Ancient promotion routine

Zhou Qiye is actually under a lot of pressure. The emperor has now entrusted Zhang Yanjin with the task of refining horseshoes, and entrusted him with the task of making other luggage. There must be a comparison between him and Zhang Yanjin.

Zhang Yanjin only used one ironmaking workshop to refine all the horseshoes needed for the war horses in the Northern Expedition, but he had many workshops under his control.So he had to finish making Zhang Yanjin first.

At the beginning, he didn't pay much attention to Zhang Yanjin, but after a few days of work, the people he sent found out that the soldiers in Zhang Yanjin's iron-making workshop were full of enthusiasm, and the daily workload was very high.

After this, Zhou Qiye became anxious.

What kind of character is Zhou Qiye?How can Zhang Yanjin, a rascal, be compared to him?It should be reasonable for him to be faster than Zhang Yanjin.

But if Zhang Yanjin wins him this time, his face will be trampled by him again. He lost once, but he doesn't want to lose a second time.

Someone also told Zhou Qiye about Zhang Yanjin's method of taking the amount of work as salary, but Zhou Qiye immediately denied it.He was born in a noble family, but not a mud-legged person like the Zhang family who has caught up with the founding of the country. In the philosophy of the noble family for so many years, the hierarchical system has already penetrated into his bones.

Zhou Qiye didn't take the Zhang family's unprecipitated new gentry, let alone the poor family, and the baggage soldiers were the poor family among the poor families. If they were real soldiers on the battlefield, although Zhou Qiye didn't think much of their identities, But I also admire their achievements, but the current supply camp is not a real army. These soldiers are not so much soldiers, but they are actually no different from recruited civilians. They just do some work and don't have to work hard. It was a matter of course for those soldiers to work, and it was already a great gift that he did not deduct military pay from them.

How could he be like that rascal Zhang Yanjin, who actually got so close to those soldiers who looked like peasants?

In this way, only the soldiers are strict.Under Zhou Qiye's arrangement, all the supervisors stepped up their supervision, constantly urging the soldiers, and the soldiers suffered even more.

As Zhou Qiye's imaginary enemy, Zhang Yanjin didn't even think about who would finish the project first in the competition with Zhou Qiye and compete for success in front of the emperor. He was thinking about how to mine and smelt coal every day.

When he has mastered the coal mining and coal refining technology, he will sell the coal, and then take advantage of the opportunity to show his face in front of the emperor a few times, to compete for the quota of coal supply to the royal family, and become an imperial merchant?Of course, these are all on a profitable basis.

He was worried and worried, when the emperor knew that he wanted the land in Datong, Shanxi, because he was interested in coal resources, would the emperor become angry from embarrassment?

After Zhang Yanjin made some calculations, she still didn't come up with any results, so she turned her thoughts to coal mining and coal refining technology.Big deal, he really got it, spend tens of thousands of taels to Emperor Sheng Yuan who is short of money!He had heard that for the Northern Expedition, the expenses in Emperor Sheng Yuan's palace were only a few hundred taels a month, tens of thousands of taels would take him many years, and he should be ashamed to argue with him at that time.

Coal mining has been an activity accompanied by various dangers since ancient times. Although modern coal mining technology is mature, workers still die in mines every year.

After all, after the coal mine is dug, there will be uncontrollable problems such as water, fire, and gas.

If he wants to mine coal safely, he must first solve these problems.

Even Zhang Yanjin understands modern coal mining technology, but he also knows that he cannot get rid of the technological limitations of this era. The first step is to find a way to manually dig coal. After he has a certain amount of coal, the technology will improve to a certain extent. You can find a way to make others.

Zhang Yanjin pondered for a while, and after she had a certain plan in her mind, she planned to take the craftsmen to actually investigate.

Soldiers in the iron workshop worked day and night to smelt and forge iron, and the sound of ding-ding-dong-dong knocking came out continuously. The days also drifted away amidst the sound of knocking, and the grass outside the camp after the luggage was completely blown into the sky by the autumn wind. Withered and yellow, the Weishui River became more and more bleak, but the Populus euphratica was still tall and straight.

"My salary this month is more than double that of last month!" In the iron workshop, the soldiers excitedly counted the broken silver in their hands, and said excitedly: "If I had known, I would have worked more last month." !"

"Tch, it's your turn to go home and rest this month!" Another soldier said with jealousy.

