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Iron ship?Not to mention that the emperor was curious, even the Supreme Emperor was very curious, and even disregarded the fact that half of his body was already inconvenient, so he sat in Luanyu and came to serve as the prisoner.

Two generations of kings and one generation of the mother of the state, and the arrival of the three giants, it is naturally impossible not to bring a single courtier, at least several heads of the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council were brought along.

The iron boat that Jiang Zuojian made was not big, and it floated on a small pond dug by Jiang Zuojian himself.The small pond is only half an acre in size, and the iron boat is only one foot long and three feet wide, all made of steel.The steel keel is covered with iron sheets.Of course, in order to facilitate walking, a layer of iron plate is covered on the keel.

In short, all are made of iron.

Forget about Wen Yanxiu, when Xu Guowei, the left minister of the Political Affairs Hall, saw the iron boat, the first thing he said was: "Things that have never been heard through the ages, things that have never been heard through the ages."

Jia Yan said, "Xu Xiangguo, do you want to go up and have a look?"

Xu Guowei stroked his beard and nodded: "I wish you so."

Xu Guowei is already an octogenarian, but his spirit has always been good, but he is old, so if it is not necessary, it is not his turn to go out of Beijing.The last time the new firepower paddle steamer was launched, he did not leave Beijing.

In fact, at his age, he is about to retire.If it wasn't for the iron boat, he wouldn't have come to the general's workshop in person.

The old man rolled up his sleeves and lifted the hem of his clothes, and got on the iron boat under the service of a small general who was a supervisor.

This kind of iron boat can only carry two people at a time, so there are many curious courtiers, but everyone can only line up one by one on the ground.

As a bachelor's attendant, Xu Sisheng's grade is not high.Of course, he was also one of the few who didn't want to get on board.

Unlike those courtiers who were eagerly waiting in line to experience, he was always standing on the sidelines, standing with his good friend Wen Yanxiu.As the head of the Privy Council, Wen Yanxiu was one of the first ten ministers to experience the iron boat. Even after getting off the boat, he was excited.

Therefore, seeing Xu Sisheng's serious face, he couldn't help whispering: "Why don't you go up and try?"

Many systems in the Jin Dynasty imitated the Song system, so the status of civil servants was very high.In this kind of informal occasion, everyone whispers, as long as it does not affect others, there will be no problem.

Xu Sisheng shook his head and said, "I remembered something."

"What?" @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

"I remember that Emperor Tai|Zu|Emperor once said that this method of frying steel came from overseas barbarian countries."

Wen Yanxiu was stunned for a moment.

Several officials around who happened to hear it also froze.

The ministers who were able to get into the Political Affairs Hall and the Privy Council were not idiots, so they naturally understood what Xu Sisheng meant.People who didn't understand at the time, after being reminded a little by the people around them, they will naturally understand.

If nothing else, just talk about steel and the method of frying steel.China has been mighty for thousands of years, but what about the smelting technology?Among other things, before the method of frying steel, what was smelted into steel, what kind of pear flower steel, what kind of forging method, these are all the efforts of water grinding to produce fine steel.One is that it consumes a lot of labor, and the other is that it is produced in polar regions.

China has a history of 5000 years to support it, and this smelting technique is still like this.Why does this overseas barbarian country have such a superb method of large-scale steelmaking?

Thinking about it carefully, it is chilling. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

Although he is old and can't even straighten his waist, Xu Guowei's mind is still exquisite and his ears are extremely good.

Xu Sisheng just said that here, and he has already heard it.

This is his second time as prime minister.

He was the left prime minister before, but he went home because of Ding You.As for his predecessor this time, he was expelled from the Political Affairs Hall half a month ago because of a sentence called "Menji Sichen".

Xu Guowei was therefore invited back to the Political Affairs Hall.

It has to be said that compared to the one who just left, Xu Guowei is much more practical.When he heard about it, he immediately walked over and said, "Xu Shidu means..." @无限好文，全在晋江文学城

Xu Guowei is an old fox, his biggest characteristic is that he will not express his opinion easily, no matter how obvious it is.

He must wait for the people below to speak first.

Even in the presence of kings.

Xu Sisheng could only cup his hands, and said, "Lord Xiangguo, in my opinion, I have some immature guesses about the origin of the method of frying steel. After all, before today, we have never heard of which vassal below State-owned iron boats. Otherwise, the ships on the East China Sea and the South Seas are probably ships from that country, and there is no place for me to stand up. Therefore, the lower officials think that this method of frying steel may have come from a very far away. from somewhere."

Xu Guowei nodded, and said, "I am a Dajin vassal outside the country."

"Exactly." Xu Sisheng said, "I believe that the man with red hair and color eyes came across the sea from the far west."

Ding Tao, the second in command of the Privy Council, Privy Councilor Ding Tao immediately said: "Xu Xueshi means that maybe this country of red-haired and colorful people in the far west already has iron ships. It's just that they are like us, salt and iron government-run, so the folks Merchant ships are all wooden sailing ships?"

Jia Yan once inquired about the Semu people who came from overseas during this period.Because Jia Yan cared, when referring to Westerners in the former Jin Dynasty, they always called them barbarians, but now, this kind of name is only seen in local officials, and the central government has begun to use the more neutral title of Semuren.

Xu Sisheng said: "Yes, my lord. Indeed."

Ding Tao stroked his beard and said, "Bachelor Xu is really worried."

The general supervisor listened to this for a long time, and hurriedly said: "My lords, a tree has to grow to a towering height before it can be used to build a keel. But a piece of steel, as long as the formula is correct, it can be obtained in half a month. Moreover, as long as the craftsmen can keep up, as long as the ore can keep up, there is no fear of no steel."

Although it is said that a century-old tree is also a renewable resource, the regeneration cycle is a hundred years!Since the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to support the huge expenses, the Southern Song Dynasty has continued to build ships, causing almost all the century-old trees in the territory to be cut down.The people of the Yuan Dynasty took control of the Central Plains for a short time, but during the previous dynasty, they began to build ships and go to the West.

The former emperor sent eunuchs to the West, which caused a wave of felling of the trees in the territory.This is also the real reason why the sea ban was not opened in the late period of the previous dynasty, and even when the country was founded—there is almost no such kind of wood in the territory that can be used to make the keel of large ships. If it is forced to build ships, I am afraid that the cost is too high Not to mention the waste of material and financial resources, I am afraid that the people will be cornered and even jump the wall to force the people to rebel.