Chapter 218: Forging

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Bang!

Frightened by this astonishing conclusion, the glass in Song Yingxing's hand fell to the ground, waking everyone up, and they suddenly came back to their senses, lowered their heads one after another, and recalled what they had just said.

"No wonder Your Majesty fell in love with the era name of the Apocalypse at a glance, it turned out to be the Apocalypse."

This is their only thought at the moment, no one doubts the emperor's words, they can't figure out how this amazing knowledge came about, and the emperor has grown up in the palace since he was a child, and has never gone out, and there is no way to explain the source of those art of war, system, and even the art of a hundred crafts.

Now, they can be regarded as the best and most reasonable explanation from the emperor's mouth, God God!

"The country is very fortunate, the people are very fortunate, Your Majesty has been ordered by heaven, and God has given the law of the operation of the Heavenly Dao, which is really the luck of my Ming Dynasty and the luck of my ancestors!"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Poof, Song Yingxing knelt down and shouted, and the others were slightly stunned, but they knelt down and chanted together. Including Xu Guangqi, who has been thinking about it just now.

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The fierce shouts echoed in the workshop, producing a rumbling echo, inexplicably a little more mysterious, in such an environment, the thoughts that made them still a little suspicious suddenly disappeared, and they all believed the emperor's heavenly instructions.

In this way, between kneeling and bowing, this statement was settled, the learning of God.

"Your Majesty has been bestowed by the heavens, and the old minister naturally believes it." Xu Guangqi said slowly. He was actually skeptical in his heart, but other than that, he really couldn't explain where these technologies came from.

Xu Guangqi has learned from both China and the West, not that he brags, there are not many things in this world that can exceed his understanding, including the so-called ancestral techniques of many craftsmen, but on the contrary, everything that the emperor took out was something he could not understand. There is no sign of these technologies, and there is no correlation with the previous technologies.

Therefore, the emperor said that it was given by heaven, and he naturally did not object, judging from the previous situation, this is indeed very similar, and as a superior person, sometimes it is necessary to maintain a sense of mystery, and these inexplicable technical knowledge is exactly in line with one point. Xu Guangqi is a great Confucian, and he still understands this point of the emperor's mental skills.

No, doesn't the reverent eyes of the workers in the distance illustrate this, I believe that after tonight, the saying of God's endowment will spread throughout the factory, and after the heat, it will be the Beijing teacher, and even the world.

"This old fox, I still don't believe it in my heart." Looking at Xu Guangqi's tone and expression, Zhu Youxiao scolded in his heart, "But whether you believe it or not, as long as you don't object, just do it." ”

"Yes, Aiqing, you should follow this idea and reorganize the method. Didn't I say before that you can make steel by mixing wrought iron and pig iron, and you have successfully experimented with it before, and the reason why you put wrought iron into the furnace to make steel this time is also inspired by this. Later, just follow this method, pig iron wrought iron plus coke. Zhu Youxiao changed the subject.

Just mention this statement by yourself, you don't have to talk about it every day, so that it can ferment by itself, but the effect is the best.

"This ......" Hearing this question, Xu Guangqi, who still looked like an old fox just now, blushed again, "Your Majesty, this ......." he said expectantly, "Wrought iron can't guarantee that it will be practiced every time, and this can only be produced by encountering some good ores by chance." ”

"Accidentally, how accidentally?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but ask, wouldn't it be the same as just now, three times out of ten.

"From the beginning of the year to the present, the furnace has been opened and smelted dozens of times in the ......., and only three wrought iron has been produced at the scene." Xu Guangqi looked embarrassed, and he no longer had the composure he had just now.

"What!" Zhu Youxiao's voice couldn't help but rise three times, "I see, I see, I completely understand, why you have built an open-hearth here now to practice some steel." ”

He was already strange, he had already told him that pig iron and wrought iron could be mixed to make steel, but except for the good news reported by Xu Guangqi at the beginning of the experiment, there was no more after that, Zhu Youxiao was quite concerned at first, but later because he was busy with affairs, he gradually forgot about it, but he didn't expect the root cause to be like this.

"You ......" Zhu Youxiao pointed out, and he couldn't say anything angry.

"Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty is angry, there is another good news here." When Xu Guangqi saw the emperor's atmosphere, he probably hated himself in his heart, and hurriedly figured out his most important technique this time.

"Your Majesty, in addition to a lot of wrought iron a few times ago, the old minister probably had tens of thousands of catties, and these people who can practice a lot have just arrived. If it is this kind of high-carbon steel, it can be connected even more. Xu Guangqi raised the steel in his right hand.

"This steel is small in quantity, and although it can't be used to forge swords and armor, it can be used to make knives, knives on machine tools. Lao Chen experimented, these knives made of high-carbon steel can be used as drill bits, in and out of the iron rod, to drill a hole. Afraid that the emperor would be angry and let himself go, Xu Guangqi quickly told his new invention.

"Your Majesty, please come with me." As he spoke, he also led the Emperor to another factory, where the guns were cast, "Your Majesty, this is the latest machine tool, this iron pipe is first vigorously and repeatedly beaten to make it strong and wear-resistant, and then the knife made of high-carbon steel is drilled, and then the flintlock mechanism is installed, so that a musket is made, and it takes no more than ten days before and after." ”

"The performance of the barrel made in this way is very good, and it is stronger than the iron hoop that is added to the outside after casting, and the charge is larger, and the firing range is longer. The effective range of such a musket was up to eighty paces. Xu Guangqi said brightly.

"How much? Eighty steps? Zhu Youxiao exclaimed, with an incredible look on his face. Eighty steps, that's a distance of one hundred and twenty meters! The effective range mentioned here is not the maximum range, but the range of armor piercing. Before that, I wanted good news, saying that the musket process was improved, and the iron produced was of good quality, and it could be cast directly, and then an iron hoop could be added to make it stronger, and the firing range was increased by ten steps.

I didn't expect this process to be adopted yet, and it has been updated here.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is still because the old minister feels that forging for too long is unnecessary, if you increase the forging time, this range should be improved." Xu Guangqi's words were full of confidence.

He does have this capital, and this is a leap from casting to forging.

[Author's digression]: I can finally go home, I can finally rest, happiness!