Otherworldly Chapter 148: Smelting
Sure enough, as guessed, Chan'er has actually opened her mind, and even has the strength of the gods, but she has never released her divine sense and does not know how to use it.
He rejoiced in his heart, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, we are now communicating with divine sense, Chan'er only needs to concentrate on what she wants to say, I can feel it." ”
Yang Chan didn't send out the mind from the Purple Mansion, and she didn't need to reach the Moving God Realm. But she still had some difficulty using her divine sense, and the content conveyed was vague, and Su You only understood what she meant by guessing.
After a few exchanges, her consciousness became more and more proficient, and the content of her thoughts became clearer and clearer.
The first time she experienced it, she kept sending out thoughts to express the surprise and joy in her heart, "Great, I can cultivate!" Immerse yourself in the subtle communication of divine consciousness. Su Youle was able to exercise her consciousness through such exchanges.
It's time to plant the Soul Seal. Su You conveyed a thought to her, "Chan'er, you are ready, I will send a Yuan Soul Seed into your Yuan Shen Mansion, you don't reject it, this Yuan Soul Mark contains the wood Yuan Qi you need for cultivation." ”
He didn't explain much, just gave instructions. His divine sense began to withdraw, and he had to leave Chan'er's Yuan Shen Mansion in order to send the soul seal in.
Su You used his divine sense to support his small opening to break the seal, preventing the seal from closing. He put his head to Yang Chan and touched his forehead. Harnessed the well-cultivated Yuan Soul Imprint, followed the gap in the seal into Chan'er's Purple Mansion, and the Soul Imprint flew towards her Yuan Shen under the thrust of Su You's divine sense, like an arrow flying towards the bull's-eye.
The soul seal approached and landed on Yang Chan's primordial spirit. Su You felt Chan'er's primordial spirit tremble slightly, and the soul mark was bounced up, then fell, and bounced up again, and so on several times.
Su You's heart tensed, and he began to worry, can't he plant it? At this time, his divine consciousness retreated to the gap in the seal, and he couldn't let his divine consciousness continue to stay in Chan'er Yuan Shen Palace, so as not to interfere with her. The last step of cultivating the soul can only be completed by Chan'er herself, and Su You can't help.
He can only observe the changes in it through the gap, and cannot intervene. He also had to keep the gap open with the power of his divine consciousness and not let it close. Seeing that the soul seal fell and bounced up again and again, Su You was anxious. Suddenly, his heart moved, and he pulled out a wisp of smoke from the stone and drove it through the gap. Since coming to the imperial capital, he has rarely absorbed smoke, and has made rapid progress, he wants to rely on his own efforts to lay a solid foundation, grow and improve, and minimize his dependence on smoke.
Only then did I remember to lose the smoke to Yang Chan. Some of the smoke entered Yang Chan's primordial spirit, and some merged into the soul seal, which did not cause any reaction. The bounced soul mark fell again, but this time it was not bounced off again, but like a seed falling into the soil, it was tightly rooted on the wall of the original god.
Su You breathed a sigh of relief, and thought about it again, he faintly felt that the previous many bounces were the instinctive reaction of Yang Chan's Yuan Shen, although this soul seal was also a wood attribute, but after all, it was not condensed by herself, but a foreign thing, and the Yuan Shen instinctively rejected it.
The soul mark has been firmly embedded in Yang Chan's primordial spirit. Su You was also relieved, but he found that the successful planting seal just now may also be due to the smoke, which made the Yuan Shen accept the soul seal. But he obviously sensed that it was Yang Chan's divine sense that tied the soul seal, and forcibly pulled it over. Is that okay? Su You felt weird and a little curious, and when Chan'er woke up, he asked her how she did it.
After experiencing the demons in his heart, when Su You injected Mu Yuan Qi into the soul seal, he deliberately wore out his personal will, but it was difficult to ensure that those Mu Yuan Qi would not contain the slightest trace of his consciousness, he just tried his best to do it and not add trouble to Yang Chan in the future. But if it's not, it won't have any effect, and he doesn't know, so he'll take it one step at a time.
