Although the blacksmith shop is already under construction, it is still too early to complete the completion of the work - and in the plan of Gao Wen, the wooden house is actually not a thing with the "blacksmith shop" that the world people know. However, in order to facilitate everyone's understanding, he temporarily called this place a blacksmith shop.

According to him, he is going to name this place "Cessil Steel Factory"...

As the only blacksmith in the territory, the old Hanmer is also confused about the "blacksmith shop" ordered by the Duke adults. In his view, this building really takes up an unnecessarily large area, except for a big surprise. In addition to the board room, it also includes an open space with a length of 100 meters and a wooden shed that only has several brackets. It is not a good thing to call such a large facility "blacksmith shop", but he I dare not say that the founding father of the prestigious name is a layman who does not know how to pretend to be a commander--even though he really thinks so, he is absolutely afraid to say it.

After all, he is only a civilian, and the other is a big aristocrat who can sit on the same level as the King.

And because of the amazing footprint of this “blacksmith shop”, it can only be placed on the edge of the eastern part of the camp. Its “big yard” extends all the way to the wasteland outside, just like a neat wooden fence. It’s so funny, and the guys brought from the town of Tanzan are so little pitiful in this giant blacksmith’s shop: they are full and occupy only a corner of the wooden house, and the only iron furnace is placed On the open space outside, I used a simple wooden shed to block the weather.

For Gao Wen, he placed the reservation of the blacksmith shop so large, and it was close to the edge of the territory, only considering the future capacity needs and the convenience of expansion - the traditional ones of this era. The master took a few apprentices, a hut with a melting pot, and a blacksmith shop that beat the irons was not what he needed.

But he can't explain it to the old blacksmith and his stupid apprentices at all.

In addition to the considerations of capacity and future expansion, Gao Wen does not intend to set up a pile of earthen blast furnace directly in this yard, just like the traversal predecessors in the novels I have seen before, even though he really thought about it. However, after seeing Herti’s magical power to help the raft and help the camp to strengthen the foundation a few days ago, he temporarily suppressed the idea and turned the only blacksmith Hanmer in the territory into the yard. A traditional melting pot.

He came to the blacksmith shop, Rebecca had been waiting here, and the old blacksmith Hanmer, who had gray hair and beard, and his apprentices, and several other people in short blouses stood in the yard. Among the large baskets under their feet are the first ore that was shipped.

Gao Wenjing went straight to the traditional furnace.

It was a stove that looked quite crude benzene, about one meter high, divided into distinct upper and lower parts, and below it was an enlarged hemispherical structure, which quickly shrank into a cylinder and on the underlying hemispherical structure. You can also see two openings, one below the bottom, apparently where the fuel is added, and the other opening near the cylindrical structure where it should be poured into the ore.

These parts are nothing unusual, just ordinary furnaces, but its special place is on the side.

There are three runes arranged there.

The three runes are engraved on a darkened stone piece, and the three pieces of stone are obviously carefully polished and carefully adjusted before being placed on the furnace to ensure that they are exactly the same and the edges are parallel. The bottom part of the stone is engraved with a triangular symbol, and the symbol has a wavy line, which is the starting character of the fire element in the magic book; the middle piece of stone is a square with a diamond shape, it It is the starting character of the earth element; the upper part of the stone is a swirling symbol, which is related to the wind element, but not the starting character.

In addition to these three stone pieces, you can also see some subtle, flashing dust in the material of the furnace body. Gao Wen knows what it is: quartz sand, quartz sand of "this world".

Quartz sand is a material with a demon-like nature. Although its role is extremely weak, it is widely used because it is cheap enough to be used by civilians.

Gao Wen looked up and looked at the old blacksmith: "Is this stove made by you?"

"Yes, yes, lord..." The old blacksmith heard the lord's lord ask his own words, and suddenly grabbed the hat in his hand and replied in a hurry. "Oh, half is made by me, and half is my command of apprentices." Made..."

Gao Wen nodded, but no more problems.

Magic is an extraordinary force. It is not an area that can be touched by the "untouchables". But in this place, there is a world full of magic, even if the civilians who cannot cast spells have a magical shadow in their lives.

Some of the basics of magic do not need to master the knowledge and ability of casting—everyone has magic in the body, and with a specific material, a simple symbol is written on a specific shape of material, and everyone can slightly motivate those without The wonderful power of being absent.

