Looking at this majestic blast furnace and the hot flowing molten iron, this is money!
Old Man Wang and the others looked at Old Man Niu with admiration.
The blast furnace can refine 10,000 kilograms of iron in one day, and one kilogram of iron in Dahan is worth 20 yuan. In these years of war, the price of iron has been as high as 30-40 yuan. In other words, this ironmaking plant's output value is hundreds of thousands of dollars per day just selling iron.
Money, if you can make swords and farm tools and sell them, one million dollars is easy. The annual output value is about 300 million dollars. Even the richest county in the Han Dynasty does not have so much tax revenue. Just this ironworks
It can feed their 200,000 people. This is simply a money printing machine. How can everyone not worship this old man?
"That's all?"
Xu Wei was a little dissatisfied and said: "A little more than 2 tons a day, not even 1,000 tons a year. This is not even a black workshop in our hometown."
Once you are used to hearing about hundreds of millions or billions of tons of steel production, and then hearing about hundreds of tons of annual production, it's like hearing an ant say that he is very strong, and you really can't get excited.
Old Man Niu and the others looked at each other when they heard Xu Wei's Versailles words. Although they didn't understand what ton meant, they could tell from Xu Wei's face that this ironworks was nothing.
You must know that this iron smelting plant is already the largest iron smelting plant they know. The output of this iron smelting plant is almost the same as the output of Han Dynasty in a year. This can be called a miracle, otherwise they would not
would be so excited.
But looking at Xu Wei's expression now, it seems like nothing. Has Xu Wei seen a bigger steel factory?
Old Man Wang thought of the identity of Immortal Xu Wei, and secretly guessed that such a steel plant would be nothing in the fairy world, and there were even bigger iron plants than this one!
Old man Niu really regarded Xu Wei as his master now. Seeing Xu Wei's expression, he immediately said: "The old man has mastered the iron-making technology that the captain gave me. If you want to make more iron, you must build a blast furnace."
It is bigger, so it can hold more iron ore and coke, and more iron can be smelted. With this experience, the old man plans to build a ten-foot-high blast furnace, which can smelt more iron at a time than now.
ten times!"
In the past month or so, Old Man Niu has demolished and built several blast furnaces around this blast furnace. He has also gained experience in how to build blast furnaces. In Old Man Niu's view, the construction of blast furnaces has not yet reached its limit.
Production has not reached its limit.
So he plans to build a larger blast furnace, a new blast furnace with a capacity of 3,000 stones, a blast furnace lined with refractory bricks, a water cooling device, a new water conservancy blower, a preheating furnace, all the high and new technologies learned in Xu Wei, and Niu Laohan plans to use them all.
Go up. That's why he can confidently say that the output will increase tenfold.
After visiting the new blast furnace, Xu Wei walked to Mayi City.
Above the ironworks is the place where fields are reclaimed. The land on both sides of the Sanggan River is the most fertile land in Mayi. It is also for the convenience of irrigation, so most of the reclaimed wasteland is here.
Some green seedlings have already appeared in the newly opened wasteland. Because it is already more than July, it is too late to plant any food, so a lot of vegetables and alfalfa seeds have been planted in the newly opened wasteland.
Vegetables are eaten by the people, and alfalfa is eaten by the cows and horses. After all, there are more than 20,000 cows and horses, and they are expending great efforts to open up wasteland every day, and consume a lot of fodder every day.
At this time, more than 100,000 people were clearing wasteland here, and the scene was in full swing. Everyone found stones on the wasteland, cleared out debris, and then brought the cattle and horses over. Steel plowshares were used by more than a dozen horses or ten horses.
With the help of a few cows, they quickly reclaimed the wasteland, and within a short time, they reclaimed 1 acre of land.
Because of insufficient steel production, Xu Wei did not develop a curved shaft plow at the beginning. Instead, he imitated modern tractors and used a plow with several plowshares side by side. Xu Wei called this the eight-ox plow, which is the efficiency of land reclamation.
Directly following small agricultural tractors.
Of course, such scenes are very rare. Most farmers still use wooden plows made by carpentry workshops. Not only does this require more effort, but it is also so easy to damage. Because there are too many damaged wooden plows, carpentry workshops simply build them on farmland.
Several people were sent over to help them practice these wooden farm tools.
When Xu Wei saw that most of the farmers were holding wooden farm tools, he shook his head and said: "The output of steel is still too small, and everyone can't do it with just one iron farm tool."
However, although the tools are poor, the efficiency of land reclamation is not low. In more than a month, 300,000 acres of land have been reclaimed, and one person can reclaim approximately 2 acres of land.
Xu Wei was already very inefficient, but Old Man Wang and the others told Xu Wei that this was already very fast. Mayi was full of wasteland and had not been cultivated at all. According to their previous experience, a strong man could do it in one year.
The reclaimed wasteland was just like this, but now it was reclaimed in a month. This was thanks to Xu Wei who allowed everyone to eat three meals a day, otherwise everyone would not have the energy to open up wasteland.
Old Man Wang and others even optimistically estimate that as long as the farm tools can keep up, they may be able to cultivate 2 million acres of land before the next spring. These lands will be planted with food. If they live frugally, it will be enough to support themselves.
Old Man Wang and the others are particularly interested in it.
After walking through the wasteland area, Xu Wei quickly arrived near the construction site of the new city. Mayi's new city expanded along the south side of the old city. When the new city was built, the old city became the inner city.
But the outer city wall has not yet been built.
Because bricks are often misappropriated by Mr. Niu, plus kilns for cement, ceramic kilns, coke kilns, etc., now the Brick Kiln Industrial Zone has erected 10 kilns just like Xu Wei thought, but specifically
There are only three kilns used to make bricks.
The infrastructure construction of these kilns, Niu Laohan's blast furnaces, and iron smelting plants consumed all the bricks produced by the kilns, so that more than a month later, not a single brick was used to build the city wall.
The old man Wang was so angry that he just built another quarry.
If I can't get bricks, I can't get stones either. At worst, I'll build a stone city wall.
It is much easier to quarry with black gunpowder. You can dig a hole first, and then blast the black gunpowder, and a huge boulder will leave the mountain. Seeing that the quarrying efficiency is not low, Old Man Wang simply quarried the boulders from the mountain as the source of city wall bricks, and
This is also much stronger.
In order to transport these stones, Xu Wei also specially manufactured a gantry crane to transport stones weighing several hundred kilograms to the construction site. At the same time, in order to reduce the transportation burden, Xu Wei also specially built a wooden rail from the quarry to Mayi.
, as a result, after seeing this, Old Man Wang spread the wooden rails to the entire kiln factory area.