Chapter 182 Improvement of Orichalcum Clockwork Technology
The alchemy workshop is a common production model in Black Snake Bay, similar to the blacksmith shop and stonemason workshop they saw in Fort Joan before.
An alchemy workshop often purchases a yard in a place where raw materials are produced or in a place with convenient water and land transportation. This yard must serve as an alchemy ceremony venue, storage and even accommodation.
A normal alchemy workshop is basically run by four or five alchemy apprentices and one or two master alchemists.
Most of the time, the smuggling channels for alchemy products are in the hands of the secret party, so many times, these alchemy workshops sell the goods directly to the secret party.
Larger secret parties such as the Joan Party and the Silver Rose would even provide subsidies to the alchemists in the alchemy workshops during the off-season, which actually gave them a semi-state-owned feel.
Of course there are also private alchemy workshops, most of which are attached to a large wizard family.
Alchemists do not have much ability to protect themselves, and most of the time they need to rely on the protection of powerful forces.
Horn did not dare to make an immediate decision on whether to set up a peat alchemy workshop in Daze Township. Instead, he gave Paslik some of the Holy Beloveds and asked him to join a few secrets who had escaped with him. Party members went to investigate.
Without investigation, there is no right to speak. If the project is launched immediately, the probability of problems is extremely high.
After arranging the peat matter, I made an agreement with Jeshka and Viktor to select the candidates to go to Qiu Mu Island tomorrow.
After all these scattered things have been decided, the aroma of grilled fish and fish fillet porridge has spread to everyone's noses.
Horn smiled and said to the people present: "I have already eaten. You must be greedy when you smell the aroma. Let's go and eat."
"Brother, I still have some Let’s talk about things.”
“Eat first, don’t talk about things when you’re hungry.” Horn pushed Jeana away and rushed her to eat first.
Sitting in front of the fire again, looking at the dancing flames in front of him, he continued to think about the current development.
If the peat alchemy workshop can be completed, then the food and meat issues will basically be solved.
In fact, if peat can be used instead of wood and other fuels to boil salt, the problem of salted fish can be solved, and then there is no need to build a pottery workshop.
However, Horn decided to build a small pottery workshop. After all, items such as pots and pans were in urgent need.
Using branches to stir up the fire in front of him, Horn turned his head in the direction of the mountains in the distance.
He hadn't noticed it before, but as he walked over the past few days, he suddenly discovered a geographical highlight.
Daze Township is located at the junction of the three counties of Nanmende, Lower River and Longsound. The mountains and swamps block the roads connecting the three counties.
If you want to walk from Upper River and North Mound to Longsand County, you will definitely be blocked by this mountain swamp. No matter which way you go around, you need to walk 100 kilometers or even 90 kilometers more. road.
If Horn can clear away the giant spiders in the wild spider forest, calm down the local lycanthropes, and widen the road, then the merchants will not have to take a detour at all.
Through the shorter route of Daze Township, Upper River, North and South Mound and even Norn can easily transport goods to Longsand, while Fort Joan can transport goods to Black Snake Bay and Kasha County.
This had to remind Horn of the Gravel Wool Trade Route that Sissi had mentioned.
In the past, if gravel raw wool wanted to go to the south, it would first go to Upper River County or the neighboring North Mound County, and then go down the Nauan River to Flying Castle, and then take the overland route.
Then go upstream along the Yaxi River, then take the land route to reach Fort Joan of Arc, then go down the canal to the Ibe River and then head south.
But if Daze Township can be opened up, then whether they go by water or land, they can go directly to Fort Joan of Arc, saving at least one-third of the distance.
But if the wool trade route is rerouted, Feiliu Castle will suffer the same consequences.
But Qiumu Island, located on the only way to Daze Township, has an excellent geographical environment. Maybe it can become a transfer station on the Joan of Arc route and become an important secondary city.
"Brother, I've finished eating." Jeanne's words interrupted Horn's thinking. She walked over in a hurry, wiping the oil on her mouth with a handkerchief.
Eating so fast? Horn looked at Jeanne blankly: "Don't you need to take a rest after eating?"
"Brother, we can't rest now." Grabbing Horn's arm, Jeanne pulled him Walk towards the camp.
After bypassing the tattered tents, I saw Brock and Rector busy working on something in front of a simple workbench.
