"Oh, Saphius, I think you're fooling me, you're making me build this!"

Beside the anvil, Drotan swung his thick arms, which were no more slender than the trunk of a tree, and struck the hammer in his hand, again and again, but in the process he always cried out of discontent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As for the anvil, there is a thin iron sheet that is round.

Ye Guyun replied leisurely: "Don't look down on it! It has an immeasurable important role. With that, he poured himself a drink and raised his glass to Roch and Avis, who were also at the table.

"Why can't I see it? Well, if it does, how did it come about? Just the usual materials and the simple and rough work? I'm sorry! I can't find anything esoteric in it! Oh! Or is it just a front part, with more intricacies in the back?" asked Derotan again.

"Behind? ”

"No, the ......" When he turned around and saw the three people who were drinking, Derotan was furious, "You guys!"

"It's precisely because it's made with simple ingredients that it plays an important role!" Ye Guyun completely ignored Derotan's anger, and took a sip of wine, "Have you ever seen any kind of kitchenware that can be popularized on a large scale that doesn't have these two attributes?"

"What? you actually asked a grandmaster-level casting master to help you make kitchen utensils?"

"At least not on this side, the kitchenware is not that big, this is for papermaking. By the way, remember to make more noodles, the paper factory can't just have one iron pot. Ye Guyun continued to answer leisurely.

"Alright, stop teasing Mr. Derotan. Roche said curtly. He is not Ye Guyun, for the two grandmaster blacksmiths here, he only has respect and has no intention of making a fool, and at this level, of course he will feel embarrassed, so, 1510, he told the relevant reasons for the iron pot, and Derotan and Ives immediately understood.

"Anyway, it's a cooking utensil. Avis nodded, "The kind that has a wide range of applicability." ”

Ye Guyun put down the wine glass and said with a bit of ostentatiousness: "When I get the iron pot and fry a table of dishes for you, you can understand its wonders." ”

Avis smiled: "I'm looking forward to it. After a pause, as if exclamation, as if asking, then he said, "Hey, it's just a simple little device, why didn't we ever think of it?"

When he speaks of us, he obviously means the world.

Ye Guyun replied: "The limitations of thinking. This limitation is always difficult to explain, and it can lead to many ridiculous results. Most of the time, it takes a flash of inspiration to break through this limitation, and you just haven't encountered it yet. ”

"Don't listen to him!" cried Derotan angrily, with an obvious look of anger, "we don't have an urgent need for this, how could such a thing have been born!" he pointed to the pot with the broth on the table, which was made of pottery, "Cooking utensils? We already have pottery! They are sufficient! So why bother with iron? Besides, the so-called ordinary materials are also relative to the armor and soldiers! After all, this thing needs iron, and no matter what time it is, iron will not be an inexpensive material, and any kind of iron tool is an expensive tool for civilians who need to think carefully before they are willing to buy! Hey, guess they're going to spend a small amount of money on an iron cooking utensil, and if it's only available to the rich, what's the importance of it?"

Derotan was very proud, he felt that he had found a strong enough reason to refute the bastard black-clothed devil, but he was disappointed, he didn't see the frustration on Ye Guyun's face, let alone make him speechless. Instead, I saw that the bastard shook his head coldly, and he looked like a pretending criminal who deserved to be killed with a thousand knives: "So, this is another limitation of thinking." ”

Ye Guyun pointed to the various weapons displayed on the display shelves next to him, and then said: "Actually, I really can't understand why you can make all kinds of armor and weapons that are extremely ingenious, but you can't produce the most ordinary iron in large quantities, so that civilians can't afford to consume iron......

Ives was keenly aware of something, "What do you mean?"

"I want to say that casting, smelting, or the steel industry is not played like this! Your course is crooked, and you should not devote all your energy to the extreme of craftsmanship, but at least half of it should be used to study how to expand production! The output of the most ordinary steel! If you have the ability to make iron in large quantities, iron products will not be expensive, and the common people will be able to afford it, it will appear in every corner around you, and it will be integrated into everyone's life! It is a product of civilization, but it will in turn promote civilization further! ......”

Well, our Ye Daxia seems to have entered the mode of preaching that is full of long-form speeches and foaming at the mouth, referred to as bragging, and is addicted to bragging.

