When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

#182 - Improvement of the technology of orichalcum spring

The alchemy workshop is a common production model in Blackwater Bay, similar to the blacksmith shops and stonemason workshops they saw in Jeanne d'Arc Fort.

An alchemy workshop often buys a courtyard in a place where raw materials are produced or where land and water transportation is convenient. This courtyard must undertake the functions of an alchemy ritual site, warehousing, and even accommodation.

A normal alchemy workshop is basically operated by four or five alchemy apprentices and one or two main alchemists.

Most of the time, the smuggling channels for alchemical products are in the hands of the Secret Party, so in many cases, these alchemy workshops directly sell their goods to the Secret Party.

Larger Secret Parties like the Joan Party and the Silver Rose even give subsidies to the alchemists in the alchemy workshops during the off-season, which actually feels a bit like a semi-state-owned enterprise.

Of course, there are also private alchemy workshops, but most of them are attached to a large wizarding family.

Alchemists do not have much ability to protect themselves and often need to rely on the protection of powerful forces.

Regarding whether a peat alchemy workshop can be established in Da Ze Township, Horn did not dare to make a decision immediately, but instead assigned some Holy Favored Ones to Pas里克 to investigate with several Secret Party members who had escaped together.

Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Launching a project with a pat on the head has an extremely high probability of problems.

After arranging the peat matter, he agreed with Jeshka and Victor to select the candidates to go to Autumn Dusk Island tomorrow.

After all these odds and ends were decided, the aroma of grilled fish and fish fillet porridge had spread to everyone's noses.

Horn smiled and said to everyone present: "I have already eaten. You must be greedy when you smell the fragrance. Go eat."

"Brother, I still have something to say."

"Eat first, eat first, don't talk about things on an empty stomach." Horn pushed Joanna away, urging her to eat first.

Sitting back in front of the fire, watching the dancing flames in front of him, he continued to think about the current development.

If the peat alchemy workshop can be successful, then the food and meat issues will be basically solved.

In fact, if peat can be used to replace wood and other fuels for boiling salt, the salted fish problem can be solved, so there is no need to build a pottery workshop.

However, Horn decided to build a small pottery workshop after all, because items such as pots and pans are in demand.

Using a branch to stir up the fire in front of him, Horn turned his head towards the distant mountains.

I didn't pay attention before, but after walking these few days, he suddenly discovered a geographical key point.

Da Ze Township is located at the junction of Southern Mound, Lower River, and Langsand County, using mountains and swamps to hinder the roads connecting the three counties.

If you want to go from Upper River and Northern Mound to Langsand County, you will definitely be blocked by this mountainous swamp. No matter which side you detour, you need to travel 100 kilometers or even 90 kilometers more.

If Horn can clear the giant spiders in the Wild Spider Forest, stabilize the local werebeasts, and widen the road, then merchants will not have to detour at all.

Through the shorter route of Da Ze Township, Upper River, North and South Mound, and even Noon can easily transport goods to Langsand, and Jeanne d'Arc Fort can transport goods to Blackwater Bay and Kasha County.

This could not help but remind Horn of the Crushed Stone Plain wool trade route that Sissi mentioned.

In the past, if Crushed Stone Plain wool wanted to go south, it would first go to Upper River County or the neighboring Northern Mound County, then go down the Nauan River to Flying Falls Fort, and then take the land route.

Then go upstream along the Yaxi River, then take the land route to Jeanne d'Arc Fort, and then go down the canal to the Iber River and then to the south.

But if Da Ze Township can be opened up, then no matter whether they take the waterway or the land route, they can go directly to Jeanne d'Arc Fort all the way, saving at least one-third of the journey.

But if the wool trade route is changed, then Flying Falls Fort will suffer.

However, Autumn Dusk Island, which is located on the necessary route of Da Ze Township, has suddenly become geographically superior and may become a transfer station on the Jeanne d'Arc Fort route and become an important sub-city.

"Brother, I'm done eating." Joanna's words interrupted Horn's thoughts. She walked over briskly, wiping the grease from her mouth with a handkerchief.

Did you eat so fast? Horn looked at Joanna blankly: "Don't you need to rest after eating?"

"Brother, we can't rest now." Grabbing Horn's arm, Joanna pulled him towards the camp.

Bypassing the tattered tents, Brock and Rector were seen busy at a simple workbench.

Horn immediately understood that there must be a breakthrough in the orichalcum spring.

