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He gritted his teeth, hesitating in his heart: now he was almost 100% sure that what this surnamed Su said was true, I am afraid that he really has the ability to make the so-called power of fire and water.

In other words, he knew he was going to lose.

signed, when the time comes, it's a big deal to go to the teacher's side to admit the mistake and let the teacher reprimand.

If he didn't sign it, even if it was only 500,000 taels of silver, it wouldn't be something he could afford to make.

The choice between the two dilemmas is finally the ugliness of human nature.

Mao Bijiang didn't even tell everyone the content of the gambling contract, gritted his teeth, picked up the pen and signed his name on the back, and pressed his handprint.

"Mao Gongzi really took responsibility!" Su Baiyi mocked with a smile, took the gambling contract in his hand, and read the terms again, and there was an uproar below.

"Highest compensation?"

"Mao Bijiang actually agreed, could it be that he is sure that Lord Su can't use the power of fire and water?"

"How so?" Chen Zhenhui blushed and asked Mao Bijiang loudly: "When did you say that the highest price compensation at the Sing & Sale will be compensated, and you believe such an excessively harsh clause?" ”

"Ahem...... Mao Bijiang took a deep breath, looked square, and asked a little unpleasantly: "What?" If we win, Yuyuan also needs to buy shares at the highest price to compensate us for the resumption of the society, I think it's fair! Besides, didn't your brother Chen comfort me just now, this power of fire and water is pure nonsense, since you are destined to win, what do you care about the conditions after losing? Could it be that Brother Chen thinks I'm going to lose? ”

Chen Zhenhui was robbed by him for a while, and she had nothing to say.

When he made a bet just now, he was also agitated by him, if he said that he would lose now, he couldn't explain, so he could only hold his breath with a red face, and said: "Brother Mao misunderstood, the matter involves the Yuyuan and our resumption of society, and it can be regarded as a dispute between Confucianism and the Mo family, and the younger brother just thinks it's better to be cautious." As soon as Brother Mao said it, I woke up, haha, yes, it's destined to win, do you want to do anything after you lose? ”

"Okay, since we have no opinions, let's go to the riverside steel production workshop to have a look!" Su Baiyi waved his hand and looked at Mao Bijiang with a smile: "Just now, Xiao Mao had doubts about the production of 40,000 catties of 100,000 catties of steel within three years by 1,000 people, so the official will take you and wait to take a look." ”

Su Baiyi asked everyone to line up, and then calmly led the team out of the exhibition hall, three steps and two steps, and a few minutes later arrived at the steel production workshop.

Wang Zheng came over with a smile on his face, this old man has completely fallen in love with this place since he discovered the novelty of steel production, as long as it is not the time to rest day and night, he always wanders around the workshop of the shed, without any official style at all, eating and living with the workers, and the whole body and mind are silent in the production of steel.

Maybe it's because the charcoal has been smoked for more than a month, his face was originally white and fat, but now it is a lot darker.

"Okay, everyone, be careful not to get too close, this blast furnace for steelmaking is too hot, be careful of burns!" Su Baiyi led everyone to watch in a safe area, and explained: "Look, this furnace with a height of four or five zhang is called an iron-making blast furnace, after putting iron ore and some other things into it, it will start refining, and after a while, what comes out of the bottom of the blast furnace is molten iron, and what comes out from the side is waste slag!" ”

The blast furnace feed port is on it, and about a dozen workers keep carrying their bags up the ladder to the top of the blast furnace to put the raw materials mixed with iron ore, limestone, coke and catalyst into the blast furnace mouth.

In the blast furnace, there is already coke burning, and the iron ore in it is melted into molten iron, and the limestone in the raw material is an alkaline substance, which can remove phosphorus, sulfur and other acidic harmful elements in the iron after mixing with molten iron, so that the flow from the bottom of the blast furnace is basically pure molten iron.

Of course, the molten iron cannot be called steel, because the carbon content in it still does not meet the requirements.

On one side of the blast furnace, molten iron flows into a huge pool with a ceramic doped with graphite, which can withstand high temperatures, like a giant crucible, which acts like a converter in steelmaking.

There is also coal under the pond that is constantly heated to keep the molten iron inside from cooling and agglomerating.

Then, four or five more workers with steel rods quickly stirred the molten iron around the pool.

When the molten iron is in sufficient contact with the oxygen in the air, a part of the carbon in the molten iron can be oxidized into carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide can be spilled out of the molten steel tank.

Immediately afterward, the thoroughly stirred molten steel flows into the third pool.

The pool is also a crucible, but with other metal elements added to it in addition to molten steel.

Finally, the molten steel that comes out of the pool flows into the cast model, and it is formed into rails, alloy steel rails in one go.

Of course, the rails produced in this way must still have a lot of gaps in quality with those of later generations, not to mention the quality of the steel itself, but the process is worse than the old.

The original rails were rolled, while Su Baiyi's rails were cast. After tempering, quenching and other processes, the bearing capacity and durability are definitely different from the rails of later generations.

But in the same way, later generations of trains can transport 5,000 tons of goods at a time, and the carrying capacity of his train is estimated to be about 5,000 stones, that is, about 300 tons.

