thefictionvixens Chapter 140 Subverting History
Chapter 140 Subverting History
Yuan Tan heard everyone's private exchanges. Even Guo Jia and the others didn't believe it was true.
After all, technological breakthroughs rely on accumulation, and directly producing steel will be a fantasy even 1000 years from now, let alone now.
Although the design of the blast furnace is more complicated than this era, as some blacksmiths said, it is impossible to directly turn it into steel even if it is several hundred degrees higher.
You must know that the inheritance of blacksmiths cannot be underestimated. Their ancestors once smelted in the crater and passed down the experience.
No matter how high the temperature of the blast furnace is, it cannot be higher than the magma.
However, for Yuan Tan, the blast furnace is just a support. The key to making steel is chemical reaction. This kind of scientific method has never been seen before in this era.
He is the only person of this era who has mastered how to perform chemical reactions.
Blast furnace ironmaking is a complex process. After systematic enlightenment, you already have a clear idea of how to proceed.
The raw materials required are iron ore, limestone and coke.
The reaction of these substances in the blast furnace is mainly divided into three parts. The first part is the process of preparing the reducing agent, the second part is the main principle of iron smelting, and the third part is the process of removing impurities to form slag.
When making iron, the raw materials iron ore, coke and limestone are added into the blast furnace in a certain proportion in layers. A large amount of oxygen-rich air heated by the hot blast furnace is blown into the blast furnace from the air inlet, causing the coke to burn to generate carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide then mixes with the hot upper layer. The coke reacts and is reduced to carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide is added from the top of the furnace and reacts with the falling iron ore. The iron oxides are gradually reduced to liquid iron, commonly known as molten iron. After the reduced liquid iron accumulates to a certain extent, it is released from the bottom of the furnace.
During the process, the limestone plays a role in slagging. The purpose is to make the gangue with a high melting point in the iron ore, whose main component is silicon dioxide, react with the limestone to generate calcium silicate floating on the molten iron, forming slag and molten iron to separate.
In this way, the extremely pure molten iron becomes steel.
To put it simply, the ancient method is to use thousands of hammers to beat out impurities instead of chemical reactions. This has a very low success rate.
Blast furnace steelmaking is a new steelmaking process that was only formed after science. It is definitely not something that blacksmiths of this era can achieve. Yuan Tan only needs to grasp the reducing agent and the proportion of materials in his hands, and he is not afraid of anyone stealing it.
An hour later.
Under Yuan Tan's guidance, molten iron flowed into the mold amid thick smoke from the chimney.
The blacksmiths began to whisper again.
"Is what the eldest son said true or false?"
"Is this molten iron really steel?"
"The eldest son's operation is almost the same as ours except for adding some more lime. Is the focus on the limestone?"
"From my experience, the fault lies in the limestone. You must know that everything is to remove impurities. It's good that he even took the initiative to add them!"
"This molten iron is ordinary, nothing special. An ordinary blacksmith can smelt it."
"The quality of the molten iron produced in this furnace will not be known until it cools down."
After hearing this, Yuan Tan shook his head repeatedly. He really should find a top-notch master craftsman. After all, molten steel and molten iron are different. No one can see it, which explains some problems.
Half a day later, when everyone came again, they saw a piece of white steel ingot, and they immediately screamed one after another.
"It's steel, it's really steel! I originally thought I was just deceiving myself, but I never expected that it actually came out of steel!"
"Gitui, this is too cool!"
"Sure enough, the eldest son is really awesome! Even if we try hard, it will never become steel. The eldest son doesn't even use a hammer. This is simply outrageous!"
"When the eldest son was operating just now, I was still mocking you. Now it seems, you motherfucker, I am the clown!"
"What the eldest son is saying is: In what age, who the hell still works hard? We all just made steel!"
"I added impurities but it turned out to be steel. My dad asked me why I knelt down. I wanted the secret recipe!"
"Come on, master craftsmen, let's do some math! Let me see which one of you three generations has hammered out more steel, or this young master who has melted more steel!"
"It's impossible to compare, let alone the third generation. What we eighteen generations can do is not as much as the eldest son can melt in an hour!"
Everyone's cognition was completely overturned at this moment, and the 3000-year smelting history was completely overturned.
Yuan Tan was also very excited, "The fact that we can make steel needs to be kept secret for now."
In fact, there is no need to worry about this. The people here are all carefully selected by him.
"Master, how did you manage to make steel directly!" Guo Jia was very excited. You must know that before this, only a few people owned steel weapons and they were praised as famous swords and guns.
As Yuan Tan mastered the technology of mass production of steel weapons, it is self-evident what this means to the Tiance Army.
From now on, every soldier can fight with famous swords and guns, and their combat effectiveness will not only increase dramatically.
Yuan Tan: "You should also know that the melting points of iron ingots and steel ingots are actually not much different, while the melting points of other substances, that is, the impurities you beat out, are a bit higher. However, chemical reactions can be used to form components in the molten iron. layer, the upper layer of impurities is removed, and the rest is steel.”
Everyone suddenly realized that no wonder there were some substances floating on it when it was taken out of the oven. It turned out to be impurities that we had to work hard to remove in the past.
Even after hard work, it is not easy to eliminate. It requires not only superb skills, but also a certain amount of luck.
Luck is more important, after all, skills can be learned.
But now, each of them can create magical weapons.
They looked at Yuan Tan with horrified eyes, their eyes gradually filled with heat. In their minds, the figure became taller.
"Eldest Young Master, Chen Canjun asks for an audience."
At this time, Chen Jiao came back from Datong. He heard that Yuan Tan was at the Blacksmith Camp and what he reported was related to it, so he came here directly.
a while.
Chen Jiao entered the room worriedly. After saluting, he directly reported on the work situation, "Young Master, Pu Yuan is stumped and is not in the mood to discuss recruitment."
Yuan Tan asked: "What happened to him?"
Chen Jiao told about the construction of the new Fangtian Painted Halberd, "Pu Yuan worked day and night and could not hammer out qualified steel, so he could not listen to anything he said." His words were not an excuse for not completing the job. , but to seek truth from facts.
"Pu Yuan is a master, and his requirements must be very high." Yuan Tan thought about this and said, "I just got a steel ingot. Come and see if this one is better or the one from Pu Yuan."
"What a steel! What a steel!"
When Chen Jiao saw the steel ingot, he was very excited and his mind was opened. "With this piece of steel, another magic weapon was born. Young Master, who hammered this piece of steel? Is this person here?" , my subordinates believe that there is no need to recruit Pu Yuan."