Four months later, the Babia Industrial City.

With more than 3,000 low-level mages of the median mage level and below, coupled with the hard work of nearly 2W workers, a huge factory rose up in the middle of this barren mountain, showing the greatness of magic with a speed that even Qin Shouzhuo was amazed. When the trial production began, His Majesty the great Emperor Matthew St. Lind personally visited the workshop and commented in amazement: "This is a miracle in the history of human engineering, no less than the miracle of the Papal Palace on the top of Mount Hyjal." ”

Qin Shouzhuo, who accompanied the visit, pouted his lips noncommittally, and said in his heart that a bun of dirt buns had never seen the world, a row of four 20-ton electric arc furnaces, and only two of them had entered production, and the meaning of the test was heavier, and when he turned back to get the 500-ton low-orbit vacuum furnace used by the federal mainstream small steel mill, you would know how to write the word miracle.

Although it was only a trial production, the huge output of this new steelmaking method already stunned the visitors. Under the banner of visiting and studying, the representative of the Ironforge Chamber of Commerce, the largest steel and weapons production alliance on the mainland, who was said to be the vice president, a dwarf with a stocky body and muscles all over his body, was so frightened that his face turned white. When he was young, the dark skin that had been active by the furnace all year round turned white one day, and I am afraid he didn't expect it himself.

The momentum of 20 tons of molten steel poured down at one time threw off the dwarven steelmaking, which was still in the primitive workshop stage, seventy or eighty streets, and brought the guests who came to visit the feeling of shock, leaving them speechless for a long time. The Dwarven Forge is a joke after seeing the waterfall formed by molten steel, although it does represent the world's most advanced steel smelting technology in Elise before Babia Steel was put into operation.

The Dwarven Chamber of Commerce, which was shocked by the boiling molten steel, had no choice but to bite the quality of the steel to speak.

Qin Shouzhuo just smiled and didn't speak, and ordered someone to bring over the small steel ingot samples that had been refined before. To tell the truth, dwarf steel is nothing more than this in Qin Shouzhuo's opinion, what good steel can be made from primitive workshop steelmaking? Even the best steels of the Lanxing Classical Period, including but not limited to Damascus Steel and Bailian Steel, are excellent mainly in time, and it was the best in that period. When it comes to material properties, the steel of the classical era was even inferior to the crude steel of later generations, especially after the orbital smelters filled the sky.

Of course, dwarf steel is not a waste worth mentioning, and the technology of blending magic crystal powder that the dwarves have worked hard to refine is very worthy of study. As we all know, steel is not a good carrier of magic, and 1,000 years ago, when it was still old-fashioned dwarven steel, the design and production of magic weapons was an extremely difficult task, and the success rate was very low.

Because the magic carrying capacity of steel is very poor, it is difficult to engrave the magic array on it, so the practice at that time was the embedding method, in which the magic crystal powder and other materials used to arrange the magic array were embedded in the grooves made by carving or other means. However, this brings two problems, one is that the weapon is constantly impacted and vibrated during use, which often shakes out the filling in the groove that is not of good quality, causing the magic array to fail;

Modern dwarf steel because of the production process is mixed with magic crystal powder, itself has a high and low magic carrying capacity, when enchanting, only need to use the steel enchantment pen to depict the magic array, the tip of the pen to move through the magic crystal activation. The following magic core inlay, rune writing and other processes have also made a lot of progress in the past thousand years, and it has to be said that it is these insignificant technological advances taken out alone that have pushed mankind step by step to the throne of the continental hegemon.

However, Dwarven steel's excellent magical adaptability does not mask its lack of performance as a material of its own. Qin Shou clumsily ordered someone to take out the sample steel block produced before, which was a random piece of steel ingot condensed from the first furnace of molten steel, and then cut out a part, which was cut little by little by a high-ranking samurai with a saw full of fighting spirit, and the weight of the scrapped saw blade far exceeded this steel block.

When the sample arrived, the dwarf vice president felt in a trance, and in order not to lose his majesty, he gritted his teeth to support it. As an old blacksmith who has been dealing with steel materials all his life, he can see the quality of this sample steel at a glance, and the color and luster of the section, especially the subtle patterns, all reflect the fact that this is a good piece of steel, stronger than dwarf steel!

"I don't know...... I wonder what the magic flux of this steel is?"

The old dwarf had serious eyes, staring at Qin Shouzhuo deadly, and his eyes were about to bleed. It's impossible for him not to be nervous, the territory of the dwarves is either volcanoes or mines, underground and other places with veins or ground fires, that kind of place is naturally not good for steel production, but it is decided that they can't grow food, not to mention that dwarves can't grow food.

The dwarves do not have a state, but rely on various mines, volcanoes, etc. to form tribes, accept the rule of the country where they are located, but maintain a state of autonomy, similar to the dominions scattered by humans throughout the continent, but the territory of the dwarves is smaller, only the size of a mine and a volcano. Located in the southern part of the continent, west of the Lawrence Empire, Ironforge is the only dwarven city on the continent and exists as the center of dwarven activity on the continent.

