The machine did not stop, and more than an hour passed before you knew it; the first smelting furnace had started to become red hot, and the iron powder had melted and reacted with the bamboo charcoal.
Only then did the Zhang family begin to pour in the spirit stone powder and start stirring.
Then, the Zhang family started the most critical operation. Four fans began to inject air into the molten iron, and stirring continued.
After a while, gray-brown smoke began to appear above the molten iron. The smoke seemed very heavy, but it was quickly taken away by the magic of the wind.
However, the Zhang family's technology has made a lot of progress. The gray-brown smoke did not fly away, but entered the pool. A large amount of gray-brown smoke settled in the water and gradually turned dark brown.
This continued for more than half an hour, until no more gray-brown smoke was produced, and the smelting furnace moved along the truss again; then, two more fans continued to blow into it. The air at this time contained strong spiritual energy, and this continued
For more than half an hour, a precious light gradually circulated above the molten iron.
A worker shouted: "Cast!"
The fan was removed, workers controlled the smelting furnace through pulleys and iron cables, and the molten iron, which exuded precious light, was poured into the mold.
After more than an hour of cooling, square, half-meter-square black iron ingots appeared.
At this time, the iron ingot was still in a dark red hot state, but Li Yousheng and others couldn't care less and went up to identify it.
After a while, everyone's eyes widened: 95% purity!
Without any forging, it is 95% dark iron!
"No wonder the Zhang family made us swear that we will hold 80% of the shares!" Li Yousheng lamented.
Feng Tai thought for a while and held back a sentence: "We have all been deceived before!"
Li Yousheng smiled: "It's not a lie. It can only be said that the Zhang family provided the first half of the technology, and can also directly produce 60% of black iron. However, it is obviously not comparable to the Zhang family's current technology.
Xuantie Factory, we made the right bet!"
Feng Tai nodded, yes, the bet was right! When he chose Zhang Family and Xuantie Factory, it was a bet. But now it seems that he made the right bet. Such a Xuantie Factory would directly throw out the Xuantie Guild several times.
A street.
However, their surprise was only the beginning.
But we saw that furnaces of molten iron were being poured continuously. As the production line gradually started operating, on average, one furnace of molten iron was poured every hour. One furnace of molten iron is three tons of black iron, with a purity of 95%.
The production line is like a monster. It swallows massive amounts of ores, spiritual stones, bamboo charcoal, and even water to drive the steam turbine, but it produces pieces of exquisite black iron ingots.
Whether it is high-quality ore or low-quality ore, the production line will accept everyone who comes!
Suddenly, there was an unusual sound of mechanical rotation coming from the side. When I turned around, I saw that the workers had started up the 'machine tool'.
Li Yousheng and others' eyes widened as they saw a furnace of molten iron sliding along a new truss into a new factory area, and pouring began again.
This time, the molten iron was first poured into a high-temperature container, and the container was sealed. The molten iron began to slowly flow out from under the container, and the wire was drawn. During the process of flowing out, the molten iron began to cool, and an iron wire appeared.
Immediately, a worker pulled out the iron wire and wrapped it around a machine. The machine began to rotate slowly, and the molten iron flowed out under the action of gravity, entered the pool for quenching, and was finally rolled into a thin roll of silk thread.
Then molten iron entered another container, and under the control of workers, the container began to be poured into some precise molds; after cooling and quenching, helmets, breastplates, shoulder pads, etc. appeared one after another.
The workers carefully put these items into the machine tool, and then they saw the machine tool falling suddenly, but after hearing a clang, they could see some lines appearing on the parts of the armor.
Then take it out and give it to the next machine tool. After adjusting the position of the next machine tool, stamp a part of the pattern again. Then, change to the next machine tool...
After a dozen times, and within a few minutes, a helmet covered with exquisite and precise patterns appeared.
Some machine tools are responsible for helmets, some are responsible for breastplates, some are responsible for back armors, some are responsible for shoulder pads, etc.
Li Yousheng and others saw that these machine tools were like stamping, "printing" a set of magic weapon embryos with a few clicks.
"Gudong..." Li Yousheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and he suddenly realized that his life in the past was simply in vain.
Perhaps these machines are not as dexterous as cultivators, nor as mysterious as magic weapons, but these seemingly bulky machines are producing semi-finished magic weapon embryos at an unprecedented speed.
The machines roared and the power of industry was revealed little by little, which also changed the thinking of Li Yousheng and others little by little. The production method in front of them completely subverted their imagination.
It wasn't until the rising sun that everyone slowly woke up from this surprise.
A new era seems to be emerging little by little.
Zhang Shengye came to the crowd and said softly: "How about it, do you have any questions about the Zhang family's 80% shareholding?"
Li Yousheng opened his mouth, and finally sighed with emotion: "It's amazing, no wonder the Zhang family has such a huge production capacity, no wonder they must chaos Cishan."
Zhang Shengye smiled proudly: "The Zhang family doesn't have enough people. Let's pick some smart people from each of our families to come and learn. Once everyone is familiar with our production process and technology, we will expand the new factory."
I hope that after two months, everything will be on track. Our goal is to produce Nissan Black Iron...10,000 tons!"
"Ah..." Many people were frightened by Zhang Shengye's tone.
Zhang Shengye put his hands behind his back and walked out with his head held high: "It's only ten thousand tons, is that much?"
It wasn't until Zhang Shengye left that everyone looked at each other and saw the shock in their eyes.
Yes, the daily production of black iron is 10,000 tons. Is that a lot? Judging from the current production line, it can produce about 3 tons in one hour. A regular production line can produce 120 tons in a day...
At this moment, Zhang Hao spoke again, but not to Li Yousheng and others, but to the workers of the Zhang family: "Okay, the demonstration is over. Please adjust the production line and strive to double the production efficiency.
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"yes."
Li Yousheng pulled Zhang Hao in surprise: "Xiannephew, can this production efficiency be doubled?"
"Yes. The main reason is that the raw materials cannot keep up. Mining speed, spiritual stones, charcoal, etc., all restrict production efficiency. If these can be solved, doubling production efficiency will not be a problem.
Also, because of the demonstration just now, the production line has done a lot of division of labor, which has virtually reduced efficiency. When the scale is expanded in the future, each production line only does one thing, and the efficiency may be improved a lot."
After saying that, Zhang Hao left. Because Zhang Hao has more important things to do, that is... go home and cook steel!
Although Zhang Hao held the title of vice president, the Xuantie Factory was finally on the right track, and Zhang Hao began to care about his own situation. Especially as the war in the east became increasingly unfavorable, Zhang Hao felt a sense of urgency.
The trade routes in the East are almost cut off, and the price of Western elixirs is rising steadily. This unrest is brewing in the entire West. The time left for the Zhang family is probably running out.
The plan for the great voyage must be accelerated.
It's just that Zhang Hao doesn't know yet that the current Qixia Kingdom is in a mess.
As soon as Ouyang Si returned to the imperial capital, he was shocked by the chaos in the imperial capital.
Just at this time, an envoy from the Kingdom of Jinyang came, bringing shocking news!