With doubts in his heart, Claude trotted to the first workshop, and with excellent eyesight, he saw the old butler and the young man again, and also saw the things around them, and since this thing was surprised by him, it made him feel happy.

It turned out that in addition to the horse-drawn carriage for two people, there were two steam minecarts used to transport raw materials and ores next to it.

This steam minecart is a new product only this year, it is said to be made of a railroad steam car, at that time there were three sold in the port of Set, but because of the road conditions and loading capacity, etc., these three minecarts have been unwanted, and finally when the seller considered whether to transport this thing back, Leo bought it at a very low price.

Two of them were placed in the smelter to transport ore, and the other was placed in the machine shop to transport finished goods to the docks, and Leo even modified several roads that the three minecarts often used to make them fit the weight of the three trucks.

Originally, the two steam cars of the smelter went to the dock to load the raw ore transported by ship, and sent it to the first smelting furnace for initial decomposition and smelting, but now these two cars are not loaded with raw ore that looks like rocks, but some waste slag that has been discarded.

And these waste slag, which will not be picked up by anyone on the side of the road, have another meaning in Claude's eyes, which in his eyes is a signal, a signal that his proposal has been passed and taken seriously, otherwise the boss who has never shown up would not have come in person.

Not long ago, one of Claude's technicians said that with the ultra-high temperature of the new melting furnace, it is completely possible to refine the previous waste slag for a second time.

At that time, he did not fully trust his subordinates, but when the furnace was opened, a separate area was separated for some waste slag, and then the waste slag was sent into the smelting furnace along with the raw ore.

The result was both expected and unexpected, the expected thing was that the ultra-high temperature of the new smelting furnace was indeed able to refine the waste slag for a second time, and the process went smoothly, while the unexpected thing was that the amount of metal extracted from the waste slag far exceeded the expectation, almost 50 percent.

You must know that other smelters can only extract various metals from raw ore when smelting raw ore, and the maximum refining is only 60%, and the rest is all waste slag that cannot be refined.

The new smelting furnace can extract about 50 percent of the total weight of metal from waste slag, so that these waste slag that no one cares about become a treasure, and they can buy a large amount of waste slag at a very low price like garbage to extract special metals of higher value.

After getting the desired result, Claude immediately wrote a very detailed proposal, which he personally sent to the apartment and handed over to the old butler.

It's just that he was disappointed that there was no news about his proposal for a period of time, which made him think that his proposal had failed, but he didn't give up, and decided to write another proposal and send it over, but what he didn't expect was that he just had this idea, and things took a turn for the better, the boss personally arrived, and brought two truckloads of slag, it seems that he wants to see the effect of the on-site operation.

"Hello, Your Excellency, Hello, Steward Sanjes. Walking quickly in front of the old butler and the young man, Claude saluted the old butler and the young man very respectfully, and said.

Leo looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, he bought this factory mainly because it was cheap, well-equipped, and the infrastructure was intact, which could reduce a lot of trouble and time for his renovation work, but what he didn't expect was that when he bought the factory, he could get a good talent.

At the beginning, Claude Lee would be appointed as the director of the factory, which was completely the selfish desire of Steward Sanjes, who had mentioned it to Leo in advance, and Leo did not care about this, he only cared about whether the factory could be reorganized and re-operated according to his requirements.

After that, Claude Lee's performance was really unexpected, although he had no experience in managing factories, but he was very good at learning, and he was steady, and soon entered the state, successfully completed the reorganization and transformation of the factory, and became the first factory he acquired to operate normally.

Therefore, when the steward of Sanjes proposed to train him specially and bring him to the management of the machinery group in the future, Leo did not veto, but nodded and agreed to the proposal.

"I've read your proposal, it's good. Leo gave Claude Lee an approving look, and when a smile appeared on the other man's face, he added, "But I vetoed your suggestion." ”

The smile on Claude Lee's face faded before it could fully emerge, and he opened his mouth as if to ask Leo why, but in the end he didn't say anything, just nodded in a disappointed tone, "Yes, I know." ”

"Don't you wonder why Sir would veto your suggestion?" asked Steward Sanjes.

"Curious. "However, I think Mr. Lee should have his own opinion, perhaps because there is some huge flaw in my proposal, or maybe the content of the proposal is incomplete." ”

"Don't think about it, your proposal has no loopholes and is complete. Without waiting for the butler to speak, Leo took the initiative to explain: "It's just that when you wrote the proposal, you probably didn't think about what the consequences would be if we really implemented your proposal." ”

Claude Lee was stunned, not understanding what Leo meant, but soon he came to his senses, with a panicked look on his face and a nervous cold sweat on his forehead.

As Leo said, if they follow the proposal exactly as they do, they will soon become the public enemies of the smelting industry of the entire Kingdom of England, not only in the Kingdom of England, but also the smelting industry of other kingdoms, and the Kingdom of Mares, whose smelting is the foundation of the country, is more likely to regard them as national enemies, and when the time comes, they will either disclose the technology of the new smelting furnace, or they will encounter endless blows until the entire mechanical group collapses completely.

"Don't be nervous, it's normal for you not to think of these things, your proposal is very good, it's just that the time for implementation is not right, I have archived the proposal as a preliminary plan, and I will implement it when the time is right. Leo didn't want to see someone who could get him out of the clutter and lose his confidence, so he reached out and patted him on the shoulder, comforted him a few words, and then deliberately changed the subject: "I'm going to use this smelting furnace today, and everything related to the smelting furnace will be postponed today." ”

"Are you going to smelt these two carts of slag?" Claude Lee's nervousness eased a little with Leo's relief, and he quickly returned to his job, pointing to the two carts of slag and asking.

