Alien Lord

"My lord, this kind of experiment is very easy to fail. Once it fails, it will often turn the pig iron with better quality into waste products. Moreover, the price of those pig iron is not low. With our ability, we can't afford such consumption at all." ,so."

Shen Lian didn't continue, but Lin Ze was very clear about the unfinished meaning of Shen Lian's words.

It's not that Shen Lian and the others don't want to try to smelt pig iron into steel, but they simply can't afford such consumption.

Shen Lian and the others were not the children of officials, they were just the lowest level of common people. For them, being able to feed and clothe their family was the greatest achievement, and they did not charge extra money at all.

As for how to smelt pig iron into steel, the amount of money needed is definitely not a small amount. As Shen Lian and the others were born as civilians, how could they afford such consumption? Therefore, even if Shen Lian wanted to experiment in his heart Pig iron was smelted into steel, but in the face of family budget, Shen Lian had no choice but to suppress this idea.

If a family can't even satisfy food and clothing, why would you think about refining pig iron into steel.

Lin Ze smiled and said: "That's true. The cost of doing experiments is really not something you can afford, but it's different now. I can support you in making steel. You can definitely build a small furnace. Try it first." Well!" Lin Ze encouraged on the side.

Then, Lin Ze said: "Shen Lian, I seem to have heard of a method of frying steel, which is to stir continuously during the smelting process, just like frying vegetables, it seems that it is easier to get steel this way, oh, that is what you said Refined iron, Shen Lian, you can definitely try it!"

"The method of frying steel?" Shen Lian was puzzled after hearing the words.

"Well, that's it." Lin Ze began to gesture, "You first add charcoal powder, and then keep turning the molten iron over and over like cooking. Of course, how to add charcoal powder, how much charcoal powder to add, There is also temperature control, and when to add toner, I don’t know about these, you need to experiment carefully.”

After listening to Lin Ze's detailed explanation, Shen Lian directly opened his eyes and asked, "My lord, how do you know the method of making iron? Or is it such an unheard of method of making iron?"

Lin Ze smiled slightly and said, "Shen Lian, this method of mine is also what I heard from people. What is the specific situation, you need to try it yourself. Well, you can just get ten of them. Twenty small-scale steelmaking furnaces are used for experimentation, so that the speed is faster, and as for the money problem, there is no problem at all."

"Thank you, my lord, I will show you the real refined iron!" Shen Lian said excitedly, and even knelt down to thank Lin Ze.

For an ironworker,

What could be better than personally experimenting with the refining method of steel!

"Shen Lian, get up!" Lin Ze raised his right hand with a smile, and a surge of true energy directly helped Shen Lian up.

"Shen Lian, if you really test it out, I will put a hammer on your chest and directly promote you to be the person in charge of steelmaking. The official rank is also an eighth-rank official, how about it?"

"Eighth Grade Official!" Shen Lian became excited when he heard this.

Whether it is a Chinese person or a person on the mainland of China, there are more or less official-based thoughts in their hearts, and Shen Lian also has the same thoughts in his heart.

When she saw Qiu Tie become an official of the eighth rank, Shen Lian was full of envy and hatred. From then on, Shen Lian also thought in her heart that she also wanted to be an official.

Now that Shen Lian's opportunity has come, it's no wonder he's not excited!

"Thank you for your kindness, sir. Shen Lian will definitely try out the refining method of refined iron. Thank you for your kindness!" Shen Lian knelt down excitedly and kowtowed to Lin Ze again.

"Well, I'm waiting for your good news!" Lin Ze smiled and looked at Shen Lian in front of him, looking forward to it in his heart.

In fact, in the steelmaking data collected by Lin Ze, there are specific temperatures and the proportion of carbon powder. However, Lin Ze does not have a special thermometer that can measure the temperature of the steelmaking furnace at all, so these The role of data is not as important as imagined.

The temperature of the steelmaking furnace still needs to be tested by Shen Lian and the others.

As for the ratio of toner powder, this can have a great effect. Lin Ze will give these materials to Shen Lian in the future.

After talking about the matter of steelmaking, Lin Ze no longer thinks about this matter. Without a certain degree of accumulation, it is difficult to see results in a short period of time. How to do it and when to produce results are out of Lin Ze's control. It depends on Shen Lian and the others. However, Lin Ze believes that with his own steelmaking materials and a lot of money invested, Shen Lian The day when they are smelted into steel is certainly not far away.

When you get here, some people may wonder why Lin Ze attaches so much importance to the refining of steel. In the mainland of China, martial arts are respected. Lin Ze should pay the most attention to the refining of black weapons.

