My Daming New Empire

With a gauge of 1.4 meters in later generations, the width of the carriages was only three meters. Now, with a width of 1.6 meters, the width of the carriages can be designed to be more than [-] meters.

Zhu Zhanji said: "Let's design the carriage according to [-] meters. I want to be able to seat more people and load more goods. In addition..."

He looked at Jia Cong, the head of the Ministry of Industry who was in charge of the rail research, and said, "Although the train has not been fully designed, the construction of the railway tracks in Yingtianfu can start now. You can contact the Yingtianfu Renovation Department of the Ministry of Industry. According to the new According to the design of Tianfu, the railway track was laid.

When laying the rails, remember to reserve a total width of five to six meters on both sides.Protective measures must be set up along the way to prevent ignorant children from being hit by cars. "

With the current technical means, it is of course possible to build a viaduct, but it is too expensive and meaningless.

As long as some simple protection is carried out on both sides of the rails, such as building a low wall on both sides that can block the wheels, it can be effectively protected.As for those brats who wanted to die by themselves, this was unavoidable at any time.

Zhu Zhanji wanted to use Yingtianfu's train operation to accumulate experience and prepare for future domestic railway construction.This rail train system is destined to be replaced by trams in the future.

After dealing with the affairs here, he was just about to go back when he met Sun Xian and Lan Yan coming hand in hand.

Lan Yan has been busy cultivating penicillin during this period, but because Zhu Zhanji did not allow her to go to the front line, the others had no experience for the first time, and until now, they have not been able to cultivate a large number of penicillin bacteria.

A little penicillin bacteria was produced, and within a few experiments, it was gone.

Looking at Lan Yan's haggard face, Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but said, "Don't worry about this matter, don't involve yourself in it just because of research."

Lan Yan hesitated to speak, but Sun Xian couldn't help but covered her mouth and laughed, and said softly: "Your Highness, Lan Liangdi's energy is not low, it's not because of the experiment, but just like the concubine, she is happy again."

Zhu Zhanji froze for a moment, the first thing he thought of was that she was pregnant, so many studies would stop.

However, he quickly adjusted his mood and said with a smile: "This is a good thing. From now on, you will only give theoretical guidance, and let others do their own research. My concubine is five months pregnant, why come to the farm today?"

"His Royal Highness handed over the pinyin to the concubine, and now it has basically been sorted out. Today, I came to listen to the comments of those barbarians. When I first arrived at the farm, I encountered Lan Liangdi fainting, so I escorted Lan Liangdi to His Highness first, and let the Your Highness, discipline her well, and don't hurt her fetus by doing things."

Ever since Zhu Zhanji told Sun Xian that Lan Yan was the reincarnation of Empress Doumu, Sun Xian was very polite to Lan Yan and rarely put on airs as a grandson concubine in front of her.

After seeing Lan Yan's current inscrutability with her own eyes, her attitude has changed drastically, and she can even be called kind to Lan Yan.

She knew very well that the stronger the mysterious aura on Lan Yan, the less threatening she would be, because the Crown Princess would not allow a sorceress to become the master of the harem and threaten her status.

Lan Yan also didn't have the intention of fighting in the palace, and focused all her attention on the outside of the palace, and her presence in the harem was even lower.

So, Sun Xian likes her very much now.A concubine Liang who is second only to her own status, and a backer like Princess Shu, will not become her threat, but only her arm, how could she not like it?

Zhu Zhanji glared at Lan Yan, which made her lower her head with a guilty conscience, and then said to Sun Xian: "After the concubine becomes familiar to those barbarian people, you can call for an interpreter, he is more proficient in these things."

Sun Xian nodded and smiled, "You don't have to worry about it. The two sons of the Xie family are in Qiuwei now, and they will come to help me after they finish their exams."

From the very beginning of Arabic numerals, to punctuation marks, and foreign arithmetic, Xie Jin was promoting them.Xie Zhenqi and Xie Zhenliang are more receptive to new knowledge.

So when Sun Xian said that he had made arrangements, he stopped worrying about this matter.

After getting into the carriage with Lan Yan, Lan Yan curled up in Zhu Zhanji's arms coquettishly. "I didn't know that I was pregnant, and today's accident happened. Don't blame those servants and maids."

Zhu Zhanji reached out and slapped her gently on the buttocks, and said, "If you weren't pregnant, I would have to teach you a lesson. In this era, only the reproduction of offspring is the biggest thing. If you move your baby because of research Angry, if my concubine punishes you, I won't even be able to say anything."

