"Charcoal is coming out!" Several corvees from Guazhou shouted and extinguished the fire in the charcoal kiln.
The craftsman Zhang Tiezheng opened the seal of the charcoal kiln. A wave of heat hit him, and white and silvery charcoal blocks rolled out of the charcoal kiln.
Zhang Tiezheng exclaimed, this is the best silver charcoal!
This kind of charcoal is layered layer by layer, and the surface of the charcoal is like tangled silver threads. A small piece of charcoal can burn overnight.
During the Kaiyuan period, the imperial court would reward winter charcoal to the governor's office every winter. It was at that time that Zhang Tiezheng saw silver charcoal.
This kind of silver wire charcoal is quite precious and burns without smoke. Zhang Tiezheng had only seen it in the Governor's Mansion.
It is said that this kind of silver charcoal is worth thousands of gold and can only be made by the royal family. During the Kaiyuan Year, the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, ministers and wealthy people in Xijing were all vying to take pride in burning silver charcoal.
Zhang Tiezheng looked at the gradually cooling silver charcoal and once again marveled at the power of Master Jian Xia!
Jian Xia produced a drawing of the charcoal kiln, and then came to inspect it twice during the construction of the charcoal kiln, pointing out several construction errors.
From opening the kiln to making charcoal, Jian Xia has never been there once, but according to her method, she really made high-quality charcoal!
Now Zhang Tiezheng is even more sure that Master Jian is definitely a master craftsman who has served the royal family for generations. She is the God of Wealth who can turn stones into magic!
If these carts of silver charcoal are transported to Beiting, Shazhou, they will definitely be sold at a good price!
And this furnace probably burned more than a dozen loads of silver charcoal! So much high-quality silver charcoal is a mountain of money!
But when Zhang Tiezheng pulled the silver charcoal to Jian Xia's camp, Jian Xia pointed to a new miniature blast furnace and said:
"Put the charcoal in there."
Zhang Tiezheng looked at the blast furnace and asked doubtfully: "Master Jian, this is silver wire charcoal, is this fine charcoal?"
Jian Xia said, "What I want is this kind of charcoal. Hurry up and put it into the furnace. I want to continue making iron."
Zhang Tiezheng and his son looked at each other with shocked expressions on their faces.
It turns out that Master Jian fired silver wire charcoal to make iron? Use such good charcoal to make iron?
Zhang Tiezheng and his son could not understand, but they still followed Jian Xia's instructions and stuffed the silver charcoal into the blast furnace.
Jian Xia took out a pen and paper to record the process of this experiment.
"Experiment No. 20, the blast furnace structure was improved, higher quality charcoal with less impurities was used, and the blast furnace ironmaking experiment began."
The silver charcoal burned in the blast furnace for a day. When the furnace was turned on, players from the entire construction site gathered in front of Jian Xia's tent.
Lei Meng and Qin Chuan didn't know how to make iron, but Jian Xia had been working on the blast furnace all day these past few days, and the entire construction site had stopped working. Everyone had nothing to do, so every time Jian Xia did experiments, it became an entertainment activity on the construction site.
Attracting players to watch.
Lei Meng looked at the black smoke coming out of the blast furnace chimney and said, "Isn't the iron ingot smelted last time very good? Why do we need to smelt it again?"
Qin Chuan shook his head and said: "I don't understand either. I heard that the quality of the iron ingots is not high enough to make gun barrels."
Lei Meng's eyes widened and he said, "Isn't this an ancient war game? Why do we even have cannons?"
Qin Chuan said: "I don't understand either, but I heard that some players have already made gunpowder. Cannons shouldn't be difficult, right?"
"Awesome! These players don't know how their brains grow, but if they can fight with cannons, it will definitely be fun. I have never fired a cannon!"
This time Jian Xia opened the door of the blast furnace in person and saw red molten iron flowing out of the furnace. Immediately after, Zhang Tiezheng and other craftsmen rushed forward and led the molten iron to the cold palace nearby.
When the red molten iron turned dark red, Zhang Tiezheng and his son took the hammer and forged it hard.
The hammer collided with the uncooled iron ingot, and brilliant sparks burst out.
Qin Chuan stood aside and murmured: "The big hammer is one hundred, the small hammer is fifty, the big hammer is one hundred, the small hammer is fifty."
A whole furnace of molten iron had been poured out. Zhang Tiezheng and his son were sweating profusely from the heat, and finally finished forging the iron ingot before it cooled down.
Jian Xia came over, looked at the cooled iron ingot on the ground, and ordered Zhang Tiezhu to carry the iron ingot into her laboratory.
After testing the quality of the iron ingots the next day, Jian Xia finally sent a messenger to Li Yan to report that the experiment at Dashuixia Iron Mine was successful!
She has produced qualified steel through a miniature blast furnace! Next, she can build the Dashuixia Iron Works!
At this time, Guazhou City was enveloped in a heavy atmosphere.
The martial arts competition had just ended, and Yu Chixin won the first place in the close combat competition of the martial arts competition without any surprise.
The remaining few winners are basically old players who entered the game in the first test.
There is no way, the first test player has a huge advantage over other players. The best ranking among the second test players is tenth. This player is actually a Sanda enthusiast, and he won the first place with his superb fighting skills.
Ten.
The championship of the archery group was won by a second-test player named Wang Shixiong.
This also surprised many players. This Wang Shixiong defeated Yu Chixin. He hit all five arrows within fifty steps, and the arrows were all above 8 rings!
Later, players learned that Wang Shixiong was actually a retired archery athlete.
Although he was a second-test player, he had disadvantages in attributes. In order to participate in the competition, Wang Shixiong added all his attributes to agility.
And in order to make up for the gap in strength attributes, Wang Shixiong used a homemade compound bow to participate in the competition.
This unique bow and arrow aroused heated discussion among players as soon as it appeared. Through the pulleys and special power storage device, the compound bow can be pulled open with less force, thereby reducing Wang Shixiong's strength attribute disadvantage.
Wang Shixiong's agility attribute also reached 9 points. Coupled with his experience as an athlete, he became a blockbuster in the archery competition, defeating many first-test players and winning the championship.
Although Wang Shixiong won the championship, the referee in charge of the archery competition, Mo Lijun's new captain Xue Cheng, still complained about his good friend Yuchi Xin.
He believed that Wang Shixiong's bow and arrows had gone astray. This kind of bow and arrows were worthless in actual combat and could only be used for spectator archery competitions.
But Xue Cheng also said that Wang Shixiong's archery skills are excellent, but his body is a little weak. If Wang Shixiong can draw a heavy bow, he can definitely be selected into the Sheliu Camp and become a strong general who is good at archery!
The results of the business competition were also announced that day. Sun Jianguo's wool shop has now become a huge industry, and all the women at home in Guazhou City have participated in Sun Jianguo's wool industry.
Nowadays, businessmen gather in Guazhou, and many of them come here for woolen yarns and sweaters.
Businessmen pursue profits, and the case of counterfeit money by big food merchants did not affect the trade in Guazhou. On the contrary, it made these big food businessmen much more honest. No one dared to use counterfeit money in Guazhou anymore, and the cases of malicious price reduction were also much less.
However, for the people of Guazhou, the martial arts competition is just entertainment during the slack time. What really attracts the attention of the people of Guazhou is the upcoming Dasuo Maoyu!