Avis, whose face was full of black lines, had to interrupt: "No!no!No!Saphius, that's not what I want to hear!" sighed, and he added: "I have to admit that these embarrassing questions do exist, although they may not be as profound and firm as you have revealed, but we actually have a faint understanding," the elf shook his head with a depressed face, and spread his hands in frustration, "But now is not the time to dwell on these..... Listening to you, it seems that you have a lot of ways to make iron?"

"That's the point. Ye Guyun smiled sassy, "There really is." ”

"It's the layout of Fort Forward and the Hilly District, right?" Roche couldn't help but interject, his tone even more exciting, how could an established successor like him, who had been specially cultivated with excellent political talent and outstanding strategic vision, not know what it meant to be able to make iron on a large scale?

"Yes. A large-scale smelting base will be born there! Tens of thousands of tons of massive steel will be smelted every year!" After confirming, Ye Guyun threw out another concept, "However, it is not just the future steel center of the Crescent City Dominion, but the industrial center. ”

It's just that Derotan doesn't seem to like him: "Say, what do you want us to do?" His arm never stopped swinging, but the hammer in his hand could always be accurately knocked in the position of the knock, as if the distraction of turning his head to argue with Ye Guyun would not affect his work at all, "Don't deny it! I went around in such a big circle and played with so many concepts, just to lure us into doing things for you!"

"Heh, old dwarf, you're not stupid!" Ives teased with a strange smile, but his eyes were always on Ye Guyun, needless to say, he was also looking forward to the answer.

Ye Guyun put away all the jokes and said very seriously: "Obviously, I want you to participate in the construction of the industrial center, and in the future, it will also be handed over to you." ”

"It has to be so!" cried Roche, who of course was glad to see it. A pair of grandmaster-level blacksmiths! Rare but hard to find! Their family has been trying to recruit them in the past, but unfortunately they have never succeeded.

Derotan and Avis were silent for a while, and although they did not flatly refuse, they did not look like they were ready to agree.

Ye Guyun was not in a hurry, just tasted the wine, and leisurely reported a series of figures: "Do you know how much steel my hometown can produce in a year? My country has a total output of 800 million tons (2015 data, the same below), of which the city with the highest output exceeds 80 million tons (Tangshan). Note that this is the yield of crude steel, not pig iron. You won't be unaware of the difference between steel and iron. I don't think you know much about the weight unit of 'ton', let me tell you that the weight of a normal adult man is about 60~80 kg, and 1000 kg is equal to 1 ton. ”

Seeing the round eyes of the three of them for a moment, Ye Guyun knew that this string of numbers had created the expected super kill.

"Of course, with the current state of technology, you can't expect any city on the mainland to have an annual production of 80 million tons of steel. Well, it's better to shrink it a thousand times, 80,000 tons, this figure I think can be done. ”

80,000 tons of steel, this figure is not only conservative but also very exaggerated! You must know that in 1800, Britain, which had already entered the industrial revolution, produced only 130,000 tons of steel a year (although it then entered an explosive growth, with an annual output of 380 tons in 1861)! That is still the output of a country, and Crescent City is just a city...... So, you can imagine how difficult it is for a city that has been forcibly dragged into the industrial revolution to achieve an annual output of 80,000 tons of steel. But so what? Blow it up and bluff these two humanoid living babes! Anything else—when they fall into the trap, is there anything else?

"How about it~!Are you interested in knowing how an industrial center with an annual output of 80,000 tons of steel was established? Are you interested in understanding its operating mechanism? Are you interested in taking charge of it yourself?"

"Ahh

Hey, the hard-mouthed old man is cute~!

Ye Guyun smiled with satisfaction, and looked at Avis next to him. Avis shook his head lightly and sighed, "Just like Derotan said, you have calculated everything! You know very well that as long as we hear that number, we will never be able to refuse......

"Okay, don't be hypocritical!" Ye Guyun made a triumphant gesture to Luo Qi, who was already smiling toothless, and showed his poisonous tongue, "It seems that it is a painful thing to let you be a big official." ”

"Whew!who's rare!" Derotan cried out with a stiff neck, "how good we are now! Transcendent status, highly honored, unrestrained, and able to earn a lot of money!"

"I really didn't pursue it. Ye Guyun said sarcastically.

"Freedom is also a pursuit!" Derotan continued to retort.

"Uh, well, maybe you're right, I'm not fighting with you. Ye Guyun shrugged, "Anyway, now that the two of you have willingly walked into my trap, the future Minister of Industry of the Crescent City Dominion is you." ”

"Humph!"

