Chapter 78 Ironmaking 2

The morning sun is rising, the glow is shining, and there are still some dewdrops hanging on the green tip of the grass. Desheng Lake is quiet, and only the reeds are rustling in the breeze.

In a small island on the lake, it is already very lively at this moment.

I ate a full meal of meat last night, and many people didn't eat so much during the Spring Festival. Since I was full and had a good sleep, everyone got up early.

These guys are really different. They had to scare themselves to get up a few days ago. Later, they couldn't even have breakfast until Li Bosheng couldn't stand it anymore. He moved his whip and slapped on the ground to wake them up.

It's also because the labor intensity in the past two days is so intense that even Li Bosheng himself can't stand it.

"We have shattered the ore. There is no work today, right?"

"How can it be! Didn't you see a lot of black ore moved to the warehouse yesterday? It should be crushed that ore today, right? I don't know if it's going to be smashed into pieces? Or is it powder? I hope it will be better.

"You didn't learn at a glance. The black ore is coal, which is used for burning fire. I have seen it in the blacksmith's shop in the city. When the coal burns, the flame is high, much higher than firewood."

As everyone talked, they walked to the ironmaking base in the north.

"You guys, pick out five tals of coal from yesterday's warehouse and put it in the kiln." Li Bosheng has begun to command everyone to work.

"You guys, find some firewood and get ready to order a kiln."

"Big Boss Li, aren't we going to make iron? Why did you start loading coal into the kiln again?

"Don't talk nonsense, go to work and repeat it again. Don't call me boss. In this base, only the eldest brother is the boss." Li Bosheng shouted angrily.

If this word spreads to the eldest brother's ears, I can't eat it and take it away.

"Is it so early?" Zhang Yang paced slowly and came slowly.

"Big brother!" Li Bosheng quickly greeted him, "Did you get up so early?" He was full of doubts: Why did the eldest brother come from the east? Shouldn't he come from his big yard in the west? Besides, he and Ruohan last night? You should come later today!

Zhang Yang looked at Li Bosheng's eyes and knew what the other party was thinking.

After a sumptuous dinner yesterday, Zhang Yang helped Liu Ruohan sort out the residents on the island, and then paid the salary and settlement fee. Everything is done, and it's late at night.

Liu Ruohan looked at Zhang Yang tenderly. Slowly, Yin Tao's mouth opened slightly, and her face was a little dizzy. She said, "Brother Shicheng, it's getting late. Come into the room and have a rest!"

Zhang Yang didn't look at Liu Ruohan's expression. He knew that once he saw her delicate face, he was afraid he couldn't hold it. Although both of them fell in love with each other, they had to worry about what they said. Before they were married, they should live separately for the time being. Even if they didn't sleep together, as long as they entered the same yard, After that, it will definitely be chewed by others.

"Sister Ruohan, go to bed early! I'll go back to the boat to sleep." Zhang Yang said.

? Brother Shicheng?" Liu Ruohan was a little surprised. In the melancholy, he suddenly seemed to be relieved again.

"Then I'll bring you a quilt and sleep on the boat. There is a lot of dew in the middle of the night. Be careful not to catch a cold."

"No, it's all on the ship." After saying that, Zhang Yang turned his head and walked out of the door.

"Brother Shicheng!" Liu Ruohan stamped his feet, but he didn't chase him.

He is such a person, a brother Shicheng who cares about himself and loves himself. Although he is full of love for himself, he abides by etiquette and will not do anything wrong.

Although it was early in the morning, the people around showed their base, full of vitality. Zhang Yang was very satisfied all the way.

Shi Xin, according to Zhang Yang's order, took Shi Yi and Lv Zhen, and the three of them set out by boat to sell refined salt in several large places nearby. During this period, I have basically established a relationship with the large households nearby. Although it is retail, I can also sell one or two responsibilities this time.

Coarse salt purification has been on a normal track. Except for what He Zhaoyi was provided, the remaining refined salt has been sold nearby.

Zhang Yang's top priority now is ironmaking.

