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Wang Chengen was very embarrassed when he heard Li Xing's laughter. He turned his head to look at Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu, both of whom were also ignorant. They looked at the window of the house not far away, but no matter how they looked, the three of them did not believe that the window was filled with transparent glass.

Li Xing laughed for a while before jumping off the horse. He grabbed Wang Chengen's hand, took Wang Chengen off his horse, and grabbed him to the window of the house.

Li Xing grabbed Wang Chengen's hand and took his hand to hit the glass window, until Wang Chengen's hand touched the colorless transparent glass.

Wang Chengen's body shook, making sure that his hand had really hit a smooth and hard surface.

He was stunned, groped his fingers on the glass window repeatedly, repeatedly made sure that the entire window was filled with glass, and then suddenly withdrew his palm.

"Good boy, it's really a glass mile."

The two chief soldiers behind Wang Chengen glanced at each other, couldn't help but be surprised, and jumped off the horse. The two of them walked to the window of the house and groped for it repeatedly, making sure that the transparent object they touched was indeed a glass window.

Yang Guozhu took a breath and said, "Using colorless glass as a window, even the Forbidden City is not so extravagant. ”

Li Xing smiled and said, "General Yang is serious, this is the eldest brother's new product flat glass, and the price is only three yuan. Even ordinary people can afford it. Nowadays, the production is insufficient, and it is only sold in Fanjiazhuang. After a while, the output will go up, maybe it will be sold to the capital, and then General Yang's mansion can also be equipped with this. ”

Although Cao Bianjiao had always been calm, he couldn't help but ask in surprise at this time: "Such a large piece of glass is only sold for three coins of silver?" ”

Li Xing nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

Cao Bianjiao nodded and said: "It is worthy of being the Duke of Jinguo, and it is really for the benefit of the people!" ”

Yang Guozhu and Wang Chengen shook their heads, looked at the glass window for a long time, and then suddenly got on the horse.

Walking dozens of steps further, Wang Chengen saw a group of tall buildings, and the seven big characters "Converter Steelmaking Experimental Plant" were written at the door of the building.

Wang Chengen lost his temper when he saw the glass window just now, and lost face in front of Li Xing, so he was embarrassed to ask any more questions at this time. He looked back at Yang Guozhu, and sure enough, he found that Yang Guozhu was also confused.

Yang Guozhu saw Wang Chengen looking at himself and knew what Wang Chengen meant, so he arched his hand to Li Xing and asked: "Lord Governor, Yang has only heard of blast furnace ironmaking, and has never heard of converter steelmaking. The so-called thousands of hammers, good steel is hammered by blacksmiths, how can it be refined in a furnace? ”

Li Xing said with a smile: "This is a pilot steel plant, a temporary factory left over from Cai Huaishui's experimental converter steelmaking. At present, the main production base of converter steel in Fanjiazhuang is in the steel town in the east, and the output of this temporary factory is much lower than that of the main plant there. ”

With a wave of his hand, Li Xing said, "But since I'm here, the three VIPs will go in with me to take a look!" Take a look at how we in Fanjiazhuang mass produce steel. ”

The three of them nodded, and followed Li Xing into the steel mill. As soon as I entered the steel mill, I felt a heat wave coming from inside the factory. The factory was filled with the loud rumble of flames and the flow of molten steel, and you had to shout loudly when you spoke face to face, otherwise you couldn't hear it at all.

Li Xing led the three of them to the overseer corridor on the second floor of the factory, and stopped standing in a place with a good view.

"Look, Princess, that two-story furnace is a converter, and inside it is boiling hot molten iron!"

"The difference between iron and steel is the difference in carbon content! We use a steam engine to blow air into molten iron from above, and burn the carbon in the molten iron into carbon dioxide, and the iron becomes steel! Of course, at the same time, slag is made to remove sulfur and phosphorus from the steel! ”

Wang Chengen looked at the roaring blast furnace, and felt more and more that he didn't understand anything, and he was really an ignorant person. What Li Xing said about carbon content, sulfur and phosphorus, it sounds concise, but Wang Chengen can't understand a word.

