Dominate the Country

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Under Chen Ming's advice, the third blast furnace was erected in Xiaonangou. The two existing blast furnaces were not moved. Chen Ming would build a new one and change the old one. The Chen family didn't need the money. Moreover, once the old furnace stopped working, it would delay the Chen family's profit. The old furnace is still generating profits.

It took 20 days from laying the foundation to firing fire bricks, and the freshly baked blast furnace was erected in Xiaonangou Iron Factory. Unlike the two traditional blast furnaces, the new blast furnace has a huge heat storage room and a huge hydraulic bellows. The small blast furnace that could only produce a hundred kilograms of iron at a time can now produce at least 500 kilograms of iron at a time.

Of course, in Chen Ming's cognition, such a blast furnace is still absolutely small. Just because it was the first time, there was no experience, and he didn't dare to blindly greed for big things. In addition, during these 20 days, Chen Ming also built a small-scale coal washing plant based on the raw coal dug out from the coal mine in the mountain.

He didn't know whether there was such a thing as coal washing in China at that time, but he knew that coal washing was an indispensable process in the deep processing system of coal. The coal directly mined from the mine is called raw coal. Many impurities are mixed into the raw coal during the mining process, and the quality of coal is also different. Coal with low internal ash content and coal with high internal ash content are mixed together. Coal washing is an industrial process to remove impurities from raw coal or to classify high-quality coal and low-quality coal.

The products produced after the coal washing process are generally divided into gangue, medium coal, Class B clean coal, and Class A clean coal. The finished coal after the coal washing process is usually called clean coal. By washing coal, the quality of coal can be improved. This is the most basic and important small country. , bituminous coal is generally used for coking, and the area where Lushan is located belongs to Pingdingshan in the future. Pingmei is the king of coking coal in China!

For iron and steel making, direct raw coal cannot be used at all, only coke can be used. While Chen Ming was working on the small blast furnace, he also wanted to build a coal washing plant and then make a batch of coke. He didn't care how high the utilization rate was, as long as he could achieve it, everything would be fine.

His style was still very much like a student in the "reform pilot", but in the eyes of the elders of the Chen family, Chen Hui, and Chen Cong, Chen Ming was called "stable". If you are not sure about something, start with a small thing first, and then promote it after success, which is recognized by the management class of the Chen family.

If an ordinary young man, with the "victory" of bone china and flush toilets as a foundation, intervened in ironmaking, he might become more confident, but Chen Ming was still "cautious", not radical, not arrogant, and this kind of mentality scored no less than the victory of bone china and flush toilets in the eyes of the leaders of the Chen family. It's just that Chen Ming didn't know it.

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Chen Ming made such an improvement to the blast furnace, and there was no different voice at all? That's absolutely impossible.

The craftsmen of this era are very professional, or they are all stubbornly "worshipping" the knowledge they have already known, just like respecting God, and will not allow any changes. The small blast furnace that Chen Ming wants to build is simply "treason" in their eyes.

So, from the beginning of the work, one craftsman after another, even the old men with gray hair in their fifties and sixties, who are all heroes who have worked for the Chen family all their lives, are all standing up to Chen Ming. What makes Chen Ming feel sick is that these people's words and intentions show a kind of "for your own good, for the good of the Chen family" righteousness, and even this "righteousness" is not hypocritical, but really comes from a loyalty for the good of the Chen family! This makes Chen Ming feel very strange in his heart, and he has a deeper understanding of the "spirit" of this era. He is not annoyed by these craftsmen and old people who are against him. Compared with the workers in his previous life who did whatever they wanted after getting the money, such workers seem to be more reassuring. This group of workers with a very "master" spirit!

This is not modern society, not modern China, the rabbits have not yet descended on this plane. This is a wonderful flower of the "loyalty" thought of traditional Chinese society!

Chen Ming temporarily reserved his opinion on this, but now as an individual, he likes it very much.

Of course, occasional annoyance is inevitable. Because these craftsmen not only verbally opposed, but also had other practical actions-after repeated dissuasion failed, seeing that the young master really didn't listen to good advice, these craftsmen directly responded to the top.

At that time, Chen Ming's mind was ridiculously popped up the four words "overstepping the level of petition". These people also play "overstepping the level of petition"?

Chen Ming really admires the integrity of these craftsmen. What is the spirit of factory ownership? This is it.

It's just that the craftsmen's "petition" was suppressed by Chen Cong. Chen Ming is still a little grateful for Chen Cong's firm support. He has been in the countryside for almost three months, and this cheap second uncle has really never held him back once.

If the small blast furnace is successfully put into operation, the credit is 100, Chen Ming can take half, the craftsmen take half of the remaining half, and the other quarter should belong to Chen Cong, the cheap second uncle. It was he who "suppressed" the commotion and petitions of the craftsmen, and withstood the pressure of several elders from the Chen family's ancestral land of Xiaonangou.

The older he gets, the more he is self-satisfied and likes to take advantage of his age. Chen Ming can be tough on the craftsmen and workers of the Chen family, but he cannot be tough on these elders. Everyone will get old one day, and no one wants to be shunned and lost face by the younger generation when he is old. If Chen Ming dares to do this, the consequences will have a "far-reaching" impact!

So, Chen Ming is now more and more fond of his cheap second uncle. Maybe Chen Cong is just a mediocre talent, but he can delegate power to Chen Ming and protect Chen Ming from the wind and rain. This is the most suitable "boss" for Chen Ming.

Chen Ming is very confident in the small blast furnace. Not to mention that the technology has a series of improvements, even if nothing is changed, and only relying on coke to smelt iron, the quality of the iron material obtained will be much better than before. The speed will also be much faster accordingly.

At that time, using the new iron material out of the furnace to smelt wrought iron will be much more convenient, faster, material-saving and labor-saving than the previous inferior iron, and then the wrought iron pig iron can be used to produce molten steel in the crucible.

Of course, after the innovation of steelmaking and ironmaking technology to this point, Chen Ming's mind has almost been emptied. After all, he is not a metallurgist, and he knows that coking with a small blast furnace is all thanks to the historical travel text of Singularity. Such means have been written about in Singularity history texts.

All Chen Ming is doing now is to take out all the overwritten plots in the singularity history texts and repeat them again. If the situation allows, he will try to make soap and sell cigarettes in the future. In a magical book from the late Ming Dynasty that Chen Ming read before traveling through time, the protagonist made cigarettes, which left a deep impression on him.

There is also glass and glass mirrors. This killer weapon of time travelers should still be useful in this era. Anyway, Chen Ming has never seen glass mirrors in the Chen family. The Chen family still uses traditional bronze mirrors. During the Qianlong period, glass mirrors should still be a luxury item, and they are not yet common enough for rural tycoons like the Chen family to use. In the Dream of the Red Chamber written by Cao Xueqin, glass products are mentioned more, especially the large Western glass mirror in Jia Baoyu's room. It can be seen that glass mirrors are only popular among aristocratic and powerful families.

Thanks to those Xiaobai texts, Chen Ming has a lot of good things and good ideas in his mind.

Then there are iron and steel smelting, gun making and cannon making. In many historical Xiaobai texts, these eight words are completely connected. But unfortunately, this is not what Chen Ming can do now.

He can make guns and cannons, and even hoard gunpowder openly. There are still a few people in Lushan County who don’t know that the Chen family is using gunpowder to open mountains and pave roads, and to open mines and blast mines. There are too many places where gunpowder is needed. And making guns and cannons is not uncommon in the powerful families of this era.

But all this has a prerequisite, you can’t cross the line. If you cross the line, you will wait for the opposition and backlash of the entire Chen family!