All the works are getting started at a rapid pace.

Alsace carved out a large area at the foot of the hill to the east of the city, with about 100,000 square meters in the middle for the construction of a steel mill, and around it was a place where artisans lived.

The coal mines in the Ersor Mountains have also been converted into coal kilns by the Murphys, with ventilation and drainage systems in place, and can be mined.

Marshall recruited a large number of people in the city, and the pay was relatively fair and just, so the 3,500 people that Murphy asked for were filled in less than two days, and those who were not selected were beaten to their chests, so they could only shake their heads and look for other jobs.

The prospecting team sent by Alsace also sent back the news at this time, and found the Yuanjing vein in a cave two kilometers east of the coal kiln site.

This was an absolute surprise for Murphy, who immediately ordered the news to be blocked and no one could get it out.

After that, he immediately called Marshall and Alsace, and secretly recruited a group of trustworthy people to go to the Yuanjing ore vein to build a small mine cave and mine secretly.

Since the current armament strength of Remlos Fort is too weak, this is really a helpless move.

If the news reaches the Theban kingdom, I am afraid that the next day the Theban army will besiege the city.

Thinking of armament power, Murphy felt that the time was ripe and that he had enough power to build an arquebus.

Murphy first instructed Philip to erect a simple forge and a wooden tool table in the courtyard behind the castle, and to prepare a U-shaped mold, as well as a spherical hammer, a concave hammer, and a plane hammer.

He gave Philip a draft of the design and asked him to find the best carpenter to build it, which was the butt of the arquebus.

Because directing the blacksmith to build it could not achieve the desired effect, he decided to build it himself, and called ten blacksmiths to watch and learn from it.

When Philip walked into the study and told Murphy that everything was ready.

Murphy got up and walked to the backyard, as for the design of the arquebus, this simplest design drawing has long been imprinted in Murphy's memory, and he can't forget it.

He followed Philip to the backyard, where he saw that a forge had been erected, and instead of using traditional charcoal as fuel, he filled it with coal, which also ensured the success rate of arquebus making.

The workbench was not far from the forge, and ten blacksmiths stood in a row.

"See His Royal Highness the Prince. When the ten blacksmiths saw Murphy coming, they knelt down and saluted.

However, he was stopped by Murphy waving his hand, "We don't need so many cumbersome etiquette here, it's more important to do practical things." He said.

A few blacksmiths, look at me, I look at you, it was the first time they had encountered such a casual, unruly lord.

"You, you and you, the three of you come over and help, and the others just watch. Murphy casually pointed to three strong blacksmiths to help.

Murphy took an iron plate, "cut" it with the Order Magic inscription to the length he wanted, and calcined it in a burning forge.

After calcination for a while, Murphy took out the red-hot iron plate, put it on the U-shaped mold on the anvil, picked up the spherical hammer on the side, and smashed the iron plate into the mold.

The middle part of the iron plate is overhead because of the mold, and when the hammer hits this part, the iron plate will gradually sag.

After the metal is removed from the hot forging furnace, the temperature will soon drop to room temperature, so it needs to be constantly heated→ hammered→ heated → hammered, which is a very physically demanding job.

So after a few demonstrative thrashes, Murphy handed over the effort to a blacksmith who was watching.

In the process of hammering, Murphy kept an eye out for changing the position of the iron plate and the mold, which gradually bent inward under the action of the hammer and the mold.

The iron plate was hammered continuously, and the edges of the two sides gradually closed, and finally closed into an iron pipe.

After repeated beating, the iron pipe finally took shape, but it was still a long way from the end of the work.

Murphy inserted a round iron rod of uniform thickness into the formed iron pipe, and then repeated the previous operation, constantly heating → hammering→ heating → hammering, gradually making the traces of the iron pipe closing.

At this time, he could not continue to use the original spherical hammer, and Murphy threw the spherical hammer aside and replaced it with a concave hammer, which played the same role as the mold and needed to constantly change its position.

Murphy controlled the position and angle of the concave hammer, allowing the blacksmith to hammer it with the sledgehammer to gradually take shape.

Finally, after a long time of hammering, the original overlapping edge gaps of the iron pipe have disappeared, and the size and thickness have reached his expected design, at this time, it is necessary to use an ordinary plane hammer to finalize the shape of the iron pipe.

Murphy put down the concave hammer, took the plane hammer on the side, and hammered the iron pipe into six sides, this shape of the iron pipe is more convenient to attach to the wooden butt.

After forming, Murphy ordered the blacksmith to stop, remove the iron rod, and set the iron pipe aside to allow it to cool down slowly.

The cooled iron pipe needs to be machined internally with a lathe, but in the Otherworld, the lathe will not be able to be built for a while, so Murphy decides to use magic to process the interior.

"Order is smooth. ”

Murphy did his best to compress the magic into a small drill bit, controlling the magic power to send the small drill bit into the iron pipe.

With a "whoosh", the small drill bit flew out from the other end.

Murphy repeated this several times, finally smoothing the inside of the pipe.

Next, it's time to polish the wall thickness.

Murphy placed the iron pipe on the workbench, picked up a file and began to polish it, polishing the shape of the iron pipe bit by bit.

Finally, a qualified iron pipe was built.

The barrel was to be machined for the tail seal, and Murphy took a piece of iron and made it into the shape of a handle.

In order to make it easier to clean, Murphy chose to screw the tail of the door.

He first used taps to process the threads at the end of the iron pipes, and then continued with the die.

Then the tail is installed on the iron pipe, and then a small hole with a diameter of two millimeters is drilled in the tail with a "fire cone", and an iron pipe is processed.

Murphy let out a long sigh that the most troublesome step was finally completed, and the next step was to make the trigger.

The trigger for the arquebus was simple, so it didn't take long for Murphy to build it and mount it on an iron pipe.

At the same time, the butt of the gun, which had been given to the carpenter, was delivered.

On the butt, the medicine pot, the baffle and the left trigger position are all available, and I have to say that this carpenter's hand is really skillful.

With the trigger and barrel mounted on the butt and screwed, an arquebus without an arquebus was built.

"That's it!" Murphy wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Have you learned how to make it?" he asked, looking at the ten blacksmiths who had been watching for a long time.

"We've got it, Your Highness. A blacksmith said.

"Very well, you all go to the blacksmith shop in the city to practice first, iron ore and coal mines can be supplied strongly, and you are only required to build them within three days. ”

"Besides, make me fifty buckshot from this, and I'll use them tomorrow." Murphy took out a piece of paper on the spot, drew the shape and proportions of the buckshot, and handed it to a blacksmith.