Needless to say, the potters built a few kilns for them in the workshop of the R&D center, gave them a few simple glaze recipes for feldspar glaze and lime glaze and the general conditions for firing porcelain, and asked them to study how to fire the porcelain he wanted.

After asking the people of the stonemason's guild, the specific whereabouts of such a thing as kaolin, which is the raw material of porcelain, were quickly obtained, and there was a stone mining area in the Blue Lake Mountains not far from the emperor, which seemed to have the white soil that Xia Lin needed.

After sending someone to obtain these soils, Xia Lin pinched these soils, which were delicate and soft to the touch, and the appearance was relatively bright and bright white, according to the knowledge he learned in the engineering geology class, Xia Lin quickly determined that these soils were indeed kaolin.

And these are all soft kaolins with high purity and strong plasticity, and after lamenting that the Blue Lake Mountain is rich in natural resources and must be built as soon as possible, Xia Lin immediately arranged for these potters to go up.

As for the lapidators, goldsmiths and jewelers, they are all high-end talents in the finishing of metals and crystals and minerals that Xia Lin can find in this era, and all they need to do is to follow the design drawings and clock principles given by Xia Lin, and cooperate with the staff and machine tools transferred from the machine factory, to try to develop a relatively primitive vertical pendulum clock.

Later, after the glass project led by Xia Lin himself was finished, Xia Lin had to rely on them to polish the glass lenses, so as to try to get a good thing that could come in handy in military operations, such as telescopes.

Although the glass performance that Xia Lin can obtain at present is definitely not as good as the optical lenses used in telescopes in his previous life, it has also solved the problem of whether there is or not, and the blurred point of seeing things is also blurred.

As long as this technology can be lit up, Xia Lin is ready to light another hot air balloon technology, so that his artillery team can have a means of observation that transcends the times.

At that time, artillery ranging does not need to set up dangerous forward side observation posts, only need to take hot air balloon observation stations and ground observation stations to cooperate, you can get more accurate enemy coordinates, so that the observation steps of artillery are greatly simplified, and at the same time improve the hit rate of artillery.

However, the porcelain and pendulum clock projects are easy to say, and these craftsmen are also quite concerned about the finished products envisioned by Xia Lin, and soon form research and development teams according to Xia Lin's assignment and start the research and development of these projects in the research and development center building.

After the initial confusion caused by the different development steps, the two projects quickly got on the right track.

However, the project of the new explosives, which the first Empress Dorothea was most concerned about and that Xia Lin was second concerned about, encountered many obstacles.

First of all, there is the problem of thermometers, new explosives need to be strictly controlled in the production of temperature, otherwise there is a danger of explosion, Xia Lin does not have such a good thing as glass at hand, so he can only let the lapidary use transparent crystal to try to make a batch of crystal shell mercury thermometers.

The thermometer with a crystal shell is very difficult to make, and the heat sensitivity is not high, and it cost nearly 100 gold lunt to get twenty-three barely usable thermometers.

After calibrating the temperature with a mixture of ice water and boiling water, he took the twenty-five dyeers who had undergone short-term blast protection training and four three-ring shield scrolls that he had purchased through the mage's guild at great expense, and began his experiments in an explosion-proof laboratory.

Xia Lin, who was not proficient in learning and had only learned the general principles and steps of the manufacture of this new type of explosive on the forum materials, may not have controlled the speed of dropping, and soon the temperature of the solution exceeded the warning value, and a light smoke symbolizing danger quickly emerged from the clear oily solution.

"Let's go!"

Seeing this scene, Xia Lin had no choice but to rescue the expensive crystal thermometer, and at the same time used his spiritual power to activate a shield scroll, and then led everyone to run to the explosion-proof ditch outside the explosion-proof laboratory.

Before everyone could run into the explosion-proof ditch, a "boom", a loud sound comparable to the firing of an 80mm breech gun, sounded in the open-air laboratory.

After confirming that the explosion was over, Xia Lin led the group to the laboratory, only to see that the thick wooden table in the middle and the various utensils placed on it had all turned into fragments and fragments, and were encircled by the shield that still shone with the glow of magic.

"See? This is the power of the new explosives we are going to make, you must be careful when you try to make them, everything is your own safety, and the slightest abnormality will immediately activate the mage armor scroll I handed over to you! ”

The power of the new explosives is dozens of times that of the traditional black powder, Xia Lin looked at this scene and admonished the dyers with shocked faces on his faces.

"This ...... Lord Xia Lin, the guild summoned us before and didn't explain that it was to create such a terrible thing, I still have two sons and three daughters waiting for me to go back, can I quit now? ”

However, such a scene had obviously exceeded the expectations of these washers who were just watching the excitement, and a rather old washer and dyerman with the pale blue traces of his hands looked at this tragic scene with wide eyes, and asked Xia Lin with a cower.

Originally, these craftsmen only came here in response to the orders of the guild and the reward promised by Empress Dorothea, and they did not have an employment relationship with the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce, but they did not expect that this matter would be so dangerous.

"If anyone wants to quit, I will naturally not stop it, but I will inform you in advance, the research and development of this new type of explosive is very important to the Empire, Her Majesty is extremely concerned, I will not mind if you quit, but it is not clear whether Her Majesty will mind me.

In addition, if you are able to develop a new explosives production process, I will give the participants a total of 10% of the patent rights as the project leader, and then you will no longer have to work hard to run your own small workshops, and you can live a very prosperous life. ”

Once again, on the way to the chemical industry, he encountered personnel problems, Xia Lin saw that many washing and dyeing craftsmen were afraid, seeing that people's hearts were about to disperse, although he was unwilling to force them to continue on this dangerous road, but he also had to coerce and lure them:

"And you can also think about how such explosives would behave in a war if we were able to cause such a violent explosion with just that little product of ours.

You only need to think about it a little to understand that the prospects for new explosives are extremely broad, and it will be a frighteningly large market, and even if you only hold 1% of the patent rights, it will be enough for you to earn nearly 100 gold lunt a day. ”

"This ...... My lord, I'd better quit! ”

"Me too!"

Although Xia Lin's description is quite tempting, as skilled washing and dyeing craftsmen, their group of old craftsmen also have a lot of unique dye formulas in their hands, relying on those dye formulas, they can also live as comfortable as before, why bother with Xia Lin to develop some new explosives here.

After listening to Xia Lin's statement, and weighing the severity of continuing to develop new explosives and enduring the possible punishment of the empress, most of the twenty-five washers still offered to leave.

"Oh well! Remember our confidentiality pact, if I hear the key news of the new explosives somewhere, you will be arrested by the tribunal and you will have to pay a lot of money. ”

Seeing that they were so determined, Xia Lin, who was unwilling to force people, could only let go of these rare chemistry professionals to leave.

Of the twenty-five washers, eighteen had withdrawn at once, and the remaining seven seemed to be quite excited about the benefits that the new explosives could bring. Xia Lin had to comfort himself, these people were enough to form seven teams with the employees transferred from the industrial park to conduct research and development.

After sending away the washers who had withdrawn, Xia Lin took the remaining craftsmen to do a few experiments and taught them the specific rules of research and development, and then let them lead the employees he selected to carry out the research and development of new explosives.

At the first time, he did not go to arrange the R&D and production of glass, but came to the dock of the R&D center and received a group of old acquaintances and a group of people who were crucial to his next plan.

That is Manan Amos, the head of the Royal Academy of Magic, and Fermi Ilan, the president of the Mage's Guild, and Flynn Kundel, the head of the Alchemist's Guild, and they are accompanied by two unknown mages, both of whom look quite old and have a profound temperament, and are obviously the same level of big names as them.

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