And this old man, with the support of Huang Qiong, the prince, he also started to do it. They used the porcelain-making skills inherited from their families to cast cannons. Start with cheaper iron and experiment with the casting process bit by bit. In the end, he took the lead in using clay molds to create a very light iron cannon. Although due to quality issues, it cannot be fired continuously for a long time, and it is relatively easy to explode.
But the weight is much lighter than those big guys on the top of Hulao Pass. As for the bronze cannon, although there is no shadow yet, this guy actually made a cannon with an iron core and a copper body. Of course, this is already a year and a half later. During this period, Huang Qiong worked very hard to maintain this gun range. If it weren't for Ma Rui, who secretly supported a large amount of money and grain, I'm afraid it would have been unable to support it long ago.
Huang Qiong tried to raise money and allocate the money and food, which could only meet the basic monthly needs for craftsmen and some raw materials. When coal was originally used as fuel, it could barely support it. But after changing to charcoal, the cost suddenly increased a lot. In order to ensure the charcoal needed for this cannon casting field, Huang Qiong specially sent people to establish several charcoal burning fields at the western foot of Mang Mountain.
Fortunately, at this time, the vegetation on the Central Plains was still quite dense. The forest was far less destroyed than it was more than a thousand years later. Many places at the western foothills of Mang Mountain, including Xiong'er Mountain southwest of Jingzhao, are still virgin forests that block out the sky and sun. Raising charcoal is not a difficult task. Although the cost and consumption of coal are a bit higher than that of coal, it is still affordable.
In fact, from Huang Qiong's few remaining memories of his past life, he also knew that coal could not be used to cast a qualified cannon. This is because coal contains a lot of sulfur. People today don’t understand coal desulfurization, and they don’t know how to distinguish coal. Huang Qiong knows that not all coal is suitable as metallurgical fuel. Therefore, coal cannot be used to smelt steel and copper of acceptable quality.
But the problem is that he studied archeology in his previous life, not metallurgy. And now the memory of his previous life is getting further and further away from him. What is left in my head is really not much, and it is gradually disappearing. It was simply not enough to tell him how to solve the problem of coal desulfurization. Therefore, he could only accept the suggestion of using charcoal as fuel.
Under this situation, he can only use talents with even a little knowledge and accept their suggestions. At this point, Huang Qiong will never do the kind of thing where a layman pretends to be authoritative or leads an expert when he doesn't know how to pretend to understand. For Huang Qiong, the key now is to cast qualified cannons instead of meddling indiscriminately. What's more, it's impossible for him to focus all his energy on one thing.
A series of things such as farming people into acres, foreign trade, rectification of officialdom, water transportation, river engineering, etc., as well as refugees filling the borders, etc., can be said to be a myriad of things. Fortunately, the team of secretaries that Jia Quan selected for Huang Qiong were all outstanding talents and were very capable in handling errands. The daily memorials were first sorted and classified by these people, and the comments from the Zhongshu Ministry of Education were attached, which relieved Huang Qiong a lot of worry.
Except for the east and west routes of Guangnan, one person is responsible for both routes. The six departments are composed of two people specially selected by Huang Qiong, one of whom is responsible for three departments. One of these two people, Huang Qiong, personally passed the imperial examination when he presided over it, and was later sent to follow Fu Yuanshan to Shanxi to practice. Kou Zhun was named by Huang Qiong himself and transferred back to the capital to serve as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. Now he is also considered a disciple of the emperor.
Huang Qiong still admires this talent very much. However, Huang Qiong also let this happen and carefully selected a team of secretaries. The members themselves added their own thoughts and ideas to the notes. These are either young and successful Jinshi, or lower-level officials who have been wasting their time in Beijing for many years but have been unable to be promoted because they have no connections. Being taken seriously by the prince now is like being beaten to death.
Each one has round arms and works hard with all his strength. Huang Qiong selected these low-level officials or newly promoted Jinshi to be beside him, which made many people envious. The one I envied the most was Sima Hong, who was finally promoted to Minister of Industry. This person's character was a little worse, but he was still a person with outstanding talents. Huang Qiong finally chose to use his talents. So after much hesitation, he was promoted to minister.
Lord Sima had entered the palace several times thinking that he would follow Fu Yuanshan to Shanxi Road, but now he was left on Shanxi Road. In the same year that others were left behind, most of them were released as state magistrates or county magistrates. He became the only son who was left in the Yinchasi Experience Center to become a seventh-grade experienced son, and he was also transferred to Huang Qiong. He only asked a few times and even found Jia Quan.
But Jia Quan, who knew Huang Qiong's character, didn't tell him at all. And he himself raised it several times, but was directly rejected by Huang Qiong. In Huang Qiong's view, this person not only has low moral character, but also has insufficient talent to undertake these things. Moreover, Fu Yuanshan, who took this group of Jinshi to Shanxi, had at least an average evaluation of the others. But the evaluation of Sima Hong's son is extremely low.
Sima Hong, who had some connections in the court, hated Fu Yuanshan's comments and thought it was this guy who was causing trouble. It's just that although Fu Yuanshan is still in the second rank, he is now a member of Zhongshu's sect, and he is also the minister of Youcheng. He can be said to be extremely powerful and the holy family is prosperous. And unlike other prime ministers in Zhongshu Province, Huang Qiong obviously paid more attention to Fu Yuanshan.
