The other craftsmen in Wei'anbao were naturally aware of the overt and covert fight between Jiang Zhengcheng and Lu Xu. Most people felt that Jiang Zhengcheng's attack on the young team officer was a bit too harsh and a bit too much!
After all, everyone has to live under one roof in the future, and I'm afraid it won't end well if Jiang Zhengcheng makes such a big fuss.
However, I think so, but they are still craftsmen after all. If Jiang Zhengcheng wins, the other craftsmen will also benefit, so no one stands up to speak for Lu Xu.
In this way, Jiang Zhengcheng naturally became more confident.
On the official day of steelmaking, Jiang Zhengcheng made a great scene! Not only did he find a bunch of old brothers to help him control the scene, but he also killed pigs and sheep to pay homage to his ancestor. It was a big scene.
Those who didn't know thought that someone in their family had taken a new wife.
All the old blacksmiths had received instructions from Jiang Zhengcheng before. When the furnace was making steel, they kept shouting loudly and responding to each other to heat up the scene. The scene looked very lively, professional, and even more exciting.
Full of tacit understanding.
Some knowledgeable craftsmen looked at the busy figures of these old blacksmiths and kept nodding.
"You have to be a master after all!"
"Experts will know if someone is there as soon as they make a move. Just the way they move to where they are is enough to teach our little brat a few years."
"That's not the case. Those skills are the result of decades of hard work. Can ordinary people compare with them?"
On one side, the craftsmen marveled at the professionalism of these old blacksmiths. On the other side, Jiang Zhengcheng looked at the sweaty old brothers. He shook his fan while drinking ice water, and nodded pretending to be satisfied.
In fact, he was quite excited, because in his opinion, this fiery scene heralded his victory.
He didn't notice that the scene he was creating was huge, but except for those who really knew what he was doing, fewer and fewer people paid attention to him.
There is no way, no matter how lively he makes the scene, no one knows how good they are?
And more importantly, Jiang Zhengcheng ensured that he would win the jackpot and started steelmaking an hour earlier than Lu Xu.
However, due to the backward technology, after working for an hour, they could only heat the stove to the predetermined temperature.
When the people who left Jiang Zhengcheng came to Lu Xu's side, they happened to see Lu Xu using a blower to heat the blast furnace.
Although ordinary people also couldn't understand the technical issues, they could see that Niu Er randomly pulled the blower a few times, and Lu Xu's soil blast furnace started to heat up.
And it didn't take long for the heat wave that hit their faces to exceed the heat that Jiang Zhengcheng and the others had been working on for an hour.
By this time, even people who didn't believe in Lu Xu's ability knew that Lu Xu was not an ordinary person.
But before everyone could ignite confidence in Lu Xu, everyone's enthusiasm was extinguished by Lu Xu himself.
Because under everyone's shocked and puzzled gaze, Lu Xu actually turned steelmaking into a "pouring water" job.
Seeing Lu Xu and Niu Er watering the wrought iron like crops, everyone's expressions were very exciting.
This scene made everyone think that Lu Xu was absolutely crazy. How can there be any point in pouring steel? Although the blower Lu Xu made just now is indeed good, this steel-making method that is beyond everyone's knowledge still happened in an instant.
It destroyed everyone's confidence in him.
"The team officer here wants to use the method of watering crops to make steel grow from wrought iron? Then his brain..."
"Shh, can you talk about this?"
"It's a pity that the boy from Liuzi's family is following a crazy Shangguan like this."
"What are you afraid of? How long can he sit in this position if he is really crazy?"
"Can you shut up? I'm having a great time watching the show. Stop nagging in my ears. I love watching monkey shows the most!"
Gradually, the mentality of the people watching Lu Xu became like watching a monkey show. No one wanted to believe that Lu Xu could really make steel.
Can steel still grow from wrought iron?
No one can believe this! But everyone likes to see people go crazy, so it’s just a fun thing to watch.
But this also has another advantage, that is, more and more people are watching Lu Xu and the others at their work.
And Lu Xu’s eyes are getting brighter and brighter!
The essence of steel filling is to add carbon from pig iron to wrought iron to turn it into steel. Lu Xu could clearly see that this process was going very smoothly.
He was already absolutely sure that his refining of Su Gang would be successful this time.
In fact, what he expected was not wrong at all. As the process progressed steadily, under the eyes of everyone with great surprise, pieces of "Suzhou Steel" were successfully produced!
"It's fake, is it really steel?"
"I'm disgusted. If steel can be poured out, will silver be grown in the fields in the future?"
"Let's see. Whether it's true or not depends on whether he dares to test the hardness of steel in front of us."
There is no way, the gap between the Su Steel Method and the traditional steel-making method is really huge. This method that transcends worldly perspectives is really hard for people to accept.
Lu Xu gave Niu Er a wink. He also knew that now was a good time to win people's hearts, and he needed to show his abilities in front of everyone.
Niu Er also understood it. He took out a waist knife and slashed hard at a steel ingot weighing about ten kilograms that had just been refined.
"Ding!"
After a loud noise, sparks flew!
Under Niu Er's huge strength, his waist knife shattered directly, but only a thin mark was left on the steel ingot!
Su Steel, which is comparable to the tool steel of the industrial era, completely crushes the knives made of Baidu Steel in this era in terms of performance!
The besieging people were stunned. As craftsmen, they had served the military for generations. Even if they were not blacksmiths, they would occasionally see blacksmiths showing off their craftsmanship.
Not only have they seen steel of this strength, they have never even heard of it.
What’s even more frightening is that it takes a very long time to refine Bailiang Steel because it requires repeated forging. But what about Lu Xu and the others? It only took more than an hour from opening the furnace to tapping the steel.
Time, this double crushing of efficiency and quality shocked everyone in an instant.
Everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Lu Xu.
Only then did everyone remember that Lu Xu was different from ordinary thieves. He was a Jinshi-born man and a serious and well-read man.
The awe of knowledge and intellectuals surged into everyone's hearts again, and the way everyone looked at Lu Xu also changed. It was no longer the way they looked at a thief and an army, but the way they looked at an official.
Lu Xu knew at a glance that he had suppressed everyone. But if he wanted to completely establish his prestige in everyone's hearts, he still needed the last step, which was to overthrow the original authority in their hearts!