Chapter 32 Manganese Steel Properties
"Forget it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and he will know why when it is solved."
After Golden had eliminated the last bun, he slapped his belly with satisfaction and got up to start the day's work.
The brick kiln factory has been planned to start, although some of the detailed design drawings have been taken out, but the core kiln for firing bricks has to be arranged by him personally.
Back in his study, Goodern recalls what he had learned from his old days on television.
Then, on the paper, I began to slowly sketch out a rough model.
There is nothing special about the furnace that burns paper bricks, except to build a kiln the size of a house, and then stuff it with fuel to heat up the paper bricks.
The design of the shape is simple, but the design in the details is not so simple.
Heating, temperature control, and heat preservation in such a large furnace are all problems, and Goodern, who started completely from scratch, can only slowly grope his way forward.
In a short time, Joseph Sr. had his work completed, and he came with Goodern to inspect the construction of the furnace.
The brick kiln factory is located in a wasteland four or five hundred meters southeast of the town, which is downwind of the town, and the smoke emitted by the brick kiln factory will not affect the townspeople.
And in the future, Goodern also plans to build some heavy industrial plants with this as the center.
At the moment, the recruited workers are clearing the site with various tools, and there is a small group of people piling up 'test samples' on the edges.
Gooden and Joseph walked toward the small group.
When everyone saw the arrival of the lord, they all bowed as a sign of respect.
Goodern didn't care about this, waved his hand, and asked casually.
"Is it difficult to build this scaled-down version?"
As soon as he said this, everyone opened their mouths to express the problems in their hearts.
"Lord Lord, these three things to build are too strange, they have to be big, they have to keep warm, and they have to control the temperature, how can this be done."
"My lord, why is this built in a circle, and there is such a long chimney left, aren't you afraid of temperature loss?"
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For a while, the scene was very lively, and Gooden was a big one and had to speak again.
"One by one, don't worry."
With the lord's words, everyone didn't dare to quarrel anymore and began to throw out their own questions one by one.
Gooden, on the other hand, was very patient in explaining each problem to the public, and also personally guided the construction work.
Although it was only an experimental furnace construction, Goodern was very serious.
The work of directing the construction of the furnace continued until noon.
It was the scorching June sun, and Goodern's back was already soaked with sweat.
The rest of the people who worked with them were similar, but they had long been accustomed to the scorching sun and did not show any discomfort.
Gudern, who wanted to stay for a while, had to return to the castle under the pressure of the scorching heat and the uncompetitive stomach.
"Prepare more water for me and Joseph Sr., take a bath and then eat, cold water will do the trick without boiling it hot."
As he spoke, Gooden took two glasses of water from Erin's hand, and then used the ice elemental magic to start making ice water, and handed one of them to Joseph Sr.
The cold water went down to the stomach, and the hot heat dissipated a lot in an instant.
"Whew...... It's so comfortable. β
Joseph also drank ice water, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the convenience of magic.
Qingyuan Town is geographically northern, close to the Yongshuang Mountains, and it is much more convenient to get ice in summer than in the center of the empire, like the rooms where food is stored, there are ice cubes to cool all year round.
But if you want to use these ice cubes, you can only pick up some if you have a distinguished guest at your door, after all, the cost of each collection is as high as dozens of gold coins.
And in order to ensure the refrigeration effect of the cold storage, the ice cubes must be replenished after a certain degree of consumption.
The two of them chatted for a while, and when Erin came to tell her that the water was ready, Goodern went to take a cool shower.
After a brief lunch, Goodern began a new round of work.
His own small treasury is already in jeopardy, and with the funds needed for several major projects to follow, he now has to hurry up and get some money.
In terms of making money, Gooden already had a plan in mind - to auction manganese steel.
Before he could do that, though, he had to create two samples, a plate made of manganese steel and a longsword.
If you have a sample to test your performance, you will definitely be able to fetch a satisfactory price at auction.
Heading to the lab, Gooden had asked the maids to tidy it up.
Chairs, workbenches, fire buckets and everything you need have been prepared.
And the manganese steel that was commissioned to be forged by the blacksmith in the morning has also been prepared, and the finished manganese steel has a total of 26 kilograms.
Goodern plans to take 20 kilograms of manganese steel and convert it into manganese steel ingots for auction, from which the manganese steel made by samples is also taken and added to the auction after performance testing.
Converting manganese steel to ingots is easy, but crafting plate armor and swords can be a bit trickier.
It was the first time to create something like this, and Goodern was also very interested.
It took most of the afternoon to finish the two rough embryos.
Knock twice on the model of the plate armor, and a crisp metal response echoed through the room.
"Dingβ"
Does it sound good? Good sound is good equipment.
Goodborn nodded in satisfaction, then called Old Joseph and came to test it with his own breastplate.
"Young Master, can this thing really block attacks?"
Joseph looked at the pitted primordial breastplate and asked.
Goodern glanced at his work, his face not changing much, at least stubborn.
"Just try it."
Old Joseph nodded, took out the prepared long sword and stabbed it at the manganese steel cuirass with all his might.
Although Joseph Sr. is over half a hundred years old, as an awakened person, he is no worse than a young man in terms of physical fitness.
"Bang-"
However, the blow bounced straight off the manganese steel cuirass and left no mark on the cuirass.
This made old Joseph intrigued, and he touched the location of the attack just now with some curiosity.
"Young master, this manganese steel is indeed a little capable, if you want to replace it with ordinary iron armor, not to mention piercing, then you have to leave at least a dent or something......"
"You're using a normal iron sword to attack my breastplate, and then try to change to a manganese steel sword."
Goodern said as he secured his breastplate and gave it to Joseph Sr. for testing.
And the subsequent result, as he said, did not pierce, but left an oval dent in the cuirass.
In addition to stabbing, Joseph Sr. also tested various attacks such as slashing, picking, and sweeping.
After a while, the manganese steel armor was fine, but the ordinary breastplate was already scarred.
Gooden was not distressed, and directly handed over the manganese steel sword to old Joseph.
The slightly light feel allowed Joseph to bring out the performance of his weapon.
The first target of the test was still the manganese steel armor, using the same strength and moves, this time it finally left a faint mark on the manganese steel armor.
This is also the strength of old Joseph is not enough, if he is replaced by a high-level swordsman, it is estimated that he can be pierced with a full blow.
And in the face of ordinary iron armor, the manganese steel sword is like chopping vegetables and melons, and Old Joseph can tear a hole with a casual blow.
Looking at the long sword in his hand, Old Joseph still couldn't believe it, this thing was so fierce?!