Early in the morning, when Ades finished washing and went downstairs, Anna and Fore were already eating in the restaurant, but when Ades walked into the restaurant, Fore's stiff smile and Anna's silent face made him feel that the atmosphere in the restaurant was a little wrong.

After saying hello to Adès, Faure went back to the room, saying that he wanted to sort out the file so that he could try his best to help Ades obtain the hereditary knighthood, and Ades just wanted to say a few polite words to him, but who knew that Faure stopped talking and left in a hurry.

Adès turned his head to look at Anna, his eyes full of questions, could it be that after one night, Anna and the others were going to turn their faces?

Seeing that there was something wrong with Adès's eyes looking at her, Anna came to her senses, took Adès's hand with a wry smile and asked him to sit down, and then said, "I just mentioned that Lord Faure sent a team of temple guards to come and garrison Viscount Ainslow, but Lord Faure was short of manpower to push him back. ”

Adès looked at the door in surprise and asked in surprise, "Refused? Isn't this just the right time for the temple to lead believers in the viscount and expand its power?"

Anna said gloomily: "It's true that there is a shortage of manpower, Black Iron Port is a port city, and the sailors, fishermen, and some adventurers here believe in whom, you can probably guess that if there are few people sent, they may be destroyed by the two in the sea who find an excuse, and if there are many people sent, it will make those two think that it is a provocation before the official start of the war." ”

"That can't be like this, besides, you're a regent now, as long as you and Molly have the support, do those two dare to go to war directly?"

Anna shook her head and said, "The temple feels that the odds are not good, and it refuses to support us, the most important thing is that it is the most important thing. We have a fleet, and we can't just say that we can directly confront the two in the sea according to the meaning of the temple. If this is done, as soon as the fleet goes to sea. There will definitely be storms and shipwrecks, and we can't afford to lose. ”

Adès understood, this was the reason why the Lord of Dawn's temple was unwilling to fully support, and he fell silent, this is caused by the inconsistency between the interests of the viscount and the interests of the temple, this matter is really difficult to do, and it is not easy to solve.

Anna said distressedly, "If there is no support from the temple, what if those two fight back, Ades." I really don't think I can do anything about it now. ”

Ades was silent for a moment, comforted Anna and said, "It's not something that can be solved in a moment, let's have breakfast first, let me think about it." ”

Anna sighed and asked the maid to help Adès set the plate.

Adès thought for a moment and then asked Anna, "How many mines are there in the viscounty, and how much ore is produced?"

Anna took a deep breath and said: "Now there is only a large open-pit bonanza, because it is easy to mine, the viscount has put all the manpower and material resources into it, and there used to be some smaller mines. It's all closed for now. ”

"What about the production?" and does the viscounty have its own smelting plant?"

Anna drank the water blankly and said: "The production is not much, because of the limited manpower, it is not bad to have 10,000 pounds of iron ore a month, and the viscount has its own smelting workshop." However, the technology is average, and many times what is smelted is inferior sponge iron, so the operating rate is not high. We'd rather trade ore for the finished product of a dwarven blacksmith than forge it ourselves. ”

Ades shook his head secretly. Only export raw materials, and give the maximum profit to others. He felt that this was too much of a loss.

Adès has advanced steel-making methods in his hands, and when he made his own weapons before, he had studied the steel-making methods of this world in the dwarven hammer, one of which is more unimaginable, that is, in the dark regions or in some underground worlds, there are some underground races that can directly dig out metals in the magma flow, whether it is iron or copper, precious gold or even mythril essence gold and the like may appear in the magma flow.

This is not something that Ades can imagine now, anyway, he has never seen such a scene of obtaining metal, the other is more ordinary, using charcoal to melt ore, and then calcining the metal to obtain it, and finally becoming refined steel, or 100 steel, this method is relatively backward, and strangely, few people in this world use coal to refine ore.

At first, Adès felt inexplicable, but later found information on himself, only to find that there is only lignite in this world, at least Ades did not find any information that records anthracite, and some are only peat and lignite, and after learning the knowledge of planes, Adès finally understood why there is no anthracite in this world, because the reasons and conditions for geological formation are fundamentally different.

