After listening to Wang Chengen's words, Li Xing raised his head and laughed.
When Wang Chengen heard Li Xing's laughter, he became very embarrassed. He turned his head and looked at Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu. Both of them looked ignorant and ignorant. They looked at the windows of the houses not far away, but what did they see?
The three of them didn't believe that the window was equipped with transparent glass.
Li Xing laughed for a while before jumping off the horse. He grabbed Wang Chengen's hand, grabbed Wang Chengen off the horse, and held him by the window of the residence.
Li Xing grabbed Wang Chengen's hand and pushed his hand against the glass window until Wang Chengen's hand touched the colorless and transparent glass.
Wang Chengen shuddered and was sure that his hand had really hit a smooth and hard surface.
He was stunned for a moment, groping the glass window with his fingers repeatedly, repeatedly making sure that the entire window was covered with glass, and then retracted his palm as if he was lost.
"My dear, it's really glass."
The two general soldiers behind Wang Chengen looked at each other, couldn't contain their surprise, and jumped off their horses. The two walked to the window of the house and groped repeatedly to confirm that the transparent object they touched was indeed glass.
Window is good at giving up.
Yang Guozhu took a breath and said, "Even the Forbidden City doesn't have this luxury of using colorless glass as windows."
Li Xing smiled and said: "General Yang is serious. This is brother's new product flat glass. The price is only three yuan a piece. Even ordinary people can afford it. Now the production is insufficient and it is only sold in Fanjiazhuang.
.After a while, the output will increase, and maybe they will be sold to the capital, and then General Yang's mansion can also be equipped with this."
Although Cao Bianjiao was always calm, he couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Such a large piece of glass only costs three coins?"
Li Xing nodded and said: "Of course!"
Cao Bianjiao nodded and said: "As expected of the Duke of Jin, he has indeed benefited the people!"
Yang Guozhu and Wang Chengen shook their heads, looked at the glass window for a long time, and then got on their horses with a sense of loss.
After walking a few dozen steps further, Wang Chengen saw a group of tall buildings with the words "Converter Steelmaking Experimental Plant" written on the door.
Wang Chengen lost his composure when he saw the glass window just now and lost face in front of Li Xing. At this time, he was embarrassed to ask any more questions. He looked back at Yang Guozhu and found that Yang Guozhu was also confused.
When Yang Guozhu saw Wang Chengen looking at him, he knew what Wang Chengen meant. He raised his hands and asked Li Xing: "Sir Governor, Mr. Yang has only heard of blast furnace ironmaking, and has never heard of converter steelmaking. The so-called good steel comes from the blacksmiths.
How can it be tempered in a furnace if it is hammered with hammers?"
Li Xing smiled and said: "This is a test steel plant. It is a temporary factory left behind when Cai Huaishui experimented with converter steelmaking. Now the main production base of Fanjiazhuang converter steel is in the steel town to the east. The output of this temporary factory is far lower than
The main factory over there.”
With a wave of his hand, Li Xing said: "But now that we are here, the three distinguished guests will follow me in to take a look! Let's see how our Fanjiazhuang mass-produces steel."
The three of them nodded and followed Li Xing into the steel plant. As soon as they entered the steel plant, they felt a heat wave coming from inside the factory. The factory was filled with the huge roar of burning flames and the flow of molten steel, facing each other.
You have to shout loudly when you speak, otherwise you won't be heard at all.
Li Xing led the three of them onto the supervisory corridor on the second floor of the factory and stopped at a place with a good view.
"My lord, look, that big two-story furnace is a converter, and it's full of hot molten iron!"
"The difference between iron and steel is the difference in carbon content! We use a steam engine to blow air into the molten iron from above, and burn the carbon in the molten iron into carbon dioxide, and the iron becomes steel! Of course, at the same time, we need to make slag and remove it.
Sulfur and phosphorus in steel!”
Wang Chengen looked at the roaring blast furnace and felt more and more that he didn't understand anything and was really an ignorant person. What Li Xing said about carbon content, sulfur and phosphorus sounded concise and concise, but Wang Chengen couldn't understand a word
.
