Chapter 360 The spring of Niu Huanxi, even if it is a heavy-duty carriage of more than 3,000 catties per car, it is far from solving the transportation problem in Huaiyuan Town.The problem in Huaiyuan Town is almost the same as in southern Liaoning.Although there is no shortage of coal in Huaiyuan Town, the problem is that there is no coal around Huaiyuan Town, and the nearest coal mine in Huaiyuan Town is nearly 170 miles.For future generations, more than 170 miles is hardly a distance, that is, only an hour.What's more, the transportation capacity of the pit father in this era, but coal is a necessity for people's lives.As the weather gets colder and colder, the fair army in Huaiyuan Town and the people under its command need to burn about fifty or sixty thousand catties of coal every day, fifty or sixty thousand catties of coal, and put it in the future, that is, twenty or thirty tons, and a big truck can pull it all.However, the problem is that this is only the end of the Ming Dynasty, if you use a wheelbarrow, each car is loaded with about 500 catties, then you need more than 100 cars, according to each car a day of forty or fifty miles, to meet the living consumption of Huaiyuan Town, at least at least more than 300 vehicles need to be invested.Of course, this is only the coal needed for daily life, but as the blast furnace will be put into operation, the coal consumption in Huaiyuan Town will increase by more than ten times or even dozens of times.In that case, the pressure on transportation is huge, you can imagine.Even if this kind of heavy carriage is adopted, the problem is that each carriage needs two horses, and the increase in transportation costs has doubled the cost of living for the people of Huaiyuan Town.The use of camel carriage transportation can finally alleviate the most difficult problem in Huaiyuan Town.When mining or not mining steel, Chen Ying, Cui Chengyou and Luo Shiming also had disagreements, first of all, Quanjiazhuang Town has countless steel with good quality and low price, which can meet the needs of Huaiyuan Town, but because of transportation problems, it has caused extreme inconvenience.At present, it is becoming more and more uneven, and the difficulty of transporting steel from Quanjiazhuang Town to Huaiyuan Town is actually no less difficult than transporting steel to Liaodong.Through Chen Ying's discussion with Cui Chengyou, Xu Biao and others, it was decided to build a blast furnace in Huaiyuan Town and start smelting steel, and the problem of coal steelmaking has actually been solved in Quanjiazhuang Town.Ordinary coal cannot make steel, which requires the use of coke, and the construction form of the blast furnace, the working principle is also fully grasped by Niu Huanxi.Under the guidance of Quan Xu, the trial production and production of the steel workshop in Quanjiazhuang Town went quite smoothly, and it was in response to that sentence, standing and talking without back pain.Niu Huanxi thought that it was very easy to make steel in the blast furnace, and he had obtained the true inheritance of Niu Sturdy, and he could completely pick up the beams.As a result, reality slapped in the face.After several failures and repeated setbacks, finally, the blast furnace of Huaiyuan Town was successful at the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen.In February of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the second dragon raised its head, and the steel workshop in Huaiyuan Town was finally completed."
It's fucking not easy!"
Niu Huan looked at the blast furnace in front of him and sighed with emotion.The blast furnace was built and demolished, demolished and built, and collapsed once in the middle, and in the end, he helped hire several professional architects to take over the entire project, and it was completed.Looking at the big chimney like a giant tower, he also felt a little bit of a daughter-in-law who had become a mother-in-law for many years......
Niu Huanxi also knew how bad he was doing, fortunately his father was not in Huaiyuan Town, otherwise with Niu's strong temper, he would definitely not be beaten less with the whip.The teaching of the cow's joy is very traditional.The cow's eloquence is very ordinary, he doesn't like to move his mouth, and when he can do it, he will never move his mouth.Niu Huanxi from childhood to adulthood, but no less beaten, the key is that the strength of the cow is strong, the iron origin, strength is the strength, beating the cow Huanxi is like hitting the iron, repeatedly beaten, not pleasing to the eye beaten, happy also beaten, unhappy also beaten, do wrong things also beat, yes things will also be beaten, in the words of Niu Sturdy: "Beat you for your good." ”Even if Niu Huanxi is married and has become a father, but in Niu Jian's eyes, his grandson Niu successfully held it in his mouth and was afraid of melting, and he was afraid of falling off when he held it in his hand, only his son, who was not beaten for three days, was uncomfortable.When Luo Shiming was about to come to Huaiyuan Town, Niu Huanxi volunteered and followed Luo Shiming to Huaiyuan Town, he wanted to completely get rid of the shadow of Niu Jianzhu.Finally, there is no place where the ox bears fruit, no matter how bitter it is, it is still happy, otherwise, depending on what he did in Huaiyuan Town, it would be light to beat him a hundred times.However, instead of being beaten in Huaiyuan Town, he grew ten catties of meat.Niu Huan looked at Luo Shiming happily, and said nervously: "Uncle Luo, that ......
Although the process is tortuous, the future is bright!
Look at this blast furnace, how big it is, one furnace can produce tens of thousands of catties of good iron!
”"You'd better pray, this time you will succeed!"
Luo Shiming looked at the cow and said happily: "If the old cow is not here, the old Luo can also beat you!"