This is not a spell at all. The effect is too small to be almost ridiculous in the real "superman". This kind of borrowing is like smashing a stick on the ground as a cane, picking up a stone everywhere to lick a walnut. Without technical content, even illiterate civilians can remember how to draw a few symbols with weak effects, but this little power determines that the world is very different from the familiar hometown of Gaowen. local.

It's like the Celsius of the water boiling time difference.

With the three runes, this "traditional furnace" only needs to use wood as fuel, and can produce molten iron without the aid of a blower and without optimizing the structure of the combustion chamber.

If the rune of the fire element is engraved on a piece of Mithril, the stove can even use straw as fuel!

However, it is precisely because of the existence of these ancient runes that the humans of this world have not considered how to improve the efficiency of the furnace from the perspective of improving fuel combustion efficiency. They are constantly improving the materials used to write runes. , and the format of the text body.

Therefore, Gao Wen did not build a soil blast furnace, but first to observe this primitive backward traditional furnace.

The old blacksmith Hammer looked nervously at the big aristocrat. He didn't know that the other person suddenly asked a question and then studied what the stove was. He didn't know if he was doing something wrong. He only knew the nobility. It is strong and irritating - although the lord Miss Rebecca and the earlier lord are considered kind and generous, but this is the legendary pioneering hero, a thoroughly martial artist, or a duke. What is the character of such a big aristocracy?

When the old blacksmith was uneasy, Gao Wen finally straightened up and asked him the second question: "How much iron can you make every day when the ore supply is sufficient?" ”

Hammerton breathed a sigh of relief: finally asked a normal question.

"If you use the kind of ore there, you can refine 50 pounds of iron every day." The old blacksmith said with some pride.

However, Gao Wen couldn't help but frown when he heard the answer: "So little?"

How much is the output so much with the help of those runes?

"Is this still a little?" Hammer couldn't help but say, and then he replied nervously. "I don't question the judgment of the master, but..."

"It doesn't matter, talk to me without nervousness," Gao Wenan caressed the master. "I am the lord who protects you, not the robber who killed you."

"Yes...yes, Master," Hanmer nervously rubbed his sweat, then explained, "But this is really the limit. The outside of the stove looks big, but the space inside is actually limited, and each time it is refined. After the furnace, rest for an hour, let the rune outside the stove cool down, so you must cool the stove and then re-fire it... so that you can refine 50 pounds of iron every day. It’s the limit!”

"Let the runes cool?" Gao Wen frowned.

"Yes," Hammer explained. "This is just a small trick that our people have carved on the black stone. It is no match for the real magic runes of the Master. It is very easy to break, especially the fire runes, with the fire. When the contact time of the element is long, it will crack directly, even if it is replaced with a stronger material. Once the rune is cracked, the whole furnace will be scrapped, so the iron can never be burned continuously... ”

"If you make the stove bigger?" Gao Wen asked again.

"There is no way," Hanmer said with a sigh, thinking how the Duke's master would ask this kind of problem. "The runes can only provide such a large firepower. The furnace will become bigger again, the firepower will not be enough, and the ore will not be refined." Hot metal, and the soil runes will also fail, and there will be more impurities in the refined iron ingots, which will be completely unusable..."

Gao Wen pinched his chin: "So the constraint on production is entirely because of these runes?"

The old blacksmith blinked, but he didn’t really understand what it means to restrain the output, but he nodded quickly: “Yes, yes, it’s runes.”

Gao Wen looked at Rebecca: "Do you think if you change the rune to ... amount, or you will call Heti over..."

Rebecca suddenly blushes: "The ancestors, I also know the magic theory! Just can't build a spell model..."

“What is the theoretical knowledge?” Gao Wenmei asked, “What do you think should solve this problem?”

Rebecca thought hard: "Since you just said that Rune is a short board, then replace the rune?"

"What to change?"

Rebecca continues to use his brain: "In fact, the functions of these runes are simple, it is nothing more than raising the temperature, controlling the airflow, controlling the impurities, and the like, and it is the one that is extremely weak. If you replace it with a real magic array. The efficiency can be improved many times - and the magic array can self-distribute energy, and it will not self-destruct in continuous operation..."

Gao Wenmei's eyebrows pick: "Is a magical array engraved on every iron furnace?"

"But it's not practical," Rebecca vomited. "I and Aunt Herti are helping to engrave a few magical arrays, but...the blacksmiths and blacksmith apprentices can't use them!"