Chapter 46 Dockyard Construction
"Ding~ Dear player, you have received the B-level regional campaign mission [Expansion of the Condi Country], the task requirements: The player can help the Condi Kingdom annex the Sanglai Kingdom by supporting supplies or sending troops to fight in any way, after completing the task, the player will get the friendship of the Condi Kingdom, the Kandi Kingdom will open the port and provide a 9.8% discount on all goods, and a camp or village under the Sanglai Kingdom will be rewarded to you. Mission reward (judged according to the campaign score): a camp or village in Sanglai country, 1-50,000 gold coins, and a random weapon and equipment blueprint. Quest Tips: 1. If the strongest player in the region receives a mission that is completely opposite to you, he can invite up to 2 players to assist. 2. If Kandi fails to occupy Sanglai within three months, Kandi loses more than 80% of its troops, Kandi City is captured or Kandi surrenders, the mission fails, once the mission fails, you will lose the trust of Kandi, and at the same time, the world reputation is -3 points, and when the world reputation is negative, your trade tax should be increased on the original basis (+5% within -10, +10% within -20, and so on). 3. Task completion judgment rules: If the Sanglai country loses more than 50% of the population, the capital Sanglai City is occupied, and the Sanglai country surrenders, the mission is successful, is it accepted? ”
At the same time that Lu Cheng took over the task, other players in the same area also received the task prompt.
"Hahahaha, God help me!"
Matsumasahara laughed happily, he had been worried after seeing Lu Cheng's strength, and after returning to the territory, he stepped up the construction of the territory, and at the same time desperately expanded the army just in case, just when he was sad, a person claiming to be from the Principality of Kandi approached him, and after some narration, he received this large-scale regional campaign mission.
"Accept!"
"Ding~ Dear player, you have accepted the B-level regional campaign mission [Expansion of the Condi Kingdom], and the relationship between the Condi Kingdom and you has been temporarily adjusted to friendly, and the number of players who have received the same mission as you at present: 11."
Matsumasahara is very sure that the strongest player is Lu Cheng, through the envoy of the Principality of Kandi, he learned that the Duchy of Sanglai is currently in a weak state, if Lu Cheng does not make a move, the Duchy of Condi will definitely be able to successfully annex Sanglai, so this regional campaign gives him and other players an excellent opportunity to bring down Lu Cheng in one fell swoop, as long as their players can contain Lu Cheng, this battle will be won, and he Matsumasahara can rely on this opportunity to become the strongest player.
Thinking of a bright future, Matsumasahara gritted his teeth and invested in building a dock and a shipyard together, although the players are not far from the country of Sanglai, but because there are many mountains and lush forests in the middle, it is very inconvenient and unsafe to use the land route, and it is only by sea that it is more convenient to mobilize troops.
At the same time, more than a dozen other players such as Galava also began to arrange for the support of the Kandi Kingdom, and because the rewards of the mission were too tempting, the area that had been attacked continuously some time ago gradually calmed down, and under the temptation of Matsumasahara and Galava to win over and promise not to invade each other again, the vast majority of players were tied to their chariots and prepared to compete with Lu Cheng.
At this time, Lu Cheng was in the blacksmith shop, staring at a group of blacksmiths and discussing excitedly with a freshly baked piece of equipment.
"My lord, the weapon made by this iron ore is really extraordinary!" Sha Mo gently rubbed the smooth blade of the sword, and the silver-white sword body had a layer of beautiful red lines faintly glowing, revealing a mysterious aura.
"It's just that the creation of this flame iron is too difficult, if it weren't for Lord Red Flame's personal action, we don't know when we would be able to find out the mystery." Expert blacksmith Ian said.
He and Shamer initially used the refining method of ordinary iron ore to deal with the iron ore, but after scrapping nearly 100 units of the iron ore, there was no progress until the next morning, when Red Flame showed up at the blacksmith shop as usual and found the abandoned ore all over the ground. Red Flame unceremoniously criticizes Shamer and Ian for their wasteful behavior, and then informs them on how to properly refine the Flamerite.
