On May 18th, the Norton family territory, Morgen Hills, the heavily guarded glass production base.
Lorist instructed the silversmith to assemble the two polished lenses. Even with the detailed drawings, it still took a long time to modify and modify them before meeting Lorist's requirements.
A large telescope with a small smooth barrel finally appeared in Lorist's hands. The old silversmith with a wrinkled forehead looked disapproving. After Lorist rejected his request to carve exquisite patterns on the barrel, he then I am very sad that my superb craftsmanship cannot be brought into play.
Lorist fiddled with it for a long time, and handed the silver monocular in his hand to the technician Mancheni next to him: "Look, this is the telescope I was talking about."
Technician Mancheni followed Lorist's example and looked around with the binoculars, making exclamations of surprise from time to time.
"See, this is the real purpose of the glass I said, but this telescope is just one of them. You can use oil glass to grind the lenses. You need to hire some people to specialize in this lens grinding, and try to formulate its standards. The unevenness of the glass can produce very different effects. Like the blueprint I drew, it is a magnifying glass, which can help people to see things clearly, and this one is glasses, just like this master silversmith , when he is old, his eyesight is poor, and it is difficult to see things. With this glasses, he can be like when he was young, without worrying about vertigo... "
Technician Mancheni respectfully bowed his head to Lorist: "My lord, I am really excited and proud that I can work for you. It is you who opened a skylight and let me see a wider sky... "
Lorist laughed: "Don't talk nonsense, just do your job well. Your task is still heavy. The current output of green glass and oil glass is enough, there is no need to expand production, we don't need With this foreign trade, self-produced and sold will do. The focus is on telescopes, glasses and magnifying glasses, which will be the profit growth points of our family’s future foreign trade.
At present, the most important thing is to pay close attention to the development and experiment of transparent white glass. You have seen the two silver mirrors I made of white crystal. When this kind of glass mirror appears, it will bring us a steady stream of gold coins. The transparency of oil glass is very good, but its non-stick property cannot be used to make mirrors. So you have to find a way to experiment with some formulas and make this transparent white glass as soon as possible.
Another point is to find a way to expand the manufacturing specifications of the glass. Can the area be increased and the thickness increased? We can use large pieces of green glass to make greenhouses, so that we can eat fresh vegetables in winter. In addition, exploring the application of glass in various aspects, such as whether oil glass can make teapots and cups, and glass tableware, can bring a lot of profits to our family...
I entrust you with the responsibility of the glass production base. I hope you can take the initiative to explore the mysteries of glass. No matter whether you need funds or manpower and materials, we will meet your requirements. Don't care whether the cost of conducting these glass experiments is worth it, even if it fails, it just makes us understand that this road is not working, and we should go another way. And this discovery is also a harvest, understand? "
Technician Mancheni bowed gratefully to Lorist: "My lord, don't worry, I will follow your wishes and conduct the experiment as soon as possible and record it. I will arrange for someone to do what you just said, and I will definitely not let you disappointment."
Lorist nodded: "In the past few days, I will first make a batch of binoculars and put numbers on them. I will send them to the family armed forces and the Marine Corps. I will go to Blackforge in two days, and I need to bring a few. Send it over when you're done. I'll leave it to you here."
"Yes, my lord."
As soon as he left the house, Schwader came over to report: "My lord, Papa Barek came to look for you, as if he was in a hurry."
Papa Barek was in a hurry, but his face was full of joy: "My lord, the paper you want has been produced, please see if it is like this."
He took a waterproof cylinder made of copper skin and animal skin from his back, opened the lid, carefully pulled out a roll of paper, and opened it gently.
The paper placed in front of Lorist is very similar to the kraft paper used for packaging in the previous life. It is not white in color, it is a kind of light brown, but the surface is smooth and delicate, and it seems to be a little oily.
Lorist stretched out his hand to touch it a few times, and then ordered Schwader to bring him ink and a quill pen, wrote a few lines on the paper casually, drew a few lines, and said with satisfaction: "Not bad, The ink dries quickly, but the paper is still not white. Papa Barek, how did you suddenly make this kind of paper?"
"Accident, it's a complete accident." Papa Barek laughed: "My lord, because we haven't made any progress in experimenting with papermaking, most of the stoves used to cook pulp are producing toilet paper. Now the family territory has an increasing population. The increasing demand for this kind of toilet paper is great, and the benefits obtained from the toilet paper trade are not without small supplements to the research expenditure of papermaking.
A few days ago, a worker went out during his lunch break and bought a large piece of butter to take home. When he returned to the workshop, something happened, so he put the butter on the edge of the stove where the pulp was boiled. As a result, as soon as the hot air under the pool came up, the piece of butter melted and flowed into the pool without anyone noticing. After stirring as usual, we had to fish out the pulp, and then found that the pulp in the pool was not that kind of fluffy and soft toilet paper after it dries, but a smoother hard paper...