He and Lu Mengzheng were often summoned to the palace to talk about things for a whole day without rest even at night. As for Fu Yuanshan's wife, she and Mrs. Lu Mengzheng were granted the title of Second Grade Imperial Lady on the day she entered the capital. This holy family member has felt that His Highness the Crown Prince has become increasingly alienated from his family since his son married his ex-wife. How dare he go to Fu Yuanshan to argue with him?
So even though he hated it so much that he was itching his teeth, there was nothing he could do. In fact, he had long since regretted his decision to agree to his son's marriage to his ex-wife. Although Wu Zhiyu could no longer have children, she had always been thrifty and diligent in running the family, and was extremely filial to her father-in-law. During the most difficult times at the beginning, he always kept the house in order and did not let him worry about it.
But now for this fierce guy, things at home always depend on his mood. When you're in a bad mood, even your father-in-law doesn't look good. When it comes to spending money, those who are lavish don't care about their family fortune. She didn't keep a penny of her son's salary for a year, and it wasn't enough for her to squander. When I, a third-rank official, got off work, I often couldn't even get a hot meal when I returned home.
But she herself spent the whole day calling friends and gathering a large group of people to eat and drink at home. There is no bird in the sky or beast on the earth that she does not eat. Every time the seasons change, clothes made of fine silk and satin are carried into the mansion in boxes. Tou Mian, there are several sets in a dozen. She has always been a frequent customer and a major customer of famous silk and satin shops and jewelry shops in the capital.
The only thing she cares about is whether the family's wealth can support her squandering. What troubled Sima Hong the most was that this eldest lady from an official family didn't look like a eldest lady at all. In summer, just wear a thin dress made of silk or even gauze. You can clearly see the jacket and trousers inside. taboo.
It's the same even in front of myself, my father-in-law. He didn't pay any attention to the surprised look in the house. As a result, the servants in the house were distracted all day long in the summer, and their eyes were directed at her, the young lady. I really couldn't bear it, so I asked her to accompany her son during his appointment. After all, it was not the same thing for young couples to be separated like this, and it would delay the birth of a son.
In order to continue the prosperity of the Sima family and to let his son educate her well, Sima Hong proposed that she should be appointed to his son's post. But as soon as she mentioned this, she started crying and crying, complaining that the Sima family mistreated her. What's more, once he went to an old friend's house to reminisce. When I came back, I found that my daughter-in-law was hugging a man, who she said was her distant cousin.
That cousin didn't act like an outsider when he came to his house, and he came almost every once in a while. She had seen her cousin come out of her room in disheveled clothes several times. She still has nothing to do, and often goes back to her parents' home for a month. Just when she asked, she would resort to death again, saying that she didn't believe her and falsely accusing her of innocence. Rather than doing this, it would be better to just die.
This woman doesn't matter, but her backstage is that Sima Hong dares to really force her to confess and cause trouble? ? Facing this daughter-in-law who has an extremely aggressive temperament, can match the dress and behavior of a brothel girl, spends the same money as a clepsydra, and may even wear a hat for her son. Sima Hong regretted it now and often sat in his study, sighing all night long.
Nowadays, Sima Hong faces a home that is in a state of chaos caused by his daughter-in-law. He is unwilling to go back even if he has a home on weekdays. I would rather live in the rest room of the Ministry of Works Yamen than return to my own house. He asked Jia Quan to speak for his son, not only because he knew that as long as the Jinshi around Huang Qiong did not risk their lives, their future prosperity would definitely be just around the corner.
If his own son can catch up this time, then his future will be truly limitless. Another reason is that he really hopes that his son can be transferred back and properly discipline his wife. What has become of this family? But Huang Qiong didn't agree, leaving him helpless. Jia Quan, who was very aware of his little thoughts, shook his head.
Putting aside the fact that his son's talent really doesn't impress Huang Qiong. Even if he could get in, Huang Qiong would definitely not transfer his unscrupulous son to work beside him. As for his son, the fact that the rich man married his wife has almost become a laughing stock in the capital. It also brought a lot of criticism to the current prince. Almost, the matter of getting him to come back was completely ruined.
It was Huang Qiong who rescued their family from suffering, and it was Huang Qiong's idea to revive them. There is still some kind of close relationship with the British Prince's Palace. And Huang Qiong is a person who pays great attention to whether the people around him will bring disgrace to his face. That young master Sima abandoned his wife and daughter before he was admitted to high school, and he didn't even care about their life or death. How dare Huang Qiong use such a person?
What's more, as far as Jia Quan knew, Sima Hong's former daughter-in-law, who hated their father and son to death, was now by Huang Qiong's side. Not only has she become Huang Qiong's favorite concubine, she is also pregnant with Huang Qiong's child. Even if Huang Qiong doesn't mind the rumors outside, the power of pillow wind is more powerful than any rumors. Under such circumstances, how could Huang Qiong keep his son by his side?
However, for the sake of this man, he had a pretty good relationship with me in the British Prince's Palace. Jia Quan finally begged him for mercy, saying that he was now on Shanxi Road just doing an idle job. The son, who had been doing nothing all day long and had no one to take care of him even when he was not on duty at the Yamen, was transferred back to the capital. But when he was transferred back, he was just left to work as a sinecure in a certain Qingshui Yamen.
