Da Wei Chun

Chapter 60 Idiots Are Contagious

In the courtyard behind the main hall, there were five strong men standing, all of whom were summoned to blacksmith.

Only eight of them were blacksmiths, and the rest were all carefully selected by Li Song from among the children of more than a hundred family officials.

Regardless of the rest, loyalty is absolutely fine.

At this time, these people surrounded Li Chengzhi tightly, not even daring to let out the air.

Just because Lang Jun just said that the molten iron will be released soon...

molten iron?

Can you turn iron into water?

Don't tell me you haven't heard it.

I don't know if it was because of being too close to the stove or because of excitement, Li Chengzhi's face was a little red.

He looked at the few blacksmiths standing at the mouth of the furnace, and shouted: "Open the furnace!"

A blacksmith carefully used an iron rod to pry open the mud seal, hooked the iron hook attached to the iron chain to the iron ear of the stove lid, and gestured back, the two strong men behind him pressed the iron bar and hung the stove lid. up.

With the emergence of a red light, a heat wave rushed towards his face, forcing Li Chengzhi to take two steps back involuntarily.

All the procedures have been rehearsed in advance, and there is no need for Li Chengzhi to explain it. Several blacksmiths know how to do it.

They used special iron rings, iron tongs, iron chains and other objects to hoist the crucible out of the small blast furnace.

It is said to be a blast furnace, but in fact it is only as high as one person, and the inner wall is only one meter in circumference.

The crucible was even smaller, like a jar for pickles, two feet high and just one foot long at the bottom.

But with just such a jar, at least [-] catties of molten iron can be melted at one time, and Li Chengzhi burned hundreds of such a large crucible.

Because there were not enough people, not so many crucible furnaces were built, only ten were built.

But even so, if all the work is started, each furnace can be refined at least three times a day, [-] pounds at a time. These ten furnaces are enough to smelt [-] pounds of iron a day... The iron tools that are temporarily collected will be refined in ten days at most. Done.

The two strong men lifted the crucible down with an iron rod two meters long and put on an iron chain.

Remove the pottery cover, you can clearly see the molten iron swaying inside.

If it wasn't for Li Chengzhi and Li Song standing on one side, these clansmen would have to scream, maybe even jumping twice.

Can it really turn iron into water?

"hiss……"

Li Song and Li Boqi gasped and looked at Li Chengzhi in disbelief.

After being shocked for a while, Li Song couldn't help but ask: "I have seen the blacksmith making iron many times, but at most it is the iron juice that is like grease that has not yet condensed. Langjun, what is the reason for this? ?"

What else could be the reason?
Langjun, I use coke, a suspended grate, and a windmill that can continuously and evenly supply air and oxygen. The furnace temperature can reach at least [-] degrees, plus a fully enclosed crucible, which also adds some phosphorus removal, There is also quartz sand that can help melting, and if it can't be melted into molten iron, I should be killed by this furnace.

It was too troublesome to explain, and Li Chengzhi was so excited that he was not in the mood to explain it to him.

"Just do it, ask so many questions for what?"

Li Chengzhi reprimanded, and then pointed to a few blacksmiths who were holding iron rulers and wrapped in thick leather robes, "Remember, you need to be fast, and evenly spread, there can be no air bubbles inside... The others spread out. ……fall!"

Following his voice, the onlookers instantly retreated seven or eight meters away, including Li Chengzhi, Li Song and Li Bo.

It's going to be splashed with a drop, and a hole will be burned in the meat.

The blacksmith tilted the crucible, and the iron juice like rice soup flowed into the pool.

It is said to be a pool, but in fact it is only half a finger thick, that is, four or five millimeters. The bottom and sides are all paved with thick ceramic bricks, so they are not afraid of being burned.

The molten iron with a temperature of more than 1000 degrees showed signs of condensation as soon as it touched the clay bricks. Several blacksmiths quickly scraped the edge of the pool with iron rulers. With the tooth-stinging sound, the molten iron was evenly spread It is one foot square, and the middle is divided into a cross grid.

The volume and area were calculated in advance by Li Chengzhi, there would only be more, but no debt, so the pool overflowed a lot.

But it doesn't matter, it can be used repeatedly.

Everyone held their breath and looked at Tao Chi without blinking.

Within a few minutes, the color of the iron juice was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When the surface of the steel plate was slightly blue, Li Chengzhi shouted again: "Get up!"

Each of the four blacksmiths took a shovel, smashed the pottery edges on the four sides of the pool, and shoveled the four slightly soft steel plates out of the pool.

Eight strong men, each holding a clamp and a hammer, stood on the edge of the anvil. As soon as the steel plate was delivered, they immediately started.

With the sound of the hammer, the steel plate became thinner and darker, and the area of ​​each steel plate was more than doubled by the smashing.

"Stop!" Li Chengzhi shouted sharply.

I can't forge anymore, let alone two millimeters, I'm afraid even [-] millimeters is not enough...

Seeing the steel plate that had completely turned black and slowly reflected light, Li Chengzhi's eyes slowly lit up.

If there are too many impurities, with the hammer forging of the blacksmith and the cooling of the temperature, a layer of impurities must be resolved on the surface of the steel plate, just like ringworm on the human body.

But after dozens of hammers, the steel plate did not peel off?

It seems to be very successful, at least the sulfur and phosphorus are completely removed, and looking at the situation of the blacksmith hammer forging, there is no doubt that it is steel.

Afraid that he had read it wrong, he took the clamp from the blacksmith and tried it.

With the force on his hand, the steel plate was slightly deformed. When he released it, only a crisp sound of "collapse" was heard, and the steel plate actually bounced back.

"Hahahaha..." Li Chengzhi couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

Even though he was more than [-]% sure before, when he really succeeded, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Can it bounce back?" An old blacksmith suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed as if he had seen a ghost, "This...this...this is Hundred Refined Steel?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.

Hearing "Ouch", the old blacksmith suddenly retracted his hand.

Li Chengzhi looked at him like an idiot.

But I didn't expect that there's more than one idiot?
"Steel?" Li Song exclaimed, and also stretched out his hand.

I go, idiots can be contagious?
Didn't you hear the blacksmith screaming when he was hot?
Without thinking, he threw the clamp in his hand.

Li Song also said "Ouch"...

But it wasn't scalded, it was smashed by clamps.

"Happy and stupid?" Li Chengzhi scolded.

"Lang...Langjun, this...is this steel?"

Not only did Li Song's voice tremble, but his body also trembled, and his eyes seemed to be electrified, which was frighteningly bright.

Li Chengzhi only said before that if there is enough iron material, he can at least forge hundreds of armors within a month, but he never said that the steel armor will be forged?
Not to mention that it does not require repeated training by the blacksmith, and it can be formed in one time...

Li Song didn't knelt down and called out the miracle. He bit the tip of his tongue and endured it again and again, and his mouth began to smell of blood.

Ignoring the blacksmiths and Li Bo, all of them stared at each other with their eyes open and their mouths open, as if they were dumbfounded...

(End of this chapter)