My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 1225: Give me a month to forge swords! Drag the Qin Dynasty into the Iron Age!

With heavy blows from the hammer and gentle strokes from the brush, the heavy sand mold was smashed open by Fuqiong.

What caught the eyes of the Qin emperor and his ministers were three hundred metal bars with a metallic luster and quite a few pits on the surface.

Ying Zheng saw at a glance that this metal strip would become a Qin sword as long as it was polished and a sword guard and hilt were added to the tail!
How could these be three hundred metal bars? These were three hundred sword blanks!

If these 300 Qin swords were polished and distributed to the warriors in the villages, an armed force that even the county would not dare to ignore could be formed soon. But how long did it take the Lantian workshop to cast these 300 Qin swords?

Two quarters of an hour!
Just quarter of an hour!
Judging from this ferocious beast, it is very likely that it can produce continuously day and night like a blast furnace. In other words, this creature can smelt 14,400 Qin swords for the Qin Dynasty in one day!

And if we let this thing run at full capacity for a month, and at the same time dispatch enough craftsmen to carry out the subsequent polishing and installation of the hilt...

As Ying Zheng calculated, his eyes almost popped out of his head.

Good stuff! In just one month, this thing can be used to forge 432,000 Qin swords, and arm an army to destroy a country!
But whether Ying Zheng’s idea can come true depends on whether the metal smelted from this thing can be of great use!
Ying Zheng ordered in an extremely serious voice: "Quickly verify this steel!"

Zhang Han and other officials of the Shaofu could not wait to pick up a metal bar. Ying Zheng also picked up a metal bar, drew his sword, and chopped down suddenly!
"Dang~~~"

The sound of metal clashing suddenly rang out. The sword in Ying Zheng's hand endured the unbearable pain of life, and a small gap had already appeared on the blade.

However, Ying Zheng showed no mercy and continued to swing his sword at the metal bar!

"Ding ding ding ding ding~ Ding ding~"

Ying Zheng used all his strength in his right arm and chopped down dozens of times with the sword. Then he raised the sword and the metal bar in front of his eyes while panting. Then Ying Zheng saw a gap the size of a thumb nail appear on the metal bar, and a gap the size of a bean appeared on the blade of Ying Zheng's sword.

Judging from the test results, Ying Zheng's sword has the upper hand!
But the sword in Ying Zheng's hand was forged by the most outstanding craftsmen in the Qin Dynasty using the best materials and the most advanced technology, which took more than a year to make. However, this metal bar in front of him only took a group of ordinary craftsmen two quarters of an hour, and it was only one three hundredth of what was produced in two quarters of an hour!

At this moment, Ying Zheng fell into a long silence.

At the same time, Ying Chengjiao also quickly grabbed a metal bar and observed it in the light. After a few breaths, he exclaimed in surprise: "The surface is slightly shiny and can reflect sunlight. It is not dark gray. It looks like steel!"

Then Ying Chengjiao bent his fingers again and hit the metal bar with the back of his fingers.

Listening to the sound of metal bars colliding, Ying Chengjiao's voice became more eager: "The knocking sound is crisp and loud, like steel!"

Then Ying Chengjiao placed the metal bar on the anvil and smashed it with a heavy hammer. He held up the cross section of the metal bar and observed it carefully. Then Ying Chengjiao's voice became more eager and more shocked: "It is not easy to break when hammered compared to iron, and the plastic deformation near the fracture is not obvious."

"The fracture is silvery white, with uniform and fine crystal particles."

"It looks like steel!"

Not far away, Zhang Han and other officials of the Ministry of Works had also completed the verification of the metal strips in their own way.

All the officials of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Personnel were caught up in a frenzy. Zhang Han ran back to Ying Zheng holding a metal bar, shouting in a fiery voice: "Your Majesty, it's steel!"

"This thing is steel!"

Ying Zheng looked at the notch on his sword and asked solemnly, "What is the quality of this steel?"

Zhang Han said in a broken voice: "Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!" "Compared to ordinary hundred-forged steel, this steel is more resilient and less likely to break. How good is this steel? We still need time to verify it carefully."

"But I think that this steel should be between 100 and 120 times forged!"

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Han said in an increasingly fanatical voice, "In just two quarters of an hour, we have obtained three hundred hundred-forged fine steel swords!"

"This is a blessing for Daqin!"

Ying Zheng did not express his opinion directly, but looked at Ying Chengjiao and asked in a deep voice: "My brother, what do you think of this steel?"

Fu Qiong, Lu Buwei and others all looked at Ying Chengjiao, waiting for Ying Chengjiao's final decision.

Ying Chengjiao took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "It's steel!"

"This is the steel I want!"

Ying Chengjiao found it hard to believe that the craftsmen at the Lantian Workshop had secretly developed a breakthrough in the steelmaking method without his knowledge while he was away on the expedition.

But no matter the overall shape of the converter, its working performance or the results obtained by verification in three ways, they all gave Ying Chengjiao the same answer!

This is steel!
Ying Chengjiao bowed to Ying Zheng and said in a deep voice: "The quality, hardness and toughness of this steel are not important. They can all be adjusted by changing the ore ratio. We can smelt steel suitable for sword casting, armor casting, tool casting and many other steel materials for our Qin."

"With this converter, steel is no longer hard to come by!"

"Congratulations on behalf of my elder brother! Congratulations on behalf of the entire world!"

The birth of the converter alone was not enough to support Daqin's great strides into the industrial age, but the blast furnace converter alone was enough to pull Daqin into the steel age!
From now on, Daqin will have inexhaustible steel and iron.

The armor and weapons of the Qin Dynasty will become more sophisticated, and many fields such as craftsmanship and architecture of the Qin Dynasty will surely develop rapidly due to the cheap and readily available steel. Coupled with the relatively mature cement technology, if the Qin Dynasty builds the Great Wall again in the future, it will no longer need to build it with earth and stones, but can leave a steel wall made of reinforced concrete for future generations!
Not to mention Lu Buwei, even Ying Chengjiao couldn't imagine what a brilliant future the Qin Dynasty would have because of its achievements today!
The ministers did not think as much or as far as Ying Chengjiao did.

After hearing Ying Chengjiao's conclusion, the Qin monarch and his ministers all took a deep breath and cried out in disbelief, "Is this really steel? And it's a finer steel than the hundred-forged steel!"

"It only took two quarters of an hour to produce so much fine steel. If we can produce it for a year, wouldn't it be possible for the entire Qin army to be equipped with steel armor, steel helmets, and fine steel swords?!"

"It's not just armor, spears and swords. It's so easy to make steel with this stuff. The hammers, shovels, plows and hoes of our Great Qin can also be forged with steel! If the stone hoes in the hands of farmers can be replaced with steel hoes, there's no need to worry about the low yield per acre!"

"No wonder Lord Chang'an has been obsessed with the art of steelmaking for years. This thing will be of great benefit to Qin! It will also benefit the world! Congratulations to the king!"

The noisy exclamations of the ministers and generals gradually became unified, and finally they all shouted in unison:
"I congratulate the king! I congratulate the Great Qin! I congratulate the whole world!"

Amid the cheers, the ministers and generals did not look at Ying Zheng, but instead all looked at the converter that was waiting for the molten iron to fall.

Although this furnace is not big or tall, it does not quite conform to the aesthetic tastes of the old Qin people, and it looks even inferior when placed next to the blast furnace.

But in the eyes of all the ministers and generals, the converter at this moment is the most beautiful in the world!

(End of this chapter)