The Empress traveled through time and space, and she fought for supremacy in the troubled times

In a blink of an eye, I have been in this county town for more than a month.

Many things are on track.

The two schools that he was asked to build were also completed half a month ago.

Now when you pass by those two schools, you can hear the sound of reading coming from inside.

The people who moved from Yunjiazhai also moved out of their temporary residences and had a home of their own in Qingyun County.

If nothing unexpected happens, this will be my home for the rest of my life.

After these people moved out, Yun Zhi began to have people convert these mansions into six rooms, namely the Li, Hu, Li, Bing, Xing, and Gong rooms.

After this is completed, various official positions in the county will begin to be determined.

As for how to choose, Yun Zhi has already made up her mind.

At this time, in the study room.

Yun Zhi took a sip of the tea on the table and continued to look through the enrollment information of the school during this period.

After posting the notice, she asked the Yun family army to keep an eye on the movements of people in the county town.

After all, there has never been a shortage of pedantic people. Once the notice about men and women studying in the same room comes out, I'm afraid some people will make a fuss.

In some old-fashioned places, boys and girls under the age of seven cannot sit at the same table.

Nowadays, it is a taboo in their minds for boys and girls to study in the same room.

For such people, Yun Zhi gave orders to the Yun family army that if they were found to be loudly opposing in the market, they would be killed directly.

Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

An emperor cannot always be good.

In the eyes of some people, kindness means being easy to bully.

Besides, this is the first decree issued by Yun Zhi since he came here, and there is no reason to withdraw it.

The only option is to kill those who oppose it and let them know who is in charge here.

Things turned out just as Yun Zhi had expected. After the school was built and on the first day of formal teaching, several poor scholars expressed their dissatisfaction with her decree at the market.

It was claimed that this went against the ideas of our ancestors and was unacceptable, and that it should be retracted.

Haha, it's ridiculous. They didn't oppose so many outrageous decrees issued by the last emperor of the previous dynasty.

Could it be that because she is a woman, he thinks she is easy to bully?

After those people were killed, the voices of opposition immediately quieted down.

However, most of the students in school nowadays are still boys, and there are still too few parents who send their girls.

but……

Yun Zhi tapped the table lightly, believing that it wouldn't be long before these parents' minds would change.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside.

Yun Zhi sat up straight and looked out the door.

Yuzhu noticed her movements and silently walked forward to open the door.

Xu Shiling walked in and said, "My Lord, the iron ore you ordered to be shipped back has been placed at those blacksmith shops today."

After attacking the county town, they also dealt with the soldier guarding the iron mine.

Now, Yun Youde has cleaned up the previous blacksmith shops, recruited enough masters and apprentices, and is just waiting for the iron ore to come back so that he can start forging weapons.

Yun Zhi nodded and looked at him.

If Liu Anruo is a piece of beautiful jade that needs to be polished, then Xu Shiling is the jade that has already been polished smooth.

He can handle anything Yun Zhi assigns to him very well.

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Steward Xu. It's almost noon now, you should go home first."

For Xu Shiling, it was too harsh to ask him to be a live-in butler, so the arrangement for him was just like that for an official on duty.

He starts work at the hour of Mao, has lunch for one hour at the hour of Wu, and ends work at the hour of You. He has a day off every ten days and can be called back if necessary.

"Yes, then I'll take my leave."

After Xu Shiling left, Yun Zhi stood up and walked out the door. "It's noon, you two should go eat too."

"Yes, my lord."

Yun Zhi went alone to the main dining hall.

On the way, he happened to meet Yun's father who came to call him for dinner.

As soon as he saw Yun Zhi, Yun Youde smiled, "Mianmei, I'm done, it's time for lunch."

"Ah."

The two walked side by side towards the main hall.

"Dad, Butler Xu said the iron ore has been delivered to the blacksmith shop today."

"I haven't forged in several years. I don't know if I'm rusty yet. I'll go and practice this afternoon."

While saying this, Yun Youde was rubbing his hands, looking very excited.

Yun Youde really enjoys forging weapons. He likes the feeling of seeing the weapons being shaped step by step by his hands.

It will be a great sense of accomplishment.

"By the way, I'll make a sword for my daughter, Meimei. If Meimei has any shape she likes, I'll make it according to your wishes."

sword.

The sword that she spent half a year to make in her previous life.

I've been with her for nearly ten years.

Huangming, its name is Huangming.

"Thank you, Dad. It might be a little complicated, so I'll have to spend some time thinking about it."

Yun Youde waved his hand and said, "It's okay. When the time comes, just give the blueprint to me. I will build it for you."

After lunch.

Yun Youde hurried out the door.

Blacksmith shop.

The apprentices and some hired masters inside are cleaning the iron ore.

When they saw Yun Youde coming in, they all stood up quickly.

"Master Yun."

Seeing that they were about to salute, Yun Youde quickly waved his hand to stop them.

He picked up the reddish-brown hematite from the basket and looked at the group of young people who were only about twenty years old with curiosity in his eyes.

This reminded him of himself back then, who was also eager to recruit talented people.

"Come with me. Today I will teach you how to smelt iron. Bring in those baskets of iron ore."

"Yes."

Several people immediately came out from the group and carried the baskets of iron ore to the inner courtyard.

A group of apprentices followed Yun Youde into the inner courtyard, wanting to see how it was done.

The inner court.

"The first step is to crush the iron ore."

An apprentice squeezed the iron ore in his hand and said, "Master Yun, this iron ore is so hard. It will take a long time to crush it."

"Of course it's not easy to do it directly. This needs to be heated. Once it's heated, it will be easier."

A group of apprentices nodded in sudden realization. So that's how it is.

The iron ore is heated and placed in a large stone trough.

Yun Youde pointed to the large wooden hammer beside him and said, "Okay, now use this hammer."

"it is good."

Several people took large wooden hammers and started hammering. Under the force of gravity, the iron ore broke into pieces.

"Really, it does break easily."

Listening to their words, Yun Youde laughed. He was also amazed by everything back then.

An hour later.

Yun Youde stepped forward and touched the iron ore that had turned into powder. "It's almost done. Let's sift it again and carry it to the furnace."

After sifting out the finer powder, he carried it to the side of the furnace and Yun Youde looked at the furnace in front of him.

"The second step is to lay a layer of iron ore, then a layer of coke and limestone, and add them layer by layer."

This iron smelting method is a method that has been continuously improved and is also called blast furnace iron smelting.

After hearing his words, the group of apprentices started to move, "Okay."

After an unknown amount of time, orange-red molten iron began to flow out of the hole at the bottom of the furnace. You could feel its scorching temperature as soon as you got close.

Looking at the flowing molten iron, everyone around widened their eyes.

"Are you ready?"

"I understand. Thank you, Master Yun."

"Okay, it's getting late. Clean up here and you guys can go back."

Just smelting the iron took half a day, and it is almost midnight now.

"Yes."

It was time for him to go home and see if Meimei had finished drawing the blueprint.

If he could draw it, he would start making the weapon from tomorrow. He would try his best to make the best sword for his daughter.