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But in fact, even if he knew it, he wouldn't care, how could the prince's mind make it so easy for you to guess?

His mind had now shifted away from sweet potatoes and potatoes.

He had a great vision, and that was to make iron pots!

Therefore, after returning from the Hope Project, he locked himself in the study and learned from netizens.

In fact, the Sui and Tang dynasties were the peak period of China's steelmaking industry, during which many high-quality steel projects emerged, such as the world-famous Damascus steel knife, which was a representative of high-end products that were converted from import to domestic production. There are also Mo knives of the Tang Dynasty, which are all brand-name products that have left a glorious legacy in the long history.

However, the historical era in which Chen Guang is now lived is on another plane, and he is still following the path of a feudal monarch, and there is essentially no difference between the two worlds.

The level of natural technology is also about the same, although there are slight differences, but it is still generally the same.

The only pots that appeared at this time were those that were close to one meter in diameter and enclosed by a stove, made of cast iron. With such a big guy, it is difficult to manufacture, and there are many materials, so ordinary people naturally can't afford it, and only the palaces of the royal family and princes and ministers will be equipped. Speaking of this kind of cast iron pot, it has a long history, probably since the appearance of iron tools in the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the first thing to enter the daily necessities should be this kind of cast iron pot, which the Chinese have used for more than 2,000 years. According to historical records, Wu Zetian likes to eat this kind of dish fried in an iron pot the most, and in Wu Zetian's words, it is "the taste of the food is suitable for the mouth". At that time, there were only two most valuable cast iron utensils in the palace, one was a large iron pot placed in the middle of the courtyard for fire prevention, and the other was a large iron pot used for cooking and stir-frying in the imperial dining room.

Now you can still see such a cauldron in the countryside, although there is this cauldron, but stir-fried vegetables are still not popular among the common people, and there is another key factor, that is, the use of oil.

As mentioned before, oil can heat up quickly, and keep warm, which can speed up food from raw to cooked, stir-frying is a thing with fast action and short time, and it can't be fried at all without oil, so you can only add water and stew slowly. But such a big cast-iron pot, if you get a spoonful of oil, it will burn before it even starts, and as for the big spoon, brother, where can ordinary people afford that thing? There is also salt, salt is a very expensive thing, there was a time when it was used as currency, ordinary people can't even afford to eat salt, what does it taste like if you don't give salt to stir-fry? Therefore, this is also an important factor restricting the development of stir-frying.

So what does Chen Guang want to do, he wants to cast a small iron pot. A large iron pot to fry dishes requires a lot of firewood, a lot of oil, and a lot of salt...... Wait, because of such a big pot, you can't fry a dish for one person, and it's not enough to be at the bottom.

Therefore, what Chen Guang wants to make is the small iron pot used in modern families.

There is a technical problem here, if it is made as thick as a large iron pot, the heat conduction is too slow, and it cannot be cooked for half a day, and in the end it can only be stewed. But if it is very thin, there are high requirements in technology, because as we all know, although China's iron-smelting technology is leading the world, but the characteristics of this iron itself are there, and it is very fragile if it is thin. Therefore, don't look at the small wrought iron pot used by every household in modern society, it seems to be an iron sheet with an arc, in fact, if you want to make it, it is still very technical.

Wrought iron pot is the product of the progress of iron-making technology, mass production should be after the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty palace dining room for the emperor to cook the pot is this kind of pot and the cast iron pot mentioned above.

Chen Guang's current idea is to get what originally appeared in the Qing Dynasty into the world. There is a difference of 800 years in the technological era, which is equivalent to the historical length of the entire Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou combined.

However, he didn't think it was a difficult thing to do.

Everything has a live broadcast room, and everything has Baidu.

It's so convenient to cross people.

But Chen Guang also encountered a difficulty, in fact, pig iron was invented earlier than wrought iron, and it existed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The pot that Chen Guang wants to stir-fry is cast with pig iron, but the current cauldron is cast from wrought iron.

Pig iron has the advantage of conducting heat quickly, which is most suitable for stir-frying, and iron will penetrate into the dish during the stir-frying process. Iron is a trace element that people's bodies need, and stir-frying in an iron pot can also supplement such trace elements by the way.

Since the pig iron pot is so easy to use, why is everyone using wrought iron pot now? Didn't the industrious and intelligent ancient ancestors discover these points? Of course not, maybe they've found out, but they just can't use pig iron to cast a wok.

Why? Pig iron is hard, wear-resistant, and has good castability, but pig iron is brittle and cannot be forged, that is, once pressed, snapped, it will break for you. If you want to make an arc, it is simply a technical bottleneck, at least until you use mechanical precision to produce an iron pot by hand...... Basically, it's just a dream, not to mention whether it can be manufactured, even if it can be manufactured, the cost is estimated to be more than apportioned to the cost of oil and salt.

But can't Chen Guang solve these problems?

Well, it really doesn't seem to work out.

The iron pot he brought with him for marching and fighting was still wrought iron, but because of the fine casting, and the royal craftsmanship, the highest technology and the best materials were used to make a light and thin wrought iron wok.

Cost control, cost control, any technology and product, if the cost cannot be controlled, there is no way to promote and market.

Alas, what to do? Of course, it's impossible to do it yourself, Chen Guang doesn't have this technology.

Someone may be going to say, didn't the Child of Light just make an iron sheet?

Please, you know it's iron, okay? Besides, the iron sheet of the Child of Light No. 1 is just to prevent the gunpowder inside from falling apart, of course, the thinner the better, so that the power of the explosion is greater.

Can this iron pot be the same? When the time comes, you stir-fry, throw a lamb chop into it, pop, the iron pot is directly broken, is that tangled?

Well, I don't have this technology, but Chen Guang hopes that others will have it, and there are three very awesome institutions in the imperial court, and the people in them are all national senior technical talents, and they enjoy the special allowance of the imperial court.

This time, Chen Guang invited a big bull from the ordnance superintendent. (To be continued.) )