Alien Lord

Generally speaking, in steel products, the lower the carbon content, the softer, and the higher the carbon content, the more brittle and hard. Medium and low-carbon steel is soft, but not sharp when used to make swords. The ancients also regarded it as "wrought iron". Only high-carbon steel whose toughness, hardness, and strength meet the needs of making weapons was considered "steel" by the ancients.

The level of carbon content determines the softness and hardness of steel, so an experienced blacksmith can tell whether it is a piece of soft iron or a good steel for making swords and swords through the performance when it is struck by a forging hammer.

"My lord, come and take a look, the piece I knocked may be steel!" Suddenly, a worker beside him shouted in surprise.

But obviously, the worker made a mistake in his judgment, because Hu Yan shook his head after holding the piece of iron with his hands a few times and said, "Not yet, although the quality is much better, but it is still not up to the quality of steel. Iron is enough to make kitchen knives and the like, but it is still far from the quality of making treasured knives and swords."

As soon as the words here fell, another worker exclaimed again: "My lord, come and take a look at me. I believe this piece should be steel. I was born in iron before."

Following the worker's words, other people's eyes began to turn away. After a look, everyone quickly saw that with every strike of the craftsman's forging hammer, sparks were constantly splashing, but the person in front of him But the piece of iron couldn't make a deep mark.

If you take a closer look, you will find that this piece of iron is tough and hard, obviously it is high-quality pure steel!

"This, this is real steel! Steel was produced directly, this..." Xu Dongxing was almost excited now and didn't know what to say, his voice was trembling now : "Steel appeared in the first furnace. This is really a blessing. I haven't seen such a thing in the past 30 years!"

Not only Xu Dongxing, but other people who knew about it were also shocked now, and the crowd was full of discussions for a while.

Regarding this, Lin Ze was indifferent, and he said to Xu Sheng and others who were also extremely excited beside him, "Actually, this is just a probability, like those iron factories in the past, how much iron was fried in each furnace? How many furnaces can be fried? And now, how much is one furnace for frying? There are everything from pure iron to high-carbon steel, and under such conditions, you can always come across a few pieces of good steel.”

After hearing Lin Ze's explanation, Xu Sheng and the others were suddenly enlightened, especially those who knew how to make iron understood the 'secret' inside.

However, when those iron factories produced iron in the past, pig iron was first hammered into pieces, and put into a much smaller iron frying furnace together with charcoal, and the bellows blasted from the top of the furnace.

After burning for a long time, the pig iron melts, and then stirs it with a stick until the iron condenses into a ball, and finally takes out the forging and squeezes out the slag.

This kind of process is very complicated and extremely time-consuming. In addition, at most one time can only stir fry more than a few hundred catties of iron. Such a figure is really far behind the current iron frying furnace.

Lin Ze used the blast furnace to smelt tens of thousands of catties of molten iron at one time. After that, the amount of roasted iron reached tens of thousands of catties, which is equivalent to more than a hundred times the amount of roasted iron before. Steel, it is not worth much surprise.

This is actually the great power of industrialized production. Once the quantity increases, steel will naturally appear.

After the steel plant is successfully smelted,

Lin Ze directly appointed Hu Yan as the director of the factory, with the same rank as Qianhu, responsible for the daily production management of the steel factory.

Hu Yan's appointment is only temporary. He is a master of craftsmanship, and his future focus will still be on craftsmanship. Now he is only temporarily serving as the director of the factory. He will step down when Lin Ze finds suitable talents under his command. The job of the factory manager.

Hu Yan's ability is indeed very strong. In less than two days, he managed the entire iron and steel plant in an orderly manner. Whether it is ironmaking or steelmaking, the output has risen steadily. Now it can produce 30,000 catties of pig iron every three days. , about 4 kilograms of steel, it can be said that his contribution is really great.

Moreover, this output can still increase, because, in the iron and steel plant, only less than half of the production capacity has been used.

It's not that Lin Ze doesn't want to fully use it, but Lin Ze can't consume the amount of steel produced in this way. If he continues to increase the production scale, then Lin Ze can't consume all the steel.

In fact, Lin Ze already has a way to consume these steels in his heart, such as building railways or something, but these things are still in the preparation stage and cannot be used now, so these things are temporarily put on hold until the time comes. Take it out when the time is right.

The railway looks simple, but the difficulty of actually building it is not small.

Not to mention other things, such as the problem of turning, the problem of train wheel rails, or the problem of brakes, etc. If these problems are not solved, Lin Ze will not easily enter the railway project.

