Zhang He was not the only one who greeted the gate of Liang Mansion. There are also several stewards of the Liang Mansion, and Han Dang, a doorman who has just taken office. This person is an old friend recommended by Duan Qin, and his knowledge and character are not bad. Liang Feng just gave it a try, and he can rest assured that he will lead the Liang Mansion and be responsible for the affairs of the mansion.
This time, Han Dang was naturally in the first place. Once he pulled up his sleeves, he saluted Liang Feng who stepped off the carriage and said, "Congratulations on the return of the Master Lang to the mansion."
Liang Feng stepped forward with a smile: "Why should Pingzhi be more polite? In the past few months, Lao Jun has been bothering about everything in the house."
"Thanks to the trust of Lord Lang, I am ashamed to be worthy of it." Han Dang bowed humbly again.
When I first arrived, I received such an errand. It would be a lie to say that I am not impressed. However, Han Dang was a prudent and cautious person, and he didn't have any thoughts about this unusual appointment. What's more, in the Liang Mansion, no one knows more about the checks and balances in the mansion than him.
Liang Liang, who is in charge of farming, is a loyal and loyal householder in the Fuzhong town; Zhou Kan, who manages the accounts, is a guest of Langzhu's credit; Chaoyu, who represents Sifang, is Xiaolangjun's wet nurse. What's more, there are Zhang and the battalion lieutenant who leads the department. It can be said that as long as he has the slightest change, the people around him can immediately take him down.
This arrangement did not make Han Dang uncomfortable, but made him convince him. Employ people without doubts, but will not leave loopholes rashly to make people confused. This is a good method to ensure long-term stability. No wonder Duan Qin would serve this Liang Lang. Among the high sects, such a wise master is rarely seen.
After all, after rushing for two days, after saying hello, Liang Feng went straight into the mansion. Ordering others to settle down first, he recruited Han Dang and other housekeepers to inquire in detail about the development of Liang House these days.
"Now there are over 800 households in the government, and more than 3,000 people in Dingkou. Most of them are people who have fled from Shangdang counties." Han Dang presented the yellow book and said earnestly.
Because most of the fugitives were locals from Shangdang, the total number also increased significantly. In just half a year, it has more than doubled, which is really surprising.
"All the households were selected from Gaodu?" Liang Feng frowned slightly.
"That's true. If you want to become a householder, you must be physically fit or skilled." How could Han Dang neglect this kind of screening work? "But there are quite a lot of refugees accepted by Gaodu.
It seems that the newly reclaimed official fields in Gaodu have gained a lot this time. Guo Jiao may have also figured out his own mind before he dares to do it. But the population surge is still a very stressful thing. Liang Feng asked again: "In this way, is there enough food in the government's memory?"
"It's okay to save food. Sifang has a good income this year, and next year's crops are also left." Han Dang answered truthfully.
The business of white porcelain and glazed beads has only been negotiated recently. Is there any big business that Sifang can't do this year? Liang Feng turned his head and asked Chao Yu, who was kneeling on the side seat, "But the study has sold scriptures again?"
Chaoyu bowed slightly: "As expected by the master. After the victory in Lucheng, the study has sold a lot of scriptures. This year, the income from selling only books is more than 10,000 stone. There are still some distances that cannot transport rice grains. They replaced it with silk and hemp, and they got more than a hundred pieces."
This is not a small amount. How many scholars are there in Bingzhou? Even if you add the concubine, there will be too many. This sales volume is almost enough for everyone, and maybe there are many Huns nobles who also bought town houses. Pretending to be a ghost is really the most lucrative business!
"What about Wynn Temple? Has a new board been carved again? "
"More than ten volumes were carved. All of them were written by the presiding officer, and the rice grains they obtained were worth a thousand stones. But after the establishment of the Xiongnu state, the Huai'en Temple no longer printed scriptures." Chao Yu said.
Liang Feng stopped copying scriptures for a long time, but the monks in Huai'en Temple did not stop wholesale business, but printed some engraved books with scriptures written by the presiding abbot. However, the war still affected the business. Jinyang was surrounded by the Huns. Even with the skill of an old monk, he was afraid that he would not be able to transport rice grains.
Liang Feng nodded knowingly: "Next year, the Chong Library will be the first to engrave scriptures. This time I brought back a few volumes of scriptures. After work resumes, I will print them one by one."
These days, he also discussed with Cui Ji and others that a batch of scriptures and histories should be engraved, including "The Classic of Filial Piety", "The Analects of Confucius", "Book of Rites", "Spring and Autumn Period", "Shangshu" and so on. It was only after he became acquainted with the Jin Dynasty that Liang Feng discovered that there were no Four Books and Five Classics at this time, so the articles such as "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" extracted from the "Book of Rites" have not been elevated to the status of later classics. But there are books that must be read. Even if you can't get an excellent commentary, these classics need to be recited by students one by one and thoroughly memorized.
