In fact, since he started preparing to march into Xuzhou, Jiang Feng had been considering some issues. .

Fighting to support war is the only thing Huaiyou can do at present. Huaiyou is not as good as Daliang, nor as Li Wu, or even as Caizhou. The talent reserve foundation, material reserve foundation, and money reserve foundation are far from enough, and fighting is actually the consumption of fighting these things.

If the absorption of talents can be achieved through victory, recruitment and recruitment can solve a considerable number of them, at least in the battles between Luhao, Huaibei, Yanyunyi, but the materials and money are not enough.

Needless to say, Yan, Yun and Yi are the three states of Yan, Yun and Yi. If there are materials and money reserves, Zhu Mao would not automatically leave north to Jeju. The Taining Army has good combat effectiveness. If there are enough materials and money, Huaibei may not be the opponent.

Now Yanyunyi can only rely on Huainan grain to support it, otherwise it will become a state that is almost unmanned. Jiang Feng cannot allow this phenomenon to happen, so he can only accumulate the old grain capital by eating.

Huaibei looks a little better, but it would have been good if it had been a few years ago. However, in recent years, it has been severely poisoned by ant thieves. Yingbo and Bo were taken away by the Yuan family of Caizhou, Haizhou was occupied by Pinglu, and Xuzhou and Sizhou were left unsatisfied. However, after a few years of severe drought, the people were no longer able to cover their expenses. Huainan had to transport grain to help, otherwise it would have to trigger a wave of disaster victims fleeing south.

The only better ones are Luhao Prefectures. Luhao Prefectures are both in the Huainan Plain. At least they are rich in food and have not been ravaged by ants. Taking down Luhao Prefectures without war is also the biggest gain for Huaiyou.

However, the harvest from Luhao Prefectures alone would support the entire Huaibei, Yanyunyi, and Yanyunyi, which was obviously not enough, especially when Jiang Feng was facing an increasingly urgent crisis situation in the north, so he had to plan a situation as soon as possible and find another way.

The traditional recruitment method is already difficult to make up for the huge gap. The only thing that can support Jiang Feng is Xuzhou's rich coal and iron resources.

Xuzhou itself is one of the major iron smelting centers, and there are already considerable conditions. The only thing that restricts Xuzhou from further breaking through the ruling is of course the improvement of iron production capacity and quality.

Whether it is military demand or civilian demand, the demand for iron is extremely huge. Similarly, the quality gap will also make the price of iron of the same weight huge. This is what Jiang Feng aims at.

Liguo in Xuzhou has long been an iron ore-rich place, and it is easy to mine, and Xuzhou's coal resources are as abundant. At the same time, the ancient Bian River comes from the west and meets Sishui here, making water transportation convenient, so everything is ready, only the east wind is insufficient.

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"How is it?" Jiang Feng looked at Luo Zhen, who had lost a lot of weight but was very strong in spirit, and said with some heartache: "Boshan, you have to pay attention to your own body. If you have something to do, everyone will do it together. There are so many people in the Daozang Institute and the Caiguan Institute, so there is no need to do it yourself."

"Hey, I like to do this." Luo Zhen rolled his eyes and said with emotion: "I don't know why Erlang, you have Qiqiao Linglong heart or what, how can you figure out so many things? I have never seen you have any research on this?"

Jiang Feng laughed, "Have you ever heard of the word "Tianzong"? Sometimes some people are born to guide you ordinary people. How about it? Do you think you can wake up the dreamer in one sentence?"

Luo Zhen nodded honestly, "Indeed, what you said is to refine charcoal by using sealing and refining. Well, what's the name? refined charcoal is indeed very effective. Refining molten iron will not only have a high temperature and a fast water output speed, but more importantly, the quality of iron is particularly good and can be used directly. Without using hundreds of refining and hammering, it can be called good steel. The people in the Daozang Institute are still experimenting with fire techniques. They are preparing to enhance fire techniques and then combine the fine charcoal with some auxiliary materials to calcinate. It is said that the flame temperature will be higher, and the quality of the molten iron will be better."

Jiang Feng stroked his jaw, "Have the people from Ruijintang considered adding some other ores for calcination and smelting? I remember I mentioned it with them."

"They have tried it, and some seem to have good results, and some have no response. They said that this may require a long-term experimental process, and there are also some details about how many to add and when to join, which is very complicated and troublesome." Luo Zhen shook his head, as if he was also a little worried. "There is also the problem of this smelting furnace. You only told me a rough principle. How to design it specifically needs to be thought about it for a while. However, with the direction, I think there should be a breakthrough. Anyway, there is a ready-made master and there is no shortage of people, just try it a few more times."

