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Since refining ore using his own methods had no problem, Mo Yuming's confidence soared.

After dismissing everyone, he immediately sat down at his desk and began writing furiously, starting to design iron smelting equipment.

Combining his professional knowledge with the characteristics of this world, Mo Yuming meticulously planned a series of mechanical equipment and made detailed plans for the entire production process from the start of mining to the final product.

Huang Xiaoxiao, the mine's financial manager, has arranged for people to travel to the Huo family mine together with laborers recruited from various places.

With the cooperation of the Huo family miners, the factory ground paving work progressed rapidly.

I believe the repairs will be completed soon, and now we are just waiting for Mo Yuming's design proposal.

Mo Yuming could entrust other matters to others, but these unique mechanical designs were beyond the help of others and could only be completed by him alone.

After a whole night of meticulous sketching and revisions, Mo Yuming designed several sets of key equipment. The next morning, he rushed to the Huo family's mine without stopping.

When Mo Yuming arrived at the mine, Huo Chengfang was directing the laborers to lay the ground, while Huo Chenggang was leading the miners to quarry rocks.

The site was laid very quickly. Although it was the most primitive form of manual labor, most people in this world were incredibly strong.

Moving and quarrying rocks was a piece of cake for them.

In this world, as long as one's Xuan Gong cultivation reaches the second level of the Human Rank, one's strength will double, allowing one to easily lift objects weighing over 200 jin (approximately 100 kg).

When one reaches the third level of the human realm, moving stones weighing three or four hundred pounds is no problem.

People at the eighth or ninth level of the human realm can lift at least a thousand kilograms of weight.

Needless to say, those with Earth-rank cultivation are even more so.

Therefore, the area of ​​over a hundred square feet planned by Mo Yuming was almost completed in just a few days.

Since the Huo family has discovered that the Xuan Iron Mine is located below the Fan Iron Mine, and the current mine is located halfway up the mountain, then the area below the halfway point is where the Xuan Iron Mine is distributed.

In this way, the mining work can be carried out simply by digging down into the existing mine tunnels.

For the long term, Mo Yuming chose the location in the valley at the foot of the mountain.

Half of the canyon here is filled with discarded rocks that the Huo family has mined over the past few centuries.

The construction site unfolded next to the pile of waste rock, with excavation extending along the foot of the mountain to the foot of the opposite mountain.

Flatten the high areas and fill in the low areas.

The entire canyon, half-filled with waste ore, has been transformed into factory grounds.

Mo Yuming set up the blast furnace for iron smelting at the foot of the opposite mountain, simply because there was a huge waterfall flowing down from the opposite mountain.

This is also why Mo Yuming went to such lengths to make full use of this natural power source to drive his equipment.

The first thing to be built was a ground furnace located next to a pile of waste rock.

This kiln was mainly used to burn lime, and the main purpose of burning lime was to mine iron ore.

Using the principle that quicklime expands when it comes into contact with water to compress and blast ore, although the efficiency is lower than that of explosives, it is still much more efficient than manual hammering.

Furthermore, explosives are quite dangerous and difficult to prepare, and the people of this world do not understand their principles.

Mo Yuming couldn't possibly waste time teaching them how to manufacture it.

The method of using calcined lime as blasting material is easy for the miners to master with just a simple demonstration and explanation, and it is also very easy to make.

This can be considered an effect of spiritual energy. In this world, people never thought of using other building materials when constructing houses; they only used stone and wood.

They simply and crudely processed stones and wood into the desired shapes, then stacked them up to complete the work.

If you want to make the house more sturdy, just have someone set up a stabilizing array on it; it's simple and quick.

Therefore, the people here have no idea what building materials such as lime and bricks are.

Stones and wood are everywhere, as long as you have the strength.

Therefore, when the furnace was completed and Mo Yuming directed everyone to move the stones next to it into the furnace for firing, everyone felt very strange and did not understand what their master wanted to do with firing these stones.

While the lime was still being burned, Mo Yuming led ten skilled miners into the mine and instructed them to use steel chisels to drill holes in designated locations.

These miners had all undergone special training by the Huo family. Although their Xuan Gong cultivation was only around the fifth level of the human realm, the force they could generate with their hammers was at least a thousand jin, and the force was extremely accurate.

After Mo Yuming's explanation, the miners quickly understood his meaning and used their steel chisels to quickly break out rows of stone holes, each hole being nearly ten feet deep.

While lime was being burned on this side, the blast furnace across the street was also being built at a rapid pace.

The innermost layer of the blast furnace was required to be constructed with a type of high-temperature resistant clay, but this clay could not be found anywhere around the mine.

Huo Chengfang then led the miners to search everywhere, and finally found it on a hillside more than 30 miles away. After crushing and mixing, the clay was pressed into rectangular firebricks, all of which met the design requirements.

After two days of intensive production, all the refractory bricks needed for building the furnace were completed and quickly dried.

The miners of the Huo family were all earth-elemental cultivators. Although their cultivation levels were low, they were adept at using profound techniques to dry bricks.

A miner can dry a two-foot-long, one-foot-wide, and five-inch-thick mud brick in a quarter of an hour.

If it were Mo Yuming, a peak Earth-type cultivator, to urge him to dry up, it might only take the blink of an eye.

The blast furnace was not built very large; it was three zhang high and one zhang in circumference.

There is a vent built towards the waterfall, a slag outlet on the left, and a material outlet on the opposite side.

After the inner layer of the blast furnace was built with refractory bricks, a sealing layer was applied to the outside with refractory clay and clay. Finally, the outer layer was reinforced with square-shaped stones.

While the blast furnace was being built, most of the craftsmen were constructing the factory's walls and roofs. These tasks did not require Mo Yuming's direction; the recruited craftsmen were all capable of doing them.

However, when building the wall, Mo Yuming noticed that they were all using stones that had been processed into square blocks and stacked together.

Although the stone walls built in this way are extremely sturdy, they require a lot of labor and are inefficient to process the stones.

Building factory walls in this way not only requires a large number of workers, but also wastes a lot of resources, especially time.

Mo Yuming only wanted to build the factory as soon as possible, so he had to take time out of his schedule to teach the craftsmen. They mixed the calcined lime with water and clay to make mortar, and then used the piles of waste ore to build the walls, filling the gaps with mortar.

In this way, stones of all sizes can be used directly to build walls, which undoubtedly speeds up the process several times over.

Once the mortar has hardened, the wall is very sturdy.

Although not as sturdy as a stone wall, it is sufficient for an ordinary factory building.