Infrastructure Throne

The news of the establishment of the production and construction team by the officiant was spreading in Yuanliu City. There was even a story about eating eggs for lunch every day.

The civilians who came here to look for a job were crowded shoulder to shoulder, and the long queue lined up at the gate of the main office of the city lord's mansion could almost circle the square three times.

Jin Dae had never seen such a fiery scene of impatient work.

He alone has to be in charge of recruitment registration, deal with the [-] whys of those applicants, and the managers of the two groups of production and construction to select and hire workers, and he has to accompany Shen Qingze for him to send, the whole person is busy like a top, even Brothers Bronze, Two and Silver were also called to help.

The three brothers are busy all day without touching the ground. They have lived for more than 20 years, and they have spent most of their time doing nothing and muddling along.

Occasionally, I couldn't help complaining to Shen Qingze about the lack of hard work, but looking at the newly built water reel, the waterwheel running day and night, and the ironworks that are being planned and constructed in full swing, I enjoy the respectful words of the commoners. "Director Jin", Jin Daqing couldn't help feeling an inexplicable sense of pride and satisfaction.

When they returned home on a holiday, the nearby villagers looked at them, no longer looking at them with disgust and fear from hooligans, but full of envy and flattery, and took the initiative to greet the three of them.

The three brothers were proud of their spring breeze, and they even walked vigorously.

Jin Da visited his grandmother with the old hen he bought with his salary. Looking at his grandmother with gray hair and loose teeth, he sipped the mellow chicken soup.

She looked relaxed, with a smile on her face, no longer worried all day long, holding their hands and saying repeatedly, good boy, drink more, drink more.

Jin Da, a tall and thick man, had a sore nose and almost burst into tears.

It's good, it's a good day like this.he thinks.

After all, he was a big man, Jin Da wiped his face, quickly cleared up the sudden emotion, and bid farewell to his grandmother. In the afternoon, he would accompany the chief priest to the breeding team of the production team for inspection.

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Due to the large number of people, Shen Qingze divided the production and construction team into four groups. The production team has the farming group, the breeding group, and the construction team has the research and development group and the construction group. In order to manage affairs, the division of work and remuneration are more and more refined.

The most important thing is that even the most junior apprentices, as long as they do a good job, they have the opportunity to be promoted and earn money.

Shen Qingze put all the farmers who were not needed by the farming group into the breeding group, and sent people to use wood, thatch and mud bricks to roughly build a breeding farm on the wasteland on the outskirts of the city.

He has no money at hand, so the building is very rough. When the funds are sufficient in the future, he will rebuild a larger and more beautiful one.

Those farmers thought they were just raising chickens, ducks and fish for the enjoyment of noble officials in the city.

Unexpectedly, the farm was divided into several areas with wooden partitions, and hundreds of chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs were raised respectively, and a fish pond was even specially repaired to draw running water from the canal to raise some small animals. Fish, shrimp, and crab.

In addition, you have to raise earthworms!

When they first heard that earthworms were going to be raised, the farmers held back their smiles and tried to persuade the officiant, whose ten fingers do not touch the spring water, that earthworms do not need to be specially raised, as they are everywhere in the mud after the rain. , Dig casually, not to mention, what's the use of raising earthworms?

Could it be that those aristocrats still have a habit of eating earthworms?

"These earthworms are not sold for food." Shen Qingze shook his head, and patiently explained to the farmers in the breeding group, "Earthworms are a very cheap and cost-effective feed, specially used to feed poultry, livestock, fish and shrimp .”

The farmers looked at each other in blank dismay. Who hasn't raised chickens or ducks?But I've never seen one that catches earthworms for feeding.

In the small-scale peasant economy, farmers usually raise some poultry free-range, mainly to meet their own family needs first, and occasionally sell more poultry in the market to subsidize the family.

