Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 207 Blacksmith Shop
I forgot about the advertisement of the car, a happy life starts with a car!For Wang Hou, a happy life begins with cement!
With cement, the first building is the blacksmith workshop!
No way, Wang Hou also wanted to be the first to build a house for himself, but if a city wants to rise, it must have its own characteristic industry. Wang Hou's first characteristic industry in Rizhao is steel.

First of all, there is no surplus of steel in this era, and some only have a shortage of steel. The nearby Zang Ba’s army is short of weapons. The agricultural tools of the aristocratic family in Langya Kingdom are also passed on to the father when the grandfather runs out. The sales of steel products are definitely not worrying. !The second is to be able to continuously obtain cheap minerals from Taishan County.

Moreover, as the nominally best officer in Qingzhou County, he kills two birds with one stone. With the mining business in exchange for food, the bandits in Taishan County lost their reason to be aggressive and plunder other states and counties everywhere. However, the smelting base It can't be placed on Mount Tai. On the one hand, it prevents them from directly sitting on sophisticated weapons and then going to rob everywhere. It becomes uncontrollable. On the other hand, it also provides convenience for Wang Hou to build the Rizhao Port.

Ports are so important!How did Brits rule the world?It is to drive the pirate ship to a place where the birds don't shit, first build the anchorage of the port, and then the merchants go to the island to collect special products, attracting the continuous arrival of merchant ships, and the overseas trade also stimulates ambitions. Infiltrating and plundering without shit, it took decades to completely turn this land into a colony of the British Empire.

Before crossing, Wang Hou was aggrieved by watching this history on the Internet. Why did those western monkeys seize this ocean opportunity? In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, China’s sailing activities were also magnificent, so why were they eliminated? , Haven't competed with Western Monkey?
He didn't follow Jia Xu's suggestion to develop into Luzhong, but chose the extremely desolate seaside sunshine in this era. It was because of this depression that Wang Hou was simmering in his heart. After finally gaining the rights, could he be in the same position as those barbarians in the west? When squatting in the Germanic forest as a monkey, make the big man into a sea nation in advance?Even if there is such a little sign, it's okay!

But what is the future of the port?It still needs to be developed, and Wang Hou's main concern is the immediate. After the cement is built and the blacksmith workshop is completed, the most important change for the more than [-] pioneers who have reclaimed wasteland by the sea is that their homes have become warmer.

The heating of Wang Hou's community in later generations comes from the waste heat of the steel company!He connected all the chimneys of the steelmaking furnaces in Wang Hou’s iron-making workshop. The bricks were built into the flue, and then he poked in along the buttocks of the wooden houses built by Jia Xu. Huge lingering smoke came in, and it was shivering from the cold outside, but sitting on the kang burned my buttocks, and the wooden house with air leakage on all sides also looked like a cozy small home.

Wang Hou This can be regarded as the first of its kind in central heating!It's November, and it's snowing outside. At this time, it's probably impossible to beat these captive Qingzhou refugees away with a stick. It's too fucking cold!
The iron-making workshop has been repaired, and Rizhao, a city without city walls, has begun to enter the busy life of office workers. In the early morning, the iron bell hanging in the residential area is like a chicken coop that is grilled by Zhou, rattling. Come on, a large group of "factory uniforms" that don't fit big or small come out of the warm wooden house of their own homes, yawning reluctantly.

Two thousand men were assigned to the ironworks, and the thousands of square meters of ironworks stretched all the way to the river, and the steelmaking part above the river bank, with sufficient manpower, Wang Hou built a total of twelve steelmaking furnaces, but For the time being, only six mouths have been opened, and the rest will have to wait for the next batch of raw materials produced by Taishan to arrive.

The workers are divided into three shifts. People keep walking around the furnace. When the door is opened, a new wave of workers comes in pushing carts full of coal and iron ore. The workers who had been there all night stretched comfortably against the air-conditioning.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, it is actually too hot!

