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After Cheng Panqiang came out of Wuwei County with a smile, he galloped west for twenty minutes, making sure that no one was following him, and laughed loudly. After laughing, Cheng Pan stopped and thought calmly. Since Lord Zhao is in Wuwei County, her purpose is to learn martial arts and recruit martial arts masters on the rivers and lakes. I can't run around in the name of a Taoist priest so arrogantly. Cheng Pan decided to leave most of the task of collecting raw materials to others in the future. Now that there are too few people on Jiangxin Island, Cheng Pan calculated his own grain storage, which can probably support 1ooo people to eat until the next harvest. Cheng Pan decided to continue recruiting.

Five days later, Cheng Pan returned home with a crowd of 200 people. I repeated the rules of reward and punishment to the newcomer. Let the teams in Xiaohuang Village bring them back and adapt to their new life.

In the evening, in a spacious mud house, Cheng Pan and twenty people got together and started the first meeting of the organization.

"I'm calling you here today because I have something to say." Cheng Pan opened his head and saw that everyone was looking at him carefully. So I continued. "Now there are 400 people in the village, and everyone is busy for their own good days, and for effective management, I am ready to let some people be in charge of a project alone."

"Chen Feng" Cheng Pan ordered one of the earliest students he took. "To". Chen Feng stood up and shouted. Cheng Pan looked at him and explained the task, "Now there are twenty-two agricultural groups, I appoint you as the head of the group, and you are responsible for farming, collecting and recording the experience of each group, and telling me what you need, I want to see next year's harvest." In the evening, you have to teach them how to read, and if there are good ones, you have to write them down and give me the materials of these people. Cheng Pan asked him to sit down after giving the task to Chen Feng.

He turned his head to the two blacksmiths and said, "Master Zeng, Master Cai, you have recruited more than 2o young men today, right?" The two blacksmiths replied, "Young Master Cheng, these people are good, I promise to teach them the basic skills in a month." Cheng Pan said: "Don't be in a hurry to teach the craft, tomorrow you will start the people in your blacksmith shop and make iron with me." "Ironmaking?" The two old blacksmiths were puzzled

Cheng Pan went on to say, "Not only the people in the blacksmith shop, but also the carpenter group and the masonry team will make iron with me tomorrow."

Next, Cheng Pan explained some bits and pieces of the education team and the village protection team. In the end, Cheng Pan held Wang Gouzi in his arms and said, "Xiao Wang, the name Wang Gouzi is too ugly, can I change your name?" Wang Gouzi said, "Sir, the name of the dog was obtained when I was a child, and when we grew up, we all had to ask Mr. to teach another one, and then the village was dispersed, and I wandered outside and did not change, now Mr. is the most knowledgeable, please give it to me" Cheng Pan listened to his chatter and said, "Then call Wang Tianzhu, I hope you can become a man who stands up to the sky." "Thank you, sir, for the name," Wang Tianzhu was very happy to get the new name. Cheng Pan then said to him, "Tianzhu, you pick a few people, and I will explain some things to you." Wang Tianzhu: "Sir, you say." Cheng Pan said: "There are still too few people on the island, you go out and find some people to come back, young men and women can do it, children can also do it, whether they are young or old." In addition, the village will use more coal in the future, so you can buy some and come back. I'll give you a thousand taels of silver to try." Wang Tianzhu said excitedly: "Sir, believe me." One thousand taels is not a decimal number," Cheng Pan said, "I always have to believe in people, and the other one thousand taels is not a big number for me." Wang Tianzhu lowered his head and saluted forcefully, "I will live up to Mr.'s trust."

The next day, Cheng Pan took more than 5o people to start the movement of large-scale steelmaking.

First the masons built a blast furnace. This blast furnace went through several reworks to achieve Cheng Pan's goal, and Cheng Pan carefully observed every inch of the furnace wall with a sense of caution, and pointed out every small crack critically. Cheng Pan didn't want to have an accident in his first ironmaking. According to the steelmaking equipment he saw in this era, Cheng Pan added some steelmaking knowledge that he once knew, such as adding a furnace to the outer wall of the pipe that blows gas like a blower to heat the air that is blown in. In order not to let the temperature of the blast furnace

It does not fall due to the entry of cold air from the outside. The blast furnace is layered with a grid to stack iron ore and coke separately, and the contact area between carbon and iron oxide is increased.

