At this time, Chen Ying was like a child. When he saw a group of ants falling into a pit, there was a pile of sand at his hand, he couldn't help but think of pushing the sand over and burying the ants.

This thought surprised Chen Ying. He didn't know why he had such an impulse, because this was not the original plan - was it a bad thought in my heart? But when this thought appeared, it seemed so natural.

Thousands of people were sentenced to death with a wave of hand - this is so great power, although it is evil, it is full of temptation. Chen Ying suddenly understood why Xiang Yu, Bai Qi and others did such a big evil, or it was not only a military need, or it was also a psychological impulse.

Fortunately for these prisoners, this time, it was not the burial of burial that the Tang army drove them here because it was difficult for them to escape here.

But at this time, looking at the more than 30,000 people crowded together, Chen Ying didn't know how to choose for a moment.

Buried alive?

Perhaps it is really a solution to the problem once and for all.

All Hu were afraid of power but not virtue. In the second year of Longshuo (662), Xue Rengui led the Tang army to fight Tiele in Tianshan. Tiele sent dozens of generals to challenge. Xue Rengui responded to the battle, provoking dozens of people and firing three arrows in a row. The three enemy generals were killed by horses. When the enemy army saw it, they were immediately in chaos. Xue Rengui commanded the army to take advantage of the situation to cover the killing, and from time to time, the enemy army surrendered.

Because Tiele harassed the Tang border for decades, Xue Rengui ordered the surrendered soldiers to be buried alive on the spot to eliminate future troubles.

In the first year of Yongchun (682), Ashide Yuanzhen, the surrendered tribe of the Shanyu Protectorate (now northwest of Helinger, Inner Mongolia), defected to Ashinagudulu, who claimed to be a Turkic Khan. Ashide Yuanzhen invaded Bingzhou (now Taiyuan, Shanxi) and the northern border of the Shanyu Protectorate, and invaded Yunzhou. Xue Rengui was ordered to fight. The Turks asked, "Who is the general of the Tang Dynasty?" and replied, "Xue Rengui." The Turks said, "I heard that General Xue was dead when he was exiled to Xiangzhou. How could he be resurrected?" Xue Rengui took off his helmet and went to see them. When the Turks looked carefully, they were shocked, and they all got off their horses and lined up to bow, and gradually fled. Xue Rengui took advantage of the situation to pursue, defeated the Turkic army, killed tens of thousands of people, captured more than 20,000 (one for 30,000) of people, seized more than 30,000 camels, horses, cattle and sheep, and won the great victory in Yunzhou.

Kill them and thus create their invincible reputation! Chen Ying felt excited when he thought of this. When Chen Ying was about to wave his hand to order, he saw a Turkic woman holding a young child, and the child was crying.

Seeing this scene, Chen Ying's heart softened again. After all, he could not become Xue Rengui and could not be a general who could not let the enemy surrender!

Chen Ying shouted: "Do you want to be a slave for the rest of your life?"

Du Shanguo translated Chen Ying's words into Turkic language. Hearing Chen Ying's question, the prisoners of war shook their heads!

"Now, this general manager will show you a clear way!" Chen Ying continued to shout: "There are eleven large and small carboniferous ores near Lingzhou. You will be allocated to their respective charcoal ores, including Ten Houses, Ten Houses as Forts, Ten Forts as Towns, and all of them are thirty-three towns. Whether it is excavated or transported, I will not care about how to work, and use the three towns that have been dug the most and fastest. This general manager will give you a special pardon, pardon your three towns, and give you the white-language of the Tang Dynasty!"

Baizhi is a type of household registration system in the Tang Dynasty. The household registration in the Tang Dynasty is divided into nine grades, including top-level, top-level, top-level, top-level, middle-level, middle-level, middle-level, middle-level, middle-level, bottom-level, bottom-level, bottom-level, bottom-level, bottom-level, bottom-level! In addition to these nine grades, there are also white books. The so-called white books are account books written on white paper, which are specifically used to join the clans. Above the white books, there is yellow books. This yellow has nothing to do with the royal family, but it only represents a higher level of household registration. It can be regarded as free farming farmers, merchants, craftsmen, etc. of the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that in the Tang Dynasty, the white people were almost the same as the green card of the United States in later generations. The white people still enjoyed the protection of the Tang army and the constraints of the law.

