Originally, Ji Chuan had planned to build the first Liaodong steel mill in at least three months. After all, a steel mill was different from a glass factory. Glass factories made craft products, while steel factories made military products.
Compared to glass factories, steel factories had much higher requirements for quality and details. They had to ensure efficiency and improve quality at the same time.
The most crucial problem was that Zhu Zhi's steel mill was not a regular steel mill. There was no experience to learn from. Every step needed Ji Chuan and his Construction Division to personally test it out. If there were any loopholes, they needed to be remelted and redone. There could not be any mistakes.
This was because the steelworks of the Ming Dynasty were still using the " Hundred Steels of Steel " of the Western Han Dynasty, which was to repeatedly heat, fold, and forge iron blocks to make the structure of the steel dense, the composition uniform, and the impurities reduced, thereby improving the quality of the steel.
If he hammered out steel one hammer at a time, could he increase his efficiency?
However, Zhu Zhi's steel mill was different. He used a gas producer, using gas as fuel instead of coke.
A regenerative furnace that was pre-heated by waste gas was used to heat up the air and fuel to increase the temperature of the furnace. This method was used to refine pig iron and iron ore into high-quality steel.
In addition, when smelting with this method, a small amount of soda can be added at the same time to solve the dephosphorous problem. The disadvantage was that it took a long time to smelt, about a day for each furnace. However, because the melting pool was large, each furnace could produce about 2,000 catties of molten steel. The output was extremely high, and the quality was also high.
This output was much higher than Hundred Refined Steel!
Unlike the traditional hundred steel mill, Zhu Zhi's steel mill could use pig iron, molten iron, scrap steel, iron filings, wrought iron, and ores as raw materials to facilitate the recycling of scrap steel. In addition, the steel produced was uniform and of stable quality, producing high-quality steel with excellent effects.
It was simply godly!
However, because it was too advanced, the requirements of the Liaodong steel mill were much higher than those of ordinary steel factories. The difficulty of construction was greatly increased.
However, this was not a problem. Zhu Zhi had given too much silver!
Because Zhu Zhi was willing to spend money, he had no worries about the purchase of raw materials and manpower.
Each of the 800 skilled workers in the Construction Division now had more than five apprentices. These apprentices were all people from outside Liaodong. Because Zhu Zhi was willing to spend money and Zhu Di added fuel to the fire, the number of people in the Construction Division increased rapidly. Now, the number of registered people in the Construction Division was close to 5,500!
Zhu Zhi's Construction Division was comparable to Da Ming's regular guards!
With the cheat of " silver is enough ", Ji Chuan managed to build Liaodong's number one steel mill in a short month!
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The molten iron in the furnace was boiling like magma. After the furnace charge was melted, when the molten pool was heated to a specified temperature, ores could be added to refine it, and at the same time, the basicity of the slag could be increased.
The smelting process was divided into: refilling, charging, melting, refining, deoxidization, and tapping.
After the process was completed, the uneven brown iron ore became a brand new and shiny high-quality steel. However, there would be a special cart responsible for pulling the steel away and transporting it to the warehouse.
Zhu Zhi casually picked up a piece of steel. The steel was bright and strong."Beautiful."
"These are all high-grade steel, which is also known as fine steel," said Ji Chuan with a smile. The steel produced in this steel mill was not only of high production, but also of the best quality.”
"Work hard. This year, this king will give you a princess consort.”Zhu Zhi patted Ji Chuan's shoulder and said in relief.
What he didn't notice was that at this moment, a young girl in green walked into the steel mill and stood behind him.
When the young girl heard Zhu Zhi's words, she could not help but blush. She whispered,"Who wants to be your concubine…"
She observed her surroundings and couldn't help but exclaim.
What a magnificent steel mill this was! It was actually so tall that the steel produced was stacked into an iron mountain!
This, this was all that man's great cause?
"Thank you, Your Highness…?" Ji Chuan sensed that something was wrong.
What does marrying a princess have to do with me!
"The steel mill is good, but not good enough.”Zhu Zhi said slowly.
"Ah?" "Your Highness, did I do something wrong?" Ji Chuan came back to his senses.”
Zhu Zhi said,"Too little."”
"Your Highness, this is already quite a lot. I dare to look around. There is no steel mill in the Great Ming Dynasty that can compare to our Liaodong steel mill in terms of steel production! Moreover, not only is our production volume top-notch, but our quality is also top-notch!”
"It's not that the production is low, but that there are few factories.”
" Fewer factories?!"
"That's right. It's just that there are fewer factories." "This is just a steel mill," Zhu Zhi said proudly."How can one be enough?"”
"Now that Liaodong's first steel mill has been built, we're going to build Liaodong's second and third steel mill!”
" Not only that, we also want to build Guangning No.1 Steelmaking Plant, Guangning No.2 Steelmaking Plant…Liaoyang No.1 Steelmaking Plant, Liaoyang No.2 Steelmaking Plant…"
"This king wants to build a steel mill in every city in Liaodong!”
"This is this king's Liaodong!"
The young girl in green looked at Zhu Zhi's high-spirited and proud appearance and could not help but be a little absent-minded.
So handsome, so domineering…
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