When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 258 The failure of iron pot and the success of ceramics

Time passes little by little, and when winter arrives, all kinds of problems become less visible to the naked eye.

Although Mr. Xin continued to work, he would not go to work whenever it snowed heavily, and instead began to organize literacy education.

Yes, literacy has also been started by organizations.

It was rare for Xinqu to not sleep in, read literacy during the day, and go to the workshop at noon to watch the smelting and forging of iron.

This lasted until the first month of the second year of Qu.

Xinqu stared at a pile of sponge iron heated by charcoal and began to beat it continuously.

From sponge iron, it turns into an iron ingot, and then it is put on a thick wooden stake bit by bit, and the shape of the iron pot is constantly shaped, and my hands are tight!
Must be done!

It depends on whether we can stir-fry next!

Of course, if this thing can be done, Xin's smelting method can officially enter the age of steel.

Because the iron pot can be made, it means that the blacksmith's skills have matured.

Don’t underestimate the iron pot!

This was a skill that was not fully activated until the Song Dynasty.

If you want to make an iron pot, you need to complete the following technology trees: First, you need to improve the quality of smelting steel.

Second, the craftsmen have improved their beating skills.

Third, ensuring the temperature of the iron during smelting requires a large amount of fuel and a blast facility to increase the temperature over a period of time.

Ultimately, this is a systematic smelting breakthrough!

But Xin couldn't do this. After all, the technology tree was pieced together by Xin Qu.We can only rely on the craftsman himself to hammer it bit by bit.

For the Shang Dynasty, it was simply black technology!

After half a year of grinding and several iterations, a blacksmith finally completed this set of training.

tension!

So nervous!

As the tapping ends, annealing begins.

When Xinqu got the finished product, he couldn't wait to test the leakage, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there is no leakage.

I just don’t know how many years this thing will last.

But let’s start a pot first!
Prepare the fat cubes, stove, spatula, and water tank that have been prepared long ago.

Then the business started.

After starting the pot, Xinqu tried to cook. The powerful stove quickly heated up the fatty meat, and Xinqu was busy.

Then start adding water and prepare a delicious soup to keep you warm in winter.

When the cold water was put into the pot, Xin Qu listened to the crackling sound of the oil. Before he started to get excited, he suddenly heard a gurgling sound, and then the flame began to extinguish.

Xin Qu watched blankly as the pot cracked from the middle.

The soup that has been exciting for a long time is nothing more.

"Clan...Clan leader! I..." The expression of the craftsman responsible for making the pot changed drastically, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Tao Ao, who was beside him, also frightened the leader of the blacksmith, and he quickly came to apologize.

"Okay, I'm too anxious." Xin Qu put his hand on his forehead, "Perhaps the temperature at this stage can't solve the related problems. You can take a good look at how the remaining pots are broken and find a way to solve it.

The rest will be made according to the original plan. "

"Yes!" Tao Nao and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Xin Qu was not punished.

However, Xinqu walked out of the blacksmith shop feeling depressed.

I used to read cool articles saying that iron can be made with just one stroke, but in your own hands, iron can only be used as a blade. Once it starts to gain strength, it will be useless.

Obviously temperature is not an issue...

Forget it, I don't have the heart to stare, just let them handle it.

Feeling aggrieved that the cooking was not finished, I originally thought of going back to the Yamen to take a nap and then be busy with other things in the afternoon.

But before he could go out, he was grabbed.

"Let's go and see something good." Tao Turen took Xinqu to the north. "No, what did you do? Are you so excited?" Xinqu broke away and turned around.

The Tao family where Tao Tu Ren belongs to is the family with the best pottery making skills in the Xin family. Ninety percent of the Xin family's pottery is made by members of their family.

"Hey! Didn't you ask us to burn bricks and build a kiln? I've done it! The first furnace has cooled down and can be started. You must go and see it!"

"So fast?!" Xin Qu was shocked. Have they finished the pottery kiln?

"TOEFL, although your ideas are sometimes very wild, but if you burn them carefully, you can still find them useful." Tao Turen was originally not very happy to build a kiln and bake pottery.

Because he thinks this is wrong. Since ancient times, people have always dug a hole to make pottery, and then set fire to it. When the fuel arrives, the pottery can be fired the next day.

