Although the cost of steelmaking is very high, the magic alchemy furnace can smelt metals with high temperatures, and it is very convenient to use, even if the cost of steelmaking is much higher than that of earth blast furnaces, it is also suitable for the study of metal materials.

After the completion of the magic alchemy furnace, Richard immediately established the Institute of Metal Materials.

He personally served as the director of the institute, made Butler an independent researcher, and recruited two magic apprentices, several students who graduated from Henan elementary school, and set up the framework of the metal research institute.

Then the Institute of Metals, at Richard's behest, began to study various alloy processes.

There are iron ores in the territory of Haaland, and some associated ores such as manganese, tin, chromium, and zinc can be found. In addition, some copper ingots can be purchased from Duke Jonathan.

There were enough materials to experiment with, and the first ones to be manufactured were the classic two alloys, copper-tin alloy and manganese-iron alloy.

The alloy process has always existed in the Dawn plane, but the alloy is made in a magic alchemy furnace, which is not only low in production, but also very high in cost, and can only be used to cast some key parts, such as gears, bearings, and so on.

The great nobles of the Grant Kingdom have mastered the alloy processes of copper-tin alloy, aluminum alloy and so on, and can manufacture some bronze and aluminum products with superior performance.

Richard discovered early on that some of the craftsmanship of the Kingdom of Grant was higher than that of the Middle Ages, and some were not even as good as the Middle Ages.

Because of the magical alchemy furnace, the alloy technology of the Dawn Plane has developed rapidly, and many of them have reached the level of the seventeenth century.

The performance of the super magic alloy produced by the magic alchemist even exceeds that of the twenty-first century. The only drawback is that the yield is too low to be universal.

Although the Haaland territory has blast furnace ironmaking and crucible steelmaking technology, it has been producing low-end products, and in the past few years, it has not been able to produce various alloys, and it needs to buy some gears and bearings from the outside every year.

Now that there is a magic alchemy furnace and the production of manganese iron alloys, most of the metal parts can be produced by themselves, which will save more money.

In addition, Richard was preparing to manufacture rolling bearings. Today, Haaland's level of craftsmanship can actually make rolling bearings.

Cages, balls, and steel rings can be cast by molten steel, and then manually polished, although the cost of manufacturing is higher, but it can be used in some key parts, which can bring high efficiency improvement.

With the use of rolling bearings, the efficiency of the vehicle will be much improved, and the construction of a horse-drawn carriage will be on the agenda.

If rubber tires are pressed, a horse-drawn carriage can carry several tons of cargo.

There are already a small number of four-wheeled carriages in Nolan, the capital of the Grant Kingdom, and there are mature designs that can be coated with them, and it is also not difficult to make four-wheeled carriages, but most of Haaland's territory is mountainous terrain, which is more suitable for two-wheeled carriages.

There is no patent bill in the kingdom of Grant, once the rolling bearing is successfully manufactured, the difficulty of the imitation of the appearance of the cottage is not high, as long as you are willing to invest a certain amount of gold coins, you can succeed in the copycat.

The key difficulty is to create wear-resistant manganese-iron alloys, iron-chromium alloys. If you want to grasp the proportion of alloys, you still need to smelt the metal many times, and invest a lot of money.

At least in the first few years of the rolling bearings, Haaland's territory should be able to make a lot of money.

The manufacture of rolling bearings is a great impetus for the development of the industry. In addition, the manufacture of four-wheeled carriages can not only be sold in Heihe Fort, but also the caravans in the Harland Territory can use four-wheeled carriages to transport goods in the plains, and the efficiency of transportation will be significantly improved.

Even if the sale of horse-drawn carriages did not bring too much profit to the territory, Richard decided to promote the development of the industry.

This industry can bring thousands of gold coins to the territory in a year, and it is considered a success.

Because of the need to use magic crystals to provide energy, the cost of using the magic alchemy furnace is still very high.

Richard had always had the idea of setting up a magic array to absorb magical energy.

This kind of magic gathering array is not uncommon in the Dawn plane, but the cost of setting it up is high.

The magic tower built by the Tower of Death has a magic circle at the bottom.

But if you want to arrange such a magic circle, you need to use a legendary Warcraft core as the core.

With such a high threshold, it is difficult to popularize the Gathering Magic Array, and only a large magic organization has the strength to build a Gathering Magic Array.

This kind of magic gathering array is also the core of the mage tower.

Through his knowledge of magic, Richard had many discussions with magicians such as Sophia and Wendy.

