Hong Dashou was an engineering student before. He had seen a lot of lathes and grinders. He had used both the CNC hand crank and the pedal drill twice. He even studied electrical automation and three-phase motors for a period of time. I know a little bit about it.

But the six-meter-square tall iron furnace in front of him still surprised him. The blower that blew him the air was four horses spinning there.

No wonder it gets hotter and hotter the further we go, but in the spring season, all the furnace workers only wear a pair of big pants. The heat wave is overwhelming next to the furnace, and the temperature seems to melt people.

At such a "magnificent" old-style iron stove, only Hong Dashou was surprised, while Kim Doo-gil and Lin Sang-wo were not surprised at all, and they pretended to comment.

Jin Douji had been to this den of thieves and saw this scene, so he didn't talk about it. Lin Sangwo was from Yizhou and worked as an accountant and translator. How could he know about Wufeng Mountain in Iron Mountain?

"You businessmen from Taiwan won't be their buyers, right?" Hong Dashou thought of a possible answer.

"Yes, after Jiang Xingshou, our business group purchased 40,000 jins of pig iron and 5,000 jins of wrought iron from Wufeng Mountain every year. I have seen it in our store's account books. The quality of the iron here is very good, better than that of the Qing Dynasty. Better."

"This is a thief!" Hong Dashou said softly.

"You can't say that. They are just a group of common people who can't survive. They are just relying on their own efforts. They make iron just to make a living." Big business groups like Lin Shangwo and others take both black and white, and many things happen. Look lighter.

"Then your business is doing well!" What else could Hong Dashou say, go and report the Taiwanese merchant bandits? It's impossible, he doesn't have a clean butt.

The man leading the way called a young man to come over and keep an eye on the three of them. He then left and went to a large courtyard in the village, probably to report the news about Hong Dashou and the others.

Anyway, there was no one to stop it. It was just blacksmith work, and they didn’t hide it, so they left it for the three people to see. People like them who dominate the mountain, as long as they don’t go down the mountain to infringe on the interests of the government and big households, Li Chao will do it. It's such a mess, let alone not wanting to take care of it. Even if you want to take care of it, it's too much trouble given the level of today's officers and soldiers.

Hong Dashou stared at the blacksmiths who were tinkling and hammering. Indeed, as the man said before, most of them were making farm tools. This kind of product has no worries about marketability in a small farmer society, the price is just high or low.

"How can the iron here be better than the iron in the Qing Dynasty?" Hong Dashou asked while looking at it.

"The iron used to make iron here is charcoal, not coal. I don't know the specific reason, but it is indeed better than the iron from the north of the Qing Dynasty, and is on par with Guangzhou Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (Foshan Iron)." Lin Shangwo seemed to know. One point, he replied casually.

"Charcoal..." So that's it, charcoal makes iron. (As usual, it's not encyclopedic. You must be tired of seeing other people copy and paste it.)

After walking around for a while, the novelty wore off, and Hong Dashou finally finished reading. According to them, they can only run two or three furnaces a month, and each furnace cannot produce several thousand kilograms of iron. Two hundred thousand kilograms of iron will be used up by the end of the year.

Nowadays, small factories and mines with an annual output of 100 tons of iron have long been closed down. But just such a small well, plus a stove, can feed thousands of people up and down the mountain.

It's unfortunate, it's not that they don't want to expand production capacity, it's that they have no way to expand it.

Just like many time-traveling scientists, they added a regenerator to the iron-making blast furnace to increase the furnace temperature. Even if Hong Dashou gave it back to the teacher in the university, he could still talk about it.

It’s useless!

Even if you know the open-hearth steelmaking method and the converter steelmaking method by heart, it will be useless if you copy them here. Even if you blow the whistle, it will still be the same. Don't think that Baidu in the 21st century can be of much help.

The ancients were not stupid, and the current social development was also driven by generations of ancients.

Just like the iron-making furnace in front of Hong Dashou, one furnace can obviously smelt ten thousand kilograms of iron, but in fact this is simply not possible.

Because of the simplest reason - no ore!

In other words, there are countless iron ores, but you can't transport them!

For shallow mines like Tieshan, the entire mountain may even be a vein of ore. If you dig down for more than ten or twenty to thirty meters, you can get out the ore. It is not easy to carry this stone out of the mine.

The tunnel is not straight and straight. The tunnel that is driven in diagonally is 30 meters into the ground, but it may be 200 meters long.

If you are a big-time young man carrying a basket of 200 kilograms of iron ore and hitting it back and forth three times a day, he will no longer be able to do it. If he can no longer do it, he will die in the well if he continues to do so.

At the same time in our country, Mentougou outside Yanjing was a place where coal was produced. No one wanted to work as a miner. It was too tiring and difficult. Some people in the Qing Dynasty wrote in their notes that more than 90% of these coal mines were trying to traffic people into the mines. Generally,

A person will die after working for two years.

That's right, he's dead!

I was exhausted to death in two years!

There is even some unofficial history saying that a fourth-grade official was put in a sack and sold into a well, witnessing the horror of the mines in this era. He could not survive but could not survive. He barely escaped two years later with almost no life left.

Finally, a report was made to the imperial court, and officers and soldiers were dispatched to conduct a strict investigation and freed more than 2,000 abducted miners. The tragic situation could not be worsened.

Collapse in the tunnel, water seepage, ventilation, lighting, everything are big problems. Without a complete industrial system, there is no way to do any tunnel operations or deep well excavation.

If we dig open-pit mines honestly, without open-pit mines, the situation would be the same as Wufeng Mountain. The ore is there, but you can't transport it out. It's so unreasonable, so realistic, and so cruel.

If you don’t accept it, just hold it in!

That is to say, the three of them, Hong Dashou, happened to meet up. This month, they just collected enough ore to open the furnace. Otherwise, the iron-smelting furnace would be very cold, with no smelting capacity, but no ore for smelting.

If we go back to 1801 in England, the train should not have been invented yet, but the improved steam engine has already been invented. Then there is still some work to do, which can solve some of the problems of deep well digging. But Hong Dashou cannot build a steam engine with his bare hands, so he is blind.

I could only look around in boredom. In addition to those who were making farm tools, there were two blacksmiths making blades. They were the most common waist knives. There was no steel in them. They would break out after a few cuts on the battlefield. They were the cheapest.

Popular goods, second only to cheaper iron gun heads.

When the last blacksmith came, he was rolling iron with an iron bar, and the bell kept ringing. It was as if he was forging an iron plate into an iron pipe.

There was also an apprentice blacksmith hammering nearby. It didn't take long before an iron pipe rolled on an iron rod was hammered into shape. After being inserted into water to cool, it was detached from the iron rod.
Chapter completed!