When Leonardo came to Red Mountain with the news, it was the morning when the blast furnace was opened.
Polu woke up early in the morning and put on the tight-cuffed coat he had brought back from the Knights. When he came to the hall to have breakfast, he felt radiant and confident: "This is better. The clothes in the manor are so big."
The collar, the big sleeves, and when I was working, I was covered in mud every day on the construction site."
Lia across the table smiled: "How many nobles are there who can work by themselves and get themselves covered in mud?"
"Hey, you're right, so I'm said to be a guest noble, but actually I'm just an alchemist."
"Alchemists are also very particular, right?"
"Humph, that kind of so-called alchemist who is pretentious?" Polu did not finish what he said: an alchemist who works may not be a good alchemist, but an alchemist who doesn't work is definitely not a good alchemist.
After packing up, Polu stomped his steps and followed Leah to the front yard. Mr. Sweeto was waiting at the carriage at the gate. Today is the day when the new furnace is opened, and many people in the manor have seen it.
Polu had hung the accessories in the garden, but the real furnace body had not been seen by anyone who had no chance to go out, including Svito. Svito waited until the two came out and bowed slightly: "You two,
Please get in the car. Everyone else has already left."
In order to satisfy everyone's curiosity, Polu gave them a morning off so that they could come and see the legendary melting pot and join in the popularity. The carriage was driving slowly on the road that had been traveled many times, and suddenly something came from behind.
There was the rapid sound of horse hooves. Polu looked out the window and reached out.
He waved to Leonardo, who was galloping on horseback: "Hey! Captain!" Leonardo gradually slowed down his horse speed and walked side by side with the carriage: "What are you going to do?
What? I went to the manor to look for you but you were not there. Fortunately, the guards were still there and said they could find you here."
Bolu looked back again: "Where are the others? Captain, you won't come alone, right?"
"They have all gone to the station in the northeast. I came here alone to see you for something. Where are you going?"
"The furnace is on today and everyone is going to see the furnace."
"A furnace? What furnace?" Leonardo obviously didn't understand the situation yet.
Leah came over from behind Polu and revealed half of her face through the car window: "He built a very large furnace, as high as three stories high. It is very big and is used for making iron."
Leonardo showed an expression of disbelief: "It's only been a month, hasn't it happened so fast?"
"Hey, didn't I see the bugs and monsters in the mountains? I was anxious and rushed out." Bolu scratched his head in embarrassment. "By the way, speaking of bugs, is there any news?"
"Yes, the bugs broke into Nazwa, and they fought together on the Western Front. The matter is quite complicated. I came here because of this matter." Leonardo's face became a little heavy. It didn't seem to be okay.
I am willing to talk about this topic on horseback.
The No. 0 experimental furnace stands in an unobstructed open space, so that several people from a distance can see the outline of the furnace. On the steel bracket surrounding the furnace, there are 32 polished energy-concentrating plates covered with a crystal layer.
It reflected the morning sunlight. Leonardo squinted his eyes: "You told me this is a furnace? Are you sure it's not a lighthouse?"
"Hahaha, it's really dazzling. We'll solve this problem later, so there's no rush for now."
Before he reached the foot of the furnace, he was already surrounded by onlookers from three floors inside and three outside. Polu looked around: "Is this the whole town that is off duty today to watch the fun?"
Tezier led a few soldiers to maintain the order of the onlookers, and there was an open space in front of the furnace that did not allow the onlookers to enter. Irene, Geora, Caroline, Candice and a group of servants were all standing onlookers.
Outside the line, waiting for the arrival of Polu and others.
Leonardo stood under the furnace, looking up at the tall furnace like a tower, with a shocked expression.
"This stove is 12 meters high and more than 3 meters in diameter. How about it? Isn't it pretty? You can touch it now, but you won't be able to touch it after it's lit."
Leonardo stretched out his hand and touched the outermost circle of clay bricks, and then tapped it with his backhand: "How thick is this thing? I feel like I am patting a solid stone."