Wang Chengen turned his head to look at Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu, and found that the two of them were also ignorant, but they had to nod slowly with Li Xing's words, so as not to look too ignorant and ridiculous.

Wang Chengen lowered his head and thought about it, and was thinking about whether to ask in detail, but suddenly heard Li Xing shouting loudly: "Father-in-law, look! Molten steel is out! ”

Wang Chengen looked up and saw that the huge converter had tilted. Red molten steel flowed out of a tap hole on the right side of the converter and fell into the block mold. The molten steel fell on the mold and splashed countless sparks, which suddenly made the entire steel factory seem to light countless fireworks, and there were splashing and bouncing fires everywhere, which was very beautiful.

After the furnace poured out the molten steel, another worker filled the furnace with pig iron. The ingots under the furnace were pulled out and set aside to cool. Li Xing took three visitors from the capital to the warehouse where the steel ingots were placed, pointed to the steel ingots full of the warehouse and said, "Three angels, the steel ingots here are the finished products after cooling. ”

Cao Bianjiao walked up to a steel ingot and knocked on it. He drew the sword from his waist and stabbed it into the ingot.

The steel collided and sparks sparked, and Cao Bianjiao's Hundred Steels Sword used all its strength, but it failed to penetrate the inside of the mass-produced steel ingot, only stabbing a small hole in the steel ingot. Cao Bianjiao looked at the steel ingots in surprise, raised his sword and looked at it, and found that his sword was actually rolled up with a blade.

"Good steel!"

Yang Guozhu's face was full of surprise, and he praised: "It turns out that you can really make steel with a furnace!" If a furnace is made so quickly, how much will the cost of good steel be reduced in the future? ”

Li Xing said with a smile: "These steels are smelted from high-quality iron ore in Shilu, Qiongzhou, and are currently all used to build railways. ”

Cao Bianjiao was stunned and asked, "Such a good steel is used to build roads?" ”

Li Xing nodded and replied, "It is used to build roads." ”

Wang Chengen seemed to feel that he would be despised if he said more at this time, shook his head, and refused to say a word. Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu glanced at each other, feeling that the matter of Fanjiazhuang was becoming more and more incomprehensible.

Cao Bianjiao suddenly asked: "How much is a pound of these good steel, if it is cheap, can you sell some to the soldiers of the Beijing camp to make steel armor?" If this kind of steel is cheaper than the crucible steel of Jin Guogong, then the cost of steel armor will drop significantly. ”

Li Xing nodded and said, "The chief officer has to discuss this matter with my eldest brother." ”

Li Xing walked out of the steel mill with three VIPs, and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. The three visitors from the capital had just seen too many shocking new things along the way, and their mood was no longer enough to describe as surprised. Some were shocked by all kinds of things in Fanjiazhuang, and the three of them lowered their heads one by one, their faces heavy.

Li Xing secretly said that he couldn't see more things to frighten the three of them, so he took the three of them to a tavern for dinner, and then he would talk about it when he was full.

The tavern is a well-known cheap hotel in Fanjiazhuang, and it is already full of guests at this time. Li Xing walked in with three high-ranking officials and a large number of personal guards, but only found two empty tables. And Li Xing and his party have more than 30 people, and it takes at least three big tables to sit down. Li Xing and three high-ranking officials from the capital said: "The eldest brother does not allow us to forcibly use private resources, and I dare not drive away the guests. Let's take a seat first, wait for the restaurant to vacate a table, and then let the guards take a seat. ”

Wang Chengen, who had been silent for a long time, did not hear Li Xing's words, he stood at the door of the restaurant and looked inside the restaurant, as if he saw something that shocked him, he actually stopped, gritted his teeth and asked: "Governor, why are these people waiting for the food to be served one by one holding newspapers and reading, these diners are not reading when they look at their clothes, they are clearly workers and hawkers, are the people of Fanjiazhuang all literate?" ”

Cao and Yang Erjiang only discovered this amazing phenomenon at this time, and they were also surprised and opened their mouths wide.