My husband Zhuge Kongming

Chapter 45 43. Steelmaking
The edge of Zhuangzi, the edge of the iron-smelting experiment.

A slightly strange blast furnace appeared in the original open space.

"The work will be finished today!" A middle-aged man wiped the sweat from his forehead, breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the stove in front of him with satisfaction, and kept comparing the album in his hand.

"Master, the construction is finished, but... can it really make iron? We have never seen such a stove before!" A young man looked at the stove in front of him, expressing doubts.

"Ahe, you only know how to work with your head. Do you understand the drawings given by Mr. Chu An?" The middle-aged man was dissatisfied, looking at his apprentice, "You are so lazy, but you are worthy of the wages these days ?”

youth:……

"The blueprint of the blast furnace given by the lady is ingeniously designed. If it can be realized, the art of frying steel will be gone forever, and it will be replaced by this... um, yes, the method of pouring steel, do you understand?"

"Yes, yes, what my master Puyuan said is right, and what the lady said is also right." The young man shrugged.

"Go, tell the lady that the blast furnace has been built, and the furnace can be tested today."

"Oh."

……

Inside the study.

"Mum~" Huang Yueying was acting like a baby with her old mother.

She forgot about school uniforms and work clothes, and someone needs to take care of them... But she really doesn't have anyone in this area.

Tsai: ...

"You, you were crying in the morning, and at this moment, your grandmother came! Anyway, grandmother will help you this time, and I will go find your aunts and sisters-in-law soon..."

Huang Yueying responded with a smile, "Thank you, Mom!"

In this day and age, female celebrity is the basic skill of a woman... oh, she doesn't count.She felt that she really didn't have the patience to deal with needlework.

Huang Chengyan shook his head and smiled helplessly. He believed that if there was something he could use, his daughter... would not be polite.

Coincidentally, shouts came from outside the courtyard.

"Xiaomin Liu He, please see Mr. Chu An."

……

Liu He stood at the door of the third house, and didn't go in rashly, but just carefully looked at the big three-entry courtyard.

Surrounded by bamboo fences, not far from the main entrance is the main hall of the front yard. He knew that with his status, he would have no chance to sit in the main hall.

Then he yelled, "Xiaomin Liu He, please see Mr. Chu An!"

Not long after, Liu He saw Huang Yueying, who was wearing a light blue military uniform and tied her long hair, looking quite refreshing.

"Liu He?" Huang Yueying saw the man in coarse cloth in front of her, and recalled it. She remembered that this was the apprentice of master blacksmith Pu Yuan. "Is there something wrong?"

"Mr. Chu An, the blast furnace has been built. The master said that the furnace can be tested today." Liu He said casually.

"It's finished?" Huang Yueying was a little surprised, and glanced at today's time, it was already afternoon, and in two or three hours, it would be dark.

It's not enough time to practice a furnace of iron.

It is too dangerous to operate in the dark.

Ironmaking is not papermaking.

Moreover, most people in this era are night blind.

"Yes, it has already been built." Liu He pointed to the remote corner.

Huang Yueying looked over, then nodded, "Thanks for your hard work, please tell Master Pu Yuan, try the furnace tomorrow morning!"

"Early tomorrow?"

"Well, it's going to be late today, there's not enough time, it's inconvenient to operate, and it's very dangerous." Huang Yueying explained seriously, "If there is nothing to do today, let Master Pu Yuan take everyone home early to rest and get off work!"

Liu He:? ? ?
"Girl...this..."

"Go."

"promise."

Liu He was a little surprised, and then turned back.

He didn't really want to understand it, clearly... When the girl gave the blueprint to his master, he said that Yunyun should be built as soon as possible... Now that it's finished, the girl is not in a hurry.

Strange and strange.

If you can't figure it out, you don't want to.

After work at this time, can I go home earlier, or...should I have dinner before going back?

Let's eat dinner first. Although there is no pork today, there are chicken and tofu!

……

When Gan Ning returned to the village, he saw that there was no one in the iron-making experimental workshop, and then he also saw the strange-looking blast furnace, so he rode his horse towards Huang Yueying's house without thinking about it.

It happened that the family of three had dinner, Gan Ning's stomach growled, and he was tired after a long day's work...he was also hungry.

Greeted with Huang Chengyan and Cai Shi, then handed over the booklet of today's investigation to Huang Yueying, and hurried to the workshop cafeteria for dinner.

Huang Yueying: ...

"Open it and have a look?" Huang Chengyan asked.

In fact, you don't need to look, he also has a good understanding of the people around here.

The wealthy, not much.

Most of them must be poor people.

Huang Yueying nodded, and opened the brochure. Today, Gan Ning and others visited more than 140 households. This efficiency is already very high.

Because, in today's guard... there are not many people who can read and write.

Let alone record it.

