Chapter Seventy-Two: The First Iron and Steel Plant
adaptive computer improvements; Elemental Stone Activation Project; The God-Making Project is three large-scale research projects that are being carried out simultaneously by the Great Tomb Alchemy Laboratory. The three different research projects did not compete for the scientific research strength of the Great Tomb as imagined, but collided with brilliant sparks in the intersection of technologies.
Inspired by the whimsy of Nicole and other alchemists, the magical alchemy technology of the Great Tomb has been raised to a whole new realm.
The Angel Legion entering the universe is a leap in the level of civilization, and at the same time, it is also a normal explosion of the accumulation of the ancient magic era.
Just like after the earth entered the star world, it only took a few decades to make manned entry into the universe the norm, starting from burning glass from nothing.
Da Liang has the magic alchemy technology and cutting-edge alchemists carried by the Great Tomb, and the starting point is much higher than that of the Earth Pioneers. However, after the Angel Legion entered the universe, the Great Tomb Alchemy Laboratory also realized that the technical gap they urgently needed to fill was as many as the stars in the sky that could not be recorded.
The first is the issue of communication.
The magic communication used by the Great Tomb is to transmit information across space through coordinate positioning, and this magic can only be used by high-level heroes. On a planet, this magical communication technology is sufficient. However, after the cosmic distance appeared, the limit distance of magical communication was obviously too short, and it was not as common as radio communication.
The radio's anti-jamming ability and transmission speed are not comparable to that of magic communication technology.
If we want the Angel Legion to form a space combat capability, we must first solve the problem of communication technology.
In addition, in the ancient age of magic, any war would involve large war platforms, the most common being air and space battleships, and then various types of air war fortresses. The angelic world and the demonic hell have their own floating cities...... Cloudsdale and Crucible.
The War Platform is the tactical core of the battlefield, it provides almost all battlefield support to combat units, and it is also a powerful firepower output unit in its own right.
The cost of space operations is much higher than on the ground. The Great Tomb is now in urgent need of a corresponding war platform to assist the Angel Legion in realizing the orbital patrol of the Order Star, reducing the mana consumption of the Angel Legion, and giving them a place to rest and resupply.
Therefore, the space warship was able to enter the universe, and it entered the research project of the alchemy laboratory. And the existing technology for the construction of aerospace warships in the Great Tomb is obviously lagging behind in terms of internal design and construction materials. Including the Black Pearl, even if the Budong Island fleet was completely wiped out, she relied on the asymmetry of magical technology, rather than the design and structural advantages of the hull.
The Great Tomb Alchemy Laboratory wants to build an aerospace battleship capable of cosmic cruises, but it does not yet have the corresponding technology. As a result, the construction plan of the Naval Grand Fleet of the Flamenck Empire was taken seriously.
For half a year, the science and technology laboratory led by Princess Ziling had a certain understanding of the ships used for navigation and naval warfare at this time. Although the technology lab does not yet have the ability to independently design modern warships, it can at least understand the role and function of the ship's internal structure, and also has more ideas about the functions of warships based on the magic alchemy technology of the Great Tomb.
Therefore, Da Liang wanted to take the opportunity of the Flamenck Empire to build a large naval fleet to let the Great Tomb master the construction technology of modern warships.
The first thing you need to build a battleship is steel.
It was at this time that the first steel plant in Saroyan was completed. A steel plant with an annual output of 200,000 tons in the first phase was built in such a short time, and the speed can be said to set a record for the Order Star.
The main reason was the full support of the Whitehead family.
During the construction of the First Iron Works of Saroyan, the Marquis of Whitehead hired a large number of magicians with expertise in civil engineering from the empire to participate in the construction of the plant. There are also twenty airships for architectural functions, which are used for the transportation and installation of building materials.
Most importantly, the steelmaking equipment at the steelworks was dismantled directly from the Whitehead family's steelworks and then transported to the Saloyan steelworks by transport airship.
The lure of special steel stimulated the Marquis of Whitehead to personally open up all the passages for the construction of the steel mill. He needed the first steel plant in Saroyan to be put into operation as soon as possible, because the Emperor had officially approved the construction of the Imperial Naval Grand Fleet, and the exclusive funds had already been allocated.
The newly formed Admiralty will soon send the officer corps to Saroyan to discuss the construction of the Grand Fleet. Shipbuilding steel, ship design...... and many other naval construction projects, which will also be subject to public bidding during this period.
The Marquis of Whitehead, as the Governor of Marcellus, could not allow the Marcellus capital body to take too much advantage of the Imperial Navy's Grand Fleet, which was a great opportunity for the Empire's native capital to expand in Saloyan.
Located in the northern part of the city of Saroyan, the steel mill is lined with tall chimneys, and the large steel facilities look like ancient beasts gathered together from a distance. In the port that is attached to the steel plant, several giant transport ships are docked at the wharf. Workers built cranes and steam locomotives to unload the iron ore and fuel and transport it to nearby warehouses.
A railway connects the port and runs through the interior of the steel mill as a branch line to the main road of the Tocsan Railway.
A steel mill was a social system of its own, and 2,000 Saloyan citizens and 1,000 native Frominque workers became the first employees of the Saroyan 1st Iron and Steel Plant. In addition to a road connecting Saroyan to the steel plant, a passenger train runs regularly between the steel plant and the city.
This is how a large factory drives the economy of a city, and its influence on the city will become more and more obvious with the expansion of the steel plant in the future.
However, although the workers started to work, the steelmaking blast furnace at the Saroyan steel plant was not put on operation for a long time, and it was sealed off and guarded by special security personnel, so that no one could approach.
The dwarven rune masters from the Great Tomb are inlaying runes on the steelmaking blast furnace.
At this time, Da Liang was standing under this steelmaking blast furnace. The Great Tomb drew a battalion of troops from Kuka's trainers and formed a security team for the steel plant, which was responsible for the security inside the plant. Outside the steelmaking blast furnace workshop, it has been surrounded by security teams.
On the outer steel frame of the blast furnace, the dwarven rune master took a special hammer and chisel to beat on the surface of the blast furnace, and then they dug out the inlay grooves one by one.
The interior of the blast furnace also has a dwarven rune master, who has carved inlay grooves in the inner wall of the blast furnace.
In the end, according to the different rune languages, they embedded the runes that had been prepared one by one in the grooves according to the order and position.
When all the runes are inlayed, the originally dim runes simultaneously release a scattered bright light, which links groups of runes. Then, the light vanished, the runes disappeared, and the steelmaking blast furnace returned to its original state, and not a single inlay groove could be seen.