In the early morning of the next day, Ren Baqian took the token to enter and leave the palace gate, pulled two guards, led a few oxen and went out.
After all, with Ren Baqian's strength, no one would be at ease if he went out by himself, even he himself was not at ease, so the Empress transferred two guards from the palace to him.
The strength of these two guards is much higher than the original vine gourd and iron knife. The vine gourd and iron knife are just entering the realm of Sifangtian. kind.
And the two guards assigned by the empress to Ren Baqian are both of the strength of the first entry into the good luck heaven, which is equivalent to the entry into the earth wheel, and their strength is stronger than the warriors of the other three kingdoms who have just entered the earth wheel.
Walking out of the palace, Ren Baqian opened his arms, and he hadn't come out for some days.
It still feels better outside, the palace is too quiet.
Riding on the back of a curved ox in the middle of the road, followed by guards who also rode a curved ox, they went straight to the Ministry of Industry.
The road in Lancheng is also very wide, with mounts and carriages passing in the middle, and pedestrians on both sides. The three people who watched the riding came paid attention and whispered.
"Is that the husband-in-law chosen by His Majesty?"
"It seems that there is still an official uniform, it must be him, there is no second one in this Lancheng."
"I don't know what His Majesty likes about him."
However, there was one person in the crowd who left in a hurry after seeing Ren Baqian without attracting anyone's attention.
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Such remarks even drifted to Ren Baqian's ears with the wind.
Even if the ancients were whispering, their voices were similar to those of ordinary people, which made him wonder if all the ancients had hearing problems
Ren Baqian didn't bother to pay attention to such remarks. After a long time, such remarks would naturally decrease.
There are many people coming and going in and out of the Ministry of Industry, which is much more lively than Honglu Division. After all, the Ministry of Industry is responsible for a lot of things, which cannot be compared with Qingshui Yamen like Honglu Division.
Ren Baqian reported his name first, and was ushered in. But Tong Zhenye wasn't there at this time, and Ren Baqian waited for him for more than half an hour, wearing dark glasses, his nose was almost poked into the sky.
Coupled with his sturdy body, bald head and braided beard on his chin, Ren Baqian felt that he was short of a gold chain.
"Ren Fucheng, is there anything you want me to do?" Tong Zhenye brought Ren Baqian into a room and said bluntly.
"Master Tong, if you want to make glass, you must first make a blast furnace. Not only the glass factory needs it, but the Ministry of Industry also needs it to smelt metal. Using a blast furnace to smelt can be several times faster than before, and it needs less wood." Ren Baqian Stand aside and say.
"Oh?" Tong Zhenye was slightly surprised, this Renfu Cheng really knows everything.
If the speed of smelting iron ore is several times faster and consumes less wood according to what he said, that would be a great thing.
"Cheng Ren, please sit down and explain in detail." Tong Zhenye showed a look of great interest on his face.
"To make a blast furnace, you first need two materials, one is brick and the other is cement.
In addition to building blast furnaces, the former can also build houses and various buildings. In this way, there is no need to dig and polish stones from a distance to build something in the future, which saves not a little bit of manpower and material resources.
And cement is even more useful. In addition to the above, it can also quickly build cities, pave roads, and so on. "Ren Baqian sat aside and continued.
Tong Zhenye's face became much more serious when he heard this. According to what Ren Baqian said, then these two things are of great value and have a wide range of uses.
"What exactly are the bricks and cement that Ren Fucheng mentioned?" Tong Zhenye asked.
Ren Baqian told Tong Zhenye about the general uses of bricks and cement, and Tong Zhenye pondered for a moment before asking: "According to what Ren Fucheng said, the bricks and cement are indeed very useful. to do it?"
"This is going to be handed over to the Ministry of Industry. After all, these two items are beneficial to the construction of Dayao as a whole. It is still faster for the Ministry of Industry to arrange."
Tong Zhenye smiled after hearing this, he really didn't want this thing to be guarded by the palace before, after all, according to the other party's words, these two items are not difficult to manufacture, and they can be used in all aspects.
"Then I would like to thank Ren Fu Cheng. If there is anything we need our Ministry of Industry to do, Ren Fu Cheng can just ask." Tong Zhenye stroked his twisted beard and said.
"It's mainly limestone mines. As for clay and the like, it can be found everywhere by the river and at the foot of the mountain."
Ren Baqian roughly described limestone, which has a large reserve and should be easy to find.
"Cheng Ren, wait a moment." Tong Zhenye said and went out, "Bring me Tie Ze, Tie Quan."
After yelling, he went back to the room and said to Ren Baqian, "These two guys run around every day, so they might know."
Within a few minutes, two big men hurried into the house: "My lord, are you looking for the two of us?"
"Cheng Ren has something to ask you, answer honestly." Tong Zhenye said, stroking his beard.
"We haven't caused any trouble these days, have we?" The two asked doubtfully.
"Stop talking nonsense." Tong Zhenye scolded.
"Ren Fucheng, you can ask."
"Have you two seen that kind of limestone or cloud rock, that is..." Ren Baqian described several types of limestone to the two of them.
"Aren't these things everywhere?" The two big men scratched their heads and asked.
"Where's the nearest one?"
"Walk in that direction for a long time, and it's everywhere." One of them turned his head and looked around, and it took him a long time to find the right direction and point.
There is the northeast direction of Lancheng.
"Master Tong, I'm afraid I will borrow these two from you." Ren Baqian turned his head and cupped his hands and said.
"You two will be at the command of the adults today, if there are any mistakes or omissions, wait to be dealt with." Tong Zhenye said to the two of them with rounded eyes.
"Yes, my lord." Both of them shrank their necks.
"Please, both of you, take a trip and bring some back for me to see. If it's what I want, it's the best. If not, I'm afraid you need to make a few more trips.
In addition, there are a few other things, feldspar and dolomite are also needed, if the two of you know where they are, you can arrange for someone to get them back together.
But this limestone is the priority. "Ren Baqian continued, and at the same time, he also talked about the characteristics of feldspar and dolomite.
"The dolomite is also there half a day out of the city, but it's not in the same direction as before. As for the feldspar, there may be several places, and the two of us can't remember clearly." The two pondered and said.
"Well, please both of you look for more. Also, have you ever seen a black stone that can burn?"
"This is not clear."
"Then I will trouble you both to bring back some of the items mentioned above."
After the two left, Tong Zhenye said, "I know about black burning stones. Those people in the south often burn that. At first, I was curious that stones could also be burned. Mr. Ren, can you burn it with wood? Man Mountains are."
Ren Baqian was overjoyed when he heard Tong Zhenye's words: "That thing is much easier to use than wood, and the temperature is higher than wood, it's a good thing."