Dress to be a celebrity

Teacher Song picked up an iron hoe with a wooden handle, holding the hoe handle with both hands, showing a pitch-black strip-shaped hoe, the hoe blade was polished white.

He wiped the hoe lightly, blew off the dust on his fingertips, and explained triumphantly: "The Master said: If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools. These farm tools are special products of Lueyang County, the prefecture. The iron is the bone, and the mouth of the hoe is poured with pig iron. Although it is not cast by a famous master, and the material is not such as high-quality Suzhou steel, it is tough and wear-resistant when used, and the cutting edge is sharp, which can almost cut gold and jade."

This ordinary hoe made him call it like a precious soldier. The students wanted to take it and take a closer look at the difference, but they cared about the image. They were embarrassed to look at the hoe in front of their colleagues. A little bit at a loss.

Mr. Song thoughtfully stuffed the hoe into the hands of Sun Xu, a member of the household department who offered to learn farming just now, and then picked up a gleaming sickle and handed it down. People who work in agriculture, I think I have seen many agricultural tools before. This agricultural tool is not only as good as the hoe, and its casting method is also different from other places. You should try it out.”

Everyone didn't think there was anything special about a few farm tools, at most they were a little newer, because they were made for the government and forged more finely.But after being reminded by him, after knowing that there is something strange in it, and then carefully inspecting it, it turns out that it is different——

Generally, there are traces of forging on the agricultural tools, and the patterns are layered on top of each other, but these few agricultural tools are integrated, without any traces of chiseling, as if they were naturally generated.

Is this cast directly from the model?Is it made of wrought iron in a stove, cast into farm tools, and then poured with pig iron?

This cost is not small.Generally, there is no large-scale iron-smelting furnace in a blacksmith’s shop, and the wrought iron sheets and iron blocks bought are forged into agricultural tools; however, the large-scale iron-smelting workshop under the mine is afraid that it will explode after a few days because of the high temperature of the furnace. In the furnace, most of the pig iron that comes out of the furnace is fried with loess and straw mortar, and then it is hurriedly cast into iron ingots, and it does not know how to cast small utensils.

The iron furnace can produce three thousand catties of iron a day, and it is afraid of the high temperature. The furnace will be fried in three months. It is too slow to cast a large iron ingot. Who can spare the time to cast this small hoe?

Unless the furnace is not bad and can produce molten iron for a long time, it is willing to spend so much...

No, not to mention other places, Hanzhong Mansion can really build an unbreakable stove!Lu Sheng, a member of the household department, suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he shook his sleeves and asked, "Master Song uses refractory bricks in the iron-making furnace, which can continuously produce molten iron, and does not need to be rebuilt every few days. Furnace?"

He looked at Song Shi expectantly, and the two colleagues were also tempted by him, waiting for Song Shi's answer without blinking.Teacher Song didn't hold back their curiosity, and glanced at a few liberal arts students who didn't understand the development of iron smelting technology enough, and nodded to Yuanwai Lu who really knew what he knew.

exactly.

The level of the bottle-shaped iron-making furnace built in this dynasty is already very advanced, but the material is insufficient and the refractory is not enough.After adding a layer of refractory bricks, the life of the furnace is longer, and the cost of iron out of the furnace is naturally reduced many times.He also found out a traditional technique of adding straw and loess to the original furnace to smelt wrought iron, and taught it to Fan Zhongshu, the patriarch of Lueyang who took the initiative to go to Hanzhong Mansion to seek cooperation.

Although Fan Zhongshu's Zhongshu was donated with money, he was extremely clear-headed and keen. He could see the significance of refractory bricks in metallurgy at a glance, and went to Hanzhong early to buy refractory bricks.

It happened that Song Shi wanted to improve the steel industry at that time, so he signed a two-year contract with him to supply farm tools, and then not only gave him refractory bricks, but also taught him the technical information of wrought iron, pan steel, and pouring steel. He built his own metallurgical laboratory with Fanjia Iron Mine.

Now the results are really extraordinary, and the farm tools sent can save two or three cents of the cost compared to before.

