Yang Wei and the others continued to walk to the Laishui River, because Ma Jun did not ride a horse, so Yang Wei also accompanied him on foot. When Hu Zhao and Zhao Yun saw Yang Wei walking, they were embarrassed to ride on their horses, so they walked to the riverside on foot.

Ma Jun said with a little color on his face: "Master, you can see that the method of transporting water by this waterwheel that I have improved is still eye-catching. ”

Yang Wei exclaimed: "Yes, I really didn't expect this issue of comprehensive utilization, you thought about it very well." ”

Ma Jun's face now has turned into a flower, and he said like a treasure: "I haven't wasted Master's windmill technology, I think since I can make the wind drive such a huge set of things, can I convert water power into wind power?"

So, I made a small pair of fan blades designed by the master, and now the leather tiger used to blow the wind into the hearth when striking iron no longer needs to be pressed by people, and the disciple named the iron furnace with this thing Fengshen Furnace. ”

Yang Wei was shocked, this Ma Jun is really a talent, and he researched the electric fan so quickly. Although he can't use electricity yet, he created the hydraulic blower. The cold sweat on Yang Wei's head came out, if he introduced the concept of electricity, would he be about to achieve four modernizations in the Dayue Dynasty?

Yang Wei shook his head, threw this nonsense out of his mind, and let it develop naturally. In this era, it is not necessarily a good thing to make a big leap forward, the impact is too huge, who knows what unforeseen consequences will be caused?

A few people chatted and walked. Yang Wei learned that the concept of cold forging method proposed by him was still too advanced, and the current ironmaking process could not achieve cold forging.

It's just that Yang Wei's design didn't do useless work. After Ma Jun's improvement, it is completely used in the heat treatment of steel. There is no need to strike iron, and the whole strong man will smash it with a big hammer "ping pong".

Several people got closer and closer to Laishui, and they could already hear the clattering sound of the machine. When Yang Wei heard this voice, he had a sense of familiarity that he had not seen for a long time, a bit like he had arrived on the factory floor.

The closer you get, the louder the roar. Up close, it was simply deafening. Yang Wei stopped talking for a long time, because he couldn't hear what he said, and he didn't have the luxury of saying every sentence with internal force. It didn't make sense to talk alone, so I kept my mouth shut.

Hu Zhao had long since stopped talking, and he had thoroughly understood the concept of erudition. He was also not very good at Tiangong Gewu, and the longer he stayed by Yang Wei's side, the more ridiculous he realized how ridiculous his previous arrogance was.

Hu Zhao was even more determined to never leave Yang Wei's mind, his mind changed from initial disbelief, then to admiration, then to respect, and now it has become worship, Yang Wei is already a god-like existence in his heart.

When a few people came to the front, they saw that the waterwheel workshop was made of large stone barriers, which were about seven or eight meters high, and even higher after counting the fan blades, close to about fifteen meters. As soon as they arrived at the door, everyone felt a wave of heat rushing towards them. Except for Yang Wei, everyone else immediately sweated, and even Zhao Yun was sweating on his forehead.

When I stepped into the workshop, I saw that there were more than 20 people in the busy work. Near the doorway was a large stove with an opening under it, a large disc-like thing, and a leather pouch in front of it for winding, which became narrower as it was closer to the stove until it was the same size as the mouth of the stove.

Because the front is covered with skin, you can't see what is inside, and you think it's a fan blade. There is a crankshaft behind the fan blades connected to a large number of transmission devices above, which drives the fan blades to rotate, and the strong wind force is sent to the furnace, blowing the flames in the furnace high, and the iron ore sent to the furnace is quickly burned red.

A big man with a red upper body will be burned red iron ore with a clamp piece by piece clamp on a large anvil, pull the pole at hand, a large iron block hanging above the instant movement, only one moment, the iron ore will be crushed, wait for the big iron block to rise, a pull of the pole, the iron block will no longer move, the broken iron ore will be gathered, and then let the big iron block fall.

Under the hammering again and again, the iron ore gradually turned into a large iron ingot, and each hammering will measure the fine sparks from the iron ingot, which is a process of removing impurities.

The current furnace temperature is not enough to melt iron ore into molten iron, and can only be forged again and again with a machine designed by Yang Wei to remove impurities. When the temperature dropped to the point where he could no longer hammer, Dahan picked up the iron ingot and placed it in another furnace on the right.

When the iron ingot burned red, another big man picked up the iron ingot, and then sent it to another anvil on the side, and pulled the pole at hand, a large iron block fell instantly, this time the iron fell lower, and the distance between the anvil was closer. The iron ingot was instantly deformed on the anvil, and under the flipping of the big man again and again, the iron ingot was gradually beaten into an iron bar.

He put the iron bar into another furnace on the right, and on the right is a hot rolling facility, a mold, and put the red-hot iron bar into it, and it can be formed at once. A large man pulls a bucket of floating ice water from outside the workshop and pours it into a long tank.

A middle-aged man put his index finger into the ice water to test the water temperature, waited for a while, tested it again, and with a wave of his hand, the two big men clamped the iron bar and put it into the mold.

The two big men picked up the rough blank, gently put it into the long sink on the side, and "swooped", only to see a white gas steaming up. Another person collects the remaining scraps of the rough blank and puts them on the first anvil.

After the Mo knife was completely cooled, a big man put the blade of the Mo knife on a rapidly rotating whetstone to open the edge, and soon a Mo knife was formed.

The rest of the process does not need to be completed in the workshop, and the environment here is also very bad. You can't stay in it all the time, every hour passes, a new group of people go in, and each workshop has four groups of people working in rotation.

Therefore, the rest of the process is shipped out and completed elsewhere. In fact, this Mo knife can already be regarded as a finished product, and there are not many processes left. It's nothing more than decoration, and wrapping strips of cloth around the handle.

The watermill is not operational all year round, and in winter the river freezes and stops working. But at this time, you still can't be idle, you have to pick ice on the river. Bring the ice into the cellar and cover the ice with hay to keep it warm. Because the demand for ice cubes is very high, it will be very busy after freezing.

They then visited the production of rings for chain mail. This is relatively simple, the red-hot iron ingot is cut out of strips of filament, put it into the mold for hot rolling, in the hot rolling process, leave a small hole at each end of the ring, for piercing the ring.

I can roll 20 rings in one hot roll, but I can't hold the amount I need, so I'm still very busy. In fact, the Mo knife has been equipped, but the horse armor has not been fully equipped. The bottleneck in the production of chain mail is not in the production of rings, but in the later weaving is very laborious.

Because of the quality of the personnel, not all of Lu Jiajun's staff can use the Mo knife, so they can only equip some of them. On the chain mail, the Yang family also promised the Lu family that as long as the Yang family army realized the full equipment, they would make chain mail for the Lu family.

Under the matchmaking of the Lu family, Yang Song and Gongsun Chan met, and under the mediation of the Lu family, Gongsun Chan gave the green light to the supply and mining of the Yang family's iron ore and coal mines.

Gongsun Chan was greedy after seeing the Mo knife and chain mail produced by the Yang family, and the Yang family also reciprocated by promising to change the Mo knife for Gongsun Zhan's personal guards, as for the chain mail, it could only be placed in the back, just gave Gongsun Chan three sets. Because the Yang family is not fully equipped, let alone the Lu family.

After visiting the workshop, Yang Wei was quite satisfied, and Ma Jun made a lot of effort to improve these equipment. On the way back, Yang Wei praised Ma Jun, making Ma Jun feel like he was floating in the clouds.