Horn immediately understood that there must be some breakthrough in the orichalcum clockwork. "I saw your forging model before." The old dwarf still looked as honest and dull as before. When Horn came, he said directly, "Mix the molten iron and orichalcum water together, and put it in It is cooled into an alloy bar in the mold, and then the alloy bar is electrocuted until it becomes white hot, and then it is forged by the blacksmith."
That's right." Shaking his head: "This method is very vulgar, wrong, and not spiritual enough."
Horn looked back at Jeana's confident face, turned to Brock and asked: "You Any new ideas? ”
"I have to be worthy of the 3 gold pounds a month's salary you gave me." Brock said dullly, "Gold gilding was originally a skill of us dwarves, but later the shameless Norns stole it. Everyone knows it anyway. It’s not a problem for me to teach you.”
As he said that, Brock opened the jar on the side, and there was a golden paste in the jar.
"What is this?"
"Orichalcum mud." Brock took out the jar of butter-shaped orichalcum mud, picked up a wood chip, and dug out a piece. Apply to the surface of an iron spring.
Applying both sides of the spring until golden, Brock took out a string and separated the orichalcum mud that adhered to each other between the spiral springs: "The so-called gilding technology is to combine gold and mercury. After melting together and squeezing out the excess mercury with the leather, what's left is gold mud.
Apply gold mud to the metal surface and bake it at high temperature. After a period of time, the mercury disappears and only gold remains.
I saw that your orichalcum is also yellow, much like gold. The dwarf’s intuition told me that this might be useful, so I gave it a try. ”
Put the coated gilt copper spring in the furnace to bake, and Brock used tongs to take out the other gilt copper spring that was baked before.
< br>“Originally I thought that orichalcum would just adhere to the surface of the clockwork piece, but after the mercury evaporated, orichalcum actually penetrated into the clockwork. "Jeanne couldn't hold back her excitement.
"Normally, a protective layer should be applied to the surface of gilded metal to prevent the gold from penetrating into the base material, but I don't have the right one on hand. The material is not coated with a protective layer. "Brock was also a little emotional at this time.
"Maybe the essence of orichalcum is steel, so it combines with iron. I don't know why, but it just succeeded." Lifting the spring, Brock pointed to the adhesion between the spring rolls. He said, "Just polish it with a file."
Surprised, Horn picked up the orichalcum spring with a pair of tongs, and looked at it carefully in the light of the fire.
If this method is indeed effective, Jeanne will not have to spend a lot of time accompanying the blacksmith to forge.
Through the method of orichalcum gilding, the development process of orichalcum spring that originally required Jeanne's continuous cooperation was directly separated into two steps: making orichalcum clay and making the clockwork.
In the future, Jeanne can make a large amount of orichalcum mud in batches and store it, and then she can get rid of the cumbersome process.
In this way, the speed of making clockwork guns will be improved again.
Thinking of orichalcum, Horn had a problem. According to the formula of orichalcum, 1 pound of orichalcum requires 14 pounds of refined iron and 2 pounds of copper.
Due to the high density of orichalcum, one orichalcum spring requires one third of a pound of orichalcum.
Including the gun barrel, the barrel and the most important firing rod. Each spring gun requires 6 pounds of cast iron and 2 pounds of refined iron (steel).
According to Horn's pre-conceived idea of 1,000 holy gunmen, about 333 pounds of orichalcum are needed. Taking into account losses, 5,000 pounds of fine iron and 700 pounds of copper are needed.
Including the consumption of the barrel and firing rod, it is 6,000 pounds of cast iron and 2,000 pounds of fine iron.
The consumption of 1,000 holy gunmen alone is at least 7,000 pounds of fine iron, 6,000 pounds of cast iron, and 700 pounds of copper.
Previously, Horne purchased the castle for zero yuan, emptying out the armories, including outposts and blacksmith shops, controlled by the major nobles and dukes. He even deliberately allowed the soldiers to extort, and only got a total of 6,200. pounds of steel ingots, 7,800 pounds of ordinary iron ingots, and 900 pounds of copper ingots.
After careful calculation, there is still a shortfall of 800 pounds of refined iron.
The only good thing is that the situation with the spearmen is not bad.
By stripping mercenaries, the Salvation Army obtained more than 1,800 long guns and more than 900 short swords, plus those from the armory and those purchased, which could just fill the main weapon gap of 3,000 spearmen.
Go ask Paslik tomorrow for any good ideas. As a great wizard, Paslik's knowledge base is simply a huge treasure.
There are so many connections from the beginning. Horn blows the hot air from the spring. Construction is much more difficult than leading people to run wires everywhere.
(End of this chapter)