"Gao He, how is the new rune steel-making furnace?" "Sir, the rune steel-making furnace you mentioned is still being studied by the ink workers over there. It will take them a while, but ordinary high-temperature steel-making furnaces can also be used.
Hundreds of them have been built.”
"The daily steel tapping volume is also ten tons."
Speaking of this, Gao He was also full of excitement. Steelmaking technology itself is a knowledge and technology mastered by aristocratic families.
Although Gao's also has it, it does not have such high-temperature steelmaking technology, especially the output is simply astonishing. Ten tons per day means nearly 3,000 tons per year.
This is comparable to the annual output of Shenhan's Shaofu.
You know, that was only possible by Liu's concentrated strength.
The steel produced in ordinary steel-making furnaces seems to be of lower quality than the refined iron refined by the Shaofu. After all, the steel produced by the Shaofu is refined by the way of the inkman's runes.
The amount of refined iron refined by the Shaofu is certainly not large, only a few hundred tons per year.
Su Fan has seen fine iron, which is actually an alloy and is indeed harder than steel.
As for the way of runes, it has been handed down from hundreds of schools. It is said that it was passed down by Zi Mozi and Gui Gu, and it took tens of thousands of years to form the current way of runes.
This way of runes uses God as the pen and the vitality of heaven and earth as the ink to draw the way of heaven and earth.
It is also somewhat similar to the spiritual talisman in the main world.
The way of runes is the study of the Mohist school. The Mohist school has been deeply suppressed since the pre-Qin Dynasty. Especially after Emperor Wu, when Confucianism came to power, the Mohist school was even more suppressed. The Mohist school has still disappeared.
Only the ink workers remain.
The way of runes is most commonly used on the walls of various cities to use rune arrays to strengthen the walls.
There are only a few Fu Dao in the Shaofu who refine steel, after all.
Su Fan came to Donghai County, and after learning about Talisman Dao and Taiping Dao, there were some ink masters who knew Talisman Dao, so he asked a few of them to come over.
In Su Fan's view, these ink workers who understand the Tao of Talisman are top talents, strategists, and strategists. They are of little use to Su Fan now.
First of all, after experiencing several lives, Su Fan's strategy is not bad, and with the vision of future generations, his strategy is not lagging behind either.
He himself can become a top counselor, so he has no shortage of such people for the time being.
Of course, even if there is a shortage of people, Taiping Dao cannot give it to him, because Taiping Dao Zhangjiao and they are short of such people.
If Su Fan wants to develop in a low-key manner, especially in farming, agricultural talents and craftsmen are indispensable. In addition to people, fighting is actually more of a logistics competition.
There are really very few people in the history of China who can defeat the small with more and rely on strategy.
What's more, in this world of super martial arts, it is still unknown how effective strategy can be.
But if you have sufficient logistics, it will be difficult to lose the battle. Even if you delay, you can drag the enemy to death. Su Fan has always believed in this.
Workers are the first among all schools of thought. If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.
Su Fan has no shortage of food now, and as land reclamation continues every year, there will only be more and more food.
Armor is the most scarce thing. Even in the entire Taiping Dao, armor is the most scarce, because these weapons and armor are monopolized by wealthy families.
Apart from the Liu family, the only people who can build weapons and armor are the aristocratic families. Ordinary people do not have this technology and ability at all.
The gentry had a monopoly on knowledge, and this had been the case since the pre-Qin Dynasty. There were almost no common people who could learn knowledge.
Even in this era, many landowners do not have the opportunity to learn knowledge. The aristocratic family attaches great importance to knowledge, which is extremely serious.
The Mo family is at the bottom, so he is not accepted by the family, and the final outcome is to dissipate.
As for the ink workers, they have not disappeared. After all, the ink workers are still in demand, but they cannot become a system.
Su Fan came from Taiping Dao, so he was not a very good ink artist, and his cultivation of Talisman Dao was still very shallow.
Fu Dao also majors in the way of the soul, and the four of them are only in the soul-raising stage. Two of them have reached the sixth level of soul-raising, one has reached the seventh-level of soul-raising, and one has reached the fifth-level of soul-raising.
In terms of combat prowess, I'm afraid he can't even defeat a warrior with a fourth level of strength training.
But their role is unimaginable.
Su Fan's steel-making furnace could not be built so quickly without them. Cultivating the soul and strengthening the spiritual power can enhance the craftsmen's abilities, especially the enhancement of the five senses, which makes the craftsmen even more powerful.
In later generations, these craftsmen are almost all national treasures who have surpassed the eighth-level craftsmen.
"By the way, how is the construction of Gewutang?"
Regarding the output of steel, Su Fan really looked down upon it. Three thousand tons a year was such an output. In later generations, some small steel plants would produce more than this in a day.
Even the Tang Dynasty in the previous life far exceeded this number.
Of course, Su Fan knew that the steel-making furnace had just been built, and the output was quite good, at least higher than that of many aristocratic families.
But Su Fan knew that those thousand-year-old aristocratic families had profound foundations and thousands of years of accumulation, and they could easily produce hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
The Gao family in Guangling only has 800 years, and if they really want to take it, they can arm an army with 50,000 weapons and armor.
Three thousand tons, three million kilograms, seems like a terrifying figure, but now under Su Fan's rule, hundreds of thousands of believers consume more than this every year, not to mention weapons, but only farm tools.
Not to mention, once you have to build weapons, it will be even more terrifying.
Especially in this era of super weapons, ordinary weapons made of steel, although sharp, are not enough.
In the Tang Dynasty, Shiren's weapons were considered to be excellent in the military, but in this world, they would naturally become inferior products.
Because many warriors might break this ten-refined weapon in one blow.
The army needs weapons that are refined hundreds or even thousands of times. Only after the steel has been tempered by craftsmen thousands of times can such weapons truly meet the requirements.
Of course, if some steel was originally tempered by runes, or directly blessed with runes, and became a talisman, that would be a different matter.
However, even a wealthy family cannot handle such a luxurious weapon.
If you want to make talisman tools, you must have an ink craftsman who knows the way of talismans. Such talents are rare in aristocratic families.
Therefore, Su Fan took precautions and built the Gewutang Hall in order to increase the number of ink workers.
One or two ink workers are not very useful, but if there are one thousand or two thousand and the assembly line is used to produce talismans, then if each person in his army has one talisman, he will probably dominate the world.
"Young Master, the Gewu Hall has been established, but there are no teaching teachers. The four ink workers still have work every day."
"It doesn't matter. You can make them literate first, then teach them some common craftsmanship techniques, and finally teach them the Tao of Talismans slowly."
"step by step"
Su Fan was an ink master, and there was a shortage of ordinary craftsmen. The Gao family was unable to support him, and Taiping Dao didn't have many people under his command, so he needed to cultivate them slowly.
Fortunately, he is not in a hurry now, as it is still early for the heroes to compete for hegemony in the future.
As for the Yellow Turban Uprising, Su Fan made up his mind that he would not leave here. He really had to have the soldiers and horses of the imperial court to fight him. If he could win, he would fight. If he couldn't, he would go to sea and hide on the islands in the sea for the time being.
On the Donghai County side, he has sent people to find several islands.