According to the introduction of theology and plane science and other books, the big 6 starts from a small half-plane, slowly absorbs and transforms other half-planes, and gradually forms a large plane, and then the appearance of the primeval twin snakes promotes the development of the plane, and after the gods of the ancient period, the transition to the present, there is no time and conditions to form anthracite.

Therefore, the way to make steel is either to use alchemy, to use the power of magic, or to use charcoal to heat it slowly, with magic, the cost is very high, the gains outweigh the losses, unless it is an alchemist urgently, it is possible to make a small amount of steel for his own use

The steel and iron commonly used in the big 6 are basically obtained by smelting ore with charcoal, and the most produced is iron, and there are a small number of skilled blacksmiths to forge steel, such as the dwarven giant hammer, but his output is not high, an average of two hundred pounds of iron-rich ore can produce ten pounds of steel, and then there will be about sixty pounds of iron, and the rest is considered scrap, sixty pounds of iron will cost about two hundred pounds of charcoal, and ten pounds of steel will cost about fifty to a hundred pounds of charcoal.

That is to say, two hundred pounds of iron-rich ore produced sixty pounds of iron and ten pounds of steel, and it took almost three hundred pounds of charcoal, and this iron was not pig iron or wrought iron, which was familiar to Adès, but sponge iron, and it had to be forged again to obtain raw and wrought iron that could be used, so even in the place where charcoal was abundant, the wholesale price of one pound of iron cost one silver coin, not including transportation.

Ades asked the dwarven hammer about it, and some people did know how to use lignite to dissolve iron ore, but because of the smoke and pungent smell, coupled with the low heat and loose texture, it was easy to turn the coal into powder due to transportation problems, which was not conducive to combustion, so many people knew that lignite could burn, but they didn't like to use it.

After Ades systematically understood the entire steel smelting process, he knew that he had another big killer weapon in his hand, that is, the graphite crucible steelmaking method.

Coupled with a certain proportion of yellow mud mixed with lignite, it can be made into lumps, which can be easily burned in the iron furnace, and the most important thing is that the black iron port is still by the sea, which is rich in manganese nodules, and Ades has seen it several times in Xishi, but most people use it as an ore that can refine copper, and they don't quite know what will become when manganese is combined with iron.

With such unique conditions, Ades can copy the most famous steel "Damascus steel" in the Cold Weapon Era, even if the replication is not successful, with the graphite crucible steelmaking method, it is appropriate to smelt ordinary tool steel, and there is also manganese steel, with these products, Ades still has a certain grasp of how to improve the economy of Anslow's territory.

But after the previous fungus incident, Ades is not sure if coming up with such a smelting method will cause a sensation, if the gods pay attention to him again, it will be troublesome, fortunately, the conditions of the graphite crucible steelmaking method are all existing in this world, and many of them are used by people, but no one has integrated them, even if it causes a sensation, Ades can explain it.

While eating breakfast, Ades thought about steelmaking, his expression was solemn, Anna secretly glanced at him a few times, seeing that he was so strict, he didn't dare to speak, last night he didn't agree to the matter, Ades pulled Mia and left, Anna was not sure if he was angry now.

That's why in the restaurant, because neither of them spoke, the maid was even more careful not to squeak, creating an inexplicable sense of alienation.

After Ades finished eating, he left the restaurant with a sullen head and returned to his room, Anna let out a long sigh of relief, it was too depressing, when Ades didn't speak, the psychological pressure on Anna was very great, although there was no expression on his face, but Anna just felt that he was very majestic.

Adès returned to the room and found a piece of parchment to write and draw, the crucible steel didn't need to be written down, now he had to remember the choice of his second set of composite magic, after such a long time of preparation, he could now upgrade at any time, and he had already tried countless times to upgrade the runes that had to be built.

What must be built for this upgrade is the endurance rune, which not only includes the endurance of the body muscles, but also the endurance of the will, which is a very practical specialty, for example, if you are injured in battle, there is a big difference between those who have endurance expertise and those who do not, some people may be able to endure the pain and continue to fight, and those who do not may lose their combat effectiveness immediately as soon as they are injured.

It's easy to upgrade, but how to improve your combat effectiveness again after upgrading, this is a problem worth studying, and Ades has been choosing, whether to choose control zhì type magic, or choose long-range damage ray type magic.

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