I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 50, Big Construction
Looking at the majestic blast furnace and the hot and flowing molten iron, this is money!

Old Man Wang and the others looked at Old Man Niu with admiration.

The blast furnace can smelt 1 jin of iron a day, and a jin of iron in Dahan is worth 20 yuan. In recent years of wars, the price of iron has been as high as 30-40 yuan, which means that the daily output value of this iron factory is hundreds of thousands of yuan. Money, if you sell swords and farm tools, a million dollars is easy, and the annual output value is about 3 million yuan. The richest county in the Han Dynasty does not have so much tax revenue. This iron factory alone It can feed them 20 people. This is simply a money printing machine. How can everyone not worship the old man Niu.

"That's all?"

Xu Wei was a little dissatisfied and said: "It's a little more than 2 tons a day, and it doesn't even add up to 1000 tons a year. This is not even a black workshop in our hometown."

I am used to hearing the steel output of hundreds of millions, one billion tons, and the annual output of hundreds of tons, it is like hearing an ant say that he is very strong, and he really can't get excited.

Old Man Niu and the others all stared at each other when they heard Xu Wei's Versailles words. Although they couldn't understand what ton meant, they could tell from Xu Wei's expression that this ironworks was nothing.

You must know that this ironworks is already the largest ironworks they know, and the output of this ironworks is almost the same as the annual output of Dahan. This can already be called a spectacle, otherwise they would not would be so excited.

But looking at Xu Wei's expression now, it seems nothing. Could it be that Xu Wei has seen a bigger steel factory?

Old man Wang thought of Xu Wei's identity as a fairy, and secretly guessed that such a steel factory should be nothing in the fairy world, and there are even bigger iron factories than this one!
The old man Niu really regards Xu Wei as his master now. Seeing Xu Wei's expression, he immediately said: "The old man has mastered the iron-making technology that the captain gave me. If you want to make more iron, you need to build a blast furnace." The larger one can hold more iron ore and coke, and more iron can be smelted. With this experience, the old man plans to build a ten-foot-high blast furnace, so that the amount of iron smelting at one time can be more than now ten times!"

For more than a month, the old man Niu has dismantled and built several blast furnaces around the blast furnace, and he has also gained experience in how to build a blast furnace. Production is not at its limit either.

So he plans to build a bigger blast furnace, a new blast furnace with a capacity of 3000 shi, a blast furnace with refractory bricks inside, a water cooling device, a new type of water conservancy blower, a preheating furnace, all the high-tech learned from Xu Wei here, Niu Laohan plans to use them all go up.That's why he has the confidence to say that the output will increase tenfold.

After visiting the new blast furnace, Xu Wei went to Mayi City.

Above the ironworks is the place to reclaim the fields. The land on both sides of the Sanggan River is the most fertile land in Mayi, and it is also for the convenience of irrigation, so most of the reclaimed wasteland is here.

Some green shoots have already appeared in the newly opened wasteland, because it is already more than July, and it is too late to grow any food, so a lot of vegetables and alfalfa seeds have been planted in the reclaimed wasteland.

Vegetables are eaten by humans, and alfalfa is fed by cows and horses. After all, there are more than 2 cows and horses, and every day they spend a lot of effort on land reclamation, and they consume a lot of forage every day.

At this time, more than 10 people opened up wasteland here, and the scene was in full swing. Everyone found the stones on the wasteland, cleaned out the debris, and then brought the cattle and horses over. A steel plowshare was used by a dozen horses, or ten Led by a few cows, the wasteland was quickly reclaimed, and 1 mu of land was reclaimed within a short time.

Because of insufficient steel production, Xu Wei did not make the Quyuan plow at the beginning, but imitated modern tractors, using several plowshares side by side. Go straight to the small farm tractor.

Of course, there are very few such scenes. Most of the farmers still use the wooden plows produced by the woodworking workshop. This is not only more labor-intensive, but also easy to damage. A few people were sent over to help them practice these wooden farming tools.

Seeing most of the farmers holding wooden farm tools, Xu Wei shook his head and said, "The output of steel is still too small, and it is impossible to do it with a handful of iron farm tools."

However, although the tools are poor, the efficiency of land reclamation is not low. After more than a month, 30 mu of land has been reclaimed, and one person can reclaim about 2 mu of land.

Xu Wei was already very inefficient, but Old Man Wang and the others told Xu Wei that this was already very fast. Mayi is all wasteland and has not been reclaimed at all. According to their previous experience, a strong man can make a lot of money in a year. The wasteland that has been reclaimed is nothing more than that, but now it has been reclaimed in a month. It is thanks to Xu Wei that everyone can eat three meals a day, otherwise everyone would not have the strength to open up wasteland.

Old man Wang and the others even optimistically estimated that as long as the farm tools can keep up, maybe they can reclaim 200 million mu of land before the spring of the next year. These lands will be planted with grain, and they can live frugally enough to support themselves. Old man Wang and the others are especially fancy.

After walking through the wasteland area, Xu Wei soon came to the construction site of the new city. The new city of Mayi expanded along the south side of the old city. When the new city was built, the old city would become the inner city.

It's just that the outer city wall has not yet been built.

Because bricks are often misappropriated by the old man Niu, plus kilns for cement, ceramic kilns, coke kilns, etc., now the brick kiln industrial zone still has 10 kilns erected just as Xu Wei thought, just for special purpose. There are only three kilns used to make bricks.

And these kilns and Niu Laohan's blast furnace and the infrastructure of the ironworks consumed all the bricks produced by the kilns, so that more than a month passed without a single brick being used to build the city wall.

The angry old man simply built another quarry.

I can't get bricks, and I can't get stones. At worst, I will build a stone city wall.

With black powder, quarrying is also much more convenient. First, a hole is drilled, and when the black powder is blasted, a huge boulder leaves the mountain. Old man Wang saw that the quarrying efficiency is not low, so he simply quarried boulders from the mountain as the source of city wall bricks, and This is also much stronger.

In order to transport these stones, Xu Wei also specially made a gantry crane to transport the stones weighing hundreds of kilograms to the construction site. , As a result, Old Man Wang popularized wooden rails to the entire kiln factory area after seeing it.

(End of this chapter)