"I've seen the forging mode you used before." The old dwarf was still as honest and dull as before. When he saw Horn coming, he said directly, "Mix molten iron and orichalcum water together, put them in a mold to cool into alloy strips, and then electrify the alloy strips until they are white-hot before letting the blacksmith forge them."

"Yes."

Brock shook his head: "This method is very mediocre, wrong, and not spiritual enough."

Horn looked back at Joanna's confident face, turned his head and asked Brock: "Do you have a new method?"

"I have to be worthy of the 3 gold pounds a month salary you pay me." Brock said dullly, "Gilding was originally a skill of us dwarves, but it was later stolen by the shameless Noon people. Anyway, everyone knows it, so it's not a problem for me to teach you."

While speaking, Brock opened a jar next to him, and in the jar was a golden paste.

"What is this?"

"Orichalcum mud." Brock took out the butter-like orichalcum mud, picked up a piece of wood, and smeared a piece on the surface of an iron spring.

After smearing both sides of the spring until it was golden, Brock took out a thin rope and separated the orichalcum mud that was stuck together between the spiral springs: "The so-called gilding technique is to melt gold and mercury together, squeeze out the excess mercury with leather, and what's left is gold mud.

Apply the gold mud on the metal surface and bake it at high temperature. After a period of time, the mercury disappears, leaving only gold.

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I think your orichalcum is also golden, very similar to gold. The dwarf's intuition tells me that doing this may be useful, so I tried it."

Putting the gilded copper spring into the furnace to bake, Brock used tongs to take out another gilded copper spring that had been baked before.

"I originally thought that orichalcum would only adhere to the surface of the spring piece, but after the mercury evaporated, the orichalcum actually penetrated into the spring." Joanna couldn't help but feel excited.

"Under normal circumstances, the gilded metal must be coated with a protective layer to prevent gold from penetrating into the base material, but I don't have suitable materials on hand, so I didn't apply a protective layer." Brock was also a little emotional at this time.

"Maybe the essence of orichalcum is steel, so it will combine with iron, I don't know why, but it just succeeded." Holding up the spring, Brock pointed to the part where the spring coils were stuck together and said, "Just grind it with a file."

Taking the orichalcum spring with the tongs in surprise, Horn carefully looked at it by the firelight.

If this method is determined to be effective, Joanna will not have to spend a lot of time accompanying the blacksmith to forge it.

By gilding the orichalcum, the original orichalcum spring development process that required Joanna's continuous cooperation was directly separated into two steps: making orichalcum mud and making springs.

Then Joanna can mass-produce a large amount of orichalcum mud and store it up, and then she can get rid of the tedious process.

In this way, the speed of making spring guns will be improved again.

But thinking of orichalcum, Horn was in trouble. According to the orichalcum formula, 1 pound of orichalcum needs 14 pounds of refined iron and 2 pounds of copper.

Due to the high density of orichalcum, one orichalcum spring needs to consume one-third of a pound of orichalcum.

Including the barrel, spring box, and the most important firing pin, each spring gun needs 6 pounds of cast iron and 2 pounds of refined iron (steel).

According to Horn's pre-conceived 1,000 Holy Gunners, that would require about 333 pounds of orichalcum. Considering the loss, that would require 5,000 pounds of refined iron and 700 pounds of copper.

Adding the consumption of the barrel and firing pin, that would be 6,000 pounds of cast iron and 2,000 pounds of refined iron.

The consumption of just 1,000 Holy Gunners is at least 7,000 pounds of refined iron, 6,000 pounds of cast iron, and 700 pounds of copper.

Before, Horn made zero-yuan purchases in Jeanne d'Arc Fort, emptying the armories, including the outposts and blacksmith shops controlled by the major nobles and dukes, and even deliberately let the soldiers extort, and only got 6,200 pounds of steel ingots, 7,800 pounds of ordinary iron ingots, and 900 pounds of copper ingots.

Carefully calculated, there is still a shortage of 800 pounds of refined iron.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the situation on the pikeman side is okay.

By stripping and grabbing from the mercenaries, the Salvation Army got more than 1,800 spears and more than 900 short swords, plus the armory and what they bought, which can just fill the main weapon gap for 3,000 pikemen.

I'll ask Pas里克 tomorrow if he has any good ideas. As a great wizard, Pas里克's knowledge base is a huge treasure.

It's really a long way to go from the beginning. Horn blew on the heat on the spring. Construction is much more difficult than taking people around.