Li Feibai's words were very uplifting, especially for the craftsmen of the iron smelting institute. All along, they are looking forward to the stars and the moon, looking forward to when someone will come to buy the money they smelted, if it is really as Li Feibai said, others crying and begging to buy the iron they smelted, what a thing it is!

However, after raising their eyebrows, they were a little skeptical, could they really refine the best iron in the Ming Dynasty?

Those craftsmen brought by Li Feibai were just right, after all, they had not touched iron smelting, and they were still tempted by the reward of 10,000 taels of silver. The original craftsmen of the iron smelting institute seemed very unconfident, thinking that they would live up to Li Feibai's expectations. Among them, there is not a steelmaker named Shi Feng.

Shi Feng was not a craftsman, but a farmer, he had read books, he had ambitions since he was a child, he wanted to make a name for himself, and once he jumped into the dragon gate and became an official that everyone envied. But after he studied in private school for three years, he found that he was also surrounded by people who were surrounded by people, and he was not reading material at all, but was very obsessed with turning pieces of ore into metal.

For this reason, he was still a minor, so he went to his hometown to work as a man in the iron smelting station. With his diligent hands and feet, coupled with his unashamed research, he quickly mastered all the steps of iron smelting. Slowly, he turned from a man to a craftsman, but he was not happy to do it, and there were many ideas that could not be realized. After all, the other artisans have been passed down from generation to generation, calling each other brothers and sisters, and swearing to defend their interests to the death. He is a halfway monk, and it is obvious that he is not a fellow craftsman, so it is reasonable to cause people to be annoyed and ostracized.

That year, just when he wondered if his decision to change from a farmer to a craftsman was wrong, Zhao Xuefei sent someone to their iron smelting institute to ask for advice on how to make good iron. He felt that Zhao Xuefei's iron-smelting plant was newly built, and the craftsmen might not be like the craftsmen in this iron-smelting plant, and there would be deep-rooted prejudices that would isolate him and exclude him, leaving him with no room to play at all. So Mao Sui recommended himself, and with the people sent by Zhao Xuefei, he came to the iron smelting institute in Jiyuan.

As he expected, the iron-smelting institute in Jiyuan was founded, and the craftsmen were all newly recruited, and everyone didn't know each other before, and they were all foreigners, so there was no prejudice against him as an outsider. In addition, the iron smelting institute lost money every year, and there was no money to pay, and there were not many interests to fight for, and it was impossible to exclude him and isolate him, lest he infringe on their interests. He soon made friends with the craftsmen and became one of them, and it wasn't long before he realized that his ideas to improve iron smelting were still not realized.

It was poverty that made him mingle with the craftsmen of the Jiyuan Iron Smelting Plant, and it was poverty that prevented him from improving the quality of the iron smelted.

The iron smelted by the iron smelting station is of low quality, and there is not much problem with the furnace, the main problem is that the ore is not pure enough and there are too many impurities in it. If you want to change the quality of the iron smelted, you only need to build another iron furnace and turn it with a wooden stick to burn the impurities in the molten iron to ashes again, and you can get iron that meets the quality.

This is the most economical and affordable way, but the county is so poor that it can't even come up with this money, so it is impossible to smelt iron that meets the quality.

Of course, he has more ways to make good iron, as Li Feibai said, he also realized that he can't make better iron because the temperature in the furnace is not enough, so he also thought of many solutions. For example, when making iron, in addition to burning the fire underneath, it is necessary to increase the flame, let the fire hit the furnace wall and then return to the iron ore to directly heat the ore.

But this requires a lot of problems to solve. How to increase the flame? When the flame is large, the temperature in the furnace will be high, and the previous furnace will not be able to withstand the high temperature and collapse, so you have to find something resistant to high temperature to build a furnace. Wait a minute......

This is not something that he can solve as a blacksmith, and it requires craftsmen from different industries to work together to find a way to solve it. The most important thing is that it takes silver, a lot of silver. But what is lacking in smelting iron is silver, and he thinks that his ideas will not be realized in this life, so he can only hold on to it for the rest of his life. Unexpectedly, Li Feibai came.

When Li Feibai called them to the house, took out two pieces of paper, and threw out the temptation of a thousand taels, Shi Feng was not moved. He is a blacksmith, not a blacksmith, these things are not what he is good at, knowing that the thousand taels have nothing to do with him, how can he be tempted?

Not only was he not moved, but he also felt disappointed. In the final analysis, Li Feibai is a businessman, and all he thinks about is making money. In addition to hollowing out the hollowing out to sell the inventory of the iron smelting institute, how can you think about what smelting good iron means to the entire Ming Dynasty? If the coal fire produced sells well, Li Feibai will not think about how to smelt good iron, but will concentrate on smelting scrap iron that cannot be taken on the table, and then cast it into coal fire to make money.

But Li Feibai threw out the temptation of 10,000 taels without warning, which made him tempted, and he felt that Li Feibai was not an ordinary businessman, but a businessman who benefited the country and the people. At this time, he began to admire Li Feibai, and made up his mind to smelt good iron, not for the 10,000 taels of silver, but to realize his ambition. Of course, it is better to have 10,000 taels of silver.

Immediately, Li Feibai threw out the remark of refining good iron, Shi Feng did not admire Li Feibai, but suspected that Li Feibai was the same as him, a blacksmith with ambition and retribution. Moreover, think more comprehensively than he does, and roughly point out the direction! He wanted to increase the temperature of the furnace, and he thought most about how to seal the furnace tightly, and never increased the furnace body and water-powered windmill, which made him suddenly feel that he was a little more sure that he would be able to refine good iron.

The most important thing is to take out the silver and bring craftsmen from all walks of life, so that those seemingly unsolvable problems have the possibility to be solved!

He looked at Li Feibai, a young man who was less than twenty years old and had fair skin, who didn't look like a blacksmith at all. So why does he know so much about iron smelting? Seems to know more than he, a blacksmith who has been working for decades!

He fell into deep contemplation, and after a while, when he came back to his senses, Li Feibai was gone. The house was noisy, and all the craftsmen were forming gangs, trying to find powerful people for the 1,000 taels of suspense.

He also joined in and approached a kind-faced old man and asked, "Master, what kind of craftsman are you?" ”

The old man smiled and said, "You also want the thousand taels of silver?" It's a pity that you're looking for the wrong person, I'm a mason, and it seems to be the most useless. ”

Shi Feng wants to build a blast furnace, and what he needs is a mason, and he is overjoyed: "Master, let's form a group, I need you." ”

The old man raised his thumb and said, "Your brother still has the vision and knows that the coal fire cannot be all iron, and there is still a need for masonry work." Unlike them, all of them were blind, thinking that I was useless as an old thing, and when they heard that I was a mason, they all shook their heads and left. ”

Shi Feng smiled: "I don't do coal fire!" He pointed to the iron smelting furnace outside the window, "I want to smelt the best iron in the whole Ming Dynasty." One thousand taels is enough for us to share, if you want to earn, you can earn ten thousand taels! ”

In the old man's stunned eyes, he took a fancy to a craftsman again, stepped forward, and asked, "Dude, what kind of craftsman are you......