Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

There is another exciting event in Guangming Village today.

The industrial zone was completed some time ago, and it has been quite busy with recruitment.

However, except for the breeding farms, other factories have fixed people working there.

There is no other reason, it’s just because it is more professional.

At the paper mill, after Xiao Yi trained a master who was capable of working independently, he turned his attention to the research of spinning machines.

At present, the iron smelting plant can only make some simple and commonly used iron tools, and the purification effect is not very good.

When building the iron smelting plant, Shi Anan had a general understanding of the iron smelting level of this dynasty. With skills like those of the village blacksmiths, they could only use the rough method of iron smelting to forge wrought iron, and then make suitable utensils after forging. However, such iron was loose in texture and porous on the surface, and the quality was not very good.

According to the blacksmith, in the past, when they went to the town or the county, the blacksmiths there were already able to forge a harder iron product. Shi Anan guessed that they should have been able to skillfully forge pig iron, but because the blacksmiths in the village were not skilled enough, they had not yet reached this level.

Although pig iron is hard, it is also brittle and can only be cast but not forged. Judging from Xiao Yi's sword, its texture is not only hard, but also more flexible than pig iron. According to him, his father asked the world's top craftsmen to make it for him. When he was exiled, he was not allowed to carry weapons. If An An hadn't put his sword into his backpack, he would never see this sword again in his life.

Therefore, based on this sword, Shi Anan speculated that the world's top iron smelting technology should have reached the stage of using cast iron softening technology, and it is not ruled out that it may be approaching the level of hundred-fold tempered steel.

However, there were not many craftsmen with such skills before, and no one knows if there are any now. The blacksmiths in the village have very backward skills.

Fortunately, there is the iron smelting manual. After the blacksmiths improved the blast technology according to the manual, they can now cast pig iron tools stably, and are already exploring further improvements.

But Shi Anan's goal is not just to make the steel a hundred times more refined. However, it is a bit difficult to go further at present, because they are facing more than just technical problems.

Technology can be continuously improved according to the iron smelting manual, but there is a very important thing in iron smelting, which is the temperature control of the iron smelting furnace. Now they are not only unable to further increase the temperature of the furnace, but also unable to stabilize the temperature inside the furnace.

All this is because of the lack of a key raw material, that is coal. Coal burns at a higher temperature and produces a substance called coke after burning.

Coke is an important fuel for ironmaking. It not only has a high temperature and a long burning time, but can also better ensure the temperature stability in the ironmaking furnace. Therefore, before finding a coal mine, it would be difficult for them to further improve their ironmaking technology and output.

Therefore, the iron smelting factory has a blacksmith and several of his apprentices, which can temporarily meet the basic needs of the village for iron tools, and no external recruitment is being done for the time being.

There is also a soap factory, which An An completely left to Liu and Ruan because they could not conduct foreign trade and the demand for people in Guangming Village alone was not particularly large. They only recruited a few women, which was enough to supply the needs of the villagers.

Today, Shi Anan came here not for these factories, but mainly to see the first barrel of soybean oil squeezed by their Guangming Village!

Speaking of oil pressing, Shi Anan actually wanted to do it when she was in the Shi Mansion, but her identity restricted her a lot at the time. She had no money and no one to turn to, so she could only suppress this idea for the time being.

The oil used for cooking in this dynasty was basically animal oil, and the oil refined from unprocessed pork also had a fishy smell. Even though Shi Anan was the only one who felt this way, she still couldn't get used to it.

After she moved to Guangming Village to raise pigs, the quality of lard improved a lot and the smell was not so strong. But cooking with lard was too heavy and greasy for her.

After the soybeans were harvested, the oil extraction was temporarily put on hold because of the cold winter, so it was not until now that the oil was successfully extracted.

Shi Anan strolled to the oil press workshop and smelled the fragrance of oil coming from inside before she went in. There were many villagers from Guangming Village who came to watch the fun like her.

But their reactions were even funnier. They all stood at the door of the oil press, smelling the oil with intoxicated expressions and exclaiming in praise from time to time.

"smell good!"

"Miss Shi is really amazing. How did she know that there is oil in soybeans and that oil can be squeezed out of them?"

"You think Miss Shi is the same as you, but she is a fairy who can communicate with the gods, so she naturally knows a lot!"

"Hey! Girls can praise when you want, why do you have to step on me?"

"I'm happy!"

Shi Anan shook her head and laughed when she heard this, and walked over to interrupt the two people who were bickering: "It's not just soybeans that can be pressed to produce oil. The corn we are about to plant can also be pressed to produce oil, but corn oil is clearer. There is also rapeseed oil pressed from rapeseed flowers, which is also very fragrant. There is also another crop called peanuts, which we don't have here for the time being, but that can also be pressed to produce oil."

"Miss Shi!"

"Miss Shi!"

The people sitting at the door saw Shi Anan coming and quickly stood up to greet her, with trust and admiration in their eyes.

The two people who had been bickering before also saw Shi Anan coming over. They touched their heads embarrassedly and said, "Miss Shi, you really know a lot. We have never seen so many strange things before. We were just bickering just now. Don't take it to heart."

Although they were praising Shi Anan, the two villagers felt a little embarrassed as they were discussing it with their backs to the main person and were heard.

Shi Anan smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, you didn't say anything bad about me, and it doesn't matter if you say bad things about me, it just lets me see if there's anything I did wrong."

The two shook their heads and waved their hands frantically: "No, no! Miss Shi, you have done enough for us. We like the life in Guangming Village now. From now on, I, Zhang San, will be a Guangming Village person in life and a Guangming Village ghost in death!"

"Me too, Li Si!"

Shi Anan: ...

No need to. I don’t really want to see ghosts in Guangming Village.

After chatting with the villagers for a while, Shi Anan walked into the oil press workshop. The workers in the workshop were banging the press chamber with a huge hammer. With each impact, the press chamber squeezed the powder cake in the middle, and then clear oil gradually dripped down.

This is the traditional ancient method of pressing. The powder cake in the middle is made from soybeans through multiple processes.

This ancient method of oil pressing was also figured out by Shi Anan and her team. During her time, she had also experienced manual oil pressing. She was only interested in these inherited skills, but she never thought that she would really use them one day.

Although he knew the general principle, Shi Anan still spent a lot of effort when he led others to try it. After all, the traditional ancient method of oil extraction is very particular about every step, such as heat, strength, time, etc. It is not possible to successfully extract oil simply by knowing the principle.

Fortunately, hard work pays off. Looking at the clear and transparent soybean oil in the barrel, Shi Anan smiled with satisfaction.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully leading his subjects to successfully extract oil using the ancient method. Reward: Peanut Seeds*100, System Currency +5000 Silver Coins]

Shi Anan:!!!