After throwing a bag to Si Niang, Chen Xi stopped caring about it. He just needed to throw the bag to the other party. The other party had a psychological burden and would gradually advance under the constraints of righteousness. I would just ask again after a while.

"Is this really a wasteland?" Liu Bei looked at the people passing by on the road and said in surprise. Even the Northland Ranch was not as crowded as here.

"Of course it's a wasteland." Chen Xi said casually. This is equivalent to the early heavy industrial base. Even if there is no one at the beginning, after the smelter is opened and various supporting facilities are built, there will be people in places where there is no one.

The process of industrialization is also to a certain extent the process of urban construction. The appearance of industrial bases will naturally absorb human resources. In order to provide corresponding supporting facilities for these human resources, or to make money, urban areas will gradually be built.

After all, food, clothing, housing and transportation are essential needs and are infrastructure that cannot be bypassed.

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

"In fact, if Mr. Xuande listens carefully, he will find that the official language here is very fluent." Chen Xi said with a little complacent attitude.

Liu Bei listened carefully to a few hawking sounds 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. In the past five years, the accents of these people who came here to make a living and even settled down have no difference in their accents from Chang'an Mandarin." Chen Xi looked out the window and said, "Maybe some of them were Hu people, but now they can't tell the difference at all."

This collective life of state-owned factories and mines will greatly extinguish those less important characteristics of individuals, especially standardization and quasi-militarization requirements, and in combination with the temptation of them, the people who come here to make a living have long become part of this collective.

"Who is in charge of the government now?" Liu Bei was quite satisfied with this kind of political achievements.

"Wenmanki, the middle of Bingzhou, took it on his shoulders." Chen Xi gave the answer casually.

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

"Well, it's that guy. His performance is OK and his ability is quite excellent. I found someone to recommend it and have been promoted to Bingzhou Zhizhong in the past two years." Chen Xi said calmly.

"I remember Wenmanki should be only twenty-six years old." Liu Bei pondered for a moment and said, "He has actually become the Bingzhou mastermind."

"Duke Xuande actually started to judge his ability based on age." Chen Xi looked frightened, but the corners of his mouth could not cover his smile.

A mature political entity will have very standard political achievements in promotion. Do not do anything like promotion as much as possible. This is Chen Xi’s early provision in the morning, and he also set an example to abide by this provision. Otherwise, Wen Hui would have been the governor of Bingzhou now.

"You guy." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi angrily and said.

"Okay, let's not kidding, I promoted Wen Manji." Chen Xi said with a smile. He and Wen Hui had some friendship. After all, Wen Hui helped find the pair of bracelets and chessboards of the Chen family. In addition, Wen Hui is indeed capable and the talent of a serious border official, so Chen Xi tried hard behind his back.

It is estimated that at this current speed, Wen Hui should be able to become a Bingzhou governor at around thirty years old, and then quickly become the governor of Bingzhou.

Of course, this means that Wen Hui has not made any mistakes in recent years, but this guy is one of the several capable ministers and officials of the governor level who have left their names during the Three Kingdoms period. I guess there would be no major problems. Chen Xi was also happy to try his best to make this guy even more powerful, since he was almost thirty years old.

After all, it is basically impossible to be like Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng like this day, like Zhuge Liang and Fa Zheng, and take over Chang'an in their twenties and handle government affairs in the Political Court, rather than doing chores like Sima Fu, Xun Yun and Yuan Yin. Even Lu Xun and Lu Yu need to let go now, after all, the times are different.

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

"It's okay, your ability is pretty good." Chen Xi did not deny this. Wen Hui was really capable. If it weren't for the level of vision, it still needed to be tempered. In fact, just speaking of the ability is enough, so it still has to be polished.

"Then is the Bingzhou Smelting Department." Liu Bei pointed to a place with sparse black smoke and asked. At this time, the places where black smoke could be emitted are basically important towns, and they are large smelting plants, and the fish are 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 fog capital, the knowledgeable people around the world who were eager for industrialization smelled the pungent smell and looked at the city covered by smog, and naturally gave birth to such a powerful feeling.