”Niu Huanhuan smiled happily, he knew that what Luo Shiming said was the truth, he really beat him, Niu Jieshi would not say anything, since he followed his father and took refuge under the Quanxu Sect, Luo Shiming took care of him a lot.These kindnesses, in Niu Huanxi's eyes, can beat him, he will definitely not fight back.Niu Huan looked at the craftsmen and said, "Okay, no!"
”"Little junior brother, it's okay!"
The head of the blast furnace is Niu Jie's second apprentice and Niu Huanxi's second senior brother.The second senior brother poured the last few loads of mineral sand into it, then closed the furnace door, checked the sealing situation again, and confirmed that it was correct, and then nodded to Niu Huanxi: "Little junior brother, you can light the fire!"
”Niu Huanxi was like a great general, he puffed up his chest and waved his big hand: "Ignition!"
Let them see if my blast furnace can make iron!
”The technicians of this steel workshop are almost all Niu Jiaban, that is to say, Niu Jian's apprentices and grandchildren, who have been called by Niu Jianjian like a cow for several years, and have not had the opportunity to become a teacher, and their hearts are also holding back a belly of fire.It was now their first battle, and the craftsmen were very excited, and the second senior brother ignited the coke that had already been filled.The blower blew into the stove with a strong air current, and before long, the fire was blazing, and a column of smoke rushed straight into the clouds, and it was clearly visible within ten miles.Niu Huanxi seemed to be talking to himself: "Master Zu bless, the fire is burning so strongly, you must bless the burning of the mineral sand in it to smelt good iron......
Luo Shiming pouted: "Ironmelting?"
You want to make steel, make the best steel, I want iron to be useful?
”Of course, this can't be said to Niu Huanxi, he just muttered in his heart.From the beginning of the ignition, all the blacksmiths present were very excited, and it was clear that the spring breeze in February was like a knife, and the cold air hit people, but they seemed to be burning like a fire.The second senior brother went up to observe the changes in the blast furnace through the observation hole, because the quality of the coke was good, and the blower was very fast, under the blowing of the blower, the fire was very fierce, and under the calcination of the fierce fire, the ore began to melt little by little."
And coke!"
Niu Huanxi came over and squeezed the second senior brother aside, he saw the mineral sand melting, and grinned: "The fire is a little fiercer!"
Blower, work harder, the fire can't be weak at this time, if it's weak, this furnace of molten iron will be finished!
”The workers responded loudly, shouting the trumpet, and the coke was slammed into the furnace as if they didn't want money, which made Luo Shiming feel a little distressed......
Where is this fire, it is clearly burning money, and it is also burning his money!
The money-burning action lasted for a day and a night, and the mineral sand in the blast furnace had already turned into a furnace of boiling molten iron."
Oh my God, so much!
Just this furnace has already topped a blacksmith's output for a year!
”Chen Ying knew that Quanxu had a lot of steel, but he didn't know how to get it, after all, this was not his specialty, and it was only now that he discovered that steelmaking was really not an easy thing.In order to make steel, Niu Huanxi's senior brother was tired and vomited blood, and the eyes of the second senior brother were like pandas.At this moment, a girl in a Mongolian leather robe walked up to Niu Huanxi: "Really ......
Can you really make iron!?
”Niu Huanxi snorted, his nostrils turned to the sky, and Niu was very angry: "Now you know how sincere I am, right?"
I never make big words, saying that this furnace can make iron, it can make iron!
”The girl is Ezhe's sister Qiqige, who is also the daughter of Lin Dan Khan and the princess of Mongolia.Don't look at Ezhe, who looks like a man in his twenties and thirties, in fact, Ezhe is not yet an adult, he is still a child, but he looks a little anxious.Qiqige couldn't see Niu Huanxi's villainous appearance: "Yes, although this furnace has not been built for a year, it has collapsed several times......"
Niu Huanxi's face collapsed: "Which pot is not good to open!"
”The second senior brother's eyes burst into essence, and he said happily to the cow: "Okay!
”Niu Huanxi waved his hand: "Put the molten iron out!"
”Someone immediately walked over, holding a long iron hammer, and gently poked the bottom of the furnace that had been blocked, and as the small hole became larger and larger, the molten iron slowly flowed out of the small hole.The fiery red molten iron flowed rapidly along the cooling tank, the red stars were scurrying, and the purple smoke was swirling, which was magnificent, but the temperature was also quite touching, rising in a straight line, and the heat wave around the cooling tank was rolling, and it was impossible to stand at all.The weather is as cold as possible, but every pore of the workers is sweating out like a spring, and the molten iron is introduced into the casting tank under the high temperature, and they are cast into iron, which is so busy that it is called a hot day!
Iron and steel workers are actually very hard, winter is fine, if it is summer, it is as high as more than 1,000 degrees, and the temperature of the operating surface is also as high as more than 300 degrees.In such high temperatures, people's sweat flows out like spring water, and no matter how much water they drink, the steelworkers never pee because the water will flow out of their pores.It was now February, and the situation was much better, and finally the molten iron was all cast into iron, and it had cooled down, and the ox was happy to go over to see the fruits of his labor, and let the workers lift an iron ingot and beat it and beat it, and they were very happy.