Changsun Wuji didn't notice everyone's gaze at first. After he noticed it, he quickly realized it. After realizing it, Changsun Wuji was a little speechless.
This is boring. I have reconciled with His Highness and the like. What do you mean by looking at me like this?
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, please come with me." The factory director led them forward again. Not far in front of the blast furnace was the open-hearth furnace.
Open-hearth steelmaking may take decades for Datang to use in the future. It will not be until a large number of power plants can supply the country that the latest electric furnaces will be installed.
Therefore, the improvement of the open-hearth furnace is nothing more than looking at how much molten steel the open-hearth furnace can produce at a time. The more molten steel the open-hearth furnace produces at a time, the greater the difficulty will naturally be.
"Your Majesty, let's go this way. The open furnace needs to be checked in the safe house. It's not very safe here." The factory director took Li Ke and the others around an area first.
"Not very safe?" Li Shimin frowned, "What's the danger in this?"
"This is an open-hearth furnace that uses the latest technology. It is used for heat and combustion instead of coke used in traditional steelmaking, but gas. Gas is more risky. Although we have various safety measures, there is still a risk of explosion if it is not operated properly. ." The factory director quickly introduced it.
"Gas?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment.
"Father is the gas formed after water passes through hot coke, and then these gases can be ignited and burned." Li Ke introduced it to Li Shimin.
This gas is different from the gas in the mouths of most ordinary people in later generations. The gas in the mouths of ordinary people in later generations refers to liquefied petroleum gas.
The gas here is water gas, which is hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
If solid fuel is used in an open-hearth furnace, coal ash will block the furnace, which is very inefficient and may need to be cleaned after two or three times. However, if gas heating is used, the problem is not that big.
Li Shimin couldn't understand it. It would be really difficult to understand this thing if you didn't learn the basics.
But it doesn’t matter, just know it.
"This open-hearth furnace is the largest open-hearth furnace we manufacture. Currently, it can tap about 3 tons of steel at a time." The factory director introduced it to everyone.
Everyone was completely speechless now. Fine steel, 3 tons at a time? How was fine steel forged before the Tang Dynasty? They are all forged bit by bit by craftsmen, not to mention efficiency, which has nothing to do with efficiency.
Otherwise, why would there be such a thing as refining refined steel?
But now...one furnace can refine 3 tons? That’s 6,000 pounds of fine steel!
"How long does this furnace take?" Li Shimin took a deep breath and asked.
"The steelmaking speed of this open-hearth furnace is faster because it is connected to the blast furnace next to it. The molten iron that has just come out of the furnace can directly enter the open-hearth furnace after it solidifies slightly. When the molten iron enters the furnace, its temperature is still very high, so it can be consumed Less fuel can be melted. This can be done in about an hour.”
"But because of the problem of blast furnace output, if cold materials are added, one furnace will take about three hours due to preheating issues."
Everyone didn't know what to say. They didn't know why they suddenly felt that making steel was easier than making iron?
Just practice one furnace every three hours, and it’s okay to practice five or six furnaces a day, right? One furnace is 3 tons, 18 tons per day, 36,000 kilograms of fine steel... everyone is going crazy.
They finally understood why Li Ke could equip all soldiers with steel armor!
If they had this, they would have to play like this!
"How's it going? Dad, I developed this technology, isn't it awesome?!" Li Ke proudly showed off to Li Shimin.
"Awesome!" Li Shimin praised on the surface, but in his heart he started to think, I am still worried that you will make a mistake in attacking Goguryeo, and I plan to give you the Zen position after the Tang Dynasty is at peace.
Just like this... screw you, when I go back to find a good opportunity, I will find a way to throw this position to you, and then I will take your mother, stepmother, concubine and the others to travel around the mountains and rivers.
When the time comes, the Tai Chi Palace will be yours to live in. I want the Qin Wangzhuang. Your future wife says that the Tai Chi Palace will belong to the Tang Dynasty. That’s great! You can work on it yourself. Half of the Daming Palace has been built, and you can do the rest by yourself. I don't care.
As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, you can't spend money casually, right? Because the consumption of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was all paid out of the treasury, and it was only for daily life.
Go and enjoy this yourself.
I go out on my own and spend whatever money I want.
I'm worried about you for nothing. Hey, can you still overturn things like this? Li Shimin finally knew where Li Ke's confidence came from.
If he had known this earlier, he would have been confident.
But now, looking at Li Ke who was triumphant there, Li Shimin was suddenly in a good mood. He stretched out his hand and patted Li Ke on the shoulder and said: "Sanlang did a good job. Do it well. Take a good rest recently. There are all dear friends in the court. The palace Father is inside, you don’t need to worry!”
Li Ke was stunned for a moment. The sun came up from the east today? Didn't his father always think that as a prince, if he had the ability, he should work harder for the Tang Dynasty? What's going on today?
Are you so happy to see these things in the industrial area that you give yourself a holiday?
If I had known this, I should have brought Lao Li over to have a look.
Then... how about we separate the various enterprises in the industrial zone and let Li Shimin take a look?
Wouldn't it be nice to be happy every once in a while and take a complete rest?
"Thank you, Father." Although there were all kinds of tricks in his mind, Li Ke naturally agreed quickly on the surface. What if Old Li regrets it later?
Lao Li is very good at regret.
After introducing the steel plant, Li Shimin and the others watched a new furnace of molten steel coming out of the furnace. They watched the red molten steel flow out along the unique groove, and then quickly formed a fixed pattern. Then, at the back, they were moved by the huge machine. Pressed into special, long steel bars.
All of this is a complete process. Although some workers are required to operate in the middle, the huge steam engines operate the terrifying cast iron blocks to directly extrusion the red steel blocks, which still gave them a great shock!
Because this is a result that human power can never achieve!
But again, this is indeed the most direct demonstration of human wisdom!
Human power is limited, but human wisdom is wireless.
"You want to demolish such a big steel factory?" Li Shimin was still a little confused.
"Of course, your majesty, the ultimate goal your highness has given us is that the iron-making blast furnace should produce about 5,000 tons of iron at a time! There is no such a big place near Chang'an, and transportation is not very convenient because of the Wei River and other reasons. Some of the previous designs are outdated.”
5,000 tons? ! Everyone was shocked, do you know what you are talking about?
One furnace of iron requires 10 million kilograms to be smelted? ! How much steel was produced by Datang in a year at that time? !