"This is 100 steels?" Mao Bijiang was stunned.

This hundred steelmaking is too casual, right, just get a furnace to get the molten iron out, and then after two furnaces, the iron pieces that come out are 100 steel?

Su Baiyi can't be a fool, right?

"Don't believe me?" Su Baiyi smiled: "Or, bet again?" ”

"This ......" Mao Bijiang suddenly became a pain.

Chen Zhenhui sneered: "I'm here to question Lord Su, but to let Lord Su explain the reason, everyone, to bid for railway shares, Lord Su doesn't want to use this method to make a fortune?" ”

"Hehe......" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "Don't be nervous, I'm joking with Xiao Mao." ”

One sentence turned Chen Zhenhui's attack into invisible, and said: "In this furnace, ten workers rotate every day, and more than 1,000 catties of iron can be produced in one hour, and about 12,000 to 15,000 catties a day, so calculated, three years is about 13 million catties, of course, one furnace is not enough, this official plans to build 30 furnaces in the near future, and if you go all out, the workers will be about 1,000, and you can produce 50,000 catties of iron in three years!" ”

Looking at the current speed at which the furnace produces molten iron, even Mao Bijiang and Chen Zhenhui do not doubt that a furnace can produce a thousand catties of molten iron in one hour.

Because the density of iron is extremely high, a thousand catties is only a ten-meter-long steel rail.

An hour is two hours, and it takes two hours to train the amount of steel for a 10-meter rail, which can really be said to be very slow.

"If this is the case, it is indeed possible to refine 40,000 catties of iron in three years." Chen Zhenhui said with a smile: "But if you say that Mr. Su, you are a hundred steel, please forgive me for disagreeing!" ”

What is 100 Steel?

It is said that the famous swords of the Spring and Autumn Period were mostly made of 100 steel, not only beautiful in appearance, but also sharpened iron like clay.

Although the swords on the market are not 100 steel, they are at least "50 refining", "30 refining", and "72 refining", although they can't sharpen iron like mud, but it is not comparable to Su Baiyi's molten iron.

"Hehe, it's unfortunate!" Baoguo Gong Zhu Guobi stepped forward with a smile, untied a narrow sheathed long knife from his waist, and said with a slight smile: "I happen to have a Japanese knife here from the Japanese country, according to the Japanese people, it is seventy-two refining, if Su Baiyi can really make a hundred steel, why don't you also make a knife, let's compare?" ”

After Zhu Guobi finished speaking, he pulled out the knife with all his strength, and the knife came out of the iron sheath, and there was a sound!

The knife is a two-handed knife, the handle is one foot long, the blade is two feet, the snow is as bright as silver, and it shines with a dazzling light in the sun, making the people who see it slightly cold.

When Qi Jiguang fought against the Japanese in his early years, he once lamented that the Japanese sword was not fast in the long army, and the short soldiers were not accepted, and the body was broken in two. It can be seen that although the sharpness of the sword cannot be sharpened like clay, the quality and sharpness are much higher than that of ordinary weapons. It is common to cut two knives in hand-to-hand combat.

"Is the sword very good?" Su Baiyi asked.

"Don't dare!" Zhu Guobi, the Duke of Baoguo, said: "Although I dare not say that cutting iron is like clay, it is no problem to cut ordinary iron tools with one knife and two cuts." Su Baiyi, why don't you make a knife and come out, let's have a try! ”

He relied on his identity, and when he called Su Baiyi, he only called him by his name.

"Ha......" Su Baiyi smiled slightly: "This steel workshop is used for casting rails, and the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate will come here to supervise everything in a few days, even if Su Mou is bold, he does not dare to cast weapons privately, the prince is trying to trap me in disloyalty and injustice!" ”

"No problem!" Baoguo justice: "I will guarantee that you are fine, there is a reason for today's incident, and this son will report to Your Majesty." ”

"Lord Su!" Zhang Shize said: "Although you cast, I will personally intercede with Your Majesty about this matter." ”

"Yes, I'll wait!"

"I'll wait for the joint performance!"

……

The nobles suddenly nostrils turned to the sky, indicating that everything could be settled.

Su Baiyi just smiled slightly, but was indifferent.

Casting weapons, as long as you apply to the emperor, there will definitely be no problem, but why?

Once the weapons in the workshop are cast, then this place will immediately become a weapons casting factory instead of a railroad casting factory, he is the governor of the railway, not the secretary of the military department, why should he be idle to get weapons.

Besides, the railway is in a hurry, and there is no room for delay.

So he didn't have time to make weapons.

"So be it!" Su Baiyi said to Zhu Guobi, the prince of Baoguo: "Since your sword can break ordinary weapons, I will use my hundred steel to cast an iron rod with a thick finger, I don't know if your sword can be broken?" ”

"Hahahaha......" Zhu Guobi laughed and said: "It's as easy as a palm!" ”

"That's good!" Su Baiyi clapped his hands and said to Annie next to him: "Dean An, you go and take our bearing alloy steel, melt it and make it into a finger-thick steel rod, and give the treasure knife of the prince of Baoguo to taste!" ”