In the Industrial County of Xingang Commandery, the newly built workshops stood in neat rows. The newly constructed Steel Rolling Mill stood right beside the Steel Mill. Its enormous workshop stretched for several hundred meters, resembling one long shed.
The vast space seemed extremely empty at the moment. The workshop, which should have been packed with machinery, currently had only two pitiful production lines operating. This was the only place in the Han Tribe capable of rolling steel rails.
Inside the recently renovated Steel Mill, beside several earthen blast furnaces, the heat-retaining chambers and manual blowers that had originally been arranged in a star-shaped array had now all been replaced by iron-and-steel Steam Power blowers.
Driven by Steam Engines, the enormous fan blades spun at a speed indistinguishable to the naked eye, continuously blowing preheated air into the blast furnaces. Replacing the manual blowing equipment with Steam Engines alone saved dozens of workers' positions and allowed the blast furnaces to unleash far greater production capacity.
However, those workers would not be dismissed. The Han Tribe was currently desperately short of people and was nowhere near wealthy enough to casually cast aside skilled laborers.
The workers removed from the blast furnace blower positions would all be sent to the Steel Rolling Mill's rolling workshops for new skills training. After that, they would continue living as workers.
Inside the Steel Mill, the Steam Engine-modified earthen blast furnaces produced Molten Iron furnace by furnace. The Molten Iron was placed in heat-resistant crucibles with steel shells, then sent to the nearby Open Hearth Furnace to undergo a new baptism.
The searing Molten Iron was transferred into the Open Hearth Furnace. A hollow steel pipe slowly descended from above until it sank deep into the Molten Iron. The next moment, the blower started up. Using