Lin Ze made a bracket directly on the top of the iron furnace, and a large round roller was hung in the middle of the bracket, and three wrought iron rods stretched obliquely to the hearth bed of the iron furnace below, and behind the large round roller, a waterwheel was connected to provide power. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Once there is a need to fry iron, directly release the gate and start the waterwheel.

Once you have the right steel you need, you can simply close the sluice gates upstream.

In this way, not only can the safety of personnel be guaranteed, but also the efficiency of iron frying and the quality of steel are extremely high.

In the past, pig iron was cooled into ingots and then heated to smelt mature iron or steel, but the technology Lin Ze now uses is to directly fry the pig iron water from the blast furnace to mature iron or steel, and this iron-making method is the first time that it has appeared on the Shenzhou continent.

With wrought iron, you can directly make agricultural tools such as hoes and shovels, of course, the production process requires forging, carburizing and quenching.

This is because wrought iron is soft, malleable, and has superior processing properties.

Since Lin Ze used water power in the iron furnace, of course Lin Ze would not forget to use water power to forge weapons or other things directly.

Manpower is indeed much worse than water power, so Lin Ze built fifteen forging furnaces lined up near the Xisha River.

The basic structure of the forge is very simple, and ordinary blacksmiths can make it, but in fact, this thing is no different from the forge furnace in the blacksmith repair shop that appears in all rural areas or in the costume films on TV.

It is an iron forging table, but the iron forging table of the forging furnace used for hydraulic power should be enlarged and thickened.

The enlargement is to forge large iron parts, and the thickening is to keep warm, after all, this is to be used for a long time, so as to save fuel.

Next to each forge is a hydraulic hammer with a thick anvil and thick oak piers underneath it, and a base made of black lazuli that is unique to the Black Rock Mountain.

In this way, the multi-layer composite force structure can withstand the huge impact force of the forging hammer falling.

The strength of black lazuli is stronger than that of modern products made of the highest grade cement, so there is no need to worry about the quality of the base.

Inside these forges, some are large and some are small.

The weight of the large forging hammer is about 300 catties, the stroke is 3 feet, and the hammer is dropped 50 times per minute, while the small hammer weighs only 80 or 90 catties, the stroke is 2 feet, and the hammer is dropped 150 times per minute.

The large forging hammer is used for rough machining, and the small forging hammer is for finishing - in fact, it is not very precise, after all, there are no modern facilities here, and it can only be done by hand, and it is still hammered, so the degree of fineness in it can be imagined.

In the final analysis, the processing technology of hydraulic forging hammers is essentially no different from that of blacksmiths, but the efficiency has improved a lot!

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Blast furnaces, blowers, hydraulic forging hammers, iron furnaces, pulley blocks......... , Wait, these things are completely incomprehensible to Shen Lian and Gao Yan, the iron-making masters.

If it was a blast furnace or a blower or something, Shen Lian and Gao Yan would still be able to understand it, but the improvement of the steelmaking method and the power of the hydraulic facilities behind it finally made them completely unrecognizable.

For example, Lin Ze used high-alumina clay to fire a lot of large earthen pots, Gao Yan and Shen Lian had seen some brick kilns before, and they had worked in such kilns before, and they could be said to be clear.

Therefore, when Lin Ze was preparing to refine the iron furnace made of high-alumina clay, Shen Lian and Gao Yan took over directly.

They first crush the high-alumina clay, then add water and sieve it into fine mud, and then shape it by hand on a fast-rotating wooden disc like a plastic porcelain tire, and finally put it in a special high-temperature kiln for firing for ten hours, and in this way, the 'clay pot' made of high-alumina clay, that is, the iron oven, is freshly baked.

Shen Lian and Gao Yan understood the refractory bricks before, but with so many such large 'earthen pots', they didn't understand it in their hearts.

What is the use of Lin Ze refining these 'earthen pots'? Can they be used to make steel? If this is really the case, isn't it almost the same as stir-frying?!

However, in the end, after Lin Ze's explanation and personal experimentation, Shen Lian and Gao Yan were completely convinced, they couldn't imagine that they could really refine refined iron, that is, steel, so simply.

Next, the effect of the water conservancy forging hammer directly shocked Shen Lian and Gao Yan and others, and their eyes when they looked at Lin Ze were full of convincing and fanaticism.

As an iron-smelter, what could be better than following a master like Lin Ze who can continuously come up with extremely magical and effective iron-making methods!

It was from this moment that Lin Ze was in the hearts of Shen Lian and Gao Yan as the existence of the craftsman god!

