Farming is actually relatively easy to arrange. Cai Jing, Jia Quan, and the governors of each state are very familiar with this business. Industry can only be handled by themselves.

Therefore, the grain collection work had just begun when Su You left Hangzhou and appeared in Moling Town.

Shi Tong sent a letter, and a mining area was discovered on the Gushan line of Nanshan Mountain in Moling! Iron ore, pyrite, and gold ore were found in the mining area. Non-metallic mineral deposits include gypsum, lime soil, bitter soil, alum, china clay and other mineral deposits.

As for the Tongling area in Chizhou, upstream, in addition to copper mines, there are originally iron ores, gold mines, silver mines, manganese mines, and lead-zinc mines. As for other non-metals, there are sulfur mines, coal mines, dolomite, limestone, clay, phosphate mines...

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Therefore, just a coal retorting industry and wet copper production are too stupid. We need to expand the scale of production capacity...

Su You was angry. Let’s reorganize the explosive factory first! How can we expand production capacity without explosives?!

Moling Town is very rich in water resources. When Su You came here, Shi Tong had already produced several furnaces of molten iron.

Shi Tong was very sorry: "It's a pity that the coal from Yongfengjian has a high sulfur content. Even after it is refined into coking coal, the iron output is not as good as that of Erlin Steel."

Su You rolled his eyes: "I didn't ask you to compare with Erlin Steel and Shangzhou Steel. The Song Dynasty is not full of good products. Doesn't it contain manganese? How is the performance of manganese steel?"

The supervisor of Yongfeng Prison quickly said: "No, the refined steel made by Shi Shichen is already the best steel rarely seen in the south of the Yangtze River."

Su You said to the person accompanying him: "Botong, Jiangnan Fine Steel, your hometown is the best, try it?"

This man's name is He Zhizhong, a native of Longquan, Liangzhe Road. He was a Jinshi scholar in the sixth year of Xining, and he is now just thirty years old. He was a judge in Taizhou before.

Taizhou was biased, and Zeng Gong, the governor of the state, had no one to rely on after he took office. It was all thanks to He Zhizhong's shrewdness and ability, and he was able to hold the situation together with just one person.

There is a demon prison in Taizhou, and a group of cult members were arrested, but they could not be convicted and it took a long time.

He Zhizhong observed secretly and found that these people did not say "horns" when talking about cow's horns and sheep's horns, but "shares", so he asked the subordinates to ask why.

The cult members were all hesitant and frightened. He Zhi concluded: "These people must be remnants of Taiping Dao! They are trying to avoid Zhang Jiao!"

Cultists "kowtow to lead them to defeat".

Jiang Zhiqi served as Jianghuai and once praised him as "one state and six cities depend on you!"

Now he is serving as the magistrate of Haiyan County. In just a few months, he has completed the tasks required by Su You to crack down on the salt barons, rectify the salt fields, and increase production capacity. "The people of the city remember their differences" and "put political knowledge first", and the subordinate officials are "shocked by the news"

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Su You was shocked. Damn it, he felt that he had already attached great importance to talents, but he still missed such a fierce person under his control. He quickly promoted him and kept him around.

The boy was promoted by Su You and had no repayment, so he took the ancestral sword and prepared to offer it to his benefactor.

As a result, Su You returned it to him a few days after collecting it, saying that the sword had not been well maintained. He disassembled it, cleaned the dirt, maintained it, and replaced the pegs and braided rope.

The scabbard was reattached with glue, and some of the worn areas were re-patched with fish skin, and then the distressed paint color was adjusted to make it perfect.

He Zhizhong was so dumbfounded that he had no choice but to take back the sword and come down to find Zhang Qi. Only then did he find out that his benefactor was originally an expert in weapons. The extremely precious Erlin Feather Pattern Steel in the Song, Western Xia and Liao Kingdoms was invented by his benefactor when he was a child.

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He Zhizhong smiled awkwardly: "Ming Gong was joking, the Longquan Sword has now been surpassed by the Erlin Sword."

Su You smiled and said: "From a practical point of view, the Longquan Sword and the Erlin Sword are actually about the same. However, the Erlin Sword is better in steel and the heat treatment is more precise. From a decorative point of view, the Longquan Sword is far inferior."

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He Zhizhong took the scribe's folding knife that Su You gave him, opened it, and gently pressed the Moling steel: "Longquan steel is first-class, but it's not bad."

