Li Si was quick-witted. He thought about it and quickly answered.
"Your Majesty, according to your instructions, the curved shaft plow has been promoted around Guanzhong. The effect is very obvious. The farmland in many areas has been reclaimed and farming has begun!”
"You must remember, do not let Quyuan Li appear in the Xianyang region, especially in the other villages around the Song Manor!"”
Li Si quickly nodded.
Although Song Yuan's village faced a river on one side and a mountain on the other, there was only one intersection in the entire village. Moreover, the nearest village to the Song Manor was also a hundred miles away.
Even though Song Yuan had not left the house for five years, it was hard to say if he would make a move now that he had made a comeback.
In order to avoid exposing His Majesty's identity, everything had to be done carefully.
" Song Yuan's invention is undeniably amazing. Li Si, spend more time these few days and watch the craftsmen finish building the waterwheel. Finish the experiment as soon as possible and continue to promote it!" Brother Zheng said.”
"Yes, sir!"
After giving all the instructions, Brother Zheng began to handle the court affairs.
He had stayed in the Song Manor for seven days and had accumulated many important memorials that had not been dealt with. Brother Zheng probably would not be able to leave Xianyang City in the next few days.
He was afraid that he would miss something again. Brother Zheng sighed helplessly. He subconsciously wanted to smoke, but he didn't.
He could only bury his head and start dealing with the memorials, striving to get to the Song Manor as soon as possible.
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Song Manor.
Song Yuan arranged for Song Yunlong to bring ten soldiers of the Song Army to Xianyang City to buy iron ore. Then, he took out the blueprint and asked the craftsmen in the village workshop to modify the furnace so that they could make iron later.
In actuality, Great Qin's iron-smelting skills were very poor only because they were too good at Bronze.
If one looked at the entire world, Great Qin's iron smelting technology was unrivaled.
Under normal circumstances, Great Qin's iron smelting was done at a low temperature. The iron ores were first reduced to sponge iron before being forged into iron blocks.
By the end of the Warring States Period, iron smelting technology had improved, and people could already decarburize through repeated forging to make incomplete cast iron decarburized steel parts.
It could be said that pig iron smelting technology had already appeared in the Qin Dynasty.
However, it did not mean that the ironware of the Qin Dynasty was very powerful. Because the whole process was smelted at a low temperature, the ironware of this time had a common problem.
It was just that there was no high-temperature forging, resulting in a lot of impurities in the ironware. In terms of hardness and toughness, it was completely inferior to bronze.
It was also said that on the battlefield, iron weapons would shatter with a touch and break with a slash.
So far, the ironware of the Qin Dynasty was generally used for farming tools.
However, it was very easy to solve these problems.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the common people invented the fan to increase the furnace temperature and carry out high-temperature forging. At that time, there was even the legendary "Hundred Steels of Steel".
The Song Family Residence's technology had just started, and Song Yuan also planned to modify the workshop according to the iron-making methods of the Western Han Dynasty.
Adding a fan, transforming the furnace into a larger shaft furnace, and adding a blast furnace base.
Of course, the hardware had to be modified, and the software had to keep up. Previously, he had signed in and obtained a new forging method for forging steel.
It was said that it could increase the efficiency by half, reduce more impurities, and have a significant decarburization effect. Overall, it was more than twice as strong as the ordinary forging method!
Song Yuan planned to modify the furnace and hand it over to the craftsmen for trial use.
After the preparations for smelting iron were done, Song Yuan began to make salt.
After all, to build a steel factory, everything had to start from making money.
Moreover, his father-in-law had already helped him open up a private sales channel. Song Yuan naturally had to start making salt as soon as possible.
Because Great Qin's salt production technology was not very high, it only required three processes: filtering, exposure to the sun, and steaming. As a result, the salt that was produced was crude salt with many impurities.
In order to reduce impurities, many saltworks used the finest salt mines to make salt.
This also brought about a benefit.
The government would deal with the salt stones with a lot of impurities at a low price.
Song Yuan had the salt-making method rewarded by the system. He could extract fine salt from these salt stones.
Therefore, Song Yuan had already ordered people to buy a large number of salt stones.
Now, the villagers had already begun to expose themselves to the sun at the back of the village.
In about three days, the first batch of refined salt would be completed.
Song Yuan wasn't worried about being discovered when he was making salt on such a large scale.
The Song Manor had a river on one side and a mountain on the other. There was only one road leading to the village. The village had more than ten thousand people, and more than half of them had been rescued from the plague. The rest of the refugees that Song Yuan had taken in were all very loyal.
There was no need to worry about internal spies.
Of course, when the scale was large, they still had to be careful. Five hundred private soldiers were facing such a large village, and it was already very difficult to defend. They still had to continue training.
However, because he didn't have any more spirit water, Song Yuan could only let the Song Army train the villagers and improve step by step.
By the time everything was planned, it was already dark.
Song Yuan organized the overall development plan again and thought to himself, As long as his father-in-law opened up the refined salt channel, the Song Manor would enter a leap in development!
He was also confident that everything he had planned today would be able to make his father-in-law dumbfounded the next time he came!
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