Chapter 124 The Beginning of Industry (Part 2)
In fact, rather than saying that what Bruno exchanged was a detailed method for producing steel, it would be better to say that what he exchanged was a complete industrial system from the production of pig iron, wrought iron to steel.
Because it contains not only the principles of steelmaking and the proportions of raw materials, but also the construction drawings of iron-making facilities such as blast furnaces that were extremely common in the previous life.
Of course, in addition to these, there is also no shortage of construction drawings for blowers, iron frying furnaces, etc.
However, it is obviously impossible to copy these supporting facilities as they are. After all, some conditions are still difficult to achieve solely relying on the current technological level of Idar County.
These difficulties will need to be overcome by the mage apprentices in Idar County.
Idar Territory is Bruno's territory, and the apprentice mages are all Bruno's students, so...
As a teacher, Bruno assigns tasks to students, not for Bruno himself, but to enhance students' comprehensive qualities, improve their hands-on skills, cultivate their team spirit, and enable these mage apprentices to grow into fully-developed qualified mages as soon as possible.
No problem! That makes sense!
Therefore, when the magic crystal bomb was developed, assisting the craftsmen to complete the construction of Idar's iron smelting industry has become the new task of these mage apprentices.
However, the magic circle needed to build an iron smelting plant is actually much simpler than the magic circle drawn on the magic crystal bomb.
After all, the compression array needed to make magic crystal bombs is extremely exquisite and unique.
Not only does it have strict regulations on the effects of the magic circle, but also due to the size limitations of the magic crystal itself, it also has almost harsh requirements on the shape and area of the magic circle.
However, when the apprentices drew the magic circles on iron-making facilities such as blast furnaces and blowers, they had no such concerns at all.
After all... things like blast furnaces are all huge, so the core issue that the mage apprentices are concerned about naturally shifts from reducing the area of the magic array to the reasonable combination of different magic arrays.
The reasonable combination of magic arrays is extremely important for the normal progress of iron smelting.
For example, the blower needed for iron smelting requires close cooperation between the heating array and the array that can generate wind conditions, so as to stably deliver preheated air to the iron smelting blast furnace.
If there is no blower to provide sufficient oxygen to assist combustion in the blast furnace, the furnace temperature in the blast furnace will hardly achieve the purpose of ironmaking.
And, it is very important that the air must be preheated by the heating array!
If the air entering the blast furnace is just room temperature air, then this room temperature air will undoubtedly need to be heated in the blast furnace. By the time this air is finally heated to meet the requirements of ironmaking, it has already risen to the top of the blast furnace and then discharged into the air...
In this way, it will be difficult for the temperature inside the blast furnace to reach the temperature required for iron smelting.
This requires that the air be preheated before it is introduced into the blast furnace, so that the air after entering the blast furnace can directly reach the temperature required for ironmaking or reach it in a very short time.
You know, even when the steel-making technology was extremely advanced in the previous life, the air preheating step absolutely could not be omitted.
Therefore, this requires the apprentices to draw a variety of different magic arrays in the blower, and these arrays must not affect each other! However, these problems are almost not worth mentioning in front of the talented Anel.
Bruno sometimes even thought that if the world he lived in was a fantasy novel, then Arnel would probably be the protagonist of this novel.
He ran away from home due to oppression, but made rapid progress after being enlightened by others. His extraordinary mental power enabled him to conceive a magic circle that transcends the limitations of his thinking. This is definitely a perfect template for a protagonist!
Therefore, among Idar's mage apprentices, a team prototype has basically been formed, with Anel responsible for conception and the mage apprentices responsible for drawing.
Relying on Anel's powerful mental strength and logical thinking ability, the drawing of magic circles on facilities such as blowers and blast furnaces progressed rapidly.
Therefore, when the overall construction progress of the iron smelting plant is basically completed, all the refugees pouring into Idar Territory can be taken to the Gran Highlands to smelt iron and mine.
The residents living in the Golan Heights basically serve the iron smelting industry in the Golan Heights.
Most of them are refugees from outside Idar Territory. After being registered and inspected by the Idar Immigration Administration, they become temporary residents of Idar Territory.
For these temporary residents of Idar Territory, Bruno also adopted a work point system similar to that of the production team.
Only when the work points they have obtained meet certain requirements and they have lived in Idar Territory for more than one year, can they apply to the Idar Immigration Administration to become official residents of Idar Territory and enjoy the same treatment as Idar civilians.
