Great Ming National Teacher

Xu Yingyuan, the personal eunuch next to the emperor, suddenly fell out of favor, and the news that he was dispatched to Nanjing to see the imperial tomb caused quite a stir in the court.Who is Xu Yingyuan?Not only is he the most important eunuch today, but he is also a gambling friend with Wei Zhongxian, who is nine thousand and nine hundred years old. It is said that the two have some friendship in private. A reincarnated warlock who claimed to be Li Yunya who came from the lower realm of the celestial beings.

This time, not only the eunuchs re-examined Li Yunya, but also other parties and people without party affiliation also noticed him, inquiring about the origin of this Taoist priest with illusion skills, and what kind of institution the Daming Military Academy he presided over.

Li Yunya didn't care about these things, with the emperor's will, Wei Zhongxian ordered his subordinates not to provoke him again, and this return to the Ministry of Industry was smoother than before, and he hired another [-] blacksmiths and [-] potters.

Li Yunya doesn't know much about steelmaking. According to what he learned in junior high school textbooks, the difference between steel and ordinary iron lies in the content of impurities, especially the carbon content. Steelmaking is to remove as much charcoal as possible from iron. As for the principle of steelmaking, as for the method, he has two impressions in his mind: blast furnace steelmaking and indigenous steelmaking. As for how high the blast furnace should be, he has no idea how rustic the indigenous method is.

The first thing that needs to be solved is the refractory material. Li Yunya knows that the melting point of steel is between 1000 and [-] degrees. The higher the carbon content, the lower the melting point. The worst is cast iron. have a higher temperature.

Fortunately, China has always had a tradition of smelting metals. It developed to a very high level in the Ming Dynasty. The blacksmiths Li Yunya recruited were all masters from the Ministry of Industry. Their ancestors have been doing this for generations. It can be said that they have mastered the empire. The highest smelting technology, as early as the Jiajing period more than 100 years ago, the Sugang smelting method was widely used in China.

One hundred craftsmen, 360 fathers, sons and brothers, were called together by Li Yunya. First, they told them about the method of steelmaking at this time, and then based on this, they improved with the knowledge Li Yunya knew.

Li Yunya knows two knowledge points, one is that the carbon content of steel affects the quality, and the other is that ordinary coal cannot be used, coke must be used, so first let the craftsmen build furnaces to burn coke.At the same time, Li Yunya built another brick kiln to fire red bricks. He will start construction in the coming year. Red bricks are easier to mass-produce than blue bricks, and the cost is lower.

Fortunately, the craftsmen he found were very strong, and it took less than a month to burn the first furnace of coke.

Li Yunya asked someone to set up a cauldron, put coke into it and ignite it with wood. When a blue flame ignited, only a little smoke rose.

Every household in the rural areas has an iron bucket and buys a bag of coke and puts it on fire in winter when they do weddings and funerals in winter. They use it to cook vegetables and make running water mats. It doesn’t smoke and has high heat. It’s much easier to use than coal. The locals Tube coke is called coke.

"Every family that participates in this charcoal refining plan will be rewarded with 30 taels of silver! Leading craftsmen, each will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver!"

"Thank you, my lord, for the reward!" All the people, old and young, knelt down and knelt.

"Get up! Get up, I don't like this here." Li Yunya picked out the five best companies in the coking process, "You will be full-time coking in the future, and I will set up a coking plant in the next year. You should study it carefully. Whoever can smelt coke better, I will raise your star rating and reward you!" Another round of cheers arose.

As the saying goes, money is easy to do, and a lot of money is spread. Li Yunya soon found that he underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. First of all, the Ming Dynasty itself had a very high smelting foundation. After all, the smelting technology in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods was world-class. When the powerful Roman Empire was still playing with bronze wares, China’s Han Dynasty had already used iron wares. After more than 2000 years of development, it has now reached a very high level, so their starting point is very high, and they were inspired by Li Yunya , the first furnace of cast iron was smelted years ago.

Although it is quite different from the steel that Li Yunya expected, he is also very satisfied, because according to his budget, it would be good to get a furnace in February next year, and the effect is still unknown, probably because he was stimulated by the silver reward. Yes, this group of people, old and young, went to battle, guarding the stove day and night, adding fire and annealing, wishing they could live by the stove, so they advanced the progress so much.

Several veteran craftsmen who took the lead said to Li Yunya: "My lord, this is just a small test for the first time. Let's see how our improved new furnace works. We will increase the temperature and extend the time for the next furnace. If the air vent is narrowed down, it will definitely be better."

"That's right, my lord. Although the result is not satisfactory this time, it will definitely be better next time." A thin and small craftsman named Zhu Hong was honest and honest. He heard that Li Yunya was training soldiers, so he thought It was necessary to smelt iron to make weapons. The quality of these cast irons was not good, and the thin swords and swords would break easily when slashed. It was not as good as those made by repeated forging.

Li Yunya was very happy: "It doesn't matter if you smelt cast iron, each family will be rewarded with ten taels of silver, and the main craftsman will be rewarded with 30 taels. Next, let's make persistent efforts to make the best steel as soon as possible!"

