Chapter 40 The flames soared

Yu Xing found that these recruits still had some benefits.

That is, they are not actually averse to labor.

Because in their opinion, it is actually the same to be a soldier for the head man or to work for the head man. The only thing that resists is to give the head a war and divide the fields. And to work for the head, it seems that there is no division of fields. However, Yu Xing promised them that each of them would be given an iron farm tool, this condition.

These people immediately lost their resistance.

In this way, although the veterans were reluctant, they could only work when they saw that everyone was willing to do it.

After all, humans are group animals.

Yu Xing was very satisfied with the situation.

In his opinion, labor discipline is not much different from military discipline. That's why the army of many miners is very powerful.

It is not impossible to create a new military discipline by shaping labor discipline.

As for the blast furnace technology, he simply put it in his eyes.

Too complicated, what converters, open-hearths, top blows, whatever. Yu Xing means that the interlacing is like a mountain. It takes time for him to figure it out. Even if the research is clear, there are many prerequisites for it to be reproduced.

But anyone with the soil law is not difficult to say to Yu when he wakes up.

You don't even need to know how the ancients did it. You just need to know the idea and work backwards according to that idea.

Yu Xing didn't start the blast furnace at the beginning. Instead, pig iron is poured with wrought iron first. The steel mouth that should be exercised in this way is very good, and the furnace does not need to be too high. Probably just a waist high. It can quickly turn iron into steel.

Yu Xing saw very clearly, even if it was very close to the Iron Mountain, it was a hard work to mine the iron ore.

Better tools make good work.

Yu Xing first used iron to create a batch of steel tools. However, this kind of iron is only suitable for agricultural tools.

When Yu woke up as if by magic, he turned the iron material stored in Long Zexi into a good shovel,

Long Zexi couldn't believe it at all.

After Yu Xing arranged for most of the people to go to the mountains to mine iron. Only then did he begin to carefully plan the blast furnace with a height of about a foot high. Fortunately, some clay is needed, and it is not a scarce resource. It took Yu Xingyi three or four days to build the blast furnace.

It was dried for a few more days before it was ready to use.

At this time, the iron ore that was carried over on the side was already piled up.

Wang Siduan looked at the surrounding open space that was already full of ore, and came to ask Yu Xing: "Childe, do you want the people below to take a break." ”

Yu Xing took Ah Qi and the others to do the final inspection of the blast furnace, took a look at the ore, frowned, and said, "No, continue to dig." ”

Wang Siduan was helpless: "But there is no place to put it." ”

Yu Xing said: "Once this furnace starts, it can't be stopped, it must work continuously, and these are simply not enough. Go on. ”

Yu Xing did not measure the composition of these iron ores, and there were no instruments. But the quality of China's iron ore is not good, which is already recognized. Not to mention, don't look at these iron ores densely packed with a large area, but smelted out, in fact, there is not much.

Once the blast furnace stops, the remaining iron solution of the slag will solidify inside.

This blast furnace was scrapped.

Not to mention these earth-based blast furnaces, even modern iron and steel enterprises must not stop working. Once stopped, most of the machines will be scrapped. The cost of rebooting is very high.

It's just that other people can't understand Yu Xing.

Long Zexi sneered in his heart, and said secretly: "These iron ores are enough to smelt tens of thousands of catties of iron." This is not enough. It seems that Yu Xing is too unreliable. I'm going to get ready to get in touch with the Shuixian clan. Prepare for a retreat in advance. ”

Wang Siduan was also full of doubts. It's just Yu Xing's order, and he will never object.

Immediately go down and urge the mining stone.

It's just that Wang Siduan is still like this, not to mention the people below.

Mining stones are inherently tiring. Not to mention digging for days in a row. The situation on the mine is not good either. Everyone is a little tired. I even felt that the ore I dug was piled up was of no use at all. I don't have the heart to dig it.

Efficiency immediately slowed down.

Yu Xing didn't care about them, but concentrated on the final inspection, every brick, every piece of soil, he had to observe carefully.

After all, when the later generations were doing a lot of examinations, they were assisted by instruments, and they could only rely on Yu Xing's eyesight here, which was a great test of ability, and every time Yu Xing did an examination, he carefully taught Ah Qi and the students behind him.

Tell them about your thoughts and experiences without reservation.

Yu Xing really wanted them to learn quickly, so that they could get out of this kind of untechnical thing.

"Alright." Yu Xing made one last inspection and said, "Light the fire and start work." ”

At the sound of Yu Xing's order, countless ores and timber, as well as some limestone, were piled into the blast furnace and fed from above. Ignition heating. The blower is driven by a foot pedal. Two or three people stepped on it side by side, running desperately. Turn on the blower and whine.

Yu Xing observes the color of the flame through the observation port, so as to judge the heat.

