Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 97 Production Capacity of Millions of Steel

Just outside, the officials and the people were enjoying themselves, eating and drinking.Wang Daoqiu's wife Shen Xiangning and her dowry girl Cui'er were hiding in the newly built wedding room of Wang's family last year for Wang Daoqiu's wedding, peeking out.

Before Wang Daoqiu went to Beijing to take the exam, he made Shen Xiangning's belly bigger.If Shen Xiangning showed up with a big belly now, it would be indecent in this era.Moreover, Wang Zhaowen and his wife were also afraid that there would be chaos in the crowd, in case some daring person bumped into Shen Xiangning.Therefore, Wang Zhaowen and his wife did not let Shen Xiangning go out during today's grand event.

Shen Xiangning and his dowry girl Cui'er lay on the window sill and peeked out secretly. Feeling the glory of her husband, Shen Xiangning felt extremely proud in his heart.Women, they have been like that since ancient times!Just keep it in your heart and follow your conscience.Or just let yourself go completely and have the distinction of being evil.

The Jiajing old Taoist pretended to be the world, and Wang Daoqiu was sadly captured as a young man. He could not return to his hometown in fine clothes, so he could only work in the Nanjianhe Steel Factory all day long, dressed in coarse cloth.

The current Nanjianhe Iron and Steel Plant has three small furnaces with a capacity of [-] cubic meters. There is nothing to say. They produce normally every day and replenish calcium for this dynasty every day.And those two big stoves are a bit troublesome.In fact, the construction of the iron-making blast furnace itself did not pose any difficulty to the "master craftsmen of the country" transferred by the Inner Palace Supervisor.

The difficulty lies in the large size of the furnace. When the raw materials are burned, the heat accumulated in the furnace will naturally increase exponentially.But Wang Daoqiu didn't know how much heat the refractory bricks made with the craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty could withstand without collapsing.

So I went to the library to look up information over and over again, compared various plans over and over again, and thought about it carefully.Wang Daoqiu finally decided to build a blast furnace with a capacity of more than 300 cubic meters, and in order to allow the blast furnace wall to hold nearly [-] cubic meters of hot coke and molten iron without collapsing.Wang Daoqiu decided to clad the outer shell of the blast furnace with steel, and cast a supporting tail of pure steel on all four sides of the furnace wall like a rocket tail.In addition, a supporting base weighing no less than twenty tons is poured under the supporting tail wing.

Having made up his mind, Wang Daoqiu went ahead and asked the craftsmen to make the blast furnace wall thicker. The thinnest part should not be less than three feet.On the one hand, the blacksmiths were asked to make steel plates three centimeters thick, leaving the connecting holes of each steel plate for easy disassembly and assembly.

After working so hard in the iron and steel plant for a month, Wang Daoqiu took the risk and took a gamble, instead of building a furnace for testing first, he directly launched two large furnaces together.

A blast furnace with a volume of 1 cubic meters is a joke in the blast furnaces of later generations.The No. 860 blast furnace of the Pohang Iron and Steel Plant in Bangzi State in later generations had a volume of [-] cubic meters. The largest blast furnace in a large country was the [-] cubic meter blast furnace of Zhangjiagang Shagang.

To be honest, in future generations, even a decent steel factory would be too embarrassed to build a blast furnace with a capacity of [-] cubic meters or a blast furnace with a capacity of [-] cubic meters!

What is the concept of three hundred cubic spaces?That is the space of your house with a usable area of ​​[-] square meters.The practical area is [-] square meters, multiplied by the floor height of [-] meters. Isn’t this [-] cubic meters of space?

The volume of [-] cubic meters is the space of a [-]-square-meter apartment. With this size, it will be released to future generations. Are you embarrassed to use it for the central government to approve the project?In later generations, this [-]-cubic-cubic-capacity iron-making furnace project, let alone a centrally-approved project, is not even qualified to be on the county magistrate's desk.

An iron-making furnace of this size would be a joke to future generations.But the space that Wang Daoqiu is in now is not the 21st century with highly developed science and technology industry, but the poverty-stricken [-]th century!So even for such a "little one", Wang Daoqiu still gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, biting the bullet.

After the blast furnace was built, in order to prepare in advance just in case, Wang Daoqiu let the furnace bake for three days. After seeing the strong response of the furnace under high temperature, Wang Daoqiu ordered the addition of materials for trial production.

