Alien Lord

However, if the air enters the blast furnace, it is different to preheat the air first.

When the charcoal and the iron ore are burning extremely fiercely, the hot air of thousands of degrees comes in here, which is equivalent to giving him Viagra, the desire/desire, the fire is directly like Like a volcanic eruption, it rushed to an altitude of 10,000 meters.

It's impossible for you to slow him down!

"Hiss...!" Wang Ming and Qiu Kai on the side gasped, and then they both looked at each other, and also saw extreme shock and a trace of ecstasy in each other's eyes.

Wang Ming and Qiu Kai's foresight is extremely sharp. Through what happened in Chu State now, they all understand in their hearts that now Chu State has shown signs of decline, and Lin Ze's strength has been able to show his hands in the last days of the dynasty. up.

As Lin Ze's advisers, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai naturally wanted to plan for Lin Ze in the last days of the dynasty.

However, it is not that simple to win in the dynasty battle.

If you want to be the final winner, you must not only have countless rations, but also a powerful army and countless sophisticated weapons.

Although Lin Ze doesn’t have much money now (in fact, I have a lot of money, there are countless money in the seed world of the plane, hehe, Lin Ze chuckled at the side...), However, now that there are more than 18,000 Huojia cattle, together with Lin Ze's ability to search for groundwater, and those newly invented farming tools that are extremely useful for farming, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai believe that it will take a few years. In time, Huangsha Town will become a granary no less than Qingzhou.

At that time, food and payment will not be a problem.

As for the army, hehe, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai are even less worried.

It only took Lin Ze two months to build an army capable of defeating 16,000 blood-clothed robbers. Haha, in this case, how many troops Lin Ze will have in his hands after a few years is amazing One can imagine it.

The army Wang Ming and Qiu Kai didn't care about food and pay. The only thing they worried about was the issue of weapons.

Weapons are definitely the most important military supplies of an army. Only with excellent weapons can an army be invincible on the battlefield. The moon is all illusory.

Now Lin Ze relies on Huangsha Town as the logistics supply base of the White Elephant Army,

You can get weapons to equip your army, but this does not mean that Lin Ze will not have to worry about weapons in the future.

The White Elephant Legion now provides weapons to Lin Ze, or sells weapons to Lin Ze, just because Lin Ze has a small number of troops and there is no danger.

Once the number of troops in Lin Ze's hands starts to increase substantially, like after 40,000 to 50,000 troops, at this time, don't think about the White Elephant Legion continuing to sell weapons to Lin Ze.

Even if Lin Ze would not have the idea of ​​rebellion, the White Elephant Legion would not provide Lin Ze with weapons.

As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. Here on the sandbar, the White Elephant Legion is an absolute tyrant. He absolutely does not want another powerful tiger to appear here on the sandbar. Therefore, once the number of troops in Lin Ze's hands exceeds a certain limit, then At that time, the White Elephant Army will 100% start to contain Lin Ze.

Therefore, the issue of weapons has always been a problem in the hearts of Wang Ming and Qiu Kai.

Before Lin Ze established the iron-making plant, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai were 12 points in favor of it. In order to establish Lin Ze's iron-making plant as soon as possible, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai directly transferred more than 3,000 people from Gao Yuan's already scarce manpower. The manpower and participation in the construction of the ironworks are all to solve the problem of weapons.

(Lin Ze has carried out many projects, such as reclaiming fields, planting anti-sand walls, building the Half Moon Valley Reservoir, building some military fortresses, etc. These things require a lot of manpower, especially the construction of the Half Moon Valley Reservoir and plant sand walls.

Therefore, it is indeed not easy to deploy 3,000 people! )

Wang Ming and Qiu Kai thought in their hearts that it would take a few years to truly stop worrying about weapons, but they never imagined that the ironworks they have established now are so capable.

Originally, it would take a day to refine a furnace of molten iron, but now it only takes six or seven hours. In Wang Ming and Qiu Kai's hearts, there is an urge to drop the pie in the sky.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, this kind of efficiency means that a lot of money can be harvested, but in the eyes of Wang Ming and Qiu Kai, it means a deeper foundation in the war years.

During the war, other forces can only refine one batch of molten iron a day, but they can refine three or four furnaces of molten iron, which is directly three or four times that of other forces.

Such a gap is definitely the gap between heaven and earth. If they really match up, the winner will definitely be Lin Ze's side.

It's like during World War II, the little devil directly beat the shit out of the country at the beginning, but as time went by, it was the country that beat the shit out of the little devil in the end.

