"Add the feed!" Wang Yingxuan said loudly again.

The worker added iron-manganese alloy to the red steel water. This was to remove the pores in the steel during the reaction, and the second was that because the reaction was too violent just now, all the carbon was removed, and the refined iron was actually cooked, so a little carbon had to be added to the steel...

"It's started!" Finally, Wang Yingxuan suppressed his excitement and shouted in a trembling voice.

The workers worked together to rotate the huge gears on both sides and slowly tilted the converter with the new crane. When the converter tilted to a certain angle, a hot torrent flowed out of the furnace mouth, dazzling and unaware.

The steel water flows vertically into the cold iron ingot mold, the mold expands under heat, and the steel solidifies and shrinks, so there is no need to worry about sticking together. After it cools down, the mold is knocked back and hits, and steel of various shapes falls off the mold.

Zhu Shimao and others finally put their hearts back into their stomachs. Good guy, this is too exciting...

Everyone went outside to drink water and take a shower and change their clothes. When they came in again, the researcher presented three steel bars as thick as fingers to Mr. Zhao, Director Wang and Chairman of Jiangnan Steel Wang.

Wang Yu had been dealing with Steel for half his life. His family was originally in Wuhu, the most advanced steelmaking field in the entire Ming Dynasty and even the world at that time. Although he had seen too many of the powers of the 01 Institute in recent years, he still couldn't believe that he could make steel by simply blowing it.

In Wang Yu, steel is sacred and tempered. Even the most advanced technology now requires the process of melting iron ore to obtain pig iron and refined pig iron to obtain braised iron and then carburizing steel.

It’s okay to start the first two steps, but starting with blast furnaces directly has a large output and is not too troublesome, but steelmaking is very difficult.

The iron bar will only become high-carbon carburized steel after six or seven days of heating, but at this time the iron bar only contains carbon on the surface, but the inside is the same as before. If high-quality steel used to produce sword blades, craftsmen will also need to constantly knock and fold carburize in the forging furnace until the carburized steel layer reaches the required thickness.

All processes require a lot of fuel and skilled workers, so "steel" is so sacred and noble in the minds of blacksmiths. How can it come out of the blast furnace directly like iron smelting?

Is it fair? Is it fair? Does steel still have dignity? Can it still be that valuable?

He was thinking a lot, but Wang Yingxuan tried his best to break the steel with both hands, but he showed no sign of bending with all his strength.

Lao Wang held the steel bars in both hands and smashed them hard on an iron ingot beside him. As the sparks splashed, the steel bars did not break and did not deform as before.

This means that the sulfur content and carbon content should be qualified.

Wang Yingxuan has no scent on his face, because the strength of steel with high phosphorus content will also be significantly improved. However, phosphorus is more harmful, it will reduce the plasticity and toughness of the steel and make the steel cold and brittle. It is because the phosphorus in the steel cannot be removed, so the 01st factory will be trapped in the place for so many years.

Although theoretically, because iron ore does not contain phosphorus, steel should not have phosphorus either. But Lao Wang didn’t know how many times he had been happy over the years, so he became extremely cautious.

He asked someone to take a piece of freshly made steel and stuff two bricks on both sides of the left and right ends. He then pounded it with a big iron hammer.

With the loud bang, the steel was slightly bent every time, and then it rebounded back to its original state, without any signs of breaking or breaking.

As he pounded, Wang Yingxuan couldn't help but burst into tears.

Because this shows that the phosphorus content in steel is also qualified, otherwise there would not be such toughness and elasticity...

Seeing this scene, Wang Yu opened his mouth wide in surprise. But he was still dissatisfied and called another guard to pull out a steel knife to chop the steel bars in his hand.

After slashing with one knife, the fire splashed, and the steel knife left a shallow white mark on the steel bar. Wang Yu simply took the knife and repeatedly chopped the same position.

Until the steel knife rolled the blade, the white marks on the steel bars only became larger and deeper, and there was no big deal.

Obviously the hardness is also qualified.

Both strength, hardness, toughness, elasticity and elasticity are qualified... Isn't that just steel?

"It's really steel?" Wang Yu stared at the dog.

"According to the characteristics shown, it should be high-carbon steel with a carbon content of more than 800000." Wang Yingxuan also suppressed his excitement and said: "But it still needs to be tested to obtain the accurate carbon content!"

"What are you still standing there? Go quickly!" Zhao Hao patted his shoulder.

"Okay, let's go now!" Wang Yingxuan immediately brought the samples and ran to the next door. In order to facilitate testing, he also brought the equipment.

In fact, metallographic observation can be used to estimate the carbon content by using a microscope. However, quantitative calculations using chemical methods are obviously more rigorous.

The principle of chemical method is very simple. It is to burn the steel sample powder at a high temperature in sufficient oxygen to convert all its carbon elements into carbon dioxide. Then, use potassium hydroxide solution to absorb carbon dioxide, and determine the volume of carbon dioxide, then calculate its mass, and then calculate the carbon content of the steel end.