In most areas of the Dawn Plane, the magic energy particles in nature are very thin, and it is very difficult to gather the free magic energy particles, requiring a large number of magic runes, using a lot of magic materials, and investing at least millions of gold coins.

Besides, the efficiency of the Gathering Rune Array is not very high, and there is no good prospect.

Even if the legendary magic core is used as the core to solve the problem of magic energy reserves, the energy absorbed by the magic tower every day is enough to release more than a dozen middle-level magic, which is not as good as two or three middle-level magicians.

The effect of this kind of magic gathering array is actually not as good as cultivating a few magicians. In the space of the magician's spiritual power, there is a magic gathering array with good efficiency.

In addition to gathering magic arrays, if you want to make an area full of magic energy, you need to find a magic well.

The magic well is the place where the magic energy naturally gathers, which is equivalent to the spiritual veins in the world of cultivating immortals. The magic wells of the Dawn Plane are basically controlled by large forces.

There are two magic wells in the Eagle Mountains, but unfortunately they are both in the hands of the Legendary Professional. Snatching the magic well from the legendary ogre and the legendary black dragon and relying on the strength of the Haaland family is obviously impossible now.

In the Grant Kingdom, only Nolan has a magic well, which is also controlled by the Grant Mage Association.

The magic released by the mana well can be strong and weak.

According to the information in the records, Richard knew that the magic energy provided by the magic well was only equivalent to a diesel generator with a power of 60 kilowatts, which was equivalent to about 300,000 kilowatts of electrical energy. A better mana well provides a huge amount of magic energy, equivalent to six billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.

Six billion kilowatt-hours of electricity consumption seems to be very large, but in fact, a small town with some industrial and mining enterprises consumes more than six billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.

There is only one magic well that can provide magic energy equivalent to six billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in the entire Dawn Continent, and it is the city of a thousand towers, the capital of the Magic Kingdom of Makholm.

Even the magic wells controlled by the Divine Radiance Empire did not have that much magical energy.

For the Dawn plane, mastering the magic well is the most advanced productivity, and all large magical organizations choose to build near the magic well.

Richard had never seen the magic well, so he couldn't figure out why it was generated.

If you figure this out, you can try to create a magic well artificially.

If the use of magic benefits ordinary people, the Dawn Plane will develop into a developed magical civilization.

For the Harland Mage Guild, researching the magic well is still a lofty thing. Richard needed to get the task right first, and by late September, the rolling bearings had finally been manufactured.

With the use of the manufactured rolling bearings, the speed of the carriage is much faster, especially on the flat stone road, and it is easy to pull thousands of pounds of goods.

In addition, rolling bearings can also be used in many machinery, with rolling bearings, alloy gears, the industrial capacity of the territory has also been improved.

Because of the acquisition of the new territory, Richard sent a large number of exploration personnel and began to explore the new territory for minerals.

Soon there was a new harvest, a new iron ore was discovered, this is an associated mine, not only a large amount of iron elements, but also a lot of zinc and tungsten associated ores, through spectroscopic research, new rare elements were also discovered, which were filled into the periodic table compiled by Richard.

It's a pity that no super magic metal has been found in this vein for the time being, and although the value is not small, it is still not as important as Iron Mountain Fort to Harland's territory.

From mid-August, the demarcation of the new territory was completed. Richard relocated all the slaves he had rescued from the war to new territories.

The development of the new territory was carried out almost from scratch, with logging mainly in the first year.

A large amount of timber was transported by the river to important castles such as Fort Black River, Fort Sophia, Fort Vik, Fort Mart, etc.

There were plenty of barracks to live in at Graveson Castle, which saved Richard a lot of money.

This year's key construction projects in the territory are mainly the foundation excavation of the Flower Castle.

There are a lot of wild roses and roses near the bustling castle, and the roses are of little use, but the roses can make perfumes.

It's just that perfume needs to have a market in big cities.

According to the current situation of Dawn's defense, the market is controlled by others, even if the perfume is manufactured, there may not be any profit, I am afraid that I can only make a little hard-earned money, and the majority of the profit will be eaten by the nobles of the royal capital.

After all, it is not a world of free trade, local protectionism is extremely serious, there is no overall market for the same kingdom, and the commercial competition of the kingdom's aristocracy is often accompanied by violent conflicts.

Rockefeller hired soldiers to assassinate commercial enemies, and DuPont invited his rivals' families to take a dirt plane.

Look at the Haaland family and the Cisse family, because of the competition in the liquor trade, they actually fought a cruel liquor war, and the two viscount families died thousands of people before and after, but in the end both were defeated.