He concealed the part of improper transactions, and only said that the Fan family is also a Confucian businessman who is eager to learn new technologies and is enthusiastic about local construction. He has similar interests with him. After hearing some southern steel frying techniques from him, he can improve his own iron and steel making. The method of supplying such excellent farm tools as Hanzhong Prefecture.

If the members of the household department, Wailang, intend to learn the new law, he and Mr. Huan will naturally give each other their money.The next day he was not busy with homework and could spare time to go out, so he asked his subordinates to lead the way and lead them to the field for inspection.

The three of Lu Sheng arched their hands towards him, raised their eyebrows and thanked him: "Master Song is selfless in his heart, which is really admirable."

But when is this "time when homework is not busy"?They are all in their teens, why are they still busy with their homework, and even have to "take time" out of Wenshan's sea of ​​questions to do the serious work assigned by the saint?

Literally, their school is naturally not the kind of school that engages in sea-of-questions tactics.

The teaching system of Hanzhong College has always paid great attention to the physical and mental health of students.Teacher Huan connected two big classes in the morning, but there was no time for exercise and fitness in between. The arrangement was really unreasonable.The afternoon is his class, so we must make up for the lack of activities in the morning, so that the students can fully exercise.

Mr. Song said lovingly: "Although the weather is still cold and the farmland has not thawed, a greenhouse has been built in the economic park, and students can go to the greenhouse to exercise their muscles and bones."

Distribute the hoe and pickaxes to everyone to take on the road. After arriving at the practice base, Mr. Song will teach the students how to use them.Don’t worry if you can’t grab it. There are also large farm tools such as plows, rakes, square rakes, and carts in the greenhouse, which are enough for students to experience the joy of farming.

This...although they are willing to study farming and mulberry with their heart, but the joy of farming...isn't it fun to see the melons and fruits in the fields, the abundance of grain, and the people's joy and laughter, and then write poems and poems about it?

Shu Jishi Chang Shen let out a low sigh, stepped forward and asked: "Now that the Lantern Festival is just over, the wild vegetables and weeds outside have not yet turned green. Mr. Song wants to show us about farming, is it because he wants to grow the vegetables we used for the banquet just now?" greenhouse?"

How big can the greenhouse be?Aren't the greenhouses of ordinary wealthy households burning kangs in the cellar to increase the temperature, and potting vegetables and flowers on top of them?

Is it possible that in his small Hanzhong mansion, he can build houses in the garden like a palace, burn earth dragons, and build greenhouses as large as several rooms?How much charcoal would be wasted, and the Hanzhong government could afford such an expense?

Everyone had just finished learning algebra, so they couldn't help but substitute the cost of the green house in Beijing and the size of the conservatory in their imagination to calculate, and came up with an astonishing figure——

Since they entered the Hanzhong Mansion, they have only seen the bustling market and the people living and working in peace and contentment. Song Sanyuan was able to build such a large greenhouse after exhausting the people's efforts. Is it because of the bumper harvest of these 31 experimental fields?But a piece of experimental field is only one or two mu, and one mu can produce a thousand catties of grain, and it can only collect a few hundred taels of silver. How can we afford such a way of spending? !

Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, asked in shock, "How can Mr. Song afford such a large greenhouse?"

Because all the things used to build the shed are self-produced, the cost is low.

When Mr. Song was talking about iron smelting to the students, Vice President Huan had already walked out the door silently, calling for people to get off the carriages and horses, and arranged for the students to practice in the economic park.

They had never entered the industrial park before, and they only had the impression of a tall smoke column in their minds. When they walked outside the park, they stared at the smoke column, wanting to see how huge the chimney it was coming from.However, when they entered the industrial park, they didn't bother to look for the chimney, and their eyes were attracted by a flat-roofed factory building with floor-to-ceiling windows all around.

The doors and windows of that house are covered with transparent colorless glass, and the greenery can be seen through the glass from a distance.What's even more astonishing is that looking in through the glass of the door and window, if you raise your gaze upwards a little, you can see a piece of skylight and cloud that looks extraordinarily glistening behind the glass.

Even the roof of that house is inlaid with glass!