Ancient promotion routine

In the tent, Ruifu, who had been by Zhang Yanjin's side all the time, looked at the huge tent and said, "Erlang, let's monopolize this tent, do you..."

Zhang Yanjin smiled and said: "If you don't want to sleep here, you can go out and find a place to nest for the night."

"Erlang, am I worried about you?" Ruifu hurriedly said, "Erlang, I'm following you, so naturally I will live wherever you live."

"Then you still talk so much nonsense? Let you live here and live here!" Zhang Yanjin lay down on the bed and sighed. After all, the high bed and soft pillows in their house are comfortable, and he will never come to such a place again. , This is completely different from the life of a rich and idle man he wants to live!

After resting for a while, Zhang Yanjin got up and went to the rear of the supply camp.

In the howling autumn wind, those few veterans were leaning against the dilapidated wall, nestled on the thatch, with their hands in their ragged sleeves, their faces pale with cold.

"Erlang, are they violating the military law?" Although Ruifu and Lu Tiejiang's two apprentices, Wang Jiu and Wang Shi, are servants of Ningguo's mansion, Zhang Zhongqian has always treated people generously, and the servants live in a very comfortable place. I have never seen people sleeping on thatched grass, but this time I saw these veterans' dwellings with air leaks everywhere, and I couldn't accept it.

While speaking, those veterans opened their eyes tremblingly.The autumn wind is getting colder and colder day by day, and the temperature is getting lower and lower. In order to keep warm, they can only stick together to keep warm.

"Recorder?" A few veterans looked at Zhang Yanjin, who was wearing a black cape and a black and green gown, with a serious face, and thought they had misread it.

After seeing clearly that it was indeed Zhang Yanjin, they all hurriedly got up and wanted to salute Zhang Yanjin, but they were already old, and they had maintained the same posture for too long, so they couldn't stand up, and they all fell crookedly to the ground .

Zhang Yanjin stepped forward to support one of the veterans, Ruifu and the others saw this, and also helped the veterans one after another, the veterans hurriedly declined and tried their best to stand up straight.

"From today onwards, you all will follow me back to live in the camp!" Zhang Yanjin recalled that on the way just now, the supervisors had already begun to urge the soldiers to build a new camp. It is unreasonable to let these homeless veterans who have come down from the battlefield live in dilapidated wooden huts that are ventilated on all sides, even though the military supplies are sufficient!

"Ah?" All the veterans panicked, this was simply something they didn't dare to think about.

"Our Erlang said..." Ruifu talked fast for a while, and after feeling that he had said something wrong, he quickly changed his words: "The recorder has said it all, and the weather is getting colder. From today on, you will live in the tent with the recorder, and you don't need to live here. In the shed!"

The veterans' noses were sour, and their cloudy eyes were instantly wet.It's been so many years. They have been living in this military camp day after day. It's okay to say that in spring and summer, there are more mosquitoes in summer, but autumn is different from winter. They really work hard day by day Boil it.

Seeing that they are getting old, they all feel that they will not be able to survive the coming cold winter, but someone stands up and tells them that they can live in the tent. How can they not be moved?

"The recorder is really a good man!" The veterans knelt down to Zhang Yanjin in unison, and shouted: "Zhang Lushi is so kind and virtuous, I will never forget it!"

Where did Zhang Yanjin experience this posture?He hurriedly said: "Please hurry up, I'm just doing things according to the rules, you are also soldiers in the barracks, you shouldn't live in this kind of place."

Under Ruifu's arrangement, these elderly veterans all lived in the tents one after another.

After Zhang Yanjin inquired in detail, he found that among these veterans there were some experts who were good at iron making and carpentry.

Zhang Yanjin had just let the veterans move into the camp, and Zhou Qiye, who was in the camp, knew what had happened.

He listened to the supervisor's report and didn't care.He is very clear that Zhang Yanjin is winning people's hearts, but he doesn't think Zhang Yanjin can do anything if he wins over those old veterans. In his eyes, those veterans are just waste in the supply camp. Waiting for them to fend for themselves, so what if Zhang Yanjin wins over those veterans?

He has already started to write a note and is going to submit it to His Majesty. He just waits for His Majesty to punish Zhang Yanjin for wantonly injuring military horses. So what if Zhang Yanjin is arrogant for another two days?

After sending the overseer who came to report down, Zhou Qiye handed the written memorial to the postman beside him and said, "You go to the city while the curfew is under curfew, and pass the memorial into the palace for my father."

It was night, after the curfew, Zhang Yanjin's camp was still brightly lit.

