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Shen Lian didn't say any more, but Lin Ze knew very well what Shen Lian meant in his words.

It's not that they don't want to experiment with smelting pig iron into steel, but they simply can't afford such consumption.

Shen Lian and they were not born as children of eunuchs, they were just the lowest civilians, for them, being able to feed and clothe their family was the greatest achievement, and they didn't charge more money at all.

And the money needed to experiment how to smelt pig iron into steel is definitely not a small amount, with Shen Lian's status as a commoner, where can they afford such consumption, so even if Shen Lian has the desire to experiment with smelting pig iron into steel, but, in front of the family, Shen Lian can only suppress this idea.

If a family can't even meet food and clothing, where will you think about smelting pig iron into steel?

Lin Ze smiled and said: "That's right, the cost of doing the test is really not something you can afford, but now it's different, I can support you in refining steel, you can build a small furnace, try it first!" Lin Ze encouraged on the side.

Then, Lin Ze said: "Shen Lian, I seem to have heard of a method of frying steel, that is, in the smelting process, it is necessary to stir constantly, like stir-frying, as if it is easier to get steel, oh, that is, the refined iron you said, Shen Lian, you can try it!"

"Frying steel?" After Shen Lian heard this, he was confused.

"Well, that's it.........." Lin Ze began to gesticulate, "You add charcoal powder first, and then keep turning the molten iron around like a stir-fry." Of course, I don't know how to add charcoal, how much charcoal to add, as well as temperature control, and when to add toner, which requires you to experiment carefully. ”

After listening to Lin Ze's specific explanation, Shen Lian directly opened his eyes and asked, "My lord, how do you know the method of iron-making, or is it such an unheard-of method of iron-making?"

Lin Ze smiled slightly and said: "Shen Lian, this method of mine is also what people say, I heard what people said, what is the specific situation, you need to try it yourself, well, you can directly get ten or twenty small steelmaking furnaces to test, so that the speed is faster, as for the problem of money, there is no problem at all." ”

"Thank you, my lord, the villain will definitely show you the real refined iron for your lord!" Shen Lian said with excitement on his face, and even knelt down directly and thanked Lin Ze.

What could be better for an ironmaker than to experiment with how to make steel!

"Shen Lian, get up!" Lin Ze smiled and raised his right hand, and a surge of true qi directly helped Shen Lian up.

"Shen Lian, if you really test it, I will add a hammer to your chest and directly promote you to the person in charge of steelmaking, and the official product is also an eighth-grade official, how about it?"

"Eighth Rank Official!" Shen Lian heard this, and his heart suddenly became excited.

Whether it is a Chinese person or a person on the Shenzhou Continent, they all have more or less official-oriented thoughts in their hearts, and Shen Lian also has such thoughts in his heart.

When he saw Qiu Tie become an official of the eighth grade before, Shen Lian's heart was full of envy, jealousy and hatred, and at that time, Shen Lian was also thinking in his heart that he also wanted to be an official.

Now that Shen Lian's opportunity has come, it's no wonder that he is not excited in his heart!

"Thank you for your grace, Shen Lian will definitely test out the refining method of refined iron, thank you for your grace!" Shen Lian knelt down again excitedly and thanked Lin Ze.

"Well, I'm waiting for your good news!" Lin Ze looked at Shen Lian in front of him with a smile, looking forward to it in his heart.

In fact, in the steelmaking data collected by Lin Ze, there are specific temperatures and the proportion of toner, but Lin Ze does not have a special thermometer in his hand that can measure the temperature of the steelmaking furnace, so the role of these materials is not as important as imagined.

The temperature of the steelmaking furnace still needs to be tested by Shen Lian and them personally.

As for the proportion of toner, this can have a great effect, and Lin Ze will hand over these materials to Shen Lian in the future.

After talking about this matter of steelmaking, Lin Ze no longer thinks about this matter, steelmaking, without a certain degree of accumulation, it is difficult to see results in a short period of time, he is now raising his head, as for how to do it, when the results will be produced, it is not under Lin Ze's control, it depends on Shen Lian them, however, Lin Ze believes that with his own steelmaking information, as well as a large amount of money investment, the day when Shen Lian will refine them into steel will definitely not be far away.

When I got here, some people might wonder why Lin Ze attached so much importance to the refining of steel, the Shenzhou Continent respected martial arts, and Lin Ze should pay the most attention to the refining of Xuanbing.

The power of Xuan Bing is many times stronger than the best steel, so according to common sense, Lin Ze should invest more in the refining of Xuan Bing.

