The ore that dozens of toolmen carried back to the city in baskets was just over a ton. The ore was placed in the lower city warehouse, a closed area under the first-level platform of Wangtingshu and close to the trunk.
There is no free distribution because Wang Qi does not want to develop in order.
Returning to the royal court for a government affairs meeting, more than a dozen special personnel soon began to gather manpower to build an iron smelting plant.
That's right, the ironmaking business is not intended to be done by blacksmiths, because the blacksmiths who have to take care of the ironmaking business can handle very limited business every day, and if it is iron ingots, the same number of blacksmiths can do more things, not to mention immediately It would be at least several times faster to meet the needs of ironing the whole city.
In fact, under the current conditions, it is difficult to build an iron-making crucible, but precisely because of the difficulty, it should be done more intensively.
The material conditions were not enough to make a durable large-scale iron-making crucible. The clay pot blacksmiths could make it themselves, and Wang Qi did not participate.
Although everyone uses tools similar to those of the Stone Age, there are still a lot of blacksmiths in various tribes of the Night tribe. Taking advantage of the opportunity to establish an iron smelting factory, there are 300 blacksmiths registered, and nearly 1,000 people who have been blacksmith apprentices for at least one year. people.
Tools are what a blacksmith eats. When they come to a dark place, many blacksmiths prefer to bring less luggage and bring hammers and anvils with them on wooden wheel carts.
Some people were selected from the blacksmiths and apprentices, and then some smarter blade clans were recruited through examinations to do heavy work and protect the factory. While building the ironworks, they also started to receive wages.
Along with the ironworks, there is also a charcoal making workshop, so the source of wood is more troublesome.
It is very irrational to burn the wood produced by Wangtingmu. The total amount of materials she can produce every day is limited, and the charcoal making workshop is a bottomless pit.
The ice forest in the west cannot be cut down. It is obvious that the temperature where the royal court is located can maintain a temperature of about 30 degrees. The frozen forest contributes a lot. In the early stage, naturally dead trees are allowed to be used, but they cannot be cut down on a large scale.
Except for the west, there is very little soil in the east and north directions nearby, and even if a tree grows occasionally, it will be a drop in the bucket. To get wood, you have to go south and collect it in the southwest corner of the outpost. There are some dark trees there, but they do not freeze. They are ordinary wood on the periphery of the ice forest.
The walking distance between the two places is 20 kilometers. To save costs, we need to consider building a road.
However, it is said that it is road construction. In fact, it is just filling some stone steps and potholes with gravel and soil, and it can be moved by wooden wheels. It is not a big project.
Wang Qi was pestered by various meetings every day and gave Li Xiang the title of plenipotentiary envoy. He would visit the site from time to time and report the progress to him.
"They have set up the furnace. It is about four meters high and only a little over one meter long and wide. It looks like this." Li Xiang also drew a simple drawing for Wang Qi to see. "I heard it will take a few days before the furnace can be started to make iron. It is expected that One furnace produces 20 kilograms of pig iron every day, and they plan to build fifty furnaces.”
"???How many kilograms?"
"Twenty, is that less?"
"...Ignore it for now, it's good if you can refine it."
Wang Qi knew that using cosolvents for iron ore could lower the melting point to below a thousand degrees, but he didn’t know which cosolvents were needed, and even if he knew where to purchase them?
For high-temperature large-scale smelting, a special crucible is necessary. Even if there is no ceramic crucible, at least a quartz pot is required. The clay pot is too good, and it will be destroyed even if it is bumped a little.
Wang Qi asked about other things: "How is the road construction going?"
"The progress is very slow. They have to come back every day to get juice. There is not much time to spend on repairing the road."
After thinking about it, I wrote two warrants for Li Xiang.
I originally planned to let Elena do this kind of thing, but Elena is too emotional and always wants to stop others from fighting in groups, so doing a few things was a bit delayed and she almost got injured. Li Xiang is heartless and won't look at irrelevant people until they die. On the contrary, he is more suitable for this kind of work.
