Bai Hui has misunderstandings about the blast furnace product.

Strictly speaking, iron ore, coke, and limestone combined, the products refined by blast furnaces are pig iron, slag and blast furnace gas.

Steelmaking uses pig iron, air and other metals.

But Bai Hui always feels that steel mills, steel mills, so steel mills are coming out, which is indeed a joke.

but!

Who is Bai Hui?

Qin Dahejun has enough authority and is even more a unique person. What's more, under the leadership of Bai Hui, he is indeed a see-through in Lengquan Valley.

Bai Hui didn't understand even more. The reason why I saw steel in Lengquan Valley was that I used grade rich ore, high-quality coke, and the rest were all top-quality materials, and I used a small open furnace with a low yield.

Lengquan Valley is a steel research institution. They consume little steelmaking, just to study how to get good steel and make it into weapons, rather than to make large-scale steelmaking.

Fugang, the iron ore used here comes from two places, one is the ore in the central and northern part of the Chenguo Peninsula, and the other is the iron ore on the island where Fugang is located.

The quality of the ore is not as good as the high-quality ore selected by the institute level.

In front of the two blast furnaces, Bai Hui pulled out the sword of the guard beside him, cut off a slender iron ingot, and threw the sword back to the guard with an unhappy look.

He sighed heavily again.

Bai Hui knew very well that his knowledge was not enough to help the craftsmen, but Bai Hui had his own way.

"I passed on my order. All craftsmen will rest for two days, and each person will be given three pounds of fish, half pound of mutton, and a jar of wine. After two days of rest, try again, and prepare all the supplies for the battalion."

"promise!"

After Bai Hui gave the order, he walked to the two foremen.

The two foremen also looked ashamed. They used to be the main furnace of Lengquan. At that time, they did see steel when they were once, but here, even pig iron was far away from the Yiyang blast furnace. The quality was good.

Bai Hui did not blame them. Bai Hui said, "Don't take this matter to heart if you fail. As the saying goes, failure is a success. Summarize your experience and find the reasons. Don't be anxious. What I want is steel that can directly build equipment, not steel for weapons."

The two foremen nodded silently.

Steel used for military ordnance can be said to be the ultimate of Qin's steel. One or two of this kind of steel is allowed to be spread outside, and even the waste must be put away and returned to the furnace.

"Rest, take a break. Try again in two days. I don't mean to blame you, so feel at ease!"

"Xie Dahejun."

Bai Hui has not eaten well and has not slept well these days, so he is looking forward to producing steel.

Bai Hui knew that there was the largest steel mill in Asia in later generations, because the coal quality here was good, especially after the iron ore snatched from the Chenguo Peninsula and the high-quality coal snatched from Liaodong, the output was even more amazing.

What Bai Hui didn't know was that the best iron ore on the Chenguo Peninsula was not the central and northern part of the Chenguo Peninsula, but the Maoshan Iron ore.

That place can be excavated, but it is now owned by the Marquis of Ji.

Bai Hui left the two blast furnaces and wanted to go back and rest.

Seeing Bai Hui walking away, the two foremen were sweating.

One of them said: "The stove must be fine, it's better than the stove that the one in Yiyang tried to build."

"Yes, the stove is fine. I feel that on the ore, the ore here doesn't seem to be good enough."

There was no ore detection technology in this era, it all depends on the feelings of craftsmen.

So there is no way to truly compare the quality of ore, and mass production and small-scale production of small furnaces are two concepts.

In Yiyang, there is only one experimental blast furnace, which is also very small.

The first person who spoke continued, “My idea is that since there are two stoves, we might as well try it twice.”

"How to say it?"

"First refine it once, then refine it. When refining, we used the old method we had in Lengquan Valley at that time and sprinkled charcoal powder."

“You can try.”

The two foremen discussed and began to assign tasks to their craftsmen.

Bai Hui asked them to rest for two days before working, but the craftsmen also thought it was too embarrassing to not be able to achieve results. They could receive the salary of the master craftsmen. The ironware workshop in Fugang was related to the strategic layout of Qin in Liaodong and overseas, so they were unwilling to wait any longer.

Big fish, big meat, big bowl of wine.

After preparing to let everyone have a happy rest for one night, they will immediately start working hard.

Before the wine and food were ready, some preparations were already done by the craftsmen.

Five hundred coolie Japanese slaves who were responsible for smashing ore and transporting work also received high-end meals such as rice, cakes, and broth.

Bai Hui returned to the resting place, and Empress Dowager Xuan was sitting in his study looking through various documents.

Seeing Bai Hui come back, Empress Dowager Xuan put down the documents in her hand: "I know you are anxious. Do you want to have enough iron to arm the Liaodong battalions, but will it work if you are anxious?"

"Empress Dowager, this has nothing to do with arming. I asked a large amount of iron tools to stimulate Zhao State."

"How to say it?"

"The Queen Mother, the largest and most technologically-based Yehe in Zhao State has been captured by our Korean army. It can be said that Zhao State has no real meaning at present. The most important strategic materials in the world are in four ways, namely grain, salt, iron, and skin."

Queen Mother Xuan nodded silently, Bai Hui was right.

Iron is not only used for making military ordnance, but it can be said that it is of countless use. According to the Qin State's investigation, more than 70% of ordinary people in Zhao State's kitchen knives are not made of iron or copper.

Many poor families don’t need these at all, just cook wild vegetables and grain in a pottery jar.

A little lower-level is that three stones support a clay pot.

A little better is the three-legged pottery.

It is truly considered a kitchen, at least a stove, stove, and knives. The coal cake stove created by Bai Hui and the iron pot have not yet become more than 50% in the Qin Dynasty.

There are still countless people in Qin who use pottery jars to cook rice, not to mention Zhao.

Bai Hui continued: "Empress Dowager, the first thing I have to do is to let the people who surrendered from Liaodong use iron tools. This iron tool is not used by the Qin army, but by ordinary people's daily use. Not to mention anything else, the consumption of iron is huge just for plowshares, not to mention that I hope every family will have at least two pots."

Queen Mother Xuan knew that Bai Hui’s two pots were a great plan.

A large pot can be used to cook rice or steam food in a bamboo cage. A small pot can be used as a dish or cook rice.

It is impossible for ordinary people to stir-fry. Just the fine white fine salt as fine as powder restricts cooking. What's more, the production of vegetable oil in the entire Qin State is less than 100,000 kilograms, and it can only be supplied to the nobles.
Chapter completed!