In Qin Shouzhuo's words, the economic structure of the dwarf race is extremely simple, and the economic activities of the entire race revolve around the production of steel and weapons, and nothing is produced except steel and weapons. In other words, all the means of subsistence of the dwarves are completely dependent on imports, and once the prices of steel and weapons fluctuate, the fragile economy of the dwarves cannot bear it at all, and economic collapse may occur at any time.

At that time, the dwarven race, who could not afford to pay for the means of subsistence, would inevitably fall into a long-term famine, and it was not impossible for the entire tribe to fall apart.

The old dwarf who had been fighting iron all his life didn't understand what it meant to have an economic collapse, but his years of working as the vice president of the Ironforge Chamber of Commerce made him intuitively judge that this was a very bad thing for the dwarves, although he didn't realize how serious the consequences were.

Hearing the old dwarf's question, Qin Shouzhuo smiled slightly and replied: "This is only our initial trial production product, there are still many defects, the lack of magic flux is one of them, and you still need a lot of advice from the masters of the dwarf clan, your magic crystal iron-making technology is all over the continent." ”

"Hahahaha......"

The surrounding crowd let out a good-natured laugh, the dwarven magic crystal iron-making technology is the foundation of the dwarven clan, and it is true that the whole continent is blushing, but there is no one who can get it, not even the Holy See. Without the supply of weapons from the dwarves, it will be even more difficult for humans who are not physically superior in themselves to face the external enemies of the East and the West, elves and orcs, and the position of the continent hegemon will be shaken.

"Huh...... Hehe......" echoed the crowd around him and laughed dryly, and the old dwarf's almost desperate eyes revealed a glimmer of hope, "In other words, the quality of Babia steel is still inferior to that of the dwarves." ”

"Hahaha......" Qin Shouzhuo also echoed and smiled, and immediately gave the old dwarf the deepest despair, "You can't say that, it can only be regarded as a victory." ”

Qin Shouzhuo smiled, this smiling face was not stingy with the old dwarf's serious demon smile, "The magic flux of Babia Steel is higher than the average level among all kinds of steel-based materials, second only to Dwarf Steel, although the gap is very large. However, we will focus on the performance of the steel itself, whether it is hardness, toughness, corrosion resistance and other properties are completely explosive dwarf steel, after the further processing of the electroslag remelting furnace we are building, the performance level can be quite improved. ”

“...... Poof......"

Qin Shouzhuo will deal a blow to the Iron Furnace Fort Merchants, and the effect will be outstanding, and the Iron Fort Chamber of Commerce will be very bad!

“...... Not only that, our Babia Steel is a comprehensive steel production enterprise, in addition to ordinary steel, we also have some special steel, which is to highlight a certain performance, this subdivision is more, and the production equipment is still under construction, so I will not repeat it here. ”

"In the later stage, we also plan to build a series of steel processing systems including steel rolling, forging and stamping, enrich the product structure, and strive to achieve semi-finished products. ”

"What kind of semi-finished products can you say?"

"Ah, that's a good question. The so-called semi-finished products naturally have to be judged according to the complexity of the final product, in the case of the simplest two-handed sword, the most basic cold-rolled steel plate can be shipped, further processed into narrow steel bars, and even direct sword billets can be discussed. The steel processing system we plan to build in the next stage includes multi-functional forging presses from 50 tons to 5,000 tons, something as simple as a sword blank can be forged and formed in one go, with a production efficiency of more than 1,000 veteran blacksmiths. If you import this kind of sword blank, take it back and find someone to make the shape, install the handguard, scabbard, etc., and then you can put it on the shelf. ”

“...... Poof......"

Qin Shouzhuo's additional attack on the Iron Fort Chamber of Commerce was successful, and the dwarf played GG!

Hearing Qin Shouzhuo's words, the old dwarf finally couldn't help but faint. As the vice president of the Ironforge Chamber of Commerce, he intuitively knew how much impact this would have on the dwarven steel trade system. It is true that weapons made of Babia steel cannot be used to make magic weapons, but not all dwarven weapons can be used for high-quality enchantment, and those young dwarves who are still growing are not even allowed to put on the shelves if they have not been honed in their craft, so as not to fall into the prestige of dwarven weapons.

Those who are fortunate enough to be selected for real practical enchantment, which is not a boutique, even if it is an ordinary dwarf blacksmith, not every work is eligible to be selected as an enchantment, not to mention that even if it has this qualification, the boutiques that can really be favored by the enchantment master are even better of the best, and there are very few. The price of every practical magic weapon is sky-high, but what supports the Dwarven steel trade system is the more widely used common weapon.

After the group left the Barony of Babia, the old dwarf found Qin Shouzhuo again.

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