Chapter 262 Development and Improvement

On May 18, the Norton family's domain, the Morgen Hills, was a heavily guarded glass production site.

Lorist instructed the silversmith to put the two polished lenses together, and even with the detailed drawings, it took half a day to change and change them again and again, so that Lorlist's requirements could be met.

When a large and small telescope with a smooth barrel finally appeared in Lorlist's hand, the old silversmith with a wrinkled forehead looked disapproving, and after Lorist refused his request to have a beautiful pattern carved on the barrel, he was very sad that his exquisite craftsmanship could not be used.

Lorist fiddled with it for a long time, and stuffed the silver monocular in his hand to the Mancheni technician next to him: "Look, this is what I call a telescope." ”

Mancheni looked around with a telescope in the same manner as Lorlist, and from time to time let out a cry of surprise.

"See, this is the real use of glass I said, but this telescope is just one of them, you can grind lenses with oil glass, you have to recruit some people to grind this lens, and think of formulating its standards, the difference between the concave and convex glass can cause a very different effect, like this drawing I painted, it is a magnifying glass, he can help magnify objects so that people can see clearly, and this is glasses, just like this silversmith master, when he is old, his eyesight is not good, and it is difficult to see things, with this glasses he can be like when he was young, not bothered by dazzling......”

Technician Mancheni bowed respectfully to Lorliste: "My lord, I am really excited and proud to be able to work for you, it is you who have opened a skylight and let me see the wider sky......

Lorist laughed: "Don't talk about sycophants, just do your job." Next, your task is still very heavy, the current output of green glass and oil glass is enough, there is no need to expand production, we don't need to use this foreign trade, just produce and sell ourselves. The focus is on telescopes, glasses and magnifying glasses, which are the profit growth points of our family's foreign trade in the future.

At present, the most important thing is to pay close attention to the development and experiment of transparent white glass, you have already seen the two silver mirrors I made of white crystal, when this kind of glass mirror appears, it will bring us a steady stream of gold coins. The transparency of oil glass is very good, but its non-stick properties cannot be used to make mirrors. So you have to find a way to experiment with more recipes and make this clear white glass as soon as possible.

Another point is to find a way to expand the manufacturing specifications of glass, whether the area can be increased and the thickness can be increased, such as large pieces of green glass, we can use it to make a greenhouse, so that you can eat fresh vegetables in winter. In addition, exploring the application of glass in various aspects, such as whether oil glass can be made into teapots, teacups, and glass tableware, can bring a lot of profits to our family......

I hand over the glass production base to you, just hope that you can take the initiative to explore the mystery of glass, whether you need funds or manpower materials, we will meet your requirements. Don't care if it's worth the cost of doing these glass experiments, even if they fail, it just makes us understand that this way is not going to work, and that we should go the other way. And this discovery is also a bonus, understand?"

Technician Mancheni bowed gratefully to Lorlist: "Your Excellency, rest assured, I will follow your wishes and record the experiment as soon as possible." I will arrange for someone to do what you just said, and I will not let you down. ”

Loris nodded: "In the next few days, I will make a batch of telescopes, marked with numbers, I will send them to the family armed forces, the sea legion to use, in two days I will go to the Black Furnace Castle, I also need to bring a few, you will send them over when you are done." I'll leave it to you. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

As soon as he went out, Schward came to report: "My lord, Daddy Balek has come to look for you, as if he is in a hurry." ”

Daddy Barek was very anxious, but his face was full of joy: "My lord, the paper you want has been produced, you can see if this is the case." ”

He took a waterproof cylinder made of copper and animal skins from his back, opened the lid, carefully pulled out a roll of paper from it, and gently opened it again.

The paper placed in front of Lorist is very similar to the kraft paper used for packaging in the previous life, the color is not white, it is a light brown, but the surface is smooth and delicate, and it seems to have a little oiliness.

Lorist stretched out his hand and touched it a few times, and then instructed Schward to bring him ink and quills, wrote a few lines on the paper at random, and drew a few more lines, and then said with satisfaction: "It's not bad, the ink dries quickly, but this paper is not white." Daddy Balek, how did you suddenly come up with this paper?"

"Accident, complete accident. Papa Balek laughed: "My lord, we have not made much progress in experimenting with paper, so most of the stoves used to cook pulp are producing toilet paper. Now that the population of the family domain is increasing, there is a great demand for this kind of paper, and the income from the sale of paper is not without a small amount of money to supplement the research cost of papermaking.

A few days ago, a worker went out during his lunch break to buy a large piece of butter to take home, and when he came back to the workshop, he ran into something, so he put the butter on the edge of the pool stove where the pulp was boiling. As a result, as soon as the heat from the bottom of the pool came up, the butter melted and flowed into the pool, and no one noticed it. After we stirred as usual, we had to scoop up the pulp, and then we found that the pulp in this pool was not the kind of fluffy and soft toilet paper, but a relatively smooth cardboard......