After a while, I was so hot that I was sweating profusely, and I was stripped down to only my pants. But he didn't dare to go too far.

After all, he had never done such a thing.

He had to watch the whole process to make a judgment and know when the heat was right. He even had to develop a set of experience methods that were easier to master, so that Ah Qi and them could learn.

No matter how hot it is, Yu Xing can't leave the blast furnace.

And so it was late at night.

The blast furnace was blazing, and in ancient times when there was no light pollution, it was dozens of miles apart, and it could be seen clearly.

The old savage who led the way for Yu Xing at the beginning saw these things from a distance with his own family.

After the old savage led the way for Yu Xing, he felt that the place where he was hiding was no longer safe, so he chose a new place. He looked at the firelight, and hesitated in his heart, in his experience, it should be a mountain fire.

Wildfires are terrible, and once they are trapped, they cannot be escaped.

But wildfires are also a gift from nature. After all, it's not just people who can't escape from a wildfire, it's also wild beasts.

These savages live like wild beasts. The carcasses of animals that were not completely burned by the wildfires were also their food.

The old savage hesitated, he found that the light of the fire was not quite the same as the mountain fire, but when he looked back at the whole family, they all looked at him, and their eyes were written with longing for stones. My heart suddenly softened, and I could only say, "Go and have a look." ”

Maybe he's wrong, maybe he's lucky.

The group marched into the darkness and into the firelight.

And near the Iron Mountain, there are people hiding in the shadows,

The two men stared at the unconcealed firelight in a daze, not understanding what was going on here. But such a big movement must be unusual.

One of them said, "I'm here to watch, and you go and report to the head of the house." ”

"Yes." A man said yes, and sprang out of the darkness and headed southeast.

This southeast direction is exactly the direction of Shuixian clan.

High degree of professional proficiency.

It is the relationship between the color of the flame and the temperature.

Pure blue, in the language of the ancients, is almost blue. The so-called blue out of blue is also. When the color of the flame turned blue, it was already more than 2,000 degrees Celsius.

It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do.

Judging the temperature of the flame from the color of the flame, Yu Xing needs to constantly compare it with the color spectrum in his heart, and strive to observe the reactions around the flame, and repeatedly determine the temperature of the flame.

Not only is this necessary, but also a convenient way to make it easy for others to determine the temperature of the flame in order to facilitate continuous production.

The ancient craftsman needed a lifetime, but Yu woke up for only a few days, and even he wanted to compress it in a shorter time.

It's exhausting.

Yu woke up and felt that his body fluids were rapidly exchanging, no matter how much water he drank. will quickly evaporate, as if it is a bottomless pit. Constantly drink water to sweat, drink water to sweat.

Fortunately, this set of plans quickly took shape.

Yu woke up to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Childe." Wang Siduan said with some shame: "Iron ore is consumed too quickly. ”

Yu Xing focused on summarizing his experience and did not pay attention to his surroundings, and when he heard Wang Siduan say this, his eyes swept away, and the iron ore piled up was already half missing. And neat iron bars cover most of the open space.

It doesn't look like much, but there are more than a dozen tons.

Once the blast furnace starts, the top is fed and the bottom is pumped out.

And so it goes, one furnace after another.

The demand for iron ore is very large.

Wang Siduan and the others were stunned.

How had they ever seen such a quick iron strike? Unprepared.

Yu Xing said, "What are you telling me about this?" Let's dig it up. The blast furnace does not stop, and it will be rebuilt as soon as it stops, and each soldier will be rewarded with a hundred catties of iron, and he will be given when he returns to Mangzhen. Hurry up, not immediately, immediately, mobilize everyone to dig. ”

Wang Siduan said loudly: "Yes." ”

Immediately, the king's four ends shouted, and everyone who could move. All went digging iron ore.

Iron is a hard currency in many remote places. For ordinary people, they don't really care what the superior says, but how they do it. They don't care about what they do, they want to see what they get paid.

If you get paid and put in some effort, it doesn't count.

A hundred catties of iron seems to be a lot, but for every household, it is a lot of money. Even if you don't use it, you can sell it for a lot of things.

"Yu Gong," Long Zexi said respectfully: "The wood is also insufficient, I have mobilized the local people to raise the wood for Yu Gong at all costs, and there is charcoal here, I heard Yu Gong mention it before, I don't know if Yu Gong thinks it can be used or not." ”

In fact, the most shocking thing is Long Zexi.

Although Wang Siduan was surprised, he actually foresaw Yu Xing's success. It's just that I didn't expect Yu Xing to do it so well and so quickly. After all, he watched Yu wake up and succeed after success.

Therefore, Wang Siduan believes in Yu Xing.

I believe that what others can't do, Yu Xing can do. But this is not the case with Long Zexi.