"It's iron, it's iron!"
The fiery red liquid flowed down and took shape in the molds. The eyes of the craftsmen around the blast furnace lit up as they shouted excitedly.
Although they had already experimented with the blast furnace countless times, when they really succeeded, they could not help but be excited beyond words. They were even so excited that they could not control themselves.
This was because the speed at which they could extract iron was almost three times faster than their previous skills. Moreover, the amount of iron removed was far higher than their previous skills. Just this point alone was enough to make them unable to endure their excitement and ups and downs. Not to mention, when the iron ingots were formed one by one, the quality was far higher than before, which was enough to make them unable to hold back their excitement.
Of course, aside from the excitement, other work could not be stopped. Smelting steel naturally could not end at this step. These nails were only enough to make farming tools.
Of course, this was not what they needed to persevere, nor was it what the entire population needed. After all, such a huge amount of iron smelting could not be used to make farm tools. In fact, the goal of the entire colony was steel, and now, a month later, it was actually mass production of steel.
This was not a big problem for China. In other words, this technology had already reached the threshold of steel manufacturing.
Pig iron was produced directly from iron ore in a blast furnace. Pig iron was naturally not steel. It needed to go through the necessary processes, the two most important of which were the forging and frying methods.
Needless to say, the forging method required continuous hammering and some relatively complicated processes. After repeated hammering, the steel would be formed. The other method was naturally the stir-frying method. This was a more complicated method than the forging method, and the craftsmanship was also difficult to grasp. Among the thousands of craftsmen brought, there were hundreds of people who knew the forging method, but there were only three people who knew the stir-frying method. It could be said to be pitifully few.
In this regard, Li Chengdao naturally had to make some changes or improvements. Perhaps the quality of the steel produced by the forged steel method and the stir-fried steel method might not be much worse than the steel produced in the later generation. With his half-baked skills, he estimated that the steel produced would not be as good as those two methods. However, the problem was that he needed scale, not quality, at least in the short term.
Only by increasing the scale could it promote the progress of civilization and the upgrading of industries. As for quality, it was something that could only be pursued after increasing the scale.
Of course, even if it was an improvement, it was not a simple matter. After all, he was a dabbler. The characteristic of a semi-otaku was that he knew a little about everything and only knew a little about everything.
If he were to rely on himself, he would definitely not be able to come up with an improved method. However, the decision to go out to sea was undoubtedly particularly correct at this moment.
These people might not give him too many pointers, but they were enough to supplement him in critical situations.
Soon, the steel modification plan entered the experimental stage, and the results seemed to be extremely good. In just one day, everyone was frowning because the pig iron had already begun to undergo the transformation after the modification plan. Although it was not complete, it seemed to be only a matter of time.
The matter of steel had gradually taken shape. Li Chengdao naturally did not need to say much. First, he further expanded the number of blast furnaces. From the original few, it quickly expanded to more than a dozen. If it were not for the fact that there was a real shortage of manpower and the Native Americans still had no progress, he might have been able to increase the number of blast furnaces to dozens in an instant.
After all, this was the 6th century, not the 21st century. There was no need to worry about overcapacity at all. The more steel, the better. Even during World War II, a country's steel production was almost equal to its absolute strength. Why was Japan so awesome? Why was America so awesome? Just look at their steel production during World War II.
As a transmigrator, Li Chengdao understood that the demand for steel would only increase in the future, and it would increase exponentially. This was not a joke, but a fact that was about to happen.
Not to mention anything else, once he came into contact with the Native Americans, the speed of steel production would increase explosively. This was not his intention to trade steel. He did not have such an idea in the short term. After all, he did not have absolute strength. Sending enough weapons to these people would only cause trouble for himself. The main reason was that once the labor force was sufficient, the era of large-scale infrastructure could be seen in the foreseeable future.
As for large-scale infrastructure, it would not be a small matter like today. It would be a large-scale construction. At that time, the demand for steel would definitely be an astronomical figure. Moreover, the appearance of steel would be enough to change many things. It would even upgrade various industries, allowing them to embark on a completely different path.
This was a path that was destined to be difficult, but one that had boundless hope. It would be completely different from the Great Tang, and it might one day be engraved in the annals of history.
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