We checked and found that it was the piece of butter that made it like this, so we have been experimenting with various oils for papermaking during this time, and this kind of paper is made with butter, the price is the cheapest and the cheapest cheap. We calculated that the cost of fifteen sheets of this kind of paper is only about one copper coin if labor is not counted, and it is only three copper coins including labor. "
Lorist is very happy, the telescope has just been successfully trial-produced, and the papermaking technology has made a breakthrough here, which is really a lot of good things. However, he still made a new request to Papa Barek: "Schward, record the rewards for the successful trial production of this kind of paper. Papa Barek will reward 100 Gold Fords, and the rest of the meritorious personnel will each receive 10 Gold Fords. Ba Father Lek, you need to do some more experiments, add some whitening agents or materials, and find a way to make this paper whiter and more delicate, and even thinner than this paper. Only then will it be considered successful. Create paper that is our family's flagship commodity.
Also, the making and recipe of this paper needs to be kept secret. Schwader, send me an order to ask Bodfinger to select old veterans who need to be retired from the family armed forces to form a new guard battalion, which will be responsible for guarding and guarding the paper mill and glass production base here to ensure this Nothing in the two places will give away. "
"Yes, my lord, I will send the guards to deliver the order immediately." Schwader replied.
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On May 21st, the Blade's Edge Mountains, a heavily guarded valley.
This is the newly built gunpowder experiment field, where Professor Bob, who was kidnapped by Lorist, is doing various experiments on gunpowder.
"My lord, I really don't understand why you attach so much importance to gunpowder. In fact, I think gunpowder may be useful in military affairs, but others are of little use. Dwarves have used gunpowder for nearly a thousand years, but They have no other way of using them than as guns."
As soon as we met, Professor Bob not only gave Lorist a formula for the best ratio of gunpowder he had tested, but also raised his own doubts.
Lorist laughed, but he didn't answer. He took the gunpowder recipe from Professor Bob, looked at it, and crossed out the item of egg white.
Professor Bob protested: "Without egg white, gunpowder powder cannot solidify, and its effect will be greatly reduced."
"Egg whites are not required, and there is no need to coagulate. The gunpowder works best when it is in a granular state." Lorist said.
In front of the dubious Professor Bob, Lorist granulated the gunpowder powder and left it to dry.
Two days later, Lorist got a few small iron cylinders, filled them with granules of gunpowder, hung them on the wires, wrapped them up like dynamite packs, stuffed them into a hole hewn on a rocky cliff, and lit the wires. .
After a while, there was a dull explosion, and the cliff in the distance seemed to shake, and large pieces of rocks fell from the cliff. After the dust in the distance stopped, the appearance of the stone cliff had changed drastically, almost half of its appearance was lost. There were large chunks of fallen stones piled up at the bottom of the cliff, like a small mountain.
"You see, Professor Bob, this is the true power of gunpowder. With gunpowder, we can dig mountains and quarry rocks, build roads, bridges, build houses and mines, all of which will be very convenient. Jane saves manpower and shortens the construction period. In the military In two days, you will be able to see the effect. A new powerful long-range weapon will appear in Galintea, that is the artillery." Lorist said triumphantly.
"Cannon?" Professor Bob asked suspiciously.
"Yes, artillery." Lorist replied.
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May 23rd, Blade's Edge Mountains, Ironforge.
In order to keep it secret, the family built a fortress castle outside the valley of the black iron refining base. One is to facilitate guarding and guarding, and the other is to provide a comfortable living environment for technical talents such as Master Sid. With a swipe of Lorist's pen, Ironforge became the official name.
"My lord, all seventeen sets of refined iron equipment have been sent to Shilovas Island. In addition, I have drawn an atlas of various equipment, all of which are in accordance with your requirements. The defense is slightly weaker than that of the White Lion equipment. First, the appearance is gorgeous, the decoration is beautiful and luxurious, and the selling price is basically between 80 and 120 gold fords." Master Sid first reported the first thing to Lorist.
"I can rest assured that you will handle the matter, Master Sid, you are an expert in this area, and I fully believe that your decision will bring the greatest benefit to the family." Lorist nodded to express his appreciation.
Master Sid was very happy, and his steps became brisk.
"My lord, according to the design of your unicycle combined with the steel crossbow of the chariot, it has been finalized. A total of 24 vehicles have been produced, and they are placed in front of you. You can see it when you turn around the wall..."
Twenty-four unique wheelbarrows were placed in two rows, and the steel crossbows mounted on the carts shone coldly under the sunlight.
Lorist stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that these unicycles were made of steel and wood, especially the axles of the unicycles, which had been specially reinforced. Picking up a wheelbarrow and pushing it a few steps, I didn't feel too much effort, and even felt a little relaxed.
