Charles has still seen many top celebrities, such as the elven princess Elizabeth who built a caravan to run all over the continent, the retired saint Saint Angel of the Temple of Light who has been hanging the pot for decades in the Northland, and the retired saint Catherine of the Temple of Flame, who is known as a mentor and friend of adventurers, and so on.

But the kings and popes at the top of the pyramid have never been seen.

Not long after, a hearty roar rang out at the entrance of the workshop.

"Locke, what are you looking for me for?"

A waist-length beard and waist-length dwarf in a leather hazmat suit, a metal helmet, walked in. He holds a hammer made of gold in his left hand and a mustache sleeve made of leather in his right hand.

"I'm doing a safety check at a steel mill. The dwarf said, "The young man is really desperate now, relying on his father being a cardinal, and even daring to disobey the rule of 'don't drink to work, don't drink when you go to work.'" ”

"Litter!" roared Rock Bryant, "Nest is going to break that turtle son's leg tonight!"

As the two dwarves spoke, the people around the long table, whether it was Erbach and his students or a halkala who was serving as a backdrop, stood up and saluted the dwarf.

"May the sound of your hammer and anvil reach the ears of the God of Forge!"

Charles saluted, and now he understood that the man who had come was the Pope of the Forging Temple. At the same time, from the conversation, I learned that Locke Bryant was actually a cardinal.

But he looked at the pope less like a pope and more like a safety officer on a construction site.

The Pope raised the golden hammer in his hand, which symbolized the power of the Pope, and shook it to greet everyone.

Charles noticed that the dwarves working by the stove in the workshop were unresponsive and were concentrating on their work.

Seeing Charles's doubts, the Pope walked over to him and said, "Young man, labor is the most sacred existence in the world, and all power is a cloud in front of it. ”

Charles nodded and was taught.

Then the Pope turned to Bryant and asked, "What did you call me for?"

Bryant came over and patted Charles on the shoulder, and said to the Pope, "This is Earl Charles MacGarden." ”

After hearing Charles's surname, the Pope's eyes narrowed slightly.

Then Bryant said to Charles, "Charles, you tell the Pope what you just said again. ”

Charles walked over to the blackboard and told the Pope about the methods and ideas he had just said about making new armor.

After listening to this, the Pope pondered for a long time in front of the blackboard.

Charles was confused, what was there to study about this thing.

The Pope beckoned Bryant over, and after saying a list of names, he told him to call someone.

Then he walked up to Erbach and said, "Professor Erbach, I'm sorry, but what we're going to talk about next......"

Erbach understood in seconds and immediately took the student to leave. If he doesn't know whether he wants to stay, he will die in vain if he is hammered to death by the other party.

The Pope kills a nobleman, a reference to the Charles family who were killed.

Also leaving was Halcara, but when Charles wanted to leave, he was stopped by the Pope.

"Earl MacGardenen, please stay. The Pope said to him, "You are not an outsider. ”

"You can just call me Charles. Charles replied, "Is there anything wrong with what I can say?"

The Pope walked over to the long table, put everything on the table, and motioned for Charles to come and sit down.

"Charles, do you know your family's relationship with the Forge Temple?" the Pope asked.

Charles nodded and said, "Great Sage Philip." ”

"yes. A look of reverence appeared on the Pope's face, "His Excellency the Great Sage is a great wise man, and the knowledge he left behind still guides us today. ”

From the addition of quicklime to the new steelmaking furnaces, he gave all his knowledge to the temple. ”

"After his departure, both the god of forging and the god of harvest disappeared from grief. It's a pity that the Harvest Temple has declined because of this. ”

Speaking of this, the Pope sighed deeply.

"Thirty years ago, we found a notebook left by His Excellency the Great Sage in an old book in the library. The notebook records the manufacture and use of building materials that he called 'artificial stone', abbreviated as 'concrete', the most important of which is the material called 'cement'. ”

"Later, after fifteen years of use, the technology of the Temple of Extreme Extreme, we were finally able to produce qualified cement on a large scale. Then we spent nearly ten years to preliminarily master the use of concrete through the reconstruction of the production area and the transformation of the city wall. ”

"It is estimated that for some reason the Great Sage interrupted, and the notebook only recorded the method, but did not record the principle, which limited our further use of concrete. ”

Now Charles was relieved, no wonder he advertised cement on the city wall, it turned out that this was a new product. It is no wonder that such high-quality building materials did not appear in the field of civil construction, otherwise it would have been mentioned when the Maccaden Manor was rebuilt.

So Charles wondered if he might send a letter home right away to cement his new home. As for the design of the house, it should be good to continue to press the White House.

Moreover, the ancestors only left behind things such as design drawings and construction manuals, but some theoretical knowledge did not remain. Architecture is a rigorous science, just how many steel bars have a corresponding formula, more steel bars can not be put down.

Then the Pope continued: "We have spent many years without understanding the principle of the arrangement of the reinforcement in reinforced concrete, so much so that we now have to carry out all kinds of experiments in order to obtain empirical formulas. ”

"At the same time, what should the steel bar be like is also divided into two factions. One school of thought believes that in order to reduce costs, the steel bars of the cylinder are directly used for reinforcing steel. The other school believes that the surface of the steel bar should be increased to improve the friction between the steel bar and the concrete. ”

"Your idea today is just the right time to put an end to this controversy. ”

Charles listened with a confused expression, he didn't expect this to be the case at all. However, after thinking about it a little, I was relieved that this is a common problem encountered in reverse engineering.

Knowing what is going on but not knowing why is the biggest problem encountered in every reverse engineering, and solving these problems depends on the analysis of experimental data one by one. And often after one problem is solved, more problems follow.

In the process of leapfrogging development, it is often found that you lack a certain basic technology, and you have to go back and make up for a basic course.

Reinforced concrete was originally invented by a gardener who saw the roots of plants carrying soil, and the first reinforced concrete building was created twenty years after its invention. Now it seems that Charles inadvertently let them see the source, and with the idea of the source, the dwarves can revisit the development route of reinforced concrete.

However, there are still many problems that dwarves have to face, especially in this world, the level of mathematics is not high, and the formula of how much steel to put alone can make them study for a while. I don't know when the dwarves will be able to grasp the principle of a 180 ° hook at the end of the rebar, which can be related to today's problems.

Charles has no plans to contribute his knowledge of construction dogs at the moment, as this would be tantamount to pulling out seedlings for dwarves. The use of cement is a rigorous scientific issue, and it must not be sloppy, and if you are not careful, it will start with general accidents, especially major accidents.

In his previous life, Charles often complained when he read some time-traveling novels at a certain point, those protagonists will dare to build a building tomorrow when they get earth-made cement today, brother, your house is not over-tendoned, right? and in the Chongzhen years, the capital used cement to build a house in the cold winter of Layue, this thing can't be done in the 21st century, even if you put on antifreeze, you have to be more than minus 10 degrees. Not to mention the use of cement to build the city wall, in order to make the concrete dry faster, use magic to get all the moisture out of the concrete, I don't know how many people will die when the mold is dismantled the next day.

Now that he has crossed over, he naturally will not make the kind of layman's mistake.

In the end, it occurred to him that it would look good to join forces with the dwarves to start a construction company in the future.