The smelting base has made some changes. The research area where Huang Mingshan and others are located, and the machine tool processing and production area where Bai Xiaodong and others are located, are wrapped by opaque boundaries.
In the Xuantie smelting area, all the fans that directly blow air into the molten iron have also been removed. This is the secret of the Zhang family and cannot be exposed.
What Zhang Hao wants to disclose this time is very clear - industrialized production! Large-scale production! Standardized production!
What is to be disclosed is a brand new production method. This itself is a technology, a production technology.
Without the step of blowing air into the molten iron, the purity of the molten iron immediately dropped from over 95% to just over 60%.
The molten iron is no longer poured directly into iron ingots, but into iron bars as thick as an arm.
Iron bars need to be forged. But it is not workers who forge them, but machines.
Some small steam turbines drive eccentrics, and the eccentrics drive hammers through connecting rods, realizing mechanized forging.
Mechanical forging is very fast and can reach an ultra-high forging speed of 10 times per second without getting tired.
Moreover, mechanical forging is more powerful and can forge ten kilograms at a time, far exceeding the one kilogram of craftsmen.
The craftsmen only need to be responsible for heating the iron bars, controlling the clutch, adjusting the hammer handle, and sprinkling water.
The forged iron bars will be melted again and poured into standard iron ingots.
Bai Xiaodong and others worked all night, and by dawn, 20 sets of forging machinery had been completed. Including the original ones, there were more than 30 sets in total.
The quantity is not very large, but it is enough for display.
According to the Zhang family's new timing unit, the first group of people arrived at about seven o'clock. There were ten members from the Black Iron Guild and the Weapon Refining Guild, both of whom were high-level officials. Zhou Bo was at the front.
Far away, everyone could see billowing smoke and white mist rising from the top of the Zhangjia smelting base, drifting towards the sea, which was a spectacular scene.
Zhang Shengde came out to greet him personally and led everyone to the smelting base.
Suddenly Zhou Bo turned around. There was a pavilion at the entrance of the smelting base, and in the pavilion there was a man...making hot pot!
Feng Zhiling was very domineering. He held a banquet directly in the pavilion at the entrance of the smelting base and drank alone.
The rich and fragrant smell wafts far away, making people salivate after smelling it.
A hot pot was placed on the table, and a fire was made with high-grade spiritual stones underneath. Golden flames were rolling. The hot pot was made of black iron with a purity of 99.2%. Under the calcining of the spiritual fire, there was a faint satin-like precious light flowing.
As for the 'seasonings' in the hot pot, most of them are high-quality medicinal materials. A dragon ball rolls in the soup, making the smoke above the pot of soup change as unpredictable as a mirage; sometimes it turns into mountain mist, sometimes it turns into
Waves, or some blurry light and shadow flickering.
There was a clean and peeled dragon head placed very domineeringly on the table. There were also dragon liver, dragon heart, dragon tendons, etc. on the plate next to it.
Feng Zhiling took a sip of wine and then cooked a few pieces of dragon meat while the guards around him kept swallowing their saliva.
Zhou Bo couldn't help but get closer; everyone was also attracted by Feng Zhiling.
Zhang Hao had a black thread: Hey, hey, everyone, you are here to see a new production method today, not to see some foodie ruining treasures.
Feng Zhiling looked up at the crowd and waved his hands casually: "Go, go, if anyone dares to rob you, be careful I beat you until you can't take care of yourself!"
Ji BuTong looked at this guy, the corners of his mouth twitching - when they first met, they thought this guy was unreliable, and sure enough, this was not just unreliable, it was simply ridiculous!
But thinking that he was a disciple of the Xuanzhen Sect, Ji Butong didn't say anything.
Zhang Hao waited for a long time before bringing everyone inside the smelting base.
"Wow..." everyone exclaimed.
With just one glance, everyone was stunned. What they saw was a completely unfamiliar smelting base that subverted tradition and was full of steel power.
First there was the roaring machine, and then everything seemed extraordinarily huge.
The smelting furnace is more than ten times larger than ordinary ones, and the millstone used to crush ores and spiritual stones is almost ten feet in diameter. The millstone is driven not by craftsmen, cattle, horses, monsters, etc., but by a strange machine.
A series of conveyor belts extend from the mine to the top of the millstone, bringing flowing water of ore; another conveyor belt extends below the millstone and enters the water area.
The moist ore powder coming out of the water area passes through the underground fire, is dried directly, and sent to the smelting furnace.
There was also a forging machine. Seeing the forging speed of the machine ten times a second, and listening to the series of "dong-dong-dong" sounds, everyone opened their mouths in surprise and were speechless.
Before everyone came, they thought that the Zhang family would perform some extraordinary things; but they did not expect that the performance would be so extraordinary!
And it's obvious that the Zhang family has some hidden tricks.
Looking at the two opaque barriers in the distance, everyone wanted to rush in and take a look to see what the Zhang family was hiding.
Just what is revealed is so shocking, but what about what is hidden?
Unfortunately, Zhang Shengde is leading the way, so everyone can only follow Zhang Shengde's footsteps. If you dare to act privately, you will definitely die!
The flying sword in Zhang Shengde's hand kept circling, reminding everyone from time to time - this is not a place for chaos.
Finally, Zhang Shengde led everyone to the steam turbine and introduced it proudly.
"This is our newfound power, the power of steam.
The power of steam can be used to drive machines. Compared with spiritual stones, the cost of applying steam power is almost negligible. Only the cost of the casting machine itself is higher."
"See this curved pipe set up above the ground fire. Water flows down from a high place and is heated into high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor in the pipe.
The water vapor in these tubes is much higher than 100 degrees. Roughly measured, it is about more than 160 degrees.
This steam rushes into the steam turbine and drives the steam turbine to rotate.
The steam turbine drives the machine to rotate.
We call this 'mechanized work' to distinguish it from traditional manual work.
Today, the Zhang family has initially implemented mechanized operations.
Compared with manual work, mechanized work can be done around the clock and always maintains extremely high work efficiency.
Once, 100 craftsmen, working hard for a day, could only produce about 400 kilograms of black iron, and the purity could not be guaranteed.
But now, 100 craftsmen can easily produce 80 tons of dark iron in a day, with a purity of over 90%."
"All these changes are because we have new power. Steam turbines!
The power of this steam turbine is approximately equivalent to the ultimate power of the middle stage of Jindan."
Everyone followed Zhang Shengde's fingers and saw that the steam turbine was in the shape of a gourd, but it had three chambers, large, medium and small. The appearance was rough, with arm-thick bolts fixing the upper and lower shells, and then through thick iron
The frame, as well as the heavy iron base, stand firmly on the solid rock.
There is an iron fence around the perimeter with a sign saying: Danger due to high temperature.
After getting permission, Zhou Bo and others entered the fence area and gently touched the turbine shell. The hot shell did not hurt the Jindan practitioners, but it made them marvel.
This kind of machine can actually convert the high temperature of the earth fire into mechanical power. This kind of machine that can move without spiritual energy broke their understanding.
"Not only aura is energy, but high temperature is also a kind of energy." Zhang Shengde explained, and he himself had deep feelings.
Every time he stood next to the steam turbine and felt its power, Zhang Shengde was filled with emotion. He could produce such majestic power by simply boiling water without using spiritual energy.
The power of the steam turbine is now equivalent to that of the mid-Jindan period. What if it continues to develop?