He walked to the north of the island, saw the busy crowd, and then looked at Li Bosheng, who was commanding coking. He was in high spirits. With so many people and his own knowledge, this iron could definitely be refined.

"Bersheng, how long does this kiln have to burn?" Zhang Yang asked.

I asked you about this. I haven't seen this before. Do you ask me the other way around? Li Bosheng is not sure. The charcoal can be burned by himself. This coke has never been burned, but it can't be timid.

Li Bosheng thought for a long time before saying, "According to the experience of burning charcoal, after the ignition, the entrance will be closed for one hour, and after another two hours, it will be almost done. But this coke..."

"It depends on your level," Zhang Yang said. "The principle of coke production is similar to that of charcoal. After heating, it isolates the air and let it dry at high temperature to obtain coke. Try it first. Remember, the temperature in the kiln must be high enough.

The temperature of burning coke is much higher than that required by charcoal. I don't know if he can succeed. Unfortunately, his major is weapon manufacturing. When he gets it, it has always been a whole piece of steel ingots. As for how this iron ore becomes a steel ingot, I just need to simply know the principle. It is difficult to do it. There will be, but Zhang Yang's biggest advantage is that he believes in his subordinates and let them do it. As long as he has the result.

Taking advantage of Li Bosheng's burning of coke, Zhang Yang came to the warehouse with several people.

This is a special warehouse. Outside the warehouse, a few big words were written by Zhang Yang with lime: No smoking, but many people are illiterate. Therefore, on it, another pattern is added: a circle, in which a small flame is drawn, and a slash is drawn.

This is the special warehouse where Zhang Yang is ready to release arms.

Grain, salt and munitions need to be placed separately.

Saltpeter and sulfur have all turned into powder under Li Bosheng's **, which is smaller than the powder of refined salt. It seems that Li Bosheng has carried out his order and done this very well.

Charcoal, Li Bosheng has been finished, ground into powder, and put together with saltpeter sulfur.

Now, Zhang Yang needs to mix them together to make black gunpowder.

Three and a half baskets of nitrate powder, three baskets of sulfur powder, and two baskets of charcoal powder. Zhang Yang suddenly found that he had miscalculated at the beginning: black gunpowder was about 75% of nitro, 15% of sulfur, and 10% of charcoal. In this way, when mining stone by yourself, you should have mined more saltpeter, not both of which are the same. After a while, the saltpeter is not enough, and there is still sulfur left.

However, we can continue to send people to mine stones in the future. As long as there are enough manpower, these are not problems.

According to Zhang Yang's instructions to prevent moisture, the walls of the room were brushed with lime, and the ground was also watered with lime mortar. This also facilitated Zhang Yang. He spread a piece of papyrus on the ground and began to mix directly on the ground.

Zhang Yang held the flower porcelain for eating in his hand. First, he took out five bowls of gunpowder from the powder, and then took out a bowl from the sulfur powder. In the toner, he put more than half of the bowls in the toner, all on the paper and piled them into a pile.

"Wang Zhigang, you are responsible for mixing these evenly. You must be careful." Zhang Yang said.

"Li Chengrui, don't stay there. According to what I just did, five bowls of white powder, a bowl of yellow powder, and more than half a bowl of black powder are piled up on the paper."

"Yang Zilong, when Li Chengrui piles up this pile, you can continue to stir evenly."

"Yes, big brother." The three replied.

It's not because they were excited to work under Zhang Yang's guidance, but that they found that Zhang Yang actually remembered the names of each of them!

After all, I have only met twice. The first time was to transport ore, and the second time was to receive the money last night. Unexpectedly, the eldest brother even remembered everyone's names clearly.

This emotion made the three of them unable to let go.

They squatted down, learned from Zhang Yang just now, and started to work.

"Be careful, you must stir evenly." Zhang Yang watched while commanding.

This is a detailed job. He observed yesterday that the hands and feet of these three people are relatively slow, but also relatively stable, so he just asked Li Bosheng for these three people to prepare gunpowder. They must be careful. These powders must be mixed evenly. Therefore, Zhang Yang did not pour everything together, but divided it into a small pile, which could be more fully mixed.