Chapter 94 Surprise

It was a very busy night for the Zhang family.

The smelting base has made some changes. The research area where Huang Mingshan and others are located, and the machine tool processing and production area where Bai Xiaodong and others are located are surrounded by an opaque barrier.

In the black iron smelting area, all the fans that directly blow the molten iron were also withdrawn. This is the secret of the Zhang family and cannot be exposed.

What Zhang Hao wants to disclose this time is very clear-industrialized production! Mass production! Standardized production!

What is to be disclosed is a brand new production method. This in itself is a technology, a technology of production.

Without the step of blasting the molten iron, the purity of the molten iron immediately dropped from over 95% to just over 60%.

The molten iron is no longer directly poured into iron ingots, but poured into iron bars as thick as an arm.

Iron bars need to be forged. But it is not the workers who are forged, but the machines.

Some small steam turbines drive eccentric wheels, and the eccentric wheels drive iron hammers through connecting rods, realizing mechanized forging.

The mechanical forging speed is very fast, and can reach an ultra-high forging speed of 10 times per second, without fatigue.

Moreover, the mechanical forging is more powerful, and it can forge ten kilograms at a time, far exceeding the craftsman's one kilogram.

The craftsmen only need to be responsible for heating the iron bars, controlling the clutch, adjusting the hammer handle, and sprinkling water.

The forged iron bars will be re-melted and poured into standard iron ingots.

Bai Xiaodong and others rushed to work overnight. By dawn, 20 sets of forging machines had been completed, including the original ones, a total of more than 30 sets.

Not a lot, but enough for display.

According to Zhang Jiaxin's timing unit, the first group of people arrived at about seven o'clock. There are ten members each from the Black Iron Guild and the Refining Guild, both of whom are high-level officials. Zhou Bo walked in the front.

From afar, everyone could see thick smoke and white mist billowing from above the Zhang family smelting base, drifting towards the sea, which was spectacular.

Zhang Shengde greeted them personally, and led the crowd to the smelting base.

Suddenly Zhou Bo turned his head, there was a pavilion at the gate of the smelting base, and a man in the pavilion was... cooking hot pot!

Feng Zhiling was very domineering, and directly set up a banquet in the pavilion at the entrance of the smelting base, drinking alone.

The strong and mellow taste wafts far away, making people salivate after smelling it.

A hot pot was placed on the table, and a high-grade spirit stone was used to light a fire underneath. The golden flames were tumbling. The hot pot was made of 99.2% pure black iron. Under the calcination of the spirit fire, there was a faint silk-like precious light flowing.

As for the 'seasoning' in the hot pot, most of them are first-class medicinal materials. A dragon ball rolled in the soup, making the smoke above the pot of soup unpredictable like a mirage; some turned into mountains, or turned into sea waves, or some blurred lights and shadows flickered.

On the table is a very domineering dragon head that has been washed and peeled off, and there are also dragon liver, dragon heart, dragon tendon, etc. on the side plate.

After Feng Zhiling took a sip of the wine, he boiled some slices of dragon meat, and the guards around kept swallowing.

Zhou Bo couldn't help approaching; everyone was also attracted by Feng Zhiling.

Zhang Hao is a black thread at one end: Hey, hey, everyone, you are here today to visit a new production method, not to see some foodies ruining treasures.

Feng Zhiling looked up at the crowd, and waved his hands casually: "Go, go, whoever dares to snatch it, be careful that I beat you until you can't take care of yourself!"

Looking at this guy differently, the corners of his mouth twitched - when we first met, I thought this guy was unreliable, sure enough. This is not only unreliable, it is simply absurd!

But thinking that he is a disciple of Xuanzhen Sect, Ji Butong didn't say anything.

Zhang Hao waited for a long time before bringing everyone inside the smelting base.

"Wow..." Everyone exclaimed.

With just one glance, everyone was stunned. What they saw was a completely unfamiliar smelting base that subverted tradition and was full of steel power.

First of all, there is the roaring machine, and then everything is extraordinarily huge.

The smelting furnace is more than ten times larger than ordinary ones, and the grinding disc used to crush ores and spirit stones has a radius of almost one foot. It is not artisans, cattle, horses, monsters, etc. that drive the millstone, but a strange machine.

Conveyor belts extend from the mine to the top of the millstone, bringing ore like flowing water; under the millstone, another conveyor belt extends out and enters the water selection area.

The wet ore powder from the water selection area passes through the ground fire, is directly dried, and is sent to the smelting furnace.

There was also the forging machine. Seeing the forging speed of the machine ten times a second, and hearing the series of thud-dump sounds, everyone opened their mouths in surprise and were speechless.

Before everyone came, they thought that the Zhang family would have some extraordinary performances; but they didn't expect that the performances would be so extraordinary!

And obviously, the Zhang family has hidden some tricks.

Looking at the two opaque barriers in the distance, everyone wanted to rush in and take a look to see what the Zhang family was hiding.

Just what is revealed is already so shocking, what about what is hidden?

It's a pity that Zhang Shengde leads the way, and everyone can only follow in Zhang Shengde's footsteps. If you dare to act privately, you will definitely die!

The flying sword in Zhang Shengde's hand kept circling, reminding everyone from time to time - this is not a place to mess around.

Finally, Zhang Shengde led everyone to the steam turbine and introduced it proudly.

"This is our newfound power, the power of steam.

Using the power of steam, machines can be driven. Compared with Lingshi, the application cost of steam power is almost negligible. Only the cost of the casting machine itself is higher. "

"See this piece of curved pipeline erected above the ground fire. Water flows down from a high place and is heated into high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor in the pipeline.

The water vapor in these tubes is much higher than 100 degrees. Roughly measured, there are about 160 degrees.

The steam rushes into the steam turbine, which drives the turbine to rotate.

The steam turbine turns the machine.

We call this 'mechanized work' to distinguish it from traditional manual work.

The current Zhang family has initially realized mechanized operations.

Compared with manual operations, mechanized operations can work around the clock and maintain extremely high work efficiency.

In the past, 100 craftsmen worked hard for a day, but they could only produce about 400 kilograms of black iron, and the purity could not be guaranteed.

Now, 100 craftsmen can easily produce 80 tons of black iron in a day, with a purity of more than 90%. "

"All this changes because we have a new power source. Steam turbines!

The power of this steam turbine is roughly equivalent to the ultimate power of Jindan mid-term. "

Everyone followed Zhang Shengde's fingers and saw that the steam turbine was in the shape of a gourd as a whole, but it had three chambers: large, medium and small. The appearance is rough, and the upper and lower shells are fixed by arm-thin bolts, and then stand firmly on the solid rock through the thick iron frame and the thick iron seat.

There is a circle of iron fences on the periphery, and there is a letter: high temperature danger.

After getting permission, Zhou Bo and others entered the range of the fence and touched the casing of the steam turbine lightly. The hot shell can't hurt the golden core stage practitioners, but it makes them amazed.

This kind of machine can actually convert the high temperature of the ground fire into mechanical power. This kind of machine that "can move without aura" broke their understanding.

"Not only aura is energy, but high temperature is also a kind of energy." Zhang Shengde explained that he himself felt deeply.

Every time he stood next to the steam turbine and felt the power of the steam turbine, Zhang Shengde was filled with emotion. Without using spiritual energy, just boiling water can produce such a majestic power.

The power of the steam turbine is already comparable to that of the mid-Jindan period. What if it continues to develop?