Of course, there are more new technology concepts that Cheng Pan thought of but did not use, such as the recycling of exhaust gas from the top of the blast furnace. This is mainly because Cheng Pan does not have too many craftsmen under him, and his capital is too small. If the first test fails, it will discourage the motivation of the subordinates.

Despite this, the establishment of the first blast furnace was still tossed for a month, but fortunately, kaolin and other materials for building blast furnaces were easy to find in the counties near Xiaohuangzhou, and Cheng Pan went out for half a day to transport enough materials.

To make good steel, it is necessary to coke. Coking not only removes phosphorus from coal. And if coke is used to make steel directly, the temperature in the furnace can be further increased. Therefore, Cheng Pan built another coke oven, which is not far from the first blast furnace, and Cheng Pan did this in order to facilitate the transformation in the future, and the exhaust gas produced by coking will be directly passed into the first blast furnace.

After preparing the logistics, the first ironmaking in Xiao Huangzhou began after the first snow of the year.

After adding iron ore and coke and balanced acidic lime powder in turn to the blast furnace, the first blast furnace began to ignite. Powered by five donkeys, the carpenters build a blower that works well, constantly pumping heated hot air into the furnace. Originally, Cheng Pan envisioned using water conservancy to blow wind, but the use of water power required digging a canal, and the workload was too large and there were not enough manpower, so he had to give up. Cheng Pan can't directly build the blast furnace by the river, and it is no joke to wait until the water level of the Yangtze River rises in the summer. It happened that Wang Tianzhu came back from going out and brought good news, he not only recruited 100 newcomers, but also brought 20 big animals, so that Cheng Pan got rid of the dilemma of wasting manpower.

The temperature in the furnace gradually increased, and Cheng Pan kept paying attention to the changes in the furnace. Gradually, molten iron in the hearth was generated. There was no sign of destruction in the entire blast furnace.

Everyone involved in the ironmaking looked at the blast furnace nervously, after more than a month of hard work, today is the time to make results.

Cheng Pan felt the situation in the furnace and felt that it was time to open the furnace. Shout "Tapong".

Several young men worked together to open the tap hole with bamboo poles

Red molten iron flowed out of the furnace and into the heated crucible beside it. The crucible is also kept at temperature with coal.

When the first molten iron was successfully baked, everyone shouted excitedly.

"Molten iron, really molten iron."

"Young Master Cheng is really amazing, just this iron-making kung fu is a divine skill."

Cheng Pan certainly won't be complacent. He laughed and shouted. "Don't slack off, the iron frying team is moving quickly, your group is responsible for the loading of the fast"

Then several people stirred the molten iron in the crucible with wrought iron rods in a complex set of force transmission devices. Stir until the molten iron gradually solidifies.

The other group skillfully uses a pulley system to add hundreds of pounds of raw materials from the blast furnace to the furnace. The operation of a new process has begun.

When the first round of molten iron is gradually solidified in the refractory tank, iron ingots are formed.

The two old blacksmiths looked at the first batch of today's labor results with a smile and said, "Good iron, good iron, I have never seen much of this iron in my life."

Cheng Pan also smiled and agreed, from the perspective of the 21st century, these irons are absolutely scrap iron, and it is ugly to be placed at the exit of the square as a barricade.

However, compared with Cheng Pan's finished products in the official iron factory of the Yuan Dynasty, the carbon content in the molten iron was greatly reduced, and the sulfur and phosphorus content in the iron were also greatly reduced after the addition of lime powder.

Cheng Pan said with a smile and said to the two blacksmiths, "In the future, you don't need to play the iron in person, I found a blacksmith for the two."

Blacksmith Cai asked, "Young Master Cheng, you stuffed a lot of people into our blacksmith group, who is it?"

Cheng Pan took the hands of the two and said follow me.