After Jiayi's paper was published in The Witcher, it was like a ripple on the calm water, although it was not violent, but it could be regarded as boiling.

Many mages discussed privately whether it was a bit hasty for The Witcher to mention this paper to the main journal, and even if it was recommended by Master Magnay, the quality of the paper should not be lowered. Only a small number of people felt that the quality of the paper was actually outstanding, especially pushing the study of sound that has fallen into pause in a new direction. There is nothing wrong with taking it out and publishing it on The Witcher, and there is no lack of qualifications.

In fact, there is no precise definition of whether a discovery is important or not, and who knows if an inconspicuous discovery will become a precursor to a series of theories in the future. It's like Isaac's Three Laws, no one can deny that they are excellent and important, but they do seem very simple.

Especially when Jia Yi's identity was revealed, people knew that this was still a teenager who had just been promoted to a formal mage for a few years, and he was still the publisher of several papers, the inventor of the table clock, and the inventor of the fountain pen.

All of this adds up to make people more curious about Jiayi, and there are a lot fewer people who feel that his papers are not qualified to be published in "The Witcher", and people are always extra tolerant of geniuses.

This wave of discussion made Jia Yi a nickname in the mage community, but most of them were still confined to Moshacher Island. Because this is the seat of the Supreme Council, the base camp of the mages, and a large number of mages are concentrated here, the discussion is particularly intense. And the heated discussion also left a deep impression on Jiayi.

However, in other places, the number of mages is not large, and the level is not high, and after seeing the papers on "The Witcher", I will only feel envious, and there are fewer people who can discuss it, and there will be less controversy.

But there is another place that impresses Jiayi even more, and that is the academy.

It's not because Jiayi's paper was published in "The Witcher", for this, the students of the academy still lack the confidence to make evaluations, but because Jiayi's paper was sent to the academy as a model. Every mage who studied at the academy had to carefully study this paper of Jiayi, so the name of Jiayi spread. However, not many people know that Jia Yi is still a student who has not yet entered the school.

Jia Yi didn't know that although he hadn't arrived at the academy, his legend had already begun to circulate in the academy.

He hadn't even seen the latest issue of The Witcher, and he was now out in the field, looking around the mine for an address to build a blast furnace.

Of course, the construction of the blast furnace cannot be placed in a crowded place, and in order to transport the ore conveniently, it is better to be next to the mine, after all, the transportation at this time is very problematic, and the iron ingot is much more cost-effective than the ore to transport the same weight of goods.

"Kaichi, why do you have to build this thing called a blast furnace of yours by the river? Selena asked beside Kaichi.

Eunice has been busy lately, and she can't always accompany Jiayi, to be precise, as the person in charge of a large chamber of commerce, she is busy most of the time, so she can only let her daughter Selena accompany Jiayi to choose a location.

Selena originally thought that Kaichi was going to choose a location near the mine to build a smelter, but she didn't expect that after hearing that there was a river here, Kaichi insisted on choosing a site here. The river is more than 10 miles away from the mine, and it is almost beyond the scope of the mine. Moreover, this road is all jungle, there is almost no traffic, and if you want to build a smelter here, you have to build a new road out.

Jia Yi smiled and said, "It's not just right to build here, you can transport the smelted iron ingots by water." ”

"You're not kidding, are you?" Selena stared at Jiayi with the eyes of a caring fool, "Do you know the direction of this river, this river does not pass through the imperial capital at all, if you want to transport ore by water, you have to go around in a big circle, walk more than a hundred miles downstream from here to reach the Bell River, and then go up the Bell River to reach the imperial capital, so much farther, it is better to go directly to the imperial capital by land." ”

At this time, iron ore smelting was still in the state of small handicraft workshops, and the iron ore production was not large, so there was no problem by land. After the successful construction of Jiayi's blast furnace, the output increased by at least dozens of times. However, in fact, this production has not reached the point where it is necessary to take the waterway, and Jiayi chooses the waterway, the most important thing is to pay attention to the flow of the river.

The river is not too wide, but the current is fast, and it is a good place to officially build a waterwheel. The blast furnace built by Jiayi has a high demand for water in addition to a large demand for fuel. Because Jiayi needs to crush the ore, the more crushed the better, if you simply use manpower, then the requirements for manpower are too great, with this river, you can use water power to crush the ore, and after the smelter comes out, a large amount of cooling water is needed, which can be met here.

With this river, the construction of Jiayi can exert more imagination, in the era of no steam engine, water power is the most useful power, Jiayi can connect the waterwheel to the blower for the blast furnace blowing, but also build a hydraulic forging hammer, forging, to avoid direct sale of raw materials, the added value is not high. Even if the finished product of the weapon armor is not directly forged and semi-finished, the value will be much higher.

Jia Yi said that the water transportation here is convenient, but in fact, he just made fun of Selena, and he didn't really have the intention of taking the waterway, after all, the workshop of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce is in the imperial capital, and it is indeed too time-consuming to turn around such a big circle.

He told Selena: "The river has the benefits of the river, in addition to steel, we also need fuel, there is no coal here, we have to buy it from outside." ”

"Coal? It's just something black and similar to graphite, can't you use charcoal? There are a lot of woods here, so it's more convenient to use charcoal. ”

"The temperature of the charcoal is not as high as that of coal, and the iron ingots made with coal are of better quality. "Jiayi's idea is to use coke, coke is made of coal dry distillation, the middle school chemistry course has mentioned above, and there is a schematic diagram of the layered distillation of petroleum, although Jiayi can't make it too modern, but it is not difficult to make a primitive one.

As for the craft, we still have magic to fill in, it's just that no mage has ever focused on this area before. Every mage has the potential to become an excellent master craftsman, master welder, master metallurgy.

However, if according to Jiayi's assumption, his time is not enough, every autumn is the day of the college's vacation, the winter starts in December, and now it has entered early summer, there is only half a year left, which is not a short time, but if you want to build a blast furnace, a coke oven, and a hydraulic ore crushing device, if you can, it is best to build a steelmaking furnace, and this lot of work requires a new design, and a lot of construction work.

Even if Jia Yi was a mage, he was not confident at all that he would succeed in building all of this.

However, Jiayi likes to take one step at a time, one step at a time, and which step can be achieved in the end is another matter. From this point of view, he is actually not a person who does big things, although he can barely be regarded as a visionary, but he lacks a complete and long-term plan, and the courage to overcome all difficulties, and always likes to make do with it.

"You'll know when it's ready, so let's find some people to level the road and prepare the building materials. ”

Kaichi said this to Selena, and he suddenly had a bad taste and refused to tell her the full plan.