Indeed, the Shenzhou Continent respects martial arts, and Lin Ze should indeed attach importance to the refining of Xuanbing.

In fact, Lin Ze is indeed attaching importance to the refining of Xuan Bing, however, the materials for refining Xuan Bing are scarce, and if you want to refine Xuan Bing, you must have a special refiner.

Although the materials of the Xuan Soldiers were extremely rare, after having the White Jade City, Lin Ze still collected some materials for refining the Xuan Soldiers.

However, this refiner Lin Ze was in a dilemma.

Lin Ze didn't have a refiner in his hands, so for the time being, it was impossible for Lin Ze to refine the Xuan Soldiers.

As for Lin Ze's emphasis on steel refining, there is actually a reason, that is, Lin Ze wants to build a railway.

Ancient China has always been the most powerful country on the earth, and at that time, other countries united and were not Huaxia's opponents, so why did such a powerful country have no expansion of its sphere of influence later?

The reason is simple, and that is the reason for traffic.

The territory of ancient China has always been very broad, and it takes twenty or thirty days to ride a horse from the westernmost to the easternmost at the earliest, and if the army is in a hurry, it takes two or three months, which is also normal, which will inevitably greatly consume money and material resources, leading to economic difficulties in the country.

Therefore, for those marginal areas, the rulers of ancient China, although they wanted to occupy it in their hearts, in the end, they reluctantly gave up under the reality.

The cost of maintaining a strong army on an extremely distant frontier is really too great.

If nothing else, the consumption of grain transportation to the periphery alone is not ordinarily large.

Generally speaking, after the ten layers of grain are transported to the border barracks, there are three or four layers of grain left, which is considered good.

Such a large consumption, even if there are ten gold mines, can not afford it.

Once there is a war in the border area, wait until the imperial court gets the news, and finally send reinforcements, until the reinforcements arrive at the border, there is no three or four months, and it is impossible to do it at all.

Three or four months was enough time for those invading enemies to invade the territory for thousands of miles, so a war that lasted for a long time and was large-scale appeared.

Therefore, in order to maintain control over the periphery, there must first be a way to transport supplies quickly and with low consumption, as well as an army, otherwise, everything is empty talk.

The Shenzhou Continent is too big, not to mention anything else, the territory of Chu alone is as big as five or six Huaxia, and the Chu State, above the Shenzhou Continent, is just a drop in the ocean.

If Lin Ze wants to make a career on the Shenzhou Continent, he must first solve the problem of rapid transportation.

The role of trains, as long as the people of the earth know, can not only quickly and cheaply transport supplies, as well as the army, but also can vigorously develop the economy.

A city with trains, and without trains are two different concepts entirely.

Cities with trains will inevitably develop faster and faster than cities without trains.

The convenience of the train makes it faster and more convenient for businessmen to transport materials, which leads to the development of commercial economy more and more actively.

Therefore, Lin Ze had already begun to plan to build a railway in his heart.

Someone here will say, doesn't the train need a locomotive, with the scientific and technological level of the Shenzhou continent, it can make a suitable locomotive?

Hehe, in fact, the problem of the locomotive is very simple, Lin Ze is not ready to make a locomotive at all, he has a more suitable alternative.

Trains need locomotives because they are able to provide tremendous kinetic energy that then drives the train forward.

On Earth, if a train wants to move, it really has to rely on the powerful kinetic energy of the locomotive, because there is no other thing that can provide such powerful kinetic energy.

However, it is different on the Shenzhou Continent.

On the Shenzhou Continent, there are countless brute beasts, and among these brute beasts, the strength of many brute beasts is more powerful than the kinetic energy of the locomotive.

Not to mention anything else, just the fire-armored bull-headed cows captured by Lin Ze can provide more powerful kinetic energy than the locomotive, the only pity is that the speed of the fire-armored bulls is not as fast as the train.

However, there are many brute beasts that are faster than the locomotive on the Shenzhou Continent.

For example, Lin Ze's iron-horned rhinoceros, copper-horned rhinoceros, silver-horned rhinoceros, and golden-horned rhinoceros are not only stronger than the locomotives on the earth, but also faster than trains.

The four brute beasts, namely the iron-horned rhino, the copper-horned rhino, the silver-horned rhino, and the golden-horned rhino, are actually the same species, and the names are different according to different strengths.

The first to start is the iron horned rhinoceros, which is a brute beast with a strength of the fourth layer of the day after tomorrow, with a body height of about four meters, a body length of about seven meters, and a body width of about one meter..................