Chapter 228: The First Iron Smelting
Where does Tang Yi know how to strike iron, he doesn't even know what iron ore looks like, in fact, when he said just now that he wants to mine and strike iron by himself, it was purely to vent his emotions, but after thinking about it, it seems that this idea can really work, isn't there a mine hole in his military camp.
So Tang Yi pondered for a while and said, "I only need tools that can make kettles and iron chips." ”
"Oh, that's simple, just a small blast furnace, a molten iron furnace, coke, limestone, tongs, molds, ......"
The middle-aged boss said several things, Tang Yi frowned and listened, thought for a while and said, "Boss, can I observe the studio behind you for a day?" ”
"Hehe, Young Principal, this is not good, after all, we blacksmiths are all people who rely on their craft, and this craft cannot be passed on casually."
"Come on, let's just look at the money for a day, but if you dare to open your mouth again, I'll find a duel with the blacksmith in your shop, you'd better think clearly before asking for a price."
Tang Yi didn't want to use force to suppress people, but there was no way, the money was spent too distressingly.
Sure enough, sometimes threats are better than anything else, and the middle-aged boss cried and trembled and offered the price of ten gold coins, and the junior iron-striking tools mentioned before, plus the mine hoe and pickaxe, a total of five hundred gold coins.
So Tang Yi became a blacksmith apprentice, and followed the boss into the workshop at the back of the shop, and suddenly a heat wave hit, and the sound of tinkling knocks in the house was endless.
The boss explained a few words to the three blacksmiths in the house and left, in fact, Tang Yi recognized him as soon as the three blacksmiths came in, although the three of them were not present in the duel that day, but afterwards they heard about the whole process, and the long blood stain on the street in front of the door is the best proof.
Therefore, these three blacksmith masters were a little afraid of Tang Yi, but Tang Yi came to learn things, so his attitude was kind and polite, and after a few hours, the three of them were no longer so restrained.
At the end of the day, Tang Yi's harvest was great, and it was basically no problem to make the kettle now, but he had a whim, and planned to change the kettle to iron, and reduce the volume by half, and make the shape round, so that the dispersion would be more uniform when it exploded.
During the chatting with the three blacksmith masters, Tang Yi deliberately learned that the mine in the military camp turned out to be a crystal mine, and it was also accompanied by hematite, but it had already been mined clean.
Tang Yi suddenly remembered Xiao Mike, if that little kid is here, let alone looking for iron ore, it is not a problem to find a gold mine, otherwise fly back to Muni City to pick him up?
Forget it, it's not safe here, and the conditions are not good, let's talk about it later.
It was already past midnight when he ran back to the barracks with Ah Hua, Tang Yi first filled the three kettles with iron chips, sand and five fire talismans before going to bed, he was now a little expecting the fat mayor to send someone to assassinate him soon, so as to test the explosive effect of this kettle.
However, such a powerful weapon called a kettle is too ugly and too unclassy, so Tang Xiaoye, who is difficult to name, began to think about the name of this thing again.
Since it's a weapon that explodes when thrown out of your hand, why don't you call it a hand bomb? Not good, it sounds like your own hand was blown up, it's too unlucky.
Hand blast? No, broken hands? Depend on! It feels worse than a hand bomb,**? Forehead...... Where the fuck is this skewer.
Grenade? Well! Holding a thunder in my hand, the thunder is for me, it is awesome enough, domineering enough, worthy of the master, it is called a grenade.
It was another night without incident, after dawn, Tang Yi found a wooden stick, tied a few circles of stardust spar as a torch, and carried it into the mine, it is estimated that Tang Yi is the only one in the world who uses stardust spar for lighting.
At first, the slope of the mine was not large, and the cave was very wide, but after entering three or four hundred meters, the slope of the mine became steeper, and the tunnel narrowed and lowered, and the track of the mine cart ended here.
From here, there are a number of small mines, each extending in a different direction, since you don't know which mine may have iron ore, let's go in from left to right one by one.
Entering the leftmost mine for a distance of about a kilometer, he reached the end, along the way Tang Yi kept paying attention to the ground and walls, and indeed occasionally saw hematite, but the amount was too small.
However, in line with the idea that mosquito legs are also meat, Tang Yi didn't let go of these pieces of hematite, he directly used the sharp horizontal knife to dig down the hematite, and then put it into the Qiankun necklace, Ciao! The money for the pickaxe and the hoe was spent in vain.
In this way, while exploring each mine cave, he collected hematite, but he didn't expect that a few mines came down and really collected a lot, of course, this ore is equivalent to resource depletion in the eyes of any mine, but for Tang Yi, it is estimated that it should not be a problem to make more than a hundred or ten grenades.
Hehe, I really didn't expect that my temporary intention to be angry could really save a lot of money, and the most important thing is that I can continue to experiment as I want.
After returning to the playground after leaving the mine, Tang Yi placed the blast furnace, iron melting furnace and other equipment and utensils in a single stone house, feeling that this room used to be like a warehouse, not too big or small, just right, and there were a few big holes in the roof of the shed, and the light was good.
Next, Tang Yi officially started to work, first of all, he had to use a blast furnace to smelt iron ore into molten iron, the important thing in this process was the temperature, but the temperature was not a problem for Tang Yi at all, because he directly made a "fire-breathing" charm under the furnace to reduce the power of the blower, and used it as a blower.
The smelting process was relatively slow, and the moment the molten iron flowed out of the blast furnace, Tang Yi's mood instantly became excited, and he almost cried, because what flowed out was not molten iron, it was simply a shiny gold coin.
However, in an instant, Tang Yi became extremely annoyed, and he suddenly found that the iron melting furnace used to heat the scorching iron seemed to be redundant, because he could use the "soft" character script to directly shape the cold iron, and he could pinch it as much as he wanted, and he didn't need to beat the iron again after it was red.
However, after the molten iron cooled down, Tang Yi knew that it was necessary to repeatedly beat this process, there were too many impurities in the molten iron, and only in this way could the impurities be removed, but after getting the pure iron, it was still a good way to shape it with "soft" characters.
The process of repeatedly striking a piece of red-hot iron on an anvil is called forging, which can be done manually by wielding a hammer or using a steam-powered steam hammer.
In view of the price of goods in Sweetwater Town, Tang Yi didn't even dare to ask, so he directly chose the more primitive manpower hammer and anvil, but when he "jingled" the forging for more than ten minutes, he suddenly had an idea.
Depend on! It's so stupid, it's not that there is a "moving" character text, why are you still stupid here and pick up the sledgehammer yourself?
The "moving" character can allow an object to move repeatedly according to a set action, but the condition is that there must be a "point" or "surface" that supports the object's motion, which means that it is impossible to let a hammer float in the air and swing it on its own.
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