Now that there is Chongwen Hall, it is also necessary to reopen the official school in the county. It is still necessary to print some unannotated and sentenceless versions. Cui Ji asked someone to sort out a set of manuscripts of the Han Li version, ready to be used for engraving. This is the Cui family's biggest concession to engraving and printing. Wouldn't it be a pity not to seize the opportunity
With these tasks, I am afraid that the bookstore will not be able to receive Buddhist scriptures from outside. Chaoyu bowed his head and said, "The slaves will arrange for craftsmen to engrave them carefully."
Although he is already in charge of Sifang, Chaoyu's attitude is still as gentle and elegant as before, Liang Feng smiled, it seems that he did not choose the wrong agent. Turning his head, he said to Han again: "Are there any arrangements for the officials at all levels in the mansion?"
The population has skyrocketed from 300 to 3,000, and more managers are bound to be deployed. This was also something that Liang Feng deliberately arranged before he left.
Han Dang replied: "Twenty officers have been selected, nine of them are from the stray family, seven of them are recruited scholars, and four are from the school. There are examinations every month. He was dismissed and suspended. The list is also listed in the book."
The turmoil not only displaced the people, but also broke down many families with less resistance to pressure. In the process of escaping, these people will inevitably depend on the wealthy family and become their vassal disciples. Now that Liang Mansion is a powerful party, and Sizhou and Bingzhou are both in chaos, of course, there will be no shortage of such people. Han Dang reviewed them one by one, and just received a batch of them as assistant officials.
Liang Feng was quite reassured about Han Dang's vision, not to mention that Li Zheng, who was in charge of civil affairs, was promoted by A Liang, and Zhou Kan personally trained his helpers in the accountant. If the two sides can't intervene, even if there is something wrong with the assistant, it will not have much impact.
Nodding with satisfaction, Liang Feng said, "That's good. Where are Shi Yue and Zhichuan?"
"The two guests are still in the workshop, can the master call them back?" This time, Liang Feng's return was too sudden, and Han Dang didn't have time to inform the workshop.
"It doesn't matter, I can go there in the afternoon." Liang Feng didn't care. He hasn't been there since the kiln workers and iron workers moved into the new workshop in the mountains. It's also good to see for yourself.
Hearing Liang Feng say this, Han Dang didn't say much, and continued to report other matters.
After checking the current situation of the mansion, and after taking a rest, Liang Feng rode to Xinfang after his lunch break. Liang Mansion itself is built on the mountain, this time the two workshops moved to the newly opened valley. There are guards in the distance, and there are three posts and three posts before entering the factory. The environment here is good, and there is a tributary passing through. The river has long been widened, sluice gates have been built, and waterwheels stand on the edge of the river.
This is the newly remodeled water cone, but under the mallet used to pound the rice, instead of white rice, there is white soil. This is the raw material for porcelain making, and it is also the key to the whiteness of Liangfu white porcelain. It takes a lot of effort just to hammer the magnetic soil. But now that there is a water cone, driven by water power, the mallet beats the stones inside without sleep, saving a lot of manpower.
Liang Feng stood by the water cone and watched for a while before walking in. After just a few hundred steps, there was more pungent smoke in the air, which is the exhaust gas produced by coal burning. Just smelling it makes people feel stuffy in the chest. The porcelain kilns have been expanded to four, and there are iron furnaces on the ironworker's side, intertwined, and the pollution is even more serious.
But now is not the time to talk about environmental protection, Liang Feng ignored the bad air and continued to walk inside. Not long after, he came to the outer courtyard of Taofang. Someone had already informed them that Ge Hong and Liu Jian hurried out to greet them.
"Fu Jun, how can you come here?" Ge Hong frowned. After all, he was also one of Liang Feng's health care doctors, so he naturally knew that the other party was weak and should not go to such a dirty place.
Liang Feng smiled and said, "I haven't been to the workshop for a long time. I heard that you are here, so I just came to see it. I wonder how the hydraulic bellows is developed?"
Liu Jian immediately came to his senses: "The bellows has been modeled, and it is indeed usable. But Chigawa came up with a way to build a furnace. With a bellows, it may be several times stronger than the current furnace."
"Oh?" Liang Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this, "I don't know how the furnace that Chichuan said was made?"
Ge Hong was not pretentious, he took out a blueprint and handed it to Liang Feng: "This is the official furnace, used by the iron officials. In the Han Dynasty, there was a large furnace that was ten feet high and required three hundred people to drum up. Now the mansion uses it for himself. You can imitate its shape and reduce the height as appropriate. It will be able to produce iron several times!"
