Chapter 1293 Iron Smelting

Yamatai.

After completing the training of the soldiers the next day, Li Cunxiao and Meng Jie came to the city to find blacksmiths and craftsmen with the construction drawings of the blast furnace.

They will now start building the blast furnace.

Strive to complete the smelting of this batch of iron ore as soon as possible.

After the craftsmen and blacksmiths studied the construction drawings of the blast furnace, they began to build it.

After several experiments, the first blast furnace was finally successfully built.

However, the effect of the first blast furnace on smelting iron ore was really not ideal.

"If you continue to improve the blast furnace based on this drawing, and strive to build a qualified blast furnace as soon as possible, you will be rewarded."

Li Cunxiao and Meng Jie encouraged the craftsmen and blacksmiths.

Encouraged by rewards and interest in the new smelting method, the craftsmen and blacksmiths became more enthusiastic than ever.

Then there is the continuous construction of blast furnaces, and then continuous adjustments and experiments on the blast furnaces.

After a period of time, the new blast furnace finally met the requirements described in the drawings.

"Very good, the next step is to build a blast furnace according to this shape, smelt all the iron ore and cast it into iron ingots."

Li Cunxiao and Meng Jie, who received the news that the construction of the blast furnace had been completed, were very satisfied after actually seeing the smelting effect of the blast furnace.

Then they again recruited the blacksmiths in the city, as well as some common people and craftsmen, and began to build blast furnaces and smelt iron ore.

It took half a month in total.

This batch of iron ore purchased from Dawei has been smelted and cast into iron ingots.

Bai Feng, who received the news from Himihu in advance, came to Yamatai again two days later.

"Sir, all the cast iron ingots are here."

Himihu took Bai Feng to a warehouse and pointed to the iron ingots that filled the entire warehouse and said to Bai Feng.

Bai Feng looked at the number of iron ingots in front of him and nodded with satisfaction.

Although the quantity of these iron ingots is of little significance for the construction of railways, it is still sufficient for the improvement of steam engine production lines and steam trains made by craftsmen such as plowing pillars.

"Well, I will take this batch of iron ingots back to Hanzhong first."

After Bai Feng waved his sleeves, all the iron ingots in the warehouse disappeared.

These iron ingots have been sent back to the warehouse in the R&D center by Bai Feng.

Li Cunxiao and Meng Jie, who received the notice from Himihu, also came outside the warehouse at this time, met with Bai Feng, and reported to Bai Feng about making armor and weapons.

"Sir, these 20% of iron ingots are enough to make fifty pairs of armors and a hundred swords."

Li Cunxiao and Bai Feng reported on the number of weapons and armor built, and then Meng Jie reported the recent training results to Bai Feng.

"Well, just keep going like this."

"We can also let the soldiers become more familiar with the sea."

Finally, before leaving Yamatai, Bai Feng explained to Meng Jie.

Of course, the original people of Yamatai did not need to be familiar with the sea, but the soldiers of the original Ugo Kingdom who migrated to Yamatai from the mountains of Nanzhong naturally needed to be familiar with the sea.

Otherwise, if you get seasick as soon as you go to sea, how can you fight?

Shortly after Bai Feng left Yamatai, the Wei navy led by the naval general Wenpin who returned from Yamatai also docked at the port.

After the ship docked, Wenpin rested for a night and then set off for Yecheng, preparing to report to Cao Cao about the transaction with Yamatai.

Yecheng Imperial Palace.

Cao Cao was listening to Wenpin's report at this time.

"Your Majesty, the queen of Yamatai once told the general that Yamatai is very short of iron ore, and the people don't even have an iron pot in their homes."

After reporting what he saw and heard at Yamatai to Cao Cao, Wenpin waited for Cao Cao to make arrangements.

Seeing that Yamatai was so short of steel, Cao Cao felt much more confident about capturing Yamatai.

However, if Yamatai is not rich in mineral resources, it is necessary to carefully calculate the cost of occupying Yamatai.

Don't wait until you finally capture Yamatai and find out that it was a losing business.

“Apart from the fact that Yamatai is not rich in minerals, what is the area of ​​land that can be used for farming?”

Then Cao Cao asked Wenpin.

"Reporting to your Majesty, I only learned from Queen Yamatai that the iron ore here is not rich, but there should be a lot of silver ore."

"Silver was used in this transaction. As for the cultivated land area of ​​Yamatai, based on the number and appearance of the people I saw in the city, it is enough to sustain one to two million people and have enough to eat."

Wenpin then explained everything to Cao Cao based on what he had observed and some of his guesses.

There are silver mines and the area of ​​arable land is acceptable.

Cao Cao noticed these two points from Wenpin's explanation.

From this point of view, occupying Yamatai is still profitable for Wei.

And in the future, Yamatai can also be used as a training and supply location for the Wei navy at sea.

In general, as long as the Yamatai is occupied, the Wei Dynasty should not lose money.

"In this case, the deal with Yamatai should not be cut off, at least twice a year."

"And in the future, we can bring some businessmen to Yamatai and let them open shops in Yamatai to collect information about Yamatai for us."

Finally, Cao Cao gave Wenpin instructions.

Now that the navy of Wei has just formed combat effectiveness, Cao Cao will not use force to capture Yamatai at this time.

If Yamatai can be allowed to submit to Wei in the continuous trade, that would naturally be the best situation.

At that time, the people of Wei will be slowly migrated to Yamatai, and officials of Wei will be stationed there. In this way, after more than ten years, Yamatai will be able to completely become a part of Wei's territory.

Cao Cao planned everything very perfectly.

It's a pity that he still doesn't know that Yamatai is Bai Feng's back garden.

In Bai Feng's plan, Yamatai will become a maritime trade capital, constantly relying on maritime trade to obtain resources from all over the world to support Bai Feng's development.

Fortunately, Cao Cao is not in a hurry to use force, otherwise even if Yamatai will not be occupied under Bai Feng's intervention, it will be seriously injured.

This will have a great impact on Bai Feng's plan.

Bai Feng, who returned to the R&D center, handed the iron ingots just sent back from Yamatai to Geng Zhuzi for distribution.

At the same time, he also learned about the improvement of the steam locomotive.

Now Geng Zhuzi and Li Tiedan are developing a more powerful steam engine to ensure that the steam train has enough power.

"Go ahead and do it, don't worry about the shortage of steel!"

Finally, Bai Feng said confidently to Geng Zhuzi.