Chapter 237 Invitation

8days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
Back at the office, Roland immediately began drawing the new machinery.

During the days when the First Army and the witches went to the capital, he was not idle. On the contrary, Roland felt that he was busier than before.

Even if Nightingale is not around, there is very little time left to be alone with Anna.

In addition to placing a ship of fugitives, he also asked Anna and Lucia to test the ingredients of the smelting products and build new smelting furnaces.

In the past, whether it was iron smelting or steel smelting, it was implemented purely based on experience and feelings, and I didn’t know what the ingredients contained in the refined products. Now, with the help of Lucia, Roland finally has a method to accurately determine the composition of metal ingots.

With the ability of material decomposition, he can obtain detailed data required for smelting by repeatedly comparing, such as the stirring time after melting, the specific amount of charcoal added, and whether to add limestone and other additives to remove sulfur and phosphorus, or to add other metal raw materials to obtain alloys, etc.

Based on these data, Roland can summarize the standardized process of the smelting industry, obtain the same quality of iron ingots or steel in multiple productions, and at the same time dispel the fog of material technology bit by bit.

The new smelting furnace was also built for this.

It is a square furnace with a length of four meters and a height of two meters, with the bottom tilted towards one end.

The thick shell is cast iron, the inner layer is covered with clay bricks, and Soloya's soil coating, which has excellent heat resistance.

There is a movable gate at the lowest end, which is pulled by a steam engine.

Considering that those high-end heating methods, such as oxygen blowing and arcing, none of them have the conditions for implementation, the furnace simply does not have any combustion devices, and it relies entirely on Anna's black fire to smelter the steel.

After the raw materials are added according to the tested ratio and smelting is completed, the molten steel is discharged directly from the tail gate.

The furnace can produce about fifty tons of molten steel at a time, and Anna can complete the smelting in just one quarter of an hour. With the feeding and steel output time, it only takes about half an hour. The output can basically meet the current production of firearms and artillery.

The smelting model of the town now is that the blast furnace and vertical furnace of the furnace group are responsible for the production of a large amount of pig iron, which can be used for the manufacturing of daily iron and steam engines, or can be further smelted by the iron furnace as raw materials to make cooked iron or steel.

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The design drawing that Roland is currently going to draw is a set of production equipment for bullet stamping that has a stable and reliable source of steel. The processing and assembly of stamping machinery no longer has hardware difficulties. The successful trial production of mercury lysate has made the mass production of new bullets imminent.

Although Anna's black fire cutting is efficient and accurate, it still takes a long time to complete the entire process by a person. If the ramming assembly line is put into production, more than 30 ordinary people can operate it after training and can produce at least tens of thousands of bullets a day, and the soldiers no longer need to manually reload ammunition.

After dinner, I drew it for a long time, and it was not until the midnight bell rang outside the window that the full set of sketches had a look.

Of course, this is just the initial concept design. He doesn't know whether some details are feasible. He still needs to test it before he can finally confirm it.

If it were normal times, Roland had already yawned, but today he was in high spirits and had no sleepiness at all.

After packing up more than a dozen draft papers, taking out the parchment attached to the letter from the Five Kings from the drawer, spreading it on the table, he finally waited for the long-awaited link to select the visiting witch.

The list lists about 60 auxiliary witches' abilities. From Maisie, the total number of witches on the sleeping island should be around 200 to 300. Obviously, Tilly did not list all auxiliary witches' abilities on the table.

This is also in line with the practice of a leader to actively extend his hand of friendship rather than to pallet the family.

The other party can do this, which is enough to express his sincerity to form an alliance. Roland replaced it with a new candle and focused on checking the witch's abilities in the appendix.

It has to be said that this is a very difficult choice to make a decision. After multiple comparisons, he selected a list of five visitors.

Then Roland spread out a piece of parchment and began to write a reply.

Dear sister, I'm glad to see your letter.

I feel very excited and relieved about the decision you made. With your help, I am more confident of blocking the church's attack.

The trust and support of witches is also due to the fact that the entire Graycastle Continent, only the border town completely erased the influence of the church. The indigenous people not only accepted witches, but even fought side by side with them. From resisting evil beasts to fighting against the church, my leaders and witches formed an inseparable whole.

Now, they can be seen everywhere in the town in construction, and the steam engine that makes you curious is realized with the help of the witch.

This is a good sign, and all I have to do is to promote this situation to the entire Western border, until the entire kingdom.

For this, I must destroy the entire church, turn the saying that the witch is the evil one into dust, and save all people from foolishness and ignorance.

This is a long process and I need more help from you.

As for what made me make this decision, and what made me no longer care about everything as I used to be. These trivial matters can be explained slowly when I have the chance. The content of the letter paper is limited, so I won’t go into details.

I am looking forward to the visit of the witches next month.

Please don't worry about safety issues. I have planned a direct route to the border town for them, which can completely avoid the eyes and ears of the church, and there is no need to use any port.

The only risk is sailing, but I think if Maisie leads the way forward, the possibility of a ship trekking is slim.

I will attach a map for the specific route and send it to Sleeping Island with Maisie.

After these witches arrived in the border town, they naturally could participate in the teaching of basic knowledge. The so-called knowledge promotes the evolution of witch abilities. I prefer that my deep understanding of the world leads to their transformation, whether it is the understanding of nature, magic, or self.

There is no doubt that for every extra witch whose abilities evolve, we have one more chance of winning against the church, which is exactly the same as you.

Finally, I will display the list of five selected witches here, hoping to see them as soon as possible.

Shape the terrain lotus.

Status maintain candlelight.

Evelyn, winemaker.

Taming Orc Honey.

and the Eye of the Truth Sylvie.

Then, I wish you all the best.Your brother, Roland Wimbledon.