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Chapter 98: Steelmaking in the Snow

The North American continent has no large east-west mountain ranges. All the large mountain ranges on the entire continent are almost north-south. Therefore, the cold air mass originating from the northernmost part of the North American continent will go south very smoothly, and because there are no mountains in the middle. Barrier, the cold air will even reach the Gulf of Mexico!

   Therefore, even if the Great Smoky Mountain is located in the southeastern part of the North American continent, a sudden cold wave still makes the snow floating here.

   The stone bear lived in the hilly area in the hinterland of the North China Plain in the previous life, with the Yellow River to the north and the head of the famous Five Sacred Mountains to the south.

   It is said that at this latitude, there will be heavy snow every winter, but with the continuous warming of the global climate, there are only a handful of times when the entire North China Plain snows every year. In some years or even a winter, there is no snow.

   But after Shi Xiong came to the Gaoshu tribe in 1764, he saw the biggest snow in his life.

   Ishikuma has never seen such a large snowflake in his previous life and this life combined. It is no longer enough to describe this kind of snowflake as a heavy snowfall. This kind of snowflakes comparable to the size of a child's palm is simply a snow film!

   The whistling north wind mixed with countless heavy snow flakes falling from the sky, it was just a short meal, and there were no other colors except white in the whole world.

   more than forty buffaloes captured and domesticated in the tribe are also honestly staying in the cowshed. Thanks to the widespread use of the nose ring, the taming of the buffalo has become easier and easier.

   It's not that the bison is untamable, on the contrary, the bison is actually very tamable.

   The reason why the North American Indians tamed bisons was not heard in the original historical time and space, that is because these North American Indians did not have the need to tame bisons. Before Europeans came to the North American continent, the vast majority of North American Indians did not engage in farming, and a few Indian tribes engaged in farming only adopted the roughest farming methods, and they did not have iron farming tools, so they did not need large livestock. Necessary.

   Therefore, before the Europeans entered the American continent, there was really no one in North America to tame the bison, because there was no need.

   And when the Europeans arrived on the North American continent, they brought tamed cattle breeds, and these cattle spread wildly on the North American continent. With tamed cows that can be raised, who still has nothing to do with catching bison and then domesticating it?

   Therefore, the North American bison has become a completely sad species, and it was almost extinct by those European colonists...

But now, the high tree tribes who are preparing to dig deep holes to accumulate food have a high demand for large-scale livestock, and as more and more bison are domesticated, the people of the tribe are also aware of what the Guardian said " It’s far safer to raise bison and then slaughter and eat meat than to go out and kill bison by yourself.” This statement is correct.

  Although the tribe has not been willing to slaughter a tamed bison, no one is a fool. Everyone can see that as more and more bison are tamed, there will inevitably be extra bison slaughtered to eat meat.

   slaughtering tamed bison is far safer than going out to hunt bison in the wilderness...

   Although it’s dangerous to catch bison, who cares about it at this time?

   More than forty tamed bison staying in the cowshed is quite spectacular. It's just that these tamed bull demon kings have completely lost their previous arrogance and fierceness at this time.

Although staying in the bullpen is quite awkward, it is better than not finding any grass after a heavy snowfall. At least the two-legged monsters here have prepared a lot of weeds, even if the snow is heavy. It also didn't affect the feasting of these bull demon kings.

The stone bear, who was shaken by the heavy snow as soon as he went out, was as excited as a child, gesticulating the gesture of playing the guitar in his hand, holding the microphone for a while, shaking his body, grinning, and howling. He sang a song "Let me sprinkle some wild on the snow", and then under the eyes of a group of clansmen, he waved his hand and said loudly: "Go, let's open the furnace and make steel together!"

   No amount of snow can resist the enthusiasm of the people of the tribe, so the earth blast furnace standing in the open space in the center of the tribe ignited a raging fire again.

   The soaring heat even prevented snow from falling in the area tens of meters above the blast furnace, and the palm-sized snow flakes could not resist the heat ejected from the earth blast furnace.

   Although there were sheds on the top of the square pond where the molten iron was held, in fact, even without those sheds, the heat emitted by the molten iron was enough to keep the snow from falling.

   In such a severe cold weather, the tribesmen who are responsible for stirring the molten iron are even shirtless at work. It's so hot next to Fangtang!

  In order to increase the contact surface between molten iron and oxygen, Shixiong commanded the tribe to build another square pond before the furnace was opened for the second time. With two square ponds containing molten iron, the depth of molten iron is reduced by half, making it easier to stir.

   This time, Shixiong must let the tribes fully stir all the molten iron that flows out~www.wuxiaspot.com~ so that the molten iron can be decarbonized more thoroughly.

   Of course, the thin iron plates made by the blacksmiths were tied with some pig iron sheets early, and then they were put into the Fangtang to act as a decarburizing agent.

   This steelmaking, Shixiong will operate according to the real steel filling method.

The yellow and white molten iron was stirred by many tribesmen in the two square ponds. Although it was difficult to stir the viscous molten iron, it could not hold up the enthusiasm of the tribesmen. These extremely heavy molten irons were even almost stirred in front of the tribesmen who worked on relay. The waves are coming...

   And the wrought iron plates that have been put in the Fangtang have already melted. The melting point of wrought iron itself is much lower than that of pig iron. Once the wrought iron melts, it will inevitably further reduce the carbon content in the molten iron.

   Musha took the two clans to nervously record the weight and proportion of all the materials added in this steelmaking furnace. These data have extremely important value for the next steelmaking.

  If the steelmaking is successful this time, then the next steelmaking can be put in materials according to this ratio. If it is unsuccessful, then make improvements on the basis of these data, and sooner or later, qualified steel can be produced.

   Although the temperature of the molten iron flowing out of the blast furnace is extremely high, it cannot withstand the law of natural cooling.

Therefore, when the molten iron was almost stirred, the wooden planer gave an order, and the clansmen who had prepared a large iron spoon or a kaolin-fired earthen spoon took a spoonful of the viscous molten iron until it was already warmed. In the mold.

   At this step, the faces of every tribe are cheerful, because they all know that at this step, no matter what the quality of the steel produced, a large number of iron tools will be added to the tribe...

  PS: Bow to thank "Longshengyunxiao" 100 for the reward.

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