In Zhang Yanjin's iron workshop, the salary is calculated based on the amount of workpieces. Some soldiers didn't believe it, so they didn't work hard. At this time, the salary paid was more than twice that of the soldiers who worked hard. Looking at the salary in the hands of other soldiers Jealous, secretly vowed to earn back this month.

Even so, the soldiers in Zhang Yanjin's iron-making workshop still paid more than the soldiers in other workshops. Those soldiers looked at the supervising soldiers who paid them with black faces, and they were full of envy for the soldiers under Zhang Yanjin .

"Erlang, the statistics are out. There are [-] war horses in the Northern Expedition Army. At that time, the time given by Mr. Zhao Guogong of the Ministry of Industry was to complete the project in two months. We have already completed the horseshoes needed for [-] war horses this month. According to this speed Go on, and in another ten days' time, the horseshoes needed for the remaining [-] horses will also be successfully completed." Ruifu walked through the beaming soldiers who were holding the payment, and came to Zhang Yanjin's tent, whispering road.

Zhang Yanjin stopped the stick figure in her hand, sat cross-legged on the couch, and said with a smile, "That's great. After all the horseshoes are made, we'll get up and go to Datong."

Thinking that the fertile land in Datong, Shanxi was full of black gold, Zhang Yanjin was secretly excited, after all, it was all money.

He squeezed his chin. He remembered that Guanzhong was surrounded by places with a lot of coal, besides Datong in Shanxi, there was also Yulin. If there was a chance, could he go to Yulin to inquire first, and then buy the place with a lot of mines first?

With that thought in mind, I took some action.

"Erlang, why are you going to Datong?" Ruifu walked in, and was a little puzzled when he heard Zhang Yanjin's words.

Zhang Yanjin understood Ruifu's temperament, and was not annoyed by him asking such a question, he said: "How can I not go and see the place that the emperor rewarded?"

"Is Erlang planning to leave immediately after finishing work?" Rui Fu asked.

Seeing Zhang Yanjin nodding, Ruifu immediately said: "Erlang, don't worry, I will prepare the luggage and carriage for the road in advance."

"Erlang, guess what I just found out?" Ruifu said with a smile on his face: "Zhou Qiye has so many more soldiers than ours, and the production of stirrups and saddles is also much earlier than ours. After inquiring, I found that they are actually on par with our progress!"

Zhang Yanjin smiled, not surprised.He added a bellows to the iron-making blast furnace. Although the bellows are tall and often require soldiers to pull them in turn, the iron-making time can be reduced by a quarter of an hour each time. This naturally saves a lot of time.

In addition, the soldiers on his side were all working hard and had internal motivation, which was naturally different from Zhou Qiye's side where the soldiers were whipped by the supervising army and the soldiers were made to work.

Chinese farmers are the kindest. As long as they have land and cooking pots, they will not rebel. The same is true for these soldiers. It's just that Zhou Qiye has been in a high position for a long time, and he is used to a rich life and exploitation. Naturally, he will not understand this truth.

The candle flame jumped twice, blasting out one or two lantern flowers.

Ruifu looked at Zhang Yanjin who was sitting quietly on the soft bed with a smile on his face.Although Zhang Yanjin's sitting posture was not the upright one they had imagined, even so, they couldn't help but be convinced by Zhang Yanjin's calmness and composure.

The eyes under the two thick eyebrows are still a little immature, but they don't have the flickering light of before.

They have been with Erlang for many years. In the past, Erlang often missed Hualou, his eyes were often black and blue, and his eyes always had a blurred feeling of being unable to wake up. It can be said that he was lifeless.

But at some point, their Erlang got rid of the habit of being nostalgic for Hualou, and his eyes became clearer. Not only that, but also his talent is outstanding.

Ruifu was deeply moved, there were three young masters in the Zhang family, and Erlang used to be the most playful, unmotivated and always getting into trouble.

The relationship between the three brothers of the Zhang family has always been very close, but the servants can't help making comparisons in private.

Erlang used to be like that, always making them unable to straighten their backs in front of Zhang Xiuwu and Zhang Bowen's personal servants, but now it is different, inside and outside the capital, when they say that they are the servants of Zhang Jiaerlang, they are extremely proud , and have the honor!

At night, the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the moon is shining all over the earth.Zhang Yanjin slowly paced outside the tent, admiring the clear moon hanging high in the sky.

