Chapter 762: Li Gan, the Chosen Iron Forger
From autumn to now, almost a quarter of time has passed. From Zhou Xu's perspective, at a time when the entire process has long been understood and there are no problems with the equipment, this efficiency is obviously not high.
But if you think about it again, you can understand it.
From the time this steelmaking project was approved to the outbreak of the war, it took more than just one or two days. In essence, there was still time. If the forging department here really had the ability to do it, they would have done it long ago, and there would be no need to wait until now.
Ultimately, it’s because the forging skills are not good enough.
This also made Zhou Xu place his hopes on Li Gan from the very beginning.
However, Li Gan was still a complete newcomer at that time. He used to raise pigs in the village and had been malnourished for a long time due to the famine.
Even though he was personally chosen by him to join the steelmaking project, no matter how talented he was, it would still take a lot of time to learn from scratch and regulate his body.
Now, as a master forger, he is undoubtedly beginning to show his value.
While Zhou Xu received the news and rushed to the forging department, the forging director in the forging department looked at Li Gan with a look that seemed a bit weird.
When their Majesty directly designated this kid to join the steelmaking project, he was confused but did not think much about it. He just thought that their Majesty was acting on a whim.
From the boy's performance later on, it turned out that he was indeed a complete novice with no forging experience at all. In addition, he was malnourished and weak. After starting work, he began to gasp for breath after only a few swings of the forging hammer.
This situation also caused him to quickly become a menial worker in the project team.
There's no way, he can't do anything except some odd jobs.
However, this situation improved rapidly one month after he joined the project team.
After getting a job and being able to afford food, Li Gan's physical condition recovered rapidly within a month. He regained the strength to swing the forging hammer, and naturally he could do forging work.
After all, this person was personally named by their Majesty, and he would send people to inquire about the situation from time to time. The Minister of Forging would not dare to trip him up.
However, what the forging minister did not expect was that, even though he had basically not taught him anything, this kid named Li Gan learned a lot of things just by seeing with his eyes in that one month.
But at most this only proved that this kid had some vision and was a bit clever, so the Minister of Forging did not take it too seriously.
Forging seems to be a very simple thing. It is just about holding a piece of iron, burning it, and hammering it, and that's it.
But in fact, there are a lot of techniques and experience involved. If a newbie just learns the surface skills and swings the hammer with his eyes closed, what can he possibly produce?
For example, the old craftsmen in their forging department would take an apprentice for basically three years before he could become a master.
Less than a week later, the Minister of Forging realized that he seemed to be wrong.
Li Gan was definitely not just swinging the hammer around foolishly. Instead, he had ideas and thoughts. He even figured out some techniques and slowly accumulated experience.
[Fuck, is this guy really a genius at forging? ]
Thoughts flashed through his mind, and combined with the discoveries before him, the Minister of Forging slowly began to come to his senses.
[Thinking carefully, how could His Majesty suddenly appoint an ordinary boy to join such an important project as steelmaking? So, His Majesty actually knew that this boy was extraordinary a long time ago? ]
The more the Minister of Forging thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case, and this made him completely unable to sit still.
"Hey, Li Gan, I see that you have mastered the basic skills recently. I plan to take you as my apprentice and let me teach you forging."
In response, Li Gan scratched the back of his head with a silly look on his face.
It has been more than a month since he joined the forging department, and no one has taught him about forging. He has to rely entirely on his own observation and exploration. Li Gan has no idea how well he has learned.
Now hearing what their minister said, Li Gan's face immediately showed joy.
"Thank you, Minister! I will definitely study hard!"
Li Gan's silly look made the forging minister breathe a sigh of relief.
He took the initiative to offer to teach Li Gan how to forge, and naturally he had his own purpose.
According to his observations so far, as long as the other party is given enough time, he will probably be able to figure out the forging technology almost perfectly by himself.
When His Majesty asks about it, if Li Gan says that he figured it out on his own, then not only will he not get any credit, he will probably be punished.
But if he accepted Li Gan as his disciple, then no matter how things turned out in the future, he would have made a contribution after all.
It has to be said that, after all, he has made it to the position of minister, so he has a lot of little thoughts in his mind. However, it cannot be denied that his guidance has indeed saved Li Gan a lot of energy and time.
In the field of forging, there are actually not many serious skills, but the experience required requires a lot of time to accumulate.
However, this point was not reflected at all in Li Gan.
He seemed to be born to learn forging. When it came to forging, he understood all the problems immediately and mastered the techniques even faster.
It seemed that the forging minister's experience and skills accumulated over almost half a lifetime were almost drained away by Li Gan in less than half a month.
He even soon showed a trend of surpassing his teacher. The steelmaking project, which had not made much progress before, began to move forward under Li Gan's leadership.
Finally, in the first month after winter, official results were achieved.
For the forging department where a large number of forging furnaces are burning all the time, there is basically no difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter. All year round, the craftsmen here are so hot that they just want to go shirtless.
With previous experience, Zhou Xu took off his fur cloak before coming in. He had a smooth journey and soon arrived at a forging furnace.
In front of the stove, Li Gan, who looked very different compared to before, was concentrating on his work and did not notice Zhou Xu's arrival.
When the temperature was right, Li Gan quickly picked out the refined iron that had already begun to melt.
At that moment, the astonishing brightness produced by the high temperature on the fine iron made Zhou Xu's eyes feel as if he was looking directly at the sun, and he squinted subconsciously.
Compared to him, Li Gan was obviously used to it. He swung the forging hammer in his hand and smashed it down with a "clang". In an instant, large pieces of dazzling iron flowers splashed out.
Then, as he forged the iron repeatedly, iron flowers continued to bloom, and the whole scene was indescribably spectacular! (End of this chapter)
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