Watching the workers pouring the truckloads of ingredients from the top of the steel monster whose body and head were covered with pipes with four feet on the ground and covered with steel.Yang Jinshui, the first general manager of Nanjianhe Iron and Steel Works in the Ming Dynasty, his hands were covered with sweat, and he asked Wang Daoqiu in a trembling voice: "Brother Liangzhen, is this going to be okay? Such a round person is not in the middle of winter. Guys, it will cost the emperor nearly 30 taels of silver to build one. This time, 300 kilograms of materials will be poured into it and burned. Will it really not collapse? If it collapses, how can it be compared to Long Live? "Excuse me?" Building this kind of blast furnace is expensive. Not to mention the steel shell and steel pipes around it, but also the refractory furnaces in the furnace. They are all made of the best clay and fired by the best masters through complicated processes. Each piece weighs more than a hundred kilograms, and the cost of each piece is close to ten taels of silver.As for such top-grade refractory bricks, Wang Daoqiu needs at least more than 2 pieces for one stove.

The cost is high. It can be said that Emperor Jiajing not only invested all the profits created by the Nanjianhe Iron and Steel Plant and the three iron-making furnaces with a capacity of [-] cubic meters in the past month for Wang Daoqiu's two furnaces, he also He also took out some money from his internal treasury to cover the high cost.

Therefore, if these two furnaces cannot withstand the heat of the 300 million coke and molten iron in the furnace, they collapse.Faced with the investment of 70 million taels in vain, Yang Jinshui, the general manager of the steel factory, really didn't know how to explain it to Emperor Jiajing, and he was really afraid that Emperor Jiajing would kill him in a rage. .Therefore, Yang Jinshui was very anxious now. He held Wang Daoqiu's hand, hoping that Wang Daoqiu would give him some confidence.

Faced with Yang Jinshui's nervousness, Wang Daoqiu himself felt unsure now.But things have come to this point. We can't dismantle the furnace and sell the refractory bricks and steel materials in the furnace, so that Emperor Jiajing can reduce his losses, right?

Anyway, that's it, just do it.Facing Yang Jinshui's nervousness, Wang Daoqiu didn't have the confidence to comfort him with technical guarantees, so he could only talk about responsibility.

Wang Daoqiu said softly to Yang Jinshui: "Brother, in terms of technology in the steel plant, the younger brother has always been in charge. The older brother only follows the younger brother's request and delivers the people and things he wants. On this point, the emperor and Lu My father-in-law knows it all."

Wang Daoqiu's words seemed to only talk about the division of labor between himself and Yang Jinshui, but he told Yang Jinshui that both parties should shoulder the responsibilities.That is to say, in a roundabout way, if the furnace collapses, Emperor Jiajing will be held accountable, and Laozhi will be the first person responsible.You don't have to worry about this matter, but you, Yang Jinshui, are so worried!
Yang Jinshui understood the meaning of Wang Daoqiu's words. Thinking about it, if the furnace collapses today, he, Yang Jinshui, would be jointly and severally liable at most!
Thinking of this, Yang Jinshui felt relieved, but on the surface he still scolded Wang Daoqiu angrily with a loyal look on his face: "Hey, brother, what are you talking about? Since you and I are sworn brothers to Jinlan, we should work together to help each other. If this doesn't work out, How can I let you, my dear brother, carry it all by yourself? Don’t worry, dear brother, if what happens today doesn’t work out, I will definitely advance and retreat with my dear brother.”

"Hahaha, brother's loyalty is not in vain for you and me to become sworn brothers. I will remember this kindness from brother."

He knew clearly that he and Yang Jinshui were just an alliance of interests, and that what Yang Jinshui just said were just superficial polite words.But Wang Daoqiu was still very fake and praised the other party's loyalty.Let's chat, say something that the other person likes to hear, so you don't have to chat to death.

In this way, Wang Daoqiu and Yang Jinshui chatted while waiting in fear for the final result.

Maybe Wang Daoqiu is really the chosen one and has the aura of the protagonist!Anyway, these two blast furnaces with a volume of [-] cubic meters are so competitive that furnaces of molten iron slowly flow out of the furnaces surprisingly smoothly.

Seeing the fire dragon flowing out of the furnace smoothly again and again, Yang Jinshui became excited. He grabbed Wang Daoqiu's arm and started yelling, shouting "Great credit, great credit".

Yang Jinshui was very excited, but Wang Daoqiu, who was used to seeing the great industrial miracles of later generations, couldn't get any excited about the scale of this furnace producing [-] tons of iron.So after persisting for a whole day and another half of the night, after seeing that the two stoves were in good condition, Wang Daoqiu went back to his room to sleep.

After a hard day's work, Wang Daoqiu washed himself and put a pillow on his head.What he didn't know was that as soon as he fell asleep, Yang Jinshui was very scheming and forced himself to stay up all night at the scene. Then at dawn the next day, he changed into clean clothes and returned to Xiyuan with a haggard look on his face. Went to report the good news to Emperor Jiajing.

(End of this chapter)