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On the 26th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, Feng Yunshan and others passed through the capital city of Shaozhou without stopping, and traveled more than 70 miles downstream along the Beijiang River, and finally arrived at a small town called Wushi Town located by the Beijiang River.

It is said that it is Wushi Town, in fact, there is only one Wushi Village, originally a small village with only four or five hundred people, but with the past few years, a copper mine was found in a place twenty miles east of Wushi Village, and people from all over the country came to steal copper mines, buy and sell copper nuggets and hired laborers have come to beg for a living, all of which are stationed in Wushi Village, which has convenient transportation, therefore, Wushi Village has slowly prospered, forming a small polder, and becoming the so-called Wushi Town.

The Dabaoshan Iron Mine mentioned by Feng Yunshan earlier is the place where Wushi Town is eighteen miles north-east.

Li Jianwei and Alfred, who arrived one step earlier? Krupp, as well as Song Tiesheng, the director of the steel plant in Guiyang, and more than ten other people who Feng Yunshan didn't know, had already been waiting by the ferry.

Song Tiesheng greeted him and first made a big salute to Feng Yunshan. Luo Feizhi, who accompanied him, introduced several other people to Feng Yunshan at the ferry, and the commander of the Fourth Regiment of the 18th Brigade stationed in the Dabaoshan Iron Mine was dressed in the uniform of the captive army, and the other was Liu Caijia, the magistrate of Qujiang County, who was wearing a long robe.

There are four other people, but they are the managers of Nanyang Company, sent by Wu Chongyao.

At the beginning, Feng Yunshan asked Wu Chongyao about the Dabaoshan iron mine, and as a result, Wu Chongyao didn't know that there was an iron mine here, but said that there was a copper mine in a place called Shaxi Town, but the copper-sulfur mixed ore was buried deeply, and it was slowly difficult to mine good ore in recent years, and it was slowly about to be abandoned, but some private miners were still hiring people to mine and maintain.

As soon as Feng Yunshan mentioned that there was an iron ore here, and roughly marked it on the map, Wu Chongyao sent four capable stewards from the Nanyang Company, with more than 4,000 prisoners and more than 5,000 miners transferred by the volunteer army, to look for iron ore veins around Shaxi Town.

Feng Yunshan looked at Song Tiesheng and said with a smile: "Brother Tiesheng, this time I transferred you here from Guiyang Zhenghe Iron and Steel Factory, I think you already know the intentions of this king." Are you having any difficulties? ”

"Saint King, the villain promises to complete the task and help the Saint King look forward to the newly built steel plant." Song Tiesheng was called Tiesheng brother by Feng Yunshan, and his face was so happy that he immediately swore an oath, but he just swore an oath.

Then, Feng Yunshan signaled to the people who greeted him, and finally looked at Krupp with a beard on his face, and said, "Mr. Krupp, I don't know if you have gained anything from going to Zhenghe Iron and Steel Factory?" ”

Krupp gave Feng Yunshan an exaggerated thumbs up: "Too... Good... Finish! Then, with a look of excitement and incredulity, he spoke in Prussian.

Li Jianwei next to him translated: "Holy King, what Krupp said is that your method of open-hearth steelmaking is really incredible, and the method of alkaline open-hearth steelmaking is even more bizarre, and it is incomparably exquisite." He really admired it too much, and he couldn't imagine that in this ancient and backward East, in a small steel mill in a mountain village, there was such an advanced steelmaking method. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes and verified it on the spot, it would have been hard to believe! ”

"Moreover, he said that he was very strange, the Qing State had such an advanced steel-making method, why the level of casting artillery was still so poor, and the Opium War would be lost, he thought it was really incredible!"