In this way, in the fanatical eyes of Shen Lian and Gao Yan, blast furnaces, water wheels, iron furnaces, workers' dormitories, and cooling water towers were all built one by one, and the road leading to the pipeline of the iron factory was also built, and Lin Ze also built a gate at the main gate of the iron factory.

It reads 'Huangsha Town No. 1 Ironworks'!

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Ten days later, the ironworks have been preliminarily established, and the iron ore and charcoal needed for ironmaking have been prepared, so Lin Ze is ready to start the first furnace of steel refining in the ironworks today.

Because it was the first time that the ironworks had been opened, Lin Ze came in person, and Lin Ze's henchmen like Wang Ming and Qiu Kai came.

At such an important time as the opening of the ironworks, Wang Ming, as Lin Ze's henchmen, was of course coming.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Ze and the others had already arrived at the ironworks, and at this time, it was time to light the fire and make iron!

"Gao Yan, let's start!" Lin Ze said to Gao Yan beside him with a hint of excitement on his face.

This is Lin Ze's first ironworks, but it will definitely not be the last, and countless more ironworks will be established in the future.

With these ironworks, in the future, Lin Ze will definitely run rampant in the world!

"Yes, my lord!" Gao Yan replied with the same excitement, and then he turned around to give the order.

"Your Excellency has an order, start smelting iron!" Gao Yan shouted loudly.

Then, I saw the workers below methodically start to make iron.

These workers can do it in such an orderly manner because a few days ago, they have simulated many times in accordance with the relevant operating procedures for ironmaking formulated by Lin Ze, and it can be said that such procedures have been deeply engraved into their minds, so they can carry out it in such an orderly manner, and the process in the middle is not in a hurry at all.

The first blast furnace had been baked at low temperatures for eight days, and after careful inspection, there was not a single suspicious crack in the blast furnace.

Of course, Lin Ze in the middle has also personally checked it with his spiritual power, and there are indeed no cracks, and the quality of this blast furnace is excellent.

Pulleys, flywheels, waterwheel bearings, pulleys, piston bellows, etc., these moving parts are also extremely sophisticated, and they have been simulated and drilled several times before, and each time the situation is very good.

"Grandpa Patriarch blesses, smelting stone into iron, striking iron into steel, Grandpa Grandpa blesses it......" I saw Shen Lian twist three incense sticks with both hands, light them on the candle, raise them above his head reverently, bow three times, and then insert them into an incense burner that had been placed before.

The Shenzhou Continent is a feudal society, so the people here are very feudal, and before doing some big things, they will pray to the heavens for things to go smoothly.

If it was before, before Lin Ze got the Plane Seed World, Lin Ze would be very disdainful of Shen Lian's feudal activities like this, but after Lin Ze got the Plane Seed World, after he clearly knew that there were really immortals, demons, and souls in the world, Lin Ze would no longer object to Shen Lian's feudal activities like this.

After having the plane seed, he must be a god or an immortal in the future, and now if Lin Ze denies Shen Lian's feudal activities, it is equivalent to denying himself.

Of course, Lin Ze would not object to Shen Lian's feudal activities, but when Shen Lian and them began to worship God, he did not participate in the worship.

In the future, he will be God, and this God outside is not qualified to let him worship.

Therefore, when Shen Lian and Gao Yan visited God, Lin Ze watched the whole process directly on the side with interest.

When Shen Lian and Gao Yan finished their rituals, Gao Yan directly picked up the pine resin torch and handed it to Lin Ze.

"My lord, you should light this first fire!"

"Hehe, then I'll be respectful and obey my fate!" Lin Ze took the torch with a smile, and then threw it directly into the blast furnace from the tap hole at the bottom.

"..........Boom!" Lin Ze just threw the torch into the combustion chamber of the blast furnace, and the combustion chamber began to burn violently. (It had been preheated before, and the ignition point had already been reached in the combustion chamber, and now as soon as Lin Ze's torch was thrown in, of course, the charcoal in the combustion chamber was directly ignited.) ）

The combustion chamber burned extremely violently, and soon, Lin Ze and the others saw that bursts of green smoke in the blast furnace rolled out of the mouth of the combustion chamber, Gao Yan had already been lying outside the observation port of the combustion chamber, he squinted his eyes and looked inside, and said loudly to Lin Ze: "My lord, it burns very strong!"

After that, Gao Yan directly closed the trap door.

"Very good!" Lin Ze said with a smile.

The burning in the combustion chamber is equivalent to a good start!