Zhang Yanjin sat cross-legged on the hard couch casually. He really couldn't bear the fact that people in the Wei Dynasty had to kneel on the couch and sit up straight. Since he had the final say in this camp, he naturally came here as comfortable as possible. .

Seeing how casual he was, the others sat cross-legged on the hard couch comfortably.

"Tomorrow, you don't have to eat. Go and occupy the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner first. If someone stops you, I will let you occupy it." Zhang Yanjin directly ordered: "You don't have to worry about the food, I will take care of it myself." Let people bring it up."

Ruifu was a little puzzled and said: "Reporter, then we only occupy the iron-making workshop? This horseshoe needs pure pig iron. Without pig iron, how can we make it?"

"The storage of pure pig iron is not far from the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner. Otherwise, what do you think I asked you to occupy the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner?" Zhang Yanjin leaned on the table, feeling a little helpless.

Of course, there is another more important reason why he wants to occupy the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner, that is, he has already observed the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner, and there is a big iron furnace in it. Compared with the modern ones, the furnace is much simpler, but it is much taller than the ones in other iron-making workshops. If he thinks about it carefully and remodels it, maybe he can transform the iron furnace into a modern style.

The last time I discussed with Blacksmith Lu about using coal to smelt iron, maybe you can try it here, if you can really remove some unnecessary impurities in the natural coal, maybe the purity of the pig iron produced can be greatly improved improve.

When the veterans heard Zhang Yanjin's talk about iron smelting, they cheered up and said that although they were old, they could still do these jobs.

Zhang Yanjin nodded in satisfaction when she heard the words, and after arranging specific things for everyone, she asked Ruifu to turn off the lights.

He lay on the hard couch, thinking silently in his heart.

He made the horseshoe, which added assistance to the emperor's westward expedition. This time, it can be regarded as an explanation, and it can't be regarded as living up to the expectations of his uncle Zhang Zhongqian and the emperor, right?After this period of time has passed, he can continue to be his wealthy idler in Ningguo Mansion.

Zhang Yanjin tapped the mattress lightly with her fingers, while thinking about the future in her heart, she slowly fell into a dream.

The autumn wind blows all night, the ground is covered with frost, and the grass is withered and yellow.

As soon as the bugle sounded, Ruifu led the veterans to the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner of the supply camp and the Kumen where pig iron was stored.

After Zhou Qiye heard about it, he didn't even care about eating, and quickly walked outside the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner.

The surrounding soldiers also didn't care about eating, and surrounded them one after another.

"What are you guys trying to do?!" Zhou Qiye said with difficulty hiding his anger.

Rui Fu guarded the gate of the iron-making workshop, stepped forward and said: "Reporting to the long history, we are here to make iron by Zhang Lushi's order."

Zhou Qiye's face was ugly, the supervisor beside him took a step forward, pulled out the sword from his waist, pointed at Ruifu and said, "You are not soldiers in my supply camp, and you dare to rob the iron-making workshop of my supply camp, Don’t you take our army’s military law seriously?!”

"Hey, what is this for?" Accompanied by Zhang Yanjin's voice, the horse whip wrapped around the saber in the hands of the superintendent with precision, and even snatched the saber from the superintendent's hand, and inserted it obliquely into the on the ground.

Zhang Yanjin took back the whip in her hand, and said cheerfully: "Don't hold the sword if you don't have the strength to restrain a chicken. Don't scare others. It would be better if you hurt yourself first!"

The superintendent looked at Zhang Yanjin dumbfounded, the saber was still in his hand just now, why did it disappear in a blink of an eye?He looked at the saber stuck obliquely on the ground again, his face flushed with anger.

Zhang Yanjin walked up to Ruifu, patted Ruifu's arm, inserted Ruifu's first saber back into the scabbard, and said half falsely, "Ruifu, remember, your saber is not as noisy as others Just for fun, once you get out of the sheath, you will definitely drink blood! Don’t be so casual in the future!”

As soon as he said this, everyone quietly turned their eyes to Zhou Qiye, and no one dared to stand up and speak again.

Anyone who looks at Ruifu's black face full of beards will feel like a black-faced ghost, and Zhang Yanjin's words are full of sharpness. Everyone in the supply camp wants to make a good living. Touch this mold?

Zhou Qiye's hands under the long sleeves of the official robe were already tightly clenched, and the veins on his white hands were bruised, but his face was still unobtrusive.

Zhang Yanjin can be fearless, but as the commander of the supervising army, Shi can't.

