Two poor businessmen came, which disappointed Wang Qi, but it didn't matter.
You can't hide things like trade routes. No matter how secretive the two green-skinned merchants are, as long as they can make money, they will expand the size of the caravan sooner or later. Once the scale expands, no secrets can be hidden.
As for hanging the foreign businessman on the city gate tower for a day, Wang Qi didn't think it was a big problem.
It is a classic ancient story that those who do not know are not guilty. However, Wang Qi is not from the farming era. He only knows that those who do not know are exempted from guilt, which will greatly increase the number of criminal acts using this as an excuse and seriously damage the authority of public policy.
In addition, the subjects really lacked knowledge and were not used to the new governance method of the royal court. They could not adapt to the complicated operation of "exemption/misdemeanor for first offenders from outsiders", so they simply dismissed them all.
Maybe two businessmen will be lost, but Wang Qi is more convinced that making his own industry bigger and stronger is the foundation of everything. As long as it is profitable, at least some businessmen will definitely learn to abide by the rules.
A few days after the businessman left, Wang Qi left Wangtingshu and went to the iron factory to visit the blast furnace for ironmaking. He had tried practicing on site several times before going there.
The size of the ceramic crucible was still insufficient. It was not until the blast furnace was completed that it could hold 30 kilograms of molten iron for pouring. However, it didn't matter. After notifying them in advance that Wang Qi would visit the site, they worked overtime and burned a lot of them, choosing the quality among them. The better ones were stuffed into the furnace with clay frames pierced with iron bars.
First, perform early fuel ignition at the bottom. Three sharp blades on several bicycles next to the air duct began to pedal and move the fan through the drive shaft.
In fact, it is not a bicycle, because there is no chain or gear set. Their output is directly applied to the drive shaft through a single gear, which is very laborious.
The moderate wind pressure turned into medium-speed and high-pressure wind after three pipe diameter changes. The flames in the furnace spurted out several meters from the unclosed furnace door. Several people quickly closed the large granite door and started the charcoal spraying mechanism.
The bottom of the funnel-shaped inlet of the carbon powder injection mechanism is three stories above the ground. The carbon powder can flow into the furnace using gravity acceleration. Then take out the wooden plug in a branch air channel, connect it to the wooden pipe, and tie it with animal skin. to provide an auxiliary thrust to the injection pipe to ensure that no congestion occurs.
Nothing could be seen, only the roar of the wind inside could be heard.
The fuel consumption of charcoal spraying is very huge. Some blacksmiths occasionally open the small observation window at the hot metal furnace mouth to check the status, and ask the workers to add charcoal from time to time.
By the way, during the construction of the blast furnace, there was also good news from the exploration expedition team. They moved along the edge of the ice forest and found limestone.
It's a bit far away, and depending on the distribution of the black stones, it might be out of the dark place.
The addition of limestone can effectively remove sulfur from iron ore and help create slag. Unfortunately, the exploration team's knowledge level is limited. Wang Qi does not know what the ore looks like. He cannot find magnesium carbonate and certain borates, otherwise the blast furnace The smelting efficiency can be greatly increased.
After burning perhaps more than two tons of charcoal, the carbon powder valve is closed and the molten iron is tapped.
Compared with the mature industrial era, which only consumed more than 200 kilograms of coal and coking coal per ton of iron, you can see how crude the guy in front of you is.
However, in the current state of the furnace, apart from adjusting the inlets and distribution of various pipes, there is not much room for optimization, and blowing pure oxygen into it is a no-brainer.
The key point is the lack of co-solvent. There is no way to lower the melting point below 1,000 degrees. The ore must be burned raw. If you can find some co-solvent, even if the furnace temperature is 1,200 degrees, you can save at least half of the fuel.
The low temperature of the furnace also has a huge advantage. To burn the ore into molten iron faster, there is no need to use a crucible. Instead, the ore powder can be thrown into the top, and the molten iron flows out while it is burning. The bottom can be held up by an iron plate. At the current furnace temperature, when pig iron is formed, the iron plate will also deform, and the molten iron will solidify directly on the stone below. The furnace will become unusable in just a few times.
The fuel consumption is really high, but the master workers are very happy because the efficiency is much higher than that of a small stove.
The furnace door is opened, and the next step is the physical work. The Sharp Blade employee does it for him, using a large tong that requires two people from the Night Clan to operate, to take out the crucible and pour the molten iron.
This operation has great safety risks. The operator has the highest salary among the employees of the iron factory, reaching 3 yuan per day, which is equivalent to the city defense battalion commander and second only to the chief blacksmith.
After pouring the molten iron, a worker stirs it with a stick to remove floating impurities, and then waits for natural cooling.