We found out that it was the butter that made it like this, so during this time we were using all kinds of grease to make paper, and this kind of paper is made with butter, the price is the cheapest and the cheapest. We calculated that the cost of fifteen sheets of this paper is only about one copper coin without counting labor, and only three copper coins if we count labor. ”

Lorist is very happy, the telescope has just been successfully trial-produced, and there has been another breakthrough in papermaking here, which is really a good thing. However, he still put forward a new requirement for Daddy Balek: "Schward, record the reward for the success of this paper trial, Daddy Balek will reward one hundred gold fords, and the rest of the meritorious personnel will be ten gold fords per person." Daddy Balek, you have to do some more experiments, add some whitening potions or materials, and find a way to make this paper whiter and more delicate, and thinner than this paper, so that you can succeed in making paper that can be used as our family's fist commodity.

Also, the production and recipe of this paper need to be kept secret. Schward, pass me on my order to have Bodfinger select veterans from the family armed forces who are old and need to retire to form a new garrison battalion, which will be responsible for guarding and guarding the paper mill and glass production base here, and ensure that everything in these two places will not leak secrets. “

"Yes, my lord, I will have the guards go and give the order at once. Schward replied.

......

May 21, Blade Mountains, a heavily guarded valley.

This is the newly built gunpowder test site, where Professor Bob, who was captured by Lorlist, conducts various gunpowder experiments.

"I really don't understand why you attach so much importance to gunpowder, Lord Earl, and in fact I think that gunpowder may have some military use, and the others are not of much use. The elephant dwarves have been using gunpowder for nearly a thousand years, but they have no other way to use it than to be the ****** of muskets. ”

Upon meeting, Professor Bob gave Lorist a recipe for the best ratio of gunpowder that he had experimented with, and also raised his own questions.

Lorist laughed, but he didn't answer, took the gunpowder recipe from Professor Bob, looked at it, and crossed out the egg white.

Professor Bob protested: "Without egg whites, gunpowder cannot be solidified, and its effect will be greatly reduced." ”

"There is no need for egg white, and there is no need for coagulation, and the effect is best when the gunpowder is in a granular state. Lorist said.

In front of a skeptical Professor Bob, Lorist made the gunpowder into granules and left it to dry.

Two days later, Lorist got a few small iron cylinders, filled them with gunpowder, hung the fuse, bandaged it into a hole in a rock cliff in the shape of an explosive bag, and lit the fuse.

After a while, a dull explosion was heard, and the stone cliff in the distance seemed to tremble, and large swaths of stone fell from the stone cliff. By the time the dust had subsided in the distance, the stone cliff had changed dramatically, almost half of its appearance, and there were large pieces of fallen stone piled up at the bottom of the cliff, like a small mountain.

"You see, Professor Bob, that's the true power of gunpowder. With gunpowder, we can open mountains and quarry, build roads, build bridges, build houses, and mine, which will be very convenient, saving labor and shortening the construction period. The role in the military side, you will see in two days. A new high-powered ranged weapon will appear in Gelintya, and that is artillery. Lorist said triumphantly.

"Artillery?" asked Professor Bob, confused.

"Yes, artillery. Lorist replied.

......

May 23, Blade Mountains, Ironforge Fort.

In order to keep it secret, the family built a fortress castle outside the valley of the Xuantie refining base, first, to facilitate the guards, and secondly, to provide a comfortable living environment for technical talents such as Master Sid. With a stroke of Lorist's pen, Ironforge became its official name.

"My lord, all seventeen sets of fine iron equipment have been sent to the island of Shilowas, and a book of various types of equipment has been drawn, all according to your requirements, slightly inferior to the defense of the white lion equipment, the appearance is gorgeous, the decoration is beautiful and luxurious, and the selling price is basically between eighty and one hundred and twenty goldfords. "Master Sid reported the first thing to Lorlist.

"I don't have to worry about you, Master Sid, you are an expert in this area, and I fully believe that your decision will benefit the family to the maximum. Lorris nodded her appreciation.

Master Sid was very happy, and his steps became brisk.

"My lord, according to the design of your wheelbarrow combined with the chariot steel crossbow, it has now been finalized, a total of twenty-four have been made, and it is placed in front, and you can see the ...... when you turn around the wall."

Twenty-four unique wheelbarrows were arranged in two rows, and the steel crossbows on them gleamed in the cold sunlight.

Lorist stepped forward to take a closer look and found that these unicycles were all steel and wood structures, especially the axles of the unicycles, which had been specially reinforced. Picking up a unicycle and pushing it a few steps doesn't feel too strenuous, and it's even a little effortless.

