Chapter 561

Molten steel mixed with heat wave flows in the crucible. In the hot summer, the steel workshop is as hot as a furnace.

From the palace, Xiao Ming went directly to the iron and steel workshop. After a while, his clothes were soaked with sweat.

"Your Highness, it's too hot here. You'd better go outside and discuss it." Chen Wenlong advised that ordinary people would feel unbearable after staying in the steel workshop for a period of time. He worried that it would make Xiao Ming unsuitable.

Looking at the slave craftsman who was working hard with his bare arms, Xiao Ming said, "no, I'm not so coquettish. By the way, I heard that the iron and steel workshop had a supervisor. Where is he?"

Chen Wenlong pointed to the young people not far away and said, "Your Highness, this is the one in front. He is a student of Bowen college and studies steel production. He just took office a month ago. As your highness said, he also mentioned the converter steelmaking. Later, he just said that there were no materials, so he did not mention it again."

"Oh?" Xiao Ming showed a look of interest. After three years of training, more and more students have entered various workshops in Qingzhou. It's just because they are limited to the conditions. They have mastered many things, but they have no conditions to realize them.

However, there is no way to do this. His country was once destitute and had nothing. At that time, overseas scientists returned home from scratch.

But there is one thing that he can't compare with. At that time, the whole country went back to production, but now his environment is still in war, so he can only achieve it in one way.

"See your highness, Meng Kuo."

The young man who claimed to be Meng Kuo looked like a scholar, just like the craftsmen in the workshop. At this time, the young man was also barearmed and covered with black iron filings.

Looking up and down at Meng Kuo, Xiao Ming said, "Chen Wenlong said that you are from Bowen college. In this case, I will test you. The converter steelmaking is acidic and alkaline, which produces high quality iron."

"Back to your highness, it's alkaline." "Acid lining can't remove sulfur and phosphorus from iron, but alkaline lining can," Meng said

"Why go out for sulfur and phosphorus?"

"For steelmaking, phosphorus is a harmful substance. The presence of phosphorus increases the hardness and brittleness of iron, and the phosphorus content of fine pig iron should be less. Sulfur promotes the combination of iron and carbon, making iron hard and brittle, and combines with iron to form low melting point iron sulfide, which makes pig iron hot brittle and reduces the fluidity of molten iron. Considering that pig iron with high sulfur content is not suitable for casting fine parts."

Meng Kuo said, while Chen Wenlong was beaming. When Xiao Ming saw him, he asked, "I asked Meng Kuo, what are you happy about?"

"Your Highness, this Meng Kuo was selected by the lower official from the Bowen college. Now he answers like a stream, proving that the lower official's eyes are right." Chen Wenlong said with a smile.

Xiao Ming was also very satisfied with Meng Kuo's answer. No matter whether there were conditions or not, at least he had mastered the knowledge. He asked, "what is the oxidant in converter steelmaking? What is the slagging material? "

"Only iron ore and oxygen are used as oxidants, while lime is used for slagging." Meng Kuo is calm and free.

Xiao Ming nodded and asked some deeper questions. Meng Kuo's answers were very simple, which made him more satisfied.

After a pause, he said, "with you here, I can safely hand over the converter steelmaking production line to you."

"Converter steelmaking?" Meng Kuo heard the words and exclaimed.

"Yes, we have found the basic lining material for the converter. Now the basic converter steelmaking method has been realized. Next, you need to lead the craftsmen of the steel workshop to produce the converter and build a production line to increase the steel output." Xiao Ming gave the drawing to Meng Kuo as he spoke.

After taking over the drawing, Meng Kuo couldn't wait to open it. As Xiao Ming said, it was marked with the equipment needed for the whole production line, and there was also a structural diagram of the specific equipment on the drawing.

"Don't be afraid of failure. If you can't make it at the first time, you can try again." Xiao Ming told Meng Kuo that any technological innovation will encounter all kinds of problems at the initial stage. In Xiao Ming's opinion, the converter steelmaking will have to fail several times to sum up the tricks from practice.

But now that the technology is ready, the implementation is not far away.

Once Qingzhou can get a lot of cheap steel, it is possible to build a rail that needs a lot of steel, and the operation of steam locomotive in Dayu will no longer be an extravagant hope.

At the same time, a big increase in steel production will also improve the war capability and make it easier to produce weapons. Most troops will not stay in the cold weapon era as they are now.

Meng Kuo read the drawing carefully and said to Xiao Ming, "Your Highness, I've been waiting for this technology to come true. Your highness can rest assured that Meng Kuo will set up the production line even if he doesn't eat or drink."

Xiao Ming nodded. The technical difficulties of converter steelmaking are converter and oxygen blowing. Now all the problems have been solved. As for other feeding and molten steel shaping problems, they are the same. There is no need to further study them.

In the next few days, Xiao Ming and Meng Kuo had been discussing the establishment of the production line. Some of the facilities were also delivered to the craftsmen for production. On the fifth day, the first batch of magnesite was sent to the mine.This batch of ore was first mined by Xiao Ming for experiment. After calcination, grinding and casting, the lining of converter was formed.

After completing this step, the rest will come naturally. Xiao Ming doesn't want to continue to participate. After all, he doesn't want to discourage Meng Kuo.

Because in his opinion, a leader should be moderately lazy, otherwise, if he does everything himself, his subordinates will develop the problem of laziness.

From the business of converter steelmaking, Xiao Ming continued to focus on the current chaos.

At this time, Wang Xuan brought a message that made him sweat.

"The king of Wei sent envoys to ally with the king of Yan, the king of Zhao and the king of Liang?" Xiao Ming asked in an urgent voice.

"Yes, your highness." Wang Xuan's expression is dignified, "and at present the messenger has arrived at the place of King Yan, which is exactly the news that our spy in Bozhou sent back."

"It seems that the king of Wei really jumped out of the wall this time." Xiao Ming's face was heavy, which was the danger of national subjugation for him.

If the four kings attack him at the same time, he will not be able to resist. After all, in this era, the advantage of firearms can not completely offset the sea of people tactics of cold weapons troops.

As a matter of fact, the real weapon to end the cold war is the machine gun, and for him, he can't do it yet.

"Your Highness, if the treacherous plan of the king of Wei succeeds, it will be a disaster for us. The lower official thinks that we should immediately assassinate the messenger of the king of Wei and postpone the alliance." Wang Xuan said.

"This can only cure the symptoms but not the root cause. If one emissary dies, there must be a second emissary. Now we should think about how to destroy this alliance." Xiao Ming said hatefully.

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