"Understood." Lan Yan raised her small face in his arms and said, "I want a son, and you will train him to be as strong as you in the future."

"Most definitely!"

Before the carriage entered the city, there was a noise, Zhu Zhanji opened the curtain, and saw two soldiers from the Habayashi Guard say something to Liu Wan, Liu Wan ran over quickly.

"Your Highness, something happened in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone. There was an explosion in the steel plant, killing and injuring dozens of people."

For a moment, Zhu Zhanji thought he heard it wrong. In his impression, there was a high possibility of an accident in the steel plant, but the explosion... Is there something that exploded there?

"What exploded?"

Liu Wan didn't know either, so he could only wave to the two soldiers who reported the news. After asking, he found out that the heating room exploded.

Zhu Zhanji looked at the time and ordered: "Let the internal supervisor and the person in charge of the Ministry of Industry rescue the wounded in time, and send people from the hospital there. I will listen to their report on the situation tomorrow."

Chapter 97 excited

Accidents in steel mills are a common occurrence even in later generations.

Large-scale equipment, high-temperature environment, molten iron over 1000 degrees, any negligence in any aspect may cause major accidents.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji didn't take this matter to heart. If it wasn't for the fact that this steel factory was a model factory of the internal supervisor, which was specially designed to refine pure steel and supply military factories, this matter would not have been reported to him at all. before.

The next morning, after the morning court, Zhu Zhanji had breakfast, and immediately met Huang Sheng, the eunuch in charge of the internal supervisor, and Liu Shang, the head of the steel plant.

The cause of the explosion has not yet been ascertained, but nearly 20 people were killed, more than ten were injured, and most of a smelting workshop was destroyed.

However, when Zhu Zhanji knew that there was a large amount of ferrosilicon powder stored in the workshop, he thought of a dust explosion.

Ferrosilicon is an iron-silicon alloy made by smelting coke, steel shavings, and quartz (or silica) as raw materials.Since silicon and oxygen are easily combined into silicon dioxide, ferrosilicon is often used as a deoxidizer in steelmaking. At the same time, due to the large amount of heat released during the formation, it is also beneficial to increase the temperature of molten steel during deoxidation.

At the same time, ferrosilicon can also be used as an alloying element additive, widely used in low-alloy structural steel, spring steel, bearing steel, heat-resistant steel and electrical silicon steel.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have a detailed understanding of the chemical function of ferrosilicon powder in this era, it definitely lacked application skills. Ferrosilicon powder was added to molten steel to make steel, which had already begun to be used as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty.

After learning about the situation, Zhu Zhanji called Lan Yan, educated them about the reasons for the explosion of ferrosilicon powder, and asked them not to store ferrosilicon powder directly next to the blast furnace in the future.

At the same time, he asked the internal supervisor and the Ministry of Industry to strictly investigate the safety precautions of various workshops to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.

As for the pension, the steel mill has huge profits, so it doesn't care about a little compensation.

Ordinary people in this era will not ask for prices, and regard life and death more as their own fate.

However, Zhu Zhanji still gave instructions that in the Jiajiang Industrial Zone controlled by the imperial court in the future, all workshops will receive a pension of no less than 120 taels of silver.

120 taels of silver is not a small sum, and most common people cannot save ten taels of silver in a year.

After sending them away, Lan Yan was still thinking about it, and finally said with a sigh: "My major is not in this field, otherwise, I can write a book on various chemistry popularization to strengthen the safety precautions of the factory."

Liu Wan next to him was a little puzzled when he heard Lan Yan's words, but he didn't dare to show it.

He only left the palace for half a year, and now Lan Yan's position in Zhu Zhanji's mind suddenly became extremely important.

With Jin Kuo and Sun Lin around, he knew very well what happened these days, and also knew the reincarnation identity of Empress Lan Yandoumu.

But now, what does this profession refer to?

Zhu Zhanji doesn't care about these, because a person's ability is limited, and it is impossible to know everything.

The biggest role of Lan Yan is that she can popularize the medical and chemical research foundation of Ming Dynasty, and lead the direction of development.

If she is really asked to do research, how much can she do by herself?

Just like Zhu Zhanji, his role is to adjust Ming Dynasty to go on the correct development path, instead of leading the army to fight or doing technical research.

"Chemistry Basics Series, how much have you written?"