"You say you have a new steelmaking technique?"

Liu Che has had an unquenchable hatred for the Huns since he was a child.

When he was a child, there was a palace maid who played with him was sent to the Huns, and when he grew up, he was even more angry because of the humiliation of the Han Dynasty Lu Hou, if the Han Dynasty could produce a large amount of steel, and use stainless steel to build the army's weapons and armor, it would be enough for the Han cavalry to confront the Hun cavalry.

"The minister does have it, don't you know that this law can be exchanged for the land reward that His Majesty said?"

Liu Che was anxious to get new steel-making skills, and Zhang Yuan was anxious to get rid of the strife in Chang'an City, and the two hit it off.

"Let me see this steelmaking technique first, let alone 3,000 acres of land, even if it is a torn earth seal, it is nothing."

Zhang Yuan didn't take anything about it at all, painting cakes for his subordinates has always been the best thing for Chinese to do, and it has nothing to do with which dynasty it is in.

Once the steel filling method is revealed in front of Liu Che, it will not be Zhang Yuan's, but his Liu Che's.

"Zhang Langguan, the place of metal smelting in Chang'an City is behind the arsenal, please come with me."

Liu Che naturally wouldn't go to the smelting workshop to check the steel filling method, his every move would fall in the eyes of others, the goal was too big, and the closest person around him was this Huangmen squire, so he was naturally going to watch.

"Shangguan, I haven't asked Shangguan's name for so long."

I have seen this Huangmen squire many times, and no one has ever felt sorry for Zhang Yuan, and even expressed kindness many times, Zhang Yuan felt that he was a little rude.

"It's not a big deal, you have to be willing to be a shadow when you do things by Your Majesty's side, since you want to know my name and tell you nothing, my name is Wang Sui, if there are no outsiders present in the future, you don't have to be so polite."

Wang Sui is very optimistic about Zhang Yuan, he has always been by Liu Che's side, and knows what kind of talent Liu Che needs.

Sima Xiangru and his ilk can only get favor when this emperor is frustrated, and when the dragon soars above the nine heavens, he can only be surrounded by eagles instead of goldfish in the water.

"After Anguo Wuhou?"

Zhang Yuan quickly went through the heroes of the founding of the Western Han Dynasty in his heart, and asked tentatively after identifying a person.

Then Wang then nodded.

"It's just a concubine, although you are rich and noble, but you have no chance with the title."

Most of the officials in the Weiyang Palace and the officials serving around the emperor are like Wang Sui, and they can't inherit the title of the family, so they go out or join the army to find another way out.

However, the Marquis of Anguo Wuhou is a native of Pei County, even if he is a concubine.

"I was clumsy before, if there is any rudeness, please forgive Wang Shilang."

Wang then waved his hand to signal Zhang Yuan to stop talking, Zhang Yuan turned his head and saw that he had already arrived at the place.

After showing the seal ribbon to the palace guards guarding it, Zhang Yuan followed Wang Sui into the only smelting workshop in Chang'an City, although there were all kinds of people living in Luli in the north of Chang'an City, but there were no craftsmen.

Entering the smelting workshop, Zhang Yuan saw a furnace that was exactly the same as the high-temperature furnace used to smelt wrought iron in the Zhuo's smelting workshop, except that it seemed that they were using the frying method to make steel, rather than smelting wrought iron.

The production of cast iron and wrought iron in the Han Dynasty was already high enough, and it was not practical to use wrought iron as a weapon, mainly for armor. The emperor needed a lot of steel to forge his weapons, and only the ring-head sword made of steel could take the lives of the Hun cavalry when it sliced through their leather armor.

"Zhang Langguan, from now on, everyone here will obey your deployment, and I will stay here until you use your new steel-making skills to make steel."

Zhang Yuan nodded, and then ordered to the craftsman beside him who specialized in using the frying method to make steel.

"Keep stirring, remove impurities, add lime powder, and wait until I say stop."

The molten iron in the crucible was ready-made, which saved Zhang Yuan a lot of time, and looking at the luster color of the molten iron, he only needed to wait a while and find a pig iron plate to prove the existence of the steel filling method to Liu Che.

The iron plate is not difficult to find here, and Zhang Yuan quickly found a pig iron plate, although it is a little thick, but it can also be used.

The smelting of the wrought iron took an hour, and seeing that the impurities were almost gone, and the temperature was so hot that the air was distorted, Zhang Yuan signaled that he could stop and let the molten iron flow down.

There were no extra tools here, so he could only put the pig iron plate on top of the sand and let the wrought iron water pour it, until the whole pig iron plate was completely wrapped, Zhang Yuan took a yellow clay stick to get the iron plate aside to cool.

"Zhang Langguan is like this?"

Wang then pointed to the iron plate that was cooling on the side and asked.

"Yes, it's that simple, I call this method the steel filling method, wait for the iron plate to cool, and then find someone to break it in the middle is the steel, the conditions here can only be done like this, if you do it according to the specifications I said, at least more than half of such an iron plate will be smelted into steel, and when forging weapons, let the blacksmith temper it for one more day, and you can get a weapon forged from stainless steel."

Zhang Yuan said it simply, but what Wang Sui said on the side was stunned, not that he didn't understand, but that the weapons made of stainless steel surprised him too much.

Not to mention the popularity of such weapons in the army, even many generals do not have it, and they can use some steel on the blade of the sword.

However, before seeing the silver white in the middle of the iron plate, no matter how exaggerated Zhang Yuan said, it could only surprise Wang Sui rather than shock.

In order to make Liu Che wait soon, Wang Sui asked those craftsmen to directly put the iron plate into the water to cool, and then take the iron saw along the middle, at least one-third of the place where the pig iron plate and wrought iron are combined is gradually silver-white, Wang Sui doesn't know what this means, but none of these craftsmen who belong to the craftsmen who will be the master craftsmen are not the most outstanding talents of the Han Dynasty, and even most of them have the background of the Mo family.

"Wang Shilang, the middle of this iron plate is indeed made of steel."

After the steel filling method just obtained, compared with the steel they used before, the steel obtained by the frying method is not an order of magnitude at all, often such a crucible out of the molten iron can have one percent of the steel is considered to be high yield, if there is no balance of that ratio, it is likely that a pot of molten iron can only be a piece of pig iron after cooling.

"Zhang Langguan, take this iron plate, let's go to see Your Majesty."

Wang Sui's voice was already a little trembling, and it was obvious that the surprise in his heart had turned into shock.

Zhang Yuan was about to take the iron plate, but was stopped by someone.

"Wait, it's a bit rude to want to leave after using up the old man's place."

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