On March 15th, Ben, who was immersed in the ruins, suddenly heard Sophia mention that the workshop was about to be completed. The interested mage put down the drawing tools in his hands and took Sophia to the east of the city to take a look. How to use boiling water to drive machinery.
Padmila Hill itself is located in the east of the city. Not far beyond the palace wall is the city wall. Beyond the city wall is the newly built workshop area. Ben Call was the first to visit here with Zerante. He was also the first person to hear that he was going to build a workshop area here.
After a week of construction work by magic fairies, barbarian blacksmiths, and many craftsmen, a row of tall stone houses have been erected outside the city wall.
The largest stone house is what Lant said
As soon as you enter the "steam power" room, you will see the largest salt boiling pot on the burning pit. It is almost the same as the salt boiling process in the salt mine, but the upper part of the pot is different. Several pipes were connected, and the thickest one led to the next room.
"The entire steam power room is divided into two parts: the boiler room and the power room. This room can continue to contain boilers in the future." Seeing Ben's interest, Lant took the initiative to show him around.
"The boiler room here uses coal as raw material. A fire magic elf helped us draw runes to increase the burning temperature. The hot water is boiled to generate steam and sent to the power room next door through this large pipe."
"I still feel that the effect of boiling water is not as good as that of leyline energy," Ben looked at the boiler and shook his head. In his opinion, this design was too simple.
"At the worst, you can use some transformation arrays to directly transform coal into driving force."
"Is there such a good magic circle? Can you make it?" Lant asked casually.
"How can I do this? There should be a few legends in the Tower of Purity who can do it." When Ben said this, he also laughed.
"Do you think I'm being unrealistic again?"
"If I could easily invite the legend of the Tower of Purity, I wouldn't have to bother with this water boiler." In the power room, the cylinders and other cylinders were wrapped in a huge shell. The internal structure could not be seen at all, and only a few rods could be seen. The tube extends outside the room.
Two of them are output steam pipes, and one is a power output pipe. The power shaft in the pipe connects the gear in the power room and the crankshaft in the blacksmith shop.
Following the huge pipe, Ben and Lant finally arrived at the door of the blacksmith's workshop. The blacksmith's workshop has 5 workstations. The power hammer on the workstation is connected to the crankshaft through the gear box. The power hammer has 5 levels of adjustable power. The blacksmith on the side There are wind and fire runes in the furnace, and there is a running pool on the other side of the work station for quenching and cooling at any time.
There are already 4 demon-wielding blacksmiths in the blacksmith's workshop forging tools, and the whole workshop is constantly emitting
"Clang, clang, clang" sound.
"Is this what you designed the boiler for?" Ben looked around the room and finally stared at the power hammer, thinking about something.
"Yes, my idea is to dismantle the process as much as possible, and it is best to make every step complete by a non-magic person." Watching his design become a reality, Lant's face was filled with pride and he pointed to the side. space
"In the future, there will be an automatic grinding wheel here. If necessary, I will add a workshop or a set of boilers specifically for grinding work."
"Where does the smoke from these iron furnaces go?" Ben asked casually, looking at the chimney channel bulging on the wall.
"Currently, there is only a preheating function. The incoming water in the boiler room will conduct the first heat exchange with the flue gas, and then conduct the second heat exchange with the steam pipe outside the boiler room."
"Then the smoke is discharged like this, but the steam can still be used for the bath?" The mage continued to comb the silk path.
"Yes, but this is because the industrial area here does not have high requirements for humidity. In the northern textile workshop, power-operated spinning wheels and steam can also serve as humidifiers." As soon as Lant saw the workshop that he personally participated in, he Very excited, he pointed at the many parts and said,
"These are all from the Imperial City. There is a large factory that has eliminated equipment. There is no problem with the structure of these parts, but the runes are old. I found someone to buy them and asked them to redraw the runes."
"Large-scale factories have high requirements for rune patterns on components, and they also need to control costs. Instead of asking a magician to repair the old ones, it is better to buy stamped and printed new components in bulk, so these are cheaper for me. Not only that, if Jonny and the others In the future, if we really think about new magic furnaces or new transmissions, we can replace the boilers or cylinders, these can all be replaced."
"Interesting," Ben walked out of the blacksmith shop door and looked at the public bathroom not far away.
"This is the most interesting thing I have seen here. Each device has only one function, and each rune is the simplest, but when combined, it can complete such a complex job."
"This is all thanks to Kurya's work." Lant pointed to the tall barbarian on one side.
"He has the blood of humans, barbarians and dwarves. He was an excellent blacksmith when he was working in the salt mine. Only he can understand the boiler drawings I drew."
"Hey hey hey" Kurya Gan scratched his head in embarrassment when Lant mentioned him. Like everyone else, he had a natural awe for mages and lords. When they saw the two chatting, no one dared to interrupt.
"Ah, I understand." Ben showed a sly smile, and he didn't seem to be holding back his good words.
“You can always find the right person to do the right job. For example, Kuryagan can do a good job in the blacksmith shop, and Lanya can find someone to do a good job in mushroom cultivation, but you can’t find someone to take charge of those crafts. "
"How about it"
"The only things that can be done well are those related to eating." Ben Kaur's conclusion is not wrong. Among the public relations skills of Lant in the palace, fermented bean curd, vinegar, pickles, and mushroom cultivation were all successful, but paper making, burning Bricks, soap, and pottery all encountered different problems
"Those are caused by the unstable process. The production quality of industrial products will gradually improve with the process and worker proficiency until it becomes stable." Lant knew in his heart that Ben must know this, and Ben was just teasing himself. Is a foodie.
"The coal mine in the northern part of the salt mine is estimated to require more than 300 people to mine. In addition, you have to arrange at least 2 boilers there. Without fuel, all your current ideas cannot be realized, but to realize it, you need more Joking aside, Ben still wanted to remind Lant that the population of the territory must be replenished.
"Tianqin and Lanya have told me two days ago that I will find a way." Regarding the population and money, Lant was also very helpless and could only slowly try to figure it out.
In one morning, Ben Kaul looked around the eastern workshop area, including the leather workshop and the newly dug sewage tank, but did not make any comments. In his words, this was because he did not want to interfere with Lant's thoughts.
