The coke was soon fed into the steel-making blast furnaces, which were already ready with hundreds of blacksmiths standing by them.

"Open the furnace, light the fire!" Soon Huang Huosheng's shouts came.

"Send the air!" After a while, Huang Huosheng checked the temperature in the furnace and shouted again.

"Whew! Call! Call! The tall windmill began to spin slowly, and the huge wind box next to the blast furnace below began to gulp and gulp. The wind sends the fire into the blast furnace, and the blacksmiths at the top of the blast furnace watch the iron ore in the furnace melt piece by piece, and then put in the iron ore truck by car.

This was repeated, smelting began at noon, and lasted for two hours, and Yang Qi was always by the side.

"My lord! It's time to make a sacrifice. Huang Huosheng asked.

"Sacrifices?" Yang Qi said with some differences: "What sacrifice?" ”

"Aren't you prepared? The treasures of the gods like the cadre Mo Ye are all sacrificed to the living. Huang Huosheng was also a little surprised, under the contact during this period of time, the young man in front of him had already lived in hundreds of households at a young age, and everything was expected to be in front of him, and now he was not prepared for such an important matter?

"Oh, that's what you're talking about?" Yang Qi asked rhetorically, "Can the charcoal I asked you to prepare ready?" ”

"Well, it's ready." Huang Huosheng replied.

"How much iron is there?" Yang Qi asked.

"Almost six or seven hundred pounds." Huang Huosheng estimated that these are all old blacksmiths, so they can be estimated at a glance, and the fluctuation will not exceed dozens of catties, which is very accurate.

"Throw charcoal!" Yang Qi said.

"Can this work?" Huang Huosheng asked.

"Don't worry!" Yang Qi nodded in confirmation.

"Small, let's go and give orders." Huang Huosheng trotted out, this thing is particular about the heat, he is afraid that he will miss the time.

Soon the charcoal was thrown down, because there were more materials, and the high temperature would consume most of the carbon elements, so more charcoal was thrown.

They blacksmiths don't know why the ancients used living creatures to sacrifice molten iron, but every time they make such a sacrifice, they will produce a pot of good iron, and the iron obtained by this way of exercise is cast out of a divine weapon, so they are regarded as guests, and every time they make iron, they have to put some livestock, which is already the fear of God, praying for a pot of good iron, in fact, these creatures themselves contain, carbon, phosphorus and other trace elements, combined with iron, to produce alloy iron, that is, "steel", later generations summarized and analyzed and found that The physical properties of iron are inextricably linked to the amount of carbon, so you can get steel with this characteristic by matching carbon according to the proportion.

"Ready, collect the molten iron!" Huang Huosheng shouted from the command platform, and there were dozens of blacksmiths below, pushing carts, filling molds inside, and soon the first pot of molten iron was collected, and they were then transported into various workshops to begin the methodical forging work.

"Not bad!" Yang Qi looked at the formed iron ingot and said, "Master Huang." ”

"The little ones are here." Huang Huosheng replied.

"It's off the production line, you must notify me." Yang Qi said: "Remember, the production method I told you? ”

"Remember, the assembly line production method." Huang Huosheng replied.

"Very good, short firecrackers should also be produced, and a hundred rods are currently produced." Yang Qi said that he planned to equip the sentinels with these short firearms, with five guns and ammunition, so that when they encountered the enemy's sentinels, they would definitely be able to achieve the purpose of surprise.

Yang Qi went to inspect the gunpowder branch next, other materials are easy to find, only sulfur is not easy to get, this thing is all dependent on purchasing.

"Your Excellency!" Xu Nong is the foreman of the gunpowder production workshop and has a lot of experience in the gunpowder industry.

"Keep working." Yang Qi commanded.

"Keep working." Xu Nong said.

Each operating table has a weighing scale, several workers carefully select materials, from time to time will be unqualified materials to remove, will screen the good materials to the next process, they will add materials according to the ratio, and then stir and mix evenly, and then send into the next process, so operation, the final finished granule gunpowder from the workshop to complete the production, gunpowder workshop under the fixed paper bullet production workshop, gunpowder application research laboratory two parts.

"Can be excited, through a small explosion to injure the enemy, grenades, how did you develop? Is there a finished product? Yang Qi asked, the gunpowder workshop has been in operation for more than half a month, and he is impatient to see if there is any new progress.

"Your Excellency, please see." Xu Nong said and took out a short stick-like object and handed it over, saying: "This is a grenade designed according to the built-in pull ring described by the adult, after half a month of trial and error, the current finished product, the detonation delay has been controlled at about five seconds as the adult said." ”

"Oh? How did you do that? Yang Qi asked.

"There is a splint inside, phosphorus is attached to it, the middle end is a fire rope, the outer lead, and the outermost side is this protective cover, which can be buckled on it to protect the lead." Xu Nong said as he introduced his products.

"What is the scope of the explosion?" Yang Qi asked.

"The explosion range is about 13 meters, and the effective killing is about 8 meters." Xu Nong replied: "According to the adult's prompt, we have put in a small lead pellet, the villain thinks that if some iron pieces can be loaded into it, it may be more lethal, and I have submitted a written application to Master Huang." ”

"Well, if you have any good ideas, you can try them, don't be afraid, let them try, but be sure to pay attention to safety." Yang Qi said: "Let's go, let's try its power." ”

"Yes!" A large group of people walked quickly to the experimental site of the gunpowder factory.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had a very mature flowering bomb, that is, the bomb recognized by later generations, in the Ming Dynasty called "10,000 enemies", but there is a big difference in the size of the outfit, the Ming Dynasty's 10,000 enemies are only suitable for defending the city, and cannot be used in field battles, and Yang Qi, which is almost a modern grenade, is widely used and is not limited by the site.

"Your Excellency, please take a look." Xu Nong took it upon himself, hiding behind the bunker and moving towards a circle in the distance, surrounded by wooden targets in armor.

"One!" Xu Nong nervously pulled out the lead, only to see that the tail of the grenade instantly emitted green smoke, and there was a "whoosh" sound of the fuse burning.

"Two!" Xu Nong counted in his mouth.

"Three!" Xu Nong decisively threw the grenade far away.

The grenade perfectly draws a parabola in the air, spends a second and then falls to the ground.

"Bang!" There was a loud bang, followed by a large cloud of smoke shooting out.

"Crackle! Crackling! The sound rang out.

After the smoke dissipated, Yang Qi took people to check, there were three wooden targets every other meter, dislocation display, Yang Qi checked it, the last three meters of the wooden targets all fell to the ground a few meters away, the result of the check was that the armor was blown up in a large area, if it was a person inside, it would definitely die on the spot, Yang Qi continued to check the wooden targets on the periphery, until about eight meters, there were a lot of lead shots embedded in the wooden targets under the armor, and when looking at the periphery, in addition to the deep traces of the impact of the lead shots on the armor, there were no traces in the wooden targets, Only the exposed wooden targets were shot into by lead shots, and Yang Qi knew it in his heart with such power.

"Reward! One hundred taels of silver! Yang Qi said loudly.

"Oops!" Xu Nong instantly knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Thank you, Lord reward!" ”

This matter was quickly spread by the workers, and as long as there was an invention and creation, hundreds of households were rewarded, and they were extremely generous.