Ren Baqian didn't take the policewoman seriously, but after seeing her, Ren Baqian recalled the aftermath of the Jin family.
After returning to the car, he gave Chen Shi a call as he should be more familiar with the situation.
After asking, he found out that the Jin family was in a mess after he escaped. Several of the main leaders were dead, and there were almost no immediate family members left. The remaining people fought fiercely for the property, especially the relatives of the Jin family.
At that time, some people thought of avenging Jin Wen and the rest, but before they had the chance, the police exterminated the remaining members of the Jin family and dug up all the previous incidents.
After all, the Jin family wasn't clean, and this incident was so serious that the old scores were immediately dug up.
Of course, there were also some departments behind the scenes.
After the call, Ren Baqian felt relieved and completely let go of this matter. The Jin family had already fallen apart and could no longer cause any trouble.
For the next period of time, Ren Baqian had absolutely nothing to do. Occasionally, he would go to the school that was still under construction. The three brick houses had basically been completed. Sometimes, Ren Baqian would think of something and ask the person in charge to add a little something in a certain place.
For example, a swing.
For example, digging a ditch to bring in water from a nearby stream.
For example, building a pavilion.
The rest of the time, he would practice or receive Tong Lan's one-on-one tutoring.
Every time he lay on the ground after being educated by Tong Lan, he would always remember a man saying, "I'm invincible in my background music."
However, Ren Baqian was exactly the opposite of him.
"I've never won in my background music!"
Ah, what a painful realization!
Traveling back and forth between the other world and Earth, his progress was still slow, but his strength had recently increased to more than 450 kilograms. At this time, Ren Baqian couldn't see the surrounding scenery clearly at the bottom of the lake, but he estimated that he shouldn't be far from the bottom.
When he touched the bottom of the lake, he would have completed the cultivation of the [Visualization of Water] and reached the initial stage of the Man Wheel level.
This was a qualitative change.
When he reached the initial stage of the Man Wheel level, his entire body would undergo some changes, indicating that he had taken an important step.
In Great Xia, only one in a thousand practitioners could reach the Man Wheel level, and only one in a hundred could reach the Earth Wheel level.
From this ratio, some problems could be explained.
The Man Wheel level was an extremely important threshold.
Early in the morning, Ren Baqian cleaned himself up and shaved his hair, revealing his green scalp.
He also shaved his beard.
He even took a cold shower. Then, he picked up Gungun, who was hugging his thigh, and threw it to the side, causing it to collide with Tiantian.
Tiantian and Gungun were sent to Pingle Park recently. Otherwise, Ren Baqian would have missed them. He simply informed the empress and got someone to send them over.
When he arrived at Yangxin Palace Hall, the empress was reading a thread-bound book.
"Your Majesty, do you want to return with me? Have a taste of our New Year and home-cooked meals. " Ren Baqian stood beside her, leaned his upper body against the wooden couch, and moved closer to see what the empress was looking at.
"Are you going home?" the empress straightened her body and asked. She then casually slapped the book on his body.
"Yes." Ren Baqian nodded. It was time to go back. It had been so long. If not for the fact that the empress was always by his side, he would have returned long ago.
"I'm not going," the empress immediately rejected him.
Ren Baqian heaved a sigh of relief after hearing what the empress said. After all, even though the empress treated him well, she was still very cold to others.
In addition, she had been in charge of life and death for a long time. Furthermore, she had the aura of a top-notch expert. Ordinary people would probably feel uneasy around her.
Just by releasing a little bit of her aura, a vacuum zone would appear around her, and no one would appear around her.
If he really brought the empress back, he was afraid that there would be an awkward silence, an awkward silence, and then an awkward silence.
Therefore, Ren Baqian felt that this wasn't a good time.
However, it was still up to the empress to decide whether to go or not. It seemed like the empress didn't want to see anyone else now.
"The solar furnace should have arrived at Mount Damo by now, right?" Ren Baqian calculated that it had already been half a month. Even though it was a mirror type and had to be transported carefully, it should have arrived in half a month.
"According to the journey, it should have arrived yesterday," the empress said. She had received the news previously.
If they used the yabird to send the letter, they should have received it by today.
After all, not only Ren Baqian and the empress were concerned about this matter, but many people in the imperial court were also paying attention to it.
This was a major event that could affect the entire Dayao. The people from the Ministry of Works, Ministry of Revenue, and Ministry of War were also waiting for the news.
…
On Mount Damo, dozens of people were busy fixing concave mirrors on a huge shelf. A group of people surrounded them and watched the show from afar.
"This thing can melt Mount Damo?" Gu Qiong, the supervisor of the iron mine at Mount Damo, and many of his subordinates looked at them busily. When he recalled what these people said last night, he was still in disbelief.
"You will know in a while." The person who spoke was Tao Jiyuan from the Department of Ordnance. He followed them this time around.
Regarding this solar furnace, he had naturally heard of it. Those who saw it with their own eyes that day often talked about it. He had also heard Feng Hou talk about it.
