The popularity of the new carriage was unexpected by Duke, but it was also a reasonable thing. After all, a carriage with ball bearings and a shock suspension system is simply an epoch-making product, and if you add rubber pneumatic tires, even if it is put in modern society, it will not become an obsolete product.

Of course, there is basically no use of horse-drawn carriages in modern society, and naturally the transformation of horse-drawn carriages has stopped.

However, the reason why Stormcastle was able to rebuild the new carriage so quickly was because it would take much more time to make a new carriage on top of the old one. And now that Stormcastle itself is in short supply of new carriages, how can it be sold.

But Duke also asked Andy to agree with these customers who could become a big customer of Storm Comptoir, or sign a stable purchase agreement, so that they would get the right of first refusal when the new carriage was sold.

Duke thought that this threshold would at least make many people think about it. As a result, few customers chose to back down. Because the porcelain products before Storm Castle have already made a certain name, although they are a little rougher than the real Oriental Seris porcelain, they are much cheaper if they can't stand it.

The real top nobility would not use this kind of porcelain, and many middle-class people who had been deterred by the price of porcelain could buy porcelain from Storm Castle. It's just a little rougher, but it's not that it can't be used, and no matter how it is, it's much more beautiful than clay pottery.

And with the increasing maturity of the Storm Fort porcelain firing process, the porcelain plates fired in the later period have almost escaped the category of coarse porcelain, and have also reached the level of "fine imitation" from the original cottage, which has opened up many people's desire to buy.

At the same time, in order to open up the market, Duke also lowered the price of the porcelain plate from the previous fifteen gold coins to ten gold coins. You must know that although the ex-factory price was fifteen gold coins before, but after the resale of Alpine City, it cost at least twenty gold coins, and now it is sold directly for ten gold coins, which is a real price halved, and it has attracted the interest of a large number of potential customers.

It can be said that as far as the current situation is concerned, the future of Storm Comptoir is bright, and Duke is also very confident in this.

In Andorra la Vella, Duke was given full responsibility to Andy, the commercial officer, because he showed enough ability to do the job. Duke also began to consciously train the town hall officials of Storm Castle, so that they gradually accumulated experience, and finally reached the point of being on their own, otherwise they would have to do everything themselves, and Duke was afraid that he would die young.

After five or six days of marching, the expeditionary Storm Force finally returned to Andorra City, and this expedition was also a great exercise for the 2nd Regiment of the Storm Army. Although he has not experienced a high-intensity war, he has killed hundreds of rebels and made this group of rookies see blood.

Only newcomers who have seen blood will grow into veterans, and the second regiment of the Storm Army has already entered the pace of marching towards veterans.

Duke had just returned to Stormcastle and was about to relax for a few days when he ran into Bruro coming from the hydroelectric factory, ready to see him.

Duke didn't dare to shirk Bruru's request to see him, because he knew that Bruru's research and development tasks for the hydroelectric plant were very heavy, and if it wasn't an important matter, Bruru would generally not bother him.

In the castle parlor, with a metal tube in his hand, Bluru strode up to Duke and said, "My lord, you asked me to develop a hydraulic boring machine, and the hydraulic boring machine has been successfully developed, and we have used it to boring many barrels, but the results are not ideal, and I find that it is in a state that cannot be adjusted. ”

After Bruno finished speaking, he directly handed the barrel of the gun in his hand to Duke.

Duke took the barrel, first of all, it felt good to start, the periphery of the barrel was polished very brightly, and it felt very similar to the water pipes of later generations. However, once you look at the inner chamber of the barrel, you can almost see that the thickness of the wall of the barrel is uneven, and even some thin places feel like you are about to be bored through the gun.

Even if this kind of barrel with uneven inner wall is fired with gunpowder, even if it is black powder, which is very powerful in this world, it will inevitably cause the consequences of exploding. It can be said that this barrel is a completely substandard scrap, and it is impossible for the Storm Army to be equipped with this musket.

At this time, Duke's brows began to wrinkle, he pinned a lot of hopes on the musket, and it can even be said that whether the Storm Army can truly challenge this theocratic world in the future depends on whether the development of the musket is successful. Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to overthrow the current solid ruling foundation of the Holy See by conventional force alone.

Seeing Duke's brows furrowed, Bruno knew that Duke had seen the problem, he lowered his head and said in a very apologetic tone: "Lord Lord, the barrel I showed you just now is the barrel that was bored by a hydraulic boring machine, and it has no way to be applied to actual combat, and it is almost a waste product." ”

"And even if it's such a scrap, it takes several steel pillars to be boring one, and the cost of steel pillars is expensive, and it can't compare to the barrel of a dwarven craftsman who bored it by hand, I'm sorry, I failed to live up to your expectations,"

Duke was very disappointed in his heart, but seeing Bruno's apologetic face, Duke did not blame him for his thoughts, because Duke knew that throughout the Middle Ages, hydraulic boring gun barrels were not successful, and finally with the advent of steam boring machines, the industrial production of muskets was realized.

On the contrary, Duke also encouraged: "Bruno, you can't be blamed for this, after all, in just a few months, it is not easy for you to not only develop a hydraulic grinder, but also to improve a hydraulic boring machine, you have done enough." ”

In the face of Duke's comfort, Bruno was not very happy, because since the construction of the hydraulic factory, he has almost been invincible in the research and development of hydraulic machinery, but he did not expect to improve the hydraulic boring machine of the boring barrel, but suffered a complete failure, which was a big blow to him.

More importantly, compared to the previous research and development failures, Bruro could hardly find any way to relieve it this time, because the mechanical force of water was very unstable and weak, so he asked Duke to get inspiration and solutions from the lord.

"My lord, I modified this machine from the prototype of the artillery boring machine, and it still hasn't improved much in terms of accuracy. The main problem is that the hydraulic output is unstable, and the structural strength of the entire hydraulic machinery is not enough, there will be obvious vibration errors, I have tried many methods with Tongsu, but still can't solve this problem fundamentally, so I want to ask the lord for help, do you have a solution?"