Chapter 4268: giant

Bai Qi turned around and left, which was boring.

Although Bai Qi also felt that others would tell him that the aptitude gap between him and Han Xin was very large, whether he was much higher than Han Xin or Han Xin was much higher than him, he would not believe it, but between brothers, then It's boring.

"Why do you keep this in your bosom? Ordinarily, with the experience of the Marquis of Huaiyin, you should have worked it out." Chen Xi chased after him strangely and asked.

"Not yet, the main reason is that the Marquis of Huaiyin didn't want to fight anymore, so he put the head together, he can eat, and the rest doesn't seem to want to fight, after all, it was broken twice, it will inevitably be broken again." Bai Qi Explained with a bit of indifference that saw through the future.

"But even so, it's not good for you to hold his hand in your bosom every day." Chen Xi asked with some hesitation, this is too ghostly.

"I'll use this hand to perform teaching tasks now." Bai Qi took out his cracked hand, showed it to Chen Xi, and put it back again.

"How are the students of the Military Academy?" Chen Xi asked beside Bai Qi.

"It's nothing to look at, most of them are the ones where you can see the end at a glance." Bai Qi replied casually. As a lecturer at the Han Dynasty Military Academy, he is better than the vice principals Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun, and he is only short of giving him a bonus. The title of an honorary principal.

"Isn't that great?" Chen Xi was taken aback. Under Bai Qi's teaching, only most people could see the end at a glance.

"The rest are all from now to the end." Bai Qi was stunned for a moment, realizing that Chen Xi misunderstood what he said, and said with a dark face.

"This is very embarrassing." Chen Xi touched his cheek and said, he thought that the remaining sporadic people were the ones who couldn't see the end at a glance, but he didn't expect this kind of answer, but if you think about it this way, it's okay Ah, at least there is room for development.

"You stuffed those people for the military academy, that's all." Bai Qi said with some regret, "There is not even Wang Lu who can be used as a lieutenant general."

"The problem is, you have to think about whose lieutenant is that." Chen Xi put on a high hat for Bai Qi and said with a smile.

"That's it, the lieutenant general can't explain the problem." Bai Qi thought for a while and said, "But to be honest, he is better than Lian in field battles."

Chen Xi was silent for a while, she didn't know how to answer these words, she always felt that when Bai Qi recalled the past, she always felt like stepping on others, but it was also true.

"Is there anyone in the younger generation that is worth cultivating?" Chen Xi sighed, and changed the subject. It's still the same sentence. Even if the position of commanding a large army on the front line is a carrot and a pit, Chen Xi still has to guarantee that the Han Dynasty The Grand Army command slowly increased.

It is guaranteed that even if the Han Dynasty encounters an accident, someone, or even a few people capsize, they can quickly continue to be in command of a new army.

"I suggest you train your disciples, or Zhuge Kongming." Bai Qi thought for a while and said, "Although there are some other malleable talents, these two are the most qualified."

"Uh, forget it for Kong Ming, he will take over my class, I have already arranged for my disciple, and I have prepared the direction of promotion for him." Chen Xi waved his hand, denying Bai Qi's idea, "Be younger where's the guy?"

"Deng Ai, this guy is worth cultivating. In fact, Odenatus who ran away has the most value for cultivating. Unfortunately, he has already returned to Rome." Bai Qi said with a little sigh, he was really optimistic about Odenatus Too bad that **** Tus is not one of his own.

"Oh, it seems that there are only these people, and I almost know it, okay." Chen Xi didn't hear other unknown people from Bai Qi's mouth, expressing his understanding.

"At that time, maybe I need Ma Biejia to see those students." Chen Xi stepped back slightly, and said to Ma Xinde. Compared with Bai Qi's rough division method, Chen Xi wondered if he had time It's better to let Mahindra take a look, man, positioning is very important.

Liu Tong’s bicycle frame left Weiyang Palace and turned right to Huayang Street, and then stopped at the gate of Huayang Smelting Department. Yes, the blast furnace built by Stina in the inner courtyard of Yuan’s house has not been blown up to now, even though that thing The child was twisted, but has been running smoothly until now.

Even at the beginning of this year, when Zhuge Liang checked with his special spiritual talent, he determined that the steel furnace had at least two years of life, which made Li You very satisfied.

