Back at the royal court, Caesar immediately began to conceive of a new machine.

He was not idle in the quiet days after the war, on the contrary, Caesar felt that he was a little busier than ever, and even though Luna was about to reach adulthood, they had very little time to spend alone. In addition to dealing with post-war reconstruction, there were many authorities that needed to be decentralized.

After a breakthrough in the progress of the Weapons Research Institute, the Black Dragon has asked the Arsenal to begin testing the strength of some alchemy products, as well as building new smelting furnaces.

In the past, whether it was iron-making or steel-making, it was purely based on the experience and feeling of the gray dwarves, and it was not known what the ingredients were in the things made, which was not what Caesar thought should be, and if smelting could not keep up with it, and if it was impossible to produce high-strength metals with excellent properties, climbing the weapon tree would only become an empty talk.

With the increasing number of casters joining the Northlands, Caesar also had the ability to assign spellcasters to various strategic industries that the empire urgently needed, and with the help of casters, Black Dragon had a method to accurately determine the composition of metals, and with the help of substance detection and decomposition capabilities, his arsenal could repeatedly compare the detailed data required for smelting, such as the mixing time after melting, the specific amount of charcoal added, and whether it was necessary to add additives to remove sulfur scales, or add other metal materials to make alloys, etc.

Based on these data, the arsenal can summarize the standardized process of the smelting industry, obtain the same quality iron ingots or just now in repeated production, and at the same time clear the fog of material science little by little.

As the Emperor of the North, Caesar didn't need to do everything himself, he only needed to give the guiding ideology, and the following clans would do what he wanted, which proved to be the best and most efficient method, and the new smelting furnace was built for this purpose.

It is a square furnace five meters wide and three meters high, with a sloping bottom to one side, a thick shell of cast iron, covered with clay bricks and a magic coating, which is undoubtedly heat resistant, and the lowest end has a movable gate for traction by a steam oven.

Considering that the heating methods such as oxygen blowing and electric arc cannot be carried out, the furnace is simply not equipped with any combustion device, and at this stage it completely relies on the flame provided by the caster to smelt the molten steel, and after adding raw materials according to the tested ratio and smelting, the molten steel will flow directly from the tail gate.

The furnace can produce about sixty tons of molten steel at a time, and the caster can complete the smelting in just half an hour, plus the time of feeding and tapping, it is only more than an hour, such an output can temporarily meet the production of guns and artillery for the test, and whether the subsequent production needs to be expanded depends on the will of the Black Dragon Emperor.

At present, the smelting mode of the arsenal is that the blast furnaces and shaft furnaces of the furnace community are responsible for producing large quantities of pig iron, which can be used to meet the needs of daily iron and steam furnaces, and can also be used as an excuse for deep smelting by iron furnaces to obtain wrought iron or steel.

Caesar's current design plan is a set of production equipment for warhead stamping, after having a stable and reliable source of steel, the stamping machinery no longer has hardware difficulties, and the successful test of mine mercury makes the mass production of new weapons imminent.

But if you don't rely on mechanical machine tools, a skilled worker still has to spend a long time to complete a full set of processes, if the press assembly line is put into production, thirty ordinary people or black-winged dependents can complete the operation through training and familiarization, and produce nearly 10,000 bullets a day under full load, and Northland can also skip the musket that needs to be manually reloaded and go directly to the stage of semi-automatic weapons.

As long as this step is taken, the Blackwing Empire will be ahead of the dwarves of the Zedi Kingdom.

The black dragon put his neck flat on the ground, unconsciously shook his tail, stretched his claws to the right front of his head, and paddled around the ground with his paws, Caesar kept this posture after dinner, until he heard the whine of the night owl, and the full set of sketch ideas finally had some eyebrows, of course, this is just the simplest conceptual illusion, the specific details need to be improved by the Red Lotus goblins, and they can finally take shape after continuous testing.

In normal times, this lazy dragon would have coiled up and slept in his soft collapse, but today Caesar was in high spirits and did not feel sleepy at all.

Luna stayed with him the whole time, and it was only then that Caesar asked the little guy to help copy the graffiti on the ground one by one, put away the straw paper, and then asked the lizardman to take out the letter from the forest of the elves from the display case and read it with Luna.

[Greetings, honorable King of the Black Wings.] 】

[Thank you for reaching out to us in times of danger in the Elven Forest, and I am very excited and grateful for the decision you have made, and the covenant between you and me has become stronger after being tested.] 】

[Miss Luna's existence allows you and me to reach a consensus to coexist, and also makes us an inseparable whole, the Elven Forest will not forget, and because of this, we know that fifteen days later is Miss Luna's adulthood. 】

[According to the etiquette of the forest elf clan, Luna may need to return to the Elven Forest to receive praise from the whole clan, I am very much looking forward to the upcoming banquet, and I hope that Luna will return as soon as possible. 】

[If you are willing to accompany Luna to visit the Elven Forest, we welcome you very much, and make sure that the last overstep will not happen again.] Finally, all the best, Garcia Yufeng. 】

Caesar closed the parchment, held it in his paws, and put it in the display case.

"I'm going back."

Luna yawned, flapping her wings much slower than normal, and now it was late at night, and the little one's biological clock had always been quite normal, but now it was sleepy: "Caesar, will you go back with me?" She asked, sleepy-eyed.

"Go." The black dragon looked taken for granted: "I promised you last time." ”

Over the next few days, Caesar began to try to decentralize power, leaving core leaders such as Hogg and Angelamo in charge of maintaining the normal functioning of the empire.

He decided to send the Red Dragon Cardoze on a trip to the Western Sea, clear the pirates, and subdue the clans living in the coastal islands in the name of the Blackwing Empire; On the other hand, Caesar brought back some of the Blackwing clans who had been sent out to guard the border, and these troops had recently appeared to patrol the city.

Whether it is to transfer Cardoze away or bring the armed forces back, Caesar is just to ensure that the empire does not mess up when he leaves, the war has just ended, and he does not know whether Tiamat will have a follow-up, but Caesar has to make some precautions, the mother of the dragon is worthy of her conspiracy priesthood, and it is not impossible to disgust herself with such a cold heart.