Flame iron ore is a fire-attribute ore, ordinary blacksmith furnace can not smelt flame iron at all, and under the prompting of Red Flame, Ian and Sha Mo added primary magic crystal powder and co-solvent in the smelting process, and the effect is also very powerful, the originally unsmeltable iron ore quickly turned into liquid, and the subsequent processing process was very smooth with the help of a special formula of the same ratio, and soon produced a batch of white and red fine flame steel ingots.
Fearing that he wasn't a blacksmith good enough, neither Ian nor Shamer dared to try to craft equipment from Flame ingots until Red Flame returned to the blacksmith shop again.
Without saying a word, Chi Yan skillfully crafted the exquisite weapon in front of him.
"This perfect-level dwarven flame sword is too stylish!" Lu Cheng was also shocked by this weapon.
[Dwarven Flame Sword] Perfect quality, one-handed heavy sword, weighing 5.05 kg, with a small amount of fire attribute magic damage, continuous slight poison effect, rating: Tier 5 best melee weapon.
Weapons and equipment are divided according to grades, ordinary bronze weapons are Tier 1 low-grade to Extreme, iron weapons are Tier 2 Lower-grade to Premium, steel is Tier 2 Upper Grade to Tier 3 Medium-grade weapons, and steel is Tier 3 lower-grade weapons to Tier 3 Extreme.
The Dwarven Steel Sword sold by Lu Cheng was a Tier 4 high-grade weapon, while the Perfect-Grade Dwarven Steel Sword had reached the rank of Rank 5 Middle.
What is the price of the Perfection Dwarven Steel Sword?
The price of selling alone is 500 gold, and the Dwarf Flame Sword is a whole grade higher than the Dwarven Steel Sword, and the price is definitely much more expensive.
It's a pity that because it's too expensive, let's take out this weapon and sell it, no one can afford to buy it if it's too expensive, and it's too much of a loss to sell it cheaply.
"Can you make a cannon out of hot iron?" Lu Cheng asked on a whim.
"No, the Flame Iron Ore is suitable for making cold weapons, not to mention the ridiculously expensive cost of using it to build cannons, you have to endure the situation that the range is shorter and the medicine bag is easy to natural." Chi Yan glanced at Lu Cheng, "I do know that there is an iron ore that is very suitable for building artillery. ”
"What iron ore?" Lu Cheng asked.
"Cold iron ore, as the name suggests, is a rare iron ore collected in extremely cold areas, and the range and power of the artillery made from it can be greatly improved, and it can continue to fire for a long time without getting hot." Red Flame explained.
"Uh, Yan Iron Ore, Cold Iron Ore, this name is too casual, is it possible that there are other special types of iron ore?" Lu Cheng asked.
"Yes, there are many kinds, in addition to the hot iron ore, cold iron ore, there are also very hard black iron, meteorite iron with extremely high comprehensive attributes, relatively light but not low strength wood grain iron, extremely heavy heavy iron and other more than ten kinds, as well as extremely rare gold-veined magic iron."
There are really a lot of types, Lu Cheng didn't expect to ask casually, and he really asked a lot of iron ore types that he had never heard of.
"Chiyan, how do you say it's better to use this iron ore?" Lu Cheng felt that it was better to ask the experts.
The corners of Chi Yan's mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "It's simple, a total of 13 dwarven flame swords can be created, all of them are equipped with the most elite troops, you can decide who to assign them to." ”
This is obviously the rhythm of more monks and less porridge!
"I think it can be distributed according to the contribution to the territory, and this sword should be given to the person who contributes the most to the territory!" Anne suggested.
"Anne's suggestion is good, and I think it's better."
"How should the contribution be evaluated?"
"Just let the lord evaluate it!"
After some discussion, everyone thought that Anne's suggestion was good.
