The wisdom of the Chinese nation has been inherited for a long time, and the use of hot air has matured since the Kong Ming lantern when the Three Kingdoms was played, Zhao Tianyou looked at the confetti flying up and down because of the thermal movement of the air, and thought of the hot air balloon that could carry people.

Although its principle is not magical, people have long used it to cast signals, but to further enhance its buoyancy, can meet the standard of safe riding, there is still a long, long way to go. However, Zhao Tianyou also knew that this was the most economical and cost-effective plan, and after a period of time could carry people into the sky, he would take a basket of artillery shells and smash them on the top of the enemy's head, and the effect would definitely be good.

Fortunately, Zhao Tianyou only needs to provide ideas and functional design, and the people under Zhou Yuan's old Feng Tou are not only gunpowder blacksmiths, as long as the scheme is designed, there will naturally be manpower to overcome the difficulties of materials, fuel, and so on.

No matter what, there was a little gain, Zhao Tianyou sorted out a few drawings and put them away, got up and went to the newly built steelmaking furnace construction site. After the collective wisdom and Zhao Tianyou's control of the direction, Hong Kong Island began to be divided in the development of re-industry, and the wharf began to be built according to the function, and behind the new wharf with the best draft is the first coal coking plant in history.

Crucible ironmaking is a small workshop, and the scheme of coke and blast furnace has been verified, which is the general direction of iron and steel production in the future, how could Zhao Tianyou choose the wrong one. In the Northern Song Dynasty, coal has begun to be used, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, coal has entered thousands of households in the city.

The technology to make coke has long been available to the private sector, but there is no one who produces coke on a large scale, and uses the characteristics of coke in high-temperature blast furnaces to improve efficiency and steel quality. Hong Kong Island is very low-key to build factories, and began to arrange assembly line-like operation methods, both in terms of steel quality and production efficiency, will reach a new historical height.

"Jiaotou Zhao is here, come and see how our work is doing. It's really not blowing, I've seen a lot of people at my age, not to mention I've never seen or heard of such a neat workshop that hasn't been arranged! ”

Old Feng Tou is still called Zhao Tianyou, he is used to the title, and it is difficult to change his words, but Zhao Tianyou doesn't care about this, it's just a code name.

"Yes, the craftsmen and masters have worked hard, and they have spent too much effort from the drawings to the ground, and they will be greatly rewarded after the start of construction!"

Lao Feng Tou smiled and said: "These craftsmen under our command are all capable people, and they have been engaged in all walks of life before, but this time they have made great efforts, and a few young people with clever minds have emerged, which are very worthy of training." The young people can guess what kind of busy scene the workshop will be in the future, and they also put forward some methods and opinions to ensure the operation. ”

"Really? That's great, you can do it how you say you want to cultivate, and where you need my cooperation, just say it, I will definitely give priority to it. Zhao Tianyou hopes that all the things he brings will be free from the imprint engraved by himself, but play the role of a guide, and bloom with new brilliance through the in-depth excavation of future generations.

In terms of the efficacy of gunpowder, Zhao Tianyou has deliberately guided that for the addition of various active metals, ores and other formulas, which will change the characteristics of gunpowder, many people have been experimenting again, and have a lot of valuable experience and harvest.

At present, the gunpowder produced on Hong Kong Island has a mature formula of vertical medicine, and the so-called vertical medicine is easy to understand that it is ******, just like the first sound of the second kick, which is responsible for providing the acceleration and launch distance of the projectile. The gunpowder contained in the flowering bomb provides the kinetic energy of the explosion, also known as the horizontal medicine, which is the part that explodes after the second kick goes to the sky.

A few gunpowder masters in Zhangzhou added silver mineral powder to the gunpowder, which was a multi-component ore rich in magnesium and could amplify the explosive power of black powder by double the power of the explosion. At present, there is no technical exchange between the two sides, and once the two technologies are combined, the Hongyi cannon will not only shoot far, but also blow up fiercely.

Also in Zhao Tianyou's field plan, the Franc cannon, which can be called a rapid-fire cannon, is the lack of explosive power.

At that time, the sharp weapon of the siege was the Hongyi cannon equipped with mobile artillery carriages, and during the field positional warfare, the large-scale cavalry against the Yuan soldiers relied on the rapid-fire cannon of the Franco machine, and the thunderbolt cannon fired from the ballista bed at close range, and then approached the thunderbolt that was thrown.

In this way, the types of firearms battalions will be further divided, and there will be up to several layers of firepower coverage, with different means of attack from far, medium and near. The Yuan soldiers who can rush through the firepower network, as well as the Mo Dao team with Miao Dao and the Mo Knife team that is being built and designed are responsible for hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, except that the number of configurations is too small now, Zhao Tianyou can't think of a possible reason for the defeat.

The bustling workshop has gathered hundreds of people, the first fire will be lit by Zhao Tianyou and Lao Feng Tou, and the coal will be distilled at high temperature through drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, solidification, shrinkage and other processes, and finally will be made into coke.

After the coke is ready, the next step will be to enter the stockyard of the steelmaking plant like a stream, waiting to be heated with the iron ore that has been processed to obtain high-quality pig iron or wrought iron. The next process is the steel filling method already used in the Song Dynasty, using pig iron and wrought iron to train together to produce high-quality steel billets.

"Let's get started, let's get started!"

After the ignition ceremony of the first furnace, the people in the coke workshop began to get busy, and there were still four coking ovens that needed to be filled for production, and everyone knew that high-quality coke was an important cornerstone of ironmaking, and it was determined that nothing could be done in the first step.

From the wharf where raw materials such as coal and iron ore are loaded and unloaded, the continuous building forms a long assembly line factory, material selection, loading, coking, blast furnace, iron billet, steel filling, shaping, forging, quenching, forming, inspection, warehouse, and countless processes are arranged in an orderly manner.

These plans Zhao Tianyou is really just a guide, and the specific plans and implementation are all thought out in the later stage, unless there is a particularly big obstacle, Zhao Tianyou rarely participates in the opinions. He deeply longs for the first generation of technical engineers to be born from these busy craftsmen, to carry forward these world-changing technologies, and to embark on a different path of light.

"Zhao Jiaotou, although I don't have flowers when I'm old, this road leads to more than just the hegemony of the world, the future is unimaginable, can you describe it to me, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for that day!" Old Feng's eyes were shining, with the development of time and technology, the desire in his heart to build weapons and kill more Yuan soldiers had long been sublimated, and it had become something that had been created, how would it change the world.

"Haha, I don't know, but one day I might fly into the sky like this!"

Zhao Tianyou picked up a fist-sized piece of iron ore and threw it into the air!