Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Blacksmith
Su Xiaocai now has no choice but to follow his master. Even if you leave Master and survive in this world, you have to think of a way, and it is not a problem to survive, as long as you can survive and think of a way, it will not be a problem to become rich.
But now, Su Xiaocai has the identity of a "river out of a stranger", no matter where he goes, the master's "Five Elements Gate" disciples will try to catch him back. The set of carpentry knives in the master's hand makes it superb, and there should be a group of very powerful people under him, and his life is important, so it's better not to leave.
Besides, follow the master back, now do things, there are rich people, no matter what, the name of the head of the Five Elements Gate is still carried by himself.
So, as long as you work hard, it's still very possible to catch the power of controlling the gang!
Since he made such a choice, Su Xiaocai had the previous conversation with the master, no matter what the master said, he chose to believe in the master, Master Huipu, and everything was obedient to him.
Of course, judging from Master's performance, he is not so insignificant, and judging from what Master said, he also kept taking those four verses as holy decrees, and he did not despise himself as the so-called leader......
In this way, Su Xiaocai followed the master back to the Zhuangzi.
"The blacksmiths have already been organized...... Master pointed to a group of muscular and tower-like figures in front of him, and said, "It's just that the imperial court has a relatively strict control over iron tools. Each blacksmith has a finite supply of iron per month...... So all our blacksmiths can build are some farm tools, iron pots and other gadgets......
These big things that you are planning now cannot be built by building, and can only be cast on a large scale......
The blacksmiths said that if they were cast, they would be made of pig iron, brittle, and might not be able to withstand such a huge instrument......"
Su Xiaocai was very relieved that the master had organized the blacksmiths in such a short period of time, and he was seriously studying his own diagram!
After all, the plan proposed by Su Xiaocai is a very grand plan, which is very time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly, and there is no experience at all, no one can say whether it will succeed.
Master, they fully trusted Su Xiaocai, so they quickly organized the manpower and began to lay out.
It seems that the Five Elements Gate does not just regard itself as a mud bodhisattva, but just lifts it out to support a façade and gather people's hearts. Their own ideas, they still firmly carried out.
Since this is the case, Su Xiaocai does not intend to treat himself as an outsider.
"If we make steel from iron ore ourselves, will we be arrested by the imperial court?" Su Xiaocai asked.
"Yes!"
"How about that...... Can you spend some money to open up the joints, it is said that money can make the ghosts push and grind, and let the officers and soldiers push and grind for us, isn't it okay?
I've heard that in recent years, the government has been more corrupt, but I don't know if I have had such an experience before? ”
"Haha...... The boss is smart! This is a very good method, try everything!
We hide in a ravine, open a furnace, as long as the dots are in place, there is no problem......
The core of the problem is whether we can use iron ore to make such a high-performance steel, which is the most important thing!"
"I have a way to do this! Although I haven't done it myself, I will definitely be able to make good steel after trying it a few times according to the method......
"You know how to make steel?"
"Since the 'River Out of the Other' is the will of God, the will of God has made me the head of everyone, and the 'Five Elements Gate' is a big gang composed of hundreds of workers, in terms of hundreds of workers, if I have no excellence, then how can I mix in this position...... Hey, hey, hey, hey......"
Su Xiaocai's face is proud and confident, what he needs now is to show his talents in front of these people, only his own excellence, let these people be deeply admired, everyone can feel the power of heaven's will, let them believe that they are their heads, it has been arranged in the dark, Zhang Daishan's dying words are indeed not talking......
The blessing of mystical power is the best means to capture people's hearts. Although this may seem like a deception, there is no malicious intent......
Although it is not my own specialty, I understand the principle, which is nothing more than the problem of carbon content and desulfurization......
What's more, now the imperial court has very strict control over this aspect, and it is impossible to let it go, so you can do business in this area on a large scale, and you can only smelt out a batch of steel used by yourself.
Su Xiaocai then said what he thought.
"Coal? Coking? ”
"Does Shi Tan know?"
"Of course I do! But this thing has a lot of smoke, let alone steelmaking, even ironmaking, and it is also very easy to rust, and it is not very useful at all...... You can't boil water in the stove for cooking, the chimney can suck the smoke away, otherwise the smoke produced by this thing is poisonous, and you can't even use it for heating......"
"It's all a matter of method, and it seems that because of the problem, you have a great misunderstanding of such a good thing! It's a good thing, but it's a treasure!
Aside from the business we are currently doing, we can make a lot of money just by doing this business......
Next, make the point, uh, no, get to the point, put your ears up and listen...... I'll start with coking! Coke is formed by dry distillation of coal at high temperatures, and is generally used to metallurgize iron......"
Su Xiaocai then told you about the coking technology, how to decarbonize and increase carbon in the steelmaking process......
Of course, as for how to make an iron-making furnace, he has no experience in this area at all, but fortunately, some of the people in front of him are masons, and some people have made furnaces for the officially operated iron mountain, of course they know what kind of furnace is used to make iron in the Great Song Dynasty......
called over and said it, it turned out that it was not much different from Su Xiaocai's understanding...... In fact, it is a small blast furnace for local steelmaking, which is particularly primitive, but in this year, it is enough.
"Well, this matter is finalized! I repeat, secrecy, this issue! Coal coking, molten iron decarburization, carburization, you sound, just a few words, but really groping, what is produced is an amazing smelting technology!
This technology may produce particularly good steel, once it leaks out in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, it is good to say, if it is mastered by Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, it will be able to build weapons on a large scale!
In addition, if they have the advantage of cavalry, if they invade our Great Song Dynasty and kill our people, then our group of people will be traitors and sinners!"