Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 80: I am an expert and I can’t find a place to use my skills?

"The steel plant is quite far from Yangcun," Zhang Wanhe said as he walked beside Ren Zhong. "I haven't been here since you built the steel plant. Brigade Commander Chen praised it so highly that it looked like a flower. Today I want to see what the pearl in Old Chen's eyes is like."

"Boss Ren, please take some time to go over and give us some guidance on the No. 7 and No. 8 blast furnaces that are being replicated at the headquarters to avoid any mistakes."

"Minister Zhang, don't worry, there will be no problem. We have already built two sets, and you have transferred our entire construction team over to work on it. This thing is not technically difficult, and we have the blueprints and the support of a team with construction experience, so there won't be any problems. If you are really worried, I will go over to take a look when it is convenient for you." Ren Zhong replied casually.

"Okay, I think we can do it in the next few days. I'll ask someone to pick you up. Can you ride a horse? It's faster on a horse." Zhang Wanhe said happily.

"It's okay. I've been riding horses for a few days with Sun Desheng's cavalry company. I'm not good at charging into battle, but riding for a long time shouldn't be a problem." Ren Zhong responded with a smile.

There was no other way. In this time and space, there was a lack of transportation. Ren Zhong had to master some new transportation methods that were adapted to local conditions, such as riding horses, horse-drawn carriages, and ox-drawn carts.
Speaking of Sun Desheng's cavalry company, Ren Zhong not only learned how to ride a horse, but also helped Sun Desheng a lot. He enabled Sun Desheng, who was originally difficult to deal with with more than one hundred puppet cavalrymen with lax discipline and weak thoughts, to quickly complete the ideological transformation and discipline integration.

Because Ren Zhong used the big trick of complaining, after working with Sun Desheng in the cavalry company for a week, the puppet cavalry, who had originally been hoping to be soldiers and get food, suddenly seemed to be reborn and began to share the same beliefs as the veterans in the base!

In this way, it would have taken more than half a year to train an ordinary soldier without horse riding skills from scratch to the point where he could barely charge into battle and form combat effectiveness. However, after integration, Sun Desheng completed it in just one month!

Old Li is now following the sniper team and the flying thunder cannon team to open up a new base and build artillery towers in Heyuan with Zhang Dabiao. He is very busy and does not know that Ren Zhong has given him another surprise in the rear.

The formation of the cavalry company's combat effectiveness also made Kong Jie, who stayed behind, breathe a sigh of relief, and greatly alleviated the huge impact on the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment after the first company was transferred away.

However, not only is the headquarters unaware of these changes, I'm afraid the brigade commander is also unaware of them.

The group soon arrived outside the No. 1 and No. 2 blast furnaces of Yangcun. They looked at the two lumps of dirt-like things from afar and were stunned again.

Xu Jiucheng, who had been somewhat expectant, was now extremely disappointed. If Ren Zhong had not pointed at the two smoking earthen blast furnaces and said that they were the Yangcun steel blast furnaces, Xu Jiucheng would never have believed it.

This thing is tall, more than ten meters high, as high as several floors, and it rises from the ground relying on the stone wall.

But if you only look at the outside, it's really shabby, without even a single piece of mechanical equipment. It's just like a big chimney made purely of bricks and stones, and has nothing to do with a steel plant, which is today's most modern industrial symbol.

If I have to describe it in one word, it would be extremely tacky!
"Let's go and take a look." Ren Zhong ignored these people's current mental state and did not explain.

The visual effect of this thing is really indescribable. But when they saw the molten iron flowing out, what awaited them was two words: it smelled really good! Soon, everyone came to the No. 1 and No. 2 blast furnaces, watching the hot molten iron flowing out continuously, and the air was filled with a strong metallic smell.

Xu Jiucheng took a sip intoxicatedly. It was a long-missed yet familiar taste.

My heart was filled with an indescribable sense of conflict. This is the backbone of modern industry, how could it possibly come out of such a simple earthen stove?
"What you see here are our No. 0.8 and No. blast furnaces, which produce about tons of pig iron per day," Ren Zhong began to introduce. "In terms of blast furnace utilization, the utilization rate is less than , which is much worse than that of normal blast furnaces. The energy consumption is more than double that of normal blast furnaces."

"In addition, the utilization rate of iron ore is far lower than that of normal blast furnaces. From an economic perspective, this is backward production capacity that must be eliminated." Ren Zhong borrowed a word from later generations to characterize the two blast furnaces.

But, tell me if it is enough or not. Ren Zhong is not afraid at all that his denigration will affect these people’s perceptions!
Because seeing the molten iron just flowing out quietly, nothing could be more convincing than this. How disappointed they were just now, how excited they were now, especially Gao Kaiming, whose eyes were almost red when he looked at the molten iron.

According to Ren Zhong, the pig iron produced here in a year is more than 3000 tons! As an old man in the arsenal, Gao Kaiming certainly knows what this means. A gun is made of several kilograms of iron, and at least 200 guns are produced per ton. With these two blast furnaces, he doesn't have to worry about running out of rice.

Although this pig iron is still some distance away from the steel used to make guns and cannons, Gao Kaiming has a strong premonition that it is more than just iron smelting.

Others didn't feel as strongly as he did, but these two pieces of dirt could produce thousands of tons of iron a year?! Everyone was going crazy.

"Boss Ren," Xu Jiucheng couldn't help but say, "Excuse my ignorance, but which master created this blast furnace? He was able to produce such a large amount of molten iron with such simple conditions."

"There is no such thing as a master. These are just the wisdom of the masses." Ren Zhong said with a smile. Although doing such things has no practical significance in a certain special period, the wealth left behind will be just right when placed in the world of Bright Sword.

No one could have imagined that in the tightly blocked base, such a strange person like him would appear out of nowhere, bringing a technology that had no future decades ago and solving the most scarce material problem in the base!

"What? This wasn't designed by a master in the metallurgical field?" Xu Jiucheng was shocked. With his knowledge, he couldn't understand the secret of this earthen blast furnace for a moment. Only a metallurgical master with many years of experience could design such a simple yet ingenious earthen blast furnace?

"That's indeed not the case, Comrade Xu. We must believe in the wisdom of the masses and pool their strengths to achieve our goals. What you see today is all accomplished by our organization drawing experience from the wisdom of the masses and integrating it." Ren Zhong added that the masses more than ten years later also count.

"Great, really great." Xu Jiuchen praised twice, and suddenly found himself embarrassed. In this production environment, it seemed that he had no place to use his skills at all?
I am a rare steelmaking expert in Jin, but I can't find a place to use my skills in a steel plant?

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