(Each chapter needs to be re-read carefully at least twice, and typos, wrong sentences, and connections between the upper and lower parts need to be corrected. It is very tiring. Please forgive me. This is a slow work.)
After unloading the black iron and settling the accounts on site, Zhang Hao left with his people. Zhou Xueyao stayed here, to be precise, she was left behind by Zhou Jue.
Zhang Hao did not go home immediately, but went to the City Lord's Mansion. If he wants to open up a sea road, he must unite all the forces that can be united. The power of the country cannot be ignored. In terms of formation, he is also prepared to seek help from the City Lord.
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Zhang Hao got straight to the point and told Liu Jingming the plan directly, and finally said: "City Master Liu, that's it. The Zhang family and the Weapon Refining Guild are planning to jointly create the Dutian Fierce Formation.
But asking for living space from the sea will inevitably lead to collisions with ocean monsters, so I want to borrow a point formation master from the city lord."
Liu Jingming's face was a little strange: "We just met yesterday, right?"
"Yes."
Liu Jingming smiled half-heartedly: "Why didn't you mention it yesterday?"
"The idea was not mature yesterday and I didn't know how to speak."
"Okay, how sure are you?"
"Is the city lord asking about refining weapons? Or about boiling the sea?"
"Both."
"That's 100% sure!" Zhang Hao said firmly. In other words, there is no way out, there is no other choice but success.
Liu Jingming looked at Zhang Hao for a while and then said slowly: "I can't make the decision on this matter, I need to report to His Majesty! Oh... By the way, I also informed Your Majesty about the master's affairs yesterday. You can go back and wait.
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Zhang Hao nodded, he just came to inform, he has no control over what the country will do. The country has its own operating form, which is different from families and sects.
In fact, although he wanted to ask the country for help in this matter, it was also Zhang Hao's statement - we have not forgotten the country, and we will not eat alone. Zhang Hao approached Liu Jingming twice, which was actually a 'repeated statement'. This is called
Have the right attitude.
Obviously, Zhang Hao's repeated statements made Liu Jingming very happy - this young man knows how to do things.
No, Zhang Hao stood up to say goodbye, and Liu Jingming personally sent Zhang Hao to the door of the City Lord's Mansion.
After Zhang Hao left, Liu Jingming wrote a letter in person and had it sent to the imperial capital as quickly as possible to deliver it to the emperor himself.
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After returning home, Zhang Hao went straight to the smelting base and watched everyone busy.
If you want to forge a formation base weighing 100,000 kilograms, you must use mechanical power.
In three days, Huang Mingshan and others designed a new production device. They modified the truss of the smelting furnace and used thick iron pillars to support it to a height of more than ten meters. There were thick iron cables and heavy pulleys above.
It can completely lift a weight of 100,000 kilograms.
In order to strengthen the iron rope, the lower end of the iron rope and the hook place were also reinforced with formations and seals. After seeing Zhou Xueyao's method of using seals, Zhang Hao also learned a trick. Seals can also provide protection.
A small seal is enough to improve the high temperature resistance of the iron rope to a higher level.
The smelting furnace next to it is not stopping, and the molten iron that has just been released is directly injected into the steel-making formation without waiting for cooling. Furnaces of molten iron are rolling, and the smelting base is as hot as waves. Even though Zhang Hao has reached the peak of the middle stage of foundation building, he is still sweating profusely.
The fans outside the smelting base are constantly blowing air, which can only bring a weak coolness.
In order to speed up the smelting, the Zhang family had to use spirit stones to strengthen the earth fire. This made the temperature of the smelting base higher.
The hot molten iron is constantly accumulating, and within the steel-making formation barrier, the molten iron always remains in a molten state; and what holds the molten iron is a dark iron trough reinforced with formations and seals.
More than fifty tons of molten iron, like a raging ocean, flowed slowly in the three-meter-diameter furnace; the slightly rolling molten iron reflected the power of industry, and the red-hot light bloomed with the light of hope.
When another furnace of molten iron was poured in, Huang Mingshan closed his notebook and shouted: "A total of 51 tons of molten iron is enough; prepare the spiritual energy cooking device."