Su You can't hold on to this gap all the time. Seeing that the soul seal was firmly embedded in Yang Chan's Yuan Shen Wall, he was ready to withdraw his divine sense and let the seal gap recover on its own. Then he recited to Yang Chan, "Chan'er, as long as you work hard to cultivate and absorb the wood vitality in the Yuan Soul Imprint, you can continuously improve your cultivation. ”
Su You withdrew his divine sense, and the seal slowly closed. Suddenly, a wisp of thought shot out of the gap that was about to close, and reached his consciousness. Su You's eyes immediately widened, Yang Chan actually achieved the transmission of intentions, but she was able to transmit her thoughts! How she did it, incredible!
Su You was shocked inexplicably, he hurriedly untied this wisp of thought bag, and "heard" the content of Yang Chan's thoughts: "Brother, the soul seal planting has been successful." I'm a little tired now, and I want to sleep. Although Su You had great doubts in his heart, he knew that she was just over-depleted of her divine sense.
The gap in the seal was closed. But Su You remembered the position of the previous break, and if he wanted to enter next time, he could still break it from this concave.
He looked at Yang Chan, although she still sat cross-legged, her head with her eyes closed was tilted to the side and she fell asleep. Su You gently picked her up, sent her back to her own room, put her on the bed and covered the quilt, and then left the room. She's going to get a good night's sleep tonight!
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On the morning of the 22nd, Su You appeared in the instrument workshop, and all the masters who saw Su You were in awe and respectfully saluted him, as did Director Liu Junsheng. It can be seen that after the first battle in the ring, Su You's prestige soared.
Su You didn't care, he routinely inspected the projects being carried out, and several people in charge came to report the progress to him one by one. Finally, Mao Sui entered his studio, he stood at Su You's desk a little nervously, and said that everything was a little stammering, and indeed brought good news about the smelter, and the smelting equipment he confessed was in place!
Su You was overjoyed, the construction was completed in a month, and it was not slow. He immediately asked Mao Sui to lead the way and went to the smelter to check. The two came out, and as soon as they opened the door, they met Zhong Liang, the deputy director, standing in front of the door. Mao opened the door and came out, almost hitting him.
Zhong Liang also seemed to be taken aback, he hurriedly took a step back and saluted Su You: "I have something to report to Director Su at the end of my job!" ”
"Oh, what's the matter with Deputy Director Zhong?" Su You looked at Zhong Liang and thought to himself that he rarely came to him alone, compared to the fact that the supervisor Liu Junsheng often came.
Zhong Liang's white face showed an embarrassed look and said, "Are you going out?" Then I'll come back to you later! Su You was noncommittal, nodded and beckoned Mao Sui to leave.
The two came to the smelter, which covers an extremely large area, and a workshop is divided into three independent areas, namely the rough stone area, the smelting area, and the material area. They entered the smelting area, accompanied by the steward, and inspected the built equipment one by one, except for the equipment that was slightly rough, it basically met Su You's requirements.
Su You praised several of the accompanying stewards. The entire smelter is still under his jurisdiction, and only Mao Sui was arranged by him, and then Director Liu Junsheng occasionally comes to help, and the others are all reliable people arranged by the eldest young master. Su You only knew their names and was not familiar with them, but when he saw that the equipment was done very well, he couldn't help but praise them.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed! Su You immediately convened a smelting work meeting and asked Mao Sui to invite Bai Shan, Ji Changfeng and Zuo Rongsheng to come over. After the aluminum comes out, molds are also needed to process the finished product, and no one is more professional than Ji Shi at present. Zuo Rongsheng can play the role of aluminum powder in paint, as well as the surface treatment and packaging of products after they are released, so ask him to familiarize himself with them in advance. Bai Shan is his assistant and assists him in managing the workshop, so naturally he will also come over.
In the temporary conference room, there were a total of 24 people, including Su You, Bai Shan, Ji Changfeng, and Zuo Rongsheng. It's all the smelters.
Starting with rough refining, the person in charge of the rough area reported the amount of bauxite stored and had crushed a large amount of ore according to Su You's request. Then, most of the equipment is in the smelting area, such as furnaces, distillation, filtration and other vessels. The person in charge of the district only made the equipment according to the drawings, and only had a little idea of what the equipment did, and only then began to instill in them the knowledge of aluminum. Finally, there is the material area, which is to cast the refined aluminum powder into blocks, store them, or send them to Ji Changfeng's mold workshop to process various finished products.
