The Empress’s Gigolo

Chapter 157 Two Plans

Ren Baqian looked at the iron mountain in front of him, with some doubts in his heart, is this really a natural product?

Compared to mines, Ren Baqian is more willing to believe that this is a huge meteorite iron.

Unless you don’t know how much 100000000 10,000 years ago, a large piece of meteorite hit the ground, and then after how many years of crustal changes, the huge basin that should have appeared here turned into a plain, and this piece of meteorite became Great Mo Mountain.

In Ren Baqian’s mind, such a probability is greater than that formed naturally.

Otherwise, this Iron Mountain would be too unconventional.

“Can you make a few holes here?” Ren Baqian pointed to the protruding part of the mountain wall and asked the valley dome, fist sized, at least one and a half feet deep.

At a height of 6 meters above Ren Baqian’s location, the rock wall began to bulge outward, about 7 meters.

It should be that the height is already difficult to mine.

However, if you punch a few eyes in that place and use explosives, it is likely to explode a large piece.

After all, he is not specialized in blasting, so he can only guess where the effect is better.

“Master Fu Cheng, although I don’t know your plan, you really can’t punch out such a big eye. You can only punch a hole deep in your fist at most. It won’t work any deeper, and you must dig towards the side.” Difficult to say.

Ren Baqian listened to frowned, the words of this valley should be true, but in this case, explosives would hardly have a big effect.

In this situation, if it is in Earth, there are many ways to think about it, such as cutting it off piece by piece with acetylene.

But most of them do not need electricity or gas tanks. Like acetylene, I can only bring one bottle at a time, and I have to bring it here directly, otherwise, given the conditions of Great Yao, I’m afraid it’s going to blow up halfway.

However, if you bring it here, your secret will be exposed to the eyes of people outside of Empress, and it will not be acceptable.

“Take me to take a look around Great Mo Mountain.” Ren Baqian pondered for a long time, let’s take a look at the surroundings first. It’s still dark for a while now, at least I can turn around and watch Tieshan’s situation.

In the following time, everyone rode their mounts and walked a distance along the foot of Great Mo Mountain before returning. Ren Baqian discovered that this mountain was really just as he thought, it was a huge meteorite iron. The structure is completely different from the surrounding land. The iron ore is all concentrated on the mountain, and only a few plants grow on it, all of which are relatively lively plants such as weeds. It should be the dust that has fallen over the years and formed a mountain. Layer surface soil.

“Master Ren, is there any way?” Tao Jiyuan asked Ren Baqian who browses tightly frowns on the way back.

“En? I have a little idea, but I have to try if I can do it.” Ren Baqian was startled by his thoughts and looked up at him and said.

“That’s great. For the iron ore mining of Great Mo Mountain, for so many years, countless people can’t speed up after thinking of ways. They can only mine with a little bit of manpower. If the adults have a way, it must be a great achievement.” Tao Jiyuan wears said with a smile on his face.

“If you want me to mine here, it’s better to go out and grab it quickly.” Gu Qiong whispered on the side.

Ren Baqian rolled his eyes, isn’t this nonsense. Most of the time, looting is faster than mining and manufacturing. The question is, is it that easy?

When we returned to the camp, it was almost dark, and the prisoners’ coolies came back in swarms. They gathered around a few large barrels in the middle of the square, waiting for the broth, but few people spoke. They have been like this for many years. Very few people will be sent in newly.

Ren Baqian smelled the scent of broth from far away. “Good food!”

“If you don’t have enough food, they don’t have the energy to work. After all, this iron mountain is less powerful and can’t cut a small piece in a day.”

Ren Baqian nodded.

Gu Qiong has cleaned up a wooden house for him. The dinner is also broth, but a little more wild vegetables and 2 dry grains are added. Even Gu Qiong eats these things on weekdays. There are no shops in front of the village or the back of the village. Except for the people who deliver meat on weekdays, even the individual can’t see it. If you want to get something else to eat, you can’t do it.

After a meal, Ren Baqian took a good rest for the night. After waking up on the 2nd day, Gu Qiong and Tao Jiyuan were called into the room: “I have an idea, I should be able to try it. Pile a lot of wood on Great Mo Mountain. Then, pour water there. After the heat expands and the cold shrinks, cracks will appear on the iron, which should make it easier to gouge the mountain.”

Although Ren Baqian said so, he was not optimistic about this method. It is not easy for Tieshan to heat up, and iron conducts heat quickly, and there is little rock composition. If wood is burned, the burning of a large amount of wood may only cause some cracks on the surface.

Moreover, cutting and transporting timber also requires a lot of manpower. Although it is easier than it is now, it is not much easier. This efficiency is still too low.

But he had another idea in his mind. After he went back, he made a lot of mirrors and concave mirrors, adjusted the angle of the concave mirror to the mountain wall, and then used the mirror to reflect the sunlight onto the concave mirror.

In this way, the iron can be melted into molten iron by reflecting the focused light from the concave mirror in a very short time, and then it is much easier to mine and separate it.

“Heat expansion and contraction? What do you mean?” Tao Jiyuan didn’t know Ren Baqian’s thoughts, but was very interested in what he said and was curious.

“Let’s demonstrate.” Ren Baqian pulled everyone out of the house.

“First raise a pile of fire.” Ren Baqian ordered to go down, and Gu Qiong immediately called someone nearby to get the wood as Ren Baqian ordered.

After a while, a pile of fire rose, and Ren Baqian picked up 2 stones and let them use 2 iron cones to put them on the outer flames of the fire.

Others looked at what he was commanded to do and wondered what he was going to do.

After a while, Ren Baqian estimated that the time was almost up, and he had someone throw the stone into a bucket of water prepared nearby.

At first, some bubbles popped up, and then after a few minutes Ren Baqian reached in and fished the stone up. There were already a few cracks in it.

Ren Baqian showed the stone to a few people. The others hadn’t noticed any problems, but Tao Jiyuan suddenly realized: “It turns out that it is.”

This kind of normal natural phenomenon is not discovered by no one, but no one has summarized it, and no one has investigated the cause, so there is no concept of thermal expansion and contraction. No one thought about applying this situation to Great Mo Mountain.

“Why is this?” Tao Jiyuan asked curiously after a sudden realization.

“Because an object will expand after being heated, even if you can’t see it with your eyes, it is expanding. But after an object is cold, it will shrink. If this expansion and contraction occurs in a short period of time, then This change will happen. Not only stone is like this, but iron is like this.”

Ren Baqian probably explained that if you say molecules and so on, the other party must not understand it.

Tao Jiyuan thought about it, but Gu Qiong widened his eyes and asked, “Master Ren’s idea is to burn this Great Mo Mountain?”

“Just burn one place.” Ren Baqian looked around for 4 weeks. Although there is no vegetation on Great Mo Mountain, there are other mountains around.

Let someone chop some wood back and try to burn the mountain. Although the efficiency is still very low, you can try it. It can speed up the progress of mining.

When I go back and study how to make the concave mirror, when the time comes, I can completely solve the problem of Great Mo Mountain mining.

It’s a pity that I brought this 40kg TNT, which is useless.

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