Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

"Alright, everyone, we've finished looking at iron smelting. Let's move on to the steelmaking area and take a look. Our steel plant has just been built. The first batch of steel failed to meet the required strength. We still need to adjust and optimize it to produce qualified steel," Ren Zhong said with a slight smile, seeing everyone's enthusiasm, and began to lead them to another location.

I knew it! I knew it! Gao Kaiming was shouting wildly in his heart.

Even though Ren Zhong said it wasn't successful yet, what he had seen earlier had completely conquered this dark-skinned middle-aged man.

This is truly a place of industrial miracles!

Before coming to Yang Village, Gao Kaiming would never have believed in what Yang Village now possesses, because Yang Village has basically completed a closed-loop production of a real arsenal!

In a mountain village, without any modern industrial foundation, completely adopting folk methods, this is undoubtedly a miracle!

Gao Kaiming didn't know that in another time and space, the real Eighth Route Army workers also completed the arsenal from scratch on such a foundation!

Although the production capacity and technical content were far inferior to the current Yang Village, it was not because they didn't work hard, but because Ren Zhong stood in advance at the end point of their achievements and backfed them!

On the other side, Xu Jiucheng, who seemed a little lost because he couldn't find his position, seemed to come alive again after hearing this. Steelmaking is technically more advanced than iron smelting. After all, the main condition for iron smelting is to raise the temperature and melt the iron ore, and then use coke and other auxiliary materials to produce molten iron.

But steelmaking is different. The fact that the mighty Guofu only produces 1,500 tons of steel a year is proof of this. This is Guofu, which manages tens of thousands of people, with tens of thousands of metallurgical talents. But how many steel plants can successfully produce steel?

Many metallurgical students don't understand how steel is formed through reactions. Even though foreigners have built so many steel plants in China, the core processes are never revealed. Even core technical talents in steel plants like Xu Jiucheng can't access these crucial things!

"You've even managed to make steel! Take me to see it!" Xu Jiucheng said impatiently.

Ren Zhong smiled and didn't say much.

He led them to the open-hearth steelmaking area a few hundred meters away, which was equally simple and crude.

The fire here had been stopped and cooled down. The half-smelted ore and iron blocks inside were taken out, waiting for Ren Zhong to analyze the reasons and find the problem before restarting.

Xu Jiucheng looked at these scraps, picked up a piece, smelled it, and then looked at the steel ingots formed by the solidified molten steel.

"This has already formed steel! Boss Ren, what process are you using?" Xu Jiucheng said excitedly, "The sulfur content in the raw materials should be too high, and the phosphorus content of the local iron ore is also high. Is it because the dephosphorization was not done well, resulting in brittle steel?"

"Is this really open-hearth steelmaking? Can open-hearth steelmaking be done like this?" Xu Jiucheng exclaimed, hearing Ren Zhong confirm the almost impossible idea in his heart.

He is an old steel technology expert, and he has naturally seen open-hearth furnaces and converters, but he has never seen an open-hearth furnace like the one in Yang Village.

You must know that the open-hearth furnace is now the most mainstream steelmaking process in the world. It represents the world's first-class level.

But in Yang Village, everything here is very strange.

The most mainstream process method is used in the simplest facilities. Everything here seems to be used to break the routine.

"It is indeed the open-hearth steelmaking method. Engineer Xu, you see that the other place connected to the pipeline is a gas generator. Of course, it has stopped now. Our hearth is completely designed according to the Martin furnace. Of course, in terms of the materials used, we have achieved local sourcing and built a regenerative chamber using local refractory clay bricks. In terms of service life, it is quite different from the regular open-hearth regenerative chamber," Ren Zhong continued to explain.

There is nothing to keep secret about these things. Without drawings and opening the hearth to check and measure the dimensions, Xu Jiucheng will definitely not be able to learn it just by looking at it outside for a while.

"Boss Ren, I've decided to stay and learn this open-hearth steelmaking with you. There is an opportunity for me to learn and grow here, and there is also a place for me to contribute a little bit of my meager strength," Xu Jiucheng finally made up his mind.

He has already understood that although the equipment in Yang Village is simple, the related technical processes and knowledge are definitely one of the top places in the country today!

Not to mention anything else, just this open-hearth steelmaking process, you will definitely not be able to learn such detailed knowledge outside.

"No problem, welcome Engineer Xu to join. I think that here, we can create a new history for the steel production of the base area," Ren Zhong was not polite at all. Even if the other party is a chief engineer-level technical personnel, in the face of the huge technological gap of the times, facing the era represented by Ren Zhong, it is really like an elementary school student.

But this elementary school student can grow quickly. Under the enlightenment of the knowledge brought by Ren Zhong, he will soon grow into a qualified tool person. Ren Zhong will certainly not put the future promotion of this open-hearth steelmaking process on himself one by one. The best thing to do is to find a tool person to replace it. Now, Xu Jiucheng is the best tool person!

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