Claude was a little frustrated. He spent a week translating the magic notebook, but found that there was nothing in the magic notebook that he wanted. For example, how to become a magician, how to improve the magic level,
What is magic and all that?
Seriously speaking, this magic notebook is more of a magic design album. From the design point of view, it is probably to save magic power and consume less magic material resources to achieve the original magic effect. Or just from
Basically, it can be accomplished without magic power, and ordinary people can use various technical means to achieve the purpose of magical effects, just like that page of drawings about the improved design of muskets.
It’s just that Claude didn’t know much about what magic was, and it was more of a guess. Just like the drawings on this magic notebook, Claude could translate the text description above and understand what was designed on the drawings, but
I don't quite understand what kind of effect it can achieve. Because there are many strange graphic symbols on it, Claude doesn't recognize it, so he can only guess that these graphic symbols are runes in magic.
Another thing is that the most common term in the magic notes is alchemy, which is also an important reason why Claude can't understand it. If it weren't for the blueprint for improving the musket, Claude really wouldn't understand what alchemy is.
In the end, I could only rely on the text description on the musket drawing and half guessed and half speculated to understand something.
Travelers in previous lives have seen videos of hand-made flintlock guns on the computer. These are actually similar to matchlock guns. They are the earliest muskets, but the way of ignition and firing is different. One relies on a match rope and the other uses flint.
But the important thing is that the same thing between the two is the manufacturing of the barrel. Without a good barrel, no matter how good the firing method is, it will not work. And the production of the barrel is the top priority of a musket.
For example, the reel type is to wind an iron bar around an iron bar and then forge it, and finally withdraw the iron bar, leaving a rough iron pipe that is then processed into a gun barrel. There is also the connection type, which is to wrap three short pieces of iron into a gun barrel.
The iron pipes are connected to form a relatively long barrel. There are also extreme cases where iron rods are drilled directly into the barrel. Of course, this takes a long time...
In fact, when muskets first appeared, the processing of gun barrels was the biggest problem. The methods of hand-making gun barrels in the computer videos can be said to be like eight immortals, each with their own magical powers. Most of them imitate ancient craftsmanship to make gun barrels, hoping to achieve the desired results.
The best shooting effect. There are also some netizens who are creative and explore whether modern ideas can be used to make a good barrel more conveniently and quickly given the level of ancient craftsmanship...
But making gun barrels in this world is not that troublesome at all. It seems that the magician uses alchemy, arranges the magic array with runes, puts various materials into the array, uses magic fire to calcine, and then uses magic power for precise control.
, causing the metal materials in the rune magic array to fuse to form a long barrel...
If it weren't for the musket improvement blueprint, Claude would never have thought that metal tempering would be so simple. Because a large section of the instructions on this blueprint are inferring, studying how to do this without using alchemy and magic.
How to get the small blacksmith shop in the village to forge a suitable long barrel and expand the production scale for mass production. It was these instructions that made Claude understand that the technology of this Faslan magical world is alchemy.
It is easy to make a gun barrel using alchemy. Ten or hundreds of gun barrels may be completed by hiring a magician to use alchemy through favors and money. But it is simply impossible to make thousands or even hundreds of thousands of gun barrels.
Impossible, no magician would take on such a job. Not to mention other things, the various magic materials spent on the rune magic circle are an astronomical amount, and it also requires a magician who can alchemy.
Each barrel is synthesized with precise control...
But you don’t need alchemy or magicians to make the barrel, which is equivalent to a hugely expensive systematic project. Behind the musket improvement drawings, there is a list of metal ratios for magicians to use alchemy to make gun barrels. Obviously, in
The metal formulas calcined with magic fire in the rune magic circle are not very suitable for use in the furnace of the small blacksmith shop in the village, so Master Landers listed seven more metal formulas, and specifically stated that experiments are required before selecting.
Find the best barrel metal manufacturing ratio materials.
The next page is a blueprint of an iron-making blast furnace specially designed by Master Landers in order to exercise these metal formulas. It also has a tall chimney and a big hearth. The description next to it is that this iron-making blast furnace needs to use a type of iron-making blast furnace that can withstand extremely high temperatures.
The magic material ash fire rock is made, and this ash fire rock needs to be mined from lava volcanoes...
Having an iron-making blast furnace is only the first step. Next, you need to pour the molten barrel metal material into a mold and cast it into a long shape, and then forge it. Here is what a magician can easily do using the alchemy talisman.
It was broken down into very complex projects. In the following pages of the iron-making blast furnace drawings, Master Landers designed five more processing machines to replace the magician's precise control in the alchemical talisman array.
Hammer machines, cutting machines, drilling machines and barrel bore polishing machines that use water and wind power to repeatedly forge metal materials, as well as barrel machine tools controlled by human pedals. In order to make guns manufactured
After the pipes were standardized, Master Landers designed cutting heads, drill bits for drilling, and five special measuring tools. This is indeed a complex system project with extremely huge investment.
In terms of quantity, alchemy has the upper hand in manufacturing gun barrels on a small scale, but when the quantity reaches one thousand or ten thousand or more, this kind of large-scale production reveals its power. It does not require a magician or an alchemy array.
, without spending magic material resources, even ordinary people can produce countless standard gun barrels as long as they undergo technical training and cooperate.
