Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

After dumping a bag for Si Niang, Chen Xi no longer cares about it. He just needs to throw the bag to the other party. The other party has a psychological burden. Under the constraints of righteousness, they will gradually advance. Wait for a while and ask again. .

"Was it really a wasteland here?" Liu Bei looked at the people passing by on the road, and said in surprise, even the Northland Ranch didn't have as many people as here.

"Of course it's a wasteland." Chen Xi said casually. This is a place equivalent to an early heavy industry base. There will be someone.

The process of industrialization is also a process of urban construction to a certain extent. The emergence of industrial bases will naturally absorb human resources, and in order to provide corresponding supporting facilities for these human resources, or more simply, directly to make money, urban areas will also gradually built up.

After all, basic necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation are rigid needs and are infrastructure that cannot be bypassed.

"This is really unexpected. There was no such a huge city in the north in the past. I didn't expect such a city to exist in just a few years, and it has a large population." Liu Bei said with emotion , Compared with the Beidi Ranch, Liu Bei can feel more about what it means to build a prosperous city from scratch.

"Actually, if Mr. Xuande listens carefully, he will find that the official speech here is very fluent." Chen Xi said with a little complacency.

Liu Bei listened carefully to a few cries, and found that it was really no different from Chang'an.

"These are the language requirements of the Bingzhou Smelting Department and its subordinate supporting facilities. After five years, the accents of those who have come here to make a living or even settled down are no longer different from Chang'an official dialect." Chen Xi watched. Looking out the window, he said, "Maybe they used to be some Hu people, but now they can't tell the difference at all."

The collective life of this kind of state-owned factories and mines will largely wear out those less important characteristics of individuals, especially the standardization and paramilitary requirements, and cooperate with them to lure them. The people who come here to make a living have long been Be part of this collective.

"Who is in charge here now?" Liu Bei was quite satisfied with this political achievement.

"Wen Manji shoulders the burden in Bingzhou governance." Chen Xi gave the answer casually.

"Oh, I remembered, it was the guy who was the magistrate, and then came to refer to him?" Liu Bei couldn't remember who was an official, but Wen Hui was still famous, so Chen Xi said a name, and Liu Bei met him. Then asked some strangely.

"Well, it's that guy. His performance is not bad, and his ability is quite good. He was recommended by someone. In the past two years, he has been promoted all the way to Bingzhou Zhizhong." Chen Xi said calmly.

"I remember that Wen Manji should only be twenty-six years old." Liu Bei pondered for a moment and said, "He has already become a state governor."

"Mr. Xuande has started judging ability by his age." Chen Xi looked terrified, but the corners of his mouth couldn't hide his smile.

For a mature political entity, there will be very standard political achievements for promotion. Try not to do such things as leapfrog promotion. This is Chen Xi's early rule, and he has set an example to abide by this rule. Otherwise, Wen Hui should now be merged with the governor of the state.

"You bastard." Liu Bei glanced at Chen Xi angrily and said.

"Okay, no kidding, Wen Manji was promoted by me." Chen Xi said with a smile. He and Wen Hui had a little friendship. After all, Wen Hui helped find the pair of bracelets and the chessboard of the Chen family. In addition, Wen Hui is indeed a capable and serious official of the frontier, so Chen Xi worked hard behind the scenes.

It is estimated that according to the current speed, Wen Hui should be able to be a Bingzhou Biejia at the age of thirty, and then quickly become the governor of Bingzhou.

Of course, this is to say that Wen Hui should not make mistakes in the past few years, but this guy is one of the few capable ministers and officials of the history of the Three Kingdoms who left his name in history. It is estimated that there should be no major problems. Do your best to let this guy take charge of a state when he was about thirty years old.

After all, these days, it is basically impossible for Zhuge Liang and Fazheng to enter Chang'an in their twenties and handle government affairs in the Political Council instead of doing miscellaneous tasks like Sima Fu, Xun Yun, and Yuan Yin. Even Lu Xun and Lu Yu now needs to be let out for a while, after all, the times are different.

"It seems very capable. Just looking at this new city, you can know that the other party is worthy of being a capable official." Liu Bei said very satisfied.

"It's not bad, the ability is pretty good." Chen Xi didn't deny this point, Wen Hui is really capable, if it wasn't for the level of vision that needs to be tempered, in fact, the ability is enough now, so it needs to be polished.

"That's the Bingzhou Smelting Department over there." Liu Bei asked, pointing to a place with sparse black smoke. At this time, the places that can emit black smoke are basically important towns, and they are large-scale smelters. Not worthy of black smoke at all.