Thinking that Zhang Yanjin might have taken a liking to the fact that he didn't want to make things big, so he dared to act recklessly, Zhou Qiye was so angry that his teeth itched, wondering when he, Zhou Qiye, had ever been so angry?But for the sake of the overall situation, he can only tolerate this scoundrel for the time being!

Looking at Zhou Qiye's still peaceful face, Zhang Yanjin also felt concerned.

"Zhang Lushi, what do you mean by this morning? Do you not want the soldiers to start working?" Zhou Qiye glanced at the iron-making workshop behind Ruifu, and found that the veterans had already familiarized themselves with the tools and began to jingle. When hit up.

Zhang Yanjin blinked on purpose, looked at Zhou Qiye innocently and said, "Didn't Zhou Changshi let me do whatever I wanted?"

"This long history never said anything to let you do whatever you want." Zhou Qiye retorted.

"Yesterday, I reported to Chang Shi that I wanted to use horses and pig iron. Chang Shi didn't object, so he just let me use it." Zhang Yanjin said confidently.

The military supervisor next to Zhou Qiye said: "Changshi never said that you should use military supplies at will. You are ignoring military laws and violating discipline!"

Zhang Yanjin took the small bench from Ruifu and sat down comfortably.This is the job he arranged for a veteran carpenter last night. He has long been used to sitting on a bench in modern times. Making a bench is easy for a carpenter. In this case, why didn't he make one first?

After sitting comfortably, Zhang Yanjin said: "But Zhou Changshi didn't refuse." He was not in a hurry, and he meant to have a good time with Zhou Qiye.

Watching Zhang Yanjin's movements, the supervisors and soldiers all stared wide-eyed.How can you still sit like this?It seems that it is more comfortable than kneeling and sitting!

Zhou Qiye glanced at Zhang Yanjin, and then at the veterans inside. He found that those veterans had already lit a fire and started to smelt iron, while another group of people brought meals from the kitchen, and they were taking turns eating.

He looked at Zhang Yanjin's face, what do you want, anyway, I want to make iron, and he felt more and more suffocated.

"Since Zhang Lushi insists on smelting iron to make horseshoes and harming the horses, it is useless for me to persuade you, so I have to report to His Majesty." Zhou Qiye said, turned and left.

Anyway, he had already told His Majesty about Zhang Yanjin's insistence on smelting iron and hurting the horse's hooves. Zhang Yanjin's doing so now just confirmed the crime. He will let Zhang Yanjin, a rascal, be proud for another two days!

The soldiers and the supervisors were all stunned. Is this the end of the matter?

Accompanied by a burst of murmurs, the soldiers all dispersed for dinner.

After eating, the soldiers in the iron-making workshop in the northeast corner realized that they seemed to have nowhere to go after Zhang Yanjin let people occupy this place.

There is a certain number of people arranged in each workshop, even if they go to other places, there may not be someone to arrange for them.

As a result, the soldiers of the iron workshop in the northeast corner stood blankly outside the workshop, looking at Ruifu and Ruifu guarding the door, at a loss.

Zhang Yanjin looked at the soldiers standing neatly outside, and said lightly: "It's okay for you to stay in my iron-smelting workshop, but there is a rule in my iron-smelting workshop, that is, the amount of work done by the soldiers is used as the measure." The standard of measurement, the amount of work is the horseshoes you make every day, and each person's work amount reaches a certain amount, and there will be a certain reward at the end of the month, do you all agree?"

The soldiers standing at the door were both surprised and happy. They had planned to be sent away by Zhang Yanjin, but they never thought that not only Zhang Yanjin did not send them away, but also that there would be additional rewards for completing the task?

In fact, the original soldiers in these iron-making workshops gathered outside and whispered. Ruifu had already reported it to Zhang Yanjin, but Zhang Yanjin just pretended not to see them until they gave up on Zhou Qiye and stood neatly outside. , When he came to look for him, he just walked out of the iron workshop.

These soldiers were recruited by Zhou Qiye at the beginning, and they were the only ones in Zhou Qiye's name.Only by letting them completely cut off their hope in Zhou Qiye, can these soldiers follow him wholeheartedly when they come.

It is true that he is short of manpower, but the principle he has always adhered to is that it is better to have excess than shortage.

Under the dim yellow and dark sky, the north wind howled past, but the bleakness of late autumn could not take away the joy on the faces of these soldiers.

They joined the army in the heavy camp, although they didn't need to go to the fire, but they were really hard and tiring, and the salary was also low. Zhang Yanjin now promised to record the salary according to the amount of work, and what he gave was real. The benefits he could see naturally led to him. positivity.