His warrant is a special product of the Phoenix Palace, a colorful thin wooden board, each piece is the size of an A4 paper, with thin vines connecting multiple wooden boards.
Sometimes several boards are needed, but there is no need to worry about forgery because the colored patterns on the two boards are continuous.
One of the two warrants was given to the ironworks, requiring them to hire several potters to add a furnace and experiment with crucible materials. The other was handed over to the Ministry of Government, requiring the exploration expedition team to search for various soil samples and quartz and send them directly to the iron factory for experimentation.
The remaining matters in the iron factory can only be left to fate and will no longer be taken care of in the short term.
The problem faced by road construction is that the ownership is unclear.
The total output of watermelon water and pineapple water is stable at 360 tons, and the rest of the production capacity is used to supply wooden kettles. Nuts are much less, only ten tons, which adds up to nearly 3,000 calories per person.
The juice output is far from the maximum. It is natural for the construction team to take some stock out to do work, but they choose to come back every day to collect it. I don’t know whether it is the fault of the construction team or the strict management of the city management.
It is not difficult to arrange a special organization for Two Trees. The problem is that Wang Qi plans to charge fees in the future. I don’t know how long this organization will last. Several meetings will have to be specially arranged for it. Each department, especially the financial department, It's too troublesome to add a lot of things.
It's better to just sign a warrant.
What is considered here is the currency liquidity brought by iron smelting.
The iron smelting industry can directly support a city. Although the current iron production is sparse, the surrounding industries it radiates, including the blacksmith business, will generate a large demand for currency circulation. As long as money gradually circulates, the juice tree can It won’t take long to start charging.
A few days later, I was lazy again and went to collect the seeds at the outpost and check the progress of the road.
The road with no grade at all is really not difficult. Even if there seems to be delays in the construction period, it can be opened within half a month. The team picking wood is faster. They are already transporting a small amount of wood back by pure manpower. They are halfway there. Transport it back on a pallet truck.
Half of the pallets that can be used now were brought by people from all walks of life during the relocation, and the other half are made from the discarded roots of the Wangting tree during its growth. A small amount of this part is included in public supplies in the form of root usage fees. .
After that, when the road is opened, citizens will be able to freely collect wood to make carts, which will also speed up the construction of houses in Xiacheng District. It should be possible to enter a faster development period.
Arriving at the outpost, the place has also changed drastically.
A sixty-meter-high tree has a ring of houses growing outside the lower half, with a total of six floors. There are wooden stairs above that lead directly to the tree crown.
The purpose of retaining the tree shape is to maintain photosynthesis. Compared with the state of the Wangting tree, it can slightly save some nutrients. At the same time, it can protect the building below from direct sunlight at noon.
The city defense army came out to greet them. The group entered the city wall, which was less than five meters long, and saw two arched warehouses connected to the first and second floors of the house. The warehouses were not big, each room was 800 square meters, and they were enough to be used as a small transfer point. .
"How are you living here?" Wang Qi asked the captain of the city defense army at the outpost.
With the help of a translator, I got the answer: "It's very comfortable, the house is cool, and everyone likes it."
Wang Qi is a professional architect after all. Not to mention such a magical tree, it is not difficult to make the indoors a few degrees cooler than the outdoors even by using natural ventilation.
I went indoors to experience it. The body temperature on the first and second floors was around 22 degrees, and it reached the standard on the third and fourth floors. The temperature on the sixth floor was slightly higher, and should be between 25 and 26 degrees.
Contrary to what people might imagine when they first see the outpost, the comfortable temperature is actually achieved not through cooling, but through warming. Bringing the heat from the sixth floor down, the water just pumped out from the ground by the big tree will have a very low temperature. Without heat flow support, the temperature near the roots of the big tree will drop to about 20 degrees when it is not exposed to sunlight.
It seems that there is no winter locally, but this set of air circulation circuits can also provide a temperature of at least ten degrees above zero in winter.
He took the stairs to the canopy to get the seeds, and Li Xiang and I hid in the canopy for a while, then had to go back to deal with the endless tasks.
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