PS: The name of the musketeer in the last photo is Hammer, and the blacksmith's name is Martin, and there is a mistake in the name, and I apologize here, but it has been corrected.

Seeing this scene in front of him, Duke frowned, because he felt that this might not be a failure, but a fundamental problem of industrialization, and no matter how much the hydraulic boring machine was improved, it could not meet the requirements of the boring barrel.

The previous hydraulic boring machine was successfully applied, only on the barrel. But the problem is that the artillery that appeared in the early days of this world was actually bronze. Compared with steel, especially manganese steel, the biggest difference is the hardness, the hardness of copper is much lower than that of steel, and the processing difficulty is not a level. And the world says that it is a "cannon", which can be regarded as a high opinion, more like a "conscienceless cannon" built by modern local law, and more appropriately described as a gunpowder launch container.

In addition to the simplicity of the bronze cannon, another important point is that the gunpowder in this world belongs to the most primitive black powder, the poor kind with little power, and it is not even as good as the gray powder used in firecrackers in modern childhood.

This is the reason why the human knights of this world have been exposed to firearms and long-range weapons for a long time, but they have finally given up. Because all these long-range attacks are beaten in the face of magic. Not to mention the elven magic bow and arrow, the beast clan's astonishing power javelin and other racial talent attack methods, which ruthlessly crushed human firearms.

It wasn't until later that the Holy See controlled the magic of light, and humans also had their own magical attack methods, so these firearms were completely extinguished in the embryonic stage. Since then, human firearms have been discontinued, and finally disappeared into history, and it is still from the dwarves that they have seen the endangered muskets.

Seeing that Duke's face was even more ugly than before, Blue Ruo said with a little apprehension in his heart: "Lord Lord, if it really doesn't work, we can thicken the thickness of the pipe wall a little, or reduce the strength of the steel, so that the success rate should be much higher." ”

Hearing Bluru's words, Duke shook his head, this kind of compromised product, in addition to the fact that the production speed can surpass the dwarven musket, is actually not fundamentally different from the refined dwarven musket, and it will still be crushed by other long-range forces in this world.

And it takes so much manpower and material resources to create this kind of product that will be eliminated as soon as it comes out, which is also a big blow to the reputation and future of firearms. Many people themselves are not optimistic about firearms, and now firearms are even more unable to turn over.

"My lord, do you have a better solution?" Copperbeard asked at this time, compared to the deep-rooted class concept in their hearts, the dwarf spoke much rougher. This time, Duke was informed that he thought that Duke had shown almost everything before, and even the hydraulic boring machine was being improved under his leadership, and many people thought that Duke could come up with a good solution.

It's just that this time they're going to be disappointed, and Duke doesn't have a good way, Bruno will think that Duke is omnipotent, because Duke has a wealth of theoretical knowledge in later generations, and belongs to the kind of typical people who have never eaten pork, but have only seen pigs run, and their hands-on ability is not proportional to their mouth cannon ability.

What's more, this is the inherent disadvantage of hydraulic application, not to mention Duke, even if it is two later generations of mechanical application experts, it may not be able to solve it perfectly. Not only will the first industrial revolution not be called a steam revolution, but a hydraulic revolution.

"Bruno, if there is really no way to develop a hydraulic boring machine, then put it on hold for the time being, and wait for Watt's steam engine to make a breakthrough, consider using a steam boring machine, so that the power output will be more powerful and stable, and better controlled. ”

Hearing that even Duke couldn't do anything about it, Bluru was a little angry, after all, this was his first complete failure in the application of hydraulics. But at this time, the musketeer hammer said: "My lord, in fact, this cannot be regarded as a failure, as long as we use a thicker steel rod and a thinner boring head, let the hydraulic boring machine rough, and then manually boring and trimming, it is still several times faster, and there will be no difference in quality." ”

Originally, Duke was going to give up the application of hydraulic boring machines, but it turned out to be a good way to hear the hammer say this. If you want to be completely industrialized, it is unrealistic to use a combination of manual and mechanical, there is no need to directly boring out the finished product of the barrel, only the semi-finished product is manually and accurately polished.

You must know that boring half a barrel just now is only ten minutes, which means that rough boring of a barrel is at most half an hour. Replace it with manual boring to produce such a semi-finished product, the fastest time is two days, plus one day of refinement.

You know, this is still the fastest speed of elite dwarven craftsmen, and it will take even longer to change to ordinary people. Now with the addition of hydraulic boring machines, the time can be shortened to one day, which means that the efficiency has been increased by at least three times, which is also a very exaggerated data, which means that the consumption of firearms in this world can easily achieve the balance of supply and demand!

Thinking of this, Duke immediately said excitedly: "The hammer is good, just follow your plan, and make a hundred dwarven muskets as test samples in advance to test the data of firearms." ”

Seeing Duke's excitement, the hydraulic laboratory also swept away the previous haze, but did not expect that there would be such a compromise to make the hydraulic boring machine useful.

Leaving the hydraulic laboratory, Duke was still a little excited, although it did not achieve the expected complete industrial production, shortening the production time of the barrel to minutes, but it can become semi-industrial efficiency, which is already a big breakthrough, after all, the foundation is like this, and it is not realistic to want to reach the sky in one step.

Thinking of the steam engine that Watt had just mentioned, Duke did not return to the castle as soon as possible, but went to Watt's steam laboratory. As the most important secret laboratory of Storm Castle, the periphery of Watt's laboratory is full of layers of Storm Guard handles.

Many people don't understand why Duke did this, because in their eyes, Watt is just a researcher who studies boiling water, but only Duke knows that Watt is not improving the machine, but the world and the future.

When the guards in the laboratory saw Duke appear, they all subconsciously wanted to salute, but Duke waved his hand to stop them, he didn't know what Watt was doing, in case he was in the moment of inspiration, didn't it bother him?

This was the first time Duke had come to the steam lab, and the first thing he felt was the difference in temperature, which was much hotter inside than outside. But he soon ignored this difference in temperature, because he saw the familiar things that only came later, cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, etc., which gave Duke the feeling that he had finally stepped into the mechanical age.