It's time to ignite the iron!

Seeing that everything was ready and the time was right, Lin Ze asked Hu Yan to direct everyone to start lighting the stove, and then start feeding the material after heating up.

"Hu Yan, start smelting iron!" Lin Ze ordered calmly.

"Yes, sir!" Hu Yan took the order and soon began to smelify iron.

If it is on the earth, some names must be created here, such as ribbon cutting, in order to give a good omen, but Lin Ze is not interested in doing this now. Besides, someone must understand the ribbon cutting ceremony here.

The next moment, Hu Yan directly picked up the rosin torch and threw it into the blast furnace from the iron outlet at the bottom.

Soon, the bottom vent blower was already on, but at the beginning there was no waste slag preheating, Hu Yan immediately made a pile of firewood grow in the low furnace to heat the air inside.

The shutter at the iron outlet was made of pig iron, and a thick layer of fire-resistant mud was applied on the inside. When the blue smoke from the furnace rolled out from the hole, a man named Xu San beside Hu Yan, who was lying outside the mouth, squinted his eyes and looked inside, and then quickly said: "Sir, it's okay to burn inside!"

After saying that, he closed the valve.

After hearing this answer, Hu Yan waved his hand and said, "Blowing!"

With Hu Yan's instructions, the workers around him had already prepared a long time ago immediately pulled off the machine. Then, the fire armored cow below began to continuously output animal power. The huge animal power machine slowly rotated under the huge force of the fire armored cow. The powerful force kept pulling the power output device, directly transmitting the power below to the top, and then the eccentric wheel turned the rotational movement into the reciprocating movement of the bellows piston.

In this way, accompanied by the sound of squeaking wood turning, fresh air kept blowing into the blast furnace from the air duct.

At first, because we needed to remain stable, or because we just started, we needed to be careful, everything turned slowly, which caused the blower's wind pressure to decrease and the oxygen supply in the furnace was quite insufficient. Therefore, at this time, thick black smoke came out from the top of the furnace, which directly turned the surrounding space into darkness. Then, a strong and pungent smell came, causing many of the people present to breathe directly.

However, Lin Ze and Hu Yan didn't care. They had long been mentally prepared for this.

"Increase the speed!!" Hu Yan didn't say much and ordered again.

"Yes, sir!"

As the power output of the fire armor bull below turned faster and faster, the blower began to exert great power, and the oxygen in the furnace was fully supplied. After that, the smoke from the smoke flushed turned from black to blue, from blue to white, and the color became lighter and lighter. Finally, a large flame happily rose out of the furnace.

In addition to charcoal, the furnace is also filled with some iron ore that has been washed and calcined by the earth kiln, and limestone is also used as slag-making agent. Now that the fire is too big, workers can continue to add materials to it according to the procedures.

A worker quickly pulled the machine under Hu Yan's command, and the winch linked to the animal power machine below quickly turned quickly and smoothly. Through the pulley set, the rope of the blast furnace feeding dump truck was dragged and slowly tightened. The dump truck climbed onto the top of the blast furnace along the 30-degree slanted slide rail.

When the person below pulled the control cable on his hand, the ore in the car on the upper part poured into the blast furnace. After everything was done, the dump truck slowly retreated with the operation of the staff below. The other workers who had been waiting for the change to immediately shovel the charcoal in. After that, it climbed onto the top of the furnace again... and repeated the process constantly.

At this time, someone ignited the coal in the preheating tank, and the air entering the furnace was preheated and blown into the furnace to aggravate the combustion reaction inside.

Charcoal and iron ore can be said to have met too late at this time. In the hot blast furnace, embrace and roll, the released fire rushed out of the furnace and swelled straight into the sky. Countless Mars kept splashing. Such a picture looked so beautiful and so exciting even during the day.

Everyone stayed by the stove at this time and watched this strange scene that they had never seen before. After seeing such a picture, many people were more awe of Lin Ze in the crowd.

These people have seen iron smelting before, but this is the first time they have seen such a large scale and magical means.

Some people with ulterior motives can't help but start thinking in their hearts, thinking about what they should do in the future, how to get along with Lin Ze, etc.

It takes a long time to smelvet iron, but for some people, this time is a bit too short.

Just after lunch, a staff member rushed to Lin Ze and Hu Yan, his face flushed and red, and the blue veins on his neck jumped: "Sir, sir, too, too fast! Hurry, sir, you might as well go and have a look, the furnace has been burned into molten iron!"

