Chapter 94 Improvement, improvement!

The sky is clear, the scorching sun is like fire, and the east wind is strong.

A flexible boat walked westward in the middle of the reeds, turned dozens of turns, and finally turned around beautifully, drew a beautiful arc in the lake, and stopped at the dock of the base.

After getting off the ship, Zhang Yang immediately took Lu Xing to the ironmaking base to the north of him.

Seeing the high iron furnace, even Lu Xing was shocked. His ancestors made iron for a living, and he had never seen an iron furnace of this shape.

"Is the iron of the grenade refined from here?" Lu Xing asked.

"Yes." This is Zhang Yang's masterpiece, and he is very proud of this blast furnace.

A group of people are still busy in front of the blast furnace. It seems that another furnace of molten iron is about to come out.

Especially the people who pushed the bellows were sweating profusely, naked, shouting slogans, and the flames in the stove rushed.

Li Bosheng was directing everyone to work nervously, but he didn't find Zhang Yang's arrival.

Soon, the fiery iron water came out and flowed in the mold prepared in advance. It seemed that Li Bosheng was still a grenade this time.

"Bersheng!" Zhang Yang shouted.

"Big brother!" Li Bosheng turned his head and was very happy to see that Zhang Yang was back.

"Is it starting to make iron again?"

"Yes, brother, after you left, I took some people and brought back a lot of ores, but the coke was almost short. This is the second furnace. Yesterday's furnace was all made into iron ingots. I made some more gunpowder.

"Well, well done." Zhang Yang praised.

"Who is this one?" Li Bosheng looked at a man behind Zhang Yang, whom he had never seen before.

"Oh, this is Lu Xing. He knows how to make iron. I'll ask him to come and help you." Zhang Yang turned his head and said, "Lu Xing, this is Li Bosheng."

"Brother Bo Sheng." Lu Xing's mouth is very sweet.

"Lu Xing, what do you think of my iron smelting furnace?" Zhang Yang asked.

Lu Xing has been observing for a long time. Some ideas were kept in his heart. Finally, he was cruel and said, "Brother, this ironmaking furnace is very large. It can refine a lot of molten iron at a time, and it uses coke. The temperature in the furnace is very high. However, this blowing equipment is a little backward. We can completely use water or wind. Making a big waterwheel or windmill can solve the problem of blowing wind.

"Yes, why didn't I think of it!" Zhang Yang suddenly realized that he had a deep knowledge of science, but he had been confused by the steam engine. When he thought of power, he thought of the steam engine. He didn't think of anything else. Isn't hydropower and wind a very good energy source?

"Also, the wind we bulged into can't go directly into the furnace." Lu Xing continued.

"Why is this?"

"Because the wind is cold, the temperature in the furnace will be reduced after the cold wind blows in. Therefore, before entering the ironmaking furnace, heat the air duct, so that the hot air blows into it, and the temperature of the furnace will not be lowered."

Zhang Yang couldn't help nodding: He is good at making guns. This is really separated by mountains. There are many ways in the specific process. It's so simple to listen to the explanation, but if you think about it, you can't think about it. It's like an exam. You can't do it even if you rack your brains in the examination room, but after the examination room, listen to the teacher's explanation. Shi, that's it!

Li Bosheng next to him also praised him repeatedly. With this Lu Xing, someone finally took the lead in the ironmaking business.

"Also, the material can be used with the help of some devices without pedaling the ladder, which is more dangerous. These small places need some improvements.

Yes, isn't it enough to use a pulley? The conveyor belt is better. Why is my mind limited?

"Good." Zhang Yang finally made up his mind: "Lu Xing, I'll give it to you here. These people are all up to you. Come on, when can you produce qualified steel for me?

Lu Xing's eyes flashed. He didn't expect that as soon as he came here, he was entrusted with an important task. The eldest brother valued himself so much that he must make some achievements: "Brother, if it goes well, it will take two days to improve, and you can make steel on the third day!"

" OK, that's what I want." Zhang Yang said, "Produce the first batch of qualified steel, and I will reward you ten taels of silver!"

"Thank you, Brother!" Lu Xing replied loudly.

" Bo Sheng." Zhang Yang said.

"Big brother."

Zhang Yang didn't know whether Li Bosheng was dissatisfied with appointing a newcomer to replace him, and then said, "You took Wang Zhigang, Li Chengrui and Yang Zilong to set up a new team to make weapons. You will be equipped with more craftsmen in the future.

"I see, big brother." Li Bosheng said firmly that he knew that ironmaking was only a foundation, and making weapons was more critical. The eldest brother still trusted himself very much.

For the past two days, Zhang Yang has been staying on the island, watching Shi Xin move the iron ingot into the cabin and prepare to transport it to Zhu Yuanzhang. While watching Lu Xing commanding people to improve the ironmaking device and increase the equipment for stir-frying steel.

Zhang Yang really wants to send iron ingots in person. By the way, he will meet the legendary Zhu Yuanzhang, which is a big business of 5,000 taels of silver. But the ironmaking here makes him more concerned, which is a major event related to his future development.

In order to prevent accidents, Zhang Yang sent seven or eight people to Shixin, each of whom was carrying a crossbow and a grenade. In case of danger, it is better to do it first.

Shixin was sent away. The first priority is to wait for the new iron water to come out.

In the past two days, Zhang Yang gave Li Bosheng some special things to do, which were necessary preparations for the manufacture of new weapons.

In order to prepare enough raw materials, Li Bosheng also deliberately went out of the island once and brought back the soup and several blacksmiths on the way.

These blacksmiths were obviously taken by Tanghe in the simplest way. This violent maniac always likes to solve problems in this way.

Zhang Yang settled them down and gave them the promised silver. He coerced and lured them, and finally took away the hearts of these blacksmiths.

Zhang Yang was only busy. On the first night he just went to the island, he asked Liu Ruohan to check the accounts and gave her the money he had harvested this time. He deeply apologized to Liu Ruohan.

You know my heart, and I know your will. That's enough. Liu Ruohan is very clear about justice.

Spending money like running water. When Zhang Yang went to see Liu Ruohan again, he looked at the account book. The expenditure was more than the income, and even He Zhaoyi's money was used.

These deficits have to wait for Shixin to come back to make up for them.

This morning, the sky was particularly clear, with white clouds, and a round of red words had risen slowly.

"Brother, everything is ready." Lu Xing said excitedly.

"Okay, light the fire!" Zhang Yang gave the order.

"Ignition!"

The flames are getting stronger and stronger.

"Start ventilation!"

The already built water wheel on the shore began to rotate under the action of hydraulic power, driving the blower to blow the wind through the air duct. The air duct has been heated by charcoal, and the temperature of the wind alone has reached several degrees before entering the blast furnace.

"Then add coke!"

On the top of the blast furnace, on a delicate bracket, a basket of coke was lifted and poured in.

"Add coke powder to the air duct!"

In the blast furnace, the fire is burning.

(Dear readers, because the protagonist Zhang Yang is a talented student specializing in light weapons, and now he is about to have the right steel to start making his own fire. However, this fire must be a very powerful weapon to show Zhang Yang's professional level, so its production process is also a little high. Deep, with a lot of professional knowledge, I will explain it briefly. The following two chapters are specific manufacturing. I will try to explain it as easily as possible. If you don't like things with too complicated technology, you can also quickly skip these two chapters. As long as you know that Zhang Yang has created a firearm similar to a continuous firing of a crossbow, with a fast rate of fire and a long range.

With cross-era weapons, the wonderful chapter of Zhang Yang's expedition to the west will be staged soon.)