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Chapter 906 Strike While the Iron Is Hot
"Come here, come here, everyone!"

Excited, Lu Fengmei walked into the smelter carrying a few pieces of hematite ore, and by the way called all the workers inside to surround her.

A few sweaty, shirtless workers walked up, "Director, what did you bring back?"

Lu Fengmei said excitedly: "Good thing, this is a good thing! Stop working for now, and go to the shore to bring this ore back."

Those workers didn't understand what Lu Fengmei was happy about. They couldn't see anything special about the dark red stone, but since they were the factory manager, they just did as they wanted.

Out of the smelter, more than 30 strong workers came to the coast to help transport the hematite ore back to the factory.

A few hours later, all the hematite ore brought back from Deer Island this time were moved to the smelter, and piled up in the middle of the factory building on the spot, forming a small hill.

Several workers gathered around Lu Fengmei and said curiously: "Director, what kind of stones are these? They look different from the copper mine we smelted before."

Lu Fengmei smiled happily: "With this, what is copper ore? This thing is called hematite, and it is an ore used to make iron!"

"Can this make iron?"

Several workers around me were amazed.

The smelter had also smelted iron before, but only that time, those rusty swords were still used.

Everyone knows that iron is good. Being able to use iron farm tools or weapons is the envy of everyone on the island. However, there are only so many things that can be made of iron. They have been smelted last time. Think again. To practice more is gone.

The workers would not have imagined that one day the factory manager brought such a pile of red and black stones, saying that these stones were the raw materials for ironmaking.

Lu Fengmei patiently explained to the big guys: "Of course this can be used to smelt iron. This is a serious iron ore. With these ores, our nations will be able to produce a steady stream of iron tools in the future!"

Of course, the workers in the factory believed in Lu Fengmei's words unconditionally. They knew what they knew. Everything about smelting was taught by Lu Fengmei, so what Lu Fengmei said was absolutely correct.

"That's great. If iron can be smelted from these ores, I will first replace this copper hammer in my hand."

"It's not just your hammer, all the tools in our factory can be replaced with iron."

Those workers talked to each other and were already discussing the situation after the iron was smelted.

Lu Fengmei yelled: "What are you daydreaming about here? Can you get the iron out of chattering? Hurry up! Go to the forge, and serve the coke!"

"Work, work!"

The workers were very excited and began to refine these iron ores according to the previous steps of copper smelting.

First, these hematite ores are selected, hammered into fine powder, then mixed with charcoal powder, stirred evenly, and then put into a high-temperature forge for incineration.

The forging furnace is full of coke, and there is a special large blower at the furnace mouth. Several people shake it together, and the flame in the forging furnace suddenly bursts up and erupts from the mouth of the forging furnace.

The flame ejected from the mouth was crimson, and the coke in the forge burned very violently, turning from a normal red to a dazzling bright red.

The temperature in the forge is continuously transmitted to the outside, causing the temperature of the entire workshop to rise accordingly, and the workers who are working hard are all sweating profusely.

But at this time, no one cared about these things, and everyone was staring at the forge expectantly.

Not long after, bright red molten iron flowed out from the slot below the forge.

Seeing the water coming out, cheers that could knock off the roof erupted in the factory building. Lu Fengmei and these workers celebrated the birth of this important moment excitedly.

The molten iron flowed down the pit into the already prepared models, one model was filled and replaced with another model.

The crushed hematite powder was poured into the forge basin by basin, and ironmaking continued.

On the side of the workshop, the molten iron in the models gradually cooled and turned into a pitch black color, and gradually changed from liquid to solid, and the texture became hard.

Lu Fengmei came to those cooled iron blocks and touched these newly formed iron blocks with her fingers. The cold and hard surface told him that this was what he dreamed of.

They are made into the simplest iron ingot, but this is only the most basic step.

The iron refined by this method still has high impurities and cannot be directly used to make tools.

It also needs to be forged at high temperature to remove the impurities in these iron ingots and form a harder steel, which can be used to make tools and weapons.

But these are not difficult for the current Wanguo, they have already learned the forging technology from the Tinavians.

Now what Lu Fengmei has to do is to lead the workers to smelt all the hematite ore into iron ingots.

……

On the coast, the boat was carried ashore, and the hematite ore was also removed.

The soldiers disbanded on the spot, leaving only Blake to stay here in a daze.

"You have something on your mind recently."

Equation appeared next to Blake and smiled casually at him.

Of course Blake would not admit it, he shook his head and said, "My lord, I have nothing on my mind."

Fang Fang said: "I don't admit it, but my expression is quite honest. How can you be absent-minded when you have nothing on your mind? Tell me, is it because of the monkey?"

Blake's eyes widened. He didn't expect the equation to get to the point right away. He's really been brooding about the monkey these two days.

"You have been with me for so long, with so many military exploits, big and small, and you finally became the first centurion in all nations; however, the monkey was just lucky and made two decent military exploits, so I actually named him a centurion .”

"You don't understand this arrangement, and you're not convinced, right?"

Blake shook his head and said, "Master Consul, I'm not unconvinced, but I really don't understand. Can such a person really be qualified to be a centurion?"

Fang Fang's expression was very casual, not as if he was lecturing his subordinates, but as if he was chatting with a friend, "If a country is to be governed in every way, it is not enough to rely on me as the consul, and I need the civil affairs officials below to come and talk to me. Work together; in the same way, the army is the same. Before our army was less than a hundred people, it was more than enough for you to lead alone, but the situation is different now. To be dispatched to other islands, if you are the only centurion, can you manage all the soldiers?"

The reason is very simple, and the equation is easy to understand. Using the example of governing all nations as an analogy, the key point is immediately revealed.

(End of this chapter)