A gust of autumn wind blew by, bringing chills, Zhang Yanjin's mind suddenly flashed, and he remembered that the coal that was just dug out in modern times was called raw coal, and there were too many impurities in it. of coal.

Because there are too many impurities in the raw coal, the purity of the coal is not very high. When it is burned, it will produce toxic gases such as carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide, which is the reason for poisoning.It is precisely because of this that in modern times, raw coal is not regarded as coal for domestic use, but is only used as a refining fuel for some raw materials.

As for turning raw coal into domestic coal, coal washing must be carried out first.There is no special consideration in coal washing. It is to wash the raw coal with water to remove most of the sulfur in the raw coal. In this way, the sulfur in the raw coal will be greatly reduced, and the content of sulfur dioxide will also be greatly reduced during combustion.

Likewise, with coal washing, dust and waste rock are washed away.After cleaning, the raw coal becomes clean coal.

Nowadays, people don’t use coal to smelt steel. In addition to being poisoned, there is another reason, that is, there are too many sulfur substances in the raw coal, and there will be a lot of sulfur substances in the refined iron. It is not as pure as iron refined by charcoal fire.

The sulfur content of clean coal is greatly reduced, and clean coal can be used to smelt iron at that time, and clean coal can also be sold to various places.

He remembered that there was a kind of coking coal in modern times. Coking coal contained very little sulfur and other impurities, so it was a good raw material for coking. However, the resources of coking coal were very scarce. I wonder if there is coking coal in Datong?

In ten days, it disappeared without a trace, and the production of all the horseshoes needed for the war horses of the Northern Expedition Army also came to an end.

This morning, there was no sound of bellows beating in the iron workshop, nor was there the tinkling sound of soldiers forging iron.

Looking at the iron-making workshop, you can see the soldiers with happy faces standing neatly in four teams, headed by Ruifu and two apprentices of blacksmith Lu, and in front of them are a basket of A basket of horseshoes.

Rui Fu and Lu Blacksmith's two apprentices arranged for the soldiers to stand in groups of three in front of a bamboo basket.

After they all stood up, Zhang Yanjin, who was sitting on the temporary small high platform watching, gave an order, and the soldiers all worked together to put down the one-meter-high bamboo basket in front of them, and began to carry out the final count.

During this not-so-long period, under Zhang Yanjin's intentional guidance, the soldiers' enthusiasm for work was unprecedentedly high. Whoever made the horseshoes fast and well was highly respected. After this, the iron-making workshop There was not a single fight in the village, and all of them were based on craftsmanship.

Zhang Yanjin was not idle either. Apart from recalling the mining and refining methods of raw coal, he was also digging for talented craftsmen.

In the Great Wei Dynasty, these craftsmen were all under the control of the government. On weekdays, they could open their own workshops in the West Market or the East Market, but once the court needed them, they would be recruited together to work in the back camp.

"Erlang, after counting, we have produced all the horseshoes except for the [-] horseshoes, and we also produced the extra horseshoes needed for [-] horses as a spare." After counting all the results, Ruifu ran over excitedly road.

Zhang Yanjin was also full of emotion, he patted Ruifu on the shoulder and said, "To celebrate today's celebration, reward everyone!"

After finishing speaking, he went back to the camp to write the papers for Chen Derang and Zhao Guogong, preparing to let them present the papers to the emperor.

Zhang Yanjin put down the brush in her hand, took a sip of hot tea from her teacup, and sighed comfortably.

The tea soup of the Great Wei Dynasty not only contains slightly bitter tea leaves, but also seasonings such as fried shallots and salt.

Zhang Yanjin seldom touched the tea soup for no other reason, it was because the tea soup was too strong and he was not used to it.

But with the coming of autumn and winter, even the tent was not very warm, at most it was just a protection from the wind, so he gradually got used to holding a cup of tea soup in his hand to keep him warm.

As time goes by, sometimes when he is in the mood, he will take a sip to taste the taste of the tea soup.

After Zhang Yanjin sealed the zhezi with inkpad, she called the post envoy to come in and sent the zhezi to the palace with a whip.

Zhang Yanjin didn't go out from the camp until the post envoy left.

Since Zhang Yanjin was in charge of making the horseshoes independently, the soldiers' stoves and accommodations were completely separated from Zhou Qiye's.