The power of Xuan Bing is many times stronger than that of the best steel. Therefore, according to common sense, Lin Ze should invest more in the refining of Xuan Bing.

Indeed, the Chinese mainland respects martial arts, and Lin Ze should really pay attention to the refining of Xuanbing.

In fact, Lin Ze is indeed paying attention to the refining of Xuanbing, but the materials for refining Xuanbing are scarce, and if you want to refine Xuanbing, you must have a special refiner.

Although the materials for Xuanbing are extremely rare, Lin Ze still collected some materials for refining Xuanbing after the establishment of Baiyu City.

However, Lin Ze, the craftsman, was in a dilemma.

Lin Ze doesn't have a refiner in his hands, so for the time being, it is impossible for Lin Ze to refine Xuanbing.

As for Lin Ze's emphasis on steel refining, there is actually one reason, that is, Lin Ze wants to build a railway.

In ancient China, China has always been the most powerful country on earth. At that time, when other countries united, they were no match for China. So why did such a powerful country not expand its sphere of influence?

The reason is very simple, that is the reason of traffic.

The territory of ancient China has always been very broad. It would take 20 to 30 days at the fastest to ride a horse from the westernmost to the easternmost. However, if the army is on the road, it will take two to three months, which is normal. It will inevitably consume a lot of money and material resources, resulting in economic difficulties for the country.

Therefore, for those marginal areas, although the rulers of ancient China wanted to occupy them in their hearts, they were still under the reality and gave up helplessly in the end.

Maintaining a powerful army at an extremely remote border is really too expensive.

Not to mention other things, just transporting grain to marginal areas consumes a lot.

Generally speaking, after ten floors of grain are transported to the military camps on the border, three or four floors of grain can be left, which is considered good.

Such a large consumption, even if there are ten gold mines, cannot afford it.

Once there is a war in the border area, wait until the court gets the news, and finally send reinforcements, until the reinforcements reach the border, there is no three or four months, it is impossible to do it.

Three or four months is enough for those invading enemies to invade the country for thousands of miles, so a long-lasting and large-scale war appeared like this.

Therefore, if you want to maintain control of the border areas, you must first have a fast, low-cost way to transport supplies and troops, otherwise, everything is empty talk.

The mainland of China is too big, not to mention other things, the territory of Chu country alone is as big as five or six China, and Chu country is just a drop in the ocean on the mainland of China.

If Lin Ze wants to make a career on the mainland of China, he must first solve the problem of fast transportation.

The role of trains, as long as people on the earth know, not only can transport materials and troops quickly and cheaply, but also can vigorously develop the economy.

A city with trains and without trains are completely different concepts.

The speed of economic development in cities with trains is bound to be faster than that in cities without trains, which is obvious.

The convenience of trains allows merchants to transport materials more quickly and conveniently, which leads to more and more flexible commercial and economic development.

Therefore, Lin Ze had already started planning to build a railway in his heart.

Someone here will say, don't trains need locomotives? With the level of technology in mainland China, can a suitable locomotive be manufactured?

Hehe, the locomotive problem is actually very simple. Lin Ze is not going to make a locomotive at all. He has a more suitable substitute.

A train needs a locomotive, because the locomotive can provide a huge amount of kinetic energy, and then move the train forward.

On the earth, if the train wants to move, it really depends on the powerful kinetic energy of the locomotive, because there is no other thing that can provide such strong kinetic energy.

However, it is different on the mainland of China.

There are countless savage beasts on the mainland of China. Among these savage beasts, the strength of many savage beasts is stronger than the kinetic energy of a locomotive.

Not to mention other things, the fire armored bulls captured by Lin Ze alone can provide more powerful kinetic energy than the locomotive. The only pity is that the speed of the fire armored bulls is not as fast as the train.

However, there are many wild beasts that are faster than locomotives on the Shenzhou Continent.

For example, Linze iron horned rhinoceros, copper horned rhinoceros, silver horned rhinoceros, and golden horned rhinoceroses not only have stronger kinetic energy than locomotives on Earth, but are also faster than trains.

Iron-horned rhino, copper-horned rhino, silver-horned rhino, and golden-horned rhino are actually the same species, and they have different names depending on their strength.

The first one was the iron horned rhinoceros, which is a savage beast whose strength is at the fourth level of the day after tomorrow. It is about four meters high, seven meters long, and one meter wide. It is covered with hard scales. In the middle there is a rhinoceros horn about one meter long and the thickness of an adult's fist