Alien Lord

Qiu Tie's ability to forge weapons is indeed very strong. However, no matter how strong he is, he alone will not be of much use in the army. The army needs too many weapons. Only Qiu Tie is a craftsman, and he can't forge at all. Not many sophisticated weapons will come.

The reason why the White Elephant Legion in Tianzhu City is so powerful is that it is one of the best in Chu State, among which excellent weapons are an indispensable factor.

In order to refine excellent weapons, Tianzhu City maintains a strong craftsman troop all year round. The ability of this craftsman troop to refine weapons is much stronger than that of Qiu Tie and the others.

Craftsmen like Qiu Tie are well aware of this.

"Sky Moat City." Lin Ze's tone was full of longing. After Lin Ze came to Huangsha Town, the name of Tian Mou City had been mentioned by people, saying how magnificent Tian Mou City was. How powerful the White Elephant Legion is, and so on, Lin Ze's ears are callused after hearing these contents, so Lin Ze also wants to see this famous Tianzhu City in his heart.

"Qiu Tie, don't be discouraged. I believe that in the future, your strength will definitely catch up with or even surpass those of the craftsmen in Tianzhu City!" Lin Ze encouraged Qiu Tie. have this idea.

The reason why the craftsmen in Tianzhu City are so strong, apart from the better quality of pig iron, is nothing more than because they have a large number of weapon refining all year round.

The White Elephant Legion has to fight the barbarian army every year, so their weapons are consumed a lot. That is to say, the craftsmen in Tianzhu City have weapons refining all year round.

After a long time like this, even a novice in weapon refining has been trained to become an elite craftsman.

Now Lin Ze is also constantly expanding the troops here, and correspondingly, the number of weapons needed has also increased sharply. At that time, Qiu Tie and the others would have countless weapons to build every day.

If this continues, those ordinary craftsmen under Qiu Tie will sooner or later become elite craftsmen like Qiu Tie.

As for the difference in materials, Lin Ze laughed directly from the bottom of his heart.

Lin Ze pondered for a while, and then continued: "Qiu Tie, I don't know if you have heard of steel?"

Qiu Tie was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then shook his head directly. Lin Ze couldn't help but feel a little disappointed about this.

However, Lin Ze soon thought that maybe the name of steel on the mainland of China is different, so he quickly explained: "Qiu Tie,

The steel I'm talking about is the kind that is harder than iron but also more flexible. Weapons made of steel are much stronger than ordinary weapons." Lin Ze kept asking Qiu Tie Describes the properties of steel.

"Oh, my lord, are you talking about Jingtie?" Before Qiu Tie could answer, a group leader behind him interrupted directly.

"Refined iron?! Yes, it is refined iron!" Lin Ze's eyes lit up. On the earth, in some places in the feudal society, steel was also called refined iron.

"You know refined iron?" Lin Ze asked urgently.

At this time, Qiu Tie hurriedly introduced this person to Lin Ze.

"My lord, he is the leader of this iron-making team, Shen Lian, Shen Lian, come to the front and tell me what refined iron is like." Qiu Tie said to Shen Lian.

"Yes, my lord!" Shen Lian replied with a nervous face.

The biggest Guan Shen Lian had seen before was Qiu Tie, an eighth-rank official. Now when he saw Lin Ze, a third-rank official, his heart immediately became nervous.

"My lord, when I was in Qingzhou, I knew that some high-level craftsmen in Qingzhou had a kind of refined iron. These high-level craftsmen used this kind of refined iron to refine some high-end weapons. As far as I know, this The properties of refined iron are similar to those of steel you just mentioned, my lord." Shen Lian replied with a trace of nervousness.

Fortunately, Lin Ze has always been very gentle, so Shen Lian was able to explain the matter clearly without any mistakes. If it was replaced by an unsmiling official to ask, with Shen Lian's timid personality, hehe, yes It may not be possible to answer so smoothly.

"Oh, then do you know how they do it? In other words, how to refine refined iron, that is, steel?" Lin Ze asked with interest.

Steel is a symbol of industry, a symbol of strength.

The amount of steel production represents whether a country is strong or not. A country with more steel production is stronger. Correspondingly, a country with less steel production has weaker military strength.

Why did China suffer such a heavy blow in modern times? It was one of the reasons that its capital was occupied by other countries more than once, and its steel production was underground.