But Xinqu actually wanted to build a kiln and burn pottery. Not only did this seem strange, but the success rate should not be very high.

So they didn't do it at first, until Xinqu built a charcoal kiln.

The wood left after wildfires is still harvested today.

In order to reserve as much charcoal as possible and to overcome the prerequisite of drying the charcoal in advance when burning charcoal, Xinqu upgraded the charcoal kiln to directly burn the charcoal, dry it with a larger fire and then burn the charcoal.

There is no shortage of charcoal anyway, and efficiency can be improved.

Tao Tu Ren and the others didn't care at first, until one day a group of charcoal burners brought a small bead called "medicated jade" as a trade item. Tao Tu Ren and the others took a look and realized that this thing was not "glaze"?
Only then did I begin to notice the role of the charcoal kiln.

So they imitated the charcoal kiln and made modifications, and finally created a precious pottery kiln.

As soon as Xin Qu arrived, Tao Turen immediately shouted to open the kiln.

Several men pried open the dry mud on the stone sealing the kiln entrance, and then pushed the stone away.

Tao Tu Ren bent down excitedly and reached out to take out the cooled utensils.

Xinqu saw a basin that was completely white and held his breath.

"That's it!" An old man from the Tao Tu Ren family took away the utensils with excitement and trembling, passed them through water, removed the dust, and then carefully wiped them dry with the leather.

Hold it up and aim it at the sun.

Transparent!
porcelain!

"I've spent a lifetime! I finally recreated that treasure! It turns out! It turns out the formula is right! All that's missing is the firepower! Hahaha!"

The old man was dancing and excited.

"Patriarch, thanks to your kiln skills, my grandpa can do what he wants to do." Tao Turen was a little embarrassed. If he had listened to Xin Qu's instructions and built a kiln in advance, he wouldn't have to do it all the time in the past six months. The pottery that was sprayed by the tribe burned slowly and easily broke.

Xin Qu was mainly focused on farming at that time, and he had no time to care about the Tao family's affairs.

Xin Qu knelt down, picked up a few ceramic shards, looked at them and said, "Well, it's a bit brittle. It's good that it can be fired like this in the first furnace. But where do the bricks come from? Can they withstand such a high temperature?"

"This is indeed a problem." Tao Tu Ren took a look at the kiln bricks and said, "This thing cannot be used with clay bricks in charcoal kilns. It must be burned until it breaks down and then replaced.

Now these bricks are no longer usable. I just touched the surroundings and the bricks are about to break like pottery. "

"Then burn refractory bricks. Since pottery and porcelain are both fire-resistant, why not turn their raw materials into bricks and bake them?"

Xin Qu's rhetorical question made Tao Turen's eyes light up.

yes!The adobe bricks cannot withstand the temperature, but the ceramics can withstand it. So, can it be done by adjusting the proportions, making bricks and then firing them?
"Try it slowly, don't be in a hurry, use the current kiln if it can be used, and burn it slowly without damaging it. I can ask Lin District, Jishi and Yushi to buy it.

Anyway, they have no other source of food now, so I can save their lives by buying it.

When you create better and more ones, we can use them ourselves, and those who are rich can sell them, or give them away as gifts. "

After Xin Qu finished speaking, he didn't stay much and went to find Xing Renqiu from Xingren Division.

He had already taken his wife and children back to live in the headquarters of the Xin clan, and handed over the management of the Yunnum clan to A Qi, whom Xin Qu had arranged to go there.

So Xinqu asked him to buy pottery.

The clan really needs to stock up on a new batch of pottery. A pound of millet or half a pound of meat can be exchanged for a small pottery jar.

Purchase it at a low price from Lin Di and the swamp people who have taken refuge with the Xin clan.

What should I do if I don’t have enough fuel?
Xin's can exchange it with you at a low price. How to exchange it?

When you go up the mountain to collect wood burned by wildfires, you will exchange every twenty pounds of wood for one pound of charcoal.

There is a Xin family who can make one pound of charcoal out of five or six pounds of wood.

Therefore, it is to earn them three times, cut them and pile them up, and they will be needed sooner or later.

(End of this chapter)