Dajin picked up a god of war

Chapter 547: Only with good steel can you have a good gun

This is indeed a major problem faced by ancient craftsmen. For various reasons, various skills that were once ingenious in history have not been handed down.

A big reason is that there is no formal written communication, just like the craftsman in front of him, maybe his skills are very skilled, he can make wrought iron with extremely low carbon content, but he can't keep the operation procedures as they are. Explain clearly.

This kind of feeling is as if some academic masters are good at teaching, and a super difficult math problem is placed in front of him. He can easily solve it by himself, and can also explain it to poor students.

But for some academic masters, he may be very slippery in doing the questions himself, but it is extremely difficult to expect him to explain it to others.

The reasoning is the same.

"Don't worry, I'll go to the workshop with you." Wang Mi was about to go out, and Wei Ninger panicked.

"Wang Shilang, the workshop is dirty and messy. There are craftsmen everywhere. It smells very bad. Shilang can't go there."

Wei Ning'er was speaking to Wang Mi, but her little eyes were always looking at Pu Chao.

Boss, give me an instruction!

The craftsmen in Jiang's workshop are all very simple people, and they can do as much errands as they can, and they don't play tricks at all.

What they were most afraid of was doing something wrong. Under Wei Ning'er's staring eyes, Pu Chao finally nodded slightly and said with a smile, "Ning'er, since Shilang Wang wants to see it, you can take him there."

"Any orders, listen to the Wang Shilang."

Huh?
Really want to go!
Wei Ning'er was devastated.

Looking at Wang Mi's clean and elegant dress, it really didn't match the environment in the blacksmith's workshop. Seeing that he was still hesitating, Wang Mi grabbed it and said loudly, "Isn't it a blacksmith's shop?"

"I went there when I was in Xiangyang, and we played iron together! Let's go!"

Lao Tzu is still waiting to improve his technology, and he is always procrastinating like this, what kind of decency!
Looking at Wang Mi's hurrying back, Pu Chao smiled very gratified.

This Wang Shilang is really interesting, so interesting!

It seems that he is going to be in the general workshop these days, and the general super has a lively look.

Just about a cup of tea after they left, Old Man Pu rested and stood at the gate of the yamen and stretched.

She happily followed out.

Of course, he should also go to see such a lively event.

Blacksmithing can be regarded as an important work in the workshop. Many iron products are needed in the inner palace. Although the exquisiteness of iron products is definitely not comparable to that of gold and silver products, the requirements for iron products are not low at all.

It is precisely because of the high requirements for iron products that this prompted the craftsmen in the workshops inside the palace to gather ingenuity and bring forth new technologies.

The moment Wang Mi stepped into the blacksmith's workshop, Wei Ning'er was very nervous.Wang Shilang still looked so spotless, and the blacksmith workshop was just as messy as Wei Ning'er had described.

Not only Wei Ning'er, but the strong masters in the workshop, seeing Wang Mi, all put down their work and saluted him.

what happened?

How could such a person who is... babbling, appear here?

Check it out, it's not the first time.

"Master Wei, where is your stove?"

Seeing Wang Mi accepting it well, Wei Ning'er calmed down a bit.

"This way, please, at the back."

Wei Ning'er brought Wang Mi into the blacksmith's workshop. Other craftsmen were chasing after him, and some whispered, but they didn't step forward to stop him.

Iron making by kneading was a rare craft in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty. Even in the workshops of generals in the inner court where skilled craftsmen gathered, there were not many people who could master this skill.

This is almost no different from Wang Mi's expectation.

The so-called kneading method is actually what is called the pouring method in modern times.For freshly unearthed iron ore, he will have three states after entering the furnace.

Pig iron, wrought iron, steel.

In the Jin Dynasty or even before, the technology of forging wrought iron was quite systematic and skilled, and craftsmen could easily forge iron materials of various hardness and process them into various utensils.

However, the technological progress from wrought iron to steel with higher hardness and strength is very slow.It was not until the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that the steel filling method appeared, which filled the gap of this technology.

Wang Mi followed Wei Ninger to the stove where he was forging iron. Just as he imagined, the blast furnace in this era was still made of long-tube adobe. There was a bellows next to the blast furnace, and a special person came to instigate it.

Seeing this whistling bellows, Wang Mi thought of the Western Jin Dynasty in history. At that time, among the seven sages in the bamboo forest who lived in seclusion in the mountains, the head of the seven sages that everyone admired and admired was Ji Kang.

One of Ji Kang's hobbies is blacksmithing.

At that time, it was his number one fan, Xiang Xiu, who held the bellows for him.

In fact, Xiang Xiu himself doesn't like to strike iron, he just likes to watch idols strike iron.Whenever Ji Kang was beating his head in sweat, Xiang Xiu would raise his head and look at him with a smirk.

Ah!
look!

Men are the sexiest when they sweat!

Wang Mi couldn't help but think, in this great Jin Dynasty, who was his number one fan?

For a long time in the future, I am afraid that he will be soaking in this blacksmith workshop, who is willing to give him a blast?

Otherwise, be the old fan!
Next to the blast furnace, there are forging tables, panning tables, and so on.

"Overall, no major problems."

"Then get to work!"

Wang Mi found a tie from the craftsman, and even bought it for himself with neat hands and feet. The flowing sleeves are no longer in the way, and the upper body is also a lot more agile.

It looks like it can actually work.

"What is Wang Shilang going to do?"

"These are all done by the little ones."

It is absolutely impossible for one person to do the errand of blacksmithing, and there are three or four helpers working next to Wei Ning'er's desk.

These helpers seemed to be around seventeen or eighteen years old. According to the approximate age of apprentices in this era, they had been studying with Wei Ning'er for a few years, and they should be quite familiar with the kneading method.

As a master, Wei Ninger only needs to supervise and explain on the side, give proper guidance and ask questions to the apprentices.

Wang Mi opened her hands and said with a smile, "Master Wei is right, he just wants you to operate it first and I'll see the finished product."

"What's the matter, I'll tell you later."

Old Wei stepped forward ignorantly and began to take over the errands of the apprentices to make molten iron by himself, but he still didn't understand what Wang Mi wanted to do when he came to this blacksmith shop.

"Wang Shilang, what exactly do you want to do?"

"You might as well tell us, the little ones also have a bottom line."

Hey, since they are so curious, let them do it.

"I want to make a weapon that requires steel, not iron. I heard that among the current iron-making techniques, it is your kneading iron-making method, and the steel plate produced has the best hardness."

"So come and see with your own eyes whether the steel plates you forged are the best in the Great Jin."

A few elementary school apprentices are young, but they are not as restrained as Wei Ning'er. No matter who he is, what kind of servant he is, he is willing to join the workshop, so what is there to be afraid of!

"Wang Shilang can rest assured that the steel plate we forged here is indeed the best! You can see it by looking at it!"

"Our master Wei's craftsmanship is also the best in the entire workshop!"

A few apprentices bragged to Wei Ning'er, and the meaning was very clear. The master is as good as the apprentice. Wang Mi must not underestimate them.

(End of this chapter)