Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

"The steel factory is really quite far from Yang Village," Zhang Wanhe said, walking beside Ren Zhong. "Speaking of which, I haven't been here since you built the steel factory. Chief Chen described it in glowing terms, like a flower, so today I want to see what this pearl in Old Chen's eyes is really like."

"Director Zhang, regarding the replication and construction of blast furnaces number seven and eight at headquarters, could Boss Ren perhaps take some time to go over and provide guidance, to avoid any mistakes?"

"Minister Zhang, don't worry, there won't be any problems. We've already built two sets here, and you've transferred our entire construction team over there to handle it. This thing isn't technically difficult. With blueprints and an experienced construction team supporting it, nothing should go wrong. If you're still worried, I can come over and take a look when it's convenient for you."

Ren Zhong replied casually.

"That's great. I think it should be in the next few days. I'll have someone pick you up. Can you ride a horse? It'll be faster on horseback," Zhang Wanhe said, overjoyed.

"It's alright. I spent a few days riding with Sun Desheng's cavalry company. I'm not good at charging into battle, but riding to get around shouldn't be a problem," Ren Zhong replied with a smile.

There was no other way. In this time and space, means of transportation were too scarce. Ren Zhong had to master some new means of transportation suitable for local conditions, such as riding horses, horse-drawn carriages, and ox carts.

Speaking of Sun Desheng's cavalry company, Ren Zhong not only learned to ride horses but also did Sun Desheng a big favor, allowing Sun Desheng, who was struggling with over a hundred undisciplined and ideologically weak puppet troops, to quickly complete ideological transformation and disciplinary integration.

Because Ren Zhong casually unleashed the big move of 'speaking bitterness,' and after spending a week with Sun Desheng in the cavalry company, the puppet troops, who had originally just joined the army to get food, suddenly underwent a transformation, embracing the same beliefs as the veterans from the base area!

In this way, what would have originally taken more than half a year to train an ordinary soldier with no riding skills from scratch to the point where they could barely charge into battle and form combat effectiveness, Sun Desheng completed in just one month after integration!

Old Li is now with the sniper squad and the flying thunder cannon squad, opening up new base areas and attacking blockhouses in Heyuan with Zhang Dabiao, so busy that he's flying around, unaware that Ren Zhong has given him another surprise in the rear.

The formation of the cavalry company's combat effectiveness also greatly relieved Kong Jie, who was left behind to guard the rear, greatly alleviating the huge impact on the Independent Regiment's combat effectiveness after the First Company was transferred away.

It's just that these changes are not only unknown to headquarters, but probably even the brigade commander doesn't know yet.

The group quickly arrived outside blast furnaces number one and two in Yang Village. Looking at the two clods of earth-like things from afar, they were immediately dumbfounded.

Xu Jiucheng, who had originally had some expectations, was even more disappointed to the extreme. If Ren Zhong hadn't pointed at the two earthen blast furnaces, still emitting smoke, and said that they were the steel blast furnaces of Yang Village, Xu Jiucheng would never have believed it.

This thing was tall, more than ten meters, as tall as a few stories, rising from the ground against a stone wall.

But just looking at the outside, it was really made of earth, without a single piece of mechanical equipment. It was completely like a purely brick-built chimney, completely incompatible with the most modern industrial symbol of a steel factory.

If you had to use a word to describe it, it would be rustic to the extreme!

"Let's go, let's go take a closer look," Ren Zhong said, ignoring these people's current state of mind and without explaining.

This thing, in terms of visual effect, was truly an indescribable lump. But when they saw the molten iron flowing out, what awaited them was two words: "It's awesome!"

Soon, everyone arrived in front of blast furnaces number one and two, watching the hot molten iron continuously flowing out, the air filled with a strong metallic smell.

Xu Jiucheng took a deep, intoxicated breath. It was a long-lost and familiar smell.

Because seeing the molten iron flowing out so quietly, there was nothing more convincing than this. How disappointed they were just now, how excited they were now, especially Gao Kaiming, whose eyes were almost red as he looked at the molten iron.

According to Ren Zhong, the pig iron produced here in a year would exceed 3,000 tons! As a veteran of the arsenal, Gao Kaiming certainly knew what this meant. A gun weighed a few pounds of iron, and a ton could produce at least 200 or more. With these two blast furnaces, he wouldn't have to worry about not having enough to cook.

Although this kind of pig iron was still some distance away from the steel used to make guns and cannons, Gao Kaiming had a strong premonition that this place was definitely not just about iron smelting.

The others didn't have as much feeling as he did, but these two earthen things produced several thousand tons of iron a year?! Everyone was going crazy.

"Boss Ren," Xu Jiucheng couldn't help but ask, "Forgive my ignorance, whose masterpiece is this blast furnace? It can produce so much molten iron using such simple conditions."

"There are no masters, these are just the wisdom of the masses," Ren Zhong said with a smile. Although during a certain special period, doing such things had no practical significance, the wealth left behind, when placed in the Bright Sword world, was just right.

No one would have thought that in a tightly blockaded base area, such a strange person as him would appear out of nowhere, bringing a hopeless process from decades later to solve the most lacking materials in the base area!

"What? This wasn't designed by a master in the metallurgical industry?" Xu Jiucheng was shocked. With his knowledge, he couldn't understand the mystery of this earthen blast furnace for a moment. Could such a simple and ingenious earthen blast furnace be designed by a metallurgical expert who had been immersed in it for many years?

"Indeed not, Comrade Xu, we must believe in the wisdom of the masses, and integrate the strengths of everyone to achieve our goals. What you see today is the result of our organization extracting experience from the wisdom of the masses and integrating it," Ren Zhong added, counting the masses of more than ten years later.

"Amazing, truly amazing," Xu Jiucheng praised twice, and suddenly realized that he was embarrassed. In this kind of production environment, it seemed that he had no use at all?

He, a rare steelmaking expert in Jin, couldn't find a place to play his role in a steel factory?

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