Su You has planned to use aluminum instead of silver to make handicrafts and decorations. It can also be made into wine vessels and other daily necessities, such as bottles, basins, cans, hardware, etc., he also thought of zippers, this process is a bit complicated, he has not thought about it yet, and will talk about it later. But you can use aluminum to process it into buttons first, and you can use it on the cloth mill. He plans to design a few more clothes with buttons, and the use of buttons will increase dramatically. Well, it's a white mountain design.
The aluminum material is relatively light and hard enough, if it is made into light aluminum armor, the soldier's movement speed will be much faster, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved. However, the strength of pure aluminum is not enough, and the protective effect is not good, maybe aluminum alloy can.
With a plan in mind, Su You announced to everyone that the smelter was about to officially start! I told them about the focus of the smelter's work, which is to refine a new type of metal and use it widely. When the time comes, everyone in the smelter will be rewarded greatly! Immediately, everyone in the conference room was excited, saying a thousand things and ten thousand, and nothing was more motivating than a reward.
Then, Su You, Bai Shan, Ji Changfeng, Mao Sui, and Zuo Rongsheng talked to the heads of each district respectively. After the crushing of soil ore, it needs to be made into a solution, which boils with potassium carbonate solution. Heating, distillation, filtration, and cooling are carried out in each equipment container in turn to separate the aluminum powder particles. The aluminum powder is then melted and solidified into aluminum ingots, which are used to process the finished product.
Then Su You and the five of them had a separate meeting, and they were all trusted partners, and Su You wanted the four of them to understand the entire smelting process and process. In this way, they can assist him in supervising the work and controlling every link.
When he outlined the application prospects of aluminum metal to the four people, the four of them were equally excited and a little impatient.
Mao Sui was arranged to be responsible for the supervision of the bauxite area, Zuo Rongsheng was responsible for the supervision of the refining work in the smelting area, Ji Changfeng was responsible for the aluminum material area, and Baishan was assisted by the mobile. The refining work began to experiment, and whether the metal aluminum can be refined depends on the results of the experiment.
Su You stayed in the smelting area all day, and he had to personally operate the first experimental work. He followed the experimental steps in his memory, and explained the key to the four of them while doing it. Then carefully boil the alum solution and potassium carbonate solution at high temperature, try several times, when the solution generates aluminum hydroxide, and then mix wood toner powder in the crucible to heat ......, when he saw that after cooling, the separated silver-gray metal powder, extremely excited, an afternoon of testing, aluminum was finally separated. Ha, ha, ha! Su You looked up to the sky and laughed.
The few people who had been watching from the side saw Su You smiling so happily, and they were also deeply moved, with the same smile on their faces.
Su You carefully recorded the steps of refining, the proportion of ingredients, the duration of time, and so on. After carefully checking that there are no mistakes, they will ask Mao Sui and Zuo Rongsheng to prepare a large number of required materials and solutions, and start large-scale refining tomorrow.
Mao Sui, Zuo Rongsheng and the person in charge named Li Wei arranged by the eldest young master each started experiments several times, and successfully refined aluminum powder, and the large-scale refining officially began!
The eldest young master heard the wind, and he stared at the large container in operation with longing. The craftsmen perform their duties, and the refining is carried out in an orderly manner. Su You also looked at the equipment, and he was proud that a new metal material was about to appear in this world through his own hands.
Living up to expectations, the first batch of aluminum powder was refined. Everyone cheered loudly, Sun Tianci was equally happy, he grabbed a handful of refined aluminum powder, looked at it curiously, and felt as light as sand.
Su You silently checked the quantity of aluminum powder, compared the quantity of mineral powder and solution, and estimated the cost ratio. It was found that the output of aluminum powder was still too low, so the cost of aluminum would not be much lower than that of copper. He thought of his world, where aluminum, in the early stages of refining, was even more valuable than gold. It's because the yield is too low, and scarcity is expensive.
It wasn't until the advent of electrolysis that aluminum production skyrocketed and prices plummeted. Unfortunately, it cannot be refined by electrolysis, so at this stage, aluminum metal should be sold as a rare metal, and the price of the made utensils will not be low. Fortunately, the Sun family won the aluminum mine at a low price, and the profit will not be low. Moreover, it is a monopoly product, and no one can object to the higher price.