Zhao Hu was shocked by such a huge harvest. It was fine if the procurement group spent a lot of money to buy back the supplies, but he didn't expect that he could still rob the lake bandits and rob more than a dozen fast ships. He was worried that he would not have a ship to form a navy army. He had a pillow as soon as he was dozing off. However, those lake bandit soldiers cannot use them now and must undergo labor reform first. After they have brainwashed, they can only enter the navy army.

The navy was easy to do, so Zhang Lie took it first. Anyway, the team members who went out would be on a boat, so it was hard to find this role that brainwashed the water bandits. It seemed that they had to look for more.

What made him most happy was not the goods he bought, but the three large ships that followed, one ship of turbulent oil, one ship of saltpeter sulfur, and the other ship of Songjiangbu, which was half of each grain. This was Songjiangbu, and even if you had money, you could not buy them.

As for the more than 20 people on the boat, I heard that they were all injured, so I would treat them first and rest. When they were cured, I would send a lot of banknotes to get out of here. I believe that as long as the other party did not bare his teeth, he would be reasonable with him.

Zhao Hu arranged the first thing he arranged was not iron smelting, but coking. Unlike the earth-based method of coking, this coke oven has an ammonia water collection device. As for coal tar, I'm sorry, under the existing conditions, I'm completely unable to distillate it anymore. I can't eat a bite and do everything within my ability.

Gas? I dare not collect them. Although there are good things in it, dangers also exist. Therefore, the coke oven uses despised earth method to coke. The gas is ignited through the fuse and heated indirectly. The disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of coal. At the same time, once ignited, the smoke over the entire coking field is simply covering the sky. If there is an environmental protection department at this time, it will definitely be regarded as a typical example!

Industry is indeed the nemesis of environmental protection. The fog that was famous later was probably formed in this way. However, Zhao Hu only sighed for a moment and stopped asking about it. Compared with countless lives, this sacrifice is a bit too much. I have an iron smelting furnace and a sulfuric acid factory that has not been launched. Then it will be smoky!

The coke needs to be screened, coal preparation and other procedures, and it will take eight to eleven days to be released into the furnace. Therefore, Zhao Hu built several furnaces and ignited them in sequence. In the future, as long as there is no shortage of coal, it can continue to produce here.

The coking ground was in the northwest corner, and more than a dozen teenagers were arranged to guard the guards, and they were left to an ordinary Shen family. The workers in this kind of polluting enterprise were naturally captured and needed labor reform. They had long been scared by the rifles on the back of the teenagers' guards, and they did whatever they wanted, without any resistance!

Zhao Hu ignored it after all, the technical content is too low. What he needs to do is to refine strong turmeric oil. This is the top priority. Only by obtaining crude oil refining can the power of the blower be guaranteed.

The rough refining furnace is a little more advanced than the local refining on the roadside later, and is similar to the Yan*an refining furnace before. After Zhao Hu and others ignited the bottom, they began to explain to the disciples of the Shen family around them: "Petroleum, that is, strong tincture oil, was mentioned in Mengxi Bishu. In fact, this thing is full of treasures. When we refine it, we can extract paraffin, heavy oil, paraffin from the bottom to make candles, and heavy oil as fuel."

"Depending on the boiling point in the middle, light diesel, gasoline, kerosene can be distilled out, which is the treasure we want. Of course, what is more precious is actually the thick smoke coming out from above, which contains benzene, toluene, and various alkanes. Unfortunately, the current capacity is limited, and these components are extremely dangerous, so we can only give up for the time being!"

The disciples of the Shen family had already transformed into good students at this time, holding a small notebook to record. By the way, the pencils given by Zhao Hu were easy to use, and the recording was convenient and fast, and there was no need to bring an inkstone. You had to make more in the future.

Zhao Hu stared at the thermometer meticulously, but he was thankful that he wrote some important tools so that the blind man would not touch the elephant when coking and refining oil.

Chen Hui, who was following him, smiled all day long, but he was very serious when doing things. Zhao Hu stared at him for a while and then left it to him. He had an idea just now and wanted to complete it immediately, so as not to be too late.

Well, it’s the problem of diesel and gasoline. At present, we can only use diesel generators to drive the blower and wait until the steam engine is built before replacing it. However, several gasoline engines have no use recently. Build cars? Forget it, I don’t have the ability!

I found a gasoline engine, did it myself, and drove a long rod propeller and tail rudder, made some accessories, and after assembly, I came to the riverside. The smallest one of the water bandits' cranes was parked at the dock, and the broken mast on it had been removed. The new one had not been completed yet. Well, it was him. Let's try it first.

He called two Shen's carpenters and told them about their requests. The two of them started to move. The modification was very simple, that is, they removed the tail rudder and made a new rack. Zhao Hu and a few people worked together to install the gasoline engine upwards, and a small paddle hanging machine was ready!

The two carpenters were stunned. Is Master Zhao here to play? You don’t need a good rudder. Just put a big iron guy on it. The propeller below may be used to push water. The rudder above is too small, right? So a little powerful turn?

Zhao Hu got on the boat alone, looked at his skills, and nodded with satisfaction. It was not bad, a marine plug-in machine, Taobao only sold for 3990 yuan. Now, huh, it doesn’t cost 30,000 taels of silver!

As soon as the rope was pulled, the gasoline engine started, and the propeller underwater started to rotate rapidly. The two carpenters saw that the small wooden boat slowly started, and the speed became faster and faster. In the end, the small wooden boat was simply flying on the water surface, with the bow raised high, cutting the waves. Is this a magical method? Both of them were so scared that they sat on the ground, watching Zhao Hu shouting alone, playing so happily!

After the trial voyage, Zhao Hu docked the ship at the dock and ordered two sentries to guard it strictly. This clutch will be the fastest means of transportation in the future. If a war breaks out, wouldn’t it be an invincible existence?

Refractory mud is not difficult to find. After the crude gasoline and diesel is refined, the iron and blast furnace is about to start construction. To wait for this day, Zhao Hu has made sufficient preparations.

The strong wind blown by the blower gave the steelmaking furnace sufficient air, and the quicklime did not dare to add too much. When the red flame in the furnace turned from red to white, Zhao Hu stared at the thermometer and kept his eyes fixed on it, one thousand degrees, one thousand two hundred degrees, one thousand four hundred degrees, one thousand four hundred degrees, one thousand four hundred degrees, one thousand four hundred and fifty degrees!

"Okay, keep the current temperature and don't exceed too much..."

Pig iron steelmaking is much more convenient than iron ore. When lime slag reaches a certain density, the carbon content in steel is almost up to standard. With Zhao Hu's order, the reddish molten steel began to pour into molds. On this hot day, it is considered a great pain to do this work, but no one in front of the furnace said a word. Everyone knows that the molten steel in front of us condenses everyone's hope!

"Ding Ding Ding Ding"

The sinker used a small hammer to hit the cooled steel ingot one by one, and then a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It's successful, good steel!"

"Ao..."

In the factory shed, all the workers involved screamed, and even some people burst into tears. It was not easy. The work that has been working for nearly a month has been going on for a long time is just to witness the miracle of Zhao Hu making steel directly. Unexpectedly, he succeeded in one go. If this news is released, it will cause a shock across the country!
Chapter completed!