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In modern times, Yan Kai was lucky enough to visit a gold smelting factory abroad.

But I only glanced at it from a distance through the glass.

The scale and speed are simply too fast.

Even the factory director joked that if their factory only took on the job of smelting gold, everyone in the factory would probably starve to death.

In the Tang Dynasty, of course, there were no modern equipment.

All of these are made just now.

And the person who guided the craftsmen to build this alchemy workshop... was actually Sun Simiao.

It's okay to think about it. Alchemy and other things were originally developed by these Taoist people.

Sun Simiao really studied this very deeply.

The first is a big water basin.

In fact, a large hammer is connected to the waterwheel through a connecting rod device.

This thing was invented in the Han Dynasty.

The main function is to beat anything that needs to be beaten.

Such as grains, medicines, spices, pulp, bamboo strips and ores.

The current Kuoding County craftsmen were inspired by Yan Kai.

It can be said that the water power and wind power have been brought to full play.

Wherever force is needed, they first think of water and wind power, then animal power, and finally human power.

Various connecting rod devices are produced on a large scale and used in various places.

This set of water dams is more than just a water dam device.

They directly created the water mill in Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu".

It is a direct combination of water hammer and millstone, both of which are driven by water power.

The gold ore that was pulled back was placed under the sledgehammer, and was hammered into small pieces.

Then these small pieces will be automatically driven into a dustpan.

Then through the small hole at one end of the dustpan, the small enough ones are screened out, and they fall into the opening of the stone grinder and are ground into powder.

Stones that are not small enough will be sent back to the previous step and continue to be beaten with a water hammer until they can enter the stone mill through the small holes.

Just this technology, which is almost close to automation, shows how developed Kuoding County is now.

These powders will start to wash out.

The non-mineral part is removed, leaving the concentrate powder containing more gold and silver.

Then comes the third step, dough making and sintering.

Make these concentrate powder and rice into balls, stack them with charcoal in layers and start burning.

This step can remove the sulfur from the sulfide.

The burned ore briquettes are mixed with lead and smelted, and undergo a displacement reaction to form gold-containing lead lumps.

The last step is the soot blowing method that many people have heard of.

The gold-containing lead is smelted on plant ashes, and oxygen is blown in to remove the lead from the lead.

Then blow away the grass ash, and you can harvest high-purity gold.

The steps are only five simple steps, but the operation is not that simple.

And it takes a long time, so Yan Kai can only live broadcast to netizens step by step.

The broadcast was going on here, and suddenly I heard someone shouting and starting a fight.

Yan Kai had never seen anyone fighting in Kuoding County, so he hurried over.

It turned out that both parties were master craftsmen in the workshop, one with the surname Chen and the other with the surname Ma.

A tearful child stood beside them.

"What's wrong, is this?" Yan Kai went over and asked.

Judging from the looks of the two of them, they didn't seem to be doing well.

After asking the people next to me carefully, I realized that it was not actually a fight.

It's just that Master Chen has fallen in love with a child, not that kind of thing, don't get it wrong.

The child's surname is Liu, and he has been handy since he was a child.

The father of the family works as a laborer here and earns money by selling his labor, so he also comes here to make money.

Then somehow Master Chen discovered that this kid had a talent for carpentry.

In ancient times, it was difficult for ordinary people to become apprentices and learn skills. In fact, it was not that easy for these craftsmen to recruit apprentices.

In their view, both understanding and talent are very important.

This child named Liu is very savvy and talented.

So Master Chen started thinking about taking on a disciple.

Unexpectedly, I have just tested this child for a few days and haven't made a move yet.

Someone cut me off.

It was Master Ma who was fighting with him.

Master Ma directly found the child's father and expressed his willingness to accept a disciple.

Don't read the books that say craftsmen have low status, blah blah blah.

But if a senior worker like Master Ma really wanted to take on an apprentice, ordinary people would be willing to do so.

This means that the younger generation has a certain skill.

You can have food wherever you go and won't starve to death.

So the child's father agreed.

Master Chen is quitting his job now. The good seedling he discovered has been put to the test here.

As a result, you ended up cutting off the mess?

The two people immediately found the child and started pulling him.

This child is only six or seven years old. No matter how early he becomes sensible, he is still confused at this time.

In addition, the two masters have loud voices, so asking him who he wants to follow is just a stupid question for a child.

Then I don’t know who pulled the child first. Anyway, they both felt that the other person was going to pull the child away, so they started pulling the child later.

Now that they see Yan Kai coming, both of them want to ask Yan Kai to comment.

How do you evaluate this?

Master Chen said that he discovered the child's talent first, but Master Ma said that he had also discovered it long ago.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have thought of taking on a disciple, and he had really given guidance to this child.

If I ask this kid who found him first, it was a few months ago.

And it is estimated that the two masters really found them at about the same time, and the child couldn't tell them apart.

This is a confusing case.

It is Chen who says that Chen is right, and the horse who says that Ma is right.

Both of them looked at Yan Kai.

Of course Yan Kai is familiar with the two masters, both of whom are top masters of carpentry.

Everyone has their own unique skills, but if you want him to be the master of Qingtian, how can he do it?

He thought about it with a grimace and said, "How about you two teach together?"

He actually thought it was best this way.

In ancient times, the inheritance of craftsmanship from master to apprentice had both advantages and disadvantages.

But Yan Kai feels that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, because no matter how beneficial you are, if it is lost in the end, wouldn’t it be all in vain?

Not to mention many craftsmanships that have been passed down to modern times, even in the Song Dynasty hundreds of years later, some of the Tang Dynasty craftsmanship were lost.

"no!"

"Why?"

"Why should I teach the disciples I chose together?"

"What do you mean by the disciple you chose?"

The two of them objected at the same time, and then seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Yan Kai quickly stopped.

He scratched his head and thought of a countermeasure.

The crux of the problem is that both masters have to accept apprentices, but there is only one talented child.

Yan Kai looked at the child and his father and asked, "Who do you want to learn crafts from?"

The two masters looked at the father and son with hope. Unexpectedly, the child's father rubbed his trousers with his hands nervously, then looked at Yan Kai and said: "Xiaoyan County Magistrate, who do you want to learn from? I’ll let my kid learn from me!”

Well, in the past, it was the officials who kicked the ball, but now it is the common people who are kicking the ball.