warring states careerist

chapter 156
At dawn on the second day, more than 80 people who finished the work ahead of schedule were woken up early by a Mohist with red eyes in the cold and cold thatched cottage that smelled of sweat and feet.

After receiving breakfast, he followed the road that was either repaired or not yet repaired, and walked to the river in the distance.

This is a river that can lead to Surabaya. Pu, Wei and others don't know about it, but Mo Zhe has already measured the direction and length of the river by car.

It is not only close to iron mines, but also has rivers for transportation, and its geographical location is also between Pei, Liu, Xiao, Pengcheng, Danshui and Surabaya.

Looking from a distance, there is a small mound that is not too tall, and a furnace that looks strange at this time stands beside the river.

There is something that looks like a water mill next to it. Pu Wei and the others saw a few Mohists standing next to the thing that looked like a water mill, and they didn't know what to say.

When I got closer, I knew that it was not a mill, but a huge wooden bellows was being pulled, and it was making noises, accompanied by rhythmic groans from the wooden wheels pushed by the water.

Beside the bellows is a pile of pottery pipes, which should be newly fired, and look a bit weird, but it's just that Pu Wei and others seem weird.

As for the thousand-year-old cities like Luoyi, Anyang, and Shangqiu, people in the city have seen this kind of pottery pipes for a long time, but they are only used for drainage in the city, not for smelting iron and blowing wind.

Under the tall furnace, there are a pair of rammed ground, which is called "bricks" by the Mohists, sunken in the ground, arranged squarely one by one, and seem to be used to hold dregs.

An ink man next to him is holding a long stick with a pottery or stone cauldron at the end, and is pouring water into a wooden mold.

There were dozens of people standing next to the ink master, and Puwei and others heard the ink master teaching there, while saying: "When the time comes, the molten iron will come out, and you will pour it into the mold. How to pour it, I will tell you before." However, you have been practicing for more than a month, but molten iron and water are always different. I am afraid that you will have to practice more. Don’t be afraid that you can’t do it well. I have only cast copper, and I have never cast iron... "

When Pu heard this, he was a little curious, and asked the red-eyed Mozhe who brought them here: "Is the iron poured in?"

The inkman smiled and said: "Where have I seen it? But Shi Shi said that it is like water. If you pour it into a jar and freeze it into ice, and then smash the jar, wouldn't the ice look like a jar?"

Pu was surprised and said, "Iron comes from rocks. Doesn't that mean that the rocks will be burned like water?"

The Mohist pointed to the big hydraulic bellows and said, "Why don't you make this? Fortunately, there were a lot of mills repaired before, and it was not difficult for the craftsmen to make this. At that time, I only thought about making wheat flour from the mill. Is he ready to make iron?"

It sounds like this Mohist respects Shi very much, although he looks older than Shi.

Pu asked again: "It is said that they will go back in three months. These people have practiced for two months. What will they do when they go back?"

The Mohist pointed to those people and said: "It's not from Pei County, or it's just one person in the family. If you do well, it may not be less profitable than farming. They didn't go home in three months. Now they lead As for money, you can find it all over the place, most of them come from big cities and big towns. They also do farming, isn’t it the same?”

Pu understood, nodded again and again, and couldn't understand the rest of the things, so he didn't ask any more questions, and followed the inkman to a mud house.

The Mohist went in and said a few words before coming out.

I just met these people three or five days ago, and Shi also spent enough time remembering the names of most of them. At this time, I took the trouble to say hello to them one by one, congratulate them on the fastest work, and spent a lot of time Words that benefit the world are rewarded.

After eating, but also busy with work, he said casually: "You guys came just in time, there is a shortage of manpower here recently, it is really too busy."

Wei and Shi knew each other best, so he asked, "What shall we do?"

Shi smiled and said: "It's still digging. You won't know other jobs for a while, and you are slow to learn. The ore needs to be washed, crushed, and dried after washing. Dig a canal downstream and transport it directly to the near the furnace."

It was a very simple job, but Pu could hear a hint of excitement, and asked, "Since the only thing left is to dig the canal, have you finished all the other things?"

Shi nodded and pointed to the furnace road in the distance: "If the road is repaired, the iron can be tapped in a few days. The rest of the work can only be done after the iron is tapped."

He also briefly explained the principle of freezing with water, either because he was also very excited, or because he wanted to increase the confidence of these people, and said appropriately: "You know, it will always waste a lot of money to freeze into ice and then smash the jars." The pots are made by hand. Iron is the same. If you want to save hands, you must find a way not to break the pots."

"There is a way, but you have to wait for the iron to come out. At that time, use iron to make a 'jar', divide the 'jar' into two halves, and you can open it at any time, so you don't need to smash it. It's none of your business to do this. But if you do it, you can get a lot of farm tools every day.”

Pu Yue understood, and thought to himself, wouldn't the molten iron stick to the iron mold?

He knew definitely not, because he believed that Shi must have a solution, but he had never even seen molten iron, thinking that no matter how much Shi talked about, he would not be able to understand it, so he didn't ask.

Turning his head to look at a pile of strange low furnaces in the distance, Pu Qi said: "How many iron smelting furnaces are these?"

Shi looked at the small annealing kilns that Pu pointed to, and said with a smile, "That's not for smelting iron. The iron that is smelted is like a raw egg, which is easy to break. Put it in and steam for seven or eight days, and then it will be cooked." Even if it can be broken, it won't be broken so neatly."