Master Sid introduced beside him: "My lord, the unicycle you designed is really unique, no one could have thought that a wheel could make a car, with a high load, convenient and flexible, and those single-person mountain roads can walk these unicycles." My lord, I wonder if you can make some unicycles for sale in the future?"

"Of course you can, but the wheelbarrows you sell have to be durable, they're also cheaper to sell more," Lorist laughs. By the way, Master Sid, does the steel crossbow have any effect on this?"

Master Sid shook his head and said, "No, it doesn't matter at all. Some time ago, Lord Dores specially found a brigade of 500 chariot steel ballista to try it out, and they said that it was more stable to launch steel crossbows on the ground, not as narrow as the carriage of the chariot, and sometimes they had to cooperate with each other to launch steel crossbows, and there was no such concern when it was convenient to move around in the space on the ground. ”

"Nadorus thinks that such a unicycle steel ballista would need a group of five?" asked Lorlist.

"Yes, sir. One pushes and pulls, plus two guards, and can be replaced at any time, and Lord Dorres thinks that this combination is the most suitable. And the only disadvantage of this unicycle is that someone has to hold down the grip to hold the car when it stops and launches, because the unicycle is too lightweight. Master Sid replied.

"Okay, let's equip Dorus with a wheelbarrow steel crossbow cart like this, this guy is also in a hurry, and he can't wait to become the corps commander as soon as possible. Schward, for the record, ordered Marek to draw half of the men from the Chariot Steel Crossbow Regiment to help Doles form the Wheelbarrow Steel Crossbow Regiment, and their remaining remaining soldiers were replenished by themselves from the boot camp. ”

"Yes, sir. Schward said.

Master Sid stopped in front of Lorist: "My lord, wait a minute, haven't you noticed any difference in this steel crossbow?"

Lorist looked at the steel crossbow mounted on the wheelbarrow, it was no different, looked again, and suddenly noticed something different: "Master, it seems that this steel crossbow seems to be smaller, not as big as the original one, right?"

Master Sid smiled: "My lord, it's not all, look at this crossbow arrow, although it is also made of iron, it is half the weight of the original iron crossbow arrow, and the flight is more stable and more accurate when launched......

"You've improved it, but it's so small, won't it affect the 300-meter direct shooting distance of this steel crossbow?" Lorist asked, a little worried.

Master Sid waved his hand: "My lord, in fact, you have always had a misunderstanding, thinking that the range of three hundred meters of the steel crossbow is the distance of direct fire, in fact, we have found out after continuous tests that the real direct shooting distance of the steel crossbow is about seventy or eighty meters, and the range of three hundred meters is actually an arc, but the strength of the steel crossbow is too strong, and the arc is not obvious, everyone thinks that it is the distance of direct shooting."

We were amazed when we found out about this, so we went to Pitt, the archers, for help. He asked him to bring a small group of longbowmen to cooperate with us in the experiment, and finally came to the conclusion that the so-called longbow can threaten the Golden Knight at a distance of 100 meters is also a misinformation.

Of course, there are exceptions to this for sharpshooters like Master Joske, and all longbowmen admit that they can aim at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, but a target of a hundred meters is no bigger than the fingernail of the little thumb, and they will raise it a little higher before firing it when they aim and shoot, which indicates that the feathered arrows fired by their longbow are also an arc.

Like the steel crossbow shooters, they say that they can't see a single target at a distance of 300 meters, and basically use dense crossbow arrows to form a covering shot according to the direction of the target to threaten and damage the target. So rest assured, the steel crossbow has been reduced this time because we have a better replacement material than the original steel crossbow blades, and it has not affected the power of the steel crossbow. ”

"I see, then who made the new crossbow piece of this steel crossbow?" After receiving a lecture from Master Sid, Lorist understood, thinking about it, a hundred meters away looks no bigger than a soybean, whether it is a steel crossbow or a longbow, it mainly relies on covering shooting to form a threat, and accurate aiming and shooting is really half a matter of luck.

"My lord, have you forgotten Old Yu Lian? After he was appointed by you as the head of the workshop for the production of iron crossbow arrows, he spent his spare time pondering how to make a better and stronger material than the steel crossbow blades. After experimenting for several years, he finally got it out. After checking with Master Farin, we thought that this steel crossbow blade exceeded the performance of the last crossbow blade, so we applied for a report to request a complete replacement of the original chariot steel crossbow, but there has been no reply so far. Master Sid replied.

"By the way, last time, I also handed over the bronze round pipes named cannon barrels on the drawings you ordered someone to bring to me, and now they are all cast. My lord, I'm curious, what is the purpose of such a big and heavy bronze tube, and what does this cannon barrel mean?"

...... (To be continued.) )