The feed used for feeding is leftover rice bran and wheat bran, at most occasionally digging earthworms to supplement.Neither can the scale be raised, nor do they know what scientific farming is, and the cost is still high.

The farm opened up a small earthworm field, and Shen Qingze brought Jin Da and Fan Mizhou straight to the farm as soon as they entered the farm.

I don't know if Fan Mizhou, the "office director", is too idle, or because of Yan Zui's instruction, these days, he follows Shen Qingze almost every day, and occasionally sees logistics officer Teng Changqing and finance and tax officer Luo Xin.

Teng Changqing didn't show up today, it was Luo Xin who came.As soon as he heard that he was going to visit the breeding farm, the chief officer who always strangled his fat body into a lifebuoy followed him in a hurry.

Fan Mizhou was not surprised to see him at all, the entire City Lord's Mansion knew that this guy was a foodie who loved meat.

"Master officiant, Chief Fan." Luo Xin took off his top hat and bowed to them with a smile on his face. With the movement of bending over, the belt was deeply embedded in the flesh, and the fat accumulated in the lower abdomen became more and more obvious, and the sides of the hem of the clothes lifted up , The pants are almost torn.

"I heard that the Lord Priest brought over a hundred poultry." Luo Xin trotted along beside Shen Qingze who was walking calmly, rubbing his two fat hands, "I have a question, there seems to be no one in the city. I heard that someone sold so much in one go?"

Shen Qingze's footsteps were unhurried, stroking the duck's soft fur with one hand, and said without changing expression: "It fell from the sky."

"Hahaha, your lord is really humorous." Luo Xin laughed twice in a very cooperative manner.

Shen Qingze pursed her lips, and said again: "I sent people to every village to collect them from house to house."

Luo Xin suddenly realized: "So it is."

No wonder.Shen Qingze thought that the small treasury was cheated out of a large amount by the system store again, and his heart ached like a knife.

The only thing that can comfort him is that the poultry fish and shrimp cubs sold in the system store are all high-quality varieties after breeding, with fresh and tender meat, big and fast growth, and rich nutrition.

Ordinary poultry raised by farmers can't compare with it in terms of taste or other aspects.

When they came to the earthworm field, the steward of the breeding team immediately gave them some masks - the style of the masks was also made by Professor Shen Qingze.

At first, Fan Mizhou and Luo Xin were somewhat resistant to this thing, and they always felt that it was airtight. It was not until they set foot on the earthworm field that they finally understood the value of the mask.

Smelly!It stinks!

Even with a mask on, he still couldn't resist the pungent stench blowing on his face.

Luo Xin almost suspected that the soft and sticky black mud under his feet was not mud, but a cesspit. Fan Mizhou had always been very heavy-handed, and when he saw something was wrong, he didn't step in at all. He just stood outside, frowning and far away. wait and see.

As for those farmers who are responsible for raising earthworms, they have long been used to it.

Luo Xin pinched his nose: "What is buried in this field? It smells so bad?"

The steward of the breeding group nodded and bowed, with a somewhat proud tone to ask for credit to the chief priest: "I have retting the poultry manure collected in the farm according to the adults' instructions, spread them evenly on the ground, and covered them with straw and soil. , laying several layers in the same way.”

A farmer wearing a mask came up and said, "The officiant's method is really effective. There are a lot of earthworms these days."

As he said that, he bent down, grabbed a handful of soil through his rough mitts, and wriggled around in it, he could see many thick and long earthworms with red and black.

This wriggling mollusk has a strong visual impact, and Luo Xin was shocked, thinking that there might be all these things under his feet.

His face turned pale for a while, and he quickly retreated outside the earthworm field, panting heavily, and hid behind Fan Mizhou.

"God, why does the priest raise these disgusting bugs?"