Smelting iron in a crucible is quite a troublesome task. You need to mix the ore with charcoal, limestone, and clay powder in advance. If you find that the ratio is wrong halfway, the pot will be ruined.
One pot that came out of the scene was not working, and the iron was still spongy. However, it was not possible to confirm whether it was uneven mixing or insufficient furnace temperature at that point.
The operation here also shows a completely different operation from the industrial era. It is only more than 200 kilograms of molten iron. Because the temperature is too high, it actually took less than half an hour to cool down to a hard incandescent state. Several employees used hooks to drag it. Get out of the cooling tank and proceed to the next step, segmentation.
The furnaces of the small blacksmiths in the city cannot handle more than 200 kilograms of iron, so they must be divided into pieces of ten to twenty kilograms before their small furnaces can hold it.
Here they are still being divided with chisels, and the furnace has been cleaned and inspected in preparation for the next refining furnace.
Because it is a trial run, according to the requirements conveyed by Li Xiang, safety must be ensured at every step, and then continuous smelting can be pursued by summarizing experience.
But even so, the operating efficiency of the blast furnace is still barely noticeable. The main reason is that the carbon injection operation will not lose the furnace temperature during the smelting process. If a small furnace needs to add carbon in the middle, it may take a whole day to produce one furnace after repeated cooling.
On duty 24 hours a day and night, this blast furnace can match the production capacity of the previous fifty furnaces. Once the process is proficient, it is roughly equivalent to two hundred small iron furnaces.
Under the premise of high efficiency, the actual total manpower has not increased. There are more than 40 operators in one shift, and only more than 100 in the third shift. In the past, 150 people were needed to take care of 50 small stoves. This is still Not counting charcoal burning.
The workers will not be laid off, because the current smelting formula consumes a lot of carbon powder, and both charcoal retorting and carbon powder grinding require more people.
After seeing the first furnace shipped, Wang Qi stopped by to visit the charcoal making department.
In terms of floor space and number of people, the charcoal making department is the bulk of the iron plant. The manpower for collecting and transporting wood in the south does not belong to the iron plant. There are about two hundred people in the department alone.
The wood is shaped and put into several clay kilns for coking in a sealed manner. This method does not use liquid flammable substances such as wood vinegar, and the calorific value of the charcoal will be higher.
A new part added with the blast furnace is carbon powder grinding, which is quite labor-intensive.
First, the charcoal is crushed manually with a stone hammer, then crushed with a stone roller, and then screened with a woven wood fiber sieve. Large pieces are crushed again.
The blast furnace burns tons of charcoal, and the stone roller can only pile up people if it wants to keep up with the efficiency.
After Wang Qi visited, he had a meeting with the director of the iron factory.
The director of the iron factory, whose surname is Li, is Li Yunjie. He is a blacksmith from the Qinyu Node tribe. He and two other blacksmiths are responsible for the management of the factory. Because there are also sharp blade tribes in the factory, the iron factory also has two translators, both of whom are part of the management team.
These people saw that Wang Qi did not dare to speak, which made him a little troubled. He had no choice but to speak his own mind.
"I'll give you some tasks next.
First, if there are no major problems such as casualties and damage to the blast furnace, the small furnace will be gradually abandoned, but it should not be dismantled until the No. 2 furnace is built to meet emergencies.
Second, take the daily production capacity of three tons of pig iron as the limit. After reaching three tons, you will have to retain part of the iron and replace all the tools in the factory with iron. Later, I will draw you a set of iron charcoal grinding equipment and find a way to do it. come out.
Third, summarize the advantages and problems of the blast furnace during operation and try to make improvements. If you don’t know how to make changes, record the problems first. The No. 2 furnace should be built based on this. It is best if you can make modifications based on the drawings of the No. 1 furnace. If you can't do it, then forward it to me through the administrative department. "
"Forgive me for your incompetence. Your Majesty is tired of working on such matters."
I don’t know if this poor terminology was the memory implanted by Solaris, but it made Wang Qi very confused.
"The iron factory can be the lifeblood of a city. In my eyes, it is not a chore. And for you, the quality of the iron factory is also related to the level of wages. Please pay more attention to it."
"According to the order!"
Wang Qi looked around among the people, shook his head, stood up and left.
The subjects are all like bears, they can solve some problems, but they are not proactive enough.
I don’t know if the group being educated in the school can be better, but they are probably quite miserable.
If it really doesn't work, go to those two green-skinned businessmen to see if they can import some useful talents.
But is the city attractive enough? Can outsiders accept Phoenix coins as wages instead of doing private work of buying and selling?
It is better to try to trick a few mages into doing academic work and see if they can make some breakthroughs in the direction of magic.
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