Master Sid introduced next to him: "My lord, the unicycle you designed is really unique. No one has ever imagined that a single wheel can make a car. It has a high load, is convenient and flexible, and those single-person mountain roads can be walked on these unicycles. My lord, I wonder if we can make some wheelbarrows separately for sale in the future?"
Lorist smiled and said: "Of course, but the unicycles sold must not only be durable, but also cheap to sell more. By the way, Master Sid, does it have any impact on the steel crossbow?"
Master Sid shook his head and said, "No, it doesn't matter at all. Some time ago, Lord Doles specially found a team of five hundred armored ballistas to try it out. They said that firing the steel ballista on the ground is more reliable. , it’s not as narrow as a chariot’s compartment, and sometimes you have to cooperate with each other to fire the steel crossbow, so there’s no need to worry about it because there’s a lot of space on the ground to move around.”
"Dolles think such a wheelbow cart also needs a group of five?" Lorist asked.
"Yes, my lord. One person pushes and two people pull, plus two guards, and they can be replaced at any time. Lord Dolles thinks this combination is the most suitable. And the only shortcoming of this kind of unicycle is that it must be stopped when it is launched. Someone needs to hold down the handle to fix the car, this is because the unicycle is too light." Master Sid replied.
"That's fine. Let's equip Dolles with a single-wheeled crossbow cart of the army. This guy is also waiting impatiently, hoping to become the commander of the army as soon as possible. Schwader, for the record, order Malek to get out of the chariot The Steel Crossbow Corps has assigned half of its troops to help Dolles form this single-wheeled Crossbow Corps, and their remaining insufficient soldiers will be replenished from the boot camp."
"Yes, my lord," said Schwader.
Master Sid stopped in front of Lorist: "My lord, wait a moment, haven't you noticed that this steel crossbow is different?"
kindness? Lorist looked at the steel crossbow mounted on the wheelbarrow, there was no difference, then looked again, and suddenly found something different: "Master, it seems that this steel crossbow seems to be smaller, not the same as before. The steel crossbow is too big, isn't it?"
Master Sid chuckled: "My lord, it's more than that. Look at this crossbow. Although it is also made of iron, it is half lighter than the original iron crossbow. It is more stable and more accurate when fired..."
"You improved it? But if it's so much smaller, will it affect the steel crossbow's 300-meter direct shooting range?" Lorist asked worriedly.
Master Sid waved his hand: "My lord, in fact, you have always had a misunderstanding, thinking that the steel crossbow's 300-meter shooting range is a direct shooting distance. In fact, we have discovered through continuous experiments that the steel crossbow's true direct shooting distance is only 100 meters away." About 70 to 80 meters, the range of 300 meters is actually an arc, but the force of the steel crossbow is too strong, the arc is not obvious, everyone thinks it is a direct distance.
When we found out this result, we were very surprised, so we went to Lord Pete of the Archer Team for help. Let him bring a small group of longbowmen to cooperate with us in the experiment, and finally came to the conclusion that the so-called longbow can threaten the Golden Knight with a distance of 100 meters.
Of course, sharp archers like Lord Josk are exceptions. All longbowmen admit that they can aim at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, but the target at one hundred meters is no bigger than the nail of a little finger. Raise it a little higher and shoot again, which shows that the feathered arrows fired by their longbows are also an arc.
Like steel crossbow shooters, they say that they can't see a single target 300 meters away at all, and basically use dense crossbow bolts to form a covering shot according to the target's location to threaten and damage the target. So please rest assured, the reduction of the steel crossbow this time is because we have better replacement materials than the original steel crossbow pieces, and it has not affected the power of the steel crossbow. "
"So that's it, then who made the new steel crossbow pieces?" After being lectured by Master Sid, Lorist finally understood. Thinking about it, people are no bigger than soybeans at a distance of 100 meters. Now, no matter whether it is a steel crossbow or a longbow, the main threat is the covering shooting. Precise aiming and shooting really depends half on luck.
"My lord, have you forgotten old Julien? After he was appointed by you as the head of the iron crossbow factory, he has been thinking about how to make a better and stronger material than the steel crossbow in his spare time. After several years of experimentation, it was finally made by him. After inspection by Master Falin and I, we believed that the performance of this steel crossbow piece surpassed the performance of the previous one, so we filed an application report and asked for a comprehensive Replace the original steel crossbow of the chariot, but it has not been answered yet." Master Sid replied.
"By the way, last time, my lord, you ordered someone to bring me the bronze round tubes named gun barrels. I also handed over to old Julien to be in charge of casting, and now they have all been cast. My lord wants Do you want to take a look? My lord, I am very surprised, what is such a large and heavy bronze tube used for? And what is the meaning of this gun barrel?"
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