On this day, Qiangzi came to Hu's Teahouse early, waiting for the new issue of the newspaper.
This week, Qiangzi was so anxious to wait.
He can't wait to hear the news in the new issue!
Finally, a storyteller walked up to the stage.
Taking out the newspaper, the storyteller cleared his throat and began to speak.
The news this time is still exciting.
Qiangzi listened so intently that he even forgot to drink the tea.
However, after reading those anecdotes, the storyteller told another piece of news that happened in Yingtian City: "Everyone, it is said that Minister Hu from the Ministry of Industry has improved the iron smelting method recently."
When Qiangzi heard this, he immediately became energetic.
Apart from anything else, when it comes to iron smelting, he gets very excited.
After all, he is also a blacksmith himself.
To eat this bowl of rice, you naturally have to pay more attention to the market conditions of this industry.
Seeing that the storyteller had whetted everyone's appetite, he continued to talk with a smile: "That Minister Hu is really amazing."
"It turns out that the iron smelting workshop of the Ministry of Industry can only produce 1,000 kilograms of pig iron a day."
"But after Mr. Hu's improvements, the daily iron smelting capacity of the Work Department workshop can reach 5,000 kilograms!"
Before anyone could react, Qiangzi opened his mouth in surprise.
This...this is a bit incredible!
As a blacksmith, he knows the twists and turns of iron smelting better than ordinary people.
Producing 5,000 kilograms of pig iron a day?
He would never dare to think so in his wildest dreams!
At that moment, Qiangzi couldn't help but question: "Could this Minister Hu have expanded the scale of the iron-making workshop of the Ministry of Industry?"
"How is it possible that the efficiency of iron smelting is increased by 5 times casually?"
"I've been working in the iron industry for most of my life, and I've never seen anything so outrageous!"
After hearing this, everyone in the audience also raised questions.
"Brother, are you mistaken? I advise you to read it again. If you read the wrong newspaper and make a mistake, it will not be beautiful."
"Smelting 5,000 pounds of pig iron in one day? This is absolutely impossible! Unless I see it with my own eyes, I will never believe such an outrageous thing!"
Seeing everyone's disapproval, the storyteller was also a little panicked.
Could it be that I was really blind and saw it wrong?
The speaker quickly took out the newspaper and read it carefully.
However, after reading for a long time, the storyteller still gave a positive answer: "Everyone, I'm sure I read it correctly."
"In this newspaper, it is written that the daily production of molten iron is 5,000 kilograms!"
"And the newspaper clearly states that Mr. Hu has not hired any new workers at all."
"He expanded the output of the Ministry of Industry's iron smelting workshop five times simply by improving production technology!"
At this time, everyone was in an uproar.
Everyone's eyes widened and they could hardly believe what they heard.
Among them, the most shocked ones were undoubtedly the blacksmiths.
For them, this is definitely a major earthquake in the industry.
You must know that this iron smelting technology has been passed down for hundreds of years.
In other words, the iron smelting technology has not changed significantly in hundreds of years.
They never expected that this Minister Hu would casually improve the technology that had been passed down for hundreds of years?
This is simply incredible!
However, more people still have a wait-and-see attitude towards this matter.
This matter is really beyond their knowledge!
Just like the moon landing.
Before humans landed on the moon, no one could believe that humans could actually land on the moon?
To this day, there are still some conspiracy theorists who believe that the moon landing was just a lie.
So even though this newspaper has an official background, everyone still doesn't believe it.
However, Hu Changan had naturally considered this kind of thing a long time ago.
The storyteller looked at everyone's surprised expressions and continued reading the newspaper with a smile: "Then Mr. Hu said that if anyone doesn't believe it, you can go to the work department workshop to find out."
"This workshop of the Ministry of Work will be open to the public free of charge for one month."
"Everyone just needs to take the household registration card and go to the Wucheng Military and Horse Department to do a simple registration, and then you can use your ticket to visit the iron smelting workshop of the Ministry of Industry."
"Limited to the first 100 people to visit every day, first come, first served."
As soon as Qiangzi heard this, he stopped listening to the storyteller that followed.
Qiangzi stood up from his seat in a hurry and ran home to get the household registration ticket.
He must see such a big event with his own eyes!
Soon, Qiangzi dug out the household notice from his home and ran all the way to the Wucheng Bingma Division.
At this time, a long queue had already formed at the entrance of the Wucheng Bingma Si Yamen.
Qiangzi was very happy when he asked about it.
It turns out that these people were the ones who got the news from the newspapers and wanted to go to the Work Department workshop to find out what happened!
Most of them are blacksmiths like Hadron.
Now that they heard the news that shocked the entire industry, it was impossible for them not to come and find out.
Of course, there are also a small number of idlers who watch the excitement and don't mind it.
Qiangzi asked and obediently went to the back to line up.
Qiangzi waited and waited in the team.
However, just by being in the queue and chatting with the people around you, the waiting time will not be too boring.
Finally, it’s Hadron’s turn!
After checking Qiangzi's household registration, the staff of the Wucheng Military and Horse Department gave Qiangzi a wooden sign.
On this wooden sign, there is a word "2" written on it.
The staff member handed the wooden sign to Qiangzi and said, "This is a ticket to the Ministry of Works workshop."
"When you go to visit, just give this wooden sign to the concierge of the Ministry of Industry, and the concierge will arrange someone to take you to visit."
"But this visit ticket is only valid for one day."
"What's written on your sign is 2."
"That is to say, the time you can visit is the second day, which is the day after tomorrow."
"All you have to do is go to the Ministry of Industry before the day after tomorrow."
Hearing this, Qiangzi nodded and carefully put the wooden sign away.
He couldn't wait to visit the ironworks workshop of the Ministry of Works!
time flies.
In the blink of an eye, it was the day after tomorrow.
On this day, Qiangzi came to the Ministry of Industry excitedly with a wooden sign in his hand.
The concierge at the Ministry of Works looked at it and called a boy for Qiangzi.
This boy is the boy from the Hu family's house.
For this visit, Hu Changan specially allocated some of the servants in the mansion to act as guides.
Looking at Qiangzi, the young man smiled broadly: "Brother, let me take you to visit the workshop of the Ministry of Works."
"Come on, please go this way."
Hearing this, Qiangzi also nodded.
As a young blacksmith, this was the first time he received such preferential treatment.