Among the more than 140 households, there are [-] households whose important laborers are sick; there are [-] households whose food storage is almost bottomed out; for most of the rest, the food storage is only enough for ordinary households for two to four months. Wild vegetables... reduce the amount of food you eat every day, and it can last longer.

There are only a few families who have enough grain to last until the autumn harvest.

shocking.

However, this time she was not as confused as she was in the morning, so she looked at Huang Chengyan, "This time I need Father to help me."

Huang Chengyan: ...he knew he couldn't escape.

"Let's talk." Huang Chengyan had no choice but to put down his chopsticks.

"It's mainly the [-] households with labor sickness, scattered in various villages, please ask my father to go to the county town, invite five doctors to see them, and the most important thing is... to collect medical records." Huang Yueying thought for a while and said.

Yes, what she wanted was medical records.

After all... There are too many things in my head, and there is a booklet of barefoot doctors in a special period, as well as other books related to Chinese medicine.Now there is no western medicine, but Chinese medicine, she has to take a good pair.

It's not that I don't trust the current doctors, but I just want to establish a complete logistics system.

In addition, Huang Chengyan has learned a lot about ancient and modern times, and he has read a lot of medical books, but the old father has never really seen diseases.

"A medical case?" Huang Chengyan was a little puzzled, but he didn't object. He nodded, "I'll go tomorrow."

"Thank you, Father."

"Ah Chu really thinks that you are the only one who cares about all the people in the world?" Huang Chengyan smiled, "Eat."

"Ok!"

……

Early the next morning, Huang Chengyan went out, and Cai organized the women in the village to tailor clothes for the children of ethnology and the workers in the workshop.

As for copying books, we can only put them away first.

As for Huang Yueying, she dragged Gan Ning towards the iron-making test furnace.

Pu Yuan rubbed his already rough hands excitedly, looking at the towering stove and the high platform built beside the stove.

Today, the furnace is going to be tested, and if it really works... According to the female lord, the [-]-smelting steel can also be produced on a large scale!

I also looked at the pile of "coke" next to the iron ore that has been refined several times. The lady's brochure said that this kind of "coke" must be used to make iron in this furnace.

"Meet the lady!"

"I have seen General Gan!"

Seeing Huang Yueying and Gan Ning, Pu Yuan brought a group of people to salute.

"Master Pu, everyone, please don't meet outsiders." Huang Yueying smiled, and seeing the preparations around her, she knew it was time to experiment.

Still, she had to check it out.

So, I showed the blast furnace inside and out, the functional areas at various positions, as well as the positions of the tuyeres, tapholes, and the forged steel trough next to it...all in place.

She didn't expect that Pu Yuan would actually restore the stove to the same level.

"Master Pu, let's start."

"No." Pu Yuan got the order and said loudly, "Try the furnace!"

"Test furnace!"

……

Gan Ning looked at all this, "Is this the big gift Ah Chu wants to give to my brother?"

"Exactly!" Huang Yueying nodded and smiled, "If successful, the guards will not lack armor and weapons."

"really?"

"When did Ah Chu lie to my brother?"

Gan Ning then laughed, "When we first met."

Huang Yueying: ...

"At that time, walking outside was a last resort."

"Yes, yes, that's what Ah Chu said." Gan Ning shook his head helplessly, and waited patiently.

Until... a few hours later.

Gan Ning saw fiery red molten iron flowing out from a hole in the bottom of the blast furnace!
The molten iron flowed into the groove called the forged steel trough, and there were several pieces of iron standing upright in it.

"Ah Chu, why did you put the iron sheet?"

Huang Yueying thought for a while, how to explain to Gan Ning the relationship between pig iron, wrought iron and Baisteel.

"General Gan, my lady said, what we have trained is pig iron, of which... well, the impurities are relatively high, and it is also the main iron used in our Han Dynasty today. If we want to make weapons, we need to refine the pig iron." Pu Yuan smiled, took the topic, and wiped the sweat off his forehead, "Just now we have Baisteel."

"Indeed, blacksmiths always use iron blocks." Gan Ning thought about it.

"Nv Jun said that the [-]-smelting steel is actually because the impurities in the pig iron are continuously discharged after being hammered and smelted. The few pieces of iron in the forging steel tank are the iron pieces that have been forged countless times. Less steel, call it wrought iron."

"Although wrought iron is hard, it is extremely brittle. I tried it, and it is true."

"And in this way, after the pig iron and wrought iron are mixed, because of the high temperature of the pig iron water, the wrought iron will be melted quickly. There is me in the two, and you in me, and the impurities during this period will be mixed evenly... come out It's steel!"

　As the title.

　　TodayChapter 1.

　　There is a recommendation today, and Xiao Dao couldn't think of it.

　　So during the lunch break, hurry up and finish Chapter 1.

　　Also, thank you for your support, if you want to spray... please be gentle.

　　


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