"Okay, I'm also in favor of doing this, in addition to the one I equip with, the remaining 12 dwarven flame swords will be used as a contribution reward for this month, whoever makes a big contribution to the territory will be eligible for it, what do you think!"
"Agreed!" "Your Excellency is wise!" "Your Lord, mighty!" "Absolutely!"
"Then trouble Red Flame to craft the remaining 12 Dwarven Flame Swords." Lu Cheng felt that this atmosphere was very good.
"My dear lord, is that little woman's contribution to building these dwarven flame swords?"
"Yes, it will be counted as a contribution." Lu Cheng said with a smile.
"Hahahaha!" And they were all overjoyed.
After leaving the blacksmith shop, Lu Cheng went to the construction site of the dry dock to inspect again.
The huge dock foundation pit has been excavated, thousands of citizens are busy laying stones on all sides of the dock, and tons of cement on the surface that have been paved are poured down from a high place under the unified command and poured on the stones, and then the process of repairing and leveling, in addition to the bottom, several other faces are not high in flatness requirements, and the cement surface in many places is poured a little uneven, but because it does not affect the use and does not continue to trim and smooth.
This is only the least difficult of all, and the more challenging project is the construction site of the dock gate and the water wheel.
The dock door is extremely large and heavy, and to work with the guide rail, the precision of the construction requirements are very high, the quality of the dock door directly affects the success or failure of the project, is the most critical facility, Leah and several commanders are directly guiding the construction of the dock door on the assembly site.
Because the demand for steel is very large, Liya built 2 blacksmith shops directly next to the dock door to continuously smelt steel ingots, and then through the 2 metal processing workshops next to it to manufacture parts of the required size, the steel plates of the dock door are all poured with hot molten steel on site to ensure that it is foolproof, and it is really good to carry out an on-site molten steel pouring when Lu Cheng is in the market.
"Lord, you see, when each side of the dock door is constructed, it is the first two pieces of thin steel plates that are dislocated and installed on the parts that have been completed before, forming an open cover structure, and the distance between the steel plates is relatively small, after the thin steel plates are fixed in place, the molten steel is poured into the void, the whole pouring process is very dangerous, in the early construction process, the thin steel plate collapsed, the molten steel sprayed on the ground, the thin steel plate was burned out of the big hole, the molten steel was sprayed out, the molten steel cooled too quickly, and the perfusion was not full and so on. Now the process has been improved and perfected, and there has been no danger in construction in the past few days. Leah explained.
I saw that on the beam above the dock door, dozens of wheelbarrows loaded with hot molten steel were carefully pushed by the citizens to the preset perfusion drainage tank, and then under the command of skilled perfusion construction personnel, dozens of units of molten steel per car were poured into the perfusion port without interruption.
Lu Cheng saw that the joints immediately began to flow out from the red molten steel, and the construction workers in the low place immediately poured a small amount of prepared cold water on the gap that overflowed the molten steel, and the cold molten steel quickly cooled down, with the continuous pouring of the molten steel, the temperature of the steel plate began to rise sharply, and the construction personnel poured more cold water to cool down the steel plate.
"Stop! Don't fill molten steel anymore! All the molten steel that has not yet been poured is immediately returned the same way! ”
Leah uses magic to amplify the sound, and the sound resounds throughout the construction site.
"The water vapor rising during the construction is more dangerous, there has been a serious accident where the water vapor hits the unfilled molten steel and causes the molten steel to burst, when five citizens were burned, and the molten steel on the overturned trolley almost destroyed the entire beam." Leah explained.
"The next step is to use a hammer to hit the steel plate, and if there is a hollow hole, they will use tools to cut through the thin steel plate and pour molten steel into the void, and when there is the most difficult gap, it will be my turn, and the heat of the fire magic is enough to melt steel into water."
Lu Cheng had to admire, it was not easy to build such a giant dock door in this way in this underdeveloped era, and it was too much for Liya to think of using such a method to construct it.