Alien Lord

"Gao Yan, it's going very well now, but don't be careless about the next thing! Iron making is not an easy task. If you are not careful, the danger is still great." Lin Ze warned with a smile.

Iron smelting is not a simple matter, if one is not careful, problems will arise in the middle.

At that time, not to mention economic losses, even people may be killed or injured.

"Yes, my lord, I will not be careless in a humble position!" Gao Yan replied respectfully, his heart was full of vigilance.

Gao Yan has worked in the iron smelting shop in Qingzhou for more than ten years, and he is well aware of the dangers of iron smelting, so he knows very well that this is the first step of the Long March, and he should not be careless at all.

"Well, that's good, let's go!" Lin Ze nodded with a smile, and then asked Gao Yan to go back to smelting iron.

"Yes, my lord!" Gao Yanhui agreed, then turned and walked towards the iron furnace.

Having just arrived in front of the iron-making blast furnace, Gao Yan picked up a brightly colored flag on one side, waved the small flag in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Start iron-making!"

Shen Lian, who had been waiting beside him for a long time, saw Gao Yan give the order, so he immediately pulled the trigger.

"Huh, huh, huh...!" The huge water wheel slowly turned under the impact of the water flow, and the water in the drainage channel hit the water barrier, transferring the kinetic energy of the water flowing down from a high place to the water wheel, and then The rotary motion of the water wheel is changed into the reciprocating motion of the bellows piston by the eccentric wheel.

Accompanied by bursts of "chirping, creaking..." the woodwork rotated, the fresh air outside was blown into the blast furnace from the air duct by the bellows.

"Boom......!" A fierce flame ignited in the blast furnace, and then, the iron ore placed in the blast furnace began to gradually turn red and soften...

At the beginning, the waterwheel turned slowly, and correspondingly, the air pressure of the blower on the side of the blast furnace was low, which caused the oxygen supply in the blast furnace to be insufficient. The black smoke directly turned the originally blue sky into a gray one.

Then, as the water wheel turns faster and faster, the blower runs faster and faster. Correspondingly, the supply of fresh oxygen provided to the blast furnace is more sufficient. Then, the air from the chimney above the blast furnace The smoke gradually changed from black to blue, then from green to white, the color became lighter and lighter, and finally, with a sound of "Boom...", a large orange-red flame cheerfully rose out of the top of the furnace, directly illuminating the sky. Much brighter.

The fire in the blast furnace is now completely burning,

Iron smelting has now officially begun.

In the blast furnace, in addition to charcoal, some iron ore that has been washed and calcined in an earthen kiln is also installed in the blast furnace, and limestone is used as a slagging agent. Now that the fire is strong, you can continue to add materials.

At this time, Gao Yan had already arrived at the feeding port. This was the first time he had made iron, and he had to do it himself. Therefore, seeing that it was time for feeding, Gao Yan directly pulled the trigger.

With a sound of "Ka Ka Ka Ka...", the winch linked with the water wheel began to rotate. At this time, through the pulley block, the rope that dragged the blast furnace feeding dump truck was slowly tightened.

"Crack, crack..." The dump truck climbed up to the top of the blast furnace along the 30-degree inclined rail, and seeing that the dump truck had reached a suitable position, the people underneath pulled the control cable, "Crack... ...' The ore in the car was poured directly into the blast furnace.

After the iron ore had been completely poured into the blast furnace, the underground worker pulled the rope in his hand again, and the dump truck slowly returned to its original state and retreated.

Next, the workers shovel the charcoal into the dump truck again, and then, after filling it, it climbs up the furnace roof again...

Gao Yan and Shen Lian's eyes were full of excitement when they saw the underground workers safely sending a large amount of iron ore and charcoal into the blast furnace so easily, and they really admired Lin Ze in their hearts.

How to transport iron ore and charcoal during iron smelting was a dangerous thing.

Carrying hundreds of catties of charcoal or iron ore, at a temperature of thousands of degrees, on a blast furnace of more than ten meters, this kind of work is really dangerous. If one is not good, you will really lose your life. .

People like Gao Yan and Shen Lian have seen such things with their own eyes several times before.

That's why they were so excited when they saw how simple the workers below were, safely sending the iron ore and charcoal into the blast furnace.

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Seeing that the iron ore and charcoal had entered the blast furnace and began to react violently, Gao Yan waved the colorful flag in his hand, and immediately, a group of people lit the charcoal in the preheating pool, and the air entering the furnace was preheated , Blowing into the furnace intensifies the combustion reaction.

