Chapter 1732: Efficient spring cultivation

Right now, the steel production in the North Sea is relatively low. There are currently only three 10-ton iron-making small blast furnaces in Krumhern ’s steel plant, producing about 30 tons of iron per day. Even if we start construction throughout the year, the annual output of pig iron is only 10,950 tons, which is more than 10,000 tons.

Of course, in this era, this output is already amazing. Because this is already the top in Europe.

Other European countries have just evolved from block ironmaking technology to furnace ironmaking technology. The specific time is probably in the middle of the 15th century. Before the middle of the 15th century, most of the steel smelted in Europe was soft sponge iron obtained from iron smelting. Without carburizing, this iron is not as strong as bronze.

Moreover, even if there is a furnace for ironmaking, it is still a small furnace for ironmaking. It has not yet evolved into a blast furnace, let alone coke steelmaking. Steel production in various countries has also been very low. A top power like France has an annual steel output of only a few thousand tons, which is not as good as the only steel plant in the North Sea ...

What does steel mean? Means weaponry, means innovation of agricultural tools ...

Because of the emergence of harder cast iron ingots, the French's plate armor began to become extremely strong, no longer fearing the English longbow. Before the plate armor made of sponge iron, often shot through ... coupled with the application of artillery, France won the victory of the Hundred Years War and established the dominance of the European Continental.

But Beihai's steel technology is even better. Because of the existence of Marin, Beihai directly skipped the pig-iron era and entered the steel age. In terms of Warcraft quantification, the level of French technology is still at the level of the iron armor of the base. The Beihai Kingdom has entered the era of steel armor at the second base.

The annual production of pig iron in Beihai is about 10,000 tons (with errors), most of which are used to make agricultural tools and general tools.

For Europe, the backwardness of agriculture at this time is comprehensive. Not only the problem of fertilization technology, but also the problem of irrigation technology, but even the iron farm tools are seriously in short supply.

When Marin had just crossed, even the serfs in the Huffman family's manor couldn't make an iron farm tool. Many serfs use wooden pickaxe to turn the ground. The efficiency can be imagined ...

But there is no way. Steel is a strategic material in Europe in this era, and most of it has been made into swords and plate armor. How can there be excess for agricultural tools?

The development of agriculture in the North Sea country is not only a technological development, but also a problem of utensils. In Beihai, basically every manor has enough iron farm tools. And this is the credit for the three small blast furnaces of this steel mill in Krumhearn ...

Only a small amount of pig iron will be used to make steel. At present, the steelmaking technology of Beihai is actually a bit behind, there are two main types-one is crucible steelmaking, mainly for the production of weapon armor. The other is the secondary refining of the reverberatory furnace, which is mainly used for casting guns.

The steel products of crucible steelmaking have high carbon content, and are mainly used for making swords and armor. Reverberatory furnace refining is controlled, including the addition of high-purity graphite, and most of them get low-carbon steel (if the carbon content is not controlled, the cast iron is obtained).

Of course, open hearth furnaces with regenerative type are also in use, but the technology is not yet mature, is being tested and improved, and has not been widely promoted.

Iron farming tools are so important to agriculture. The farming tools made of pig iron in Beihai are not only supplied to their own countries, but also promoted to neighboring friendly countries. Of course, not cheap.

You know, Beihai uses a small blast furnace to make iron, and the cost is only half of that of an ordinary small furnace. However, because of the limestone desulfurization and descaling process, the quality of iron farm tools in Beihai is better than that of ordinary blacksmith shops.

In terms of price, the price of Beihai National Railway Farm Tools is similar to that of ordinary blacksmith shops, but the profit is several times higher and the quality is better.

As a result, many blacksmiths from other countries went bankrupt and hated the Beihai Kingdom. Of course, Beihai does not care about these. Some blacksmiths, because they lost their jobs, even went to the hostile country of the North Sea and became mercenaries ...

Of course, there are also smart blacksmiths who instead import pig iron ingots from Beihai, and then process them into the tools people need to continue to make money. In the end, only those blacksmiths who made iron by themselves ...

In addition, there are smarter. They found that the quality of pig iron in Beihai was higher than that of French military pig iron. Then, they even imported pig iron farm tools from Beihai and then melted them into weapon armor, which was very popular ...

But this is also limited to those countries with poor relations with the North Sea, and countries with good relations with the North Sea, can directly import steel armor from the North Sea, the quality is better, and much better ...

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The advancement of steel technology has greatly promoted agriculture. For example, the Prad plow, which was launched last year, has shined extremely brightly this year.

Spring cultivation in Beihai is extremely extraordinary this year, because Prad ploughs have been widely used.

The Prad plow car has three plow heads, which are pulled together by multiple animals, and the efficiency is more than three times higher than a single plow.

If 12 horses were pulled together, the daily cultivated land would reach 30 mu. Later, it should be pulled together by 6 cows, and the daily cultivated land reached 15 mu.

But later tests found that pulling the plow with several cows seemed dangerous. Especially when several bulls are together ...

Bulls are very grumpy, and the breeding of hornless cattle in this era is not large enough. Most bulls are horned.

The bull has a bad temper, and it is even more terrible to put several bulls together. No other action, no need to pull the nose ring, as long as you tilt your head and stab with the horns, a **** case can occur.

So, the final test showed that the bulls cannot be put together to pull the plow cart. Then, people mainly choose the good-tempered cows to pull the plow cart together ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Or, use the castrated good-tempered bulls to pull the cart together ...

The same is true with the horses. Pull the cart together with the uncast male stallions, and the stallions will kick each other with their hind legs, or move their mouths to bite each other. Therefore, the horses pulling the plow together also need to be mares or castrated stallions ...

And just a year ago, Marin generously imported 20,000 ordinary horses from Crimea, making this year's spring cultivation, the Beihai state's inexhaustible horses.

Although the Eastern European Mongolian horses in Crimea are not as powerful as the professional large-scale horses in Western Europe, Eastern European Mongolian horses have good endurance. Insufficient strength, make up for durability.

After using 16 horse-drawn plows, the efficiency has become almost the same as 12 horses pulled by ordinary Western European horses. Moreover, these 16 Eastern European Mongolian horses require much less feed than 12 Western European horses, which is very economical. More importantly, except for working, these Eastern European Mongolian horses only need to feed grass, and do not need expensive food ...

Normally each farmer can only cultivate 4 to 6 acres (4 acres are cattle farming, 6 acres is an acre, which is horse farming), and now there is a Prader plow cart, plus enough animals Spring ploughing is fast and efficient. It was only half a month, and I had finished cultivating more than one month of spring cultivation ...