Two days later, a carriage left the road to the west of Bangta City and turned towards the mountains beside the road.
A thin arm opened the car curtain, and Vivian's little face leaned out of the car window. After taking a look at the scenery outside, she couldn't help but exclaimed: "It turns out that dwarves all live in such deep mountains. No wonder they used to It’s hard to see them.”
"That was before. Now it's too easy to see them." Steele's voice floated out from the car. "Vivian, when the Chamber of Commerce starts working again, if you want to see dwarves, just go to the Magic Machine Tool Workshop of the Chamber of Commerce. You can see hundreds of dwarves at any time."
"Yeah." Vivian nodded vigorously. "I'm afraid the people in Bangta City are not so curious about the dwarves now, right?"
"But they should still be very curious about the elves, don't you think so, Miss Yanis?" Steele's last words turned to Yanis on the other side of the carriage.
Yanis thought about it seriously, nodded and said, "That should be the case. We elves don't like contact with humans even more than the dwarves. We haven't appeared in front of humans for hundreds of years, so it's normal to be curious about us."
"But now your tribe is about to be exposed to humans, Miss Yanis, don't you feel nervous?" Steele asked again.
There was a hint of helplessness in Yanis' tone: "There is no way, our tribe is facing difficulties now, and it seems that only you humans can solve these difficulties. In order to survive, even if you are exposed to humans again, there is no way thing. Besides, I think President Xu is right. Not all of you humans are bad people. In addition to good people like President Xu who are really willing to help us solve our difficulties, there are also us elves like Vivian. A person with a pure heart. In addition, I also like someone as elegant and beautiful as you, Miss Steele.”
Steele's face turned slightly red: "Thank you for the compliment. But I think this can only be attributed to your good luck. The first human being you met was Xu Yi. Although this guy is a profiteer, he is still a very good person. Since he promised to help you, he will definitely do it.”
Yanis nodded: "Yes. After many contacts with President Xu, and my observation of staying with him during this period, I think he should be a trustworthy human being."
Steele rolled his eyes and suddenly asked: "By the way, Yanis. You said that you have been with Xu Yi during this period, so is it like this at all times? Could it be that Xu Yi even sleeps, takes a bath and goes to the toilet? Are you going to follow me?"
Yanis nodded again with a matter-of-fact expression: "Yes."
Steele's eyes widened in surprise: "You were there when he was taking a shower? Didn't you see him naked?"
Yanis didn't seem to understand what Steele meant at all, and said puzzledly: "You just saw it all. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Xu Yi's violent coughing and his voice of shame and anger suddenly sounded in front of the carriage.
"Cough... cough... I mean, Yanis, why didn't you tell me before that you were even there when I was taking a shower?"
Yanis opened the curtain of the carriage and asked Xu Yi who was driving, "Because I don't think there is any problem. Why do you and Miss Steele care so much about this issue?"
Xu Yi slowed down the carriage and looked back at Yanis, seeing an innocent expression on her face. He could only sigh helplessly and look at Steele with a strange expression on his face. He said with some annoyance: "You're still laughing! I was noticed by her unknowingly. It's me who suffers, okay?"
Steele snorted softly: "You are a man, what do you have to suffer from? Yanis is such a beautiful elf girl, if you suffer from it, she will suffer from it."
Xu Yi shook his head and decided not to argue with Steele on this issue.
However, after seeing that Steele and Yanis' relationship seemed to have softened a lot after a conversation, they felt relieved.
Originally, he was planning to go alone with Yanis for today's trip, but when he set off, he found that because Evita and Akali had already gone home, Vivian had no one to entrust her to, so she could only take them with her. superior.
And Steele didn't know why, but he insisted on coming along.
Xu Yi's persuasion was fruitless, and he was forced to agree in the end.
So in Xu Yi's opinion, what was originally a simple trip ended up with two extra girls.
But this also has an advantage. The journey is much more lively and less boring.
Because Xu Yi funded the construction of a road leading from the main road to the dwarf tribe, the last twenty kilometers were no longer just walking and driving a carriage as it was when we first came. In less than an hour, thick smoke could be seen rising from the sky in the distance.
"Is there a fire over there?" Looking at the thick smoke, Steele couldn't help but asked in surprise.
"No, those should be the smoke from steel mills and lime plants." Xu Yi glanced at the thick smoke covering the sky in the distance and frowned slightly.
Although this scene reminded him of the factories on the earth and made him feel a sense of intimacy, seeing this scene had to remind him of the serious problem of environmental pollution.
Originally, the place where the Noma tribe and the Angola tribe were located could be considered to have beautiful scenery and a pleasant environment. However, since Xu Yi invested in building a steelmaking plant and a lime plant here, the smoke and dust from the two factories quickly eroded the environment here.
