Straight man of steel

Chapter 25 The Ancient Method of Stirring Steel (Please recommend tickets)
Soon these ten people brought a few hoes, and Zhang Yuan directly asked them to start digging.

After an hour, a deep pit with a depth of one and a half meters and a radius of one meter has been dug, and the next step is much simpler. Tell these people to build another furnace according to the high-temperature furnace outside, except that the top of the crucible should not be sealed with soil.

Everyone understood and immediately started to get busy.

Zhang Yuan has other things to do. The servants of the Zhuo Mansion he brought before are also waiting for him now. The warehouse in this courtyard is full of forged iron pots.

"Who is in charge? I forgot to ask last time."

A middle-aged man who was slightly smarter than the others stepped out of the crowd.

"Young master, I am the steward here."

Zhang Yuan glanced at this person. This person must be the spy sent by Zhuo Wangsun, but it couldn't be just this one.

"Go to the accountant and ask Uncle Li, the steward, to pay ten taels of gold, and bring some people to buy ten big pigs. Let's have a good meal at noon today."

In Dahan, one tael of gold can only be exchanged for three and a half taels of good silver, and the value of pork itself is high, but copper coins have no purchasing power, which directly leads to the fact that one tael of gold can only buy an adult pig of about two hundred catties.

Seeing this person standing in front of him with a look of embarrassment on his face, Zhang Yuan frowned and opened his mouth to ask.

"What's the matter, didn't you hear what I said clearly?"

"My lord, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to get money from Guanshi Li if you have nothing to prove. You should go with the villain."

Zhang Yuan didn't bother to waste time with this person, so he took him to find Guanshi Li and asked for ten taels of gold. Knowing that this guy will definitely complain to Zhuo Wangsun.

"After the money is taken, the big pig will kill it at the place of purchase and bring it back."

"Here."

While the steward was taking people to buy pigs, Zhang Yuan took the rest of the people along and taught them how to polish the iron pot. Suddenly, the harsh sound of stones rubbing against metal echoed throughout the yard.

When it was almost noon, ten fat pigs that had been slaughtered were carried in from the front yard. Everyone stopped moving their hands and stared straight at them.

For these people, the desire to eat meat has become an instinctive desire, even overshadowing other desires.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yuan threw the iron pan directly on the millstone, and the jingling of bells woke up these people.

"Don't stop, it's not that you don't want to eat, just keep doing it for me.

You people follow me to the kitchen behind to deal with these ten big hogs. "

All the pigs bought were the biggest and fattest. There are only 110 people including Zhang Yuan and the handymen who made the iron smelting furnace. Two pigs are enough to support them all to death.

What is useful to Zhang Yuan is only the fat from these pigs, and the rest can be eaten by these people.

"Take all the fat meat and the skin aside and put it aside. Stew the rest and share it with everyone. If you can't eat it, marinate it into bacon and eat it slowly."

Those people who can eat meat are already very happy. It doesn’t matter whether you are lean meat or fat meat. It is more difficult for them servants who grew up in Zhuo Mansion to eat meat than anything else. Ordinary people can go outside the city to get meat. Some wild game can improve the food, but they don't have that condition, and they can't even go out of the gate without the master's order.

For the two pigs, the bones, viscera and fat were removed, and the rest was only about two hundred catties. When Zhang Yuan finished eating the pig's feet in his hand, there was only soup left in front of him.

The faster you eat, the earlier your work will be. It is obvious that these ancient people did not know how to do foreign work.

"After eating, set up a few stoves in the yard and come out. My son, I will teach you what to do next."

It didn't take many people to build the stove. The rest of them went back to polishing the iron pot after eating. The servants who had just finished eating the meat were very energetic.

After the stove was set up, Zhang Yuan demonstrated to them how to use fat meat to coat the iron pan with an anti-rust film. After all this was done, Zhang Yuan had nothing to do again.

There was no way to sleep, the sound of metal hitting made him let alone fall asleep, his scalp was a little numb from the shock.

Thinking about how strong I was in front of Zhuo Wangsun before, now I feel regretful.

Why do you want to say that you won’t go back to Zhuo Mansion unless you have wrought iron? In desperation, you have to find a room where no one lives, lie down and start thinking about life.

Time changes and time passes, today is the third day that Zhang Yuan came to Zhuojia Workshop.

The iron-making furnace built by people was fully baked yesterday, and it is ready for use today.

The ten people assigned had already started operating. Zhang Yuan saw the melted molten iron in front of him, so he knew that these people did not go to sleep last night.

These people are now working hard for Zhang Yuan, and they will definitely not waste their efforts in the end. At least they have learned the technology from Zhang Yuan, and they can live more comfortably in the workshop in the future.

Originally, to smelt steel, Zhang Yuan needed to constantly add iron ore powder to the crucible, but now only wrought iron is needed, and the process has been simplified a lot. It only needs to keep stirring, blowing air, and adding charcoal continuously. There is lime powder.

Watching the slag being discharged bit by bit, the molten iron changed from dark red to bright red. When no more residue was discharged, Zhang Yuan still did not let these people stop their movements until Zhang Yuan looked at the molten iron in the crucible with his naked eyes and felt his eyes Feeling the sting, he felt that it was almost done.

"Drain the molten iron into the mold."

According to Zhang Yuan's instructions, the mold containing the molten iron was taken out and placed under the yellow mud passage. Except for the handymen of Blast and Tim Gangtan, those who stirred the molten iron stopped.

There was not much molten iron in this furnace, and the crucible was empty after filling seven molds.

Waiting always feels long. Zhang Yuan cannot judge whether he is successful based on these molten irons alone. He still has to wait for the molten iron to cool to a solid state and then distinguish them from the color of their fractures.

In the evening, Zhang Yuan took a cloth bag straight out of the smelting workshop, returned to Zhuo Mansion, and threw the cloth bag on Zhuo Wangsun's chessboard very arrogantly.

"What the hell is this? Your kid has not seen his temper for a few days."

Zhuo Wangsun was very dissatisfied that Zhang Yuan ruined his chess game.

"Patriarch, let's talk about it after you see what it is."

It is basically impossible for those ten people to have Zhuo Wangsun's eyeliner. Even if there was, this time Zhang Yuan came back without packing his bags after confirmation. He did not believe that Zhuo Wangsun could know in advance.

"Could it be you kid?"

"Patriarch, you should take a look."

Zhuo Wangsun wanted to restrain his excitement, but his hands were still trembling uncontrollably. He opened the cloth bag and hugged the iron block.

The iron block had already been sawed out by Zhang Yuan, and Zhuo Wangsun could directly see the color close to pure white.

"Is this done?"

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