The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 193 It's out of the iron, it's embarrassing

The iron is out, the iron is really out, after more than an hour of smelting, the iron ore is melted by the high temperature of the coke, some of the impurities and lime are fused into a calcium component, and the other part of the pure iron is turned into molten iron , mixed with slag and slowly flows to the taphole below.

At this time, after artificial separation, the slag floating on the molten iron is thrown out from another opening, and the remaining pure molten iron is released from the opened taphole.

This is the first time Blacksmith Zhong has seen so much molten iron. It is roughly estimated that after cooling, it should be no less than a thousand catties, which means that this small blast furnace can produce a thousand catties of iron every two hours.

What concept is this?Not to mention all kinds of steelmaking, even if it is all cast iron, then at least 150 catties a day, and [-] million catties a year.

150 million catties, how much pig iron does Datang produce in a year?Around a million?

Words such as excitement are no longer enough to express the emotions of these young people near the small blast furnace at this time. If there is no reason, it is estimated that someone will jump into the furnace and sacrifice themselves to the sky.

Li Yuan and Yu Zhining were taken aback when they heard the crowd's cheers, and then sent Chen Huo over to check on the situation. As a result, that guy Chen Huo disappeared forever, and after he passed, he also joined in the hysterical carnival. Own task, let go and ran back.

"Taishanghuang, Mr. Yu, the iron has been tapped. I'm afraid the quantity is as much as a thousand catties." Chen Huo's face was full of excitement, and he almost shouted a sentence, if it wasn't for the iron smelting over there Everyone was too far away, and I was afraid that Li Yuan's mysterious identity would have to be exposed.

However, who can take care of these now? The concept of two hours of iron has already frightened Li Yuan and Yu Zhining. These two old guys are not the idiots of Zhong Tiejiang.

They know that right now this is just the output of a small blast furnace. If nine more such blast furnaces are built, the steel output will immediately increase tenfold.

This, this is simply a miracle!
Even though Yu Zhining was from a noble family, he somewhat looked down on those craftsmen, and felt that Li Muyun had lost face by personally participating in such a humble job as iron smelting.However, after hearing the amount of iron tapped, the half-grown old man had already put this discrimination aside, his eyes were nothing but shock or shock.

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At the side of the small blast furnace, the excitement of the crowd had not yet passed, Li Muyun had already recovered, and kicked Fatty and Wang Jie: "What the hell are you still doing, why don't you continue to add materials to the furnace, and the temperature will rise after a while. If it comes down, this furnace will be useless!"

"It's useless? Why?" Wang Jie, who personally smelted a furnace of molten iron, didn't realize the problem after the furnace temperature cooled down, scratching the back of his head and asking.

"Don't worry about the reason, in short, add the ingredients quickly, keep the stove at the current temperature and don't drop it, and we'll talk about other things when we go back tonight." Li Muyun didn't explain anything to Wang Jie, but just urged him to hurry up, while the fat man on the side Already ran to the side to greet the staff.

"Mu Yun, this situation is not right. You'd better control the output. If you keep refining like this, you may use up those ores in less than three days." Fang Yizhi is now acting as a think tank. , After the excitement just now, he regained his senses and soon realized the key to the problem, pulled Li Muyun away from the noisy crowd, pointed to the ore pile in the distance and said.

"Let's do this for the first few furnaces. Everyone is very happy. Let them be excited. After the second furnace is fired, the output will be reduced by half." Li Muyun was obviously aware of this problem under Fang Yizhi's reminder, rubbing his chin He looked at Wang Jie and Fatty who were instructing the workers to continuously load the material into the feeding port of the small blast furnace and said.

"Half is not enough, it must be lowered by half." Fang Yi shook his head: "We have stored these raw ores for nearly half a month, and you used them up in six or seven days. What will you do next?"

"Let's do this first, send someone to Fucheng to urge you, and see if old boss Wang can increase the transportation." Li Muyun smacked his lips and said.

"I don't think it's possible. Not to mention whether the mine can mine so much raw ore, even if it can be mined, the cost will increase after the transportation volume increases. The Wang family is not a fool, and they should not do such a stupid thing."

Li Muyun shook his head: "It's just 50 catties of raw iron ore, and 200 million catties is enough. With this limit, the total freight is the same. It doesn't have much to do with how much ore is shipped every day. It's settled like that. , I will ask Wang Jie to go to Fucheng again later."

Fang Yizhi is not proficient in arithmetic, but he still understands the truth. After listening to Li Muyun's explanation, he nodded and said: "Okay, then you can figure it out. Anyway, you should pay attention to the stock."

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After finalizing the matter of communicating with the Wang family to increase ore transportation, Li Muyun wandered around idly, and after a while, he ran to the river, approached two little old men, and said jokingly: "You two are really leisurely, Don't even go and see."

"The old man is not a fool, won't he die if he is afraid of the heat?" Li Yuan rolled his eyes and said angrily.

"Hey..." Li Muyun smiled awkwardly, and squatted down beside old Li Yuan regardless of his image: "Actually, you should go and have a look, the molten iron is quite spectacular when it flows out."

"Don't look, it's boring!" Old Li Yuan continued to shake his head, but the old man looked at Li Muyun in a strange way, which made people feel that the old man was just watching a joke.

In the end, it was Yu Zhining who was more down-to-earth, glaring at Li Muyun, who was very unimpressive, and then said: "Muyun, I see that you just discovered a problem in iron making, I don't know if you noticed it!"

"What's the problem?" Li Muyun asked in confusion.

"Didn't you make all the smelted iron into one piece?"

"Ang! That's right!" Li Muyun nodded.

"So it is!" Yu Zhining sighed, glanced at the old Li Yuan who was gleeful, then at Li Muyun, and then said slowly after a long while: "Have you ever considered that such a big piece of iron, you How to forge next time?"

How to forge next time?No, it's just..., damn it, it seems like I really screwed myself up.

You know, Datang didn’t have as many cutting methods as the later generations. Where to put the big iron lump weighing more than 1000 kilograms, even if Li Shimin came, he probably couldn’t get a small piece from it.

Isn't this an ordinary embarrassment, because even if he has the ability to forge more than 1000 kilograms of iron, no one can make more than 1000 kilograms of weapons, which means that this thing is a waste, um... Still a big piece of crap.

(End of this chapter)