It's not that the little devil's combat effectiveness is not strong. When it comes to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the American soldiers is definitely not the opponent of the little devil.

I didn't see that at the beginning, the little devil captured hundreds of thousands of American soldiers at a very small price. Therefore, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, the little devil is still very strong.

However, in the end, the little devil still fell under the hands of the soldiers of the United States.

Why? The reason is simple, the little devil's national power is too weak compared to the United States.

Not to mention other things, just in terms of steel, during World War II, the steel output of the little devil was only between 6 million tons and 7 million tons, while in the United States, it was between 60 million tons and 70 million tons .

The difference between the two is ten times, so it is only natural that the little devil will be defeated.

As counselors, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai knew this very well in their hearts, so after they learned about this, their eyes were so pleasantly surprised.

With such a powerful ironworks, Lin Ze's future army no longer has to worry about weapons.

Thinking of this, Wang Ming and Qiu Kai looked at each other the same way again, and both saw infinite light in each other's eyes!

"Hehe, these two guys!" Lin Ze smiled from the bottom of his heart, he had already noticed the eye contact between Wang Ming and Qiu Kai.

"Wang Ming, Qiu Kai, let's go, let's go and see the situation of the iron smelting!" Lin Ze said to Wang Ming and Qiu Kai beside him, and then took the lead to walk towards the blast furnace.

Wang Ming and Qiu Kai smiled at each other, then followed Lin Ze to the blast furnace...

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Soon, Lin Ze and his party came to the side of the high road.

I saw that Shen Lian was checking the situation inside the blast furnace through the observation port on the side of the blast furnace. Lin Ze and the others did not disturb him, and watched quietly from the side.

Through the observation port on the side of the blast furnace, Shen Lian could clearly see that all the molten iron had gathered at the bottom of the furnace, showing a charming orange-red color.

Seeing this situation, Shen Lian knew in his heart that the furnace should be ready to produce iron!

Shen Lian nodded directly to Gao Yan who was below, and Gao Yan also nodded, then put on a thick cotton coat as a protection, holding long-handled iron pliers, and carefully opened the taphole valve at the lower part of the blast furnace.

"Crack...!" With a sound, the iron tap was opened, and molten iron rushed out like a torrent of flood.

These molten irons are mixed with slag. Because iron is heavy and slag is light, most of the slag floats on the surface of the molten iron, which is very conspicuous.

However, soon, those large pieces of slag were blocked by a baffle made of pig iron on the trench,

Seeing this, the workers who had been waiting for a long time held long iron rods in their hands and scraped the slag aside.

At this time, the trenches for casting had already been opened, and the molds had already been placed on the ground.

The molten iron from which the large pieces of slag had been removed flowed into the mold from the groove at this time, and then one mold after another was filled with molten iron, and finally, each mold was cast into a mold about 21 centimeters wide and about ten centimeters wide. A pig iron block about 1 inch high and about 30 centimeters long.

Because the specific gravity of iron is 7.8, the weight of each pig iron ingot is about 500 jin.

Of course, about five hundred catties is a bit heavy on the earth, but the physical fitness of ordinary people on the mainland of China is four to five times that of ordinary people on earth, so five hundred catties is not a problem.

In just a short while, more than two hundred pig iron ingots have been cast.

At this time, Gao Yan, Shen Lian, and Wang Ming and Qiu Kai were completely dumbfounded.

Because, as far as they know, in the entire Chu State, even in the most powerful craftsman camp in Kyoto, there is the most iron produced in one furnace, which is ten thousand catties, and this time is to congratulate the emperor's 60th birthday. It was refined, just like that, and it took a lot of energy and financial resources.

Under normal circumstances, when craftsmen in Kyoto smelt iron, one furnace weighs three to four thousand catties.

But, now, there are more than 20,000 catties lying in the ground!

Moreover, it is still very simple to refine and point out more than 20,000 catties. According to the settings here, it can be said that each furnace is at least this number. After everyone starts to become proficient, this number can continue to increase.

Thinking of this, Gao Yan, Shen Lian, Wang Ming, Qiu Kai and the others were truly numb.

Gao Yan pinched his thigh directly, the severe pain told him that this was not a dream, so Gao Yan asked in a trembling voice: "My lord, am I right? There are more than 20,000 catties of pig iron, and I want to refine it. With so much iron, even the largest furnace in the world would have to smelt it for three days and three nights, but it took less than half a day here, this..., this..."