Fan Mizhou wiped his spotless fingers repeatedly with a square handkerchief, and said slowly:

"My lord said that it is feed, it can be used for large-scale breeding, it has many uses, and it is cheap. It can be eaten by chickens, ducks, fish and pigs, and eggs... yes, rich in protein, livestock grow quickly after eating them, and the excrement of livestock is also This in turn is used for vermiculture."

When it came to the word excrement, Fan Mizhou frowned: "Master the priest said this is called...recycling and recycling."

"Cycle...what is it?" Luo Xin was a little dazed.

"Recyclable and recyclable." Fan Mizhou repeated, remembering Shen Qingze's words, and concluded, "In short, it is cheap and big bowls that don't go to waste."

"Oh!" Luo Xin suddenly realized, "I understand this truth! But with so many livestock, can adults eat it all?"

"It's not for eating by yourself." Shen Qingze walked back slowly along the path next to the earthworm field.

He took off the mask and led the few people who were fed up with the smell to go out, saying as he walked: "All the poultry and livestock that come out of this farm are used to sell money, and because of the low cost, the price will be higher than that of the market. It is more than [-]% cheaper in the market.”

"If it is sold in large quantities to neighboring cities, the larger the order, the cheaper it will be."

Fan Mizhou didn't know the art of breeding goods very well. Luo Xin usually dealt with money and wealth. Hearing this, he immediately fell into deep thought. After a while, his expression changed slightly: "You... this is to take care of the nearby small farmers who rely on selling chickens and ducks. , are all crushed!"

The products from the farms are cheap and delicious, but if the output can meet the market demand, who would buy poultry from retail investors?

Shen Qingze's expression was calm, and the corners of his slightly curled lips showed a kind of cruel kindness: "It doesn't matter if it is crushed, the ironworks we are about to build needs a lot of labor, and they will find that working in the ironworks will be more labor-intensive than working at home. Raising chickens makes more money."

"As long as you are willing to work, unemployment is impossible. People in Yuanliu City will only get better and better in the future. Just wait and see."

"But you don't have to be too sensitive. The population of our Yuanliu City is not too large, and the market demand is not very big. In the future, besides supplying the local market, most of the products from the farm will be sold to Mingzhu City. Squeeze them first."

With the amount of information contained in the words, even Fan Mizhou felt an unspeakable chill running up his spine.

At that time, neither he nor Luo Xin understood what socialized large-scale production meant to the small peasant economy.

Although this small breeding farm is just a prototype, far from being able to shake its foundation, but from Shen Qingze's prophecy, there are some ferocious fangs faintly revealed.

It makes these old-school nobles shudder.

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After the ironworks was officially completed and put into use, apart from Fan Mizhou, who was unshakable, all the powerful officials in Yuanliu City came to visit.

Since the new chief priest took office, the commotion in the city has become bigger and bigger every day. Everyone wants to see what the ironworks that Shen Qingze puts high hopes on looks like.

The site of the iron factory was chosen on the bank of a fast-flowing river in the lower reaches of the Chiyuan River, not far from the mine, which was convenient for the transportation of raw ore.

The entire factory building is built with red bricks of the same size, and the gray adhesive in the middle is tamped with lime, clay and fine sand water slurry.

The entrance of the factory building and the compound are neither the common stone bricks in the city, nor the yellow mud in the countryside, but a solid gray, dense and smooth, extending all the way to the road.

This is Shen Qingze's order to grind the surface with limestone and clay, and after calcining, grind it together with the slag left over from ironmaking. The clay cement made by firing is simple and cheap. Good deal.

Everyone felt that the ground was hard and smooth when they stepped on it, and the wheels rolled over without any bumps, and the sound was not even too loud.

Under the leadership of the construction team manager, Shen Qingze and his party entered the core blast furnace area.

Rows of neatly arranged iron-making shaft furnaces stand here like soldiers waiting for inspection. Each shaft furnace is built with red heat-resistant bricks, and there is a large blast chamber behind it. Hydraulic even machine blower.

