Chapter 261: 259: Magic Machine Tools and Rifling (Subscribe)

The city of Brussels, a few miles west of the city.

As far as the eye can see, there are flat and wide roads crisscrossing each other, with square but large factory buildings on both sides.

At the end of the field of vision, there was smoke and dust, and constant noise, obviously construction was still going on.

Lilia led Roy along the broad avenue, introducing the area non-stop: "This is the industrial area of ​​Brussels planned by Count Karl and Sik Cruz.

The total area is as high as one hundred acres, and it can be expanded eastward along the Ruhr River at any time.

It's also close to the residential area of ​​Brussels, making it easy to recruit people and reducing commuting time, so it's quite convenient."

"It can be said that the design and planning here are the culmination of the Empire's years of accumulated experience. It is far superior to the disorderly development of those magic power factories in Auckland City."

"Look here, these are the two magical textile factories that have been built in Brussels.

Each factory has 300 workers and can produce a large amount of textiles every day. In terms of output, it is not much worse than the Xiangsheli Magic Textile Factory!"

"Luo Yi, I know you think textiles belong to the low-end market, but for food, clothing, housing and transportation, this is also one of the most indispensable markets.

In those villages, there are always people who don’t have any clothes and cannot go out.

Therefore, this cheap and easy-to-use cloth can be considered another form of free-flowing goods."

"you mean?"

"Production cannot be stopped, but the price can be lowered, as low as possible, preferably to the same price, as a subsidy to the people who receive the flowers."

"You're right! To be more precise, the cost of living in all four areas—food, clothing, housing, and transportation—must all be reduced..."

"Look here, the new Magic Energy Machinery Factory only has one product: the Magic Energy Hammer Forging Machine.

The employees here were all brought from Auckland City. They are all experienced and are very familiar with their work.

To date, they have produced five third-generation magic hammer forging machines, but none of them have been exported, and they have all been used by themselves."

"Right now, due to the shortage of raw materials, the small number of blacksmiths, and insufficient manpower, there is still a long way to go before we can increase our production capacity!"

“However, for subsequent employee training, I have also made arrangements based on your previous model.

I assigned five assistants to each skilled worker and asked them to teach them mechanical knowledge. After work, there were also special literacy classes and basic meditation courses.

In the spacious workshop, only a small part of it is actually used.

Not to mention the thirty blacksmith furnaces, there was a group of blacksmiths with their bare chests, hammering and pounding there, very busy.

Next to them, the ten magic mechanics were relatively idle, mainly because there were not enough parts and they could not do much.

However, they were not idle, but were guiding a group of young people aged fifteen or sixteen who were studying there.

The basic knowledge of mechanics, basic meditation, and even the various structures of the magic hammer forging machine are all part of their teaching content.

The teachers teach seriously and the students study carefully. That's because, according to the rules set by Luo Yi, how much bonus they can get is closely related to their grades and abilities!

In addition, there is also a group of people hanging around there!

They were wearing robes, with varying levels of strength and curious expressions in their eyes. Some listened to the lecture, some looked through spare parts, and some gathered around the half-assembled magic hammer forges.

These are the mages from Ms. Palacios's Mage Tower. They fired their cannons at will in the previous battle in Frostmoon Canyon and made great contributions.

For this reason, many people have become interested in magical machinery.

After returning to Brussels, they actually enjoyed strolling around this industrial area.

Lilia wanted to attract talent, so naturally she let them watch.

The arrival of Luo Yi and Lilia naturally caused a burst of exclamations.

Everyone put down their work and wanted to step forward to pay their respects, but Luo Yi interrupted them with a wave of his hand and told them to continue with their work.

After another round, Luo Yi left the machinery factory and entered the secret medicine factory.

This place is different from the Magic Energy Machinery Factory. In order to ensure the secret recipe, each step is actually carried out separately.

Different people are responsible for sorting, cleaning, drying and grinding each type of raw material.

Only after the materials meet the standards and are sent to the final workshop will the core pharmacists prepare the secret medicine.

What is produced here is not only the Requiem Spice, but also the Roy Fitz Warrior Secret Medicine.

That black ointment saved countless lives in this war and was praised by most of the knights.

Most of the secret medicine factory was filled with various herbs drying in the sun, and many people were busy searching and picking them up.

When Luo Yi and Lilia walked in, they smelled a strong medicinal fragrance. The various smells mixed together seemed extremely strange.

Lilia added, "Compared to building the magic machinery from scratch, this secret medicine factory is much simpler.

We brought in pharmacists as the backbone, and only trained the recruits with a limited amount of knowledge, and then we built the factory.”

