"Stove, you don't drink during working hours?"

Duke asked suspiciously, and even leaned over to smell the stove to see if there was a strong smell of wine.

"Without my lord, it is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol in the firearms factory now, because if you don't pay attention, you may blow up half of the Storm Castle. ”

The furnace resolutely rejected his suspicion of drinking, after all, the production of storm muskets and gunpowder are actually arranged together, and a large amount of gunpowder is stored in the warehouse not far away, if the gunpowder is ignited due to the bad things of drinking, then even if it is black powder, the explosive power may blow up at least half of the range of the hydroelectric factory.

Duke heard the stove say this, and at the same time didn't smell any alcohol, so he nodded and got back to business.

"Furnace, I came here today for a very important thing to tell you, that is, the gunpowder currently used in the storm musket, I think it is relatively backward in terms of power and storage, I want to discuss with you how to improve it. ”

Hearing Duke say this, the furnace was directly stunned, he didn't expect the lord to come over and tell him this. Because in the eyes of the stove, the current storm musket is already very powerful, and there is no problem with gunpowder, if you feel that the power is not enough, just make the barrel bigger and stuff a little more gunpowder.

Moreover, the limit of the smoothbore gun is only one or two hundred meters now, and even if the power of gunpowder is heavenly, what is the point of the gun not hitting people? Could it be that the lord is not satisfied with his storm musket, so he said so?

"My lord, is there something wrong with the Storm Musket in actual combat? If so, just say it, I will use my best ability to improve the Storm Musket. ”

Sensing that the furnace seemed to have misunderstood what he meant, Duke also quickly explained at this time: "I don't have any problems with the Storm Musket, the current Storm Musket is very good in actual combat, but we can't be satisfied with the current situation, we always have to consider more problems in the future, so we must improve the ability of the Storm Musket from all aspects." ”

Hearing Duke say this, the furnace understood that it was not that the lord was dissatisfied with his storm musket, so he thought for a moment and replied: "Lord Lord, although I am very familiar with making muskets, in terms of gunpowder recipes, this has always been in charge of my nephew Flint, and he is an expert in this regard?"

"How many nephews do you have?"

Duke asked curiously at this time, because Duke remembered that when the musket was test-fired, there was also a nephew who helped the stove, and he forgot what the specific name was, anyway, it was not called flint.

"I have a lot of nephews, because our Fire Clan is a big family in the Iron Hammer Tribe, and the dwarves who are related to muskets are basically from our Fire Clan. ”

When he heard this, Duke understood that it was just like the clans of ancient China, but he didn't expect that there would be such a division among the dwarves. However, it doesn't matter what kind of clan or nephew he is, as long as he knows more about gunpowder and can meet Duke's improvement requirements.

But Duke didn't care, but the furnace didn't plan to introduce it so simply, I saw that at this time, the furnace said in a proud tone: "Lord Lord, although I have many nephews, but the flint is definitely the best among them, because he is a cultural person, but he is familiar with the writing of dwarves, humans and even elves, and he is very good at all kinds of ores, so he will focus on gunpowder production, and he will definitely become a scholar in the future!"

When Duke heard this, he was a little interested, because as far as the dwarves he came into contact with, they were basically illiterate, and they had no interest in reading or education at all. However, this does not mean that all dwarves are uneducated, it can only be said that the representatives of the highest civilization of dwarves are not these mountain dwarves or caveman dwarves, but goblins and goblins.

Goblin scholars and engineers, in particular, control the future technology on Europa, and muskets and gunpowder were not transmitted from the East in this world, but were invented by goblins to dig caves better and more efficiently.

"Alright, take me to meet your nephew. ”

After Duke said this, the stove directly took Duke to the gunpowder workshop in the back, compared to the family workshop production of the valuable dwarves, it has now become a factory, both the production efficiency and the scale, have increased exponentially.

In the powder workshop, many dwarves are methodically carrying out the work at hand, such as purification, grinding, mixing and modulation ratios, and so on. Duke still knows a lot about black powder, and if you want to express the ingredients in the simplest language, it is one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal.

The meaning of this phrase is that the original black powder was made from a mixture of three raw materials: saltpeter, sulfur, and wooden planks. All three materials are ground and crushed as much as possible, and then mixed in a certain proportion. The original grinding is now replaced by a hydraulic grinder at the Stormcastle Hydraulic Factory, just like grinding cement.

However, this level of grinding is still not enough for gunpowder, so there are still many dwarves in the gunpowder workshop who grind by hand, just to pursue the fineness of the gunpowder raw materials, so that they can be fully mixed as much as possible to facilitate the final combustion.

Seeing Duke come in, the dwarves in the powder workshop stood up respectfully and saluted Duke, Duke waved his hand in return, signaling them to continue their work and not care about their own existence, and at the same time the furnace also called his nephew out, ready to discuss the matter of gunpowder with the lord.

Unlike the average dwarf, who has a big voice and a big voice, the nephew of the furnace, Flint is much thinner, closer to the average sturdy human youth. And he doesn't have such a loud voice when he speaks, but this tone and volume can be described as delicate among dwarves, no wonder Huolu has always emphasized that his nephew is a cultural person, and in the current situation, it is indeed polite.

"My lord, what do you command?"

Flint cautiously asked Duke, because since the establishment of the gunpowder workshop for more than a year, Duke has never been to the gunpowder workshop, and he has not even asked any questions about the gunpowder workshop, he has directly looked for the furnace. Therefore, Flint is very worried that there is a problem with gunpowder, and it is normal for gunpowder to have problems in this era.