In the past few days, the most frequent person in the institute besides Wayne is Pastor Merris, who has been running over as soon as he heard that there is an astronomical telescope that can see the moon clearly.

As for what an astronomical telescope is, he doesn't care, he only cares about what he sees on the moon.

Reynolds said he hadn't seen a single figure on the moon all night, and Merris was startled. In the teachings, it is clear that the goddess Tarsi dwelt on the moon and that the Father had built a huge palace for her. But Reynolds said that the sand didn't see anything.

At first, Merris thought Reynolds was lying to himself, but when he looked at the moon with that large, bulky telescope, he did see nothing, as Reynolds said, and saw nothing.

Is it necessary to declare to the world that the doctrine of the Church is wrong?

No, no, no!

Merris was still not reconciled, and every time the moon peeked out of the sky, Merris ran to the research institute, looking for traces of the existence of the goddess Tassie on the moon covered with sand.

Although Wayne forbade any unrelated personnel to approach the Institute, he couldn't stand Merris's soft grinding bubbles, and finally had to reluctantly give Merris an order that he had to contact the telescope.

Since sooner or later the church will be overthrown, it is better to keep crushing the faith of the church now.

Wayne didn't pay much attention to the old pastor, he was going to build a blast furnace.

To build a blast furnace, the first thing to do is to solve the problem of coal, and even say that coal cannot be used. Coal has a high sulfur content, which has a huge impact on the quality of iron, and if coal is used in blast furnaces where large quantities of coal are concentrated, the sulfur content of iron will skyrocket. In order to reduce the sulfur content.

Coal needs to be heat treated to remove harmful substances such as sulfur and coal tar from it and turn it into coke.

The second is to deal with the problem of air cooling, when making iron, it is necessary to constantly blow air into the furnace, on the one hand, blowing in a large amount of oxygen, making the fire burn more vigorously and increasing the temperature in the furnace. The second is to fully react with the carbon in the iron to reduce the carbon content of the iron.

But at present, these earthen ovens use all cold air, which greatly reduces the temperature in the furnace. It will also cause a huge consumption of coal.

The small blast furnace that Wayne is building now needs to be filled with hot air, so that not only will it not lower the temperature inside, but will increase the temperature inside.

Finally, there is the difficulty of construction, the inside must be built with refractory bricks, and the outside is covered with cement, but the cement cannot be raised to six meters high, which needs to be matched with bricks. This was a new challenge for Nolan.

Previously, Wayne overestimated his own technology, thinking that his blast furnace could be built more than ten high, but now he found that, according to his own design, it was only 6.7 meters. Or technology, because the blast furnace more than ten meters high needs a stronger blower, and I haven't even made a steam engine, so I still use the most primitive manpower blower, even a water conservancy blower.

Now, in order to use water conservancy blowers, LONGi has been obtained to build a new blast furnace.

It seems that LONGi will become the new industrial city.

Wayne gathered more than a dozen Renault engineers, including Nolan, to solve problems in the research institute.

The current research institute is very simple, and Wayne bought the home of a wealthy businessman. Of course, this research institute is only excessive, and the new research institute is still under construction. It is a newly zoned site, covering an area of more than 200,000 square meters, all of which are two-story buildings.

Therefore, the researchers also go to the research institute every day to report the research situation, and if there are any problems, Wayne makes overall planning. At present, only the blower is still going well, and other problems continue.

Coke refining is particularly difficult, and Wayne uses high-temperature coking. The process alone has stages of drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, curing, and shrinkage, and there are countless parameters involved.

At a time when the thermometer was not even invented, coking was like a blind cat touching a mouse. It needs to be constantly experimented, corrected.

And in order to ensure the smoothness of the construction team, a one-to-one model was built in the direct suburbs.

A blast furnace has driven Nolan's industry.

On this day, Heath found Wayne and pulled out a bow with a crossbow on it.

The bowstring can be pulled to the tail of the crossbow and make full use of the length of the crossbow body, and the first thought Wayne saw was the Divine Arm Bow in his previous life. The range is from a distance of 150~300 meters, and it is estimated that the bow and crossbow in front of you are about the same.

Hiss said in a heavy tone.

"The nobles who sanctioned us began to assemble this new type of crossbow arrow, and apart from the disadvantage that it required great force to draw the bow, this kind of bow and arrow was almost comparable to a box of elves, if not better. And they also equipped a piece of equipment called the bow bed, which was so large that our intelligence officers didn't get the real thing, but they had accurate drawings. ”

Hiss laid out a dozen or so drawings in front of Wayne.

"We estimate that this weapon can shoot bows and arrows up to 500~600 meters. And their new catapults, estimated to be more than a kilometer away. According to the front-line intelligence officers, they also have a highly secret thing, which seems to be related to gunpowder. ”

Wayne frowned, any of these things could have attracted huge attention before, and it would never have come out overnight.

But since their own artillery shined in Herland, these nobles have become more demanding of new weapons, and Wayne inadvertently started the medieval arms race, and these weapons should not be underestimated, and his own flintlock pistol has a range of only two hundred to three hundred meters.

Of course, these data are meaningless, and the weapon is to see the effective range, that is, to see if it can shoot to death, and the flintlock pistol is half discounted. One-fifth of the range of the bow and arrow.

That is, in front of the flintlock pistol, these bows and arrows are still rubbish. But this is still too absolute, war is not only a gap in weapons and equipment, but also geography, personnel quality, logistics and so on.

If Wayne insists on attacking, he will suffer a lot of losses, after all, he is attacking, and the opponent is lost.

"That is, these nobles are actively preparing for war. ”

Wayne said solemnly.

Heath nodded.

"Yes, they not only buy artillery from us, but the four princes have been trading closely with them recently. They probably had a lot of artillery at their disposal, and they were also building bunkers modeled after the walls of Nolan. ”

"I need my father to figure this out. I don't want war until I have to. And you continue to gather intelligence, so that we are also prepared for war. ”

"That's fine. ”

Now Wayne sees the effect of his crossing, the world is a pool of stagnant water, occasionally blown by a breeze, but it can't set off big waves. After he came, he completely broke the peace, there was Aaron who tried to overthrow the nobles and establish a feudal system, and there were those who tried to cut off a piece of meat in Rune, dwarves, elves, and churches.

This has not happened in Rune for hundreds of years, and even the turmoil of twenty years ago cannot be compared. And it's still the calm before the storm.

Wayne believed that in the future these people would try to modify the artillery, and even arquebuses would appear. It seems that he is still small about the spillover effect of technology.