Longquan iron is smelted from a type of iron ore called "bright stone", and local craftsmen screen it out with magnets.

Su Youming people have investigated and found that it is a very pure iron oxide. In addition, it is smelted locally with pine charcoal, so the sulfur content is not comparable to that of Moling steel made from coke today.

Shi Tong expressed regret: "The sulfur content in Tongling's coal mines is a bit high."

Su You said: "There are advantages to being high. At least we have the materials for preparing tri-acid. The advantages always outweigh the disadvantages."

The products of coal mine carbonization are now divided very finely. The exported furnace gas can produce coke oven gas, ammonia, and crude benzene; the finished product is coke used for steelmaking; the remaining part includes coal tar, asphalt, and carbon.

pink.

Coke oven gas is used for metallurgy and coking; ammonia is used to produce nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, and fire nitrate; coal tar and carbon powder are used to make ink and gunpowder; asphalt paving; crude benzene is used in medicine, antiknock additives for gasoline, and metals

degreaser.

Black powder and nitrating explosives have always been limited to the production and preparation of nitric acid and nitrate salts. After twenty years of development, the Song Dynasty has now begun to take shape as a chemical industry, and there is no need to collect dung for refining.

The process of boiling saltpeter has become something that ordinary people can refine at home.

Su You smiled and said: "No matter what, Moling Manganese Steel is sufficient for the steel needed by the military and civilians on the two Zhejiang Roads. This autumn, a batch of trial-planted cotton can be harvested in Kunshan, and all of it will be allocated to you for use in making nitrocellulose."

Mine!"

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Tongling, from the Spring and Autumn Period, people in the south of the Yangtze River have been smelting copper here.

Several pits were smelted, and the thickness of the slag reached one meter, covering several square kilometers.

The slag has brought a lot of pollution, and a lot of rainwater has collected into the mine lake. No living things can grow in the lake because it is full of bile water.

Bile water is copper sulfate solution.

With the gall-copper leaching process, copper farmers did not need to be taught, and they quickly figured out a method of leaching ores and slags with bile water and sulfuric acid to produce and concentrate bile water.

The update of the production process has given a terrifying boost to the increase in copper production in the Song Dynasty. As of the end of July, the copper materials obtained by Liangzhe Road in one quarter had accounted for more than two-thirds of previous years' production.

The direct beneficiaries are the lower-class copper households. In the past, they could only hand over the mined ore to the big households for smelting. Now they can directly hand over the copper mud, and the income will increase all of a sudden.

Copper mud still needs to be smelted into copper ingots by large households, but the simplification of production steps and the use of coking coal kilns have allowed them to reduce production costs, increase output and quality, and also gain a lot of profits.

Suyou has no intention of buying at a lower price, what it needs is production.

In Tongling, we boarded a large ship transporting nails, rivets, hoops and other workpieces to Shanghai. We traveled down the river along the 1,200-mile waterway and could arrive there in three days.

The Wusong River Estuary in Shanghai used to be a small fishing village. Now it serves as a shipbuilding industrial base and has built two huge shipyards.

The dock was dug out on the slope of the river. When viewed from the waterway, it looks like two big holes. When viewed from the land, it looks more like two big pits.

Each large dock can accommodate two of today's largest Hangzhou-type schooners, the scattered Rushi, which is now undergoing meticulous maintenance here.

The big ship sailed into the dock, lowered the gate to seal the water inlet, started the water wheel to discharge the water in the lock, and the big ship rested on the base of the dock.

On the sloping land on top of the dock, one side is the material yard and the other side is the workers' living area.

Workers come out of the living area and go down to the dock along the steps on both sides of the dock, where they can maintain the giant ship.

Above the dock, there is a tower crane that can transport workpieces and materials.

On the other side and in another shipyard, there are three large Hangzhou-type ships that are about to be completed.

It was built by Sitong Company for the cooperation of the Qian family and the Yao family. In addition to providing money, they also provided craftsmen and management.

Sitong Company provides drawings and technical personnel.

A huge maritime group is slowly taking shape on Liangzhe Road.

The two companies also paid three other costs. The first was to provide books for reprinting and photocopying by the West Lake Publishing House chaired by Qin Guan; the second was to provide a team of actuaries to provide computational support to the theoretical research team chaired by Zhao Zongyou; the third was to purchase new books.

On the land, cotton and wheat intercropping was tested.
Chapter completed!