Chapter 857
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Seeing this, the two of them hurriedly got up and led Zhang Feng into the workshop.
It was early July now, and although it was not as hot as before, the temperature in the workshop was extremely high. From a distance, there seemed to be only 10 strange forging furnaces burning red in the workshop. However, as soon as Zhang Feng walked in, he realized that the forging furnaces that Old Li and the rest had brought over had been dismantled by these people, and there was nothing left of them.
In the place where the mountain wall used to be, there was a furnace about six meters tall. At this moment, a few Western Regioners, who were only wearing loincloths, were desperately filling it with charcoal.
Arkinnon and Mococo led Zhang Feng around these people and entered a natural cave that was only ten meters deep.
Everyone looked at Zhang Feng. Although they were not vigilant, they did not pay any attention to him either. It was as if Zhang Feng was invisible. Zhang Feng did not care about this. He followed Arkinnon and Mococo into the expanded cave.
As soon as they entered the cave, a wave of heat almost made Zhang Feng faint.
More importantly, there was a smell of cumin, which was unique to the Western Regioners.
Zhang Feng resisted this strange smell and frowned slightly as he looked at the furnace that was dug out by hand from the mountain wall.
This furnace was ventilated using both ears. However, in this enclosed environment, there was no way to vent.
The fire could not be concentrated at all.
"Be careful, Mr. Dean. The molten iron will be ready soon. Please stand back and wait for me to release the molten iron for you to see."
While speaking, Arkinnon and Mokeado talked for a while. Then, Arkinnon picked up a small iron hammer and an iron rod and fiercely hammered a few times at the bottom of the furnace that was covered in mud.
As the hammer fell, the area was filled with a scarlet light.
Mococo shouted in a low voice, "Be careful, Mr. Dean!"
"Open the furnace!"
Clang!
Algernon swung his hammer down.
Drops of crimson liquid flowed out from the cracks created by the iron rod. Once the crimson liquid came into contact with the ground, a sizzling sound could be heard.
Mokeado hurriedly picked up a hoe and dug a trench in the ground to guide the molten iron to flow out.
Although the furnace looked very big.
However, there was very little molten iron.
Not long after.
The molten iron flowed out of the mountain, and the molten iron stopped dripping from the furnace. Only then did Arjinnon order the others to bring buckets of water and pour it on the ground around the molten iron.
In an instant, pitch-black smoke mixed with the smell of iron filled the entire smelting workshop.
Zhang Feng couldn't take it anymore.
Covering his mouth and nose, he hurriedly fled the workshop.
Ma Zhou was completely dumbfounded.
It was his first time coming to this workshop, so how would he know that all the expensive ironware and bronzeware that he usually knew about were produced this way?
Not long after, the smoke was blown away by the wind in the valley. Arjinnon called for Zhang Feng in the workshop.
As soon as he entered the workshop, Arjinnon handed a piece of newly smelted iron to Zhang Feng. "Mr. Dean, the temperature is still not high enough. This is the kind of steel you mentioned …"
Zhang Feng frowned slightly. He took out a delicate curved knife from his waist and used the back of the knife to gently cut the palm-sized piece of iron. In an instant, the knife left a mark on the piece of iron that was still a little red.
"No, this is still iron!"
Was there a problem with the steps?
Zhang Feng couldn't help but remove the videos in his mind. He searched for the physics knowledge he had learned in high school and college, as well as the methods to forge iron.
Zhang Feng could not help but slowly figure out the reason.
Looking at the charcoal in the corner, Zhang Feng asked, "You've been using this before?"
Arjinnon nodded. "Is there anything else that can replace this?"
Zhang Feng seemed to have realized the problem. He turned around and asked Ma Zhou, "Ma Zhou, do you know that the Tang Dynasty uses charcoal to forge iron?"
Ma Zhou didn't know what Zhang Feng was trying to say, but he still nodded. "Yes, it's charcoal."
"Go and call Li Gan. I have something to talk to him about."
Zhang Feng frowned.
After Ma Zhou left in a hurry, Zhang Feng squatted next to a strange smelting furnace on the edge of the cliff, carefully watching a craftsman from the Western Regions forge.
When the charcoal in the furnace burned to a certain degree, the craftsman would put in a few more pieces of charcoal and then take out some of the ashes from the bottom of the furnace.
He did this repeatedly without stopping.
Zhang Feng pointed at the craftsman and asked, "Do you smelt like this?"
"Yes!"
Both Arjinnon and Mokeado nodded.
Then Mokeado said, "I've visited the Tang Dynasty before. At that time, it wasn't called the Tang Dynasty yet. Although the method of forging in the Tang Dynasty is different from mine, they still use the same method. There's no difference."
Hearing this, Zhang Feng finally found the crux of the problem. He asked calmly, "Are you sure that the Tang Dynasty used this method to smelt iron?"
"Yes!"
Zhang Feng was speechless. …
No wonder they couldn't forge iron. It would be strange if they could forge iron using this method.
In this era, there should have been coal a long time ago!
Why didn't they use that thing?
Why did they keep the temperature of the flame at a certain point?
Smelting is such a simple thing. Why is it so difficult in this era?
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