"Boom boom boom......!" Charcoal and iron ore meet each other late, in the hot blast furnace like a newly married man and woman, the two embrace each other affectionately, roll, As they rubbed against each other, the 'fire of love' released from the surrounding area was so intense that it rushed out of the chimney on the top of the blast furnace and went straight to the sky.

'Boom boom boom......' A sound of lure//people's high//tidal panting//The sound of breathing is wave after wave, spreading continuously...

All the people present were stunned by the blast furnace, watching this strange scene they had never seen before, even think tanks like Wang Ming and Qiu Kai, after seeing the current scene, their faces were full of surprise Extremely handsome.

Wang Ming and Qiu Kai had never seen such a scene before.

Of course, among these surprised people, there will be no Lin Ze.

In the eyes of people like Wang Ming and Qiu Kai, the ironworks here are "huge", but in Lin Ze's eyes, such an ironworks can't even compare with the ironworks in the smallest town on earth. , not to mention those state-level ironworks.

Even Lin Ze, a state-level iron factory, has visited a few in person. An iron factory that is so small that even a town-level iron factory can't match it, how could Lin Ze be shocked.

So, when Shen Lian and Gao Yan were stunned and excitedly looking at the iron-making blast furnace, Lin Ze just looked at it for a while, and then started walking around.

The time required to smelt iron is not short, not to mention the current method of smelting iron. It is absolutely impossible to smelt all the iron in this blast furnace without six or seven hours.

Instead of wasting six or seven hours sitting next to the blast furnace, it would be better to use the time to look around and see if there is anything that needs improvement.

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Time passed quickly. About an hour after lunch, Lin Ze saw Gao Yan stumbling towards him. When Gao Yan ran in front of him, his face was flushed and the veins on his neck were straight. Jump.

"Big......, my lord......, too, too fast! Big......, my lord, you go and see, inside the blast furnace It's been burnt into molten iron!" Gao Yan ran to Lin Ze and said breathlessly.

"What, you're done practicing now?" Lin Ze didn't say anything, but Qiu Kai and Wang Ming stood up and asked in surprise.

Are Qiu Kai and Wang Ming blacksmiths? However, they also know that it takes about seventeen or eighteen hours to smelt a furnace of iron. OK?

If Wang Ming and Qiu Kai hadn't understood that Gao Yan didn't dare to deceive them, they would have thought Gao Yan was joking with them.

Looking at the surprised expressions on the faces of Wang Ming and Qiu Kai, Lin Ze smiled, and then said with a smile: "Wang Ming, Qiu Kai, calm down, keep calm, this is a very normal thing."

After saying this, Lin Ze's face was indifferent, as if this matter had already been expected by him.

If a modern person sees Lin Ze's appearance now, he will definitely say with disdain: "Pretend//forced, this kid is pretending//forced!"

Gao Yan doesn't know that Lin Ze is pretending//forced now. When he made iron before, it never took less than seventeen or eighteen hours. Now it only takes six hours to make iron. Gao Yan's heart Where can you not be excited? !

When he smelted iron with those masters in Qingzhou before, although the blast furnace at that time was not much smaller than the blast furnace Lin Ze built now, and the iron produced at one time was also less, but the effort and charcoal spent in it were much more. times, it is even more incomparable in terms of time, without a day and a night, it is impossible to turn iron into water.

But now, it's only been six hours, not even half a day. In the past, the iron ore hadn't burned red, but here it has been smelted into molten iron!

This..., this..., when Gao Yan saw this situation, he directly pinched his thigh a few times, the violent The pain made him understand that this was not a dream, it was real.

In fact, it is not surprising that Liantu is so fast, it is all due to the preheating of the air.

Everyone can imagine that when you eat hot pot in summer, if the air conditioner is blowing on the hot pot, will the hot pot not boil for a long time?

The same is true of ironmaking. Air blowing into a blast furnace with a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius at room temperature is like pouring ice water on the fire. The charcoal in the furnace not only heats the iron ore, but also heats the air. This air has just heated up, and then escapes from the stove top, and new cold air is blown in by the air duct.

Poor brother Charcoal, it's like playing "Seven Stars Accompanied by the Moon" and "Eight Stars Announcement". Even if he is as strong as a bull in a certain way, he won't be able to survive like this!