"The thinnest part is 70 centimeters. The furnace body is built with three layers of fire bricks, and each layer is filled with slag. We don't know what the new bricks we made are like, so we built two more layers just to be safe.
1. "Polu continued to explain, "The adhesive between the brick joints is made by grinding slag into powder and clay, and mixing gypsum with it.
Bonding. Geola, oh, that's the person, my new assistant, I experimented with many ratios, and finally chose the strongest one. All the bricks are laid vertically, and the inner ring even uses two layers.
Bricks, and the outermost layer is made of clay bricks because grinding slag is too slow, and I don’t know how long it will take to get the bricks.”
Polu didn't know what the structure of a modern blast furnace was, and what was the best ratio. To be on the safe side, he had to pile up two more layers of materials. A layer of bricks was padded with a layer of fine slag of the same thickness. They were filled and compacted. The three-layer structure was like a sandwich.
Together, the slag next to the town will never be used up anyway. It doesn’t matter if it’s a little wasteful, safety first is the most important thing. Especially in the initial stage.
"Leah, you talk to the leader for a while, I'll go check the preparations for starting the furnace." Bolu explained to the leader and left. He walked up to the platform of the blast furnace and waved to Geora:
"How are you, are you ready?"
"It's ready. All the fillers are ready. 5,5 tons of ore has been checked. I'm just waiting for your order!" Geola's face was full of uncontrollable emotion.
A mixture of excitement and nervousness.
"Okay! Then, get ready to turn on the phone. Goola, your voice is shaking, it's shaking so much!" Bolu's voice couldn't restrain the trembling. But he still insisted on walking up to the base and personally inspected everything.
After looking at the installation of pipelines, the filling in the furnace, and the hopper on the top of the furnace, and then looking at the hill-like pile of ore piled around the furnace, the sand and pottery molds on the ground, Polu walked to the console stiffly and stretched out his hand.
With trembling fingers, he suddenly stopped
Pointed, turned around and picked up the iron horn used on the construction site: "Everyone! All the builders of this melting furnace who participated in the No. 0 experimental furnace! I would like to express my gratitude to you! You have worked hard! This has been more than a month.
, we overcame various difficulties, produced materials of this kind, and finally built this furnace. This achievement is not only my pride, but also your pride! It is also the pride of the Kingdom of Casadoria.
pride!"
"The audience was quiet, and the expected applause did not appear, but their eyes and expressions all revealed the pride and joy under their restrained appearance." This audience is quite interesting. "Polu said.
Thinking about continuing.
"The names of the first batch of builders will be recorded in history! At the same time, each person will also receive a bonus of 1 gold coin!"
This time the cheers from the audience suddenly rang out! In the joyful atmosphere in the audience, only Irene looked stinky. She said to Svito: "Another bonus! In just one month, Master Polu has already spent it."
It’s a lot of gold coins, but that’s not counting the materials we transferred from the town. If this continues, we will go bankrupt! Please advise him!”
Sweito was silent for a moment: "Let's see how his stove is doing first."
Bolu was still ignorant of the conversation that took place in the audience between the two generations of butlers. He dropped the speaker and fiercely pulled the main switch of magic transmission.
The switch is closed, the circuit is connected, and the 32 energy-concentrating panels installed on the steel brackets on both sides of the tower start to operate. Magic power is efficiently gathered on the surface of the approximately 6-meter-wide crystal surface energy-concentrating panel, without even requiring magic vision.
You can see the shining blue light emitted, and the polished silver base plate makes these blue lights look like a mirror.
The fluorescence is reflected in all directions. Under the slight blue light, the entire furnace body looks like a blue glass with a candle or a crystal glass bottle under the spotlight. But to ordinary people who are not sensitive to magic vision,
To the eye, the two panels of energy-concentrated walls look as warm and beautiful as the blue dome of Samarkand.
"Perfect! This shape, this light effect! This moistness! It's amazing! It's done! I knew this thing would look like cloisonné in the end!" Bolu danced excitedly on the side.
"What happened?"
"Cloisonne, ah no, am I done?"