When he got the charcoal drawing, Liang Feng couldn't help being a little stunned. Isn't this a small blast furnace like the old one? Why is there now? !
In fact, the blast furnace has existed since the Warring States Period. The "Han Book" records: "In the first month of the second year of Heping (27 BC), iron officials in Pei County cast iron. People were startled and walked away. The sound stopped, and they looked at the ground. The ground was sunken for several feet, and the furnace was divided into ten. The iron in one furnace was like shooting stars, and they all went up, which is the same as the second year of Zhenghe (91 B.C.)." It is the accident that the material in the middle of the blast furnace cannot be suspended, and the molten iron accumulates too much and suddenly falls, resulting in an accident that the furnace is destroyed due to excessive pressure.
Metallurgy has always been the most important indicator of a country's national strength, so the level of blast furnaces mastered by Tieguan is indeed not bad. The furnace with a height of one zhang and a width of one zhang is the main furnace used in iron mines. However, these technologies are not spread among the people. As an alchemist, Ge Hong has a very good understanding of furnace refining, so he can come up with the idea of building a blast furnace.
However, the Liangfu used wooden bellows, not leather. The ability of the blast is several times stronger than that of the scorpion. Therefore, it is not necessary to build a large furnace, one zhang high and two feet wide enough. The iron production of a blast furnace of this scale is amazing. In addition, the use of hydraulic ventilation requires a lot of manpower, and it is more than enough to mine mines!
This is nowhere to go after breaking through the iron shoes, and planting willows and willows inadvertently! Liang Feng made a decisive decision: "This furnace is very good! It can be trial-produced first! Send some people to find ore veins and circle the mountains to make iron!"
Shangdang is a place where iron is produced. With so many mountains and mountains, there must be a lot of iron ore that has not been unearthed. With blast furnaces and ore veins, are you worried that there is not enough iron in Fuzhong
By the way, Liang Feng remembered one more thing: "We also need to find some places for coal production. Coal can be refined into charcoal like wood. This kind of coal is used to make iron, and I am afraid it is stronger than ordinary charcoal."
Coke is a must for iron making, and Liang Feng really knows how to make coke. In the past, there was a symposium in the bureau to destroy an earthen coking plant, and that earthen kiln was almost the same as a charcoal kiln. It is also smoldering raw coal to make coke. This kind of native method consumes a lot of money and pollutes a lot, and it will be shut down in later generations. But for today, it is a cross-generational invention. If there is coke, the output and quality of iron will be greatly improved. How can you let go of such a powerful thing!
After receiving Liang Feng's affirmation, both Ge Hong and Liu Jian became excited. This was another great achievement! If iron can be produced well, it will be of great help to the Liang residence.
After talking about this accidental discovery, Ge Hong remembered what he was doing in Liangfu, and went back to the courtyard to get a piece of porcelain: "After coming to Fuzhong, I followed Jiang Jiangtou to burn the kiln for a few days, and found that the magnetic kiln was inside the kiln. , There are also discolored porcelain. This may have something in common with the variegated colors in the glass. I mixed some materials and colors and fired the porcelain. If there is a color change. Just like copper and iron, it can change with the furnace temperature. If you remove the impurities in the glass frit, you will be able to burn out the colorless glass that Fu Jun said!"
Looking at the bells and whistles in Ge Hong's hand, Liang Feng was speechless again. Isn't this glaze the prototype of the later Tang Sancai? Although Tang Sancai were mostly tomb objects, they were all the rage for a while, and dignitaries were buried with them. Not to mention the various official kiln works after the development of glaze. It is of course important to remove impurities in the glass, but it is also a big business for money to be able to burn the glaze in the porcelain!
He can be really confused. There is a chemical genius, just making some explosives, acid and alkali, isn't it a waste of time? !
With a long sigh, Liang Feng said, "I knew about the great talent of Chichuan, but I never thought about where it should be used. It is a negligence. It seems that only by going deep into production can I play the ability of Chichuan!"
Ge Hong: "..."
Fujun, what happened? Isn't colorless glass not yet made
Regardless of the inexplicable expressions on their faces, Liang Feng excitedly hugged the two of them: "Follow me to see Jiang and Ding, the two craftsmen. I'm afraid it's the craftsman's workshop, and I won't be able to relax this year."
The author has something to say: The 44-cubic-meter blast furnace in the Han Dynasty produced 570 kilograms of iron a day and an annual output of about 60 tons, and it has long been known that adding limestone to help melt. In the Jin Dynasty, coal was used, and in the Song Dynasty, there was coke. The small blast furnaces and coke in the Ming Dynasty were very mature. The ancients played so dangling, you need to be careful when traversing inventions =w=