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Sui Xiong quickly let go of the matter of "where is my body" and began to get busy with other things.

He actually had a lot of things to do, just to find his body, and he was delayed.

Now that this is over, he can go and do something else.

The first thing he had to do was make steel.

This is thanks to Palin, after decades of research, the technology of "blast furnace" has finally been touched by him and found some more important keys.

Inspired by the fact that after burning firewood into charcoal, the temperature is even higher when it is burned, and he tried to calcinate the coal as well. There were a lot of mistakes and a lot of wasted time and materials, but in the end a solution was found.

So he got something called "coal spirit", which, when burned, can produce a much higher temperature than ordinary coal.

With this material, the most critical step of the steelmaking blast furnace is completed. The design and refinement work that follows is nothing more than some finishing touches. Palin and a group of craftsmen pondered for several years and finally succeeded in building a blast furnace.

This blast furnace is not like Sui Xiong imagined, it can feed in raw materials and produce molten iron at the same time, it needs to mix the raw materials in advance, build them together like building blocks in the furnace, and then open the furnace to burn. But as long as it doesn't take long, the high temperature generated by the coal essence will melt the iron ore and those auxiliary raw materials to form molten iron.

Thanks to the special design, the lower layer of molten iron can be poured out and poured into the mud tank to cool into iron ingots, while the upper layer of iron slag is removed with special tools, or cleaned after the furnace has cooled again.

Although it takes a lot of effort to clean the furnace every time, after thorough research and experimentation by Palin, they have been able to solidify the molten iron flowing from the blast furnace and directly form steel, without further processing.

This saves a lot of effort and completely makes up for the time and manpower wasted in other aspects.

What's more, the steel ingot produced by this method has a very uniform texture, and when using it as a raw material to build equipment, there is no need to worry about problems such as uneven materials.

In addition, as long as the appropriate mold is used when condensing the molten iron, it is possible to obtain crude steel of various shapes. With a little refinement, it can be turned into a suitable weapon, armor or tool.

Palin and the others tried to make some steel plates, and then used the hydraulic press invented by Sui Xiong to stamping the steel plates, and with little effort, they made some good steel cuirasses.

These cuirasses were more uniform and stronger than ordinary hand-forged steel cuirasses. But the time it takes to make them is a fraction of what it used to be.

In the past, to make such a cuirass, it would take a master blacksmith with four or five apprentices to be busy for at least half a month. But now, with sufficient materials and the help of a hydraulic press, a master blacksmith, with four or five apprentices, could make six or seven such cuirasses a day.

"This is really a good source of money!" said Parin happily when reporting to Sui Xiong, "as long as I find enough iron ore, coal mines, and veins of those auxiliary materials, and find a river with a relatively stable and turbulent flow rate, and give me some manpower, I am sure that within half a year, I will produce enough weapons and armor to arm an army!"

Sui Xiong was also happy, but he was not thinking about making weapons and armor.

He is happy that he can speed up the production of tools.

As the North-Western Republic grew, the population grew and so did the various tools needed. However, if you rely on imports alone, you need a huge amount of money, and you need to wait slowly for the goods to be produced and delivered, so that people's hair will turn gray.

Now with steelmaking blast furnaces, with plenty of steel, enough tools can be produced.

Not to mention anything else, at least the skeleton laborers in Tuyaan can finally use steel tools instead of bone tools!

Sui Xiong believed that as the skeleton laborers were replaced with new steel tools, their work efficiency would be greatly improved, and the construction of the Northwest Republic would be greatly accelerated.

Before crossing over, he had seen a saying that "if the country is a machine, then the steel industry is the engine of this machine", which must have been said by some science students, but although Sui Xiong is an art student, he also feels that this is very reasonable.

With enough steel, there are enough better tools, and nation-building will certainly become faster!

Among other things, he was now wondering if it was time to develop something like a tractor......

Of course, Sui Xiong can't do these scientific research work by himself. Facts have proved that art students are really unreliable in scientific research, although he has great powers, but when it comes to research, he is really inferior to the scientific research team led by Parin.

This kind of thing still needs to be done by a professional.

"Huh, don't make weapons and armor, you want to make tools?" When Sui Xiong gave the order, Parin looked surprised, "Tools aren't worth much." ”

"It's not worth much, but we need it. "I need a few thousand pickaxes, a few thousand hoes, a few thousand axes and hammers...... Which country do you think can supply so much?"

Palin was taken aback by the number and asked, "Shall we ...... When did there become so many workers?"

Sui Xiong was also stunned, only to know that he had focused on research all these years, except for some work that the mage group and the magic association couldn't do, he had spent almost everything on the research of blast furnaces and steelmaking, and he didn't even know about such a big thing as the large-scale use of skeleton labor in the Northwest Republic.

So he told Palin about it.

"Oh...... It's good, workers who don't need money, they don't need to rest, and there are so many of them...... Isn't that perfect?" asked Parin, "why do you seem to think there's something wrong with them, Your Majesty?"

Sui Xiong was silent for a moment, and told him the reactions of the various good gods to this.

"This is ridiculous! We didn't transform human corpses into skeletons, we used the resources that already existed in the ash forest!" Parin was immediately furious, "Back then, the skeletons in the ash forest were plagued, and we didn't see them come to purify them! Why are we using skeletons to do things, and they are so angry? It's unreasonable!"

He said indignantly, "Your Majesty, I think your plan should be adjusted. Instead of making tools first, we should first make a large number of weapons and armor, and we don't need to sell them, let's redress our army first, and display the rest near the portal to show them our strength!"

Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but applaud.

"That's a great idea!Like!" (To be continued.) )