Start a blacksmith shop

Chapter 28 Fried Steel
Li Zhenhua was sitting in a pickup truck, while Liu Xiaodong was driving,
Guo Shugui was holding a portable shooting device that he bought earlier, and the lens was pointed at Li Zhenhua.

What are the three of them doing here?Of course, it was to buy raw materials. This time, Li Zhenhua wanted to use the most basic things to make knives that were relatively effective.

It’s still the company that bought the stainless steel before, or the warehouse,
But this time they didn't want many things, they just bought thirty catties of pig iron and some additives. This time Li Zhenhua really started from scratch.

After buying the raw materials, Li Zhenhua bought two large crucibles and an electric melting furnace with a temperature of 1800 degrees in the market.

With this furnace, his electricity bill will be much higher than before.

The three of them wandered around the market all morning, and bought everything Li Zhenhua saw, thought of, and found useful.

Back at the blacksmith shop at noon, I ate something simple, and just after eating, the person who delivered the furnace arrived here.

Watching the workers install the furnace, Li Zhenhua couldn't wait to turn on the switch of the furnace after the installers left.

The furnace starts to heat up, and the temperature inside the furnace is displayed on the screen outside.
Li Zhenhua opened the furnace door, took out a crucible, put some pig iron in it, and then put the pig iron into the furnace to start heating.

In his eyes, the state and temperature of the pig iron in the crucible were displayed in real time.

When the temperature reached 1563 degrees Celsius, the crucible was still a rectangular piece of iron.

It began to melt down slowly, and gradually turned into a semi-liquid state.

Li Zhenhua quickly took a clip from the side, held the crucible with the clip, and took it out.
The iron in the crucible turned into a semi-liquid state, and the red half-iron molten iron shook in the crucible following Li Zhenhua's movements.

Li Zhenhua looked in from the side of the crucible, the temperature of the crucible burned his face red when he approached.

Li Zhenhua held a wrought iron rod from the side, inserted it into the crucible, and began to stir the semi-liquid iron in the crucible.

Fully stirred pig iron, under the stirring of Li Zhenhua, Li Zhenhua used a blower to blow the wind inside,
And under the prompting of the eyes, a certain amount of mineral powder was sprinkled into it accurately, and then under Li Zhenhua's operation, iron, manganese, and carbon were oxidized,

Slowly, as the temperature in the crucible dropped, the semi-liquid inside gradually became immobile.

Li Zhenhua saw his eyes reminding him that it was time to pour out the half liquid.

When the things were poured out, Li Zhenhua waited for a long time, and the iron solidified again into a solid.

Looking at the font prompt floating next to the solid body, Li Zhenhua knew that he had succeeded this time, successfully engraving the method of frying steel.

All these operations of Li Zhenhua were faithfully recorded by Guo Shugui.

Li Zhenhua took the iron block that had just been smelted, and then put the iron block into the blacksmith's furnace for calcination.

After half a day of hard work, Li Zhenhua finally got the raw materials for steelmaking.

This is neither pig iron nor wrought iron, but a kind of fried steel with slightly higher carbon content.

Now that the raw materials are available, Li Zhenhua doesn't plan to wait until tomorrow to start the next process.

Impatiently, he pulled out the hot fried steel from the furnace and put it on the air hammer.

Modern blacksmiths are happy, with such a sharp tool for blacksmithing,

If there is no air hammer, then the process of folding and forging wrought iron is extremely painful and long.

The red-hot fried steel changed its shape under the air hammer. After a short time,

It was originally a rectangle of fried steel, but now it has been hammered into a rectangle that is half thinner than before.

Li Zhenhua then cut the rectangle obtained by forging with a cutting machine in the middle.
Stack two rectangles of the same length together, and spot weld them with a welding machine in the middle.
This piece of raw material entered the blacksmith's furnace again, and in a short time, the raw material was burned red again.

Li Zhenhua continued to forge this piece of raw material, repeating the previous operation.

Li Zhenhua worked until seven o'clock before stopping.

And Guo Shugui, who has been following behind Li Zhenhua for the filming, is rubbing his tired arm due to holding a posture for a long time.

"Fatty, Guoba, let's stop here today, you follow me here and there,

It's been a tiring day too, go home early and rest,

Tomorrow is still the old time, and we will strive to complete half of the forging times in one day. "

Guo Shugui put down the camera, moved around a bit before saying:

"I didn't expect that I bought something in the morning and started working in the afternoon.

I thought you, today was just preparation work, and the official start will start tomorrow! "

Liu Xiaodong also looked at Li Zhenhua, with the same meaning as Guo Shugui in his eyes.

"Hahaha, isn't everything ready, I feel a little urgent,

What I think is, this knife has been delayed for so long, so hurry up if you can,
Later, we have to send the knife to the organizing committee of the knife forging competition.
It's already the middle of this month, and it's agreed that it will be delivered before the end of the month. "

After the two listened, they also understood why Li Zhenhua started work in such a hurry.

"Okay, now I know I'm in a hurry. I didn't see you in such a hurry when you got that batch of table knives before!"

Liu Xiaodong complained to Li Zhenhua, and the expression on his face revealed a trace of teasing.

When Guo Shugui heard what Liu Xiaodong said, his face was somewhat disapproving.

"If you say Huazi, you can just say Huazi, what kind of knife are you talking about!"

Originally, he told the two of them that it was planned for tomorrow, but at this moment they were arguing again.

Seeing the two people fighting on the sidelines, Li Zhenhua didn't have the energy to persuade them any more.

Today's busy day has made him feel exhausted. There is nothing physically, but he is a little tired mentally.

"Okay, you two stay here, remember to close the shutter door for me when you leave,

I won't be with you anymore, I have to go to sleep quickly, I'm really tired today. "

After speaking, Li Zhenhua went up to the second floor, and not long after, Li Zhenhua fell asleep.

As for the two downstairs, seeing Li Zhenhua so tired,
It's really a bit uncomfortable. He usually looks like a desperate Saburo, but there are not many people in this state.

"Hey, fat man, let's buy something to eat for Huazi,
He went to bed at this time, but he hasn't had dinner yet! "

Liu Xiaodong looked at Guo Shugui, looking like a hero, and turned back to Guo Shugui.

"You, what a clever little ghost, how can you agree with me."

As soon as Guo Shugui heard this, he quit immediately, and Xiao Kai, one of the most famous local manufacturers in China,

In terms of magnitude, it is about the same as Principal Wang, and this fat man actually said that he thinks the same as him?
"You pull it quickly, or I will stop using your materials on the construction site tomorrow!"

As he said that, Guo Shugui showed a look of coming to beg me.

(End of this chapter)