The railway is definitely a big consumer of steel, so as long as the construction of the railway starts, the output in the steel plant is really not a problem.

Not only the railway, but also the construction of the giant half-moon bay reservoir also requires countless steel products. The only problem now is that the output of cement land is not enough. In addition, the foundation construction of the reservoir also takes a considerable amount of time, so the steel plant is not fully opened. Horsepower production.

Otherwise, the current output of the steel plant is really not enough for these consumptions.

Because a lot of steel will be consumed in the future, Lin Ze chooses to store most of the steel produced first, and then use it to produce corresponding things when conditions permit.

Of course, a small part of the steel is still used to produce weapons, but the amount is relatively small.

In addition, because there are a lot of pig iron, Lin Ze wants to use it to produce some practical things to consume the pig iron.

Of course, it is best to turn to the molten iron stage and then continue production, so that there is no need to melt pig iron into molten iron, which saves a lot of fuel and is more environmentally friendly.

What to produce? Lin Ze thought about it.

Soon, Lin Ze thought of a way.

In the past, due to the lack of iron, the amount of iron products in the hands of Lin Ze's people was really pitiful. Now that there are so many pig irons, they will start to open up iron products shopping malls for ordinary people.

As for what products will be enjoyed by the common people, Lin Ze still knows about these. In daily life, what the common people need is iron pots, kitchen knives, hoes, scissors, etc. If there is a demand for other things, you can also Go to a special ironmaking workshop to customize.

The next day, Hu Yan, who received the order, brought some blacksmiths to a newly established workshop.

This is the old factory that Lin Ze plans to use to manufacture hardware products. The location is next to the steel factory, which is more convenient.

In addition to dozens of specialized blacksmiths, Lin Ze recruited three or four hundred young men from the refugees to help with work.

For example, it specializes in making clay molds and soil, the clay for making clay molds, and the high-quality glazed soil specially transported from a mountain seven or eight miles away.

After everything was ready on the third day, Hu Yan, the director of the factory, began to let people move molten iron from the blast furnace ironmaking area of ​​the steel plant, and began to pour various iron castings to produce semi-finished products.

The iron pot is very simple to make. A calculated amount of molten iron is poured directly into the mold. After cooling, the clay mold is smashed, and a cast iron pot is made.

Scissors, kitchen knives and other utensils are also cast into semi-finished products, which have not yet been sharpened.

Others, such as iron shovels, iron hoes, iron tongs, etc., do not need to be sharpened and sharpened, and they are more handy and extremely simple to cast.

"My lord, the hardware factory has been built and put into operation. Now it can make iron pots, iron tongs, kitchen knives, hatchets, sickles, scissors, iron hoes, iron plows, shovels and other utensils. However, due to insufficient manpower, it can be made every day. The number of clay molds is limited, so I let the production of iron pots, kitchen knives, sickles, and iron hoes be more, and the others less." Hu Yan reported.

"Very good, Hu Yan, you have worked hard! But, Hu Yan, have you ever gone to the market to ask the price of these ironware? You know, things are only good products if they are sold!" Lin Ze took asked some worried.

Hardware products have been produced, but if they cannot be sold, then everything is still useless.

Hu Yan is a master craftsman, but he is definitely not a businessman, so Lin Ze is really worried about the sale of goods.

"I haven't seen this genus yet." Hu Yan said with a slight blush on his face. He really ignored this question.

"My lord, do you mean that whichever ironware is more expensive in the market, we will make that kind?" Hu Yan suddenly realized.

"That's not the case. Of course we have to manufacture the high-priced ones, but we also have to produce the low-priced ones. In fact, the most important thing here is to see how well the sales are. If the sales are good, we will produce more. Produce in normal quantities. But you have to keep in mind that our selling price is slightly cheaper than the market price." Lin Ze explained.

"My lord, this subordinate has written it down!" Hu Yan nodded, having a solid foundation in his heart.

Afterwards, Hu Yan led Lin Ze into the factory building, and said, "Sir, will my subordinate lead you to the factory to see those iron utensils?"

"Well, lead the way!" Lin Ze nodded.

A group of people quickly entered the hardware factory. Because it was created at the beginning, there are still two rows of grass sheds on both sides of the place.

However, although it looks very crude, there are already a lot of iron pots, kitchen knives, iron hoes and other things under the thatched shed, as well as many mud mold residues that will not be cleaned up in the future.

It can be seen that there is already a hardware factory here.

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