At the beginning, I first crushed my own house, and then crushed the city wall. If it was blown up quickly, it would be a pity, not to mention whether it was a loss or not. However, it has not been blown up to now, and it can even be used for two years. Li You can confidently say, This steel furnace is worthy of his shameless operation back then.

"Please come in, both of you. This is the Huayang Smelting Department, the only smelting department in Chang'an City." Chen Xi made a gesture of invitation to Mahinda and Rangarajan. walked in.

Liu Tong got down from the carriage frame. At this time, he was no longer wearing a cloak, but a smart embroidered robe. It may be because he has visited these places more times. There are only benefits to yourself.

"Look at Stina." When Liu Tong climbed the steps, he habitually said to Si Niang beside her.

Si Niang pursed her lips, but she still didn't say anything in the end. Since Stina succeeded in repairing the steel furnace, she began to build it with great interest. After working hard for a whole year, Si Niang realized that she really couldn't fix it. Things are always fried, either here or there!

Huayang Smelting Division is one of the largest independent smelting divisions in the Han Dynasty. It is not far from Weiyang Palace itself. Liu Tong often comes to inspect. Come on, this is a spur to Si Niang.

When Si Niang heard this in the early days, she would try very hard when she turned around. After experiencing repeated defeats and repeated defeats, Si Niang finally recognized the reality, that is, she couldn't repair this at all. It is right to give up as soon as possible, so I gave up.

No matter what Liu Tong said afterwards, Si Niang looked like a rotten salted fish.

Under the leadership of the gatekeeper craftsmen, Chen Xi and his party were able to enter the real core area of ​​Huayang Smelting Division. It is said that the gatekeepers here are not only guards, but also a craftsman on duty, because this smelting division often comes to visit, study, and learn .

In order to prevent this group of people from disturbing the rhythm of the artisans who are smelting in the core area when they are looking, researching, and studying, it is necessary to have a rotating artisan to explain to avoid accidents.

For craftsmen with the nature of commentators, they have seen almost as many big bosses as Chen Bo has seen, so when they saw Chen Xi and his party appear, they were not surprised at all, and just treated them as Ordinary people just look at it.

Of course, there is also a point that this person did not recognize the identities of everyone, but the Shaofu sent a notice to inform him that someone is coming to visit today, and a professional is needed to explain.

The rotating craftsman took Mahind and others to watch and explain all the way. During the process, Mahind and Rangarajan looked at the large number of blacksmiths working together, but they were not shocked. , and no matter how disgusting Brahmans are, they have completed the social division of labor these days, so they have seen blacksmiths of this size.

Until the on-duty craftsman brought Mahinde and his party to the core area, and then watched the golden-red molten iron naturally poured into the special mold dug in the ground, the expressions of the two remained unchanged at that moment. , finally there are ups and downs.

The arrangement of the journey was prepared yesterday, so that Mahind could see the molten steel pouring out, into a series of trenches dug in the ground, forming cast steel plates of 30 cm x 20 cm x 4 cm .

At the earliest time, there was no such step. Although Chen Xi said he would build this thing, Chen Xi really didn't think about what to do with the molten steel after it came out, which caused new problems in the later forging.

Although for the current situation of the Han Dynasty, as long as there is steel, it will not lose any way to deal with it, but the efficiency is indeed too low.

After Chen Xi completed the blast furnace and finished the test run, the craftsman who took over built this kind of thing at the place where the molten steel was tapped, pouring out pieces of cast steel plates.

Of course, this kind of steel plate is not a finished product. After the golden red faded to dark red, each blacksmith quickly used large tongs to clamp the poured steel plate out of the soil tank, and then took advantage of the heat to enter the furnace in the forging room to start the process. Hammer forged.

During the process of repeated hammering and forging while it is hot, the cast steel is gradually transformed into forged steel, so that the strength, toughness, etc. are further improved.

But to be honest, Huayang Smelting Division is mainly limited by the environment. Basically, it can only use human forging here. Xiang Lishi has accumulated a lot of materials, and finally upgraded the hydraulic forging workshop on the Yellow River this year. After the completion, it completely becomes steel wheel rolling. After the molten steel is dumped, the big steel wheel falls directly for rolling, and the strength is in place at one time.

