The temperature of the stove is increasing. After the burning of coking coal and the blowing of the bellows, the iron ore is softened rapidly.

Finally, the iron ore melts in the graphite crucible, and after adding a desulfurizer, it is poured into an iron ingot.

"How is the quality?" Sun Ce asked anxiously. It was her first witness to the process of turning iron ore into molten iron. This method has never been used to forge iron ingots.

In particular, in order to achieve this, I spent a lot of money to find a craftsman guild and customized this graphite crucible.

"Very perfect!" The blacksmith looked at the iron ingots that had been quenched and his whole body was trembling.

As a non-professional person, he was able to forge such a perfect iron ingot...

No, this thing is just pouring directly, what kind of forging is it?

It feels like it is not the result of forging by blacksmiths, but the thing made by workers in batches.

According to this concept, can ordinary workers complete the wrought iron and steelmaking in the future?

I feel a little frustrated, but I feel it's nothing. After all, the craftsman's real ability is to forge the iron ingot into weapons and armor in the end. The better the raw materials, the happier it should be.

But from a forged man to a craftsman, he still looks a bit priceless...

"Is the question too perfect..." Zulang looked carefully, "If this quality is sold, it would be a waste. It is more appropriate to use it to build weapons to arm your soldiers."

"This... is the same!" Sun Ce stepped forward and knocked it, then picked up the iron ingot with remaining heat to weigh it, "Weishi, how about you think this is used to create my gun handle?"

Speaking of which, although her gun tip has been cast, she has never found a suitable gun handle.

It is mainly ordinary wood, even hardwood, it cannot withstand her waving.

Many times the gun head is not broken and the gun rod is broken first. It is considered normal before changing weapons.

In the end, they all use iron gun rods. Problem has not made hollow iron pipes these days, so they are solid.

In other words, the weight of the gun body is heavier than the gun head. Of course, Sun Ce's strength may seem a little lighter.

"If you don't mind..." Zhu Xin certainly had no objection, "As for the quality issue... change to a ceramic crucible, and then don't add desulfurizer!"

"How about the coal ball you mentioned?" Zhang Zhao thought for a while. It was the first time she knew that the charcoal and soil were mixed in a certain proportion, and it burned even harder than the charcoal fire.

Not to mention coking coal, it has more firepower and no black smoke, which can directly melt iron ore into molten iron.

If there is no crucible to fill it at this time, I don’t know how to gather the molten iron.

"I haven't tried it, but the firepower should be higher than ordinary charcoal, and it's the same as white charcoal." Zhu Xin thought about it, and he just knew that there was something, but he didn't know what the specific situation was.

In theory, there is all carbonite, and it is easy to get honeycomb coal out.

But as mentioned before, this thing has no market. In the Jiangnan area, the price of firewood and charcoal is really not expensive.

Anyway, the output is not much, just use it for iron smelting.

"In this way, then you can use coal balls to smelize iron in the future!" Zhang Zhao waved his hand and immediately determined the tone. Coking coal iron smelting can be used to create equipment and arm their own people, but exporting is absolutely not possible.

"No, let's change the angle!" Zhu Xin immediately stated, "We will directly produce weapons and then sell them!"

Exporting low-end raw materials to make money is something that only countries colonized by the economy do, such as Africa in later generations.

Exporting semi-finished products and then producing them to major countries is what developing countries do.

Only by making finished products and high-end luxury goods is the path that developed countries should take.

"The ring-headed sword and spear must be sold, and no matter who needs this thing, you can also consider making a small scale for long slaughter and axe. We can even sell seven or eight high-end weapons every month, or the ones that are the ones who are at the higher price. Anyway, making money will not affect the balance of the enemy and our combat power!" Zhu Xin explained.

The long skull and the big axe were used to break shields and armor. Some princes had long skull and big axe soldiers in their ranks, which were used to deal with heavy infantry. Some generals would use long skull or big axe. For example, Xu Huang used a big axe according to the records.

"Do you want Qin Song to give up his position to you?" Zhang Zhao felt that it would be a waste for Zhu Xin to not be responsible for the finances.

I have been having a headache and how to make money. Now it’s great. I can get a huge source of wealth in just a few words.

Unfortunately, there are no products that can be sold in papermaking, otherwise it would be another source of wealth.

Zhang Zhao didn't know that she had signed the land deed to Zhu Xin before, who had built a piece of salt field by the beach, and is now in the experimental stage.

Unfortunately, the weather is not very good. It is almost winter, and the sun is not strong enough to make salt uneven.

You should also be careful of rainy days. This summer and autumn, there is a lot of rain. Rainwater will dilute the concentration of brine, which is not conducive to salting.

According to ancient methods, salt drying should be between June and September, when there is no rain and the sun is strong enough.

However, as long as you avoid rainy days and then slowly dry, there will still be output.

However, the entire salt farm is still in the exploration stage, so the output is definitely not expected, let alone make money.

Even the official salt shop cannot be run. If you want others to invest, you must first come up with qualified products.

"It's just like this. Can't I give some advice?" Zhu Xin's biggest annoyance was to become an official.

"You are really happy to give advice, but how do I give you a reward?" Zhang Zhao had a headache. If Zhu Xin took a normal career, he could at least get promoted.

The biggest problem now is that he kept moving his position as a chef, but he kept making contributions.

Zhang Zhao felt worried about how to reward this situation, and his skin has become dimmer recently.

"Or just write a note?" Zhu Xin thought for a while, "Just, or I will do this, 10% of the profits of this iron plant will be my. Who will come up with this idea of ​​making money in the future and prove to be effective and can also obtain shares."

"Good idea!" Let's not talk about the others, Sun Ce immediately agreed, so that their family would have a lot of money. Look, Zhu Xin could have two ideas to make money at will. Who knows if there will be more in the future?

"Then the papermaking workshop also wants to give you 10% of the shares?" Zhang Zhao asked angrily.

"We use technology to invest, have we already occupied 10% of the shares?" Zhu Xin joked, "In addition, there must be a standard. If the ideas provided are of great value, they should get 20% of the shares!"

"It's better to divide it into three levels and give shares of different levels according to the value of this idea." Cai Yan, who followed him, said a rare sentence. Or rather, during this period, she was indeed shocked by Zhu Xin's ability.

"Is it too high forever?" Zhang Zhao felt a little distressed when he said this.
Chapter completed!