Although Chief Shilui and Chief Mento didn't care much, and were happy that the establishment of these two factories allowed the tribesmen to have a stable income, Xu Yi was very aware of the serious consequences of environmental pollution. Naturally, Anxiety arose in the earth.
However, the industrialization process on the earth is inherently accompanied by serious pollution. No country that vigorously develops industry can avoid it. So if Sainz Continent wants to develop industry according to Xu Yi's ideas, this can be regarded as the only way.
But when he thought about it, Xu Yi thought of a problem. What he was developing on this continent was the magic industry.
Compared with industries on earth, one of the biggest advantages of magic industry is that energy consumption mainly comes from magic, which causes almost no pollution.
Since there was no pollution problem in the magic industry that Xu Yi was involved in before. In fact, these two steel plants and lime plants should also be able to avoid this problem.
Xu Yi was thinking about how to improve the production process provided by these two factories. The carriage continued to move forward. It didn't take long before we drove into the Norma tribe.
Kanby and the other dwarves returned to the tribe during the holidays at the factory, and had long known that Xu Yi was coming today. Now that they saw the carriage, the dwarves in the tribe came to greet them one after another. The leader was Chief Shilui. .
Seeing that it was Xu Yi driving the car, and after the carriage stopped, three different figures jumped out of the carriage. There were beauties both big and small, and the dwarves couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"President Xu, welcome." Chief Shilui's eyes passed over the three beauties, and lingered on Yanis for a while, then he laughed and extended his hand to Xu Yi.
Xu Yi shook hands with him, exchanged casual greetings, and then asked Chief Shi Lui to take him to the steel mill first.
This steelmaking plant was built by Xu Yi under the instruction of Chief Shilui before he went to Anvilmar City. The reason was that the dwarf tribe had made a breakthrough in materials research.
The steel, which was named Silver Leaf Steel by Xu Yi because of the addition of silver leaf grass powder, has been studied hard by the dwarves. Now they have basically mastered the properties of this steel. Now the dwarves can skillfully refine three kinds of steel with slightly different properties. There are different silver leaf steels.
So Xu Yi simply invested a lot of money directly. This steelmaking plant was built in the Norma tribe, allowing the dwarves to devote all their efforts to refining silver leaf steel.
According to Xu Yi's judgment. Silver leaf steel has a wide range of uses. At present, it can replace the ordinary pig iron currently used by Xinfei Chamber of Commerce to produce magic fans, magic air conditioners, magic rice cookers, magic lamps and other household magic machines.
If it is made of this new type of steel that has excellent hardness and ductility and also has the characteristics of stainless steel, these household magic machines will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes.
As for the large and heavy magic machines made by magic machine tools, because they have strong requirements on the hardness of steel, silver leaf steel is not suitable.
At this point, Xu Yi has high hopes for another type of steel he discovered before, but because the dwarves have not yet completely mastered it, they can't count on it yet.
As for the scale of this steelmaking plant that is now exclusively used to refine silver leaf steel, it can be said to be extremely small. It has been in operation for nearly two months, and the total amount of silver leaf steel refined is less than 10,000 tons.
By Earth's standards, this is not even comparable to the output of the smallest steel mill.
But Xu Yi was already very satisfied with this.
After all, the steelmaking industry on Sainz Continent is still in its infancy. Besides, the output of this small steelmaking plant is constantly increasing. In the first month, it only refined less than 3,000 tons. In the second month, it was already More than five thousand tons were refined.
According to this progress, as long as the dwarves continue to master and improve the refining process, and gradually expand the scale, this steelmaking plant will not only catch up with the standards on earth, but will at least be enough to supply the current needs of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
Steele, Vivian, and even the elf Yanis were all shocked when they saw the steelworks for the first time.
The scene before them was completely beyond their understanding.
In the eyes of Steele and Vivian, the so-called iron-making is nothing more than a process in which iron ore is thrown into a furnace and slowly simmered in the blacksmith shops commonly seen in and around Bonta City.
But what is shown in front of them now is a completely different situation.
Piles after piles of iron ore were poured into the huge furnace, and molten iron like magma flowed out from the other end, and finally flowed into the mold, gradually cooling into pieces of steel that shone silvery white.
Whether it is scale, efficiency, or the shock it gives people, it is far superior to those of blacksmith shops by countless times.
Steele glanced at the formed silver leaf steel and asked Xu Yi: "Last time you said that the magic fan produced next year will use new materials, is this what you were referring to?"
Xu Yi smiled and nodded: "When the magic fans go on sale next summer, everyone will be surprised."
Yanis on the side heard the conversation between the two of you, and then looked at the heated steelmaking in front of her, her confidence in Xu Yi deepened.
This human being can actually create such a shocking sight, so it should be easy to solve the problems encountered by his tribe, right