"Most importantly, the environment in Flower Territory is suitable, with abundant plants and trees, and the raw materials needed for secret medicine are also abundant, naturally capable of supporting large-scale production."

"If I remember correctly, there should be at least 50,000 bottles of Soul-Calming Spice and no less than 3,000 boxes of Warrior's Secret Elixir stored in the warehouse."

"I know you'll need these things, but I've left them alone except for a few small uses."

“However, there are only a few wild secret medicine materials, and they are difficult to collect.

If you want to expand the scale, I’m afraid you’ll have to use the method you mentioned before, called artificial breeding!!!”

"Not bad! Not bad! This secret medicine factory is quite well-organized, but the personnel training must be done well.

If we expand production, we will always need professional talent.”

Lilia rolled her eyes: "You're back now, and you still want me to take care of these things?"

"I think you're doing a good job!"

"But I don't like it! I need to study magical machinery and practice, and I don't want to be distracted."

"That's fine too."

"Come on, let's go. I'll take you to see the construction of the Magic Energy Steel Plant."

"good!"

The construction of the Magic Energy Steel Plant is another matter.

This was not originally within the scope of cooperation with the Empire, not to mention that, from the principle to the design, everything was proposed by Loy and was unique.

After the Empire got the blueprints, it was very interested and even specially selected some people to study and try them out.

The reason is simple. Even the Habsburg Empire was limited by steel production.

If this magical steel furnace can greatly increase steel production, even the empire will be doomed.

Luoyi's place is considered a pilot project, and the empire has sent quite a few people for this purpose.

So, even though this huge project takes the longest time, in fact, the progress is really not slow.

What Luo Yi saw was that the main construction work had been almost completed, with the huge blast furnace standing tall like a chimney.

However, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that Lilia has her own laboratory here.

It was a separate workshop, with a universal power machine right at the door and gears and connecting rods of varying sizes filling the air.

The ground was paved with lapis lazuli, and the flowing magic made the engraved magic patterns flicker, like fluorescent lights.

This scene reminded Luo Yi of what he saw when he first entered the Xiangsheli Magic Textile Factory. There was a sense of grandeur and shock brought by the beauty of machinery.

Of course, what shocked Luo Yi the most was actually the deepest part of the factory, where a horizontal magic mechanical machine tool was lying quietly.

It is more than three meters high and six meters long, and looks top-heavy, with all the main parts on the left side. A three-jaw chuck appears unusually large.

In the middle are the slide rail and the screw rod, the tailstock is a top cone, and there is a tool disc in the front that can move back and forth.

The entire machine was covered with lapis lazuli, with layers of magic patterns crisscrossing each other, and the shining light was dazzling, making people dizzy.

Luo Yi stuttered a little: "Okay, okay? But why make it so big?"

"That's because it's my first time making it, so I don't have much experience!

I also didn't expect that it would be so troublesome to achieve what you call fine control.

Therefore, I can only continue to increase the size, add more lapis lazuli, and connect more magic patterns to achieve various surprising operations."

"This one is just a test machine, and it still has many problems. But..."

Luo Yi asked: "But what?"

"However, the effect you wanted to achieve can already be achieved!"

At this moment, Luo Yi's eyes finally brightened, surprisingly bright, and he asked: "So, you really machined the rifling?"

“The finished product is there, you can go and see for yourself.”

Luo Yi's eyes moved and he saw a pile of round tubes. He took a step forward and appeared next to the tubes in a flash.

These round steel pipes are thick and thin, and the thin ones are about the same size as the barrel of an ordinary magic pistol.

The thickest one is more than 100 millimeters, which can be used as the barrel of a magic cannon.

Luo Yi quickly touched the inside of the steel pipe and felt the layers of fine spiral lines.

That's rifling!

Guns and artillery with and without rifling are completely different levels of creation.

Whether it is a bullet or a shell, it will be affected by wind resistance when flying in the air.

If you are a little bit erratic, the trajectory will deviate, let alone find the target.

However, if bullets and shells can rotate during flight, they can maintain a relatively stable trajectory when leaving the barrel and have a longer range.

However, this kind of concave and convex spiral pattern on the inner wall is notoriously difficult to process.

The difference between the second and third generation magic cannons, standard firearms and those handmade by masters, lies in the presence or absence of rifling!

In the past, only mechanical mages of the second level or above, such as Lilia, could produce this kind of rifling. Only a skilled worker of Douglas Hill's level could use magic to "rub" it out.

You can imagine how slow the efficiency is!

But now, Loy has developed a stable and efficient manufacturing method.

All that is needed is a magical mechanical machine tool and a machine tool operator at the mage apprentice level!

Kavinka is so awesome, there’s more to come!

(End of this chapter)