"No hurry. You can take it slowly if you add other ores to mixed burning. It was originally a long-term process, but you must hurry up with the problem of smelting furnace. I will see the results in three months, and I will be of great use."

Jiang Feng has to admit that Wenke Dog is a shortcoming in this regard.

If you change this industry, you will at least understand how simple design guidance can be used, and at least you can avoid detours. But as a liberal arts dog, I really only know one general principle, and the other is just a slight dizziness.

Fortunately, the magicians and craftsmen of this era are even more powerful than they imagined, especially after they provided them with some route guidance, they still have a quick exploration. What is more important is that there is no shortage of people or materials. This provides great help to the research of them, such as "scientific" madmen, and the progress is also very fast.

"Three months? Isn't it too fast?" Luo Zhen frowned, "Is it useful? Even if the experiment is successful and one or two stoves are built, it will take at least one or two years to really spread it out, right? It will cost a lot of money to build a stove, and it seems that you don't know how simple it is to build ten or eight. How much money does it cost? In addition, people are familiar now, and it's okay to do one or two, but if you want to build dozens of them, the number of experienced trainers required is too large and not that many. If you can't do it properly, something will happen..."

Jiang Feng naturally understood what Luo Zhen said. He did not expect to build Xuzhou into a large smelting base in three to five months. What he needed was one or two furnaces that could successfully refine qualified iron so that Sogdian merchants could experience it, so that they could feel at ease with their investment in the next step, and were willing to invest more money on themselves.

As long as the three major Hu merchants successfully tied Persian Hu merchants and Sogdian merchants to their own chariots, their future road of conquest will be much smoother. They know that once they fail, their investment may be wasted.

Jiang Feng was even thinking that one day he would take Yangzhou, then the maritime business group dominated by Dashi Hu merchants would be another "partner" he could bring in.

The strength of maritime merchants is not much inferior to that of Sogdian merchants, especially in Yangzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, which is even more overwhelming.

But now he doesn't have the power.

"Three months, I only asked to build one or two demonstration furnaces, so that everyone can deeply feel the breakthrough of this revolution." Jiang Feng said word by word: "This must be done."

"Oh, I understand. You want to use this to coax people to take the bait." Luo Zhen immediately understood the idea of ​​his childhood playmate, which was also a routine.

"It's a bit ugly to say that you've made a iron smelting furnace. Are the iron smelting furnaces you made a fake? Did the previous iron smelting furnaces have leaps and bounds in terms of output and quality? If this is true, does it mean huge benefits?" Jiang Feng sneered, "These are all true, so how about coaxing people to take the bait? It's just to attract interested people to invest in advance."

Luo Zhen was too lazy to pay attention to Jiang Feng's explanation, and he had no intention of asking about this, he had something he cared about.

"Okay, no one cares about how you coax people. Deng Guinian returned to Xianzhou and discussed with me. He felt that the Huaiyou Daozang Institute is no longer suitable for the current Huaiyou situation. He felt that the Daozang Institute could be set up in Shouzhou or Xuzhou. Depending on your opinion, although the magical and magical Daozang talents in the three prefectures of Xu Sihai are not as good as Huainan, but after all, the population of these three prefectures is large, and there are already many talents living in seclusion in the countryside. Therefore, Brother Guinian hopes to take advantage of the conditions of Xuzhou to attract more talents. He has arranged several groups of people to visit talents in Xuzhou and Sizhou respectively. It is estimated that the personnel of the Daozang Institute's official office will usher in a big increase. Let me tell you first."

Jiang Feng had never voted for the requirements of the Daozang Institute and the Caiguan Institute. He knew very well that when his background and strength were still far from other powerful vassals, he had to find ways to make up for it in these aspects. Therefore, he almost met Deng Guinian's requirements in this regard.

Of course, Daocanghwa and Caiguans did not disappoint him. The ideas he put forward could have a relatively satisfactory result.

"I think it's decided to be in Xuzhou. Xuzhou can be used as a branch base. Xuzhou communicates with Hebei, Central Plains, Heshuo, and Pinglu don't pay much attention to magic, which just makes our Taoist sect attract talents." Jiang Feng expressed his attitude very affirmatively.
Chapter completed!