"Quickly, cook. After dinner, I want to have a good sleep until tomorrow morning."
As soon as the people from Xiaqiu Village returned to the village, someone yelled. It was obvious that living in a tent outside was not as comfortable as at home.
The children participated in cooking together. Cook quickly. There are many people, and those who come to help have to eat before leaving.
The people sent by the palace were happy to finally be able to go back and were very busy in the village.
Livestock, poultry, greenhouse vegetables, raising bees, collecting duck and goose eggs, milking, looking after the stove...
The only advantage is that you can drink milk and eat eggs as you like, not to mention the vegetables in the greenhouse, and you can use rice, flour, oil and condiments as needed.
Even so, they still want to go back. They are used to a certain kind of life, and suddenly they cannot adapt to the sudden change.
So after lunch, the palace guests got on the boat with a lot of things, and the villagers cleaned up things in the village, took a bath, and went home to sleep.
Zhu Wentian ran to the mountain temple, added some lamp oil, adjusted the wick, pulled up the quilt and fell asleep.
Zhu Biao in the palace could not fall asleep before dark, so he took the princess on a bicycle to deliver meals to Kunning Palace at night.
Zhu Yuanzhang received the news in advance and did not go to other places to eat or sleep.
"Dad, the first blast furnace has been used to smelt iron. Under the same labor and materials requirements, the output is five times that of the other best smelting methods.
Craftsmen are making adjustments to increase production, mainly with refractory bricks. At the same time, the blast furnaces built without refractory bricks produce scrap iron with too many impurities.
The main reason is that if it is too hot, the furnace cannot bear it and has to be cooled down. If the temperature does not drop, the furnace will be scrapped, and if the temperature drops, the furnace will be scrapped.
In addition, burning with charcoal is not possible and the temperature cannot be raised. Also, it is best to manually beneficiate iron ore in the early stage. If the ore is beneficiated..."
Zhu Biao came here to report on the blast furnace. The labor and material costs were the same, but the iron cost was five times.
As for converter steelmaking, there is no need to try it. Xiaqiu Village has built a small one outside Donghua Gate. You can just go and have a look.
"Okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang licked his newly inlaid teeth with his tongue: "The ore there is easy to mine, and with the blast furnace smelting, the firearms of the Ming army will be increased by half."
"Once the converter expands, the air intake will no longer work, and the converter in Xiaqiu Village will produce scrap iron and other slag." Zhu Biao became worried again when he talked about this.
He feels that once converters are used extensively, there will be a lot of scrap iron that cannot be processed and will be wasted.
"Biao'er, write a letter and send it to Xiaqiu Village tomorrow morning." Empress Ma didn't think about the troubles at all and left it to the senior people in Xiaqiu Village to see how they would handle it.
"Yes, ask Xiaqiu Village. Has anyone said anything about the ministers' newly crowned teeth that feels uncomfortable?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked about the teeth.
"My child has never heard of it. It is impossible for them to come and complain about the tooth." Zhu Biao shook his head. He was a prince, not an imperial doctor.
"Let's ask tomorrow." Zhu Yuanzhang realized that he really had to ask this matter himself. Some ministers were embarrassed to say it, and it was still uncomfortable. Wouldn't it mean that he would suffer from having his teeth fixed?
…
At dawn, the villagers of Xiaqiu Village woke up one after another, and they were all full of energy. It was already past the usual breakfast time.
Last night there were people running to feed the animals. Spring is about to start, so they must eat well.
Now such a person has not yet woken up, and as soon as he relaxes, he enters the body recovery stage.
"Thanks to the large amount of food cooked at noon yesterday, I heated it up and ate it as two meals a day. It's just not as good as at home in Nanjing."
The chef is in good condition, directing people to heat the rice. Some dishes can be put together to heat up the food. It’s a hodgepodge that tastes pretty good!
Usually, if there are any leftover dishes from the meal, this is done and you are reluctant to throw them away.
Some of the other villagers continued to feed the livestock, while others let the chickens, ducks and geese go outside to find food for themselves and then feed them when they came back.
Just after eating the leftovers, a ship came from the east.
"Zhu Lichang, are you eating? We came out early." Zhu Taiyi smiled all over his face.
"It's all the leftovers from yesterday's lunch. Sit down first and I'll cook two dishes for you."
The village chief felt sorry that the villagers were lazy today.
"No, I'm very hungry, that's all. Here is a letter from His Royal Highness."
When Zhu Taiyi handed over the letter, there was no lacquer seal on it, which made people feel at ease.
After the meal, the village chief found Hanhan in the sacrificial hall: "The prince said that there is not enough oxygen in the converter for steelmaking and there is too much scrap iron."
Zhu Wentian took the letter and scanned it: "The converter is used in the village to tap steel quickly. It has high requirements for oxygen. We don't have oxygen-making equipment, so we keep blowing the air hard.
At present, Ming Dynasty is making a lot of steel, and converters cannot be used. I drew a set of drawings and used open-hearth furnaces, and threw scrap steel and scrap iron in to make steel.
The best stove is actually an electric stove, don’t think about it for now, electricity... is not available at the moment. "
Zhu Wentian knew what the problem was, and after some repairs, the open furnace was actually good.
"As expected, I have to move there. Today is a technical problem. Who knows what it will be tomorrow? The more you get, the more you have to pay."
The chief noticed that the stable days were gradually fading away, and said some very philosophical words.
"There shouldn't be too many things...right?" Zhu Wentian wasn't very sure.
"You go to sleep first, and then we'll talk when you get up." The chief went out with his hands behind his back.
Zhu Wentian actually went to bed. He was sleepy after eating. The key was that the drawings for the open-hearth furnace were in a set and took several days to draw.
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On the first day of February in the fifth year of Hongwu, the big move of Xiaqiu Village began.
The imperial court mobilized sixty ships near Xiaqiu Village on the Huangchi River, loading one ship at a time.
The livestock and poultry are to be taken away, and all the materials stored in Xiaqiu Village are loaded on the ship, and the bamboo fungus and white fungus packages are placed in layers.
Copper coins, cloth, silver coins, silver coins, and bedding at the bottom of the box must also be taken away.
The coffin was left behind, and the village elders had prepared it in advance. It was all made of good wood. Once the coffin passed away, it would be sent back for burial.
There are also bacon, sausages, ordinary beehives, post-made glass, glass mirrors, telescopes, some silage...
Zhu Taiyi and four others helped. If Xiaqiu Village did not move, it would not be obvious how big the family's business was.
They found that sixty ships were not enough to carry it. This was not all the property. The wine brewed by Xiaqiu Village was still stored in the cellar and had not been moved.
"Chief Zhu! Your village is too rich." Zhu Taiyi said to the chief.
"Where's the money? It's just a broken house worth tens of thousands of dollars. Is there any problem with the paint over there? Don't smoke people."
The headmaster was very proud, oh! Our village is indeed unusual. We need to hire a lot of manpower this year.
"The house was completely cleaned up six days ago, including the furniture inside, and they were grilled with charcoal. The wood of the furniture is all aged and will not deform.
In order to move our village here quickly, His Majesty spent a lot of money and used 10,000 craftsmen to work.
The layout of the houses outside Chaoyang Gate is no different from the layout here. Inside, you feel like the current village.
The river next to it was too small to accommodate the large waterwheel, so a small waterwheel was built.
There is also a silage pond and a canteen for eating, and a two-story sacrificial hall with three entrances has cornices. "
Zhu Taiyi introduced the situation in Nanjing, and finally emphasized that the sacrificial hall has overhangs, which exceeds the standard.
(End of chapter)