Their main task is to mine the rich mineral deposits in the Golan Heights and provide sufficient labor for the Idar Ironworks in the Golan Heights.
The ironworks on the Golan Heights was officially put into use three days ago.
When this ironworks on the Golan Heights began to operate gradually, a large amount of exhaust gas emitted from the blast furnace began to cover the sky above the ironworks.
However, due to the very limited scale of the iron and steel plant, these gases did not form large areas of smog, but gradually dissipated in the air and blended into the surrounding environment.
Bruno stood in the open space outside the ironworks, staring at the light smoke covering the ironworks, and couldn't help but be lost in thought.
Although the smog in the previous life was very annoying, but... this also means that Idal Territory has finally stumbled into the door of the industrial age on this day! Today is actually Bruno's first time to visit the iron smelting factory in the Gran Heights. Looking at those huge iron smelting blast furnaces that are more than ten meters high, he only feels that Idal Territory's technology tree is thriving under his careful care.
The blower will blow the preheated air into the iron-smelting blast furnace. Inside the iron-smelting blast furnace, the charcoal and iron ore have already been burning hot. With the addition of the preheated air, the temperature inside the blast furnace will suddenly rise under the effect of the magic circle and a variety of fuels.
Although the Idar Lords had developed heating arrays long ago, these heating arrays had not been widely used in ironworks. They were only used on blowers in order to reduce fuel loss and reduce costs to a certain extent.
After all, in this world, magic can be said to be the cheapest energy in nature.
Whether you can see it or not, it is always floating in the air.
However, the disadvantages of magic are also obvious.
That is, the magic elements in the air are relatively thin and cannot support the large-scale magic consumption of an iron blast furnace. It is difficult to heat the iron blast furnace to the required temperature, so it can only be used in blowers.
The fuel used to heat iron-making blast furnaces is still traditional fuel such as coal.
This is why, when the ironworks was being built, the mage apprentices, who had always been the protagonists, only played supporting roles this time.
Therefore, before finding a way to collect and absorb a large amount of magic power, the main function of the magic circle drawn by the Idar people on the iron smelting blast furnace was to maintain a constant temperature in the blast furnace and slow down the loss of heat...
After being heated at high temperature in the iron-making blast furnace, the scorching furnace temperature will melt the ore to form molten iron. At this time, workers will carefully open the movable valve at the bottom of the blast furnace to allow the bright orange molten iron to flow out along the pipes that have been laid long ago.
After the slag is filtered and the molten iron is cooled, what is obtained is pig iron in blocks.
As for the rest of the molten iron, it will flow into a specially designed steel-making furnace.
The molten pig iron is then stirred by a hydraulically driven circular stirring facility, which accelerates the reaction of impurities such as carbon, silicon, and manganese in the molten iron with oxygen in the air, so that the impurities mainly composed of carbon in the molten iron are gradually stripped out.
Then after a few simple steps such as forging and hammering, a furnace of good steel will be produced.
The difference between steel and iron lies mainly in the carbon content.
The carbon content of pig iron is greater than 2.0%, while the carbon content of steel is less than 2.0%.
Because pig iron has a high carbon content, it is hard and brittle and has almost no plasticity.
However, steel with a carbon content below 2.0% not only has good plasticity, but also its steel products have excellent physical and chemical application properties such as high strength, good toughness, high temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, and impact resistance.
Although the steel produced by this method is definitely not comparable to the steel Bruno had seen in his previous life, it is still unique in this era.
After all, the only place that can produce such high-quality steel nowadays is probably Idar County.
Once steel is available, both the weapons and equipment of Idar Territory's soldiers and Idar Territory's infrastructure construction will experience a qualitative leap! This also means that in the future, Idar Territory's soldiers' weapons will gradually get rid of the soft daggers and develop in other directions.
In fact, Bruno had long disliked the daggers in the hands of Idar's soldiers! Although this Norman Empire standard dagger had blades on both sides, which could easily kill the enemy, it could only be used for chopping, and it took a lot of effort to use it.
Therefore, Bruno planned to make a batch of knives instead.
Although the knife only has a single edge, it is more flexible to use than a dagger. It can be used for both chopping and cutting, as well as picking and stabbing. Moreover, it does not require too much effort to kill the enemy, and it is also very light to carry! But most importantly, allowing soldiers to carry lighter knives is more in line with Bruno's next plan to equip soldiers with weapons!
First update, and...
(End of this chapter)
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