In the first month of the sixth year of Jianzhong Jingguo in the Song Dynasty, the border river was frozen again, and the bustling market was also in a rare tranquility.

There were fewer pedestrians on the road, and the shopping malls in the city were deserted. Only the iron squatting farms built along the moat in the south of the city and the Iron Smelting Academy were still popular in rows of various styles of blast furnaces, including Liao styles, Xixia styles, and several Central Plains style blast furnaces copied from Liguojian. Next to the blast furnace, an iron stir-fry furnace was also built, a single-chamber fried furnace, a double-chamber fried furnace, and a series-chamber fried furnace (which is to connect the blast furnace and the fried furnace with a ditches made of bricks and stones). A double-chamber stuffing furnace was also built, which was a furnace used to smelter the crucible iron.

All these blast furnaces, stir-frying furnaces, and crucible furnaces are filled with thick smoke, showing a hot and lively appearance. However, these furnaces are not "production furnaces", but experimental furnaces of the Iron Smelting Academy. They are specially used for systematic "trial errors". Different formulas, different furnace temperatures, and different furnace types must be tested one by one.

Moreover, the process and results of the experiment will be recorded and filed by professors from the School of Metallurgy and the School of Technology (all professors of the School of Metallurgy are graduates of the School of Technology)...

Near the blast furnace and the stir-frying furnace group, there are open and closed brick kilns each, which are specially used for experimenting with refractory bricks.

In addition to the stove with thick smoke, the jingling forging sounds from time to time. The furnace that was built face to face with this "money-burning" is based on the iron yard on the inside of the moat. All methods of making steel, cold forged steel, filling steel, clamped steel, and various methods of making steel forged iron must be experimented one by one here.

In addition, there are some water trucks that drive hydraulic hammer designs, and are also ready to be experimented after the moat is freezing.

The same Metallurgical Academy (actually the Metallurgical Institute) has one in JD.com. Although both colleges have "shares" of Yuntai Academy, they operate independently (except Yuntai Academy, other shareholders do not overlap), and are actually competitive.

In addition, Wu Haogu and Ji Yi each took out 100,000 yuan to set up a "Qingtang Award" which was awarded to the college professor team that first achieved mass production of Qingtangjia.

With the heavy reward, I will naturally be full of energy!

The people below were full of energy, but Wu Haogu himself stayed at home for many days, enjoying the joy of family.

Now he was wearing a loose robe, lying on a small building in the newly built "Yiqingguan" next to his house, looking at the newspaper sent by Kaifeng Mansion leisurely. Guo Xiaoxiao, dressed in a beautiful outfit, was personally decorating the lunch table. There was a table of light-flavored side dishes, without wine, only four cups of tea.

The Taoist nun in her twenties now looks more and more graceful and charming, and every move is full of charm.

Pan Qiaolian came in from outside and saw her, Guo Xiaoxiao quickly stood up.

"Little sister, you're busy with yours." Pan Qiaolian looked a little too plump. She gave birth to a boy for Wu Haogu last winter, and she had just finished confinement. Ximen Qing and Du Wenyu gave birth to a daughter. Now Wu Haogu is really a group of children!

With his son, Pan Qiaolian was in a good mood and came to Wu Haogu's side, "Dalang, what are you looking at?"

"Something happened to Kaifeng Prefecture," Wuhao Gudao, "Cai Yuanchang seems to be about to fall... The Attorney Censor Shi Guozuo (Shi Gongbi) and the Supervisor Zhang Jiezhong jointly impeached him to raise troops in the capital, block the way of speaking, and make ill-intentioned plans."

"How could there be such a big charge?" Pan Qiaolian smiled, "Now these censors like to convict officials indiscriminately."

"There seems to be some of the troops raised by the capital and the closed-door route," Wu Haogu shook his head, "They naturally put up the wrong plan."

"Hold troops in the capital? How is this possible? A husband."

"Isn't it the government soldiers who make trouble?" Wu Haogu smiled, "No one expected... Everyone treated the government soldiers as imperial guards, but somehow, these government soldiers followed the orders. Cai Jing transferred hundreds of government soldiers to Cai Bian's quick martial arts, so they became the capital of the army."

"How could the soldiers in the palace obey the emperor's orders?"

Wu Haogu thought for a while and said with a smile: "It's probably because the current government soldiers have served for five years, right? In the past, the imperial guards all paid attention to generals not knowing soldiers, and soldiers not knowing generals. But now the government soldiers have been away from home for five years, stayed in the military camp for a long time, and were trained all day and night with generals. Moreover, the government soldiers are all simple peasants, not like the imperial guards, so it's not surprising that they only follow their orders."

Pan Qiaolian smiled, "But the official has benefited, otherwise Cai Yuanchang would have to find your trouble in the future."

"That's right." Wu Haogu nodded with a smile.

At this time, the sound of the stairs came, and Ximen Qing also went up to the small building. She was holding a small wooden box in her hand. Seeing Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian, she gave a blessing, "Master, sister."

"Sister is here, I'm waiting for you to have dinner." Wu Haogu stood up with Pan Qiaolian and walked towards the dining table. "Today, Xiaoxiao's kitchen was personally served. Although it was all light-flavored side dishes, it was delicious and exquisite."

