Lou Gao was very helpless, he seemed to be fanatical, but he was not brainless, he was able to cultivate to the soul saint, and become a divine craftsman, and he was also the president of the blacksmith association of the whole continent, so he naturally knew that what Tang Sangang said was true,

This is the general trend! Survival of the fittest!

Just as bronze was replaced by iron, more advanced craftsmanship was destined to replace the outdated.

It's just that as the president of the Blacksmiths Association, I have to think about others.

Lou looked high and pondered, Tang Sangang knew what the other party was thinking, so he said with a smile: "If Old Man Lou still has concerns, you might as well visit another factory." ”

Lou Gao looked puzzled, I don't know what machinery to see, the follower Tang Sanbar father and son came to the door of another factory, the plaque above the door reads "Spinning Factory", after entering, Lou Gao's eyes lit up, the factory was empty, there was only one machine inside, the runner kept rotating, 16 spindles were erected on the machinery, which was also driven by a steam engine.

"It's a steam spinning machine! It can produce 16 cotton threads at the same time, which is 16 times more efficient than a single cotton thread for civilians! It was made by my mother a year ago, and it has to be rested, only taken care of, and can be produced 24 hours a day,"

"There are also steam looms in the future, and the efficiency is also countless times that of manual production, but I haven't promoted them on a large scale, Mr. Lou, do you know why?"

Looking at this automatic working machine, Lou Gao's first thought was to dismantle this thing first to see how to do it, and then remembered the beauty that Tang Sanbar said, the 16 cotton threads are so neat and uniform, and even the speed is exactly the same, which is the beauty of industry. In the end, he understood the blow of this thing to ordinary civilians!

No less than the impact of steel mills and machine shops on the entire blacksmith industry, blacksmiths are only a minority, and civilians, who make up more than ninety percent of the population, lose one of the skills they need to live on, then all civilian lives will be severely damaged.

Civilians live hard, and this time they cut half of the people's food! The living conditions of civilians are only going to get worse!

"Young Master Tang, as a Titled Douluo, can think a lot for the majority of civilians, since this is the case, Lou Gao has nothing to say, I believe in Young Master Tang's arrangement!" Lou Gao said solemnly, and at the same time saluted Tang Sankong.

Tang Sangang nodded, and also returned the salute to Lou Gao, the two of them posed with each other, and there was Gao Tang here, no matter how you look at it, it feels awkward.

Tang Hao said with a smile on the side: "With the help of Lou Gao's divine craftsman, your steam train has taken another step." ”

Tang Sangang laughed lightly, "How can it be so easy, I just hope that the rails that lay the railway will not be stolen by others, and we don't have coal, and the blast furnace will be designed according to the actual situation." ”

The temperature of the charcoal is too low to meet the requirements of blast furnace ironmaking, so it can only be used by fire soul masters, and there are several soul masters in the Wuhun Hall who have precise flame control like Fire Dance, and it seems that their work will be busier in the future. Converter steelmaking, on the other hand, only needs to be ignited and then constantly filled with air.

Of course, pure oxygen is best.

The oxygen in the air will react with various harmful elements and oxidize it, while the carbon in the pig iron will form carbon monoxide with oxygen, which will not poison people, and under the action of hot air, it will be burned out in the moment it rises to the furnace mouth.

As for other elements that are difficult to volatilize, such as phosphorus and sulfur, they will react with the limestone introduced into the molten iron to form slag, at this time the molten iron is already molten steel, but it cannot be poured into the abrasive tool to wait for cooling and secondary processing, and the last process is also needed, oxygen removal.

Just now, I wanted to pour pure oxygen, but now I think there is too much oxygen, which is probably liking the new and hating the old.

Aluminum is the most commonly used deoxidizer, in addition to silicon, titanium, the back is too difficult to make pure elements, not as good as pure aluminum, because the extraction of aluminum requires the use of electric smelting, so the extraction is more difficult, but Tang San bar can first exchange a batch of aluminum products from the system, so that it can solve the urgent need.

Pure aluminum will react with the oxygen in the molten iron to generate alumina and float up, remove it, and finally get the molten steel after a lot of hard work, although it is countless times more troublesome than using an iron hammer, but this efficiency is how many blacksmiths with unicorn arms can't catch up anyway.

"Oh yes, in addition to the steel mill, there will also be a copper smelter to prepare for the production of bullet casings," Tang Sangang hurriedly reminded himself, and Sangang immediately understood.