The cooks of the kitchen fire received Zhang Yanjin's order to celebrate, and killed several pigs in one go, and stewed meat for the soldiers.

The white thick broth is boiling in the cauldron, and when the autumn wind blows, the fragrant meat smell will be scattered everywhere, blowing everywhere in the back camp.

The soldiers on Zhang Yanjin's side had nothing to do today, they were just waiting for their meal. They cheered continuously when they smelled the smell of meat, and their hearty laughter and the smell of meat spread throughout the rear camp of the supply chain.

When the soldiers in Zhou Qiye's workshop heard the cheers, they all poked their heads out to see what was going on, but they were whipped back by the supervisors.

These soldiers have been constantly catching up with the progress under the pressure of the supervising army during this time. The soldiers are unbearable, but they dare not speak out. It can be said that every soldier is pale.

They smelled the smell of meat wafting in the air, they were envious, and only regretted that they didn't follow Zhang Yanjin back then.

Zhou Qiye, who was sitting quietly in the big camp, looked gloomy. The sun shone through the tent and cast a brilliance, but it still couldn't dispel the gloomy atmosphere in the tent.

Time passed by, and the sun turned gradually. It happened that a ray of sunlight shone down from the top of Zhou Qiye's head and landed on his gold-encrusted jade turtle.The gold reflected the dazzling brilliance, which was in stark contrast to the boredom on Zhou Qiye's eyebrows.

How could Zhang Yanjin complete the task so quickly?

Zhang Yanjin also estimated the amount of horseshoes he mentioned. Although some soldiers make a lot of horseshoes every day, they are very rare. Besides, he asked the supervisors to supervise the production, and the number of horseshoes made by the soldiers The quantity made by the soldiers was no less than Zhang Yanjin's. Most importantly, the stirrups and saddles he made started several days earlier than the horseshoes made by Zhang Yanjin, but why did Zhang Yanjin finish so much faster than him?

The most important thing is that Zhou Qiye actually lost to Zhang Yanjin, what does the emperor think?What do you think of the entire ruling and opposition parties?

Seeing Zhou Qiye's gloomy expression, Liu Yong, the supervising soldier beside Zhou Qiye, hurriedly told Zhou Qiye the news he had received: "Chang Shi, I have inquired many ways, and Zhang Yanjin didn't do anything other than calculate his salary based on the work piece, so he decided that it was impossible for him to be better than us." Quick, unless he cuts corners!"

It's not that Zhou Qiye has never doubted this point, but he still has doubts in his heart.After all, all these supplies were to be used on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition, and the Emperor attached great importance to this Northern Expedition. Could it be that Zhang Yanjin, that rascal, really cut corners and shortened the construction period in order to claim credit in front of the Emperor?Zhou Qiye felt that Zhang Yanjin dared to do this, but what if?

"Don't worry, Chang Shi, I'm willing to tell the speaker that Zhang Yanjin cut corners and cut corners to speed up the construction period in order to claim credit!" Liu Yong, the supervisor, took a step forward, bowed his hands and said.

The boredom between Zhou Qiye's brows gradually dissipated, and he said with a faint smile: "The current Chang'an Lingyin has served for more than five years, and he will be transferred from Beijing to take up a post soon, and that position will be vacant by then."

"Thank you, Chang Shi!" Liu Yong blushed with excitement.Zhou Qiye is the eldest son of Narui State Duke's Mansion, he is favored by the emperor above the ruling and opposition parties, and behind him is the entire Zhou family.

He never thought that he could get Zhou Qiye's attention, he firmly believed that this was his luck.

Otherwise, how could Zhou Fangyuan be injured by Zhang Yanjin?If not, would he be able to stand by Zhou Qiye's side at this time?Now that he has this opportunity, he must seize this opportunity to express himself!

As soon as Liu Yong left, Zhou Qiye put away his warm smile. He never said a word that Zhang Yanjin cut corners, it was all Liu Yong's speculation.

His father once taught him that in the face of the enemy, even if he is undefeated, even if there is only a chance, he must knock people into the dust.

He didn't think Zhang Yanjin dared to cut corners, but what if?After all, he has twice as many people as Zhang Yanjin, and twice as many iron-making workshops, and the manpower is still young and strong. Even if Zhang Yanjin increases the enthusiasm of those people, they will be able to do twice as much work every day. , it doesn't make sense, Zhang Yanjin's speed will be equal to his.