Not to mention the steel-making soil furnace that uses a leather blower to add oxygen at any time, while frying steel and solidifying the pool, the temperature is as high as tens of degrees, and the workers can't wear clothes in it. They can only be shirtless, and the sweat is still flowing The chest continued to flow down.

Although he was arrested, Wang Hou was also paid. He worked in a steel factory. An adult man was paid one stone a month and one piece of clothes back. Tian earns more, so they greeted each other. The off-duty workers put on their coats and left the cement plant. It was shoveled into the steelmaking furnace, and after calculating that the temperature was about the same, the upper furnace was suddenly opened, and the molten steel poured out along the reserved holes.

What is the most profitable illegal trading in later generations, except for the death-killing white powder god of death, arms are the most profitable. In this era, there is no such thing that poisons people, so arms are the most profitable!High-quality fried steel was smelted in half of the workshop, and was immediately taken to the forging workshop in the second half by the river.

More than 400 workers, more than [-] are gathered here, because the manpower that can be replaced by mechanical energy in this era is really limited. Most of them still need manpower to make knives and spears. The workshop is like being in a heavy metal band, hammers are banging everywhere, and all the stoves are steaming.

The most high-tech ones can be regarded as a few water hammers next to the river. The Lianhe River flowing slowly towards the sea outside pushes a huge waterwheel. During the alternate reciprocation of the waterwheels, the heavy hammer of several hundred kilograms is suddenly lifted , and then fell down with the bang of the crankshaft, and the mold pressed on the chopping board was pressed hard inward immediately, and the large breastplate breastplate cast out of the shape was suddenly thinned under the heavy hammer.

On the other side, Wang Yuan was also shirtless, but he was holding this small hammer and taking turns with a new apprentice on the opposite side with the big hammer. He tapped twice with the small hammer, facing the position he had knocked on, the apprentice The sledgehammer was directly swung at the hammer, and the two of them took turns to hit it. A steel bar with an unattractive appearance became thinner, and finally, after leaving an unknown number of gorgeous hammer marks on the body, it was shaped like a standard steel ruler.

"My lord, it's done!"

While Wang Hou waited anxiously, he forged for half an hour, and in the middle of the iron ruler, he drilled four holes on both sides with a pig iron drill, and his body was covered with sweat, and his muscles were full of muscle, comparable to the bodybuilders of later generations. For the athlete's upper body, Wang Yuan handed it to Wang Hou respectfully.

Weighing it in his hand, the iron ruler, which was only half a meter long, weighed a few kilograms. He shook his head helplessly, picked up the hammer, and Wang Hou nailed the thing to a piece of wood himself.

A bowstring made of several thin steel wires was threaded into the holes on both sides of the iron ruler, and as it was bent hard, with the sound of creaking metal, a crossbow was finally assembled.

The size and force of this crossbow should be about the level of a crossbow, but even if it is a light crossbow, Wang Hou has to step on it with both feet, and there is another creaking sound of metal, and the strings are stuck in the crossbow. , raised it, facing the dead tree on the other side of the Lianhe River, Wang Hou pulled the crossbow suddenly, and with a bang, the three-edged arrow cast in this workshop roared and flew out, with a loud bang, trembling The arrow pierces the wood and is close.

But the workshop was less than 30 meters away from the opposite bank of the Lianhe River. This performance was not outstanding. Immediately afterwards, Wang Hou opened up again, and aimed at the tree 50 meters away from the opposite bank of the river. He shot again, and there was another bang, and the shaft of the arrow Still stuck in the wood.

Feeling playful, he opened the steel crossbow for the third time, facing the farthest tree in the withered forest on the other side of the river, Wang Hou pulled the trigger, but this time, he only saw the arrow flying out, but could not see where it landed. Watching Wang Hou finally shook his head helplessly.

The effective range of this steel crossbow is about 55 to 65 meters. He has also used the Han army's standard crossbow. The effective range is about 70 meters to 15 meters. This thing is [-] meters shorter than others.

However, disappointed and dropped the crossbow, Wang Hou still turned his head and ordered.

"Build a thousand first!"

"Little man obeys!"

(End of this chapter)