The so-called spiritual energy cooking device is the core technology of "cooking steel". The lower part uses high-grade spiritual stones to activate the flame formation, and the upper part uses coke refined from petroleum.
These cokes contain thick but mixed spiritual energy; however, after being 'cooked' by high temperature and high pressure, these spiritual energy will all become active, high-quality spiritual energy.
At high temperatures, the carbon contained in the coke will also evaporate and penetrate into the molten iron to complete the carburization process. Although it is black iron, black iron can still increase its strength through carburizing treatment.
After the cooking device was prepared and Huang Mingshan and others checked it was correct, the formation was completely closed.
'Cooking Steel' currently uses the 'Boiling Mountain Formation' from Yuxue Villa. Compared with other formations, this formation can withstand greater pressure and higher temperatures, and Huang Mingshan and others can
Easy to master, can be expanded to ten meters in size, and the cutting operation is simple.
In constant exploration, Huang Mingshan and others discovered that the higher the temperature, the greater the pressure, the less spiritual energy used, and the better the steel material is.
However, spiritual energy cannot be too little. According to estimates, each ton of steel still requires spiritual energy equivalent to about one million low-grade spiritual stones.
When the formation was closed, you could see that the coke inside the formation was rapidly melting under the burning of the flame formation, and the mixed spiritual energy was released. Soon the inside of the formation was hazy.
About half an hour later, the spiritual energy in the formation began to become violent and tumbling continuously, and the spiritual energy also began to quickly turn red and blazing; the next moment, the spiritual energy formed a vortex, spiraled rapidly, and contracted rapidly; a few minutes later, all
The spiritual energy was absorbed by Xuan Tie.
Although he had watched such a scene several times, Zhang Hao was still amazed when he saw it here.
Huang Mingshan and others skillfully opened a corner of the formation to dissipate heat first. Seeing a black floating layer begin to appear on the surface of the molten iron, Yu Yueyun personally hung iron ropes on the furnace. The furnace began to tilt, the gate opened, and more than fifty tons of molten iron became viscous.
state, injected into a mold buried underground.
The shape of the mold is divided into two parts. The lower part is a main body with a diameter of one meter and a length of eight meters; the upper part is only 30 cm in diameter and has a barb shape for easy lifting.
The upper part cooled quickly. Yu Yueyun excitedly hung the hook of the iron rope on the barb, and then began to calculate the cooling time of the lower part.
In order to speed up the cooling and gain time, an array was used for cooling below. When the surface temperature of the steel column dropped to about 900 degrees, it was confirmed that the steel had solidified, and Yu Yueyun ordered the lifting.
The heavy hoist that had just been tested successfully began to operate with a bang, the iron rope was stretched straight, and several workers were constantly oiling the pulleys and trusses. The technology was still very rough for the time being, and we could only operate it like this, and explore and accumulate technology.
The trusses at a height of more than ten meters creaked, and there was a harsh sound of steel friction between pulleys, iron cables, and trusses. The red-hot steel columns made it impossible to get close.
The orange steel column, weighing more than fifty tons, was lifted out from the ground little by little. The barbs on the top of the steel column were slightly deformed and seemed unable to bear the heavy body.
"Be careful, be careful, don't shake too much, steady, steady!" Yu Yueyun shouted, "Slow down, slow down. Everyone get out of the way, be careful of danger."
Zhang Hao also stood far away. The current industrial technology was really a bit... a test of courage.
Lifting more than fifty tons of objects at one go, plus the power of iron cables, pulleys, winches, etc., the truss has to bear a weight of almost sixty or seventy tons.
Slowly, slowly, the steel pillar finally reached the top of the pool with difficulty; Yu Yueyun directed the iron pillar to fall little by little.
As soon as the steel column approached the water, a cloud of steam appeared on the water; when the steel column finally entered the water, there was a squealing sound and the gurgling sound of water bubbles, and a hazy cloud of smoke spread instantly, submerging the entire base.
The formation moved quickly, continuously sucking away the water vapor, but it couldn't be exhausted.