"Okay, let's put this down first," Ye Guyun rubbed his chin, "It's still very early, the real initial construction will have to be carried out after the spring of next year." Oh, I forgot to mention that the big iron mine in the hills, the gray iron fortress, is now in charge of your student Jimmy, who is in charge of putting it out - well, he is angry to mention it, I don't know how you two taught such a verbose student!"

"Oh, don't mention him......." Jimmy's name made even the lonely Ives discolored.

"Anyway, you have time to prepare. Raising his head, Ye Guyun's face turned solemn, "However, I still have a problem here that I need your help to solve." ”

"Tell me about it!" didn't look back, but Derotan shouted back.

"I need materials, materials that can be mass-produced with a variety of different properties, whether it's metal or something else. For example, hard but lightweight, corrosion-resistant, tough, able to bend sharply, and so on...... I think you, who have been working with metal for many years, should have a lot of experience in this area. ”

"Oh, this, easy!, ask the old goblin!" Derotan still shouted.

Avis was very crisp, he had already stood up, and walked straight to the room: "Wait, I'll get you a note." It records the recipes of most of the alloys that we have researched over the years. Look, there's something that works, just let the old guy knock it for you. ”

"Thank you. ”

Avis's figure vanished, and Derotan's loud voice was still ringing, "Hey, you shouldn't be looking for the two of us! There's still a big treasure trove in the castle!"

Hearing this, Roche was confused and embarrassed, he thought that Derotan was talking about the Grand Duke's private treasury, so he hurriedly said: "Mr. DeRotan, my family's warehouse seems to be ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Derotan: "Tsk! I don't mean your warehouse! It's full of gold coins and treasures, and at best some dragon skins, dragon bones, Agin, and Mithril. If you have the ability to recognize the material, you can recognize it!"

"I can't say that, we still have a lot of precious materials in a planned way," Roch felt indignant when he heard this, "like the three Perfect Sun Flame Diamonds that were used in Fort Advance last time......

"Phew, is this 'material' you are talking about the same kind as the 'material' that Saphius wanted? You will try to make it for me in batches?" Roaring after refuting Rocher, he snorted, and Drotan continued, "I'm talking about Osma! What is that old fellow? Archmage! Can he not work on all sorts of messy things like alchemy, magic construction, etc., especially alchemy, whose study is bound to be accompanied by the birth of all kinds of strange substances. So, over time, guess how many interesting things are hidden in his mage tower?——hehehehe~!

Ye Guyun had indeed curled the corners of his mouth and "smirked", "Yes, why didn't I think of Archmage Osma?" Because the hope that many difficult problems in his mind would be solved suddenly increased, he rarely showed a state of excitement.

"If you're going to loot Osma, please be ruthless, I hate that stinky, stingy guy. Ives had returned by this time, a thick, locked hardcover book in his hand.

"Here are the notes. Ives handed the hard book and the key to Ye Guyun, directly, simply, and then left it alone, and then, he opened a new topic: "In addition, there is good news." I've figured out the weapon I've designed for you, and once I've perfected the plan and raised the materials, I'll start crafting it. It won't be long before you'll at least have a 'working' weapon. ”

"The weapon designed for me?" Ye Guyun looked a little dazed, and then remembered the "idea" that Ives had mentioned when he first came to buy a sword, it turned out that he had been thinking about it all the time - well, it was indeed a little touched, but Ye Guyun really didn't care much about weapons.

"Feel free to do it. Ye Guyun answered.

Now, on the contrary, Roche refused: "How can your weapons be arbitrary? Mr. Avis, please do your best, all the expenses are covered in us!"

"The same thing, Frank has already said. Avis laughed.

"Okay, that's it," Ye Guyun raised the thick book in his hand, "I think this book is better and more important than weapons." Seeing that it was getting late, he said goodbye to the other two: "Gotta go! Well, old man, I have to ask you for the few remaining big iron pots! I know you don't like them for simple and sketchy, but they are really important." At least on paper, it is important. Please take your heart. ”

With a wave of his hand, Ye Guyun turned around and left, approaching the door, but was stopped by Derotan again: "Saphius, there is something I think you need to pay attention to." ”

"Huh?" Ye Guyun looked back blankly.

"Mephis. ”

"Mephis?

"That chick started to get out of shape when she came back from Fort Forward......" (To be continued.) )