He heard that it used the energy of the sun to melt steel.
However, he wasn't very clear about the specifics.
Following the busy craftsmen, the mirrors were fixed on the shelf one by one, just like a jigsaw puzzle.
After spending the entire morning, the mirrors on the shelf were finally installed. Dozens of people took out some flat mirrors and began to adjust the angles.
Finally, all the mirrors reflected the sunlight onto the solar furnace, and then onto an area with a radius of half a meter on Mount Damo.
Everyone focused their attention there, wanting to see what would happen.
In less than a minute or two, they could see the mountain start to turn red, smoke, and then catch fire.
Three minutes later, the molten iron started to melt and flowed down the mountain wall.
"It's done!" The person who cheered was the leader of the craftsmen. His name was Peng Ze.
Following which, the other craftsmen also cheered.
After working for such a long time, there were finally no problems.
On the other hand, the others were dumbfounded as they looked at the molten iron flowing down Mount Damo. They actually did it.
Previously, the method of burning the mountain could increase the output of the iron mine by several times. With this thing, it wasn't just a few times, but more than ten times, or even a hundred times.
Following which, the craftsmen prepared to install the second solar furnace. This time around, they brought enough concave mirrors to make three of these solar furnaces. At the same time, someone taught Gu Qiong how to adjust the angle of the mirrors and the angle of the shelf.
This was taught by Ren Baqian. After all, they couldn't just melt a single point.
At the same time, there was also a metal box that was specially used to collect the molten iron. All they had to do was place it at the bottom.
When the molten iron fell into the metal box, it would heat up the metal box, but it wouldn't melt. After all, the molten iron would cool down as it fell. Some of the molten iron would cool down and form wall hangings on the mountain wall.
As for these newly formed wall hangings, as long as a hammer was used to smash them, they would fall.
After two hours, the molten iron that flowed down and the iron pieces that fell and solidified on the mountain wall weighed about 500 kilograms.
A solar furnace could be used for about six hours a day. At other times, due to the angle of the sun, the sunlight couldn't be reflected onto Mount Damo through the mirrors and the solar furnace.
However, in just three hours, 1,500 kilograms of iron could be produced.
Three solar furnaces would be equivalent to 9,000 kilograms of iron.
Excluding the rainy days, there would be at least 200 sunny days in a year. That was to say …
Tao Jiyuan sat on the ground without a care for his image. He didn't have enough fingers to count and couldn't calculate for a long time.
"1.8 million kilograms …!" When Tao Jiyuan finally came up with this number, his lips were trembling.
This number really scared him. When the others heard it, they also started to tremble. Gu Qiong's face was flushed as if he had drunk too much.
One had to know that Dayao's annual production of iron was only about 5,000 kilograms.
Now, with this "solar furnace," the annual production of iron was equivalent to 100 years of iron production from Mount Damo and Mount Liucui.
This number was simply too terrifying.
Furthermore, as long as there were enough manpower and solar energy, this number would continue to increase.
Based on the production of a saber that weighed 20 kilograms, close to 100,000 sabers could be produced in a year.
One had to know that for so many years, Dayao didn't have a 100,000 strong army. One of the main reasons was the lack of weapons. Among the commoners, a short saber could be regarded as a family heirloom.
When this news reached the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue, these few departments were about to explode. The loud noise could even be heard on the streets outside. Tong Zhenye and Qin Chuan's wild laughter lasted for the time it took to burn a joss stick.
Even though they had seen Ren Baqian demonstrate the solar furnace, they didn't expect it to be so effective.
That night, Tong Zhenye from the Ministry of Works and Qin Chuan from the Ministry of War invited their subordinates to a banquet at House Yunyan. In the end, it turned into a decisive battle at the summit of a brothel.
Tong Zhenye had the last laugh again.
When the empress received this news, she was a little dazed at first. Soon after, she revealed a look of joy. At this rate, they could produce 200,000 weapons in two years.
They didn't even need that many weapons. As long as they could produce 50,000 weapons, Dayao would have an additional 50,000 strong soldiers. 30,000 of them would be transferred to the Protectorate of the North and the remaining 20,000 to the Protectorate of the Southeast and Protectorate of the Northeast.
At that time, even if Great Xia, the Yun Nation, and the Chen Nation launched an attack together, she wouldn't need to worry.
The empress was excited. She stood up and walked a few steps in the hall. However, she remembered that the person who could share this joy with her wasn't here at this moment.
…
At this moment, Ren Baqian didn't know about this.
Even if he knew, he probably wouldn't be as happy as the others.
An annual production of 1.8 million kilograms was only 1,800 tons, which was about the same as the annual steel production of the Tang Dynasty.
One had to know that the annual steel production of China on Earth was 1.1 billion tons. 1,800 tons wasn't even enough to meet the steel consumption of a small city.
However, this was already a huge improvement for Dayao.
At the very least, in terms of weapons, they would have sufficient stocks and wouldn't be controlled by others anymore.
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