Wang Chengen turned to look at Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu, and found that they also looked confused, but he had to nod slowly along with Li Xing's words to avoid looking too ignorant and ridiculous.
Wang Chengen lowered his head and thought for a while, and was wondering whether to ask in detail, when he suddenly heard Li Xing shouting: "Father, look! The molten steel is coming out of the furnace!"
Wang Chengen looked up and saw that the huge converter had tilted. Red molten steel flowed out from a taphole on the right side of the converter and fell into the steel block mold. The molten steel fell on the mold and splashed countless sparks.
Suddenly, the entire steel factory seemed to be lit with countless fireworks. There were sputtering and bouncing firelights everywhere, which was very beautiful.
After the molten steel was poured out of the furnace, workers filled the furnace with pig iron. The steel ingots under the furnace were taken out and set aside to cool. Li Xing took three visitors from the capital to the warehouse where the steel ingots were placed and pointed at the warehouse.
The steel ingot in the room said: "Three angels, the steel ingot here is the finished product after cooling."
Cao Bianjiao walked up to a steel ingot and knocked on it. He pulled out the sword on his waist and stabbed the steel ingot with his sword.
The steel collided and splashed out sparks. Even though Cao Bianjiao's Hundred Steel Sword tried its best, it could not penetrate into the mass-produced steel ingots. It only made a small hole in the steel ingots. Cao Bianjiao looked at the steel ingots in surprise.
, he raised his sword again and looked at it, and found that the blade of his sword was actually curled.
"Good steel!"
Yang Guozhu was full of surprise and praised: "It turns out that steel can really be made with a furnace! If a furnace is made so quickly, how low will the cost of good steel be reduced in the future?"
Li Xing smiled and said: "These steels are smelted from high-quality iron ore in Shilu, Qiongzhou Prefecture, and are currently used to build railways."
Cao Bianjiao was stunned for a moment and asked: "How can such good steel be used to build roads?"
Li Xing nodded and replied: "It is used to build roads."
Wang Chengen seemed to feel that if he said more at this time, he would be looked down upon. He shook his head and refused to say more. Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu looked at each other, feeling that the things in Fanjiazhuang were becoming more and more incomprehensible.
Cao Bianjiao suddenly asked: "How much does this good steel cost per kilogram? If it is cheap, can you sell some to the soldiers in the Beijing camp to make steel armor? If this kind of steel is cheaper than Jin Guogong's crucible steel, then what is the cost of the steel armor?"
It will drop significantly.”
Li Xing nodded and said, "Chief Military Officer, I will discuss this matter with my elder brother."
Li Xing took the three distinguished guests out of the steel plant. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon. The three visitors from the capital had just seen so many shocking new things along the way, and their mood could no longer be described as surprised. Some of them were shocked by Fanjiazhuang
Shocked by all the things, the three of them lowered their heads and looked heavy.
Li Xing secretly thought that he couldn't scare the three of them by seeing any more things, so he took the three of them to a tavern to eat until they were full.
The tavern was a well-known affordable hotel in Fanjiazhuang, and it was already full of guests. Li Xing walked in with three senior officials and a lot of personal guards, and only found two empty tables. There were more than 30 people in Li Xing's group.
People need at least three large tables to seat them. Li Xing and three senior officials from the capital said: "Brother does not allow us to forcefully use private resources, and I dare not drive away the guests. Let's take a seat first and wait until the restaurant is empty."
Bring out a table and let the guards sit down."
Wang Chengen, who had been silent for a long time, did not hear Li Xing's words. He stood at the door of the restaurant and looked inside the restaurant, as if he saw something that shocked him so much that he stopped and gritted his teeth and asked: "Governor,
Why are all the people waiting for the food to be served holding newspapers and reading them? None of these diners are scholars, they are clearly workers and vendors. Are all the people in Fanjiazhuang literate?"
Cao and Yang Er only discovered this amazing phenomenon at this time, and they were very surprised and opened their mouths. chaptererror;