As for the issue of pollution control, to be honest, I really don’t pay attention to this these days. In fact, when the British Empire turned London into a foggy city, people of insight all over the world who longed for industrialization smelled the pungent smell. Looking at the city shrouded in smog and smog, one will naturally feel how powerful it is.

Therefore, there is nothing to say. With this amount of iron production these days, even if there is pollution, it will not be too serious. The natural adjustment ability of nature is still very reliable, but Chen Xi still does the basic protection that is not too expensive. After all, these days The exhaust fumes that can come out are also very precious.

Of course, forget about the waste gas from burning coal. Chen Xi was talking about the waste gas from iron smelting.

The quality of iron ore in the Han Dynasty is very average. There is basically no rich ore that can be picked up and thrown directly into the blast furnace, so it needs to be screened, which is a very troublesome job.

Then there is the iron ore in Bingzhou, which is a strange mineral mixed with pyrite and hematite. Simply put, the sulfur content is a bit high.

Therefore, the suggestion Chen Xi gave at the time was to collect the waste gas, regardless of whether it is useful or not, and collect it first. Anyway, it is not a loss to use the sulfur dioxide picked up for nothing to make sulfuric acid.

It can be said that among the three acids and two alkalis, Chen Xi can get good things easily. Although Chen Xi doesn't know what to use for the sulfuric acid, but instead of blindly polluting the atmosphere, it is better to collect it and see if it can be used what to make.

In this case, the black smoke that Liu Bei can see is actually purely incompletely burned coal. This kind of black ash is a problem, but it is not a big problem.

"Just drive over there. It's meaningless to inform them. If you have any questions, I think you know it." Liu Bei said suddenly. Chen Xi thought about it and didn't refuse.

So the group of people didn't enter the city directly, and ran directly to the smelting department. Although the security department blocked them, Liu Bei poked his head out, and the other side was shocked, and then quickly registered to let them go.

This is a real pass, and there is no one blocking it at all.

Just by looking at the expression of the centurion who released him, one can tell how lofty Liu Bei's status is in the other party's eyes. From a certain point of view, Liu Bei is roughly at the level of rampage.

"This blast furnace feels a bit different from what I saw in Mount Tai." Liu Bei frowned and said while looking at the Tufa Steel Furnace from a distance. It was still so hot even after such a distance.

"Well, it looks okay, and the technology has improved a lot." Chen Xi nodded after watching for a while, and it became a lot bigger and taller.

By the way, even if Chen Xi and Liu Bei were not close to the blast furnace, the workers in work clothes next to them still looked at Chen Xi and Liu Bei very cautiously, as if they were afraid that they would mess around. Fortunately, they didn't stand there for long. Yuan came with people.

It is not a secret that Liu Bei and his party travel. In fact, it is impossible to cover up this kind of inspection that even the princess regent took away. In addition, there is no impenetrable wall in this world. By now, bureaucrats everywhere know about Liu Bei and his party. The purpose of the Eastern Tour is also to start rectification.

"I've seen Her Royal Highness, I've seen..." Before Pu Yuan finished speaking, Liu Tong stopped him.

"Improvement of the blast furnace is okay. Is it for ironmaking, steelmaking, or alloy?" Chen Xi took a rough look at the layout of the smelting department. There is nothing to say about it. Liu Ba is obviously doing nonsense, but when expanding, there is something wrong. Too reasonable layout, this is a matter of experience, it is hard to say anything.

"This place is used to smelt iron, but due to technical and ore problems, the iron produced is relatively hard and brittle." Pu Yuan immediately replied, "But this is only the first step. These irons are more To make farm tools, to really smelt steel is to recast these pig irons.”

At present, the smelting technology of the Han Dynasty is quite strange. In fact, during the Han Dynasty, the steelmaking method in the Central Plains appeared, but this technology was too complicated. Although the technology Chen Xi gave was also rubbish technology, it was greatly simplified.

If steel cannot be smelted, pig iron should be smelted first, and then smelted again. There are many defects in indigenous steelmaking, but no matter how many defects are in this era, iron can be liquefied by blast furnaces. Things have operational value.

It can be said that the soil iron produced in the first step is almost the basis of the soil steel furnaces that will follow.

"What about the alloy?" Chen Xi asked curiously. The first step is not a problem, and the second step will inevitably be advanced. The problem lies in the third step. There is only one way to do things like material science, and that is to pile up the foundation and continue to It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to carry out experiments.

"Iron-nickel alloy, manganese steel, and adjusted carbon steel are all available, but there are basically no new alloys that we need." Pu Yuan said with some embarrassment.