Da Qin: I am really not the Human Emperor!

Chapter 14: Hardened into steel!

"How long will it take?" Ying Zizhou looked at Gong Shuqiu.

"The temperature required for iron is extremely high, and it will take at least half an hour." Gong Shuqiu said.

This is why iron is not as widely used as bronze. The same process takes longer in manpower and material resources, and its performance is not good.

"It's too slow." He looked at Mo Qilin who was walking: "Xiao Hei, go add fire to the stove!"

Hearing his words, Mo Qilin nodded happily, jumped down with a small jump, and came to the living stove.

When the workers saw Mo Qilin, they immediately stopped and stood nearby without daring to move. They could not touch such a magical beast.

Mo Qilin looked at the stove, then sprayed flames into it, and in an instant, hot molten iron flowed out.

"It's Mo Qilin who turns gold into water!" Gong Shuqiu sighed with emotion. This time he finally saw the magic of Mo Qilin.

This kind of fire can melt metal in one breath, and the consequences if it falls on a person can be imagined.

The hot molten iron flowed into the mold along the channel. After Mo Qilin finished, he shook his head and ran to his side.

"Well done." He patted its head and praised, then he turned his attention to the mold and watched the molten iron gradually solidify.

"Master Gongshu, please take it out and put it into the fire."

Gong Shuqiu nodded. He walked to the side and opened a platform with his bronze machine arm. Under his control, a huge machine arm suddenly appeared on the wall beside him.

Later, under the control of Gong Shuqiu, the machine held the iron block in its arm and put it into the fire. Seeing this scene, Ying Zizhou was also a little emotional.

He originally thought that the Mo family's mechanism skills were wonderful, but now it seems that the public losers are no less willing to give in. There are countless mechanisms like this in the market, and their power is only based on water power.

Under the constant busyness of those workers, the iron block was quickly burned red. Seeing this, Ying Zizhou also knew that it was time.

"That's enough, Master Gongshu."

Afterwards, Gong Shuqiu controlled the machine arm to place the iron block on the platform, and completed a forging as the iron block above fell.

Yes, Ta Bin is not just idle and bored, but wants to make steel!
As the metal he is most familiar with, the performance of steel can be said to be far superior to that of current bronze products. With extremely high strength and hardness, it can also guarantee a certain degree of toughness!
But it’s not that simple to get steel. Steel is an alloy of iron, and the biggest difference between it and iron is the carbon content.

He didn't know exactly how much it was, and he wasn't a top student who knew everything, but he knew one thing, steel can be made by a hundred attempts!
By continuously beating the melted pig iron, it decarburizes and reaches the level of steel.

But this sounds simple, but how to control it is difficult, because you can't accurately judge whether the number of beatings meets the requirements.

Even the purity of the pig iron will affect it, but there is no other way. He only has this way.

As for the trouble, if it doesn't work once, he will try it again. Anyway, if he is not allowed to do it, he doesn't believe that steel can't be forged!
Subsequently, every time he forged, he would ask Gong Shuqiu to change the position of the iron block, and at the same time, he would also have people clean up the fallen residue on the platform.

Dangdang! ! !
A heavy sound resounded in the workshop. Every time it was forged, the iron block deformed and a lot of residue fell out.

Ying Zizhou didn't feel bored either. On the contrary, he found this situation interesting. Although Gong Shuqiu on the side didn't know what Ying Zizhou wanted to do, since Ying Zizhou didn't say stop, he had no choice but to continue.

Whenever the temperature of the iron block was about to drop, he would ask his father-in-law to put it in the fire to roast it. Later, he leisurely asked Mo Qilin to take action.

I don't know how many times I beat him, but the red iron block was now only one-third of its original size. Seeing this, Ying Zizhou made Gong Shuqiu stop his movements. "Master Gongshu, forge it into a weapon."

Gongshuqiu nodded. He also wanted to see what the condition of the weapon made from the iron block that had been hammered for so long was.

Soon, a silver-white dagger appeared in front of him. He picked up the dagger and looked it up and down, and then picked up a bronze dagger. The two seemed to collide, and with a crisp sound, the silver-white dagger in his hand suddenly A hole appeared.

He frowned, then picked up the bronze dagger and scratched it, and another scratch appeared.

"Although this object has excellent toughness, it is too flexible and is not suitable for making soldiers." Gong Shuqiu shook his head.

Ying Zizhou looked at the dagger in his hand. His method should be correct. The reason was that he had over-tempered it and hammered it into wrought iron.

Wrought iron is extremely soft, and this dagger fits the situation perfectly. Dropping the dagger in his hand, he thought that his father would lose his revenge.

"It doesn't matter, if you fail, continue!"

Now he just needs to control the number of hammerings between pig iron and wrought iron, and he doesn't believe that hammering can't produce steel!
But in the later time, the hammered iron blocks were either too hard or too soft. For this reason, he even asked Gong Shuqiu to replace the bronze material of the arm clamp with pig iron.

In this way, he worked in the military station for several days. After continuous improvement, another piece of iron was produced.

Looking at the silver dagger in his hand, he once again struck towards the bronze dagger. This time, there was no breakage or chipping like the previous times.

On the contrary, the dagger in his hand directly cut a hole in the bronze dagger!
Become!

"Master Gongshu, what do you think of this?" He handed over the dagger.

"Yes, after tens of thousands of beatings, it has extremely strong hardness and flexibility, much better than bronze!"

Previously, they had only used iron as a metal to add to bronze weapons to make them stronger, but they had never thought of beating them.

After all, smelting iron is inherently difficult, so naturally no one spends so much effort studying and forging it.

"Where's Mr. Gainey?"

Ying Zizhou looked at Gai Nie who was standing aside. Gai Nie took the dagger and experimented with it before saying, "It is a good weapon. If all the soldiers of Great Qin are equipped with such weapons, they will be invincible on the battlefield!"

As a swordsman, he can naturally see the value of the weapon in his hand at a glance.

"Disaster!"

Gongshu Qiu shook his head: "Although this object is much better than bronze, its forging is complicated and consumes too much manpower and material resources. If it hadn't been for the Second Young Master, it would have taken at least half a year to forge this object."

Gongshuqiu gave a fair evaluation. It is true that steel weapons are good, but the current technology cannot be mass-produced, let alone applied to the army.

But Ying Zizhou doesn't think so. The few difficulties in steelmaking are nothing more than temperature and forging. Forging, with the technical support of Gongshu, replacing manpower with machinery, this is no longer a problem.

As for the temperature, most of the burning materials nowadays are charcoal. Melting bronze is naturally not a problem, but melting iron quickly is very difficult.

But he has a solution. If charcoal doesn't work, just use coal. Coal is not only more useful than charcoal, but as long as the mining technology is appropriate, the yield is definitely higher than that of charcoal!
As for how to find coal, he doesn't worry about that. He still has a Chaofeng that can look up to the world!
(End of this chapter)