"It's a small skill, so I have to eat more." Ximen Qing and Pan Qiaolian gave birth to a child when they were about the same, but their figure looked much more well-proportioned than Pan Qiaolian. She has been practicing martial arts since childhood and can withstand a relatively large amount of exercise, so she is not afraid of eating a few more bites.

"Sister, what are you holding?" Guo Xiaoxiao saw the wooden box in Ximen Qing's hand and asked curiously.

"It's a piece of armor."

Ximen Qing spoke, put the wooden box on the dining table, and then opened the lid. He saw a piece of armor that was half a palm-sized, blue-black and bright, which could illuminate the hair. At one end of the armor, there was a small protrusion, which was vaguely like a wart on the skin. This was used to verify the thickness of the iron sheet without forging. The "warm" of Qingtang Wart Armor came.

"It was Zhu Xingshu who had just been sent to the house." Ximen Qing said again.

"Is the stuff right?"

"Yes," Ximen Qing stretched out two fingers and turned the armor leaf over. There was a white dot on it. "This was shot out with the God-arm crossbow at 15 steps, and it was completely unpenetrated."

"Okay!" Wu Haogu nodded and smiled, "It seems that Zhu Xingshu's people can win the 200,000."

Of course, with this piece of Qingtang Wart, Zhu Xingshu and his team could not get a 200,000 bonus. Wu Haogu’s requirement is “mass production”!

In addition, it is necessary to ensure reliable quality and huge output. Zhu Xingshu's team is preparing to solve the problem of output with hydraulic hammers. It is difficult to control quality now. The route chosen by Zhu Xingshu's team is the process of charcoal iron smelting, stir-frying iron or crucible iron (two routes are tacked at the same time). It is simple to say, but it is not easy to master it completely.

I am really ashamed. Wu Haogu has been traveling through time for so many years, and he is only going to overcome the difficulty of "cold forging armor". This is just the highest level of China's metallurgical industry in the Song Dynasty, and it is far from the level of breakthrough.

As for the legendary time travelers’ favorite plate armor, I don’t know where it is!

While Wu Haogu was dining with his two wives and concubines and an outdoor room, Cai Jing's family was also dining in a temple where they lived.

Cai Jing has now been impeached by a group of censors, and they are all impeached by Lu Zhang. So he can no longer perform his duties as a left prime minister. At the same time, he himself and Cai Bian asked for the county to be transferred.

However, Zhao Ji did not approve Cai Jing's request immediately. It was just a practice. He always asked Cai Jing to resign a few times before sending him away.

Living in a temple from home is also a good attitude of confessing guilt and imprisoning the law. He said that he did not dare to live in the prime minister's mansion. In fact, Cai Jing's mansion in Xicheng, Kaifeng Prefecture was a private residence, and even if he was demoted to Haizhou, he would not be confiscated.

"Dad, the official family... the official family still refuses to meet today."

The person who was talking to Cai Jing was Cai You. He was also Zhao Ji's confidant. His status was as good as Wu Haogu. Gao Qiu and Pan Xiao'an seemed, but now he could not see Zhao Ji anymore.

Cai Jing sighed: "If you don't see me, don't bother the official family for the time being. If it really doesn't work, please transfer it to the outside world. You can go to the local area for a few years first, and you will always have the chance to come back."

"Dad..." Cai You obviously did not want to leave Zhao Ji. "You were framed by a traitor. The official family was just confused for a moment. When you think it through in the future, you will definitely recall you."

"There are framed," Cai Jing pinched a crab flour steamed bun and took it to his mouth and took it, "But Wu Haogu's framed alone would not make him lose the trust of the official family.

I am still confused for my father and have taken a wrong step!"

"Where is Daddy wrong?"

"Military power!" Cai Jing smiled bitterly, "As the prime minister, it is already a big mistake to get involved in military power... Zhang Dun was the only prime minister for seven years, and in the end he did not dare to train troops in Kaifeng Prefecture. Wang Jinggong had so many ways to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but he did not dare to train an elite soldier. His father was confused by the military merits of Gao Qiu, Wu Haogu, Tong Guan and others, and he thought that the official family was really a heroic leader."

"Isn't the official?"

Cai Jing shook his head and said, "Of course not! The official family is just a smart lord, but not worthy of the lord. The lord must hold a lord in his hand, and there is no reason why he is afraid of the lord's rebellion and dare not train troops. Now that his father has fallen for training, does Su Ziyou and Zhang Tianjue dare to re-report the training of troops?"

There must be advantages and disadvantages! Wu Haogu used tricks to destroy Cai Jing, which is not without disadvantages. Because Cai Jing was confused before, he really regarded Zhao Ji as the heroic Khan and wanted to train an elite soldier for him. But now he has fallen because of training. Why do Su Che and Zhang Shangying dare to train soldiers drastically? It is better to stay away from harmful things like military power!

He sighed: "It's a pity that the road to enriching the country and strengthening the army that he finally found is going to give up halfway. However, as long as the government's ambitions are not dead, Zhang Tianjue and Wu Haogu will not have a good life!"

"Dad, what did you say?"
Chapter completed!