Goblin: My descendants are all over the world

Benben, who had been waiting for a long time, took the bamboo bucket and poured the charcoal in the bamboo bucket into the blast furnace through the hole on the blast furnace.

Then comes the iron ore powder, and then pour charcoal on the iron ore powder.

Finally, the feed port was closed, leaving only a chimney made of bamboo.

Finally, Li Meng opened the iron outlet, and a piece of burning charcoal ignited the dry grass underneath.

As the dry grass was ignited, the blast furnace gradually began to burn.

"What are you still standing there for? Send some air!"

Li Meng quickly called on his goblin brothers to pull the bellows.

The goblin brothers worked in groups of two, panting and pulling the wind direction.

As the bellows were pulled, billowing smoke came out of the chimney.

Soon, the blast furnace became boiling hot.

"Keep pulling, don't stop!"

When it comes to iron smelting, temperature is the most important thing.

The temperature must be raised to at least 1300 degrees to melt the iron ore powder into molten iron.

Chapter 20 A New Beginning

"I won't fail!"

Looking at the blast furnace in front of him that was emitting astonishing heat waves, Li Meng frowned slightly.

The larger the blast furnace, the easier it is to store heat, and the higher the pressure will be.

Higher pressure lowers the melting point of iron.

If the blast furnace is too small, the heat will quickly dissipate through the furnace wall.

If the wind power is insufficient, it will be difficult to quickly raise the temperature inside the furnace to 1300 degrees.

"Boss, are you okay?"

The goblin pulling the bellows was sweating profusely.

Not only are they hot, but my hands are also sore and painful.

"continue!"

The goblins had bitter faces and had to continue pulling.

"Boss, my hand is going to be broken!"

"Can't stop!"

As the goblin brother wailed, time passed by little by little.

Five hours later, at the underground riverbank of the cave.

The blast furnaces on the shore radiated an astonishing amount of heat.

Even from five meters away, you can feel the rolling heat wave.

Standing next to the blast furnace, Li Meng felt the temperature of the blast furnace with his hands without contact.

An hour ago, the temperature in the blast furnace stopped rising.

Li Meng knew that the temperature in the blast furnace had reached its limit.

"Then open the furnace!"

Looking at the blast furnace in front of him, Li Meng thought to himself.

Success is important, but it is not essential.

This is just a first experiment, and Li Meng is not afraid of failure.

Even if you fail, you gain experience and you will never fail again next time.

Li Meng took a few steps back, bent down and picked up the mold placed aside.

Then place the mold on the taphole.

He used a wooden stick to poke open the stone at the iron outlet.

As the stones at the taphole were removed, boiling hot molten iron flowed out.

This scene made Li Meng's eyes light up.

He didn't expect that the first blast furnace ironmaking would be successful.

Molten iron like magma flowed into the mold continuously.

With pig iron, it is possible to make steel.

When pig iron is placed in a humid place, it reacts chemically with air and water to produce a large amount of rust.

Low carbon steel can be obtained by smelting rust with pig iron.

There is more than one way to make steel.

The pig iron can also be broken into pieces for secondary smelting. By stirring the molten pig iron to increase the contact area with oxygen, the carbon in the iron can be oxidized.

By experimentally controlling the carbon content in iron and stopping the smelting, medium-carbon steel and high-carbon steel can be obtained.

You can also directly smelt carbon oxide to obtain low-carbon wrought iron.

High carbon steel can be obtained by pouring molten pig iron into red-hot wrought iron.

"Strange, such a small blast furnace shouldn't have a temperature that can reach the melting point of iron."

Looking at the molten iron flowing out of the taphole, Li Meng muttered to himself.

Could it be that the oxygen content in this world is different from that on Earth?

The higher the oxygen content, the stronger the fire will burn.

The hotter the fire, the higher the temperature will naturally be.

I didn’t think much about it. Success is success, and the result is what matters most.

With the success of the first experiment, we have a good start.

In the next few days, Li Meng only did one thing.

That is to teach the goblin brothers to become familiar with the process of iron smelting.

There is also some knowledge about iron making, such as how to make iron, tempering, quenching, forging, etc.

Although goblins are not very smart, they have strong imitation skills.

Li Meng didn't need his goblin minions to think about the principles of iron smelting.

Li Meng just wants them to follow the procedures and complete every step of iron smelting and iron making.

Half a month later, on the underground river bank of the cave.

"This is an hourglass. When the hourglass inside is empty, it's time to open the furnace. Do you understand?"

On the river bank, Li Meng held a simple hourglass made of bamboo in his hand.

Goblins have no concept of time.

To be precise, it is a count without measuring time.

The goblin brothers on the riverbank nodded.

"Okay, from today on, you will build your own blast furnaces and smelt your own iron. If you can produce molten iron, you will be considered successful. If you succeed, each of you will be granted the right to mate for one day. If you fail, you will never be able to reproduce in your lifetime."

Hearing that success would earn them the right to mate, the goblins on the riverbank's eyes lit up.

They looked at the boss eagerly.

His drool was almost dripping from the corners of his mouth.

Because the goblins on the river bank have eaten the flesh of the cave trolls.

In just over half a month, all seven goblins evolved into big goblins.

Facing the excited goblin brothers in front of him, Li Meng waved his hand.

"Go ahead, you have five sunsets!"

Hearing this, the goblin brothers on the river bank quickly turned around and ran towards the cave entrance.

They have to select iron ore with higher iron content from scratch.

Also look for clay for the blast furnace and firewood for the charcoal.

Looking at the backs of the goblin brothers running towards the cave entrance, Li Meng grinned.

Li Meng intends to train these seven goblin brothers to become blacksmiths.

Once they become blacksmiths, their offspring will inherit their legacy.

By then, the tribe will have a large team of blacksmiths.

"System, start the life simulation!"

Before I knew it, another month of cooling-off period had passed.

Li Meng is full of expectations for the future development of his life.

Start The Sims

[You have begun your career as a blacksmith. Your efforts have been rewarded and the tribe has entered the Iron Age.]

You made the first spear.

You made your first crossbow.

You begin to arm your tribe, and your tribe thrives.

One of your hunting teams was ambushed and annihilated by lizardmen while heading to the Ghost Spider Forest to obtain spider silk.

[Traces of Pigmen have been discovered in the east. A Pigmen tribe has entered your territory.]

[Due to the rapid increase in the tribe's population and the pressure of food, you decided to launch a war]

Please make the following selections:

1. Revenge on the Lizardmen

[2. Annihilate the Pigmen who enter the territory]

[3. Cross the river and march to the south bank to expand the hunting territory]

Li Meng sat down on a big rock on the river bank.

How to choose among the three options?

Sitting on the rock, Li Meng stared at the water in a daze.

The Lizardmen have lived in the swamp for countless years.

This is a tough nut to crack, and it's irrational to tackle it.

But the Ghost Spider Forest is near the swamp.

If the Lizardmen are not eliminated, obtaining spider silk will become a big problem.

The second option is a big pitfall.

Li Meng has not forgotten the future predicted by The Sims last time.

In that future, the Pigmen tribe grew stronger because of the iron smelting blast furnace he built and the Golden Pigmen King was born.

This shows that the pigmen are a large social group.

Eliminating the migrating Pigmen might attract the tribe behind that Pigmen tribe.

As for the third option, it could potentially trigger a civil war.

Once you cross the river, you will enter Gobba's territory.

Li Meng is not confident that he can defeat Gobba yet.

If he loses a boss fight, he loses everything.

For him now, the third option is also a big pitfall.