Chapter 759 Historical Issues

It is not easy to pull this "gift from heaven" back from his congenital deficiency. Zhang Jingyan has already left for the tropical medicine garden, and Zhou Xu dare not give Huo Qubing too much work intensity, so he should do it step by step.

After opening the file, Huo Qubing quickly focused his attention on the contents of the file in front of him.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu also withdrew his gaze and quickly dealt with the work at hand.

Don’t think that these piles of documents in front of you are all the workload for today. This is only the morning’s workload, and the afternoon’s workload will be delivered later.

However, it is undeniable that with Huo Qubing helping him share some of the workload, Zhou Xu managed to finish processing the work documents in front of him almost an hour earlier this morning.

After stretching hard, he turned to look at Huo Qubing who was sitting below.

This guy had already glanced at him several times an hour ago, and it was obvious that he had finished reviewing the documents by then.

But he did not report it directly. Instead, after hesitating for a while, he read the documents again.

Now seeing Zhou Xu's gaze sweeping over him, Huo Qubing also made up his mind and spoke in a deep voice...

"Your Majesty, I have finished reading these documents."

"So fast? Let me see it."

Hearing this, Huo Qubing couldn't help but feel a little nervous again.

Their king gave him one day to read these documents, but he finished them in one morning, and even read them twice. Now he always feels a little uneasy.

But now that things have come to this, there is no way he can back down.

At this moment, Huo Qubing was like a student standing by and watching his teacher marking his homework. His nervous and awkward look made Zhou Xu find it quite interesting.

The documents from the Ministry of Agriculture given to Huo Qubing did not contain any professional issues. They were mostly about resettlement and allocation, as well as subsequent arrangements, which were not difficult to handle.

Although Huo Qubing's family was considered a wealthy and prominent family in the past, they had long since fallen into poverty. Due to health reasons in recent years, he was probably living a life worse than many ordinary people. This also made him better able to understand the thoughts and needs of ordinary people, and the measures he took were very practical and not out of touch with reality.

However, there are still some problems, most of which are due to insufficient experience and lack of consideration.

After Zhou Xu discovered it, he pointed it out to him in time and explained to Huo Qubing where the problem lay.

During this time, Huo Qubing stood aside, listening carefully, and from time to time he would raise some of his own ideas and questions, and Zhou Xu answered them one by one.

On the premise that Huo Qubing had already given a solution, Zhou Xu's review and revision undoubtedly saved a lot of time. It only took him 30 minutes to finish the review.

And this is exactly what Zhou Xu plans to do in the future.

To put it simply, it is equivalent to the cabinet system of ancient China.

He would gather talented people including Huo Qubing to form a cabinet. They had the power to review documents and put forward opinions, but did not have the power to make final decisions. They were commonly known as senior workers.

It can not only ensure that your power does not leak out, but also effectively reduce your work pressure.

And Huo Qubing is currently the best candidate for the prime minister of his cabinet.

Of course, the prerequisite is that his health needs to be completely restored, otherwise Huo Qubing might not be able to bear the workload of the chief minister in the future.

"There's still some time before lunch, why don't we go to the Imperial Garden to stretch our muscles first. I learned a new set of Tai Chi a few days ago, you can practice with me in the future."

Although Huo Qubing was curious about where their king learned the new Tai Chi, he nodded in agreement at this moment.

After a period of time, he had already mastered the middle frame of Tai Chi taught by Xie Liancheng very well. At the same time, he could clearly feel that the effect of strengthening the body was indeed better than the widely circulated simplified version of health-preserving Tai Chi.

After teaching Huo Qubing Tai Chi for a while, they had lunch and had an hour and a half nap time. When Zhou Xu woke up, he walked to the imperial study, where the afternoon documents were already piled up. Huo Qubing and Silk were sorting the documents there.

Huo Qubing, who had taken a nap for a while, seemed to be in good spirits.

There were not many documents delivered in the afternoon, only one-third of those delivered in the morning. Seeing this, Zhou Xu picked out the documents marked as important and urgent and handled them personally, and handed the remaining documents to Huo Qubing.

It’s not that he was thinking about being lazy at this moment, but because what he needed to deal with every day, in addition to the documents delivered daily, there were also a lot of things left for him by Yan Sheng during his tenure.

For example, if half of the money for a project has been invested, should we continue it? If we continue, we need to allocate funds quickly and fill the missing personnel quickly. Most of the time, it is like this.

Rounding is a historical problem.

But the trouble is that there are still a lot of these problems left. It took the officials under him a lot of time to compile and compile them, and they were only recently presented to Zhou Xu, waiting for him to make a decision. This is also one of the main reasons why Zhou Xu has been so busy recently.

"Huh?"

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Zhou Xu suddenly became interested when he opened the file of one of the old projects.

I saw that the project name was marked as 'Steelmaking!'

He had always thought about steel smelting, but the relevant departments were too busy before and they had no time at all. Now it seems that Yan Sheng is also doing something serious.

With this thought in mind, Zhou Xu's expression became more serious as he flipped through the document.

With Zhang Xuemei, a woman who is very knowledgeable about various metal minerals, it is not difficult for Yan Sheng to understand the secrets of steelmaking.

This can be easily seen from the fact that Zhang Xuemei's name is behind the title of "technical consultant" of the project.

This also makes the project's report on steelmaking quite reliable.

Steel is essentially a derivative product of iron smelting technology, or it can be understood as an upgraded product.

Because the earliest steel was produced through the repeated forging of refined iron.

This point is recorded in ancient books, "Take the fine iron and forge it for more than a hundred times. After each forging, it will become lighter. If the weight does not decrease after repeated forging, then it is pure steel."

Simply put, steel is a carbon-iron alloy. During the process of continuously forging and purifying iron and removing impurities, the iron reacts chemically with coke in a high-temperature forging furnace to form an alloy.

The so-called "steel is forged through repeated tempering" is simply this.

Of course, the composition of modern steel is more complicated than this. In the process of continuous experimentation and research, people have added various alloy elements into it to make the steel have better hardness, strength, corrosion resistance, wear resistance and other properties, thereby producing different types of steel.

The specific start time of this project was two months before the war. After the war broke out, due to the impact of funding and various war issues, the project has been shelved until now.

(End of this chapter)