Everyone saw giant wooden frames standing on the turbulent river, and each wooden frame was equipped with a large lying wheel at the upper and lower ends, which were connected by rotating shafts, like a side-lying carriage wheel lying in the water.

The horizontal wheels in the water are surrounded by inclined blades, similar to a simple version of a wooden turbine. In the continuous flow of water, the upper and lower horizontal wheels rotate continuously. Under the traction of the leather transmission string, the connecting rod is driven to continuously open and close the air outlet instead of manpower. , can continuously supply air to the air chamber.

In front of each shaft furnace, there is a worker in short sackcloth shoveling coal into the furnace.

With the rumbling rotation of the blower, a steady stream of golden-red molten pig iron flows from the tap nozzle below the shaft furnace to the square pond. After workers sprinkle iron ore powder and stir it back and forth with an iron pestle, it turns into wrought iron and finally puts it in the mold. Cast into iron ingots.

The heat wave pushed the room temperature extremely high, and the workers were sweating profusely. Some were responsible for pulling coal, and some were responsible for shoveling slag. Each process was divided into meticulous and orderly.

In just a short time for everyone to visit, the dozen or so small blast furnaces have smelted half a load of iron ingots. After cooling, they are stacked one by one, and the cold light of gold and iron is shining in the bright sunlight.

In addition to the hydraulic blower, there is also a hydraulic forging hammer modified with a water pestle.

The huge iron hammer is connected by thick cross-bars. Under the flow of water, large pieces of iron plates and iron blocks are continuously hammered into shape. The forging hammer is big and hard. The force of the falling hammer is as heavy as a giant's foot. on the ground.

The roar of the water, the shouts of the workers, and the sound of falling hammers filled the room, and the formed crude steel and iron were continuously produced like flowing water, which greatly saved manpower.

These rotating machines are both cold and exude the vitality of working tirelessly day and night, as if there is a certain sense of regular beauty in them.

In front of the scene of steel smelting in full swing, from Fan Mizhou down, almost all the noble officials who came to visit fell into the tremor of the soul!

They stared dumbfounded at these unintelligible instruments and at the seemingly endless molten iron, speechless in a daze.

It's not that they haven't seen large-scale iron smelting. The mine at the foot of the mine has more workers than here, but almost all processes are completed by manpower. The efficiency of iron tapping is appallingly low, and the quality is also uneven.

If not, Yuanliu City would not have been selling raw ore outside.

Shen Qingze was also watching quietly, this place was his painstaking effort for many days, and he almost invested all the little money left in his treasury.

The first to break the silence was the logistics officer Teng Changqing, who stared closely at Shen Qingze with almost adoring eyes.

"Master Officiant! As long as the iron weapons produced here can be given priority to equip the guards, from now on, I will fight wherever you point! Let me go east, I will never go west!"

Xiao Meng, the captain of the guard who had been watching coldly and silently, couldn't help but stare at Shen Qingze at this moment.

Luo Xin came back to his senses, and couldn't help stomping on Teng Changqing's foot with his fat and short legs: "Stop flattering the adults! All the ironware here is going to be sold to Mingzhu City! You don't know that we all Don’t have money to buy food?”

Teng Changqing retorted confidently: "Our city defense is also much worse. Most soldiers still use wooden armor! Without them, who will protect the city!"

Fan Mizhou coughed lightly and said, "Actually, my idea is..."

Luo Xin and Teng Changqing exchanged eyebrows coldly and were about to fight. They both glared at Fan Mizhou and said in unison: "Shut up! You don't want to!"

Fan Mizhou: "..."

A group of people were arguing endlessly around Shen Qingze, only Yantie Guan Berg standing in the corner did not join in, his flickering eyes and tightly pursed mouth revealed the same horrified heart.

This officiant lord, which god came down to earth?

The author has something to say: Vine: Equip me and you are my father!

Luo: If you can make money, you are my father!

Shen: Guna!I'm not as bad as you guys!