strictlysupreme Chapter 578 Steel Forging Technology Upgrade
Chapter 578 Steel Forging Technology Upgrade
Today's Daqin, not to mention that there are coal mines everywhere, but there are indeed many places that contain rich coal resources, and most of them are stored in shallow areas.
Although not much oil is found, the consumption is also relatively small, which is enough for current use.
Now that steam power has been widely used in many other fields, it is not difficult to dig out these coal mines and oil stored in shallow areas. Therefore, at some levels, coal is even cheaper than those woods. Cost savings.
"However, other than that, when I hammered steel, Daqin mostly used the relatively primitive method of repeatedly hammering with human power."
"In this way, relying on the rich experience handed down by the craftsmen from their ancestors, it can certainly increase the production rate of steel, so that all the pig iron that is tempered can be used."
"But under the limitation of manpower, most of the steel forged in this way can only be reduced to mediocrity. It can only be used for one time, and it is rare to forge high-quality steel."
"Moreover, apart from these problems, in order to dissipate the residual heat as soon as possible, the forging environment of my Daqin's steel is basically in the open air."
"This way, it is easy for the pure steel that was forged and tempered to be re-contaminated with new impurities, resulting in changes in the original ductility and hardness of the steel, which is not conducive to the secondary processing of the steel."
"Only some of the steelmaking factories dedicated to the imperial court have adopted the new technology provided by Erchen before, but the production capacity is very limited.
These are the problems that my Daqin has in the steel forging process. "
"Therefore, Erchen believes that Daqin should create an environment for steel forging that can effectively avoid contamination by impurities, such as building a special steel forging room, where all steel forging activities are carried out, leaving only the curved chimneys at the four corners for ventilation Let it cool down."
"It is also stipulated that the craftsmen in charge of forging must wear specially cleaned and breathable forging clothes before forging steel. This should greatly reduce the impurities that are contaminated by the steel during the forging process."
"As for the issue of iron and steel hammering, we can use the combination of steam power and manpower, first use steam power to beat the steel into rough billets, and then give these rough billets to the craftsmen for manual hammering, so as to further deepen the rough billets of steel. Layers, more refined processing."
"After such a combination of thickness and thickness, the steel that has not yet been finalized can have better plasticity, and the density will also be greatly improved."
Ying Yu had a smile on his face.
"His Royal Highness is worthy of being a talented person, but in just a few words, he pointed out all the shortcomings of my Daqin forging technology, and all of them are the key points."
"If the Academy of Engineering can make improvements in full accordance with the requirements of His Royal Highness, I think Daqin's steel forging technology will make great progress."
Meng Yi immediately praised.
The ministers in the DPRK and China quickly agreed, although they said they knew nothing about steel forging techniques.
However, since Ying Yu's rise, he has basically been exhaustive, and the opinions and suggestions he put forward have never had any mistakes, so they naturally maintain their trust in Ying Yu.
"Okay! These proposals put forward by the crown prince hit the key points. Let Chen Ping handle this matter."
"However, since you mentioned the external environmental reasons for steel forging, what are the internal core reasons?"
After listening to Ying Yu's words, Ying Zheng immediately asked with great interest.
Originally, his mind was still fuzzy about how to improve Daqin's steel forging skills, but after Ying Yu said a few words, he suddenly felt his thinking became clear.
"Father, please don't worry. The suggestions I have made before are basically related to the improvement of the external environment during steel forging."
"Although it will indeed have an impact on the quality of steel, it is only from the outside after all. It is not the most important issue in my Daqin steel forging process. What can really play a decisive role is the process and method of steel forging. It’s the inner core I mentioned earlier.”
"Actually, there is no major problem with Daqin's steel forging technology, but the forging process is too lengthy and complicated. Many processes can be simplified into one process, but they have to be separated."
"Not only was a lot of manpower time and unnecessary resources wasted in vain, but the steel produced was forged for too long and had too much contact with the air when it was still in the iron embryo stage, so that although its hardness was sufficient to meet the standard, it was still hard. The extension performance is extremely poor."
"The steel forged by this method can only be unsatisfactory at best. Of course, it is enough to make general weapons and agricultural tools. It is very reluctant to be used in railway trains and steam cars. If it is used to make artillery, As for firearms, they are completely substandard and not high-quality steel.”
"Therefore, in order to solve this problem, during this period of time, I deliberately simplified my steel forging process in Daqin on the basis of the original one, leaving only the most critical parts."
"In addition, Erchen also corrected the technique. Among the specific steps, Erchen has already drawn a sketch and handed it over to the Engineering Institute to study and improve."
"It won't take long for the engineering institute to master the new steel forging method and quickly spread it to major steel forging factories."
"I believe that as long as all the external environment and internal core problems can be solved, my Daqin's steel forging technology will definitely be able to improve, and the quality of the steel produced will naturally improve."
Ying Yu said with a smile.
The special steel forging process and technique that Ying Yu mentioned in his speech just now was that he had spent a full 2 million reputation points to exchange for an upgraded version of Daqin's existing steel forging technology from the system mall a few days ago .
2 million reputation points is not a small amount, it directly emptied all Ying Yu's savings.
But Ying Yu knew better that these prestige points in the system are just a number after all, and they will not grow out of thin air. In this case, it is better to use it to transform it into something that can speed up the development of Daqin.
Moreover, upgrading the steel forging technology is really important for the current Daqin.
Although the biggest demand for steel raw materials is only a few items such as firearms and artillery, as long as Daqin wants to maintain the current speed of development, more advanced steel forging technology is absolutely indispensable!