Leo nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"I immediately arranged for someone to do it. Claude Lee replied as he turned and pointed to the small office building directly opposite the furnace, and said, "Sir, where you and Steward Sanjes can rest, and when it is ready, I will inform you, and then you can see the working condition of the entire furnace there, and it will be convenient for you to command." ”

Leo accepted Claude Lee's proposal, instructed a few precautions, and walked with the butler to the workshop office under the eyes of everyone full of curiosity and awe.

At this time, all the people in the office stood up, and when Leo came in, they saluted Leo very respectfully, although they did not say it explicitly, but from the attitude of the old housekeeper and the factory director, they had already understood who the person in front of them was.

Leo ignored the flattering, awe-inspiring gazes of the crowd to continue their work, then moved a chair and sat down by the office window, watching the furnace ahead.

Originally, Leo didn't come to the smelter with such fanfare to smelt the mutated waste slag, but when he cleaned it up, there were too many mutated waste slag, not to mention smelting, and even transportation was a problem, which was no longer something he could solve alone.

Therefore, he called the steam locomotive of the smelter and asked the workers of the smelter to help clean up the waste slag, and it took about two truckloads to completely clean up all the mutated waste slag.

In the process of cleaning up the waste slag, Leo also tried repeatedly to stimulate this mutated slag with various powers, but the result was that the power of the local gods of Velon, such as psionic energy and the weaver, was useless, but the power of those outer gods was able to have some effects on this ore, such as the Chaos Fool, the Lord of Turbidity and Lightness, etc.

It can be seen that the shadow of the god on Crumber's body did not come from the god of vengeance at all, or the god of vengeance in the past, but after the god of vengeance disappeared, the shadow of a new god attached to him, and this god was an outer god.

Leo has come into contact with a lot of outer gods, but an outer god who can let his will body enter the world of Velen and attach to a human body, he has seen it for the first time, and he doesn't think that his psionic impact can cause any damage to the will body of such a powerful outer god, so he speculates that those mutated slag may be the back move of this outer god's will body.

According to Leo's idea, he is unwilling to access the things of the ancient god of Verun and the outer gods, those are things beyond his imagination, he is just an inconspicuous little worm, but now that he has encountered the outer gods, and there is a conflict, he doesn't think that once this mysterious outer god relieves his strength, he will forgive him for killing one of his own parasites, so what he has to do is not let this outer god have any chance to attack him.

As Leo fell into thought, the smelting furnace in front of the office had been ignited under the skillful operation of the workers, and a large amount of fuel was added to start burning the furnace, and streams of flames erupted from the hole above the furnace, forming a tongue of fire two or three meters long, making the entire furnace look like a fire-breathing monster from a distance.

This smelting furnace was modified by Leo based on the best steelmaking furnace of the Old Earth Era, and in terms of efficacy, it is much worse than the steelmaking furnace of the Old Earth Era, but compared to other furnaces in the Velen world, it is obvious that this new furnace that integrates the earth's casting technology is much stronger.

Leo didn't know if the temperature of this furnace could melt those slag and refine the substance that produced the mutation of slag, but he had no other choice, because he believed that in the furnace of the entire Veron world, there was probably no furnace whose temperature could be comparable to the furnace he had transformed, and if there was no way to even use this furnace, then he could only find a volcano to try to see if he could solve this problem by borrowing the power of nature.

At this time, the furnace process was completed, and the workers who were observing the temperature signaled to Claude Lee, who was waiting not far from the furnace, that it was time to feed.

Claude Lee didn't make his own decision, but hurried to the office and asked Leo for instructions.

Leo did not show any impatience with Claude Lee's somewhat superfluous actions, but took the initiative to praise Claude Lee in front of the management of the surrounding factories, and then instructed him to feed him.

Although Claude Lee is not lacking in management, the speed of his promotion is too fast, and he has not dealt with other people in the factory when he was an accountant before, which makes some people in the factory think carefully, so Leo's approach is to show his support for Claude Lee, so that some careful people in the factory extinguish that little thought.

With the promulgation of Leo's instructions, the ore on the steam locomotive was manually shoveled into the feeding car, because of Leo's instructions, when the workers cleaned the slag, they were very careful, even if a small slag fell on the ground, they would pick it up and put it into the feeding car, so as not to miss a little.

Soon the two truckloads of slag were all thrown into the furnace crucible, and a stone door made of heavy cold rock was slowly lowered under the control of the workers, covering the feeding port, and a large amount of special charcoal and tree oil were put into the fuel tank to raise the temperature in the furnace.

The technician in charge of observation carefully checked the situation in the furnace through the observation hole, and constantly shouted a command, so that the worker in charge of the stomata closed the stomata according to a certain law.

Leo got up from his chair and walked to the window, staring at the furnace with a very serious look on his face.

The people around thought that Leo was nervous about the effect of smelting slag, so some people took the data left over from the previous smelting slag and stepped forward, apparently wanting to take the opportunity to solve Leo's doubts and get a chance to be promoted.

However, before they could get closer, they were stopped by the old butler and motioned for them to do their own thing, which made these well-intentioned people quite frustrated.

However, they didn't know that no matter how well they had prepared the documents and data for the previous smelting slag, it would not arouse any interest in Leo, because Leo's attention was not on the furnace at all, but on the air above the furnace, in a cloud of green smoke illuminated by the flames below.

.。 m.