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Mo Yuming made reasonable allocations to the more than eighty people at the Huo family mine, as well as the dozens of laborers who were later transferred over.

The original 25 people who were mining in the mine were still in charge of mining affairs.

Of the other personnel, five were responsible for burning lime;

Ten people broke the waste ore piled up by the Huo family into uniform-sized crushed stones.

It is transported to the blast furnace and used as a flux for ironmaking.

Ten people gathered wood and burned it into charcoal to be used as fuel for iron smelting;

Thirty people were responsible for forging iron billets, and fifteen people were in a group. When the molten iron flowed out of the blast furnace, they used a mold to cast the molten iron into iron billets. After the iron billets solidified, they were forged into rough billets of various weapons before they cooled down.

The remaining dozens of people were assigned to various processes such as product sorting, transportation, logistics, and repair.

Once the factory is operating normally, Huo Chengfang will manage the mining group and Huo Chenggang will manage the weapon refining group.

Miners working in underground mines improved mining techniques and methods.

The 25 people were divided into two groups.

The first group of ten people used specially made steel rods to extend into the cave from the entrance, following the original route, according to the designated positions.

They smashed holes one by one, each a meter deep, into the ground.

The second group of fifteen people first crushed the lime produced in the kiln at the foot of the mountain into fine particles, then mixed it with water and additives in proportion, quickly poured it into the small hole, filled it tightly, and finally sealed it with clay.

When the second group of miners arrived at the mine entrance the next day to prepare to start mining, they were surprised to find that the ore in the mine had been cracked by the lime in the rows of small holes, with cracks of various sizes and sizes between the ore.

The originally hard ore can be easily pried off with a steel chisel.

A dozen or so people mined a large amount of ore without much effort, collecting nearly 30,000 kilograms of ore in less than half a day.

Compared to the original speed, this mining speed is more than ten times faster, and it is also much easier, requiring little effort.

This is, after all, the first time this has been done, and the techniques are not yet proficient. Once they become more skilled, the quantity will increase.

Huo Chengfang, who was in charge of managing the mining team, was so surprised by the sight that he was speechless.

He suddenly felt that his family's centuries-old mining history was a complete joke.

The exploration and improvement of more than a dozen generations were not as effective as a handful of lime. Huo Chengfang suddenly realized that, at times, spiritual power was not the only thing that mattered, and sometimes a simple idea was more useful than spiritual power.

At this rate, mining 100,000 kilograms of ore per day would be a piece of cake, and without needing to increase personnel, productivity would increase more than tenfold.

Each process is proceeding in an orderly manner.

In just ten days, most of the infrastructure construction has been completed.

The blast furnace has been completed, the factory walls have been basically built, and most of the roofs have been covered.

The charcoal and gravel used as furnace feed were piled up like mountains and stored in the storage area next to the blast furnace.

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of high-quality ore have been extracted from the mine shaft, filling the original mine floor to the brim.

To save time in transporting ore, a cableway is being built from the mine entrance directly to the factory area, according to Mo Yuming's design.

Three weapon refiners from the Huo family were invited over, and together with weapon refiners from Jian'an City and Luoxia City, the factory now has a total of ten weapon refiners.

The primary task of these ten weapon refiners is to add attribute ores to the weapons after they are manufactured, and to inscribe magic array runes on them.

This is the most crucial step in upgrading weapons. Mo Yuming studied it for a long time, but in the end, he still felt that he was not confident that he could replace it with existing technology.

Although these weapon refiners are only at the first to third level and cannot refine higher-level weapons, they are more than sufficient as standard weapons for the army.

All is ready except for the opportunity.

Now, once the most critical parts of the factory are installed, the factory can start operating.

The water turbine may be the first device in the world that can generate powerful energy without the need for spiritual power.

Digging ditches and canals is relatively straightforward; all you need to do is tell the craftsmen the required dimensions and locations.

However, the machining of parts such as impellers, bearings, and power shafts of the water turbine became the biggest challenge.

Without any mechanical equipment, it is incredibly difficult to process iron blanks into complex parts with extremely precise dimensions.

After Mo Yuming drew one detailed diagram after another, marked the dimensions, and carefully explained the processing requirements of each part to the weapon refiners.

With the concerted efforts of ten weapon refiners, and after many attempts and improvements, they painstakingly processed each component. Then, under Mo Yuming's guidance throughout the process, they assembled the parts and finally installed them in place.

The moment the high-speed rush of water caused the huge impeller to spin, all the craftsmen in the workshop cheered with joy.

"Start work!" With Mo Yuming's order, Huo Chengfang walked to the control panel, grabbed the handle, and pushed it forward forcefully.

The end of the handle drives the connecting rod inside the impeller housing to slide, and then, with a crisp sound of gears turning, the wind turbine in front of the blast furnace starts to spin rapidly, and a powerful airflow blows into the blast furnace.

Ten weapon refiners lined up in a row, circulating their energy around the bottom of the blast furnace. Ten powerful streams of fire elemental energy ignited the furnace charge inside the furnace cavity through the thick furnace walls.

With the support of strong winds and fire elemental power, the furnace charge inside the furnace quickly ignited, and soon a huge heat wave spewed out from the blast furnace mouth.

The iron ore and gravel in the furnace melt continuously under the high temperature. The impurities in the ore and the melted stones mix together to form slag that floats on the molten iron, while the separated molten iron gathers at the bottom of the furnace.

As the furnace charge, which is mixed in proportion, is continuously added to the furnace opening, the slag and molten iron inside the furnace are continuously generated and automatically separated.

Once the blast furnace is operating normally, the furnace maker no longer needs to operate it; the miners only need to continuously add furnace charge to the furnace on time.

The outlet of the blast furnace molten iron is a huge disc, and the base of the disc contains several gears of different sizes, which are driven by another drive shaft in the turbine box.

After being slowed down by gears, the disc rotates slowly at a set speed.

The disc is divided into many regular areas, and in each area is a rotating iron mold. The mold is hollowed out and carved with the shapes of various weapons.

A funnel is provided above the mold to facilitate the pouring of molten iron.