At this time, Lin Ze smiled and shook his head and said, "It's normal. You don't need to make such a fuss. Hu Yan, let's go and have a look!"

After saying that, Lin Ze got up and walked towards the direction where the blast furnace was calm.

But Lin Ze was so calm, but the other people who knew some iron smelting techniques were really excited at this time.

Can these people not be excited? They have seen some iron smelting scenes with their own eyes before. Some people have even refined them with their own hands several times. The scale and speed are much smaller than the one in front of them, and they produce less iron at one time. However, the effort is taken, the charcoal is more than ten times, or even dozens of times. Moreover, there is no day or night when smelting iron, so I can never imagine turning iron into water.

Now, it’s only half a day before, the iron ore has not been burned red before, but now it has been directly refined into iron. This scene shocked countless people!

Actually, this is not surprising. Think about it, when you eat hot pot in summer, if the air conditioner in the room is blowing against the hot pot in front of you, will the hot pot not be boiled for a long time?

The same is true for iron smelting. The air at about 20 degrees Celsius at room temperature is blown into a blast furnace that is thousands of degrees, which is like pouring ice water on the fire. The charcoal in the furnace must not only heat the iron ore, but also heat the air. The air just heated up and ran away from the top of the furnace. New cold air blows in the air duct, and it keeps repeating.

Faced with such a situation, no matter how much fuel you add and how much effort and energy you spend, it is still wasting in vain, because you are actually doing useless work.

The air preheating is different. The charcoal here is reacting violently with the iron ore, burning. The hot air of thousands of degrees here rushed in directly, and then it was like adding fuel to the fire. The fire suddenly rose directly, and the temperature soared afterwards, which is conceivable.

Lin Ze and Hu Yan are both very clear about this, so they both looked calm.

At this time, you can clearly see from the observation port on the side of the blast furnace that the molten iron inside is now all at the bottom of the furnace, and it looks like it shows an extremely charming orange-red steel. According to the current state of molten iron, you should be able to open the furnace and get out the iron!

Hu Yan nodded, indicating that he could open the way.

The workers who had been prepared long ago all wore thick cotton coats as protection at this time, and then held long-handled iron pliers to open the valve at the lower iron outlet of the blast furnace, and the iron suddenly jumped and flowed out.

These molten iron mixed with slag came out together, but the iron was heavy and the slag was light. Therefore, most of the slag floated on the surface. Because there was a special interception device, the large pieces of trench were blocked by a cast iron baffle. Then the workers around them took long iron sticks and pulled the slag aside.

At this time, the grooves used for casting were wide open, and molds had been laid on the ground. At this time, the molten iron that removed large pieces of slag flowed into the mold from the grooves and cast into pig iron blocks weighing more than 100 kilograms.

Because the specific gravity of iron is 7.8, so even if it is about a hundred kilograms of pig iron, it is actually about the same size as a small square stool.

After a while, more than 200 cast iron ingots were simply cast.

Those who have trust outside were completely stupid to see this. As long as the pig iron blocks in front of them were not fools, they could roughly estimate a rough number. It was this number that made these people think they were dreaming.

For example, Xu Dongxing, who used to be responsible for purchasing some weapons from the White Elephant Legion in Huangsha Town, so he is very familiar with steel and is also aware of the output of the surrounding iron smelting plants.

According to what he saw with his own eyes, the largest iron smelting plant in Linsha City in the surrounding area usually produces iron every three days. However, even so, at most, at one furnace, it is at most three to four thousand kilograms of iron. But now here, just the ones on the ground are more than 20,000 kilograms!

The most important thing is that it only takes half a day. If it were three days, the number would have to be increased several times. Moreover, there are not only one blast furnace here, but five others.

If all these blast furnaces start to be smelted, then...

Thinking of this, Xu Dongxing pinched his thighs and said in his heart: "This is simply a miracle. Miracle, I'm not right? More than 20,000 kilograms of pig iron, even if it gathers all the iron factory in the sandbank, it will have to be refined for three days and three nights. However, it's only less than half a day here. Lin Lixuan is really amazing, too powerful. It seems that I can make up some things..."

Not only Xu Dongxing, but also some other interested people made a decision after calculating this number.
Chapter completed!