to recuperate due to his serious injuries, someone from the outside world once again concocted rumors about attacking Concubine Zheng.

Rumors said that Concubine Zheng almost killed Ming Yitian, but fortunately Emperor Wanli rescued him in time, otherwise Daming Yitian would have died.

For such a message, Concubine Zheng was angry and anxious, but there was nothing she could do.

Since the country-ben dispute, the rumors attacking her from the outside world have never stopped.

But this time the rumours were powerful.

First of all, Zhang Qingfeng was the first genius of the Ming Dynasty, which was recognized by all the ruling and opposition parties, so the first genius of the Ming Dynasty almost died, which aroused heated discussions among many people.

Through this rumor, Zheng Guifei's image among the people has become a vicious woman.

Emperor Wanli ordered to track down the spreaders of the rumors, and in the end, only a few maids of Yikun Palace were killed.

He recuperated in Yikun Palace for a month, and after Zhang Qingfeng's injury improved, he left the palace and returned to recuperate outside the palace.

Perhaps in order to compensate Zhang Qingfeng, Emperor Wanli gave him a mansion outside the palace, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres.

Moreover, she was rewarded with a group of court ladies serving him as maidservants.

In addition to the reward from Emperor Wanli, Concubine Zheng gave Zhang Qingfeng two royal cooks to take care of his diet, and also helped him buy a lot of new furniture and other supplies.

During his recuperation period, Zhang Qingfeng did not give up the management of the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau. At this time, Zhang Qingfeng was the backbone of the Machine Manufacturing Bureau, and it would have been impossible without him.

So he could only lie on the hospital bed, listen to the reports of his eunuchs, and then make some instructions.

After leaving the palace, Zhang Qingfeng used the system to speed up the treatment of his injuries, and soon he could sit and write.

He can't run around in the field now, or he will be worn out, so he is going to stay at home to sort out the next development plan.

First of all, Zhang Qingfeng set his sights on iron ore smelting.

Iron and steel has always been the food of industry. If you want to develop industry, you can't do without food.

Moreover, with the rapid development of the Machine Manufacturing Bureau, more and more steel is needed.

Under such circumstances, the cost of continuing to buy steel at high prices is too high.

Therefore, Zhang Qingfeng plans to set up a steelmaking plant near the capital to meet the needs of industrial development in the north.

The western suburbs of the capital are rich in coal resources, and there is a large iron mine in the north, Miyun Iron Mine, which is a good place to set up a steel factory.

Therefore, although he was recuperating from his illness, Zhang Qingfeng still submitted a proposal to Emperor Wanli to set up a steel factory.

In the plan, Zhang Qingfeng decided to invest 500 million silver to build a steelmaking plant outside the capital near the Tonghui River.

Use Chaobai River and Tonghui River to transport iron ore from Miyun.

As for coal, Zhang Qingfeng doesn't have to worry at all, because there are many coal mines mined by the imperial court in the western suburbs of the capital. At that time, Zhang Qingfeng only needs to ask Emperor Wanli how much he wants, and then increase the amount of mining.

Zhang Qingfeng predicts that if enough manpower is invested, the steelmaking plant can be completed within two years, and by then, it is expected to be able to produce 2000 million jin of iron per month.

When Emperor Wanli saw Zhang Qingfeng's plan, he didn't speak for a long time.

Five million taels of silver is not a small amount.

In addition, the annual output of iron is 2000 million catties. This figure frightened Wanli. He didn't believe what Zhang Qingfeng said at all.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, the combined steel output of the whole country is only tens of millions of catties.

The most important thing is, even if Zhang Qingfeng builds a steel factory with an annual output of 2000 million jin of steel, who will sell so much iron after smelting?

You know, sometimes because there is too much steel on the market, the imperial court has to close some government-run ironmaking workshops after the backlog of too much steel inventory.

In the end, Emperor Wanli rejected Zhang Qingfeng's plan to invest 500 million taels of silver in a steelmaking plant because the number was too large.

However, Emperor Wanli still agreed to Zhang Qingfeng's request to set up a steel factory, but Emperor Wanli only agreed to invest 200 million taels of silver, divided into two years, and the money could only be deducted from the Machinery Manufacturing Bureau.

In the end, he put a government-run iron mine in Miyun District and two government-run coal mines in the western suburbs of the capital under the management of Zhang Qingfeng's Manufacturing Bureau.

At the same time, he also arranged for Zhang Qingfeng to have more than a dozen canal ships so that he could use them to transport iron ore.

Zhang Qingfeng was not at all annoyed at the approval of only 200 million taels of silver. He and Emperor Wanli reported 500 million taels, but he was just asking for a lot of money to pay back the money.

After obtaining the approval of Emperor Wanli, Zhang Qingfeng began to organize people to go to the west of Beijing and Miyun to receive coal and iron mines.

Then, he ordered the men who received the mine to mine a large amount of iron ore and coal, and then transport them to the vicinity of the steel factory to reserve raw materials for the steel factory to make steel in the future.

At the same time, the buildings of the steelmaking plant also need to be built according to his design requirements.

Near the steelworks, coal washing plants, coking plants, and briquette manufacturing plants will also be built.

A few months after Zhang Qingfeng recuperated at home, the coal washing plant and coking plant were first built.

The coal in the western suburbs is first sent to the coal washing plant for processing, and then sent to the coking plant for coking.

Coal washing plants, also known as coal preparation plants, are mainly used to select high-quality coal for smelting into coking coal.

Coal with average quality is sent to a briquette manufacturing plant to be made into briquettes.

As the coal processing related factories started ahead of schedule, before the steel factory was built, a very popular commodity suddenly appeared in the capital, that is honeycomb coal.

Honeycomb coal was invented by a man named Guo Wende when New China was just founded.

After he promoted briquettes in Beijing, it quickly became popular across the country.

Before the briquette was invented, most people's homes were burning briquettes.

Compared with honeycomb briquettes, briquettes will burn insufficiently, and after burning for a period of time, it is necessary to shake off the outer layer of ash, which is very troublesome.

A family of six needs [-] catties to burn briquettes in January, but only [-] catties to burn briquettes, which can save one-third of the coal.

After the honeycomb coal factory produced the honeycomb coal in batches, Zhang Qingfeng asked people to start promoting this product in the capital.

Promoted together with briquettes, there are naturally briquettes stoves.

The price of honeycomb briquette is the same as that of coal on the market, and with the advantages of briquette briquette, once promoted, it immediately became popular in the capital.

For this reason, Zhang Qingfeng had to build a briquette stove manufacturing plant and hired hundreds of workers to meet the needs of the people in the capital for briquettes.

(End of this chapter)