In ancient times, China was the most powerful country on earth. At that time, China accounted for more than half of the global economy. Why is China so powerful at this time? Among them, the output of steel far exceeds the sum of other countries. important for one reason.

Therefore, Lin Ze attaches great importance to steel.

When Lin Ze was about to establish a force of his own, he was already planning to build a steel-making furnace in his heart. However, because of sand robbers and the low status of Baihu, the establishment of a steel-making furnace It's just a plan in Lin Ze's mind.

At that time, Lin Ze wanted to build a steelmaking furnace, which was really inappropriate.

Now Lin Ze has wiped out all the sand bandits around Huangsha Town, and wiped out 16,000 blood-clothed bandits at a very small cost, deeply deterring other sand bandits.

In addition, Lin Ze has now become the chief soldier, so he has the strength to build a steelmaking furnace.

This time Lin Ze will come to inspect the craftsman camp, just to see if there is anyone here who knows how to make steel.

It is also not necessary for him to know more about steelmaking methods. As long as he knows something about steelmaking, Lin Ze can build a steelmaking furnace.

The method of steelmaking, Lin Ze has collected a lot of steel knowledge in order to enrich the knowledge of steel in the seed world of the plane. Therefore, how to make steel and how to build a steelmaking furnace is not difficult for Lin Ze at all. What Lin Ze needs now is A man who knows some steelmaking.

Now Lin Ze seems to have found this specific manpower, Shen Lian in front of him is the best person in charge of steelmaking.

"Returning to my lord, when the villain was in Qingzhou, he was just an ordinary craftsman. Those high-level craftsmen would not teach the villain when they were refining refined iron, that is, steel. Therefore, the villain knows how to make steel. I don’t know much about it, but I just know some preliminary things. If you want to smelt real refined iron, it seems that you have to keep adding charcoal powder in the furnace. As for the specific proportion of the increase, what kind of If you add it under the temperature, these things will not be clear to villains." Shen Lian replied nervously, fearing that Lin Ze would be dissatisfied with his answer.

After Lin Ze heard this, he nodded in satisfaction. He knew that steel came from this way in the first place, but this method of burning impurities with charcoal powder could not produce high-quality steel. Moreover, this ratio , and the specific temperature is indeed a very confidential matter.

This kind of ratio, as well as temperature control, and adding time, etc., these secrets are extremely confidential on the modern earth. If you don’t know these things, even if you know what material this steel is made of Yes, you can't make it either.

On the modern earth, there are many such examples.

Like the country of the United States, its steel is the strongest in the world. Other countries are constantly thinking of ways to imitate the high-grade alloy steel produced in the country of the United States, but until now, very few have succeeded.

With the technology on the modern earth, it is easy to detect the specific refining materials of those in the United States and refined steel. However, even if others know the refining materials of this joint construction steel, but if they want to refine it, they can figure it out. Alloy materials are extremely difficult, beyond imagination.

In many countries, more than ten years of research have failed to develop it, why?

The reason is very simple, they can't find out the specific order of adding alloys, they don't know the temperature control when adding alloys, they don't know how many times these alloys are added, what is the temperature of each addition, what is the amount of addition, etc. Wait, as long as one of these problems is not solved, then this alloy steel cannot be refined.

However, each of these problems is an extremely difficult problem. If you want to solve it, the difficulty is really great.

For example, temperature control.

In the modern refining of alloy steel, the temperature control is directly accurate to the thousandth, or even the ten thousandth. With such precise temperature control, it is really difficult to find the temperature to strive for.

Therefore, the United States can safely sell their most powerful alloy steel to their allies, because the United States does not worry that its alloy steel will be copied by its allies.

Those high-level craftsmen in Qingzhou who can smelt refined iron must have the same reason. As long as they don't disclose the amount and temperature when adding carbon, then they are not afraid of being learned the secret of refining refined iron by others.

"Shen Lian, why don't you try this method? Try adding carbon powder yourself to make steel?" Lin Ze asked curiously.

It is indeed difficult to smelt alloy steel, but it is not difficult to just smelt iron into steel. As long as carbon powder is continuously added, it is actually very easy to experiment.

"My lord, I really want to experiment, but" Shen Lian said with a trace of embarrassment on his face, "My lord, such an experiment is very easy to fail, and once it fails, it will often turn the pig iron with better quality into waste products. Moreover, the price of those pig irons is not low, with our ability, we simply cannot afford such consumption, so."