I remember that Master Landers mentioned in the diary hidden by the magic recipe that Baron Riggs O. Hill asked him to improve the manufacturing process of muskets five years ago, so that even an ordinary blacksmith could make one.
A qualified musket does not require the alchemical engineering of a magician. Obviously, the dozen or so pages of drawings on musket improvement in this magic notebook were actually designed for that Baron Rigus O. Hill.
It was precisely with the improved manufacturing process of muskets designed by Master Landers that Baron Riggs O. Hill was able to organize the Brotherhood to set off a wave of resistance to magicians in the continent of Farrea. Because they had the ability to
The weapon that poses a fatal threat to magicians - the matchlock gun. What's even better is that the manufacture of this weapon does not require the alchemy skills of magicians, so that magicians cannot control the proliferation of this weapon on the continent of Farea.
, so the baron was able to build a musketeer force of eight thousand people.
Although the investment is huge, this investment is worth it to Baron Riggs O. Hill, the largest magic stone merchant in the Farea continent, and he can also use the excuse of mining stone to organize personnel training.
, he opened a gun-making workshop without having to worry about attracting the attention and vigilance of magicians. From this aspect, his subsequent success was not luck, but inevitable.
Claude put down the magic notebook in his hand and let out a long sigh.
If he is a magician and knows some alchemy knowledge, then this magic notebook may be a priceless treasure in his eyes. Because many of the magic designs in it can reduce the output of magic power and the consumption of magic materials, but can achieve the original results.
The magic effect. Unfortunately, Claude is not a magician. At best, he can only be regarded as an ordinary junior high school student with magical talent.
A magic notebook with thirty-eight pages of rune paper. Except for the dozen or so design drawings on musket improvements that Claude could understand, after all, the purpose of improving the muskets was to allow ordinary blacksmiths to produce qualified finished products. Others
The drawings are difficult for Claude to understand. For example, the input of magic power, the setting up of the rune alchemy array, the use of magic crystals and other magic materials, etc., are simply a book for Claude.
Book of heaven.
It's like a junior high school student reading an advanced geometry book from college. He knows all the words, but can't understand what they mean when they are put together. Especially the conversion formulas and the standard setting graphics of the rune alchemy array.
There are those rune measurement units. Without systematic training in magic knowledge, it is impossible to understand what they mean...
It would be great if there was a magic book that teaches basic magic knowledge. Maybe you can become a low-level magician by self-study. Claude thought so, but he also knew that this idea was ridiculous. All the countries in the Farea continent
Magicians are regarded as evil and everything related to magicians is prohibited. Even the word magic has become taboo. How can there be any books on magic knowledge?
The only good news is that this week of translating this magic notebook has allowed Claude to further master and understand the ancient Hertzian language. After all, the current Heberian language and characters are also derived from the ancient Hertzian language. The two are
Close relatives. If there were a book written in ancient Hertzian language, Claude would be able to read it and understand its general meaning even without looking in a dictionary.
"Second brother, it's time to go downstairs for dinner." My sister Angelina's voice came from the door.
Claude woke up from his reverie. He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he forgot about time and didn't even hear his sister's footsteps going upstairs.
"I know, I'll go downstairs right away." Claude stood up from the chair, stretched his body and made two movements of waving his arms and expanding his chest. The sound of his sister jumping downstairs was heard on the stairs.
After cleaning up the table casually, Claude walked downstairs.
Mr. Morsant was sitting at the dining table. When he saw Claude coming downstairs, he ordered: "Claude, go outside to the carriage and bring in the wooden box from the back of the carriage."
There are no horses or carriages at home. It’s not that there is no space, but that Mr. Morsan is reluctant to spend money to build stables and hire grooms. Mr. Morsan once made careful calculations. He believes that the annual cost of raising two horses is actually less than
It is expensive to buy a horse to pull a cart, and you also need to hire a groom to take care of the two horses, which is not cost-effective.
Mr. Molsang believes that he basically stays in White Deer Town all year round, so he does not need to prepare a carriage for himself. In addition, the cost of buying a carriage is not a small amount. It will depreciate quickly after being exposed to the sun, wind and rain every day.
You often have to paint, clean and maintain. It costs money to hire someone. If you don’t hire someone to do it yourself, you’re asking for trouble.
What's more, the town hall owns a carriage. As the administrative director of White Deer Town, Mr. Molsang can use the car for private use. As for the fact that the town hall's carriage is a bit worn out, it can be ignored completely, and Mr. Molsang prefers to drive the carriage himself.
Going home, he thought that doing so was a very friendly act, as he could say hello to the townspeople on the way. Claude, on the other hand, thought that he was being stingy, because he had to tip the coachman when he took him home...
The carriage parked outside belongs to the town office. Later in the evening, the coachman from the town office will come and drive the carriage away. He will come back tomorrow morning to pick up Mr. Morsant and take him to the town office. This kind of thing has become routine. Claude opened the carriage.
I saw the long wooden box through the door. The wooden box was very long and stood taller than Claude. However, it was just a flat wooden box. Although it was a bit heavy when picked up, it was not very heavy.
Carrying the long wooden box to the restaurant, Claude asked: "What's in here?"
Mr. Morsan said: "Open it and take a look. It's a gift for you inside."
A gift for me? Claude immediately opened the long wooden box. Inside the box was wheat straw, and on top of the wheat straw was a long black matchlock gun.