The prisoners of war were suddenly boiling and almost everyone was moved. Even if they became the common people of the Tang Dynasty, even if they were just white people in the five-year exam, as long as they did not violate the law and discipline, paid taxes according to the rules, and had no bad records, they could not be converted into yellow people. They could live a good life in a real way.

Chen Ying continued: "If you dare to mutiny or escape, you will be killed immediately after being caught! Anyone who only reports someone who tries to escape or cause trouble will be rewarded with ten stones of food!"

Chen Ying's setting is to go to heaven and hell.

From this day on, the eleven mines outside Lingzhou City began to dig coal wildly, and the Turkish prisoners of war all worked hard. Soon, Lingzhou City completely used charcoal or dry firewood replaced by coal. The coal consumed was far less than the coal dug out. The more coal there was piled up in Lingzhou City, and it was almost impossible to put it down.

Looking at the thick smoke everywhere in Lingzhou City, the coal that was really unused, Yang Ze thought about building all the streets and alleys of Lingzhou into kangs, so that people could not feel the cold on the streets.

Hearing Yang Ze’s crazy idea, Chen Ying quickly stopped.

Maybe Yang Ze really dares to do this.

Chen Ying said: "No matter how much coal is, you can't waste it like this. This is why the general manager checked the Lingzhou County Chronicles and found that Lingzhou has produced a lot of iron. He divided the Turkish prisoners of war to mine iron ore, so that the excess coal can be used to smel iron!"

"How can coal make iron?" Although Yang Ze is not good at making steel, he also knows that charcoal must be used for smelting iron, and it is the best willow charcoal. This is the most basic common sense.

In fact, this common sense in ancient times was wrong. Chen Ying was a person who received higher education in later generations. Of course, he understood that because coal contains more harmful components, it will affect the quality of steel when used to make steel. In later generations, whether steelmaking or ironmaking, in fact, they were not used directly coal, but coke. Coke is relatively pure and suitable for making steel and ironmaking.

The construction of blast furnaces is not complicated. The "Great Leap Forward" in the late 1950s called on people across the country to make steel. Some elementary school students, production team villagers, and non-food shop salesmen all formed iron smelting groups to build blast furnaces to make steel and iron. The technical level of those blast furnaces is theoretically able to make iron smelting, but the technical mastery is not up to standard, so most of them are left unresolved.

Chen Ying asked Lin Chuanfu to explain the blast furnace in his memory to Lin Chuanfu.

As a professional, Lin Chuanfu quickly raised the technical difficulties that would be encountered in this blast furnace, refractory bricks and bellows.

Refractory bricks are refractory materials made of refractory clay or other refractory raw materials. They are light yellow or brown. They are mainly used to build smelting furnaces and can withstand high temperatures of 1,580℃-1,770℃. They are also called fire bricks. For example, refractory clay bricks, high alumina bricks, silicon bricks, magnesium bricks, etc.

Although Chen Ying knew about high-aluminum bricks, silicon bricks and even magnesium bricks, he only knew a name and had never seen any style. What's more, in this era, chemical elements were still blank. It was not an easy problem to find these materials.

Chen Ying was not intimidated by difficulties. He asked the troops to teach Wei Wenzhong, Gao Yunquan and He Yuejing to conduct training, while he led a group of craftsmen such as Lin Chuanfu to conduct experiments.

That's right, Chen Ying took a very stupid method, which was to use clay of different materials to conduct repeated experiments. Just as Chen Ying was preparing for large steelmaking in Lingzhou, the report of Chen Ying's battle in Lingzhou also reached Chang'an.
Chapter completed!