It sounds quite simple, but with the help of Institute 01 and Institute 04, it took a lot of effort to get the equipment and steps of this testing.

The final test results came out, and the carbon content was about 9/1000, which was completely the "steel" in the current traditional sense!

Researchers from the Institute 01 cheered in ecstasy when they heard the news. Everyone jumped and shouted, hugged and cried and laughed.

It has been too difficult for the past eight years, and the first furnace of qualified steel was finally refined.

They threw the thin Wang Yingxuan to the sky again and again. Everyone's emotions that had been accumulated for many years were finally released at this moment!

In fact, they want to abandon Mr. Zhao, but no one dares...

Zhao Hao was also very happy. He asked someone to set off a total of 100,000 firecrackers to celebrate. All researchers remembered their merits, advanced, and issued bonuses! He also announced that the converter steelmaking method would be named Wang Yingxuan Steelmaking method!

Wang Yingxuan was very calm. He picked up the broken glasses from the ground, put them on and said, "We have not yet conquered the phosphorus removal technology, so I feel ashamed of it. I would like to ask the young master to take back the reward. I have no shame to be the name of this."

People in Guanzhong are just honest, but fortunately, researchers are almost as tough as they have such a temper, so there is no question of offending people too much.

"Hey, this is a bad word." Zhao Hao happily took the cigar handed over by Zhu Shimao, took a beautiful breath: "Although every step we move forward is of great significance, the significance of this step is particularly important!"

As he said that, he said to Zhu Yu, "Old Zhu, don't you?"

"Of course. Just half an hour ago, this furnace of steel has to be refined for seven or eight days. Not only how much manual labor is used, but also has to use charcoal all the time..." Zhu Yu has estimated that the cost of converter steel is one-tenth of the traditional method, and the efficiency is so high that I don't know where it goes.

He had to accept it now and bowed his hands and said repeatedly: "Young Master is so amazing. I, Old Zhu, would never have dreamed that one day I could make steel like iron!"

"This shows that you lack imagination." Zhao Hao laughed loudly and was in a great mood.

"This is what you deserve. If you feel uneasy, it's very simple. Keep up the effort and overcome the phosphorus removal method?" He patted Wang Yingxuan's shoulder and said:

"Can't you do it before we use up Kaiping's iron ore?"

"That's not possible." Lao Wang shook his head quickly. In fact, he already had a way of thinking. But such things are not urgent, and it must take time and repeated trials.

"Isn't that all?" Zhao Hao laughed and said, "Just ask Wang Ying to choose the steelmaking method, that's it!"

The successful steelmaking of converter can be said to be his biggest breakthrough in the past decade. It is more important than the Zhang Jian steam engine!

It’s not that the Zhang Jian-style steam engine has little significance, but it’s still a few years away from the steam engine he really wants.

Although converter steel has too strict requirements on iron ore, as long as the supply of phosphate-free iron ore is guaranteed, qualified steel can be obtained!

This is a world that only looks at the results, and results are always more important than processes.

The importance of steel cannot be overemphasized. Almost all industrialized countries' industrial processes began with large-scale steelmaking. Without a large amount of high-quality and low-cost steel, there would be no mechanical painting production, and there would be no industrial revolution!

Even before the Industrial Revolution, the importance of steel was still unparalleled. Its most important industrial and military materials are not exaggerated to emphasize its role.

And what Zhao Hao has made now is steel!

Think about it, steel cannons and steel guns can be arranged. You can also put steel armor on the warships, or even build iron armor ships directly!

OK, the ironclad ship should wait for the steam engine...

But the railway tracks are not required to wait for the train, and they are laid all over the world first! The load capacity of a rail carriage is several times that of a railless carriage, and it is faster and more labor-saving!

Tools and wooden machinery can also be steeled. Only by using tools and machinery for steel production can standardization be discussed...

Not to mention bridges, tall buildings, barbed wire and so on.

Uh, I was thinking too beautifully... Mr. Zhao wiped off the saliva from his mouth and smiled bitterly. Just the ones he imagined were probably not able to reach the production capacity in ten or twenty years.

Alas, you still have to be down-to-earth and work hard!

He glanced at Wang Yu and smiled and said, "How is it? Are you interested in being the head of this coal-steel consortium?"

"Then I must be interested!" Wang Yu agreed immediately, "Even if the young master doesn't say it, I have to volunteer!"

As he said that, he smiled embarrassedly: "I have read the converter steelmaking method here, and I can't read the original methods. I can't go back, I really can't go back..."

"It's right that we can't go back. We just have to make big strides forward, the farther we go!" Zhao Hao said proudly: "Let our descendants live in a steel world!"

"Young Master is so romantic..." Lao Wang and Lao Wang were shocked by the scene that Zhao Hao said, and tears fell down.

Zhu Shimao and others disagree. What's the best in the world of steel? It's gray and rusty, so how can there be the beauty of mountains and rivers?

However, the mountains and rivers and pastorals are vulnerable to the steel world...
Chapter completed!