Therefore, there is nothing to say. This is the iron production these days, and even if there is pollution, it will not be too serious. Nature's natural regulation ability is still very reliable. However, Chen Xi still did the basic protection of the less expensive basics. After all, the waste gas that can emerge these days is also very precious.

Of course, the waste gas produced by burning coal is forgot. Chen Xi is talking about the waste gas generated by iron smelting.

The quality of the iron ore in the Han Dynasty is very average, and there is basically no rich ore that is picked up and thrown directly into the blast furnace, so it is necessary to screen ore, which is a very headache.

Then there is the iron ore in Bingzhou, all of which are strange ores mixed with pyroferite and hematite. Simply put, the sulfur content is a bit high.

Therefore, Chen Xi’s advice at that time was to collect waste gas. No matter whether it was useful or not, it would be collected first. Anyway, the sulfur dioxide you picked up for free is not a loss to make sulfuric acid.

It can be said that this is a three acid and two alkalis. Chen Xi can get good things easily. Although Chen Xi doesn’t know what to divide the sulfuric acid into, it is better to collect it and see what it can be used for instead of emitting polluting the atmosphere.

In this case, the black smoke that Liu Bei could see was actually purely incomplete coal. This black ash was a problem, but it was not a big problem.

"Driving over directly. It doesn't matter if you have any questions. If you have any questions, you will know everything." Liu Bei suddenly said, Chen Xi thought about it but did not refuse, and rushed in and saw what was going on.

So the group did not enter the city and rushed directly to the smelting department. Although the security department blocked it, Liu Bei stuck his head out and was shocked on the other side, and then quickly registered and released it.

This is a real pass, no one can stop it.

Just looking at the centurion's expression of the centurion, you can tell how noble Liu Bei's status was in the eyes of the other party. From a certain perspective, Liu Bei is roughly at the rampant level.

"This blast furnace feels a little different from what I saw in Mount Tai at that time." Liu Bei looked at the local steel furnace from afar and frowned. It was only a distance that the heat was still rolling.

"Well, it looks OK, the technology has improved a lot." Chen Xi nodded after looking for a while, and it has become much bigger and much taller.

By the way, even though Chen Xi and Liu Bei did not get close to the blast furnace, the workers wearing work clothes next to him were still looking cautiously at Chen Xi and Liu Bei, looking afraid that they would go crazy. Fortunately, the two of them were standing there before Pu Yuan came with them.

It is not a secret that Liu Bei and his party traveled. In fact, this kind of inspection that even the Regent Princess took away was impossible to cover it. In addition, there is no airtight wall in this world. Until now, bureaucrats from all over the country know the purpose of Liu Bei and his party's eastern tour, and have also worked hard to start rectification.

"I have seen Your Highness the Princess, I have seen..." Before Pu Yuan finished speaking, he was stopped by Liu Tong.

"The blast furnace is improved. Is it an iron smelting, steel smelting, or alloy?" Chen Xi looked roughly at the layout of the smelting department. There was nothing to say. Liu Ba obviously did it randomly, but when the expansion was expanded, there were some unreasonable layouts. This was an experience problem, so it was hard to say anything.

"This is used to smelter iron, but due to technical and ore issues, the iron blocks produced are relatively hard and brittle." Pu Yuan immediately answered, "But this is just the first step. These irons are more used to make agricultural tools. The real smelter of steel is to recast these pig iron."

At present, the smelting technology of the Han Dynasty is quite strange. In fact, steel-frying method appeared in the steelmaking process in the Central Plains during the Han Dynasty, but this technology is too complex. Although the technology given by Chen Xi is also garbage technology, it is better to be greatly simplified.

If you can't make steel, then you can make the pig iron first and then smel them again. There are many defects in the local steelmaking process, but no matter how many defects there are, they are nothing in this era. If you can liquefy the iron by blast furnace, many things will have operational value.

It can be said that the earth and iron produced in the first step is almost the basis of the earth and steel furnaces behind it.

"Where is the alloy?" Chen Xi asked curiously. The first step in the actual mountain is fine, and the second step will inevitably be promoted. The problem is that the third step is that there is only one way to learn materials, that is, to pile up the foundation and conduct continuous experiments. This requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
Chapter completed!