"Zhang Lushi, are you serious?" the leading soldier asked boldly.

Zhang Yanjin pursed her lips and smiled, her brows were full of confidence, especially those gleaming eyes showed endless expressions, making people feel as if they were involuntarily caught in a magnetic field when they looked at her.

"Of course it's true. I said that the rules for wages and wages will be written down today, and they will be hung in the middle of this iron-making workshop for everyone to see. If any of you have any opinions, you can come to me." Or ask Ruifu and the others to respond, and then let them respond to me?" Zhang Yanjin didn't say a word of nonsense.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, why did the Qin Dynasty rise to be the overlord?Why can the economic strength increase greatly?It is because of Shang Yang's reform, rewarding farming and fighting, and giving real benefits to the common people.

No matter how many supervisors are found, the soldiers will also work passively, right?That being the case, why not save the salary of the supervising army and give rewards to the soldiers?

The wind was rushing, the sky was dark, and the falling trees were rustling, but they couldn't stop the blood of the soldiers.

"Zhang Lushi, we will definitely work hard and follow Zhang Lushi down-to-earth!"

"That's right, we will do what Zhang Lushi says, and we will never neglect!" The excitement of the soldiers was beyond words.

After the baggage soldiers entered the iron workshop, Ruifu, who was guarding the door, suddenly heard the sound of the soldiers knocking on the pig iron much louder than usual.

When Zhang Yanjin walked to the ironmaking blast furnace, he saw the soldiers on the side continuously adding large bundles of charcoal to it. Even though Zhang Yanjin was not standing in front of the furnace door, he could still feel the raging fire in the furnace. There was the crackling sound of charcoal burning.

There was a square feeding port at the top of the blast furnace. After another soldier felt that the temperature in the furnace was about the same, he poured the excavated iron ore into the iron furnace and let the iron ore be roasted by the fire.

The raging fire burned for another hour before the soldier opened the opening at the back of the blast furnace and poured molten iron out of the back of the blast furnace.

Zhang Yanjin didn't speak or move anything until the molten iron condensed into a black lump, and he didn't touch it.

"Zhang Lushi, this piece of iron is dirty..." The soldiers at the side didn't expect Zhang Yanjin to touch it with his own hands, and couldn't stop him.

Zhang Yanjin touched the pig iron that had just been refined, and felt that this pig iron was completely different from the pig iron he was in contact with. The pig iron that had just been refined was full of pores, like a sponge.No wonder it was said in previous books that when the iron-making process was immature, the pig iron produced had too many impurities and was called an iron sponge.

"Don't worry, this is just the first pig iron refined. We will refine it a few more times. When the purity of the pig iron is higher, it will not be like this." The soldier in charge of iron smelting was afraid that Zhang Yanjin might misunderstand. Explained aloud: "And everyone will continue to forge in the future, so that the pig iron produced will be stronger."

Zhang Yanjin understood that because the current ironmaking process is not mature enough, the temperature that can be reached in the ironmaking blast furnace is limited, and the impurities in the iron ore cannot be removed.In order to improve the purity of pig iron, soldiers can only use repeated forging to remove the impurities inside the iron block to improve the purity of pig iron.

But even so, the improved purity is limited, and it is a waste of manpower and material resources.

If the purity of the smelted pig iron is increased from the very beginning, wouldn't it be possible to save the need for repeated forging?So, wouldn't that save a lot of time?

"Erlang, what's the problem?" Seeing that Zhang Yanjin hadn't spoken, Ruifu could not help but feel a little worried.

Zhang Yanjin waved his hand, he is now thinking about how to make modern iron.He is not a professional in this field, but he has some knowledge of blast furnace ironmaking in high school physics and chemistry. Although oil was discovered in modern times, oil resources are limited, and ironmaking with coking coal is still the main production method of pig iron.

But how to remove the impurities in the coal?

All kinds of complicated thoughts rushed into my mind, as if I felt that I knew the knowledge points of this area during the exam, but I couldn't figure it out clearly.

Zhang Yanjin looked at the twilight outside and stopped thinking.Although using coal to smelt iron is efficient and convenient, but after all, he can't be careless, and he still needs to think carefully.

That day when Zhang Yanjin was thinking about how to use coal in the tent, she heard steady footsteps outside.

"Recorder, the leader of the imperial guards next to the emperor is here, and he said he wants you and Zhou Changshi to take the order." Ruifu had a little sweat on his bronze complexion due to running too fast, but he didn't dare at all. Delay in reporting.