On the construction site along the river, the craftsmen of the Tetsutoying are in full swing and jubilant, and the most important thing today is to experiment with the entire operation line to see if there are any problems and what needs to be adjusted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The whole workshop has begun to take shape, although simple and crude, but it is clear that it has been designed according to the idea of assembly line and automated operation, this concept is of course proposed by Yang Ke. Although there are no conveyor belts, robotic arms, and automated machines in later generations, just replacing manpower with water power and replacing part of labor with simple construction machinery has been many times more advanced than the handicraft workshop at that time, and it can even be said that this workshop is definitely the top steelmaking plant in the world.

Yang Ke and Mu Jiu and other core craftsmen are responsible for the work of design and technical tackling. Yang Ke has two advantages, one is to have industrial design concepts that can be used for reference, and the other is to understand many advanced construction machinery principles in later generations. The biggest advantage of Mu Jiu and the others is that they are familiar with the entire steelmaking process and process, and at the same time, they are ingenious craftsmen, according to the principles and general working methods explained by Yang Ke, they can use their own hands to create these things. The first workshop took the longest time to build, taking half a month. Constantly building, and constantly tearing down and restarting, the stove alone was repeatedly covered four times.

According to the process and process of steelmaking described by Mu Jiu, Yang Ke proposed to hand over the largest possible workload and the process that can be operated by the tool to the machine, saving manpower, and reducing the most refined work that cannot be replaced by machinery as much as possible and leaving it to the master craftsman to complete.

This idea inspired Mu Jiu, he made some adjustments to the whole process, as much as possible to increase the amount of burning and forging work, driven by the waterwheel of the stamping hammer to complete, the more thorough the impurities, the less, the faster the speed of artificial molding, the higher the efficiency, the maximum output. If these processes are purely completed by hand, the adjustment is of little significance, and although the stamping hammer forging is labor-saving, the fast iron after forming is too large to be handled, and the following processes cannot be carried out.

This kind of small technical tackling has a very mature solution in later generations, and it is naturally difficult for Yang Ke. Under the guidance of Yang Ke, Mu Jiu and others made a lever crane, which can easily handle castings and blocks of iron in a semi-automatic way, and also made a wooden pulley, which can be used to handle the steel parts after cooling, just because the material is not up to standard, otherwise Yang Ke would like to design the hydraulic automatic conveyor belt in one step. Even so, it made Mu Jiu and others who had worked as blacksmiths all their lives smack, and they admired Yang Ke even more in their hearts.

In order to better improve efficiency, Yang Ke suggested that all processes that can be automated or semi-automated should be added to reduce and replace labor as much as possible, so the trough of the molten steel extends to the furnace, and the molten steel goes directly to the die of the forging table along the trough, and the stamping hammer is used to start forging and quenching with a little solidification, and the master craftsman is only responsible for the final forming. After repeated improvements and attempts, the first workshop was completed, and the next efficiency was much higher.

According to Mu Jiu's prediction, each workshop is equipped with ten masters, forty craftsmen, ten workshops and more than 200 people can start and start work at the same time, each furnace can practice four to five furnaces of steel a day, ten workshops are forty or fifty furnaces of steel, if a furnace of steel is 500 catties, it is more than 20,000 catties of steel, completely by hand, the number of people can not be done ten times, the key is that time is greatly saved, the so-called 100 steel, 100 steel, is to rely on manual hammer to hammer out, after all, manpower is limited, forging weight is also limited, With the stamping hammer driven by the waterwheel, this problem of manpower and man-hours is solved, and the output can naturally roll up.

Thinking of this, Mu Jiu couldn't help but start thinking about it happily, in this way, the men of the Tiehu Camp would have to enter the workshop, and it might not be enough. Women and half-sized children are not allowed to enter the workshop, and it is dangerous to splash molten steel, but there is no problem with cooking and feeding the workshop。。。。。。 While they were thinking about this, suddenly the crowd began to stir, and the craftsmen got out of the way one after another, and they couldn't stop greeting a group of people who came.

Mu Jiu saw from a distance that there were three people looking at the workshop, one was Yang Ke, the other was Tao Kan, the county commander, and a middle-aged man with an extraordinary bearing, but he didn't know him.

That person is Zhang Hua, many years of hard study has developed his habit of getting up at dawn, reading early in the guest house where he lives, Yang Ke and Zhang Rui brought him breakfast with their servants, and brought him breakfast, Yang Ke suddenly proposed to take his father-in-law to see the steel mill that had just been completed, Zhang Hua was slightly stunned. He has already understood Yang Ke's leapfrog thinking and style of doing things, but this old boss and now the new uncle have always been people who don't play idle chess, and everything they do seems to be careless and unpredictable, but they are often meaningful, and when it comes to critical moments, they begin to show a decisive role. Although Zhang Hua didn't know why Yang Ke suddenly started to tinker with the steelmaking workshop, it was probably his genius, so out of curiosity, he immediately agreed.

The two only took a few entourages, rode out of Yangjiazhuang, and happened to meet Tao Kan head-on, he also knew that the workshop was completed yesterday, so he pushed off some government affairs today, and also wanted to find Yang Ke and take a look together, and as a result, he met Yang Ke and others unexpectedly.

Seeing the huge waterwheels lined up along the river from afar, Zhang Hua was completely shocked although he had a certain psychological preparation, but he was still completely shocked, the workshop was more than twice as tall as ordinary houses, there were no walls on all sides, huge trees were columns, and a kind of furnace that had never been seen before was lined up in the workshop, which was obviously a special steelmaking furnace. Zhang Hua was not only a scholar, but also the author of China's first naturalist book "Naturalist Chronicles", known as a miscellaneous family at the time, with profound knowledge and knowledge, and also dabbled in the method of steelmaking. He knew at a glance that the workshop was built very tall and without walls on all sides, but in fact it was for ventilation and fire prevention, and this kind of furnace was completely different from the stove he had seen before, and he was even more interested when he saw the many strange tools and equipment in the workshop.

"Master Hou, little old man thought you would rest at home today, why did you still come?" Mu Jiu greeted him.

"I haven't slept all night, just waiting for the first furnace of steel to come out today, how can I sit still at home? Let's get started, old man。。。。。 Yang Ke said with a smile.