In very superficial terms, he explained the annealing technology that appeared in the Han Dynasty in terms that farmers could understand, annealing brittle pig iron into ductile cast iron that could be used as farm tools.

Without annealing, it is difficult to guarantee the quality of iron as a farm tool. Like furnace iron, it is a cross-age technology, and annealing technology can also ensure that the quality of farm tool iron in Peixian County is better than those learned elsewhere.

Using a piece of iron to make agricultural tools, it is estimated that the similarity of craftsmen can be popularized.

Farm tools made of pig iron directly out of the furnace are probably brittle and easily damaged by stones.

The furnace iron guarantees the quantity, and the annealing guarantees the quality.

As for the technology of turning pig iron into wrought iron by means of curved surface reflection, iron and fuel isolation and mixing, what is lacking now is only refractory materials. With pottery and primitive porcelain as technical support, it should not be difficult.

He doesn't know much, just scratches the surface, but given enough time to try, no one is born with it.Those iron smelting masters in the Han Dynasty were far from him in terms of theory, but they could also sum up the best method from experience. He had theoretical support, and even if he started from scratch, he could definitely figure it out at a slower pace.

You can try temperature, time, stuffing...you can try anything, and there is no urgency to catch up with others, so you can do it with confidence.

No matter how many things there were, he didn't explain too much, and after talking to everyone about his daily treatment, he said that he had other things to be busy, so he took a step first.

After listening to Pu, it seemed that it was about the installation of the blower pipe, so he didn't ask much, and he didn't even know what the blower pipe meant by Gong Zaozhu, who came to call him.

After more than half a month, Pu Wei and others were a little anxious, because the speed of digging the canal was faster, and they hoped to see the iron before they returned home.

It would be great if... I could bring a few iron farming tools with me when I went home.

More and more people have finished their duties and come to help dig the canal together. The canal is getting longer day by day, and the news is getting more and more.

One day when it was time to drink again, the last group of people who dug the canal brought a message.

The road from the mine to here has been repaired.

The mine shafts on the mine had started digging, and it seemed that several people had died.

Mo Zhe used gunpowder to blow up a section of the most difficult rocky mountain. It is rumored that a huge snake crawled out of it, and it might turn into a dragon, but it was stewed and eaten by Mo Zhe.

And Pu Wei and others who dug the canal here also sent the news that they knew to these newcomers.

The molds have been made, and the clay molds that will be used as iron molds in the future have also been made.

The bellows and pottery pipes are already connected, and the hydraulic hammer used to smash the large ore will not be used until the iron comes out.

There was enough charcoal prepared. A charcoal kiln collapsed a few days ago, but fortunately no one was killed.

A piece of the charcoal kiln was burnt. After digging out, the outside was as slippery as ice, which was very beautiful.

The ore piled up next to the iron furnace is already as large as a small hill, and the Mo Zhe seems to be ready to add charcoal and ore to it.

A tiger that was harmed in the distance was killed by someone led by Qin Huali, who was eaten in the name of harming the world, and the tiger's knee was said to be drunk with wine.

Juzi came from Peiguo a few days ago, but he hasn't left, it seems that he wants to wait until the iron is tapped before going back...

All kinds of news, gathered together, finally turned the hope that seemed to be shrouded in mist into the fire red in the morning, and it was about to break through the clouds and mountains, so that everyone who was full of hope could truly feel the heat. .

On the fourth day after the canal was completed, that is, when everyone was still eight days away from the three-month labor period, news came early in the morning.

The weather is perfect today, and everything is ready to go, just waiting to light the fire.

As soon as the news spread, the whole iron smelting field became a sensation, and even the people who lived in the thatched huts that were far away from the road construction also rushed over, forming a big circle.

The senior leaders of the Mohists are basically gathered together, and the distance is the closest.

The material has been filled, and those who are going to pour the molten iron have waited early. Even though they know that they will have to wait a long time before the iron is released and they can rest at this time, they cannot contain their excitement.

The pits used to pile up slag are still empty at this time, but everyone who has heard of many iron smelting processes hopes that there will be a lot of slag piled up here at night.

All kinds of clay molds are prepared near the taphole.

The first batch to be cast is a sledge hammer for crushing ore, iron brazing for mining, tongs for clamping iron, and iron formwork for reuse.

There are no farming tools, but everyone knows that when these things come out, there will be more and more farming tools.

Mozi held up the torch and shouted to light the fire, all the people in Iron Land turned into the echo of Mozi, converging into a sentence that they wanted to say when they heard Paradise two years ago.

"Light it up!"

If faith can confer gods, then Tie... must be the noblest and most powerful god at this moment.

　Han Dynasty Iron Smelting Technology.Annealing is very important, otherwise the iron will be as brittle as glutinous rice strips.Near Pengcheng and Xuzhou, there seems to be a lot of coal. I have never been there, but I have seen railway guerrillas open coal yards in Weishan Lake.Weishan Lake has not yet appeared at this time, so there should be a lot of coal nearby.Xiao, a hundred years ago should have been a vassal state of Song Dynasty, not a town.At this time, Chu State had the most vassal states.Before the Yellow River seized the Huai River and entered the sea, the Peidi area should be regarded as a fertile land, but it involved issues such as King Xu Yan, Huaiyi, and the struggle for hegemony between Jin and Chu, and it did not develop until it became Western Chu.Before the state of Chu was forced to move eastward by the state of Qin after acquiring Bashu, Peidi had very little recognition of Chu.

　　
　
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