Zhang Yanjin didn't know that Zhou Qiye had already planted landmines in secret, waiting for him to be in a mess, he was already planning to go home after Chen Derang and Zhao Guogong Chu Chigong came to inspect the horseshoe tomorrow.

At noon the next day, the sky was high and the clouds were clear, and the royal guard of honor of the Holy Majesty came to the back camp of the luggage through the tall and straight Populus euphratica forest.

After Zhang Yanjin received the news, she and Zhou Qiye greeted the emperor's arrival.

The old emperor sat on the yellow steps, his eyes slightly drooping, not angry but majestic.He was dressed in a bright yellow dragon robe, and it was obvious that he had just come to the rear of the baggage camp.

As the emperor lightly raised his hand, the entire guard of honor stopped steadily.

The eunuch who accompanied you hurriedly took a soft stool from the side and put it under the emperor's feet, bent down to let the emperor support him, and pushed him up and down.

The emperor glanced at the entire rear camp, and then let Zhang Yanjin, Zhou Qiye, and the supervisors stand up.

"I don't know that the emperor came to the back camp of the luggage, but please don't blame the emperor for not being able to pick him up in time." Zhou Qiye bowed slightly.

Zhang Yanjin raised her eyes and took a quick look, and found that apart from Chen Derang, Minister of the Household Department, Chu Chigong, Duke of Zhao, and the emperor, there was also Zhou Qin, Duke of Rui.

Zhang Yanjin saw these people three times in a row, it seemed that these three were the most trusted people in the eyes of the emperor, and his uncle might be even lower.

Zhou Qin wore a black haircut, and was dressed in a dark blue silk and satin official robe, embroidered with Tsing Yi clothes that can only be seen by the Duke of the state, with nine chapters embroidered patterns.

Under the black hair is a pair of slender and shrewd eyes, the dark bags under the eyes are slightly drooping, and the black goatee on the chin makes Zhou Qin look deep and sophisticated.

As the emperor stepped up and down, Zhao Guogong Chu Chigong also got off his horse and looked around. With the armor on his body, he looked like a good fighter among generals.

Although Chen Derang was almost indistinguishable from Zhou Qin's official uniform, he appeared restrained and steady because of his own temperament.

"Zhang Yanjin, you said in the booklet that you have already made all the horseshoes needed for war horses?" The emperor asked calmly after signaling Zhou Qiye that it was okay.

"Reporting to the emperor, we have already counted the number of horseshoes yesterday. In addition to making the horseshoes needed by the whole army's horseshoes, we also made spare horseshoes. After the audit by the Ministry of Households is completed today, we can equip the horseshoes." Zhang Yanjin Take it easy, be confident.

"The stirrups and saddles that Zhou Qiye was in charge of were nearly half a month faster than yours. Besides, you only used one ironmaking workshop to make the horseshoes. How did you complete so many horseshoes in such a short period of time?" the emperor asked as he asked. go in.

When the soldiers who were making it saw the emperor coming, they all put down their things and knelt down to salute, but the emperor waved him away.

Looking at the kneeling soldiers, the emperor looked down at the clothes on his body and said calmly: "It's my negligence, I should change clothes and come back."

Zhou Qin came out and said: "The emperor is thinking about the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, so he rushed here in the early morning. When the soldiers heard that the emperor is so sympathetic to them, they will definitely fight hard to kill the enemy."

The emperor nodded slightly, looked at Zhang Yanjin and said, "Let me go and see the horseshoe you made."

Zhang Yanjin pursed his lips into a smile, his brows were full of confidence, and he said calmly: "The emperor is here, I feel very honored, as for how I finished the production of the horseshoe ahead of time, and I gave it to the emperor and all the ministers while walking." explain."

Everyone was taken aback when they heard the words. Is this what that playboy Zhang Yanjin said?It is impeccable, polite and restrained, and the expression of gestures, self-confidence and calmness is impressive.

The emperor praised: "Okay, I will listen to you talking as you walk!"

"I was able to complete all the horseshoes required by the Northern Expedition Army's horseshoes within one and a half months. There are three reasons." Zhang Yanjin analyzed lightly.

Looking from a distance, the emperor saw that there were many workshops dotted around the back camp. He found that the iron-making workshop used by Zhang Yanjin was not much bigger than other workshops, so he waved his hand and said, "Tell me about it."