Also, he visited the nearby ironworks. He was no stranger to blast furnace ironmaking, which was used in many ironworks in Prussia and throughout Western Europe. However, who came up with the ingenious idea that the wind blowing into the blast furnace was also preheated, turning the cold air into the hot air? As far as he knows, no one in Europe has mastered this technology, and some people are aware of it, but they have not yet figured out how to heat the air. Unexpectedly, in the Qing Kingdom, with such an advanced improvement, if this technology is transmitted to Europe, I don't know how many huge waves and popularity it will set off! He suggested that the Holy King should send someone as soon as possible, or ask him to entrust someone to Europe to register a technical invention patent, so as not to be preemptively registered. ”

After listening to Li Jianwei's translation, Feng Yunshan said: "The matter of registering the patent will be handled by Chongyao!" ”

Wu Chongyao hurriedly agreed. He has business friends in Europe and the United States, and it is very convenient to help him handle patents.

Feng Yunshan then said to Li Jianwei: "Brother Li, you usually teach Krupp Chinese. He was already able to say the words 'great'. In addition, you tell him, first, this is not the Great Qing Kingdom, but the Holy Kingdom, which can also be called China. Second, with such an advanced technology for smelting steel, does he have the confidence to build a steel mill first, and then establish Nanyang Iron and Steel Company later? ”

As soon as Li saw Wei translate, Krupp said proudly: "Of course! With such good conditions, even if a lot of equipment is not procured, a steel plant can be built. What's more, I already have the equipment, didn't the equipment from my original Prussian steel plant be shipped to Guangzhou, and it will be shipped here immediately, and after it is installed, it will be able to start smelting high-quality steel, and then I can make larger equipment on my own. Huge quantities of steel will be produced for you! Don't question my abilities! ”

Krupp continued with a look of longing: "However, please tell His Highness the Holy King, and do not despise my Krupp family's method of 'tank steel', although I admit that my method of 'tank steel' is not as good as the alkaline open-hearth steelmaking method of your iron and steel factory, it can smelt so much steel at one time, and the ratio between pig iron and wrought iron steel is also strict, but the quality of the smelted steel is very reliable, and it is more sophisticated than the steel you use alkaline open-hearth to make weapons." ”

"In addition, the molten iron produced by blast furnace ironmaking is not cooled, and it is continued to be sent to the alkaline open-hearth furnace for steelmaking, and part of the steel smelted does not need to be cooled, and the chemicals of our Krupp special formula are added, and after being divided, it is directly put into the special 'tank steel', and then wrought iron is put into it, and it is finely fried, so as to produce the same excellent steel as in Prussia. And it can be much higher than the previous production. ”

Feng Yunshan was overjoyed when he heard Li Jianwei's translation!

He hurriedly asked Li Jianwei to carefully interrogate the details of what Krupp said, and then he learned that although the method of 'tank steel' handed down by Krupp was based on the old-fashioned method of frying steel in a crucible. However, after his father's improvement, especially the iron can that fried steel, the material requirements are extremely high, and it cannot be replaced by ordinary iron cans.

The iron cans are made into iron cans with the special method handed down by his Krupp family, and the steel is fried, which can meet the extremely high temperature in the tank and be heated evenly, so that the fried wrought iron and the primary steel are melted and evenly combined into the finished fried steel, which meets the steel requirements of Krupp.

Although the output is not very high and the requirements are relatively high, the steel produced by this 'tank steel' method is extremely sophisticated.

This kind of steel, which belongs to a kind of soft steel, and its hardness, strength and toughness, and mechanical properties are much stronger than that of wrought iron, and it is an excellent material for making artillery.

For Britain, the most powerful at the moment, it has just discovered that wrought iron is the most ideal material for making artillery.

Feng Yunshan knew that in two years, Britain's most powerful and advanced large-scale rifled gun ~ Strong artillery was all made of wrought iron.

Doesn't it mean that as long as you produce this kind of finished steel in large quantities here, and then use it to make artillery, you can lead this world and the times, and now this Krupp is under your own hands, and you can completely manufacture the famous Krupp cannon in history in advance. As long as the Western powers failed to master this special steelmaking method, the Krupp cannon could always be ahead of the European and American powers.

And here, it is much more qualified than the original Krupp difficult start-up, coal and iron ore are available, and there is no shortage of silver and manpower, what else can stop him from mass-producing this kind of steel?

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan's heart was hot. (To be continued.) )