Quan Family Forging Factory
Immediately, Quan Yi directed the ship to return.
An hour later, the steamship, returning at full speed, arrived back at the Quan Family Wharf.
Two hours, two hundred kilometers.
Quan Yi had also specifically checked the operation of the steam engine.
The performance of the metal forged with Ultimate Fire Soul Power far exceeded Quan Yi's expectations.
Ordinary people could touch the outer wall of the Boiler with their hands and not even get burned.
Based on its current performance, Quan Yi judged that the steam engine should be able to run continuously for a week without any problems.
When the Steamship docked perfectly at the berth inside the Shipyard, the many craftsmen who had remained in place stood up to greet them.
They looked expectantly at the group disembarking from the ship.
Most of them were shipwrights who had participated in the design of the Steamship.
The vast majority of them were Carpenter Families affiliated with the Quan Family.
When the Quan Family Shipyard was established, these Carpenter Families became the most suitable candidates.
It was the addition of these excellent carpenters that allowed the Quan Family Shipyard to develop rapidly to its current state.
They had been waiting here for Quan Yi and the others.
However, unlike their expectations, Quan Yi and the others' reactions were too calm.
In fact, after disembarking, they immediately left the Shipyard.
Just as they were wondering, Jiang Jun relayed the news that he had been dismissed.
These words were like a stone dropped into a calm lake.
The shipwrights, who had originally wanted to celebrate, suddenly felt uneasy.
They clearly realized the seriousness of the matter.
Jiang Jun then said, "Fortunately, the Young Family Head is benevolent. This time, he has shown mercy in consideration of your past hard work. However, there will definitely not be such luck in the future.
I hope you will cherish this opportunity."
After saying this, Jiang Jun turned and left.
He had already done his best for these people, and he didn't have time to talk to them any further.
He had more important things to do, so he immediately went to process the transfer of his position.
Then, he began to study Iron Ships.
Through this incident, he clarified his position and understood where his expertise lay.
Without cultivation talent, he could only gain a foothold in the Quan Family by relying on his superior shipbuilding skills.
Without his skills, he was nothing to the Quan Family.
The Quan Family's respect for him had made him feel somewhat unsteady.
Now, after being awakened by Quan Yi's stern warning, he had returned to his normal state of mind.
In this state of mind, he carefully reviewed Quan Yi's design drawings again and discovered things he hadn't noticed before.
"It seems I'm still more suited to the position of researcher,"
Jiang Jun mocked to himself.
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On the other side, Quan Yi and the others arrived at the Quan Family Forging Factory.
The Forging Room was not far from the Shipyard.
However, its area was no smaller than the Shipyard.
Even though it was very large, the Forging Factory was surrounded by armed guards.
The Shipyard did not yet have this level of security.
Walking into the spacious Forging Room, the first things that caught the eye were oddly shaped pieces of machinery.
These were all custom-made machine tools.
Passing through these machine tools, the interior of the Forging Factory contained dozens of huge circular Iron Furnaces.
At the bottom of these Iron Furnaces, bonfires rose up two people high.
These were Blast Furnaces, the Quan Family's magical tools for efficient Iron and Steel refining.
At the same time, they were also one of the Quan Family's top secrets.
With these Blast Furnaces, the Quan Family's efficiency in refining Iron blocks was greatly improved.
They only needed to load materials such as Iron ore, coke, and limestone into the furnace from the top in proportion, and the internal high temperature and the hot air blown inside would remove the impurities from the Iron ore, extracting purer Iron.
Just as Quan Yi and the others came to inspect, a Blast Furnace had already completed its task.
Under the operation of the blacksmiths, the two openings at the bottom of the Blast Furnace, one high and one low, were opened.
In an instant, two dark red torrents of liquid spewed out from two directions.
One was the successfully refined Molten Iron.
The other was the even darker liquid Slag.
This process was precisely the Iron tapping and Slag discharge procedure of the Blast Furnace.
This process allowed the high temperature contained within the Blast Furnace to be released instantly.
The temperature inside the Forging Factory instantly increased by several degrees.
The scalding Molten Iron flowed slowly along a specific channel towards a large Molten Iron Tank, the bottom of which was equipped with huge wheels.
At the same time, this huge Molten Iron Tank car was placed on a specific Iron Rail.
Under the action of the Iron Rail, the tons of Molten Iron Tank were easily pushed away by several men.
According to Quan Yue's explanation, a portion of this Molten Iron would be completely solidified and then taken by the blacksmiths for forging.
The other part would be directly used for casting parts.
"Actually, I think we can install Steam engines on the cars that transport Molten Iron, so that we can carry more Molten Iron."
Quan Yue, watching the manual pushing of the Molten Iron Tank cars, immediately felt that the efficiency was too low.
"Haha, Father's idea coincides with mine.
In fact, we can even lay longer Iron Rails and place more Steam Trains on the Iron Rails.
In this way, our transportation capacity will be greatly expanded."
Quan Yue's idea was actually the concept of railways and trains from his previous life.
And, the Iron Rail in the Forging Factory, although only for the convenience of transporting Molten Iron, already had a prototype.
After viewing the Blast Furnace, Quan Yi, led by Quan Yue, came to the Giant Steam Forging Hammer device located in the center.
Driven by Steam power, a huge vertical Iron pillar was reciprocating.
And, at the bottom of the Iron pillar, people were pushing slightly solidified Pig Iron between the Giant Anvil and the Forging Hammer.
A block of Iron as tall as a person was flattened by a quarter in an instant under the heavy blow of the Giant Steam Forging Hammer.
*"Clang, clang, clang!"*
The soul-stirring vibration echoed in the spacious arena.
Thousands of kilograms of Iron blocks were rapidly purified under the repeated hammering of the Forging Hammer.
The Pig Iron was refined into Wrought Iron in less than a minute.
In the following time, the Wrought Iron quickly transformed into Refined Iron, and then into Iron Essence.
And, this time, it had not even been half an hour.
You should know that such a piece of Iron Essence could be sold for tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins outside.
The wealth controlled by the Quan Family was evident.
However, this time Quan Yi came to the Forging Factory not just to admire it.
"Father, please order them to pause this forging hammer for a moment.
I'd like to borrow this large Anvil for a bit."
Quan Yue waved his hand, signaling the working blacksmiths to stop.
At Quan Yi's prompting, Quan Yue also had the surrounding blacksmiths step back.
Once the blacksmiths were at a distance, Quan Yue asked curiously, "Xiao Yi, what are you planning to do?"
Quan Yi smiled calmly and said, "I plan to teach you two the Seventy-Two Hit Combo technique that I've mastered."
Quan Li and Quan Yue's eyes lit up instantly.
They had long wanted to learn Quan Yi's combo technique.
Quan Yi slowly walked to a completely solidified block of Pig Iron.
He stretched out his right hand, which was now covered in a red and black Gauntlet.
At the same time, the red patterns on the Gauntlet surged, and a huge Dragon Claw suddenly emerged from Quan Yi's arm. The Dragon Claw grabbed the Pig Iron and burned it with flames from its palm.
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