Lou Gao was confused and asked, "What train?" Rail? Bullet casings? I don't understand any of them. ”

Seeing this, Tang Hao took out all the books that his son handed him from the storage soul guide, piled them up in a pile and said, "Read more, after reading it, you will have a clear understanding of the future development direction." ”

These books include a complete overview of industrialization, metal smelting, the element proportions of thousands of alloys, and the development history of machining

Lou Gao flipped through a few books, and finally found a book printed with the pattern of a locomotive and read it, quantum reading quickly read it, and immediately said excitedly: "This is the steam train!" Oh my God, this has to be hundreds of tons, plus the speed comparable to that of a bird, if this hits head-on, even Title Douluo will have to weigh it! ”

"I decided! I'm going to join you in building this steam locomotive! Drive in front of the Titans and Niu Gao, and see if their vaunted strength and defense are not as strong as the machines I made! ”

"Quick! Fast! Tell me where the factory is and I'll start working right away! ”

Tang Sangang smiled dumbly, he was really a workaholic who was very fond of Taoism, "Don't worry, the factory is still under construction, you read all the books first, and this is not something you can do alone, the locomotive is as big, hundreds of tons of machinery, you have to find some helpers." ”

"Good! Then bring my four apprentices, Silong, Siyu, Sidi, and Sixue. The four of them are all soul saints, that is, the guards who will take you up to the fifth layer, and the others will let them choose the four of them. ”

The height of the building is in a hurry, it is the first time he is so excited, on the picture in the book, the locomotive is hung behind more than a dozen carriages, such a transportation capacity, dozens of carriages can catch up!

This is a new era, and if you don't keep up with the pace, you will only be eliminated!

Returning to the headquarters of the Blacksmith Association, Lou Gao was impatient, and ran downstairs directly to find his apprentice, leaving Tang Hao and Tang Sanbar still in the casting room. Tang Sangang was idle and bored, so he asked his father,

"Dad, who are the Titans and Niu Gao that Old Man Lou talked about just now."

Tang Hao said lightly: "The two of them are people who are attached to the family of Haotian Sect, the Titan is the patriarch of the Liyi clan, Niu Gao is the patriarch of the Yuyi clan, and in addition to this, there are also the Min clan and the Poyi clan. ”

"These four families have their own characteristics, the power of the Li clan is extremely strong, everyone is an excellent blacksmith, the royal clan is good at defense, good at construction, the Min clan is fast, is an excellent scout, the Broken clan has strong attack power, and is also good at medicine."

Tang Sanbar's face was happy after hearing this, all of them are talents!

This is used to open up mountains and build bridges to build infrastructure, and how good it is to set up and operate pharmaceutical factories.

It's this Min family who doesn't know what to do for a while, send couriers?

"And where are they now?"

Tang Hao sighed, "Since your grandfather closed the Haotian Sect, they seem to have disappeared, they should be with the Haotian Sect." ”

"Huh? What about Haotian Sect? ”

"Dad doesn't know, the continent is so vast, I went to find your aunt, she is a person from the Heaven Dou Empire's Court Etiquette Academy, but even she disappeared, I asked, I left in the years when I sank and disappeared, Haotian Sect should be an organized closed sect, and everyone was evacuated one after another."

"You asked me before, not because I didn't tell me, but because I didn't know where they went."

"And it's quite embarrassing to say, the family evacuated everyone, and even the four clans were sheltered, but I was the only one who was missing, and I was also to blame, hiding in the Holy Soul Village, and I was in a mess all day long."

Tang Sanbar was speechless for a while, that's it, that's it, that's it.

No, not really.

The feeling is to do it yourself, and then Haotianzong can't find anyone...

Awesome my dad.

The father and son chatted for a while, Tang Sangang looked at the various metal materials around him, and then talked about the spring water of the eyes of ice and fire.

"Dad, do you have any metal materials here that can hold those two kinds of spring water?"

"Of course there is, but the quantity is scarce and the price is high, and it is difficult to popularize."

"How expensive?"

"It should be around 300,000 gold soul coins, and deep sea cold iron and tungsten steel will do."

Tang Sanbar was surprised: "Tungsten steel? ”

Tungsten is a metal element with an extremely high melting point, the most common is the filament of the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, which illuminates the surroundings with thermal radiation after being energized, and it will emit an orange-red light.

"That's right, the hardness of tungsten steel is difficult to cast and deform even if it is used with Haotian hammer, only the cloak hammer method can be, and the melting point is very high, a layer of tungsten steel coat with ceramic, in the sleeve of deep sea cold iron can be filled with red hot springs, and in turn can be filled with white cold springs."

"This way, even if you touch the shell with your hands, you won't feel a strong temperature difference."

Tang Sangang nodded, his father is worthy of being a divine craftsman, he has long known how to place spring water, it is only 300,000 gold soul coins, I am afraid that except for some big families and royal families, no one can afford it. He wanted to make it a means of transportation that middle-level people could afford, and at once he excluded more than eighty percent of the people.

However, if you don't care about the cost, you can make a batch to support the scene first.

Bus!

Although Wuhun City is not big, it has to walk for a while on just two legs, and with free buses, it can not only enhance the people's sense of honor, but also enhance the popularity of Wuhun City.

This is the only one in the whole continent, and if you want to experience it, you can only come to Wuhun City.

It's just that the rubber hasn't landed yet, and it can't be made into a crawler without tires.

When I think of tracks, I think of tanks, but this thing is not used at all, but the downgraded version of the tractor is very practical.