The Haaland family gave up the liquor market and lost their monopoly in the liquor industry, and the Cisse family also did not make a profit and formed a powerful enemy.

Next year, the three-year peace pact between the two families will expire.

Now without the help of the Holland family, it is absolutely impossible for Richard to renew his contract.

Fast forward three years, and the status of the Haaland family and the Cissé family is very different.

The Cisse family did not side with the victors in last year's turmoil for the throne, and their territory was cut in half, and their titles were reduced to baroness. Today, the strength of the Cisse family, although it still controls a population of more than 100,000, is only a few points stronger than the baron family.

The Haaland family sided with the victors, and developed extremely rapidly, increasing their territory by more than 10,000 square kilometers, increasing their population by more than 70,000 by exchanging food for people and rescuing slaves captured by orcs, plus the newborns in the last two years, it had exceeded 146,000 by the end of the year.

Once the three-year peace pact ended, according to Richard's character, he would inevitably take revenge on the Cisse family.

When the time comes, a conflict breaks out between the two noble families, and it will be a matter of life and death for the Cisse family.

By September of this year, the Cisse family had sent people everywhere, willing to apologize, nod and admit defeat, and only hoped to resolve the conflict with the Haaland family.

The liquor trade can earn more than 10,000 gold coins a year, and it was once an important income for Haaland's territory after steel. Now that he has been beaten by the Cisse family, Richard has already spread the word that without the compensation of 500,000 gold coins, the Haaland family will not forget this hatred.

With the three-year peace pact about to expire, the two families of Haaland and Cisse are now strong and weak.

Even if there is a territory between the two families, it is difficult to mobilize a large army. The Haaland family can also organize elite professional squads to attack Cisse family members and hunt down the top leaders of Cisse territory.

In addition, it is possible to launch an all-round commercial offensive and seize the markets of all the Cisse families.

In addition, Richard was able to disguise small armies as bandits and attack villages in the Cisse family's domain, burning grain and robbing people.

In short, even if they don't directly fight the territorial war, the Haaland family has enough means to control the Cisse family and let the family gradually decline.

The competition between the nobility was so cruel.

The Cisse family can only be blamed for the failure of political speculation and the choice of a wrong enemy.

Now the Holland family has lost power, and the Cisse family has lost the support of the nobility in the royal capital. It is no longer possible to continue to rely on the power of the royal capital to suppress the Haaland family.

The relationship between the upper levels cannot be passed, and external forces cannot be helped.

Baron Cisse gathered the high-level officials of the territory and said with a solemn face: "Now the Harland family has an army of more than 5,000 people, and there are also Warcraft cavalry under their command, and their connections in the royal capital and in the northern Xinjiang are far superior to ours. The balance of strength between the two sides has changed dramatically, and resolving the contradiction with the Haaland family is already a fundamental question of whether the Cisse family can survive?

Let's talk about it, and see how we can resolve this contradiction. My opinion is that everyone should come up with some funds, whether it is to expand the army or to pay compensation, the Cissé family must be united in order to get through this difficult time. ”

When Davy Cisse heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Who caused all this, if you didn't push behind it, Ronin would dare to buy the people of the Haaland family?"

Now the liquor market has not gotten much, but it has made a strong enemy for the family, this matter is not handled well, and the Xisai family will let the family destroy the door.

Last year's civil strife in the kingdom, what did I say, don't get involved. You can't listen to what I'm saying, you must follow Charlemagne and Harden and other remnants of the Venus family to get involved in the war in the kingdom. As it turned out, King Roger was victorious, and we were involved in the rebellion, and half of our territory was taken away, and if the territory was still there, even if our strength was weaker than the Haaland family, the situation would not be as unbalanced as it is now.

The current tragic situation of the Cisse family, Ling is the patriarch of the Cisse family, and he is also directly responsible, does he not need to be responsible? Do you still have the face to convene a meeting of all of you, so that we can continue to put you on the throne and lead us? ”

Davy was a fifth-order knight, just in his forties, and although his strength was weaker than Baron Cisse, he was younger than Baron Cisse.

In the past few years, Boe relied on the name of righteousness, of course, he could suppress Dawei, and Dawei did not dare to disobey his orders. Even in order to avoid being targeted by his uncle, Dawei entered the Wild Lion Legion early, saying that he had no intention of competing for the heir of the territory.

But in the past two years, Boe has made a series of stupid moves, which led to the downmotion of the Cisse family and put the Cisse family in a very dangerous state.

Today, Baron Cisse Boy Cisse has lost his prestige in the family. What he said, Davey like a member of the Cisse family didn't want to hear at all.

(End of chapter)