Chapter 45 The iron-making base is completed
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Feng He told Shi Sheng the result, and he omitted the process.
Shi Sheng heard that Xiang Yi was subdued, and even said that this matter was done well. Feng He said: "What's so good about this, I'm most annoyed by this girl." As he spoke, he was overjoyed.
Shi Sheng said: "Patriarch! We should focus on the overall situation of the world, and as for how many women there are, then let it be! ”
Wind and nature agreed, and so did him, so he beckoned the others to go into the mountain with him.
They specialize in the rough and difficult places of the beach, and they are all the kind of densely wooded places to avoid the exposed areas.
Walking in such a place, you can skillfully hide your whereabouts, so Feng He specially sent reconnaissance sentries to scatter around the team. If you notice someone secretly following you, immediately change the direction of travel, regardless of whether the person is friend or foe.
The speed of this journey was extremely slow, ten days longer than the wind and the budget, and finally reached the rooftop of the mining site.
Arriving at the rooftop, a group of more than 300 people were amazed by the beautiful scenery of this place, which had never been hunted before.
Shi Sheng also sighed: "This is really a secluded place, I think there is no better place for immortals to live, right?" ”
Feng He just smiled after hearing this, and Lu Yu said: "The patriarch is an immortal, otherwise he could find such a good place." ”
The middle-level leaders of Fahrenheit thought so, but Feng He didn't say much, and ordered them to hurry up and work.
The initial process of establishing the base went well, and the sinkhole within the roof was quickly separated into several spaces by stone. Each space is a separate room so that each group can work independently.
In each space, different styles of platforms are built according to the needs of the assembly line, which should be excavated by taking stones and digging pits, and where the platform should be filled and built.
While the clansmen were in full swing of work, Feng He continued to think about the process of making iron, and when the rooms and platform facilities were ready, his plan gradually matured.
At this moment, a complete set of iron-making processes was formed in his mind.
Wind and the first consideration are melting furnaces and casting vessels. The melting furnace and casting vessel had to be much higher than the melting point of iron, and they had to be made in a tumbling style, with two U-shaped slots at both ends as support for the flip. To make all this, the refractory and heat-resistant clay of the south became a must-have material.
Coke is one of the essential materials for ironmaking. Open-pit coal mines come in handy, where the coal is heated to 950-1050°C in an air-insulated melting furnace before ironmaking, and finally made into coke through stages such as drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, solidification, and shrinkage.
Charcoal making also requires that the lid of the melting furnace must be extremely sealed to keep out the air, but this lid cannot be completely sealed during iron smelting.
Wind and inspiration moved, and developed a kind of double-layer lid, that is, the middle part of the large lid was removed, and a small lid was made and put on. The double lid is sealed when making charcoal, and the small lid on top can be removed when melting.
In terms of iron ore purification, Fenghe once considered using electrolysis, but the power generation function of the ionizer was not enough to support it. In desperation, he could only deny this plan.
Among the remaining methods, only conventional smelting methods can be used. Conventional smelting requires limestone, and there is no limestone around the mountain, so the molten iron smelted must contain a lot of sulfur.
Faced with a dilemma, Wind and Heart thought that in ancient times, no matter what quality of iron, was superior to weapons and tools made of other materials. Although the Jin Tian clan and other clans have mastered the rudimentary technology of copper smelting, they have not mastered the technology of iron smelting so far. As long as molten iron can be smelted, no matter what method is used, it is a new technological invention at that time.
After much consideration, he opted for a conventional method of ironmaking without limestone.
The three problems of melting furnace, coke and purification are solved, and the next step is the manufacturing line.
Next to the furnace are several conveyor belts, which are also made of clay that can withstand high temperatures. Each conveyor belt has several branches, each of which leads to a fixed mold or container.
In order to transfer the molten iron, the melting furnace must be turned over, which requires a very large lever. The core of the lever is a hard feldspar pillar wrapped in a heat-resistant clay firing layer.
All of these production tools and facilities are made of high-temperature resistant clay.
The next task is to prepare a place to store materials, and there are many stone pits around the sinkholes that are several meters deep, which solves this problem very well, and each pit can store at least three to five tons of materials such as coal and clay.
Everything is done, the entire iron-making process, Feng He can't tell the clansmen yet, only Shi Sheng and Lu Yu know a thing or two.
Until everything is ready, secrecy is still the most important, and when all the materials and tools are ready, it is necessary to conduct an investigation to eliminate those who have dissenting intentions and not participate in the iron-making operation.
Of course, he also thought about finding a suitable reason to purge the dissidents, such as letting them do other extremely important things, so as to conceal the purpose of eliminating the dissidents.
He didn't want to create resentment among the purged, which would lead them to actively lean towards other forces, and perhaps leak the addresses of the bases they had already built.
Look at the framework of the base, in this difficult time, it is good to be able to use these stones to do this. Shi Sheng and Lu Yu organized their clansmen to collect the wind and the rattan and hemp that they had cut down last time into the sinkhole.
They took off the usable part of the rattan, peeled off the skin of the flax and piled it together, and when they came back next time, the first thing they wanted to do was to make the rattan bed and hemp rope.
This can be regarded as a living material in the future, Shi Sheng and Lu Yu have done an excellent job in this matter, and they also have the minds of modern people, and they are doing a decent job.
Although all the requirements were completed in accordance with Fenghe's standards, when they finished it, Fenghe was still surprised by their proficiency and quality assurance of the materials.
He once again doubted the identities of Shi Sheng and Lu Yu, and speculated whether these two people were also traversers, although this was just a hazy idea, it was deeply engraved in his heart.
After the initial work was over, they had to set out to the west of the mountains, where they would be able to hunt the jumping sheep and the spotted deer, otherwise they would not be able to return to the station.
Let's go!
Feng He and his people traveled westward, passing through dense mountains and forests, encountering many wild beasts along the way, including tigers and wolves, wild boars and deer, goats and hares.
There are not many of these animals, but they only appear sporadically, and they cannot satisfy the appetite of the tribesmen.
The herd of stone sheep and spotted deer is the ultimate goal of this trip, and they came out this time to hunt for the clansmen of the whole clan, otherwise there would be no need to organize more than 300 people to go out.