When Chen Xi first saw this design, he was silent, and asked where the technology came from. Xiang Lishi said that this is just a matter of adding gears, but unfortunately the power of the power machine is not enough.

To put it simply, with the addition of a power machine, this thing is almost close to the simple form of direct forging steel from molten steel in later generations, but from a technical point of view, this thing is indeed a very old technology, but it is really useful if it can’t stand it. It needs to be circulated for a round, relying on the temperature of the molten steel, walking around and directly forging into a large steel plate.

It has to be said that the efficiency brought about by technological innovation far exceeds the efficiency of the two hundred skilled blacksmiths of Huayang Smelting Division. More importantly, it really saves manpower, but it is a pity that it cannot be used in winter.

However, in the eyes of Ma Xinde and others, even the technology that is quite backward in Chen Xi's eyes is terrifyingly efficient.

"This furnace may not be able to produce a quarter of Guishuang's steel in a year." Mahinda asked Rangarajan expressionlessly.

"I suspect there will be more, not less." Langarajan answered after being silent for a while. He now has a clear understanding of the steel production of 70,000 tons. The annual steel production of the Han Dynasty may be more than 70,000 tons. The tons are higher, because such a furnace alone is estimated to be around 4,000 tons.

After all, they have all experienced wars, and they have their own understanding of the quantity, scale and weight of steel. According to the fact that the furnace is turned on every day, Huayang Smelting Division alone can produce around 4,000 tons a year, or even more, while Ma Xin De didn't think there were only a few stoves of this size in the Han room.

"I need more talents for building blast furnaces. 70,000 tons is still too little for our Han Dynasty. We estimate that to truly meet the needs of the people, the annual output needs to reach 300,000 tons to be initially realized." Chen Xi was in the blacksmith Our big pliers pinched away all the cast steel plates, and after the sound of beating sounded one after another in the whole workshop, he looked at Mahinde and said.

The steel output at the peak of the Han Dynasty was around 15,000 tons, but when Chen Xi took over the Han Dynasty, the steel output was actually only three to four thousand tons.

Does it sound like a small amount, but all the steel in the Han Dynasty was in the hands of the state. In fact, the steel collected by the government of the Tang Dynasty was only half of this level. Most of the time in the Northern Song Dynasty, the steel on hand of the state was similar to this figure.

Of course, the real steel output of the above two dynasties was not low, but the bulk was not in the hands of the state.

So strong man, strong man, why is it strong? When the country is destroyed, the steel production that the government can obtain can be equal to the steel production that the government has at the peak of most dynasties. The combat effectiveness is really guaranteed.

However, Chen Xi did not continue the official-run system of the Han Dynasty, and relaxed steel smelting to a certain extent, but the big head was still in his hands, ensuring that the steel production that the Han government could use increased year by year until it reached 70,000 tons in the seventh year of Yuanfeng .

Chen Xi estimated that the Han Dynasty as a whole should be 75,000 tons, or even 80,000 tons, because some weapons in the Central Asian region were obviously not produced by the Han Dynasty, but they kept coming! But that's not important, the rotten meat is fine, but when Chen Xi counts, he still counts at 70,000 tons. He only counts the steel that the country can use, and he doesn't want to buy it from the private sector.

Then, after preliminary statistics from various aspects, Chen Xi estimated that the basic steel production level should reach 300,000 tons per year to meet the initial demand. How can I say this scale? Japan, the garbage industrial country, only reached this production level during World War I. .

However, the outrageous thing is that Chen Xi has actually realized that if he is willing to sacrifice some industries and continue to invest in steel smelting, 300,000 tons can really be piled up, just like China. Steelmaking, quickly piled up steel production to 10 million tons.

Although many people complained that this is **** steel, but in the second century, as long as you bring a piece of steel, it is top-notch.

It's just that Chen Xi is unwilling to sacrifice the industrial layout, and is unwilling to invest more manpower in steel smelting. He even feels that there are too many manpower invested now, which makes the growth rate unable to increase.

Ah, the author really wants to stay at home, what should I do if I don’t want to go to work at all?

(end of this chapter)