"You said it, what cloisonné did you say? Is it this shiny blue? It's very beautiful!" Sure enough, women and dragons have the same hobby of collecting shiny things.
"Ah, it's just a name for blue." Polu could only find a way to cover it up.
"Then can we go back now?" It seemed that Leonardo was a little anxious.
"Go back? Why don't you wait until the first furnace of iron comes out? At least witness history?" Bolu decided to reassure him with iron-clad facts.
"How long do we have to wait?"
"Ah? Didn't I tell you? It doesn't take long for this stove to make a batch of iron. The first batch came out before noon."
"Oh noon, what did you say? Noon?"
"Yes, two hours at most."
"You talk to me about such a big stove for two hours?"
"Otherwise, why would I need to renovate the furnace?" Bolu showed a proud expression: "Where you can't see, there are 8 pairs of control panels controlling 8 huge fireballs in the furnace area a little more than 3 meters high.
Rolling, the entire furnace is completely in the nonstop magic flame. After two hours, this is a new furnace and the furnace needs to be heated up. "
"Filling work!" Geola stood on the operating table and held up a tin horn and began to instruct the workers to use a human conveyor to add materials to the furnace. Relying on a shovel is completely insufficient. But the automatic hopper has no time to do it at present.
, they had to make do with a human conveyor belt. Leonardo heard the shouting, and he asked in disbelief: "What materials are you filling in now? Don't bully me because I have never smelted iron."
"Our furnace has such a big appetite, just wait and see." Boru compared the ore piled around: "Just these few piles, that is, today's amount!"
"You're fucking kidding me!"
"If you don't believe it, just wait and see! There is still some time. Just now you said what happened to Nazwa? Is there a fight?"
"Yes, what I am going to tell you next are the top secrets of the kingdom, but it is just because you have participated in the reconnaissance and there is no need to keep it secret. It must not be leaked, you know? Well. Although we have not been able to personally observe on the front line, according to our
The intelligence received, yes, it was the rebel army who sold the book to us. Nazwa encountered an army of insects and insect-men, and the fight was very fierce. Do you know Nazwa? No. Then I can probably say
Look. Nazwa's land area is three times larger than ours, and its population is much larger. They have many slaves, so their legions are huge. They are really much stronger than us in a fight. The first line of confrontation between the two armies is now along. Anyway,
A river spreads out, about the same width as the river in front of us. More than 100,000 slave legions and more than 10,000 warriors of all levels are fighting the bugs head-on. Oh, their warriors are on the same level as our knights.
, but their warriors are the kind who are cruel and easy to kill. We really can't call them knights. Having said that, they should be under great pressure now and should mobilize the slaves and legions in the east to join the war. So we are currently
I received a formal note from Nazwa, requesting to buy a large amount of weapons, armor, and whatever you want from us. The price offered is not bad, so I have another task this time, which is to see if we can sell anything.
If we can sell things, how much excess production capacity can we sell?"
"Sell it, why don't you sell it? You can make money, right?" Bolu had a clear idea: "Besides, if they collapse, wouldn't it be our turn to be beaten?"
"Open the furnace!" Geora's shout came from the furnace.
"That makes sense, but we at least need to know how to sell so as not to sell ourselves out or feed them too much. Damn it! Is this good?"
"It's so fast!" Polu ended the topic, holding on to the railing and watching as his hard work was about to pour out the first batch of molten iron. The workers opened the cover of the molten iron ditch and broke open the mud seal, and red-hot molten iron continued to flow from the furnace.
The Jedi flowed into the prepared heat-resistant container, and then was poured into the pottery model placed on the sand. Seeing this scene representing success, Bolu felt that the nights that were so stereotyped that his hands and feet were numb, painful
The suffering, the repeated inspections gritted his teeth, finally paid off, "It's so beautiful!" The frames of his eyes couldn't help but get wet. Through the blurred vision, two blue energy-containing walls and the flowing hot molten iron formed a
A beautiful abstract painting.
At this moment, Polu felt that his heart seemed to be warmed by the molten iron. He was no longer a passerby watching, but he was really alive in this world, and he could still create something and change something. This