Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!-Chapter 549 - 268 Distant Future: Industrial Technology Planning, Divine Revelation Book!_2

"The process of coke formation releases ammonia gas, which can be used to make important fertilizers, but it requires acid for absorption,"

The Head Warrior looked toward the corner at the "acid" section, where below were written "hydrochloric acid," "sulfuric acid," and "nitric acid." He recognized each word, but together, they were entirely confusing.

"The easiest acid to obtain is sulfuric acid. If you find sulfates, like green vitriol or gall vitriol, just use ceramic pots for dry distillation. If you can’t find those, you can also use the lead chamber process. We already have sulfur and saltpetre, the combustion of the two produces a mixture of gases, which, through a corrosion-resistant lead chamber, oxidizes to form sulfuric acid... Well, that should roughly be the principle. There are also lead-zinc ores here, making lead quite easy to produce. If you don’t care about purity and efficiency, you could try making some with primitive methods..."

Xiulote was lost in thought for a moment before he once again pointed to the word "fertilizer."

Bertade carefully observed and saw behind the fertilizer was "N, P, K," a group of mysterious symbols. Then further noted "guano," located at "the end of the Lerma River flowing into the Western Great Lake, two thousand miles north along the coast, on the dry islands of seabirds."

"By introducing ammonia gas into sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate fertilizer can be obtained, effectively increasing the yield of the fields. This is the easiest nitrogen fertilizer to manufacture artificially. And ammonium nitrate, while also a fertilizer, is an extremely powerful explosive... Of course, given the difficulty of producing nitric acid, during my lifetime..."

Xiulote shook his head, glanced at the "explosives" column next to him. At the top naturally was "black gunpowder," followed by "nitroglycerin," and then "TNT." The latter two names were marked with question marks, the manufacturing processes unknown, but there was a small note: "The Divine has said, the more nitro groups, the greater the difficulty, the stronger the power!"

The King gave a faint smile and continued with the main topic.

"Bertade, look here,"

Upon hearing this, the Head Warrior looked and saw in the most conspicuous place in the middle, a column labeled "Metallurgy," followed by "Bronze smelting," "Iron smelting," "Steel smelting," interspersed with mysterious symbols like "Cu,Sn,Fe,C."

"Fief’s metallurgy starts with bronze since the Alliance possesses both copper and tin ores. However, bronze inherently has flaws in ductility and both mining and smelting costs are higher,"

Xiulote paused for a moment, his finger lingering on "Iron smelting." The Head Warrior continued looking beyond, seeing locations tagged as "Colima, Southwestern Mountains," "Cuba, in the Eastern Lake, at the eastern end of the serpent-shaped Long Island," "North America, thousands of miles northward," suddenly realizing the implications.

"Copper mining operations will expand significantly. The Capital City’s bronze smelting will also use coke, and the Kingdom’s bronze production will soon vastly increase. Once bronze smelting develops, next will be iron smelting,"

"What can truly become widespread and completely change the world are iron tools! With coke, building blast furnaces, and blowing in air, it’s possible to reach the high temperatures needed to melt iron; the technology prerequisites for mass-producing iron are already mature. It’s just that iron ore is hard to find in this world. I have always been trying to find sources of iron ore,"

Xiulote sighed deeply. Colima’s iron ore is deep, North America’s iron ore is far. Cuban iron ore requires navigation. Among them, Cuban iron ore is an open-pit rich mine, its location can be definitively confirmed, taking advantage of its mining..." Thinking this, the King patted the Head Warrior’s shoulder, before continuing.

"The iron produced is divided into raw and mature, corresponding to the high and low carbon content… Carbon is… well, the life force contained in the iron, it’s a bit like bronze containing tin, high content makes it brittle, low content makes it soft. However, what’s special is that if the carbon content is just right, it will be both hard and tough, known as steel!"

Xiulote’s finger slid down from "Steel smelting," below which were "forging steel," "casting steel," "frying steel," "pig iron refining steel," each marked with different terms like carburizing, decarbonizing.

"Coke blast furnaces melting iron ore will produce pig iron. If pig iron is refined again, controlling the temperature and oxygen well, steel is directly obtained, called pig iron refining steel... Of course, this method, while seeming the simplest, is actually very difficult; there’s no hope for decades,"

Xiulote smiled helplessly, his thoughts flying back from the distant industrial future, back to the present start from scratch.

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"Forging steel is carburizing mature iron, a complex and effort-consuming process, also called ’hundred forging into steel.’ Casting steel is putting pig iron and mature iron together, first melting the pig iron, infiltrating it into the mature iron, then blending and hammering it together. Frying steel is during blast furnace smelting of pig iron, as molten iron flows out, it is continuously stirred in the air while being heated for decarbonization, directly becoming steel."

"Actually, directly frying steel is still too difficult. Well, it might be better to fry pig iron into mature iron, then use either forging steel or casting steel method, time-consuming but a stable way to obtain steel!"

Thinking of this, Xiulote’s eyes reflected a visionary look. Although these processes were only roughly sketched out, so long as continuous human and material resources were invested in experimentation, they would step by step, solidly march towards success.

"The greatest advantage of a transmigrator lies not in the specific technical level, but in pointing out the correct direction in the vast darkness!"

The King whispered softly, his confidence surging within his chest.

Bertade respectfully bowed his head, looking at the "Metallurgy" below. There, the words "metalworking" were written, followed by an incomprehensible row of single characters: "turning, milling, planing, grinding, boring, drilling, wire." These characters had no explanations, just added a "hydraulic forging hammer."

"Your Highness, what do these mean?"