All the craftsmen heard that not only were they not punished, but they were also rewarded with silver. They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed. There were a few older ones, in fact, in their 50s, but they were thin and dark, with gray beard and gray hair. Everyone cried out, their ancestors have been craftsmen for generations, and there has never been a Shangguan who is as good as Li Yunya, who rewards money at every turn.

Li Yunya immediately dispatched twenty blacksmiths, took the smelted cast iron, and made a mold on the other side: "I want to make a kind of stove, so big and so high, it can burn coal and less wood in it, and there is a grate underneath. There must be a furnace tube, such a long section, one end is slightly thicker and the other end is slightly thinner, so that it can be connected together, and I will reward you for making it!"

In the past two months, Li Yunya has kept a balance between technology development and soldier training, running both factories and military schools.

This year is the first year he will live in the Ming Dynasty. He has no home here, and he can't go to the Forbidden City to celebrate the New Year with Zhu Youjian. He can only be alone. Fortunately, he still has a thousand people who obey his command Brother Bing, after entering the twelfth lunar month, he put ten companies on vacation in batches and asked them to go home early for the new year. Each soldier was given ten taels of silver as a red envelope. At that time, the ten companies happened to go home once.

The lovely soldiers came back from home beaming, without any complaints, and they all brought their family-made bacon, steamed stuffed buns and other food with them. After Li Dahai took the lead in bringing him a piece of bacon, everyone gave it to him like crazy. He sent things, piled up into a hill in a blink of an eye, and then scattered with a bang with embarrassment.

Li Yunya called the aunt from the cafeteria, moved all the food to the cafeteria, and made it into a random stew for everyone to eat. Chicken, duck, fish, mushrooms and dried vegetables were all stewed together. The soup was thick and fresh, and everyone was smiling.

On the evening of New Year's Eve, the weather was fine, and Li Yunya called all the soldiers to the playground outside to hold a bonfire party. He bought a cow and ten sheep in advance, and asked the canteen aunt to chop them up and roast them together.

Li Yunya found that everyone was eating in silence, so he asked everyone to sing. After singing two military songs that he usually learned, he became bored again: "Today's Chinese New Year, everyone relaxes, except for the brothers who take turns to stand guard, Everyone else is free."

Everyone agreed verbally, but still no one spoke, so Li Yunya started and sang when will the bright moon come.

He looked up at the dark night sky and sang quietly: "When will the bright moon appear? Ask the blue sky for wine. I don't know the palace in the sky. What year is it today? I want to go home with the wind, but I'm afraid of Qionglou Yuyu..."

There was that ignorant man holding a meat skewer in his hand and looking up: "Today is New Year's Eve, where is the moon? My lord's singing is inappropriate."

"You're the one who talks too much!" Li Dahai, the class monitor, reached out and knocked the other party's head.

"My lord is probably homesick." Li Xiaohai, who was sitting next to me, said, "I heard people say that your lord is a star king in the upper and lower realms. What is his name, Feng Yuanxing? He is in the sky. We can't see it, but your lord can see it. You Didn't you hear him sing, I want to ride the wind and go home, and my lord wants to fly back to my hometown, Fengyuanxing."

"Ah? Your Excellency is leaving?" Everyone around who heard this sentence was shocked, "If your Excellency leaves, what should we do? Will we go back to the Beijing camp?" They eat well and live well here, and every day They have money every month. Although they practice hard every day, it is like heaven compared to eating and waiting for death in the capital camp. When they think that Li Yunya is going to fly to immortality, they still panic when they return to the capital camp.

After Li Yunya sang a song, he smiled self-deprecatingly. He had no home, even in another world. The house left by his grandparents was taken by his uncle. The two small brick houses are nothing more than a cat-style place to stay. All the necessities of life are packed in the space, and you can leave whenever you want, and there is nothing to miss.

Even if you can go back to the original world, what's the point?He still delivers couriers every day as before, wakes up early and stays late, earns money, wears clothes and eats well, is still drunk, he can't get married, and he doesn't want to find a boyfriend casually, that's all for the rest of his life.

On the contrary, he is living a fulfilling life now. He has the ability and opportunity to change the direction of the empire and the fate of [-] million people in the country. Ha ha.

He shook his head, came back to his senses, and found that the scene was unbelievably quiet, everyone was motionless, looking at him quietly, especially the young ones nearby, with tears in their eyes, ready to cry at any moment. cry out.

"what happened……"

"My lord!" The leader of Li Dahai's class knelt down, triggering a chain effect. Everyone knelt together and cried in unison, "My lord, please don't leave us and go back to the sky alone."

The crying Bai Xiaohu even sobbed and said: "My lord is leaving, so take me and my mother along."

Immediately, a group of people chattered and said: "I also took us away, and I will go to Fengyuanxing with my lord."

Where is this going, Li Yunya can't laugh or cry: "Get up! Get up, I won't go! Oh, get up, I have lost my mana now, even if I want to go, I can't go. Besides, I promised the emperor that if you want this Daming, Everyone has food to eat and everyone has clothes to wear."